The Sun. — London, England, 1846-11-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, I,ON DON, SATURDAY MORI:4I N NOVEMBER 28, 1846. op:nTeha_ror4l tow igagike e, Ll e?, tj an ß d P ir rin C ce l A ß lb C er U t took LA a lt n . airing in an ri, the Prince d r i v i ng , on Thursday atter ards Wootton. The Hon. Captain Gordon, (14er rY in Waiting to his Royal Highness, attendtd, o ° horseb ack. 0 , thec7alVillesns T heir R 4 lfred esses the Prince of Wales, Prince Royal, and the Princess Alice, utl /i he u ,.t on ponies on Thursday afternoon. 40(1._ atarehioness of Normanby arrived at Osborne if e e on Thursday, on a visit to lit.r Majesty. Po ll) ! M ajesty and her Royal Consort took a drive in a Th carriage yesterday. t!'%al Faintly took walking and equestrian ettr esterday. Pri 4 4 l , /te rday was the birthday of herßoyal Highbess the b ue r:s Mary. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke a_l . lcl e Herm it Cambridge, the Fin...eta Mary, and. tn arrt;ltarY Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strilitz, R e e p",,ln town from Kew in the afternoon. gr and - "Yal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester gave a 1 dinner , and afterwards a ball, at Gloucester , r 1 honou r of the natal day of her illustrious niece lend t d ci . d augh ter. kb Inner party consisted of their Royal Highnesses .)uke arid , N u lless of Gloucester, the Princess Marc, 1 Duc h ilell " S of Cambridge, and the Hereditaryt the Duke tless 83 °f Mecklenburg Strelitz, their Serene H h ax , e ', Prince Frederic of Hesse and Prinee Edward g ot 'Veit:oar, the Marquis of Winchester, Baron Roller, G''e:lll.f Ko wiriaffsky, the Earl of Hardwicke, Lady im etil.giana Bathurst, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Mr. , 1 4 .nith, Baron Knesebeck, Colonel Keate, Lieut"l Nl ildnifty, Major Stephens, Mr. Vincent, and A -ein] Liddell. lavit Aber l l of the juvenile nobility and gentry were he,tN the ball to celebrate the auspicious event, and The to arrive at Gloucester House at nine o'clock. trande°lPany were ushered, on their arrival, up the g r and 11411 l i ta i ir ease to the suite of drawing-rooms. ll_ "ighness the Duchess of Gloucester, accomp_c- ie ItoyalYFthe Princess Mary and the other members of t r l e. c eived h "lily, entered at half-past nine o'clock, and er di stinguished guests. fur th e Turner family were in attendance, and performed A t Q gratification of the assembled company. l 'rin e , tet t, o'clock the Duchess of Gloucesler . and . the rla jtor l 4laty, followed by the:royal and distinguished ball.ra; descended the grand staircase and entered the 1 1( 4 ,.1 11 , the quadrille band, under the direction o Mr. ts Wer e ',,,,." 4 rn ard, pl a yi ng " God save the Queen." SF quadrille -14 ' e diatel CI and the ball was opened with N jel le c4) 8 follow Nver ( e ° after; ards danced Q'cuadrilles—" Les Exiles," Basisis. uadrilles —Ethiopians , Coote. I,,aLltz: Orient a l en ," Labitzky. 11 . 7 Syrenen," Labitzky. Douro," Labitzky. DAbert p - °',",. a— Gi l ta a n a Browne. 4r. 11"4"-Die Rosen, Labitzky. 114:mord presided at the pianoforte. _ ti ater 3 the Com an resent were the Bavarian All I,4it',4'ter'aar2,lle_ss a p nd ) M p onsieur de Cetto, the Russian . feliaar the Prussian de . Brun_ow . and Mademoiselle r ,ench ""e Minister Prince Lowenstein, the eol'4largit d' and Countess de Jarnac, Baron 4 / 4 4 e i i ; Duchess Afi r o e ; Sutherland and Lady Caroline 4,, A ° 1•- t O1C1: 4 th (lw " , the Countess Gre f y L a is n i d ow L ei a i dy an A d Alice l esa Earl and Countess o 0f . 43 8e1l a rQ, Lord and Lady John Russell, Miss • and Miss Lister, the Countess \r• and the th tBe o t IY and the Ladies Knox, Viscount and -tealltil Mahon V'scountess Palmerston, Lady and it i" 114. Misses Ashley ' , Earl and the Ladies A . ugusta 4 Itlrie°ll°ll4 Cadogan, the Marquis and Marchioness of tisti ard e and Lady Emily de Burgh, the Lord Clue kk " an d L,. k Po, 14 Wilde, the Earl of Munster and Lady 4 Peth , ' t he Earl and Countess of Ellesmere, Graham, Viscount 841 Y Emi l the Misses Vincent, Lady and Mr. ft °ll by .I,Y and th M' es Ponsonby and 111 4 4 1 e: Miss Murra y the Misses Franklin and 1.1,1 .4 Y and . t ar ray, Mrs. and the Messrs.. Stephens, Sir C o ; i i Misses Wheatley,. Captain Cox, Mr. and 4 4 4 wan, T s " Lewis and Miss Lister, Colonel and Mrs. lt4,l 3 'Sear' a dY Frederick and Mr. George Bentinck . , 41 and Hardy, Mr. Ponsonby, Captain trip e M i ss • codring th, ,altpbell, Sir Edw. and the Misses Co 4 ' 4u,tarehioness of Downshire, Lady Mary Hood, 'x'f r a.) . , the Misses Herbert, Sir George Walker, 1,1 ) 4 4: 14.3 .) and the Misses Montagu, Mr., Mrs., a t t i r e ki,'4%Caia, Ur. and Airs. Granville Berkeley d 1 1 1 kae r "leY, Lady Frances and the Misses ail Cole, t o s 4s 1,,,ed, Lord Robert Taylor, _Mr. Herbert, Hon. Cole Megan, Mis s D rummon d , Vi scount S tavor d a e , ~4tiedtarl‘er Lennox, Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Mr. or k4eput,tpata Berkeley. We Nl's. of contractors for cleansing, consisting k 14 q, a • Thorn E. Reddin, J. Gore, E. Wood, B. 4 1 5 eth li d W. Pai : sons had an interview with Lord lii t a . t q s Yeater tla-Y, at tile office of the Woods and t. ; „ eer, °l l.o, t ' a lter r ,r G rey has returned to town from a visit to kr. J. had- th e House of Commons. The Marquis th• A. Gn:t,ll interview with the Right Hon. Barone . L n2 e-offi ' t) tt also visited Sir George yesterday at J o , - °o n I llter v !Nrn ch,: u ?sell returned to town yesterday tiftearn k with O l es• The Postmaster-General had 41 1 , e. 11 . 15 Lordship. }, to jr (1 th e f. -111 ;_rtlY had an interview with the Chan of c o - n , ' n, ( iequer yesterday.. Th n e o S f pe th ak e er E o x f ni t s li e e , 11 3 C ) itit " °11 ; and the Chairma 11 4 a, Qrvie ws t l Th e yesterday with the Right lion. Gen t' of e l i ght , E. Strutt had an interview with the deprarenuon, yrday. tation from the U ersit Club, consisting of eel rZe Chet niv • yn Colo nee e d, 11 \'3nd, Bart.; Sir Robert om and Mr. T. Fletcher Twemlow, had an L 4 ,41 Lo rd Morpeth yesterday. 1 , 11 94 ,TteL.Y,lef,t town yesterday on a visit to Lord Ash rlSpas ~"( Grange. °Ps were s from the Governor of the C . 're received • day at the Colonial o • re ffi o e f e Good y ester y LAYS. , FRENCH P THEAT RE.. . h 4 t p 87' JAMES'S 1, 1 1;1 r iet, although this theatre last evening. I ' lB d I,^# f - the season % 1 .., e 1.1. 0.. still suffering from indisposition, the Cons a i t deration of the audience 'l l l t. o 4. ,. 7 e ' r b ie e t s , peaking in consequence of his still suffering from , 14 th e e els of his late severe i llness, were posted . I ,'Yki ,` lubbies of the theatre, but this consideration ,!Is -°t , needed, for never did Perlet act better. n . Juil',Qaracter which he chose was th o at An o s f ; , 4 , t: c rn, in Scribe's vaudeville, L'Homme de rtltk, Petite Entetee. St. Jullien is an old 6 conntry thr°lll%ll7tso,,,ixty years of age, ( a bachelor, who . has been ~1 : ', t , 4- aris by Bernard M. Dumery), a rich mer l_iat istin,Taarry his niece Angelina ( Mademoiselle sh: l ope s e )+ , a lovely young gi rl, but entetee. (Iq,‘ ne ver E ugene (Monsieur . Berou ) , and, albeit, words, yet she I il i b ;?t,lt 4,,, t e11a her love in ,:o* tie '' , tat,,,i t r affections " like a worm s i h ' e the tea b s u e d s , p f n ee e d r i''Y the 11a51,'lleek," on the contrary, aik e a " ttl ie c 4 °at of his life, and shows her l a o n v d e , Bible - sensible % ntraries. St. Jullien arr ive s,it is . ni i pos t°; roak ' n l i i gelin a till n, at once sees that d i determines aat q ~ her i th earl love him, an 4 b r '''w 1 , , i , C I) ,PY in spite of herself. He r . equ a es l t e s tt a e n r lit hlit 1 uer al During the interview •o t ~ , t o hi one, lit ik uein4 abi na• He has forgotten h sctacles, and Iv, ar i , i t ' ) re ad e . to decypher 1 4 ng. b i „, it t o hi m. It a.i t 7terly i r „,' a gainst it, is request fro m Eugene,nge t‘t 4 , her. "'s P h °s Sible to expect happiness Angelina, who is so e f n o te m tee a union that it ku ll i ; , .! deein e_ is outrageous on reading this letter, and tri ti til y re°,',e3 ,her preference for St. Jullien, and c)ut . Jeets Eugen e who subsequentl enters, d e r t°lld,:ce A• ' ''''llt eec e . ~- Lentiing to hear what he has 'to m marriage list /IC4 4 tt • h -,ne notary is ready with the Jullien lag I t q a h ! e fills it up with the names. L'tvin c ,. ' r nseli 5.,, r , 11 : 11 1. 1 „: 0 , fr ti t ... h ...12, :et it — et u t rho n ye o a f rs A of n age, St. . to dthe_e rti, je 4 ,, e ' She will n ,-,. • ~ says St. Jullien. .. C la ie r t ly inVande Angelina, ci p a ar n til fi u ever sign it, e4litet,thernitTatthe,ro,ortloivvnevdeeis,padiro.es St. Jullien it, and Eugene then signs, ti , ,,,,`e swakettob to p has affixed his signature the jeune te, - '04. % es e horro r of her situatiozl. t l / 4 N 4 ely se 2C l u etrY, and she faints. St. Jullien t i u m r e he ti,, , z et the contr a ct, tears it up, and rushes .Mi e b • the lovers. acti n , rings him back, and unites ' ll et ,tt i), ;: r etc, f e r t th o tt f t l'ereirtlieetiQrain this character was perfect; e. th e ~ of th _ , . _ , is a "4 1. 1 ' e lle Co: 4ind 'hearted, t po fa li u s l li t ed gentleman N e e ld ver has the Ik'4l l Utt u i r as kindheartedistinguished from the ordinary lit,,teci. e old men, been more exquisitely ' tli 4 4s 3 ~,,. e was the very pink of politeness ; yet F eel , b not • h him, • is in too many case s , ' all with as it te , eOs o f and the end all," freezing the kinder ti ,EL ' th e heart, and reducing everything fri iii ,, tl Qt 114,4°°i,,th_ surface, polished . but cold, li : k 'fir to ice ' Politeness is with him the rich 4, 1)r 1/Tleele, J ew , Warm garment—the chaste setting kot 11 (fe at.1 's el—heart ; which shone all the more__ It eabi, J . for the wanner in which it was set off (J 1 /° ,ts tied in and confined by the setting. ur , LL, i ' ) lvi ric ?, :quote an expression of one of our cb ar ll of , 11 ' ' the string running through the pearlthe 4 'tf , r ctile virtues" Were his personation of t . h p 4 ,.. t .tr ~,°' St. Julian leas perfect he would give %'f, l , lll la t .i' s l3 :, tor e ulogy; certain parts might then . be ts to t :I ila 7 „ i ( ) - ' as particularly beautiful. Certain po in ts he • ' )( e i - C eti tnado on which the mind would dwell, 41 1(1 1 1 toc) i on of . the rest, but Perlet made no points ; 1":44t5 45 O rea t an actor, too accomplished an artzete, k,,CY 4 4B,'„ () , l l 'een a sense of the beautiful and the . tr . ue e 'l a tt .'', " to make points, and we can only criticise 4 4 ',,al . ki n e'g as Voltaire criticised Itacine's writing, . b y gtif i , i ; at the end of' every sentence exquisite . TII Perfect I 1 : attb PR.0.„,,--------.............. tlltt 12" - Tb, '-'sET) RAILWAY TOWNSHIP AT STHAT; 4,„uOttrd da d, irectors of the Eastern Counties, at the e• ) , 11 " thaTi, accepted tenders for the building of no thoaPan,,, eight hundred houses in the vicinity of the ,4j4,in th,i,t"Cled depot at Stratford, as residences for (iyltluourho,el33Ploy. The building of a church in thd AV% I'm:" will, it is expected, be brought forward r 4 8. Su ° la at the next half -yearly meeting. iq',111111.41 t° G o KNOWLES.—We observe that a r 4 t - 1 0 kr. ssAkovernraent in favour of conferring a pen :ko`', e da y I , geridan Knowles the first dramatic writer GLak t) , ,-,as bQen laid down + ~ E f the Royal , for 4' t at ~.,..e —ar 0 ql„'N Ignatlire.—Glusgoit, Constitutional. I 4t4 R osily or itiii d • an ia THE SUN FIRE OFFICE.—Consi (4 1 " of ge having been occasioned to the new ati ° , llll q, q,oot,he .I,ws' Orphan Asylum, in the Tenter_ tir;Pplie,ti uttlari ma ells, by a recent explosion of gas, Nit k , i t() th:lle's:as made by the governors of the insti.tu a,,, ' , int ree sun Fireoffice, in which the building Ihri; NrketleutlY insured stating, that although they by - , since Y aware that they had no claim on the com li4 th e fore th e e of m ane was not caused by any fire, but hralit v -, the Q;plosion, yet, they appealed to the r a t ' et th e mh, te , tc, ttav company for compensation. We are ra11,,57 gra tit :,? that the Sun Insurance Company imme- C 4 s, Whi e h ..1 t ile sum of 501. for the repair of the da- Net t , ` - tc) not amount to more than 60/.—Jetvi'h • LITERATURE. COLBURN'S STAADARD NOVELS. THE WILD IRISH GIRL. By Sydney Owenson. Edited by Lady Mo' yen. Mr. Colburn has exercised a judicious discretion in inducing Lady Morgan, by his "liberal offer and en couragement" (we quote her own words), to re-pub lish this, her earliest work. It is no longer dangerous at the present day to stand forward as the friend of Ireland. It was dangerous, most dangerous to do so, at the period when the " Wild Irish Girl" was first published, and by the production of this, her earliest literary attempt, Lady Morgan fully vindicated her title to the epithet " fearless, which was afterwards bestowed on her by Lord Byron. She was then, as an enthusiastic young girl, unknown, but full of health and spirits, the true friend of Ireland. Such she has continued to be during her whole career, and now, when the better half of that career must have been passed, now in the full enjoyment of an European literary reputation —now, when her experience has tempered her enthusiasm, and physical blindness has produced (as it invariably does in every poetic tem perament by shutting out all external impressions) in creased intellectual light, she is as fearlessly as ever the friend of Ireland still. Let Ireland, there fore, ponder over, the words of one of the truest, the oldest, and wisest of her friends.:._ Comparing, in her prefatory observations to the present edition, the state of Ireland at the time this novel was written with its present state, Lady Morgan says : " But the agrarian discontents were then, Though deep not loud,' and though occasionally breaking fiirth into the wild justice of self-redress, or rudely associated in banded violence, they were not yet systematized into secret tribunals of vengeance, nor armed for the daring crime of open assassination. The relative condition of landlord and tenant, false and bad as it was in Ireland, was then still relieved by a feeling of clanship, and by a primitive and social intercourse, between the coun try gentlemen and the peasant, unproductive, indeed, of any substantial or permanent good, but which had still something of the old feudal character of more cordial, though not more civilised times. The daily relations of life between the rich and the poor (whom the civil wars and the troubles' in Ireland, had formerly associated in a common cause, against a common foe), were still almost familiar, though in their forms somewhat abject. The people had not then been taught 'to know' that they were more wretched even than they felt,' by the vague, but inflammatc,ry promises of interested politi cians, destitute of all practical results, or probable ac complishment ; their keen sense of suffering was not then sharpened by the rhetoric of personal vindictiveness, nor their strong energies wasted on the pursuit of an unattainable object, whose possession, to judge by past experience, might be a doubtful good! Their natural and national joyousness of spirit, then, still broke forth in wild impulses of occasional hilarity ; they were sus ceptible to the charms of music, the native passion of their artist temperament ; they were alive to the im pressions of humour ; misery then found time to laugh ; labour paused to dance ; Erin had, indeed, the tear, but she had also the smile in her eye ;" and the brilliant sallies of the higher orders, and the sly fun of the lower, then created for, and sustained in Ireland that reputa tion for unrivalled wit and colloquial talent, which is now fading into a tradition. It is, however, to be hoped that the present state of things, is but a transition state ;' that the humour and genius of Old Ireland, though latent, are not extinct, and that the obtrusive advocacy of an obsolete phrase of society, indulged in by young Eng land s' cadet brother, young Ireland,' " The merrier fool of the two, but quite as mad," will yield conviction to the fact, that en avant,' (or in its own Celtic mother tongue, Faugh na ballah,') is the true epigraph of the age, as it was the cry that led to victory the bravest of Irish captains, at the head of the bravest of Irish troops. Henceforth ceasing to " Boast, their ancestors were fools so long," may the youth of Ireland bear in mind, that the oppres sors of their country, have never prospered but by the disunion of her sons, and give the full aid of their talents, and honest (though with due subinission) not always wise patriotism, to the aid of Ireland's long-tried frends, now for the first time, led on by Irishmen, who may well expect to be received in :their onset with the dear old Irish, and cordial all hail,' of Cead mille faltha.' " Such a state of things is the true • Repeal of the Union.' It is the fusion, long wanted to the pacification of Ireland, and the general happiness of the greatest empire of the earth—only the greatest, because the freest. It will be the first alliance between the sober experience of the past, and the practical philosophy of modern times, applied to the remedy of the greatest of Irish evils—the poverty of the people; the true source of their crimes ! It will be the manly prose of reason, blending with the brilliant poetry of patriotism, like— " The rainbow that hangs in our skies !" cheering the present, and brightening the future ; under such blessed auspices, confidence will arise in all,—the rich and the poor I the bright fires of Irish wit will again rekindle, and the Irish harp (to use a phrase of the old bard, Carolan, in the halls of the O'Conor Don,) will 'once more have tie old sound in it.' "Coercion (the favourite policy of the legislators of Ejection) will then have become an obsolete word, no longer admissible into the humane and legal language of political justice ; and one of the many impediments to the Settlement of Ireland,' out of her long list, (the Irish Church,) will alone remain, not, however, be it hoped, like the Irish Round Towers, 'to puzzle posterity,' nor yet to be dealt with in abstractions, or paltered with by antecedents, (the bequests of darker times,) but to be considered through its living realities, in its true and graphic images of religious disparity, and fearful social inequality ; and finally to be dealt with according to the Divine ordinances of immutable justice and Christian charity, the church of Him who admitted of no ine qualities." A COMMERCIAL PERPETUAL ALMANAC. AND TABLE FOR VERIFYING DATES, By Samuel Maynard, Editor of Keith and Bonny castle's Mathematical Works, &c. &c. This is one of the most ingeniously-constructed and useful calendars ever published, showing as it does, by the day of the week, and its corresponding day of the month, for any given time, past, present, or future, either according to the old or according to the new system. It is composed of two distinct tables, the one being with, the other without, the Sunday letters—the one serving as a test to the other. This calendar will be found invaluable in settling all disputed points of chronology, and the possessor of it will have a perpetual almanac that will lest him his life. COGHLAN'S POCKET PIC7'URE OF LON DON. A New Edition,-revised by Alexander Cooper Lee. This is by far the most complete edition that has yet appeared of this popular guide book. Mr. Lee has added upwards of three hundred pages of addi tional matter, by adding a short description of the early history and progress of each building or insti tution, to the description of their present condition, furnished by the former editor. The book is neatly and clearly printed, and is illustrated by a map of London and a view of Westminster Abbey. A TECHNICAL DICTIONARY; explaining the Terms of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, Professions, and Trades. By W. M. Buchanan, Editor of the Practical Mechanic, and Engineer' s Magazine,. and lately Mast r of the Philosophical Department in the High School of Glasgow. The object of this work is fully explained in the title-page, and all the promises therein contained are performed to the very letter. Mr. Buchanan has been engaged for more than twelve years in compiling this volume, which is by far the most complete technicological dictionary that has ever yet been pub lished. It is admirably arranged and printed in small but beautifully clear type. It is altogether a most useful and valuable book of reference. FINE ARTS. THE CHRISTIAN IN PALESTINE. Part Vlll. If four such exquisite illustrations as these, from original drawings by W. H. Bartlett, do not elicit our most unqualified approval, we shall not have faithfully expressed our real sentiments. The en gravers must unquestionably have derived many of the beauties which are here given by their instru ments from the pencil of the accomplished artist, but they have most certainly added thereto exeellencies of their own. In the plate representing the valley of Sichem and Nablous, as viewed from Mount Gerizim, the perspective is inimitably given, and the purity of the oriental atmosphere is beautifully indicated by the crispness of outline to the remotest objects. Jezreel, Mount Gilboa, and Bethshan, form a delicate and lux urious picture, with the stooks of ripe corn in the fore ground and the irrigated plains in the distance. Mount Hermon, situated in the upper valley of the Jordan, is not merely picturesque with Arabs and goats, but is glimmering in the su l tr iness of n oon. Tiberias, however, is la plus belle des belks gravures —the limpidity of the water laving the ancient but tresses of the ruined castle—the dusky shadows of the broken walls — and the tranquillity of the whole landscape—are admirably delineated. Dr. Stebbing has penned some appropriate commentaries upon the scenes in Palestine above-mentioned. ROYAL GEMS FROM THE GALLERIES OF EUROPE. Part IX. Not a single engraving in the present number of this series is at all compatible with the valuable plates already published by the proprietor. " The Flower Girl " of Murillo, though origin all y of some merit when inserted in the Art - Union Journal, is here worn out and faded. The re-issue is most injudi cious in such an ambitious and generally meritorious publication. "Alfred dividing the Loaf" is again but a formal representation of the striking painting of Benjamin West. Neither is the copy from Henry Warren's " Arabs of the Bishareen Desert" any as tonishing masterpiece. The literary portion of this ninth part, from the pen of the editor, Mr. S. C Hall, is undoubtedly the best portion of the contents. MUSIC. THE FOREMOST FLIGHT. A Hunting Song __ .... By Harry Niemen This sprightly and rollicking ditty is certainly about the most legitimate hunting song we remember to have met with. It is easy to perceive that the writer has not unfrequently cleared a fence in the track of Master Sly-boots ; that to his ears " Stole away" is a familiar cry, and the baying of the hounds not the least welcome music. The words and run of the song render his sportsman-like enthusiasm contagious. ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 26.—The Portugal mails ar rived here at half-past twelve last night, in the Oriental Company's steam -ship Royal Tar, Captain Hamilton, and were forwarded to Loudon by the mail train at one A.m., this day. The Tar has eighteen passengers, a full cargo of fruit, eggs, and twelve oxen. Her dates are—Gibraltar, November 16th ; Cadiz, 17th ; Lisbon, 20th ; and Oporto, 21st. DISTRIBUTION OF SHIPPING. Gibraltar—Her Ma jesty's steamer Virago, Flower of Yarrow yacht; her Majesty's ship Vanguard sailed for Carthagena; French war steamer arrived on the 15th, and sailed on the forenoon of the 16th. At Cssliz, in the bay—A Spanish brig of war. Arrived on the 17th, a French steamer of war, saluted with twenty-one guns. A Spa nish steamer, Sello, got on shore on the night of the 14th, and was not off when the Tar left on the 17th. It was reported that she was breaking up. The experi mental squadron was in the Tagus, also French brig Cygne, and the usual Portuguese squadron. The Gibraltar packet Queen, Captain Weeks, will leave the docks at three P.M., with outward mails, a full cargo, and usual number of passengers. The Transit steamer, belonging to the South-Western Steam Company, arrived here this morning from Co runna, which place she left on the 21st instant, and landed forty very fine Spanish cattle; also a full cargo of fruit. FALL OF THREE HOUSES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN Sut,—During Wednesday night three new houses in Bayham-street South, Camden Town, just ready to be roofed in, fell down; fortunately no person was injured. A gang f men are now employed pulling down the ruins to prevent further accident. What are the district surveyors about to allow houses to be run up in such an awful manner? AN OBSERVER. INTERCOURSE WITH NEW OR LEANS AND THE GREAT VALLEY OF THE WEST. A plan is in the course of execution for improving the comminication of New Orleans, the sole outlet of the great valley of the Mississippi, with the sea, which, when executed, will be attended with many advantages to the rapidly increasing commerce of that city and the region of which it is the port, and with some especial advantages to the commercial and personal intercourse of the Southern and Western Stites with this country. The object of this improvement is to avoid crossing the bar at the mouth of the river, at Belize, and also to avoid a tedious and winding voyage of ninety miles from Belize to New Orleans, by forming a railway from the city of New Orleans to Cat Island Harbour, a fine well sheltered anchorage, which has recently been discovered at the entrance of Lake Borgne, forty-six miles east of New Orleans. There is depth of water in this harbour for ships of war to victual and refit; for steamers of the size of those of the West India line to enter at all times, and for large merchant vessels to take in full cargoes of grain and other heavy goods, none of which things are practicable at the present harbour of New Orleans. The greatest advantage of this plan probably is, that it will render it possible to extend all the advantages of the safe and rapid mode of communication between Eng land and America furnished by the West India mail steamers to the whole of the Valley of the Mississippi, as well ns to Mobile and other parts of the cotton-grow ing States in the . Gulf of Mexico. At present these vast regions furnish 1,000,000 bales of cotton every year, at a very moderate computation worth 5,000,0001. sterling, and they are likely in future to supply us with grain, flour, provisions, and tobacco, to a still greater extent. This immense trade is every year creating an increase in the personal and epistolary communication between Eng land and New Orleans, and there can be no doubt that it would be much facilitated and greatly increased, if the West Indian steamers could proceed to New Orleans. At present this is impossible, as they draw too much water to cross the bar, and are, therefore, unable to approach nearer than 110 miles of the city, to a point without a harbour or a road, to New Orleans. They have, in consequence, giving up calling at that point, after at tempting twice, and thus the people in the great valley of the West are deprived of the advantages of this cheap and rapid route to Europe, and the company is deprived of the profit of carrying them. When the railroad is completed to Cat Island Harbour, the steamers will be able to approach within a couple of hours' ride to New Orleans, and ten hours' sale of Mobile, and to lie there in a well-sheltered harbour in deep water. Another great advantage of this place, and one which would be invaluable in times of European scarcity like the present, when the chief supply of corn and flour during the winter months must be derived from the valley of the Mississippi and the port of New Orleans, is that it would render vessels of large size available for the purpose of carrying it to ,Europe. At present it is useless to send large vessels to New Orlean, in the hope of their bringing home full cargoes of corn or flour, as no vessel carrying more than about 300 tons of heavy cargo can cross the bar at Be lize. The consequence is, that the greater part of our British shipping is unavailable for this purpose. With light cargo, such as cotton, this is not so much felt ; but full cargoes, even of cotton, can only be brought out in vessels of a peculiar build, ill suited for general purposes, and of which this country possesses few. When once the railway to Cat Island Harbour is completed, grain, flour, tobacco, pork, lard, and provisions generally, may be conveyed there, and shipped in vessels of any size, to the full extent of the vessels' capacity. From the want of these facilities tie shipping of grain and flour at New Orleans will proceed much more slowly during the pre sent winter than is generally expected by those who are unacquainted with the peculiarities of the port, and will continue to do so until the new mode of forwarding the produce of the Mississippi is completed.—Liverpool Times. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From last Night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 21st day of November, 1846. ISSUE DZPARTMENT. Notes issued • . . • .... 28,317,840 Government debt . • 11,015,100 Other securities .• • • 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 11,811,382 Silver bullion ••• • • • 2,506,458 £28,317,840 £28,317,840 if. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. 1846. EPAZTMEN T. Dated the 26th day of November BANKING D. X. Proprietors' capital • • 14,553,000 Rest .. .. Public deposits (in eluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt,Sav ings-banks, and Di- Government seemi- ties (including Dead Weight Annuity) .. 12,808,119 Other securities • • .. 13,353,675 Notes • . • • • • • 8,109,895 Gold and silver coin.• 605,932 viaend accounts).. 7,876,390 Other deposits ••• • • • 7,975,058 Seven day and other bills• • • • • • . • 990,484 4 34,877,621 £34,877,621 fir. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. ', 1846. Dated the 26th day of November ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.—Thursday there was a special general meeting o f mem bers at their club rooms. Mr. Whalley's motion of contributing a sum of money from the club funds towards the erection of a for o n r t o n c e o w n s m i d o e m r b a e t i r o s n , w a a n s d p r s o o c / e . e d w e a d s i4 p .i r t o h - , monument to the memory of th e l a t e E ar l o f Yarbo btaalkloetn posed.r Yarbo rough, ug h w A a s and Lord Graves, Davenport, Boyce, Harvey Coombe, E s q., and Robertson, Lyon, and Pinney, Esqrs., were elected members of the club. SUDDEN DEATH.—Mr. Alderman Banister, Pur veyor to her Majesty at Windsor, an old and highly re spected inhabitant of that town, who had served the office of mayor three times, was found, yesterday morn ing, dead in his bed, upon one of his daughters entering his room, between seven and eight o'clock. The de ceased, who had been ill for some time previously, ap peared in better health than he had been for some days, and in excellent spirits, on his retiring to rest the even ing before. He was in his 68th year. IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—On Thursday morning two fellows walked into the house of Mr. William Brown, Prospect-place, Salthill, during the absence of the in mates, and after dressing themselves in suits of clothe belonging to Mr. Brown, walked quietly . off in their new habiliments without exciting the suspicion of the next doorsupposed to be neighbours. The th i e ves, who are a couple of well known begg ars fre q uentin g the neigh bourhood of Slough and Eton, left their rags behind them. RAILWAY NOTICES.—A daily issue of the London Gazette is taking place, in order to enable railway com panies to comply with the terms of the standing orders directing the publication of their respective Parliamen tary notices therein. The Gazette of Thursday contains 51 notices of intended applications for railway Acts next session. The majority of the current notices appear to be from existing companies, who are desirous either to construct new branches or works, or to sell or lease their lines to the directors of other companies. Dorr COLON, THE PRESENT CORREGIDOR (LORD MAYOR) OF MADRID.—It may not be generally known that the present chief magistrate of the Spanish capital, Don Colon Portugal Duke de Verazua, is a descendant of a Geneose sailor, we mean Christopher Colon. The erratic, adventurous, nay, indigent life of the great dis coverer, up to an advanced age, are generally known. But scarcely was the deed done than a whole host of Dukes, Counts, and all sorts of Hidalgos (nobles), crowded around the family of the once neglected. Co lumbus made three wills, in 1497, 1502, and 1506, which have produced a number of lawsuits, one of which took place as late as 1792, aid the acts of which are printed, and to be found in the library of the British Museum, under the title, "Hecho del Pleyto." The present Don Colon, however, got clear of all that, and is a nobleman in affluent circumstances. MIDDLESEX HOSPlTAL.—Thursday morning, at an early hour, a special general meeting of the governors and supporters of this extensively useful institution was held at the board-room of the establishment, for the pur pose of electing an assistant physician, and on other general business. The chair was taken by Thomas Haviland Burke, Esq. The report, read by the secre tary, Alexander Shedder', Esq., was of the most satis factory nature, and some preliminary business having been disposed of, the election was forthwith commenced. The candidates for the vacant office were Dr. Robert Gordon Latham and Dr. J. W. Woodfall. After a very animated and close coatest of four hours, Dr. Latham was chosen by a majority of 21 over his opponent; the numbers being, at the close of the poll, for Dr. Latham 190 votes and 93 proxies, and for Dr. Woodfall 200 votes and 62 proxies. The result appeared to be highly satisfactory to the meeting, which shortly afterwards having paid the customary compliment to the G b b r w oke ra u p, oth METROPOLITAN GRAVE-YARD- Mr. G. A. Walker, a surgeon and the author of several weds on inetropo:i tan sepulture, commence:d the first of a series of lectur,s, last evening, at ti'e Me chanics' Institution, Sauthampton-buildings, on the moral and physical effects arising from the practice of interring the dead i n th e midst the living. lie said, it seemed strange that in the middle of the nineteenth century—in the capital of the civilised world—in a country distinguished for its respect for public decency, for high moral feeling, and, above all, for its profeision of Christian principles —any necessity should exist for an appeal against a practice which inevitably led to re sults that inflicted deep injury on public morals, and which was highly detrimental to the health of the community. Yet such was the fact. Scarcely a day passed without their witnessing the most revolting violations of the sanctuaries of the dead ; whilst the hundreds of burying places in this large me tropolis, permitted to exist in the midst of its living population, were so many centres of infection, labora tories of malaria, whence issue most offensive and deadly compounds, the gaseous products of human putrefaction, the food, if not the principle, of malignant disease and premature death. As Christians they were called upon to crush, and for ever, a system that necessarily entailed and imposed the daily execution of deeds, from the per petration of which barbarians would recoil with abhor rence—as men, as members of a civilised community, it was their duty to remove constantly increasing causes of discomfort, disease, and frequently inconceivable suffering ; existing more especially among their poorer brethren, whose poverty, and whose avocations too frequently compelled them to reside in localities where the evil was most prominent—where the burying places, public and private, were more numerous and most dangerously surcharged. He had employed, during many years, every legitimate means for the pur pose of effecting this great moral and sanatory reforma tion, and his object in commencing this series of lectures was in the hope that at their conclusion, sympathies newly awakened, and judgments more fully informed, might result in such an expression of opinion, as should convince all but the unduly prejudiced or the deeply in terested, that the confidence of a too generous public might neither be systematically abused nor insulted with impunity, and that ere long they would demand from the Legislature the complete abolition of a system which weighed down the energies of the strong, imperilled the life of the weak, and lowered the standard of vitality in the aggregate population. After disclaiming that he was actuated by any personal motive in entering on his cru sade against interment in populous cities, and indig nantly denying the charge imputed to him, that he had made a vile attempt to impose upon the public and the Legislature in the books he, had written on the subject, and by the evidence given by him before a Parliamentary Committee, appointed to investigate the subject, he went on to illustrate by unmistakeable data, the condition of many of the grave-yards of London, and the evils which they had caused, and were causing, to those located in their vicinity. There was scarcely a single grave-yard vault, or receptacle for the dead, in London, that was not over-charged ; they were not under any superintendence, and large profits were derived from them ; bodies were mutilated and destroyed in various stages of decomposition in order to makeroom for others. The mortality in London annually might be computed at 52,000, or 260,000 in five years, which was the lowest possible period which should be allowed for the destruc- tion of the human body in graves. An acre of ground contained 43,580 square feet, which, divided by 32, the number of square feet required for a single adult interment, would give 1,361 as the number of spaces let for graves in an acre of ground. If the burying grounds of London, some of which had been in use for centu ries, contained only eighty acres, portions of which had been pre-occupied by monuments, tombs, headstones, &c., this space would receive 109,000 bodies, which would leave, in fire years, 151,000 bodies to be disposed of, or in other words, uninterred—hence had resulted the mutilation of bodies and the destruction of their cof fins ; and the same system prevailed in most of the other large towns of the empire. The statistics which the lecturer furnished proved, that the churchyards of London are just so many masses of human corruption, that num bers had died from simply inhaling the gaseous dis charge, and that the time had long since arrived when interment in London, and all crowded cities, should be strictly forbidden by the Legislature, and the dead in terred in cemeteries in the suburbs. Mr. Walker was attentively listened to and applauded by a numerous and sympathising audience. THE PROPOSED EXPEDITION OF GENERAL FLORES TO THE EQUADOR. The Lords of the Treasury having directed the legal process to be proceeded with against the Glenelg India man, and the Monarch and Neptune steam-ships, which were intended to take part in the proposed expedition_ of General Flores to the Equador, the following particu• Lars relating to the contemplated invasion may be read with interest:— In the early part of June the directors of the General Steam Navigation Company were applied to for the sale of two of their powerful steamers, and eventually two were disposed of, viz., the Monarch and the Neptune. About the same time application was made from the same quarter to Mr. Green, the owner of the Glenelg, and which was then lying in the East India Docks, for its purchase, which was also effected. The pur chase money was paid, and they were consigned to a Captain Chararete, who formerly was a marine captain in the East India Company's service. Their complete repair was immediately proceeded with, the utmost expedition being used in getting them ready for sea. They were represented to be for foreign service, and that the Glenelg would be employed as an emigrant ship. The unusual description of work for the merchant's service mentioned in the shipwright's con tracts excited at the time much attention, but similar work having been done to other vessels in the dock, and sanctioned by the English Government, the sus picions created by the fitting of the Glenelg and the steamers passed away. About the beginning of Sep tember' however, the fact of a C o l on el, who had served under General Flores in Columbia, being in London, authorised, as it was said, to engage men to aid the Spaniards in a certain expedition, and also to grant commissions to officers with the same view, created more specific suspicions as to the purposes for which the vessels were intended. By the following month facts had transpired which t en d e d to con fi rm previous suppo sitions; and on the 20th o f th at month, L or d Palmerston received a protest in res p ect to them, s igned by Baring Brothers and Co., and th e pr i nc i pal fi rms in the City. And subsequently a seco n d protest was f o rwarded from the the president ofhe Manch es t er C ommerc ial Association, embodying the same facts. To this protest a reply was received, which has been already published, announcing that the attention of the Government was directed to the subject; and in fact measures were immediately taken to ascertain the truth of the alleged suspicions. The Customs were directed to institute inquiries, and several of the most active officers connected with the 'detective police force were employed in the proceeding.. A few days' exertion suf ficed to warrant the interference of the Government. The principals were watched from place to place, and equitments of a most warlike character were proved to be among their preparations , . The fitting out of the vessel proceeded with much celerity, and they were appointed to leave on last Thursday. From some unexplained circumstance the steamers did not leave on that day. The Glenelg, however, sailed down the river, and took up the usual moorings off Gravesend. At this juncture, it appears, the Government had directed the detention of the vessel, and in the course of th e even ing Mr. Forsayth, the principal jerquer of th e C us t o ms, accompanied by a staff of officers, boarded her, and seize d her under the Equip ment an d E n li stment Act, the 59th of Geo. 111., cap. 69, f or b e i ng un l aw f u lly equipped, with out the sanction of her Majesty, for the purpose of com mencing hostilitie s aga i ns t a f ore i gn power. There were on board, be s id es t h e s hi p ' s coca p s ,ny (which ap peared only to be half-manned), 250 young men, who seemed to have been recently in the most destitute con dition. The officers who had charge of the vessel frankly admitted that the inen had enlisted to become either soldiers or marines, and that she was to touch at Corunna. To a casual observer the vessel appeared to have been fitted out as an ordinary emigrant ship, but eloser inspection showed that the arrangements were very rudely put together. She is a very large vessel, being 1,200 tons burden. She has three decks, and certainly in the present state may be more properly termed a transport ship than one in the emigrant trade. No am munition was found by the Government officers, but of course it is difficult to state what she may really hold while her cargo is cleared out. . Since her seizure the Lords of the Treasury have ordered her return to Black wall for that purpose. The steamers were seized on Friday on behalf of the Crown, by Mr. Forsaythiand on Liverpool and Southampton, as last Sat ur d a y f hio a from C a pt a i n inspecting them there can be no doubt of the purposes h for which they were intended ; they have been entirely new rigged and altered to carry guns of lar t g hh e ee c h a La l d i o b rd re s . Since the detention fittedo them of the Treasury Chararete (who was eventually to he appointed as the have received o a threep that Admiral of the fleet), soliciti n g thei r restitution, assert ing i t na take thate them out ato o a the we matter r c e o h as i his to f o o wf speculation,ns p a in, shipstae intended to an there to dispose of d property, that them at the best advantage to hi mself. The result of the application has not transpi red . There is every reason to believe that a l arge amount of ammunition and gu ns have alrea dy been shipped, not o wo n er l e y tkha ine coastthv the ssvessel of saThames,spsaui assuming but at vreLeninvcaehs colours tr left th e r i ver from Erith, w ith 3,0001b5. of gunpowder, her papers stating her to be for Cuba. Should the vessels be proved to be of the description suspected, they will not only be confiscated to the Crown, but the owners are liable to imprisonment and fine. General Flores is at present in London. r h s e d Zreen Dragon, Y re T at h4 ; an inquest Villiers.street, Strand, on the body LAUDANUM.—Thursday D B a e N d u fo s t r . d — , of Alice King, aged 20, a domestic servant. The deceased had left her situa tionwaSs u h l e c ld ruE bef u o on Saturday last, and went to reside at a friend's house in Poland-street, Oxford-street. On the following day she appeared unusually dull and low spirited, and on being spoken to she acknowledged that a something preyed heavily on her mind, but she refused to reveal what it was. On Monday morning she complained of being very ill, and on attempting to walk she could scarcely stand. She was conveyed to her aunt's in Duke-street, Adelphi, who, suspecting she had taken poison, had her removed to the Charm...cross Hospital, where on searching her pockets a phial; labelled " Lau danum—Poison," was discovered. The stomach pump was immeliately applied, and some laudanum brought from the stomach, but the poison having been taken some time it had got absorbed into the system. She expired the same evening. The inquiry was eventually adjourned to obtain further evidence as to her state of mind. - RAILWAY FARES The following are extracts from the evidence printed, together with the second report from the Select Commit tee on Riilwa.y Acts Enactments. It illustrates the fare system abroad as well as at home. The first extracts are from the testimony of W. Reed. Esq. Will you now state the rates charged upon the Paris and Rouen Railway 2—For first class passengers we charge 16 francs, which may be called 12s. 9d.; that is 1 8-10 d. per mile. Including how much luggage 2—Fifteen kilogrammes; 30 pounds. What is the charge for passengers' luggage exceeding 30 pounds ?---Six francs the 100 kilogrammes, which is about 2s. 6d. a hundred. Is not that much less than is now allowed upon the new lines ?—Yes ; on new lines the quantity of luggage allowed is doubled. What is the fare by the second class ?—The second class is 13 francs, which is 10s. 4id.; and that is about 1.46 d. per mile English. What luggage is allowed for the second class ?—The same quantity. Are those second-class passengers carried in closed carriages ?—ln closed carriages, which are lined, glazed, and cushioned. What are the third class ?—The third class we charge 10 francs, which you may call 85., that is, 1.13 d., a little more than a penny and a tenth. What luggage do you allow the third-class passengers? —The same. What description of carriages ?—Open carriages ; at present entirely open. With seats ?--With seats, but no curtains and no roof. Then we send also third-class passengers by our goods trains, and we charge those people 6 francs, which is 4s. 91d. for the whole distance, which is at the rate of two- thirds of a penny per mile, as nearly as possible. What is the difference of speed between your goods trains and the other trains?—We are about six hours going by the goods trains, and four by the others, so that we can carry 80 miles for 4s. 9id. Do the goods trains start during the daytime, as other trains ?—They start at one o'clock in the day. Have you as many of those trains as you have of others ?—No, we have only one in the day ; all the rest of our goods go at night. They are essenti ally goods trains. We are as particular about our goods trains in France as we are about passenger trains. There is one starts about one o'clock in the day. Does it load very much ?—Not very much. What luggage is allowed to the third-class passengers by the goods trains ? The same luggage in all cases. Are your rates higher than upon the Orleans line ? I think they are higher than upon any new 'railway in France. It is right that I should state that these are the rates from end to end of the line ; but we felt it ex pedient, about a twelvemonth ago, to lower those rates for the first 35 miles out of Paris, and the intermediate stations, and also for the first 18 or 19 miles out of Rouen, so as to give to the inhabitants of those large towns an opportunity of going cheaply comparatively short distances take the instance from Paris to Mai sons ;itis 17 kilometres. We are allowed to charge 10 centimes a kilometre, and the fare, therefore, would be 1 franc 70 centimes. Instead of that we take now 1 franc 25 centimes ; in round numbers it comes to 10 miles for ls., and, therefore, it is 1 2-10 d. a mile for the second-class passengers going ten miles out of the metropolis. The intermediate distances we have also lowered, more especially those near to the two termini. You think it is no advantage to the Rouen line to have a higher rate of charge than the Orleans ?—I think not; of course it remains to be tried ; my own opinion is that it is not an advantage. With a line to Caen charging Orleans prices, it would not be practicable to continue the higher charges upon the Rouen ?—No ; I think there is an understanding that we shall charge the lower rates for all passengers join ing us at Caen, and if it comes to that we shall of course have to do it for the whole. Then the charge will be uniform for all the great lines in France ?—Yes ; I think the French Government have come to this conclusion, that they will have one tariff for passengers on all the lines ; and if the traffic on some lines is not sufficiently remunerative the) will make it up in some other way, either by making part of the r#l - at their own cost, or lending or giving a sum of money, so as to make it worth while to carry passen gers at that price. You mean that they intend to have a maximum rate for all lines ?—Tes. They would not object to the company's reducing their rates ?—No, if any one would be weak enough to take a railway without remuneration, I dare say they would not object to that ; but all laws for making rail ways in France emanate from the Government, and are founded upon estimates of the cost and traffic previously ascertained. If they found that it was not likely to be remunerative at those prices, they would give something to make it so. What do they consider a remunerative rate of interest to the parties P—From five to six per cent. Will you now state what classes of persons you are obliged to carry, by the law applicable to your line, at a less price than your ordinary rate ?—We are obliged to carry the military at half-price. And the military going in bodies at a less price still ? —No, that is so in subsequent concessions, but does not apply to the Rouen Railway. Under article 43, solders aud sailors going singly upon the public service must be carried at half-price ?—Yes. You have had experience of the different systems . which prevail on the lines of railroad in France saki in England ; it is your opinion that the _fares on the lines of railroad in this country are higher than are necessary for a profit?—Yes, I have always been of that opinion. Do you think that if the fares had been lower the lines would have been as profitable, or even more so, than they have in fact been?—l believe they would have been more profitable. From your experience shoul - atnit.was wise on the part of railway companie class passengers, by placing them ittuveointoTtAle:car riages?—No, the experience which I he had in.Fi=ance goes directly to destroy that notion, if Dliad ever enter tained it. When we first opened the Itoukline, been always bound to take third-class carriages, we put third-class carriages to two trains a day or The. Government insisted upon it that by thew, we ought to attach them to every train. We ' 4 con tested that doctrine, and we went 'on contesting suppose for nearly twelve months; during those tweli months we merely took third-class passengers by two trains a day ; ultimately we began to alter our opinion, and to think it would be better to attach third-class car riages to every train. We did so, and we have gone on increasing the number of passengers and our receipts ever since. We opened the railway on the 9th of May, 1843 ; up to the 31st of December of that year we took of first-class passengers, 73,811 ; of second class passen gers, 251,250 ; and of third-class passengers, 99,082. During that time there were only two-third-class trains running daily ?—Exactly ; in the beginning of the year, 1844 we began to attach third-class carriages to each train ; we took in that year 108,170 first-class passengers,'second-class 352, 296, and third class 341,844. In the following year we took first-class passengers 120,568, second class 434,343, and third-class 410,7ii0. These numbers will show that, although the number of first and second-class passengers was not diminished, but augmented, we had an immense augmentation of third-class passengers. Were the second-class passengers carried during the whole of that time in closed carriages ?—Yes. In what kind of carriages were the third-class pas sengers carried?—ln open carriages with benches in them. Are they now carried in that way?—They are still so carried; but the French Government have inststed, in all the latter lines, that the third-class carriages shall be covered; that is to say, shall have a roof, and curtains on the sides, for which additional comfort to the public they have agreed to allow 5i centimes for a kilometre to be charged instead of five, which was given before. The fare is raised to the third-class passengers to that amount ?—Yes, half a centime to the kilometre. Ig the Rouen line about to conform to that ?—I men tinned on Friday that the tariff on the Rouen line is higher than any other in France. We have altered the tariff in practice as to short distances upon the line. I have no doubt that we shall eventually find it our in terest to make it general, and conform to the standard of the Orleans Railway ; but we are not compelled to do so by law. You carry a great many English people upon that line 2—Yes, a great many of the first-class passengers arc English. Is it not the case that you carry more first-class passengers than many foreign railways carry, because there are so many English who travel upon the line?—l believe that it is so. Is it not the case that on foreign railways generally there are few first-class passengers?—l believe about ten per cent. Is there the same difference in the rate of fares between first-class, second.class, and third. class pas sengers, as there is in England?—No; the French tai iff is, in my opinion, better. In the case of the Rouen line the fares are in the proportion of five, four, and three, between the three classes. D. Salomons, Esq. Have you had any opportunities of ascertaining what are the comparative charges made for passengers and goods on French and English railways?—l have. I wish to state, in the first instance, that I went over to France with Mr. Robert Stephenson and others, when the northern line of France was first projected, in the year 1843, and my attention having thus been directed in the first instance to the statistics of French railways, I have since taken an interest in other lines, and from these circumstances have been induced to make inquiries, and to collect" information respecting the general system of French railways. Will you give the Committee any examples or com parative statements with which you may be furnished on the subject? —I thought, perhaps, the most convenient wa y might be to examine the comparative fares on some of the completed lines of railway in France, such as the Orleans and the Rouen Railways, with lines of a nearly similar length in England. I have taken the Orleans Railway for one, and the Rouen for another. The Paris to Orleans Railway is 121 kilometres, or 76 miles long; the Rouen 180136 kilometres - , or 85 miles long. I have taken, in comparison with them, the South , Eastern to Folkestone and Dover, which is 88 miles; the South- Western, which is, I think, about 75 or 76 miles; the Birmingham, from London to Rugby, which is 85, and the Manchester to Birmingham, which is 85 miles. I find that the charge fortee first class to Dover is the second class , 10s.; third class, 6s. I find from London to Rugby it is 14s. 6d. first class, 10s. second, and 6s. 11d. third class. On the Manchester and Bir mingham, the first class is 155.; second class, lls.; and third class, 7s. Id. The fare for the first class on the Rouen is 135.; for the second class, 10s. 9d.; and for the third class, open carriages, Bs. 3d. I refer in each case to the fares actually charged. I find upon the Orleans, ' which is 76 miles long, they charge 12s. for the coupee F (this is a superior class); the ordinary first. class charge is 10s.; the second class, 7s. 9d.; paid the third clan is ss. 3d. The South-Western is 14s. first Class, 102. second, and 6s. 6d. third. I beg to state, with regard to the South Western, that I have excluded the fast and express trains, which are charged rather higher. If I calculated the tariff of the Orleans Railway, so as to make it the same length as the Rotten, that is 85 miles, instead of 76, its charge would be thus, according to the tariff-11s. 6d. for the first class, Bs. 9d. for the second class, and 6s. for the third class. In instituting a fair comparison between the English and the French railways, we ought to observe that, upon French railways, there is a very small amount of luggage allowed free of extra charge. On the Orleans Railway it is only 15 kilo grammes, which is 30 pounds ; even half a pound exceeding is charged for all classes by an increased scale so as to make it 2s. extra; yia cannot take a pound more luggage on the Orleans Railway beyond the tariff with• out being charged 2s. for the extra weight. I find that on English lines of railway, on the Dover, for example, you may carry 84 pounds first class, and 56 second and third. On the London to Rugby line you are allowed 100 pounds first class, 100 pounds second class, and 56 third class. On the Manchester and Birmingham there is 100 pounds first class, 100 second, and 60 third class allowed. On the Rouen Railway it is only 15 kilo grammes, which is allowed, but now I think they are become rather more liberal. There is another material item, that of horses and carriages for travellers. You pay for one horse on the South-Eastern line 345., for two horses 465., for three horses 625. On the Rouen line the prices are very nearly the same, 28s. for one horse, 455. for two, and 625. for three horses. But on the Orleans you pay 30s. for one horse, 555. for two horses, and 755. for three horses. On the Manchester and Birmingham line you pay 21s. for one horse, 425. for two horses, and 635. for three horses. For a carriage on the Dover line you would pay 455.; on the Rouen line, 485.; on the Orleans, if it is a small carriage, you pay 505., if it has double seats, or has a box, you pay 765. I have made a table, which I will put in, of the cost of a family travelling to Dover, Rouen, or to Orleans. I assume that the family would require two first-class seats, two second-class seats, and the conveyance of a carriage; the cost of such a family travelling to Dover would be 955.; to Rouen, 955. 6d.; whereas the convey ance of the same persons to Orleans would be 118 s. 6d. To elucidate the facts still more with regard to the charges for baggage, without which it is hardly fair to look at the mere charge made for carrying passengers, I wish to state to the committee that the overweight of luggage on the Orleans line of railway, in the year 1844, was 6,952,085 kilogrammes, which was charged 375,2881., or 15,0001., whereas the parcels or light goods carried by the passenger trains amounted to 4,384,619 kilogrammes, the charge for which was 122,361 f., or 4,900/. ; from which it appears that they carried about half the quantity more of passengers' luggage than they did of parcels and of light goods, and that they received three times more than they received for their parcels. Does that which you have now stated include all that you wish to say respecting the fares of passengers and luggage ?-I have only compared the Orleans line with the Dover line ; and I think that I ought to state to the committee that the Orleans tariff is adopted'now as the standard tariff in France on all lines, with the exception of a relaxation to a larger amount of baggage ; there is a larger amount of baggage now allowed ; the Northern line allows 30 kilogrammes, which is 601b5., and the Avignon to Marseilles tariff is 20 kilogrammes, or 401bs. You are aware that the Northern line tariff, as respects luggage, is adopted on all the other lines which have lately been conceded ?-I have stated that the tariff, as regards passengers and luggage, has been extended to 601bs. instead of 301bs. THE ZOLLVEKEIN. The new modifications made by the German Customs Union in its commercial system, merit same atention from those nations more particularly affected thereby; while it is of some importance to ascertain the position taken up by this great association at the present moment, when the question of free trade is exciting such lively discussion throughout Europe. For the better comprehension of this subject we will first recall the changes introduced by the Zollverein into its tariffs during the last few years, and will afterwards attempt to characterise the nature and bearing of those recently effected. The Zollverein has scarcely touched its tariff in the last quinquennial period, except to aggravate its disposi tions ; these augmentations of duties have not, however, been realised without - severe struggles, and pro longed opposition. The obstacles that have been en ' countered may be readily conceived, when it is known that the decisions of the Customs Con gress require unanimity, and that it is in the power of a single State to raise an insurmountable obstacle. There are in Germany, as in every other country, two par des, the one an advocate of commercial liberty, the other the partizan of the protective system. Prussia, which has placed itself at the head of the former, has long resisted the wishes of the southern States, which more especially represent the latter party. It has, how ever, at last been obliged to give way, for fear of loosening the bonds by which the association is held together, and perhaps, some day, seeing a work dissolved, to the existence of which it justly attaches political in terests of so much magnitude. Without going farther back than the year 1842, we see the Zollverein at that epoch doubling the duties on jewellery and fancy iron wares, on gilded bronzes, paper-hangings, and perfumery, &c. In 1844 it im posed a duty on raw iron, which was before exempt, and raised:the,tariffs on various sorts of iron. The same year it increased the import duty on light woollen stuffs by two-.thirds; And; finally, it now raises the duty on cotton - aid. lin. n threads. , To judge .61 these augmentations of duty, we need not eonsider.them. from' an: abstract point of view ; in the present state: of. international relations, it must be al lowed that a people need only consider its own industrial and commercial _conveniences for the adjustment of its tariffs ; but even under - this regard -all their augmenta tions do not seem to us to be dictated by an equally judi cious appreciation of the production and wants of Germany. ~ ••• Thus the measures directed against the importation of 'articles of art, fashion,' and luxury are rather , opposed than favourable to the interests of the country. The, German manufacturer does: not . pique . himself on, disputing with France the sceptre of taste and invention ; he willingly leaves to 'her , the , supply oL these_ varied products which derive . - their. chief . merit': from the elegance of their. , form, • the LiecOming harmony of their colours, and the finish ,Of their ivoi:lciiianship . He wisely prefers to apply ; his 're- Sources to the production of those more comnfori - wareS; which-suit a_ numerous population, and even' bY • Mit alone enter)argelY into consumption. The elevation 'di the dtities on works of art and taste will not give , liim what is not in hie: nature. The cold and serious Chi: ranter of his gehhis will not bend itself to all these liant fantasies' of, the iinaginatioh. - What, then, is the. result of this eleiation orduties ?_ To preyent habits Of comfort and eleginee.froni penetrating into . . the middle classes, to oppose the, wants inherent to the progress Of civilisation, and to injure iiittionalincluWY;' by depriving it of models by which. it might have profited. The increase of the duties on cast and wrought _ • • • iron may be justified much bettel.. - Grtrm - any poisasTes all the necessary elements for the deyelespiiotl metallurgic industry ; its soil conceals rich 'fiiiabis: 4 ,. magnificent forests flourish on the banks of - 444 4 Rhine and on the numerous mountains that advance from the sides of the Alps or the Hereyman Car pathians; the working of the beds of coal is extending more and more every year in the basins of the Ruhr, Silesia, and Saxony. It was then very natural for the Zollverein, seeing its metallurgic industry menaced by English competition, to come to its aid by assuring it better prices and a more considerable share in the supply of the national market. The question of cotton and linen threads, which has also been settled on the side of protection, is that which has been most warmly discussed in the councils of the Germanic Association ; little was wanting to set the Zoliverein in a blaze. It was brought forward at the Customs Congress of Stuttgard, in 1842, and reproduced at that of Carlsruhe last year. The cotton manufacturers, ho Never, saw their demands rejected, the first time by a refusal, and the second by an adjournment. It was not until this extraordinary conference, held at Berlin, that they at last gained their cause. _ The fabrication of cotton is one of those industries which manufacturing nations show most perseverance in disputing with England. The products in cotton manu factures form, it is known, the chief part of the colossal total of the exportations of Great Britain. " The cotton trade," said an English orator, "is for us principally an obj..lct of commerce ; of seven bales which we mean facture, only one is intended for domestic consumption; out of the seven days of the week our workmen employ six in clothing the foreigner." This cannot, evidently, be a normal state of things. There is no reason of cli mate why England should thus charge itself with manufacturing cotton for almost the entire universe. Accordingly every nation possessing an industrial life is trying to free itself from the British monopoly, and it the German association has shown so much hesita tion in taking a decided part, it is because energetic resistance has been met in the associated states, arising from interests formed under the state of things hitherto in vigour. The cotton-manufacture has of late been muc h ex tended in Germany. Thus, whil e she consumed on an s average only from thirteen to fift een m illi ons of of cotton wool in the period f rom 1834 to 1813oun6she consumed upwards of thi r ty- one m illi ons, or more than double, in the same period from 1843 to 1845. But the importation of English threads into the States of the Zollverein. has, nevertheless, continued to increase in a remarkable proportion ; it rose during the same period from less than thirty millions to forty-nine million pounds weight. It even exceeded that amount in 1844 and 1845. The fact is, that in spite of the progress she had made in the manufacture of cotton, Germany, far from being able to compete with England, is not even on a level with France or Switzerland. The use of machinery is there of modern date ; the establish ments are on a small scale ; the factories of Saxony have not, on an average, more than four thousand spindles, and there is not, perhaps, in the whole Zoll verein five factories with from twenty to thirty thousand spindles. It may be calculated that the spindle of an English factory produces at least a fourth, and perhaps a third, more than the spindle of a German factory. How, then, can the industry of the Zollverein defend itself with its own forces alone under such conditions of inferi ority P—Constitutionnel. WILSON'S ENTERTAINMENTS.---MT. Wilson gave ono of his entertainments on the songs of Scotland, on Wednesday night, at the Eastern Institution, for the benefit of the Tower Hamlets' Dispensary, to a densely crowded audience. We uru'erstand that there were nearly 1,400 within the walls. Mr. Wilson was in splendid voice, and the applause which greeted him was incessant. The Earl of Romney has been unanimously elected Chairman of the West Kent Quarter Sessions, in the room of Joseph Berens, Esq., resigned. ' FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 24, 1846. The Queen has been pleased to appoint William a Beckett and Roger Therrv, y Esqs. to be P u i sne J udges of the Supreme Court of the colony of New South Wales • Alfred Cheeke, Esq., to be Commissioner of the C ourt of Requests, and Thomas Callaghan, Esq., to be Crown Prosecutor in the Court of Quarter Sessions in that colony. Her Majesty has alao been pleased to appoint William George Knox, Esq., to be Puisne Judge for the island of Trinidad. Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint J. Hooper Dawson, Esq., to be Chief Clerk and Registrar of the Sipreme Court, and Clerk of the Central Circuit Court, of the island of Newfoundland. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Dumbartonshire. Sir Archibald Islay Campbell, Bart., to be Deputy Lieu tenant ; William Cunningham Bontine, Esq., to be Deputy. Lieutenant. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Michaelmas Term.—Tenth Victoria. Wednesday, the 25th day of November, 1846. This Court will, at the sittings already appointed to be held on Saturday, the 12th day of December next, proceed to give judgment in all the motions now standing for judg ment, and also in all causes ,now standing for judgment in the new trial paper. BY THE COURT. Read in open Court, E. BFatztErr. WHITEHALL, Nov - . 24. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Christopher Carter Foottit, of Newark-upon-Trent, in the county of Notting ham, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. ANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. John Brett B , sheep-salesman, Luton, Bedfords hi re. Saul and Walter Samuel, woollen-drapers, Birmingham. BANKRUPTS. - Alexander Russell, saddler, Ashford, Kent, to surrender Dec. 4, and Jan. 8, at twelve, at the Court of Bankrup tc . Belcher, official assignee; Crosby and Compton, Church - court, Old Jewry. John Bickerton, plait dealer, Luton, Bedfordshire, Dec. 10, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 7, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman -street-build- ings; Clarke, Fenchurch-street-buildings. John Borer, grocer, Exmouth-street, Clerkenwell, on Dec. 7, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street ; Nesti, Dyer's-builiiings, Holborn. John Garratt, licensed victualler, Copenhagen-house, Is lington, Dec. 9, at half-past eleven, and Jan. 7, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basing hall-street; King and Co., Queen-street, Cheapside. William Cmsling, linen-draper, Billericay, Dec. 10, at one, and Jan. 14, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings ; Jones, Size-lane. Richard Nichols, jun., bookseller, Birmingham, Dec. - 8 and Jan. 2, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Spyer, Broad street-buildings; Spurrier and Chaplin, Birmingham. .2:Samuel George Burton, gas manufacturer, Sidmo u th, Devonshire, Dec. 9 and 28, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter; Terrell, Exeter; Terrell, Gray's Inn-square. Abraham Huddleston, corn miller, Boston, Yorkshire, Dec. 9, and Dec. 28, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds ; Sudlow, Sons, and Torr, Chancery-lane; Shackleton, Leeds. John Mintorn Vaughan, licensed victualler, Bristol, Dec.. 11, at twelve, and Jan. 8, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol; Castle, Bristol. William Gawthorne, cabinet-maker, Liverpool, Dec. 7, and Jan. 19, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. - Turner, of f icial assignee, Liverpool ; Gregory and Co., Bed ford-row, London ; Belshaw, Liverpool. Peter Jones and Edward Everett, joiners, Liverpool, Dec. 14, and Jan. 7, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenoye, official assignee, Liverpool ; Storey, Featherstone buildings, London ; Ewer, Liverpool. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending November 24, 1846, is 335. 10%d. per cwt. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. J. Salmon, builder, Beaumont, Essex—first div. of 4s. 9d. in the potmd, on Saturday, 'Nov. 28, and two subsequent Saturdays, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. J. Bunn, builder, Norwich—first div. of 4s. 10d. in the pound. any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Graham, Cole man-street. B. Fenwick, draper, Newcastle-upon-Tyne--first div. of ss. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. S. Pilling and R. G. Watson, wine merchants, Gateshead, Durham—second div. of 3d. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. T. and G. Snaith, ironmongers, Bishop Auckland, Durham —second div. of 2s. 4d. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. J. Benstead, hosier, Fleet-street, Dec. 19, at eleven—W. H. Cox, boat builder, Belvedere-road, Lambeth, Dec. 19, 'at one —S. F. Stephens, bill broker, Old Broad-street, City, Dec.lB, at two—E. P. Sardinson, J. Weston, and Ii March, ware housemen, Wood-street, City, Dec. 18, at half-past one—J. C. Staines, tailor, Oundle, Northamptonshire, Dec. 18, at half past twelve. _ _ _ In the Country. T. Maguire, draper, Birmingham. 6ec. 23, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court—J. Evans, farmer, Heywood lodge, Herefordshire, Dec. 19, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court—J. Parton, draper, Birmingham, Dec. 19, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court—H. Deverall, corn factor, Stoke-upon-Trent, Dec. 19, at ten, at the Bir mingham District Court—J. Botcherby, coal owner, Darling ton, Durham, Dec. 21, at half-past eleven, at the Newcastle upon-Tyne District Court—G. E. Schulz, stock broker, Liver pool, Dec. 18, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court—H. Mansfield, coal dealer , Liverpool, Dec. 18, at twelve at the Liverpool District Court—T. Oxton, cart owner, Liverpool, Dec. 22, at eleven, at the Liverpool, District Court—G. and J. Barton, copper roller manufacturers, Manchester, Dec. 22, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court—T. Marsden, mercer, Northallerton, Yorkshire, Dec. 23, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court-J. Crosby, Dec. 18, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court—D. Fleming, grocer, Bristol, Dec. 18, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. CERTIFICATES 24 be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on 'the day herein mentioned. F. R. T. Crisp, printer, Wellington-street, North, Strand, Dec. 18—D. Kempton, mattress manufacturer, Bermondsey street, Dec. 19—T. E. Jones, linendraper, Knightsbridge terrace, Knightsbridge, Dec. 21—M. Thompson, ironmonger, Saffron Walden, Essex, Dec. 21—H. Woolcott, fringe manu facturer, Museum-street, Bloomsbury, Dec. 21—J. Pitkeathly, timber merchant, Gloucester-street, Regent's-park, Dec. 21 Gardner, . chemist, Fieldgate-street, - Whitech a p e l, - Dec. 19—T. oore, furniture broker, St. Alban's, Dec. 21— W. Lock, plumber, Henry-street, East, Portland Town, Dec.' 22—R.. Gaunt, . farmer, Ingmatithorpe, Yorkshire, Dec. 19—R. Harrison, corn dealer, Mold, Flintshire, Dec. 22 Wheelwright,' farther; S a i n t Wellborough, Shritishire, Dec. 22—M. Price and T. Crompton, brickmakers, Shrigley, Cheshire, Dec. 22—M. - J o n es , S a ddl er, Liverpool, Dec. 18- -IV.- Mitchell, furniture dealer, Kent-street, Southwark, Dec. 18—J. E. C. Koch, merchant, Great Winchester-street, City,- Dec. 18—W. Longhurst, undertaker, Sussex-terrace; Old Brompten, Dec. 18—T. Cooke,. plasterer, Bridge4errace,' Harrow-road, Dec: 18—E. Oxley; inn.; hatter; King's Lynn, Norfolk, Newstead, • laceman, • Regent's-street; •Dec. Brindley, laceman, Coventry, 'Dec. • :Spooner, l licensed • victualler, Buckingham-street, Stiend; :Dec. • 18—J. Lead,, innkeeper,. Wellington, • Shropshire, Dec. 18.—J. Parr; coal dealer; Paddington,.=Dec: 18. • . • PARTNERSHIPS, DISSOLVED:', . • • • W. and E. Walford, timber; merchants,. Wolverhanipton— C, Hodge, and R. Barnes; printers, •Liverpoolz-W.' Hirst .and ;S.,Oldham, sh uttle makers, Stockport,' Chishiie:LG:Watsort ..and R. AndersOn, brickmakers, SouthamOton=R. - and T. -I)aniels, cheesemongers, Shadwell—R. S. and J. Butterfield, therchants,'Arundei-street, Strand—J. C. Jones:lnd W. inuln:Plireys,"'corn• factors, "Liverpool=-S. and J. - Dean, far- ChOrs(iin.vrith Hardy, Lancashire—T. and J.-W. Salm derson, share brokers, Brown;sen.i H. Brown, W. Brown, jun., and C. &Own,' drapers, ` Chester- - H. 7Ma thews, sen., and W. H. Mathews, un:, block cutters, South wark-bridge-road—C. V. Biidgman and E. •H. Scobell,, attorneys—A. Davenport, E. Davenport, and E. Davenport, Seaforth, Lancashire (so far as regards - A. Davenport).— M. F. W. West and R. W. Jennings, cutlers, St. James's street—J. A. and R. Milligan, plumbers, Carey-street, Lin coln's Inn—J. P. Oxley, W. Wilde, S. Sexton, and F, Wilde, dyers, Openshaw, Lancashire—J. and J. Vezey, tallow chandlers, Edgeivare-road—J. Wilkinson, W. Bar nett J. Vint, T. Harrison; R.M. Watson, L. Wandless, D. Stokoe, and , ,A. Keene, colliery owners, Chartershangh, Durham (so far as regards J. Wilkinson, J. Vint, and A. Keene)—Wilkin, Preston, and Co., shipbrokers, Liverpool (so far as regards R. Wilkin). SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. ee e t at ll — on a d t ay l , l. at N ew Lodge ; Fri. a il ego Billet, Ivey Ts m ve i r n c kton Village; Tues., Beswiek ; e Hoi r d the e Maje sty's n.es Crookedb lads, s Thurs., North Dalton ; Sat., Frodington Bridge—i to 11. Sir Tatton Sykes's hds., Mon., Weston-10i ; Wed., Wil berfoss Mill-11; Fri., Settrington House—lef t . Badsworth hds., Tues., Badsworth Hall; Thurs., Aketon. Hall ; Sat., Shafter Two Gates-10t. Mr. Lumley's hds., Mon., Bole Guide Post; Tnes, Serlby ; Thurs., Thrybergh ; Fri., East Markham-10i. Rufford hds., Mon., Debden Toll-bar ; Tues., Thurgartota Priory ; Thurs., Ossington ; Sat., Clown Village. Lord 11. Bentinck's lads., Mon., Carleton in Morland; Tues., Nudge Inn; Wed., Hackthorn ; Thurs., Eagle; Fri., ?do flock ; Sat., Nocton House-11. Earl Fitzwilliam's lads., Mon., Long Orton; Wed., Thrap ston Bridge-10. Cottesmore hds., Tues., Glaston ; Thurs., Burley-on-the— hill ; Fri., Thistleton ; Sat., Tilton Wood-11. Duke of Rutland's hds.. Mon., Croston Park; Tues., Wea— ver's Lodge ; Wed., Three Queens' ; Fri., Kirkly Laythorpe -101h. Quorn hds., Mon., Theddington Hall ; Tues., Bunny Park T.. Thurs., Baggrave Hall; Fri., Six Hills-11. sington Mill; Fri., Hainton-7104. Wed., iverton Hal., L ittl e Ea-. Southwold hunt, Mon., Haughamp uide Post; Tues.. Hor- Donnington hds., Mon., w ton Village ; Sat., Lagley Priory. y Wich nor--10 4. ri. w a reley; Fri., Whaddon. Cambridgeshire hds., Mft xley; Thurs., Bretl Mr. M. Ingram's hds ., Mon., ; Sat,. Cheshire hds., or f d Bridge; ton-10 1 h. Sat., Harles Tues., Tilston ; App Wed., Stamford ; Thurs— Lord and Lady Brougham have arrived at Grafton.. street, from Paris. VIENNA, Nov. 19.—The Imperial Family of Russia has just sustained another severe loss. This morning at t.so o'clock, the young Grand Duchess Mary, daughter • of his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Michael, expired, after suffering several months from rapid declinr A statuette of Napoleon, by the Count d'Orsa . has been recently presented to the city of A j accio (t v birthplace of Buonaparte) by Prince Demidoff. 7 :he " inauguration " took place in September last. SINGULAR IMPORTATION. A vessel arrive? A a t Liverpool has brought, in addition to a general cm ro of dried fruits, five tons weight of locusts. This app, 3a rs t o be a very singular article of importation, but they of the same is not apparent. rport AMENNICAN PaonsioNs.—The American ine- of packet ship Victoria, just arrived in the Londoca Docks, from New York, has brought an extensive anal various cargo of articles of food, the production of the United States of America. Of the various articleshrog ight by this ship, the most noticeable are the supply of a few packages of peaches, and 250 bales of imaPs. MA.CDUFF HARBOUR.—The Parliamentari notices are being given t o ena bl e th e trustees of the Ate Earl of Fife, or their successors, to improve the Es trbour of Macduff, Banffshire. A plan has bee n subm: itted by Mr. Bremner of Wick. The cost is es tiraste4 at abcpat 55,0001.--Inverness Courier. a 4 ..., ilho 371,1 i 4 i-;!I 37f4 6,4 , , ,14 .6' ,4