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Now Ready, • VOL. VI. OF MADAME D'ARBLAY'S DIARY AND LETTERS,. " The present volume is not a whit inferior to those which have preceded it. It ocen:ies an Interval of nineteen years—from 1793 to ISI2 and contains anecdotes of the English and. French Courts, w7,ich are of historical value."—Athemtutn. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborong,h-street. in two vol , . small Svo., with Portrait, pricepound, P OETICAL WORKS of HORACE SMITH, ono of the Authors of " REJECTED ADDRESSES." Now first collected. Orders received by all Booksellers. henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. WHITTINGTON CLLTB,and 3IETROPOLITA.N ATHEN-EUM. The FIRST GENERAL MEETING of the MEMBERS of this INSTITUTION will be held at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle street, on TitUREIDAY next, the 29th inst., at Seven o'clock precisely. The Secretary will be prepared to enrol monsters on that evening, who will be privilege. 4 to attend and take part in the transaction of business. Entrance-fee, for Gentlemen only, 10s. 6d. The names and entrance-fees of persons desirous of becoming members, will also now be received by any member of the Committee, or, between the hours of ten and five, by any of the following gentlemen, from whom prospectuses can alsc) be obtained :—Edward Moxhay, Esq., Trea surer, pre tem., Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street; Robert /Senior, Esq., 69, Cornhill ; Mr. Laidman, 119, Chancery-lane ; Messrs. Miller and Jones, SS, Oxford-street ; W. Eykelbosch, Esq., 3, Moore place, Kennington-road ; and between ten in the morning and eight In the evening, at the temporary Office of the Club, 53, (west side of, Lincoln's Inn-fields Dy order of the Committee, C. PAGET, Iron. See. Oct. 26, 1846. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TUE4DAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours„ containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered; and advlces of results will be Forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds imme diately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. TrIEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING The Entertainments will commence with Benedict's popular Opera Of THE CRUSADERS. Bohemond, Mr. Harrison ; Raymond, Mr. Borrani; William, Mr. Weiss ; Hassan, Mr. Stretton ; Ismael, Mr. Ring ; Almer, Miss Romer ; Iseult, Miss Rainforth. After which, the celebrated Ballet of THE DEVIL TO PAY, In which will appear Mons. Brain, Mr. Wieland, Mons. Theodore. Mr. W. H. Payne, Mr. Howell. &c. ; Mdlle. Fabbri, Mdlle. Louise, Madams Theodore, Miss A. Payne, kc. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Comedy, in three acts, entitled QUEEN MARY'S BOWER. Principal characters by Messrs. Webster, Hudson, Howe, Brindal, Braid ; Miss Fortescue, Mrs. Seymour, &c. After which a new Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord Courtington, Mr. Holl ; Sir Arthur Lovel, Hr. Howe ; Scoreup, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Claris3a, Mrs. Buckingham ; Mrs. Scoreup, Miss Julia Bennett. To be followed with (by desire) a Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. Webster ; Mary, Miss Jolla Bennett; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs. Humby. During the evening the Band will perform the Overtures. " Les Mousquetaires de la Reins," and " Lestocq ," the " Old English Airs" (Fantasia); and " Rococo" (Wa'zer.) To conclude with Buckstone's Farce, entitled THE IRISH LIO Principal characters by Messrs. Hudson , Brindal, Tl:bury ; Miss. N P. Horton, Mrs. Stanley, Mrs. BuckirOaam, Miss Woulds, &c. Bea-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of Mr. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. "MILS. HARRIS" WILL APPEAR EVERY EVENING. THIS EVENING The performances will commence with a New Comic Drama, TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Principal characters by Messrs. A. Wigtn, Meadows, and Keeley; Mrs. Woollidge, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Hicks, Miss Turner, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by a New Farce, called MRS. HARRIS. Henry Masker, Mr. A. Wigan ; Mr. Slickey, Mr. F. Mathews ; Hillary Shivers, Mr. Meadows ; Fanny Platt, Miss Arden ; Mrs. Harris, Mr. Keeley. Alter which thq Farce, entitled AN OBJECT OF INTEREST. In which Mrs. Keeley will perform. To conclude with a new Farce, called WHICH MISTER SMITH I' Characters by Messrs. Vining, F. Mathews, Emery, Bellingham, Butler, Collier, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Grove, and Miss Turner. PEIEATIIE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER TIIE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be presented a new domestic drama, entitled EUGENIA CLAIRCILLE ; or, The New Found Home. Frederick Stan more, Mr. Worrell; Mr. Itugleigh, Mr. Cullenford; Tolley, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Buzzard, Mr. Lambert ; Hugh Matlock, Mr. 0. Smith ; Pegg, Mr. Munyard ; Mrs. Toffey, Mrs. F. Matthews ; Eugenia Clairgille, Madame Celeste. After which will be produced - MRS. GAMP'S TEA AND TURN-OUT ; a Bozzian Sketch, in one act. Principal characters by 3tessrs. Cullenford, Worrell, Ryan, Wright, Munyard ; Miss linen Chaplin, and Miss M. Taylor. To be followed by a new Extravaganza, in two acts, called THE JOCKEY CLUB. The principal characters by Meisrs. Paul Bed , ford, Wright, Redmond Ryan, Selby, Waye, 3litclienson, &c. ; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. F. Matthews, Misses Ellen Cha fin, Harding, Fleming, Turner, Taylor, &c. To conclude with the popular Farce, entitled DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL ? Chesterfield Honey bun, Mr. Wright ; Isaac Crank, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Crank, Mrs. F. 3Hatthews ; Mrs. lloneybtm, Miss Emma Harding. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. It Is respectfully announced that this Theatre, having, during a brief recess, been renovated and re-decorated, will Open THIS EVENING, October 28th, when will be performed (for the first time), a new and original Romantic Opera, in three parts, entitled THE NIGHT DANCERS ; founded on the Story of " Giselle." The principal characters personified by Miss Oeorgiana Smithson, Madame Albertazzi, Miss Flower, 3liss Somers, Misses Marshall ; Messrs. Leffler, Allen, Bodda (his first appearance), Walton, T. BM, Honner, Yeren, &c. After which, a new Comic Drama, entitled ALL FOR THE BEST. Mr. Walkinpop, Mr. Compton ; Alfred, Mr. A. Harris ; Parchment, Mr. Smith; Isaac, Mr. Honner ; Clara, Miss Honner. To conclude with the favourite Farce of MY WIFE'S SECOND FLOOR. Characters by Messrs. Granby, Roxby, Compton, Harris ; Airs. Hughes, Miss E. Honner, and Mrs. Fosbroke. FRENCH PLAYS.-ST, JAMES'S THEATRE, Application for Season Boxes and Stalls to be made at Mr. MITCHELL'S Royal Lifsrary, 33, Old Bond street. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Mr. George Bolton, sole Lessee and Manager. TIES EVENING Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that the ensuing season of French plays at the St. James's Theatre will be commenced on WEDNESDAY EVENING, November 11, by the engagement of the favourite Comedian, Monsieur Perlet, who will appear fer a limited number of representations, assisted by Monsieur Cartigny (of the Theatre Francais). M. Rhozevil (of the Theatre du Gymnase) and Mademoiselle Brohan (Premiere Soubrette of the Theatre Francais), her first appearance in this country. Mr. Mitchell has also the honour to announce that, encouraged by the distinguished patronage which has been conferred upon his manage ment, he has engaged the following eminent artistes, who will appear in succession during the season :—Monsieur Perlet, Mademoiselle Brohan, Monsieur Frederick Lemaitre, Mademoiselle Clarisse, Monsieur Lafont, Mademoiselle Fargueil (her first appear ance in this country), Monsieur Aicide Tousez (of the Theatre du Palais Royal, his first appearance), Mademoiselle Dttverger, (of the Theatre du Palais Royal, her first appearance), Mademoiselle Aline Vallee (of the Theatre du Gymnase, her first appearance), Mademoiselle Rose Cheri (of the Theatre du Gynanase), whose performances last year were so eminently successful, and during whose engagement, will be produced the new domestic drama of CLARISSA. HARLOW[, now performing in Paris with extraor dinary success, and also a new play, written expressly for Mademoi selle Rose Cheri, by the popular author, Monsieur Scribe ; Monsieur Regnier (of the Theatre Francais), Mademoiselle Denain (also of the Theatre Francais, her first appearance in this country), and the dis tinguished actor, M. Bouffe (his flrstlappearance Ance 1343) ; in ad dition to which the celebrated tragedienne, 3ldlle. Rachel, for a limited number of representations, and will appear in the popular plays of " Marie Stuart," by Le Brun; " Britanlcus," by Racine ; " Tancred," by; Voltaire; " Berenice," by Racine ; " Ariane," by Corneille, and other plays of her well•known repertoire. Madlle. Rachel has also undertaken to perform, for the first time, the cha racter of Celimene, in Mollere'a comedy of "Le Misanthrope." The subscription will be for fifty representations, on Monday and Friday evenings, with the privilege of exchanging for the Wednesday even ing performance, an arrangement which has hitherto affirded so much convenience and satisfaction. Will be performed the Play of THE RELAPSE. Lord Popping ton, Mr. Waiter Lacy; Young Fashim, Mr. G. Wlton ; Loveless, Mr. Leigh Murray; Sir Tunbelly Clumsy, Mr. ilkinson; Coupler, Mr. J. Cowell ; Lory, Mr. S. Cowell ; Worthy, Mr. Archer ; Nur- e, Mrs. C. Jones; Amanda, Mrs. R. Gun:an ; Berinthia, Mizs Char.es ; Miss Hoyden, Mrs. Walter /lacy. After which, a grand BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT and MU SICAL MELANGE. To conclude with the Farce of TUE TURNPIKE GATE Crack, Mr. J. Cowell. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY TIIEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING will be performed Shakspere's Tragedy of FING LE AR. King Lear, Mr. Macready ; Earl of Gloucester, Mr. Neville ; Earl of Kent, Mr. Cooper; Edgar, Mr. Saville ; Regan, Mu. Ternan ; Cor delia, Mrs. Gill ; Goneril, Mrs. Daly. To conclude with the Drama of THE BRIGAND. In which Messrs. Neville, Lewis, Saville, Pelham ; Mrs. Saville, Miss Rich ardson, &c., will perform. Box•oftice open from eleven till four o'clock. ..-ISTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. .Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and Royal Family. Continued success of Ilerr Amodio isletipert, the great Dutch Bottle Equilibrist, with feats of strength on glass bottles. The Champion Vaulters, Messrs. Henderson and Lee, will execute twenty, thirty, and forty somersaults. THIS EVENING Will be produced the grand Dramatic Spectacle cf 3IAZEPPA ; or, The Wild Horse. Supported by the principal dramatic talent of the Company. After which, new SCENES of the CIRCLE. In which the Bri tish and Foreign Artistes w:11 appear. To conclude with the WASHEtIWOMAN OF ST. REMY. Mr. BATTY begs to acquaint the gentry and public that he has formed an expensive engagement with STATTMAISTER REIN BRECHT, from Berlin, w.th his four highly-trained Horses. This foreign Artiste, having arrived in London, will appear for the first time in England in a few days, in his new and peculiar exercise of equitation with those highly-trained Steeds. 1:ox-otlice open Irons eleven till dye o'clock.—Doors (men at six a,e clmmence at seven o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. WEATHEit.—bIIN OFFICE, OCTOBER 27. T IERMOMETER, Lowest, 37; Highest. 45 ; Noon, 38, BAROMETER, 30 22.—WIND N.N.W., foggy. HIGH WATEP. AT LONDON-BRIDGE, THIS DAY. Morning .. 7 minutes after 7. Evening .. 46 minutes after 7. . •;n. ".. • . -s, ;.. ' - -"- 4 ! , • -4,,...i........_ ~,.., ..-,. ~,....,,..t ;, :-,„ ... ..,.,,.„ ~,„, . • , 1‘ , ,, ,, ,,,,,,4r 0 v, 1 " . 4 1 - HO 14 ''' ,, i•r , , - ‘ 4ar,...6i..;.:-. „a - ,_ ~s r u ...., .. ~._, -,, , ,1e- p:;,, , ,,,,•, , ,,, • „,,.. SECOND EDITION• Li: tlnn LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1846. No description, however highly coloured, no lan guage, however emphatic, no imagery, however dark - and lugubrious, can by possibility exaggerate the peril in which -the population of Ireland are at pre sent placed. " - Misery unqualified is in the land— misery unparalleled—such as was never heard of before!" exclaims Mr. O ' CONNELL ; and that solemn assurance coming from that eminent authority is, to the very letter, truth. Winter is approaching rapidly, and with that winter all the most direful concomi tants of national destitution. Great as has been the scarcity hitherto, grievous as hav e been the privations of the peasantry—they are as nothing in comparison with those privations and that terrible and universal scarcity which are inevitable, unless p reven t e d b y the interposition of Government, abetted by the as sistance of ecclesiastical interference and the vigorous support of the landowners. Supposing the ope rations of the Board of Works to be only proportioned THE SUN, LONPON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OeMBER, 28, fl3iG. t) its recent inactivity, and the pecuniary help de rived from the Legislature to be merely meted out according to that already afforded, the prospects of our sister island are truly desolate, the probability of her emerging unscathed from her present terrific ordeal are wonderfully insignificant. But our expectations are not of this mournful character; we are too sincerely assured of the wisdom and hu manity of the existing Administration, and, beyond this, we are too sanguine of the emulation which must be excited in the bosom of the Prime Minister when his forthcoming remedies shall be contrasted with those afforded by his predecessor, to entertain any such fearful anticipations, or to continue in such utter trepidation for the lives of our fellow-country - The dictates of humanity are sufficiently powerful to overrule the most fanatical parsimony ; the recommendations of safety will, in emergencies, dissipate the torpor of the most confirmed sluggard. At an important meeting of landlords and relief committees, held recently in Fer moy, the Honourable Representative of Cork entered more largely into the consideration of the necessities of the people and the inertness of the subordinate officials, than he has done on any previous occasion. We are rejoiced to find Mr. O'CONNELL pleading thus earnestly for his country men in the days of their most extreme desolation ; we are rejoiced to find him standing forward as the champion of that people who never needed the voice of an advocate so much as at this particular juncture. After enlarging upon the intensity of the distress which is now so prevalent in the four provinces, Mr. O'CONNELL addressed himself more particularly to a consideration of the part already taken for its ame lioration by the present Government. On this point the Hon. Member spoke in the most feeling and impressive manner. He evidently appreciated the responsibilities by which the benevolence of her MAJESTY'S Ministers was necessarily, to a great extent, restrained at all times. He knew that while immediate and well-organised efforts to prevent starvation were incumbent upon a Legislature, that that Legislature was not the less bound to be cautious in the distribution of public money and in its inter ference with the ordinary machinery of the social system. Mr. O ' CONNELL could not possibly have overlooked these most manifest duties of a statesman, he could not be blind to facts which every successive year of his active career can only have forced more and more deeply upon his conviction. In the sight, however, of the terrific calamities which have been latterly accumulating in his native land, seeing before him the woes of an almost de spairing peasantry, knowing that in many a roadside cabin there are human beings on the brink of a death by famine, and conscious that those same creatures speak the same language, breathe the same atmo sphere, look upon the same landscapes, and are indi genous to the same soil with himself, Mr. O'CONNELL is roused to a sympathy which in its turn roused his indignation. We honour Mr. iO'CONNELL for the intensity of his feelings upon this subject. There is always something noble and affecting in the spectacle of a patriot mourning for the miseries of his coun try. When we hear Mr. O'CONNELL exclaiming, " Things are coming to a frightful pass. Don't you authorise me to tell the Lord-Lieutenant that the peace of the country is not secure?—(Loud cries of We do.') Don't you authorise me to tell him that there is actual starvation in the country at this mo ment ?—(‘ We do')—that he will be responsible for human lives in countless numbers if something be not done ?—(Hear.) I will repeat the echo of your voices to the Lord-Lieutenant." When we remem ber the enthusiasm of sympathy which such conside rations could not fail to excite in a bosom so suscep tible to the wrongs of the Irish people, we are not surprised at what, in other circumstances, would inevitably have caused us some astonishment ; we are not surprised to hear the " Liberator" declaring— " If Government do not establish depots and scatter them in different parts cf the country, I announce em phatically my opinion that the people will starve in .housands." men. We are not surprised at the earnestness of this ad juration, because we remember the abyss of human suffering into which Ireland is being plunged, and because we remember that the man who announces this necessity for so extraordinary a remedy is ac tuated to its utterance by the depression of a patriotic heart. Mr. O'CONNELL adduces, in support of his proposi tion, the example afforded last winter by Sir ROBERT PEEL. lie says, indeed, most distinctly upon this point— "Last year, when the calamity was not near so greats most active measures were taken by the Government of the day, and it is not here alone I raise my voice in ac knowledgment to Sir Robert Peel for that. I did so in Parliament—in my place in the House of Commons, and in the name of the Irish people I thanked him, and I received the personal acknowledgments of Sir Robert Peel, who came across the House to thank me for what he called an act of generosity, but which I call an act of justice." Mr. O'CONNELL must, however, have forgotten that tLe " active measures" taken by that illustrious statesman, namely, the importation of considerable quantities of Indian meal, were done in secresy ; that Sir ROBERT PEEL himself acknowledged the absolute necessity of net interfering with the ordinary arrange ments of commerce, and repudiated the notion of having intended to make a Government-monopoly by destroying the wholesome competition of indivi duals. He has overlocked the impolicy, to say the very least of it, of destroying all mercantile in dustry in Ireland by rendering the corn-markets of that country merely the scene of state barterings. We are persuaded that Ireland is not to be relieved, cannot be relieved, ought not to be relieved, by 1 1 the establishment of Government depots of provi sions. That would, in effect, be nothing more than the removal of one calamity for the substitution of, if possible, one still greater. The establishment of Go vernment depots, taken in connexion with the Go vernment employment afforded to the poor, would be nothing less than the establishment of the odious truck-system upon a gigantic and ruinous scale. Nevertheless, while we recognise the impossibility of acceding to this recommendation of Mr. O'CONNELL, we honour him the more for the sentiments in which that proposition originated. We be hold, in the very extremity of the remedy propounded by him, the earnestness of his corn misseration for his countrymen, and the intensity of his desire to ameliorate their sorrows. While she possesses hearts so alive to her sufferings, and coup with intellects so active for the discovery of their panacea, Ireland need never despair. Even at this awful crisis of her existence there is hope for her in the language of her most eminent coun tryman. What does DANIEL O'CONNELL say to Ire and at this moment ? He says this : " I belong to no party but the people. I ought to be attached to the people. I owe them everything, and they owe me nothing.—(No.) Let no man mistake me, when I say the people I do not mean merely the poor man, who earns his precarious livelihood with the spade by the sweat of his brow, or the cottier or the farmer, but everybody from the highest peer of the realm to the lowest peasant boy. 'Tis my solemn duty to attend to their interests—to watch over the rights of the land lords, and the interests of the tenant and the labourer, and to do injustice to no man, to secure better prospects for the country and to devote my heart and soul to the best fulfilment of my duty to you." Animated with these sentiments, the Hon. Member for Cork has proceeded to Dublin to represent to the Lord-Lieutenant—to that Lord-Lieutenant whom he has so frequently and so justly eulogised for his patriotism, his benevolence, and his enterprise— to represent to Lord BESBOROUGH the urgency of this juncture, the wants of the Irish millions, and the almost exhausted state of their patience. Ireland could not have a better advocate in her most terrible afflictions. We shall anticipate that the prayers ()- O'CONNELL will be hearkened to by our Liberal Go. vernment. We, on Monday, alluded to the visit which the lion. and Learned Member for Bolton, in pursuance of his annual custom, paid to his constituents, for the purpose of explaining his Parliamentary conduct during the past session. We then adverted solely to the great and absorbing question of free trade, on the success of which, and the recognition of its great principle by the Legislature, the vast number of ad herents it his gained amongst persons of every class in society, from the wisest and most intellectual of our statesmen, the highest and most patriotic of our nubility, to the humblest artizan, who earns his daily bread by the sweat of his brow, and who sees in its adoption the prospect of increased prosperity to his trade and increased comforts for his family, the `Learned Doctor, one of its earliest and most zealou acivocates, may well utter joyous pceans. But there were other subjects introduced in his speech, 7.'hich, although of less vital importance to the public generally, and having lees influence on the national wealth, cannot but prove deeply interesting to the philanthropist, to the man who feels himself concerned in anything relating to the welfare and happim:•ss of his fellow-men. First in importance and interest amongst topics of this class stands the question of military flogging—a system the horrors and atrocities of which are now fully understood by the nation, against -which the voice of public opinion has been most loudly uplifted. Dr. BoweING had long been the opponent of that vile description of punishment which, in nine cases out of ten, destroyed the moral character, the feeling of in dependence and honour of every man who had been subjected to the deep degradaAon of the lash, and which, often inflicted for the most trivial and insig nificant cause, occasioned an untimely and painful death to the unfortunate victim. Had Dr. Bownisto rendered no other service to the public, had he been an indolent and careless man, negligent of the great duties which every representative of the people takes upon himself on entering the Senate-house, he would have gained immortal honour for the course he adopted on that question. He seized the golden moment, he availed himself of the intense enthusiasm pervading the public mind, which had been thoroughly aroused by the horrors detailed at Hounslow during the proceedings of the inquest held on the body of the martyred WHITE. He gave notice in the House of Commons of a motion for the total and immediate abolition of the abomination, and firmly resisted all solicitations to relinquish or delay his motion until the public mind was less excited and less sensitive on the subject; he was told that he might embarrass the authorities if he brought forward so ticklish a ques tion, and assured that if he would only wait every thing that was possible under existing circumstances would be done ; but the Learned Doctor was too well aware of the real value of such assurances to let slip the favourable opportunity ; he knew that every valuable and important reform has been obtained by the pressure from a ithout, that he might never again find a moment so propitious, and gallantly and un hesitatingly he persevered. His answer to the so licitations so made to him is deserving of the highest credit, and should be a model to every independent senator under similar circumstances. It was, " that if any fragment was left of the system, that system , he would still denounce and endeavour to overthrow: His firmness and perseverance were not thrown away. A vast improvement was effected ; new rules and regulations were promulgated, by which the number of lashes which could by any possibility be inflicted was reduced to fifty, one fourth part only of the number that was formerly sanctioned. The oc casions, too, on which the cat could be called into operation were greatly restricted, and the greatest precaution directed in every case, in order to ascertain that the victim was in such a state of health as to enable him to endure the torture without danger to his life. Had the Doctor been satisfied with the as surances so made to him, it is, to say the least of it, probable that the measure of reform would have been more tardily granted, and of a more stinted character. He was asked if he would be satisfied with these re gulations ? but his answer was, " No; while there is a power to inflict one single lash on the back of Coe soldier I will still protest, and divide the House ;' and to that pledge he continued faithful; he brought forward the subject in a speech of the most thrilling pathos, the highest eloquence—one that will not speedily be forgotton by any person who had the good fortune to hear it, and which, although he failed on that occasion in obtaining a majority, planted the good seed that must speedily come to maturity arid bring forth its fruits in due season. We need not to urge the Honourable Gentleman to persevere in this course ; we doubt not that :he will do so, and bring all the energies of his enlightened and powerful mind to bear on the question wheresoever and howsoever it is suffered to exist. We would remind him that our naval brethren are still exposed to the cat, that to them its horrors have not been mitigated, that a commander may still at his mere will and pleasure sentence any one of his seamen to the gangway, where four dozen lashes, fully equivalent in point of severity, it is said, to two hundred lashes, as administered in the army, may be given without his being permitted to speak in his own defence, or even to inquire the cause of his punishment ; we would urge him to inquire into the manner in which the cat is still used in some of our prisons, where children of eight or ten years old have been flogged in the most cruel manner—where a boy of twelve years of age has fainted during the course of the flogging, and been declared by the surgeon unable to bear any more. These things cannot be suffered to continue unnoticed, and they will afford an ample opportunity to the Learned Doctor for exert ing himself in the cause of humanity during the ensuing session—exertions which we most sincerely hope may be crowned with well-merited success. The other views put forward by Dr. Bowersfo were of the most comprehensive and liberal character. Full and equal justice to Ireland— the same rights, the same laws, the same recognition of privileges which, in every free country, ought to belong to every free man—the education of the people—improvements in ventilation and draining, and in the recreations of the people, were all touched on in the most masterly manner. There was one subject, however, which he omitted, and for which he might justly have claimed credit. We allude to the absurd and unjust quarantine laws, by which trade and commerce are fettered, free intercourse with other nations restricted, morality injured, and vast sums of money annually waste tagis thrown away. Dr. BOWRING has called attentiOnrrothe anomalies of the present system, explained the true theory of con tagion as adopted by the persons of talent and ability who have recently directed their attention thereto, and proved how useless as well as vexatious are the existing precautions, and through his exertions we may reasonably hope for a speedy amelioration therein. We trust that many other legislators may imitate the example of Dr. BOWRING in rendering an nual accounts of their conduct ; and if they as Well deserve the approbation of those they represent in the Legislature as the Learned Doctor, they may fearlessly meet the people, and be certain of being greeted with the same unanimous applause that was accorded to the Honourable Member. ed Alll. The Diet at Frankfort has voted a recompense of 100,000 florins to Dr. SCHONBEIN and Dr. BCETTIGER, the inventors of the gun-cotton, provided the federal military commissioners and the authorities of May ence, after seeing it tried, should pronounce it to be a substitute for ordinary gunpowder, and to possess advantages that the latter has not. The Diet afterwards adjourned to the 14th of January, when the question of the Duchy of Schles wig-Holstein, and that of the liberty of the press, will come under discussion. Basle city has followed the example of Geneva. Exasperated at the temporising conduct of the Grand Council on the subject of the Jesuits, the people rose on the 22d in open insurrection, and commenced un paving the streets. The Grand Council immediately resigned, and henceforth Basle city and Basle country will form but one canton. This, with the vote of Geneva, will secure in the Federal Diet a majority sufficient to pass an enactment ordering the expulsion of the Jesuits and the dissolution of the league of the Catholic cantons. The elections at Geneva took place on the 24th. Upwards of 7,000 electors voted. The result has been to give an overwhelming majority in the Grand Council to the Liberal party. Madrid papers of the 19th have arrived. The mails of the 20th and 21st are still due. They have been detained by the floods in the south of France. The French Ambassador's ball, on the 18th, had gone off very brilliantly. The QUEEN and the IN FANTA, who were present, treated the daughters of CHRISTINA and MuNoz with such marked attention as to attract general notice. Mr. 13unwER. was still at Aranjuez. The British squadron was to leave Cadiz on the 17th, to re. enter the Straits, and cruise along the eastern coast of Spain. The Duc D'AumAnE was to leave on the 20th, and the Duke and Duchess of MONTPENSIER on the 22d, for France. These papers contain important news from Por tugal. The intelligence from Lisbon is to the 14th. This news fully confirms the intelligence of the arrest of TEr;CEIR.a and. , the outbreak of- a revolution in the northern provinces; indeed it appears as if Lisbon was the only part of the kingdom in which the QUEEN'S authority was at present acknowledged. The Opinion gives the following extract from a letter received from Lisbon : LISI3,;N, OcT. 13 —lt is now four in the afternoon. The official account has arrived of the insurrection of Oporto. Terc,ira is imprisoned in the tower of the Fez. The Junta of Oporto has proclaimed Don Pedro the Fifth, declaring the Queen excluded from the throne. The Marquis of Loule, husband of the Infanta Donna Anna, has put himself at the head of the . Junta of Coimbra; the Condo das Antas presides over that of Oporto. " They have organised four battalions at Coimbra, which are to join the forces of Aveiro, in order to march upon the capital. " All the steamers—those of the state as well as the mercantile ones—have placed themselves at the orders of the Junta of Oporto." The King, FERDINAND, has taken the command of the troops in Lisbon, with SALDANIIA as his aide-de camp. The Court, it is said, has applied to Spain for assistance, and the Spanish Government has ordered the Gallician corps to be marched to the frontier, Braga has joined the insurrection, as well as Oporto and Coimbra, and the troops of PEDRO V. are pre paring to march upon Lisbon. The official journal of Lisbon, of the 13th, publishes a decree betraying the embarrassment and apprehensions of the Govern ment. The officers and soldiers dismissed in 1842 are recalled into service. Those who comply are pro mised reward, and those who refuse threatened with being treated as deserters. MADRID BOLSA, OCT. 19.--The Three per Cents. were done at 35 1 /4 for cash ; the Four per Cents. at 21%; the Five per Cents. at 21 3 % ; the Debt with ou t I n t eres t, a t ; the Vales non Consolidados, at 8 3 / 4 ; and the Coupons, at 201/2. We have received the Paris papers of Monday. They are filled with accounts of the destructive effects produced by the inundations in every part of France. The Loire has burst its banks at several places along its course. The principal streets o Tours are under water, and all direct communication between that city and Paris is cut off. The Orleans and Bordeaux Railway is impassable, except from Orleans to Blois. At Nantes the Luire was rising rapidly on the 23d; since that day all communica tions with Nantes and Angers have been cut off by the inundation. The SaOne at Lyons had, according to the last accounts, reached an alarming height, and it was feared that steam boats, which since the commencement of the inunda- tion had formed the only means of communication with some of the districts of the country, would no longer be able to ply. The progress of the Duke D'AUAIILE to Bordeaux from Madrid, had been inter rupted by the heavy rains. He only reached Bor deaux on the 23d, twenty-four hours later than the time fixed for his arrival. The Duke and Duchess DE MONTPENSIER were expected to arrive at Bayonne on Monday. The floods have completely put a stop to all the fetes with which they were to have been welcomed in the south of France. The Courrier Francais observes — "Their Royal Highnesses, it is said, have, in conse quence of the desolated condition of the provinces, de clined all the rejoicings which were in preparation, and which form too great a contrast with the general suffer ing. Consequently thefetes are countermanded, and the funds voted by the municipal councils to celebrate their arrival are, by their express desire, to be applied to the relief of the people who are deprived of food and shelter." Cabinet Councils were held on Saturday and on Sunday, over which the KING himself presided, to deliberate on the means to be adopted for the relief of the sufferers by the inundations. The Minister of the Interior was in the district of the Loire at the time of the inundation, and he ordered funds to be placed at the disposal of the authorities in the several districts which he traversed in his route to Paris. It is impossible to calculate the amount of the pro perty which has been destroyed by this fearful cala mity, but that is not the worst—the loss of life, too, has been fearful. The papers still continue the controversy on the Spanish marriage, but no new arguments are pro duced on either side. The only article of permanent importance in any d these journals is one in the Debuts, on the advantages to the public and to the revenue of a reduction of the duties. The writer thus argues his case:— " The advantages that may result to the consumer, the treasury, the shipping interest, and the naval force of the kingdom, from a well-orgauised system of impost, have been proved by experience. All that is gained politically by proportioning taxes to the intrinsic value of things, and to the resources of the greatest number of men, is rendered evident. But what arc the applica tions which France can make of this principle, and what is the aid that may be obtained from it for the develop ment of French navigation ? Englund, with twenty eight millions of population, consumes at least sixteen millions of kilogrammes of coffee, or about six-tenths of a kilogramme per head ; she joins to that 20 millions of kilogrmmes of tea, of which about a fortieth part is consumed in France. Belgium, with 41 millions of population, consumes 13 millions of kilo grammes of coffee, or about 2 2-3 d kilogrammes per head, or fife times as much as England. The reason is, that Belgium taxes coffee only at 10f. the 100 kilo grammes, and she derives from it a revenue of 1,290,000 f. France, with a population of 34i millions, only consumes 141 millions of kilogrammes of coffee, or 4.loths of a kilogramme per head. The cause is, that in France the duty is far more elevated than in Belgium, and if it is found to exceed but little the English duty, ' it mu4t be borne in mind that the amount which is mode in iEnglandhighone may o b r an article eexcessive wh a i m eh o , ng h s e t fo u r s e h cross ingere is of less value. The averag e d u ty i n France is where money It eY the customs line, is not worth altogether that ptimu kilogrammes, normal a was as value? am ount. Can an article, the price of whi c h i s d ou bl e d by a consumption pres ent duty on coffee was fixed, co ff ee , i n p l ace o f worth 3 W O o h f n; the e t h e n did not amount t o more than the third or fb u rth part of the value of the merchandi se . If t hi s pro portion w as recurred to, it i s i n d u bi ta b le from the ex ample o f Belgium and E ng l an d t h at the consumption duty y g at 80f. per drty, 100 , be at its would be much.augmented. And as 1 kilog. of coffee produces the consumption of 3 kil og . o f sugar, i t may be conceived what encouragement our navigation would receive from a diminution in the duty on coffee. In place of 81f. on an average, let it be placed at 25f. or 30f. Take for the increased consumption in consequence, only 1 kilog. per head — a moderate hypothesis certainly, only the third of wh a t i s consumed i n Bel gium,less than England c onsumes of tea and coffee s u i n ne i c t and ed i . t is In this waylhe merchant shipping would gain ort tons of coffee and 60,00gions of suga ; the reserved navigation of our islands Wcornes almost doubled, and the treasury, in place of expe riencing any falling off, acquires an increase of revenue by the double sources of coffee and sugar. It is thus that the idea of the maritime aggrandisement of our country, if well understood, may be co nnecte d wi t h the improved condition of the people, and bring into the trea sury, in place of being a charge to it. Such are the true principles of political economy, and works in which such ideas are strongly supported are worthy of the most t hata subject modifica tion ma y be receptionorasteieauniiaieu,thfwroohrmii which authority, oenp declaresu suchb l i c.' a ' favourable T h eP considered of the Ministry ,is determined on ; that Marshal SOULT will retire, and that M. GUIZOT wi ll b e ap pointed President of the Council. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Monday at 82f. 80c. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 90e.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,255 f. ; Rouen, 920 f. ; Havre, 700 f.; Great Northern, 690 f. ; Avignon, 895 f.; Vierzon, 587 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 547 f. 50c.; Basle, 222 f. 50c.; Dieppe, 357 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 4951'.; Tours and Nantes, 503 f.; Paris and Lyon s, 520 f.; Lyons and Avignon, 495 f, ; Bordeaux and Cette, 480 f.; Spanish Domestic Debt, 33%. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 27. r and Barbadoes, %—Dst c h uhenisn,sq — Eas t Indian, %—Namu ad 12—West Flanders, 3. Liege, —Northern of France Constitut FATAL ACCIDENT.—This morning, at nine o'clock, an accident, attended with a fatal result, occurred to a young man nam e d Robert Richardson, in the employe of of IV E l x rs m . oSuatrha.hstreCoot.rdw;eitille o , pottfwonrtbornoakteer,maant waste m st anding upon a high ladder , in the act of.hanging up some clothes for sale outside the shop door, when, by some mischanc e , his foot slippe d, and he was ip recipitated to the groun d , his head striking with such violence against a large metal fender which was outside for sale, as to break it into three parts. He was taken up in a state of inensity, and conveyed to St. Bartholo ra'w's Hos s p i bili , but before he reached it he had ceased to exist. THE CITY THOROUGHFARES. --On Monday even ing thoroughfare was re-opened throu g hout for the passage the paving in Chcap side being completed, that of vehicles. To-day Newgate-street will be clostd for the purp oses o f pav i ng . LONDO N Y ACHT CLUB. —Yesterda y this acquatic club h e ld t h e i r mon thly meeting , at the clubhouse, Strand. S evera l mo tions were m ade in reference to time for tonna ge o f yac ht s , and John H ese ltine, Esq., of Brom ley, end G eorge H un t, Esq., of the City, were admitted members of the club. The a nnual dinner of this club is fixed for the 18th of November next. PRESENTATION OF THE BELT TO THE CHAMPION OF THE THAMES. —Yesterday Robert Coombes, the cele brated sca m -, was presented with a richly made belt, to be worn by him as champion of t ue he T Arms , hames. Dartmouth- The cere mony w as p er f orm ed at the Qen's street, Westminster. The llen Clay, New York pac ket shi p , com manded by C ry a pt a in Nye, left N ew York on the 7th, aEd arrived at Liverpool on T uesda y , one day after the ste AM. ship Great Western. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS • • CITY, QUAR TER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was quiet, but prices were well supported. Sales about 6,000 bales, of which ilie trail`.: took about 2,000, and the remainder on speculiltions At 'Messrs. Lamon d and Co.'s, yesterday, the market was firm, and rather better prie.as were obtain, d. A good many shares were in demand, anti a goo,l proportion of them sold. The following are a few of the principal Great Southern of Madras £0 4 6 Cornwall 0 14 6 Great Indian Peninsular ... East Indian , Yorkshire and Glasgow Union 0 13 0 Shropshire Union and Canal South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 2 15 6 South Wales Louvain ahi Sambre •. 1 14 6 Manchester and Southampton Lond,ni and Blaekwall, New . 5 3 0 London and Croydon, Thirds 9 14 0 Paris and Lyons 5 7 0 Madrid and Valencia 0 19 0 Goole and Loncaster 1 18 0 South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 Namur and Leige Eastern Counties, York. Extension 1 16 0 Sambre and Meuse Great Eastern and 'Western 0 17 0 We are pleased to find a prevalent impression that we shall very shortly have a decline in the prices of grain. The wheat harvest being about an average, and the imports under the new corn-law very considerable, it does appear that the quotations have been run up to a point beyond what can be maintained, even allowing for the deficiency of the potato crop. It is satisfactory to see that there are continued large imports of butter, cheese, fruit, and other useful articles of consumption, from the Continental ports ; otherwise we should most assuredly have these also at most exorbitant prices, and it may be hoped that there will be abundant supplies of meat from America. To-morrow there is to be a public sale of American butter, lard, family beef, moss pork, and Australian con centrated soup, and it woulu be a great satisfaction if the supply for the present were adequate to allow of similar auctions daily. We believe American provisions gene rally have found more favour at the outports than in the metropolis, although they exhibit now a great improve ment in quality, compared with the original consign- ments. To-day the wheat trade, as on Monday, was slow, and prices had rather a downward tendency than other wise, the millers wisely refraining! from purchases. Holders, it is considered, will do well to avail themselves of present rates, as prices generally rule higher before Christmas than in the spring. The steamer from Halifax, with American dates, a week later than those brought by the Great Western, is expected by Friday or Saturday. The Funds are firmer to-day, and there has been a fair business doing. Consols are 941-, to 95 for present transfer, ar.d 95 for Account. The premium on Exchequer-bills, however, has not rallied. It con tinues at 10s. to 13s. Bank Stock has been rather better, viz., 205 to 206. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 95 and the Three per Cents., 938. East Indian Stock is at 259, and South Sea Stock at 105. Money is easy, and the principal v 6 ant is first class bills of short date to make advances upon ; for second rate paper is taken at more than proportionable rates, owing partly to the corn and cotton speculations exciting very proper c.iution among lenders. .• The intelligence from Lisbon is considered of an un favourable character, and the Bonds, Four per Cents., have declined to 41 and 39. Mexican Stock is flat at 22. Grenada Bonds arc 204. Spanish Three per Cents. dull at 374. Dutch Two- and-a-llalf per Cents. are 591 Shares lcok well again to-day, and have an upward tendency in many instances. BRITISH FUNDS 1111 S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock .:.206 205 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93 34% 3 per Cent. Consols Anns 95 94/ New 3 1 % per Cent. Annuities New 5 per Cent. Annuities llB Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 9% 15-1 G Do. 30 Tears, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 9 13-16 , Y 4 Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 l O l /4 India Stock 259 South Sea Stock 103 Ditto Old Annuities 93 Ditto New Annuities Consols for Nov. 26 Exchequer Bills. 1 3 /01. I',4d. 1,0001. 5001. ... ........ .. ..... ERICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Granada, 1 per Cent. . . 2 el Ditto Deferred Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent 22 Portuguese 4 per Cents 4l 39 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 — Do. Deferred Ditto 3 per Cent 3 7 3 /4 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% 2 per Cents BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% 2% to 3 1 , Armagh,Coleraine, &Portrush 1% - to - Aylesbury and 'name - Belfast and County Down .. 4% .. .. - - Birmingham and Dudley - ... . 3% p... to - Bb mingham and Gloucester-100 ......129% to - Do. New (iss. at 7 1 ,4 dis.).. 17% - to - Birmingnam & Oxford June... 2 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction 2 3 A - ..... to - Boston, Stand , & Birming... 225. - - Bristol and Exeter - - Do., New - to - Bristol and Gloucester... 3O - - Bristol and Liverpool June... 2% - Buckinghamshire.. ......... ... 84s. - Caledonian - Ditto, Half Shares . . 2 1 /..... 2 ...... to - Ditto, Extension - - Cambrian and Grand Junct.. 425. - Chester and Holyhead 27% 23% to - Churnet and Blythe.. - to - Chester and 'Manchester 42s. - Cheltenham and Oxford - Clydesdale Junction 2O ..... - Cork, Blackrock, & Passages 225. - - Cork and Killarney 2%...... - - Cork and Waterford l% - to - Cornwall - to - Ditto, Half Shares - to - Cornwall and Central Devon 2% - to - Derby and Crewe 2% - to - Direct Lincoln, East Retford, and Sheffield Junction 2% - to - Direct Northern - Direct Norwich - Dublin and Belf,:st Junction.. 10 - - Dublin, Belfast, & Coleraine 2% - to - Dublin and Galway ... - Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 10 ..... - . to - Eastern Counties 141. 16s 22% to 22 Do. New l2l. 168 7 l /8 p... to - Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d % 1% pto - Do., do N 0.2,6/. 138.4 d... - Do., York Extension 125....... 3% 1 ;2... to - East Dereham and Norwich 1 - to - Eastern Union - to - Ditto, Quarter Shares - - Do. Extension to Harwi c h 17( 4 - Do. Cambridge and Ely ... 2% - to - East Lancashire - Ditto, New - East Lincolnshire ... 1% - East and West of England... 1% - ...... to - Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O Ditto, Half Shares - Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% .. . to - Edinburgh and Northern ... 10 - Edinburgh and Perth 3 - . ..... to - Ely and Huntingdon ... 7 1,% 6 l /4 ...... to - Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2 1 / - ...... to - Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 5% 3136... to - Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 - ..... . to - „Pitt% New - ..... to - Do. % Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 1210 - - ••• to - „Glnue.,Aberystwith,andCen. of Wales - ..... to - Goole,Doncast ,Sheffid., &c. 425. - to - 4- -.lca, .er, Shen..., ...... . .. to Grand Uni on (N o tt. & Lynn) 1% .to Great Easte rn and Western... 21 /2 — —" Great Grimsby and Sheffield 10 Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 27 % — to Great Munster 2 1 / . Great North of Scotland 2 l /2 - Great North of England 100 ......2361/2 Ditto, New 5 Ditto, New Ditto, New Great Western BS Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares lO Ditto, Fifths Do. New ........ ..... Hull and Selby 5O Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 121 ,4 — ' Ditto Half Shares Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 11 1 / — ...... to Do. do. and Norwich 2% to Killarney Junctions l l4 — Kendal and Windermere Lancaster and Carlisle Do. New 5 ...... w%...... to Larne, Belfast, & Ballymena 425...„.. . ..... to _ Leeds and Bradford Leeds and Carlisle ...... 2 5 / — to Leicester and Birmingham... 225. Leicester and Bedford 22s. Leeds and Dewsbury Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction ... 2% ...... _ Liverpool and Bury London )3; Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d....... 9% to Do. New Do. Extension Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50 60% 59% to 60 Do. Fifths 4O ...... ...... to London and Croydon...l3/. 15 s . 9d ....... 213, • 22 to -- Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 . London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d... to Ditto Preference ....181 17s 2d... London, Hounslow.&Western 2 . .... London and North W estern..loo .....199 198 to 200 Do. Quarter Shares ...... .. 2 - Do. do. New ..... . .... ...... 2 ...... 16% to Do. do. Fifths Do. Eighths G . J. 12% ...... Do. New Quart ers ...G . J . 5 to Do. 40/. Shares. L. & - M. 8 to London and S. Western.... 411. Os. 10d. 70 Do. New consolidated Bths.. 40 54 Ditto New ....... 22 1 4.. _30% 31 1 4 to 30 3 / 4 Do. New ........... .......... .. 18 ...... 25 London and York... ..... 2% l% ... .to London and Wind sor . Ditto Half Sharps - ........ I. London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2%N..... to Londonilerry and Coleraine... 12%...... Londoraderry and Enniskillen 12% Lynn and Ely .................. 15 Lynn and Dereham Manchester and Leeds B2 ..... Ditto half Shares ...... .. 38... ... Ditto Quarters ............... 2 DitWFifths .................. 3 --• ...... to Ditto Sixteenths ... ..... ... 6 1 4 — to Do. Extension Manchester and Birmingban - 00 — to Ditto Quarters (A) Ditto Quarters (B) ...... ... 5 Ditto Quarters (0) 1 stanch, Buxton, & Matlock 425. Hancbc.:ster, Birmingham, and MouidJunction Manchester and Southampton 2 ...... ...... to Midland 100 .....137 Ditto Fifths ' Ditto, New 24 ...,.. 34 1 / 2 ..... to 35 Midland, Birm., and Derby 100 .. .. ...... to Midland and Eastern Counties 2% — to Midld. Great Western (Irish) 15 Newcastle and Berwick Do North Shields....., 25 ...... ... .. to Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ...... Newmarke t and Chesterford 21.12 s % p... to % p Newport and Abergavenny. . 2% % to Newr, and Enniskillen ...... 4 1 ,4 — to Newark, Sheffield, and Boston 1% --- to Vorfolk Do. Half Shares Ditto Extension gorth British Ditto Half Shares. Ditto Fifths Do. Quarters l l4. 3A v t ... to _ Dit to, Extension % 1% .2 ..... to Nei-them 50 and Eastern Ditto Scrip (isa, at 5 dis.)... 45 Ditto Quarter Shares . 12 1 / — to Ditto New North Staffordshire 42s. North Wales 3 l/ .2 . 1 1 / 2 to North. & South. Connecting 2%..... Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham ... .. ........ -.. 2 Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Oxfd., Witney, & Cheltnham 1% to Portsmouth Direct 3% to Preston and Wyre Ditto, Half Shares .. 4 1 ,4 — to Reading, Guildford, & Reigate 3/. 125.... dis. to Richmond ls Royston and Hitchen Rugby and Leamington Scottish Central Scottish Midland .... 12% l2 ..... to Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Pot teries, and Crewe l% Sheffield and Manchester ...100 Ditto V i Shares 8 Do. and Lincolnshire J unct, 11%...... Do. and Great Grimsby ... 10 Do. do. do. Extension... 425. Shrewsbury and Birmingham 3 ...... to Shropshire Union Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, • and S. Statiordsh. Junction 2%..... ...... to Sligo and Shannon l% .. .. to South Devon ................85 South Midland 425...... South and Midlands Junction 425. South Staffordshire Junction _2 I A — to South Eastern and Dover ... 33g...... Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, No. 2 l2 Ditto, New, No. 3 Ditto New, No. 4. 2l.¢ — St. Alban's, Hatfield, and Hertford Junction Staines and Richmond—. 1 Statlbrdshire and Shropshire 2% — to South Wales Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ... ... ... .. 2 Taw Vale Extension ... ..... 2 to Fring,Reading,& Basingstoke 5 1 4 — to Vale of Neath Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Warwickshire and London... 425. — Warwick and Worcester 425....... ...... to Waterford and Kilkenny 8 ...... Waterford and Limeriei ... .. 22%... .. W aterford, Wexford, Wicklw, and Dublin Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia Waveney Valley Welsh Midland 2% — to West Riding Union 425. West Cornwall West London, Old Shares ... 20 Wexford and Carlow 2% — ...... to Wisbeach and St. Ives Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 10 ...... . . ~ Worcester,Warwick,& Rugby 425. — York and Carlisle 2 3 /4 I,A to York and Newcastle 25 ..... Ditto, New.... Ditto, Preference.. York and North Midland .. 50 Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Scarboro' Branch Ditto, Selby Ditto. Extension Ditto East and 'West Riding Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian 4 •••••• Barbadoes Belgian Eastern Junction.... 2!Ai ...... Boulogne and Amiens l6 ...... Bordeaux and Mediterranean 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette (Mackenzie's) Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette (Espelete's) Calais, Dunk, & W. Flanders 2 Calcutta & Diamond Harbour 7s. ..... ... Callao, Lima, & Pacific Coast 1 Central of Spain ... 2 Ceylon - Minerara. .... Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .... . . .. Dutch Rhenish ... 6 ...... 5 1 4 1 A... to East Indian Fampoux and Hazebrouk Great Indian Peninsular 55....... •—. Great Western Bengal ss. Great Western Canada Italian and Austrian Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 Jersey Louvain ala Samb r e Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon 2 Madras Madras, Nellore, and Arcot... 1 / 8 Madrid and Valentia M auritius Namur and Liege......... 8 ...... 3%%. to Nn. of France Constituted ... 5 North Jamaica I Orleans and Vi erzon Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 ...—N I4 2 gi.— to Over Yssel 413 s 4d..., , Paris and Lyons Constituted 5 Paris and Orleans... Paris and Rouen . ...... 20 to Paris & Strasbg. Constituted 5 Rouen and Havre 2O - Sambre and Meuse . ......... 10 - Strasburg and Bale l4 ••..• to - St. Laurence and Atlantic - Tours & Nantes Constituted 5 - Toumay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hasselt ...• ...... .. 8 .... . ...... to - Trinidad.. ... 2% - West Flanders - JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia - British North American .... 50 - Colonial - Commercial of London - London Joint Stock ..... 10 - London and Westminster. .. 20 - National Provincial of Engld. 35 to - National of Ireland - Provincial of Ireland ...... to - Union of Australia 25 Union of London ... 10 ...... to - MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered COURSE OF EXCIJA . Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 8 Ditto, at sight 12 5% Rotterdam .... • • 2U. 12 Jl% Antwerp ••.. • • .• •. • . 26 15 lianiburgh .. • • M.R. 13 14 Paris, 3 days' sight ...• 25 85 Ditto, 3 months.. 26 10 Marseilles • . ........., 26 15 Bourdeaux. . • • 26 15 Franklbrt on Maine.... 122 Petersburgh, 3 U 5...... Berlin • • .. • Vienna, effee.f10.....• 10 10 Trieste, ditto.... 10 10 Madrid ...... ~ 35% Cadiz .. „ . 36 IA Barcelona .......... „ Seville. ..... ....... - ,NGE.-(YESTERDAY.) Gibraltar.. .. . .Leelioru .•••• ...... 30 65 •• •... 26 20 Milan ...Venice.............. _ Naples •••• • . •• •••• 39% Palermo, per 0z........ 119% Lisbon.. ••• • • 52 %, Oporto. ...... •• •• • • Sgt Rio Janeiro • 24 • Bahia •• • • • . Buenos Ayres ........ New York, 21days' sight Philadelphia ..... lIIICLB OF BULLION, PLB oz. Foreign Gold in bars...£3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin •• 0 0 0 New Dollars •••0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .• 0 0 0 Silver in bars ........ 0 0 0 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Ocr. 28.—Wind N.W., light airs and calm, with thick fog. DEAL, Oar. 27. Wind' N. to N.N.W., moderate, and fine.—Sld. Earl of Durham, Henderson, Sierra Leone ; Sussex, St. Kitts. PORTSMOUTH, Oar. 27.—Wind N.E.—Sld. 25th, Magic, New Orleans; Bayne, Africa; 27th, Johanna, Falcner, Cape of Good Hope • Woolsington, Wilson, Jamaica ; Pursuit, Spence, New Orleans ; St. James, Meyer, New York., PLYMOUTH, Ocr. 27.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Zitella, Pearson, Prince Edward's Island, for Shields, leaky. Sld. 26th, Illus trious, Weeks, South Carolina; Gauntlet, M'Gregor, Tobago; Anna, Seale, Rio. OFF ILEttitcomaE, Oar. 26. Damascus, Liverpool, for Boston, dismasted, in tow of the Herald steamer. LIVREFOOL, Our. 27.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Sarah Trot man, Brown, St. Domingo ; Kalamasoo, Philadelphia ; Henry Clay, Nye, New York ; Cantab, Newfoundland. Sid. Susan, Wishart, Mauritius; France, Duncan, New Orients; St. George, Ferris, New York; Remittance, Prince, Boston; Manchester, Bell, Newfoundland. Off port, Chaos Wilson, New York; Stanhope, New York. The Sea King steamer, for Belfast, ran foul of the Lady Shaw Stewart, for Payta, and did some damage. The St. Lawrence, Hagedon, for Charleston, has put back leaky, having struck on Arklow Banks. DUBLIN, OCT. 26.—Wind N.N.W.—SId. Rover, St. John's, New Brunswick. IlaterLzroor., Ocr: 25.—Arrd. Percy, Scott, Quebec. Quirasn, BY TonEnmony, Ocr. 24.--The Eliza Moore, Clark, of Lintekilns, from Riga to Belfast, was driven on shore on the Island of Call 22d inst L ; crew saved. BALLYCASTLE, Oc - r. 25.—The Curlew, Hall, of Sunder land, from Archangel to Gloucester, drove on shore on Rathlin Island 22d inst. during a heavy gale ; crew saved. SHIELDS, Ocr. 23.—Courier, Ridley, New York. lON TIIE CHANNEL, Ocr. 2 5. — Nancy of Waterford, Que c, for Cardiff. RKIRKALDY, OCT. 2 4.—Caledonia, Kinnear, Davis' Straits; egalia, Guthrie. ditto. lEnrir, Ocr. 23.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Briton, Port Adelaide. OFF Lowtsvorr, Ocr. 23.—Rambler, Davidson, Quebec. WExFoaD, Oar. 24.—A rr d. Menapia, Itossiter, Quebec. PENTLAND FRITH, Oar. 23.—Arrd. Prince of Wales, Brown, St. John's, New Brunswick, for Hull. SWANSEA.—SId. Mary Dugdale, Simpson, Cuba; Dorothy Gales, Silverson, ditto. Moluaosz, Ocr. 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Sir William Wallace, Sutherland, Quebec. RAMSGATE, OcT. 27,--Wind N., light.—Sid. Alert, Ord, Havannah. DUBLTN, OCT. 2G.—Wind N.N.W.—Ski 25th, Rovers, St Ulu's, New Brunswick. COWES, OCT. 27.-Wind N.N.E. Parth i . 3ll ' Sabrae, St. Croix; Francis de Peraw, New Orleans; Ellda M'Fales, ditto ; Utica, Pearce, New York. TORBAY, OCT. 25.—Arrd. North Ash, Aliward, Hainburgbi for Newfoundland. PULLENDIRA, SLIGO, OCT. 27.—A board, Emulaus, in siv inch letters, and a large black dog, with a brass collar marked " Whose dog are you ?—Captain Marshall's," ball been picked up on this coast. LLMERICK, 26.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Ellen Fore' stal, Bunbury, Miramichi. Arrd FALMOUTH, Ocr. 27.—Wind variable, and ligh t. Favourite, Alexander, Bahia, std. Bth ult. Off Por t, S r p i ' Home, Colle, Rio Grande. Sid. Rhoon and Pendre cht, No kens, Batavia; Oscar, and Ricardo, Escarza, Havannah. SHIELDS, OCT. 27.—Wind W. to W.N.W., moderate;T: Arrd. 25th, Fanny, Smith, Prince Edward's Island; k ee Jane, Harrison, Davis Straits; 26th, Francis, Laing Droxdale, Douglas, Patagonia; 27th, Elizabeth a nd ° a ' rt - , Heron, Quebec. The Earl of March, hence to Croms. which put back, 25th inst. leaky, struck on the bar, been laid on the ground, and repaired. Arrd. Robert it, George, Dixon, Quebec, struck on the bar, and is very le o3 o CLYDE, Ocr. 26.—Arrd. Caledonia, Greenhorn, 151°ntr,es BEaustaxis, OCT. 26.—The Emerald, Flegg, from 061 f. was assisted in hero yesterday, leak., a nd cargo shi ftea * Lewis,L SCILLY, OCT. 26.—The Florida, from Que r be ,. Cardigan, arrived here took the ground between St. 14'„rboi Head and the Eastern Islands, but got off apparently w" damage. ATP WATERFORD, OCT. 26.—Wind N. to N.N.E .-- Minerva, Phillips, St. John's, Newfoundland. Sld. Sta n „{ o M'Mallon, New Orleans ; Leak, Stours, St. Jollas , foundland. 1.01:1 0 WIVENHOE, OCT. 27.—The Zoar, Sparling, from e re London, was totally lost yesterday, in the Upper Srlui , and part of materials saved. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY') CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESP III bed ' This week full average supplies of Wheat have reli c the coastwise from Kent ; but from all other quarter! .„ 1 1 ceipts have been on a limited scale. The number or 5 "; t of that grain on show was by no means extensive, y..-0 demand was by no means active. However, the few i c r eil disposed of produced Monday's quotations. In fr ee vise Wheat very few sales were concluded, yet the holders, • t b g no disposition to give way in prices. For bonded greto were very few inquiries, and the rates were almost 0 : 103 1 The sale for Barley was very firm, at the late imPr e b ile in value. Superfine Malt was held at more money , r d if( other kinds were very firm. Oats, Beans, Peas , al l were as dear. pios oats I I ,llo' VS. 8,930 I 6,880'" Wheat. 1,320 qrs. ARRIVALS. I Barley. 800 qrs. English .. .. Irish ........ Foreign ...... 2,900 3,060 Malt, 740 qrs. WHITECHAPEZ. Oe Fair average supplies of Meat were on offer her e ' A t rally speaking the demand was in a sluggish stia e s t itt little variation in prices. Beef, from 2s Sd to 3s 8 a; q, 3s 10d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; and Pork , " 4s 101 per Blbs. by the carcase. nAI CRIMINAL COURT _(THIS OLD COVRT. f Ju st The Lord Mayor, the Lord Chief Baron, k r y ' e i ti ot Erle, the Lord Mayor Elect, and Mr. Sheri ff `,1 0 c1; tcok their seats on the bench shortly after ten ;' ,l - s. y ENDEAVOURING TO EXTORT MONEY F ROg D eD TIIEROE, M.P.—A smartly-dressed young 019 ', ° ' r a t : James IVezebery, aged 24, describ e d as ag r „,,„"- ?J charged with sending letter s t o M r . Protheru' e e threatening to charge him with a horrible criol ' the view of thereby extorting money from hin us tell Mr. BODKIN stated the case to the jury, (111 ' - Oi l ; such threats as ?most dangerous, and unle ss ; I , surately punished, as likely to undermine so c ' e Zer law awarded a high punishireint for such an 0 '1,, r el high that, from the pertinacity which the priar b t II bited in his threats, it was possible he W e i t eOt been in ignorance of the serious Por• i %,ie, which he was renderin g hi mse lf amens w eat , Protheroe represented H a lif ax i n Par 11943 ; 0 or he was both active and zealous in the dit.chara r e public duties. He was a bachelor, and 100 A n n t) r ieg establishment in London, b e i ng i n t he habit " -- ,..-bi l/ London season of occu pyi ng a f urn i s h e d hous e n geri sidence being in D orse t s hi re . H e ma de ana rr f s o3 eo with a servant w h o h a d b een i n t h e se rvice ° 00 11 of his family for about 21 years, who w es nte s i l/ , marry and occupy a house, that some r e ' ut liev . house, which was situated in the il eighb, ° ... re Chester-square, should be reserved for his (x : o Lot roe's) use, when he vt as occasionally called ' co te either by business or pleasure, during the 1 . ,. In while he was not occupying a furnished hl3ese;tol4 October part of the autumn of 1845, Mr. P. ° L o per', and returned early in the month of I` l ° Y „` s ell:j found it then necessary to dispatch his ° ti t ; el 3l 1 Dorsetshire to take possession of a house of 9 i (Mr. P.) had become possessed of by, the il etl belle!, tion. Having to make some visits to her e 13 ', Exeter, and subsequently t o D orse tshire, w" re eo servant was to join him, and wanting a _ 5 00 6 0 / 0 short period, he engaged the prisoner to acu ls. 11 in the capacity of a valet during these viscl during hired by what was termed "the job," a e his atle,, time Mr. Protheroe was paying a visit to duri ng 1 other relations the prisoner attended him, " a h ose ( time he gave great satisfaction, and behay e ere ice 1 tremely well. After remaining in hig 5 , 1 fte r ,, period of two months, he was dischargeut f'div liberally paid for his services. lie viu , i s eere e in the mouth of January, and as Mr. 1 r d -` 0 0 ' sidered him a very clever servant, he offered to i t could to obtain another situation for the P"), 0 to% the month of JanUary until Easter, Mr. rf° - „ -e cci . d": nothing orthe prisoner. It seemed he was 54'11 with the porter of the Travellers' Club, 0 1 0:1g 0 t . Protheroe was a member, as well as pr n is f oog r . fil e :i i other clubs in the metropolis. The fle e -.3 to this man that he had been in the se r a pr o Protheroe as a groom, and also that he bl e at 511 " to Protheroe would have obtained a perroa e te oce, 0 for him. The porter mentioned th e circute'isoeto Protheroe, and expressed a wish that the P l i ir. r i f ,, 19 0 , obtain respectable employment, to whi° ll t to P t - 0 0 said he might be referred to with resF ec o 0 1 1;efl character whilst he was in his service. esereehd inained until Easter, w hen Mr. Protheroe r e b oil er, notes from the prisoner, in which he s tated t ape succeeded in getting employment, and„ e l: let t b obl loan of some money ; but he treated 1 •" f, -e O f 0i1', , , others which he was not unfrequentlY '- as ° L W rt ceiving, and they were destroyed as 01 0 0, It (Mr. Bodkin) ought here to state, that be 07 prisoner was discharged until the time bias vets into custody, Mr. Protheroe did not enoll s J . ° I in the shape of money. These apPo c .„'",o . 7,e, peated two or three times. At last the f ro e h ° l4 habit of going to the Travellers' `-,, - 5 ee c ee ' Al leaving notes for Mr. Protheroe, and, e () ; e c ys fl ' o f i' visits became a source of considerable a° st are tie ) nevertheless, there was nothing in then' tc/onerc, repeated applications to lead 11 1 , 1 7, pv s- ,11: 1 /0 that it was the intention of t"" le he ro e 'ti bring such a charge against 12, in'' rrotP r August the prisoner called upon ili r ,: o tes• e lo)) ', remonstrated with him for sending theL 0 11 0 X I said be had been unsuccessful in ge,_tillie ,100; , f t and asked for a written character, vie,'„vti, Loa ft during the absence of that gentleman and a te '',` Protheroe complied with his wish, 0" ' te d t" let prisoner at the Travellers' Club ; it St il ic e t (l ff o ti a clever servant, and likely to be of se gr , iii , I 1) 1 rte., al , who required such a servant. Soon a•-i s eer , o cil IP' received from the Travellers' Club a • It re t boy been left there f u r him by th e p r isoner; 0 .65 Is eo Protheroe soon a ft er it was l e ft, auk!, iod ic 6 ' upon which the ch arge se t f ort h in til" bi fi € Sepl found. It wa s t o th e f o ll ow i ng ff e ct: --- t e . t e 1 1 Pe [l4 ~,,e te c ,/ e d " Sir,—l feel very muc h di sa ppoi'Tain' 513 7 obtained the place with Sir George ' - ',7ol l ‘ fr o slVl right to explain that when the prison% he ettv,o l • Protheroe for the character referreo `,7;e11 '',0f 17 1,10 Pr i t t i o oC onioebbhteamiinnagn himthat hhae t a Ae i s ir i ri ta.uia:trinooLdori: .. re ' oitil e g e e o.1 1:0: 11, joil ' : 3 11 : : that he:. had the appointment of Sir 1 :: : If ,e ' 7 4: 0 : 1 :' .servan which was not the case . ti'' de Luis': 0' the supposition ' tile r ooi ... some horses which Sir George had , i , e b o ;. te rl„ l l 1 , . when he went abroad. Mr. Protheroe " . „ .. ..JA' es o' 1 1 1 'of the impression. The letter went Oa eett e e, , 0 01 promised . ine, and after what has pas sed r h ' it t l i ef me, I thought you would have got o 3 A e te ll e' r 11 11 ,40 : go to the clubs you belong to, an d y o 'o , 1 ,4 1 Y which I can prove. I shall likewise li fi e eris e h ,ll ik , l , mother know what you are, and e ,l° •oo ,it l f ,Lud if you do not do something for ° I bet )0 ,d ( i ll vl • st' IP V a lawyer of it. You know very w e t ,elie f j e f i l. , 1 , me to do to you ; and it is right the P e . if A 1 0 e t; who are those persons. You said th ' we , ielf ,o o l tress you would do something fa f o r y ° II 1° 13 ;e 0 f , ' driven me to do what I have done ; , 10 . 0 0 0 11 a b very unhandsome to me. I can reL .t Is' o r) oPi , ns 100 PO P you do not answer by return of P be d . 1 i i committees of the clubs to which yo 4 foamor,,,,i like to vindicate yourself I am to „u fss enc,etil o ,, is James Newbery, Mr. Collins a t l' s i ii ,ll al c l'1 01 ( i toi street, St. James's. Certainly, I ter toug at el t e oe / Now this letter was of a very Certainly il/' 0 1 • g, wrzta re bo r did not state in what way the - eta et , t he less or° ller" grace the party, or what were le o e 0 0 i which he threatened to expose, D a r t f ro is to 9 done to induce him to deP, Ittlf, e reo of, pose. But, it was permitted spay chi toe of this sort, and in others, whe re n dcluc e b e indefinite, that evidence might be 7 er ette e .'ol ot tlY definiteively to what they had re:,,,ios , oly i 1 artful man might bring a charge 7 1 2', con;f0( 19 0 1,V person, which night frighten 1 1103 s o,oooe/ a demands, although the charge wi % et ts I / 7 0 0 bilf specific terms—therefore evidence am bigt 0 0; fi ti o i j adduced to destroy that which was. ss or e j efi tli o lti c if sequently what in this case the P rl o bsecl u e to 111 0 ,, he wrote. Another letter was t he es i t be c oe IC' Upon the receipt of such a letter as .. . to . 0 v e t ,e now referred—and they who we i _.; r t 1 1; 13 $ (17), meeting with cases of this °Liepti.y,_erce f t e : Criminal Justice not unfreq rrotP te, s ei c o fl meaning of such threats---grio hit e o f i st ec 41 that course which was oPen ~ entO o f P r o igri",/ namely, to bring the case before ...„ co a, t o Oil, O A claim the aid of the law for the Pu l e t; agt s ei,ll a person who had made such ella l ,l vet be „D e l i those who made such charges coil , ~ feel, tines i 4 ti / nue. le t t e t e e lc the terror which a guilty Ma st f e e 1 ,, ea 0 / terror which an innocent man cl u neee ssar l . l ;' i 11 :4 0 1 in such an investigation as must . . for I 0 1) _,.eli ; case was brought before the pul ic ; 0 01 1 t % o o , o ; t cop .i ,e was possible that the fear of hav vv iN c eet si , 0 0, 4 ;0 in public against one, so h thr ko fr,,,,i ii c guilty, would operate to. , t ee ~t, ' finey wi th •n Ter pli j e to induce compliance , et ter 1 - it .ot t :t out. Mr. Protheroe wrote a! „, vita 4 , A dress which the prisoner had gi . v n t,"_. e us tu4o el te e his pocket when he was taken tow__ one sit mss F., it of Mr. Protheroe stated that nameoi'of ,l ee 1,017 him (Mr. Protheroe) in the ,„ beli V and expressing his disinclination !iv