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THIRD AND CHEAPER EDITION. Now ready, in one vol., with Maps and Plates, I2s, bound, T HE NEMESIS IN CHINA., Comprising A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THAT COUNTRY. With a particular Account of the Colony of HONG KONG. From the Notes of Captain HALL, R.N., and the Personal Observations of W. D. BERNARD, Esq., A.M. Oxon. " The most amusing and instructive voyage that has appeared since the days of Anson."—Sun. " A work that will take its place beside that of Captain Cook in the annals of the maritime history of this country." —Weekly Chronicle. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great 313ri11-street" NEW WORK BY ALBERT SMITH. On the 30th instant will be published, price One Shilling, the Fourth Number of T HE STRUGGLES AND ADVENTURES OF CHRISTOPHER TADPOLE, IN SEARCH OF A NAME, A RELATIVE, AND A WIFE AT HOME AND ABROAD. By ALBERT SMITH. With Illustrations by Leech. Richard Bentley, Igew Burlington-street. *** Orders received by all Booksellers throughout the United Kingdom. WITH THREE ILLUSTRATIONS BY LEECH, AND A POR TRAIT OF SIR THOMAS OVERBURY. The DECEMBER Number, price Half-a-Crown, of BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY, will contain— CAPTAIN SPIKE ; OR, THE ISLETS OF THE GULF, By J. FENIMORE CODPER, . _ _ Spring-Tide : or, the Angler and his Friends, by Paul Pindar. With an Illustration by Leech. Long Jim ; or the Tipperary Process-server, by a " Cave" of Cork. Corpus Poetce Latin!, by Carolus de la Pryme, Summer Sketches in Switzerland, by Miss Costello. The Parting of the Earth, by Schiller. Translated by Lord Nugent. The Cranks of Christmas Tide, by Mrs. Mathews. Some Account of Dover, by Henry Curling. The Reasoning Schoolmaster, by W. Jordan. Sonnet from Petrarch, by Lady Nugent. The Gipsy's Baptism, by Miss Ross. With an Illustration by Leech. The Old Jesters, by J. 0. Halliwell. Narrative of an Expedition to the End of Birkenhead, by Albei t Smith. The Flaneur in Paris, by the Author of " Second Love." Old Christmas, a Song by G. L. Banks. The Rsee Course at Doncaster, by the Author of " Gaming and Gaming-houses." Owed to my Creditors, by Alfred Crowquill. Sir Thomas Overbury and Iris Murderers, with a Portrait, by Dr. W. C. Taylor. BRIAN O'LINN ; OR, LUCK IS EVERYTHDTG. By W. H. MAXWELL, With an Illustration by Leech. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND and Co., 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 TuasDit 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 advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds imme diately disposed of according to Instrictions. oMces, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street, London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRLT,Y-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed Lavenu's new Opera, entitled LORETTA. ; A Tale of Seville. Don Carlos, Mr. llarrison ; Ferdinand, Mr. King ; Philippe., Mr. Borrani ; Provost Marshal, Mr. Howell ; Don Juanito, Mr. Weiss ; Loretta, Madame Anna Bishop ; Florinda, Miss Poole ; Gaetana, Miss Rebecca Isaacs. To conclude with DER. FREISCHUTZ. Adolph, Mr. D. W. King ; Caspar, Mr. Stretton ; Zatniel, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Linda, Miss Rainforth ; Rose, Miss Poole. THEATRE ROYAL, ILIYAIARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. TIIIS EVENING Will be performed an original Comedy, entitled LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP; or, Wooings and Weddings. Mr. Oddington, Mr. W. Farren ; Mr. Rashleigb, Mr. Hudson ; Mr. De `ere, Mr. Holl ; Mr. Brandon, lv r. Howe ; Mr. Hardman, Mr. Rogers ; Jack Spriggs, Mr. Webster; Tom Tilley, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Brown, Mrs Glover ; Claribel Oddington, Miss Fortescue ; Mary Oddington, Miss P. Horton ; Elinor Mortimer, Mrs. Yaniold ; Fanny Hardman, Miss Julia Bennett. After which an original Operatic Drama, called THE YOUNG PRETENDER. Captain O'Neal, Mr. Hudson ; Captain Cocker, Mr. Buckstone ; Chevelier Charles Edward Stuart, Mr. Braid ; Davy, Mr. Coe ; Mrs. Craggie, Mrs. Clifford ; Mary Armadale, Miss Horton. During the evening the Band will perform the Overtures, " Pre aux Clercs," and "Les Travestissemens ;" " Clementinen" (Ma zourka) ; " Camellion " (Galop) ; and the " Esterhazy" (Walzer). To conclude with a new Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord Courtington, Mr. Boll: Sir Arthur Loved, Mr. Howe ; Scoreup, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckingham ; Mrs. Seorcup, Miss Julia Bennett. Box-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of Br. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper. LIEATrE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA GISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the Wilis Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford. Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullenford, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. After which the original Domestic Drama, called THE WRECK ASHORE ; or, The Bridegroom of the Sea. Marmaduke Magog, Mr. Wright ; Alice, Mrs. Yates. To conclude with a Bozzian Sketch, in one act, called MRS. CAMP'S TEA AND TURN-OUT. Principal characters by Messrs. Cullenford, Worrell, Ryan, Wright, Munyard ; Miss 31. Taylor, and Miss Ellen Chaplin. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original romantic Opera, in three parts, entitled THE NIGHT DANCERS ; founded on the Story of " Giselle." The principal characters personified by Miss eeorgiana Smithson, Madame Albertazzi, Miss Flower, Miss Somers, Misses Marshall ; Messrs. Leffler, Allen, Bodda, Walton, T. Hill, Honner, Peren, &c. After which an entirely new Comic Drama, entitled TAE TWO RAINBOWS. To conclude with the Musical Entertainment of THE QUAKER. In which Messrs. Barker, Leffler, Homier, Compton, Miss Grant, Mrs. Fosbroke, &c. will perform. FRENCH PLAYS.— ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. On MONDAY EVENING, Nov. 30, Will be performed L'OBSTACLE IMPREVU. Lisimon, M. Dor gebret ; Valere, M. Felix; Leaudre, M. David; Pa.squin, M. Car tigny ; Crispin, M. Lucien ; Angelique, Mdlle. Vallee ; Neriue, Mdlle. Brohan. After which, LE COMEDIEN D'ETAIIPES. Dorival, M. Perlet (who will sustain four different characters) ; Madeleine, Mdlle. Amalie Khin. To conclude with L'AMBASSADELTB. Characters by MM. Perlet, Langeval. Berm;; Mdlle. Celine Fouquet and Mille. Brohan. Boxes, Gs.; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Stalls, 35.; Gallery, he. Doors opened at half-past Seven, and the pet•formances commence at Eight. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Mr. George Bolton, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING _ Will be produced an entirely New and Original Comedy, In fire acts, entitled LIFE. Mr. Orstan, Mr. Archer ; Frank Orstan, Mr. Leigh Murray; Sir Thomas Menton, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Sir Jacob Sraallwit, Mr. George Bolton; Sir Robert Folair, Mr. J. Cowell ; Cancara, Mr. Wilkinson ; Lady Bait, Mrs. C. Jones ; Fanny Archer, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Emily Orstan, Mrs. Gordon. After which, Shakspere's History of JACK CADE. Jack Cade, Mr. Maynard. So conclude with a new grand BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT. Boxes, 2s. 6d.; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. IJAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Melo-dramatic Tale of Enchantment, called GISELLE ; or, The Phantom Night Dancers. lifaximilian, Mr. Pelham; Peterkin, Mr. Webb ; Caspar, Herr Deulin ; Giselle, Mrs. Saville ; Dame Bertha, Mrs. Daly ; Myrtha, Miss Terrey. After which, the VIRGINIAN HARMONISTS will sing their po pular Negro Melodies, and perform their celebrated Railway Overture. To be followed by the Ballet of VOL AU VENT. In which the Detain Family will appear. To conclude with the N'tutical Drama of THE PILOT. Messrs. Heslop, Webb, Johnson, Lewis, Phelps, Pelham, Neville, Saville ; Miss Terrey, Mrs. Daly, &c., will support the principal characters. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and Royal Family. Immense attraction and double spec tacle. " The Demon Horse " and " Waterloo." First Week of the appearance of Mr. Gomersal as " Napoleon Buonaparte." THIS EVENING Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en titled THE DEMON HORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Bit. In which will be introduced the Syrian Camels and trained Deer, and the Wild Stag-Hunt. Entire change in the Scenes of the CIRCLE. In which will ap pear Herr Amidio Nuperte, the great Dutch Bottle Equilibrist. To conclude with the grand Military Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Napoleon, Mr. Gomersal. Box-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six an l cluimence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. ROYAL _VICTORIA THEATRE. Immense success of the alteration of the prices of admission to one general level, so that all parts of the house shall bear a just and liberal proportion—viz., Boxes, Is. ; Half-price, 6d. ; Pit, 6d.; Gallery, 3d.—and first week of " The Black Doctor," with great scenic effect. ____ THIS EVENING Will be performed THE BLACK DOCTOR.. In which Miss Vin cent, Mrs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, Mrs. R. Barnett, and Mears. Edwards, Bird, Searle, Forman, &c., will perform. To conclude with the Nautical Drama of THE LIFE RAFT; or, The Two Reefers. Supported by the entire strength of the Company. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A short account of the case alluded to by our Norwich Cor. respondent has appeared in nearly all the London papers. We cannot insert his communication. THE WEATHER.—SuaT OFFICE, NOVEMBER 27. TlizEmomxTEß, Lowest, 35; Highest. 50 ; Noon, 39 BAROMETER, 29.38.—W1ND W., hazy. • • HIGH WATER AT LONDON-MUDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 22 minutes after 9. Evening .. 56 minutes after 9. S4l :I 444 hailltrt , U • • s'• fitarnin 2411 t LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1846. Although the affairs of Portugal have undergone many remarkable changes since we last commented 11 1 301 1 the civil dissensions of that country, there is still nothineo: propitious in its condition. The peasantry and civilians are kept in continual trepidation in con sequent u of the harassing uncertainty of the events which a,r,e daily transpiring in their neighbourhood. Business is of course temporarily suspended ; the wine trail e especially is suffering from a most ruinous interrupti 3n; the lives and properties of the tranquil inhabitant% are deplorably jeopardized ; a panic has spread thro ugho - at the whole of that portion of the Peninsula. 'When we consider these calamitous facts, and rememb 21tr that they have all originated in the ob stinacy and t he unconstitutional interference of Court intriguers in the affairs of the Government, we cannot regard those . intriguers without the utmost abhor rence, and ye am for the peaceful satisfaction of an outraged pop: alace. It is preposterous for the Exe cutive to ism se indignant proclamations against the insurgents a s lawless disturbers of public tran quillity. they are lawless disturbers, they have been rendered such by the despotic proceedings' of an unpopular Administration. If public tranquillity is destroyed by their insurrec tionary movements, such is but the natural conse quence of the military coup d' itat by which the Liberal Ministry was recently ousted. When the political and social rights of a population are trifled with, as they have been in Portugal, it is but reason able that the multitude should at length release itself from the painful suppression of its wrath by affording it some ebulition ; it is but reasonable that the per tinacious denial of a lenient Legislature should ulti mately arouse the indignation of the Portuguese; it is but reasonable that the latter should endeavour to wreak their vengeance upon those who have treated the nation so contumeliously for such a protracted period. Such must ever be the result of encroach ments of a like character in these days of enlighten ment and civilisation. In the blindness evinced by those who would engraft oppressive principles upon liberal institutions, like the constitutional monarchies of southern and western Europe, an ignorance is dis cernable which almost amounts to idiotcy. Governments actuated by such sentiments are fa bricated of brittle and perishable materials. In stead of building up their power upon the broad and enduring basis of popular affection, they reverse the pyramid ; they base their influence upon an unit, not upon the million, and the structure thus erected is incessantly trembling upon a precarious balance. The existing Government is precisely of this un stable character, and it is this odious characteristic which has caused the present insubordination. _ language. Had the philosopher sought his materials in the elementary principles of political economy, instead of in the elementary principles of grammar, we think Ms aspirations would have had a better chance of being realised. He would most speedily have disseminated an uni versal language throughout the world by advocating and carrying into operation the system of free trade. Already this effect is, to a considerable extent, pro duced. Those who have lisped as children in the so norous tongue of LOPEZ DE VEGA, are on the advocacy of the beneficent doctrines of free trade, enabled to com mune with one, who, as WORDSWORTH has nobly sung, speaks to them " the language SHARSPERE spake." They are enabled to commune with their English guest, but their communion is that of the heart. From the very commencement of these outbreaks we have discerned the moderation of the wishes of the insurgents ; we have insisted upon the unrevo lutionary disposition of the popular chieftains ; we have endeavoured to demonstrate what has been so generally misapprehended, that Das ANTAS and his colleagues are not striving to impair the authority of their Sovereign, that they are not desirous of transform ing the throne of MARIA DA GLORIA into a presidential chair, or of even transferring her diadem to another brow. We have maintained that their object is entirely compatible with the principles of right government and the necessity for municipal obedience, that they are solicitous to release themselves from an irksome domination by expelling an Administration which has been odiously forced upon them by midnight machinations, by military interpositions, and by Gallic intrigues. That such is actually the disposition in which these disturbances have been germinated is demonstrated by every successive indi cation of the views of the insurgent leaders. By the latest intelligence that impression is corroborated in a signal and decisive manner. According to very cre dible informers, we learn that Das ANTAS, in his communications with the English officer who has been dispatched to negotiate, if possible, a reconcilia tion between the belligerents, had entirely satisfied Colonel WYLDE that their objeet was solely to bring about a change of Ministers and measures, and not, as was erroneously reported in several quarters, to annul the fundamental doctrines upon which the Portuguese constitution has been erected. Circumstances, however, have recently altered very materially the position of the insurgents, and the probability of their ultimate success. Cazar, and SA DA BANDEIRA have encountered each other at a place called Murc i a, in the vicinity of Chaves, on the 16th inst. It would appear that the forces being un equally matched in the first instance, and the cowardly desertion of the :31 and 15th troops, under the latter captain, to his opponent at the opening of the battle having materially increased that disproportion, the consequence was a sanguinary struggle, the utter destruction of the army which had marched from Oporto on the 31st of October, under the banners of SA DA BANDEIRA, with the avowed determination to annihilate the QUEEN'S soldiers, and the almost solitary escape of the discomfited General himself. On the 20th SA DA BANDEIRA is re ported to have re-entered Oporto in a boat from Regoa, accompanied by a few dejected attendants, and betraying in his travel-stained dress and hag gard appearance the extremity of his defeat and aban donment. SA DA BANDIERA is no XERXES even in miniature, but his recent overthrow in the meadows of Portugal is an instructive example cf the un certainty of military as well as of all mundane affairs, even under the most:propitious circum stances. With the dispersion Ind massacres of his forces, a fourth of the insurgllnt army is destroyed, the division of 2,000 under Conde DE Bolurim, CELESTINO, and the Conde DE MELLo ; and the division of 4,000 under the Conde DAS ANTAS, Dom JAIME, JOSE ESTEVAO, and the Conde DA TAIRA, alone remaining to obstruct the movements of the army commanded by SALDANHA and his subordinate generals. From these considerations it must be manifest that further demonstration is neces sary on the part of the citizens and peasantry, or the revolution must be prematurely closed. In the desertion, moreover, of the two regiments at Murqa we may recognise the impossibility of placing any reliance whatever upon the faith of the Portuguese soldiers. Those who can sympathise with an innocent people in their hours of unwilling tumult and desolation sill sympathise with the inhabitants of Portugal in their present distress. They will discover in these insur rections the love of a nation for social discipline and liberal institutions, and not, as the Marquis DE SALDAIS 11A has said, " the most unfounded and unheard-of rebellion which ever has existed." They will look with intense anxiety for the realisation of the best wishes of Das ArTAS, namely, for the re establishment of order, and happiness, and freedom, and prosperity in a country so well calculated to be the scene of so many blessings. Queen MARIA might readily accomplish all these things by a generous concession to the demands of her loyal but abused people, by banishing a Ministry which has been introduced to the official apartments at Lisbon, from the effect of an illegal surprise, and the permission of a foreign fraud. The blood of her subjects would not then ensanguine that scroll of history upon which the events of her reign will be inscribed in per petuity. In the magnificent Casino of Cadiz RICHARD COBDEN has again received the homage of the admi- ration and respect of the enlightened Spaniards. We are especially rejoiced at these repeated indi cations of the esteem with which the illustrious Englishman is regarded in the Peninsula. It is but just that in the country from which COLUMBUS departed for the discovery of a new world, and con sequently for the incalculable extension of commerce; it is but just that in that favoured country the Columbus of Free-trade should be welcomed with en thusiasm. As the greatest of navigators enlarged the The merchants of Cadiz, loyal subjects of the Bourbon dynasty as they are, coupled with the toast, "To QUEEN ISABELLA !" the toast "To QUEEN VICTORIA !" the toast "To RIC HARD COB DEN !" There is a Marquis amongst those who are desirous of honouring the English merchant and statesman ; there is a Count ; there are men distin guished by the antiquity of their blood, and others for their peculiar intelligence ; there is the editor of a newspaper ; there are traders and private citizens — almost every class had its representative in the Casino. And what was the nature of the sentiment coupled with the name of Mr. COBDEN ? It was this—" May Heaven prolong his life, so as to enablo him to behold the complete triumph of his sound doctrines throughout Europe as he has already done in England !" When we listen to such an aspiration as this coming from the lips of a Spaniard, and responded to by the acclamations of a large body of the most influential of his fellow-countrymen, we believe we have substantial reasons for congratu lating the vast .and increasing multitude of free traders. Those who croaked so lugubriously over the prospective downfal of the system of affording eman cipation to commerce, will, we conjecture, feel some amazement at the readiness with which other nations are inoculated with the principles of that admirable system. _ _ opportunities for international mercantile transactions, As we have already reported in The Sun the pro ceedings at this interesting banquet in Cadiz, it would be superfluous to comment in any measure upon the simple, eloquent, appropriate, and graceful re marks uttered thereat by the champion of free trade. It would have been almost sufficient for him to have pronounced that assurance that "he had seen many trades perish beneath the destructive shadow of protection, but none, on the contrary, fail to be invigorated by the salubrious breezes of freedom ;" it would have been almost suffi cient for him to have referred to that one year in which Cadiz was blessed with a free port, and during which it " enjoyed extraordinary pros perity ;" but the Hon. .Member for Stockport could not forego the opportunity which the occasion presented to him for enlarging upon the advantages conferred upon a commercial country by the removal of the detriments of intolerable impoits. Never was sickness of body the cause of so much and such use. ful activity of mind. Mr. COBDEN is proving him self to be a philanthropist not merely in theory, but in practice. The Suabian 21fercury, of the 22d, states that a Garman merchant had arrived at Frankfort from Cracow, where he had been some time established, and does not intend to return to it, as he fears, from the spirit of the people, that all German residents will be in danger of losing their lives. so has the Hon. Member for Stockport opened to his trading countrymen a new world for their commer- The Frankfort journals of the 21st state that the Bourse of that city has recovered from the panic caused by the news of the suppression of the inde pendence of Cracow. The German Journal of Frankfurt states that the last decree, relative to the peasantry in Russian Po land, has produced a sad impression. A Polish gen tleman near Warsaw, named Wouciu, has been murdered by his serfs. The marriage in person of the Duke and Duchess DE BORDEAUX took place at Bruck, in Styria, on the 16th. The royal couple made a present of 1,000 francs to the church, and gave 2,500 francs to the poor. The King of BAVARIA, in consideration of the pre sent high prices of provision; has made an increase of 20 per cent. upon the salaries of all persons em ployed under the Government, and of the performers and other persona engaged a% the Court theatre of Munich. The POPE has appointed Consuls for the principal ports of Turkey, and his HOLINESS is about to send an Ambassador to Constantinople to negotiate a treaty for the purpose of securing to the Christian subjects of the SULTAN the free exercise of their re ligion. Madrid papers of the 19th have been received. General FLORES arrived at Santander on the 11th, and was to sail in the course of a few days with his expedition against the Ecuador Republic. The seizure of the Glenelg and the two steamers in the Thames will probably, however, delay the departure of the expedition. The 19th being the QUEEN'S fete day the Madrid Bolsa was closed. We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday, in all of which the conduct to be pursued by England and France, in regard to the affair of Cracow, is the subject of comment. The Journal des Debats is on the whole well pleased with the tone adopted by the English press, and expresses a hope that Lord PALMERSTON may yet be induced to join M. GUIZOT in a protest against the usurpation of the three Northern Powers. This is a matter of immense importance to M. GUIZOT personally, for it is currently reported in the salons of Paris, that in the event of England persisting in her resolution of protesting singly, an immediate change in the French Ministry will be the con sequence. This will perhaps account for the energetic manner in which the French Ministerial organ urges the necessity of a joint protest notwith standing its knowledge of the fact that Lord PAL MERSTON has already refused to make a joint protest, and has, on behalf of England singly, already pro tested. cial enterprise; he has removad the barriers of pre judice with which the industry and ingenuity of his fellow-citizens had been hitherto restrained and hampered ; and, more than this, he has divulged to other countries the secret of enlarging the capacities, of diminishing the corporeal privations, of abating the social miseries, and of insuring the universal peace and goodfellowship of mankind. His benevolent policy has been more than patriotic, it has been cos mopolite. We have a sufficient testimony of this fact in the eagerness with which his appearance in other lands is welcomed, in the sympathy with which his sentiments are responded to, in the spontaneous gratulations with which he is loaded by strangers, and strangers who are actually ignorant of his language. There is a deeper truthfulness in the indication of the spirit of this civilised and advancing age afforded by these [public entertainments to an English calico printer, and member of the British Parliament, than is visible superficially. The truth avouched at Paris, at Bordeaux, at Madrid, at Seville, at Cadiz, that society is progressively attaining a moral eleva tion greater and more universal than it has ever known before, is avouched, not so much by the giving certain banquets, as by the enthusiasm there evinced, not so much by the cordiality of the reception afforded to a foreigner, as by the community of feeling mani fested among men who have been hitherto separated from each other, and who are even at the period of their meeting unacquainted with the dialects in which they severally converse. It is known that the immortal LiEnisiTz was engaged during a considerable portion of his wonderful and ' able life in endeavouring to invent an universal t On the question of the renewal of the English alliance we find the following in the Constitutionnel. It is the bill of indictment of the constitutional Liberals against the uste-milieu, and is curious as asserting that it was M. GUlzor who, on the 12th of May, 1839, engaged France in an "ultra-Egyptian policy," and who, by so doing, is consequently responsible for " the untoward events" of 1840—events, however, of the occurrence of which he was not slow to take advantage to pro cure the downfal of a political rival, and to raise himself to power. The Constitutionnel says— " The Journal des Daats has been pleased to copy, with its full approbation, a part of the article which we published on Monday on the utility and possible gran deur of an alliance between France and England, sup posing this alliance to have for basis the defence in com mon of the Liberal cause, an intelligent appreciation of the interest of the two countries, and reciprocal faith. The Debuts insinuates, however, two things : first, that the language which we employed on Monday was novel for the Constitutionnel ; and, secondly, that the only obstacle to the alliance of the two countries has hitherto been the susceptibility of public opinion, unceasingly kept alive by the clamour of the Opposition. We can not allow these two statements, so contrary to truth, to pass unnoticed, notwithstanding the pacific and honeyed tone adopted in asserting them. For the last four years, on every oc cas i on w e have professed on this point the same opinions, and we have not done so alone. Several of the principal speakers of our party professed the same views in the Chamber with all the force that belongs to their language. But some merit existed both for these orators and for us to so express ourselves in favour of the English alliance, when we thereby added to the strength of the Ministry which we opposed. The Debuts, on the contrary, must permit us to tell it, that to serve the Ministers in recommending as it did, this alliance, must certainly have cost it little. It would have been far more easy for us to excite the public feel ings, and the resentment of the country, to attack the English alliance in an absolute manner, as well as the Ministry, and to urge against the Cabinet all the anger and all the prejudices of public opinion. The masses understand but imperfectly the distinction, deep though it be, that may exist between two modes of understand ing and practising the same alliance ; they wait, in order to perceive it, the demonstration which results from events alone. One must love one's country and the cause which one defends far more than immediate success, to have the courage to remain in the just measure, and not to say more than truth. But, at present, events render evident what was before contested, striking what was obscure, and justify unfortunately our previsions and our language. Every one, even to the most indifferent and most prejudiced, begins to perceive the difference b Aween in English alliance, barren, convenient, all THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 28, 1846. words, powerless in action, full of conflicts, hostile to liberty, such as our pretended Conservatives desired to form for us ; and an alliance, active, generous, liberal, in conformity with the nature of things, which from evil or pusillanimous sentiments they were unwilling to realise, and which would have saved the liberty of Europe from the grave check which it has just experienced. The obstacle to th e p o p u l ar i ty an d duration of the English alliance does not, therefore, proceed from the just complaints expressed by the Opposition, but from the faults of the Government ; this is superabundantly demonstrated by th e f ac t s w hi c h h ave lately taken place. If, in 1836, the Government had not refused to execute the quadruple treaty, and had not thus from fear broken its word ; if, in 1839, on May 12, it had not, when counselled by M. Guizot, engaged France in an ultra-Egyptian policy, which they bad not the courage to support to the end ; if they had not after wards offended the susceptibility of France by endea vouring to throw her into the arms of England, would the alliance have been at a later period so unpopular and so easily compromised ? What w as s i nce th en t h e fi rs t conflict ? The Right of Search. It was the Govern ment which spontaneously produced it, by si g ning, without cause or necessity, the tr ea ty o f 1841, a con cession without dignity made the day after a check. What was the second difficulty between France and England ? The useless, onerous, and absurd conquest of the Marquesas which the Ministry effected of its own full accord and with ostentation. There were, however, in these two questions, on the one side, the philanthropy and Protestantism of England, and on the other, the high bearing and irritability of France. Our Ministry did not comprehend this it created, imagined, invented these two causes of conflict, and during four years the two nations have been on terms of dissent for these two questions. In fine, after having brought Queen Victoria to France, and taken the King of the French to West minster ; after a thousand sacrifices, a thousand em braces, which some great act accomplished in common for the glory of the two nations or for the liberty of the w orld could alone have justified, everything is broken up and abandoned for a marriage, concluded, not with the Queen of Spain, but with the Infanta, who, it is hoped, will be removed from ever from the throne by the speedy birth of heirs from Isabella. Then the affair of Cracow bursts forth ; treaties are torn to pieces ; Europe is profoundly shaken ; a generous na ti on pays w i t h t h e last independence r emnant of its for the faults committed by our Government ; and it complains of the rupture of the English alliance, of the speeches of the Opposition ! Was there ever seen a less sensible conduct and so great an inconsistency ? Now, as f our y ears b ac k, w ith new force and conviction, we say that there was some thing else to be done with the English alliance. We de sire that the two Governments may draw close together, that the two nations may agree better and may compre hend what interests unite them, what sacred cause they have to defend. We ourselves contribute towards the restoration of this good intelligence. We know how difficult is the realisation of these hopes. We received yesterday from London the intelligence that the English Cabinet has not accepted the proposition made to it by M. de Jarnac, in the name of our Government, of a col lective protest, and that it persists in protesting by itself. We regret it ; this isolation weakens our protest and its own. We hope, however, from the wisdom of the two countries, fur an approximation, useful to the common greatness and to the Liberal cause." The National taunts M. GUIZOT in the following bitter terms with the consequences of his policy : " England has hastened to protest energetically against the destruction 'of Cracow. What has the Go vernment, which hangs as a burden over France, done? Nothing. We have had two or three Ministerial articles warmed up in a bainmarie ; Huninguen has been talked of, and it has been said that neither the death of Poland nor that of European right could ensue. But is there any intention of acting? A Government which has the disposal of the public force, which has the budget and the army—a Government which confesses that it has been set at defiance by the three Powers—is such a Government to limit itself to words and signs? It complains of the violation of treaties ; it cannot deny that there is a menace in the last act of despotism. How will it reply to it? It has not even dared to protest. All that it has done up to this moment has been to send instructions to Lou don to endeavour to conciliate Lord Palmerston. And in order that nothing may be wanting in this humilia tion, its journal has for two days asked pardon, apolo gised, lowered its tone, and bowed its head to the Whig Cabinet. Where, then, are the haughty it' i 074- phateurs of the last fortnight? What has become of the brilliant diplomatic success of M. Guizot? Where are the proud phrases of the Government which passait outre, and the contemptuous railleries against that England which, it was said, would not long be sulky? All this is now converted into entreaties and friendly- advances. The Debuts, dissatisfied with its own style, borrows the language of the Constitutionnel. The Enolish alliance! Who has ever said anything against it? Who has ever called Lord Palmerston an etourdi ? Who has denounced him as a brand of discord, a torch of revolution? The other day M. Thiers was a brouillon, to-day his ideas are admired and his article copied." After stating that it is evident that England will not consent to a renewal of the alliance, save on con dition of a formal renunciation by the INFANTA, fur herself and her children, of all right to the throne of Spain, the article concludes in these words— "ls it decided that this shall be done ? Will they descend so low as this ? We are curious to know this ; and if this abdication is to be made, it would be as well to give some previous notice to at least Dynastic France. As far as we are concerned in this matter of abdication we frankly avow that this is not the abdication we should have chosen." We find the following in the Presse on the subject of the affairs of La Plata : TR E KAFIR WAR. POWTOUTEI, DIURSDAY.—By the arrival of her Majesty's ship Apollo, Captain Rideliffe, which came up to Spithead this afternoon, we have files of Cape papers and intelligence from that colony to the 7th of October inclusive, being eighteen days later than those last received. Her dates are, Simon's Bay, October 7 ; St. Helena, October 18; and Ascension, October 27; at which latter place she stayed four days ; her passage is, therefore, a most extraordinarily quick one. She had brought home the following invalids and pas sengers and a large mail. From the Cape—Captain Wilmot, R.A. ; Lieutenant Frye, R.A. ; the Hon. Mr. Napier, R.E. ; and Mr. Deere. From St. Helena—Mr. Gideon, merchant ; Mrs. Hornsby and three children ; and Miss Wragge. From Ascension—Lieutenant Wake, of the Styx steam-sloop, which vessel is very sickly ; Mr. Pullen, master of the Flying Fish, 12, which vessel had gone to the Bight of Benin ; Mr. Kelland, purser of the same ship ; and Mr. Barr, Assistant-Surgeon of the Tortoise ; and twenty-one invalided seamen and marines from the squadrons on the Cape and Coast stations. At the above date the war with the Kafirs was still going on, but it was rumoured that the Governor shortly con templated some [decisive measures for putting a period to it. The Kafirs had made several offers of capitulation, but the Governor wanted his own terms complied with, which were, that the insurgents should give up all their arms and restore the cattle they had stolen. The Eng lish boundaries were also to be extended. The Apollo landed the 17th Regiment at Algoa Bay on the 17th of September, and they marched off to Gra ham's Town. The Inflexible steam sloop, Commander Hoseason, ar rived at Table Bay on the 28th of September from Eng land, and, having landed her officers (Lieutenant 'Colonels APKinson Montresor, Nicholls, and Napier, tied Majors Stocks, Vhitenall, and O'Grady) and specie, went round to Simon's Bay to refit prior to proceeding to New Zea land, to relieve the Driver. The 90th Regiment were at Fihh River at the above date. More troops were expected out from England. The Conway, 26, Captain Kelly; the Samarang, 26, Captain Sir Edward Belcher (senior officer); the In flexible steam-sloop, Commander Hoseason; the Thun derbolt steam-sloop, Commander Boyle. were in Simon's Bay when the Apollo left, as was the French frigate La Gloire, 60 guns, Captain Peter, refitting prior to sailing to relieve the French Commodore in China. The Larne, 18, Commander Brisbane, was the only man-of-war at St. Helena, and she was on her way home. St. Helena was healthy. The Devastation steam sloop, bearing the broad pen dant of Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, K.C.B, Com mander-in-Chief on the coast of Africa (who had arrived some ten days prior, and was refitting), and the Tortoise store and guard-ship, Commander Morrell, were the only men-of-war at Ascension (which island was very healthy) when the Apollo left. The Alajagascar Indiaman left Table Bay the day after the Apollo left Simon's Bay, with the 31-. t Regi ment on board for England, and also left St. Helena a day after the Apollo. Colonel Hare had arrived in the Thunderbolt from Waterloo Bay a day or two before the Apollo left. The Helena, 16, Commander Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, Bart., hod refitted and gone to the Mauritius. All well on board. Rear-Admiral Dacres, the Commander-in-Chief, was expected from the Mauritius in the President, 50, flag ship, a few days after the Apollo sailed. (From the South African Commercial Advertiser of Oct. 3.) " This morning a mail arrived from the head-quarters of his Excellency the Governor, near Waterloo Bay, but does not bring any official intimation as to the terms of the dispatches received by his Excellency from Earl Grey. It is confidently reported, however, that these con tain the most positive assurances of adequate support from the home Government in any measure it may be thought necessary to adopt for bringing the present contest with the Kafirs to a satisfactory and final close. " The Thunderbolt is said to bring round 15,0001. in specie. Information has also been received from Colonel Somerset, who, we stated last week, had moved along the Keskamraa and Beka with a force of 1,200 men, for the purpose of scouring the woody ravines which border and branch up from those streams. This operation had, it appears, been conducted with Colonel Somerset's usual zeal and address, the results being, up to the date of these alvices, the capture of 3,000 head of cattle and a good many horses, with the loss of several men on the part of the enemy. Colonel Somerset had sent for a ten days' supply of biscuit, he being about to move forward towards the mouth of the Buffalo, where it is said there was a prospect of his falling in with the treacherous, cruel chief Pato, it being affirmed that he was secreted in the rugged bushy kloofs which characterise the loca lity in question. _ _ We received a report to-day that a few Kafirs had been fallen in with by Messrs. Leppan and W. Wake field, on the Graham's Town road, about 20 miles this side of Somerset. It was late at night when these Kafirs were observed stealthily creeping along the road, upon which Mr. Leppan fired, but deemed it prudent imme diately to retreat to the shelter of some waggons in the rear. The next morning part of the face, with an eye, of a man was found on the spot, from which it would appear that one of the marauders must have been mor tally wounded, and carried off by his comrades. The footmarks of two or tree other Kafirs were observed near the spot. " We regret to hear that, despite of all the exertions of their field commandant, most of the Stellenbosch Burgher force have, under the general order,' broken up their encampment, and are on their way home. Waay Platts, Mauley's Flat, and Fitchet's are entirely aban doned, but there are yet weak parties remaining at Driver's-hill and at Fort Dacres. To the remonstrances of their commandant, the men replied they had not been supplied with food either for themselves or horses, and were determined not to submit to such privations any longer. "Nearly official information, and which merits every confidence, permits us to announce that the question of La Plata may at present be considered as concluded. It is already known that Mr. Hood's mission had not the result that was expected, because M. Deffaudis refused to accept the article of the treaty, according to which the blockade of Buenos Ayres, the return of the Ar gentine troops on the territory of the confederation, and the disarming of the foreigners at Monte Video, were to take place immediately. This last obstacle to the re establishment of peace has just been removed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who is about to order M. Deffaudis to sign the treaty, such as it was proposed by Mr. Hood on the part of France and England, and ac cepted by Rosas, Oribe, and the men of Monte Video." Count ST. AM.= has received orders to leave Paris immediately for London. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on the Five per Cent s ., 117 f. 45 c . •, th e a ; res, 1,227 f. 50 c . ; Rouen, 870 f. ; Northern, 637 f. 50c. ; Avigno n , 86Sf. HO W ra e l ve d ar ni s s d 6 a 3R y saf a .i i t ; ro B Ga 2 dr f .e Great s s c t h . 75c. ; Vierzon, 571 f. 25c. ; Bordeaux, 547 f. 50c. ; Boulogne, 440 f. ; Troyes and Mon tereau, 340 f. ; Basle, 218 f. 75c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 480 f. ; Tours and Nant es , 490 f. ; P ar i s an d Lyons, 503 f. Cette. 03E7 47 75c. ; Lyons a n d A v i gnon , 4 9 2 f. 5 0c. ; Bor deaux and .sf. ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 32 5 / s . BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NOVEMBER 26. Boulogne and Amiens, 131 / 2 —Bordeaux, Toulouse and Cette (Mackenzie), 114 —Ditto (Espelete), 3 4 —Demerara, 4%_ Direct Bombay and Madras, %—Great Western Bengal, 14 —Jamaica South Midland Junction, I: %—Luxembourg, —Namur and Liege, 3%—Northern of France Constituted, 10—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 4%—Rouen and Havre, 25%—Tours and Nantes Constituted, 4. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From Ths Sun of last Night.) The sake of Cotton at Liverplol yesterday wore about 7,000 bales, including 6,300 American, at 51. to 6V. per lb. ; 400 Surat, at 4d. to 4id. ; 200 Egyptian, at 70. to Sid. ; and 50 Bahia, at 6d. per lb. Shares had been rather cheaper, except in one or two cases. The sale of railway shares, to-day, at Messrs. Lamond and Co.'s, went off flat ; an indisposition to buy existed. 'There was an absence of business among the speculators. A great many shares quote downwards. An average amount of business done, but at reduced prices. The following are a few of the principal sales : Great Southern of Madras £0 8 6 Great Western of Bengal 0 5 6 Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush Madrid and Valencia. Shrewsbury and Herefordshire Leicester and Birmingham North Wales Great Indian Peninsular Taw Vale Extension and Dock . • 015 6 Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham 0 10 0 Shrewsbury and Birmingham ... . 4 17 0 Madras East Lincolnshire Great Luxembourg Goole and Doncaster 2 4 0 Shropshire Union and Canal Leicester and Bedford East Indian The arrivals in the Thames continue large, and the vessels bring ample supplies of necessaries and luxuries. By way of Portsmouth we have late accounts from the Cape of Good Hope. The date from Simon's Bay is October 7th. The most recent advices obtained from the frontier state that the British force had not yet accomplished any particular advantage, although the number of men, including farmers, under arms, was full 10,000. It is asserted, on the other hand, that the Kafirs, almost from the commencement of the war, had been eminently successful. They had captured our baggage in the outset, and but for a subsequent gallant little " affair," in which the dragoons had the only op portunity yet afforded of showing their superiority at close quarter fighting, the whole of the eastern province, it is said, would, have been at the mercy of the Kafirs. The absence of rain had sadly impeded our opera tions, and, therefore, it is highly gratifying to remark that sufficient showers had fallen to wards the end of September to freshen the whole country, and furnish pasturage and water for our troops within a few weeks, the new grass not being considered good until about a month um The colonists appear to have too lightly estimated their foes, and the extreme difficulty of the country, owing to its ruggedness and in tersection by streams occasionally swollen to a den gerous extent, rendered it a toilsome undertaking to victual a large force, but it is probable, from the sup plies of cash sent out, together with biscuit and other articles of food, ammunition, and troops, especially riflemen, we shall shortly be enabled to teach the Kafirs a lesson of :respect, and at the same time to indemnify our colonists for the immense losses they have sustained. It is obvious that the natives must not be allowed to retain the stolen cattle, or to evade payment for them where they have been con sumed or destroyed; and as to the neutral territory, we must maintain it as a barrier against the warlike and impetuous tribes which constantly violate our territory. In our remarks yesterday as to the modification of the Lisbon financial decree, we should have stated that the notes of the bank were to be estimated at the current rate of the day in respect to all past transactions, all of which were made upon a specie basis. The decree stands good, however, for all bargains effected after its pro mulgation, and Bank of Lisbon notes must, therefore, be taken at par, however small the intrinsic value of them may be estimated, and which we may suppose must continue unfavourable, seeing that the Bank is well known to be in a weak position. The public securities have been alvanced about cent. to-day, Consols being 941 to 95 fog , Money. For the 15th January the rates have been 95 to 951, showing a decided increase since yesterday in the rate of " con tinuation," and therefore renewed confidence among the Bulls. The daily purchases for the Savings'-banks, Annuities, &c., must, while continued, have a favourable effect, and the only counteractins , influence will be in the event of the rich corporations which hold largely, espe cially the insurance offices and banks, deeming it ad visable to sell out at any advance offering a fair profit. Exchequer-bills are not higher at present than Bs. to I ls. premium. Bank stock has been steady at 205 to 206. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 951 4, and the Three per Cents., 932 to 93i. East India Stock is worth 2572. The foreign securities have been very inactive again. Portuguese Four per Cents. are somewhat firmer at 37 to 2; Spanish Three per Cents. are 371; Chilian Bonds have been 53 to 54, and Brazilian 8.11 to 85 ; Russian Bonds have been at 1114 ; Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents. at 592 1; and Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 95. hares are nearly all rather higher to-day, and Shrewsbury and Birmingham and other favourite scrips more especially so. The French lines have participated in the rally. OITE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Ann 5........ 93% 1 / 4 % 93% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9 4 34 95 95 New 3% per Cent. Annuities 9 51 / 2 % 95 . A Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 9, f 15-16 9 15-16 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5,1860.... 10 1-16 3-16 10 3-16 India Stock 257 . 1 /i 256/ 2 South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities Consols for Opening, Jan. 15 9 9 454 95 Exchequer Bills, 10001. 1 1 ,0.... 811 p 8 p Ditto, 5001 Ditto, Small -- p 8 p CLOSING rnicEs 84 ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK Brazilian Bonds Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent Cent Ditto Deferred Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 37 Ditto Account Ditto 3 per Cent. — Ditto, Account — Russian Bonds ........... 1114 Ditto. Account Dividends on the above payable in London. French Renter, 4% per Cent —f. —c. 104 f. 50c, Exchange —f. —c. 25f. 70c, French Rentes, 3 per Cent. Exchange —f. —c. 25f. 70c. Belgian 4% per Cent Dutch, 2% per Cent . Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 91% 1 / % 91% PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2% 2% Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% Belfast & County Down 4% — Birmingham and Dudley 425. ... Birmin. and Gleucester..loo Ditto New 17% — .... .... Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junc.... 2% — Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. — Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... Bristol and Liver. Junc.. 2%...... 13uckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Half Shares...... 2 1 2 2V s ... Cambrian & Grand June 42s Chester and Holyhead... 27% 25 Churnet and Blythe 2 Chester and Manchester 425. — Cheltenham and Oxford 2 ...... . . Clydesdale Junction.. ... 20 Cork, Blackrock, and Passages Cork and Killarney ... 2% — Cork and Waterford ... 11/2 ............ ... Cornwall —'.. ............. Ditto, Half Shares _ .......... Cornwall & Cent'l Devon 2% _ ..... .... .. ............ ...... Direct Lincoln, Last Het ford,and Sheffd. June. 2% Direct Northern - .......... . ... 2 Direct Norwich ...... ............... Dublin and 13elfastJunc 12% . Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin and Galway... ...... . Dundalk & Enniskill en 10 ...... - EasterttonNe w Counties 141. 165....... 22%,,, 23 Di ...... .p 7 . 5 . 12/ 16s ....... 7% 1 / 2 tA p Ditto Perpetual, per Cent, No. 1...••„ 61.135. 4d... Ditto ditto, No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... Do., York E x t ens i on.. 2 ...... 3% ... . EastDereh'm andNoech 1 Eastern Union ............ 35 .. ... 51 1 Ditto, Quarter Shares 834 Do. Exten.(Harwich) 17/8 Do., Ca ."'•'.'.. •..•• East Lancashire rib. and Ely.. 2% — Ditto, New ......... 1 4 5 —"• 9% . Do., do. (l ate P reston and Ormskirk)... .. 2y 2 -- East Lincolnshire East & West o f England 1% — Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto Half Shares ... 10 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 A ...... Edinburgh &Northern.. 12% ••• Edinburgh and P er th ... 3 Ely and Huntingdon ... 12t4 1 2 / 2 4 124 Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2 1 /,, — Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 54 3 IA 3% Glasgow, Kilmar.,&Ayr 50 Ditto, New .. 15 — Do., 4 Shares (5 per cent. guar.) Glouc.,Aberystwith,and Central of Wales 0 i1...—. •• . Goole, Doncaster, &c. .. 425. Grand Union (Notting and Lynn - Great Eastern &Western 2,,...... ........ ... .. GreatGrimsby and Shef field Great South. and West. 27 1 / 2 29% 28% (Ireland) Great Munster .. 2%.•.••• _ 3 - 4 .............. . 236 G G r r e e a a t t N N o o r r t t h h o o f f E S n c g o i t a l n a d n c . :1 .1 0 I TA .. . .2 Ditto New 5 Ditto, New . ••• ' Ditto, New 85 Great Wrn este Ditto 1 / 2 Shares 5O Ditto 4 Shares lO Ditto Fifths Ditto, New ••• 2 Huddersfield & blanches. 13 Ditto, Extension ...... 3 Hull and Selby SO Ditto 14 Shares ...... 121 Do. Half Shares ...... 25 Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 11 1 / l 2 l~ / 21A% 12% Do., do., and Norwich 2% 2% ' 9 / 8 2 l /2 lianclunec 0094419.., 50 -, 20/ 4 173 / 4 30 FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, Nov. 24. The average price of wheat during the week ending on Saturday, Nov. 21, was 26f. 86c., and that of rye 21f. 25c. per hectolitre. This is a considerable rise above the prices of the preceding week, viz., if. 27c. on wheat and lf. 36c. on rye. The Moniteur publishes the law for continuing the free importation, till the Ist October, 1847, of wheat, rye, barley, buck wheat, maizebrans, vetches, peas, oats, potatoes, and other provisions. The Government is authorised to grant for the same term total or partial freedom from import duty o❑ flour, groats, cattle, and evey species of provisions not enu merated in the following articles. A scale duty of 10 centimes per 100 kilogrammes shall be levied on these articles:— " Art. 2. Wheat, rye, barley, buck wheat, oats, brans, vetches, peas, and potatoes are not to be exported till the Ist October, 1847. The Government is likewise authorised to prohibit the exportation of flour, groats, all kinds of bread and biscuits, and oatmeal. " Art. 3. The Government may, if circumstances per mit before the Ist October, 1847, suspend the present law as far as exportation is concerned. It may also prolong it wholly or in part till the Ist December, 1847. " Art. 4. The present law shall be in force the day after its promulgation. CHEAP METROPOLITAN TRAVELLING.—The re• duction which has recently taken place in the fares of many of the omnibuses plying in the metropolis has completely answered, in a pecuniary sense, the views of the proprietors. The omnibuses running between Pad dington and the Bank, which have reduced their fares one-half, draw more money by each journey than when the charges were at their original amount. On Wed nesday, one of the cheap Paddington omnibuses carried in four journeys to and from the Bank, the extraordi. nary number of 135 passengers. 'The only drawback which those omnibus proprietors, who have reduced their fares, have to complain of in connexion with the experiment is, that the frequent stoppages consequent on the reduction of fares, hurt the horses' necks, owing to their collars pressing against their skin. In Liver pool a number of new omnibuses have been started on the principle of charging one penny per mile, and it is said that the same principle will soon be introduced into London, so that persons going any distance along the SALARIES leading thoroughfares short of a mile, will only be charged a penny, and any distance under two miles two of the Dayanim (of 601. each per annum) has just been pence, and so on for the whole length of the journey, i n being able too F announce, u D n A c e l r , A t N h l a s: . 2 — n W increas e e2bflr e nloi . rifrom being much re c t c h p h h salaries r e aesvei ouofs gratified e unanimously recommended by the Board of the Conjoint THE ARMY.—THE STAFF APPOINTMENTS,—The officers who vacate their staff appointments by the late brevet promotion will continue at their posts until the end of the year. Major-General Sir Thomas H. Reynett, strongly supported by the Rev. the Chief Rabbi, will be tsChpoicsmamivintteeof recommendation,the communities.thr w e h e iNe C hn i t wd y ne S na y br n te a ih g s : p g ep u ny e t s etro t t o nlien t a b er e dn i r thatv, r , a e re brevet K.C.H., will be lieutenant-governor of Jersey, in the attended to by the above Synagogues. As our humble room of Lieutenant General Sir Edward Gibbs, pro- efforts in urging the claims of the Dayanirn in several moted. Major-General Lord F. Fitzclarence will corn- leading articles on " Our Ecclesiastical Courts" have mand at Portsmouth and in the south-western district been instrumental to the furtherance of the above reso -lof England, vice Lieutenant-General Sir Hercules Pa- lutiori, we derive a double pleasure from the prompt kenham, promoted. Colonel Cochrane will be deputy- response made to an appeal, emanating from a sense of adjutant-general at Dublin, in the room of Major- stice and reverence for our religious institutions.— General T. E. Napier, promoted. Colonel Sir Richard Jewish ' Chronicle. Doherty will be inspecting field-officer and superinten- NATIONAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.—The an dent of the recruiting department in London, in the room of Major-General Pitt, LH., promoted. Lieutenant- General Sir Charles Napier and Major General, Thack- o n goal Thursday election at pensioners thewhen, e co mu ii t i a t so o nf n th sa i , s Tliasyteorfn,9o, institution ic. a t n o r o do k i wdan candidates, si place : well, lately promoted, will, it is thought, continue on the staff in Dublin. The Hon. E. F. Young, Government 2E2sqw"eirne the chair, Previous to the commencement of the polling a report was read, which showed that, at Christ. secretary at Demerara, has arrived in Lodon. mas, 1845, the number of persons receiving pensions of AGED PILGRIM'S SOCIETY.—"Ie annual meeting 201. or 30/. a year each was 244, of whom 16 were males, 7 a n 3 d 2 years. 2 8 ogi disbursed u, of this society was held on Thursday evening at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill; T. Thompson, Esq.,upwards of in the chair. The meetin. having been commenced the formation of this society is upwards of 104,2271. year, were 9,660/. 19s. I Id., and the total disbursements with singing and prayer, the t 'chairman briefly stated the The entire receipts from September 30, 1845, to Sep objects of the society, and presented its claims to the audience, at the same time congratulating them that the society's asylum was now free, after an effort of six for their patronage of the institution ; and to 8 t e;a l b 9 e l. r 1 3: :. 1 8 8: n , a Including ulely p years, to pay off a debt of 1,000/., and seven years' in- funded property, 2,5131. I6s. 3d.; .and expenses, terest thereon. The institution of the soclety is situ- 784/. 15s. sd. The report was received and adopted ' votes of thanks were awarded to the Royal ated at Westmoreland-place, Camberwell, and ryas erected port, Chairman as t the e w n a u s m a b l also o r f e rewarded ard l e i c d a n by u in 1834, ate a, cost of 6,000/., for the purpose 0 e afford- Family jog an asylum to poor and aged members of Chris- the President and other officers of the society. The w a ai s vote ann ni t. ] ly thanksincre , a s i n ... fiat)! churches of all denominations, the building being th capable of receiving forty-two inmates, Mr. Box, 0 ; then day commenced, ra. c. B and I,e r a , ti 9 ts lo c ; o conclusion ' G o y. acknowledging which he urged upon those assembled secretary, read the report, which stated the . sum t i h ag e . vot T es he of p t o h li e the necessity of the institution receiving increased sup 1,400/. had been raised by voluntary contribution, to pay off the debt and interest on the asylum, which 1 ) 9 1.13° . 5 e e had beeneffected, and a balance •of 71. 10s. left ] in tical. the following persons were declared elected. Fifteen i b n treasurer's hands ; this had been done incepen to ently of the annual subscriptions and donations amounted Fox, 9,720 ; Mrs. D. Bringloe, 9,420 ; Mrs. White laragsnsee:d4o in pensions since the society, which, during the past year had had been Smith, 9,120 ; Mrs. M. Roberts, 9,120 ; Mrs. S. Mills, to 151/. 16s. 6d., and the expenditure The report 8,780 ; Mrs. M. May, 8,730 ; Mrs. S. Skutt, 8,700 151/. 10s. 7d., leaving a balance of ss. 11d. M denomi- Mr. J. Minasi, 8,540 ; Mrs. H. Grenville, 8,260 ;Mrs. ; closed by an earnest appeal to Christians of B. Lukey, and the meet- 8,180 ; Mrs. J. Morris, 8,140 • Nirs J. nations to aid so excellent an institution; Knightsbridge, 8,020 ; Mrs. A. C. Keeling,' • Rev. Mr. Milner, 7,990 ; Mrs. ins was subsequently addressed by the Re Marshall, who M. 11. Knipe, 7,830. Five by aggregate votes :—Mrs. the Rev. Mr. Hunt, Mr. Allen, and M f r• imilar asylums C. Simpson, 13,302 ; Mrs. A. Bloye, 12,240 ; Mrs. A. urged the importance of the erection o s It was stated O'Connor, 11,709 ; Mrs. M. Redgrave, 11,637 ; Mrs. J. in the metropolis and large country towns. . . , -ence 11 472 Two by rotation m 74 , hich is to be H. • , , . :-- rs. U. that there was a vacancy for one inmate/ btockelit filled up in January. 1 - .4 1 .r5 , J• Parry. (Signed) "LEOPOLD." Our stock market has been very animated since this morning, and a very eager desire to purchase has been manifested, which has occasioned the prices of all our railways to rise several florins per cent. even before the commencement of Change. The cause of this un expected change is a notice published in the Vienna Ga zette of this day, that the State resolved to purchase railway shares at suitable rates. The imperial resolution is dated yesterday, and announces that his Majesty has been pleased to order that an extraordinary loan office shall be opened in the department for the payment of the public debt, which is destined to purchase with the funds allotted to it shares in certain national railroads at prices corresponding with their actual value. This measure has caused a better tone on 'Change, and appears to give more room for speculation. Do. N ** ew Leeds and Bradford 3O ...... --•• 2 —. Leeds and Carlisle; . ... ............ Leicester & Birmingham 22s — ••• ....... •••• Leicester and Bedfird... 225. Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 22% 3 3 1,4 .......... < Do., Branch (Blue) ... 2% - • ........ •' Do.Extension(Green) 2%.. Leeds and Thirsk 17% ...... ........ - ..... Ditto, New 5 — Lpool., Mnchstr & New - tie Junction .. 2% ...... 2% .......... ... ___ ...... cast Liverpool and Bury 24 .. ..• London and Blackwall. 16/. 138.4 d. —.— ............ Do. New Ditto Extension London, Brighton, and South Coast .... .. 58%............... Ditto, Fifths . ' Do. Guarant. 5 per ct 9 ...... —••••— • • London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d... ............... Do. Preference ...18/ 1 7s 2 d...... ............... London, Hounslow, and Western London and N. Westernloo 191% 193 192... Do. Quarters Do., ao., New Shares 2 ...... 14 3 / 4 15 1 / 4 ...... Ditto Fifths ..... .... 2 ...... 1841.4 .......... .• Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12%...... ............... Do., New 1 4 Shares (. J.) Do 40/. Shares (L.M.) 8 -............... Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 64 ... ........... Do. New ConsoL Bths 40 48%...•...... „.• Do. New Do. New Ditto Tenths Ditto Tenths ... ..... 4 Ditto Guaranteed...... 5 Ditto ditto I..ondon and York 24 2N. .. ....... •"' Do. Extension -" • London and Windsor . 1%... • - London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ..... .... ........ N ..... . ... ............. Londonderry &Coleraine 15 Londonderry and Ennis killen l5 ••••••• ...... 16 1 ,4 ............... Lynn and Ely ............15 .... Lynn and Dereham l5 ...... 15% 7, 3 • .......... Manchester and Leeds B2 ...... ........... Ditto 1/ Shares .. ••••• Do. Quarters 2 Do. Fifths Do. Sixteenths 5.. .. ...... =5 3 / 1 ......................... ........... 6 1 4 - .... " ... Do. Extension 42s. 7B P ......... ... ••• •• Manchester and Birmin. 40 ...... ......... ... ....... Do. Quarters (A) 5 •••••• ........ Do. Quarters (B) - ... ........ Do. Quarters (C) 1 Manohester,Buxton,and ..... Matlock 425....... 1 1 A 1 P .... Manchester Birm., and .• .... Mould Junction ..... ...... •-• ........ ... Manchest. & Southampt. 2 ...... ....... 1i . 3... Midland 100 ... . .123% ....... Do. Fifths... 2 ...... ......... ...... Do. New .. Ditto, New Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Midlnd& East. Counties 2% • ................ ......... Midland Great Western .•• Irish - , ....... ~•• Newcastle and Berwick 20 Do. North Shields ... 25 .... .. Newcastle and Carlisle...loo .......... Newmrket &Chesterfrd 5 nwport&Abergavenny 2 1 4.-- ................... ..... . Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newark, Sheffield, and, ........ •• Boston ... .. 101% • --- ... ..... —• .... Norfolk . ... " ..... Do. half Shares ..... 9 ....... Do. Extension - •• ...... . •.. 3 /'".......•N0rth British ...........25 „ 37s ..... .... Do. Half Shares ll „.... ............. • Do. Fifths Do. Quarters 14 -- .............. ..... Do. Extension Northern and Eastern ...... Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45 .. . ......... Do. Quarter Shares... 121/ Do. .New North Staffordshire 42s. ..-.. 3% 70 r ...... -.' North Wales Northern and Southern ........... Connecting Oxford, 'Worcester, and 12/1" . Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.. ........... ••• .., ...• ... 0 . ..... .0 Portsmouth Direct 33 4, - —__ .. • ............... ... Preston and Wyre Do. 14 Shares - ......... .... Reading, Guildford, and .., ..... .*;//. __ .. Reigate 3l. 12s. - di s * ". .. "'• 17 ' Richmond .... a .... Royston and Hitchen ... 1% - .. ......... .. i 3 Scottish Central . 12 1 / 2 - • ........ Scottish Midland l2 13 . 14.• '''' Sheffield, Buxton, Leek ' ... •• ..0. Potteries, andCrewe... 136 — '''''''''''''' ...:_, Sheffield & Mancheste r 100 ........-- ••• ''''' , ''' ''''' ' ~..- Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Do. Lincolnshire June. 1 1 / 4 „-- ''''''''' •"*. Do. & Great Grimsby. 10 - ''''''''''' ---- '' ''' • •''' 'AO Do. do. Extension 425. .. .-- , ,-.„". '''' Ys Shrewsbury and Birm... 3 „.• . 4q4 , 8,, ; ,,' •• •••• Shropshire Union - ... .... Shrews., Wolverhamp , .... ••• •••• &S. Staffordsh. Junc. 2 1 / 2 ..... --- ............... " •''' Sligo and Shannon 1%...... -- ............ •• •••• South Devon... 35 ...... -- •• ............ „••• Soath & Midlands Junc. 425... ••• --- ............. ". ''' South Staffordshire June. 2%.....• --...... South Eastern & Dover. 33%. -- ............ •••• D DDD o oe ....;: NNN°°°.. 213 S t . A 1 b HertfordNn ' n o . H J 4 u a n i. c i t e i l o a . , all 211-205- .................. - - .... 1 ................. ..• .:::::::" :: 4 2u . - 2)is ' ...- .. . 425. ...... 0... „ ........ -'; Staines and Richmond n Staffordsh. & Shroh 1 • ...... ."." .............. isp re 2% • -- ' , • ' South Wales •••• Swans. & Loughor & Ca- , . ..... meron's Stm. Coal. ... 2 - .. ' . Taw Vale Extension ... 2 ... ''''' ••••• Tring, Reading, and ...... ••••• Basingstoke Vale of Neath Wakefield, Pontefract, & •• ..-• Goole Warwickshire & London 425. .... ..... Warwick and Worcester 425. ~ - ......... ' .. ~.. Waterford and Kilkenny 11 ••"' ........ Waterford and Limerick 22% — ........ ..., Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, ...... and Dublin Vi aterford, Wexford, and ...... --'' Valentia ... Waveney Valley 2 ...... -- ..... ........ ,4 Ai p Welsh Midland - . '," ....... ••••ti ' ' West Riding Union 42s. ...... IIAN P..•••''' - •••". West Cornwall 2 ... .. "-- ' ' WestLondon,Old Shares 20 .. -- .... ~,:?•!•••••• .„,„ Wexford and Carlow „, 2% ... -- .... '' ' ' . - Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth - Worcester, Warwick, and .. ......... ... York York a a n n d d N C e a w ri c is a l s e tle. . Rugby 2 3 A ...... -7, 1 ph,.., ........ 4 2 2 5 5. ...... --- 3, 4 ....... ............. .. ••• Ditto New 5 ... 12Ny ........... Do. Preference ..... 2 ........ 7 ° 644 .............. Yo D rk itt a o n y2 d N s o h r a t r h e3 il . l . i . d . l . m . i..c . l . 2 5 5 0 ..... .. lb ..... : . :::''7, ...... Do. Selby - ..... ', ..... •• .... ... Do. Extension .. -- v ........ Ditto, Preference Do. East and NVest Rid- ... „ ..... ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAY'S- .... Anglo-Belgian.... 4 ...... --- ......... Barbadoes 1 ...... .. ......... .. - - Belgian Eastern Junctn. 2% ...... -- ....... ..." Boulogne and A miens l6 ...... 13!42 ............... Bordeaux & Mediterran 2 ...... ....... isordeaux•Toulouse, and ......... Cettc (Mackenzie's) 2 •• ..• -- .............. Do. (Espelete's) - ..... Calais, Dinakrk, and West ........ Flanders Calcutta and Diamond ......... Harbour ....... ..... Callao, Lima, and Pacific • ......... Coast 1 •• ••• . ... ••• Central of Spain ... Ceylon Demerara .. .. 5 .. 21 1. ..... ....... T ivi. • • •• „ • • • • • • ' . . .....,.... Dendre Valley Direct Bothbay and . ...... •• •• Madras - •• ...... Dutch Rhenish ... 6 ..... 4 % • " ....... , East Indian ... ....• .... ss. ..... .........••• Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4 ...... -- .......... .- •• ..... Great Indian Peninsular 55. Great Western Bengal... ss. Great Western Canada.•• nq •••••• --- ................ Italian and Austrian. ... 4 ••• •-.— " Jamaica S.Mid.Junction 1 - ..... „, Jersey .. ... Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 ••• • -- ""' ..... Luxembourg 4 ...... -- ...... '•.. Lyons and Avignon Madras Madras, Nellore, and Arcot % ...... -- ." ........ Madrid and Valentia 2 ..• •• ........... .... •• .. Mauritius ..... .. ••• Namur and Liege Nn of France Constituted 5 •••••• I°l/9 ....... " ...... 21 ............ --: .............. ..........; North Jamaica...... . 1 ...... ............... Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bordeaux 6 ...... 7 . % , 1 ............. Over Yssel 4138 4 8 d ............ 4 3 3 ,:d g i 5. 5 . • .............................. Paris &Lyons Constituted 5 ...... 8 ........ -- ....... Paris and Orleans 2O ...... Paris and Rouen - Paris and Strasbourg ........... Constituted •-- -- .. ...... Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse .••••• 10 •••• ................ Strasbourg and Bale St. Laurence & Atlantic ..... ... Tours and Nantes Con- .... ...... stituted 5 ...... -- •• '. , Tournay, Jurbise, Lan- ......... 0 den, and Hasselt.....- 8 ...... -- .......... „... Trinidad ..• 2 6 1 / 2 ............ ---- .............. West Flanders ...... . ..... JOINT STOCK BANICO- ..... •••• __ ...... • / it. Australasia ......... 2 57 w National Prov. England 35 ...... -- , ............. 2a ...... 2 51 / 2 ...... 3% 1 Union of Australia MINES. , ..... .. „ow Real del 'Monte Unregd ...... 331 ' ...- sTE-R- 19 --, COURSE OF EXCHANGE--( . ....... . 0 5 .5 Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 5 Ditto, at 5!„7,.1 . 1t .. ... 2 .. u ... 12 % a r G, e i c b g n r h o a o l a r n i ar . ::::::::::::.:.: ....: ••••••••.: 56 ... 6 . Rotterdam Antwerp. Elainburgli .. .. 31.11. 1322% Altona•• NVMaeilnipalecn: : : .7.7... ••• ••••• :1 : ~.: 12 2 0 4 r Paris,it 0 3 , d 3 a n 3 l . o s' i i s t i lfs h . . t .... ... ...... i 5 5.. go 0p0rt0.... p ia Is o be r i n i o n : °:' : p : e : r : °: •.: :• ... :: : ::: ; 5 1, 12 Marseilles •••••• • • . • • • -u o ••• • '. 80urdeaux......... • • 26 0 Rio Jan dr .. ..... ... • ...... ~. Frankfort on Maine.... 121% Bahia • • _ .... ~ t ..., Buenos Arre°,.,,igh ...... . Petersburgh, 3 U 5.... . • Yew York, 21 a 4 . 7"...• ~,„. of. phnadelphla " '....,i' ' of. r -- 9 Vienna, efree.flo ••• • • • 1 0 " - or B.."" X 3 11 Tr , ' ditto.... ••.... 10 6 rzi•cCilzaold inners.. 0 io 1 036 ........ ..... ... 101 clis. 5 . . ..... 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