The Sun. — London, England, 1846-11-17 00:00:00

OPENING OF THE BEDFORD BRANCH OF THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.) (FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.) The opening of this line took place to-day. Hereto- fore the county town of Bedford—a town of far from inconsiderable importance—has been shut out from the manifold advantages which accrue to all towns, whether large or small, when connected with the net-work which is stretching its iron fibres throughout the land, creating towns and cities out of mere hanalets,"transplanting trade and commerce to new sites,land carrying prospe rity wherever it spreads its iron arms. It was the in tention of the directors to have opened the line to the public about a month ago, and all the preliminaries were duly arranged, including a splendid dinner at Bedford, to which a party of upwards of 200 were invited; but, owing to a subsidence of a part of the embankment, stretching from Bletchley towards Fenny Stratford, oc casioned by the extremely heavy rains at the time, the opening was consequently deferred until to-day, and trains will run to-morrow, for the first time, for the conveyance of the public. A train, consisting of a con siderable number of carriages—from the elegant first class down to the humblest kind—and containing a large number of ladies and gentlemen, and several of the directors of the line, left Bedford shortly after twelve o'clock to-day, and proceeded at an easy pace towards Bletchley, where it was met by the 11, A. 31., train from London, and the 10, a.m., from Birmingham, both of which brought parties who had been in vited by the directors to witness the pleasing ceremony of opening, for the first time, rail way communication between Bedford and this huge metropolis—London! After a short sojourn the Bedford train proceeded homewards, the accession of visitors from London and Birmingham having nearly filled all the available space. A finer day never dawned upon the earth. The air was pure and delightfully invigo rating—a day to brace the nerves, strengthen the body, and warm the heart. No November fog cast its gloom over the railway pageant—all was loveliness, and ,life and gaiety. The attention of the worlds of which Bedford and Bletchley are the centres seemed too intent upon the auspicious occasion to heed the ordinary affairs of life, and holiday seemed to prevail everywhere, for as the train wound its way along it was enthusiastically re ceived at the various stations by crowds of well-dressed persons of both sexes, and by gentle rustics whose throats seemed made for shouting, and whose hands smote each other with a vehemence only equalled by the blows of a sledge hammer upon an anvil. The snorting engine as it rolled along excited much curiosity not un mixed with fear, but the cattle seemed to think that the devil bad found his way amongst them, if we may judge from the frantic manner in which the advent of the locomotives and an herculean train was received. The moment they heard the unmusical rattle of the wheels, and the snort of the steam, they—to use a common ex pression—seemed to " annihilate time and space," so great was their speed, in order to place themselves at a distance from so unwelcome a visitor; it was quite comical to see them look round in a frightened manner after the train had shot by and was out of sight. The line traverses perhaps the most picturesque por tion of the county of Bedford. The country, which is principally agricultural, seemed from its extreme level ness, to have been designed by nature as that portion through which a railway might be carried with the greatest advantage, and at the cheapest rate; the works, a hich re flects great credit on the engineer and contractors, have, therefore, been extremely light. The sod was turned in December last, and the line was:cempletcd about a month ago ; ten months have therefore been occupied in its preparation. It is nearly seventeen miles in length, is a double line, and cost, on the average, from 16,0001. to 17,000/. a mile. The gradients are those which engi neers denominate " first class," the steepest being only I in 128. The towns to which it will afford afford accommo dation, in addition to Bedford arid Bletchley, ore Fenny Stratford, Woburn, Ridgmont, Lidington, and Ampthill. The line has been leased to the London and Birming ham Company, who, however startling the statement may appear, intend virtually to convey passengers over the Bedford line for nothing ! or, to be less enigmatical, passengers to and from any station on the Bedford branch and on the London and Birmingham, will not be charged anything for travelling over the Bedford branch. Thus, for eiliample, the fares from London to Bletchley, where the Bedford line leaves the parent trunk, being a dis tance of 461 miles from Ruston-square, are—first class, Bs. 6d., second class, 6s„ and third class, 3s. I ld. No more is charged for the conveyance of passengers to and from any point between Bedford and London. The journey will be ordinarily performed in about two hours and a half. The actual distance from London to Bedford by the railway is 63 miles, and by the ordinary road 55 miles, but the company do not intend to charge for the circuitous route, but for, we believe, the geographical distance. Four trains each way will commence running to-morrow. Now that Bedford has escaped from comparative isolation, we doubt not but her commerce will emi nently flourish, and that those who promoted the line and those who lease and, will derive an ample return for the outlay of their capital. Those who have offered such liberal terms to the public, leaving the question of accom modation out of the que.tion, deserve the most cordial support. The opening of the line will be celebrated by a ban quet this evening at Bedford. We understand that Mr. E. Eyre is to be appointed Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand under Governor Grey. The Duke of Cornwall, Roberts master, arrived off Dover yesterday, with her Imperial Majesty the Duchess of Braganza on board, bound for Ostend. We understand that arrangements are concluded for the amalgamation of the Ipswich, Bury, and Norwich Railway, with the Eastern Union, from Colchester to Ipswich, by which the former company's shares are converted into half-shares of the Eastern Union; this is a desirable arrangement for the shareholders, as well as the district from Colchester to Norwich, as the line will be under one management, the Eastern Union Company ; it is expected that the whole line down to Bury will be opened on the Ist of December. CRACOW, Nov. 3.—The Northern Powers have not been slow to take advantage of the coolness which has arisen between France and England respecting the Spanish marriage. It is now determined, and will speedily be officially announced, that the independence of our city shall cease, and that the republic of Cracow shall be swallowed up in the Austrian dominions. In order to indemnify Russia for her loss by this arrange ment it has been agreed that a portion of Galicia shall be ceded to that power. Nothing has been said of any compensation to be received by Prussia. As the exist ence of Cracow as a free city was guaranteed by the Congress of Vienna, we are anxious to learn with what feelings the announcement of the extinction of that existence will be received by France and England, who were contracting' parties in the treaty, and whose views on the subject ought first to have been ascertained by their three northern allies. There can be little doubt that the matter will occasion vehement interpellations both in the French Chambers and the English Parlia ment, though it is equally certain that these outcries will not secure the freedom of Cracow, which the Northern Powers are determined to treat as a question which concerns themselves alone, and in which they will listen to no appeals from the rest of Europe.—Times. FRENCH PLATS.— Iler Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by their Serene Highnesses the Grand Duke and Dachess of Mecklenburg Strelitz and the Baron Koller, and attended by Mr. Edmund St. John Mildmay, honoured the French Plays with her pre sence last evenieg. We observed also the Russian Ambassador, the Baroness Brunnow, and Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner, the Austrian Ambassador, and the Countess Dietrichstein, Lady Augusta de Nieumann, Lady Georgina Carrington, the Count and Countess de Jarnac, the Baroness Rehausen, Lord and Lady Methuen, &c. Tx ROYAL BUCKHOUNDS.—Yesterday the fixture was at the Black Dog, at Bedfont, where there was a numerous field, among whom were, the Earl Granville, several military officers from Windsor and Hounslow, and many sporting gentlemen from town. The cele brated deer, Rory O'More, upon being uncarted at Bed font, made for the Union at Staines, over the Moor, and away to Stanwell, taking through Sir John Gibbon's park, and on to Longford, thence to Colebrook, and over the low grounds of Horton Wraysbury and Ankerwyke, crossed the Thames, near Magna Charts. Island, and landing on Runnemede, the hounds were brought round to the race course, over Staines-bridge, and, on being laid on the scent, made away for Old Windsor, and over Viscount Ashbrook's park to Priest-hill, headed back to the Bells of Ouseley, near which place it was taken, after a capital run of about three hours. To-morrow is a by day, and the meet will be at Poll-hill. HORRIBLE SIII.ID E IN BRIDGEWATER-S(WARE.-- Yesterday considerable excitement prevailed in the im mediate vicinity of Bridgewater-square, Barbican, in consequence of a dreadful case of self-destruction com mitted the previous night by a gentleman i named Benja min Crootes, who resided at No. 7 n the square. It appears that the deceased until very recently he llersld a lucrative situation at Harmer and Pearson s, disti, Redcross-street, Cripplegate, but having left that house, he had entered into business on his own account, and was erecting a distillery a few miles from town. D urin g the last week or two a marked change had taken place in his manner. On Sunday night, between 10 and 11 o'clock, whil3t his daughter was in one of the lower rooms, she was alarmed at hearing a heavy fall in the apartment in which her father was. She immediately repaired to the spot, when an awful spectacle presented itself : her unfortunate pal ent was found on the floor, with a frightful wound at the lower part of the body, which he had inflicted by plunging a sword into himself. A medical gentlman was promptly in attendance, but not in time to render any assistance, for death speedily ter minated the sufferings of the deceased. It appears that, to accomplish his object, the deceased had first cut him selft over the bowels, and afterwards placed the handle of he sword on the floor, and then have thrown himself on the poi n t o f the blade. FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE LONDON DOCKS.— Yesterday Mr. Baker h eld an inquest at the George and Vulture, Ratcli ff -hi g hway, on the body of Charles Johnson, aged 26, a mate on board the North Star, of Baltimore, now lying in the Lon don even ing last, about six o'clock, dece ased, who was on . Docks. On Sunday the dc the quay of the London Docks, called a boat, whiah was put off from the North Star, when heard in the water. In about fifteen mlus?el:shhe was p i c ked up and taken to the receiving - house , -house, w here the usua l means were resorted to for the restoration of life for above an hour, but without success. Verdict—" Ac cidental death," THE NEW NOVEL BY MRS. TROLL OPE. F In the Press, in 3 vols. A T E R EUSTACE; A TALE OF THE JESUITS. By Mrs. TROLLOI'E. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great 3farlborough-street. Now Ready, V 0 1 ... VI. OF MADAME D'ARBLAY'S DIARY AND LETTERS. " The present volume is n,t a whit inferior to those which have preceded it. It occupies an interval of nineteen years—from 1793 to 1814."—Atheneum. henry Colburh, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. -ADVER TISEMENTS and BILLS, intended for insertion in the next Number of the Miscellany, are requested to be forwarded to the Publisher before the 22d instant. Those who were disappointed in procuring the number published on the Ist instant, containing " Captain Spike," Cooper's New Ro mance, may now be supplied at their booksellers. S, New Burlington-street, Nov. 17, 1846. SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON'S NEW WORK Nearly Ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., 1./ U c it E T Or, THE CHILDREN OF NIGIIT, By the Author of "Rienzi," " Eugene Aram," " Night and Morning," &c. Saunders and Otley, publishers, Conduit-street. I A; RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. ANDMEMESSRS. LAW)ND, SHALE, SSRS. LAIIOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patroaage, and to announce that their I'ublic Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing Instructions (with a reference), are respectfully - equested 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 Instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street, London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRITRY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed Lavenu's new Opera, entitled LORETTA ; A Tale of Seville. Don Carlos, Mr. Harrison ; Ferdinand, Mr. King ; Philippo, Mr. Borrani ; Provost Marshal, Mr. Howell ; Don Juanito, Mr. Weiss ; Loretta, Madame Anna Bishop ; Florinda, Miss Poole ; Gaetano, Miss Rebecca Isaacs. After which will be produced Auber's popular Ballet Opera, called THE MAID OF C sSIIMERE. The principal characters will be supported by Messrs. Rafter, Weiss, Horncastle, Jones, Hodges ; Mdlle. Anita Dubignon, Miss Rebecca Isaacs, Mdlle. Adele Benart, Miss Missent, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. tinder the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING be performed an original Comedy, entitled LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP ; or, Wooings and Weddings. Mr. Oddington, Mr. W. Farren ; Mr. Rashleigh , Mr. H udson ; Mr. De Vere, Mr. 801 l ; Mr. Brandon, Mr. Howe; Mr.llartiman, Mr. Rogers; Jack Spriggs, Mr. Webster ; Tom Tilley, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Brown, Mrs. Mover ; Claribel Oddington, Miss Forteseue; Mary Oddington, Miss i'. Horton ; Elinor Mortimer, Mrs. Yaniold ; Fanny Hardman, Miss Julia Bennett. After which a new Comely, in three acts, entitled QUEEN %LARY'S BOWER. Principal characters by Messrs. Webster, Willson, llowe, Brindal, Braid ; :Miss Fortescue, Mrs. Seymour, &c. During the evening the Band will perform three Polkas—" Caro linum," " June," and " Marten ; " Esterhazy" (Walzer) ; "Les TraTestissemens" (Overture) ; and " La Sonnambula." To conclude with a new Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord Courtington, Mr. Moll; Sir Arthur Lovel, Mr. Howe ; Scoreup, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Clarissa , Mrs. Buckin g ham ; Mrs. Scoreup, Miss Julia Bennett. Box-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of Mr. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper. • THEATitE ROYAL, ADELPHL UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING _ _ . Will be performed a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA GISELIE, entitled TIIE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the Wills Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. I'. Bedford. Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullenford,Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. After which, the popular Musical Comedy of SWEETHEARTS IND WIVES. Admiral Franklin, Mr. Lambert; Charles Franklin, Mr. Selby ; ally Lackaday, Mr. Wright ; Sandford, Mr. Worrell ; Curtis, Mr. Cullenford ; Mrs. Bell, Mrs. F. Matthews ; Eugenia, Mrs. Tates ; Laura, Miss Woolgar ; Susan, Miss Brooks. To conclude with a Bozzian Sketch, in one act, called MRS. ;,1311 ) 'S TEA AND TURN-OUT. Principal characters by Messrs. ::ullenford, Worrell, Ryan, Wright, Munyard ; Miss M. Taylor, and Miss Ellen Chaplin. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. TIIIS EVENING Will be performed an original romantic Opera, in three parts, ititled TILE NIGHT DANCERS ; founded on the Story of t;riselle." Tha principal characters personified by Miss Cleorgiana :41nithson, Madame Albertazzi, Miss Flower, Miss Somers, Misses Marshall ; Messrs. Leffler, Allen, Bodda, Walton, T. Hill, Ilonner, Perez], &c. To concimle with the Opera of ROB ROY. Rob Roy, Mr. J. R. Scott ; Rashleigh, Mr. Hughes ; Francis Osbaldiston, Mr. Barker ; Bailie Nicol Jarvis, Mr. Compton ; Dougal, Mr. Ryder ; Diana Vernon, Miss Smithson; Ilelen Macgregor, Mrs. Fosbroke. OLYMPIC THEATR E. Mr. George Bolton, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will he produced all entirely New and Original Comedy, in dye Acts, entitled LIFE. Mr. Orstan, Mr. Archer ; Frank Orstan, Mr. Leigh Murray; Sir Thomas Menton, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Sir Jacob Sinallwit, 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. To conclude with a new grand BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT. On Thursday will be revived Shakspere's HISTORY OF JACK CADE, as set forth in the " Second Part of Henry VI." In rehearsal, and shortly to he produced, Beaumont and Fletcher's Comedy of TIIE WILD GOOSE CHASE. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY TBEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. First Week* of the Deulin Family. Tills EVENING Will be performed a new Drama, entitled QLTENTIN MATSYS ; or, Th• Siege of Antwerp. Quentin Matsys, Mr. Saville ; Mr lleslop ; John Trevalt, Mr. Neville ; Jannette, Miss Richardson ; Clementina, Mrs. Saville; Dame, Mrs. W. Daly; Joan, Miss E. Torrey. After which, a Ballet of Action, entitled DER CHAMOIS YAGER; or, The Fiend of Earth. The characters by the Deulin Family. To conclude with TILE ROVER'S SECRET. AST LEY'* ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. Prince Albert, and Royal Family. Immense attraction. The Champion Vaulters. Herr Amidio Neuperte, the great - Match Bottle Equi librist. Second Week of the grand successful Magical Spectacle, introducing the Syrian Camels and Deer. TII IS EVENING Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en titled TIIE DEMON HORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Bit. In which will be intriduced a Wild Stag-Hunt, by living Deer, and numerous attractive scenic effects. Entire change in the Scenes of the CIRCLE. To conclude with a favourite AFTERPIECE. liox-offlce open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Iroadfoot. THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 17. TdERMONETER, Lowest, 39; Highest. 49 ; Noon, 50, BAROMETER, 29.94.-WIND E.N.E., hazy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TlllB DAY. Nforning .. 34 minutes after 12. I Evening .. 53 minutes alibi 12. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Alteration of Prices. Boxes, 25.; Half-price, Is.; Pit, Is. ; Half price, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. THIS EVENING Will be performed the interesting Drama of the MOCK MAR RIAGE ; or, the Blacksmith's Daughter. In which Miss Vincent will perform. After which, TIIE BRIDE'S JOURNEY; or, The Escapes of Adelaide of Dresden. Maszzonolo, Mr. Searle ; Karl, Mr. Howard ; Patoche, Mr. Formn; Adelaide, Miss Vincent ; Claudine, Mrs. Lee. To conclude wi h a the Burletta of TIIE MISTAKEN STORY. ... L.. .. - .. . )' ~.: . ..:I•Slrot . „.n . y1k...., . ~, • - # OO-:- ,,- k-4tY,l 14* • ' 4 .S- -t'olv--' - I ( •--.--- . ._,,,V6.,... : , • , -• , v- -. .6, 07/fr: - 1 _ :••„ , . ... -ifx •m 0 ,' • . ~- .. r..2„vp 4, :- - , 44 - ..it- SECOND EDITION. -ant those occurrences the minions of the unconstitutional leaders have been striving to destroy the late popular and liberal Administration. Aid was sought by them in money is demanded for works of a reproductive cha racter. It lis: urged that the above requirement is proved to be prejudicial by the fact that there are at present only 7,000 persons employed on drainage, whilst there are 103,000, in round numbers, engaged on public works. Mr. POULETT SCROPE'S remedy is, that the Government should "at once empower the Board of Works to commence the drainage of extensive districts where required, by assuming a right of entry for the purpose on the lands of any proprietor, subject to future assessment of the balance of damage or profit by such tribunal and upon such terms as the Legislature may next session prescribe." This would be a tremendous responsibility to as sume. If the step were really necessary to be re sorted to, no less authority than that of Parliament itself should take the initiative. But we do not see the necessity at present for so large a measure of " state:interference." Voluntary relief has not, in deed, been sa widely patronised, nor with such promptitude, as we could have wished ; still, every day's intelligence cheers us with the knowledge that the principle is actively progressing, and that land lords are zealously knitting themselves together to prove that they are sensible that property has its duties as well as its rights. It must be borne in mind, too, that the vast arrangements required cannot be instantaneously effected. The Board of Works itself, with all its powerful appliances and un wearied zeal, has only just got into active play; so that, due allowance being made for the disadvantages under which private enterprise la bours compared with public enterprise, there is not, o our view, that censurable disproportion between the two ameliorative forces which Mr. POULETT ScßonE would infer. Again, had Parliament' been convened, as the lion. Member desired some time back,, the springs of private "benevolence would have been altogether dried up, as the influential resident proprietors of Ireland would have been thereby summoned away from those localities where their present co-operation is productive of so much advan tage upon their destitute tenantry. That some have been swept off by famine is matter of sore lament yet the number, when contrasted with the magnitude of the national affliction, is exceedingly limited. There is plenty of food in Ireland:; but it is quite impossible for the Government to prevent a great portion of it being exported, by becoming its purchasers, as suggested by Mr. POULETT SCROPE. It is nevertheless satisfactory that the prices of grain are generally declining, and that large supplies from the Mediterranean, America, and elsewhere, are rapidly diminishing the chances of famine, and en vening us with the hope that Ireland will soon be appily extricated from her perilous condition. a quarter most destructive, or, at the least, most dan gerous to the preservation of their common nation ality. The assistance of the Cabinet of the Tuile ries was lavished upon the expatriated and unpatriotic statesmen " the gathered storm was ripe " the Ministry approved by the voice of the community was crushed by a military interference, and the instruments of Gallic ambition endowed with the prerogatives and immunities of office. We cannot but acknowledge that this ven ture was remarkable for its consummate boldness. It has, however, failed. Indignant at so prodigious an outrage upon their freedom as citizens of an enlightened constitution, and their rights as a portion of a civilised generation, the Portuguese people have risen against their intended oppressors with an unanimity and an enthusiasm which involuntarily command our ad mi ration. Unlike their brethren the Spaniards, who are, contented to behold their princesses kidnapped with an :apathetic grumble, the Portuguese are roused to action from one extremity of the kingdom to the other. Their love for fatherland is exhibited, not in hisses at a pageant or a bull-fight, not in the mobbing of ;a deplorable tailor, not in the casting of brickbats at ELH ill-starred postillion, but in the hurried assem blage of civilians, in sounding the tocsin, in un rollzing the gonfalon of an outraged country. i tatters are apparently approaching their consum mat ion in Portugal as rapidly as they are doing in Ale :deo. The dispersion and discomfiture of the in sur geiit guerillas, at Cintra, is the Monterey of the Pet tinsula. Less calamitous, in point of the numbers kill cad and wounded, than in the defeat of AMPUDIA, this rec( ant encounter promises to be equally the forerunner of s ome decisive conflict. SALDANHA had bivouacked at ' Corres Vedras on the Bth, and was advancing but slo\ vly from the capital, his intention being similar to that; by which General TAYLOR is actuated in the Rio. Grande, namely, to allow his coadjutors, SC 'MAL BAC ai and CASAL, to'combine their forces with those and er his own immediate command. According to the latest intelligence SALDANHA had reached Sob ral at the very moment that his great antagonist, DAS ANTAS, was situated at Cadaval, namely, at a distance of merely fourteen miles. Wh , a ther this rumour be veracious or not, it is un questionable that the leader of the QUEEN'S troops and the Evader of the insurgent populace were gradually com ing into a somewhat perilous proximity. A conclusive battle is inevitable, unless DAS. ANTIS forthwith retreats either to Co imbi,a, or Santarem, or even Oporto, by which mov , went that sagacious General would enveigle his oryponent into difficulties, from which his extrica tion -would be almost impossible. SALDANuA would then? by discover himself in a district most favourable to thee popular cause, and most inimical to that of the Cour t party. N E `ither SA DA BANDEIRA nor DAs ANTAS have, acco.: ding to present. intelligence, declared them selves; favourable to the establishment of a Regency. 'Fhei;x• anathemas are hurled scarcely so much against Que' an MARIA as against that unconstitutional in fluemce which has latterly usurped the Government Their abhorrence is essentially directed against an Achr6.nistration which has been forced upon the nation by 101 intolerable coup cr etat, and their disgust is pecu Liarly excited against that Administration from, their regarding it as identical in prin ciple with the obnoxious CABRALS. From: these circumstances it would consequently appear that an opening still remains out of these gigan tic difficulties, namely, by the dismissal of a hateful Cabinet, and the guarantee of the mainte nanc a of the liberal principles of the Constitution. DiNers obstacles, however, loom in the future, and threa ten to retard, if they do not actually prevent this most desirable compromise. On the frontiers of Port; :gal a Spanish army is assembled, prepared ap parently to invade the insurgent provinces upon the first mnergency. And, as an additional indication of the diisposition of the Legislature of Madrid, we ob serve that COSTA CABRAL has been formally ap point ed Portuguese envoy in that metropolis, a proceeding which is singularly significant when it is re membered how execrable the name of COSTA CABE ,AL is in the hearing of his insurgent country men. Everything indicates the imminence of the present juncture of affairs in Portugal. Everything, from the simultaneous assemblage of Juntas in the differ. ant towns to the revolt of the inhabitants of Cacilhas and Almada, testifies the earnestness with which. the population have adventured upon this im portar it movement. The community can scarcely emerge from the struggle scatheless, but it is to be hoped that their political institutions will be de velope d and advanced by this extraordinary revolu ,ion. On the Bth of November the PorE went through the ceremony of taking possession of the Lateran. The following account of the ceremony, and of the important decrees by which its celebration was ac companied, appears in the Journal des Debats:— " A letter from Rome, dated the Bth instant, contains some account of the ceremony of the possesso, which was celebrated on that day. That ceremony, the origin of which ascends to the early time of the sovereignty of the Popes over the city of Rome, and reminds the Romans of their former municipal franchises, is more political than religious. For that reason was the Holy Father anxious to justify the hopes his elevation to the throne created throughout Italy. The Diario di Roma published on that day the nomination of three committees, composed of prelates and laymen. The first, including the most distinguished magistrates and lawyers in the coun try, is charged with the reform of the code of criminal and civil jurisprudence. The two others, composed of Roman princes and men possessing great influence by their fortune and talent, are to devise a plan of amelio rating the municipal system and repressing vagrancy, one of the greatest curses of Italy. In the morning, moreover, an edict was published relative to railroads. All those measures were received with unanimous satis faction by the population, which congregated in multi tudes at the foot of the capital, under the triumphal arch of the forum, along the ruins of the Coliseum, and in all the streets and squares through which the cortege of the Sovereign Pontiff was to pass. The Pope was everywhere cheered with the loudest acclamations. Oa reaching the gate of St. John of Lateran, the oldest church in Rome, the Pope was presented by the Senator with the keys of the city, the sym bol of taking possession of the sovereignty. He then entered the lodge of St. John of Lateran and bestowed his benediction on the people, who received it with the utmost piety and an enthusiasm impossible to describe. Various reports circulated in the city, which added greatly to the universal joy. It was said that the Sove reign Pontiff had just granted to the inhabitants of Bologna the authorisation to organise a civic guard for the repression of highway robberies. That authorisa tion was long claimed by the citizens of Bologna. It was also added that M. Marini, the Civil Governor of Rome, had been severely reprimanded for having suffered domiciliary visits to be made without any well-grounded cause." The, apprehension with respect to the alimentary condition of Ireland, both as regards its present and future :prospects, continues to engross the minds of differe n t men of all classes in every part of the united empire,. All sorts of embryo schemes are hourly started; ; every possible panacea is put forward with an earn estness of purpose, which demonstrates, in a remarkable degree, the excessive complacency with which the several propounders regard their own in dividual schemes, as the most simple and self-evident solution of one of the most difficult questions that can eng age the stateman's attention. No sooner has one su:R gestion been disposed of, and abandoned as altogether illusory, than another political chapman starts la p, and arrogantly offers a choice specimen of his sm all wares as the very article which can alone help tite Government over its difficulties. It is nothing, in his view, that he is without suitable in formation, proper statistics, and other elements of knowledge, essential to his arriving at a sound judg ment. , He happens to have a few leisure hours at hi s command ; he has accidentally heard that a most per plexing subject is under the consideration of the Executive ; his patriotic feelings are aroused ; he forthwith sets to work, and, after ran sacking- the pigeon-holes of his ready-fur nished intellect, flatters himself he has disco vered R chat all Downing-street would never have hit upoin without him. Accordingly, he flings the prodigy at the Minister's feet, exclaiming " There is what yo u want, take it, you are welcome to it." It must be an agreeable relief to the responsible authori ties wile , n they can draw out from amidst the heap of coxcombical charlatanry, under which their tables are con tstantly groaning, any production from a quarter entitled by position and acquirements to their mispectful attention and serious reflection. His habits -of business, Parliamentary standing, assiduous dischai ge of public duties, and the study which he has lop g devoted to different branches of political eco nomy, necessarily impart considerable weight to any opinions that Mr. G. POULETT SCROPE may favour for meeting the existing difficulties of Ireland. This gentler awl, after a considerable interval, addressed, a few days back, a second letter to Lord J. RUSSELL upon the embarrassed social condition of the siste r isle. Be expatiates upon the pressing ills of Ireland with ability, but, at the same time, in a manner that exhibits a fear for the future (founded upon his be lief that the present alleviating policy of the Government is not sufficiently enlarged), to an extent in which we confess we do not partici pate. Mr. POULETT SCROPE advises the Premier of whs .t he considers best to be done. The counsel herein, submitted is undoubtedly bold enough. To either its soundness or expediency we decidedly demur,. There is a vast difference between a respon sible and an irresponsible adviser of the Crown. In the latter capacity propositions are frequently che rish(d., which in the former would never be enter tain( Yet, when we find men like Mr. POULETT SCR.DPB favouring a course which, we think, no , ertadent Administration would dream of adopt ing -without the express sanction of the Legislature, it goes far to convince us of the forbearing spirit with which the acts of the Ministers should be viewed, full regard. being had to the novel and unanticipated dis tress i'l which, by a dispensation of PROVIDENCE, masses. of human beings hare become involved. The gist of the Hon. Member's letter consists in finding :fault with Lord JOHN for placing, as he con ceives, too much reliance on the voluntary efforts of the woalthier classes to apply the means for prevent ing the starvation of the poor. The Earl of BES nonou,3,Lt's "vigour beyond the law" is objected to on accoun t of his requiring " undertakings from each and all, the several landowners," wherever public The new Russian Minister, Count BLTJDOFF, pre sented his letters of credence to his Holiness on the 2d of November. We find in the Univers the fol lowing on the subject of Count BLUDOFF'S mission : " Count Bludoff presented his letters of credence to the Pope three days since. This diplomatic personage is accredited to the Holy See to treat on religious affairs. We have only to wait with respect for the result of this negotiation. If we may credit a report in circulation, Cardinal Lambruschini has been charged by the Pope to treat in this affair with the Russian Plenipotentiary. It is said that M. de Boutenieff does not look favourably on the collabo rateur sent him by the Cabinet of Saint Petersburgh, and I have reason to believe tbat the sentiments attri buted to M. de Boutenieff are really those entertained by him. In the afternoon of yesterday the Abbess of Minsk returned the visit which the Pope had paid her a few days before ; the audience was strictly private. All that I can tell you of the affair is, that when the Abbess left the apartment of his Holiness with her interpreter, the Pope waved his 'band to her in the Italian manner, saying, in a tone full of kindness and interest, A ddio; Madre Mahrina, addio.' " The Peninsalair steam-packet, which arrived last evening at Soathampton, brings intelligence from Lisbon of the 11 th, two days lat e r th an th a t pub lished cy in d e our paper of yesterday. in at Cintra does not app ear t o h ave b een so d favour of the Q UERN ' S t roops as h a d e iaffair The a l jr being at first represented. The peasantry fought desperately, retreating inch by inch to their moun tains, which they succeeded in reaching without leaving any prisone rs in the hands of the QUEEN'S tlrhoeoir ps. Thepeasantry only cea se d fi r i ng b ecause ammunition was exhausted. IGNACIO DE BARROS, their chief, had effected his escape, and was on board the Hibernia. SenwAL BACK was bombarding Evora, which was stoutly defended by B oM rIN, who was h our l y expect ing relief. It was reported .that SA DA BAN DEIRA had made a sally from Oporto, and defeated Baron CAZAL. SA DA BANDEIRA, it was added, had been wounded in the action. SAL-. DANHA'S army, after three days' march, had only advanced twenty miles from Lisbon. Colonel WYLDE had proceeded to SALDANUA'S camp, and it was expected he would go from thence to the camp of DAs ANTAS, and from thence to Oporto. The loss sustained by the QUEEN'S troops was greater than was at first stated. Thirty-six of the wounded have already been brought into Lisbon. LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1846, It would be impossible to view the present crisis of political affairs in Portugal with indifference. To every one living under a liberal Government, and blessed with an enlightened constitution, the recent and pend ing disturbances in the western portion of the Peninsula will afford a spectacle singularlycalculated to enlist their sympathies. The Portuguese are struggling to assert their independence as a nation, and to spurn a most audacious attempt at foreign domination with the utmost contumely. It must be already sufficiently manifest to King Louis PHIL LIPPE that his European policy is liable to many decisive and formidable obstructions, and that while his influence may be insinuated upon the Spaniards by an adroit alliance, he cannot with a mere coup d'etat force upon their neighbours an administration that is universally held in execration. Successful for a while in the larger division of the Iberian Peninsula, the diplomacy of France has been signally worsted in the smaller. The effusion of blood, the endangerment of public peace, the periling of property, and all the other odious consequences of civil war,i . are of course to be deplored when they are inevitable, and to be shunned when they can be avoided without the voluntary relinquishment of the popular liberties. On the breaking out of any revo lution the remote observer is naturally in cited to the settlement in his own mind of this political problem :—Are the :people justified in rising in armed masses to expel those who are ob noxious, to punish those who have encroached upon their authority, to maintain the integrity of their con stitution, to defend their individual and aggregate in dependence ? Until the mysteries of the palace and the secrets of the Ministerial portfolios are revealed, as well as the general disposition of the populace, it is hopeless to attempt any solution of a ques tion so peculiarly intricate. Regarding all those circumstances, however, which must be ma nifest to the most superficial ' spectator, of recent occurrences in the metropolis of Portugal, it is ostensible that the population has there latterly received many extraordinary incitements to what the sticklers for the irresponsible domination of 'Queen MARIA DA GLORIA would designate rebellion. The national will was significantly expressed in the re markable proceedings of last May ; the anxiety pre valent amongst the million for the maintenance of the enlightened spirit of modern times in the admi nistration of the laws was then emphatically avouched ; the hatred entertained by the Portuguese for any undue s nts h exhibition or profligate employment of power, as in tan thew C ich could Ana, Ministry, notbem w is as un od u d t e t r e s r t e o d7 ithan explicitness itSince The people of Cacilhas and Almada, on the south bank of the Tagus and right opposite Lisbon, from which they are not two miles distant, are in open re volt against the QUEEN'S Government• They have destroyed the telegraph at Almada. The Government has it hands so full of work in putting down insur rection on every side, that it cannot spare troops to send over. The insurgents there are said not to fall short of 500 armed men. An infectious influenza had broken out in the English fleet. COSTA Cum.', has been appointed Ambassador to the Court of Madrid. 'A junction between the Bank and Confian9a Com pany will shortly take place ; no particulars can be given for the present. Exchanges, 5 coin ; 461 notes. Discount on notes, 700 rs. N o a lt era ti on i n th e Funds. Madrid papers of the 10th inst. have been received. The courts of law in Spain have, on more than one occasion of late, exhibited a spirit of indepen dence which does them the highest honour. In the recent affair of the complaint of Count BRESSON against the editor of the Tiempo, the French Viceroy, thanks to the honesty of the Spanish judges, has been defeated in his attempt at insulting the Spanish nation by wantonly violating the laws of the king dom. The obsequious Afrancesado Cabinet of course obeyed the orders of their ruler in every par ticular; and within twenty-four hours of MUSSON'S complaint the Fiscal of Madrid commenced the prosecution. The court, however, in which the cause was to have been tried, declared that it was not competent to the Fiscal to institute such a prose cution, and refused to permit the case to proceed to trial. The Count And his Ministers intend, it is said, SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY ETEZING, NOVEMBER 17, 1846. to appeal against this decision. We have no doubt I they will appeal, and we should not be surprised to hear that they have dismissed the judges who have thus honourably performed their duty. It will be by no means the first time that the Afrancesado faction has tampered with the administration of justice. MADRID BOLSA, Nov.lo.—The Three per Cents. were done on the Madrid Bourse at 331 for cash. The prices of the other stocks continued the same. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. The French Government feel, it would appear some alarm at the statements made by the National , in an article which we quoted in ou r impression of yesterday, as to the manner in which the coffers of the Bank of France were being drained of specie. The Presse puts forward the following evidently official explanation of the statements made by the National:— "We can re .assure the National, which speaks of an idea entertained by the Bank of France to restrain the amount of commercial bills discounted, and to limit the facilities usually afforded to our merchants. It is not to be contested that such a measure, adopted at such a moment, would produce serious inconvenience, because, in order to prevent an evil no doubt possible, but still uncertain, it would imme diately create a real evil. It is not at a period of the year when accounts are being settled, and when the want of money is most sensibly felt, that it would be prudent to limit the assistance which commercial men have a right to expect from a great establishment founded on credit. Neither is the position of the Bank so alarming as some persons too ready to feel terrified have believed. The Bank will still possess, after all the corn imported shall have been paid for, nearly one mil lion in cash. Appearances announce that the causes which have induced the large calls for cash are about to cease, and a current in a contrary sense cannot fail to set in. Under such circumstances, the directors could hot participate in the exaggerated fears of some of its membors; and we believe we are well informed when we state, that if such a proposition as that mentioned by the National has been made, it has been rejected by a majority." M. GUIZOT submitted the draft of his reply to Lord PALMERSTON'S last note to a Cabinet Council, held on Friday last. This note, which is couched in very courteous terms, positively refuses to permit the Duke and Duchess of MONTFENSIER to make the re nunciations required of them. There was a grand reception at the Marquis of NORMANBT'S on Friday. According to the Presse no one was admitted except on letters of invitation, and it was remarked that neither the Spanish Ambassador nor any of his secretaries or attaches were present. The railway between Orleans and Tours, which had suffered from the inundations, was re• opened on Friday for an experimental trip. A merchandise train of 28 waggons passed over the whole line in safety. It was to be opened to the public on Sunday. The KING and the Royal Family arrived on Sa turday at St. Cloud from Compeigne. The price of bread has been raised in Paris. For the last fortnight of the present month the price is fixed at 46c. the kilogramme (21bs. English) for the first quality, and at 38c. the kilogramme for the second quality. The Three per Cents. were done at the Passage de I'Opera, on Sunday, at 821. 70c. MARSEILLES, Nov. 11.—Marseilles and Avignon, 8581. 75c.; Northern, 6451. BUSINESS DONE IN 'FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE, NovEMur;ll 16. Boulogne and Amiens, 144 —Dutch Rhenish, 5 1 4—East Indian, %—Louvain d la Sambre, IA —Luxembourg, 3 / 4 Namur and Liege, 33A —Northern of France Constituted, 101 —Paris and Lyons Constituted, 4A—Sambre and Meuse, 4%—Tours and Nantes Constituted, OA. ALLEGED LUNATICS' FRIEND SOCIETY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. "Sin,—lam desired by the committee of the alleged dLunatics' Friend Society" to convey to you their cor ial and sincere thanks for your admirable article on the awe respecting lunatics and alleged lunatics, contained in The Sun newspaper of the 12th instant. The com mittee feel the more gratified by your remarks, as they so powerfully advocate the causes for which this society was instituted—" The protection of the British subject from unjust confinement on the grounds of mental de rangement, and for the redress of persons so coufined. Also to endeavour to procure a reform in the laws and treatment affecting the arrest, detention, and release of persons treated as of unsound mind."—l have the honour to be, Sir, your faithful, and obedient servant, G. BOLDEN, Secretary. 36, Coleman-street, Nov. 14, 1846. At a meeting of the committee of the " Alleged Lu natics' Friend Society," held on Saturday, the 14th Nor., 1846, it was moved by Mr. Bailey, and seconded by Mr. Selby— " That the thanks of this Society be presented to the proprietors and editors of The Sun newspaper for their article on lunatics or alleged lunatics, on the 12th inst., and that copies of the paper of that date be procured for the members of the society ; and that the prospectus of the society be inserted in the newspaper." Carried unanimously. By order, G. BOLDEN, Secretary. BUILDING SOCIETIES.—Last night the first meeting to enrol members in a now building society, called the Kingsland, Dalston, and De Beauvior Town Improved Building Investment Society was held in the Downham road, Kingsland. The chair was taken at 8 o'clock, by , B. Bingley, but, in consequence of the meeting having been convened before the directors had got their rules ready for delivery, much time, was occupied by the chairman and directors in endeavouring to answer questions respecting the contemplated workings of the society's funds; and, from the circumstance, we think, of the meeting having been convened before the chairman and directors were sufficiently acquainted with the working of such a society, two hours were occupied without any business having been got through, and the meeting threatened to terminate in a joke; but, fortu nately, a Mr. Bowman, with the following initials to his name, M.D., M.R.C.S.E., came to the rescue of the directors, and moved the first resolution, stifling all other questions being asked, and saving the chairman a great deal of trouble. But few shares were applied for, many gentlemen having left before the business had concluded. —From a Correspondent. THE GREAT BRITAIN.—Mr. James Bremner, civil engineer, who has been appointed to take off the Great Britain, has been a shipbuilder in Wick for nearly forty years; he has taken off the strand, and some from great depths, upwards of two hundred sail of merchant men. He has been a harbour builder on a large scale, and he is now the patentee of a plan for building har bours and raising vessels, which has gained the appro bation of the Lords of the Admiralty, and will be brought into play on the first fit occasion. His plan for building a harbour at Macduff has been adopted by the trustees in preference to that of Cubitt's, and will soon be carried on under Mr. Bremner's inspection, at an expense of 50,0001.—Scotsman. SINGULAR CASE OF FRAUD.—Yesterday, at the Uxbridge Petty Sessions, Daniel Bright, a young man, 20 years of age, footman in the service of Mr. Hemmings, of Hillingdon, near Uxbridge, was brought up before the bench of magistrates for final examination on a charge of having obtained at the shop of Mr. George Messen ger, linendraper, High-street, Uxbridge, one dozen of stockings, by falsely representing that they were for Lady Sophia Tower ; also with having obtained at the shop of Messrs. Love and Bastard, drapers, of Uxbridge, half a dozen stockings, by falsely representing that they were for the lady's maid of C. Mills, Esq., of Hil lingdon. It appeared from the evidence that the pri soner had previously borne a most unexceptionable character, and that he was going to leave Mr. Hemmings' service in a few days, having got a more lucrative and responsible situation. Neither the prisoner nor his friends could assign any motive for the fraud he had committed. He was committed to Newgate for trial. THE CONCERT HALL, LIVERPOOL.—A correspon dent has called our attention to the encouragement given to music and song in Liverpool—the concert-room, ori ginally built by the Socialists, being crowded every Saturday evening by an audience of about 2,060. It is in connexion with the Northern Mechanics' Institution, and on Sundays is used as a church, being licensed by the Bishop during the rebuilding of St. Simon's. During the week-days, too, it is often rendered serviceable as a sort of Liverpool Exeter-hall. Among the singers engaged for the Saturday evening concerts are Miss Hawes, the Misses Smith, Miss- Romer, Miss S. Venables and her father; Mr. Braham and his sons; Mr. John Parry, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Henry Russell, Mr. Edney, &c. &c. Miss Venables is described as a vocalist of very great promise. —Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper. The Earl of Auckland received the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Right Honourable Charles and Lady Mary Wood, Viscount Morpeth, Lord John Russell. Lord De Manley, the Hon. William Cowper, Mr. Ward, and a select party to dinner last evening, at the Noble Earl's official residence at the Admiralty. A small circle assembled after dinner, when among the visitors were his Excellency the American Minister and Mrs. Bancroft, the Countess Grey, Sir George and Lady Grey, Viscountess Palmerston, Lady Seaford and Misses Hardy, Baron and Lady Parke and Miss Parke, Sir Richard and Lady B. Phillips, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Eliot, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Eden and Miss Eden, Captain Moore, Sir Edward Ryan, Captain Eden, Rear-Admiral Dundas, Lord Dudley Stuart, Colonel Upton ' Mr. West, Mr. and Mrs. A. M ontgomery , Si r Ch ar l es Adam, Mr. Adams, Mr. Grenfell, &c. INGENIOUS SMUGGLlNG.—Yesterday morning a seizure of an extraordinary description took place at the St. Katherine's Dock Steam-packet Wharf, by a Custom house weigher, named Gaudner. A case of live geese, brought over from Harlingen in the Magnet steamer, had been landed from the vessel and was being examined by the officer, when he thought the geese appeared unusually tall. He made a more careful scrutiny, and ascertained that a quantity of hay, forming a false bottom, had been made, on which the geese were stand ing, and on removing that he discovered beneath a quantity of very thin deal bt yards. These were also re moved, and a quantity of &gars, weighing 441b5., were exposed to view. The case,, geese, twenty-eight in num ber, and the cigars, were immediately seized and con veyed to the Queen's Ware house. - - - MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS, - ....• ''' .. .. to . .to -- CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. a e r 1 N eDwocassto! r e t a h n s d h ß i e e l r d ) s v . i . c . k ... ...... ...; .......... to ' The Cotton Market at Liverpool, yesterday, was Newmarket and ..... .to --- steady, and prices were without alteration. A fair busi- Newport avid Abergavenny. . 2_ l /.4 ...... __ ..... . to -- • h is e l :te;f ,. ; ...... .. .. .. .. :.. I — l i ness was done, 7,000 bales having changed hands, of N ew and Enniskillen . ..... ".., , ...... _ ..... to --- Newark, Sheffield, and Beston 'f 3 •• .. ...._ ...... to ....... which 3,000 were American on speculation. The Share Nrorfolk ......... .. .............. 100 ... .. . .to Market was not active. ...... . to There has not been any arrivals, of late dates, an- Ditto Extension ...... 6 ...... -- ..... to -- nounced here from the colonic;; this morning. - .39 ..•• sTorth British .. .............. -a ..... Do. Half Shares ............ ...... -- ..... The following are some of the duties on Canada pro- 'to • .." Ditto ._ _ . , ...... _ ..... .... duce and manufacture imposed by the United States Ditto I dths .. ............... D. , 4if 1A... to Tariff, passed the 29th of July; 1846: Do. Quarter 5................. l'A, ...... -/s •,, to •• '-' 1 1. 74 "' Half Shares , . ...... .. 11 . ..... 17 " Spirits, 100 per cent ; furniture, meats, preserves, Ditto, Extension ............ % ...... ' ...... to • •"" ale, 40 per cent., according to valuation. Apparel, Nerthern and Eastern ......... 50 ...... --__ ...... to • "" bonnets, straw, &e., cabinet work, fur caps, clocks, Ditto Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.)... 45 , ..... .__. ...... to • '"' Ditto Quarter Shares ...... 121,i ...... _ ..... to ••••• clothing, fur of any description, household furniture, iron, leather manufactured, linen, mineral waters, Ditto New , .................... 1 ...... . p 4 9 s -. 31 / 4 78 i ' l to •""- hire ....... - • ... paper, plums., potatoes, soap, sugar of all kinds, ,;:;iuiti Staffordshire............ ..... , 1 , ...... ...... x int. to Wales ..................... 3l a ....• t. 0 •"" feathers, vegetables prepared, wearing apparel, wood manufactured, fire-wood, wool, raw or manufactured, 30 Nor t th. & South. Connecting 2.? a• •••• = ..... per cent., according to the value. Barley, beef, boards, Chelteriham .... .:...... 2 ...... -- ...... candles, Northampton, Banbury, and caps, fish, flour of wheat, fruit, furs in skins or Oxford', ' IVorces7t.;;;and Wol- / i_ .. to- dressed, hats, leather, linens, metals, oatmeal and oats, verhampton ... .............. 12 1 / 4 ...... sili ....... to oils, paring-stones and bricks, pork, potash, rye, or in Oxfd., \Vitney, & Cheltnham 1X••-••• —", ~ ...... to. ''''' flour, skins of all kinds, slates, tallow, timber, vegetables, Portsmouth Direct ............ 3 3 4 ...... 2 . - A .... to. --- wheat, 20 per cent., according to the value. Preston and Wyre ............ 25 . ...... ...... ...... . 0 ....„. Pamphlets, periodicals, soap, grease, tallow, building- Ditto, Half Shares _.,,, „ is. to o , ...., stones, 10 per cent. according to the value. Bones, clay, Reading:, Guildford,& Reigate 3_/ .i 2 '.... .. ...L'A :.... t ..... and rags, 5 per cent.; bullion, coins, gold, silver, and . to Royston and Hitchen ......... IA3 *. copper, free." Richmond ........................ 1 - :./ .. .... ...._ . ..... to . -..., The Canada tariff, including the Imperial differential Midland ... ... 12 1 / 2 ...... ... Scottish Scottish Central ... 12 1 / 2 ...... --- ........ to. •--- .. to. duties, compared to the foregoing, is a mere trifle, Setlilo, Buxton, Leek Pot including the whole inland frontier, it r rashly teries, and Crewe ............ 1% ...... -- ::: ... to. ^"*. does little more than pay the expense of col- Sheffield and Manchester ...100 ...... -- ...... t o , lection, which certainly is a poor compensation Ditto ~ ,i Shares ............... 8 ...... __ ...... to ...„ for the loss of time, expenses, and vexation, Do. and Lincolnshire Junct. 1 1 ,4 •••••• _ .... to, ..... which it occasions. It will be seen from the foregoing Do. and Great Grimsby ... 10 ...... _ ........ to. . 4 .4 remarks that the Government of the Republic of the Do. do. do. Extension... 4 3 28. ...... 5vz... .. t w o. : ~..../• United States is rather loath to yield concessions to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham ~.. British colonies. There are, however, a few signs of a more tolerant policy, and those interested must " bide bh a r n eldvssbus r)V orC i l l'herijaann'ePtiOnn' 2 1 / 2 . .• • - 2 %"" . to. Shropshire Union .. . ........• 425. ... ......... %. als . to their time." ... ..... The following is a comparative statement of arrivals South D 35 ...... - ... t° ' Devon ..• .... ...... ••• Sligo and Shannon ............ 1,3/5 ...... -- " 'to and tonnage at Quebec:— South Midland - .. . to , ..... Vessels. Tonnage. South and Midlands Junction 425. ..... ....... ... : .. . to. ..„, 26th October, 1845. 37 ..... to' ..... 1846 --- -- . ... •-. Ditto, New, N 0.2 ............. 12 ...... „..... .....• w ...... Ditto, New, No. 1 ........ 20 ...... ---• .... to Ditto, Now, No. 3 ......... ... 1 5 .... 3111,4••• Lo. It /• is Ditto New, No. 4........... .. 2,43.• ... ...- St. Alban's, Hatfield, and . to __ .. •• ~.... Hertford Junction •• •••• 425. ...... ...... , ... t o .... Staines and Richmoad.... .... •1 , ...... __ •' to , t: :,... Staffordshire and Shropshire 2 3 / 4 ...... 4 ...... ' South Wales ................ 5 ...... • , fz - 11 ,- Ind Ca- to i Less this year 36 more 12,606 The only price of Consols for the Account this morn ing has been 9.111, and for Money 9444. The demand for money has rather increased, and Exchequer-bills have been sold again at 9s. premium. The price of India Stock is 257, of Bank Stock 2051, and of the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. 154 The settlement in the Foreign Stock Market was completed late yesterday afternoon, but still satisfac torily. To-day there is a lull as to the amount of busi ness transacted. Mexican Bonds have been sold for the Account at 22 ; Portuguese Four per Cents. at 361 to 37k; the Russian Metalliques at 112 to 111; the Spanish Three per Cents. at 37* ; the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 59* ; , and the Four per Cents. at 91 * In the Railway hare Market there has been a good amount of business done to-day,and prices are pretty firm. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 20 5 1/ 3 per Cent. Reduced ...... 93 1 ,4 3 per Cent. Consols Anns 94Y% % New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 9% 15-16 Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 9% India Stock 257 Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. I%d. 1,0001. ••• 9 pm. Ditto Small ............... ........ 5001. t 0.... . --• "' ", to '..... Swans. and Loughor a._ meron's Stra. Coal ...... ... 2 ...... ..... ...... te, Taw Vale Extension ........ 2 ..... ...••• _ ~.• __. Tring, Reading,& Basingstoke 5 1 ; 4 ...... ..... ...... to Vale of Neath to Wakefield, Pontefract, and ..... , ..... .-• Goole 2 2 1 / 4•••• •• .. t° ,--( W\Varwicarwickshir e Waterford and Kilkenny ..•••• 8 , •••••• ..... ..... and Waterford and Limerick... - l a v n o c r l c L e s o t n e d r o . . n . .... .... ... •.. . ..... : to et 0. o „ ....„ ../ to Waterford, Wexford,Wicklw, and Dublin to '''..' Wexford, Waterford, and••''' . to Valentia ..... ..„... --• • to Waveney Valley ..... to Welsh Midland West Riding Union 422115. ............ .. 2 . 24 4 .. ..?. to ..., . West Cornwall 2 ..... ___ . to West London, Old Shares - 'to ''' Wexford and Carlow ......... 2 . % ..... ...... .... to ' • Wisbeach and St. 1ve5........ '2 ...... --- •••••• to ' ... Wilts,Somerset,&Weyrnouth 10 ••••" ..., ...." to - .%tt• Worcester,Warwick,& Rugby 425. ...... ...... ...... . 03 q . York and Carlisle 23/. ..... , 39/ 4 v. ' to ~ ... 01; York and Newcastle........ ...... . ..... to 7, Ditto, New Ditto, Preference 2 . ..... s ... 0. . York and North Midland Ditto, Half Shares ....., ..... to • •*', o Ditto, Scarboro' Branch .... ...... 0 9 ,1A 1 Ditto, Selby 20 ..... ~,„4 ,1 ...... to t _ ,, , t Ditto. Extension Ditto, Preference - .... to Ditto East and West Riding 17 1 0 11..• Extens i on Ank,rlo-Belgian 4 •••••• --- ... • ...... .. to Barbadoes 1 ...... ••••• / ..... • d to „„ Belgian Eastern Junction 2% "•''' I . 3NV to FOREIGN RAILWAYS* ...... to „,./.• Boulogne and Amiens l6 ........... Bordeaux and Mediterranean 2 . • .... Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette , . ..... , (Mackenzie's) 2 ..... to ....• Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette .4.- •"" to ',....• (Espelete's) - ••'''' to' ',, Calais, Dunk, & W. Flanders 2 ...... ...„, .... to' ' 2 Calcutta & Diamond Harbour 7s. ..... .... .0 . to. '2 Callao, Lima, & Pacific Coast 1 ••"'' .... ••'. to' ../ Central of Spain ... 2 ...... ..... ••••" to. ' 2 Ceylon .... ss. ...... ....... ....• to ~..., Demerara. Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras 55. •••• ' ..... •"*. 0 '/ 00 Dutch Rhenish ••• 6 ...... . t ..... , East Indian ... 0... ..... • to ~. Fampoux and Hazebrouk 4 ...... ~. ...... to ~. Great Indian Peninsular ss. ••••'' 4.0" . to •',... Great Western Bengal ss. ...... ... ..,...• to ./. Great Western Canada Italian and Austrian 4 ...... I t / 0i tO Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 ...... , ..".: 0 Jersey Louvain ala Sambre 6 ...... y t i'7 4 ' . 0 ...... • LuXembourg Lyons and Avignon 2 ..... ...... •••'' to .... Madras ....„ ••••'' to .., • Madras, Nellore, and Arcot % ...... ...„ ••••'' to • Madrid and Valentia Mauritius ''l •••'' t 0 1 ...... _ . oiz . ... 5 / 4 I , • Namur and Liege Nn. of France Constituted ...... .. to North Jamaica 1 ........... 'to '''' ...0 . ...•••• Orleans and Vierzon - Orleans and Bordeaux ... Over Yssel 413$ 4d•••' 4%*" 0 ' 2 .• Paris and Lyons Constituted 5 ..... ~. ."''' to ..„,.- Paris and Orleans 2O ..... .... •' ... 0 „- Paris and Rouen oe . eel, Paris & Strasbg. Constituted 5 *••••• -••• ....... t ° /- Rouen and Havre - Sambre and Meuse lO . ..... , •;". to ...,, Strasburg and Bale l4 , ..... ..- •',..,. 0 St. Laurence and Atlantic - ...... ••-• '' to ..-•'' Tours & Nantes Constituted 5 ..... ..,' ••••" to A Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, ••••• . ..••••• ' and Hasselt ••• .. 8 ••••'' ..- •'''' 0 Trinidad.. ........ ....„ 2% • ...... ..... ..••• West Flanders BAN is. . ..... to JOINT STOCI' ••••• . •••• Australasia ~." to "... British North American ••••• ... ~„ Colonial -1 25 ••'''' ...-• ''',..• t w o ••••• Commercial of London - '' • , - 0 ..•• London Joint Stock lO ...... ...- ''..::. to -.- London and Westminster. • 20 ...... .•-• ,',, .. :', ••••• National Provincial of Engld 35 ...... •••• .0.. to ..--• National of Ireland 22%. .... ••••• ', •• •••• " to Provincial of Ireland .....• Union of Australia Union of London 111N . I .1 E 0 S• ...... Real del Monte, Unregistered -- [RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent 22 Portuguese 4 per Cents 36 1% Ditto for the Account Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent ll2 111 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 — Ditto 3 per Cent 37%% Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. Psa SHARE. Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% 27i 3... to 23/ 4 Armagh, Coleraine, &Portrush 1% — to Belfast and County Down .. 4 3 / 4 ...• - Birmingham and Dudley ..... 425. ... . 6% % pto Birmingham and Gloucester..loo ......128% to Do. New (iss. at 7 1 / 2 dis.).. 17% 3l Birmingham & oxford June... 2 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction 2 3 /4 ..... to Boston, Stara, & Birming... 225. Brittol and Exeter Do., New Bristol and G10uce5ter......... 30 Bristol and Liverpool June... 2% — to Buckinghamshire.. Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares Cambrian and Grand Junct 425. Chester and Holyhead... 27% — to Churnet and Blythe.. ...... .. 2 Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltenham and Oxford Clydesdale Junction Cork, Blackrock, & Passages 225. Cork and Killarney 2l/, ...... Cork and Waterford . 1% — to - 00rnwall Ditto, Half Shares ...... ... 2% . ...... 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 1 Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 12% 5 - Dublin, Belfast, & Coleraine 2 1 ,4 — ...... to Dublin and Galway 4 ...... Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 10 Eastern Counties l4l. 16s 2 3 14%... to 23 Do. New l2 l. 16 s 7: j 4% p to Do.Perpet.,6 perct.No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d — .. ... to Do., d 0....... N 0 . 2 , 6/. 13 s. 4d.. Do., York Extension ...... 2 ...... 3 3 / 4 % to East Dereham and Norwich 1 Eastern Union 35 Ditto, Quarter Shares B 3 /4 t• -- Do. Extension to Harwich 1% Do. Cambridge and Ely ... 2% — to East Lancashire Ditto, New ... .......... .... Do. ( late Preston & Ormsk.) 21,x ...... East Lincolnshire 1 Ix t 1%...... to East and West of England... 1% — ..• •• to Edinburgh and Glasgow SO Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares Edinburgh and Northern ... 12%...... Edinburgh and Perth a - Ely and Huntingdon .......•• 12% ...... Enniskillen and Sligo ..•..•..• 2% —'to Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 5% — to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 ...... Ditto, New Do. % Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 12% ..... .. Glouc., Aberystwith, and Cen. of Wales Goole, DOTICRACT,Sheffid., Ere 42s. Grand Union (Nott. & Lynn) 1% — ... —to Great Eastern and Western... 21 ,4 Great Grimsby and Sheffield 10 Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 27 1 / 2 — to Great Munster 2% — ...... to Great North of Scotland 2 % 2 ...... Great North of England 100 ... . Ditto, New 5 — to Ditto, New ............... ...... 15 ... .. .. to Ditto, New.. .................. 1%.....• to Great Western Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares to Ditto, Fifths 2O - Do. New Huddersfield and Manchester 13 ...... 19 - Ditte, Extension Hull and Selby 50 Ditto, Quarter Shiv3s 12% — ...... to Ditto, Half Shares Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 11% ...... to Do. do. and Norwich Lancaster and Carlisle Do. New 5 - -- _. , V to ~ 31i.'" .. ...,u. . Lame, Belfast, & Ballymena 425....... ...... to Leeds and Bradford - Leeds and Carlisle Leicester and Birmingham... 225. - ...... to Leicester and Bedford 225. 1 - 4eeds, Dewsbury, & Manches. 22 1 / 3 8 1,4 to Ditto, Branch (Blue) Ditto, Extension (Green).. 2 1 / Leeds and Thirsk l 7 l /2 — ...... to Ditto, New Liverpool, Manchester, and I§Neweastle Junction Liverpool and Bury l4 London & Blackwall...l6l. 13s. 4d — to Do. New . Do. Extension ..... . 7 1 % — to Gond., Bright., & South Coast 50 ...... 5914% to Do. Fifths London and Croydon Guaran teed 5 per Cent 9 . ..... London and Greenwich... 121.155. 4d... ~ to Ditto Preference lBl 17 s 2 d... ...... to London, Hounslow, &Western 2 . ..,..... to London and North Western.. loo 1961, . . ..... to 196 Do. Quarter Shares • 2 - Do. do. New ..... .... ...... 2 Do. do. Fifths Do. Eighths G. J. 12 % — ..... to . to Do. New Quarters ...G. J. 5 - .. ... Do. 401. Shares.....L. & M. 8 ....•• ...... to London and S. Western.... 411.6 s 10d 66 ... .. to 65% Do. New consolidated Bths.. 40 Ditto New ......... .... . ...... 22% Do. New .................. .. .. 18 ...... London and York... , .... ....... 2% ...... 2% 1 4. Ditto Half Shares ......... 21/2 ^, ... ,,,•„ to .. • • • London and Windsor ......... 156 ...... London, Salisbury , & Y eovil 2%...... 9 to L on d on derry and Coleraine... 15 . Londonderry and Enniskillen 16 ...... Lynn and Ely .................. 15 ..... 75 _ .. Lynn and Der eliarn ............ 15 ...... V 2 to Manc h es ter and Leed5......... 82 .. ... Ditto H a lf Shares ...... .. 38 to Ditto QFuifarthtser.s. ............................... 2 5 .. to ......... . 10% to Ditto Sixteenth s ..-..•.... 4256 lit Do. Extension ............. . .. Manches t e r and Birmingham 40 — to --- 5 Ditto Quart ers ( A ) Ditto Quarters ( 11) ... 5 Ditto Quarters (C) .. 1 Alanch, Buxton, & Matlock 425. Manchester, Birmingham, and MouldJ unction — Manchester and Southampton 2 Midland lOO .. .... 2 Ditto Fifths 24 ... 31 3 4 Ditto, New — to % x n to Ditto, New '2 Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo lO3 x n... to Midland and Eastern Counties 2% Miald. Great Western (Irish) 15 LLOYD'S SIIIPPIIS G.---(111111S k , Nov. B a .1 1;6 e3 . —. Iia l) 11 B e - b i o ra i 0 1' ) LONDON, Nov 17.—Wind S.S.E, fcr.e,4B.l',..h,reive.io.Bll.e $ 6 ' , E rot : a ici d o l o : : latter had er h DovER, Nov. tact ' la night in the Downs with the As +a lost b bowsprit, and protceredoet ts,%ll,illiarld °lil lio e ; tot h..e t e th fo L rsiu l t oyd , of and foirVdLieniidmaiedSre.i'Eck.S,etirtoloc. n s i c d o a t d t , de s Leith. t 1111° 1 1 ° .11arbourthis tide. morning grounded, 11 11 0 CowEs, Nov. 16 —Wind S.E.--Arrd. lOrie' 110,4' 16.—The Chance of this Per „stool 0 , painces° - c -1-4; sld. /003/' PLYMOUTH . , Nov. 16.--Wind ,-,•--- v Van Zuliecom, Anst alia n . --SO' SP MILFORD, Nov. 15!. Wind S.E. Stro n b' VicloritiliP .itrrd' . d• P r of LivEnroor t Nov. 16.—Wind S. fresh. , • SI • 0 John's G l obe ; /00 _ . d .l l , New Brunswick ; Manchester, Jo hn 0, a y oio du Froeq, Hayti ; Severn, Wiseman, 6,,,r•ribune, rl.° op wick. Off Port.—Albatross, Eon* .''' ballagh. n a brce". ty ''.lV.u*,,,,,islitruidao,ll3l6/ro,witp.s...;:csooct.ele; itittil FALMOUTH, Nov. 16.--Wind S..E. AN — P 0 Joven P i oCrruebaraL. eeoan(.le.a . n— d c utwa t e r s a epete, Ysasi, Havannali. Willis°lls' 6 TRURO, Nov. 11.—Arrd. Sportstnan, ampton, leaky and pumps choked. , id 13. • afe%0131241 CORE, Nov. Wind Brunswick.fresh.---P' ' rle" Pickarne, St. John's, New , D orlrils•.,l OFF CAPE CLEAR.- Sir JOIIII BerefOrOf an, yogi, ,r CROOEHAVEN, NOV 10......Arrd. I•4 " °r°l 0 1 SLIGO, Nov ' : eirP3°°:\Villd S.E.--Arrd' 0 ' •ToPe 03 Orleans, for Li 1 . 12th , - , 0 " Killala, Quebec. . ~_ I' l ' ~, a , parbjr,ieseo.-,,40 BELFAST, Nov. 11d. ExChallge, , re y, I' 013.9, , 6 United States; Independence, 111`CaPPer,Zei,, Nel4 t• fo?; NEWRY, Nov. 13.—S1d. Seraphine, ''' Tait, ,'-, t.l ll -, 1 s e' LoNGItorE, Nov. 6.—Arrd. Woodhouse,_ pots , lo s, (14, New Brunswick ; 10th, Traveller, Sirne.&,,,,t, Ehnb ai. PENTLAND FIRTH, Nov. 11---Arrd. Pri,-' ]ll Win- bee, for Montrose,- 12th, illiam lerchose, `.deen.. _,._ , for Sunderland ; St. Lawre ce, ditto..., for Ator aasiyspbi, Hawes, Havannah. Wind c ~.. An , SW- In— * fr° os . GRANGEMOUTH, Nov. 13.---11 Arrd. Liverre.......° 'sub 0 it o, SHIELDS, Nov. 16.--Wind, S.S.W., fr esh ' •cl Intl P i ' HULL, Nov. 16. P.1,......1 .^"....." Li son, Savannah. f 0' 0 11 • rurvio, ° isi, 00 SHEERNESS, Nov. 14. --The Teviot, _,, afester.O, Newcastle, for London, got on the Nore Sacuau__-',„. ltr-'l,oll' came off after discharging part of ber c „I li u d 9 6 ' ~ Dutch smack has not been got off the or W i 'G P I S yesterday. DuNGENEss, Nov. 16.--The Isle of -,, _,, 07000 a from London to 11Iauritius, went on shore.ll7bio otpeow' e Wight, W. b l g, 11 0 06 No. 1 Battery. The specie is landed, a nd A will be got off without much damag, a for 06 !. t° t i rse 9-- PILL, Nov. 14.—The Elizabeth, 0 1 a° ,o; 11.7 of Newport, foundered off Black Nore 12th 1 for fle d one man drowned. riekill'ic'tsfs; PO Corm, Nov. 14.—The 111ozatubilue, _, o d , , . 1 , , muds, in proceeding to sea last nightt,r`,:tls, str.iToo !,':"0 near the western shore, outside the 5ng...,,e510,0, a nd go l''' rocks, unshipped her rudder, started tei.- s to b #OO, to eight feet water in ber hold. She yr ° 00, 0" harbour to -day. _. i The _,.: Virrigbt",9lo6 HARTLEPOOL, Nov. l ..1.....- ...10 F o rtis, he re in hee l, e s" Wyburg - , bound to the westward, hagePrucargei of ol f it is expected Will have to dischargef about 200 tons, --• the tersiue •D' SCARBOROUGH, Nov. 14.---ran., o last night", of W h l r incitistri,_, o ire ^ Y AnmouTil, Nov 16.--The schoone, oak.; cr en ~ got on the Scroby Sand last night, an a was picked up at sea pAI .) .741Alti(ET 1:41E____......... ---WS.- ' CriliS aito ..,,ir ivs.asoll; 4i; ei c f v , er4OPPI/ SmanYlELD.—Meadow 14a3" , 21 /16$ per loaa ,A, s. clova good, and trade dull. -in. to 41 1 'oar I ° " - - 2 / ..... Ws • CUMBERLAND.-111eadoW gay, 3/ 8s to 5/ ; and Straw, 1/ 106 to 1 t r i , A full average supply, and a Igal,Y t, 2 / gs _o 44; r 100' l WurrEctiArst.—Meadow t ditto, 315 s to 4/ 1 6 s; and Straw: 1/ 12s 01/ 160 Pe4;009, lidelZsaut°,l..l cloot $ / 103 to 5/ Ss and Straw, Llay and Straw sold sloW I YI I at the ago quotilo•