The Sun. — London, England, 1846-10-23 00:00:00

SEVENTH EDITION. This day is published, in a neatly-bound pocket volume, price 65., SEVENTH EDITION OF . HOWITT'S BOOK OF THE SEASONS: Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.) • CHRISTOPHER TAD POLE . MR. ALBERT SMITH'S NE W . STORY. Illustrated by Leech. Number 111. will be published Oct. 31st inst. SECOND EDITIONS of the First and Second Numbers may be Sad of all Booksellers. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO H.R•H PRINCE ALBERT. .2fow ready, in 7 vols. Bvo., Price 5/. 11s. bound, to range with the Wellington Dispatches, LORD NELSON'S LETTERS AND DISPATCHES. Edited by Sir HARRIS NICOLAS, G.C.M.G. " The most genuine and true portrait of a great public character I►htch the world has ever seen."—Times. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every 'AIRWAY 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 Dame di itely disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRITRY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed Balfe's celebrated Opera, entitled THE MAID OF AR fOIS. Marquis de Chateau Vieux, Mr. Borrari ; Jules de Montagnon, Mr. W. Harrison ; Sans Regret, Mr. Burdini ; Synnelet, Mr. Weiss ; Nieka, Miss Isaacs ; Isoline, Madame Anna Bishop. To conclude with the second Act of the popular Ballet of LA GISELLE. The principal characters will be supported by Mdlle. Louise, les Sceurs St. Lbuis, Mdmes. Glubelei and Adele ; Mr. W. H. Payne, MM. Theodore and Adrien. THEATRE ROYAL, HIYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Comedy, in three acts, entitled QUEEN MARY'S BOWER. Principal characters by Messrs. Webster, Hudson, Howe, Brindal, Braid ; bliss Fortescue, Mrs. Seymour, &c. Alter which a new Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord Courtington, Mr. Boll; Sir Arthur Lovel, Mr. Howe ; Scorenp, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckingham ; Mrs. Scoreup, Miss Julia Bennett. During the evening the Band will perform " Les Mousquetaires de la Reins" (Overture) ; " Old English Airs" (Fantasia); "Le Jolie Bile du Gland " (Quadrille) ; and the " Siege de Corinthe " (Overture). To be followed with (by desire) a Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. Webster ; Mary, Miss Jalla Bennett ; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with a Sea-side Sketch, called THE FORTUNE BUNTER ; or, A Morning at Margate. Captain Mount4arret, Mr. Hudson; Griffin, Mr. Tilbury; Bompas, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Griffin, Mrs. W. Clifford. Box-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of Mr. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING The performances will commence with a New Comic Drama, TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Principal characters by Messrs. A. Wigm, Meadows, and Keeley; Mrs. Wooßidge, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Hicks, Miss Turner, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by a New Farce, called MRS. HARRIS. Prin. enpal characters sy Messrs. F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Turner, Keeley ; and Miss Arden. After which, a new Farce, called WHICH MISTER SMITH ? Characters by Messrs. Vining, F. Mathews, Emery, Bellinaham, Butler, Collier, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Grove, and Miss Turner. To conclude with the popular Farce, entitled BOOTS AT THE SWAN. In which Messrs. F. Vining, H. Butler, Collier, Keeicy, and Miss Paly will perform. THEATi:E ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER TUE DIRECTION OF MADA.ME CELESTE TUIS EVENING Will be presented a new domostic drama, entitled EUGENIA CLAIRCILLE ; or, The New Found Home. Frederick Stan more, Mr. Worrell ; Mr. Rugleigh, Mr. Cullencord ; TotTey, Mr. I'aul Bedford ; Mr. Buzzard, Lambert ; Hugh Matlock, Mr. 0. Smith ; I'cgg, Mr. Monyard ; Mrs. TotTey, Mrs. F. Matthews ; Eugenia Claircille, Madame Celeste. After which, a new Fxtravaganza, in two acts, called THE JO , !KEY CLUB. The principal characters by Me,srs. Paul Bed :Ord, Wright, Redmond Ryan, :'elby, Waye, Mitchenson, &c. ; itiss Wool:ar, Mrs. F. Matthews, Misses Ellen Cha>lin, Harding, 1 , /eming, Turner, Taylor, &c. To conclude with the popular Burletta of TAMING A TARTAR. Ma,laine Celeste, Miss Woolgar ; Messrs. l'aul Tedford, Seliy, Worrell. &c., will sustain the principal characters. OLYNTFIC THEATRE. Mr. Ocorge Bolton, sole Lessee and Manager, TIPS EVENING Will he performed Shakspeie's Tragedy of HAMLET. Laertes, 3 , 1 r. Leigh Murray; Ghost, Mr. Archer; Hamlet, Mr. George flolto4 ; Mr. Walter Lacy; First Gravedigwer, Mr. Wilkinson; Queen, .lira. Gordon ; Ophe!la, Mrs. Walter Lacy. To conclude with a new grand Burlesque, introducing an unri valled Corps de tlailet, entitled i HE CIVIL WAR OF POETR . The Public, Mr. J. Ward ; Ephem,ra, Mr. S. Cowell. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY •I'IIEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Francs D - tvidge. THIS EVENING Will be perfornied Lori Byron's celehrated Play of WERNER. Werner, Mr. Maeready; Gahor, Cooc.er ; Idenstein. Mr. Weh!; ; 'Ulric, Mr. Saville ; S'traleilhein!, Mr. Fr, aericks ; Josephine, Mrs. Ternan; Ida Stralenhehn, Ch :rtes Gill. To coneltule with the Drama of CHARLEA THE TWELFTH ; or, The Siege of Stralsund. Charles XII., Mr. Freder:eks ; Major Vanherg, Mr. t;ooper; Adam liroe!:, Mr. NeviLe; .;nstavns, Mr. Johnson; 31addlewerk, Mr. Webb ; Ulriea, Mrs. Tertian ; Etidiga, Xrs. Charles G:11. Pox-office open from eleven till four o'clock. AST.-EY'i,' ROYAL AMPIIITHEAIRK. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Pstronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and Royal Family. Last two nights of Lord Byron's " Mazeppa ;" r,-produced with all its orrginal effects and grandeur, which must be shortly withdrawn, Dr the production of a new grand in:Oval Equestrian Spectacle, on a !avish scale of splendour. First appearance of the Champion Vaulters and Sommersault Ar tistes, Messrs. J. Henderson and .1. Lee. Tilts EVEN iNti Will be performed the successful Dramatic Spectacle of MAZEPPA, ANT) THE WILD HORSE. Atter which, brilliant Data of HORSEMANSHIP, by Mr. Batty's ouYe Company of Equestrian Artistes. Herr Amodio Neupert, the great Dutch Bottle Equilibrist. To conclude with the WASIIEIitWOMAN OF ST. REMY. oox -othee open trout eleven till ft,: .i'cloer..—Doors otter] at six A i 4 c mmence at seven o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. I Ht WEATIIEI{.—Sun OFFICE, OcronEn 22. TtirII3IoDIETER, Lowest, 45; Highest. 56 ; Noon, 47. BARO3IETER, 29 2.—WIND W., showery. ll[ tTEit AT LONIK;N-1:ItfInIP TELLS DAY. Morning .. 23 ininute4 after 3 I Evening .. 40 minutes atter 3. '.- <- •-• 4 • ....11: , iv i il, • lop is, : -. .1 •-t.r A f wi t ,•• - •"4,,, - . • 3‘071 ': - „,,..0 4- - ...7.: ‘,.....,,,, ~., ~,,„;-: t" , ” ' • -,, ''' ,-- Malan 2int LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1846. The inviolability of the decrees of the Imperial Par liament is unquestionably a part of the political creed of Englishmen. But, like all other arbitrary doc trines, that inviolability refers only to an ordinary condition of society. To say that, simply in homage to the authority of the two august Houses of Legis lation at Westminster, an Administration must behold the population of these islands drooping and abso lutely dying from the effects of starvation, without making a vigorous effort to supply the deficiencies of provisions and without exercising the prerogatives of office in every conceivable manner for the salvation of the populace, would be to speak from the dictates of an extravagant insanity or of a despicable idiotcy. It would transform the benignant institutions of our country into a political MoLocn—a demon for whose glorification we should be immolating ourselves as victims, and offering up our children as holocausts. It would be the voluntary degeneration of patriotic obedience into the very fanaticism of slavery. Mon strous, however, as such a notion may appear, there are individuals who would absolutely carry it into operation. There are men so ignorant, so degraded, or so perverse, that they would insist upon the en forcement of this principle even while humanity might be shrieking to them to desist. They would see the country decimated by famine rather than the edicts of the last Parliamentary session should be -violated by an extraordinary decree of the Cabinet Council! They would behold the Irish peasantry rovin4 with haggard eyes and despairing looks among Their desolate streets and barren potato-grounds ; they would see our English artizans pinched by in tolerable privations, and the lives of the community at large placed in the most imminent jeopardy, nether than the duties recently imposed upon foreign grain should be altered in one particular, rather than the resolutions passed by the majority of our legis lators should be disregarded, rather than the ports of Great Britain should be opened for the free im partation of Prussian or American provision. And why, in Heaven's name, would the impulses of eummon sense be thus monstrously thwarted ? Simply because of a reverence for the majesty of the law ! Why, Sir ROBERT PEEL violated the law, so to speak, last winter; and were not the hearts of his fellow countrymen grateful to him for so doing ? Was he not regarded throughout Ireland as a public benefac .tor? Was he net beloved by the starving multi tude as he had never been beloved during any an terior portion of his political career? The majesty of the law, forsooth ! When a terrible visitation turns a wholesome and autritims article of food into a species of vegetable poison, and threatens an entire country with famine, the supreme governors of that. state are invested b y N ature with an autho rity immeasurably above the law. You mi 215 reasonably allo w acity to h e c.-on prised by fire without attempting to extinguish the flames by tearing open the water pipes, on the plea that no plugs hal been supplied b y the commis sioners. Blue hooks will not fill empty larders with joints and cabbages ; political aphorisms and moral saws are but sorry substitutes for dinners and suppe rs; famine is to be prevented not by precepts inculcating tthe blessings of subordination, but by "bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening." What we have already insisted upon as absolutely necessary at this period, when the peasantry are perishing in Ireland from want and scarcity, and when scarcity is beginning to evidence itself in England, is being acquiesced in in all directions. We are rejoiced at this, because, in the prevalence and continuity of the sup plication, we recognise its ultimate concession by the Government. Let the Ministry but once perceive that the country is throughout soli citous for the opening. of the ports, and the ports will be immediately opened. And when they are open the shutting of them again will be a problem rather difficult of solution. The dilatoriness of the concession will then be compensated by the vastness of the boon, though the unfortunate creatures who have already perished in the sister country, through the scarcity inflicted upon the population by existing restrictions, cannot be thereby summoned from their miserable coffins for the re-enjoyment of existence. At a meeting of the Town-council of Manchester, presided over yesterday by the Mayor, we are grati fied to observe that the necessities of the people were estimated at their true importance. So impressed were the members of that municipal council with the exigency of the time, that they resolved, by a large majority, upon petitioning the Right Hon. the First Lord of the Treasury " to call the immediate atten tion of her MAJESTY'S Government to the present and prospective condition of this country, in consequence of the high and rapidly advancing price of corn, and all other kinds of the people's food, in order to induce them forthwith to open the ports of the United King dom to the unrestricted admission of every kind of provision, from whatever part of the world it may come ; or to call Parliament together, with the view of immediately abolishing all duties on the importa tion of food." That most important entreaty, coming from so im portant a body, and enforced by so many and such striking circumstances, will, we are assured, com mand the most serious consideration of Lord JOHN RUSSELL. As Prime Minister of this great country, and therefore as the chief guardian of the lives of its inhabitants, the Noble Lord cannot but entertain an almost painful sense of the heavy responsibilities con nected with his elevated and illustrious office. Nor can the Noble Lord but acknowledge that the pre sent extraordinary calamities demand most impera. tively remedies equally extraordinary. When men are dying literally from starvation in Skib bereen and other places ; when waggons, convey ing corn and meal, require the protection of the soldiery, and when, notwithstanding those precautions, the sacks are ripped open and their contents ex • tracted ; when, even in this country, bread is rising, meat is rising, butter is rising, almost every individual article of sustenance is rising, and that almost daily, so as to render famine prices inevitable—unless some re markable remedy be speedily applied, it would be blind ness, or hypocrisy, or actual inhumanity to deny the want experienced by the community for some prompt and val.,rous effort on the part of the Legislature. The annihilation of monopoly appears to be precipi tated by the decrees of Nature. Happiness, content ment, and prosperity appear to shun these islands until that cheering announcement shall be heard-- " The Ports are Opened 1" Anything coming from Mr. O'CONNELL must be perused with peculiar interest at the present crisis. The deliberate opinions of any man possessing such extraordinary influence with the great majority of tis countrymen, who has during so long a period been the leader of the people, and exercised a power greater perhaps than that ever enjoyed by a public man, unconnected with Government, and holding no facial situation, for an equal length of tune, must command the greatest respect; but, when we consider the great sagacity, the political wisdom, lie has displayed, and the perfect knowledge he possesses both of the characters of the people and their exigencies and wants, that respect and authority is immeasurably increased, more especially when the subject is uncon nected with any of the political questions on which he hail formally declared himself before the distress had attained to such a fearful extremity as unhappily is the case at present, and when none of his darlincg* projects, particularly that which he declares to be the great end and object of his exiatence—the repeal of the legislative union between Great Britain and Ireland—can in any manner be influemed thereby: If Mr. O'CONNELL was an unprincipled or un• conscientious person, if he was disposed to make use of every means, unscrupulonsly, to promote that en.l, could he have reconciled it to himself to turn the sufferings of the people into a weapon against the continuance of the union, to inflame their passions, and to excite their minds to the utmost pitch, it is impossible not to perceive what an instrument has been and is now within his power, and how formidably it might be directed against the continuance of the connexion between the countries ; but he has already afforded the strongest evidence of the sincerity and the purity of his motives; he has incontestably established the truth of his former statements, that he will act by peaceful and constitutional means only, that he will trust solely to argument, and that he would consider the restoration of the Irish Parliament too dearly purchased if one drop of human blood were shed, one single life lost, in its attainment. To moral force, and moral force only, would he lend himself, and promptly and vigorously has he opposed and un hesitatingly put down every attempt, however in sidiously it might have been put forward, to justify a recourse being had to physical force under any cir cumstances, or to speculate upon a contingency or a time when such an appeal might become not merely expedient, but necessary. His intelligent mind saw the pernicious tendency of such doctrines, the fearful effect they might have upon the popular mind if debated in the assembly he had himself called into existence; and he risked to a certain extent his well earned popularity, and severed the political ties by which many of his followers were bound to him, by his conscientious opposition to their favourite doc-_ trine and his rigid adherence to the fundamental rule of the Association. Influenced by these considerations, we gave cred to Mr. O ' CONNELL for the perfect good faith in 1 which he put forward his proposition for the as sembling of a National Committee of Landed Pro prietors in Dublin ; we felt and expressed our full conviction, that if the project was carried into execution, no attempt would be made at the intro duction of any question of an irritating nature likely to produce party dissensions or religious differences; indeed any effort of the kind would most assuredly take away from the efficiency of the committee, and destroy its value. We examined the proposal with unprejudiced minds, and we satisfied ourselves of the vast benefit that would be conferred upon the nation at large by the formation of such a body. It would act as a central committee, to receive and maturely consider the suggestions offered by individuals or smaller bodies, and if their suggestions should be thought worthy of adoption, the sanction of such an assembly would give them great additional weight ; they would co-operate with the several relief com mittees and procure immediate attention to their re presentations. Everything relating to the procuring an adequate supply of food for the people, and that in the cheapest and most beneficial manner for the owners of the soil, would come within the sphere of their duties, and a more cordial and kindly feeling would be produced between persons of all classes, creeds, and parties, who would assemble together on a neutral ground for the benefit of their common country; prejudices would be softened down, and in a short time every one would think better of his brother Irishman, ani regard his opinions and actions with a less jaundiced eye. In the usual weekly letter which Mr. O ' CONNELL has put forward, he gives additional evidence of his good faith. He expresses his opinion that the wise and bold determination of the Lord-Lieutenant, the vigorous decision at w bleb he has arrived, has com pletely done away with the necessity for xn immediate meeting of Parliament; indeed it would no lonver be expedient or desirable, as it might tend to em barrass and retard the carrying out of the plans of his Excellency, and that at a time when immediate ; action is of the utmost importance. Mr. O'Ci)NNEr.r. mentions an additional calamity that has recently been occasioned by the terrific storms that have prevailed fur the last fortnight or three wet-ks, and which have prevented the arrival of vessels laden with food for the people, and it is feared in too many instances have caused their total loss. Tbis has added to the difficulties of the Go vernment and the nation, and of course extraordinary and increased exertions will be thereby rendered necessary, in which the National Committee might aid with the most beneficial results. He has also suggested the formation of sub-committees for each of the provinces, who should report from time to time to the parent body in the Irish metropolis, and thus measures for the relief of every locality in each province would be going on simultaneously and without interruption. The proposition appears to be an admirable one; and the sub-committees of which he speaks would naturally grow out of the general committee ; indeed, if formed in the first instance, they would furnish the materials for the central commit tee, which might be composed of representatives from each of the provincial committees. The most valuable part, however, of his letter is that in which he expresses his decided opinion that the Repeal As sociation should hare nothing to do with its forma tion. The National Committee should have no poli tical or sectarian character ; their entire exertions should be directed to the alleviation of present cala mities, and the prevention, if possible, of their recur rence in future years. The following extract from his letter expresses clearly the nature of the proposed committee and the manner of its formation, and cannot, we think, be thrown away upon the Irish landlords. He says— " For the present I dismiss any further consideration of the National Committee. If it take place, it must originate, and be modelled in its constitution, by other hands than mine—in short, it must emanate from the sense of imminent danger, and anxiety for preventing the fatal consequences arising in the minds of great leading proprietors of land in Ireland. If they do not feel the necessity for such a committee my voice ought to be heard in vain. To effectuate any good, the body should have, from the nature and number of its members, powerful influence in Eng land as well as in Ireland. In short, it should em brace within its members the leading nobility and gentry of all parties ; and unless a very influential number of men of all parties concur in forming such a body, it ought not to exist." Comment is quite unnecessary on this paragraph. We sincerely hope it may be maturely considered, as it deserves to be, and that it will remove the doubt and suspicion that hitherto has alone prevented the formation of such a committee. A letter from Athens, of 4th, states that it was rumoured in that city that the Pacha of CANDIA had, in accordance with the expressed wishes of the Greek and Turkish inhabitants, declared that island inde pendent. The Archipelago is still infested by pirates. It was rumoured that the Duke of DEVONSHIRE et as expected at Athens on a special diplomatic mission, the object of which is to negotiate for the cession of the island of Egina to Great Britain, as a compensa tion for the English guarantee of the Greek loan The rumour however, did not obtain much credit. The Univers6l Germ .n Gazette of the IGth says that there is reason to believe that Austria and Prussia will protest against the possible consequences of the marriage of the Duc n MONTPENSIER with the Infanta Luisl. On this subject the Allgemeine Preussiche Zeitung (the official organ of the Prussian Government) contains the following co:nmunica- tioll :- It is now manifi st that Lord Palmerston, when he saw that it was too late to prevent the marriage of the Infanta, took his stand upon the renunciations which he hopes to ()lapin from the French Prince and his bride of their own claim and those of their children's children to the throne. We must wait to see what the result of this political blow will Le, for it is certainly open to no little hesitation and objection. In the first place, an act of re nunciation is required from the Duke do Montpensier of rights to which he does not even lay claim, which he neither possesses nor ever can possess; and, secondly, in so far as the Infanta and her children are concerned, a re nunciation of a right to the throne on her part would be nothing less than an alteration of the lineal succession to the Spanish crown, as it has - been confirmed in that king dom by the Cortes, and by the events of recent date. If Queen Isabella IL dies without issue, it is clear chat the Infanta Donna Luisa Fernanda, and her posterity, are the sole representatives of that branch of the royal house o' Sp :in which the Act of Ferdinand VII., the acquiescence of the nation, and the co operation of England and France, have placed on the throne ; if, however, in the teeth of those facts, Visc , unt Palmerston insists upon excluding that Princess and her posterity from the succession to the throne, it is no less clear that England throws the weight of her influence into the scale in favour of the Carlist party. The Count de Montemolin then becomes in the eyes of England the heir presumptive to the throne of Spain. " Such plans as these hardly belong to the department of a Foreign Secretary of State ; no such renunciation of the throne is worth the papc , r on which it is written ; for if the Spanish nation thinks proper to call the Infanta and her children to the throne instead of the posterity of Don Carlos (Charles V.), England is, at all events, bound by the whole course of tier Spanish policy to acquiesce in the choice of the country. It is more then probable, however, that this proposed renunciation will be treated with ridicule, both in Madrid and in Paris, and, if ever the contingency against which Lord Palmerston seeks to take precau tionary measures should unhappily occur, and Queen Isabella should die childless, the utmost that can be said is this, that England, resting upon the fundamental principles of the treaty of Utrecht, may have in prepara tion a cases &M. Such views, however, lie too remote to be built upon with certainty. A far nearer and greater probability is, that the French faction in Spain will soon excite the hatred of the people of Spain against them, and that a general movement will take place for the pur pose of expelling all the members of the Bourbon family who have taken part in this intrigue. " No surprise will, therefore, be felt if the views of the son of Charles V. should assume a wholly different shape ; and the Court of the Tuileries has rendered no great service to Queen Isabella by identifying her cause with French domination in the Peninsula. " Sooner or later this French dominion will either have to be supported by a French army, or those who set it up will be buried beneath its ruins l Here is an alternative P' The Diarie of Lisbon, of the 9th and 10th, has arrived. It contains a great number of appointments of governors of military posts, in place of tilos° appointed by the Pahnella Ministry. A telegraphic dispatch of the 9th announces the arrival at Santarem of the new commandant of the 10th regiment of infantry. The dispatch says he was received with enthusiasm. A report being current that a great number of the disbanded National Guards had refused to deliver up their arms, the Diarie asserts that all the arms, with the exception of a small quantity, have already been received by the Government. A royal decree replaces the National Guards in the capital by three battalions, one of the clerks and others in the service of the Government, the other two of volun teers from the trading classes. The Diarie publishes the following decree, suspending the constitutional guarantees : " Article 1. All individual guarantees are suspended throughout the kingdom for thirty days. Arrests may be practised without any previous forms of procedure." " Article 2. During this period the publication of all journals and other periodicals is prohibited—with the exception of literary and scientific publications and the Diane do Governo." The Diario also publishes a royal decree dated the 9th, signed by the QUEER and all the Ministers, re voking the decrees published by the last Ministry re lative to the direct election of Deputies with extraor dinary powers, and for the convocation of the Cortes for the Ist of December. These decrees do in fact establish in Portugal a pure, absolute, irresponsible despotism. The QUEEN is at this moment by virtue of these decrees more absolute than ever was Don MmuEr„ and this is what M. GUIZOT calls constitutional Conservatism. Madrid papers of the 15th have been received. That day was the anniversary of the execution of DIEGO LEON, and the fetes were suspended in conse quence. It appears certain that ere long there will be some sort of amnesty published. The Heraldo says it will include all military men, without exception, from the rank of colonel downwards, and civilians of corresponding rank. The Popular adds that many others of higher rank will be specially pardoned by name. The Tiempo says that the amnesty will have no other exceptions than Don CA ftLos and his family, and General CABRERA. Unless th 3 personal wishes of the QoERN are over ruled by the interference of the French Ambassador, there can be no doubt but that the amnesty will 1. an extensive one, since, according to the Espanol, the - 4uEEN has on mcre than one occasion declared emphatically that slle will sign no stinted measure, but will have a comprehensive pardon, or none at all. Queen CHRISTINA. was hissed on her return from the bull fight on Tuesday. The young QUEEN was loudly cheered. The Cortes were to be dissolved on the 20th, and the new Cortes convoked for December. The Due D'AumAxx was to leave Madrid on Mon day last, the 19th. The Due DE MONTPENSIER and his bride will not leave until the 98th. The Mercantile Association of Madrid have given a grand dinner to Mr. COBDEN in the Fonda del Principe. Senor Aniceto Alviro, President of the Association, presided, and besides Mr. Cobden and his travelling companions, Mr. Shwabe, of Manchester, and M. Roux, of Bordeaux, there were invited the Duke of Sotomayor, the Count of Santa Olalla, and Senors Luzarriaga, Florez Estrada, Barzanallana, Teijas, Bellvan de Lis, Calderon Callantes, Moron, J. M. de Mora, and Senor C. Marrieta, of London. MADRID BOMA, Ocr. 15.—The Three per Cents., 35, buyers; the Four per Cents., 21%; Five per Cents., 22, buyers, with the Coupon. Passive Debt, 6 3 / 4 , sellers; Coepons, 20%. Exchange on London, 36%. We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday. It is evident that France is meditating an armed inter vention in the affairs of Switzerland. The Debats says— " Although we have not, thank Heaven, any new dis orders to deplore in Switzerland, we cannot dissemble that the situation of this unfortunate country appears to become more and more afflicting. A rumour prevailed yesterday that Basle-country was about to attack with arms Basle-city, and the intelligence of that event may soon be expected. In another direction the free corps are in agitation, and the league of the seven Catholic cantons is preparing for resistance. At Friburg already the Council of State has decided to call into the town three companies of infantry and a company of artillery, to pass a review throughout the whole canton, of the landwehr of the first class, and of the landsturm ; to form a battalion of the landwehr of the second class ; to augment the battalions of the landwehr of the first class by voluntary engagements ; and, lastly, to organise in companies, and to arm with carbines, men forming part of the landsturm and of the landwehr of the second class. Thus fears are entertained of seeing repeated in this canton the scenes which have just ensanguined Ge neva. The rabble are numerous there and in arms, and the example of their neighbours causes a dangerous ex citement." The rabble of Geneva are, if we may judge from their acts, a much more orderly set of persons than the respectable ultramontanists of Lucerne. The vic tory of General SONNENBERG in Lucerne, by which the Jesuits obtained an ascendancy, was followed by wholesale incarcerations, banishments, and confisca ' tions. The reverend fathers showed no mercy. The rabble of Geneva, on the contrary, have no in any single instance prosecuted or persecuted one of their opponents, and even their enemies are obliged to admit that Geneva has never been more orderly or quiet than it is under the Provisional Govern ment. If the French Government will cease at tempting to force the Jesuits on those cantons which reject their interference in the education of the people, Switzerland will be tranquillised at once. For his own sake we hope M. GUIZOT will not attempt an armed intervention in support of the Jesuits. The Chamber compelled him to expel the Jesuits from France. Is it likely that the Chamber will approve of his wasting the blood and money of France in support of Jesuitism in Switzerland? So intense is the hatred borne to the Jesuits by the French people (arid just cause the French people have for their hatred), that we believe, even in the present Chambers, M. GuizoT would not be able to muster a majority to support him in an attempt to force the Jesuits vi et armis upon the people of Switzerland. The recent coup d'etat in Portugal is commented on at great length in all these papers. The National, in the language of honest indignation, thus comments on the more than Yankee smartness exhibited by the Camarilla in bringing about the recent change : "If all these wretched tricks had been employed to overturn not a ministry, but a revolution, to deceive by aid of the army, seduoed and led astray, the manifest wish of the country, to cover a whole city with soldiers, to surprise it by an Act placing it in a state of siege and by the proclamation of the dictator, supported by bayonets—if all that had passed in a country, calico constitutinal, by the caprice of a Queen and by the aid of foreign Fold, what suitable name could be found to qualify such infamy? Such is, however, an abridged account o: the last exploit of Donna Maria. She placed herself at the head of a veritable conspiracy against her own Ministers. Her right permitted her to change them, but openly, in full daylight, and according to the formalities which the law requires. She lays a snare fur them, draws them to the Palace as into a trap, and calls on the General in command of the division of Lis bon to write the necessary orders for all the troops of the garrison to be drawn up by daybreak in the open space in front of the Palace. When she had obtained what she desired, she itnorisons the Ministers and the General, then destroys the * National Guard, suspends the consti tution, and arrogates to herself absolute despotism ! She do.,s not even giTe herself time to wait for her new satellite, Saldanha, to change the commanders of the 'different corps ; she had beforehand replaced them ull, unknown to her Ministers ; she had signed commissions for the old officers brought back by Cabral ; she had renewed, on her own irre sponsible authority all the civil and military posts ; and, that being done, she had sent her agents to arrest at the same time the persons who had not been inveigled to the palace. We cannot say what will be the denouement of this drama, but we were anxious to enu merate the facts, in order that the opinion of Europe may judge them beforehand. And if, as we hope, this audacious insult to a whole nation be followed by a marked and exemplary chastisement, what political party will there then be that will dare to find too severe the act of justice that shall ensue ? Nations can:see every where at present at what sport monarchs amuse themselves what importance they attach to their liberty—what respect they profess for their manifesta tions I Where force is wanting, corruption steps in ; where war dares not be openly declared, all kinds of stratagems, falsehoods, and perfidies are had recourse to. It is supposed, perhaps, that by such means insurrections may be discouraged ; but, on the contrary, this is the way to prepare them, to render them inevitable, and to unteach victorious nations that moderation which they made use of the morning after victory I This lesson will one day cost dear to those who gave it, and then it will be too late to repent of what is done." The Constitutionncl thus analyses the old and the new Portuguese Ministry : " The names of the men who formed the late Ministry were so many guarantees both for liberty and the throne of the Queewho n. The Duke de Palmella, a tried Mode• w orkat su t r h p e ass teadsk by y f the M. Costa Cabral as Absolutists as M. rado,anxio anxious sit work Gonzales Bravo was at Madrid, naturally found himself placed at the head of the Liberal reaction opp ose d to t h e first; Viscount Sada Bandiera, the most chiv a l rous P or• gu ansed of the present day, chief o f t h e h onest and per severingtados; Count de L a b ra di o, a Liberal, con stant if ‘v x i thout stain, Minister t o D onna Maria during t u e the emigration; M. Aujuiar , an old Chartist ; an d M o . r th in e h D ° Dube I de q i u , e a r im qu e e ilit m , a o n r d e Isetsrsos than Viscount Sa. d a Bandiera, and with a mind and character s u it e d equa l ly i f in his opini ons t h an to accord with both. Two worthy acts have above all others marked this Administration —the re-establish ment of the National Guards, which was proposed by the Duke do Palmella, and the order given by M. Bernard da Sa to the army not to use terror in influencing the voters in the elections—a thing never befure heard of in Portugal or Spain." After censuring in severe terms the QUEEN'S pro. clamation it thus proceeds : " Let us now consider the acts of the new Ministry. A decree for disbanding the National Guard, and ano ther abolishing the constitutional guarantee; despotism and anarchy ! This is too close an imitation of Spain 1 And who were the men who undertook this duty ? What were the tools made use of in this task ? Who were the instruments, not of this counter-revolution— the word is odious although not wanting in grandeur— this int-igue ? Marshal Saldanha, the perpetual suc cessor of the Duke de Pahnella, at one time all for the Exaltados, and at another for the Reactionists. A fine presence, a chivalresque attitude, as it is vulgarly called ; a body stuffed with bran dressed in a velvet coat ; such are his political and military qualities. A y‘.ur% chamberlain, two men scarcely known, and two Ministers, one of whom is absent and who will probably not accept, and the other yet to be sought for ; in a word, the Queen, or rather the King, or much rather the German mentor. Of Portugal, of her interests, and of her men, there is scarcely more thought, or question, than of the constitution. We cannot treat these petty intrigues with too much severity. The Constitutionnel, long asM. Costa Cabral did not make an abusive use 0! power, expressed wishes for his remaining in office. It has desired that the successors of the Costa Cabral Ministry, more worthy than it of inspiring confidence, might for a long time hold the direction of the affairs of th e i r country. It may now be permitted to deplore the absol ut i sm o f an enlightened Court, making itse l f the accomplice a n d i nst i gator of anarchy. " The Courri er Francais h as a long article recom mending F rance to seek an intimate alliance with Prussia, rather th an with Russia, Austria, or England. The French Government is actively employed in improving the state of its navy, and accumulating n:ival stores at its different dockyards. Last week a contract was concluded by the Minister of the Marine for oak timber for shipbuilding to the amount of up war d s of one million sterling. Contracts hare also b een taken for a large supply of coals, to be deliver e d b oth in France and in the French , :olonie s . A F rench company has just concluded a contract to deliver four thousand tons of coals in nidagascar, where it is rumoured the French Go ‘ernment intends to send another expedition, if the disturbed state of their relations with the other states of Europe should not prove an obstacle. By the terms of the different contracts both the coals and the timber must be carried in French bottoms. From this it will h e seen that our neighbours, though they profess to b e under no alarm for peace, do not neglect prepar a ti ons for war. PAais BOURSE, Ocr. 20.—The market has been scarcely so firm to-day; Threes have, however, closed within a shade of yesterday's prices, but the Fives have slightly receded, the last price called for the former being 82f. 65c., and of the latter 117 f. 65c. The market closed as follows :—Three per Cents. for Cash, 82f. 70c. ; for Account, 82f. 65c.; Five per Cents. for Cash, 1171. 75c. ; for Account, 117 f. 65c. ; Bank of France Shares, 3,480 f. ; Neapolitan, 102 f. 10c.; Spanish Fives, 35 1 4 ; Ditto, Threes, net quoted. RAILWAYS.—The Share Market has varied but little, but the change for Cash transaction, where it has occurred, has been pretty generally against the seller. For Account the market has been a shade better. For Cash—Paris and Orleans, 1,250 f.; Paris and Rouen, 932 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 891 f. 25c.; Strasburg and Bale, 225 f. ; Northern, 6911. 25c.; Bordeaux, 558 f. 75c.; Fampoux, 400 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 520 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 496 f. 25c.; Nantes, 5011. 50c. ; Dieppe, 365 f. ; Havre, Vierzon, Boulogne, and Montereau, not quoted.. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OcTosax 21. Boulogne and Amiens, I4%—Demerara, 2%—Direct Bombay and Madras, 14—Dutch Rhenish, 6 U —East Indian, % —Namur and Liege 3% —Orleans and Bordeaux, 8 %—Paris and Lyons Constituted, I. THE RIVER PLATE. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, Important mercantile and Government dispatches have been received this morning from the River Plate, by the Ipswich, which left Monte Video on the 27th of August. The dispatches are said to be from Mr. Hood. The following has been handed to us by a mercantile firm:—"The Ipswich brings dates from Monte Video to the 27th, and from Buenos Ayres to the 20th of August. Mr. Hood had arranged everything satisfac torily both with the Buenos Ayres Government and General Oribe ; but the late Ministers, Messrs. Ouseley and Deffaudis, appeared to be throwing every obstacle in the way of a final settlement, and consequently there were same doubts as to an immediate peace." (FROM A ZIERCANTILE LETTER.) " MONTE VIDEO, AUQ. 26, 1846. " Mr. Hood is said to have fulfilled his object here, and it now rests with the Ministers to carry out his work, which they do reluctantly. " The Stephen Wright, laden with guano, had been wrecked on Flores previously to the 23d of August ; and the ship George IV. had arrived at Monte Video, in distress, from Patagonia, and, it was expected, would be condemned. The Mars would bring her cargo to England." OPENING oftheDUTCH CHAMBERS. THE KING'S SPEECH. THE 111•GUE, OCT. 19.—The ordinary session of the Dutch Legislature was opened this day with the usual solemnity by the King in person, who left the palace at one P.m. The following is a translation of the King's speech:— " Noble and puissant Sirs,—On your resuming the , important task entrusted by the fundamental law to the legislative power, I am happy to be able to inform you anew that our relations with the other Powers ate still characterised by a good understanding. The negotia tions with Russia have happily attained the object held in view, and the interests of our navigation, which pos sesses so much importance with respect to that empire, are guaranteed in the most satisfactory manner. The treaty with France for the abolition of the duties on tlee navigation of the Rhine may be considered as a further step towards the entire freedom of that important me dium of commercial communication. The treaty of commerce and navigation recently concluded with Bel gium has regulated in an equitable manner (op eene billiyke wyze) the commercial relations of the two countries, and has, as much as possible, released them from all restrictions. The difficulties expe rienced by our commerce with the United States of America, on account of the high duties imposed on the chief of our colonial produce, have been removed in the most satisfactory way. I continue to pay particular at tention to the welfare of our trans-marine possessions. A portion of their produce has failed, but the prospects of the new harvest are favourable. Two PI inces of the island of Bali had insulted our flag, and violated their treaties with us. The valour of our land and sea forces has repressed their hardihood, re-established our menaced power, and secured the interests of navigation and com merce. Both portions of our forces continue to merit my approbation. The project of increasing the national marine, by the construction of steam ships of war, is under consideration. The different branches of the in ternal administration of affairs are regularly conducted. A favourab!e prospect is still held out by the state of education, the sciences, and the fine arts. On the whole, commerce, navigation, and industry, have been carried on with activity, but the results obtained have not been equally favourable for all, on account of cir cumstances which have also, in other parts, exercised a pernicious influence. The recent increase in the exportation of some articles of the produce of our soil will, if continued, be of great advantage to agriculture and commerce. The misfortunes which may have been occasioned by the bad crops of one of the principal articles of food have been alleviated beyond expectations by the providential mildness of the season, as well as by the measures taken in common with yourselves, and the praiseworthy efforts of charitable persons. Now that the crops of that and other articles of food have been also less abundant this year than usual, it is necessary to maintain in force, pro tern., the legislative dispositions fur encouraging the importation of provisions; and to that object your attention will be, in the first place, directed. The successive rise in our rivers, and the high sea-floods and violent storms caused consider able damage la: t winter, for which a remedy must be found. The various measures employed for the re establishment of the finances of the state have been fully carried out. They have not only answered the expectations ht•ld out, but even surpassed them. In the present session, your co operation will be required in fixing the budget, and in voting the ways and means for the next two years, as well as various measures for the further order and situplification of the management of the finances ' of the state. The improvement of our coinage has made remarkable progress, inasmuch as hopes may be held out that the task will soon be termi nated. Other arrangements, however, are still re quired to place our monetary system on a solid basis, I trust that they may be laid before you in the course of the present session. Projects of law containing the entire penal code will be also laid before you this ses sion. In drawing up those Bills attention has been paid to the observations which, in the last as well as in the „preceding session, were made to the Government. As soon as I shall have approved of the propositions which will shortly be made to me respecting the internal government of the country, and the execution of the sixth article of the fundamental law, the projects of law concerning them shall be laid before you. Without having enumerated to you the other projects of law which will be submitted to your examination, you will already see that this session will be marked by im portant works. " Noble and puissant Sirs, we ought all to have only one object before our eyes—viz., the true welfare of our fatherland. In order to attain that object, we shall, as suredly, have need of all our united efforts ; and we must not allow ourselves to be turned away from it by any consideration. May the Almighty support oar efforts, and, through the fruits of our labours, shed his blessings over the Netherlands." RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, OCTOBER 21. STOCK Exoniavon.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter, New, 91i —Great Western, Fifths, 31% p.—Ditto, New, 7% --Manchester and Leeds Extension, 21i. 3d. p.—North British, Quarters, 31. 6s. 3d.-- North Statordshire, 2% p.— South Devon, 30—South Wales, 41.135. Id MANCHESTER, OCTOBER 21. Szocx Excnamon..—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, Bos ton, &c., %—Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 3% p.—Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, 14 dis.—Eastern Counties, York Exten sion, 1% p.—East Lancashire, 4 1 4 p.—Ditto, ditto, New, 3% p.— Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., 3-16 dis. —Great Grimsby and Shef field Junction, 5% dis.—lluddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford, 1 p.— Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, I% p.--Ditto, Ex tension, p.— Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 4 p.--Leeds and Thirsk, SI Q dis.—Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 2% p.—Ditto, New Branches, I % p.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4 7-16 p. —London and Manchester (Rem.), 2% dis.—London and North- Western, New, 14% p. —Manchester and Leads, Fifths, p.—Ditto, Extension, 15-16 p.—Manchester and Southampton, 1 dis.—North British,. New, % p.—North Staffordshire, 2 p.--North Union (A), 221—Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., c. dis.—Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters, No. 2, 21%—Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 3-16 c. dis. —West Riding Union, 1 5-16 p.—Whitehaven and Furness, 2% c. dis. • LEEDS. OfrOBER 21. STOCK Excnaxax.—The sales are —Birmingham aid Oxford Junc tion, 3 3 1 4 p.—East Lanca s hir e , 4% p.—Ditto, Blackburn and Preston, 4ti P.—Ditto, New, 314 p.—lludderstield and Manchester, 1% p.— Iludderstleld and Sheffield, 4 p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 1% p.—Ditto, Branches, 24 5. p.—Ditto, Extensions, 9s. dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, 5% dis.—Ditto, New, 3% dis. —Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 5% p. —Ditto, Extensions, 17s.—.Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Mid land, 15s. p.—North British, Quarter Shares (late Carlisle Branch), 495. c. n. p.—Ditto, Extension (scrip), 13s. Gd. p.—North Stafford shire, L p.—York and Newcastle, New, 11% p.—Ambergate, Notting ham, and Boston, 3s. p.—Leicester and Bedford, 2s. 641. p.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Prestim, 4% p.—North Western, 2s. dis.—Shropshire Union, Gd. dis.—West Riding Union, 31. 6s. SHEFFIELD, OCTOBEE 21. STOCK EXCIANGE.—The sales are—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 18s. Gd. dis.—Ditto, Quarters, 245. dis.—Ditto, Docks, 3 dis.—Liver pool, Ormskirk, and Preston, VA p.—Sheffield and Lincolnshire Extension, 245. dls. HULL, OCTOBER 21. STOCK EXCNANGE.—The sales are—North British, Quarters, 755. Ditto, New Quarters, scrip, 13s. p.—Ainbergate, Nottingham, any Boston, 21. 18s. Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 4 p.--East Lin colnshire, 18s. —Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4% P.—Manches• ter, Buxton, and Matlock, 14s. p.—North Western, 224 —North Staffordshire, 395. Gd. p.—Shropshire Union, 43s.—Leicester and Bed. ford, 21s. YORK. OCTOBER 21. STOCK EXCEANGE.—The sales are— r Manchester, Buxton, *Matlock, and Midland, 21. 17s.—Newcastle and Berwick, 25)4—North British, 35—Ditto, Halt Shares, 15)4 —Ditto, Quarter Shares, 3/. 19s. emu new—Ditto, Extension, 1% —North Staffordshire, , 1 1 / —North West ern, 1/. 3s.—West Riding Union, 3/. Os. 6d.—York and Newcastle, New, 16% —York and North Midland (East and West Riding Exten sion), 17. EDINBURGH, OCTOBER 20. STocK EICITANGE. -The sales are-Aberdeen, 15 1.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 41. 55.-Arbroath and Forfar, 281.-Ditto, Half Shares, 151. 10c-Armagh and Portrush, 12s. Gd.-Ayr and Galloway, it. 7s. Gd.-Belfast and County Down, 35.-British and Irish Union, New, 11. 55.-Calcdonlan and Du m . 21. 35.-Caledoni an, 211.-Ditto, barton, 11. Gs.--Clydesdale Junction, 32/. 10 s. - Coniwall and Devon Central, 11. 135.-Deeside Railway, 21. 7s. 6d.-Direct Northern, 11. 9s. 6d.-Dundee and Arbroath, 371.-Ditto, New, 25/.-Dundee Ind Perth, 23!. 10s.-East Indian Railway, 15s. 9.1.-E ast of . 19s. Edinburgh and Bathgate, 21. 10s. - Edinburgh aril illalgow, 721.-Ditto, half Shares, 181. 10s.- Ditto, Quarters, IBS.-Ditto, ditto, New, 181.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Gran.oil, 181.-Ditte, Pre ference, DX. 155.-Edinburgh and Northera, 101. 2s. Gd.-tutu., ewport, 21. Bs. Gd.- Edinburgh and Perth, 11. 18s.- Glasgow and Ayrshire, 681. 10s.-Ditto, New Stock„:3G/. -Ditto, Quarter Shares, 171. 155.-Ditto, Halves, 51. 55.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 11. 125.-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 11. 13s. 9d.-Glasgov and Garnkirk, 401.-Glasgow General Terminus, 91. [9s. -Glasgow and Greenock, 161. 10s.-Ditto, New Stock, St. 155.-Ditto, Preference, 11. 135.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 11. I2s. 6/1.-Granton Junction, 10s.-Great North of Scotland, 12s. 6d.-Larne, Belfast, and Ballymena, 103. 3d.-London, Bristol, and South Wales, 11. 3s. Gd. -London and York, 11. 17g. Gd.-Ditto, Half Shares, 11. 15s. -- Midland and Eastern Counties, 15 5. - Newcastle and Berwick, 2Gl,__ North British, 33/. 10s.-Ditto, Halves, 14/. 153.- Ditto, Quai ters, rui n new, 31. 1 ls.-Ditto, N ew Q uarters, scrip, I/. 4s. --Dit to, Fifths, 61. 103.- North Staffordshire, 41. Is. 6d.-North Wales Mineral, 191 -Ditto, New, 91. 155.-Scotti s h C en t ral, 191.-Ditto, New, 9/. Scottish Grand Junction, 12s.- Scottish Midland, 101. !rm.-Shrews bury and Hereford, os. -Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 5/.- Stirling and Dunfermline, 11. 25.-Stirling and Midland, 21. Ms.- Strathern Junction, 2/. Is.-Wishaw and Guiltless, 471. 103. GLASGOW, OCTOBER 20. STocK Excnablax.-The sales are-Direct 14..mbay, and Madra., 16s. Dundee and Perth, 24 cum new-Ditto, 3Ss. p.- EaSt Indian Railway, 165.-Edinburgh and Perth, 395.- Glasgow K v i;- niarnoek, and Ayr, Quarters (5 per cent. guar.), 17 I A , - Ditto, 71. 153. Gd. p•-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 325. 3d.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 27s. -Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monicianel Junction, 325.-Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, 4s. 9 d.-North British, • Now Quarters, scrip, 235. 9d,.-Scottish central, 19j. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS (From The Sun of Last Night., The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was firm, the sales being 7,000 bales, of which 4,000 were on speculation. Shares were dull again. There are no ship arrivals to day with late intelli gence of any interest. We are advised in accounts from Odessa of the 18th ultimo that 150 vessels had arrived in port there within a day or two, chiefly Greek and Italian. '1 hese were to receive on board from 850,000 to 400,000 quarters of wheat for Italy and the south of France, and after that large quantity bad been shipped, there would still re main at Odessa about 150,000 quarters available for ex portation from last year's harvest. The produce of this year's crop was not expected to arrive at Odessa until about the middle of the present month. According to report the crop would be sufficiently abundant to allow of large further exports. There has been a disposition again this morning, in the English Stock Market, to effect sales, and the con sequence is a further slight depression in prices. Con sols realise 94.,1 for present transfer, and 94 to 95 for Account. Exchequer-bills are 13s. to 16s. premium. Bank Stock is marked 205 to 2061. The New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents, are 93i 4 ; and the Three per Cents. 931 East India Stock is worth 2571 to 259. There is quite a pause in the Foreign market. Spanish Three per Cents. are 33, and Mexican are nominally about 22i to 23. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 584 to 50. For Shares there has been a steady market generally. East India Scrip has been flatter, but not lower. It is not known that there has yet been any decision come to upon the subject of the facilities which the East India Company will give to railways. The business done has been to a moderate extent. O.N - R CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .20 6 1 /2 205 206% 206 1 / 2 3 per Cent. Reduced Ann 5........ 93 7 3 5 / 8 93% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9-1 % 3 /4 94 , j4 New 3 1 4 - T Cent. An: itie • 95 3 2. 1 / 2 rif ' 951; peg _..L. _ inuities `a . _ Pi% ' 7'2 Long Annuities t o ex pi re J an. lB6o 9% 1,46 15-16 9 ISoil 6 Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 ... 9 11-16 9 3 / 4 India Stock 25 7 1 /2 259 259 South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities ... 94% 94% Consols for Nov. 26... 95 94% 94% Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%d 13 16 pm. 16 Ditto 5001. ONE O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent. Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 — Ditto. Account ..... ... ...... Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto. 3 per Cent — Ditto, Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch, 214 per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 91 3 414 92 9. PRICES or BUSINESS DONE CLOSING tAILWAY SHARES PAID ' AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%..... 2 3 / 4 % 3 / 2 2 3% Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% Aylesbury and Thame.. 1% Belfast & County Down 4 3 / 4 ..... . Birmin. and Gleucester..100 Ditto New l 7 l /2 — .... .. .... Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junc.... 2 3 / 4 — - Boston, Stamtd, & Birm. 225. — - Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ___ ___„ Bristol and Liver. Junc.. 2 1 / 4...... Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Half Shares...... 2% — ... .... ..... Ditto Extension ..... 24....„ Cambrian & Grand June 42s Chester and Holyhead-. 271 12 — Churnet and Blythe 2 Chester and Manchester 425. — Cheltemham and Oxford 2 ...... . Clydesdale Junction..... 20 Cork, Blackrock, and Passages Cork and Killarney ... 21 / 2 — Cork and Waterford ... 1% — Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares ... 2 1 / Cornwall & Cent'! Devon 2% — I lerby and Crewe 2% Direct Lincoln, East Ret ford, and Sheffd. Jenc. 2% — Direct Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and BelfastJunc. 10 Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin rind Galway..... 4 Dundalk & Enniskillen 10 Eastern Counties 141. 165....... 21 i h 3 / 4 ...... . Ditto New Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, 'No. 1. 61.135. 4d Ditto ditto, N 0.2... 61. 13s. 4d — ..... . Do., York Extension.. 2 EastDerelesn andNor'eh 1 Eastern Union 35 .. Ditto, Quarte r Sh ares 8% • Do. Exten.(Harwich) 1 "fi 4 — Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2 1 / 4...... East Lancashire Ditto, New East Lincolnshire - . 7,a 1 East & West of England 1%...... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 •••••• Ditto Half Shares ... 10 Ditto, Quarter Shares 121 / 4 Edinburgh & Northern.. 10 Edinburgh and Perth... 3 Ely and Huntingdon ... 7 1 / 2 -- 7 6 1 / i Enniskillen and Sligo ..• 2% — Exeter, Yeovil, & rset 5 1 4 Glasgow, Kilmar., & Ayr 50 Ditto, New ... Do., 14 Shares (5 per .. • •• ••• cent. guar.) ... ...... 12% — Glouc.,Abetystwith, and Central of Wa1e5.,.,,, 1A..... Goole, Doncaster, &cc. .. 4 25....... 1 4 dis Grand Union (Notting and Lynn Great Eastern &W estern 2 .. ...... .. 1 ,i...., ••• • GreatGrimsby and Shef field ...... •••••• Great South. and West lO •••• • (Ireland) Great Munster ... 2 1 / 2 Groat North of Scotland 2 1 / 2 . Great North of England..loo 2371 /2 236 ...... Ditto New 5 Ditto, New ~ Ditto, New Great Western 85 Ditto % Shares 5O — Ditto 1 4 Shares lO Ditto Fifths 20 Ditto, New ... 2 Hull and Selby 5O Ditto 14 Shares Do. Half Shares Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 11 1 ,4 — , , Do., dc , and Norwich 2 %...._ Killarney Junctions l4 Kendal and Windermere 1 1 / — , , Lancaster and Carlisle... 45 Do. New Larne, Belfast, and Bal lymena Leeds and Bradford Leeds and Carlisle Leicester & Birmingham 225. — ••• ....... - Leicester and Bedford... 225. Leeds and Dewsbury ... 221% — Lpool., Mnchstr & New castle Junction Liverpool and Bury .... London and Blackwall. 161.13 x. 4d. Do. New Ditto Extension .., 7%...... Iznidon, Brighton, and South Coast Ditto, Fifths London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 22 Do. Guaran. 5 per cent. 9 London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d — Do. Preference ...1 8 / 1 7s 2d — London, Hounslow, and Western London and N. Weste rn loo ..•.•• • All .. 37% 21% 21 3 A SA P 3 4 I) 1 / 2 P dis. 79 ILA 734 ~. 4 di,. 59% 483,4 Do. Quarters . ........ 2 199 23 ......... Do., do., New Sha res .. 2 Ditto Fifths .... Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 121/2 '—........... Do., New 1 4 Shares • (G. J.) ............ ... 5 Do 40/. Shar es (L.M . ) 8 .............. 199 • 23 • 16 1 / 2 20 ........ _ 000000 0000000000000 0 . Lond. & S.Westera 411 6s 10d...... 72 .... De. New Consol. Bths 40 ...... ............ ... Do. New .... ... Do. New ........... ~ lB ..... London and York 14... . ....... ..... Do. 1/ Shares ... ... .... 2 %. .... ..... ...., .. London and Wind sor . lA._ .. . ~.. .... ... .... London, S a li s b ury, and Yeovil ...... ... .....••• 2 %...... 1 1 4 Londonderry& Coleraine 12 1 / Londonde rr y an d E nnis- 2 . ..... .•.....•..•• killen 12% ...... Lynn and Ely 15 ...... 14 3 / 4 .., Lynn and Der e h am ...... :5 ... ..... 14 1 / 2 Manchester and Leeds... 82 .... 105% Ditto h Shar es ....... 38 ..... 4% Do. Quarters ............ 2 ...... 6 .••• Do. Fifths ......... ._ 3 . .... 8% Do. Sixteenths..... 61% Do. Extension..~..... 425. Do. Quarters (A),,,,,. 5 .....• Do. Quarters (B) ... 5 Do. Quarters (C) ...... 1 Manch ester , Buxton,and Matlock ................. 423. Manchester, Bi rm., and Mould Junction .. ••• 141 an chest . & Southampt. 2 •••• Midland lOO .....136 137............ Do. Fifths 2 Do. New Do. firm., and DerbyloO Midlnd & East. Counties 2%...... Midland Great Western Irish Newc istle an d Berwickls Do. North Shields .. 9 5 Newcastle and Carlisle...loo N e e w w p m o r r k t e s!. A & b e e l r i e g s a t v e r e f a r n d y 2 1 t/ 5 2/ . 12s . .... .. .. .. .. 2 i p N Newry and Enniskillen 4% al ixi 14 3 / 4 14% 105% 48 3 / 4 6 8 l i4 P % P - 35 tit ..... 1 A / Fn - /' ...... Newark, Sheffield, and Boston ... Norfolk .. lOO ...... Do. Half Shares ..... 7 Do. Extension . ....... 6 North British ......•• ••• 25 ..... Do. Half Shares '&""" ...... 15 1 4% Do. Fifths 5 Do, Quarters ...... Do. Extension Do. Scnp (issd. 5 dis.) 45 3414 15% 3% 11,4 Do. Quarter Shares... 12% — ''''''''''''''' Do. New North Staffordshire 425....... 2 p••• ........... North Wales Northern and Southern Connecting Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Oxford, Worcester, and - - - Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham._ Portsmouth Direct ...... 3% - .............. Preston and Wyre Do. 1 ,4 Shares Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 3/. 12s. Richmond Royston and kitchen ... 1% — ...••• •••• Rugby and Leamington 425. ........... •• Scottish Central .. .... ........ Scottish Midland 12% — ...... . ........ Sheffield, Buxton, Leek 2 P 19. i~ .. Potteries, andCrewe... 1%...,, ............ . Sheffield & Manchester 100 Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Do. Lincolnshire June. 1 1 4 — ................ Do. & Great Grimsby. 10 Do. do. Extension 42 8 . - .... ........ ::"...'''' Shrewsbury and Birm... 3 .... Shropshire Union Shrews., Wolverhamp., &S. Staffordsh. June. 2 1 / 2 ...... • ..... ." Sligo and Shannon 1% •-•-• ............ •• South Dev0n... South & Midlands Jane. 428 — ..•••••••••"'• South StaffordshireJunc. 2 1 / 2 . ............. south Eastern & Dover. 33 1 / 4 37 3 4 ........... ••• De~ No. 1 Do., Ne. 2. Do., No. 3 ..... •••• •••• Do., Ne. 4 St.Alban's, Hatfield,and Hertford Junction 425. Staines and Richmond.... 1 .•.........• Staffordsh. k Shropshire 2 3 4 — ............... South Wales 5 ...... 41/ LAN ......... Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. Coal. Taw Vale Extension ... 2 Tring, Reading, and Basingsteke Vale of Neath Wakefield, Pontefract, & Goole Warwickshire & London 428. ...... .-...... Warwick and Worcester 425. -, — ............... Waterford and Kilkenny 11 . . — ., ........ Waterford and Limerick 22 1 / 2 — ~.........•••• Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin NY aterford, Wexford, and 111 i “- * .............. Valentia Waveney Valley • ... 2 Welsh Midland West Riding Union 4 2 8. l % l / 4 14 P...••• West Cornwall West London,Old Shares 20 Wexford and Carlow ... 21,4 Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth Rugby York and Carlisle 2 3 /4 — ~.,••... ". York and Newcastle...... 25 ... Ditto New York and North Midland 50 Ditto 1 / 2 Shares 25 Do. Scarboro' Branch. 25 Do. Selby 4O On. Extension 2O Do. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILN 8:31 : 871 : 2 1( .1:1 S 1:171.. ..... :1 / 4 1:1111:1............:........ Anglo. Belgian 4 Barbadoes 1 Boulogne and Amiens... 16 - l4 •........... Bordeaux & M e dit erran. 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 .. Do. (Espelete's) .... . ..... ......... Calais, Dunkrk, and West Flanders 2 ....•• .... ............... Calcutta and Diamond Harbour ....... ....... Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast Central of Spain ... . ... . ............. ... Ceylon ....... ....... D emerara 2 l /2 ...... ...... ........... Dendre Valley 4 — - ............ 4 Direct Bombay an d 0 Madras Dutch Rhenish 6 .. '' 5 1 4 4, ii,. ... ... ..... East Indian .- ....• .... ss. ..• Eastern Belgian Junctn. 2 1 / 2 Fampoux & Hazebroak 4 Great Indian Peninsular ss. Great Western Bengal... ss. .. Xi ... ............ / Great Western Canada... 3 1 4 Italian and Austrian. ... 4 ... _ .. ............ / Jam aic a S.Mid. Junction 1 ......... Jersey Louvain ii la Sambre ... 6 ... l 3 / 8 3,-,/, ........ "" 1 Luxembourg .... ••••• . ....... ~ .. ...- Lyons and Avignon 2 Madras ... 1 ••••• Madras, Nellore, and Arcot % .. ..... ••"' --- Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... ... / • Mauritius .. Namur and Liege Nn of France Constituted 5 North Jamaica 1 Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 ...... Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ...... 8 ......... ...., / Over Yssel 4l3s 4d Paris &Lyons Constituted 5 ..... 5 1 0'.... • -' a .... • Paris and 0r1ean5..,,,,,,, 20 . 00 • ...... ......... ....... Paris and Rouen l'aris and St ras b ourg Constituted Rouen and llavre Sambre and Meuse Strasbourg and Bale St. Laurence & Atlantic ....• ............... / Fours and Nantes Con stituted .. Tournay, Jurbise, Lan- / den, and Hasselt....... 8 Trinidad ........................................ / West Flanders JOINT STOCK BANKS. Provincial of Ireland ... 25 ....... / j 4 ........ _ 4, Union of A us t ra li a ..... 25 Unionof London... ...... 10 . MINES ......... ...... 4 Real del Monte Unregd 3, N " ;14 4ii i!? si SI 0 4P4 THE REGISTRATIONS, telf MIDDLESEX. O ti n v Mr. Shadwell held his Court at the BO — 13 0 ,4 Brentford, f or t h e rev i sion of the lists of Aet°ll' ford, Ealing, 'Termell, H es t on , I s l ewor th, n,.,01' Northolt, and Twickenham, Mr. Jam es an d M r. Fitch attended on the bar the Liberals, and Mr. Payne on the part of the n ., vatives. Mr. Orlando Crease, claiming for a rent - cht ir l'coo' f it by the L eague, was objected to by the Conserved pted A declaration was produced by Mr. James i ttl be the qualification, in which Mr. Crease declare(' flw' the 319 " been in possession six mouths prior to 0; last. S ci • Mr. Pay ne contended that as the declaration ,Af - state that M r . C rease had been in possession for 1 ' to lender months the name must be expunged. o f Mr. Ja mes t h en put in a deed of rent -charge v(", of the qualification, which bore date the 27th daY nuary, and also a receipt for the first year's ren t ' , 0 Mr. SIIADWELL said he was sat i s fi e d t hat t r a il"' lification had been proved, and therefore rete.'" name. ; Fifteen other cl a i ms f o ll owed the same dee-s-‘,P. 0. 000 rot 4 Mr. SHA D WELL sa id h e had not received 603'0P the Perrevale parish, but the clerk of the IP — If handed him the following letters:— reef " Sir,l he re b y ac k noledge the recept of your -v . fi • gb be and we have n o b o d y wishes to vote in our P for. " Your, &c.'" Ob e j " Sir,—ln anser to yours wishing to n o d o oe voters we have for our p h arish I b e l eve I sent "oe r ot e directly after receiving your notices that We ^. 3 g that intend to vote Hor have had for tho last 2 or befor. " Yours, &c. " To Mr. Eless " Clarkenwell " Sessin hous." No other case of interest occurred. NV e are informed, from a source not like/f misinformed, that the candidate for the we stern e at, • likely t o b e b roug ht f orwar d on the Liberal ifiViefif the Hon. Fr e d er i c k Willi am Fitzhardinge D e ne r- r e lte ie ; Lieutenant in the Gua r d s , an d son of Captain Idso the present M em b er f or Gl oucester.—Che lan u ref «miner. THE COMMISSION._ The Right Hon. D.„. " -- ;1 1 4"" the new Lord Chief Baron of the Court of -V5;O ° ! l ii and the Hon. Mr. Justice Burton, are the J tl ,7,P c h lected to preside at the ensuing Commission, w„ s " a be opened on Saturday next.--Dublin Evening l i- fi tO r y MORTALITY OF THE METROPOLIS.—TiIe - 0 0 05 of deaths registered in the metropolis during t , 11 10 9 .4 ending Salurday, Oct. 17, 1846, was 821: of te'j Ade re were from other causes than,violence, showing 4 0 ,4 in the number of deaths from disease of 72 as eIrl„; with the week preceding. The deaths frofiV,:hirfr were 35, from dysentery 3, from cholera 2. registered during the week were 1,287. ,11 0 BintGLARY.—THREE HUNDRED POUND ,, ga. e Between eleven o'clock on Tuesday night 9 0 ; .• co til ; o'clock yesterday morning, a daring burglary I v ' Os witted in Bird-court, Walbrook. The robherYstet3( effeeted by opening the door of the room on i t ,.„ he dierd., o o floor, in the occupation of Mr. Needle, the nr o thie . „' e t the house, which is let out in o ffi ces, and tu 'hor succeeded in carrying off a brass bound 039 ,0 1 0 $ writing desk, upon which was a brass plate, eng rill 00 0 Mr. Needle's initials, "W. N." and which 110 0 0 notes and gold to the amount of 3001., as als ° l ; li re . memoranda. It is supposed that the robbery - t he to effected by some persons well acquainted with ietib' mises. Unfortunately, the numbers of the 11 ° - o f not been at present ascertained. n ,i et , SPIRIT VARNISIL — The Lords Comm .l4° - 82.• 00 f her Maje s ty' s T reasury h ave had under the ir e 7 4 10 ti ,n an appli ca ti on f rom an em i nent firm to the a /11 .0 the Committe e o f P r i vy C ounc i l for Trade, r elati h detention of a quantity of varnish import ods 3 .sa into the port of London, in consequence of the told se ture of a drinkabl e spirit with the var.nish'„ol/1; commissioners of Customs have receiv e d a c° -,0 to 'of ton from Mr. Parker, one of the secretsril4 00 1 61 Treasury, stating that on consideration of u`l o iolz d their Lordships are pleased to authorise the adm it ' the varnish in question upon payment of *n c e " duty of ten per cent., upon condition that t0 ° . .,".1 0 , of essential oil of vegetable tar be added „t hr ', 3 l- do vi .usly to delivery from the charge of the r°';" of ;IP expenie of the importers, and in the PrJs eric ; of_oo officers of the revenue, and a greater •quan . T e .' faTP essential oil in proportion to the fluid;.ty of I ' l ' as recommended by them. to, o• ri6/ THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1846