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To conclude with a now Ballet, in two acts, entitled THE OFFSPRING OF FLOWERS. Di which Messrs. Howell, Bretin, Theodore, Mdlle. Eabbri, Madame Theodore, and Mdlle. Adele will perform. THEATRE RoiAL, HIYMARKET. Uncler the Management of Mr. R. Webster, sole Lessee THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of THE CLANDESTINE MAR RIAGE. Lord Ogleby, Mr. W. Farrell; Sir John Melville, Mr. Benda'; Brush, Mr. Buckstone; Canton, Mr. J. Bland; Fanny Sterling, Miss Julia Bennett ; Miss Sterling, Miss P. Horton ; Mrs. Heidelberg, Mrs. Glover ; Betty, Mrs lltimby. During the evening the Band will perform the Overture to " Zarnpa," the " Masken Bilden," and the " Musketeers" Quadrille. After which a new Farce, called THE FORTUNE HUNTER ; or, A Morning at Margate. Captain Mountgarret, Mr. Hudson ; Griffin, Mr. T.lbury ; Bompas, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Griffin, Mrs. W. Clifford. To conclude with a Farce, called THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY. Lieut. Bowling, Mr. 801 l ; Simon Sparkes, Mr. Buckstone ; Mr. Pennywig, Mr. Tilbury; Fanny Thompson, Miss Telbin ; Miss Potts, Mrs. Humby. Box-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of Mr. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UN A.".Tt THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEy, The N4w Grand Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled " The Mag:c H having been, on each occasion of its representation, received throughout with the most cordial marks of approbation and delight by crowded and fashionable audiences, is, in conse quence, respectfully announced for repetition every Evening until farther notice. THIS EVENING The performances will commence with a New Comic Drama, TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Principal characters by Messrs. A. Wig‘tn, Meadows, and Keeley; Mrs. Woollidge, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Slicks, Miss Turner, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, a New Grand Operatic, Melodramatic, Romantic, Fa!ry Bralesque Extravaganza, founded on the Opera of " Oberon," entitled THE MAGIC BORN. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Kin Neil, Collier, Yarnold, Bender, Sil , cr, Richards, and Keeley; Miss Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Arden, Miss Forster, Miss Laidlaw, Miss Bromley, Miss Steward, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclsdn with TO PERSONS ABOUT TCO6'3IARRY. riIEATNE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER TIIE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE THIS EVENING Will be pr , sented a neW ' dom,;;ll:;:irama, entitled EUGENIA CLAI : or, The New Foßml Home. Frederick Stan more, Mr. Wi , rrell ; Mr. Rusz'cigh, Mr. Cullenford; Toffey, Mr. Paul Itedrorl ; Matlock, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. TofTey, Mrs. F. Matthews ; Engenla Clairc,ille, Madame Celeste. . „ After which, thc, popular Farce, called ANTONY AND cLE OVATRA. Antony. :Mr. Wright ; C ((matrix, Miss Woolgar. To conelnie with the Mythological Burlesque Extravaganza, de nomMated TUN; JUDGMENT OF P.kt , lS; or, The Pas de Pip pins. The characters personated by Messrs. Selby, 0. Smith, Ghat naire. I.indon, Wave, Butler, Mr: Lamson, Aldritge, Mitchenson, Altkreen, Ryan, 17rt4ht, Paul Bediorl ; Miss Ellen Chaplin, Miss T or, M.si I tarrison, iss Simpson, Mts. F. Matthews, &e. PRI NC F.SS'S ATRE. OXFORD-SMEZT. TIIiS EVENING Will be performed ft new Drama, iu three acts, entitled CLA RISSA HARLOW Lovelace. Mr C. Mathews; .Lwk Macdonald, Mr. ; ,To=eph, Mr. Oxberry ; Cia7issa liarlowe, Mrs. Stirling. . • To be fo bove:i by a New '.7otnic, Drama, in Three Acts, =lite i.o': I;'S TP.II.4IGRAPII. Count Theodore, Mr. J. Vining ; Artin do Sol!)erg, Mr. C. "Mathews Pu nperniekel, Mr. Compton To c,itelitil with a new Pam,. called TOO MANY Ci:OKS SPOIL THE Ia which mews. Compmn, Oxberry, Granby, .Miss Stanley, &c., will perform. gTItA N 1) T 1.1 EA T E. (Wet the 31) - tnfigemer:t of Mr. Davidson LAST FOUR NIGIFTS IR. qiW,G , ,,RY'S PERFORMANCE EVE.NIS.4 Will be performed s ,,, h•Ots:)ere's Tr.:go:ly of THE Dttkr of Cilo'gter, !.!r. Gregory ; Kng H .try, Mr. Wal dron ; Kehmoatl, Mr. 11 lbert ; Ille;:ingirtm, Mr. Itivers ; Que,n DOrfitlf4toll ; La.ly Anne, Percr. T emu:lade with thr Farre of THE TUTOR. I•rivate Boxes, Plaecs, and Stalls, may be eng. , ged at the Box. ofil-e, from elevrn till boar, nn4l at al the Llbr,:ries. DAVI inie.'s E.IYAi. S.l5l:ti.EY TIIEI7'IIE. Lessee, Mrs. FrAnces Davidge. TitlS EVENING WM be per formed Shalispere's Tragedy of M METH. Macbeth Mr. Macrealy ; Macduff, Coo:,er ; Ilanquo, Mr. Murray ; lle , Mr. Neville ; First Witch, Mr. Saville ; Second Witch, Mr, Webh ; Lily Macbeth, Mrs. Tertian. To con“lttle with an iwerestin4 Play, entitlPd THE VICTIM OF ST. VINCENT. Baron St. Val, Mr. Cooper ; Fclis, Mrs, Charles Gilt ; Amelia, Mrs. Ternan ; supported by the whole talent of the Company. Box-office open from eleven till four o'clock. !'+l Lk AL AM Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. LAST WEEK OF THE SUMMEIt SEASON. PCron'sed by her Mcs. Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Alivrt, the Prince of Wales, and the Pritacess itoyal. Unabated attraction. •• The Merchant's Steed" still continues his trium phant course. THIS EVENTNii 1 -, e performed the popuiar Drallll. of TIM STEED OF SY. RACINE; or, Darnon's Flight. Damon, Mr.J.llarwood; Pythilts, Mr. J. Dale ; Calanthe, Mrs. M. Brooks. Assisted by the nu m Tons Com?any, double Stud, Sce. .Afier wh:ch, popular SCENES of the CIRCLE, and other No. ye. tic s. 11 %Try has much pleasure in announcing that he has form& arrangements with several continental artistes :—Messrs. Joseph Pant Cone, I,, , rentz Wa:ff, lto aline Wald'. Polaslo, Ambito Nenport, and the popular vaulters, MessN. Henderson and T. Lee, who will appear , Ittring the whiter seam:,n, which commences on Monday, Octo!.er 12. It r the first time, ‘• ith a variety of novel productions. Likewise in active preparation, a new Zqncstrian Spectacle, of on equalled effects, performin4 in Paris with great success, arranged and produced by Mr. W. Ilroadloot. bux-ottlce aspen Irma eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at sit and commence at seven o'clock. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVEN iNO Will be performed a new grand, legendary, romantic Drama, en. MIA THE SPECTRE SKIFF ; or, 'the Phantom of the Sea. Mabel Allerton, Miis V.ncent ; Tabitha Tod, Miss L. Pearce ; Dame Plain body, Mts. Cooke; Luke Allerton, Mr. Archer; Diedrich Jansen). Mr. f 4 carle ; Peter Plainbody, Mr. Forman ; Ben Rullock, Mr. C J. Bird. After which a laughable Barletta, entitled CHELSEA AND GREENWICH; or, Past Ten o'clock, and a Rainy Night. By 11,ssrs. Forman, Searle, niggle, Howard, Raymond ; Mrs. Lee, Miss Fielding, Miss L. Pearce, &c. To colic ude with a powerful and highly interesting Nautical Drama, entitled ItREAKEIN AHEAD ; or, A Seaman's Log. Luke, Mr. C. J. Bird ; Allan, Mr. Florrington (first appearance in London) ; Capt. Oakum, Mr. Archer ; Black Graham, Mr. Searle ; Barnaby, Mr. Forman ; Amy Graham, Miss Vincent. PHE WEATHER.—SUN OnacE, OCTOBER 6. TBERM. , METER, Lowest, 54; Highest. 63 ; Noon, 60, BAROMETER, 29.48.—W1ND S. W., rain. lII‘II3. V: A'rEit AT LONDON-BRIDGE TILES DAY. Morning .. 4 minutes after 3. I Evening .. 21 minntes after 3. . . _ - '.. ' -" 0 : • ~ . ' N ••• . • , 3 , ori•N 4 . A ;0` , • , 5 , ELI . ILdft '''44 (i. .11 . - i •‘; ,„,,,,,,,, 1 0111 \ 'l'6 '' - . *4..‘?.:' A. -. 6 gr,. 1-. ) , i,41 -<•- ~ ~_„_4lelk ~, • ..., - - .„ 1 ,.. , „- i , . • ~..;*.s-. 41. • hio!k ~.., *•. . '.../..14.1. N0....f ''' • 1 4 ' .I' . e: • ~,,:' c. , . ... ..., inexitin 14. %tit LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1846, Unless some marvellous and unexpected catas trophe transpires, and that immediately, the evil omened marriage of the Orleans Prince and the Bourbon Princess will in reality be un fait accompli. Whatever may subsequently be the consequences of this calamitous alliance, the English Government will have no cause for self-reproach ; the English protest will be its historical palliation ; the English representatives at the Tuileries and the Escurial will have acquitted themselves with a dignity, a delicacy, and a discrimination befitting the responsibilities of their office. When these occurrences can be no longer re garded as contemporary, but are matters of political retrospect, the denial of the assertions of Senor JSTURITZ, transmitted by Mr. HENRY L. BuLwER , in a letter to General Small°, may be taken as a sufficient testimony of the temperament which then characterised the different Eu ropean Cabinets. Nothing but a most reprehen sible aptitude for the employment of Ministerial hypocrisy could have enabled the leader of the Spanish Administration so far to outstep the limits of social propriety, as well as of Parliamentary discretion, as to misrepresent the language uttered by a foreign ambassador, and the sentiments entertained by a friendly Government. Nothing but a most intense conviction of the honesty of the power whose opinions he was deputed to transmit, and , of the magnitude of the resources at the disposal of his Sovereign, could have capacitated the British representative at Madrid to pen a contra diction combining so much of amenity with so little of compromise or of superfluous conciliation. Upon the spirit of the correspondence published in the Clamor Publico might be decided the relative can- dour and secresy which have latterly distinguished the peninsular and insular diplomacy. Notwithstanding the decisive protest entered against this marriage by Great Britain on interna tional and constitutional grounds, in open defiance of the fundamental stipulations of the treaty of Utrecht, and despite the unmistakeable dissatisfaction ex pressed by the population of the Spanish pro vinces, the melancholy (because ominous) cere monial is being precipitated by every possible device. While the communication of Lord NORMANBY is lying unanswered by M. GIIIZOT, the Dukes D'AUMALE and DE MONTPENSIER are passing with an enormous escort from Bayonne to Vittoria , and from Burgos to the capital. While no satisfac tory response is forwarded to the British Embassy by the advisers of ISABELLA 11., the apartments of the Count DE BRESSON are being elaborately decorated for the reception of the bridegroom of the possible Sovereign of the Spanish territories. Infinitely however, is the Afrancesados may be inclined to congratulate themselves upon the apparently pro pitious consequences of their machinations, they must, on mature consideration, acknowledge the un soundness of their present position, and the probable evanescense of their existing prosperity. While they may rejoice over the patronising serenity with which the Duke of VALENCIA watches their proceedings in the metro polis, have they not cause fur trepidation in the sullen tranquillity of the populace ? They demonstrate their temporary puissance by mulcting a sum of 50,000 reals (5001.) from the Eco del Cornercio, as a penalty for the boldness of its language, but are there not proclamations of a more incendiary character flying about the valleys of the Pyrenees, calling upon the Basques and Navarrese to rise in behalf of the Count DE MONTEMOLIN ; adjuring than', as they love their nationality, and as they pine for the acknowledgment of their political rights, to de clare for that constitutional liberty which had been previously lost by " the incautious, the credulous, and the docile children of Biscay and Navarre," and proclaiming to the ripened imaginations of the pea santry that " CHARLES VI. is no despot," that he is no antagonist of progress, that he is, on the contrary, desirous of insuring to his people the soundest civil and municipal liberty. These Afrancesados may rejoice in the contemplation of the success which has hitherto attended their wily undertakings ; but while CHRISTINA and the Duke DE RIAN ZARES are tranquilly located in their palace, are there not rumours of the appearance of CABRERA in Valencia ? The cathedral porches may be hung with damask tissue in anticipation of the expected nuptials, the royal brides may be already vesting themselves in their marital garments, and the restricted amnesty by which the twin mar riages are to be commemorated may be al ready prepared for the sign-manual of her most Catholic MAJESTY, but are there not prospects of the Spanish people requiring themselves to be forced to swallow the gilded bolus ? Do not the recent emeutes in the Faubourg St. Antoine show that the French Government may have its own internal embar rassments, for the Journal de,lDebats appears to have considerable reason in conjecturing that the disturb anees have not originated in any scarcity of pro- visions ? There is a hollowne:-s about all these Afrancesado arrangements which promises their speedy subjugation. To say the very least of it, the prosecution of the Montpensier marriage, in open defiance of the British protest, is singularly indica tive of an anxiety on the part of the Gallic Adminis tration to splinter the entente cordiale. If there be honour, and honesty, and security in the consumma tion of these proceedings, how is it that they have been throughout characterised by so much secresv and so much precipitation ? The proper response to that inquiry would ensure to the Spanish people the preservation of their nationality. An invetigation of considerable interest took place at Ryme, in Dorsetshire, on Thursday last. It was not undertaken or conducted by any authority, no official or legal personage presided on the occasion, and yet matters were elicited respecting the condition of the agricultural labourers in thlit locality the im portance of which cannot be overrated. As there wLs no person or persons authorised to come to a con clusion, and to bring in a verdict, or publish a report as to the result of the evidence taken, the public must form their_own opinions thereon. It will be in the recollection of our readers that the lion. and Rev. SYDNEY GODOLPIIIN OSBORNE, a gentleman who has earned for himself the highest character as a philanthropist, the greatest honour f. - the disinterested zeal which he has exhibited, in his capacity as a country clergyman, for the amelioration of the condition, the increase of the comforts of the labouring classes, by whom he is surrounded, pub lished a letter on the 24th of August last, in which he exposed several abuses to which the labourers of Ryme and the surrounding parishes had been sub• jetted. Ile called attention to existing laws directed against the practice of master manufacturers being retailers of goods to their workmen, to what is com monly called the truck system, which has ever been found most injurious in its effects upon those of the humbler classes who have been brought within its operation, where the parties purchasing are afraid to question the quality or the price of the goods with which they are supplied by their employers, who would have it in their power to dismiss them from their work in case of any complaints, no matter how well founded. lie stated that he found meat which would have been condemned in Newgate Market sold to the labouring poor; that the wages of at least nine out of ten of the labourers in husbandry was paid in the shape of goods, sold to them by their masters, in cluding meat of the above character ; that the wages of able-bodied, married men was 7s. a week, these of single men and lads, from 16 to 25 years of age, from 2s. 6d. to 65.; that for about two months in the year the mowing and harvest afforded some task work, at which about 103. per week, besides an allowance of cider, might be earned, but for which the work must be from five in the morning until seven at night. He then detailed the exorbitant prices they were charged under this truck system for articles of the worst description. The sheep killed just before they were (to use the labourers' expression) cold dead ; the diseased cows, in like manner, and the flesh retailed to the working men, who were thus obliged to participate in the farmer's loss ; and that it would be hard to find any man who had drawn 21. in money for his wages in any one year. Such a statement proceeding from so trustworthy a source naturally excited great attention. Mr. OSBORNE did not shelter himself under the disguise of a fictitious signature, but manfully gave his name to the world as the author of these charges, which he did not bring forward until he had by the strictest examination satisfied himself of their truth. At the end of three weeks a formal contradiction was put forward signed by Mr. DANIEL BRAKE, the principal farmer in Lyme, his son•in-law, his nephew, and two other farmers. Mr. OSBORNE having replied, stating the grounds on which he had made his assertions, was challenged by Mr. BRAKE to a public investigation into the truth thereof before the rector of the parish and a reporter, an offer which was immediately accepted by Mr. OSBORNE, and hence originated the meeting and investigation to which we have alluded. Mr. OSBORNE conducted his own case, while the farmers were re presented by a neighbouring attorney. The wit nesses that were examined were subjected to the strictest cross-examination ; their employers were present, prepared to impeach any exaggerated account, if any such should be offered ; the witnesses who had been examined were kept separate from those who had not as yet given their testimony, in fact every advantage was given to the employers, even to a speech to evidence from their attorney. The proceedings and the evidence have been fully published, and we confess it appears to us that the statements made have been fully substan tiated. We are told by one witness of a bullock found dead in a ditch, and pulled out by horses. It had been apparently dead for some hours, and yet it was stabbed, and its flesh retailed. Another speaks , of mutton—part of a sheep found dead in the fold— I salted, and sold to the people at 2d, per pound, Another of a sheep -which bled a little when its throat was cut. It was therefore a nice article, and fetched 4d. per pound ; others spoke of beasts killed just as they were dying of the guar er evil, and sold at 3d. and 31d., and of their being made ill by meat of that description. This would appear a full corroboration of Mr. OSBORNE, so far as the unwholesome meat was concerned. That as to the wages was still more con clusive. One witness, 'WILLIAM BENNETT, had 7s. a-week in harvest, and his wife, who received his wages, never in any one year received much more than 2/. in money for his work, unless when he had been working for 'Mr. BLENNERHASSETT, who always paid ready money. Another, War. BUGLER, received 9s. per week for twenty-four days in the summer, and but 7s. per week for the rest of the year, and had not drawn as much as 21. in money in any one year. It is needless to go through the mass of evidence brought forward, which clearly established that the rate of wages was not understated, and that it was, to say the least of it, expected that they would take the greater portion of their wages in goods. AGRIPPA GILL, when drawing money, was asked, by Mr. BRAKE, why he did not take the wages out in goods, that he might have them from him (Mr. BRAKE) as well as from any one else, and called him "a ready money chap," which would not do for him (BRAKE). We trust that all those interested in the welfare of the peasantry will read, and attentively consider, the whole of the evidence given, and say if it does not establish the existence of a state of facts which should not be sanctioned or tolerated in a Christian land, in a civilised country. Something must be done to improve the position of the laborious classes, to educate them so that we may not in the nineteenth century hear of such an absurd proceeding as master and man "going TO HAT" on some trivial occasion, and of the belief of the multitude that the person speaking falsely in such a case would most assuredly lose his sight. We trust that Mr. OSBORNE will persevere in his useful labours. A cure for the evils which he has so forcibly depicted can only be obtained by the force of public opinion, and that can only be excited by full publicity being given to all similar grievances. We also hope that the unfortunate persons who have been called as witnesses may not be hardly dealt with by their masters for the answers they have conscientiously given in an investigation challenged and delranded by the farmers themselves. Philosophy, as well as experience, from which it is drawn, alike teach, that knowledge, both acquired and prospective, must be considered as a whole. The limited development of the faculties of the human mind compels us, for our own convenience, and the easier mastery over the materials of intelligence which a spirit of investigation, pursued in every quarter of the world, daily discloses to our view, to classify and arrange the various subjects that must be assiduously prosecuted for the advancement of general civilisation. It is immaterial what science we first light upon, we are sure to find, as we pursue its laws, that it is intimately blended with another of a kindred character, however remotely connected, if not altogether distinct, both the one and the other might have appeared before the subtleties of intelligence had rendered their connexion manifest. If we begin with the study of geology, we are naturally led to the influence of its varied characteristics upon the herbs and fruits of the earth ; by the ditforences of the latter, we are drawn on to a consideration of the dissimilar climates that prevail in opposite hemi spheres ; and by this dissimilarity our minds are raised to the contemplation of the marvellous science of astro nomy. Every species of knowledge, then, is but a part of an entire whole, whereof the several properties bear a close, though, for the time, an imperceptible affinity. Thus, the more we know the more we become sensible of how little we do know, and to the truth of this a most beautiful homage was paid by the great NEWTON himself. A spirit of selfishness has turned a deaf ear to the sound dictates of philo sophy, and, in this way, avarice and ignorance com bined, have created and festered hateful monopolies to the direct hindrance of the onward movement of human progress. 'Happily, the schoolmaster is abroad, and, in this enlightened age, we are con stantly witnessing that the foolish errors of our an cestors are ly , ing isely and promptly repaired. Monopoly is now all but rased to the ground. A great social revolution is at hand. We have read with unfeizned satisfaction the pro ceedings, on Thursday last, of the North Staffordshire Agricultural Society, at Leek. The exhibition answered the just exp , ct:ltion of its promoters. The dinner was atten&d not only by the principal agri culturists and professional gentlemen, but likewise by the leading manufacturers of the district. The Earl of TALBOT presided. The advice that was tendered, ani the liberal sentiments embodied in the different speeches, reflect the highest honour upon the company, and evince the peculiar energy inherent in our countrymen whenever it is fairly evoked by a peculiar crisis. It is apparent that the agriculturists consider themselves fairly put upon their mettle by the recent change in the corn-laws, and that they will, as they ought, eagerly pursue every method that can, and will, no doubt, be yet further devised, to enable them to keep up a free and honourable competition with the culti vators of foreign soils. Mr. GYDE expatiated with considerable intelligence upon the general advantages of draining and stall•feeding. This gentleman's lecture of last year upon the former topic has been already, as vouched by the Noble Chairman, productive of much good. The statistics he offered are most interesting, and full of pro mise—to an extent, indeed, that must be quite in , piriting to the hitherto despondent agricul turist. By the system of drainage he recommends —which has been satisfactorily tested, and which is to be regarded only as the commencement of a series of agricultural improvements—there would result, according to the least favourable calculation, an in crease of 10,000,000 quarters of the different kinds of grain now produced on the arable cultivated lands of Great Britain, and twice as much more by similarly (Training the uncultivated lands I Mr. GYDE exhorted his hearers to stir up their energies, and to exhibit no want of spirit, being convinced that abundant fertility would crown liberal enter prise. Mr. ADDERLEY, M.P., related an anecdote which was warmly welcomed with all the propriety of awakened conviction. " Not long ago," said Mr. ADDERLEY, "I went with Mr. COBDEN over his ex tensive mill at Stockport. Mr. COBDEN showed me all the machinery, and pointed out to me the many improvements which had been effected in almost every department ; then taking me into the suburbs, he showed me a field overgrown with thistles, and said, 'That's the state of your manufacture:— (Cheers and laughter.) I have never since forgot the hint."— (Renewed laughter.) Nothing has tended more to retard improvements connected with the soil than that miserable short sighted policy of landlords, in not giving leases to their tenants of sufficient length to encourage them to invest their capital on the land. This narrow minded spirit was, and, for the most part, is still tenaciously clung to for the purpose of preserving political power, and bolstering up their own sordid interests. The evil has, however, recoiled upon the ungenerous upholders of so obnoxious a system. The staff of monopoly has been already wrenched out of their hands, and they are now left to brace themselves up to the dreaded task of competing with the growers of foreign grains, under disadvantages to which they would never have been subjected, had they acted upon comprehensive and national, instead of petty and in dividual, vies. Lord TALBOT spoke out upon this subject with the becoming frankness, true fearless ness, and generous impulse of a thorough English nobleman:— " I have always unreservedly given my opinion on one important subject connected with agriculture—and I have, not been thanked for it by many—l mean the subject of leases.—(Elear, hear.) No man in his senses would expend his capital on a farm without having some security for that capital coming back to himself or his representatives.—(Tremendous cheers.) And I here publicly state, that if any tenant of mine will come to me and ask me for a lease, I will grant him one.—(Loud and long-continued cheering.) It is absurd—to use no stronger term—to expect me to put my hand into my pocket for money wherewith to speculate, without a fair prospect of that money being returned."—(Cheers.) The landlords of England must con over this lesson, imitate this spirited example, take warning by the past, shake off dull sloth, avail themselves of every light of science, especially when confirmed by the fruits of experience, and then they will soon become sensible that they have only been frightened at THE' SUN, 140 N DON, WEDNESDAY_MORN I NG, OCTOBER 7, 1846. shadows, and will realise to themselves the satisfaction of constituting an aristocracy, not proud, as heretofore, simply because they were powerful, but powerful because they have taken a pride in rendering them selves useful, and securing the regenerated affections of the hardy and industrious tillers of the land. A letter from Venice, of the 25th September, states that one of the three Moncenigo Palaces on the Grand Canal has just been purchased for the Count DE MONTEMOLIN, in his own name, for a sum of 350,000 francs. It was supposed that he would re side in Venice, as it was known that he is about to contract a matrimonial alliance with a Princess of Modena. Madrid papers of the 29th ult. have been received. The Afrancesado Ministry still continued their war against the press. The Eco del Comercio was seized on the 28th, before a single number was pub lished, for an article on the Montpensier marriage, and the Government inflicted on its proprietors a fine of 5001., not for publishing, for the Eco was not per mitted to be published, but for daring to form an opinion unpleasing to the ruling powers. The Etc) has suspended its publication in consequence. In the Senate, on the 28th, the debate on the col- lection of the taxes was continued. In the course of it there was a personal scene between General SER RANO and Senor PIDAL. The General taunted PIDAL with having voted on a former occasion against the MIRAFLORES Ministry from factious motives. PIDAL retorted, and made use of the epithet disloyal, in allu sion to General SERRANO. The logomachy then waxed fast and furious, until at length the President was obliged to adjourn the Chamber as the only means of putting an end to the disturbance. The matter, however, was amicably arranged ; and on the re sumption of the debate, on the 29th, Senor Mori an nounced that the Government had devised a plan for forming a proper provision for the clergy. The de bate was not concluded when the post left. It was reported in Madrid that CABRERA was in the province of Valencia organising his followers pre paratory to an outbreak. The Dukes DE MONITENSIER and D'AUMALE ar rived at Vittoria on the 3d. They were to leave that city on the morning of the 4th, and are expected to arrive in Madrid on the 6th. The lleraldo says that after the marriage Don FRANCISCO will have the title of King conferred upon him, but that all acts of sovereignty will be in the name of ISABELLA 11. In the same paper we find the following, purporting to be an extract from a letter from Alicant : " A person who has arrived here in 36 hours from Gibraltar states that the English squadron, which was at Cadiz on the 24th, had set sail fur Tangiers soon after the arrival of the con! ul from that port. The departure of the British Consul from Tangiers is attributed to some insults having been offered to the English flag." The envoys from the new republic of St. Domingo had arrived at Madrid for the purpose of negotiating a treaty of peace and amity with Spain. _ _ MADRID BOLSA, SEPT. 29.—Three per Cents. for cash, 348; Fives, 22 paper. Exchange on London, 364. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. There was an attempt on Saturday night to renew the bread riots in the Faubourg St. Antoine, but, like the attempt of the preceding evening, it was speedily suppressed by the authorities. Criminal prosecutions have been commenced against sixty of the rioters who were apprehended on the night of Friday. Great ap prehensions are entertained of famine and scarcity in France, and on this subject M. DE LAMARTINE has written a long letter, which the Debats justly cha racterises as a mixture of excellent ideas and of great blunders. The 1) ebalf of Sunday has the following Article, written evidently in order to calm the existing excite- ment : " The disorder which for the last few nights has reigned in one of the faubourgs of Paris, has not been of a very serious character. The rise in the price of bread was probably but the pretext for it ; public atten tion has nevertheless been called to the subject, and the question has arisen whether or not alarm may be felt at the result of the late harvest, and as to what the Go vernment might and should do in supposing it had to interfere. In the first place, what has taken place at the shops of certain bakers proves nothing. One or two of the bakers, when asked for bread, had no more ; not that they had made a less quantity on that day, for want of flour, but because they had sold a larger quantity during the day. In the second place, no alarm should be felt, were it not only that because alarm would not cause an hectolitre more wheat to come to us, and would rather cause that which was on its road to be stopped, supposing that we were in want of it. Besides, the country is in no way exposed to a want -of Coed. Under this idea there is not even a shadow of danger. A magnificent harvest has been expected from one end of the kingdom to the other. To the great astonishment of all the world, the crop, after being thrashed, has been found to be but middling, rather below than over an average quantity, but, however, of a quality superior to that of years of scarcity. A disap pointment has consequently been felt generally as to the quantity. Nothing more than this was necessary to cause a rise in the p r ice of corn, and for parties to advance. But nothin g can l ess re semble e xposed to famine than France with the s a p e c c o u t l i a n t t e ry r an harvest which she has just had. There is only one country in Europe in which famine has made its appearance, and that is Irelar.d. But the misfor tune of Ireland does not solely arise from the want of corn. The Irish are not fed on corn ; they consume h a s had its crop of potat oes en t ire ly de potatoes ; and, by a cruel fatality, that unnappy country this year stroyed by the disease which has also been felt in almost every part of Europe. France has therefore abun dance of corn. Besides wisest, it has other grain, end also potatoes. The worst that could arrive would be, that the north of France, which contributes to the supply of the south, should keep for themselves a part of what is generally sent to that part of the country. But in case of that happening, it is known that the Mediter ranean is rich in corn-growing countries. The wheat of the North Sea can furnish us at a moderate price. Such is the real state of the case ; and we ask of any man of sense whether there is any cause for alarm ? Paris, in particular, has its supplies as well secured as in former years. The environs of Paris are among the number of those parts of the country where the harvest has been the most abundant. The ordinary measures which cause Paris to be one of the points of the globe where bread is found in the greatest abundance have never ceased to be in operation. Paris is the city of France and of the world, where disturbances on account of corn are the most without any pretext." r On the subject of the affairs of Spain, the J ourna l des Debati ' declares that C oun t M ONTEMOLIN was in London ox 30th September, and that he had dined with ESPARTERO, who had endeavoured to persuade the son of Don CARLOS to become a constitutional monarch. With regard to the whereabout of the Count on the 30th ult., it is extremely improbable that it should have been London, seeing that his par tisans have always denied that he has ever been in London, and that a proclamation, published by him, and which will be found in another column, is dated Sept. 14, from the foot of the Pyrenees. As to the story of his dining with ESPARTERO, we think we may venture at once to state that it is a pure fabrica tion. Very little reliance can be placed on anything which appears in the French Ministerial papers on the subject of Spanish affairs. As the National most truthfully observes, " It will soon be sufficient fcr a piece of news to be announced in the Ministerial journals to cause it to be doubted. How many histories, fabricated at leisure, and afterwards proved to be false, have they not published since th e Montpensier affair has occupied public atten tion? Fir s t o f all, England agreed; next, she was to be expe c t e d to pout, b u t would say nothing; after that, she spoke, but only to express a simple friendly dissent ; a t l ast she protested, but against consequences that were di s t ant, eventual, an d i mpro b a bl e ! I t was necessary for us to give an exact analysis of the document, and to quote some of the expressions to induce persons to acknowledge the true character of this note, th e measured and polite terms of which left all its transparence to the sentiment of distrust and deep hostility which inspired it. Have they been more exact relativ e t o the movement of parties and the con duct of men? No, they published that the Carlists and Progressistas had formed an alliance, and that a mon. strous coalition would be seen. Nothing was more false than this news, and the Ministry knew it to be so at the moment it e ndeavoured to make the public swallow it. However, th ey persisted, and to add to the lie, announced pompously th at Cabrera had dined on a particular day with Esp ar t ero. We did not take the trouble to contra dict so st u pid a calumny ; but there are people with whom stupidity alone succeeds. Finally, the Debuts lately stated e hat the son of Don Carlos had had an interview with Prince Lo u i s t were named. W e had no distrust of a p i ece of i ntell i gence Nap o l eon, an d th e place, day, and h our so officially affirmed; it was, however, just as false as all the rest. We are at present requested to state that Prince Louis is not acquainted with the son of Don Carlos, that he does not know where he is, and that he never saw him. A review, formerly faithful to the Left Centre, and which bad fortune has lately converted, re lates in its turn the history of the negotiations connected with the marriage in that tone peculiar to Ministerial confidences; the account is garbled from one end to the other. It is there also stated that Montemolin did not succeed in contracting a loan, and that he could scrape together but 25,0001. We know pasitively that these 25,0001. were his own property, and that before leaving London the son of Don Carlos had secured all the financial means which he might want for the rising which he meditated. As we pray moat sincerely for his failure, we inform the Government of this fact, that if sympathy is wanting to the re presentative of the Cabinet, money is in his possession. After having pointed out these errors, it appears to us superfluous to dwell on the sweet and amiable confidence with which the Debate yesterday speaks of the difficulties which this marriage causes to the Government. Diffi culties, it appears, there are none. The intervention of the English Government,' it says, will be confined to a protest full of dignity, and a simple representation of the consequences that may ensue from the union of a son of the French King with the Infanta. The firm conduct of the French Government begins to produce its effect. The famous volcano, which was daily on the point of bursting out in Spain, has postponed its eruption to an indefinite period. Every morning the correspondents of the English journals open their windows to see the eruption, but do not perceive the smallest rocket.' The journal of the Court was delirious yesterday ; it has already the happy smile and free bear ing of a husband married the day before. We are un willing to trouble its joy : it will have the thirty mil lions, and even perhaps its honeymoon. What we want to call attention to is, that, according to it, the Eng lish Government will confine itself to a protest full of dignity, and that Spain will remain perfectly calm and tranquil. Either we are much mistaken, or this double expectation is the most idle and foolish of illu sions. We are convinced, on the eontrary, that the Whigs will not confine themselves to those in offensive protests which are the resources of the weak : we are convinced also, that Spain will overturn the Government which oppresses her, and will assert her independence. The French Ministry ha's a means to dissipate all these threats—to cause the Infanta and her husband to renounce for them and their descend ants all pretensions to the Spanish throne ; but this means would be so base and cowardly that without doubt it will not be had recourse to. Can it be that this shame is to be endured t If any other thing is persisted in beyond having a young girl and a rich dowry, the gravest complaints may be expected. This we again repeat, whilst the Dibats believes quite the contrary. Events will show which is right." It does not appear that M. GUIZOT has as yet re turned any answer to the protest presented against the Montpensier marriage by the Marquis of NOR MANDY. The Noble Marquis is at present on a visit to Count MOLE. This fact has given rise to much speculation. It is said that King Louis PHILIPPE has invited M. THIERS to deliver his opinion on the affair of the marriage, which is so likely to create a coolness between England and France. The Univers says— " A fact, which the fear of compromising the party by whom it was communicated prevents us from publish ing at this moment, but which is not the less true, and which cannot fail to become public, demonstrates to us that the Ministers, at the moment when they are boast ing fiercely of having acted against the wishes of lang land in the affair of the marriages, continue to bend before her on another question which truly interests the national honour. Let some new complication occur— such as Pritchard or the right of search—and France shall be made acquainted with the secret articles of the Duke de Montpensier's marriage contract." Although the Univers is the organ of the high church party in France, yet, as its articles are not articles of faith, we may venture to express a doubt as to the authenticity of this statement. We hope that it is true, and that there are secret articles intro duced in the marriage contract, which when made public will obviate the grave objections which at pre sent exist to the match. Queen CHRISTINA does not return to Paris with her daughter and the Due DE MONTPENSIER, she will remain for some time longer in Madrid, where she will be joined by the Duke of RIANZERES and her children. The Carlist refugees residing on the frontiers have been all ordered into the interior of France. The Journal des Debats says : " There are at present in the citadeleof Blaye, fifteen Spanish superior officers and ecclesiastics, retained pri soners provisionally. Another Spanish Carlist has been arrested in his lodgings in Bordeaux and conveyed to the same destination." According to the Siicle, bread riots have broken out in several of the departments, and in many in stances the troops have been obliged to fire on the pea sants before order could be restored. The squadron under the command of the Prince DE JoINvILLE has returned to Toulon. The French Three per Cents. were weak on Sunday in the Passage de l'OPera. They were done at 82f. 80c., and rather sellers that buyers. BUSINE L S O SDO ON IN NEIIGINGRE, RAILWAYS AT S AT THE LON DON STOCK "EiXt FOREIGN 4%—Namur and Liege, I%—Northern of France Constituted , 13 %. Boulo g ne and Amiens, 14% —Dendrc Valley, .4 —Dutch Rhenish, THE WEST INDIA MAILS.—The Royal Mail steam ship Medway, with the Mails from the West Indies and Mexico, arrived off Southampton at nine o'clock yesterday morning. SOUTH AMERICA. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The peace and harmony which have been recently re established between the republics of New Granada and Ecuador are threatened to be again interrupted, aroegh the intrigues of the Spanish Government, who are con niving at, if not encouraging, General Flores, ex-Presi dent of the latter state, in fitting out an expedition for the purpose, ostensibly, of placing him again in the Prc• si , lent's chair, but suspicions attach to the undertaking of Spain entertaining some idea of asserting her claim, and again establishing her dominion over it : if she succeeds in that, she will very shortly follow up her views by seizing on New Granada and Venezuela. It is very evident that General Flores must have some underhand support, and a supply of the sinews of war from some unknown quarter. In the Cortes, the Minister of 'War, in reply to a question put by a Deputy, asserted that the Spanish Go vernment had nothing to do with General Flores's ex pedition ; but after M. Isturitz's assertion with regard to the opposition of our Government to the marriage of the Queen, who can put any faith in any assertions of the Spanish Ministry ? At all events the only convin cing proof they can give of not being concerned in it, is to put a stop to it, and order General Flores out of the kingdom. Reports are very rife that the above General has agents in Ireland to raise recruits for him, under the cloak of hiring them as agricultural labourers, but it is to be hoped the Irish peasants, notwithstanding their present destitute state, will not be the dupes or General Flores's agents, and plunge themselves into still greater difficulties, danger, and destitution. The object of General Flores, if attained, will plunge all the South American Republics into the greatest anar chy and confusion—renewing those horrid scenes of bloodshed and butchery, which have been so recently put an end to—and annihilate the good understanding and mutual confidence now restored amongst them. Besides, should that part of South America be again plunged into the gulph of civil war, it will prove highly injurious to the commerce and shipping of all European States, and likewise of the United States of North America, consequently it becomes the duty of their re spective Governments to do all in their power to frustrate the views of an adventurer, and to undeceive the Go vernment of Spain, by showing that they are not indiffer ent to the well-being of her ci-devant colcnies, but now independent Republics. CITY OF LONDON GENERAL PENSION SOCIETy.— On Monday a general meeting of the subscribers of the above society was holden at the London Tavern, for the election of two; men and two women, additional candi dates on the fund for providing a permanent relief to decayed artizans, mechanics, manufacturers, tradesmen, and the widows of such persons, above sixty years of age. Luke James Hansard, Esq., presided. Indepen dently of yesterday's election, there are on the list fifty-five recipients, from sixty to ninety years of age. The males receive 1/. lls. and the females 11. 2s. per month. The business of the day having been concluded, thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meeting separated. POST-OFFICE NOTICES.—On Monday the following notice relative to the departure of the foreign mails was announced at St. Martin's-le-Grand :—The mails dis embarked in consequence of damage sustained by her Majesty's steamer Bulldog, having returned to London, the letters addressed to the Cape of Good Hope will be forwarded by the ship Lady Flora, which is appointed to sail from Portsmouth on the 6th instant, and the letters for Lisbon will be forwarded by the Peninsular mail of the 9th instant. ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS.--Monday night a quarterly general Court of the Governors of this institution, was held at the offices of the Secretary, Mr. Thisselton, No. 7, Bloomsbury-place, Bloomsbury, for the purpose of electing a treasurer in the room of Sir David Pollock, senior, recently appointed Chief Justice of Bombay. James Savage, Esq., was in the chair. After the general and preliminary business of the meet ing had been gone through, it was moved and seconded, and carried unanimously " That Benjamin Bond Cab bell, Esq., F.R.S., M.P. for St. Alban's, be appointed treasurer, in the room of Sir David Pollock." Mr. Cab bell having intimated his willingness to accept the office, a vote of thanks was voted to the chairman, and there being no other business before the Court it broke up. FATAL RENCONTRE.—An inquest was on Satur day resumed and concluded at liarefield, near Uxbridge, on the body of William Norman, a steersman in a canal boat plying on the Grand Junction Canal. The deceased, it appeared, had had some disagreement with a man named James Carpenter, who was in the employ of the Canal Company, respecting his not having one of the locks ready. A quarrel at length ensued, and they agreed to settle their differences by a pitched battle, and retired into a field for that purpose. They fought seve ral rounds, and at length Norman fell, and on some per sons going to his assistance it was found that he was dead. The surgeon deposed that in his opinion death had been occasioned by a blow or a fall, thereby causing concussion of the brain. The jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter against Carpenter. CONVICTS FOR THE NEW PENAL SETTLEMENT. — The Pestonjee Bomanjee, hired transport ship, has ar rived at moorings opposite the Royal Arsenal, to receive 150 male convicts, and convey them to the new penal settlement in Australia. MONEY and comm ERC [AL NEW S. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about 10,000 bales, including 3,000 American and 2,000 Surat on speculation. The market is firm, prices are not higher, though American sorts are difficult to buy at previous rates. to the sale of railway shares to-day, at Messrs. Latnond and Co.'s, a moderate amount of business was done. The market seemed collapsed, and every price was lower, with a tendency downwards, and an indis position to deal at any price. The following are a few of the principal sales: — Boston, Newark, and Sheffield £0 15 0 East Indian Leicester and Bedford Direct Northern 1 10 0 Eastern Counties, York Extension 1 16 0 Cornwall and Devon Central Staines and Richmond ... 1 1 0 London and York Goole and Doncaster 1 7 0 Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Paris and Lyons 5 14 0 Sambre and Meuse ... Buckinghamshire Reading and Reigate ... 0 15 6 Yale of Neath 0 19 6 Windsor, Slough, Staines Atmospheric 115 0 South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 2 12 6 Manchester and Leeds Extension There are no late arrivals to-day from any quarter. The Discount Market appears to be rising. The re venue returns are looked for with interest. In the " Commercial Magazine," a very ably con ducted work for information and reference to business persons, there is an article devoted to the exposure of the practices of "London bill-swindlers." The extract now made from the publication is worth attentive perusal and remembrance : " We regret to find that several manufacturers and large tradesmen have been recently swindled by fic titious bills of exchange, passed upon them by small dealers in the country who have become embarrassed by railway speculations, and have adopted this method of supporting their credit! As it may be useful to keep our readers informed of the plan of operations carried on by the bill swindlers and their accomplices, who pass the bills into circulation, we may briefly describe the manner in which this is effected. " There are two or three parties in London—we do not think they are very numerous—who manufacture fictitious bills. They have a printed circular, offering to accommodate tradesmen with bills of exchange, bearing all the appearance of genuine business bills, and such as they might get discounted by their bankers, or pass away in payment to their creditors, without exciting suspicion. These bills the swindlers offer to send to any party requiring them on receiving five per cent. on the amount and the price of the stamp. The manufacturers of the bills send circulars to small tradesmen in all the chief towns in the country, pointing out the facilities afforded for obtaining temporary credit by means of these accommodation bills; and as the writers of the circular do not pay the postage, they are enabled to make their swindling concern known at a very little expense." The Indigo sales have begun this morning. It is yet too early to give an opinion as to the result. Consols for the Account have been heavy at 95 while for Money the price has ruled from 951 to 951. East India Bonds are at 28s. premiun, India Stock at 9 58 i, and Exchequer-bills at 15s. to 18s. premium. The only business in the Foreigh Stocks to-day has been in Brazilian at 85, in the Mexican Five per Cents. at 254, in the Portuguese Four per Cents. at 41i, in Spanish Passives at 51 4, and in Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., at 59. There is no alteration worth notice in the Railway Market to-day. ONE PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'cLowc 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 95% 1 / 1 1 / 2 India Stock India Bonds, 1,0001.. Ditto under 1,0001. . South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities ... 94% Consols for Account... 95% xchequer Bills, 1,000/., PAd. Ditto 5001. Ditto Small OXE CLOSING O'CLOCK PRICES CLOSING FRICEs. 95 1 ,4 258% 28 28 ['RICER OF FOREIGN FUNDS Brazilian Bonds Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 B5 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 Ditto. Account 2 51 Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. Ditto, Account 4 13 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Passive Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch, 2 1 / 2 per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 92% 92% PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING ILWAY SHARES PAID ' AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction DA 2 Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% Aylesbury and Theme.. 1% — Belfast & County Down 4 3 / 4 Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 12 9 1,4 130 Ditto New 17% _ _ Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June—. 2 3 4 — Boston, Stanifd, & Birm. 225. — I i - istol and Exeter 75 Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester 3O ...... 49 .....,,,,•••„ Bristol and Liver. Junc Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Half Shares.... 2% — ... .... ..... Ditto Extension Cambrian & Grand Jane 42s ...... Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% — Central Kent 2% Chester and Holyhead... 27% — Churnet and Blythe 2 ••• •• Chester and Manchester 425. Cheitembam and Oxford 2 Clydesdale Junction 2O Cork, Blackrock, and Passages Cork and Killarney ... 2% Cork and Waterford ... 1 1 ,E Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares ... ••.••• Cornwall & Cent'lDevon 2% l l% 1 )erby and Crewe 2% Direct Lincoln, East Ret furd, and Sheffd. June. 2% Direct Manchester (Remington's) Ditto (Ritstriek's) 5 A ...... •• ... ......... Direct Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and BelfastJunc. 10 Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin and Galway..... 4 Dundalk & Enniskillen 7% _ Eastern Counties 14/. 16s. ..... . '21% • , ...... ..... Ditto Nev,- l2l. 16s. 6% p..... ...... Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1. 6/. 133. 4d.... % p Ditto ditto, No. 2... 61. 133.4 d... Do., York Extension.. 10s. ...... 1% EastDereh'm andNor'ch 1 Eastern Union 35 .. ... Ditto, Quarter Shares 8% — Do. Exten.(llarwich) 1% ...... .•••• Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2% _ East Lancashire Ditto, New East Lincolnshire East & West of England 1%...... •••• Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... ... . ...... .. Ditto Half Shares ... 10 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% Edinburgh & Northern.. 10 - ••• Edinburgh and Perth... 3 ••• ...... •• ...... Ely and Huntingdon ... 7 1A...—. .......... Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2 1 ,f 2 — .................... Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 51 1 / 1 ............... Glasgow, Kilmar., & Ayr 50 ~...„ _ ... ............ Ditto, New Do., V I Shares (5 per cent. guar.) Glouc.,Abetystwith, and Central of Wales 1%...... - Goole, Doncaster isc. .. 425. _ ...• Grand Union (dotting and Lynn ... l% .. ...... ..... Great Eastern &W es t ern 2 % — ........ ... .. GreatGrimsby and Shef field Great South. and West. (Ireland) Great Munster 2 ............... Great North of Scotland 2 12 — ............. Great Northof England..loo 230 231 ............ Ditto New 5 592 .............. Ditto, New . Ditto, New Great Western B5 .....137 . ............. Ditto 1 A Shares .. 50 ............... Ditto M Shares lO . _ ..... Ditto Fifths Ditto, New ••• ...... ..... Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 5 (Tar With and Eastern Counties Junction ... 2 ...... Uu n ll it a to nd i/i Se s lb h y a . r; ....... ...... 5 12 01 / Do. Ha f Sha res ...... 25 2 Ipswich iieunod. 0 ando , Ba Windermere t . 1 1 1/2 ; .. . . : I/2 3%. Killarney Junctions . IV . Lancaster and Carlisle... 45 Do. New - Larne, Lelfast, and Bal lymena Leecis and Bradford Leeds and Carlisle - Leicester & Birmingham 225. - — Leicester and Bedford... 225....... % % dis 513 dis. Leeds and Dewsbury ... 22% Lpool., Mnchstr & New castle Junction Liverpool and Bury London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d. 9is Do. New ............... 3 ••• .. 5 ...... .... Ditto Extension ...... 7%...... London and Brighton... 50 .. ... 58%1A Ditto, Fifths ... 4O ... .. London and Croydon , 131 . 15 s . 9d. 211, 4 Do. th:aran. 5 per cent. 9 London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d — Do. Preference ...18117s 2d — London, Hounslow, and Western Len,lon and N. Westernloo l9B 197 Do. Quarters . . 2 Do., no., New Shares.. 2 Ditto Fifths ..... .... 2 . • .... ... Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12 1 ../ 2 Do., New % Shares _ . (G. J.) — 5 — Do 401.Share9(L.M.) 8 Lone'. & S.Western 41/ 6s 10d 69% 70 ....... Do. New Consol. Bths 40 Do. Now - 2 2 % PI WM. 0 lOC's Do. New London ar.(l York 2 1% — 1)o. 1 ,/i 2 Shares Lilidon and Windsor . 1, 4 i.,... .. London, Salisbury, and I' wvil Londonderry ScColeraim , 12 1 4...... .. ... Londonderry , and Ennis killen ... 121% — Lynn and Ely Lynn and Derehain Manebto and Leeds .. 82 Ditto 1 4 Shares 1)o. Quarters 2 1)n. Fifths Do. Sixteenths 6 IA Do. Extension 42s. — Manchester and Birinia. 40 Do. Quarters (A) Do. Quarters (B) Do. Quarters (0) 1 Manchester • Buxton,and Matlock 425...... Manchester, Birin., and % P Mould Junction .. Manchest. & Southampt. 2 Midland Do. Fifths 2 Do. New Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Midind & East. Counties 2% — Midland Great Western Irish Newcastle and Berwick 15 ...... Do North Shields Newcastle and Carlisle...loo N ewmrk et &Chesterfrd 21.12 s p Newport &Abergavenny ▪ Newry and Enniskillen 4% — Newark, Sheffield, and Boston ... •• , ▪ ....... „„ Norfolk Do. Half Shares Do. Extension North British ... ..... ... 25 Do. Half Shares ll ...... 143/41/2 Do. Fifths .. Do. Carlisle Extens. 1 1 / 1 3 14 North of Norfolk ..•.......... Northern and Eastern 5O Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45 94 95% 251-s 41 3 / 4 53/4 Do. Quarter Shares... 12 1 ..A.‘" Do. New •• ••• 0000000 • North Staffordshire 425....... 2% p. North Wales Northern and Southern Connecting Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham 2 — Nottingham & Mansfld. — Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton .... 12% 6% Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.... Portsmouth Direct 3% 4% Preston and Wyre Do. % Shares Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Richmond Rugby, Leamington,and Warwick - •• .--• 00000 Scottish Central 21% 6 % 1 is 1) 18% 59 511/2 - 50% 9% 5 8 4 21. 1 / 9% Scottish Midland 12%; Sheffield & Manchester 100 ••.••• Do. Quarter Shares... 8 _ . . ;I~i ;t~i Do. Lincolnshire June. 1 1 4 — Do. & Great Grimsby. 10 Do. do. Extension 425. Shrewsbury and Birm... 3 .... . 3 1 / 4 ... •••• ...... Shropshire Union Shrews., Wolverhamp., &S. Staffordsli. Jane. 2 1 / 4 . . . Sligo and Shannon l% —-• • ' South Devon... South & Midlands June. 425...... South Staffordshire Junc. 2 1 / 4 South Eastern & Dover. 33'/ — Do., No. 1 2O Do., No. 2. Do., No. 3 Do., Ne. 4 St.Alban's, Hattield,and Hertford Junction ... 425. — ............• Staines and Richmond... 1 Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2 3 / 4 — :.'outh Wales Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. Coal. ... 2 Taw Vale Extension ... 2 Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Vale of Neath Wakefield, Pontefract, & Goole 2 2 1 /4 ••• ......... •• Warwickshire & London 425. Warwick and Worcester 425. . — .............•• Waterford and Kilkenny 14 . Waterford and Limerick 22 1 ,4 — ........... •"' 13. 5 i'A Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wieklw, and Dublin \V aterford, Wexford, and Valentia ............... Waveney Valley 2 ..... ........ Welsh Midland West Riding Union 42s. 1 % 14 P•••••'''' West Cornwall 2 ... -. ........... West London,Old Shares 2 0 ............ Wexford and Carlow Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth Worcester,Warwick,and Rugby York and Carlisle 2% York and Newcast1e...... 25 ... Ditto New 1 York and North Midl an d 50 Ditto 1,4 Shares .. 25 Do. Searboro' Branch. 25 Do. Selby Do. Extension 2Q Do. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian Barbadoes 1 .... Boulogne and Amiens l4 Bordeaux & Mediterran 2 Bordeaux,Toulouse, and Cettt (Mackenzie's) 2 , Do. (Espelete's) Calais, I)unkrk, and West ~.. 14/8........... Flanders Calcutta and Diamond Harbour ....... ..... 7s• .... Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast 1 Central of Spain ... 2 Ceylon Demerara Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish 6 ... East Indian ... ss. ... Eastern Belgian Junctn. ... Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4 Great Indian Peninsular ss. Great Western Bengal ss. Great Western Canada 3 1% Italian and Austrian... 3 Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 Jersey Louvain ala Sambre ... 5 ... Luxembourg... Lyons and Avignon. Madras Madras, Nellore, and Arcot Madrid and Valantia Mauritius Nansur and Liege Nn of France Constituted 5 North Jamaica... 1 ... Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bordeaux 6 Over Yssel 4l3s 4d Paris &Lyons Constituted 5 ..•. Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Constituted Rotten and Ilavre Sambre and Meuse . Strasbourg and Bale 14 St. Laurence & Atlantic Tours and Nantes Con stituted Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt 8 Trinidad West Flanders ...... 6 JOINT STOCK BANKS. 3/ 4 . . - ,••• • 1 1 / 1 4' .••• 1 4 .. 6666... •• f• ..•• .-- .... 13% ,• • .... • ...... •••••• ~.. 5 ~.. -- ...... •• 00000 ... 4 3 / 4 .............. ' • .... 000000000000 •• .„ ~.. .-^' .. _ Australasia British North American 50 Coa_imercial of London 20 National Prov. England. 35 National of ;;eland 22% ...... ..»........... Union of Australit; London Joint Stock lO London & Westminster 2t; Provincial of Ireland Colonial 25 MD Real del Monte Unregd COURSE OF EXCHA: Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 8 Ditto, at tight • • 12 5 1 ,4 Rotterdam •••2U. 12 By, Antwerp . Elamburgh .... • • M.B. 13 14 Altona• . „ Paris, 3 days' sight .. . • 25 85 Ditto, 3 months 26 10 Marseilles ....... . Bourdeaux. .. • Frankfort on Maine 122 Petersbnrgh, 3 Us — Berlin ........ ,•.••• ••• ••• ...... Vienna, effec.flo.... • • 10 11 Trieste, ditt0.......... 10 11 Madrid ••• • •• 35% Cadiz .. • . 36 Bilbao.. • • •• • • •• .• Barcelona .... Seville.. • • .... • • • • • • — 16 w i i 3 3 A ..... ..... .NGE.—(YESTER 9 Gibraltar.. • • ••• • •• l# Leghorn ••• • " P/ Milan .. • • • • • • • • .... Venice........ • • • • • • • • Naples • • • • • • " jl 7 Palermo, per ....... • 0 Lisbon.... • • .. • • • • • • " Oporto .. ...... •• • • 1.2 Rio Janeiro ••...• • • ' • / Buenos Ayres .. ••• • • • New York, 21 days Wi t / s '0 Philadelphia .... • • • • • • fg # rincEs or stavogiil p Foreign Gold in bars • • , 0 p Portugal Gold Coin •• o New Doubloons ..... • n 4 ' New DoZlars • • ••'6 4 1 Silver in bar: • • • • • • • • gai The attacks of th e sea , and the insidious Vf orif of the Lind springs, have taken effect upon the bt oct, Sidestrand, near C romer , on w hi c h t h e v ill a ge c. erected. The to wer i s , i n consequence , p a rtly 1n A, and the whole edifice is rendered unsafe. , A g CANADA AND THE CANADIANS IN 1 • ev the t insurrection in Canada a few years since, and r eo j , discussion of the Oregon question have served 0o .. t ar, the value of that important colony better kaowf li as„; mother country than it had previously been, o f ":1 to make its inhabitants more profoundly sensibw r if benefits of B r iti s h protect i on . A wor k s ing ul s io pr e o culated to confi rm an d exten d t h ese rec iprocal. o ol l sions, has just been issued, from the pen of LI t i t le 0 1 Colonel bir Ri c h ar d Bonn castle w ith the he le " Canada and th e C ana di ans in 1846." It is t he of observati ons ma d e i n var i ous professiolu," , 01 no 'o to different part s o f th e t wo provinces, as also merous excursions u n d er t a k en f or his private 001 0 1 , tion. The author in'roduces us alike to the commerce and civilisation, to life in the vir,"geti• ii t the habits, man ners , an d pursu it s o f the Reu„ r es i e dwelling in the possessions. The worri i r o fty s io a great variety of l o cal i n f orma tion peculiarly o f emigrants, and a view of the political sentitner„oe Canadians deeply interesting to the observer 01 ovento.