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RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. VIE SSR S. LAMOND, SMALE, AND 1 LAii{OND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued sfipport and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, fec., take place every TrESDAT and FRIDAT, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours,,, containing instructions (with a reference), are rvipectfully requested to be addressed. All scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day Trrevions to their being offered ; and advices of results wilt be forwarded by the first post after the sale , and the proceeds mme diately disposed of according to instrizetions. Oakes, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LAME. THIS EVENING Will be performed Balfe's celebrated Opera, entitled THE MAID OF ARTOIS. Marquis de Chateau Vieux, Mr. Borrani ; Jules de Montagnon, Mr. W. Harrison ; Sans Regret, Mr. Burdini ; Synnelet, Mr. Weiss ; `Raga, Miss Isaacs ; Isoline, Madame Anna Bishop. To conclude with a new Ballet, in two acts, entitled THE OFFSPRING OF FLOWERS. In which Messrs. Howell, Bretin, Theodore, Mdlle. Fabbri, Madame Theodore, and 3ldlle. Adele will perform. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S ANNUAL SERIES OF CONCERTS. FOR ONE MONTH ONLY. JULLIEN has the honour to state that his Annual Series of Concerts will commence THIS EVENING, October 30, 1846, and be continued FOR ONE MONTH ONLY. M. JULLIE.N has great regret in announcing that he is imperil tivel, called upon to terminate this Series of Concerts at a period so Unusually early, but the new Proprietors of the Theatre, having stipu lated for possession of the premises on Tuesday, December Ist, in order to commence the demolition and rebuilding of the interior, for their grand Italian Opera, M. JULLIEN has no alternative. The last Concert will, therefore, most positively take place on SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28Th. Notwithstanding, however, the shortness of the Season, M. JULLIEN has determined to present to his patrons every poss;ble attraction, and has made such arrangements as will afford them Four Weeks of Unrivalled Musical Entertainment. During the recess he has composed a new Grand Descriptive Military Quadrille, to be entitled, " THE BRITISH ARMY QUADRILLE," and Intended as a companion to " The British Navy," which was last winter honoured with such distinguished approbation. In order to render complete the Grand and Novel Effects intro duced in this Piece of Music, M. JULLIEN has (by the kind conde scension of the Military Authorities) succeeded in engaging, (entirely in addition to his own complete and numerous Orchestra), FOUR DISTINCT MILITARY BANDS, v*z. The Band of TIER MAJESTY'S 2nd LIFE GUARDS, under the direction of Mr. WAETZIG (by the kind permission of Colonel WILLIAMS) The Band ofHER MAJESTY'S ROYAL HORSE GUARDS, BLUE, under the direction of Mr. TUTTG).T (by tho kind permission of Colonel SMITH) : The Band of HER MAJESTY'S OREITADIER GUARDS, under the direction of Mr. SCHOTT (by the kind permission of Colonel HOME) and The Band of HER MAJESTY'S COLDSTREAM GUARDS, under the direction of Mr. GODFREY (by the kind permission of Colonel SHAWE). These Four Grand Military Bands will, during the progress of the Quadrille, be combined with the Concert Orchestra, and form a Musical Ensemble at once novel and extraordinary. The whole conducted by M. JULLIEN. The immensely increased expense incurred by the above arrange month is evident. The Prices of Admission will, however, remain as formerly; M. JULLIEN (having considerably enlarged the space allotted to the Promenade) intending to trust for his remuneration to an increased number of Visitors, rather than to an augmentation In the prices of admission. Prices of Admission. 2s. 6d. Dress Circle •• • • Promenade and Boxes .. • • • • .. Private Boxes, 103. 6d., 1/. is., and 11. 1 ls. 6d. Places and Private Boxes may be secured on application to Mr O'Reilly, at the Box-office of the Theatre ; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bord street ; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street; and at M. Julhen and Co.'s Musical Establishment, 214, Regent-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of 113 EVE Mr. H NI . Webster, sole Lessee. TING . _ _ Will be performed an original Comedy, entitled LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP; or, Wooings and Weddings. Mr. Oddington, Mr. W. Farren ; Mr. Rashleigh, Mr. Hudson ; Mr. De Yere, Mr. Hull ; Mr. Brandon, Mr. Howe ;Mr. Hardman. Mr. Rogers ; Jack Spriggs, Mr. Webster; Tcm Tilley, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Brown, INlrs. Glover ; Claribel Oddington, Miss Fortescue ; Mary Oddington, Miss P. Horton ;_ Elinor Mortimer, Mrs. Yarnold ; Fanny Hardman, Miss Julia Wennett. After which a new Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord Courtington, Mr. Holl ; Slr Arthur Level, Hr. Howe ; Scoreup, difr. Buckstone ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckingham ; Mrs. Scoreup, Miss Julia Bennett. During the evening the Band will perform the Overtures, " Les Mousquetaires de la Reins," and " Lestocq ;" the " Bnmow Polka ;" the " Cornet a Piston" (Aria) ; and " Rococo" (Wa.lzer.) To conclude with a New Comedy, in three acts, entitled QUEEN MARY'S BOWER. Principal characters by Messrs. Webster, Hudson, Howe, Brindal, Braid ; Miss Fortescue, Miss Telbin, &c. 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. "MRS. lIARRIS" WILL APPEAR EVERY EVENING. THIS EVENING Thd perforrnances will commence with a New Comic Drama, TO PARENTS AND GIIA.RDIANS. Principal characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Meadows, and Keeley; Mrs. Woollidge, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Hicks, Miss Turner, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by a New Farce, called MRS. HARRIS. Henry Masker, Mr. A. Wigan ; Mr. Slickey, Mr. F. Mathews ; Hillary Shivers, Mr. Meadows ; Fanny Platt, Miss Arden ; Mrs. Harris, Mr. Keeley. After which, a new Farce, called WHICH MISTER SMITH ? Characters by Messrs. Vining, F. Mathews, Emery, Bellingham, 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, 11. Butler, Collier, Keeley, and Miss Daly will perform. THEAT ttE ROYAL, ADELPHE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be presented a new domostic drama, entitled EUGENIA. CLAIRCILLE ; or, The New Found Home. Frederick Stan more, Mr. Worrell ; Mr. Rugleigh, Mr. Cullenford ; Toffey, Mr. Past Bedford ; Mr. Buzzard, Mr. Lambert ; Hugh Matlock, Mr. 0. Smith ; Pegg, Mr. Munyard ; Mrs. Toffey, Mrs. F. Matthews ; Eugenia Claireille, Madame Celeste. After which will be produced MRS. °AMP'S TEA AND TURN-OUT ; a Bozzian Sketch, in one act. Principal characters by Messrs. Cullentord, Worrell, Ryan, Wright, Munyard ; Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Miss M. Taylor. To be followed by a new Extravaganza, in two acts, called THE JOCKEY CLUB. The principal characters by Messrs. Paul Bed ford, Wright, Redmond Ryan, Eeiby, Waye, Mitchenson, &c. ; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. F. Matthews, Misses Ellen Clakdin, 'larding, Fleming, Turner, Taylor, &c. To conclude with the popular Farce, entitled DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL ? Chesterfield Honey bun, Mr. Wright ; Isaac Crank, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Crank, Mrs. F. Matthews; Mrs. lloueybun, Miss Emma Harding. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original romantic Opera, in three parts, entitled THE NIGHT DANCERS ; founded on the Story of Giselle." Tho principal characters personified by Miss Ceorgiana Smithson, Madame Albertazzi, Miss Flower, Miss Somers, Misses Marshall ; Messrs. Leffler, Allen, Bodda, Walton, T. Hill, Honner, Peren, &c. After which, a new Comic Drama, entitled ALL FOR THE BEST. Mr. Walkinpop, Mr. Compton ; Alfred, Mr. A. Harris ; Parchment, Mr. Smith ; Isaac, Mr. lionner ; Clara, Miss Honner. To conclude with the favourite Farce of MY WIFE'S SECOND FLOOR. Characters by Messrs. Granby, Roxby, Compton, Harris ; Mrs. Hughes, Miss E. Honner, and Mrs. Fosbrokc. FRENCH PLAY3.-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that the ensuing season of French plays at the St. James's Theatre will be commenced on WEDNESDAY EVENING, November 11, by the engagement of the favourite Comedian, Monsieur Perlet, who will appear for a limited number of representations, assisted by Monsieur Cartigny (of the Theatre Francais). M. Rhozevil (of the Theatre du Gymnase) and Mademoiselle Brohan (Premiere Soubrette of the Theatre Francais), her first appearance In this country. Mr. Mitchell has also the honour to announce that, encouraged by the distinguished patronage which has been conferred upon his manage ment, he has engaged the following eminent artistes, who will appear in succession during the season :—Monsieur Perlet, Mademoiselle Brohan, Monsieur Frederick Lemaitre, Mademoiselle Clarisse, Monsieur Lafont, Mademoiselle Fargueil (her first appear ance in this country), Monsieur Aieide Tousez (of the Theatre du Palais Royal, his first appearance), Mademoiselle Duverger, (of the Theatre du Palais Royal, her first appearance), ?Mademoiselle Aline Vallee (of the Theatre du Gymnase, her first appearance), Mademoiselle Rose Cheri (of the Theatre du Gymnase), whose performances last year were so eminently succ, ssful, and during whose engagement, will be produced the new domestic drama of CLAPISSA HARLOWE, now performing in Paris with extraor dinary sucz7ess, and also a new Play, written expressly for Mademoi selle Rose Cheri, by the popular author, donsieur Scribe ; Monsieur Regnier (of the Theatre Francais), Mademoiselle Denain (also of the Theatre Francais, her first appearance in this country), and the dis tinguished actor, M. Bouffe. (his first appearance Once 1343) • in ad dition to which the celebrated Tragedienne, Mdlle. Rachel, for a limited number of representations, and will appear in the popular Plays of " Marie Stuart," by Le Brun; " Britanicus," by Racine ; " Tancred," by Voltaire; " Berenice," by Racine ; " Ariane," by Corneille, and other plays of her well-known repertoire. Madlle. Rachel has also undertaken to perform, for the first time, the cha racter of Celimene, in Moliere's Comely of "Le Misanthrope." Tile subscription will be for fifty representations, on Monday and Friday evenings, with the privilege of exchanging for the Wednesday even ing performance, an arrangement which has hitherto afforded so much convenience and satisfaction. Application for Season Boxes and Stalls to be made at Mr. MITCHELL'S Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Mr. George Bolton, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING . _ Will be performed the Pliyof THE RELAPSE. Lord Fopping ton, Mr. Walter Lacy; Young* Fashion, Mr. G. B. iton ; I.oveless, Mr. Leigh Murray; Sir Tunbelly Clumsy, Mr. A ilkinson; Coupler, Mr. J. Cowell ; Lory, Mr. S. Cowell ; Worthy, Mr. Archer ; Nur,e, Mrs. C. Jones ; Amanda, Mrs. R. Gordan ; Berinthia, Mlis Char es ; Miss Hoyden, Mrs. Walter Lacy. After which, a grand BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT and MU SICAL MELANGE. To conclude with THE REVIEW. Caleb Quotem, Mr. J. Cowell. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davldge. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakspere's Tragedy of MACBE fn. Macbeth, Mr. Mazready ; Maednff, Mr. Cooper ; Hamitic., Mr. Fredricks ; Hecate, Mr. Neville ; Witches, Messrs. Saville, Webb, and Mrs. Daly; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Tertian. To conclude with the Drama of THE BRIGAND. In which Messrs. Neville, Lewis, Saville, Pelham; Mrs. Saville, Miss Rich ardson, Sec., will perform. Box. office open from eleven till four o'clock. ASTLEY'A ROYAL AMPHITIIEATRK, Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and Royal Family. Continued success of Herr Amodio Neupert, the great Dutch Bottle Equilibrist, with feats of strength on glass bottles. The Champion Vaulters, Messrs. Henderson and Lee, will execute twentyEVENING, thirty, and forty somersaults. THIS Will be produced the grand Dramatic Spectacle cf MAZEPPA ; or, The Wild Horse. Supported by the principal dramatic talent of the Company. After which, new SCENES of the CIRCLE. In which the Bri tish and Foreign Artistes will appear. To conclude with the WASHERWOMAN OF ST. R . Mr. BATTY begs to acquaint the gent r y and public th a t he has formed an expensive engagement with STATTMAISTER HEIN- BitECHT, from Berlin, with his four highly-trained Horses. This foreign Artiste, having arrived in London, will appear for the first time in England in a few days, in his new and peculiar exercise of equitation with those highly-trained Steeds. Box-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at seven o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. SITOIDE AT A POLICE STATION.—WedOeSday a most dete inc 43 act of suicide was committed in one of the cells belonging to the police station-house, in Ken nington-lane, by a young man named Edward Edwards, alias Floyd, who had been locked up there. It appears that the deceased was apprehended on a charge of breaking into a stable belonging to Mr. Gable, in Ring-street, Old Kent-road, and stealing two saddles. He was locked up at the above station house, in a cell in company with another prisoner of the name of Wood. Soon after a constable came, and took out Wood, who was wanted fer examination, leav ing deceased in the cell alone. Not more than two or three minutes had elapsed when Inspector Roger, in sarguts, the cell, observed a h andkerchief passed through Ferte nr in the door, and made fast to an iron o_trtrbttrAlklv4 -- ; SOpeeting something Wrong, he instantly ~ j,'"?" entitheliatdkeNhief, and heard something fall inside. .s ant ', ...Ard an; he door ‘ being opened the deceased was found fi '-'4ll,.irig ial e Boor of the cell, in an insensible state. H e •sA i 4 ... .;4.4 2 4:fil 'willed to the station, and two medical men Ci ~..„, , vre reAVV) ' • attendance, but they pronounced the This volcano, 'which vomited forth -111 * lama. tetSthe earthquake in Tuscany, is still active ; slight Eruptions occur so frequently that at night the crater seems all on fire, and at day the smoke forms a huge pillar. Great rains and inundations have taken place in the districts at the foot of the mountain, causing great loss of life and property. NOTICE. OCHELAGA.-NEW EDITION. WILL BE READY WITH TILE MAGAZINES On the Ist of November, price 21s. bound. Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW WORK BY YRS. 110FLA.ND. Now rcaiy at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post DANIEL DENNISON and the C;;MBEELAND STATESMAN. By Mrs. 110FLAND. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. WITII TWO ILLUSTRATIONS BY LEECH, AND A PORTRAIT OF SARAH, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH, FROM AN ORIGINAL PAINTING. The NOVEMBER Number, price Half-a-Crown, of BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY, will contain — CAPTAIN SPIKE ; OR, THE ISLETS OF THE GULF, By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Author of "The Pilot," " The Spy," " The Red Rover," &C. With an Illustration by Leech. Summer Sketches in Switzerland, by Miss Costello. Why do I love thee? Disastrous Field-day of an Officer of Irregulars, edited by Henry Curling. The Flaneur in Paris, by the author of " Second Love." Jessie, by A. Maynard. Anecdotes of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, by Dr. W. C. Taylor, with a Portrait. Titular Confusion ; the " Borough Title Terminus," by Wm. Jerdan. The Pony Club; a Tale of the Backwood Settlements of Georgia. Should you meet my True Lore. The Little Account, by Alfred Crowquill. Doncaster, its Sports and Saturnalia, by the author of " Gaming, Gaming-houses, and Gamesters." Railway Dactyls, by a Traveller. Taking the Veil in the Content Santa Chiara, at Naples, by the author of " Italian Scenes." A I'lea for Boulogne, by Albert Smith. BRIAN O'LINN ; OR, LUCK IS EVERYTHING. By W. H. MAXWELL, Author of " Stories of Waterloo," " Wild Sports of the West," &c. With an Illustration by Leech. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, OCTOBER 30. TdERMOMETER, Lowest, 46; Highest. SO ; Noon, 50, BAROMETER, 30 16 —WIND N.N.W., hazy. Hltiti WATER AT LONDON-BRLDUE DAY. sfornin7 .. 51 minutes after 9 . I Evening .. 30 minutes after 10. m is t v (k - - - b •‘,, .."'.z.r . : ; ....-, ';;„..e-'.ectfT-.), ~ At/ , • "' '.. '------leil,,„'-,,,, r• 11 0 ~,,,,'. -,,,5-4.117c,X,4,1,„,, ''''-, _ ....-•,,-.• ~.„.,,, ..? , iv,.. ',- . 4.."" " ' .." ... THE SUN, LON _DON, FRIDAY 1VE,14 IN G, OCTO ER 30, 1816% vbrtni . .iii -z.,ltit LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1846. THE PRIVY COUNCIL. A special train, on the Great Western Railway, was ordered at the Paddington station at half past one o'clock this afternoon, to convey the Minis ters to Slotigh, on their way to Windsor Castle, to attend the Privy Council held by her MAJESTY, for the further prorogation of Parliament. Parliament is at present prorogued unto Wednes day, the 4th November. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Sir GEORGE GREY, and several other Ministers, left town by the special train. The Lord Chancellor is staying at Windsor Castle, on a visit to the QUEEN. Who is there that has perused any of the remark able statements put forward by the Hon. and Rev, S. G. OSBORNE who has not been thoroughly awakened to the lamentable condition of the agricultural labourers in Dorsethire, and made feelingly alive to the imperative necessity of some immediate step being taken for their benefit? Even those most opposed to that amiable and enthusiastic philanthropist, and most deeply hurt at the exposures he has made, must give him credit for the purity of his motives, and deplore the circumstances that induced him to stand forward as the champion of the poor and needy, to abandon the seclusion and privacy that was most congenial to his habits, that would suit best his character and sacred profession. The best evidence has been afforded that the interference on his part was not unwarranted or uncalled for, that the state of the working man was not that which it ought to be, and that it was—in the language of the first resolution adopted at the meet ing to which we are about to allude—" such as to give occasion for the immediate efforts of an energetic and well-directed benevolence to produce a per manent and effectual improvement in their condition." On Monday a meeting was held at Dorchester for the purpose of " establishing a Labourers' Friend Society, with the view of bettering the condition morally and physically of the rural labourers and working mechanics and artisans, by carrying out the field garden allotment system under judicious regu lations," over which the High Sheriff of the county presided, and which was attended by the Lord Bishop of the diocese (Salisbury) and several Members of Parliament, clergymen, magistrates, and country gentlemen of rank and influence. A hope was held out, in which we cordially par ticipate, that the working of the society would not be limited to the objects specified in the requisition convening the assembly, but that the sphere of its duties would be considerably extended and enlarged, until it comprehended everything relating to the wel fare or comforts of the classes for whose peculiar benefit it was called into existence. We cannot, however, expect to see any society in its infancy attain the strength to which it may afterwards, in due season, aspire, and too wide a circle in the first instance might impair its efficiency, and prevent it from coming to full maturity. " The child is the father of the future man ;" and it is, perhaps, well that for the preseat its exertions should be directed ex clusively towards " the carrying out of the field allot ment system," while from its very style and title, " The Labourers' Friend Society," we may draw the happiest auguries for the future. Wherever the allotment system has been introduced and judiciously acted upon, its results have been most favourable, both morally and physically, to the parties who have been participators in its advantages. It has afforded a healthful and innocent occupation for those hours of idleness that might probably have been wasted in the beer-shop, or expended with worthless and profligate characters, to the deep and lasting injury of the uneducated labourer. Some occupation is ever necessary, and the nursery hymn that states that— " Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do," has had its truth attested during all times and periods. The possession of a certain plot of ground that he can call his own, the idea of property thereby oc casioned, the certainty that he will be permitted to enjoy it during good behaviour, "dum se bene gesserit," and that any aggravated offence or crime may incur a forfeiture thereof, has been of the greatest service to the poor man, and has ensured a degree of industry, a correctness of conduct on his part, that few other means have been sufficient to effect. A Select Com mittee of the louse of Commons has reported in the strongest manner in favour of its utility ; and with such powerful evidence on its behalf it is only sur prising that it has not already been brought into more extensive, we may say into universal, use. The statement of the Hon. and Rev. W. SCOTT cannot be passed in silence ; it speaks more eloquently in favour of the system than the most brilliant orator . '; it shows the rise and progress of the good work. That Rev. Gentleman said that— " When he entered on the living of Maiden Newton he was ironically congratulated on having got the worst parish in the country to deal with ; and he himself was no less than six times in that very court as a prosecutor. In the last three years, during which allotments had been in operation in his parish, he did not thick he had been seen there. In the first year of the allotments two con victions took place, and there were consequently two forfeitures ; but from that time not one out of eighty holders had committed any offence to call him up before a magistrate." Can there be a stronger testimony to its benefits ? It is not merely the addition to the bodily comforts, the affording a means of profitable employment during the dead season, when he would be unable to procure it from the farmer—it is not merely that the oc cupation of his leisure hours, which, with perfect faithfulness to his master, he could devote to the cul tivation of his allotment, would produce sufficient to support the labourer, if he were quite without wages for thirteen weeks in the year ; but there is some thing still more desirable and important,—it keeps him from crime, it brings his mind into a better state, it renders him more contented and happy, less exposed to temptation and firmer in his resistance thereto ; and many an humble but happy family may bless the day when the husband and father became a tenant of one of the land allotments. The benefit, too, is a cheap one, it can be conferred with little, if any, ex pense. The same rent that could be obtained from a fanner would be most gratefully and punctually paid by the labourer—what prejudice then has hitherto prevented its adoption ? Is it the fear lest the in crease of the population would also increase the poor- tion. rates ? The very possession of the allotment has in I almost every instance prevented the necessity of any application for parochial assistance, and has lessened the burden wherever it was brought into judicious operation. We hail the formation of the society with joy, because we conceive that it will do away with this unfounded prejudice—because it will set an example that will in all probability be extensively followed—because each individual member will to a certain extent be pledged to do all within his power in his own particular sphere for the amelioration of the condition of those dependent on him. Well might the Right Reverend Prelate exclaim that— " The association which they were about to found was but a practical mear.s of carrying out a higher law ; that they were in the path of duty when endeavouring by all means in their power to lighten the burden of poverty, to stimulate industry, to encourage honest ex ertion, to cheer depression, and, by raising the physical state of the labouring classes, to give a better oppor tunity for the cultivation of their moral natural and the development of their sFiritual being." Eight days later intelligence from America ar rived yesterday morning at Liverpool by the Royal Mail steam-ship Hibernia. From this intelligence, which is of a somewhat startling character, we may discern much that is immediately disastrous to Mexico, while we are disposed, nevertheless, to trace out in the very calamities which have just befallen her military indications of her ultimate advancement among the most flourishing republics in the new world. It is to be hoped that such anticipations may at least in some measure be realised, and that after her many decades of tribulation, Mexico may assume to herself that majesty and prosperity which she is so well calculated to attain, both by her geographical position and by the voluptuous prodigality of her climate. By the former qualification, if it may be so charac terised, Mexico is more adapted to become a gigantic, influential, and opulent nation, than any other terri tory in the western hemisphere. Situated in the southern portion of the northern continent, and con nected by the Isthmus of Darien with the northern portion of the southern continent, Mexico is the ne cessary receptacle of all the overland intercourse be tween the different inhabitants of America. By her numerous ports situated upon her eastern and western coasts, she commands both of the great oceans, the Pacific and the Atlantic, thereby facilitating her mercantile intercourse with the shores of Europe and Africa in one direction, with those of Asia in another, with the spice-islands in the Indian Ocean, and the numerous clusters situated in the southern seas. Beyond this the soil of Mexico affords oppor tunity for the accumulation of extraordinary wealth through the medium of cultivation. It does not, like the stubborn glebe of a more northerly region, require to be fattened by artificial manures, or to be stimu lated by incessant applications of lime; it requires neither a complicated irrigation nor an elaborate drainage, but emits a spontaneous vegetation, and that vegetation of the most profitable description. In addi tion to the capabilities offered by this embryo state, it may be observed that the national character is one which, despite its superficial degeneracy, presents ex traordinary facilities for a speedy and permanent im provement. The torpor and effeminacy of the Mexicans have been superinduced, not by centuries of domination and conquest, but by a protracted state of national quiescence : hence these are essentially remediable. From their very indolence the Mexicans are pliant in disposition ; they may be modelled to any state of excellence by a suitable government, and by being brought into such immediate intercourse with more civilised and thriving races as to be excited to exertion by a consequent emula- Mexico pssesses all the materials for a grand and enlightened people ; those materials only require to be fused by a correspondence with other kingdoms, and to be shaped by a judicious Legis lature. While the well-wishers of Mexico are meditating upon her possible re-organisation ; while they are actually recognizing in the minimum of her present enterprise the maximum of her future prosperity, the wily and unswerving invaders from the United States are vigorously availing themselves of their previous success©s for the realisation of yet more important Octories. Hardly have Texas, and California, and New Mexico yielded to the annexing influence of American generalship,lbefore the forces under General TAYLOR push forward to the battlements of Monterey, and after a gallant defence of five days by the garri son and auxiliary troops, commanded by General ANIFUDIA, render a formal capitulation on the part of the latter absolutely necessary. Although Monterey is taken, and AMPUDIA vanquished, it must not be imagined that this originated in anything like national poltroonery. On the contrary, we would especially direct observation to the gallantry evinced by the besieged army—a gallantry which is not merely suf ficient to redeem the Mexican soldiers from indis criminate derision, but which has even evoked the tacit acknowledgment of the conquerors. The particulars of this engagement at Monterey are the most interestin; that have hitherto reached us from the seat of war since the commencement of hos tilities. On the 19th of September General TAyLon, with a force amounting to 6,000 men, encamps at the Walnut Springs, a spot removed some three miles from the city. Monterey is reconnoitered im mediately upon his arrival, and arrangements made in accordance with the information thus acquired. On the 20th instant a futile attempt is made by a division under General WORTII to capture the heights overlooking the epis copal palace ; on the following morning the same endeavour is renewed with better success, while a di version is made in a different quarter by two other divisions, supported by the Tennessee,,Mississippi, and Ohio regiments. By the evening of the 22d considerable advantages are gained by the assailants, which advantages are materially increased during the subsequent day; but not until a quarter past five on the evening of the 24th—namely, five days from the commencement of the operations—is the capitulation extorted from the Mexican General. It would be preposterous to deny the vanquished army the credit of having displayed considerable courage and fortitude during this serious and protracted engagement. But, as a lasting testimony of the valour of the Mexi cans upon this occasion, we subjoin an epitome of the terms of capitulation given at length in another column ; and we are induced to call especial attention to these terms, because, from their remarkable and almost unparalleled lenity, they are a triumphant re futation of the sarcasms and aspersions latterly cast upon Mexico. The terms of the capitulation were— " That the Mexican officers should be allowed to march out with their side arms; that the cavalry and infantry be allowed to march out with their arms and accoutrements ; that the artillery should be allowed to march out with one battery of 6 pieces and 21 rounds of ammunition ; that all the other munitions of war and supplies should be turned over to a board of American officers appointed to receive them ; that the Mexican army should be allowed seven days to evacuate the city; and that the American troops should not occupy it until evacuated ; that the cathedral, fort, or citadel, should be evacuated at ten A.M., next day, 25th; the Mexicans th en marching out, the American garrison marching in; that the Mexicans should be allowed to salute their flag when hauled down; that there should be an armistice of eight weeks, during which time neither army should pass a line running from the Ranconada through Linares and San Fernando." Whether the Government of the United States will accede to these pacific stipulations or not, it is mani fest that a vast proportion of Mexico has already been wrested from her by the lawless aggression of an avaricious neighbour. Meanwhile SANTA ANNA maintains his preponderance in the internal legislation of the beleaguered republic. In his patriotism, the Mexicans have the true palladium of their aggregate independence as a nation, and their individual liberties as a people. If they consolidate their strength and place their reliance upon their present President, the fertile mountains of Mexico will not be trodden by a conquering army, and her people may yet emerge from this struggle with the Americans unscathed, and even invigorated. If the expenditure of money in Ireland for the employment of the people be confined to the making of new roads, or to the cutting down of old ones, the Irish people will only be temporary gainers, inso much as only the money to be paid to the labourers will be so much more money circulated in the neighbourhood where public works are under taken ; but, if the Government, by a judicious direc tion of the funds at their disposal, will drain some portion of the bog lands now lying waste, a large breadth of land will be rendered suitable for corn cultivation, and a large addition - will be made to the ment for the people. means of permanent emp i or d One instance of this liin( l . has been brought under our notice. An English Mi67lg Company have been working the mines of Rillibrieken, in the barony of Islands, county of Clare, seven miles from Ennis. These mines produce lead and silver ores, and about three hundred of the neighbouring pea santry are employed in the works during the summer months, and the monthly expenditure for labour is about five hundred pounds ; but as the mines are situated in the centre of a large bog district, when the winter rains descend the bog is overflowed by the streams, the water per colates through the peat, and the mines are filled with water. When this happens the mines cannot be worked, and the mining operations cease from the month of December until May —the peasantry, who, during the summer months, have acqttired industrial habits, are discharged, they fall back amongst the agricultural labours, and, as at this season of the year very little work can be given to them by the neighbouring farmer, much want and misery is felt by them. A sum of 3001. expended in draining the bog, and one or two of the adjoining lakes, would not only render nearly two hundred acres of land available for cultivation, but would cause the Killi bricken mines to be worked during all seasons of the year. Now, this is one of many cases in which an advance by the Government of the funds necessary for draining the bog lands would confer a permanent benefit upon the district, for not only would three hundred people be constantly employed, the country permanently benefited by the increase of cultivated surface, the habits of industry perpetuated amongst the labourers, but, also (what is much wanted in the western parts - of Ireland), a great increase to the circulating capital in a comparatively poor locality. We think this matter wants the attention of the Board of Works. Madrid papers of the 221 have arrived. According to the Heraldo, the decree dissolving the Cortes was to have been published on the 23d. It is said that Don ENRIQUE is about to return to Spain, and that the office of Lord High Admiral will be conferred on him. It was reported in Madrid that the Counts BOAIFIN and DAs ANTAS were marching on Lisbon. MADRID BOLSA, QCr . 22.—The Three Per Cents. were at 3ql l for cash, and the Four per Cen:r. at 211; the Five per Cents. at 21 1 Z, ; the Debt without Interest at tiN ; the Vales, 8%; and the Coupons, 201/. We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday. The Presse, the organ of the Tuileries, thus sums up the affair of the Montpensier marriage, and gives vent to its hatred of England, her institutions, and " French diplomacy - her people : has accomplished a work of the most lofty bearing. It has effected• this in the interest of the country, in the plenitude of its right, and with all the courtesy which a great nation owes to its allies. In the great interest of the country—and, we may add, in that of Spain likewise, which escap.•3 by that alliance, or rather by the renewal of its best alliance, from that political and commercial servitude with which England menaced her—France no longer apprehending that the rivalry which pursues her on the seas will place itself in her presence at the foot of the Pyrenees and threaten to bring down on her that spirit of revolution of which she is the evil genius. France is sure hereafter to find in Spain, where the worship of monarchy will long be perpetuated, a friendly power and a faithful guardian of her southern frontiers, and, if Spain succeed in recovering her ancient prosperity, and in resuming her rank in the world, an ally which may aid her some day to maintain the balance of power on the seas, so much compromised by the formidable force of England. France must find henceforth in the union which has been ac complished an advantage which cannot but ameliorate her position in the world. A struggle for influence has taken place in Spain between Franca and England, and France has been victorious. This reeeet alone would be of the highest importance, but this importance is in creased still more by the dissatisfaction manifested by England, and by the impotence of the efforts which she mukiplied in order to avert the check which she had not foreseen. The result is accomplished; and whatever may hereafter ensue, the crown of Spain shall not fall on the head of a prince devoted to the policy of Eng land. But France, whilst securing this result, has not violated any of the bases of public law in Europe. She has not interfered with that principle of the balance of power in Europe established 150 years since to secure the eternal separation of France from Spain. Shoutl events, impossible as far as human foresight can imagine, produce that confusion which Europe wished to prevent, the renewal of the renunciations which formerly served as a means would soon place the matter beyond the influence of any fears, still more now that Princes enjoy but a restricted power, and that the sovereignty h longs e principally to the two nations who assuredly would never consent to abdicate or confound their nation ality. Their separation is secured by force of events more powerful than any renunciation or any treaty; and Europe, which already found a sufficient guarantee in the fair-dealing of our Government, finds a still stronger security in the constitutional liberty of the two nations whose union she might fear. Nothing, therefore, has been done contrary to the law, or contrary to the inter est of Europe. Nothing, moreover, has been effected in violation of diplomatic courtesy towards England. The French Government would have sacrificed its personal convenience rather than depart from the provisional en gagements contracted with her ; but England herself departed from them, and so dissolved those en gagements. The introduction of a new candi date, a stranger to the royal house of the Spanish Bourbons--the efforts made by British diplomacy to effect the success of the candidate devoted to her interests—an intrigue on the point of being accom plished, promise given—this it ent discovered at the trusted vo in the engagements con tractedepvwel a i r s sy h e w d h, with moment the hh clearlywee when neFnr 'Thees contempthe.h Geffect( of that discovery was to free her from her engagement, and permit her to oppose, not an intrigue to an intrigue, but a negotiation as ho nourable as it was skilful to a manoeuvre as unskilful as it was perfidious. That was what caused her success and established her right, and what renders as ridiculous as odious those declamations which the British diploma tists have resorted to, and the manoeuvres which they put in practice, in order to oppose difficulties to an ac complished fact. What remains of all that at present ? The alliance is concluded ; but England has protested beforehand against the consequences of that alliance. She has declared that she would never acknowledge (the case arriving) the accession of the descendants of the Duke de Montpensier to the throne of Spain. That is ' to say, that she wished to leave a perpetual menace of war suspended over Spain and .an eventuality of universal confusion over Europ e. En gland loves to create situa. from lt oppo s i ng h er usurpat i on tions which cause nat ions to feel uneasiness respecting their future prosp ects, and wh ich, by occupying them at throughout hom e bases of the odious policy she pursues in Eastern India, and even in Europe ; and the admirers of her policy cite with enthusiasm the art with which pre v prevent them world. is on e o f t h e h a bi tual she succeeded, in 1815, in confining the states of the Continent within a net of internal embarrassments and eventual conflicts which would effectually prevent them from opposing her designs. But on this occasion this menace, which might perpetuate agitation in Spain by maintaining the hopes of all parties and of every pre i tender of every colour to the Government of that coun try, is so vain that England might have spared herself the odium resulting from such an act. To believe that Spain will force the daughter of her Kings to abandon the rights she possesses by her birth and by the consti tution of the country—to believe that Europe will expose itself to the chances of a new war of succession to re venge the discomfiture of a meddling Minister, whose name will sink into merited oblivion—would be an act Of insanity; and assuredly neither France nor Spain, nor Europe, need trouble themselves with such pretensions. But the most certain result, and in our eyes the best consequence, of this struggle, is the enfeebling of that exchisive alliance which for seine years past has placed France at the tail of England. It is the conclusion of all the sacrifices which the illusion of that alliance cost us. It is a term placed to the unpopulari t y which re sulted to the Government in consequence of the tenacity with which it adhered to that alliance. England has proved herself throughout this affair, and in the discus sions which ensued from it, so haughty, so insulting, so full of injurious and hostile intentions, that no person in France at pfesent—neither people, nor King, nor Minister —can retain any illusion on the impossibility o f ever establi s hi ng a cordial and sincere alliance between France and England. The veil which covered the eyes of the most blied has now fallen; and on the other hand, disembarrassed from the grasp of the cordial understanding, France comprehends that she ought to return to her natural alliances with the states of the Continent. And she comprehends it so much the better, that in this affair of the Spanieh marriages, where the interests of th e nation and the interest o the dynasty were equally engaged, she found in Europe that assent which England disputed with her, and that sincere benevolence of which England offered her the mere illusion. Such, in our eyes, for the present , is the most import ant result of this affair. The French Government demonstrated that it was not, as was believed, subservient to the will of England, and that it could breve her anger and her hatred in presence of a great national interest. The French Government has elevated the policy of France in the world, by causing her influence to prevail over that of England, We willingly per m it th e Opposition j ou rnals to bewail the rupture of the cordial understanding', so much the more as this rupture is hailed by public opinion with so much satisfacti on , t h at we ma y defy M. 'Tiers himself ever to re-est a bli s h an a lli ance whose rupture and whose fall excite such sent i ments am ongst us. The Opposition, moreover (and th a t i s one of the result s we ought to mention in termi nat i ng this discussion) , has manifested in this struggl e so little political instinct, and so few patriotic sentiments, that it will scarcely . ever recover from the merited discredit with which it is at this mo ment covered. In a word, a feet greet in its present consequences has been accomplished—accomplished within the limits of the law, and for the interest_at i _our country, and with all internatio nal courtesy. lyth vain menace for the future on the Part Qf EnZtaud—. a menace which, whilst injuring Spain in her dearest interests, will infallibly render the position of England in Spain more unfavourabh•—Eugland separated from 'France, and not having succeeded in dragging Europe into a hostile demonstration against us. Such are the present results of the affair. God only knows what may be the future consequences ; but if new cempli,..9.- tions are to be produced by it, law is on the iii' of Spain and on ours. The opinion of nations, and no doulA that of Governments, will be on the side of the law. The disgrace, and we trust the defeat, will be on the side of England. But, above all, may it please God that there may arise from the new situation in which this incident has placed our Government a new system of alliances which may at length unite all the nations of continental Europe in a common understanding against their com mon enemy, England I We were asked some days since what nations we would desire to see combined in this new cordial understanding, and why we inclined for an alliance between our country and Russia ? We wish to sum up in a few words our entire opinion on that subject. We are convinced that sooner or later a contest will tuke place between the Continent and that Power which uses it for her own purpose under favour of its divisions. This contest will be particularly a maritrne contest ; and now that the naval power of Spain is de stroyed, we see only Russia that can lend us that effica cious support in Europe which the United States are re serving for us in America. It is our opinion, in a word, that for the repose of Europe it is necessary that the colossal power of England be reduced, and that this power shall not fall except under the triple alliance which her three national enemies will one day form — namely, France, Russia, and the United States." The Commerce, which, equally with the Presse, disapproves of the entente cordiale with England, is equally opposed to an alliance with Russia, which the Presse has for some days past been advocating. "Do you know," asks the Commerce," what you would sanction by an alliance with Russia ? Ask that nation of fifty-four millions of men, held in the bonds of servitude and ignorance by a Sovereign who, to the all-absolute power of political chief, unites the intolerance of the supreme head of reli gion; ask the victims of Minsk and Poland, which has not yet, notwithstanding three partitions, and all the efforts of usurpers to denationalise it, become assi milated to the people which seized on its finest pro- vinces:' The Constitutionnel has a long article on the affairs of Portugal. The writer, who is evidently well acquainted with Portugal, thus describes the cha racter of the Count DAS ANTAS, the chief of the in surrection in the north : " The Count das Antas, then Lieutenant-Colonel Xavier, commanded at Terceira the sth battalion of chasseurs, which was the first to rise in favour of Donna Maria on the usurpation of Don Miguel, and which preserved that island for the cause of the Queen in spite of its inhabitants. He distinguished himself during the war of Don Pedro; was made a general, and commanded the auxiliary Portuguese force, which, in virtue of the treaty of the quadruple alliance, contended in Spain against Don Carlos. He returned to Portugal at the head of his troops at the moment of the war of the Marshals, and it was evident that the contest would be decided according to the part which he might take. Restrained by the bonds of past subordi nation to the Duke de Terceira, excited by the perspective of ambition, which was opened to him by serving the opposite party, he would become its arbiter, and the first military chief. This consideration decided him, and the Constitution triumphed. At a later period he took part in the compromise between the Chartists and the moderate Constitutionalists. Commanding at the present moment in the north, he has large means at his disposal, and has begun to make use of them in order to prevent his dismissal. He is a resolute man ; with ambition, without having too much, his decision consists in taking advantage of circumstances, and, above all, in not allowing his own position to be lowered. He is the friend of the soldier—the comrade of the chiefs —more truly the officer in authority than the marshals —and particularly so, from the fact of their not having been for a long period in immediate contact with their troops. It is impossible to know what is passing in the mind of a man tormented by continual alternations of power and reverses, heated by conflict, and having fre quently only a choice between supreme power and abso lute distress ; but if the Count das Antas has approved of the declaration of the Junta of Oporto, which pro claims the dethronement of the Queen, it can only have been under the influence of momentary anger, or from having been led on by associates who are evidently more ardent than himself." The writer then proceeds to speak of the conduct of the Court, and concludes the article in ' these words " How shameful is the conduct of these Polignacs, au petit pied; of these imitators of the Gonzales Bravos, of all these abortions of champions of absolutism, who thus place in peril a throne and country! Let us hope that their adversaries will have at once more force and more sense than them. One of the best things done by the Portuguese people was, when after having conquered the attempt at counter-revolu tion of the King and Queen at Belem, their regarding the madness of the act as expiated by its failure. Things were replaced upon their former footing, as if the es capade had never taken place; but such follies are dangerous; it is not prudent to tempt fortune too much. On the other hand, the Portuguese Liberals must know by their own example and that of Spain the dangers of excess. Monarchy, in a country where everything else has gone to dust, is the only common link; republican virtues are not to be created solely by the faults of a court. The Queen, and even the King, have good qua lities in spite of their blindness. The overthrow of Queen Christina did ,not profit Spain, and whilst Queen Christina was a foreigner, the Liberals of Portugal have, in the united names of nna Maria and liberty, fought for several years, and they have now the good fortune of being able to respect their princes, whilst struggling against the folly and madness of the Court. We wish them to have the wisdom which has been wanting in their adversaries." It was generally considered in the political salons of Paris that the Queen of PORTUGAL had acted throughout by the advice of the King of the FRENCH, and that the late counter-revolution was the result of a French intrigue, the object of which was to give France an opportunity of interfering by means of her vassal Spain in the affairs of Portugal. The inundations still continue, and cut off in a great measure the communications between the capital and the provinces. At Marseilles no Paris mail had been received for four days, in consequence of the inundation of the Loire and the Nievre. The inundation of the Rhone had subsided, and it was found that the railway bridge at Tarrascon had sustained no injury. The ilioniteur publishes the following telegraphic dispatch, dated Brest, Oct. 25 :- "La Somme, Loire, Allier, Recherche, Pilote, Cara vanne, and Jouvencelle have just sailed from this port ; the first three for Oceania, the two following for Senegal, and the last two for the West Indies." The Duke and Duchess of MONTPENSIER arrived at Bayonne on the 26th. Before the Duke quitted Madrid Queen ISABELLA presented him with the rich and splendid insignia of the Order of the Golden Fleece which was worn by her father on great occa sions, and also the sword which his late Majesty wore with them, the hilt of which is entirely set with diamonds, and the pommel of one large topaz. The alarming aspect of affairs in Portugal, aggra vating the gloom and apprehension caused by the Montpensier marriage, and adding to the unfavourable state of our money market on Monday, produced a considerable fall in prices on the Paris Bourse on Wednesday. The Three per Cents. closed at 82f. 70c. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 90e.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,248 f 75c; Rouen, 917 f. 50c.; Havre, 702 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 683 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 886 f. 25c. ; Vierzon, 582 E 50c. ; Bordeaux, 542 f. 50c.; Boulogne, 470 f. ; Troyes and Monte ' - reau 3501. ; Basle, 223 f. 75c. ; Fampoux , 400 f. ; Dieppe, 3551. ; Paris and Strasburg, 493 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 502 f. 60c. • Paris and Lyons, 5161 . 25 c. ; Lyons and Avignon, ; 495 f. Bordeaux and Cette, 480 f. ; Spanish Domesti c Debt, 33 1 %. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 29. Barbadocs, )4 -Boulogne and Amiens, IN-Calcutta and Dia mond Harbour, 4 p.-Dutch Rhenish, 5%-East Indian , 34-Great I n dian Peninsula, -Luxembourg, 1%-Namur and Liege. 35{, - Northern of France Constituted, 113 5 -Orleans and Bordeatuc, Over Yssel, 27 -Paris and Lyons Constituted, 5% -Rouen and Havre, 204-Sambre and Meuse. 4%. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Le Dicu et la Beyadi•re, that exquisite composition of Auber, in which plot, vocal music, and ballet have been combined with such marvellous felicity, presented us last night with several delditants. Mr. Rafter, who enacted the Unknown , is young and good - looking, and although his voice is neither very powerful nor very extensive, and his notes occasionally veiled, he is unquestionably an acquisition to the establishment. The other accession to the vocal troupe is Miss Messent, a pupil of the Academy. This young lady has a highly intelligent countenance, and although her dramatic action as yet displays inexperience, it is far from displeasing. Her voice is clear, her notes liquid and resonnant, and she sings with aptness, taste, and feeling. She displayed considerable facility as well A s power, withour resorting to that species of shouting to which our best English singers are so much addicted. The Bayadere was impersonnated by Mdlle. Adele Dubignon, who appeared to produce a highly agreeable impression on the audience. In figure, she is petite, with a winning look, and a highly graceful manner; her person is well formed, excepting perhaps too great an amplitude of the lower limbs —and withal she has the quality in a dancer—for present impression and for future promise—youth. Der pantomine without being vivid, is highly intelli gen t, an d i n her dancing there is variety anti effect, without effort. THE PENNY-A-MILE OMNIBUS SYSTEM.—Yester day, in consequence of the apparent success attendirg this experiment, a number of the old omnibus proprie tors, who have hitherto charged sixpence, started their vehicles at the r, duced rate, so that there are nearly thirty omnibuses carrying passengers from Hungerford market to Paddington for twopence each. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was firm, at the previous advance, although the accounts from Ame rica notice some relaxation in the speculation going for ward. Sales 7,000 bales, including 500 bales American on spec ulatien, and 500 for exportation. Shares were steady, though not active. The accounts from the United States, per Hibernia, are almost entirely occupied with the warlike operations in Mexico, which are again, despite rather a gallant re sistance, all in favour of Brother Jonathan. The markets for produce have been active again, and large shipments continued to be made to Europe. Respecting political affairs in British North America, the following is interesting :—" There has been no change in the heads of departments, forming the Execu tive Council or 'Responsible Government,' since the departure of Lord Metcalfe, excepting the appointment of Mr. Cayley as Inspector-General of Accounts, and the retirement of Mr. D. B. Viger, who was President of the Committees of the Executive Council : we have not heard of any other being appointed. " Some new signs of life, have, however, been shown on the part of the Ministry, who resigned in 1843, although they had a decided majority in the Assembly. The ensuing election put them i❑ a small minority, and they kept up a continued clamour and opposition during the two past sessions, without, however, proposing any thing in the shape of reform, of which w e had heard so much. They, in fact, sanctioned all the past expendi tures, in establishing which, they, indeed, had some share, when in power ; concurring in old and new taxes, and imposing new laws, and new burdens on the com munity." Upon the subject of the timber trade, we are advised by Messrs. Forsyth and Bell, of Canada, that " the winds, which in Augist and the early part of September were prevalent from the west, have changed, and for the last fortnight have brought up a very heavy fleet, about 300 having arrived since our last, and our port now is in full bustle and activity. " White Pine.—The accounts from Liverpool are to the 18th ult., when7a steady demand for wood goods was experienced, and prices had gradually advanced since spring lid to 2d. per foot on mostly every kind of square timber. This, with the tonnage now in port, and daily expected, would, in ordinary times, have been very perceptibly felt in our market ; but the heavy stock on hand in some measure neutralises the effect of the progressive advance in England, and many sellers are most anxious to realise. Still the sales have been on an extended scale, at prices varying from 3d to sid., in the raft, measured off." The accounts from India by the overland express bear out what was stated under this head when the pre vious arrival took place, and there seems to be a continued heavy appearance in the markets for im ported goods. In exports there had been a slight increase of business at' Calcutta, and the rate of the exchange was again lower. At Bombay the markets also were dull. Freights were tending downwards. The weather and the approaching Poojal holidays checked business, but as regards imports the stocks no doubt were too large. At a meeting of parties connected with the Indigo trade, it has been decided that the future sales shall be held in February and May, and that goods in second hands shall be separately catalogued. The Stock Market is to-day by no means in a better state than at the conclusion of business yesterday after noon, and it is certain that the nature of the intelli gence from Lisbon, Madrid, and Gibraltar, combined, made a decided impression here in encouraging Bear operations. Consols are now 94 to , being full per cent. lower than they were yesterday morning for imme diate transfer. Time bargains have been effected at 94i to 94k. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 94i to 95, a similar decline on the previous rates of this week. Exchequer-bills are almost nominal at Bs. premium. Bank Stock is worth 204 only, and India Stock 256 to 257. The Foreign Bonds all share in the decline. Spanish Three per Cents. are 364 , the Five per Cents. 251 ; Portuguese Converted, 381 to 40 ; and Mexican, 2li to 4. This is settling-day, and there are some rather con• siderable differences to make good. Shares have been generally well supported. There is a call upon North Staffords, and this makes them lower. French lines are dull. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Lank Stock .204 204 3 per Cent. Reduced Ann 5........ 93% 92% 93 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9 4 14% 94 1 4 94 1 % New 3 1 % per Cent. Annuities 95 1 4% 94% 95 95 Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 9 15-16 India Stock 256 257 257 India Bonds, 1,0001 — Ditto under 1,0001. South Sea Stock 16 p Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities Consols for Account 9 4 % 1 4 1 / 2 1/s 94% Exchequer Bills, 10001. 1 Ad.... B— p 11 p Ditto, Small , ... ... 812— p 12 p ONE FRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 Ditto. Account Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto 3 per Cent. ..... —...... Ditto, 4 per Cent Ditto, Account. ..... ......... Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account . 2SV, Ditto. 3 per Cent 3 6 1 /a % Ditto, Account . 36%% Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4% per Cent . 97 JI Belgian, VA per Cent 54 54 Dutch, VA per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 91% 91] CLOSING PRICES 40% 39' 38 25 3 4 25% 3 363/4 7 PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING 11 1 /..ILWA Y SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen .. 20 Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%.. ... 21 2%% 2 Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% Aylesbury and Th ame .. 1% Belfast & County Down 4% Birmingham and,Dudley 42 5 . ... Birmin. and Gleucester-100 Ditto New 17% Birmingham and Ox- • ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 2% Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. — Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... ------- Bristol and Liver. June.. 2% -- .. —_, . Buckinghamshire Caledonian 2% ..... 2% 8 2 4 5 5. .. ..... .. 23 % % d 2 1 2 53 / 4 2311 . . 314 23 d % is. 42s Chester Half s G S r h a a n r d e s June... . . . Ca D m i b tto rimi 2 Churnet and Blythe and Holyhead 2 7 1 / .2 — Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltenham and Oxford 2 ClydesdaleJurction- ..• 20 Cork, Blackvock, and Passages Cork and Killarney ... 21 % Cork and Waterford ... 11 / 2 — Cornwall - 5 ..... Ditto, Half Shares ... 2% ...... —. Cornwall & Cent'l Devon 25 , %. 1 'erby and Crewe 2 Direct Lincoln, East Ret ford, and Sheffd. June. 2% — Direct Northern Direct Norwich 1 Dublin and BelfastJunc. 10 Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin. and Galway..... 4 Dundalk & Enniskillen 10 Eastern Counties 141. 16s 22 % 14 22 ..... Ditto New l2l. 16s 7% p ............ Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....... 6/. 13s. 4d — Ditto ditto. No. 2... 6/. 13s. 4d — ..... . ....... Do., York Extension.. 2 EastDereh'm andNorich 1 Eastein Union Ditto, Quarter Shares 8% — Do. Exten.(Harwich) i 11...... Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2% ......... ...... .... East Lancashire Ditto. New East Lincolnshire ....-• 11 74 •••••• East & West of England 1%..... Edinburgh and Gl asgow 50 ...... 73 74 Ditto Half Shares ... 10 Ditto, Quarter Sh ares 12% ....., 18 Edinburgh & Northern.. 10 .. •••• Edinburgh and Perth... 3 ...... ...... ... Ely and Hunti ng d on ... 7 1 ..... . .... 7 Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% ...... -s Exeter,Yeovil,& D orse t 5% ...... Glasgow, Kilmar.,& Ay r 50 Ditto, New .. 15 , Do., l i ..... Shares (5 per cent. guar.) ... ..... 12 1 / 2 .., ... Glouc.,Abei y s t w ith, an d Central of Wales ...... 15g...... - - Goole, Doncaster, &c. .. 425. Grand Union (Notting and Lynn l% —.. ...... ..... Great Eastern &Western 2y 2 — •. •• GreatGrimsby and Shef field • Great South. an d W est (Ireland) Great Mu ns t er 2% ...... Great North of Scotland 2%...... Great North o f E ng l an d..loo 236 Ditto New 5 Ditto, New . Ditto, New Great Western B5 138 Ditto % Shares 5O . 79 Ditto I% ShareF. Ditto Fifths Ditto, New ••• 2 Hull and Selby 5O Ditto 1 4 Shares Do. Half Shares Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 11% Do., dc , and Norwich 2 th...... Killarney Junctions l4 - ............ .. Kendal and Windermere 11• A _ Lancaster and Carlisle... 45 Do. New Lame, Belfast, and 13a1- lvmena Leeds and Bradford 3O ...... 74 733% .. ...... Leeds and Carlisle Leicester & Birmingham 225. — „. ........ -.- Leicester and Bedfad 22s. — Leeds and Dewsbury ... 2218 — LpooL, Mnchstr & New- castle Junction Liverpool and Bury 14 . London and Blackwall. 16/ 135.. 4d. Do. New Ditto Extensio n -• ........ ••• lorich,n, Brighton, and South Coast 5O .. .. 59 % 59 Ditto, Fifths 50% 22', 2% 22 7% p 3% 18 8% 194 31 7% 10% 73 3 / 4 59% London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 21% ............... ..... Do. Guaran. 5 per cent. 9 London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d — ............... .-- Do. Preference ...18117s 2d — ............ London, Hounslow, and --- Western - ••• .... " '' 199 London aril N. Westernloo 198% 199...•••••. 23 Do. Quarters „. * 2 - 16% Do., an., New Shares.. 2 Ditto Fifths ..... .... 2 Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12% — .- ... -. ........ Do., New IA Shares ... (. J.) _ Do 40/. Shares(L. M.) 8 Lond. & S.Western 411 6a 10d .— ...... •••• Do. New Cons01. Bths 40 , Do. New Do. New • 18 ••• • ............. London and York 2 14 IS .......••-•••' Do. % Shares London and Windsor . IA ... . - .......... • London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ...... ... ..... Londonderry & Coleraine 12%...... ....- ........ Londonderry and Ennis kilien .. 12% — ...... •'•••••• Lynn and E:y Lynn and Dereham Manchester and Leeds .. 82 Ditto % Shares Do. Quarters Do. Fifths . - 3 . .... 8%............ Do. Sixteenths ... 614 — ..... - ........ Do. Extension 42s. Manchester and Birmin. 40 - ............ .. Do. Quarters (A) 5 ...... .............. Do. Quarters (B) Do. Quarters (C) 1 Manchester,Buxton,and Matlock 425...... % p ............ Manchester, Birm., and. Mould Junction ..... ...... ........ . ..... Manchest. & Southampt. 2 ...... 1 ........... ••• Midland Do. Fifths Do. New Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Midind& East. Counties 2% — 3 -4112 ............ .- ............... .:......... Midland Great Western Irish Newcastle and Berwick 20 i Do. North Shields ... 25 NewcastleandCarlis1e...100 NOW me: et &Chesterfrd 2/.12s — p.... ... ........ Newport & Ahergavermy 2% — .............. Newry and Enniskillen 4% — ........ ... ... Newark, Shahid, and. Boston ... - ~. 1%.. Norfolk .. lOO l3O .........•••••' Do. Half Shares ..... 7 Do. Extension , ••'' ; 13 1 i North British . ....... 25 ...... 35 1 4... ..• ........ Do. Half Shan s • 11 ...... ..••„••••' ~. . Do. Fifths 5 ••. ...... Do. Quarters .... Do. Extension 5/ 5...... ...••• ...... Northern and Eastern Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45 • — ......... Do. Quarter Shares... 12% — ...... : ....... Do. New - •—• ...... ' ' North Staffordshire 425....,„ 1% 2 1 3 4 P•'' . ... -• North Wales " 3% — . ....... Northern and Southern Connecting Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton - ............... Oxford, ''W nney, and Cheltenham.... Portsmouth Direct Prt s ton and Wyre, Do. 1 4 Shares Reading, Guildford, and . •••• Reigate , 3/. 12s. — dis. ...... Richmond 15 Royston and Hitchen ... 1% — .....• .. • ..... Scottish Central Scottish Midland 12% — .......... Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Potteries, andCrewe... 1% — ............... Sheffield & Manchester 100 Do. Quarter Sh ar e s ... 8 Do. Lincolnshire J une . 1/ .................. .. . . „, 4 ..... Do. & Great Grim s by. 10 •• ....... 5' i Do. do. Extension 425. .... ..... •-••• '''' , i 0 __l4 ................... ............... ,d., Shrewsbury and Birm... 3 .... . 3% •••• ........ A .... Shropshire Union ..- Shrews., Wolverhamp., .• / &S. Stafford.sh. thine. 2% ..... .. ..... ' Sligo and Shannon South Devon... South & Midlands June. 4 31 2 2 ! - ... --- ..... ............................... : 0 . 5 / C South Staffordshire June. 2% —.. ......... . 0 South Eastera & Dover. 33% 3 7 14 -., ....... .... . ii Do., No. 1 2G Do., No 2. Do., No. 3 ..„, •• Do., Ne. 4 St.Alban's, Hattield,and 2% Hertford Junction ~, Staines and Richmond 1 Staifordsh. & Shropshire 2 3 / 4 — ................. South Wales ..... ...... ... 5 .., Swans. & Loughor & Ca- • / meron's Stm. Coal. ... 2 .. ..• ... '.. . .. ... Taw Vale Extension ... 2 Tring, Reading, and , .. ~ Basingstoke „,„ Vale of Neath 2. Wakefield, Pontefract. & - ~ ~ Goole 221,E — ... ......... „.• Warwickshire & London 42 5 . ...... ••• .... / Warwick and Worcester 425. -, — .............. / Waterford and Kilkenny 11 . .."'"' Waterford and Limeri c k 22% ........ -'' •-• W ' N V 7 and a at t W aterf ord, f r Dublinrod r ‘ d l , ' Wexford, xfr d.11.rV.. e' k a. n 1 7 ; 1 %•. . . 1 ..................... / Valentia Waveney Va11ey ......... 2 Ii elsh Midland West Riding Union 4 2 2 51 6. ...... •• ••''' : 1% '! P' .. ..• West Cornwall •„ ........ WestLondon,Old Shares 20 .• .. „. Wexford and Carlow ... 214 — .......... Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth Worcester, Warwick, and ..... •'' Rugby York and Carlisle ..... • 2% — --- • . ..•• York and Newcastle...... 25 ... . 42 1 74 41 3 4 •' ~ Ditto New 1)o. Preference ...... 2 .....„ 6 5 3 / 4 .......... .. York and North Midland 50 Ditto 1 4 Shares .. 25 Do . Scarboro' Branch. 25 ~,,..0 Do. Selby 4O .. ,*•,-;'' ,• Do. Extensi on 2O ....„„. 39 ti 4 v ........, • Ditto, Preference ... Do. East and West Rid- ...... ~ •• ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAY• . ••• Anglo-Belgian Barbadoes 1 - ....... '. •••'' Belgian Eastern Junctn, 2 1 / 2 Boulogne and Amiens... 16 ...... •.. Bordeaux & Medite rran . 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and .... •'" Cette (Mackenzie'5)... 2 ~ Do. (Espelete's) Calais, Dunkrk, and West Flanders Calcutta and Diamond • •••''' Hirbour ....... .. ..... . 7a. ...... .. Callao, Lim a , an d Pacific ...... ~ ..... Coast • ..,••• Central of Spain ,„ ... ..,. Ceylon .. .... ss. Demerara' 2% ...... -•• ....... .•"°' . Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and ...• '' Madras - .„,..• • ...e.. Dutch Rhenish East Indian ... ..... .... Fampou ss, .., ... ~.„ x.& Hazebrouk ' .....• 1 3 G p / / ...... / • • . ...... ,r .•~~~ ~ u. Great Indian Peninsularss 4 ---- ..... .... ..::.' Great Western Bengal... 5•;. ****** ' '''''' . ... Great ..is.d ..2 C . jni. a .u n bn. a r.c d .e t a . i0. .... n. . 3 461 1 : ____ _l?,.3::: .................................... _. ••• ..., Italian and Austrian.... 4 . - " ...... '''... I L jj Aix ea o rsm uv e ea ii c in b a : S iL Lyons and Avignon - 2 ...••• Madras ...... 1 ~ Madras, Nellore, and ••• Ma A d re ri o d t and Valentia.... 2 ... " .............. Mauritius .. - ..... ...." .....,..,. .. Namur and Liege Nn of France Constituted 5 •••••• ''''... • ".. .... .• • ..„ North Jamaica... 1 Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ..•••• 7 1 /-•• -.. •••••• Over Yssel 4l3s 4d — " .... .'"...' Paris SE Lyons Constituted 5 .... ~, Paris and Orleans • Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg ...... ‘,. Constituted ....;g „...%, Rouen and Havre •''' • Sambre and Meuse ...... 10 ... 4•-. 0 .. • Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 . --. ........ St. Laurence & Atlantic - ' ..... ' • Tours and NanteP Con- ~.•' .... • .. stituted . .. , 5 Tournay, Jurl.,ise, La; den, and Ilasselt. 8 . • ' ...... •••• Trinidad ..... . 3..""... ... ..,... 2 7 4 West Flanders .. ..... —• ..... , A JOINT STOCK BAN KS ' Australasia British North American 50 ...... ---,.,*". ".... "I Provincial of Ireland 4 0 ; .. 4.4 0 1 M1NE5.......... seal del Monte Unregd t Weste r° A ) Erratum—ln Yesterday's List, Gite___ .... .. a— nrl' --.-,.......,,,,, WO ~0v LLOYD'S SH IP PIN G.-- -( ',.. 0 0 0 ' e . , LONDON, OCT. 30.—Wind this dal A " 4fit.nt ,f i;P i "-- light breeze, and hazy. ' Mon , 00 1 . ~,,j o i COWES, OCT. 29.—The Spring, gang o f 0 0 0 ,ifw„ Hamburgh, arrived here to-day with 10 0 001 . riw leaky in her upper works, and part of catig 100. 4 f 0 " o r in a violent gale on the 7th inst., 'at' 43, reCX ° Oil A i rip ° the 12th, in lat. 44, lon. 34, passed the n „in „ h i', ~, Rewardr,:s::::::o,, 7lie about 400 tons, waterioggod, with loss. n,.,:;, f ith s o l4 of: , masts ; foremast and bowsprit painted hlnciiforo P oto t "t o t The Forager (barque), of London frer n s i o ltinf b e Sj ei!,l, port, was abandoned, dismasted, and in a ire d bi: it' l o l 18th ult., lat. 32 N., lon. 75 W. ; crew sa pidcl il lesi t i j P I , MUMBLES, OCT. 27. - The Mary •Anu: d o, has . 41 01 4' on the rocks near the lighthouse yest e ' t 0 . tlf til apparently without material damage' The O'S: 21.; DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN, OCT. 28 ,- .6, Be sl "' / (ff Belfast, was put on shore at Fiesil l e, 04 04 A crew, except a boy, saved ; is dischargl 4 3, ben 4i 7+ GALWAY, OCT. 27.—The struck on the Feenish Rock, near the So II k forl?, .10 4 yesterday, and sunk ; crew saved %To Tor of fo rd ) 1 0 OFF PORTLAND, 0CT.26.•-•alUn 13°" ronl ici r tl u ct S s i i ; 1 1/ ' in DUNDALK, gein toeeoacrye.e2te7r.d—ay'l:hetoßokriatub? gs in pe d. 1, . ~,tte, Point, and will remain until the spil_n, ic...-Arbriesn' 'dill` LIVERPOOL, OCT. 29. Wind cast o r : soy vi ol 90 0; Barbara, Rio Grande; Indiana, C°l Davies , he o'o Li liFittj being aground in the river; General St' Stey oa ra' i d ', Hibernia steamer, Boston ; Ven,l 'prine"" Oral/ 'O r Wiseman, Sbediac • Caroline, We's ' T holes , si r d __, William Ward, gal ey , Quebec ; zie, ditto. „ lag ers 'meson, Ellis, ditto; Acadia, 51 P lit Caere, Ilitynutith ; Walter, Foutov. 4 I 4 . /