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MISS BURNEY'S DIARY. the INFANTA. would tend very marvellously to the Now ready, VOLUME VI., embellished with a Portrait of Madame affssrandisetnentsof the regal importance of the Orleans de Steel, of nn THE DIARY AND LETTERS OF dynasty ! Surely, this sacrifice of ,the, wishes t , the MADAME D'ARBLA Y.. snterests,l and possibly the heart's blood .of a free Authoress of " Eveliva," &c. EDITED BY IIER NIECE. people, 'simply ',for - the domestic advantage of the Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received by all Booksellers. grandson of t Egaliti, is but a sorry consummation of thundying . princtples and, prodigious struggler of the Prenchsßevolutioni 7: Surely it is the tacit abnega tion of all those glorious concessions to the majesty of the )eople which were then obtained at the cost of so much blood, and with'the exercise of such..gigantic powers ! It is but a sorry sequel to the 'first brilliant achieve ment of the' present monarch of France. It is not well to see the same man gambling away the inde pendence of a great nation for the selfish end of his own family emolument who, as the Due DE CHAR TRES, fleshed his sword so bravely in the charges of Jemappes under the banners of DUMOURIER. King Louis PIIILTFPE should have conned over the lesions imparted by the history of his own country before be embarked upon this dangerous enter prise. He should, as every conscientious So vereign does, have read the records of his people, and have been warned by the blun ders of his imperial predecessors. Had he suffi ciently weighed the precedents of Gallic interference in the affairs of Spain, he would have been more cautious in hazarding the same species of catastrophe upon a similar enterprise. Possibly, the upholders of the recent policy of the French SOVEREIGN may regard these objections to that policy as of a rather penultimate character. Not so. The marriage has undoubtedly been solemnized. Telegraphs and couriers have unquestionably conveyed the intelli gence to Paris. Bonfires have been kindled round the Pardo, guns have been fired from the Escurial, flowers and perfumes have been scattered upon the sacred pavements of Atocha, in honour of this illustrious occurrence. The infanta LUISA. is now Duchess of MONTPEN SIER. So far, the wishes of Louts PninusrE have been realised—so far, his insatiable lust of political influence has been gratified. But, observe the con comitants of these proceedings, and behold the prospects of woe which gloom through this hollow jubilation. The sullen and ominous silence of the multitude assembled in the streets of Madrid on the entrance of the French Princes, the seizure of refrac tory newspapers, the bayonets and artillery that bristled round the carriage of the foreign bridegroom, the se verities which preceded his arrival at the capital, the unseemly rapidity with which the nuptials were solemnized—everything betrays the indignation of the Spanish populace, and the sense of insecurity which had taken possession of the minds of the contracting parties. Nor does the silly attempt at assassination by OLAVAIIIETTA sufficiently account for the extraordinary pre cautions taken by the gendarmerie for the preserva tion of the life of the Duc DE MONTPENSIER. Statements the most garbled have disgraced the Ministerial journals of Paris, evidently written with an anxiety to delude the popular imagination. Such incidents as the determination of the Ayunta mientos of Madrid to cause the marriage of twelve orphans with liberal dotations, in commemoration of the royal espousals, have been vaunted in terms of amazing exultation ; while others,,such as the refusal of the Ayuntamientos of Burgos to dispatch a congratu latory deputation, have been slurred over as of not the smallest importance. This ministerial hypocrisy will, however, prove of no ultimate advantage. The desti tute condition of Ireland, the implied apathy of the protesting nation, and the embarrassments supposed to threaten our Indian possessions, will not, as is presumed, shield France from the diffi culties her rulers have themselves originated. In relation to these imaginings, we would especially remind the Ministerial press of Paris, that churlish ness is not logic, that parade is not triumph, and that, though Colonel BLOOD could bear a regalia away in his pocket, it would be somewhat difficult for any one to commit a burglary upon a constitution, or to carry off, surreptitiously, the affections and obedience of a people. SECOND EDITION OF FRANCATELLI'S " MODERN COOK. This day is published, a New Edition of TH E MODERN C OOK. By CH ARLES ELME FRANCATELLI, Pupil of the celehrated areme, an l late Maitre d'llotcl and Chief Cook to her Majesty the Queen. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. (Publi,hcr in Ordinary to her Majesty.) THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CLXX., Was published yesterday. CONTENTS :- 1. PROPOSALS for EXTENDING the IRISH POOR-LAW. 2. SPEECHES and WRITINGS of the late LORD KING. 3. GROTE'S HISTORY of GREECE. 4 LIVES of EMINENT ENGLISH LAWYERS—LEGAL EDU CATION 5. STATE and PROSPECTS of BRITISH AGRICULTURE. 6. GOVERNMENT of BRITISH INDIA. 7. RAILWAYS at HOME and ABROAD. London : Longman and Co. Edinburgh : A. and C. Black. RAILWAY SIIALtF.S BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TIIEODAT and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates mast be deposited, the day previous to their being offered ; alid advises of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds lmme di ttely disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. TITEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE, THIS EVENING Will be performed Balfe's celebrated Opera, entitled THE MAID OF ACTOIS. Marquis de Chateau Vieux, Mr. Borrani; Jules de Montagnon, Mr. W. Harrison; Sans Regret, Mr. Burdini ; Synnelet, Mr. Weiss; Ninka, Miss Isaacs; Isoline, Madame Anna Bishop. To conclude with a new Ballet, in two acts, entitled TIIE OFFSPRING OF FLOWERS. In which Messrs. Howell, Bretin, Theodore, 3ldlle. Fabbri, Madame Theodore, and Mdlle. Adele will perform. THEATRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET. Under the Management EVE of Mr N . NG B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS I Will be performed a New Comedy, in three act!, entitled QUEEN MARY'S BOWER. Principal characters by Messrs. Webster, Hudson, Howe, Brindal, Braid ; Miss Fortescue, Mrs. Seymour, &c. During the evening the Band will perform " Les Mousquetaires de la Reins" (Overture) ; " Old English Airs" (Fantasia); and the " Musketeers" (Quadrille). After which a new Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord Courtington. Mr. Hull; Sir Arthur Lovel, Howe ; Scoreup, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckingham ; Mrs. Scoreup, Miss Julia Bennett. To be followed by the Farce of NICOLAS FL AM. Nicolas Flam, Mr. W. Farren ; Shrimp, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Puddicom be, Mrs. W. Clifford. To conclude with a Sea-side Sketch, called THE FORTUNE HUNTER ; or, A Morning at Marff.tte. Captain Mountgarret, Mr. Hudson; Griffin, Mr. Tilbury; Bompas, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Griffin, Mrs. W. Clifford. Box-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of Mr. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING The' last Week of " The Magic Horn." The performances will commence with a New Comic Drama, TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Principal characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Meadows, and Keeley; Mrs. Woollidge, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Hicks, Miss Turner, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, a new Farce, called WHICH MISTER SMITH ? Characters by Messrs. Vining, F. Mathews, Emery, Bellingham, Butler, Collier, Mrs. Woollidg,e, Miss Grove. and Miss Turner. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Melodramatic, Romantic, Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, founded on the Opera of " Oberon," entitled THE MAGIC HORN. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Kinlech, Collier, Yarnold, Bender, Silver, Richards, and Keeley; Miss Keeley, Miss Villars. Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woollldge, Miss Arden, Miss Forster, Miss Laidlaw, Miss Bromley, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be presented a new domestic drama, entitled EUGENIA CLAIRCILLE ; or, The New Nand Home. Frederick Stan more, Mr. Worrell; Mr. Ragleigh, Mr. Cullenford ; Toffey, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Buzzard, Mr. Lambert ; , Hugh Matlock, Mr. 0. Smith ; Pegg, Mr. Munyard ; Mrs. Toffey, Mrs. F. Matthews ; Eugenia Claircille, Madame Celeste. After which, a new Extravaganza, in two acts, called THE JOCKEY CLUB. The principal characters by Messrs. Paul Bed• ford, Wright, Redmond Ryan, 17 , elby, Waye, Mitchenson, &c. ; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. F. Matthews, Misses Ellen Chaplin, Harding, Fleming, Turner, Taylor, &c. To conclude with the popular Barletta of TAMING A TARTAR. Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar; Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wright, Selby, WorrelL &c., will sustain the principal characters. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Last Night of Madame Vestris and Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Comic Drama, in three acts, entitled LOVE'S TELEGRAPH. Count Theodore, Mr. J. Vining ; Arthur de Solberg, Mr. C. Mathews ; Baron Pumpernickel, Mr. Compton ; Princess Blanche, Madame Vestris ; Alice, Mrs. Hughes ; Mar suerite, Miss Emma Stanley. After which a New Drama, entitled A CURIOUS CASE. Twiggleton, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mrs. Aubrey, Mrs. Stirling. . . ._, To conclude with Sheridan's Drama of .. THE CRITIC ; or, A Tragedy Rehearsed. Slr Fretful Plagiary and Puff, by Mr. Charles Mathews. The other principal characters by Messrs. Runner, Ryder, Compton, Oxberry, Harris, Wynn, Courteney ; Miss Emma Stanley, Mt Somers, Miss Homier, No. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakspere's Tragedy of MACBETH. Macbeth, Mr. Macready ; Macduff, Mr. Cooper ; Banquo, Mr. Murray ; He- Cate, Mr. Neville ; First Witch, Mr. Saville ; Second Witch, Mr. Webb ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Ternan. To conclude with the favourite Drama of THE CHARMING ror,Ly. Principal characters by Messrs. Neville, Webb, lieslop, Saville, Fredericks, Tyndall ; Miss Richardson, Mrs. W. Daly, and Miss E. Terrey. Hoz.ofilce open from eleven till four o'clock. Great emergencies compel a recourse to extraordi nary means to overcome transitory and unforeseen difficulties. The functions of a Government are pri marilyduty of an is to take e x t e h c e ut i iv ni e character. tiativein Their egislati next gu a p t chief upon nalt matters of important public interest. This duty is best performed when the Executive are successful in anticipating the wants of the people. Inasmuch as Parliament is not always assembled, and also because, even when it is, legislation is frequently a tardy pro cess, the Government are authorised in many in stances by orders in Council, to check an evil, which, without such intervention, would prove highly in jurious to the country ; and again, such is the imper fection of human wisdom, that Ministers, overtaken by unexpected embarrassments of vast national con cern, have frequently, and with marked wisdom, either exceeded a particular law, or altogether set it aside upon their own responsibility, trusting to Parliament to indemnify them for their several or collective acts. We have recently had a notable instance of this policy in the conduct of Lord BESBOROUGH. The defects of the Labour-rate Act for Ireland were peculiarly manifest. The Lord- Lieutenant, warmly pressed by all the leading men in Ireland to extend its operations, has adopted the recommendation upon his own responsibility. But, although this is a wise resolution, yet it is not to be doubted that it would have been infinitely better in the Government to have concurred in the propriety of its adoption much earlier than they did. Much of valuable time has beep lost by the delay, and we are so much behind hand in carrying out the necessary means for mitigating the alarming consequences of the heavy visitation that has fallen upon Ireland. The evils the Administration had to cope with lay glaringly on the surface, and weeks ago not a moment should have been lost by them, in either convening Parliament for the necessary powers, or in assuming them, as they have at length done, upon the faith of future indemnity. This was precisely a state of things where energy and boldness on the part of a Government could have been most happily and efficaciously exhibited ; instead of which, the Cabinet have failed, to a great extent, in - what is an invaluable portion of their duty, the anti cipation of the wants of the community, first, by not having passed their Labour-rate Bill so as to autho rise and include theinvestment of capital in reproduc tive works in Ireland, and next by the procrastina tion they permitted previous to curing this defect in the way we have alluded to. Delay is often tanta mount to destruction, and exigencies will not stand still whilst numerous public meetings are being as sembled to indicate to the Executive the adequate steps to be adopted for warding off great and im pending calamities. The celebrated PITT, was in the habtiit of having closeted with him the loading mercan tile men, and by these means was eminently success ful in legislating in due season fur the security of conanercial harmony. Last year Sir ROBERT Psirn, fully alive to the then existing and greater prospective distress in Ireland, was prepared to open the ports, and subsequently stai:ed is Parliament, that had his colleagues not coincided with his own'views, he was fully prepared to -undertake the entire responsibility of that and eve... 7 other means for averting the horrors of famine that menaced to shadow the length and breadth of the sister isle. We have been led to these observations in conse quence of an important memorial that has been ad dressed to Lord)Jousi RUSSELL by the working classes of Manchester, at a public meeting which they :held in'theif Town-hall on Tuesday last. They have entreated the Government to call an immediate Council, to throw open the ports of the United Kingdom to all kinds orvrovisions, free of duty. We ,--- trust the Cabinet ss ill promptly accede to their re quest. The rise in the price of bread has within a short time become nearly equivalent to three- 1 fifths of its entire cost. The consequence is, that the receipts of the general tradesman are seriously diminished, and the home market for manufactures is already in a languishing condition. But what should determine the Govern ment in favour of the memorialists is, that, by the stat)stics presented at their meeting, it would appear t.hereks an abundance of food in the country, and that, therefore, the enhanced price of bread is attri butat ile to speculation. We blame not the mono polisilng.holders of corn ; they have a light to use their. capital as they think most advantageous to ther aselvea ; but we ...shall view it as a matter of serf jus culpability if, when famine and crime are ASTLEY'% ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. FIRST WEEK OF THE WINTER SEASON. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and Royal Family. By special desire, Lord Byron's „THIS E pa," f NINGor twelve nights only. VE Will he performed the Dramatic Spectacle of 3IAZEPPA, AND THE WILD HORSE. After which, brilliant feats of HORSEMANSHIP. Herr Amodio Neupert, from Amsterdam, the extraordinary Bottle Equilibrist, and other Novelties. Mr. BATTY has much pleasure in announcing that he has effected engagements with several continental artistes :—Messrs. Joseph Paul Cone, Lorentz Wolff, Roseline Wolff, Polaski, with the po pular vaulters, Messrs. Henderson and T. Lee, who will appear lit rapid succession. In active preparation, a new Equestrian Spec tacle and Dramatic Romance, of unequalled effect, performing with Immense success in Paris. Box-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at sir and c.anmence atoseven o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 16. T i t:MANOMETER, Lowest, 49; Highest. 55 ; Noon, 52, BAROMETER, 29 03.—WIND S.S.W., showery. HIGH: WATER AT w LoNDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morninc minutes after —. I Evening .. 15 minutes after 12. haunting as on all sides, the servants of the Crown should rot ,put an end to the roxicus system of gambling which is being carried on in the chief article of human food. Let the ports be promptly I opened ; it will immediately once more Fle.ce the loaf within the reach of the starving poor, arrest the hand of crime, enliven commerce, and speedily dispel the gloom which is hourly pervading every portion of her MAJESTY'S dominions. We have news from Geneva of the 12th. The Provisional Government was conducting affairs in the most orderly manner, and the canton was per fectly tranquil. The party in the ascendant do not appear disposed to abuse their victory. The Revue de Geneve, which is conducted by M. JAMES FAZY, the chief of the revolutionists, contains an article strongly condemnatory of a proposition which had been made in an anonymous paper circulated through the city for the formation of an exceptional tribunal for the trial of those members of the ex-Government who hail ordered the troops to fire on the people. 111airid papers of the 9th have arrived. The He rald(' says--- Two days ago it was reported that the British Go vernment had sent in another energetic note against the consequences of the marriage of the Infanta; but yester day we were assured on the contrary that Queen Vic toria. had written a very satisfactory letter to Louis Philippe, in reply to one which she had received from him. The rise of the funds here yesterday is attributed to this annnuncenient." The same journal, in allusion to the man who had been arrested on a charge of attempting to shoot the D uc DE MONTFENSIER, says there are various rumours as to who he is, but it is disposed to attach credit to a report that he is the brother of one of the tutors of the daughters of Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA, and that he is insane, and will probably be confined in one of the lunatic asylums. Mr. BULWER returned to Madrid on the evening of the Bth, and on the same day Mr. COBDEN arrived in that city. MADRID BOLSA, OCT. 9.—The Three per Cents. were done at 35% for cash ; the Four per Cents., 21 1 A ; the Five per Cents., at 22; the Debt without Interest, at 6%; and the Coupons, at 201 A. . •±,%., . '7.7...z'- . -,--,--- .. , k .... 4, ~.., ~..... ,„ ,• , s avour wit y -.,::.,-,t , -- * air • ..€/.:1,4, - .,.-: • . ' , ..71r.up 41.. - mi, • ~ ,;i:0d, 4 4 , -- ,:,;.....,..c ancr ov-, , flLtirrninit Jnt LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1846. Congratulations are, doubtless, being reciprocated in the Conservative - Cabinet of Versailles. Never, however, has there been less'cause fur congratulation in the French Government since the glorious revolu tion of '3O. King Louis PHILIPPE may rejoice at the consummation of this Spanish intrigue, but the French people have infinite reason to deplore that in auspicious ceremonial. To the former the marriage of the Due DE INIONTPENSIER is a specious assurance of the consolidation of his dynastic interests. To the latter those nuptials are only an augury of diplo matic embarrassments and disrupted alliances. A species of fatality appears to have characterized the recent proceedings of the GUIZOT Administration. The French Ministers and their subordinates must have swallowed one of those draughts of fasci nation 'familiar to Arabic literature ; the magic rose-leaf of NOURAJATIBAD must have been secretly conveyed to the shoulder of the Count DE BRESSON ; or that astute ambassador and his colleagues must have degenerated into the syco phantic agents of royal cupidity. Without one or other of these preliminaries, the officials of the Tuileries could never have proceeded with such un bending pertinacity in the facilitation of a marriage so manifestly inimical to the. national interests of France, "and so opposed to the happiness of present and prospective millions. No partialities, however, could retard this unfortunate union ; no desires - Were sufficiently powerful to diminish the anxiety for its realisation. Much as the GUIZOT party had sacri ficed for, and long as they had endeavoured to perpe tuate the existence of the entente cordiale—the entente cordiale was sacrificed because it was an obstacle to the Montpensier marriage. Valuable and protracted as had been the European peace, the Euro pean peace was placed in imminent jeopardy because the Orleans family was solicitous for the illontpen eier marriage. D a n gerous an d even f a tal as French interference in Peninsular affairs had been at the commenceme n t . of the ei g hteenth and nineteenth nen tunes, that peril was courted, because by such an in terference alone oould the Montpensier marriage be arranged. Th e di gn i f i ed protests of England, the lowering aspect of the Spanish . a nd population, the histo rical warnings of L ouis XIV. apoLuorrr.l., the dissatisfaction evinced b y many F renchmen, and the continuance of international ' rien friendships, were all Because equally , despised. And why ? sethe only marriageable son of Lours Pnlmarrz would obtain an opulent bride, together w ith the possible thereby reversion of a crown ; because the European influence of that SOVEREIGN would be thereby ma terially enhanced ; because the old Bourbon aspiration of virtually annihilating the Pyrenees would be hereby accomplished, , and because, forsooth, the mar riage of his Royal Highness of Montpensier with , We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday. The Madrid correspondent of the Constitutionnel gives the following account of the reception of the French Princes in the Spanish capital : " The space traversed by the Princes from the Bilboa gate to the Palace is much about the same as that from the Hotel de Ville at Paris to the Place du Carrousel All the balconies and windows along their passage, which was through the streets called Fuencaral, Mon tero, Puerta del Sol, Calle Mayor, Platerias, and the Arch of the Palace, were filled with people, and yet neither the spectators at the windows nor the crowds in the streets made any response to the gracious sa lutations which the Princes incessantly directed on every side. Not a single cry of approbation or disapproba tion was uttered by the populace during the wholo way. At the Calle de In 'Montero, in which there are many shops kept by Ffenchmen, a tew women at the windows waved their handkerchiefs, but they found themselves so completely alone in their testimonies, that they very soon ceased giving them. On arriving in St. Mar s 's -square, at the end of the Platerias, the houses in which are in habited by the French and Neapolitan embassies, the representative of the house of Rothschild, and by the officers of the Palace, their Royal Highnesses were generally saluted, but even at this point there were no acclamations. As the procesSion passed the Puerta del Sol a man, standing close to a group of police-officers, cried Long live Me Dare de Montpensier,' but this only provoked a counter-cry of Spain for ever.' Chis is the only incident worthy of remark that occurred in the entry of the Princes. Their reception in the capital may therefore he said to have been circumspect and cold, but not hostile." The Constitutionnel remarks with much severity upon the conduct pursued by the Spanish Govern ment to the Opposition press. What that conduct is may be judged of from the following account which appears in the same paper : " Nothing gives so just an idea of the spirit with which the Government is animated, as the fact that yesterday four journals, the Espanol, the Eco del Comer cio, the Clamor Publico, and Espectador were seized on no other ground than that, in their accounts of the entry of the Princes, they stated that it was not attended with any enthusiasm, and that the entire ceremony bore an official character. I cannot call your attention too strongly to the condition to which the Government has reduced the press. After having by four successive de crees changed, and by means of simple royal ordon nances, rendered more rigid the severe laws by which the press was governed—a law which, in fact, was a copy of your law of September ; after having abolished the trial by jury, and subjected the press to a special tribunal, composed of judges removable at pleasure, the Government has intro duced the previous censorship by a process worthy in all its points, of the maxims of Escobar. The last law on the press prescribes that the first copy printed of every work shall be laid before the Prefecture before it is sent into circulation. Now, this is what the Ministry gains by this simple provision—it is enjoined that directors of journals shall suffer three hours to elapse between the delivery of the first copy at the Prefecture and the send ing out of the impression. During these three hours a censor named by the Prefect examines the journal, and marks those whose publication is to be interdicted. Then a police-officer presents himself at the office of the jour nal, and seizes the whole impression. It might be be lieved that satisfied with thus preventing the appear ance of such journals as are displeasing to it, and, having thus insured the practical exercise of the previous cen sorship, the Ministry would rest content; but despotism is contagious, and Governments accustomed to it, carry their tyranny to the bounds of absurdity. After having subjected the journals of Madrid to the censorship, they have imposed upon them the same penal ties and fines for their censured articles as they would have been liable to had these articles been published. The Eco del Comercio and Espectador have each been just condemned twice to pay fines amounting to 25,000 f., and this, not for having published, but for having had the intention of publishing articles denounced by the Public Minister, and adjudged by men in the pay of the Government. Such is the liberty of the press in Spain, such is the constitutional system of our Ministers, and to which France is about to lend the support of her strong arm. You are now able to appreciate the ac , .lounts given by the Ileraldo, and the two journals in the pay of the Go vernment—the Imparcial and Popular—and in which it is gravely stated that the greatest enthusiasm and deepest sympathy attended the reception of your Princes by our people. Nothing more effectual could be done it it were desired to render the sojourn of the sons of the King of the French at Madrid unpopular, and cer tainly their personal affability, and the private qualities for which they are so distinguished, would have over• come the repugnance excited by the policy of the French Cabinet, if the rigorous exaction of the penalties, and the other coercions with which the Government burdens and fetters the press, did not destroy every favourable impression." The organs of the Ministerial party are chuckling vastly at the idea of the approaching ruin of England, who, according to the Journal des Debats, is on the point of losing her Indian Empire, and is disabled from moving by the Irish famine. This from the friends, supporters, and originators of the entente cordiale is very amusing. The Slide, the organ of the O'Dillon Barrot party, has an an admirably written article on this same entente cordiale, for which it would, in common with ourselves, wish to see sub stituted a durable alliance between the two nations on honourable terms. We give this important article in extenso : "If we unreservedy blame the faults committed by a Government whose decisions appear to be all dictated by egotism—if we reproach it for the honour even of our country for those acts of duplicity of which Europe at this moment calls on it to render an account, and of which we regret it has not been yet able to justify itself, we are not the less decided on supporting the right and the cause of France. And let it not be believed that we are doze!eived, like our pretended Conservatives, as to the state of affairs which the proceedings of our diplomatic agents, if they are such as they are reported to be, has created for our country. It is a gross illusion to per suade oneself, like the Presse, that Lord Palmerston, in case he should think it necessary to demand reparation fur what his journals call an act of trickery, would find himself isolated even in England, and particularly in Europe. It is in vain to, bring forward against him, without proof, the opinions of Lord Aberdeen and of Sir Rotert Peel ; it is in vain to say that he has ac quired for himself tho reputation of a mischief maker and of a revolutionist with the European Ca binets, and; that if he were mad enough to carry this affair of the marriage any further, it is well known what would be the result of it—all this is boasting and puerility. The Debats held a nearly similar language in 1840, and it is nevertheless known what took place. Lord Palmerston, approved of or not by his colleagues, was supported by them to the end of his policy. Austria, who at first on the Egyptian question appeared disposed to accept the arrangement proposed by France, suddenly changed her opinion, and united herself to the coalition already formed of the other powers, and the Court of the Tuileries, which thought itself so sure of overthrowing Lord Palmerston, was compelled to beat a retreat, and bend before him. Then, nevertheless, no hesitation was felt in denouncing Lord Palmerston as a dangerous agitator, as an incendiary Minister ; then also, or a little before, there were pointed out with great outcry those appeals to revolt of subjects against their Governments, which proceeded, it was said, from the Cabinet of London, But, when it was necessary to act, the absolute monarchs did not hesitate to range themselves on the side of the old. British aris tocracy against the French nation, which never ceased in their eyes, whatever language its Government might use, to represent revolution. We will say, moreover, if the attacks of our Conservatives against Lord Pal merston were all merited ; if it were true that, instead of confining himself to keeping up some miserkble agitations, sometimes in Spain, and at another time on some other point, for an interest exclusively as the Presse says, the natural English,suriportr F r e i gasfrN' a eol t i c itii i ii ' in the woild . ; if that were true, we should regard sucli rittacke as a title of honour for the representative of the Whig Cabinet, and we should re gret still more that instead of embroiling itself with that Cabinet for a purely dynastic interest, Government had not endeavoured to found with it the durable alliance of the two nations in some grand enterprise useful to the liberty of the people. It is in fact solely on the condition of protecting the weak, acting in defence of right, and pr o moting the development of liberty in the world, that England and . France can honourably unite ti - gether m ; and we may add, if this union be pos sible, it is with the Whigs rather than with the Tories, whose sentiments are invincibly in favour of absolute monarchies. At every period, when the ill will of the English Government shows itself towards France, we are shown the prospect in p ers p ec ti ve of an alliance with Russia. But, in the first place, this alliance is not, that we are aware of, off ere d t o us; an d, were it even offered, it would not probably b e o bt a i n ed except on revolting and impious conditions—the alien derunent of the Poles, of the Italians, of all suffering na tion!, without speaking of the more or less remote abandonment of Constantinople. At such a price the alliance cf Russia . would be too dea r ly p urc h ase d ; France entire would reject it. We believe in the possi bility of an alliance with part of G ermany , w h en Prussia shall have a Liberal constitution, and shall be interested in preserving it. .Until that time a serious and sincere good understanding with Great Britain founded, not on the exchange of some courteous words between princes, but on the true int eres t o f th e peop l e , and on the community of the principles whi c h govern i their institutions, is what s to be de s i re d f or our country. This understanding might have been esta blished after 1830, and again in the year 1836, if the fear of the ultra-Conservatives had not paralysed all movement. In the last ten years it has only existed in aprearance ; now w it is quite broken, broke n by th e advo cates of peace a taut prix, for afamily ireeres', aud, if it must be said, for a dowry! It is a serious resphnsibility which is taken before the country by those Ministers who have so many times repeated to us that the entente cordiale was for us a sheet anchor, for the preservation of which no sacrifice of power or of dignity was too great f or th e na ti on t o make. This responsibility appears to them apparently lighter because they have not now to deal with a Tory Ministry, with a Conservative Ministry professing like themselves to be opposed to the most legitimate wishes of the people. Who are Lord Palmerston and his col leagues? Powerless mischief-makers, who will be easily overthrown, if they do not take part in our dynastic arrangements. This is a sad calculation, and a dan gerous illusion. We are perfectly of opinion that our Government, even after having committed a fault, should not yield to arrogant menaces, to importunate clamour; that it should maintain its right when that of others has not been violated; we do not feel the slightest sympathy for those pretended Spanish patriots who range them selves behind the English Ambassador, to cry with all their lungs, A bas la France t But we again call on our Government and thegreat Conservative party, before giving way to their fits of ill. humour against the Whigs, before denouncing them to the animadversion of the ab solute cabinets as the natural supporters of revolution in the world, to look around them and to see what sup. port would remain to them in Europe on the day when, no longer able to reckon on the British Cabinet, they shall have turned against them all the interests of the revolution." The National has an able article, from the pen of "A Veteran Diplomatist," in answer to the arguments of the Presse, on the treaty of Utrecht. The answer is complete. In allusion to the slight degree of im portance which the National attaches to the treaty of Utrecht the " Veteran Diplomatist" admits that " the KING elected in 1830 has completely accepted the treaty of Utrecht," and then proceeds to show, by the • most incontrovertible arguments, that by the provisions of that treaty the issue of the marriage of the Due DE MONTPENSIER are absolutely excluded from the succession to the throne of Spain. With regard to the distinction which the Presse attempt's to draw between the wording of the preliminaries of 1709, in which all the French Princes were excluded from the throne of Spain, by succession, marriage, convention, or other wise, and the text of the treaty of 1713, and from which it draws the conclusion that in 1713 the principle of exclusion was abandoned, the " Veteran Diplomatist" replies —" What was in effect the question under consideration in the preliminary negotiations of 1709 ? It was the recognition of CHARLES of Austria as King of Spain. It was very natural, under those circumstances, to carry out the principle of absolute exclusion as regarded all the French Princes without exception. And you are astonished that this abso lute exclusion of all the French Princes is not reproduced in the treaty of Utrecht, that is to say in the very deed by which one of those Princes received the crown of Spain!!! The negotiators of the treaty must have been idiots if they had exactly copied the preliminaries." But the so'emn renun ciations of 1712 are not less clear, nor less precise, nor less obligatory. There was no n ecessity to ex clude Princes from the succession who, by their own act, excluded themselves and their descendants for ever. It was sufficient to verify these renunciations in the treaty, and to incorporate them with it as an integral part of it. This was done, and it was added that the treaty should be observed scrupulously, and with good faith. It is then to the terms of the treaty—to the clear and precise expressions of the documents annexed to it, that we must return. Now, the Presse insinuates that the word mar - riage, which it carefully underlines, is not to b found in the text of the treaty of 1713, although it does occur in the preliminaries of 1709. This is puerile when we consider the words of the renuncia tion of the Duke of ORLEANS. The rights of our birth or all others which may belong to us in any manner whatsoever in which the succession may arrive at our line. He declares himself both for himself and for his descendants excluded, incapacitated, and abso lutely incapable ; and for ever. Who can maintain after this that the case of marriage has not been provided against as well as those of testament, con vention, &c. b y s invalidate %e e : bal s hou l d marriage,har succee d t oc h fae e re trdphi aretgiobniecu:ple of o exclusion, of "Besides, if the son of the Due DE MONTPENSIER t t inheritance, and in virtue of i l tr :e Abtyis i t h h Tei r : o t ,br n eaty of Spain, it would not therefore the omission of Utrechtand un d er does h o exist ing circumstances is of no importance." We regret we cannot find room for the whole of this admirably written article, which proves that the Duke of ORLEANS renounced for himself and for his children and descendants, however distant, for ever, and what ever might be their sex, all right of sucoess;on to the Spanish throne, in whatsoever manner that right might accrue to them, and that this renunciation was registered by the Parliaments of France and Spain as a fundamental law of the two countries. According to the Cuurrier Francais, Captain I3nuar had captured two English missionaries at Otaheite and kept them prisoners until he should re ceive instructions from France. An army of observation is to assemble on the Swiss frontier. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Wed nesday at 82f. 65c.; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 55c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,253 f. 75c.; Rouen, 937 f. 50c.; Havre, 707 t 50c. ; Great Northern, 700 f.; Avignon 890 f ; Vierzun, 610 f ; Bordeaux, 556 f. 25 c . ; Boulone, 475 f: ; Troyes and Montereau, 3601. ; Basle, 2221.50 c. ; Fampoux, 390 L ; Dieppe, 365 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 491,1; Tours and Nantes, 502 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons. 5171. 50e. ; Lyons and Avignon, 4851. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 4771. 50c. ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 341 BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THIS LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 15. Boulogne and Amiens 14%—Bordeaux, Toulouse and Cette Mackenzie), IY, —East Indian 1/4—Namur and Liege, 13,,--Northern of France Constituted, 12 3 ,4- Orleans and Bordeaux, 7 1 / 4 —Rumn and Havre, 271,(1. THE CABINET.—Lord John Russell has issued in vitations to all the members of the Cabinet to a Ca binet dinner, to be given on the 27th of the present month, at his residence in Che!ham place. At this meeting the further prorogation of Parliament will be settled, Parliament at the present time being pro rogued to Wednesday, the 4th November. --- Mr. Rowland Hill, the promoter of our postal re form, is at p resent i n Paris, an d w as at a dinner given him , by the S oc i ety o f E conom i s t s o n the 1 lth instant. I . IIE SOUT II - W ESTERN R AIL WAY EXTENSION.— During the last few weeks very considerable progress has taken place in carrying into effect, by order of the directors of the South-Western Railway Company, the Act of Parliament for the extension of the line by arches from Nine Elms, Vauxhall, to Pediar's-acre, adjoining the I lungerfo r d S uspens i on B r id ge . There is a direct opening made from the terminus to Vauxhall-walk, the line being intended to pass through the large area of around in the front of Vauxhall-gar dons. From the Waxdsworth-road to the Vauxhall-road nearly the whole of th e p i ers are b uilt, an d w hi c h are about four feet in width. O n some o f t h e m the arches are in course of being turned. B e t ween t hi s distance there will be three bridge s , which will be constructed with strong i ron girders. On th e nor th aide o f the Wandsworth-road the level with th e arc h es w i ll be continued to the railway from the vi a d uct b y a moun d o f ear th, which is now in the course greater portio n o f t h e rema i n d er o f the line have been of formation, The occupants alo n g the treated with, and nearly the whole of them have agreed to terms without submitting to a jury. At the south of the Archbishop of Canterbury's grounds, in Church street, several h ouses h ave b een removed, and between that part and V aux h a ll t h e li ne w ill be rapidly extended. The line will then, by the late Act of Parliamen t, after bein g brought to P e dl ar ' s - acre, b e continued to London - bridge. It is stated th a t on t h e com pl e tion of tho viaduct the effect will be a di m i nut i on o f th e tolls connected with the Surrey trusts to a sum of Abu() 8,000/. BRAZIL. (FnoM A CORRT:SPONDENT.) Letters to the 231 of August have been received to day from Rio de Janeiro, but contain little of import• ante, except that the exchange had risen to 271 d. The Jornals de Conmercio have come to heed to the 13th of that month only. From them we make the fol lowing extracts:— CUSTOM-HOUSE RECEIPTS IN JULY, 1845. 184 g. Milreis. Miireis. 804,95 G 863,467 154,057 175,387 On imports On exports Total Bags. Bags. 96,475 131,984 Chests. Chests. Exports—Sugar The July mail from hence had arrived previous to the 27th. GENERAL FLORES' EXPEDITION AND THE Exports—Coffee MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The _Sue of Last Night.) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 12.000 bales, including 2,000 American, 1.000 Pernarcs and Bahia, 500 Egyptians, and 500 Surat en specula tion. The market closed with much animation, and, compared with last Fridays rates, prices of all descrip tions are fully 1. per lb. higher. The sal( of railway shares to-day, at Messrs. Lamond and Co.'s, w 'nt off with spirit. The principal rise was in the East Indians, which have materially improved in value. The following are a few of the principal sales Madras, Nellore, and Arcot X(1 4 9 Great Indian Peninsular Great North of India 0 6 6 Calcutta and St. George's Point 0 4 6 East Indian Cornwall and Devon Central • 112 6 Oxford, NN , itney, and Cheltenham 0 8 6 Boston, Newark, and Sheffield 0 15 0 Sambre and Meuse Caledonian, New Buckinghamshire " 1 2 0 Windsor, Slough, & Staines Atmospheric 1 7 0 Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds (Norwich Extension) Direct Northern 1 7 6 Eastern Counties, York Extension 1 14 0 Reading and Reigate 0 14 0 Welsh Midland South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 2 16 6 Shropshire Union and Canal Manchester and Southampton Taw Vale Extension and Dock (scrip) 1 0 6 Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty yesterday afternoon, received contracts for 100,000 gallons of rum for the navy, at a trifle below 2s. 2d. per gallon. There has been a full amount of business done in the Consol Market this morning. For the Account the cur rent price is 951 it, and fur Money the range taken has been from 94+ to 95*. The Government brokers bought but sparingly. The premium on Exchequer bills has just advanced from 14s. to 17s. Bank Stock has receded from 2061 to 205 k. Spanish Stock is dull of sale; the Three per Certs. at 374, and the Actives at 26 1 1. Mexican Bonds have been done only at 231 and 4, the Grenada Stock at 211, and the Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cents. at 581. A very quiet market has ruled fur Railway Shares and Sea ip. We have just been favoured with the following im portant latter relative to Mexican Bond. " Sussex-place, Regent's Para, Oct. 16, 1846. " Sir,—An extract ola certain document, in reference to the late conversion of Mexican Bonds, having been published in this day's Tithes, accompanied by a letter signed by B. Gomez Farias,' I beg to state that I shall forthwith prepare a communication which shall, with the least possible delay, be transmitted to the committee, for the information of the bondholders, and which, I doubt not, will place matters in their true light, and give full satisfaction. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, (Signed) " THOMAS MURPHY. " To G. R. Robinson, Esq., Chairman of the Committee of the South American Bondholders." ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Ann 5........ 94 93% ex div 93% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 951 91% 95% 95 1 / 4 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities 9514%% ex div 95% Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 9% 9% Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 lO 1-16 10 1-16 India Bonds, 1,0001 — —. Ditto under I,ooot. .. ...... — 23 Consols for Nov. 26..... ......... 9 5 14 % 14 9514 Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., liAd 14 17 pm. 13 Ditto Small CLO.ING PRICES 2114 OXE RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent. 2 1 14 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 — Ditto. Account 234% Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 41% Ditto Account Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account 26% Ditto, 3 per Cent — Ditto, Account . .. ..... 37 3 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch, 2% par Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 911 23 , 4 41% 26 3 / 4 37% 37:-% 59% 91% PRICES O 1 PAID BUSINESS DONE CLOSING . RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%..... 2% Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush ‘, l% -- Aylesbury and Theme.. 1% Belfast & County Down 4 3 / 4 — • Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 l2B Ditto New I 7 IA — .... .. Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.— 2 3 % — Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. — ... Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 Bristol and Liver. June . 21/ 0 ., — Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Half Shares.— 2 ti,..... ... .... ..... Ditto Extension Cambrian & Grand Jane 42s — .. Cambridge and Oxford.. 1 (, 1 Cheater and Holyhead... 27 1 /2 Churnet and Blythe 2 ••• •••••• ..... Chester and Manchester 425. — Chelteaham and Oxford 2 ...... Clydesdale Junction 2O • Cork. Blackrock, and Passages Cork and Killarney ... 2 . % — Cork and Waterford ... I% — Cornwall 5 ..... Ditto, Half Shares ... 21% Cornwall & Cent'l Devon 2% — Derby and Crewe 2% Direct Lincoln, East Ret ford, and Sheffd. June. 2 5 ..... Direct Northern ......... 21h l%. . Direct Norwich ........... I .. Dublin and BelfastJunc. 10 . 1% Dublin, Belfast, and .... Coleraine ............... 2% .. Dublin and Galway.— .. 4 ........ .. Dundalk & Enniskill en 7% ...... Eastern Counties 141. 16s. .... .. 2I 1 % I/2 Ditto, New l2l. 16s. Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1.......61.135. 4d — Ditto ditto. No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... Do., York Extension.. 105....... 1% EastDereh'm andNoech 1 Eastern Union 35 ••• Ditto, Quarter Shares 8 3 j'4 — Do. Exten.(Harwich) 1 , Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2 Ya•• • • • 17%34 East Lancashire Ditto, New East Kast Lincolnshire sc‘l,es t of England Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 •••••• 69 70 Ditto Half Shares ... 10 I'll:: 2 - Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ...... . Edinburgh & Northern.. 10 Edinburgh and Perth... 3 Ely and Htuitingdon ... 7 1A...... 4% Enniskillen and Sligo —. 2!4 — Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 5 , 4 Glasgow, Kilmar., & Ayr 50 Ditto, New Do., 1 4 Shares (5 per cent. guar.) .. . 12% — Glonc.,Abetystv•ith, and Central of Wales 1%..... • Goole, Doncaster, &c. .. 425. Grand Union (Notting and Lynn ...... ••• Great Ezoit ern & Western 2 34 ... GreatGrimsby and Shef field Great South. and West. ..(Ireland) Great Munster 2% Great North of Scotland 2 1 / 2 — Great Northof England..loo 235 233 Ditto New Ditto, New . . Ditto, New Great Western • Ditto lh Shares ..... 1 ... 50 Ditto q Shares lO - ......... ••• Ditto Fifths .......... "'•'^•••••Ditto, New ...' 2 ...... 7IA 7 VA... Harwich and Eastern Counties Junction 2 ...... ............... dull and Selby 5O Ditto 111 Shares) 12% — ............."""""•••••Do. Half Shares 25 ...... ... . ......... Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 11% — .......... ... Do., do , and Norwich 2% Killarney Junctions ...... 1 1 4 — ............ .. Kendal and Windermere 114 Lancaster and Carlisle... 45 00. New - 5. ...... Lame, Belfast, and Bal lvmena Leads and Bradford SO ... ..... 73 3 A % 74 ... •• Leeds and Carlisle ...... 2%....... Leicester & Birmingham 225. ...... .. . Leicester and 13edfo r d... 228. .. ... ...." Leeds and Dewsbu r y- ... 224 ...... t Lpool., Mnchstr & New / castle Junction ...... 2 1 ,4 .... ' Liverpool and Bury ... 14 .. ... , London and Blaekwall. 164 13s. 4d. Do. Nevr ............ 3 ... -- ...... •••• Ditto Extension..... 7 1 , ; 1 ? , • • • London and Brighton... 50 .. ... 591 A 59 Ditto, Fiftlis London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. ... Do. Guaran. 5 per cent. 9 London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d — Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d — .•• London, Hounslow, and Western 194 193 195 London and N. Weateraloo Do. Quarters . ----- Do., an., New Shares.. 2 Ditto Fifths - . ..... Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12% — . Do., New 1 4 Shares (G. J.) Do 40/. Shares (L. M. ) 8 — Lone'. & S.Western 411 6a 10d 69 •• ••• Do. New Consol. Bths 40 ••• Do. New Do. New London and York 214 ..... ___ ..... Do. 1 / Shares .... 1% - ' ''' London and Windsor . 1A..: . London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Londonderry l% Coleraine 12% _ Londonderry and Ennis. . 1•4 ••• ......... killen .. ........ ... 12% ...... • Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham Manchester and Leeds... 82 Ditto 1 / i, Shares Do. Quarters N. Fifths 3 • ...• .0.4 1 21% 17 3 4 7 3 A 1 70 814 31 71/2 6O 1/2 Do. Sixteenths..... 6 ~f...... ............... Do. Extension 42s. 3% p .... Manch3ster and Birmin. 40 Do Quarters (A) 5 ...... •• • .......... Do. Quarters (B) Do. Quarters (C) 1 Manchester,Buxton,and Matlock 4_5....... % p............ Afinchester, Birm., and .. - 72,3 . . Mould Junction ..... Maochest. & Southampt. 2 Midland lOO .....135 134 .... ...... ''..._ Do. Fifths Do. New Do. Bunn., and Derbyloo lO9 ••• ... Midlnd& East. Counties 23 ...... ............. .. Midi 7n d Great Western Irish Newcastle and Berwick 15 Do North Shields ... 25 Newcast leand Carlisle...loo Newmrket &Chesterfrcl2/.124 Newport &Abergavenny 2%...... Newry and Enniskillen 4% Newark, Sheffield, and ...... Boston ... .. , 1%.. ... ... ........ ** io Norfolk .. Do. Half Shares Do. Extension North British Do. Half Shares ll ...... 14 1 /,,'%% ......... ......, Do. Fifths Do. Quarters Do. Extension Northern and Eastern 5O ..... ...- Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45 Do. Quarter Shares... 12% — ............... ...... Do. New - .......... . 0 p North Staffordshire. 425. North Wales Northern and Southern ....• Connecting __ . 2% ............... ~ --•P Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham - Oxford,. Worcester, and Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham..„ Portsmouth Direct ...... 3% — ........... • Preston and Wyre .... . ....... Do. % Q Shares Reading, Guildford, and Reigate , 3/. 12s. —;dis. ........ ... Ricl i nnond ......... •••••• Rugby, Leamington,and Warwick Scottish Central Scottish Midland 12% ............... Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Potteries, andCrewe... 1% Eheffield & Manchester 100 ... ............ . Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Do. LincolrishireJunc. 1% — ............... ~.. Do. & Great Grimsby. 10 Do. do. Extension 425. Shrewsbury and Birm... 3 .... Shrews., Wolverhamp , 428 ... %ii 2 diB .. ...0' &S. Staffordsh. June. 2% — •.. ...• Sligo and Shannon l% — .• ...• South Devon... South & Midlands June. 425. .. Stihth Staffordshire Ju nc. 2% — ... ............ .., South Eastern & Dover. 33% — ... ........... 0 , ,, Do., No. 1 2O Do., No. 2. D0.,N0. 3 ..... •••• ••. Do., No. 4 —. 2 3 71,5 „..... ..... . .. . .. ..... „,.. 15 ;,, St.Alban's, Hatfield,and llert ford Junction . 425. — ........ ....• 14 Staines and Richmond..... 1 Staffordsh. & Shropshi re 2 3 / 4 — ............... BIA South Wales SWans. & Loughor &Ca meron's Stm. Coal. ... 2 Taw Vale Extension ... 2 Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke 514 •••, Vale of Neath ..• .. ...... 2 Wakefield, Pontefract, & Goole Warwickshire & London 425. Warwick and Worcester 425. c.... - Waterford and Kilkenny 11 • .... Waterford and Limerick 22% — ...........•••• Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin W aterford, Wexford, and • Valentia Waveney Valley ... 2 West Ridin g U n i on 421...... ‘ — l l 4l ....... Its. .. ::: : : :: . • :::... Welsh Midl an d 13 West Cornwall WestLondon.OldShares 20 Nexford and Carlow „, 21/ ....... • Wilts, Somerset, & Wey- ..•• mouth Worcester,Warwick,and ~• Rugby ............ ~; York and Carlisle 2 3 /4 . " .... - ' 4 ":0,i York and Newcastl e ...... 25 ... . 41 3 / 4 IA 4 : 2„: ...... l'" Ditto New 1 1 ork and North Midl a nd 50 Ditto % Shares .. 25 N. Scarboro' Branch. 25 .... ......... ;, ,li 0 .0 I ••• 000000000 •• .... ......... Do. Selby 4O ........ Do. Extension Do. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian. Barbadoes 1 BBoulognd ne x xA a a n ;M I ku ' el e ‘ on d n uz i t si e ee e ; n s r a s ) a n . : * 1 2 2 Do. (Espelete's) Calais, Dunkrk, and West Flanders Calcutta and Diamond Harbour ....... ..... 75... Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast 1 .. Central of Spain ... . Cey10n........ Demerara Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish 6 .. East Indian ... ss. .. Eastern Belgian Junctn. 2% .. Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4 .. Great Indian Peninsular ss. .. Great Western Bengal ss. .. Great Western Canada 3 14 .. Italian and Austrian. 3 .. Jamaica Sand. Junction 1 .. Jersey ...... Louvain ala Sambre Luxembourg 4 .. Lyons and Avignon 2 .. Madras ...... 1 .. Madras, Nellore, and Arcot %.• Madrid and Valentia 2 .. Mauritius Namur and Liege Nn of France Constituted 5 .. North Jamaica... ...... 1 .. Orleans and Viorzon Orleans and Bordeaux 6 .. Over Yssel 4/ 3s 4d .. Paris &Lyons Constituted 5 .. Paris and Orleans; 2O .. Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Constituted Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse . . 10 Strasbourg and Bale St. Laurence & Atlantic Tours and Nantes Con stituted ... 5 Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt 8 Trinidad 2% West Flanders ...... 6 1 ~.. 1414% ~ ••• •... ... •• ......... / .• • • - .............. / ............... • %... ...... .... ::: 414 % ..... .. ... .. 3/:,- ........... ...... ....••••• / ••• ••-- ............... / •• - .. / ••• .......... ..• ...... ............... / ... ..". ...... ... ...... 1° • ..• 11 / 4 % ........... ..... / / •••• •••••• •• eeeee ••••• ............... ./ 1 •• • ......... •••• • • •••• ............... 1 5 ' •••• .............. ••• ... ....... .... '••• • •• ............... ..... • 1•••• 7%76 .... •• /0 •• ............. 5 % ........ ...... .- / ... ..... ............ / .• / ••• ... .. ••• • .............. / '-'-' •• .......... •. / -- ............... / --- .............. . / Real del Monte Unregd COURSE OF EXCIIA Amsterdam .. • • ..C.F. 12 8 Ditto, at sight .... 12 5i Rotterdam ... •• • 2U. 12 8% Antwerp.... •• • • 26 15 II tinburgh ......m.B. 13 14 Altona.... • ..... .. Paris, 3 days' sight .... 28 85 Ditto, 3 months.... 26 10 Marseilles ...... 26 15 .. 26 15 'frankfort on Maine.... 122 k Pttersburgh, 3 U 5.... • • Berlin •• •• Vienna, effec. flo ••• • • • 10 11 Trieste, ditto.... • • 10 11 Madrid .........• •• •• 35% Cadiz .. ........ 36% Bilbao.. •• •• •• •• Barcelona ............ Seville... ..... ........ .... ...... ..... . ...... A 1 1 ,) Qn NGE.—(YESTE..— Gibraltar........ •• • • 3 0 , 10 Leghorn Genoa ..... .... • • ' Milan ••"• • •• s Venice.. .. „ t i Naples .......... • • 11v r Palermo, per 0z... • • • • ' Li5b0n............ •• • • 5 1 : Oporto .....• • ..... •• • • 1 4 ; Rio Janeiro / Bahia ..... •••• • •• / Iluenos Ayres New York, 21 days' sib 00 Philadelphia PRICLS OP IiULLIOPh 11 0 Foreign Gold in bars • • 0 0 0 Portugal Gold Coin •• 0 0, New Dollars ••• • • 3,1! IP Spanish Doubloons • • 0• Silver in bars • " BANK OF ENGLAND. (From 1,0. Night's Gazette.) ' s ' An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and tith of Victoria , ,§46 , the Week endingon Saturday, the 10th d a y o f O c tober, ISSUE DEPARTMENT. 1 0 :, 1 11 d Government debt • • •), 00 , Other securities •• • • 12, 4 47 Gold coin and bullioll Silver bullion .... • • 41 99 k t. M. MARSHALL, Chief Dated the 15th day of October, 1846. Notes issued .• .• .. 29,078,135 £29,078,135 , EPARTMEN T. k Government securi -06 5 ties (including Dead , 41 , Weight Annuity)" 1 riP 1 ; ( 0: 1 0 99' Other securities •• • • 13, 0 4, Notes • • • • ...... • • '- Gold and silver coin •• X 3 c 7,10 0 Nr. MARSHALL, Ch ief 546 REPUBLICS OF COLOMBIA. Sincerely desirous of the almost universal peace now prevailing betvi yen the respective Republics of South America being preserved, and more particularly anxious to avert the horrors of civil war, which no pen can ade quately describe, nor any pencil faithfully pourtray, nor indeed any person form any idea of who has not wit nessed them, I therefore take the liberty, through the medium of your columns, of warning my countrymen against the insidious attempts now making by General Flores, late President of the Republic of Ecuador, to en list them in his cause. The General, in his manifesto, lately published and circulated in this country by his agent, " Equatoriano," states his grievances and puts forth his claims on the present Government of Ecuador—an ex park state ment, the accuracy or inaccuracy of which we have no means of ascertaining ; but supposing the contents of his appeal to the British public to be as true as holy writ, or profane history, what in the name of common sense have we English, Irish, Scotch, or Welsh got to do with it ? And why, let me ask my countrymen, par ticularly those who are about to embark in the three steamers now fitting out at this por►, should we inter fere in the squabbles of another state, and lend our aid in kindling anew the flames of civil war in Ecuador? Without disputing the General's pretensions to be re installed President of that republic, what, I ask, have we or any other European state to do with it ? All we have got to look to is, how far our own interests and commtrce may be affected by any attempt of the General to regain a situation he freely abdicated. Now, it is very evident that to regain by force what he re signed of his own free will (according to his own state ment) must have the effect of reproducing in the South American republics, from the Isthmus of Panama to the Straits of Magellan, all the horrors, miseries, and atro cities ; the protracted struggle for their independence, first with the Mother country and then amongst them selves, so long inflicted on them, and from which they have just emerged. The present position of General Flores is analogous, in almost every respect, to that of General " Oribe . " in the " Oriental' Republic—both were driven from their Presidencies before the expiration of the term for which they had been elected President ; both submitted to self banishment. Oribe removed to Buenos Aytes, and excited the sympathies of the Governor-General of that province, and chief of the Argentine Confederation, who, with an eye to annexing the Oriental State to his Con federation, espoused Oribe's cause; the result is too well known and felt in this country, to require an investiga tion into the means employed. General Flores has thrown himself upon the sympathies of the Spanish nation, but, having failed, perhaps, in exciting them, under the existing embarrassed state of their own af fairs—be has, as a dernier ressort, ventured to appeal to British bosoms and British pockets, and placed a sprat on his hook to catch a' whale—namely, that the pay ment of the dividend on that part of Colombia Loan placed to the account of the Republic of Ecuador may stand some chance (it is easy to foresee how little) of be ing paid! Paid, inded!—by re-introducing that disorder and discredit which have hitherto prevented that repub lic from acting honourably! General Flores himself says he was elected President in 1843, for eight years, and resigned in 1845. During the two years of his Presidentship what dividends were ever paid on their share of the Colombian Loan, I should like to know? The answer to a similar question, put two years hence, or after his restoration, it that should ever take place, will be identical. No; the only chance the British holders of Colombian bonds have for the payment of the divi dends of that portion thereof for which the Government of Ecuador became responsible is the continuance of that peace, and consequently the prosperity, that republic now enjoys. What consequence is it to England whether Rosas or Flores is President of the Ecuador Republic? Shall England permit the commerce of New Granada and Ve nezuela to be interrupted, if not annihilated, by the stivabbles in Ecuador who shall be President? Will England run the risk of another Anglo-Franco inter ference in the affairs of the Colombian States, as in those of Ls Plata? Will the British Government incur the expense of another joint mission—other Gore Ouseleys and Daffaudises—and another Hood as umpire? If we wish, in fine, to preserve our trade with these states, and secure the payment of the dividends on the ColombiatiLoan, we must do all in our power to preserve the harmony and good understanding at present esta blished by treaty between them, and not connive at any attempt to introduce discord, disorder, and disorganisa tion under the mask of patriotism, to gratify self-aggran dizement or to satisfy personal resentments. In conclusion, those who are about to accept the terms offered by General Flores, and to enlist in his service, had better read the "Foreign Enlistment Act!" OPENING OF THE PORTS. A meeting of the Directors of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures was held on Wednes • day, when the following memorial for the opening of the ports was unanimously agreed to, and dispatched to Lord John Russell:— "TO TILE RIGHT HON. THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF HER MAJESTY'S TREASURY. "The Memorial of the Directors of the Chamber o! Commerce and Manufactures at Manchester " Showeth,—That your memorialists feel deep appre hensions at the prospects which threaten this district. Whilst the prices of raw materials have been advancing, the profits of trade have been diminishing, and important branches of our manufactures are now prosecuted under heavy losses. The depressing policy of our own country up to the last session of Parliament had long tended to fritter away our intercourse with several of our best cus tomers, and the short interval which bas elapsed since the change has not yet permitted us, to resume the con nexions which ,we once enjoyed; the price of food at home almost precludes hope that our people will have the means of purchasing clothing; stocks of manufac tures are accumulating, and there are strong grounds for fearing that before winter shall have passed the demand for labour will be greatly lessened. Your memorialists feel that any reference by them to your Lordships re opecting the present and expected stock of food on which the labourer has to rely until fresh crops be available, is not necessary; they content themselves with stating, shortly, that at the present moment, besides a great en hancement in the prices of meat and bacon in this town, bread has been advanced fully one- third, whilst oatmeal is selling at twofold, and potatoes at threefold their usual price, and that they look forward with dread to the con dition in which the people will inevitably be found in the spring of next year. " That deeply grateful for the measures of relief passed in the last session of Parliament, your memo rialists hoped to pass through the period of transition, and on the terms which the Legislature decreed, not only without despondency, but with a sustaining confi dence. The dispensations of Divine Providence have, however, interposed, and, in the opinion of your memo rialists, have thrown upon the Government further awful responsibilities. Extreme scarcity of food is inevitable ; if labour fail, that scarcity will become famine. Prayers are directed to be offered up in our churches to have those evils averted, and yet one of crur laws enacts, that whatever may be the price of wheat, the smallest duty to be paid upon the import of it shall be 4s. per quarter; another law decrees that food brought into the country by certain vessels shall not be eaten at all by our people; whilst a third declares that nothing shall be used in our distilleries but that which would servo as food. Your memorialists implore your Lordships to take instant steps to remove these conflicting and cruel anomalies in such manner as the wisdom of your Lordships may sug gest. They believe that, to mitigate impending cala mities, nothing less will be sufficient than to admit into our ports every species of food necessary for daily sub sistence free of duty ; to permit it to be brought indis criminately from every country by the vessels of any nation or flag ; and to allow in our distilleries and breweries the use of sugar and molasses, without refer ence to the vessels which have already brought or may hereafter bring them to us. To this extent they humbly pray the immediate interference of your Lordships, believing that such a course will be approved by Par liament, and applauded by the nation.—And, as in duty bound," &c. _ A Meeting of the corporation of Manchester is about also to be held, for the purpose of memorialising the Lords of the Treasury for the immediate opening of the ports. In the great cigar factory at Manilla, ten thou sand girls are employed, all indians of the country, or Malays. SUICIDE OT A BARRISTER.—Late on 'Wednesday evening Mr. Mills held an inquest on the body of William Walker Jordan, Esq., aged 43, barrister. The inquiry took place at the deceased's residence, No. 15, Gloucester-road, Regent's -park. It appeared by the evi dence of several witnesses that for some time past de ceased had laboured under great depression of spirits, and entertained a fear, which it appears was unfounded, that his pecuniary affairs R ere becoming embarrassed. On Tuesday morning he rose at his usual hour, au' went to his dressing. room, where shortly afterwards the report of fire-arms was heard. Mrs. Jordan and the servants went to the room, and found deceased 15 ing on his back, having discharged a large horse pistol into his chest. Dr. Jones, a neighbouring surgeon, was imme diately called in, and pronounced life extinct. Verdict, " That deceased destroyed himself, being at th e ti me o f unsound mind." BEQUEST TO THE BOTANIC GARDENS AT KEW. — The Rev. John Clowes, of Broughton Ball, Manchester, had in his possession a most valuable collection of orchi daceous plants, which he has by his will bequeathed to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, where arrangements are now being made for their reception. BANKING D: Proprietors' capital.. 14,553,000 Rest • . Publicdeposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say- - ings-banks, and Di vidend accounts) .. 9,801,402 Other deposits • • • 8,322,626 Seven day and other 938,723 X 36,998,909 ili /tl O SCOTCII THISTLE.--There is at present evieJo in the garden of Mr. John Boyd, Townend, fine •specimtn of the Scot c h thi s tl e , me asuring , "1 0 .0 0 ,0 of six feet in height, with a corresponding cireuTo !co T his gigantic plant was r a ised f r om seed, suy s 07, 0 11 years ago, and when in full bloom a few ' B-Qe . „,,Se ir was adorntd with no less than 200 heads' .4 0 paper. 1 ,00 VP GREATER AND LESSER SINS.—Dr. Brisv- pail;10 that when he was in South Carolina, one of It s er r o,i brethren Underwent a church trial for a Te r .' e a 0 5 06 offence. This Baptist brother had been the 11 / 1 4,3 e ve separating a slave husband and wife for eve r ,' E h t ° ,, 01 been importuned not to do it—to sell them " 1) 04 0 0 master, and not wring their hearts with th, e ,: o o w i A separation but he said he " would see I", c liw. 0 1 in hell first!" He was brought up before l'„, - arli t i, l o 9 and tried, for what. thick ye ? For the inhuprevol4 sundering man and wife ? No ; but for u sil f e r s ei language ! ifs spiritual advisers and co-w°," c l no thought of the crime of parting w hat God at together, but they were very muc h horri e o o profane expres s io n use d by their brother ! ' pator. Dated the 15th day of October, 1 12 5 / 8 TII E SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17, li4,e.