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THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., post Bvo., LIONEL DEEKHUR ST Or, FASHIONABLE LIFE UNDER THE REGENCY. EDITED BY THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON. Anther of " The Femme de Chambre," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Now ready, in 2 vols., small Bvo., C H E L A G A; l a 0 OR, ENGLAND IN THE NEW WORLD. Edited by ELIOT WARBURTON, Esq., Author of " The Crescent and the Cross." " We recommend ' llochelaga' most heartily, in case any of our readers may as yet be unacquainted with it. It is a very meritorious composition. The author's principles and feelings appear to be, in every respect, those of an enbghtened English gentleman."— Quart erly Review. October. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TOM3DAY and Fatoar, at One o'clock, at the hall or Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours. containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully • rcquested to be addressed. Ad Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered ; amd advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds Imme diately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, flail of Commerce, Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE ROYAL, DECRY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed Balfe's celeiv.itd Opera, entitled THE MAID OF A R rots. Marquis de Chateau Vieux, Mr. Borrani ; Jules de Moritagnen, Mr. W. Harrison; Sans Regret, Mr. Burdini ; Synnelet, Mr. Weiss ; Ninka, Miss Isaacs; Isollue, Madame Anna Bishop. To conclude with the second Act of the popular Ballet of LA GISELLE. The principal characters will be supported by Mdlle. Louise, les Sceurs St. Louis, Mimes. Ginbelei and Adele ; Mr. W. H. Payne, MM. Theodore and Adrien. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of THE STEWARD. Item, Mr. W. Farren ; Mordent, Mr. Stuart ; Cheyeril, Mr. Hudson ; Lennox, Mr. Brindal ; Jonathan Winter, Mr. Webster ; Grime, Mr. Tilbury ; Mrs. Sarsnet, Mrs. Glover ; Lady Ann, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Joanna, Miss Julia Bennett. During the evening the Band win perform the Overture to " Zampa," the " Ma.sken Bilden," and the " Musketeers" Quadrille. After which a new Farce, called THE FORTUNE HUNTER ; or, A Morning at Margate. Captain Mountgarret, Mr. Hudson ; Griffin, Mr. Tilbury ; Bomp a s, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Griffin, Mrs. W. Clifford. To conclude with the popular Farce, entitled LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. Mr. Golightly, Mr. Buckstone ; Capt. Fhobts, Mr. Tilbury ; Mrs. Captain Phobbs, Miss Telbin. 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, FIRST NIGHT OF A NEW FARCE. THIS EVENING 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. Woollidge, Miss Grove, and Miss Turner. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Melodramatic, Romantic, Fairy ItnrleFque Extravaganza, founded on the Opera of " Oberon," entitled THE MAGIC HORN. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Kinloch, Collier, Yarnold, Bender, Silver, Richards, and Keeley; Miss Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Fairbrothcr, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Arden, Miss Forster, Miss Laidlaw, Miss Bromley, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be presented a new domestic drama, entitled EUGENIA CLAIIICILLE ; or, The New Found Home. Frederick Stan more, Mr. Worrell ; Mr. Rug'eigh, Mr. Cullenford ; Toffey, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Hugh Matlock, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Toffey, Mrs. F. Matthews ; Eugenia Clairqille, Madame Celeste. Atter which, the popular Burletta of TAMING A TARTAR. Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Messrs. Paul Pedford, Wright, Selby, Worrell. &c., will sustain the principal characters. To conclade with a Farce, entitled THE UNFINISHED GEN TLEMAN. Bill Downey, Mr. Wright; Lord Totterly, Mr. Selby; Hon. Frisk Flammer, Mr. Worrell ; Mary Chintz, 3liss Woolgar. PRINCESS'S TIIEA TR E, OXFORD-STItEET. THIS EVENING Will be performed (by desire) a new Comic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled LOVE'S TELEGRAPH. Count Theodore, Mr. J. Vining ; Arthur de Solberg, Mr. C. Mathews ; Baron Pumpernickel, 3lr. Compton ; Princess Blanche, Madame Vestris. After which, the New Drama, entitled A CURIOUS CASE. Twiggleton, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mrs. Aubrey, Mrs. Stirling. To conclude with the Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Ceklstream, Mr. C. Mathews. STRAND THEATRE. Undet the Management of Mr. Davidson. RE-ENGIGEME. OF MR. GREGORY. THIS EVENINii Will be performed Shakspere's Tmgedy of HENRY IV. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Gregory; King Henry, Mr. Waldron; Prince of Wales, Mr. Graf‘on; Hotspur, Mr. A. Ormondo ; Fronds, Mr. Attwood ; Lady Percy, Miss Dorringtoa ; Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. Grialths. To conclude with THE BRIGAND. Alessandro Massaroni, Mr. Orinonde ; Marie Grazzi, Miss Dorring,ton. I rivate Boxes, Places, and Stalls, may he engaged at the Box oftl_e, from eleven till tour, and at ad the Libraries. I_ , A.VIDGE's ROYAL SUICREY TREITRE. Lessee, 3lrs. Frances Davidge, TII IS EVENING Will be periormed Sink4pere's Tragedy of KING LE AR. King Lear, Mr. Maeready ; Earl of Gloucester, Mr. Neville ; Earl of Kent, :.lr. Cooper; Et - Etar, Mr. Saville ; Regan, 3lrs. Tern= ; Cor nelia, G:II ; Goneril, Mrs. Daly. To conf,iu.l3 with EUGENE Alt AM. Characters by Messrs. Saville, Mosley, Johnson, Webb, t redericks, Miss RiLlualson, Mrs. Saville, &c. Ilox-offlee open from eleven till four o'clock, inTL Y YAL A MPH IT ILLA.TRE. Proprietor, Nit'. W. Batty. LAST WEEK OF THE SUMMER SEASON. mtti.ed by her Most Gracious 51ajesty 'ate queen. Ptince 11 rt, tie Prince of Wales, ati.t , tte Primeess itoyal. Unahated attraction. " The Merchant's Steed" still continues his trium phant course. VITA EVENING , e performed the popular Drama of THE S PEED OF Sr M!(7,41 ; or, Damon's Flight. Damon, Mr. J. Harwood; Pythias Mr. .T. Dale ; Ca!anthe, Mrs. M. Brooks. Assisted by the nu m , rous Company, douNe Stud, &c. _ . ,Amer popu:ar SCENES of the CIRCLE, and other No vein S. Mr. BATry has much pleasure in announcing that he has forme; arrangemen:s with sever,' c3ntlnental £ill' l tifej. , ,iililar vaulters, Messr3. Ilenderson and T. Lee, who will ap, , ear during' ths NI inter sea.. oa , w hi c h commences en l‘lood.Ly, Octo er 12. r Up, first time, %,ith a variety of novel productions. Likewise active preparation, a new Equestrian Spcc!acle, of un evalle.l efnets, per brming in Paris wltit great sueces3, arranged and pro.bhasl by Mr. W. 11n)adfool. 1 , 4,x-011..0 open irons eleven VII f!ve o'clock.—Doers open at six lin commence at seven o'clock. ROYAL VICTORIA TIII'ATRE. TIPS EVENiNG Will he percormed a new zrand, legmilary, romantic Drama, en tithol ~,P E!_:TRE SKIFF. or, 'I he Phantom of the Sea. Mabel Allerton, Mi,s V ncent ; TAbitha Tod, Miss L. Pearce; Dame Plain. body, Mra. Cooke; Luke Xllerion, Mr. Archer; Diedrich Jansein, Mr. Searle ; Peter Plainbody, Mr. Forman ; Ben Bullock, Mr. C. J. riird. After which, a langba'qle Bur!etta, entitled CHELSEA AND GREENW L2ll ; or, Past Ten o'C'ock, and a Rainy Night. Py M sera. Forman, Searle, Higgle, Howard, Ray mon d ; Mrs. Lee, Miss Fielding, Miss L. Peirce, &c. To conclude with TUE MYSTERIES OF LONDON; or, The Brothers' Carci-T. Supportefil by the eiitlre strength or the company. ,111, IV E.A.TH h'll..—SuN ()Fricz. Ocronrn 7. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 52; Highest. 60 ; Noon, 62, BAROMETER, 29 51.—IVIND W.S.W., fine. ill W VrE.c A r 1.0,11,t0i-IMEIH/E TILLS DAY. Monting .. 4S minatoi after 3. Evening .. 6 minutes after 4. i : M 7 e2) . n ' il. . •••• . 7 , - ‘....• , ... _''' k . --ISb t 41• 0 :& .i .. , , ,"•.';' 4' ,•,' ipir . ~.A.,.--- ...'..;...„....-- -.., - . ...r. - z • e - - 7C ° ••. 5 t ;4.... ,. 4, lli ' - :!: . :•4 1 •:,, , e --' '4 4 3 r ~....tr. 4• u f.l. ,1 .. „.,........, ' ' :`''lli„,•. 411 I t - ; LONDON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1846. Immediately after the triumphant acceptation of free-trade principles by the Legislature the advocates for the adoption of some comprehensive and bene ficent system of national education appeared to ac quire additional vigour, both by numerical reinforce ments and by an accession of individual earnestness. In the moral changes which were thus manifest in the multitude, the grand characteristic of this age became more than ever apparent—that characteristic being none other than the combined struggle of the more intelligent members of the community for the moral, intellectual, and social advancement of the entire population. Having subjugated that monster evil Monopoly, by the existence of which the energies of the agricultural and commercial labourers had been so long and scr grievously hampered, the popular in telligence turned with renewed hope and renovated strength to the destruction of, if possible, still greater difficulties. From endeavouring to promote the corporeal nourishment of the people, we have reverted to the still loftier endeavour to pro mote their spiritual and intellectual nourish ment. From striving to eradicate what may be called the commissariat abuses of the empire, we are now striving for the eradication of those still more gigantic and pernicious abuses which have mili tated against the morality of nations. We have struggled to render provisions accessible to all, accord ing to the beautiful ordinations of Nature; we are now struggling to render .knowledge equally ac cessible, and to relieve the mind of the populace from a domination infinitely more irksome and productive of immeasurably greater mise ries than all the prerogatives of despotism or the repressive influences of feudality. Our recent triumph in the former struggle has only imparted a more hopeful energy to the latter. IVhere tens coalesced for the emancipation of commerce thousands are now happily combining for the enfranchisement of the popular intellect. All the invidious distinctions of class, all the diversities of political opinion, all the antagonism of religious factions, have failed in preventing the MSS from uniting together for the instruction of the ignorant, and the reclamation of the criminal. If ever there was an opportune moment for the realisa tion of any national reform, the present is unques tionably the On for eliciting a system of education from the British. Legislature. The whole mind Of the community is filled with a conviction of what is requi site ; the whole heart of the community is beating with a generous anxiety for the alleviation of so much wretchedness; the whole vigour of the com- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER e, 1846. munity is prepared for the achievement of this moral and intellectual reformation. Let u 3, men of Eng gland ! avail ourselves of this glorious tnd precious vantage-ground. Unanimity, earnestness, honesty, —with these our straggle must prove victorious! The million will be elevated from its present abyss of moral debasement and mental degradation ; the hulks, and the prisons, and the penal settlements, and the madhouses, will be rendered to a consider able extent only the memorials of our former blind ness ; the rookeries of our great cities will be purged away, their degenerate inmates changed into a thriving and industrious body, and the treadmill and the gallows preserved as the symbols of a past and mistaken generation. Every fresh inspection of criminal statistics only demonstrates yet more vividly the necessity for some immediate and wholesale purgation. Often as the official reports of the Inspectors of Prisons have been issued, repeatedly as we ourselves have in vestigated the moral and intellectual wants of the poor, through the assistance of numerical calculations, and deeply as this great wound of centuries has been probed in preceding documents, we must acknow ledge ourselves to have been appalled by the picture unfolded to us by a letter addressed two months since to Sir GEORGE GREY, and written by Mr. Wnirwoara RUSSELL, an ecclesiastic, and one of the home Inspectors of Prisons. The amount of crime which has been detected in the quinquennial period, 1839 to 1843, is there calcu lated, and presents such a world of agony, wretched ness, and degradation as one would not have dared to have imagined. Some faint conception of the horrible nature of these revelations may be formed from the single fact that, in 1843 alone, the number of commitments under summary convictions is estimated at no less than 73,196 ; and this awful amount is, moreover, exclusive of " all those who pay their fines or produce their required securities." Seventy-three thousand one hundred and ninety-six criminal offences in a single year ! and beyond this, of course, a vast amount of undetected crimes, besides the num berless vices and sins which are only recog nisable by religion and philosophy. An esti mate so horrible is enough to cause the most obdurate mind to shrink within itself with amazement. But when we perceive the depths of ignorance by which this criminality is invariably accompanied we have reason not merely for astonish ment, but for self-reproach and anguish. The cause and the effect are both reckoned in the tables of Mr. WHITWORTH RUSSELL'S remark able epistle to the Right honourable the Home Secretary. Of the effects we have already given some calculation. Of the causes, namely, the ignor ance of the criminals, we can afford a corresponding specimen. Out of the prisoners at assizes and sessions 901 per cent. are discovered to have received no instruction whatever, or something absolutely worse than total ignorance, while merely 9 per cent. were able to read and write tolerably. Out of the prisoners confined under sum mary convictions, 91.9 per cent. were found to have received little or no education, while only 4 per cent. could read and write well. With perfect justice may this intelligent and industrious Inspector of Prisons observe: that "no statement can be stronger as to the state of ignorance amongst criminals, even as regards the most elementary instruction." Such then is the demon we have to vanquish before those crimes which cry to heaven for vengeance in this country can be rendered less frequent, and the reprobate dregs of the population changed into upright and in dustrious citizens. With courage and perseverance and unanimity this great work may, however, be accomplished. Let us, therefore, emulate each other in this struggle for national love and philanthropic glory. Each day's accounts from Ireland fearfully corro borate the tale of misery and destitution existing in that unhappy land. We regret to say that the dis turbances are also spreading, and that the greatest excitement prevails in many districts, threatening in the most serious manner the peace and tranquillity of the entire nation. As yet the outbreaks and the acts of violence have chiefly related to the food of the people. Bakers' shops, provision stores, and other places where edibles of any kind could be obtained, have been pillaged, and the transit of provisions through the country, for the purpose of exportation, has been forcibly stopped—indeed a n y remova l o f _ oaLsouv er rs wat.o.tea with a jealous eye. The unaccountable attack on Lord STUART DE Decres, a .resident nobleman, affneling extensive employment to the people on his extensive estates, am e ired of a worse character and description than any of the other acts of violence it has been eur painful duty to record. We are happy, however, -o find it stated, in a letter written by his Lordship, that none of his tenantry were guilty of taking a part in the disturbances which occurred upon the oc casion in question, indeed he appears to acquit the people generally of any premeditated intention to in sult or attack him, and states his opinion that the real cause of the feeling excited against him arose from the outrageous conduct of a man, who had attempt e d 40 address the Court, and who had been removed therefrom by order of his Lordship. How unsettled must the state of the people be when any mischievous or badly disposed person can exasperate them to such a pitch as to induce them to attack and injure one of their best friends. In the meantime no exertions have been spared by the Government or the people throughout the greater Part of the kingdom. Each Gazette contains a number of additional proclamations by the Lord- Lieutenant for the holding of extraordinary present ment sessions, the total number of which that have already been conventd amount to no less than 236. A spirit of unanimity appears to have prevailed at almost all of those that have already been held. Religious and political differences have, in the great majority of instances, been laid aside, and the magis trates and ratepayers have contended in a generous rivalry as to who shall do most for their suffering and impoverished neighbours. The Roman Catholic clergymen have devoted themselves in the most praiseworthy manner to the preservation of the peace in their respective parishes; they have publicly harangued their flocks from the altars, have addressed them whenever a larger number than usual were assembled together, and have in every way used the vast influence they possess for the maintenance of order, and in de precation of any riot or turbulence. The committee of the Repeal Association have issued a most admir able address to the people, signed by Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL, their chairman, imploring them in the most earnest and impressive manner to be patient— to break no law, to commit no violence, to plunge into no crime ; and they bear their testimony to the exertions made by the Government, the landowners, and all classes throughout the country for their relief. Wherever the public works have been commenced, and food provided in sufficient quantity, and so reasonable in price as to be within the reach of the people, there the tranquillity has been restored. In Youghal, which was lately in so fearful a state, the greatest order and decorum prevails ; handbills have been posted in all the public situations, and extensively circulated among the people, telling them what has and what will be done for them, pointing out the consequences of a conti nuance of the bread riots. They say " that if the mills are stopped and prevented working, if the mer chants are prevented from pursuing their trade and business, the people themselves must be the greatest sufferers," and " that no man will lay out his money in buying or bringing into store that which he is afraid will be pillaged from him. The miller won't grind, the baker won't make bread, the merchant won't bring Indian meal and Indian corn home, and then there will be no food at all for them ; they will be out of bread and out of work ;" and they exhort them by every motive to keep the peace and discoun• tenance disturbers. This is indeed a plain unvar nished statement, and cannot be without its effect upon so intelligent a people as the Irish. His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant has also put forth a proclamation, announcing his firm determina tion to protect that lawful trade in the article of food, the complete security of which is essential to the subsistence of the people ; and also to prevent the labourers employed on public works from resist ing the arrangements which the officers of the Board of Works have made for task or piece -work, or from attempting to obtain by violence any higher rate of wages. Should such efforts be made, his Excellency threatens forthwith to stop the works in the district This is perfectly right. It is essential to teach the people that they will gain nothing by intimidation and violence. A. strong feeling exists throughout the whole of Ireland in favour of an immediate meeting of Parlia ment, in order that the provisions of the Labour-rate Act may be modified, so as to permit the money about to be raised by the presentments under it to be applied to the development of the resources of the land, rather than in public works of an unproductive nature. A requisition, most influentially and respectably signed, calling a meeting of the landowners of Ire land, to be held in Dublin, for that purpose, is at this moment in course of signature. How fully and cordi ally we agree with the object of the requisitionists, will be well understood by our readers. We have repeatedly urged the adoption of such a course, and pointed out the extensive field for the valuable em ployment of the people, in the reclamation of the waste lands and the improved culture of those already in tillage. We are rejoiced to find that feeling so universally participated in by men of all varieties of political feeling. Such a de monstration as will most probably take place, where every Irishman may join, cannot fail in obtaining the desired object. We have already expressed our conviction that, in a Parliament as sembled for such a purpose, no embarrassing motions would be brought forward ; nor would the time of the Legislature be wasted by any unnecessary speeches. Of course, it would be quite impossible to restrict their deliberations to any specific purpose, the good feeling of every individual Member must be re lied on, that he will not abuse the power he has, or seek to divert the attention of the Senate from the great object for their consideration, viz., the means by which the existing distress in Ireland can be most beneficially dealt with, and the labour of the people applied in such a direction as may be of per manent and lasting advantage to the entire empire. A rescript was issued by the Emperor of RUSSIA, on the 23d of August, conferring on Prince WORON zow, the Governor General of Southern Russia and the Caucasus, almost sovereign power within the limits of his government. The Governor-General, in addition to the rights and powers granted to him previously, is authorised to confer, for signal ser vices, the rank of officer up to that of captain exclu sively ; he can also distribute the order of St. George and St. Vladimir of the fourth class ; of St. Anne of the second, third, and fourth class ; the order of St. Stanislaus of the second and third classes, as well as swords of honour with the words "For bravery" in scribed on them. He is also authorised to promote and grant crosses on the representations of his officers. Madrid papers of the 30th have arrived. The Eco del Comercio having paid the fine im posed upon it reappeared, on that day. The Heraldo announces officially that the two royal marriages are to be solemnized on the 10th of Octo ber. The Due DE MONTPENSIER is expected in Ma drid on the 6th. The same paper denies emphatically the statement made by the Tienzpo, that the Spanish Cabinet had received from the British Government dispatches of the highest importance. The Bill authorising the Ministry to levy taxes had passed the Senate, General SERRANO alone dissenting. The officers of the garrison of Madrid, with General PEZUELA at their head, had waited on the QUEEN and the INFANTA to congratulate them on their approaching nuptials, According to the Espanol, Sava CABRAL left Cadiz on the 23d for Paris, yid 'Marseilles. Is he going to head-quarters for instructions The much-talked-of amnesty is to be upon a very limited scale, "in consequence," says the Herald°, " of the machinations carried on abroad against the institutions and the throne itself." This is a dan gerous phrase, and must have been inserted without the imprimatur of M. BREsSON. In reading it, the memory is naturally carried back to the intrigues of the Hotel de Courceltes. The English squadron passed by Ceuta on the 23d ult. on its way to Tetuan, when it came to anchor at the mouth of the river. On the morning of the 24th the squadron, after leaving two steamers off Tetuan, got under weigh, and shortly afterwards came between Mouseri and Bermeja, two leagues from Tetuan. • I.liteci jie C,LiCS., 04 - 4 - cash; Pour per Cents., 211 ; Fire per Cents., 22 cash; Debt, without interest, 61; Coupon, 201 ; Exchange on London, 361 cash. We have received the Paris papers of Monday. The Government papers publish a telegraphic dis patch, an noueeing the arrival of the Dukes DE MONTPENSIER and D'.\ um.ten at Victoria on the 3,1. They left tiie next morning for Burgos, and had ar rived at Miranda when the last accounts left. The Journal deg Debats states that M. GUIZOT would, in the course of the Monday, deliver to the Marquis of -NORMANDY the answer of the French Cabinet to the protest of the British Government against the Montpensier marriage. The answer was agreed to at a meeting of the French Cabinet held on Sunday, and rt which the KING himself presided. By far the most important article in any of these papers is the following from the Cwistitutionnel, which may be considered not only as the manifesto of the great party whi'7.4l acknowledges M. TIIIERS for leader, but an exposé on the part of that statesman of the intrigues and manoeuvres by which a pre carious entente cordiale, for promoting the personal interests of courts and of factions, has been substi tuted for the grand alliance of constitutional mo narchies, projected in 1830 by M. TIMERS and Lord PALMERSTON. We give the article in extenso : " Sines the It-volution of 1830 the whole of our foreign policy has had cor its basis and pivot the Eng lish alliance. At the moment when the emotion pro duced in Europe by our revolution separated us fiom the absolute Powers of the continent, reForm drove Eng land into the liberal path. The two nations associated in common ideas 3 they united from sympathy, and seemed to be drawing the world towards improvement and freedom. The quadruple Alliance, favourable to the establishment of a constitutional Governmeat in Spain, was one of the first fruits of this happy accordance. But since then, by an effect contrary to all the hopes which had been entertained, the relations between France and England have scarcely been anything else than vio lent ruptures, followed by dubious reconciliations, and the Liberal cause has gained nothing from this tulle intime between the two Governments. It is not without interest to examine the conduct of our Government, and, above all, of the men who are now conducting our affairs with Great Britain. Four times since 1830 the uncertain union between the two countries has been broken. In 1836, by our refusal. to intervene in Spain ; in 1840, by the Egyptian policy adopted by the present Cabinet, and which M. Guizot undertook to represent ; in 1844, by the conquest in Otaheite over Mr. Pritchard; in 1846, by the precipitate marriage of the Duke de Montpensier to the Infanta of Spain. In 1436 the Whigs were, as now, Mi nisters of England. Liberal politicians, enterprising statesmen, they proposed to France to execute by a frank and bold intervention on the other side of the Pyrenees the treaty of the Quadruple Alliance. It was an admir able occasion for consolidating at one stroke the revolu tion in Spain,_ and the liberal a lli ance b etween France and England. The throne of Isabella would have been firmly fixed ; the Spaniards would have been saved from eight or tenyears of agitation by civil wars, riots, sanguinary executions, and exhaustion. Our Cabinet, however, re fused to interpose. Quite opposite to the English Cabi net, it was afraid of acting, and revealed how slight was its inclination towards liberal ideas. Spain was aban doned, and Lord Palmerston denounced as a blunderer, a dangerous supporter ofrevolutions, an enemy to the repose of nations, one whom Europe ought to mistrust. We can not discover the advantages of this conduct on the part of our Cabinet, nor any right we derived from it to the grati tude of Europe. At all events, we have been obliged to evacuate Ancona and. leave Luxemburgh to her fate. Ne vertheless our relations with England were renewed with greater strength, but s oon a f terwar d s the question of the East put the alliance to a new trial. The Whig Ministers were again under an illusion ; they proposed to our Govern ment to combine the fleets of France and England that they might together force the Dardanelles, and reconcile conjointly the interests of the Sultan of Constantinople and the Paella of Egypt. Instead of entering into this project, which might have had such great and happy consequences, France and the Chamber of Deputies were precipitated into a policy exclusively Egyptian, which separated us not only from England, but from all Europe. They were afraid to act; they found that they would be engaged in a struggle which required the greatest energy and every effort. Through pusillanimity they became rash. Bet this did not endure. Everybody knows the result of this second rupture with England; that M. Guizot brought us humiliation from England— that the Debats altered its tone and craved pardon from those whom it had insulted. Soon after this, in order to rebind the alliance it had severed, our Ministry signed the treaty of the right of visit. The English Ministry was no longer the same. The Tories had come into power. Did our Cabinet make any fundamental change in its conduct? It had previously failed on two great occa sions to render the alliance fruitful and glorious. Did it even succeed in rendering the entente cordiale a means of pewee and benefit to the two countries? Very far from it. Scarcely two years had passed away when it found means to break with England a third time. With the miserable intent of dazzling the French nation and the Chambers, it went out to conquer the Marquesas and Otaheite. It had to contend with the religious passions of the English; we have no need to recal the consequences. Sir Eubort P ee l d eman di ng i n f u ll Par liament a reparation; the peace of the world placed in danger; three disavowals, namely that of Admiral Dupetit Thouars, that of M. l)'Aubigny, and that of Captain Bruat; art indemnity demanded and paid; the partial evacuation of tha Society Islands, which is being at this moment erected. Since this our Cabinet, in in order to revive the nearly extinct entente cordiale, signed a disgraceful treaty at Tangiers, and covered itself with ridicule. in the Texas. At last comes 1846, and with it the hasty marriage of the Duke de Mont pensier, causing a fourth rupture. In this we find all the characteristics of the Ministerial policy, viz., a dread of undertaking bold enterprises. Spain applied for the hand of the Duke de Montpensier for Queen Isabella; for three years our Government obstinately persisted in a refusal. Pusillanimous temerity! It now braves all the inconveniences which would have attended the marriage with the Queen, without obtaining any of its advantages. It sacrifices once more, and perhaps for ever, the English alliance, in order to give to the Duke de Montpensier the heiress to the throne of Spain, with the probable chance of seeing Queen Isabella, by becom ing a mother, deprive the Infanta of all hopes of suc ceeding to her inheritance. Like those prudent calcu lators who violate the laws of their country just so far as not to place themselves in the hands of justice, our Cabinet excites a lively animosity between two powerful nations. But it is perfectly content, if war be not the immediate consequence of its conduct. There is a re mark which is truly applicable to all the important acts of our Government, viz., that their appearances are always widely different from their reality. Appearance is for noise and glorification—reality is paltry and miserable. In 1840, the language of M. Guizot, of his friends, of his journals, was bravado, and often insult towards England—but at the bottom there was nothing but fear. The object of the enterprise at Otaheite was to make the country believe that the French Ministers were resolved to brave. England, and divide with her the empire of the seas; the positive result was the onerous conquests of sterile rocks, the disputed protectorate of a few savages, a considerable expenditure of lives and money, and a very little honour gained. To day, if the Ministry talks to the country, it says that the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier is glorious -and a happiness for France ; that the policy of Louis XIV. is re-established ; that Spain be comes almost a province of France, and that the Pyre nees no longer exist. But if it turns to war d s E ng l an d it becomes obsequious, it speaks of the Spanish marriage as merely a family union, and says that the Prince and his young wife will come into France, and there wait the pregnancy —that, in fact, there is no change in Spain. Whence comes this double language? that the first be longs to appearances, and the second to reality—only in the inverse to the inventions of the Ministry—the ap pearances irritate England, and the reality leaves France cool and indifferent. In fact, the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier is nothing more than a family matter, which will in no degree augment the influence of France, which may possibly compromise her, and which, in the mean time, thanks to the ability of our negotiators, de stroys our alliance with England. Such have been the inconsistencies of the policy of our Government and its fruits. This simple emposure of facts will serve us for a unique answer to those who pretend that they have done a great deal and compromised nothing." The Austrian An presented to M. GuzzoT a protest against the Montpensier marriage, couched in the same terms as the protest presented by the Marquis of NORMANDY. This would seem to con firm the truth of the following statement which ap pears in the National,'— "It is affirmed that another protest, more energetic than the first, has been presented at Madrid by Mr. Bulwer, and that this rltimatum is a threatening one. It is added that England has succeeded in drawing the Northern Cabinets into the same path. We repeat these reports, because they come from persons who pre tend to be well informed, but we cannot vouch for any• thing on the subject." La Presse declares that General CABRERA was still in London, on the 4th Of October, which city he had never quitted since his first arrival. General PoLo, brother-in-law to CABRERA, 1113 aide-de-camp CHIN CILLA, and another, superior officer of the old Carlist army of Arragon, have been arrested within the last few days at Carpentras. Two other Spanish refugees, Abbe iIIAsANAs and Senor CoLEI, have also been arrested at Avignon. No attempt had been made on Saturday and Sun day to renew the bread riots in the Faubourg- St. Antoine. We stated on Mon(7ay, that there had been some thing like an ff.:rule at St. Omer, in conse quence of the National Guard being forbid len to carry their arms at the inauguration of the statue of the Duke of ORLEANS. The troops were called out, and, partly by their exertions, and partly by a present from the Duchess of ORLEANS of 6,000 f., tranquillity was completely restored. Lsrd BROUGHAM left Paris for Cannes on Sunday. By a recent ordonnance M. Pichon, Consul-Gene•• rat Chnr u i; .1' A 41:-.1reta at 111.-Intp V. 1,1 named Consul-General at Smyrna, in place of Vis count de Segur-Montaigne, retired. M. Devoize, French Consul at Damascus, is named Consul-Gene ral at Monte. Video in place of M. Pichon ; M. Vat tier de Bonneville, Consul of France at Cairo, suc ceeds M. Devoize ; and M. Benedetti takes the place of M. Vattier de Bonneville. By the same ordon- nance Count Ulyssee de Ratti-Menton, formerly Con sul at Canton, is appointed French Consul at Cal cutta, a post lately created. Count RATTI AIENT3N, the newly -appointed French Consul at Calcutta, is the person V ho, as French Consul in Syria, made himself so notorious by ex citing against the Jetvi that furious persecution, the news of which, some four years since, filled all Europe with horror ; rrmd which was only put an end to by the personal interposition of Sir MosEs MoN TEFIORE with the Turkish authorities, and by hi proving to demonstration the utter falsehood of all the charges which the Catholic population of Syria, excited by Count RATTI-MENTON, had brought against them. PAILIS BOURSO, INIOND.,?.Y.—The market opened with some firmness at the closing prices of Saturday ; but towards the end of the day it grew rather we a k er , and at bell-ringing left cash, o 8 ,, fraft.lBlesre; lowerfor:—Threesaccount, 8 a t 2l B . 28151,8. ; 5 c FiavnedpeFivesr Cents., at 1171. c0r 85c. The mar k e t closed a-, follows: --Three per Cents., for cash, 117 f. 85c.; for accotinr, 117 f. 85c.; Neapolitan, 1021.; Spanish and New Loan, net quoted. RaawAys.—The Share Market has been without anima tion to-day, and prices have for the most part remained at Saturday's quotations. For cash---Paris and O r l eans c l ose d at 1,270 f. ; Rouen and Havre, 7271. 50c.; Avignon, 9251.; Vierzon, 622 f. 50c.; Strasburg and yoanLdßnasl, 528 f. 75 c . ; Parise, 232 f. 50c.; Nor thern, 7261. 25c. ; Bordeaux, 5661. 25c.; Montereau, 370 f.; Fampoux 397 f. 50c. ; i and Strasburg, 5021. 50c.; .Nantes, 5081. 75c.; Dieppe, 375 f.; Rouen and Boulogne, not quoted. E a Bs ot Indian, e LONDON d_LA um xi —Luxembourg, STOCKinnstO,uEXCHANGE, th— ‘rad rBOCTOBERNe. 14%—Direct Bombay and Madras, % BUSINESS DOVE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE J%—Nortbetii of Franco Constituted, 13% — Paris and Lyons Constituted, 53 4—Paris and Strasbourg Consti tuted, 4%. The Hon. Dudley Ward, brother and heir pre. sumptive to Lord Ward, has been elected master of the Worcestershire fox-hounds. VOLUNTARY STARVATION IN THE WESTMINSTER HOUSE OF CORRECTION.— An inquest was held yester day, before Mr. Bedford, at the Westminster House of Correction, on the body of Thomas Miller, aged 40. It appeared that on the 10th of September, the deceased was committed from Mary lebone Police-court, on a charge of creating a riot, for want of sureties. About nine ye as ago he had a very severe blow inflicted on his head with a quart pot, and ever since he had been affected in his head. On being admitted into the prison he perti naciously refused all kinds of food, and all the liquids he took had to be forced down his throat. He complained of everything, and s a id if h e h a d hi s own c l ot h es h e could eat, when, in fact, they had not been taken from him. Nothing could be got from him but oaths, and he would not even walk about without being led. Means had been taken to have him removed to the Han well Asylum, but on Sunday he got much worse, and died at three o'clock the next morning. The surgeon was of opinion that th e d eceased died from disease of the brain, probably accelerated by a self-denial of food. Verdict— " Died from disease of the brain." NONE 80 BLIND AS THOSE WHO WON'T SEE.— A very curious cause has just come before the Juge de widow lady Paix of N eu ill y. Some time ago Madame Pluyette, a of fifty, b ut who still attaches much im portance to p ersonal appearance, had the misfortune, in playing with a l ap d og, to receive from it so severe a wound in one of her eyes, that it came out of the socket. Having heard much of artificial eyes, and being recom mended to apply to an expert manufacturer in the way, named Tamisier, she gave an order for a glass eye, for which M. Tamisier charged 100 f. Refusing to pay this charge, the maaufacturer summoned her before the Juge de Paix. Madame Pluyette having appeared, hold ing the glass eye in her hand, the Juge de Paix asked her why she refused to pay the bill which M. Tamisier had sent in ? For a very goo d rea son," replied the defendant ; " I can see no more with it than I could be fore." " Wh a t !" sa i d the Juge de Paix, " did you really imagine that you would be able to see with a glass eye ?" " Did I think so 2" retorted the angry dame • " certainly I did. W ill you be so good as to tell me what are eyes for but to see with ? I ordered the eye for use, and until M. Tamisier makes me one with which I can see I will not pay him a sous. I wear a wig, which is quite as useful as natural hair ; I have three false teeth, which answer as w€llas those which I have lost, and why should I pay for an eye which is of no use ?" The Juge do Paix endeavoured to convince Madame Pluyette that glass eyes were for others to look at, not for the wearer to look from them ; but finding all ap peals to her reason of no avail, he cordemned her to pay the plaintiff the amount of his demand. When the de fendant heard the decision, she became furious with anger, and after dashing her glass eye on the floor she rushed out of court amid the laughter of the crowd.— Gaignani's Messenger. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000 bales, including 500 American for export, and 500 on speculation. The market is firm, and there is a tendency to advance. The following may prove of interest at the present morrent " The cotton year closing on the first of this month — it now appears that the crop of 1845-46, as indicated by the receipts at the shipping ports, amounts to 2,073,529 bales, in comparison with 2,394,503 bales of the crop 1844-45, being a difference of 323,974 bales; the amount of the crop of the State of Texas, 27,008 bales, being added this year, makes the crop of the United States now 2,100,537 bales. This crop was generally esti mated at 2,400,000 bales up to the Ist January last, in consequence of the healthy state of the plant during the whole growing season a late frost —and the picking season being the longest and most favourable on record, and, in fact, it was only in February last that the estimates at New Orleans and Mobile, of the best informed persons, were re duced to 2,100,000 bales, the receipts at those ports fall ing tar short of the nominal growth. The quantity taken for home use this last season stands at 422,597 bales against 389,006 last year, and 346,744 the year before. Of the present crop, the quantity received at the shipping ports is about 300 bales, against 8,700 bales last year. In all remarks during the growing season, we have referred to the backward state of the plant, and to the excessive wet and unpropitious weather, and lat terly to the estimated injury by the army worm and the boll worm ; of the latter the complaints have ceased to any large extent, but in consequence of the first, the picking proceeds very slowly, and it is evident that the f growing crop will, under any circumstances, and even frost should not appear till November, be under an average one." The letters by the West India Mail were delivered to day. There is no news of interest in them beyond that which has already appeared. The new Stock and Share Exchange has, since it was opened for business, on Monday last, been the resort of a large number of the members of the Hall of Com merce. Not being strictly limited to those engaged in monetary dealings, the list of members has, within these few days, considerably increased. There is a re gulation that each member deposit 501., or find two se curities of 501., available in case of default, and the annual subscription is fixed at 10 guineas. The style of the building, which is in Old Broad-street, as well as the arrangements made by Mr. Moxhay for the convenience of the members, seem to have given entire satisfaction to the committee of management. The Consol Market is rather more firm this morning. The current prices for Money and the Account are 951. The premium upon Exchequer-bills is fully 18s. Bank Stock was taken at 2108 for the Account. The only transactions in the Foreign Market to• day have been in Brazilian at 85, in Mexican at 25, the Portuguese Four per Cents. at 42k, Russian at 110 f, Spanish at 261, and the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., at 95-k. The Railway Share Market continues heavy. oxm PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 95 Al % South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities Bank Stock for Account ..... • 210 1 / Consols for Account... ...... Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 1 1 ,4 d l5 18 pm. 18 Ditto 500/. Ditto Small CLOSING PRICES. OXE CLOSING rRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES Brazilian Bonds Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.... Cent Ditto Deferred Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 25 Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 42 1 / Russian Bonds now Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account ... 26% Ditto, Passive Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch, 2 1 / per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 92% PRICES or BUSINESS DONE CLOSING . !tAILWAY SHARES FAX ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%...... 2% 2 14 Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% Aylesbury and Thame.. 1% Belfast & County Down 4 3 / 4 Birmin. and Gleucester. 100 Ditto New 17% — .... ...... Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 2 3 / 4 . • Boston, Stamfd, & Biros. 225. — Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester 3O Bristol and Liver. June . 2V 2 — Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Half Shares 2 l /2 — ... .... . Ditto Extension ...... 2 1 / 2 — Cambrian & Grand Jane 42s Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% — Central Kent 2 1%2 -- Chester and Holyhead... 27% — ...... ...... Churnet and Blythe Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltexham and Oxford 2 Clydesdale Junction 2O Cork, Blackrock, and Passages C,h r k Aml 11":11ornny old Cork and Waterford ... Ph.. Cornwall .. 20% Ditto, Half Shares ... 214 Cornwall & Cent'lDevon 2% l% 1 )erby and Crewe Direct Lincoln, East Itet ford, and Shefrd. Jn.nc. 2% — Direct Manchester (Remington's) Ditto (Ragrick's)...... 5 , / 4 ...... •• ... ..... , Direct *northern Direct Norwich Dublin and Belfast Junc. 10 Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublip. andGalway... .. 4 Dundalk & Enniskillen 7 1 Eastern Counties 141. 16s 21%% Ditto New l2l. 16s. 6 % 1 /2 p.. Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1.......6!.135. 4d.... Ditto ditto, Nu. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... Do., York Extension.. 105....... 1 3 / 4 EastDereh'm andNoech 1 Eastern Union Ditto, Quarter Shares 8 3 / 4 — Do. Exten.(llarwich) 10, E — Do., Cam b. and Ely.. 2%...,., East Lancashire Ditto, New East Lincolnshire East & West of England 1% Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 — ~, , ...... Ditto Half Shares ... 10 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% Edinburgh & Northern.. 10 Edinburgh and Perth... 3 ...... Ely and Huntingdon ... 7% ...... Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% — Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 5 , 4 — Glasgow, Kilmer., & Ayr 50 Ditto, New Do., Y i Shares (5 per cent. guar.) Glouc.,Abeiystwith, and Central of Wales 1%...... Goole, Doncaster, &c. .. 425. — Grand Union (Notting and Lynn Great Eastern &Western 2%...... ••• • GreatGrimsby and Shef field Great South. and West. - (Ireland) Great Munster ... 2% ...... Great North of Scotland 2%...... Great North of England..loo Ditto New 5 — Ditto, New . Ditto, New Great Western Ditto % Shares SO ' Ditto 1 4 Shares lO Ditto Fifths Ditto, New Guildford, Fareim, Ports. 5 ..... Harwich and Eastern Counties Junction ... 2 ...... Hull and Selby 5O Ditto 1 / 4 Shares Do. Half Shares Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 11% — Do., do., and Norwich 2 4 — Killarney Junctions l4 Kendal and Windermere 11/ 2 — Lancaster and Carlisle... 45 Do. New Lame, Belfast, and Bal lymena Leeds and Bradford 3O Leeds and Carlisle Leicester & Birmingham 225. — ... Leicester and Bedford... 225. Leeds and Dewsbury ... 22% — Lpool., Mnchstr & New: castle Junction Liverpool and Bury London and Blackwell. 16/. 13s. 4d. 9 Do. New Ditto Extension - 7 %...... London and Brighton 5O .. ... 58 1 41/, Ditto, Fifths 40 London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 21 1 / 4 Do. Guaran. 5 per cent. 9 London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d — Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d •• London, Hounslow, and Western London and N. Westeraloo 196% 194 194 Do. Quarters .. 164 21% N Do., do.,New Shares.. 2 ... Ditto Fifths .... 2 Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12 1 / 2 . —. Do., New 14 Shares (G. J.) Do 40/. Shares (L. M.) 8 — Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 69 ...... .... ... De. New ConsoL Bths 40 Do. New - 22% ...... • ••• ... Do. New ...... London and York 2% 1 34........ ...... Do. % Shares ......... ........ ... London and Windsor . 1N 3 ... . ~.. . ...... London, Salisbury, and Yeovil .....»........... 2% — ... Londonderry& Coleraine 121 2 — ............ ..,. ............ Londonderry and Ennis killen 1212 .............. Lynn and Ely ...... 15 1 / 2 ..... 15 1 / 2 Lynn and Dereham Manchester and Leeds... 82 ...... Ditto % Shares Do. Quarters 2 ...... 6 .............. . 6 Do. Fiala 58 y s 21% 24 13% 50 3 4 10% 1% .._. ,~. Do. Sixteenths 6 14 -- Do.' Extension 42s. 1 0 :,', p....„ Manchester and Birmin 4O Do. Quarters (A) 5 ...... 12 ... ..... .. Do. Quarters (B) Do. Quarters (C) 1 . ... 8 1 4 Manchester,Buxton,and Matlock 425....... 1 / 2 4 . p Manchester, Birm., and Mould Junction .. ... — Manchest. & Southampt. 2 --... 1 Midland ..— ..... 100 .....135 Do. Fifths 2 Do. New Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Midlnd& East. Counties 2% — Midland Great Western Irish l5 Newcastle and Berwick 15 Do. North Shields ~ 25 Newcastle and Carlisle-100 Newnirk et &Chesterfrd 2/.123 N p .,,,,,,,, Newport &Abergavenny 2%...... ••• Newry and Enniskillen 4% — .. Newark, Sheffield, and Boston ... . ~. 1%.. ... Norfolk Do. Half Shares ..... 7 Do. Extension North Britinh ... ..... ... 25 Do. Half Shan s ll ...... 14%%.... Do. Fifths .. 5 Do. Carlisle Extens. 114 North of Norfolk Northern and Eastern 5O Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45 Do. Quarter Shares... 12% — Do. New North Staffordshire 425....... 2 17g p North Wales Northern and Southern Connecting Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham 2 — Nottingham & Mansfid. Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.— . ....... 1% — Portsmouth Direct ...... 3% — Preston and Wyre ...... 25 Do. % Shares Reading, Guildford, and Reigate . 42s. — Richmond Rugby, Leamington,snd Warwick ..... .•• •• Scottish Central Scottish Midland 12% Sheffield & Manchester 100 Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Do. Lincolnshire June. 1 1 4 — Do. & Great Grimsby. 10 Do. do. Extension 425. 31% i%; Shrewsbury and Birm 3 .... . 3 ... .. - :.... Shropshire Union Shrews., Wolverhamp., &S. Staffordsh. June. 2 1 / 2 Sligo and Shannon l% - ........... South Devon... 35 South & Midlands Jane. 42s South Staffordshire June. 2 % — South Eastern & Dover. 33 1 / 8 37% 36% .. De., No. 1 26 Do., I%T. 2. Do., No. 3 Do., Ne. 4 &Alban's, Hatfield,and Hertford Junction ... 425. — Staines and Richmond... 1 Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2 3 / 4 — South Wales 5 Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Still. Coal. 2 ... Taw Vale Extension ... 2 Tring, Reading, and B;ingstoke - Vale of Neath Wakefield, Pontefract, & Goole Warwickshire & London 425. - •••••• Warwick and Worcester 425. • _ — Waterford and Kilkenny 14 . .... Waterford and Limerick 22 1 / 2 _ Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin ‘V aterford, Wexford, and Valentia Waveney Valley ... 2 - Welsh Midland West Riding Union 42s. 1 0% p....... West Cornwall WestLondon,Old Shares 20 Wexford and Carlow ... 2 1 / Wilts, Somerset,& Wey mouth ... 10 Worcester,Warwick, and .. Rugby York and Carlisle York and Newcastle 25 ... . 411,4 40% ..., Ditto New 1 1"ork and North Midland 50 — Ditto 1 / 2 Shares .. 25 Do. Scarboro' Branch. 25 Do. Selby Do. Extension Do. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. ' Anglo-Belgian - - ----- - 4 ----- -- Barb adoes 1 Boulogne and Amiens... 14 Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (iNiackenzie's)... 2 ..... Do. (Espelete's) . 2 . .... Calais, Dunkrk, and West Flanders Calcutta and Diamind TTn rhni, _ . . Callao, Lima, and Pacific . sF 1 .. — ... .. ..... Central of of Spain ... . ... 2 Ceylonss. Demerara ... . .. ........... 2% .. Dendre Valley 4 -- Direct Bombay and ...... Madras .... Dutch Rhenish O./ ...... •• 6 East Indian. ....• •... ss. Eastern Belgian Junctn. 22 Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4 Great Indian Peninsular ss. ...... Great Western Bengal... ss. Great Wester n Canada... 3 1 4 „•,•• Italian and Austrian... 3 ...... Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 •—• Louvain ala Sambre ... 5 ... . . Luxembourg. ..... ....... 4 Lyons and Avignon 2 — — Madras ... I Madras, Nellore, and Arcot v ii Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... Mzoritius . Namur and Liege ...... ...• N N( n )r o t f h F j ra a i rn ic a e i C e r .. s . t . i . t . u .. t . c .. d . 5 1 c o ,r r l l e e a a n n s s a a n n d d i V lo i r e d r e z , o tu n x ...... 10 6 = 1 , 5 1: ............... .... Over Yssel 4133 4d Paris &Ly-ons Constituted 5 ['aris and Orleans 2O .. — , Paris and Rouen - ...... .. ... Paris and Strasbourg Constituted Rouen and Havre ...... 20 Sambre and Meuse ...... 8 .... Strasbourg and B a l e ... 14 St. Laurence & Atlantic fours and Nant es C on - .......... stituted Tournay, Jurbi se , L an - ... . den, and Hasselt 8 ...... Trinidad 2 1 / 2 ...... West Flanders .. 6 ...... 3 JOINT STOCK BANKS . Australasia Union of L0nd0n......... 10 . ..... 11%...,,,,, MINES. Real del Monte Unregd Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester and suite are expected to leave the White House, Rich mond, on Saturday, on a visit to the Marquis and Mar chioness of Londonderry, at Wynyard Park. DR. TURNBULL'S TANNING. --The new method is to prepare a mixture of sugar and water and sawdust— it may be of any other substance containing saccharine matter, such as beetroot, potatoes, turnips, honey, &c. The action of the sugar and pyroxalic, or wood-spirit, is so rapid that the skins are rendered fit to receive and imbibe the tannic acid immediately ; and thus the ope ration of tanning is perfectly accomplished in a very short time. The leather thus produced is heavier and of finer quality than any leather produced by the pre sent method of tanning. This method of removing the lime is of immense importance, as it not only improves the leather in weight and durability, but enables the tanner to produce a superior article in a much less space of time, and at a much less expense than heretofore. The advantages of the new method appear to be, first, a great additional weight of leather, especially in calf shins ; second, leather of a much better quality, soft, and not liable to crack or strain ; third, a considerable di minution in the expense ; and fourth, the tanning is effected in one quarter of the time consumed by the pre. sent mode of tanning.—Hall's Book of She Feet. A WHALE IN BANGOR BAY. —For more than ten days previous to the late stormy weather, a large whale of about fifty or sixty feet long, and of propor tionate breadth, has been cruising about in the lough, immediately off Bangor Bay, to which locality he had m be i e ng np i r n o e ba ve b ry probably direction,attracted p by the herring fry, then swim f seagulls of every description, some by a megan p n o e w ts e , r a f n u d l foarneeim mense body of puffin, and other divers, flocks of which were dispersed in all directions, making unceasing as saults upon the different shoals of fry as they approached the surface. Every three or four minutes the whale would rise in the place where the birds were thickest, with jaws wide-gaping, and, after making a satisfactory gulp of several bushels, with, perchance, an odd bird or so by way of a relish, would lazily throw up his broad black back, and, giving a dash with his tail, disappear, to repeat the same performance whenever his sagacity enabled him to find out a similar quantity of little un fortunates to devour. He must have been at least four times as large as the specimen taken at Cultra last year, but no attempt was made to capture or molest him during his sojourn, unless by an adventurous youth from Belfast, who fired volleys of rifle balls into his ba c k an d sides, without ruffling his equanimity in the least. A harpoon (which is much more easily got than a whale) was obtained, but as several boats had been nearly upset by the animal in his excursions, no crew on the coast could be persuaded to attack him. Perhaps they acted wisely, but should he visit a Highland l oc h, on hi s re turn homewards, hemay possibly be stopped in transitu. One of the cutters fired a 121 b. shot at him with no effect, and preparations were being made by his " relent less persecutors" for giving him a broadside of six guns, loaded with pointed iron bolts in place of leaden bullets, but the weather broke, and fry, birds, and he, all disap peared.—Northern Whig. 95% 53 25 42% 110 1 4 26 3 / 4 26 5 ,4 57g 59% 921/2 1% VA 21% 6A p IMPORTANT FROM PO* (From the Herahl.) f We have ju s t rece i ve d th e C a l cut t a Star o f 15th of August, bfinging eight days' later date t o that last re ce i ve d, an d t h e D e lia G azette o f 0 1 00 The principal political intelligence is from L'l lh which will be found subjoined. The corece erc news from Calcutta is gloomy; for the partica:o which we must refer to the extracts annexed:-- (From the Delhi Gazette of July 29 ) r News reached us la s t n i g h t , g i v i ng an account ° f 3 complete failure of the force sent from Lahore Misr Bhagwan Singh, who had intended 1 12 " li fil night attack, and carryin g a ll b e f ore hi m . Moolraj, however, was "wide awake," and ho l t . ceived sairet information of the pl an concerte d, be pletely outmaturavred his opponents by turning d Hanks, and having got into t h e i r rear, h e e rne f t ball" at midnight with great a c ti v i t y ; 300 Ma l ° Atli Durbar are said to be killed or t a k en pr i sone rs, 311 a" of their gun s h ave a l so b een capture d . F re shr. were urgently applied for, and left Lahore £ o. " sl the scene of action. (From the Delhi Gazette of August 5.) We have, since the above w,:s written, heard O f army is to be a s sem bl e d. It w ill pro b a bl y consist the regiments brought up from below to reliee now on or beyond the frontier, and therefore be formidable assemblage. The orders may, we are be expected very soon. We await further intelligence with anxiety., Gazette already announces the formation of two . 61 7 Seilch infantry corps to be raised on the left baokh, Sutlej, to be called resp ec ti ve ly, t h e reg i ments of pore and Loodianah. CALCUTTA MONEY MARKET, AUG. 1 5 ;,4 1, The Money Market is still easy, and transaeti°l: safe character command assistance at current ban' 9 l bazaar rates ; but within the last three or four dg o ,, market has been rather dull, an d th ere h as been a e b ,.l fur accommodation ; •the outward remittances fromhave been limited, and accounts from the up e r ° „ll, marts are not quite so favourable as before ; the r„ ing shows market value of bullion a n d f ore ign 01 ;4 the rates of banking transactions ; in the latter no alteration from former quotation to report. of GOVERNMENT LOANS.—The value of these inife s a , - a cil. has generally declined, indic a ti ve o f a c h ange in 'lO position of the money market ; th e p rem i um 00_,, 0 0 paper has fallen Rs. 2 p er cen t. ; p a p er o f the Trt 4, five per cent. loans, to se ll i s 8 annas p er c ent.:o but to buy one rupee per cen t. hi g h er ; o f the th lr os it to sell 4 annas per cent. higher, and to buy 4 $ 131:1 cent. lower ; paper of the new five p ercen t. has clec .4 4 annas per cent.; the discounts on four per cent- c have increased, on the old 12 annas to Rs. 1 4, the new 4 annas per cent. nt lir BANK SHARES.—The value of these investn3e— S i , wise exhibits decline ; shares of the Bengal 13A 13 „,,tt 25 rs., and of the Union 15 rs. per share lower tll7-0 quotations in our issue of the 7th instant ; other banks are without alteration. 10 1 The operations of the Bengal Bank for the last a (July) are reported equal to 15.2-21- rs. per ce l3 annum. 1 0i EXCHANGE MARKET.—The transactions by th e of the 7th instant, in bills at 10 months' datet 3o o chiefly at 2s. Old. to 2s. 04d. per rupee, but imine after the exchange advanced to 2s. 11d. per r 10 1 within the last two or three days, however, rat es retrograded, and some unexceptionable bills /lit re & Il taken at 2s. Old. per rupee ; it is probable to 10 , anxiety to avail of decidedly good paper for to-clic# has occasioned the recession on the exchange ; nt,P B ,O transactions rate at 2 s. Old. to 2s. Oid. per Or cording to the character of paper. ee ° FREIGUTS.—The rates of homeward freighta,g firmed steady at our last quotations to within thel.e or three days, when a sudden advance of ss. to 1 , 00 ton took place. At present but a small amount - ,. 0 0 nage for London is available, and it is probable tP,O gagements to sail before the approaching holidaf ri 'O' command ss. per ton advance upon reported 00 freightage to the Mauritius has declined, the a from thence show a fall in the prices of grain. IMPORTS. 00d S The market, excepting for cotton piece g yarn, is generally less active than at the date of (,), 0 1 0 „ issues ; there is an absence of speculative deman d cially from the upper provinces, and the aversioneol: native dealers have to enter upon heavy eugg yt y precedin g th e a pp roac hi ng na ti ve h o lid a ys / 113 P a ' ness M to the mar Thisket. °P dul l ETALS.— market has been especially our last issu e; t ransact i ons have been very C011o" and chiefly on local demand. COTTON PIECE GOODS.—Busine ss i n t hi s trade c all / nues extensive ; our present exhibits cons id e rable . :0 1 of heavy white goods, as jacon e t s , mu lls, cambric; t hil dapolams, and shirtings, but prices have been bd v ib lower ; the lighter fabrics for native wear "e f o i more inquired after, as usual, preparatory to dg° preaching native h o lidays ; c hi n t zes an d c°` ° ur are still neglected. t • COTTON TWIST.—SSI O3 tO cons id era ble e - off nue • latterly medium numbers have b e en ' s. slightly reduced prices ; imports are heavy. Aritt4l EXPORTS. Market rather dull, contributed both by unf'"? l-7 0 1 accounts by the last ma il, an d by a s li g ht chang e In position of the money market. it o INDIGo,—The exports since our issue of the are of 8 chests or 22 fy. mds. to England, whic h • ;I' the shipments of the season to 7th instant inclu sif 4 below:— To England ... ... chests 19,702 fy. mds. • 7 190 261 201 1, 90' )9 1,953 „ 1 ~ " Chests 30,791 fy. mds. 113 ' p Accounts from the planters continue very unfavotil v f oi and esti mates are cons id era bl y l ower t h an t h ose repo ' in our la s t i ssue • Tirhoot is next to a complete fa t . de e and through ou t the lower provinces, produce is coils! ' fi e ably below th e resu l ts o f l ast year ; accord i ng to a" dik counts the crop of th e season w ill not exceed ff. 11:1 90,000, but may fall below it. From a statement showing the altitude of the ror,-, pf) Mirzapore from Ist to sth A ugus t o f 10 years, it veil' seen that the present is higher than any precedent. ioe RAw SILK. is in better d eman d, an d at s li g htly or i proved prices ; the accounts by the last mail being ° favourable. ,101 France Hamburg United Status .., Persian Gulf and Red Sea ... Mauritius ~ 8,354 I, 239 „ 5 17 42 ~ SILK PIECE GOODS.—Accounts from home by the',o mail are very discouraging and have checked the 0; 11 ' of transactions ; no pucvhase of Corahs has occurred, SALTPETRE.—Demand less active; the market, h ° ever, is almost hare of Godna an€ other better sorts. to i SUGAR.—In steady demand; last accounts from b ° 0 are likely to advance prices; supplies are taken up reported. SIR CHARLES NAPIER. „ e The following letter from Lord Ellenborough to If tain Napier will show his Lordship's opinion of " Charles Napier's conduct in India:— " Southarn, Sept. 27, 184 0 :„ ‘ "My dear Captai n N a pier,—l received this morn.ifri your letter about a speech made by Mr. Sullivan ags": o , • Sir Charles Napier's conduct in Sinde. You arc ID ' taken in supposing that I have rc'd the speech. I s fl ', there had been some discussion at the Court of rf„ prietors, apparently got up by Mr. Sullivan, for ~ 4" 5 , purpose of making a long sp eec h ; b ut t h e fliscuss l 74 got up occasionally at that C ourt are so w h o lly de/ if of importance, except in the eyes of the speakers, ! ,11 ° did not think it worth while to read what was said. 0 " It is surely qu it e unnecessary f or me to d ec l ar e words my entire approbation of Sir Charles Naref ie conduct. I sh owe d w h at I t h oug h t o f i t b y my acts I was Governor-General; and I will tell you 01 0 think the services Sir Charles Napier has perfortoei since I left India have been even greater than those endeavoured, but was unable adequately, to reward. , " His campaign in the hills was, as a military 0p 34 , tion, even superior to that which was for ever illus trated by the victories of Meanee and Hyderabad, and he has prov e d hi mse lf to b e th e a ble s t, or at l east t h e most successful of administrators, if the success of an ada ) ; , nistration may be tested by the contentment and conA dente it gives to the people. " His services during the late campaign upon the Sutlej, when, having had no previous instructions to I!v ei his forces in preparation, he mo ve d i n a f ew wee k s with 1.5,000 men and 100 guns upon M ou l tan , l eav i ng S e inl tranquil in his rear, was of it se lf su ffi c i ent to s h ow t o al who have minds capable of comprehending great roe f : sures of war and policy, not only the perfection of his arrangements and the popular character of his just and e 0 ergetic government, but the immense value, in a military point of view, of the position which his former victories hav e gained to us in Scinde. These matters are, however , so very little und ers t oo d i n this country,' even hi the few who attend to them at all, that I fear it may j be long before hi s mer i ts are justly appreciated, and people here may on l y di scover when it is too late dim' Sir Charles Napier has possessed that rare combinv tion of military and civil talents, both excellen t in their kind, which is the peculiar attribute of really great mind. " Yours very sincerely, (Signed) " ELLENBOROUGH." A retiring pension of 1,0001. a year fail aby th e death of Sir Edward S. Lees, late superintendent of the Post-office in Edinburgh. EIRE AT THE BIRMINGHAM AND GLOUCESTS° RAILWAY STATION.—On Monday evening a fire broke out upon the premises of the Birmingham and Glou cester Railway C om p any at G loucester. Between Sid and seven o'clock the alarm was given that the fire WO raging with great rapidity, and that the whole of t he buildings w ere t h reatened with destruction. The c ity and neighbourhood were illumined for miles by the re flection of the fire, and thousands of persons, together with three engines, were immediately upon the spot. 00 our arrival we found that the engine -house had taken fire. This building, it was evident from the first, ws s doomed to destruction ; consequently every effort vvss made to prevent the spreading of the destructive elemell to the adjacent buildi ngs . F ortunately, in the course o about an hour, the fire was greatly subdued, and nofi!r ther damage was app re h en d e d . The railway authorities have, we understand, made inquiry into the cause of th e fire. fire. We are unable t o s t ate, h owever, how it 0110- thr , ugh the ohztinate silence of persons who are really the only persons able to afford the necessary in formation. Three or four valuable engines were in the building at the commencement of the fire, which were fortunately removed without receiving any damage. 5 . § P 12 1 % 8M %4 p 254 - % P 33 14% 20 P 3 1/2 • 3; 3A P ~. 40% ~. 10% 1.." d