The Sun. — London, England, 1846-11-17 00:00:00

OPENING OF THE BEDFORD BRANCH OF THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—(TIIIS DAY.) (FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.) The opening of this line took place to-day. Hereto ' fore the county town of Bedford—a town of far from inconsiderable importance—has been shut out from the manifold advantages which accrue to all towns, whether liege or small, when connected with the net-work which is stretching its iron fibres throughout the land, creating towns and cities out of mere hamlets, transplanting trade and commerce to new sites; and carrying prospe rits wherever it spreads its iron arms. It was the in tention of the directors to have opened the line to the public about a month ago, and all the preliminaries were duly arranged, including a splendid dinner at Bedford, to which a party of upwards of 200 were invited; but. owing to a subsidence of a part of the embankment, stretching from Bletchley towards Fenny Stratford, oc casioned by the extremely heavy rains at the time, the opening was consequently deferred until to-day, and trains will run to-morrow, for the first time, for the conveyance of the public. A train, consisting of a con siderahle numbir of carriages—from the elegant first class down to the humblest kind—and containing a large number of ladies and gentlemen, and several of the directors of the line, left Bedford shortly after twelve o'clotth to-day, and proceeded at an easy pace towards Bletchley, where it was met by the 11, A.M., train -*on L4don, and the 10, A.M., from Birmingham, both of which brought parties who had been in vited by the directors to witness the pleasing ceremony of opening, for the first time, rail way communication between Bedford and this huge metropOlis—London! After a short sojourn the Bedford train proceeded homewards, the accession of visitor.. from London and Birmingham having nearly filled al' the avaiiable space. A finer day never dawned upon the earth. The air was pure and delightfully invigo rating--sa day to brace the nerves, strengthen the body, and warm the heart. No November fog cast its gloom over the railway pageant—all was loveliness, and ,life and gaiety. The attention of the worlds of which Bedford and Bletchley are the centres seemed too intent upon the auspicious occasion to heed the ordinary affairs of We, and holiday seemed to prevail everywhere, for as the train wound its way along it was enthusiastically re ceived at the various stations by crowds of well-dressed persons of both sexes, and by gentle rustics whose 'throats seemed made for shouting, and whose hands agpte each other with a vehemence only equalled by the Vows of a sledge hammer upon an anvil. The snorting engine as it rolled along excited much curiosity not un mixed with fear, but the cattle seemed to think that the devil had found his way amongst them, if we may judge from the frantic manner in which the advent of the locomotives and an herculean train was received. The moment they heard the unmusical rattle of the wheels, aissi the snort of the steam, they—to use a common ex pressionseemed to " annihilate time and space," s, great was their speed, in order to place themselves at a distance from so unwelcome a visitor; it was quite comical to see them look round in a frightened mannei after the train bad shot by and was out of sight. The line traverses perhaps the must picturesque por tion of the county of Bedford. The country, which is principally agricultural, seemed from its extreme level ness, to have been designed by nature as that portion through which - a railway might be carried with the greatest advantagr, and at the cheapest rate; the works, hich re- Beets great credit on the engineer and contractors, have, tgire, been extremely light. The sod was turned in ber last, and the line was:emipleted about a month ago ; ten months have therefore been occupied in its preparation. It is nearly seventeen miles in length, is a double line, and cost, on the average, from 16,000/. to 17,0001. a mile. The gradients are those which engi neers denominate " first class," the steepest being only 1 in 126. The towns to which it will afford afford accommo dation, in addition to Bedfotal and Bletchl-y, are Fenny Stratford, Woburn, Ridgmont, Lidington, and Ampthill. . The line has been leased to the London and Birming hain Company, who, however startling the statement may appear, intend virtually to convey passengers over the Bedford line for nothing ! or, to be less enigmatical. passengers to and from any station on the Bedford branch and on the London and Birmingham, will not be charged anything for travelling over the Bedford branch. Thus, for example, the fares from London to Bletchley, where the Bedford line leaves the parent trunk, being a dis tance of 461 miles from Euston-square, are—first class, Et% 6d., second class, 63„ and third class, 3s. I Id. No more is charged for the conveyance o f passengers to and from any point between Bedford and London. The journey. will be ordinarily performed in about two hours and a half. The actual distance from London to Bedford by the railwly is 63 miles, and by the ordinary road 55 miles, but the company do not intend to charge for the circuitous route, but for, we believe, the geographical distance. 'Four trains each way will commence running to-mot row. Now that Bedford has escaped from comparative isolation, we doubt not but her commerce will emi nently flourish, and that those who promoted the line and those who lease it will derive an ample return for the outlay of their capital. Those who have offered such liberal terms to the public, leaving the question of accom modation oat of the que. tion, deserve the most cordial support. The opening of the line will be celebrated by a ban • (pet this evening at Bedford. We understand that Mr. E. Eyre is to be appointed Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand under Governor Grey. The Duke of Cornwall, Roberts master, arrived off Dover yesterday, with her Imperial Majesty the Duchess of Braganza on board, bound for Ostend. We understand that arrangements are concluded for the amalgamation of the Ipswicb, Bury, and Norwich Railway, with the Eastern Union, from Colchester to Ipswich, by which the former company's shares are converted into half-shares of the Eastern Union; this is a desirable arrangement for The shareholders, as well as the distiict from Colchester to Norwich, as the line will be under one management, the Eastern Union Company; it is expected that the whole line down to Bury will be opened on the Ist of December. Citseow, Nov. 3.—The Northern Powers have not been slow to take advantage of the coolness which has arisen between France and England respecting the Spanish marriage. It is now determined, and will spredily be officially announced, that the indep en d ence of our city shall cease, and that the republic of Cracow shall be swallowed up in the Austrian dominions. In order to indemnify Russia for her loss by this arrtmge ment it has been agreed that a portion of Galicia shall be ceded to that power. Nothing has been said of any compensation t 4 be received by Prussia. As the exist ence of Cracow as a free city was guaranteed by the Congress Of Vienna, we are anxious to learn with what feelings the announcement of the extinction of that existence will be teceived by France and England, who were contracting parties in the treaty, and whose views 3n the subject ought first to have been ascertained by ,heir three northern allies. There can be little doubt „hat the matter will occasion vehement interpellstions eoth in the French Chambers and the English Parlia ment, though it is equally certain that these outcries will not secure the freedom of Cracow, which the Northern Powers are determined to treat as a question which concerns themselves alone, and in which they will listen 0 no appeals from the rest of Europe.— Times. FttErten PLAYS.— Her Royal Highness the Duchess o f Cambridge, accompanied by their Serene Highnesses the Grand Duke and Duchess of Meckletilvirg Strelitz and the Pawn Koller, and attended by Mr. Edmund St. johnlifildmay, honoured the French Map with her pre sence iast evenieg. We observed also the Russian AmbassadAtb, e Baroness Brunnow, and Mademoiselle Olga _ ner, the Att , trian Ambassador, and the Countess Dietrichstein, Lady Augusta do Nieumann, Lady Georgina Carrington, the Count and Countess de Jarnac, the Baroness Rehausen, Lord and Lady Methuen, &c. _ T=s ROYAL BuoknouNns.—Yesterday the fixture was at the Black Dog, at Bedfont, where there was a numerous field, among whom were, the Earl Granvill e, several military officers from Wind so r and Houn-1° and many sporting gentlemen from town. The ' cel( - brated deer, Rost O'More, upon being uncarted at Bed font, made for tWe Union at Staines, over the Moor, and sway to Stanwell, taking through Sir John Gibb,in's park, and on to Longford, thence to Colebrook, and ov er the low g rounds of Horton Wraysbury and Ankerw ke, t•rossed the Tha mes, near Ma g na Charta Island, Y elld ',wax on Runnemede, the hounds were brought round to the race course, over Staines•bridge, and, on being laid on the .cent, m ade away for 01(1 Windsor, an d over "Viscount Ashbrook's park to Priest-hill, headed back to the Bells of Ouseley, near which place it was taken, after g capital run of about three hours. To-morrow is a by day', und the meet will be at Poll-hill. -Ica SUICIDE IN B R IDGEWATEIt-SQUARE.— Yeatorday considerable excitement prevailed in the im mediate vicinity of l3ridgewater-square, Barbican, in consequence of a dreaful case of self-destruction com mitted the previous night by a gentleman named Benja min _Crootes P who resided at No. 7in the square. It appears that the deceased until very recently held a lucrative situation at Harmer and Nilson's, distillers, Bedcross-street, Cripplegate, but having left that house, he had entered into business on his own account, and was erecting a distillery a few miles from town. During the last week or two a marked change had taken place in his manner. On Sunday night, between 10 and 11 o'clock, whilst his daughter was in one of the lower re.ons, she was alarmed at hearing a heavy fall in the apartment in which her father was. She immediately repaired to the spot, when an awful spectacle presented itself : her unfortunate pm ent was found on the floor, -with a frightful wound at the lower part of the body, whichbeitad inflicted by plun ging a sword into himself. A medical gent l rcan was roalptly in attendance, but not in tine to render assistance, for death speedily ter minated the sufferTgs of the deceased. It appears that, to liccomp:ish his oqt a ct n , a thedeceased had first cut him self over tilb bowels, afterward s placed the handle ' of the sword on the fl o o r , ant thou on the point of the blade. have th rown himself . FATAL ACEIRENT 11 , 7 TIIE I Yesterday Mr. faker held an inquest sthoa,3 the George DOCKS.— and Vulture, Ratcliff-highway, on the e J o h n son, aged 26, a mate on board the NYoritt Charles Baltimore, now lying in the London Dock s . on Char, of ,evening last, about six o'clock, the deceased, who w a s i on daY t h e quay of the London Docks , called fora boat, whish was put off from the North Star, when a splash was heard Zn the water. In about fifteen minutes he was picked up and taken to the receiving -house, where the usual means were resorted to for the restoration of life Per above an hour, but without saccess. Verdict—" Ac iideutal death." NEW NOVEL BY MRS. TROLLOPS. In the Press, in 3 vols. FAT H E R EUSTACE; A TALE OF THE JESUITS. By Mrs. TEOLLOPE. Henry Coburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now Ready, VOL. VI. OF MADAME D'ARBLAY'S DIARY AND LETTERS. " The present volume is int a whit inferior to those which have preceded it. It occupies an interval of nineteen years—from 1793 to 1812."—Atheneum. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Mr. George Bolton. sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will he produced an entirely New and Original Comedy, in five acts, entitled LIFE. Mr. Orstan, Mr. Archer; Frank Orstan. Mr. Leigh Murray; Sir Thomas Menton, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Sir Jacob Slnallwit, Mr. Ocorge Bolton; Sir Robert Folair, Mr. J. Cowell ; Cancara, Mr. Wilkinson; Lady Bait, Mrs C.Jones ; Fanny Archer, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Emily Orstan, Mrs. Gordon. To conclude with a new grand itALLET DIVERTISSEMENT. On Thursday will be revived Shakspere's HISTORY OJ' JACK CADE, as set twth in the " Second Part of Henry VI." In rehearsal, and shortly to be produced, Beaumont and Fletcher's Comedy of THE WILD GOOSE CHASE. DAVLDOE'S ROYAL. SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. First Week of the Witlin Family. TIIIS EVENING Will be performed a new Drama, entitled QUENTIN MNTSYS ; or, The Siege of Antwerp. (lumina Matsys, Mr. Saville ; Williewig, Mr Reslop ; John Trevalt, Mr. Neville ; Jeanette, Miss Richardson ; Clementine, Mrs, Saville; Dame, Mrs. W. Daly ; Joan, Miss E. Terrey. After wh'cli, a Ballet of Action, entitled DER CHAMOIS YAGER; or, The Fit ud of Earth. The characters by the Duulin Family. To conclude with THE ROVER'S SECRET. ASTLEY'A ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Pi ionised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and Royal Family. Immense attraction. The Champion Vaulters. Herr Amidio Neuperte, the great Dutch Bottle Equi librist. Second Week of the grand successful Magical Spectacle, introducing the Syrian Camels and Deer. THIS EVENING Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en titled TILE DEMON HORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Bit. In which will be introduced a Wild Stag-Hunt, by living Deer, and numerous attractive scenic effects. Entire change in the Scenes of the CIRCLE. To conclude with a favourite AFTERPIECE. Box-office open trom eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six s - A l e •mmence et half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE, Alteration of Prices. !loxes, s 2s.;__ Half-price, is.; Pit, Is.; Half- price. 6d. ; Gallery. 3d. THIS EVENING Will be performed the interesting Drama of the MO(K WAGE ; or, the Blacksmith's Daughter. In which Miss Vincent will perform. After which, THE BRIDE'S JOURNEY; or, The Escapes of Adelaide of Dress en. Maszzonolo, Mr. Searle ; Karl, Mr. Iloward ; Patoche, Mr. Forman; Adelaide, Miss Vincent; Claudine, Mrs. Lee. To conclude with the Burletta of THE MISTAKEN STORY. THE WEATHER.—Sum OFFICE, NOVEMBER 17. T tERMOMETER, Lowest, 39; Highest. 49 ; Noon, 50. BAROMETER, 29.94.—W1ND E.N.E., hazy. those occurrences the minions of the unconstitutional leaders have been striving to destroy the late popular and liberal Administration. Aid was sought by them in a quarter most destructive, or, at the least, most dan gerous to the preservation of their common nation-' ality. The assistance of the Cabinet of the Tuile ries was lavished upon the expatriated and unpatriotic statesmen —" the gathered storm was ripe " the Ministry approved by the voice of the community was crushed by a military interference, and the instruments of Gallic ambition endowed with the prerogatives and immunities of office. We cannot but acknowledge that this ven ture was remarkable for its consummate boldness. It has, however, failed. Indignant at so prodigious an outrage upon their freedom as citizens of an enlightened constitution, and their rights as a portion of a civilised generation, the Portuguese people have risen against their intended oppressors with an unanimity and an enthusiasm which involuntarily command our ad miration. Unlike their brethren the Spaniards, who are contented to behold their princesseskidnapped with an apathetic grumble, the Portuguese are roused to action from one extremity of the kingdom to the other. Their love for fatherland is exhibited, not in hisses at a pageant or a bull-Sght, not in the mobbing of a deplorable tailor, not in the casting of brickbats at an ill-starred postillion, but in the hurried assem blage of civilians, in sounding the tocsin, in un rolling the gonfalon of an outraged country. Matters are apparently approaching their consum mation in Portugal as rapidly as they are doing in Mexico. The dispersion and discomfiture of the in surgent guerillas, at Cintra, is the Monterey of the Peninsula. Less calamitous, in point of the numbers killed and wounded, than in the defeat of AMPUDIA, this recent encounter promises to be equally the forerunner of some decisive conflict. SALDANHA had bivouacked at Torres Vedras on the Bth, and was advancing but slowly from the capital, his intention being similar to that by which General TAYLOR is actuated in the Rio Grande, namely, to allow his coadjutors, ScnwAr.- BACK and CASAL, to combine their forces with those under his own immediate command. According to the latest intelligence SALDANHA had reached Sobral at the very moment that his great antagonist, Das ANTAS, was situated at Cadaval, namely, at a distance of merely fourteen miles. Whether this rumour be veracious or not, it is un questionable that the leader of the QUEEN'S troops and the leader of the insurgent populace were gradually coming into a somewhat perilous proximity. A conclusive battle is inevitable, unless DAS ANTAS forthwith retreats either to Co imbra, or Santarem, or even Oporto, by which movement that sagacious General would enveigle his opponent into difficulties, from which his extrica tion would be almost impossible. SALDANHA would thereby discover himself in a district most favourable to the popular cause, and most inimical to that of the Court party. Neither SA DA BANDEIRA nor DAS ANTAS have, according to present intelligence, declared them selves favourable to the establishment of a Regency. Their anathemas are hurled scarcely so much against Queen MARIA as against that unconstitutional in fluence which has latterly usurped the Government. Their abhorrence is essentially directed against an Administration which has been forced upon the nation by an intolerable coup d'etat, and their disgust is peculiarly excited against that Administration from their regarding it as identical in prin ciple with the obnoxious CABRAL& From, these circumstances it would consequently appear that an opening still remains out of these gigantic difficulties, namely, by the dismi , sal of a hateful Cabinet, and the guarantee of the mainte nance of the liberal principles of the Constitution. Divers obstacles, however, loom in the future, and threaten to retard, if they do not actually prevent this most desirable compromise. On the frontiers of Portugal a Spanish army is assembled, prepared ap parently to invade the insurgent provinces upon the first emergency. And, as an additional indication of the disposition of the Legislature of Madrid, we ob serve that COSTA CABRAL has been formally ap pointed Portuguese envoy in that metropolis, a proceeding which is singularly significant when it is remembered how execrable the name of COSTA CAnnAL is in the hearing of his insurgent country men. Everything indicates the imminence of the present juncture of affairs in Portugal. Everything, from the simultaneous assemblage of Juntas in the different towns to the revolt of the inhabitants of Cacilhas and Almada, testifies the earnestness with which the population have adventured upon this im portant movement. The community can scarcely emerge from the struggle scatheless, but it is to be hoped that their political institutions will be de veloped and advanced by this extraordinary revolu tion. The apprehension with respect to the alimentary condition of Ireland, both as regards its present and future prospects, continues to engross the minds of different men of all classes in every part of the united empire. All sorts of embryo schemes are hourly started ; every possible panacea is put forward with an earnestness of puipose, which demonstrates, in a remarkable degree, the excessive complacency with which the several propounders regard their own in dividual schemes, as the most simple and self-evident solution of one of the most difficult questions that can engage the stateman's attention. No sooner has one suggestion been disposed of, and abandoned as altogether illusory, than another political chapman starts up, and arrogantly offers a choice specimen of his small wares as the very article which can alone help the Government over its difficulties. It is nothing, in his view, that he is without suitable in formation, proper statistics, and other elements of knowledge, essential to his arriving at a sound judg ment. lie happens to have s. few leisure hours at hi s command ; he has accidentally heard that a most per plexing subject is under the consideration of the Executive ; his patriotic feelings are aroused • he forthwith sets to work, and, after ran sacking the pigeon-holes of his ready-fur nished intellect, flatters himself he has disco vered what all Downing-street would never have hit upon without him. Accordingly, he flings the prodig►y at the Minister's feet, exclaiming " There is what you want, take it, you are welcome to it." It 111(111 W ATE .ii A"l' 1.0N1.0N-Flitli)01.• TIIIS DAY. Sforning .. 34 minutes after 12. I Evening .. 53 minutes after 12, money is demanded for works of a reproductive cha racter. Itj is urged that the above requiret....ent is proved to be prejudicial by the fact that there are at present only 7,000 persons employed on drainage, whilst there are 103,000, in round numbers, engaged on public works. Mr. POULETT SCROPE'S remedy is, that the Government should "at once empower the Board of Works to commence the drainage of extensive districts where required, by assuming a right of entry for the purpose on the lands qf any proprietor, subject to future assessment Of the balance of damage or profit by such tribunal and upon such terms as the Legislature may next session prescribe." This would be a tremendous responsibility to as sume. If the step were really necessary to be re sorted to, no less authority than that of Parliament itself should take the initiative. But we do not , see the necessity at present for so large a measure of " state:interference." Voluntary relief has not, in deed, been so widely patronised, nor with such promptitude, as we could have wished ; still, every day's intelligence cheers us with the knowledge that the principle is actively progressing, and that land lords are zealously knitting themselves together to prove that they are sensible that property has its _duties as well as its rights. It must be barne in mind, too, that the vast arrangements required cannot be instantaneously effected. The Board of Works itself, with all its powerful appliances and un wearied zeal, has only just got into active play; so that, due allowance being made for the disadvantages under which private enterprise la bours compared with public enterprise, there is not, to our view, that censurable disproportion between the two ameliorative forces which Mr. POULETT SCROPE would infer. Again, bad Parliament been convened, as the Hon. Member desired some time back, the springs of private benevolence would have been altogether dried up, as the influential resident' proprietors of Ireland would have been thereby summoned away from those localities where their present co-operation is productive of so much advan tage upon their destitute tenantry. That some have been swept off by famine is matter of sore lament yet the number, when contrasted with the magnitude of the national affliction, is exceedingly limited. There is plenty of food in Ireland ; but it is quite impossible for the Government to prevent a great portion of it being exported, by becoming its purchasers, as suggested by Mr. POULETT SCROPE. It is nevertheless satisfactory that the prices of grain are generally declining, and that large supplies from the Mediterranean, America, and elsewhere, are diminishin g th e c h ances o f f am i ne , an d en us with the hope that Ireland will soon b e rapidly iiyening happily extricated from her perilous condition. On the Bth of November the POPE went through the ceremony of taking possession of the Lateran. The following account of the ceremony, and of the important decrees by which its celebration was ac companied, appears in the Journal des Daats:— " A letter from Rome, dated the Bth instant, contains some account of the ceremony of the possesso, which was celebrated on that day. That ceremory, the origin of which ascends to the early time of the sovereignty of the Popes over the city of Rome, and reminds the Romans of their former municipal franchises, is more political than religious. For that reason was the Holy Father anxious to justify the hOpes his elevation to the throne created throughout Italy. The Mario di Rome published on that day the nomination of three committees, composed of prelates and laymen. The first, including the most distinguished magistrates and lawyers in the coun try, is charged with the reform of the code of criminal and civil jurisprudence. The two others, composed of Roman princes and men possessing great influence by their fortune and talent, are to devise a plan of amelio rating the municipal system and repressing vagrancy, one of the greatest curses of Italy. In the morning, moreover, an edict was published relative to railroads. All those measures were received with unanimous satis faction by the population, which congregated in multi tudes at the foot of the capital, under the triumphal arch of the forum, along the ruins of the Coliseum, and in all the streets and squares through which the cortege of the Sovereign Pontiff was to pass. The Pope was everywhere cheered with the loudest acclamations. On reaching the gate of St. John of Lateran, the oldest church in Rome, the Pepe was presented by the Senator with the keys of the city, the sym bol of taking possession of the sovereignty. lie then entered the lodge of St. John of Lateran and bestowed his benediction on the people, who received it with the utmost piety and an enthusiasm impossible to describe. Various reports circulated in the city, which added greatly to the universal joy. It was said that the Sove reign Pontiff had just granted to the inhabitants of Bologna the authorisation to organise a civic guard for the repression of highway robberies. That authorisa tion was long claimed by the citizens of Bologna. It was also added that M. Marini, the Civil Governor of Rome, had been severely reprimanded for having suffered domiciliary visits to be made without any well-grounded cause." The new Russian Minister, Count BLTJDOFF, pre sented his letters of credence to his Holiness on the 2d of November. 'We find in the Univers the fol lowing on the subject of Count BLUDOFF'S mission : " Count Bludoff presented his letters of credence to the Pope three days since. This diplomatic personage is accredited to the Holy See to treat on religious affairs. We have only to wait with respect for the result of this negotiation. If we may credit a report in circulation, Cardinal Lambruschini has been charged by the Pope to treat in this affair with the Russian Plenipotentiary. It is said that M. de Boutenieff does not look favourably on the collabo rateur sent him by the Cabinet of Saint Petersburgh, and I have reason to believe that the sentiments attri bated to M. de Boutenieff are really those entertained by him. In the afternoon of yesterday the Abbess of Minsk returned the visit which the Pope had paid her a few days before ; the audience was strictly private. All that I can tell you of the affair is, that when the Abbess left the apartment of his Holiness with her interpreter, the Pope waved his hand to her in the Italian manner, saying, in a tone full of kindness and interest A ddio Madre Marina, addio.'" , , must be an agreeable relief to the responsible authori ties when they can draw out from amidst the heap of coxcombical charlatanry, under which their tables are constantly groaning, any production from a quarter entitled by position and acquirements to their respectful attention and serious reflection. Ilia habits of business, Parliamentary standing, assiduous discharge of public duties, anti the study which he has long devoted to different branches of political eco nomy, necessarily impart considerable weight to any opinions that Mr. G. POULETT SCROPE may favour for meeting the existing difficulties of Ireland. This gentleman, after a considerable interval, addressed, a few days back, a second letter to Lord J. RUSSELL upon the embarrassed social condition of the siste r isle. He expatiates upon the pressing ills of Ireland with ability, but, at the same time, in a manner that exhibits a fear for the future (founded upon his belief that the present alleviating p o li cy of the Government is net sufficiently enlarged), to an extent in which we confess we do not partici pate. Mr. POULETT SCROPE advises the Premier of what he considers best to be done. The counsel herein submitted is undoubtedly bold enough. To either its soundness or expediency we decidedly demur. There is a vast difference between a respon sible and an irresponsible adviser of the Crown. In the latter capacity propositions are frequently che rished, which in the former, would never be enter tained. Yet, when we find men like Mr. POULETT SCROPE favouring a course which, we think, no prudent Administration would dream of adopt ing without the express sanction of the Legislature, it goes 11.. r to convince us of the forbearing spirit with which the acts of the Ministers should be viewed, full regard being had to the novel and unanticipated dis tress in which, by a dispensation of PROVIDENCE, masses of human beings have become involved. The gist of the Hon. Member's letter consists in finding fault with Lord JonN for placing, as he con ceives, too much reliance on the voluntary efforts of the wealthier classes to apply the means for prevent ing the starvation of the poor. The Earl of hEs nosoucues " vigour beyond the law" is objected to on account of his requiring "undertakings from each ' and all the several landowners," wherever public 41 The Peninsular steam-packet, which arrived last evening at Southampton, brings intelligence from Lisbon of the 11th, two days later than that pub lished in our paper of yesterday. The affair at Cintra does not appear to have been so decidedly in favour of the QuzEri's troops as had being a tfirst represented. Th e peasantry fought desperately, retreating inch by inch to their moun peasant peasantry extains, which they succeeded in r eac hi ng w i t h out leaving any prisoners in the hand s o f th e Q UEEN ' S troops. r only h ceased firing b ecause their amm u nition e xhausted. IGNA CIO DE 13ARaos, their chief, had eff ec t e d hi s escape, rh.e and was on board the Hibernia. Sc wAL HACK was bombarding Evora, which was stoutly defended by BOMFIN, who was hourly expect ing relief. It was reported that SA DA BAN DEI It A had made a sally from Oporto, and defeated Baron CAZAL. SA DA BANDEIRA, it was added, had been wounded in the action. SAL DANHA'S army, after three days' march, had only advanced "twenty miles from Lisbon. Colonel INTLDE had proceeded to SALDANITA'S camp, and it was expected he would go from thence to the camp of DAS ANTAS, and from thence to Oporto. The loss sustained by the QUEEN'S troops was greater than was at first stated. Thirty-six of the wounded have already been brought into Lisbon. The people of Cacilhas and Almada, on the south bank of the Tagus and right opposite Lisbon, from which they are not two miles distant, are in open re volt against the QUEEN'S Government - They have destroyed the telegraph at Almada. The Government has it hands so full of work in putting down insur rection on every side, that it cannot spare troops to send over. The insurgents there are said not to fall short of 500 armed men. An infectious influenza had broken out in the English fleet. COSTA CABRAL has been appointed Ambassador to the Court of Madrid. A junction between the Bank and Confianga Com pany will sh or tly t a k e p l ace ; no p ar ti c ulars can be given for th e present. Exchan ges , 53} coin ; 46i notes. Discount on notes, 700 rs. No alt er ation in the Funds. Madrid p a p ers o f t h e lOth inst. have been received. The courts of la w in Spain have, on more than one occasion of l a t e , exhibited a spirit of indepen dence whi c h d oes th em the highest honour. in the recent affair of the complaint of Count BRESSON against the editor of the Tienzp, the French Viceroy, thanks to the honesty of the Spanish judges, has been defeated in his attempt at insulting the Spanish nation by wantonly violating the laws of the king dom. The obsequious Afrancesado Cabinet of course obeyed the orders of their ruler in every par ticular; and within twenty-four hours of BuEssozes complaint the Fiscal of Madrid commenced the prosecution. The court, however, in which the cause was to have been tried, declared that it Was not competent to the Fiscal to institute such a prose cution, and refused to permit the case to proceed to trial. The Count and his Ministers intend, it is said, 1. 1 14 E SUN, LONDON. TUESDAY EVEyINO, NOVEMBER 17, 1(446. to appeal against this decision. We have no doubt they will appeal, and we should not be surprised to hear that they have dismissed the judges who have thus honourably performed their duty. It will be by no means the first time that the Afrancesado faction has tampered with the administration of justice. MADRID BOMA, Nov.lo.—The Three per Cents. were done on the Madrid Bourse at 33f for cash. The prices of the other stocks continued the same. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. The French Government feel, it would appear some alarm at the statements made by the National, in an article which we quoted in our impression of yesterday, as to the manner in which the coffers of the Bank of France were being drained of specie. The Presse puts forward the following evidently official explanation of the statements made by the National:— " We can re-assure the National, which speaks of an idea entertained by the Bank of France to restrain the amount of commercial bills discounted, and to limit the facilities usually afforded to our merchants. It is not to lire contested that such a measure, adopted at such a moment, would produce serious inconvenience, because, in order to prevent an evil no doubt possible, but still uncertain, it would imme diately create a real evil. It is not at a period of the year when accounts are being settled, and when the want of money is most sensibly felt, that it would be prudent to limit the assistance which commercial men have a right to expect from a great establishment founded on credit. Neither is the position of the Bank so alarming as some persons too ready to feel terrified have believed. The Bank will still possess, after all the corn imported shall have been paid for, nearly one mil lion in cash. Appearances announce that the causes which have induced the large calls for cash are about to cease, arid a current in a contrary sense cannot fail to set in. Under such circumstances, the directors could not participate in the exaggerated fears of some of its members; and we believe we are well informed when we state, that if such a proposition as that mentioned by the National has been made, it has been rejected by a majority." M. GUIZOT submitted the draft of his reply to Lord PALMERSTON'S laAt note to a Cabinet Council, held on Friday last. This note, which is couched in very courteous terms, positively refuses to permit the Duke and Duchess of MONTPENSIER to make the re nunciations required of them. There was a grand reception at the Marquis of NORMANBY'S on Friday. According to the Prcsse no one was admitted except on letters of invitation, and it was remarked that neither the Spanish Ambassador nor any of his secretaries or attaches were present. The railway between Orleans and Tours, which had suffered from the inundations, was re• opened on Friday for an experimental trip. A merchandise train of 28 waggons passed over the whole line in safety. It was to be opened to the public on Sunday. The KING and the Royal Family arrived on Sa turday at St. Cloud from Compeigne. The price of bread has been raised in Paris. For the last fortnight of the present month the price is fixed at 46c. the kilogramme (21bs. English) for the first quality, and at 38c. the kilogramme for the second quality. ' The Three per Cents. were done at the Passage de l'Opera, on Sunday, at 82f. 70c. MARSEILLES, Nov. 11.—Marseilles and Avignon, 858 E 75c. ; Northern, 645 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NOVEMBITA: 16. Boulogne and Amiens, 14%—Dutch Rhenish, 5 1 A—East Indian, j 4 —Louvain ii la Sanihre, I%—Luxembourg, Namur and Liege, 3%—Northern of France Constituted, 10 lA—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 474—Sambre and Meuse, 4%—Tours and Nantes Constituted, VA. ALLEGED LUNATICS' FRIEND SOCIETY.' 70 THE _EDITOR OF THE SUN. " am desired by the committee of the Alleged dLunatics' Friend Society" to convey to you their cur ial and sincere thanks for your admirable article on the WWI respecting lunatics and alleged lunatics, contained in The Sun newspaper of the 12th instant. The com mittee feel the more gratified by your remarks, as they so powerfully advocate the causes for which this society was instituted—" The protection of the I3ritish subject from unjast confinement on the grounds of mental de rangement, and for the redress of persons so confined. Also to endeavour to procure a reform in the laws and treatment affecting the arrest, detention, and release of persons treated as of unsound mind."—l have the honour to be, Sir, your faithful, and obedient servant, G. BOLDEN, Secretary. 36, Coleman-street, Nov. 14, 1846. At a meeting of the committee of the " Alleged Lu• natics' Friend Society," held on Saturday, the 14th Noy., 1846, it was moved by Mr. Bailey, and seconded by Mr. Se•lby— "That the thanks of this Society be presented to the proprietors and editors of The Sun newspaper for their article on lunatics or alleged lunatics, on the 12th inst., and that copies of the paper of that da be procured for the members of the society ; and that the prospectus of the society be inserted in the newspaper." Carried unanimously. By order, G. BOLDEN, Secretary. BUILDING SOCIETIES.—Last night the first meeting to enrol members in a new building society, called the Kingsland, Dalston, and De Beauvior Town Improved Building Investment Society aas held in the Downharn road, Kingsland. The chair was taken at 8 o'clock, by B. Bingley, but, in consequence of the meeting having been convened before the directors had got their rules ready for delivery, much time, was occupied by the chairman and directors in endeavouring to answer questions respecting the contemplated workings of the society's funds; and, from the circumstance, we think, of the meeting having been convened before the chairman and directors were sufficiently acquainted with the working of such a society, two hours were occupied without any business having been got through, and the meeting threatened to terminate in a joke; but, fortu nately, a Mr. Bowman, with the following initials to his name, M.D., M.R.C.S.E. came to the rescue of the directors, and moved the first resolution, stifling all other questions being asked, and saving the chairman a great deal of trouble. But few shares were applied for, many gentlemen having left before the business had concluded. —.From a Correspondent. Tim GREAT BRITAIN.—Mr. James Bremner, civil engineer, who has been appointed to take off the Great Britain, has been a shipbuilder in Wick for nearly forty years; he has taken off the strand, and some from great depths, upwards of two buttered sail of merchant men. He has been a harbour builder on a large scale, and he is now the patentee of a plan for building har bours and raising vessels, which has g ained the appro bation of the Lords of the Admiraty, and will be brought into play on the first fit occasion. His plan for building a harbour at Maeduff has been adopted by the trustees in preference to that of Cubitt's, and will soon be carried on under Mr. Bremner's inspection, at an expense of 50,600 L—Scotsman. SINGULAR CASE OF FRAUD.—Yesterday, at the Uxbrielge Petty Sessions, Daniel Bright, a young man, 20 years of age, footman in the service of Mr. Hemmings, of Hillingdon, near Uxbridge, was brought up before the bench of magistrates for final examination on a charge of having obtained at the shop of Mr. George Messen ger, linendraper, High-street, Uxbridge, ono dozen of stockings, by falsely representing that they were for Lady Sophia 'rower ; also with having obtained at the shop of Messrs. Love and Bastard, drapers, of Uxbridge, half a dozen stockings, by falsely representing that they were for the lady's maid of C. Mills, Esq., of Hil lingdon. It appeared from the evidence that the pri soner had previously borne a most unexceptionable character, and that he was going to leave Mr. Hemmings' service in a few days, having got a more lucrative and responsible situation. Neither the prisoner nor his friends could assign any motive for the fraud he had committed. He wa s committed to Newgatefor THE CONCERT HALL, LIVERPOOL.--A correspon lent has called our attention to the encouragement given o music and song in Liverpool—the concert-room, ori ginally built by the Socialists, being crowded every Saturday evening by an audience of about 2,060. It is in connexion with the Northern Mechanics' Institution, and on Sundays is used as a church, being licensed by the Blihop during the rebuilding of St. Simon's. During! the week-days, too, it is often rendered serviceable as a sort of Liverpool Exeter-hall. Among the sing ers engaged for the Saturday evening concerts are Miss Hawes, the Misios Smith, Miss Romer, Miss S. Venables and her father; Mr. Braham and his sons; Mr. John Parry, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Henry Russell, Mr. Edney, &c. & c . mi n Venablea is described as a vocalist of very great promise. —Douglas Jerrohl's Wee* Newspaper. The Earl of Auckland received the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Right Honourable Charles and Lady Mary Wood, Viscount Morpeth, Lord John Russell. Lord De Manley, the Hon. William Cowper, Mr. Ward, and a select party to dinner last evening, at the Noble Earl's official residence at the Admiralty. A small circle assembled after dinner, when among the visitors were his Excellency the American Minister and Mrs. Bancroft, the Countess Grey, Sir George and Lady Grey, Viscountess Palmerston, Lady Seaford and Misses Hardy, Baron and 'Lady Parke and Miss Parke, Sir Richard and Lady B. Phillips, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Eliot, lion. Mr. and Mrs. Eden and Miss Eden, Captain Moore, Sir Edward Ryan, Captain Eden, Rear-Admiral Dundas, Lord Dudley Stuart, Colonel Upton, Mr. West, Mr. and Mrs. A. Montgomery, Sir Charles Adam, Mr. Adams, Mr. Grenfell, &c. INGENIOUS S h lUGGrazia. -- Yesterday morning a seizure of an extraordinary description took place at the St. Katherine's Dock Steam-packet Wharf, by a Custom house weigher, named Gaudner. A case of live geese, brought over from Harlingen in the Magnet steamer had been l an d e d f rom th e vessel and was being exam i ned by the officer, when he thought the geese appeared unusually tall, lie made a m ore care f u l scrutiny, and ascertained thet a quantity of hay, forming a false bottom, had been made, o n w hi c h t h e gees o were stall' ing, and on removing that he discovered beneath a quantity of very thin deal boards, These were also re moved, and a quantity of cigars, weighing 441h5.; were I exposed to view. The case, geese, twenty-eight in num ber, and the cigars, were immediately seised and con veyed 1,9 the queen's Warehouse. rWi" A . 4 , o i. , - .1` „ • 4 . *441.. 4 4 ) 1( Q Henry Co'burn:Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.-ADVER TISEMENTS and BILLS, intended for insertion in the neat Number of the Miscellany, are requested to be forwarded to the Publisher before the 22d instant. Those who were disappointed in procuring tha number published on the Ist instant, containing " Capt 'ln Spike," Cooper's New Ro mance, may now be supplied at their booksellers. 8, New Burlington-street, Nov. 17, 1846. SLR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON'S NEW WORK Nearly Ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., 1-4 U C R E Or, TIIE CHILDREN OF 1:y the Author of "Rienzi, " "Eugene Aram," " Night and Morning," &c. Saunders and Way, publishers, Conduit street. I A; RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE, 111 ESSRS. LAMOND, SHALE, AND LAMON D, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, vld to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, kltc., take place every TUEADAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the lien of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully - oquested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day ?revious to their being offered ; aad advlces of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds 'Rune 'lately disposed of according to instructions. Offices. Hall of Commerce. Threfulneedle-street. London. • THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed Lavenu s new Opera, entitled LORETTA ; A Tale of Seville. Don Carlos, Mr. Harrison ; Ferdinand, Mr. King ; Philippo, Mr. Borrani : Provost Marshal, Mr. Howell ; Don Juanito, Mr. Weiss ; Loretta, Madame Anna Bishop ; Florinda, MisS Poole ; Gaetana, Miss Rebecca Isaacs. After wHich will be produced Au.:er's popular Ballet Opera, called THE MAID OF C \ SIIMERE. The principal characters will be supported by Messrs. Rafter, Weiss, Horncastle, Jones, Hodges ; Mdlie Anita Dubignon, Miss Rebecca Isaacs, 3ldile. Adele Benart, Miss Missent, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, EIAYMARKET. Unier the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original Comedy, entitled LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP; or, VVoolngs and Weddings: Mr. Oddington, Mr. W. Farren ; - Mr. Rashleigh, Mr. Hudson ; Mr. De. Vere, Mr. Hull ; Mr. Brandon, Mr. Howe; 3fr.Hartiman, Mr. Rogers; Jack Spriggs, Mr. Webster; Tern Tilley, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Brown, Mrs. Glover ; Claribel °Minot," Miss Fortescue ; Mary Oddington, Miss P. Morton ; Ellnor Mortimer, Mrs. Yarnold ; Fanny Hardman, Miss Julia Bennett. After which a new Comedy, in three acts, entitled QUEEN %LARY'S BOWER. Principal characters by Messrs. Webster, Hudson, Howe, Brindal, Braid ; Miss Fortescue, Mrs. Seymour, &c. During the evening the Band will perform three Polkas—" Caro " Jnris," and " Marten ; " Esterhazy" (Walzer) ; "Les Travestissernens" (Overture) ; and " La Sonnambnla." To conclude with a new Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord Courtinglon, Mr. Moll; Sir Arthur Lovel, Mr. Howe - Scoreup, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckin g h am ; Mrs. Scoreup, Miss Julia Bennett. Box-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of rr. T. Archer. Box Book-keeper. 'l'll EATER ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. - THIS EVENING Will be performed a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet ,f LA GISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS or, the Wills Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford. Mr. 0. Stnith, Mr. Callenford,Madaine Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. After which, the popular Mnsical Comedy of SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES. Admiral Franklin, Mr. Lambert; Charles Franklin, Mr. Selby ; B lly Lackaday, Mr. Wright ; Sandford, Mr. Worrell ; Curtis, Mr. Cullenford ; Mrs. Bell, Mrs. F. Matthews ; Eugenia, Mrs. Yates ; Laura, Miss Woolgar; Susan, Miss Brooks. To conclude with a Bezzian Sketch, in one act, called MRS. P' $ TEA AND TURN-OUT. Principal characters by Messrs. Cullentord, Worrell, Ryan, Wright, M.unyard ; Miss M. Taylor, And Miss Ellen Chaplin. • PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. TIIIS EVENING Will be performed an original romantic Opera, In throe parts, titled THE NIGHT DANCERS ; founded on the Story of Tho principal characters personified by Miss Cleorgiana , ;inithscii, Madame Alhertazzi, Miss Flower, Miss Somers, Misses Marshall; Messrs. Leffler, Allen, Bodda, Walton, T. Hill, Homier, Peron, &c. To conclude with the Opera of ROB ROY. Rob Roy. Mr. J. R. Scott ; Rashleigh, Mr. Hughes ; Francis Osbaldiston, Mr. Barker ; Bailie Nicol Jarvie, Mr. Compton; Donal, Mr. Ryder; Diana Vernon, Miss Smithson ; Ilelen.Macgregor, Mrs. Fosbroke. elaoeidn4 "Atlt LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1846. It would be impossible to view the present crisis of political affairs in Portugal with indifference. To every one living under a liberal Government, and blessed with an enlightened constitution, the recent and pend ing disturbances in the western portion of the Peninsula will afford a spectacle singularlycalculated to enlist their sympathies. The Portuguese are struggling to assert their independence as a nation, and to spurn a most audacious attempt at foreign domination with the utmost contumely. It must be already sufficiently manifest to King Louis Pim m PPR that his European policy is liable to many decisive and formidable obstructions, and that while his influence may be insinuated upon the Spaniards by an adroit alliance, he cannot with a mere coup d'etat force upon their neighbours an administration that is universally held in execration. Successful for a while in the larger division of -the Iberian Peninsula, the diplomacy of France has been signally worsted in the smaller. The effusion of blood, the endangerment of public peace, the periling of property, and all the other odious consequences of civil war, are of course to be deplored when they are inevitable, and to be shunned when they can be avoided without the voluntary relinquishment of the popular liberties. On the breaking out of any revo lution the remote observer is naturally in cited to the settlement in his own mind of this political problem :—Are the 'people justified in rising in armed masses to expel those who are ob noxious, to punish those who have encroached upon their authority, to maintain the integrity of their con stitution, to defend their indivilual and aggregate in. dependence ? Until the mysteries of the palace and the secrets of the Ministerial portfolios are revealed, as well as the general disposition of the populace, it is hopeless to attempt any solution of a ques tion so peculiarly intricate. Regarding all those circumstances, however, which must be ma ilifvst to the most superficial spectator, of recent occurrences in the metropolis of Portugal, it is ostensible that the population has there latterly received many extraordinary incitements to what the sticklers for the irresponsible domination of Queen MARIA DA GLORIA would designate rebellion. The national will was significantly expressed in the re markable proceedings of last May ; the anxiety pre valent amongst the million for the maintenance of the enlightened spirit of modern times in the admi nistration of the laws was then emphatically avouched; the hatred entertained by the Portuguese for any undue exhibition or profligate employment of power, as in stanced in the CABRAL Ministry, was uttered with an explicitness which could not be misunderstood. Sine MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool, yesterday, was steady, and prices were without alteration. A fair busi ness was done, 7,000 bales having changed hands, of which 3,000 were American on speculation. The Share Market was not active. There has not been any arrivals, of late dates, an nounced here from the colonies this morning. The following are some of the duties on Canada pro duce and . manufacture imposed by the United States Tariff, passed the 29th of July, 1846: " Spirits, 100 per cent ; furniture, meats, preserves, ale, 40 per cent., according to valuation. Apparel, bonnets, straw, &c., cabinet work, fur caps, clocks, clothing, fur of any description, household furniture, iron, leather manufactured, linen, mineral waters, paper, plums, potatoes, soap, sugar of all kinds, feathers, vegetables prepared, wearing apparel, wood manufactured, fire-wood, wool, raw or manufactured, 30 per cent., according to the value. Bsrley, beef, boards, candles, caps, fish, Hour of wheat, fruit, furs in skins or dressed, hats, leather, linens, metals, oatmeal and oats, oils, paving-stones and bricks, pork, potash, rye, or in flour, skins of all kinds, slates, tallow, timber, vegetables, wheat, 20 per cent., according to the value. Pamphlets, periodicals, soap, grease, tallow, building stones, 10 per cent. according to the value. Bones, clay, and tan' s, 5 per cent.; bullion, coins, gold, silver, and copper, free. " The Canada tariff, including the Imperial differential duties, compared to the foregoing, is a mere trifle, including the whole inland frontier, it probably does little more than pay the expense of col lection, which certainly is a poor compensation for the loss of time, expenses, and vexation, which it occasions. It will be seen from the foregoing remarks that the Government of the Republic of the United States is rather loath to yield concessions to the British colonies. There are, however, a few signs of a more tolerant policy, and those interested must " bide their time." The following is a comparative statement of arrivals and tonnage at Quebec:— Vcssels. 26th October, 1845. ” 1846 Tonnage. 555,372 5613,068 Less this year 36 more 12,606 The only price of Consols for the Account this morn ing has been 94, and for Money 944 f. The demand for money has rather increased, and Exchequer-bills have been sold again at 9s. premium. The price of India Stock . is 257, of Bank Stock 2054, and of the Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. 151 4. The settlement in the Foreign Stock Market was completed late yesterday afternoon, but still satisfac torily. To-day there is a lull as to the amount of busi ness transacted. Mexican Bonds have been sold for the A►•count at 22 ; Portuguese Four per Cents. at 364 to 374; the Russian Metalliques at 112 to 111; the Spanish Three per Cents. at 37* ; the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 59* ; end the Four per Cents. at 914 1. In the Railway Share Market there has been a good amount of business done to-day, and prices are pretty tirm. ONE. CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 20 5 14 205% 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 93 1 4 1 4 93% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9 4 14% % 94% New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities 95 1 4% 951 Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 974 15-16 9 15-16 Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 India Stock 257 257 Consols for Account 94% 94% Exchequer Bills, 1000/. 1 1 hd. ... 9—— p 11 p Ditto, 500/ Ditto, Small ONE O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES 85 1 4 21% 3G , 2 3 7 % eiticEB OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Brazilian Bonds , Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 22 Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 36% Ditto, Account 3714 Russian Bonds ll2 111 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto. Account Ditto. 3 per Cent 37A% Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch, 2% per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 91q% 91% PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING R A ILWAY SHARES PAID ' AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber.. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%..... 2% 3 2 3 / 2:Y. Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% —. Belfast & County Down 4 3 / 1 — Birmingham and Dudley 42:. ... .. 6 1 % 1 4 p 6 14 p Birmin. and Gloucester..loo 128% l2 B l/, Ditto New 17% 3l .... .... ..... 31 Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 2 3 % Boston, Stanifd, & Birm. 225. Bristol and Exeter Ditto, New . 5 ... .:. . — Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... Bristol and Liver. June.. 2 1 / 2 -- Buckinghamshire k2aledonian Ditto Halt Shares...... 2 1 4 2 14 „.. 24 Cambrian & Grand J e n c 42 s .... Chester and Holyhead... 27% — Caurnet and Blyth. Chester and Manchester 425. - Cheltexham and Oxford 2 .. . .... Clydesdale Junction.. ... 20 Cork, Blackrock, and Passages Cork and Killarney Cork and Waterford ... 1% Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares ... 2 %•••••• Cornwall & Cent'l Devon 2% Direct Lincoln, East Bet ford,and Shetld. J VIM 2% - - Direct Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and BelfastJunc 121; ;; 5 . Dublin, Belfast, and Coley: in?. Dublip an IGalway... .. 4 Dundalk & Enniskillen 10 Eastern Counties 141. 16s. .... . 23% %23 Ditto New l2l. 165 7 / % p 7% p Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....... 61.135. 4d... Ditto ditto. Nu. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... .. ... Do., York Extension.. 2 .•... 3 / 7 6 37 East Dereh'sn andNoech 1 eastern Union 35 .. ... Ditto, Quarter Shares 8% Do. Exten.(Harwich) 114 — - Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2%...... East Lancashire Ditto. New Do., do. (late Preston and Ormskirk)... East Lincolnshire East & West of England 1%...... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... Ditto Half Shares ... 10 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ...... Edinburgh & Northern.. 12% — ... ........ Edinburgh and Perth... 3 ..... Ely and Huntingdon ... 12% ...... ............... Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% — Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 5% Glasgow,Kilinar.,&Ayr 50 ...... Ditto, New . . 15 . .............. Do., % Shares (5 per cent. guar.) ... 12%..,..„ Glouc.,Abelystwith,and . Central of Wales 1%..... • Goole, Doncaster, ice... 425. Grand Union (Notting and Lynn •• ...... ••••• Great Eastern &Western 2%...„, _ ...... ... .. - GreatGrimsby and Shef field ...... --- Great South. and West •••• • •• (Ireland) Great North of Scotland 2%..... Great Northof England - 100 ...... ............ Ditto New 5 ••• ........... Ditto, New . ._— ............ ... Ditto, New Great Weste ............ 85 ... Ditto 14 Shares Ditto 1i 5hare5......... 10 Ditto Fifths _ Ditto , New 7 - "t; P _ _.. ......... .... 2 ludderstield & Manches. 13 Ditto, Extension Mull and Selby 5O Ditto 14 Shares Do. Half Shares 25 Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 11% Do., do., and Norwich 2'4. Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Do. New Leeds and Bradford Leeds and C ar li s l e Leicester & Birmingham 225. — ... ....... .... Leicester and Bedford... 225. — Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 22 1 4-- 38 1 4 Do. ' Branch (Blue) ... 2% ll ... .......-- Do. Extension( Green) 2 %.• Leeds and Thirsk 17%...... - Ditto, New 5 - Lpool., Mnchstr & New castle Junction Liverpool and Bury - ... lAndeniand Madman. 16/. 132.4 d. Do. New Ditto Extension - 7%...... -• ........ ••• Landon, Brighton, and South Coast 5O .. .. 591 A% 59% Ditto, Fiftlis London and Croydon . Guaan. 5 per cent. 9 London and Greenwich 12! 15s 4d — Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d — •• London, Hounslow, and Western London and N. WesternloO 196% 196 1! Do. Quarters .. 2 Do., ao., New Shares.. 2 Ditto Fifths Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12% D o ., Nee , 1 4 Shares (G. JO 5 — Do 40/. Shares( L. M.) 8 — Lond. &S. Western 411 62 10d 66 65% ...... .. Do. New Consol. Bths 40 — Do. New Do. New ...ondon and York 2%..... 2 1 4%........... Do. % Shares London and Windsor . 17 g ... . London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ..... .... •...... 21 4 ...... -- Londonderry &Colerains 15 Londonderry and Ennis killen ...... ... ..... ...... 15 ...... ...... .. Lynn ~.nd Eiy Lynn anti Dercham ;5 ..,... 15 1 : 2 .. gancli ester and Leeds ._ 82 Ditto % Shares Do. Quarters 2 •• Do. Fifths 5 .... 10 1 / i Do, Sixteenths 614 - PO. Extension 42p. l% 1 1)0. 18 3 4 5143 16% 15% toy 1 p Manchester and Birmin. 40 ...... ........ •• Do. Quarters (A) 5 .• ..• • Do. Quartets (B) 5 ...... Quarters (C) 1 ...... Mancliester,Buiton,and Matlock ...... 425..••... 1!/,'N p ......... Manchester Birm., and .•-• Mould Junction ..... ...... -- ...... .. ....., , .. i g Manchest. & Southampt. 2 ...... 11/476 ........ '' 1260 Midland lo°2 ••• •• '..... ....... ..... Do. Fifths - ...... ... ............ 31,10 Do. New Ditto, New Do. Birm., and Derbyloo ...... 103 x n..•••••••••• 1 , Midlnd& East. Counties 2%...... ............... Midland Great Western Irish - ......... •••• . 3414 Newcastle and Berwick 20 ..... ............... Do. North Shields Newcastle and Carlisle 100 ll2 .............. Newmrket &Chesterfrd 5 — •••• .......... Newport& Abergavenny 2 1 ,4.....• ... ..... • ..... ......... Newry and Enniskillen 7 - ... Newark, Sheffield, and Boston '... .. ~. ......... 1%.. - ... ........ 0 Norfolk ••• ............100 ...... ... .... ...... Do. Half Shares ..... 9 ...... -- ........ " ..... Do. Extension - ......... .....• North British 25 ...••• 39 •.... " ........ Do. Half Shuts ll •••••• 17 a int ..... ...• Do. Fifths 5 ...... ............ • 1)o. Quarters ...... o 14 ...... 41 / 2 1 A ............ ....... Do. Extension 5 ,3 ...... 1 }4 fl ..... Northern and E astern. 1)0. Scrip (issil. 5 dis.) 45 ...... ............... ....... Do. Quarter Shares 1 24 ...... ........ Do. New North Staffordshire 425....••. 3 I A NI ...... North Wales - .......... is ...., r Northern and Southern ..... Connecting - .......... 0 x a f n o d r d C , helten h am Worcester, Northampton, Banbury, ' ..... Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.... 1% ..... --, .......... Port,mouth Direct 33 /4 ...... 4•3 i • • ..... ....... Preston and Wyre Do. 'A, Shares and 2 ...... -- ............... 41 ...... -.. ......... Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 3. 12s. ...... 1 ....... . ....3/1 dis. ..... .... " ...... . Richmond ....... Royston and Ilitchen - ........ ~.....•• ..... Scottish Central - " •....... Scottish Midland 12%•.•••• -- Sheffield, Buxton; Leek .............. Potteries, anderewe 1%• •.... -- .• ... ......... • Sheffield & Manchester 100 ...... *".. ........... •• Do:Quarter Shares 8 ...... --• ' ..... .. ..... #"' Do. Lincolnsh ire Jun c llq/ ..... .-- ........ . ..... ..•••,, Do. & Great Grimsby lO ...... --- "". ,,..• •"' -- -- ill Do. do. Extension 425. •••• — ; IL . 1.... •" g - Shrewsbury and Birm 3 .... • "03/ i 3 ••••'• 2 $ . Shropshire Union ...• Shrews., Wolverhamp., 54 ........... &S. Staffordsh. June. 2 1 ,4 ..... 2 . ....... '' ••'• -- ..... .. Sligo and Shannon l% ................ -- •• •••• .. o ..••• South Devon 35 •••••• ..... .... South & Midlands June. 425. .. ••• 37 --- .. ........ South Staffordshire June. 2V, ...... -- • .. ....... ...• South Eastern & Dover. 33 1 4 ...... 37 .... ..... ..... Do., No. 1 2G ...... --- ..... •", • . .... ' ii „.. , 3 Do., No. 2. •••• Do., No. 3 - i.. ' . „, •••• Do., No. 4 3% SLAlban's, Hat fi ekLand . D --.:, Hertford Junction - .. .. ...... 4 Staines and Richmond 1 ...... -- ... .... • ..... Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2 3 4 ...... -- ...... ••• '' South Wales..... —.... „ / . • . Swans. & Loughor & Ca- .. meron's Stm. Coal. ..... Taw Vale Extension ..... .... Tring, Reading, and ....... •.. ~. Basingstoke 5 14 ...... • -- .. ..... / Vale of Neath 2 ...... --• ' Wakefield, Pontefract. & „... .... .• ~ Goole ..... .... ~ Warwickshire & London 425......• --- '' .... .'.". ~ Warwick and Worcester 42 " .. . . "..... Waterford and Kilkenny 11 . .... —"' .......... . , Waterford and Limerick 2 9 % ...... -- ... ~•• Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, ........ •• /. and Dublin Waterford, Wexford, and ......... .... .., Valentia - '.. .. ..... $l l Waveney Valley . ..... ... ...••• Welsh Midland West Riding Union 42s. .. 2,9-1. .... "..°.• " 2 ... .. ...... ......... West Cornwall ... ,e• . West London,Old Shares 20 ..... -- ....... lo Wexford and Carlow ... 2% - ..... Wilts, Somerset,&Wey- o• ''' mouth ... 15 ...... --- Worcester,Warwi c k, an d „. ..... ",.. Rugby York and Carlisle 2:34 • ...... - - n ii ion' York and Newcastle 25 ... • 3 '7' 2 ; ............ Ditto New ••• 5 ••• •'' --- 1 7k" " ' Do. Preference ......2 .... 7 A ..... York and North Midland 50 ........ 3 2 - 111 ..... .••"... • • ...• • •• Ditto % ,• Shares 25 ...... -- .... ... .. •• Do. Scarboro' Branch. 25 ...... -- .. •"' .• Do. Selby 4O ...... --- ' ... .8.11. •"*" „ IR Do. Extension 2O ..... .39 4 — l2 l Ditto, Preference Do. East and West Rid- 2 ...... 12 ' :11, 1S : ! 4 ing Extension FOREIGSN .1 . {..A " 11 1147:- A //5 :„ ....... :'. Anglo-Belgian 4 ...... ~..• „.•• Barbadoes 1 ...... -- '. „...' „. Belgian Eastern Junctn 2 l/ -- ,, : i ; ! t ,. ::t d..... .. •" Boulogne and A mi ens l6 ....... 1 , - 1 • ' ... Bordeaux & M e dit erran 2 .... '-- ..... ...... ••• Bordeaux, Toulo use , an d ..... .. .. Cet te (Macken z i e ' s ) 2 ..• • • "-- ......... Do. (Espelete' s ) ~,„.. Calais, Dunkrk, and West .... ' Flanders - . Calcutta and Diamond ... *".."'. Harbour ....... - ... •• ..... Callao, Lima, and Pacific 0 . Coast l.. .. ..... .••„••• Central of Spain ... - ' , .... ' o• ..... o• Ceylon — .... ss. ............ -- .„ .... .„. Demerara 212 ...... ..... .. .... ... Denclre Valley .., .., Direct Bombay an d •...„•• Madras ..„.., Dutch Rhenish 6 ..... ''' .... ••• „„•• East Indian ... .—. .... ss. ..... '''' ..... ...."". Fampoux & Hazebrotek 4 ...... --- ...'".,....' Great Indian Peninsular ss. ...... -- 4..." .... .."". Great Western Bengal ss. ..... ..... ..'"'...•''''. Great Western Canada 314 ..-- - 54"'".''' . Italian and Austrian 4 •• - 14 , - .. ';."'" ••• l Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 ...... _,.. • ..... .. "... Jersey ..... . 1 ...... ...... _,.'" '.:•••• Louvain Ila Sambre 6 ..- . 161" ... › .. Luxembourg 4 ...... .„....„,,", ...... .. . Lyons and Avignon 2 ...... ~ .. ...... M ~ .... "' i. 3 9 7 14 9'=° rj i q ell , Madrid Madras,igaaddrraids a n (IN y e 1 l a o i r e e, n t i I . and .. N M a gA m ure: U i r titt an% Liege N ii n or o t f h Fr J a a tt m celo ca nstituted i •::::::::::: ..--. 1:3814 ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Orleans and Vierzon .10 • .... ''''' ,•,,...• ~ Ot("irleeairs Orleans al io ld ns ß :o rdeaui nstitu 4 te ;: d 3's 4 5 6 d ''''''''''''''' 477"1".. • .::::: ; . : .:.: s P a a m ri bs s r a e n aa d nnd Or d Orleans ••••• st.CLO:rietnUcteeda, Atlantic Meuses Strasbourg .. .. . . Paris and Rouen Paris 5 ''''' Rouen and Havre ....12200012 1h .. .............. ; .. ........• .: .....:1.: '''''''''''''''''''''''' 20 '''''' .....- ...,..• • ..,',.. Strasbourg and Bale .., 14 '''''' -- ' •.*** •••• Tours and Nantes Con- .. • ' stituted ..--........• 5 '''''' -- ,•••• Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, ~,,..••• .„. and Hasselt... 8 '''''' --- . ••'''. • . Trinidad - 2% '''''' ~.. ''''' ~, • West Flanders...... 6 ''' ...... •i , •• , . MIN ES. .0 ...."''' 4 f 3 4' Real del Monte trm•eWL-:::::.::/'''....'...----' tip , aIS Y ee l iJ LLOYD'S SHIPPING' h brol e rl V ., / , ,,, ,cr -- . - AO Loxpow,l7.—Wind S.S.E•,',I-0-X., %. tb io 'of , DEAL, Nov. 16.—Wind S.E. to irmetrol 'o,iiicoii,e Hallebokka, Bailey, Adelaide, souto... ve dori ti o v .te ;, f o r beth, Lloyd, of and for Limerick, 11"?TitjaabcoseCile' tact last night in the Downs with tneuied g ee., ' ii eJ P - a pi the former lost bowsprit, and proc eft d, jog y latter had her head and cut water star Ly ,„ 0; 1 .0' Leith. fort , ll ' ee f this I - / we t Dorm, Nov. 16.—The Chance , 0 , t je a- 1 Sift er, , ...L.arbour this morning grounded, ° II . Ofi.f` d i tide. . 1 - 0 4 e, 0 14.1. Pi . COWES, Nov. 16._Wiud S.E.--likr nidad de Cuba. sld. r ri°- fa " ..7) d S E- --- Wei.' 4p PLYMoUTII, Nov. 16.--”, al . „ c __, --Sl a ' 1,,' Van Zuliecom, _ Anstralia. - , n ti ift MILFORD, Nov. 15.--..au. • r) a 5 E. str°''''. iriciwilo • i Scott, Sierra Leone. trrtl' sio• fo e t 3 Q fr 311....... j LIVERPOOL, Nov. 16.--Winu ~. --c nu ehec;_ ple' f i..iiii) John's , New Brunswick; Manchster:44: jo wl :1 , 0 1 , y du Froeq, Hayti ; Severn, Wiseman, '',l,ributie, „yr wick. Off Port.—Albatross, Romp , breez e' cr ballagh. no g i, B. st r FALatownr, Nov. 16.—Wind S.S. , ~0 ) 0, „ 1 Joven Pepete, Ysasi, Havanna). ma p, ' Virli I o, Die TRURO, . Nov. 1 I.—Arrd. Sport s 0 1 13. D ir t ampton, leaky and pumps choked.. ......,ki. picCkoaßrnK,e,Nsotv..3,3l4h.n—,s,WNiet,Ndv LiE;ufnr:wsllc•x_ ...;_ i, 000 . , 4 Y el , I lti OrcOleßFac,ol,KC:fAotrArft‘z,CrvtAit. Silo ohn Ber esi sTruu° 3 ' ji. ve J$ 0 , Smoo, Nov. I3.—Wind S.E. . e l'A P o r_ d y Killala, Quebec. • parld,t ierYley'4 • .., i ge, • %ru t Or 0' BELFAST, Nov. 14.—Sla. r,xcaan ._ 1 , 4 , .., . 0 , co Un N it m el vit S y t , a N te o s v ; . ln i d 3 e_pe s n d id e . n s c pNooovl.. --Ar__d.Arsiu. otb, ,00 c e 'ra l P i h ‘e Mr„ e t i l, llec t il ic e rli ti.l l , l l ; LoxottorE, Nov. 6.—Arrd. Wo°g ° ol `' so o t P: 0 1 1 t O New Brunswick ; 10. h, Traveller, orld. ilopi PENTLAND FIRTH, Nov. 11. Airletdiu rdeek,, :,0 bee, for Montrose,. 12th, William. . _ for Abe Q ueir - 4 1, for Sunderland ; Nov. Lawrence, didtrp,i'verpooli J. Jo. - 01 , GRANGEMOUTH, NOV. lAr r ,ir freSb• rea d, SHIELDS, NOV. 16.•••--/Vind, S.S. , •, l ord 0 1 Hawes, Havanna). Sla• J fir son, Savannah'. HULL, Nov. I6.—Wind S.S.E., fillecurvii, ettero ic og, li oi eNaenSivieclHasonntg.lei"la,fifEr:L:oionsevd;olnnir,4g.gi—nott:oinlienitrlTtle.etolf uitital:S..°o-locirgf_oil.es.ol7s:er-':'(;fj, f Wig ;eo' rjb c. l j 3ll,eustteelridry.ack has not been got 01l I ° -''':" h . 0 11 ;' , ii ; , 7 o Isle ° et ect DUNG ENF,S, Nov. 16.—Th e gore In i, e< P ee from London to Mauritius, vventaid, and it to e, fr;iii No. 1 Battery. The specie islainve. f o r gl i ger will be get otf without much tta t. . , 4 0 ,4 tor _ 0 'll' l ' 4 PILL, Nov. 14.—Tho Elizabe_Ll _ "oth I r" ; or 3 ' 4 4 Newport, foundered oil' Black Note ,_„eic, Reid ii? one man drowned. . ri"oti ,is fozoubiqu" r ai3 s6 ,tr , Coal:, Nov. 14. to 1% 1 st nig !it ? ous e, t i DJtli muds in proceeding to BCslte the irg uti f i r eoc , $ ,, 1 ;c1 ,1° 0 st°r° toiv ej - frell near Ls western shore, rocks, unshipped her rudder, i_4 . che was a, 0 00 , a to eight feet water in her hold s tars iVrig h poi' , 4 harbour to-day. N ov. r The vortia,,_ in hero 4 ,y , HARTLEPOOL, AN 07: hasp t1G,..0. , s r Wyburg, bound to the westw ar d , . ar „ bor ca r d),o,o 0 hi e outs, weed SCARROROUGH, 1 ,0".. ed up at 5 0 'asottii'if Or about 200 tons, was Pir .- 1 "Jae bchoonor Ito; Gto it is expected will Noy tio4a.tsci Y4.113,09UT1T, Nov_" iT iot be Ani got vu the p9bY F"it. t "arti'of i tlif i t i llat- o ff ::j, l o r 5 4 / / .... - ~., ...... :...„.. ,- ...... 26 37 IAI 19 1 % lo ix, 20% 12% 2% 75% 38% 11 3% 15% G 5 1,4 - 21A 11A P 11 2 5%%11 89 17 0 ..-. 4 1 4 lit P 19