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13, Gre, t Marlborough-street. M RS. GORE'S N NOVEL, " MEN OF CAPIT ," Is now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW WORK BY MRS. HOVLAND. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., DANIEL DENNISON, THE CUMBERLAND STATESMAN. By Mrs. HOVLAND. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-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 TITEsDAT and FZIDAT, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered ; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds bnmg dietely disposed of according to instructions. 011 ices. Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed Balfe's celebrated Opera, entitled TIIE MAID OF ARTOIS. Marquis tie Chateau Vieux, Mr. Borrani; .Tules de Montagnon, Mr. W. Harrison ; Sans Regret, Mr. Burdini ; Synnelet, 31r. Weiss; Niaka, Miss Isaacs; Isolit,e, Madame Anna Bishop. After which, the celebrat*l Ballet of THE DEVIL TO PAY, In which will appear MonsThretin, Mr. Wieland, Mons. Theodore. 3fr. W. H. Payne, Mr. Chapin°, &c. ; Fabbri, Mdlle. Louise, Madame Theodore, Miss A. Payne, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. It. Webster, sole Lessee. TEAS EVENING Will be performed a New Comedy, in three acts, entitled QUEEN MARY'S BOWER. Principal characters by Messrs. Webster, Hudson, Howe, Brindal, Braid ; 311ss Fortescue, Mrs. Seymour, &c. During the evening the Band will perform " Les 3fousquetaires de la Reins" (Overture) ; " Old English Airs" (Fantasia) ; and the " Musketeers" (Quadrille). After which a new Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord Courtingion, Mr. Roll; Sir Arthur Lovel, Mr. Howe ; Scoreup, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckingham ; Mrs. Scoreup, Mies Julia Bennett. To be followed by the Farce of NICOLAS FL AM. Nicolas Flarn, Mr. W. Farren ; Shrimp, Mr. Buckstoue ; Miss Yuddicoinbe, Mrs. W. Clifford. To conclude with a Sea-side Sketch, called THE FORTUNE HUNTER; or, A Morning at Margate. Captain Mount;arret, Mr. Hudson ; Griffin, Mr. Tilbury ; Bompas, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Griffin, Mrs. W. Clifford. Box-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of Mr. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. TIT IS EVENING The last Three Nights of " The Mag!e Horn." The performances will commence with a New Comic Drama, TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Principal characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Meadows, and Keeley; airs. Woollidge, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Hicks, Miss Turner, Misa Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. . . After which, a new Farce, called WHICH MISTER SMITH ? Characters 63 , - 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 Burlesque Extravaganza, founded on the Opera of "Oberon," entitled THE MAGIC HORN. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Kinlech, Collier, Yarnold, Bender, Silver, Richards, and Keeley; Miss Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Weollidge, Miss Arden, Miss Forster, Miss Laidlaw, Miss Bromley, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. On Thursday evening next MRS. HARRIS will make her first appearance in public. T HEAT TIE ROYAL, A DELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be presented a new domestic drama, entitled EUGEisTIA CLAIRCILLE ; or, The New Found Home. Frederick Stan more, Mr. Worrell ; Mr. Rugleigh, Mr. Cullenford ; Toffey, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Buzzard, Mr. Lambert ; Hugh Matlock, Mr. 0. smith ; Pegg, Mr. Munyard ; Mrs. Toffey, Mrs. F. Matthews ; Zugenia Clairgllle, Madame Celeste. After which, a new Extravaganza, in two acts, called THE JOCKEY CLUB. The principal characters by Messrs. Paul Bed ford, Wright, Redmond Ryan, Selby, Waye, Mitchenson, &c. ; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. F. Matthews, Misses Ellen Chaplin, Harding, Fleming, Turner, Taylor, &c. To conclude with the popular Burletta of TAMING A TARTAR. Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar ; Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wright, Selby, Worrell, &c., will sustain the principal characters. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Mr. George Bolton, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed Sheridan's Play of THE RIVALS. Sir An thony Absolute, Mr. Cowell ; Captain Absolute, Mr. Leigh Murray ; Falkland, Mr. Henry Betty; Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Mr. Hammersley (his first appearance) ; Acres, Mr. Walter Lacy ; David, Mr. Wilkin son; Lydia Languish, Mrs. W. Lacy; Julia Melville, Mrs. R. Gor den ; Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. C. Jones (of the Theatres Royal Covent. garden and Drury-lane). To conclude with a new grand Burlesque, introducing an unri valled Corps de Ballet, entitled THE CIVIL WAR OF POETRY. The Public, Mr. J. Ward ; Ephemera, Mr. S. Cowell. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakspere's Tragedy of OTHELLO. Disko of Venice, Mr. Tyndall ; Othello, Mr. 3lacready ; Brabantio, Mr. Ne ville ; lago, Mr. Cooper ; Cassio, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Roderigo, Mr. Johnson ; Ludovico, Mr. Heslop ; Desiemona, Mrs. Charles Gill ; Emilia, Mrs. Ternan. To conclude with the Drama of CHARLES THE TWELFTH ; or, The Siege of Stralsund. Charles XII., Mr. Fredericks ; Major Tanberg, Mr. Cooper; Adam Brock, Mr. Neville; Gustavus, Mr. Johnson ; Muddlewerk, Mr. Webb ; Illrica, Mrs. Ternan ; Eudiga, Mrs. Charles Gill. Box-office open from eleven till four o'clock. ASTLEY'4 ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. Prince Albert, and Royal Family. Last six nights of Lord Byron's Mazeppa ;" re-produced with all its original effects and grandeur, which must be shortly withdrawn, for the production of a new grand magical Equestrian Spectacle, on a lavish scale of splendour. First appearance of the Champion Vaulters and Sommersault Ar tistes, Messrs. J. Henderson and J. Lee. THIS EVENING Will he performed the successful Dramatic SpeCtaele of MAZEPPA, AND THE WILD HORSE. After which, brilliant feats of HORSEMANSHIP, by Mr. Batty's double Company of Equestrian Artistes. Herr Amodio Neupert, the great Dutch Bottle Equilibrist. To conclude with the WASHERWOMAN OF ST. REMY. On Thursday the Entertainments will be for the Benefit of a Cha ritable Institution. Boa-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six And commence at seven o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. THE WEATHER.—S ITN OFFICE, OCTOBER 17. TBSEMOMETER, Lowest, 49; Highest. 60; Noon, 60. BAROMETER, 29.4. WIND S. S. W. , fine. HIGH WATEFOAT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 10 minutes after 1. I Evening .. 27 minutes after 1. Morning ..int LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1846. Another instance is unfortunately added to the long catalogue, already recorded in history, of the friend ship of nations and the preservation of peace being jeopardised simply in consequence of a dynastic squabble. What frivolity to vaunt the superior en lightenment of this generation ! What vainglorious folly to boast the excessive advances of civilisation in the nineteenth century ! What ignorance to cant about our emergence from the darkness of feudal in stitutions ! We may have increased the repertories of knowledge to an enormous extent; we may have effected a mechanical progression, have discarded horse power for steam, hand • •wheels for spinning jennies, water clocks for chronometers, and so forth ; but, as far as the emancipation of human intelligence from the prejudices of government and from the anti quated bonds of legislation is concerned, our position has continued stationary since the war of the Roses and the struggle between the Guelphs and the Ghibel lines : tbis at least, if the jealousies at present existing between the rulers of Great Britain, France, and the Peninsula, can be regarded as a specimen of our political advancement. At the identical moment when the emancipation of commerce in an empire of commercial influence immeasurably beyond that of Tyre, Carthage, or Venice, promises to bind the whole earth with the golden chain of universal bro therhood, and to render wars impossible from the in timate and catholic reliance of one country upon another—at that solemn and propitious moment the continuance of European tranquillity is rendered dubious by the personal avarice, and for the exclusive advantage, of a single Sovereign. Is this, we ask, in accordance with 'those enlarged views which political philosophers have been advocating for now nearly a century ? Is it con sonant with the principles which the wisest and most cosmopolite of philanthropists have promulgated? The mind can readily embrace the notion of a war being aroused for the purpose of aggrandising the territories of a state—there is an equivalent there for all the sacrifices incident to a campaign, though it is an equivalent somewhat deteriorated by its uncon scientious character. A defensive war is comprehen sible ; a war to maintain the dignity of an insulted nation presents an idea which the imagination can readily embrace ; but a war undertaken or rendered probable merely, for the benefit of a single family, however exalted, is an event altogether incompatible with the enlarged opinions which we have hitherto regarded as the only ones entertained by every civi lised people. For centuries the Bourbon dynasty has monopolised the interests of European sovereignty. To that dy nasty the descendants of nonoLPH of Hapsburg, the Braganzas, and the Plantagenets, were almost liable to be regarded as so many imperial parvenues. tdore or less, the descendants of Ikon CAPET still o ccupy their original position of importance among the continental principalities —as far, at least, as occupancy is concerned. After an i n t erval, during which the French, Spanish, and Neapolitan sceptres were wielded by the Emperor NAPOLEON, King Josarir, and King JOACHIM, that family has been reinstated in its original position—the representative of the younger branch in France, the descendants of the original occupants to the thrones of Naples and the Peninsula. The very name of Bourbon, from its antiquity, is undoubtedly venerable, it is associated, moreover, with many illustrious deeds, with sublime exhibitions of virtue, with astonishing evidences of valour. The name has, moreover, been sanctified by the misfortunes with which it has been latterly coupled, and has justly elicited the superb and pathetic panegyric of CHA TEAUBRIAND. Eminently worthy of consideration as the elder Bourbons are, we are not however dis posed to think that for those reasons the individual advantages of their posterity should be regarded as of superior importance to the tranquillity, the hap piness, the social and international friendship of nations. It is not surely for the domestic aggrandize ment of any man, even supposing his veins to be en riched by the blood derived from a CArET, that pro vinces are to be exposed to the peril of being ravaged, or that the blessings which would otherwise encom pass a whole generation should be altogether pre vented. Such, in simple truth, however, is the nature of the consequences which may possibly flow from the Montpensier alliance. For the extension of the family interests of an Orleans, the peace of Europe is endangered, and the very existence of Spain as an independent nation rendered a matter of the most harassing doubt and uncertainty. The plea upon which the English Government, through its ambas sadors, has protested against these nuptials, is, as every one acquainted with the mere syllabus of European history is already aware, one of the most simple and indisputable pleas ever advanced by any Cabinet. That plea is the treaty of Utrecht. We are familiar with the language of that treaty ; the terms of the treaties of Amiens, of Luneville, of Leoben, of Campo Formio, and of divers others, recur likewise to our recollection, and we cannot conceal from our selves the fact, that never was treaty couched in language more distinct and conclusive than the one signed at Utrecht. In defiance, how ever, of the explicit wording of those stipu lations, the application of that treaty to the recent occurrence at Madrid has been boldly questioned by the upholders of the Guizot policy. Indeed, a specious article has ap peared in the columns of La Presse, denying that the marriage of the Duc DE MONTPENSIER is in any particular opposed to the engagements entered into towards the commencement of the eighteenth century. The arguments there employed have since then been most signally refuted by an anonymous diplomatist in the National. It requires, however, but little trouble to dispose of such denials when we find the redoubled Plump, Grandson of France, Duke of Orleans, Valois, Chartres, and Ne , mours, declaring on the 19th of No vember, 1712, in allusion to the Spanish :throne— "We will and consent, for us and our descendants, that from this time and for ever, we be held, we and ours, excluded, disabled, and incapacitated, in whatever degree we may happen to be, and in what manner soever the succession may fall to our line." The matter which has thus taxed the ingenuity of the Parisian scribes is contained in a nutshell. We adverted on Saturday generally to certain con stitutional functions which the Ministers of this country are expected to discharge, and amongst them was that of availing themselves of the extraordinary powers constitutionally vested in them, by virtue of their office, to ward off, or mitigate the effects of any unlooked-for conjuncture of affairs that might hap pen to menace the general welfare of the country, and:vve stated that we considered it a positive duty on the part of Government, under existing circumstances, to unbar our ports for the introduction of all kinds of grain, duty free. It is apparent that some of the deep thinking, clear-headed, and well-organised public bodies of vast experience and prominent influence, have fos tered the expectation that, owing to the indisputable and melancholy aspect of the country, in relation to the threatened dearth of food, with its serious and inevitable consequences, the Administration would ere this, and without any promptings, have authorised —at any rate till the extreme pressure was subdued —the intromission of grain, free of duty, from every quarter of the globe. But the patience of those bodies is exhausted, and sensible that the crisis brooks of no farther delay, they are endeavouring to convince the Government that wisdom and humanity alike dictate the necessity of our ports being immediately thrown open to the foreign merchant. The Directors of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures dispatched a memorial to Lord JOHN RU!SELL on this absorbing topic. It is powerfully drawn up. They express their gratitude for the measures of relief lately granted by Parliament, and the confident hope they entertained of reaching without material injury the end of the three years, during which duties were to be leviable upon foreign corn. It is then solemnly observed, that "the dispensations of DIVINE PROVIDENCE have, however, interposed, and, in the opinion of your memorialists, have thrown upon the Government further awful responsibilities." The following cutting exporg of the "conflicting and cruel anomalies" of our system cannot fail of its due im pression : " Prayers are directed to be offered up in our churches to have those evils averted, and yet one of our laws enacts, that whatever may be the price of wheat, the smallest duty to be paid upon the import of it shall be 4s. per quarter ; another law decrees that food brought into the country by certain vessels shall not be eaten at all by our people ; whilst a third declares that nothing shall be used in our distilleries but that which would serve as food." The Town Council of Sheffield have followed the ex ample of Manchester, Dundee, and other places, and actually (which was not strictly legal) suspended a standing order, with the view of losing no time in memorialising her MAJESTY in Council to favour immediate free trade in corn. We trust these philanthropical demonstrations will have their due weight. From no man more than the present Premier have we a right to anticipate that the prayers of these influential peti tions will be readily acceded to. Ins position is un doubtedly a responsible one, and we quite concede that nothing short of an imperious necessity could justify any deviation from the terms of the great settlement effected by Parliament in relation to the corn-laws. But that dread necessity has arisen, and it is now too late, such is the national urgency of the question, to summon the Legislature to take the initiative in relaxing their recent law. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, as well as Mr. CoBDEN, deprecated the " rag of protection " which Sir IL PEEL offered the obdurate landed proprietors, and only offered, as we believe, not from a conviction of its being free from objection, but simply with the object of enhancing, the chances of passing his great measure into law ; and now that " the dispensations of DIVINE PROVIDENCE have interposed," to expose its futility in point of wis dom, and its excessive cruelty towards the helpless poor, we trust that our • Prime Minister, who pre dicted these things, will not hesitate to apply the needful remedy. Only yesterday we mentioned that "famine and crime were haunting us on all sides," and this morning brings us the sad intelligence of four deaths from starvation in Ireland. Two have fallen victims to famine at Castlehaven, one in Macroom, and another in Skibbereen. Deplorable facts, these, to go forth to the world, that within the far-famed British dominions people have suffered the excruciating and fatal pangs of hunger, and which might never have been their miserable end had not selfish laws precluded them from participating in the enlarged bounties of nature so prodigally scattered over the various quarters of the earth. It seems almost a mockery to offer up our prayers in churches, that we be shielded from the aggravated calamities by which we are surrounded, till we have first squared our laws with the true principles of universal charity. If we would deserve to be emancipated from the cumulative horrors of pestilence, famine, - and death, we must draw close the bonds of civilisation with every country, keep wide open our harbours to the shipping of every clime, and not presume by con ceited laws of prohibitions to disturb the reciprocal interchange between enlightened and enterprising countries of the different bounties with which PROVI DENCE has severally blessed them. The convention of the noblesse of Livonia, at pre sent assembled at Riga, has been engaged for ten days in discussing the new constitution for the peasantry, proposed in the spring by the special corn - mittee at St. Petersburgh. The POPE on the 7th visited the towns of Albano and Castelgandolfos, and returned to Rome in the evening. His progress both going and returning was a perfect triumph. A letter from Rome of the Bth states, that in con sequence of the systematic hostility manifested by the Congregation of Cardinals to the reforms pro posed by Cardinal Gum, the Pore had replaced that body by a Consulta dz Stato, formed of the Under. Secretaries of State, of the prelates occupying at Rome the highest administrative fuections, and several distinguished lay members. A weekly paper, called the Contemporaneo, was on the point of ap pearing under the auspices of Cardinal Gizzt. M. BALUFFI had been appointed Bishop of LuoLA, the see lately filled by the POPE. Madrid papers of the 10th have arrived. They are filled with details of the preparations for the royal nuptials, which were celebrated at ten o'clock on the night of that day. Mr. BUI.WER, who had been in vited to attend the ceremony of the signature of the marriage contracts, had formally declined to attend. "It is proper, however, to state," says the corre spondent of the Journal des Debats, " that Mr. BUL• WER excused himself with the greatest possible polite ness on the ground of the particular circumstances which impose upon him the reserve to which he has confided himself, at the same time declaring his re spectful devotedness to the KING of the FRENCH and the Royal Family of France." On the evening before there was a grand dinner given at the French Ambassador's. In the published list of the guests we do not observe the name of the Duke of VALENCIA (Narvaez). Before the dinner, the Duke DE MONTPENSIER presented to M. IsTuarrz, in the name of the KING, the grand cordon of the Legion of Honour, and the cross of grand officer to the Duke D'OSSUNA. and M. DE PEZUELA, Captain-General of New Castille. The Clamor Publico states that on the 9th Mr. BULWER returned from Aranjuez, and that before he left Madrid for that place he presented to the Spanish Government a new protest against the consequences of the marriage of the INFANTA with the Duke BE MONITENSIER. In this note, adds the Clamor, the displeasure with which the British Government be holds the marriage is strongly set forth. The same journal, on the authority of letters from Valencia and Saragossa, states that a Carlist band has made its appearance in the Mueztrazgo. The 10th being the fête day of the QUEEN, the Bolsa was closed. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. The Journal des Debats, in a very temperately written article on the subject of the Genevese revolu tion, denies that it has ever manifested any sympathy for the Jesuits. It expresses its regret at the revolu lion, but from the tone adopted it would appear that it is not the intention of the French Ministry to inter fere actively in the affairs of Switzerland. On the subject of the Montpensier marriage we find the following reply given by the National to the assertions of the Court organ, the Presse : " The Presse has noted our declaration that if the English Government had conducted itself with had faith in the negotiations relative to the marriage, we should have been eager and happy to accuse it, as we have always done. Neither the National or the Presse have certainly been consulted upon these negotiations, but the Presse has received and published a version, which we believe to be entirely incorrect both in facts and dates. We beg that it will answer the following questions:—ls it true, that at the first interview at Eu, which took place in 1842, there was no mention of the marriage of the Infanta, but only of that of the Queen ? Is it true, that, far from presenting the sons of Don Francisco de Paula as candidates, M. Guizot named only Trapani and Montemolin, and that Lord Aberdeen brought forward the two Infantes ? Is it true that this first conversation was resumed in England, with this concession, that it would not cramp the in fluence of France to promote the preference of Trapani, provided Spain retained her freedom of action ? If the first point is certain, it has been wrongfully stated, first, that the French Government wished to be adopted as the best of all plans, the union of the two Infantas with their cousins ; and, secondly, that Lord Aber. deen was completely in accord with M. Guizot on this point. The second interview at Eu took place in October, 1845. Then it was that the question of the marriage between the Infanta and the Duke de Montpensier was first raised. W a s it p ro p ose d th a t thi s marriage should be consummated at the same time as that of the Queen ? Did not Lord Aberdeen conclude his opinions with the following phrase This mar riage would be attended with fewer objections if the suc cession to the Queen were assured by her giving birth to one or two children ? Did not M. Guizot take the indirect assent with these conditions and in these terms? If this be certain, it is, consequently untrue to say that the combination which is now effected had the consent of the late English Cabinet, since the marriages are simul taneous, and Queen Isabella is without a direct heir to the throne of Spain. The Presse has since stated that M. Guizot communicated to Lord Palmerston tl-e verbal conventions of which we have just spoken, and asked whether he accepted them. These communi cations, it says, were made as far back as the month of May last. This is a singular date, for the Whig Ministry did not enter upon its functions until the be ginning of July, and the marriage was concluded on August 28. What passed during these six weeks ? What guarantee were thc communications of M. Guizot attended with ? Was the marriage of the Infanta men tioned in the letters to M. Jarnac, or that of the Queen only ? Was it not towards the end of July that this first letter was sent ? It has been said that Lord Pal merston gave no answer to this letter, nor to a second, which reached him a few days afterwards. Is this cer tain ? Had not Lord Normanby an interview, on this occasion, with M. Guizot in the name of the British Ministry ? Wns he not charged to declare that the affair of the marriage required more reflection ; that the choice of the Count de Trapani as a candi date having been unfortunate, Spain should be con sulted on that of Don Francisco ; that, as the Cortes was about to be renewed according to the terms of the constitution, it appeared to be more proper that their meeting should be waited for ; that it might be in ferred from what had been said by M. Isturitz to Mr. Bulwer, that there was a certain mistrust of the new candidate proposed ; that, in fine, the Infante Don Henry appeared to be more likely to insure the happi ness of the Queen of Spain ? We cannot warrant the correctness of these particulars; but was there not in fact an answer from Lord Palmerston ? It would be, there fore, wrong to assert that from his silence an intrigue was inferred. In line, are we to be told what is the date of the last letter from M. Guizot, announcing that iofnEn whatg l ahhwnewd:lauavdfflsidTaad agreed not u explain po n withherself tia clearly e precedinga r ly• and Cabinet, as :itisniphieelelau ilett e r dl:llthoughtiehd.himself, sAuelltfbi Madrid August h s r t saiwtd :di. for snaa st ectherdal playing theiynn o iig w ng ghnou night hisi :no, u p on i t F tw e aho r h r e a : i i l s i t c B s e tt ? Palmerstonhra a s ct t was to at cards at Madrid in such a way as to trick Lord Palmer -1 ston ' and bring aboret the marriage. This certainly was very cleverly done ; but if our facts and dates are cor rect, however much tel. Guizot may boast of his address, can he at the same time boast of having been honest, sincere, and without reproach, as the Presse has de clared ? We affirm nothing. We do not nor can we know if what has been related to us has really taken place. If we have be en deceived so much the better, and we shall be able to resume with the deeper conviction the confidence which will make us happy in combatting with the utmost energy that British perfidy, against which we preserve the most lively, the most immortal animosity." The Constitutionnel thus comments on the utter selfishness manifested by the Guizot Administration throughout their vvhcde proceedings " A difference remains to be settled between the Eng• ish and French Governments. Will England permit, without saying another word, the final accomplishment of the marriage which she has endeavoured to prevent? Evidently not. If our information from England is exact, it is probable that the indirect offer made by our Government of the renunciation of the Duke de Mont pensier for himself and his descendants to the throne of France will not be accepted. It is also probable that the renunciation of the Infanta to the crown of Spain will not be insisted upon, for that would b e i mme di ate war. But our readers must expect to see a note addressed direct to France by the Eng lish Government, to repeat all the reservations made in that already transmitted to the Spa nish Government. These reservations, it is well known, refer principally to the hypothesis of Queen Isabella happening to die without children, and the Duchess de Montpensier being in consequence called on to ascend the throne of Spain, and to transmit to her descendants the inheritance of that Crown. England will declare herself beforehand to be fully determined to oppose any such succession. Even should the English Ministry confine itself to this protest and these reservations, it would be a serious matter, even for the present. It throws on the politics of Europe a permanent doubt, which cannot cease except when the Queen of Spain shall have had several children. Until that time our relations with England, the probability of peace or of war, and the safety of the Spanish monarchy will undergo all the variations attendant on the health of a young woman and of her first child. Suppose that one year—two years, should pass ever without the Queen of Spain having any hope of an heir, during that time mutual distrust must increase between England and France, peace becomes problematical, and the prolonged incertitude places in peril interests which require that the future should be reckoned on with cer tainty. Is the perpetuity of a difference, the solution of which is entrusted; to chance, a good situation to exist between two nations? Fre. nations bare secured them selves by their very constitution from the most objec tionable chances of the monarchical succession ; they have resolved to enjoy as much as possible only its ad vantages. And behold how, for a petty interest, family discords, family intrigues, family arrangements, have ren dered subordinate, precisely as was the case one or two centuries back, the political relations of three constitu tional countries—Franco, England, and Spain—to the birth, the health, and the physical condi tion of a child yet to be born 1 Meantime our ministers and our ambassadors have obtained, as the dear and possible result of their great triumph, a very cool reception for the Priem in Spain, the irritation of a part of the Spanish nation, and the rup ture of the English alliance, with all the reciprocal ill humour which may burst forth in all points of the globe. Persons who for the last six years have been grovelling before England considered us too patriotic because we defended with some energy their own policy in Syria ; they got annoyed because we blamed them for throwing themselves, immediately after a humiliation, into the arms of their late adversaries; they preferred disavowing three French officers, and paying an indemnity to the murderer of our soldiers, rathsr than supporting the coolness of England; and at present they become all anx iety for a marriage and a dowry! Here we behold them all in a ferment about a matrimonial alliance which they, however, declare, ought not to change anything in the po litical state of things; and they were cold and trembling when the interests and honour of their country were at stake! Prance was neither in Syria, nor in Texas, nor et Otaheite, nor with M. Dupetit-ThonarA or M. Brunt; but she is altogether at the feet of a little Spanish Princess. The en4ente cordiale was then the supreme, the only in terest of the country ; and at present, what signifies the entente cordiale compared with this marriage prize ! For six years they were proud to be English, and now a Court affair turns them into inveterate patriots ! Foolish people as they arb, not to perceive to what a degree of puerility and paltriness they lower their political conduct by the language which they use at present ! The public in France is observant of their deplorable inconsistency. It compares what they say and do at present with their I words and acts of the past time ; it looks with pity on their court patriotism ; and it judges with an equal se verity both the unworthy sacrifices which they have im posed on France during six years in the name of the entente cordiale, and the sacrifice which they make to day of the entente cordiale dearly purchased." It is said that M. GuizoT will seek an intimate alliance with the Northern and Absolutist Powers, as a substitute for the entente cordiale, and that he has succeeded in obtaining from Prince METTERNICH an expression of approval of the Montpensier marriage. Austria will, it is presumed, bring with her Russia and Prussia, and the Russian alliance has always been an object of desire with Louts PintarrE. On this subject the Courrier Francais observes that, some months since, even Wore the appearance of the Grand Duke CONSTANTINE on the coast of France, it pointed out the obvious desire entertained by the Cabinet of the Tuileries, and that of St. Petersburgh, to approach each other. " Russia," adds the Cour; ier Francais, ' never remained indifferent, particularly since 1830, to the poli tical events passing in the south of Europe. In Spain, for example, it formerly supported the pretensions of Don Carlos, and the Emperor furnished him with consi derable sums of money, so long as he believed that he might succeed. At present, on the contrary, when the son of the same Don Carlos likewise pretends to the throne of Charles the Fifth, the Russian Government will neither afford a moral support nor advance a rouble. Whence has arisen such an alteration with regard to the Spanish Carlists? Is it not an evident proof that Russian policy must have changed with regard to the French Go vernment? If the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh, no mat ter whether from cunning or necessity, would not connect itself with us, would it not at present favour the views of the Count de Montemolin ? Is there any one, in fine, who believed that the treaty of commerce lately concluded between France and Rus sia was possible ? Is there a further proof required in support of our assertions ? The following is one which any person at all acquainted with the character of the Czar will not refuse to acknowledge. The Baron de Rayneval, our representative at St. Petersburgh, is at present on the best terms with the Russian Court sin.d diplomatists, and the Czar invites him to his family dinners. It may be said, in reply, that M. de Barante :likewise enjoyed a certain consideration at St. Peters burgh. Yes, no doubt, but that considerttion was purely personal, and when the opportunity presented itself, the Autocrat failed not to insult, not M. de Barante, but the representative of the French Govern ment. On what conditions has M. Guizot obtained these results? Whatever they be, we believe them to be tradically incompatible with the principles in the name of which we repel that alliance which will be quite as factitious, quite as false, and quite as disgraceful as the fii.inous cordial understanding, and which, moreover, will be immoral. Russia rejoices at seeing the cor dial understanding' between France and England dissolved by the events of the Peninsula. The Bus si an diplomatists have on this occasion indulged in ob streperous joy ; but let us not deceive ourselves ; it is a joy full of peril for France. Russia would desire the annihi lai'ion of the British power, and it is under the empire of th:tt hatred that it will ally itself for a certain time with France; but if it be imagined that for that reason the Em peror will sympathise more with France, or the liberal spirit of which she is the true representative in the 'world, it would be to fall into a gross illusion, and at a future occasion we should inevitably endure bitter de cept ions. This is the reason why, after ever having corn batted the'cordial understanding, we shall as ener geti tally repel the French-Russian alliance as long as Res sia shall not have entered into the course which Tiro vide ace cannot fail to open for her in spite of her Czars. We ought not to seek our alliance either in Russia or in Eng land. Germany in a state of progress is there, and Prussia at its head ; let us turn our eyes in that di rection. If great political problems have often arisen at the extremities of Europe, it is almost always at the centre that they have been resolved. Charlemagne, Cha.-les V., Frederick, and Napoleon, have experienced it sorcxetimes in their triumphs, at other times in their reverzes. It is an historical event not to be disdained, that the Germanic race has formally been engrafted on the G'allic race, and thence we can comprehend that the Frerwh and Germans ought to be brothers, in spite of the c( intests which the two nations have had to maintain one a.gainst the other." Th e number of the Spanish refugees who have been sent to the Castle of Blaye since the escape of the Count de Montemolin, is thirteen, and their names are the Marquis de Valdespina, a Grandee of Spain, formerly Minister of War; Generals Villa real, Gomez, Vargas, and Guibelalde ; Colonels Men zano, Negueralla, Zabuto, Zebacho, and Aysete ; and three. ecclesiastics, Gonzales Balthazar, Jose Antonio, and Jose Übage. Valdespina, Villareal, Mensano, and Negueralla have been so much indisposed as to require and receive the attendance of Surgeon -Major Brivin, who is charged with the medical service of the castle. _ The: Moniteur publishes the Excise returns of France for the first three quarters of the present year, which show, as compared with 1845, an increase of 13,000,000 f. (520,0001.), and with 1844, to increase of upwards of 2 7,000,000 f. This sta.tem( mt does not appear to have had a favourable infiuenoe on the Bourse, where it was stated that " the reserve" of the Bank of France had from 254,000,000 f. diminished to 130,000,000 f., and that the IN ;serve of the public Treasury h a d dimi nished, in a similar proport ion. The pressure for money was so great in Paris on Wednesday, that bills an counting to 15,000,0001. were tend-Jred for dis count r.t the bank that day ; the larg2st sum on re cord f n. many years. The price of bread and of meat continues unpre cedent, ! dly high in Paris. The consumption of b u t c h ers ' mlasetatye a., illa r s a considerably b e r o lessened,fbankruptcies has greatly as compared w i t h increastuL The Tilree per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thurs nesday a t 82f. 60c.; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 63c. ; the Orleans .Uailroad Shares, 1,252 f 50c. ; Rouen, 9351. ; Ilavre, 7121. 50 c. ; Great Northern, 696 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 8901.; Vierzon, 612 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 555 f. ; T royes and Mon tereau, ;1601. ; Basle, 220 f. ; Fampoux, 390 f. ; Dieppe, 362 f. 50c. ; P aris and Strasburg, 493 f. 75c. ; Tours and Nantes, 502 f. 5C ; Paris and Lyons, 5171. 50c.; Lyons and Avignor 1, 4871. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 4801. ; Spanish Domesti c Debt, 34. LYONS,. Ocr. 13.-Paris and Rouen, 940 f. ; Avignon and Marseille 9,905 f. ; Northern, 7121. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 5221. 25c.. BUSIN ESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 16. Boulogra and Amiens, 14%-Direct Bombay and Madras, %- Dutch IQ), 4%-East Indian, % -Luxembourg, 1%-Nataur and Liege, 1%-Northern of France Constituted, 12% -Orleans and Bordeaux., 7%-Paris and Lyons Constituted, 5%. REMY...LANE THEA.TRE.—This house continues to be crowc:locl night after night, to witness the charming perform: tnce of Madame Bishop. There is no chance of obtainin g either a good private-box, or good seats in the dress cii . (-;le, unless application be made some days before hand. There has been no such decided hit since the memorabl'e days of Madame Malibran. " Loy] I NEVER, DIES."—On Saturday week, at Pyle, Mr. Thomas Harding, of the parish of Newton Nottaga, aged 69 years, was married to Mrs. Mary Austin, of Pyle, aged 71 years—their united ages being 140 yew It is said that in their youthful days— nearly t5O) years ago—they had been " sweethearts," had qualm tiled, parted, and had now, after an interval of half ;a (;entury, redeemed those pledges of affection, which it t tine hey-day of their youth they made to each other. THE] ILI RAILWAY ACCIDENTS IN Two HOURS.— NEWAR, B, TIIIMSDAY.—Since noon to-day no less than three accidents have occurred on the Lincoln Railway, all within the short period of two hours, and within the distance r)f six miles! The facts stand thus:—As the train was about to leave the station at Lincoln, at twelve o'clock a t noon, for Nottingham, the engine was run up the lines to shunt, when on arriving at the points, it ran off the li ne . Al l hands were quickly aloft, and, after an hour's di another engine was attached to the train, but just a s the signal was about to be given for starting, a pipe irt the engine burst, and let off all the steam and water. A. second delay occurred, but a third engine being procured, off the train started, at a rapid speed, no doubt with, a view of making up tor lost time. Having travelled al :iota five miles, a third disaster occurred, and the train came to a dead stand, owing to one of the pumps of ette engine being out of order; the train, how ever, inauag ed to reach 'Thorpe station, six miles from Lincoln, vrt .ere a stoppage was made till the train leav ing Notting ham et twelve o'clock should arrive. The wished-for train having come up, a messige was for wai ded to :Lincoln, from whence a fourth engine was brought, anal at two o'clock the train started for Notting ham, where arrived soon after four, bring two hours and a quart:ei later than the regular time. Much alarm was felt by the pasit-ngers, but no one sustained injury. —llratinghanwhire Guardian. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Saturday Ev'ening.) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 10,000 bales; about 6,000 were taken on speculation, at full prices. There are not any colonial accounts to-day. Much satisfaction has been produced by a full denial of the report prevalent at Liverpool very generally—here par tially—that one of the Halifax steamers had been con sumed at sea by fire. As a proof of the extraordinary facility now afforded by steam and railway conveyance, by adopting the port of Southampton for the unloading of cargoes of produce, a convincing instance may be reported of the dispatch used by the dock and railway authorities at South. .mpton, in the discharge of a cargo of rigs and sultanas, brought by the Achilles steamer, from Smyrna, the whale of which, consisting of 15,000 drums, having been landed and cleared at Southampton, and received by"railway in London for distribution 24 hours after their arrival. The increase of the importation of fruit and perishable articles to Southampton, as affording a quicker mode of transit to the London market, has so much increased, that the directors of the Dock Company have appointed a superintendent exclusively for the landing, clearing, and forwarding the various articles of this now important branch of trade. The Bank of England returns for the past week, shows a variation, with the items of its predecessor, as fulloes A decrease in the issue of notes .of 281,6601., or to 29,078,135/. A decrease in the rest (owing to the payment of the interest upon Bank Stock) of 503.8271. An increase in the public deposits of 25,207/. An increase in the other deposits of 155,4834 or to 8,322,6261. A decrease in the seven day and other bills of but 7,930/. In the banking department the notes last time were 8,809,150/. Decrease, 503,3651. There is a decrease in the amount of the precious metals in store of 234,3921., or to 15,582,234/. The Consol Market has been eztremely heavy this morning. For the next Account the price has ranged from 954 and it, and for Transfer from 95 to 94i. The Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities have been sold at 931, and Exchequer-bills at 13s. premium. In Mexican Bonds the fluctuations have been rather frequent to-day—from 23 to 23i. Old Portuguese are at 84, the Four per Cents. at 41-i, the Spanish Actives at 27, the Three per Cents. at 37i, Brazilian at 85, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 59. The Share transactions have not been large. The shipments of the precious metals to the continent have rather been on the increase this week. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. 3 per Cent. Reduced Arms...— 94 93% 93% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 95 94% 94% New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities 95 % 34 95% LongAnnuitiestoexpireJan.lB6o 9 15-16 9 15-16 Consols for Nov. 26 9514 951 Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 16 13 pm. 13 Ditto 5001. Ditto Small ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 tier Cent 43 43 Equador Bonds Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 — Ditto. Account ..... ... ...... Portuguese 5 per Cents. B4 84 Ditto, 4 per Cent 4l 41 Ditto, Account 41% 411/2 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto, Account C 27 27 Ditto. 3 per Cent — Ditto, Account ...... ......... Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch, 2% per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 92 92 PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING IsAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%...... 21A% 2% . ... Armagh, Coleraine, and Por trush l4/ . . Aylesbury and Thame.. Belfast & County Down 4%..... . . Birmin. and Gleticester. 100 . - 128% Ditto New 17% Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 2 3 / — Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. — Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... 50 Bristol and Liver. Junc . 2%...... Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Half Shares....„ 214 Ditto Extension ... .. 2% — .....•... Cambrian & Grand Jana 42s ...... —I Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% l% Chester and Holyhead... 27% Churnet and Blythe Chester and Manchester 425. — ... Cheltenham and Oxford 2 ...... • ClydesdaleJunetion 2O — Cork, Blackrock, and Passages Cork and Killarney ... 2%.... Cork and Waterford ... 1%.... Cornwall 21% 1U 1 3 / 4 Ditto, Half Shares ... 2% Cornwall & Cent'l Devon 2% 1 %... Derby and Crewe ... 2% Direct Lincoln, East Rat ford,and Sheffd. June. 2% — Direct Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and BelfastJunc. 10 Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin and Galway..... 4 Dundalk & Enniskillen 10 Eastern Counties 14/. 16s 2 1 14 % 21% Ditto New l2/. 16s. 6%A p 6% p Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1 64135. 4d.... Ditto ditto. No. 2... 6/. 13s. 4d... Do., York Extension.. 10s. ...... 1 3 / 4 1 EastDereh'm andNoech 1 ..,... Eastern Union 35 .. ... • - Ditto, Quarter Shares 8 3 4 Do. Exten.(Harwich) 1 Do., Camb. and Ely.. 21.... .... East Lancashire Ditto, New East Lincolnshire Eat& West of England . 1%...... Edaburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... Ditto Half Shares ... 10 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% Edinburgh & Northern.. 10 Edinburgh and Perth... 3 .....• ...... .. ...... Ely and Huntingdon ... 7% 4 3 /4 Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% Exeter,Ycovil,& Dorset 5 1 4 Glasgow, Kilmer., & Ayr 50 — Ditto, New Do., 4 Shares (5 per cent. guar.) Glouc.,Abei ystw ith, and Central of Wales Goole, Doncaster, Sic. Grand Union (Notting and Lynn Great Eastern &Weatem 2% — ....... •• . GreatGrimsby and Shef field Great South. and West. (Ireland) Great Munste r ... 2% — Great North of Scotland 2 A Great North of England..loo Ditty New Ditto, New . — Ditto, New Great Western Ditto % Shares .. 50 Ditto % Shares Ditto Fifthp - I .t n 31 1 8 I% - 17% - 3i A dia. _..., .. atlas Ditto, New Harwich and Eastern. Counties Junction ... 2 •••••• Hull and Selby Ditto 1 4 Shares Do. Half Shares Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 11% Do., do, and Norwich 2% Killarney Junctions li/ Kendal and 'Windermere 11 ,E — ',rimester and Carlisle... 45 Do. New - Larne, Belfast, and Bal lymena - Leeds and Bradford 3O - Leeds and Carlisle Leicester & Birmingham 225. — ... ....... -..- Leicester and Bedford 225....... par 4 dis p Leeds and Dewsbury ... 22,4 Lpool., Mncbstr & New castle Junction Liverpool and Bury Lnridon and Blackwell. 16/. 13s. 4d. Do. New - ...... •••• ••• Ditto Extension . - 7%...... • L9ndon and Brighton... 50 .. ... 59 IA 7. Ditto, Fifths London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 21 3 4 22 Do. Guaran. 5 per cent. 9 Loudon an IGreenwich 1211524 d — Do. Preference ...18117s 2d 22 London, Houn4low, and Western London and N. Westernloo 195 Do. Quarters Do., do., New Shares.. 2 ••• Ditto Fifths - ••• Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12 1 Do., New 1 4 Shares (G. J.) Do 401. Shares (L. M. ) 8 — Lond. &IS.Western 411 6s 10d — ...... .... ... Do. New Consol. Bths 40 Do. New - Do. New London and York 214 — ..... ........ Do. 1 / 2 Shares London and Windsor . 1,46... . .... .. London, Salisbury, and ...... . Yeovil ........ 2 1 4...... Londonderry & Coleraino 124...... . .................. Londonderry and Enni s - ~... ...... killen 12% —.. ............ Lynn and Ely ..... ....... 15 ••• Manchester and Leeds .. 82- Ditto 1 / 4 Shares . ......... ........ ..., Do. Quarters 2 ...... . Do. Fifths 3 • .... 8 1 / s ... .......... . ••• Do. Sixteenths 614 ..... . 7,y ........... Do. Extension 42s. ...... 1) 3 .. ........................ Manchester and Bir m i n 4O ...... 74 .... Do. Quarters (A) 5 ...... 121, . Do. Quarters B) De. Quarters ( 0 ) 1 ...... ............... ........ Manchester,Buxton,and Matlock 42s. % P ... . ... Manchester, Birm., and Would Junction KUlChest. & Southarapt. 2 „ —l . .... Ser•O•1••• t•S - 914 60 47% 16% - 301,4 13 1 , ...... 47% ............ .. 75 12% Midland Do. Fifths 2 Do. New Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Midlnd& East. Counties 2 5 / 8 .... . Midland Great Western Irish Newcastle and Berwick 15 Do. North Shields ... 25 Newcastle and Carlisle.-100 • NewmrketaChesterfrd 2/.12s - p — P Newport& Abergavenny 2 lA, ...... - Newry and Enniskillen 4% — ..... Newark, Sheffield, and Boston ... .. Norfolk .. lOO - Do. Half Shares ..... 7 - Do. Extension North British ... ..... ... 25 Do. Half Shares ll ...... 14% 3 / l5 Do. Fifths 5 Do. Quarters Do. Extension - 1 % 1 1,4 Northern and Eastern... 50 Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45 Do. Quarter Shares... 12% — Do. New 25 I 4 North Staffordshire.— 425....... 1% :1,1 2 p - 2 p North Wales ..... 3% — . — Northern and Southern Connecting Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham 2 Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.... Portsmouth Direct ...... 3% 4 14 Preston and Wy-re Do. % Shares Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 3l. 12s. — dis. Richmond 15 Rugby, Leamington,ond Warwick Scottish Central Scottish Midland 12% Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Potteries, anderewe... 1%....., • Sheffield & Manchester 100 Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Do. Lincolnshire Junc. 114...... Do. & Great Griimbs. 10 Shrewsbury and Birm... 3 .... ...... 3 Shropshire Union Shrews., Wolverhamp., &S. Staffordsh. Junc. 2% — •• •• •• Sligo and Shannon l% South Devon 35 South & Midlands Jane. 425• •• ••• --• South StaffordshireJunc. 2% South _Eastern & Don,. 33% - — ... ........ Do., No. 1 20 D0., No. 2. Do., No. 3 Do., Na. 4 St.Alban's, Hatfield,and Hertford Junction ... 425. — Staines and Richmond,— 1 Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2 3 / South Wales ..... ..... ... 5 Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. Coal. ... 2 - ••• ...... •• Taw Vale Extension ... 2 Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Vale of Neath ... .. ...... 2 •• •• ..... ••• Wakefield, Pontefract, & Goole 22% Warwickshire & Loudon 425. Warwick and Worcester 425. , .... Waterford and Kilkenny 11 . .... Waterford and Limerick 22% Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Düblin W aterford, Wexford, and Valentia /0 Waveney Valley ...... ... 2 :3' —% Welsh Midland West Riding Union 42s. West Cornwall 2 WestLondon,Old Shares 20 Vi'ex for d and Carlow ... 2%...... Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth Worcester, Warwick, and , _Rugby __ _ •• OA p York and Carlisle York and Newcastle 25 ... . 42 Ditto New .. 5 York and North Midland 50 Ditto 1 % Shares 25 Do. Scarboro' Branch. 25 Do. Selby 4O Do. Extension 2O - Do. East and West Rid; ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian 4 — Barbadoes 1 Boulogne and A miens... 16 Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 Bordeaux,Tonlouse, and Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 .. ... Do. (Espelete's) Calais, Dunkrk,andWest Flanders .. 2 ...... . Calcutta and Diamond Harbour ....... ....... . 7s. Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast 1 .. ... ... •• ......... Central of Spain ... . Ceylon .. .. ss. , Demerara 2l /Q Dendre Valley ......... .. 4 ...... ._ Direct Bombay and Madras 1 1 Dutch Rhenish 6 ..... 5 East Indian ... ..... .... ss. is .. • Eastern Belgian Junctn. 2 1 4 Great Indian Peninsular ss. Great Western Bengal... ss. • ............ Great Western Canada... 3 4 Italian and Aust r i an. ... 3 Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 ' ...... .... Jersey ............. 1 Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 ... . ............ ... Luxembourg.— ...... • ..... .. 4 Lyons and Avign on ...... 2 Madras ...... ...... -- Madras, Nellore, and 1 Arcot .. •• M 1 / 8 .... •• ..... ••• Madrid and Val en ti a 2 ... .. Mauritius - Namur and Li ege Nn ofFrance Co ns tit u t e d 5 North Jamaica... ...... ... 1 Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 ...... Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ...... —••••••-" Paris &Lyons Constituted 5 Paris and Orleans 2O — Paris and R ouen .. 20 Paris and Strasbourg Constituted Rouen and Havre ...... 20 14 1 / 2 Sambre and Meuse .....„ 10 •••• Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 St. Laurence & Atlantic ••••• . Tours and Nantes Con stituted - Tournay, Jurbisc, Lan den, and 11a55e1t....... 8 - Trinidad West Flanders ...... .... 6 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American 50 London & Westminster. 20 Commercial of London 20 Colonial 25 London Joint Stock lO National Pro v. England. 35 National of Ireland 2 2 1 / 2. Provincial of Ireland ... 25 Union of Australia Union of London lO MINES. Real del Monte Unregd FRENCH SPORTING.—There was a grand wolf hunt last week at St. Laurent-en-Caux, by the pack of the Viscount d'Ambray, which was attended by more than a hundred of the most famous sportsmen of the country, and viewed by three thousand spectators. Three wolves were killed. A green sportsman from Bacqueville was so panic struck at seeing a wolf coming towards him, that, instead of firing, he dropped his gun and fell. The wolf made an attack upon him and tore his face, but his wound was but slight.—. French Paper. DORCHESTER RAILWAY TIINNEL.---The tunnel has advanced very greatly during the last three week; and that in defiance of the mast treacherous soil that could be met with. A number of the men work by night, and the effect of the fires and their strange appearance in the deep cuttings have a most singular effect.—Sherborne Journal. PROPOSED RAILWAY FROM SWINDON TO DON CASTER, &c.—We understand that the Midland Board of Directors have not abandoned their intention of forming a line of railway from Swindon to Doncaster. The project, compared with the original proposition, will be considerably amended, and rendered more efficient for the required purposes of such an extension. The pro posed line will approach near the village of Warms worth; and by this deviation from the previous plan, the objections raised, during the last Parliamentary session, on the part of Sir Joseph Copley, Bart., as de trimental to his own property, will be done away with. The new line will join the branch communicating with the west at Barnsley, and be further extended, in the other direction, to the port of Goole; and embrace, be sides, several other alterations of au important character, with the view of effectually meeting all the requirements of the proposed undertaking. The station connected with this line will, as before agreed to, be in the field behind the Shakspeare's Ilead, adjoining the Balky road. The necessary surveys, &c., have been already com pleted, and other preliminary matters arranged, with the view to the succeiv.ful prosecution of this important un dertaking.—Doncader Gazette. DISTRESSED NEEDLEwomEN.—The committee of the society, formed for the protection of this industrious class of females, having already been successful in effect ing the discontinuance of the starvation prices encou raged by unions and workhouses, are stilt persevering in their exertions, and are determined that nothing on their part shall be wanting to effect the same arrangements in the prisons and charitable institutions. In the course of laat week a deputation from the ladies' committee waited upon the committee at their meeting at the Female Pe- nitentiary, Pentonville, for the purpose of pointing out the great detrithent that is caused in taking in work under price. The ladies belonging to that establish ment have adopted the necessary precautions. The de putation then visited the model prison, when the gover nor paid them every attention consistent with his duty, and promised as soon as the committee could famish him with the standard prices whieh are about - to be adopted by practical tradesmen, ho would lay it before the com missioners of that establishment. The deputation con tinued their route to the Penitentiary, Milbank, when the governor entered most warmly into their views, and promised to do all in his power to cagy out the same object in that establishment. • • - .• „: - `4— . • si 14; T . 0 601 NA,. 1 Aping' ' 41 4.! ~-.--` - . ii r - ,•••• .. g A - f•-' -- . .-- 4 0 .: '•,-;":111='; KA.A,11111.. s ,i, ,iiit c . ‘ —..--• ''' • ...'" ' --, . TEE KAFIR WAR. (From the South African Commercial Advertiser, Aug. 8.) " The last war with the Kafirs commenced about the middle of December, 1834. On the 15th of April!: colonial force reached th e K e i r i ve r, and crossed I.t threatening Hintze for ha v i ng a b e tt e d or given refuge the enemies of the col o ny. At th a t d a te the Gaika c hie fs were in the Amatola mountains. " rTrhoseeuLtiewuaterniasndta-Gteodv3erlnaorm'surporhoc,llaBm46a.tioncludetic to the at July'a colonial force reached the K e i river, and ecreE se it, and denounced Creili, Hintza's successor, for hav in g abetted or given refuge to the enemies of the .colonf. The Gaika chiefs are in the Amatola mountains. " From the middle of December to the middle ,c. c Anti'„ is four months. That was the time r e quired by' Sir i" e :^ - jamin D'Urban and C o l one l S m i t h t o ra ise anew .orgau tss an army of about 5,000 m e n, a nd to f o rce tb .eir waY to the Kei. From the Ist April to the 21st Jr fly is eonie thing less than four months, and that has to aeu the til% taken by Sir Peregrine Maitland and Colo reel tiers raise and organise an army of about 10,000 m en, iulu force their way to the Kei. a In the former war the Kafirs in Lower or Solidi ; Eastern Kafirland pr o f esse d t o b e f r i en dly , and e l s assisted the troops i n th e fi e ld aga i ns t th e C this war these Kafirs have been the most actiate and " - te h gerous of the confederated barba r i ans i n c i seeking ' or operations of the troops, and in crippling the colunins divisions, by cutting off supplies. tiblf "In the former war th e K a fi rs were c i antemPt,„y weak in musketry and horses. In th e pres.e nt war have exhibited in the field an amount of f orce in u" these arms, at first sight, justly alarming. "In operating in a barbarous country, vino . ° all s u i l t ) ; plies must be brought from the r e ar, the res i n difficn i ( i , of a commander is in feeding his troops, and espeei s 3 his horses ; and this difficulty increases in a ,i nti i s greater proportion than the numbers h e h as tto feeu• to may be easy to feed 5,000, when it would the difficult feed 6 ; 000, and next to impossible to feed 1.10,00 0 . .„ " It is the same thing with the raising el f forces fr?r, a population scattered over a vast coue 'try like tr e colony. Sir Benjamin drew his levies chi,e fly fro°, vo . eastern districts, nearest the scene of action . Sir - a . e d grine, requiring a larger force than those , di stricts coal afford, had to wait till the farthest west ,sent up ti leir contingents, from a distance of 600 miles b y land. , vs , "In naming only the two go vernors a n d . , c ommanu e . o in -chief, the heads of depart men t s , offic ex s, and 03 . ` with whom and by w h om th ey ac t, are by no wen. excluded from their share of re p u t a ti or detik%a . with an enemy, armed with m us k e t s , w hi e l e howevert managed, are still formidable, almost every operation Pe obstructed in a bushy country, by the nee e s sits of !Og g armed convoys on every occasion, where the rises would have been despised. " Taking all things together, then, it app,ars that oie Commander-in-Chief in this war has encountered inel so parably greater difficulties 'than Sir Benj am in D'Ur ban had to contend with, and that he has achiov ed the ss ai , success in about the same time. Now, all Ira 3 ow the 11 tary character of Sir Benjamin D'Urba n : h i g h trainu r , long experienced, and most accomplisedoffeer in ev department of service. And all men knextv Sir tou' s Smith, what sort of a thunderbolt he is, with boi under him, and an enemy in front. It: is no sot; honour to Sir Peregrine Maitland to say s . that 00.4_'.,1 same field, under greater embarrassments, a stronger adversary, and extended his con quest te A b oc i same river in an equal or shorter space of time. this is the plain truth of the case. he has er5 513 , 1 ; The main divisions of the army, three in number ere now concentrating on the Amatula mothatains, Sandilli and the hostile Gaika chiefs made their ated last war, and where their people and cattle are sueP°;, or known to be placed for defence at present. Sir P er grine, with Colonel Somerset, is on the Buffalo stre t sob near to where it issues f rom th ose rav i nes . A le tter dated Fort Beaufort, 29th J u ly, g i ves : t he follow ls sketch of affairs in that quarter : " "The campaign w as resume d on th e 2Stb, Sir t il i ; dreas' (Stockenstrom's) division taking th e lead' ~ p Saturday of the abo ve d a t e , hi s di v i s i on brake up ITet at the Gaga rid ge an d bi vouac k e d at 81 0 e k Drift t bti night, whence they marched to the Chureie Station r o, Sunday night. F our h un d re d o f the Kat Inver burgheief& under their officers, Groep, Botha, and Coi3us r is on Sunday night to join Field Command ant Jetw e ' o e force, 800 s t rong , an d t h at o f M r. Joseph Rea d , 600 stro4 at Gaika's Peak, all to meet Sir Andreas' own force it t Chumie Hoek, w h ere t h ere are sa id to b e an. i mm ense r" eo deavous of Kafirs. Sir. Andreas has new at rout 2,800 in ts, under him. Kat River at the request of the inhabi tilj had been pla ce d i n hi s division. C a pt a i n Sutton has betl left in charge of the settlement, a service of the great s 6o importance, as that is a gate through which the gs might rush into the colony, should they, as on fort„ occasions, shrink from the front an d re - app ear in the rd of the invading forces. I was told by an old comm an der under the Hottentot chief Boesak, that on you jot Walt presenting himself with an overwheli ning forc: eo g called his head men together, and said, "We cant es. him on equal terms. Don't attempt to eng age his fo h or Disperse and attack in large parties their homes; P b ig der, and that will disconcert, divide, and disperse command." This was done and had dm anticipat ed effect.' " The following from Sir Andreas Stoczkenstronl, camp is interesting Religious worship is stateciv, kept night in in Sir t says, thatAndreas' camp.he camp A a g ip e nap ri nee t da l a e rc ra oh: : h oo t . i trfon w whi h nihm o gi2e : P hu: ar e f7 ; idiigviioduesd worshipto eight l o v r a s nine he sections,ld night Andreas attending in person. At four o'clock, a v flo a plays on the trumpet a tune to the hymn, 4 Praise " e from whom all blessings flow,' when all assembl e their various sections to praise the A u thor of Pled and the Lord o f H os t s. The services are con dul d either by th e comman d ants or church officers (e l d e r s and deacon s ) w h o are i n comman d . When lie hear d :it deep manly voices of the Boers singing God's praise" o , reminded the narrator of the G rea t P ro t ec tor's I , r° to sides, singing the 100th Psal m as th ey - m arclielo ' battle and charging the enemy in the n ame of the e High God! In the Governor's camp there is the S ' - o f noble reliance on the Supreme Ruler and dispes er ele nations. May success now crown t h e i r h on ours toils.' " to° Favourable accounts are still recei v ed f ro m Wat mr i n g gtßhoaeoyd capabilities a ( o p n aAb t i l ie e rs a slotafnb landing-place i n hn k agt o pp f ll aa co t eo h e faot F r Fish Riven tdiogau. int di s rsesitppieec,ie et the foundatio n o f a town and the founding of a s ett n i at ment equal to any in Southern Africa. It 4111 bring ;,1, the resources of some 10,000 square miles o f terrni already inhabi te d b y per h aps 150,000 souls. The in°,li of the Buffalo River al so i s p ro b a bl y approachable, "",. the river St. J o h n ' s, b eyond the Keilwitlisome °a :b e e indentations of the coast, may soon be made to 0 1 0 1: 0 1 whole o f t h e vast territory between the Cape and 174, to trade. Supplies have been landed from the ScP" ; "0 at the m out h o f the Kowie, and the Sophia And B r it Settler were in that river. RONTI FR. „ I st In the Graham's Town Journal of the Ist Au l4 o details of successful operations on and beyond the river are g i ven . T he Governor is now giving a P rac ' e es reply to the lay critics by whom his delays have )0 3 so sharply h an dl e d . Having drawn up his forces TP. eg all parts of the colony, and amidst dreadful ditficult i o f secured provisions for them, he has in the cours,e to two or thre e d ays swept Kafirland from the Buffalo in the K e i, per f ormed a bold and startling inros"„ee Kreiles country, an d i s now seen enclosing, on t'e.. sides, the w h o l e tr ib es of the Gaikas in their last str°,, f -e't holds a mong t h e Amatola mountains, from which principal chic's already sue for peace. Peace they c. ,?) , not have. Mercy is what will be granted, the coun it 'd having been formally taken possession of by the insult ep' and outraged government of the Cape. Sir PeregrAl s , wish a large force, was near the gorges of the Altol e ss on the south-east side, on the 28th July, and an eq,loo had been s en t to F ort Beaufort, directing an imme"" 00 movement of Colonel Hare and Sir A. Stockenstror s the western a n d northern sides. By this time it is high probable that the final blow has been struck. THE NEW HOSPITAL AT BRAMPTON.-011 evening a meeting of the committee of managetee n t u o the above institution, for the treatment of consume o 0 and diseases of the chest, took place at the Board-r°,, be of the n ew b u ildi ng, Phili p R ose, E sq., i n the chair. tel usual routine business having transpired, it was st f i l e f. that the sum of 2,0001., bequeathed by the late 0 1 Henry Campbell, the uncle of the worthy chairmat i h i c h become available for the purpose of the charity, tow fia• had been added by Mr. Rose the sum of 100 guinga s r of the necessary fittings of one of the wards as a temPo t st. chapel. Otho Hamilton, Esq., of Buckingham Grt te ic ia. James's, bad also presented a handsomely painted 5 q ,, dow for the principal staircase; and James Green, '', o 4 a very choice and extensive present of Staffordshire ° r oar for the domestic furnishing of the hospital. The ° te st mittee received the above announcement with the gre ll t bo satisfaction, and 'thanks having been warmly voted to chairman, adjourned until Thursday next. ,64,0 th e SUBSIDENCE OF A RAILWA Y C UTTING .—DII"" 41 5 night of Thursday an accident happened on the Brigy b ie and Hastings Railway, which will lead to consider t h e inconvenience to travellers. About a mile 0 0 sine Brighton side of Pavensey is a deep and ext e° ol, cutting, through what the " nav i es " call a o el soil, but which is known to geologists by the 1011°- 0 6 blue clay and green sand, and on Friday morning O discovered that one side of thi s cu tti ng h a d gone,"ooP during the night, in a semi -li qu id s t a t e , en ti re ly fill' l t o o' the hollow, and carrying th e ra il s t o th e t op o f the r; e tl• site side of the cutting. Th e fi rst up-train was de la y for in consequence, nearly two h ours , it b e i ng necessac o llt the passengers to alight, on reaching the spot, and,iyal to the other side of the slip, an d th ere awa it the s i i;, o o 9 of a special engine, whi c h was di spatc h e d f ro m Levv - bse' soon ac the disaster was k nown th ere . All the s'VO,, quent trains on Friday were more or less delayed. . 0 et length of the slip is about 50 y ar d s , an d th e quao tl f; e o earth which it will be necessary to remove has ta p, roughly estimated at 40,000 cubic yards. It will,,, ea te we hear, five or six weeks to repair th e road, and t he while a temporary curve siding will be formed f° r o ff' passage of the trains. The work has already Wil l t he menccd by Mr. Wythes, the contractor, on wb° ° o c o' expense falls, the contr ac t o r h av i ng en t e red into 21 r tnr gagement to construct the line, and keep it in rep a l thrc years after the opening. p t' REFORM YOUR WA S HI NG B ILLS .—A col% - 6 , es . v eri dent of the Builder professes to have made a et ro' careful estimate" of the laundry expenses of the o ta I polis. He computes them at fi ve m illi o ns per ° o leo; He proposes that the neces sar y an d ex p e nsive la v a o vo of linen, &c., should be c arr i e d on on a l a rge sc ale' f o ot. that washing companies should be once more set or. l it . o lll The certain effect of. su c h es t a bli s h men t s —if s ki d 0 0C conducted—would be to abolish the extensive an the unamiable sisterhood of washerwomen, and to ss' is v p, or metropolitan public 20 p er cen t. on th e w ashing ",oli ° —should the careful estimate" prove corr ect million per annum. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDA Y MORNING, OCTOBER 19, 1846 mega,