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" That, impressed with the most lively gratitude to the Earl of Mulgrave for his firm, manly, humane, and per fectly impartial administration of the government in Ire land, and reposing unlimited confidence in the sincere and unequivocal disposition of her Majesty's present ministers to do justice to Ireland by placing her on a footing of equality with England and Scotland ; but above all, and be fore all, filled with most respectful and dutiful gratitude to her most Gracious Majesty for the enlightened and patriotic policy which has distinguished the commencement of her auspicious reign, we do, under these circumstances, deem it a proof of our confidence in the existing administration to declare that this Association is dissolved, devolving the car ryina out of its purposes into full effect on the Irish popular members, in aid and support of the Queen's government." We cannot too highly applaud the generous and forbearing spirit that has prompted the above resolu tion. Moreover, it is putting the question on its highest vantage-ground ; narrows the range of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S declamation ; and deprives Lord LYNDIIURST of the opportunity of again twitting the Irish with being " aliens." How can the House of Lords persist in refusing " equal justice" to a country which shows herself so well qualified to enjoy its bless ings ? She has it still in her power to alarm. She prefers rather to conciliate. Her National Association can still do what her Catholic Association has already done —namely, compel England to concede to her just claims; but she voluntarily throws aside this formidable weapon, trusting,in the magnanimity of her nature, that she will be able to gain her rights without having recourse to it. But this, as Mr. O'CONNELL properly observes, is the last experiment of the sort that Ireland will ever make. " Should our grievances," says he, " continue, and our redresses be refused, the Association shall again spring into existence ; it only slumbers ; it does not sleep, nor is the spirit which convoked it extinct. I make this experiment as my last. I know not how long it may p!ease my Maker to leave me here be low ; and how soon I may be called to the great account of a future life. But while here on earth, I feel it my duty—my duty as a man and as a Christian—to exert my every energy to raise my country to the dignity of a nation." Mr. O'CoN- N ELL need not entertain the slightest doubt of the re sult of his experiment. It will be effective in those quarters where it is most necessary that it should be so, and become the prompt means of placing Ireland on an equal footing with the rest of the kingdom. Mr. O'CONNELL has acted with consummate dis cretion and foresight in proposing the dissolution of the Irish National Association. By so doing, he has deprived the Tory faction of one of their favourite ar guments ; for they never ceased to urge, what they were pleased to call, the dictatorial and unconstitu tional agitation of Ireland, as an unanswerable reason for their refusal to concede such reforms as would, in their opinion, have a tendency to increase that agita tion. This reason they can urge no longer, and henceforth must have recourse to some other sophistry. Mr. O'CONNELL is resolved that his countrymen shall not furnish the Tories with a single peg to hang a slander on. They shall still maintain a command ing attitude ; still keep up a vigilant watch ; but while they do this, they shall at the same time be calm and peaceful ; and, above all, show a proper con fidence in the disposition of the British Legislature towards them. This is high ground to t&ke, and will, we are persuaded, be attended with the most beneficial results. Nothing, in fact, can be more forbear ing —we may even say magnanimous—than the present conduct of Ireland. " We have often been duped," is her language, « by our foolish habit of trusting to the professions of English legislators ; where we had expected to meet with friends, we have found enemies, and would, con sequently, be justified in still entertaining extreme sus picion ; but we will not do so ; we will place faith in the good intentions of the English Government, and of the - English people who maintain them at their posts ; and even go so far as to dissolve our National Association, which is almost the only engine of power we have left us. This.sacrifice—despite experience which should teach us to act differently —we will unhesitatingly make, in the firm conviction that it will be appre ciated as it deserves to be." And Ireland is right in her conviction. Her conduct zed/ be appreciated. The Court will estimate it at its full worth —so will Ministers—and so n ill the vast majority of en lightened Englishmen. As regards the Tories, be- The following announcement of the triumph of the Reform cause in the Liverpool Municipal Electicns, has been received by espies. Here is more reaction fur the coml'ort of the Conservative, alias 'fury, faction : Liverpool, Nov. 1, 1837. The cause of Reform and Liberal Education has triumphed. The Reformers have won 11 or 12 Wards out of 16— (one is doubtful.) Tito Tories did their w most to throw out Mr. Rathbonr, but he came in by a majority of 57. This result shows thzt we lost the Parliamentary election and our tried friend Mr. Evart through the corrupt " Old Freemen." We have learned with surprise that a section of the mercantile inhabitants of Manchester arc taking mea sures for opposing the laying down of the Railway between Sheffield and Manchester, after upwards of 30,0001. have been spent-in obtaining the sanction of Parliament for, the establishment of such a line of com mercial communication. The fact is so extraordinary— so unprecedentedly narrow-minded and selfish—that we would not have credited it, had it not been avowed by some gentlemen at a meeting of the Shareholders last week, the proceedings of which are reported at grea t length in the Sheichl Chronicle of Saturday. The chair on that occasion was filled by Lord WHARN CLIFFE, who notwithstanding his Tory politics, took an enlarged, manly, and statesmanlike view of the principle of Railways generally, and very ably defended the right of the people of Sheffield to equal facilities of commercial intercourse with the in habitants of Manchester, Leeds, and Liverpool. Having paid a just tribute to the zeal and disinterest edness of the Provisional Committee, his Lordship entered very fully into the question of the necessity for such a line of road, and proved that if it were not established, the trade of Sheffield would be completely destroyed. He next took a survey of the proposed line, and proved, from the reports of able and compe tent engineers, that it presented no difficulty half so great as those overcome by the Directors of the Great Western Railway. An extract from his Lordship's speech will place the question of the importance of such a line of road in the clearest light : " Now, the first object of our project, as it is of all si milar ones, is to construct a railway useful to our mer chants and to our manufacturers. We seek to render our communication with Liverpool a more expeditious, certain, and less circuitous one than by canal. And by these means we do most materially facilitate the transmis sion of goods to our port of embarkation for America, and secondly supply coals to our manufactories in the vicinage. And now, when I speak of the comparison of railroads with canal conveyance, permit me to say that not the only loss incurred by the latter transit is the absolute loss of time, but the expense saved by the goods being so much sooner at market, which must be a great object, worthy the considera tion of the inhabitants of Sheffield. We all know that a supply of coal td such a vast town as Manchester would be enormous. And the greater the supply, as a matter of course, the more would the manufactures of that vast town thrive, and so both towns would receive an impetus in their commerce. We should thus supply that mineral to Man chester, and to Manchester alone, for around it is an im mense population, of a manufacturing description, who con sume an immense quantity of coals, and where the demand is daily increasing. Many of these places , are along the line of the contemplated railway, and the coals sent by this line must reach those places at a much cheaper rate than by any other mode. I must now also beg you to look more distinctly at the line we traversed : look at the rising town of Glossop, and I must say in this we exceed in advantage the line of communica tion from Manchester to Liverpool, which has no intermediate town of a similar description. Now we know, Gentlemen, that Glossop must be benefitted, and must benefit us be cause it has the same wants and the same facilities as we have. I would also direct your attention to the interme diate country of Ashton-under-Lyne, and Staley Bridge, and you know well their importance. Let us come to this side of the hills then, Gentlemen, and I have no doubt whatever that this Railway will amply remunerate the share holders. I have no doubt whatever, Gentlemen, that if this railway be put into execution, the country about Penis tone and the neighbourhood, having the advantage of coals, will be covered with manufactories. Make them a rail way, and they will soon send their coals here, for they can not then have a monopoly in coals." The project, however, was opposed by a clique of shareholders interested in keeping Sheffield out of a market now open to most of the great commercial towns throughout. England. This we believe to be the real fact of the matter, however they may gloss over their hostility, by feigning a discovery of insur mountable difficulties invisible to all eyes but their own. This is so well urged by our able Contemporary, the Sheffield Chronicle, that we cannot do better than quote his observations : " One would have imagined that any practicable plan de vised for uniting such vast masses of wealth and population, as the towns of Manchester and Sheffield, would have com manded the attention, and, if at all feasible, have ensured the support of the inhabitants of both towns, and of all the districts through which such a combination was to pass. And, indeed, when the plan was yet in its bloom, it was seized with avidity by capitalists in both towns, and the shares were soon subscribed for ; but no sooner do the Manchester people find other modes of extend 'nng their commerce, per ra il way, to other manufactur iin an towns, ' insta than instant the popularity they turn of thetheii scheme bacicsu withers ponSheffi. el d, Then,nd for the first time, they pretend to open their eyes, and behold, to their horror, difficulties have We should like to ask these . gentlemen, if these great en gineeringin a night ? How (dive shareholders did not is it that these spirited and besene'c'eeuaffitec.etneinecriug difficulties. lieving, as we do, that it is not in their nature to cgiiigkli i elll . .. o 7elierous course of policy, we have not / *e 'ilglite.4t li4e that it will make tlie fitting impres sion. on th em , or A li d uce t h em to mitigate ( the rancour Aii - of their hostility toyards every thing Irish ; but this is THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1837 trust that Lord PALMERSTON Will take the earliest opportunity of disavowing in Parliament any inter ference, directly or indirectly, in favour of the Charter. He may rest assured that there is a very strong feel ing among the Constitutionalists that on this score the British Government is not altogether free of blame. 4.0 _ ta; 1 , 4 s'4l W 6 al 144'' (on altu. t. 4. a S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India 5t0ek......... ............. 26356 4 Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock 1e476 Old Annnities of no consequence, provided they have it no longer in their power to urge, in justification of their intolerance, the domineering and turbulent system of agitation pur sued in the sister country. Mr. O'CoNNELL's reso lution for dissolving the Association is couched in these terms : start back with horror, from this mountain and this viaduct, I before ? How comes it to pass, that they now, for the first time, have found ont that the country which the railway traverses, is thinly peopled, and so destitute of remune rative commerce ? We will tell them how it was. It did not suit their convenience and their pockets to conjure up these obstacles before : and it does suit their conve venience, and it may be some of their pockets, now, to make the most of their mountain, and their viaduct, and their tunnel, and accordingly they come to the meeting with their mouth-piece well charged, and in the excitement produced by their imaginary fears, would have fain shat tered the project altogether." In supporting the views of the inhabitants of Man chester, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and other great commercial towns, in favour of the establishment of local Railways, we never imagined that in any of them such a spirit of mean commercial jealousy existed as is here manifested. We took it for granted that merchants were too enlightened not to know that an attempt to isolate such a great manufacturing town as Sheffield would only tend to ruin trade else where by an influx of unemployed mechanics—that the principle of fair play was the only one upon which trade could flourish in any country. But we now find that the people of Manchester would be monopolists if they could—that to raise the market for themselves they would starve thousands of the industrious inha bitants of Sheffield. This selfish, monopolising spirit must be crushed. The principle of speedy conveyance once established, the people of Sheffield have as much right to a Railway as the people of any other manu facturing town in the kingdom. From the first pro posal to establish a Railway in this country was made, we uniformly supported the principle ; and having never had the smallest pecuniary interest in any of the lines proposed or established, we assume for our , selves the right of being considered strictly impar tial. Now we condemn, as narrow-minded, sel fish, and unjust, the opposition at present offered, to the laying down of the line of Railway between Sheffield and Manchester ; and we sin cerely trust, for the sake of the characters of those taking part in it, that the scheme will not be further persevered in. Having failed in their attempt to de• feat the object of the meeting of shareholders last week—namely, to carry into effect that provision of the Act of Parliament which fixes the appointment of a certain number of Directors within a period of six mouths—we trust they will henceforth decline a course of opposition which must terminate in their own defeat, with no other satisfaction but the malignant one of having increased the trouble and expense of the Company. The Slifffichl Independeat gives the following as a correct list of the Directors appointed by the meeting, in pursuance of the provision of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Act : " Lord Wharncliffc and Messrs. T. Blake, Sheffield ; J. Bennett, Manchester ; W. Butcher, Sheffield ; J. Dalton, Hallgrcen ; M. Ellison and T. Laycock, Sheffield ; T. Ellison, Glossop : Jas. Rhodes, Tintwistle ; W. Smith and Thos. Smith, Sheffield ; Thomas, Joe, W., and James Sidebotham ; and J. Sykes, Sheffield." Though the policy of the ConsCtueonalists in Por tugal, and particularly that part of it which has re ference to England, is liable to objection, it is faultless when compared with the conduct of the other party, or with that of some Englishmen, who, in supporting them, seem to regard themselves as the only real advo cates of British interests in that country. To the un wise policy, indeed, of the latter class, may be attri buted much of the jealousy which exists among a considerable portion of the Portuguese people against the British Government. They have done everything possible to irritate the predominant party. After many prophecies which remain to be fulfilled, after denouncing the Constitution, the Government— nay, the representatives of the people—and all in vain, they at last think they have gained a great victory and triumph, because there is some delay in the formation of an Administration. This only shows to what a shift the Chartist party is reduced. Disappointed in every attempt to outwit their opponents, and defeated in every contest, civil and military, their only conso lation seems to arise from the fact—that there is some delay in settling the line of policy which, since their late complete discomfiture, it maybe necessary to pursue. But what proof is this, either of the badness of the cause, or of the unsuitableness of the Constitution to the wants and wishes of the great body of the people ? In this country, and under an old established Consti tutional Government, we have heard of delays so pro tracted, that the Representatives of the people were forced to interfere, and call on the SOVEREIGN to form an efficient Administration. The Chartist King, LOUIS PHILIPPE, during his short reign, has had at least 20 different Administrations, with an inter regnum between some of them of as many days ; and if Sir ROBERT PEEL, in 1834, had delayed the formation of his Administration till he could find men of business, or men who had the slightest chance of conducting public affairs success fully, we verily believe it would not have been formed at all. And can it, therefore, excite any surprise that there should be some difficulty in adjusting the frame work of a Cabinet in a country where the SOVEREIGN, the Coutt, the Nobles, and most of the representatives of foreign States are hostile to the existing state of things? The time during which the dominant party, under such circumstances, has been able to carry on the Government, is a proof that they have the great body of the people with them, and they can well afford to the Chartists and their partizans their tempo rary rejoicings at the present delay. There never, surely, were a set of men who had less cause to rejoice. With the assistance of the Court they tried, by a coup-de main on the capital, to overturn the Constitution. They miserably failed. Counting, then, upon the more loyal feelings (as their phrase is) of the people in ,the country, they raised the standard of rebellion at Tho mar ; but finding the loyal feelings there too obtuse, they retired to the hot-bed of loyalty in the north, ex pecting that they would be joined by the adherents of kingly power in Braga, Chaves, and Braganza ; but there, too, they were miserably disappointed, and their army, on the first encounter with the Constitutionalists was literally annihilated. They do not, however, only injure themselves, but also those who, for the good of the country, ought to stand well with the people. Before the Constitution was proclaimed the Court, probably not without reason, was liable to strong suspicions of a desire to revert to the old system of government, or rather misgovernment, such as it was under King JOHN ; and the two last ill-contrived, and ill-executed plans to overturn the Constitutional party, have reduced these suspicions to a certainty. It will be some time now before any sincere friend to Portu guese liberty can look to that quarter without suspicion. But this country is also involved. We do not enter into the merits of the Constitution. It may be good, or it may be bad. With that we have nothing to do; and our Government, whether Whig or Tory, have, ever since the promulgation of the Charter, pro fessed the strictest neutrality. Yet certain partisans of the British Government, by their eternal gabble about British interests, and the madness of the Clubs, and the impracticability of the Constitution, and their volunteering their services in defence of Lord H OWARD DE WALDEN, lead the Portuguese people to believe that he is at the bottom of all the mischief; and that a Whig Ambassador is as ardent in putting down Constitutions not to his taste as was the Tory Ambassador Sir WILLIAM A'CourtT, who destroyed every Constitution he could find in his way from Sicily to Portugal. Who can wonder that the jealousy of theaPortuguese is excited ? Such conduct is not the way to support British interests ; and we confidently MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS-NOT- TINGHAM. Nottingham Review Office, Nov. 1. The Reformers have changed the character of the Council by their exertions this day. Sherwood Ward—One Tory exchanged for one Re- former. St. Ann's Ward—Re-elected, without opposition, one Tory and one Reformer. Byron Ward—Two Reformers as before. St. Mary's Ward—Two Reformers elected ; one Tory thrown out. Exchange Ward—Two Tories and one Reformer, as before. Castle Ward--Two Reformers elected ; two Tories thrown out. Park Ward—Three Reformers elected. . Tital.—Four Reformers elected for Tories ; the real addition on a division of Reformers is equal to ten. CHANCERY COURT.-THIS DA This being the first day of Michaelmas term, the Lord CHANCELLOR, in consequence of having to entertain at breakfast the Judges, Masters in Chancery, Queen's C.mnsel, &c., did not take his seat in his Court at Westminster till nearly two o'clock. His Lordship, on enter'ng the Court, was accompanied by the Master of the Rolls, the Vice-Chancellor, Sir G. Wilson, and Master WingliAd. His Lordship proceeded to hear motions, none of ‘lllich possessed any point of public interest. His Lord ship, after disposing of the motions that were before him, will proceed with appeals. ROLLS COURT.-(THI.S DAY.) This being the first day of Michaelmas Term, the Mister of the Rolls sat at Westminster ; and after dis posing of a few motions of course, his Lordship rose at two o'clock. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) TIIC VICE-CHANCELLOR took his seat in his Court at Westminster shortly before two o'clock to-day, and pro. ceeded to hear notices. QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.) This being the first day of Michaelmas Term, the Court of Queen's bench was opened with the usual formalities. At a quarter before two o'clock the Lord Chief Justice, and Justices Patteson, Williams and Coleridge took their seats on the bench. The Court was exceedingly crowded in every part. TILE QUEEN V. FLEMING, ESQ., M.P.-CRIMINAL INFORMATION. The ATTORNEY GENERAL moved for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against John Fleming, Esq., M.P. for Hampshire, for sending a challenge to a respectable solicitor named Kirkpatrick, carrying on business in the Isle of Wight. The circumstances arose at a dinner give❑ to Mr. Kirkpatrick on the 14th of August, after the late election for the Isle of Wight, when that gentleman, in alluding to the defeat of the Liberal party, attributed it partly to the manner in which Mr. John Fleming had swamped the constituency by the fabrication of faggot votes. The speech was published in the Hampshire Telegraph, and, on reading it, a letter was addressed by Mr. Fleming to Mr. Kirkpatrick demanding a retractation or apology for such language, or the usual satisfaction. Mr. Kirkpatrick de clined to meet Mr. Fleming, but offered to submit the matter to the dec'sion of any two gentlemen for amicable arrangement. After some further correspondence between the parties, Mr. Fleming wrote to Mr. Kirkpatrick, stating that as he had refused to retract or give him a meeting, he had no hesitation in pronouncing the statement a base falsehood, and Mr. Kirkpatrick himself a contemptible slanderer. COURT—Take a rule. ARCHES COURT-THIS DAY. This being the first day of Michaelmas Term, the Court was opened with the usual formalities. Dr. F. Thomas Pratt and Dr. John D. Hardy were admitted Civilians of the Court, pursuant to a rescript from the Archbishop of Canterbury. PREROGATIVE COURT-THIS DAY WOOD AND OTHERS V. GOODLAKE, HELPS, AND OTHERS, In this case, which Is a suit respectinc , the testamentary papers of the late James Wood, of Gloucester, banker, Dr. BURNABY applied for the extension of the time for taking the evidence at Gloucester under the Commission which had been opened. The importance and peculiarity of the case, and the length of the allegation, consisting cf 57 articles, rendered it impossible that the witnesses could be got through at present. The evidence was principally as to the handwriting of the deceased. Dr. Nicllor. followed on the same side. The KING'S ADVOCATE opposed the motion, on the ground that there had been unnecessary delay. Sir HERBERT JENNER thought there had been too much delay in not opening the Commission at Gloucester till the 16th of October, as it has been taken out on the third of that month. The question was, whether the Court should, in so important a case as the present, shut out evidence ? He thought the extension of the term probatory might be extended till the Third Session, when the return to the Commission must be made. CRIMINAL COURT-(TIIIS DAY.) Nine of her Majesty's Judges met here this morning under the new Commission, for the purpose of fixing the sittings (luring the next year. They decided that the Ses sion should commence on the under-mentioned days. The first on— Monday, November 27 Monday, May 14 December 11 June 18 January 1 July 9 January 29 August 20 February 26 September 17 April 2 October 22 LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY. DEAL, Nov. I.—Wind W. S. W., blowing a gale through. out the day, with rain and thick weather.— Arrived from the River last evening the Lady Catherine, Freeman, for Jamaica ; Liebe, Lawson, for Teneriffe ; Hawk, Norris, for St. Michael's ; Victor, Hadnett, for St. Vincent's. Several ves sels lost anchors and cables during the gale, and proceeded for Ramsgate Harbour. The brig Freak, for the Mauritius, and the Prussian schooner, also lost anchors and cables. The brig Emmoro, from Quebec, lost her mainmast about 5 P. M. Chief part of the outward-bound are riding with two anchors a-head. Eight, P. M. The gale has abated ; wind W., blow ing rather strong. _ PoaTsmouTnNov. I.—lt has blown a gale all day from W. S. W. to W. N. W. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 1, Eight E. M.-h has blown a heavy gale from W. all night, and continues. FALMOUTH, OCT. 31.—A heavy gale from W. to W. N. W., with violent squalls.—Arrived Anglicania, Burridge, Quebec. RAMSOATE, Nov. I.—Arrived the Thames, Cheync, from Malaga. LEITH, OCT. 30.—Arrived the Eliza and Mary, Stevens, from Malaga ; Tweedside, Moffat, and Victoria, Mattison, from Bordeaux ; James Watt, steamer, from Hamburg. YARMOUTH, Nov. I.—Arrived the Dispatch, Scadden, from Xabia. ILFRACOMBE, Nov. I.—Arrived the Eliza and Mary, Tol man, from Swansea, leaky, &c., bound to Lisbon. LIMERICK, OCT. 30.—Arrived the Energy, Irving, from Quebec. RIVER, Nov. I.—Arrived the Grand Turk, steamer, from Boulogne. SWANAGE, OCT. 31.—A vessel, supposed to be a schooner, capsized and sunk this morning about a mile E. of this. Some of the crew are supposed to have been saved by a revenue Ten der. The mast is about ten feet out of water. LIMERICK, OCT. 30.—1 t has blown a very heavy gale from W. N. W. for the last 43 hours, and continues. Armlet!, Nov. I.—The Maria Stewart, Wilson, got on the Coblcr yesterday, but came off without damage. It is blowing a very heavy gale from W. S. W. BLYTHE, OCT. 31.—The David, Drone, of Dundee, in taking the harbour on Sunday, got among the rocks, but was assisted off, and brought in. Vessels Spoken With.—The Exchange, Huelin, Shields, off Ramsgate, with loss of bowsprit, and slipped from two anchors and chains, having been in contact, bound to Jersey. The Maria, Beckfort, from Cork to Ramsgate, lost two an chors and chains, windlass upset ; bound to Ryde. On Friday evening a girl went into 'Ali-. Milner's, Apothecaries-hall, High-street, Edinburgh, and asked for a pound of vitriol, for the reception of which she presented a beer-bottle, which, as appeared afterwards, contained a quantity of turpentine. The person in the shop not detect ing the presence of this acid, proceeded to pour the vitriol into the bottle, when an immediate and violent explosion lock place, sending the li quor up i nto h i s eyes, and break ing several bottles in the shop. Fortunately a medical gen tleman was present, who instantly applied ammonia to them, which prevented the evil consequences that other wise must have ensued. From the fact of the girl having fled when the explosion took place, it is suspected that the act was intentionally done. The girl is not known. —Scots mail. CORN AVERAGES GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week:ended Oct. 27, 1837, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Tawns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat sls. Od. I Oats I Barley 29s. lld II Rye IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES 01 , THE SIX WEEKS PRECEDING. Wheat 548. 2d. Oats Barley ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE PICTURESQUE ANNUAL. As we noticed the majority of these Illustrations at the time when the Annual to which they are attached was sent to us, we need say little more on the present occasion, than that they arc here collected in a larg th handsome portfolio, which will, no doub t, for a mone, to come, adorn the drawing-room tabl es of half the West-end. We should not, however, omit to mention . two of the engravings which escaped us in the burly 01, our first notice. These are " Killaloe on the Shannon,,, and the Upper Lake of Killarney from Ronan s Island." The former of these •is executed, by in a style of exquisite delicacy ; and the latter, with its gleaming waters, bold headlands, richly foliaged islands, and wild hack-ground, forms as picturesq ue a land scape as it is possible for eye to rest on. LITERATURE. PASCAL BRUNO : A SICILIAN STORY. EDITED BY THEODORE HOOK, ESQ. Colburn, London, 1837. This romance is a tr=anslation from the French of M. Alexandre Dumas, and, according to the editor, appeared periodically in one of the Paris JournalAn outline of the story will serve to point out leading incidents upon which the interest it e xcites principally turns : The scene is laid in Palermo and its vicinity. Pascal Bruno, the hero of the tale, is the son of Sicilian, peasant, whose father had been beheaded, and his uncles banished, for revenging the forcible defile" ment of his marriage-bed by the powerful an d p rix- leged Count of Castel-Nuovo. His mother, who bad, not wilfully participated in the guilt of the Cou nt, dial of hunger and a broken heart, bequeathing to her only son the legacy of her wrongs and sufferings; On her grave young Pascal vowed vengeance a g ainst the murderer of his parents, and against all his de scendants. In the mean time the Count died, leaving an only daughter, who in a short while afterwards be came the mistress of the Sicilian Viceroy. Th is lady took into her service a young peasant girl, who some time before was about to be married to Pascal, but the marriage was prevented by the misfortunes of his fa.. roily. Her next care was to provide the girl With a husband ; and for this purpose she selected a doinestic of the Viceroy, who happened to find favour iu t he eyes of the betrothed maiden. The wedding-day was fixed, when Pascal suddenly app e a re d, and itnP l°rea the daughter of his enemy to restore him his bride, and that he would forego his vows of vengean ce ' The lady spurned his proffered conciliation, and her attendant was married as she proposed. Pascal mur dered his rival on his wedding-day, seized the heredi tary castle of the Lords of Castel-Nuovo, and in It short time established a reputation for being one of the most daring brigands in all Italy. Like Rob Roy an d Redmond O'Hanlon he only attacked the rich, 'Aw n ' he plundered to better the condition of the poor. But the civil power was too strong for him at last. He was seized, condemned, and executed. The fate o f the Countess was not less miserable. After being violated by Pascal, she was murdered on the night of his exe cution by one of his followers. Such are the leading incidents of a tale which we think better calculated for the meridian of Paris than London. The following extract is a fair specimen of the work, and sufficiently indicates the school of novel-writers to which the autho r belongs : " These noble personages had scarcely entered the cas tle with their attendants before music was heard : the young folks left the tables, and hurried to the place allotted for dancing. Gaetano, according to the established Sicilian ens torn in such matters, prepared to open the ball with the i 0 teresting Teresa, whose beauty and grace of manner bad been the subject of gen era l admiration throughout the day. He approached her with the finished air of third rate gracefulness —a sort of lively caricature of the he s! Sicilian cavaliers, and in the highest possible spirits, solinit eu the honour of her band. At that moment, a stranger pre sented himself on the esplanade, an d s t oo d i n the midst f the company, gazing upon the scene. The looks of the whole assembly were turned towards the new c orner, w he was dressed in the Calabrian costume, wearing pistols au' a dagger in his belt ; his jacket slung over o ne shoulder, like an hussar's pelisse, left open to view his other slee've' stained with blood. Teresa saw him—she !razed on in te ii for a moment—uttered a faint cry, an d rema i n ed pale an motionless, as if she had seen a spectre. " It was Pascal Bruno. " Every eye was fixed on th e un i nv it e d gues t ; de l and awful silence reigned. Ev er y one p resen t felt assu re of the approach of some terrible catastrophe. " Pascal, apparently unmoved by the sensation he Ivo created, walked directly up t o T eresa , an d s t a nding b efe rr ° her, folded his arms, and fixed hi s pi erc i ng e y es on her Pi tii countenance. " Pascal,' said Teresa, in a falterinc , voice, Pascal , O h it be you t'•„, • `.‘ Yes Teresa,' said Bruno, i n a d ee p hollow voice, ‘ l t , I. I heard a t B auso , w h ere I patiently and confi dent ! }' waited your return, th a t yo u were to be married at Carint so I came hither, and I hope am in time to dance the fi rst Tarantella, with you.' u p p e " I beg your pardon, Si r ,' sa id G ae t ano , c oming him with a mingled air of anger an d ga i e ty, t hat is he bridegroom's right.' " It is the right of the affianced one,' said Pascal. C ° , 61 ,, e ; my beloved Teresa, this is th e l eas t you can d o for me, a ft all I have suffered for you.' " 10 Teresa is my wife,' said Gaetan o , stretching forth arm toward him. " Teresa is my betrothed,' said Pascal, taking her hand. Help ! oh, help !' said the wretched girl. "Ile appeal was irresistible—the effect instantaiWtig. Gaetano seized B runo b y t h e co ll ar —t h ey str uggled f° r r ec l moment—that was a ll—i n anot h er i nstant G ae tano utte or a piercing cry, an d f e ll d ea d at hi s f eet. P asc al's dagg er was buried to the hilt in his breast. Some of the men sv „ r .. were nearest him on the instant rushed towards the v g derer, to secur e hi m . B runo stoo d unmove d, a nd d r f,,, in a one of his pistols from his belt, waved it over his beau4l e y signal to the musicians to strike up the Tarantella. or, obeyed as it were mec h an i ca ll y. The rest of the conlll4l paralyzed by the suddenness and fearfulness o f what happened, remained motionless. " Come, Teresa, let us begin,' said Pascal. Dies Teresa was no longer in possession of her fa°, un consciously bad become a creature demented by fear. S ue ne e, consciously yielded to his guidance, and this horrible darot, close to the corpse of the inoffensive murdered yeungincre was continued by the musicians to the last s train• w it dible as it may appear—no one stirred—no one SP ° , bar was something too terrific—something so annaturallYosie rid, that nature itself see m p a l s i e d. The teomen t thenher, ceased, as if it had been all that excited and s ustai G n; e; ted, the wretched Teres a f e ll f a i n ti n g on the body of " Thanks, T eresa ,' sa id P asca l, tlrat is all I iv a y and now, if any man wishes to know me- Irene, that he i" find me elsewhere, I am Pascal Bruno:' A STRIKING hPeereel his entertained i' iern o rs f ?o l n i i's'ilc' ? Without one idea be haepacoiptyinifoonr,baussginrerera.±,loyf e the least gifted man that ever headed a P in this coati; i l l P arty y 0 n powerful o. l:a l t m makes ; piexaraceaesg:opessri:art fbo:ei whichl owes his success to his having been cast t p ry. son, a u pon t 1 , 5, r 1 not only have not produced a statesman of theefte,e'r_ an , a William the Silent, a Gustavus Adolphus, a _ e n 'forgot ; but not one even o:!:* the second -rte a— who fill up th e long interval between Richelieu mangylli pu't ,P l itt ; and not so much as a single third-rate etchten l?.reself. He does not know his age !he has arr a y s t he c_tered miserably i n his e s timate of it. B u t he kfwg is it is House of Conimons, and the sort of linen of whoa,' 90 d composed. He knows what will act upon their mind s fle is abl e t o st r ik e the right chord upon that instranienc;co a higher philosophy, has, besides, all that the mere routine of office experievin win give, to a man who brought to it no principles. dral (Itaid,. cations are Sir Robert Peel's stock in trade as a roders and no desire for any. 'These 601 statesman. Is it not a dire disgrace to the Iladie n . alw ays to be left behind by such, a man ? But O ve n, be sung, so il alw a ys using his slender faculties ;they , except s, few LYa° ag still inexperienced men, let their s slumbe r. __o Westminster Review. ben sollt On Thursday, at the works of Me ssrs. stsp i loot o of Newcastle, the trial of a splendid av 4 pawe riu Rai Live engine, constructed for the Gre St Company took place. It is called the, North Star, bur jel! W ester r, an ace Is calculated to run fifty miles an hour, with fifty : no s pe u eL; attached, and, with the tender only, at tb , 1 ie .° se nt v i E. re ne fi f e rc. of eighty. Several eminent engineers we; ce expressed themselves highly satisfied with it ! rl:9 DUTiES ON FOREIGN CORN'. Whcat 32s. &I I Oats Barley lßs. 4d. Rye THE MARKETS.--(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusties.) CUMBERI, .L'oarse heavy Lowland Maadow Hay.,.. £4 In tu £4 15 New Meadow Hay 6 y 0 0 Useful Old Ditto tine Upland Meadow and Rye-gnu - is Hay 5 5 5 8 Clover I lay OAt Straw.. ...... £1 IS to .£2 01 Wheat Straw 2 0 2 2 SMITHFIELD. Coar,e heavy Lowland Meadow Hay ....f4 5 to £4 10 NIQW Meadow Hay Useful Old Ditto 4 10 4 15 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay Clever Hay (extra fine £6 0. Generally ........ 5 5 5 10 Oat Straw 11 16 t,) .£1 HITECHAPELIB 1 Wheat Straw llB 2 0 W. _ _ Coarse Meadow Hay New Meadow Hay Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and Ilye.grass Clover Hay Old Straw XI Vito .f 2 0i V ~14 W t o ..C4 5 0 41 0 0 4 10 4 15 Lay 5 5 6 5 Meat Straw COAL AIAT 8. A. Actair's 2O 9 Burdoil Eloward's Netherton Main Per Ton ,KET.—Nov. 1 Per 'l'on s. Walls End Riddell's Walls End IWiriont '3 0 Walls End Braddyll's Hettosi 23 9 \Valli End Haswell Walls End Helton '3 9 Walls End Stewar's ....... . 0 Walls End Hartlepool 2 3 Walls End Butterknowl Walls End Barrett 123 3 %Valls End Barrington Walls End Gordo. go 6 iiolit; ell '22 0 Ord's Redhugh Ponta", Windsor •'o 0 fiussell's High Main 2O 3 Taufield '2 , 3 Townley 2l 0 West Hartley Wails End Bell and Brown Walls End Bewicke and Co— 9,3 6 ... Walls End South Durham 23 0 Walls Ind Tee 5...... '23 3 Walls End Gosforth 23 1, V l / 4 7;11; End Penton 23 Walt; End St. Walls End Hilda '22 3 Walls End Killingworth Walls End Northumberland `.:'2 3 Walls End Bensham 22 6 Walls End Fia, Walls Eni Blythe COwp,u NVails End liearcth l9 6 Ships artived sin ce ast market-day, COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURIN Per Quarter, Andover Bridport Cireilee.ster Pari;lgdtm---• Guildford H en I Hereford fligluvarlh Maieenhead Reading . Southampton Stroud Tewkesbury Uxbridge Warminster Wheat. I Barley. Oats. S. to s. 44 59 47 52 36 48 38 50 44 51 35 4); 38 54 42 58 3'.; 49 42 60 32 58 46 4-) 34 57 .14 5. 45 5) 36 44 40 48 32 52 30 40 S. to 8. a. to s. 30 34 22 30 29 31 25 130 40 i; 22 32 36 23 30 27 32 20 25 23 20 26 30 28 35 21) 30 26 32 23 26 26 32 22 20 32 42 ! 28 3-1 24 36 20 23 32 34 22 29 25 35 1 2-) '27 30 34 20 28 33 40 , 28 32 28 36 20 24 35 22 89. 4243 32 17 28 24 34 20 25 27 34 22 26 21 'l2 :12 36 30 32 53 56 lelen's Tees... 23 0 tlsy... 22 6 'elc;y Main 19 0 2 6 'G THE WEEK Beans. Pease. 3. t.O S. 3'2 40 - - -4; - 40 31 41 31 40 33 42 41 40 - 42 - 46 - 4 :33 -12 36 •,0 - LEWES MA ?ME [—Oct. 31. Per Quar er. s. d. to s. d. Per Quarter. e. tl. t* s d. Wheat, White ... 56 0 64 0 Oats Red 4) 0 58 0 Pease `3+3 0 36 0 Parley 91 0 31 0 Oil Cake...ll/. es. oer Thousawkl. CHELTENHA l'er Bushel. s. d. to s. d Wheat ►Sarley Oats 3 3 4 3 Beaus. re.me 4 9 6 8 Hay 5/.os t M MA lt KE PS. Pet lb. Beef Mutt.ol Veal Pork Lamb 6/. 10;. r It n HULL MARKET.—Oet. 31 d. te. el 7 71 7 7i 7 71 7 8 81 9 _ . Wheat, Old -- Foreign —s. —s. —s. ln bond... —s. —s —s. Oats, Poland —s. :',3s. 243, Old _s. 245.:63. -- Small or Feed.... —;. 16s. ISs —s. -s. 204. -- Foreign —s. —s. --8 Barley, Norf. & Suf ... —s —s. as. Line. & \Vold —s.2S.i. 39.4. -- Foreign Beans 36s. 3 , 5. 40.;. For,:ign Pease, ...... 41s. 455. 465. (grey 'fare , ,>.•. 3ss. —s. 37s Foreign 36s 38, iz;peseed. in born , none Free.laer last 23! LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Oct. 31 Wzu English. White, per 701 b. !led 7 9 8 0 Scotch, %Vela, an:l Maux - Irish, White 6 10 7 9 -- Red 5 6 7 4 -- Foreign OA:rs, English, We'sh, and Scotch, per 4511). ...... ----- Irish .. ... ~ ... Foreign ISAta,nr, English, Malting, per amp. quarter 36 0 4) 0 ---- Scotch anti Irish, per 601bs. -- Feeding 3 3 3 8 BEAN 3, English, per I mperial quarter 4•i 0 45 0 Irish, &c. ..,. .. .. .. • n PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 33 0 40 0 Foreign Flout', English, per 280Ib. 44 0 41 0 Irish l l 0 46 0 OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 240114 2l 0 26 0 INUIAN Coax, tar 44091 ItvE, per Imperal quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Weal!ending Oct. 30 Wheat. Oats. 1 Barley I Flour. Oatmea' Ors. Qrc. Qrs. .I.'oreign, Eds.! Irish. &c. Feks.l I o °is 3,943 9,070 739 I . 6,!.94 0,217 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS TO-MORROW. W. Clapham, victualler, S rand 1 at 12 6. Rev ill, linen-draper, Southwark THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Yesterday was an exceeding dull day in the City. This morning is of the same description, owing to the boisterous state of the weather, which has prevented the arrival of the foreign mails, and not a single ship letter has been received. Great fears are entertained at Lloyd's of severe losses at sea. We have no tidings of the two American packets from New York. The report which prevailed yesterday, that one of them was lost on the coast of Ireland, is not confirmed this morning—consequently no credit is given to that rumour. THE FUNDS. This day the Stock Exchange and Foreign Markets are open ; but no business of consequence has taken place. Consols opened this morning rather firm at 93 to .4 , for the Account ; 92i 93 for Money ; Exchequer Bills, 51 53 prem. ; India Bonds, 53 55 ; Bank Stock, 2101 211 : 1 ,-. • In the Foreign Market Spanish Active opened at 19i 204 with Coupons ; Portuguese opened very heavy at 314 32± ; Three per Cents., 214 221 ; Mexican, 27 to. ; Co lombian, 2 , 14 251 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53k. Portuguese has been done at 324 ; the Five per Cents. Spanish improved to 20k with Coupons. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. We have received a Liverpool letter of yesterday's date, bringing the information of the arrival there of the' George Washington, American packet-ship, of the Bth ult. No papers as yet received. In the Cotton Market, the sales were 10,000 bales, at id. advance per lb. Consols, which were firm in the morning, have since re ceded from 93k to 9203 for the Account ; Money, 924 Exchequer Bills, 51 53 ; India Bonds, 53 55 ; Bank Stock, 211 212 ; India Stock, 263 264. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active maintains the price of 20*, with Coupons Portuguese heavy at 321 ; Three per Cents. 2lf 22i; Mexican 27* ; Columbian 244 251 ; Danish 71* 72 ; Brazilian 824 831 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents .53ii 53g._ . _ HALF-PAST TWO. We have just heard that One Hundred Thousand Re duced Consols were sold, which caused the British Market to be heavy ; and therefore it was not owing to any politi cal news received this morning. The following was posted at the Bank of England, dated Novemb,T 2 : " Discounters are requested to take notice that Notes intended for discount must be presented on Tuesday, the 7th inst., and the answer will be given on the following day, Wednesday the Bth inst., instead of Thursday, the 9th." THREE O'CLOCK Consols for the Aceount, - 92i- 93. On Friday last Mr. Jones, of the Guildhall Tavern, lost a check for 2851. and notes, of Messrs. Hammond and Co.'s bank, to the amount of 801. more. He immediately offered a reward of 201. for the recovery of the money, which was restored to him on Saturday. The check was picked up by a pieman, who takes his stand every night at the corner of St. Margaret's, and who was ignorant of its value till he heard the crier ; and the money was found a short distance from the bank by a countryman. The re ward was divided between the two lucky finders, who were much delighted with their good fortune.—Kentish Gazelle. MASONIC ANECDOTE.—In 1823, a merchant ship belonging to Sweden, was wrecked upon the coast of Africa, about five hundred miles from Cape Town ; the crew of which (about seventy in number) were saved, and after wards conveyed to the latter place. Fifty-seven of the number, including the Captain, were Freemasons, and im mediately made themselves known to two Dutch Lodges there ; they were supplied with faod, clothing, and every necessary for about a month, until an opportunity occurred of sending them home passage free. In consequence of this benevolent act, the inhabitants of the town entered into a subscription, and sent home the remainder of the men, so that the benefits of Masonry were felt . by the whole crew. The relater of this was at the time a visiting member of one of the Lodges mentioned for four months, and must bear testimony to the good feeling shown to visitors.— Freemason's Quarte, ljj. The papers informs us that Constantine was pil laged " with moderation." The French have cause to envy the fate of those they con quer."—Charivari. " Shall I cut this loin of mutton saddle-way ?" said a Lost to his guest. " No," replied the latter, "by all means cut it bridle-way, for then I may chance to get a bit in my mouth." s. to s, - 40 34 39 $5 - - 42 33 48 36 48 FINE ARTS Mid