The Sun. — London, England, 1846-11-05 00:00:00

HIGHTON'S ELECTRIC TELE GRAPH. Fro the Raila • An improvement in eh ctrie w tel y egra g phs ster ha ) s lately been pits nted by Mr. Highton, of Rugby, and purchased by the Electric Telegraph Company (the present proprie tors of Cooke and Wheatstone's patents), which is likely to prove of considerable importance in telegraphic com munication. The improvement consists mainly in the substitution of a slip of metallic leaf, with a magnet placed near it, for the old coil of wire and magnetic needles. The ad vantages gained by this change are many and great: — First, in cheapness. —A couple of coils and needles, such as are at present used, cost 20/ ; whereas the cor responding apparatus on the new plan does not cost more than 205., a difference of 1,900 per cent. Secondly, in delicacy.—With the new apparatus, a battery of a single cell will work through 100 miles of wire. This gives it many collateral advantages. For instance, it may be employed with great advantage in derived circuits. Thus dividing the current into two or more parts, the same news may be transmitted direct from Liverpool to London, while, at the very same time, the same fluid is travelling through two derived cir cuits, and conveying the same information through Bristol on the one side, and Cambridge and York on the other. Thirdly—The greater rapidity of motion. Gold leaf being almost without weight, and col , sequently without momentum, immediately after the signal is made, the leaf drops dead down without any oscillation or swing ing, which always takes place, more or less, in the needles. Fourthly. —By a slight change in the construction of the keys or handles which serve as commutators, double, or even treble the number of signals may be male with each slip of gold leaf, to what can be made with the needles. With a needle, in consequence of its oscilla tion, only one power of electricity can be employed, whereas with the gold leaf, two or three different powers may be employed, deflecting the gold leaf to a less or greater extent, and consequently multiplying, in a cor responding ratio, the number of signals given. Fifthly.—lhe portability. One of the gold leaf ap paratuses may be carried about in the pocket, and be applied to use for any temporary purpose, at any point of the country, in the course of a minute or two. Sixthly. —In consequence of the cheap and simple nature of the apparatus, a large reserve may be always kept ready for use at each station, so that if one appa ratus be damaged by lightning, or other cause, another may be substituted for it in a few seconds. Seventhly--The slightness of the resistance offered to the electric current. The resistance of each of the coils at present used is equivalent to about six miles of wire, whereas that of a slip or gold leaf is not equal to more than a few hundred yards. This will enable the same battery at each station to communicate with many more stations at the same time that can be possibly done at present. Having these advantages, it must soon entirely super sede the old needle telegraph, and will probably be, for the present, the form of telegraph used throughout the world, till it, in it s t urn , i s su p erse d e d b y some newin vention. Now that the form of telegraph is reduced to such simplicity, it will probably be used for communiaa• tion, not only to great distances, but between the dif ferent parts of the same public buildings, &c. We con sider it a very important step in the history of telegra phic communication. We hear that the same gentle man is employed in making further experiments, which we lope will be attended with as favourable results. JXTENSION OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH FROM THE SOUTH-WESTER N RAILWAY TERMINUS TO TEE STRAND. —On Monday last a number of men commenced the extension of the telegraph from the terminus of the South-Western Railway, Nine Elms, to the central sta. tion of the company, No. 345, Strand, opposite Waterloo Bridge. The work was begun by opening the ground in the goods department of the terminus to the depth of about 18 inches, and laying down three-inch cast iron pipes, coated insi'le and out with hot pitch. In these pipes are introduced two half-inch leaden tubes or pipes, also tarred outside, through which four copper wires, covered with cotton, and waterproofed, pass, conveying the electric power. The course taken by the telegraph is along Nine Elms-lane, the Wandsworth-road, across to Vauxhall-gardens ; thence traversing Kennington lane and road, Oakley-street, and the Waterloo-road ; passing beneath the pavement of Waterloo-bridge, on the west side, up Wellington-street, and so across the Strand to the central station. The work has only pro ceeded as yet a short distance up the Wandsworth road. The lead tubing which contains the wires are from 100 to 250 yards each in length, and the joints are soldered together. After each joint is made, it is vroved by a battery and very ingenious detector, which instantly in dicates whether the connexion is sound or not. When the extension is completed, a message may be received from Gosport at the central station and answered in less than a minute. The existing telegraph is, of course s not at present interfered wi:h. Tim SMALL DEBTS ACT.--In the list of listricts proposed to be constituted for the purposes of this Act, which we Publi shed yesterday, an omission occurs of the districts num are the metropolbei from 3.g to 46 inclusively. These tanilidt3spicts, of which we understand that six are to iddlesex, two in Surrey. The latter two comprise th i e rn w m ho d le of the metropolis south of the Thames, and its neighbourhood, includ ing Greenwich and Immediate neig !.her six consist re if,c,tively of Westminster, two divisions of the Tower the scope ofVtii,nd th ree other districts formed by subdivid couonft the district now ltle t metrop o li tan C ;; s 7: tnisdiction o f t h e (gat*. The city of Lo n d on i s not with .ourt of Mid in 4 1! 1,44 7 #0 If • SINGULAR SUCCESSION of ACCI DENTS on the NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. On Saturday last a series of accidents, causing deten sions of various trains, and, in one instance at least, attended with most serious consequences, both in per sonal injuries and in the destruction of carriages, &c., occurred on this line, between the Stafford station and the station at Chelford; and from the cause being in each instance a similar one, they seem to point to the imperative necessity for prompt measures being taken to prevent a recurrence of such disasters in future. The train which left London at 830 A.m. on Saturday, quitted Birmingham a t one o ' c lock, on its route to Manchester ; and a few miles north of Stafford found the rails blocked up in consequence of a luggage train having run into a ballast train. Fortunately the fog, which had been very dense, bad cleared away shortly before, otherwise the down train would have run into the stationary luggage train. The guard of the down train was sent back to prevent a collision between th a t train and the down mail train, which leaves Birming ham at 1 45 P. 31., and which, in fact, did arrive in less than a quarter of an hour afterwards. Both passenger trains returned to Stafford ; and there was a loss of two hours before the line was declared to be clear, so that they could proceed towards Man chester. About ten miles further on, that is, about half way between the N or t on -b r i dge and the Whitmcre stations, the two passenger trains found their progress a second time arrested, another luggage train having got off the line. Here a further detention ensued of about two hours and a h a lf , and during this blocking of the rails no fewer than six trains—four from Birming ham, and two from Manchester—were stopped by the accident. Once more in motion, the two down trains, which usually are joined at Crewe, and proceed thence as one train to Manchester, left Crewe as one train at about half -past e i g h t , i nstead of 340 P. 31., the appointed time, and reached the Chelford station soon after nine. Amongst the passengers by the train from London were Mr. Robert Hyde Greg and his daughter, in one of the first-class carriages, and one of his sons and a servant were in his private carriage, which was placed on a truck, and the two carriage horses were in a horse-box. Mr. Greg and Miss Greg got out, Chelford being the nearest station to Nercliffe ; and Mr. Greg directed a porter to unfasten the horse-box and his carriage. Just as he had done so, and within a minute and a half of the train stopping, Mr. Greg perceived a down luggage train approaching at some speed. He had no time to get his son and servant out of the carriage, and in deed, fearing the results of the concussion, w hich he saw was inevitable, he bad scarcely time to withdraw his daughter back from the edge of the platform, when the luggage train ran with tre mendous force into the horse-box, which was at the rear of the passenger train. The horse-box was smashed to pieces, the flooring or bottom of it being torn assunder and crushed. The horses werejhrown out one on e ac h side ; but though one was a good deal bruised, and the other cut, yet neither seems to have received material permanent injury. Indeed, as soon as they were re leased, they gallopped away, affrighted, into the neigh bouring field. Mr. Gregg's carriage was thrown upwards into the air ; all the glass in it broken ; and his son and servant, who were both inside at the time, were a good deal bruised, and their faces cut with the broken glass. The concussion was so great, that the passenger train, though standing still at the time, was propelled forward about fifty yards. Many of the passengers received severe contusions and bruises, and one gentleman, we understand, had is arm broken. Mr. Cooke, of Old ham, received a severe fracture of the ribs ; but is doing well, and has been enabled to proceed to his home. Mr. Lawrie, a commission agent from London, wast most severely injured, having three of his ribs on the left side fractured, besides numerous contusions and other wounds. He is now lying at the Queen's Hotel, Alderley, and although much hurt, is better than might have been anticipated, and is daily attended by Dr. J. G. Harrison, the medical officer of the com pany for this immediate district. Mr. Hill, a teacher of music from London, who came down for the purpose of being married on the following day, is suffering from several severe contusions of the right arm and wrist, which he is scarcely able to move. He remains at the Queen's Hotel, at Alderley, where he is also visited by Dr. Harrison. The parties hurt appear to have been chiefly those in second-class carriages. Ultimately, we believe, the conjoint train reached Manchester about eleven at night, instead of ten minutes before five ; and of course the mails were delayed six hours between Bir mingham and Manchester by the series of casualties we have described. In ever y i ns t ance , we believe, the acci dents were tracible to the culpable carelessness of the driver of a luggage train ; and to the same cause many of the recent accidents on various lines are justly attri butable. We understand that an inferior class of men are employed as luggage train-drivers. We think this is a practice which should be examined into and abolished; for no man who does not exercise due circumspection and caution ought to be allowed to guide any train upon a railway. We understand, that, to some extent, the cause of the accident has been investigated by Mr. Woodhouse, the resident engineer, Mr. Latham, Dr. Harrison, Mr. Thompson, and Mr. Malam, officers connected with the company ; and we believe the extent of the damage has been nearly ascertained, but the in quiry has been postponed to a future day.—Manchester G!!ardian. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 188 Sceond Edition, revised. Now ready, In 3 handsome volumes, Bvo., with Portraits, price only 12s. each bound, (originally published in 4to. at 51. 5s ) ORACE WALPOLE'S MEMOIRS OF THE REIGN OF GEORGE TIIE SECOND, Edited, with a Preface and Notes, By THE LATE LORD HOLLAND. "We are glad to see an octavo edition of this work. The publisher has conferred a boon an the public by the re-publication."—Britannia. " Few historical works that have appeared can equal these volumes, either In amusement or instruction."—Sunday Times. 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LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAIIO.ND, 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 TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favotirs,` containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully - erynested to be addressed. Alt Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered ; and advices of results will be lorwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds imme diately disposed of according to instructions. Oakes, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed Balfe's celebrated Opera, entitled THE MAID OF ARTOIS. Marquis de Chateau Vieux, Mr. Borrani; Jules de Mentagnon, Mr. W. Harrison ; Sans Regret, Mr. Burdini ; Synnelet, Mr. Weiss; Niaka, Miss Isaacs; Isoline, Madame Anna Bishop. After which will be produced Auber's popular Ballet Opera, called THE MAID OF C SHMERE. The principal characters will be supported by Messrs. Rafter, Weiss, Horricastle, Jones, Hodges ; Mdlle. Anita Dubignon, Miss Rebecca Isaacs, Mdlle. Adele Benart, Miss Missent, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee, TIIIS EVENING Will be performed an original Comedy, entitled LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP ; or, Wooings and Weddings. Mr. Oddington, Mr. W. Farren ; Mr. Rashleigh, Mr. Hudson ; Mr. De Vere, Mr. Hell ; Mr. Brandon, Mr. Howe; Mr. Hardman. Mr. Rogers; Jack Spriggs, Mr. Webster ; T( .m Tilley, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Brown, Mrs. Glover ; Claribel Oddington, Miss Fortescue ; Vary Oddington, Miss• P. Horton ; Elinor Mortimer, Mrs. Yarnold ; Fanny Hardman, Miss Julia Bennett. After which a new Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord Courtington, Mr. Ho 11; Sir Arthur Lovel, Gtr. Howe ; Scoreup, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckingham ; Mrs. Scoreup, Miss Julia Bennett. During the evening the Band will perform the Aria, " Vivi Tu," Cornet a Piston ; the " Gras an Prag " (Polkas) ; the " Sophien nuize" (Walzer); and the " Lestocq " (Overture). To conclude with the Comic Drama, entitled THE IRISH POST. in which Messrs. Bland, Tilbury, Hudson, and Mrs. Humby, &c., will appear. Boi- - otfice open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of Mr. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. r✓nder the Management of Mrs. Keeley. in consequence of numerous applications, " The Magic Horn " will be performed for one night more. " Mrs. Harris " will appear every evening till further notice. THIS EVENING The performances will commence with a New Comic Drama, l'O PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Principal characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Meadows, and Keeley; Mrs. Woollidge, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Hicks, Miss Turner, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by a New Farce, called MRS. HARRIS. Henry Masker, Mr. A. Wigan ; Mr. Slickey, Mr. F. Mathews ; Binary Shivers, Mr. Meadows ; Fanny Platt, Miss Arden ; Mrs. Harris, Mr. Keeley. To conclude with the Burlesque of THE MAGIC HORN. In which Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Frank Matthews, Miss Vll lars, Miss Keeley, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Bromley, and Mrs. Keeley will perform. • ROYAL, AD UNDER THE THEATRE DIRECTION OF MADAME ELPHI. CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA GISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS; or, the Wills Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford. Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullenford, Madame Celeste, Aliss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. After which will be produced MRS. GAMP'S TEA AND TURN-OUT ; a Bozzian Sketch, in one act. Principal characters by Messrs. Cullentord, Worrell, Ryan, Wright, Munyard ; Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Miss M. Taylor. To conclude with a -new domestic drama, entitled EUGENIA CLAIRCILLE ; or, The New Found Home. Frederick Stan more, Mr. Worrell ; Mr. Rugleigh, Mr. Cullenford ; Toffey, Mr. I'aul Bedford ; Mr. Buzzard, Mr. Lambert ; Hugh Matlock, Mr. 0. Smith ; Pegg, Mr. Munyard ; Mrs. Toffey, Mrs. F. Matthews; Eugenia Claireille, Madame Celeste. 1 PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET . J. M. Maddox, sole Lossce and M anager. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original romantic Opera, in throe parts, entitled THE NIGHT DANCERS ; founded on the Story of " Gkelle.” The principal characters persenifled by Miss 6eorgiana Smithson, Madame Albertazzi, Miss Flower, Miss Somers, Misses Marshall ; Messrs. Leffler, Allen, Bodda, Walton, T. Hill, Ilonner, Peren, &c. After which a new farce, entitled KEEPING A PLACE. Major Spikespur, Mr. Granby; Crocus, Mr. Compton ; Miss Dorothea Danzers, Mrs. Fosbroke ; Tidy, Miss Laporte. To conclude with the Musical Entertainment of THE QUAKER. In which Messrs. Barker, Leffler, Honner, Compton, Miss Grant, Mrs. Fosbroke, &c. will perform. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that the ensuing ►eason of French plays at the St. James's Theatre will be commenced on WEDNESDAY EVENING, November 11, by the engagement of the favourite Comedian, Monsieur Perlet, who will appear far a limited number of representations, assisted by Monsieur Cartigny (of the Theatre Francais). M. Rbozevil (of the Theatre du Gymnase) and Mademoiselle Brohan (Premiere Soubrette of the Theatre Francais), her first appearance In this country. Mr. Mitchell has also the honour to announce that, encouraged by the distinguished patronage which has been conferred upon his manage ment, he has engaged the following eminent artistes, who will appear in succession during the season :—Monsieur Perlet, Mademoiselle Brohan, Monsieur Frederick Lemaitre, Mademoiselle Clarisse, Monsieur Lafont, Mademoiselle largueil (her first appear mice In this country), Monsieur Aleide Tousez (of the Theatre du Palais Royal, his first appearance), Mademoiselle Duverger, (of the Theatre du Palais Royal, her first appearance), Mademoiselle AlineVallee (of the Theatre du Gymnase, her first appearance), Mademoiselle Rose Cheri (of the Theatre du Gymnase), whose performances last year were so eminently successful, and during whose engagemeht, will he produced the new domestic drama of CLARISSA HARLOWE, now performing in Paris with extraor dinary success, and also a new Play, written expressly for Mademoi selle Rose Cheri, by the popular author, Monsieur Scribe ; Monsieur Regnier (of the Theatre Fr:finals), Mademoiselle Denain (also of the Theatre Francais, her first appearance in this country), and the dis tinguished actor, M. Bouffe (his first appearance since 1843) ; in ad dition to which the celebrated Tragedienne, Mille. Rachel, for a limited number of representations, and will appear in the popular Plays of " Marie Stuart," by Le Brun; " Britanicus," by Racine ; " Tancred," by Voltaire; " Berenice," by Racine ; " Ariane," by Corneille, and other plays of her well-known repertoire. Madlle. Rachel has also undertaken to perform, for the first time, the cha racter of Celimene, in Moliere's Comedy of "Le Misanthrope." The subscription will be for fifty representations, on Monday and Friday evenings, with the privilege of exchanging for the Wednesday even ing performance, an arrangement which has hitherto afforded so much convenience and satisfaction. Application for Season Boxes and Stalls to be made at Mr. M renELL's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. OLVNIFIC THEATRE. Mr. George Bolton, sole Lessee and Manager, THIS EVENING Will be performed the Pl3y V of I ITERi:LAPSE. Lord Fopping ton, Mr. Waiter Lacy; Young Fashion, Mr. G. Hlton ; Loveless, Mr. Leigh Murray; Sir Tunbelly Clumsy, Mr. a ilkinson; Coupler, Mr. J. Cowell Lory, Mr. S. Cowell ; Worthy, Mr. Archer ; Nur, e, Mrs. C. Jones ; Amanda, Mrs. R. Gordan ; Berinthia, Chants ; Miss Hoyden, Mrs. Walter Lacy. Mier which, a grand lULLET DIVERTISSEMENT and MU SICAL MELANGE. To conclude with the Farce of THE LITTLE JOCKEY. ASTLEY'* ROYAL AM PHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. \V. Batty. Pa•ronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and Royal Family. Last Three Nights :of " Mazeppa," with an entire change in the Scenes of the Circle. First app ar ance of Stall-Master HEIN BR ECII l', Master of the Horse to the Xing of Prussia, who has arrived in this country, from Berlin, with his tour highly-trained Prussian horses, and will introduce their extraordinary and graceful feats of training. Mr. BATTY has, regardless of expense, formed an expensive arrangement with this great arti,te for a limited number of nights, and he will appear in the circle each evening. THIS EVENING Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en titled THE DEVIL'S HORSE AND THE TWELVE WISHES, introducing the Wiid Stag-Hunt of the Past Ages, by Mr. I3atty's superb living Deer, trained Camels from Sm) rna, and other at tractive Novelties. 'sox -office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors oven at six s'u! commence at seven o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. WEATHER.—SUN OFFIOE, NOVEMBER 5. NERMOMETER, Lowest, 51; Highest, 61 ; Noon, 57, BAROMETER, 30 22.—WIND E., hazy. 111,iil W ATEkt AT LONIJ4)IS-Iiltli)U1, 'rtilb DAY. Morning .. 43 minutes after 2. I Evenin's .. 4 minutes after 3. and. / immediately a p rospec ti ve h app i ness f or t h ose who I had hitherto only beheld an interminable vista of wretchedness ; there was active and certain employ ment for those who were unable previously to earn the most beggarly wages. Money was not to be doled out in miserable driblets. Labourers were to be recompensed honestly, in proportion to their exertions As we have already intimated, no less than twenty thou sand pounds had been already approved by those who had the direction and distribution of the present ments. Just as this had been accomplished, just as the redemption of the Irish peasantry from starvation was on the verge of realisation, the saving hand has been withdrawn, the plank which providentially spanned the abyss has been broken in twain—not a single straw is left for the sinking multitude to clutch at. What has caused this terrible reaction ? Ruffian ism, lawlessness, and cruelty. The Irish themselves are effectuating their own destruction. The Irish themselves will ultimately be alone answer able for the lives sacrificed in these days of their national tribulation. By contemning the laws, by despising the recommendations of their more patriotic countrymen, by abusing all the sacred rights of property, and endangering the existence of peaceful and unoffending citizens, these ruthless and misguided insurgents are drawing upon themselves a gigantic and overwhelming responsibility. They are rendering the position of the obedient and gentle civilian equally precarious with that of the most infamous marauder. They not only render a with drawal of pecuniary aid incumbent upon the Legis lature, but they invoke upon their unfortunate neighbours the rigours of an extraordinary sur veillance. From the obstruction of the appointed officers in the discharge; of their stipulated duties the suspension of those duties is inevitable ; and from the atrocities perpetrated upon private individuals the endeavour to ameliorate the condition of the destitute is altogether prevented. Instead, therefore, of re ceiving assistance from the Executive in their present privations, the peasantry are subjected to others still greater, and they owe this exclusively and solely to themselves. We cannot speak in language sufficiently powerful for the reprobation of these great crimes. We cannot express with adequate force the intensity of our detestation of these public malefactors. We call upon the better-disposed among the Irish peasantry to deliver their evil-doers up to justice, and to bring down upon them that condign punish ment which men never merited more entirely. We adjure Mr. O ' CONNELL to exert the great influence which he has acquired by many years of mental and bodily toil for the advantage of Ireland, we adjure him to exert that influence in repressing the evil pas sions of an excited population. He never had such an opportunity of proving himself the Liberator of Ireland. Let him seize that oppor tunity, let him hurl his reprobation upon the guilty insurgents, upon those banded ruffians who shoot men in the twilight, who stab men in the dark, who pillage wantonly on the highway, who intercept and molest the agents of legislative benevolence, who prevent the penniless from gaining employment, the starving from obtaining food, and those who despair from acquiring hope. No terms of execration can define the heinous criminality of those enemies of the suffering people ; and feeling this, we implore all the right-thinking men in the island to co-operate with the Government in ridding the country of such pests, and of restoring matters to their propitious position. It is to be hoped that these things may be accomplished, and that the aspirations of the Lord-Lieutenant will be realised. Those aspirations are thus expressed by Mr. REDINGTON "His Excellency would hope that the good sense of the people will resume its influence; that they will see the folly and the crime they are guilty of, in thus wan tonly interfering with the means provided for the sup port of the destitute in this time of distress; and that he will have the satisfaction of receiving full assurance of their return to a better course of conduct, of their cordial acquiescence in the arrangements made for their em ployment, and of their determination to refrain from fur ther obstruction or injury to persons engaged in laying out or superintending the public works." Do not these occurrences sufficiently demonstrate the relative advantages of the moral and the physical force movement ? Do they not betoken the brutal agency of the one, and the elevated influences of the other ? Again we adjure O'CONNELL to crush these brawlers and marauders once for all, and, by morn: means, to cause the physical liberation of Ireland. The observations which Mr. O'CONNELL, according to his invariable custom, offers every week to the Repeal Association on the passing events of the day, either viva voce, or by letter, were on Monday deli vered by him in person. We have so often expatiated on the vast importance of anything falling from Mr, O ' CONNELL on any topic connected with Ireland, that it is quite unnecessary to preface in any manner the comments we may think it necessary to offer on the subject -matter of his communication. It is, if pos sible, of deeper interest, and affords grounds for still more gloomy reflections, than any he has lately put forward. The picture he has painted is, indeed, a sombre one ; but, happily, all is not dark ; there are a few bright spots, on which we can repose with some thing of hope for the future. It has been said that— It is always the darkest the hour before day ;" and we sincerely trust that when that hour of dark ness has passed away, and sunshine is again restored, all classes of society in that unhappy land may be improved by the ordeal of affliction through which they wiil have passed, and that they may prove themselves for the future to be wiser and better men. The veteran patriot is manifestly deeply touched with the unhappy condition of his father-land ;he states " that he had intended to address the Associa tion at great length with reference to the Cork reso lution, and to discuss, in many words, the position of all parties, but that he was unable to do so, for his heart was too full, and his mind too much engaged with the misery of the Irish people, who wanted food and employment." Alas ! there is now no longer a doubt as to the extent of their suf ferings, of the depth of misery and destitution in which they are plunged. The most incredulous politician, the most thorough-going monopolist, the most reckless perverter of the facts, could not now venture gravely to assert that the cry of distress has been got up for party purposes, or with the view of deceiving the Legislature or the public, and obtaining their sanction and approbation to the great doctrines of free trade. The stern reality is now fully ad mitted—there is no longer dispute or controversy on that point—and, whatever may be the differences as to the means by which the difficulties may be encountered, there can be no question as to their existence and formidable character. Mr. O ' CONNELL adds the weight of his authority to the dark vaticinations that have recently been put forward. He fears that we are but at the commencement of horrors, and that the next harvest will not have the effect so ardently de sired, of terminating the period of scarcity. He says, "He knew the real position of the country well, he knew her dangers, and could tell the gentry, and the Government, that it was absurd to suppose that six or eight months would see them over their difficulties. That if a beneficent PROVIDENCE did not guide the Government, it wasimposAble to say what the position of the country might be in twelve months. Famine was almost universal." This fearful announcement mus surely awaken all the sympathies, and bespeak the most zealous exertions not only of every Irishman, but of every British subject—of every man possessed of the commonest feelings of philanthropy. The sublimest precept of our religion—a precept acknow- ledged by every Christian, of whatever sect or deno mination he may be—inculcates the duty of " feed- ing the hungry and clothing the naked.' We know little of Englishmen if any persuasion is necessary to induce them to co•operate in the work of charity and beneficence. The simple tale of misery speaks with greater eloquence than the most accomplished orator could give expres sion to ; and, on the part of our country, we can give the assurance that any step which may appear advisable to the Executive will be sanctioned. No matter how serious the expense, or how heavy the burdens in which we may thereby be required to participate—Englishmen, who gave twenty millions sterling to strike the shackles from the slave, to re- move the stain from the fair fame of their country, the blot from their statute-book, will, if necessary, divide ,heir last crust with their Irish brother before a single one shall perish for want of food in a Christian The gentry of Ireland, however, must be up and stirring ; they are placed in the van of battle, the fiercest part of tle contest, they are called on to encounter. Why slumber they so long? Why is there not a national committee already assembled in the Irish metropolis ? Why are there not sub committees in every district, to aid with their advice, to render every assistance in their power to the Go vernment and the authorities ? The want of such bodies, the material services they could render, are admitted on every side, and yet prejudices have still prevented that cordia. co-operation of persons of different parties that is so loudly called for, so ur gently required by their common country. This will, this must, be terminated. We have the gratify ing testimony of Mr. O'CONNELL "that the wretched state of Ireland has beer the means of circulating a feel ing thzt never before existed." He speaks of his personal observation at the Fennoy meeting, where he saw " clergymen of all creeds, and gentry of all creeds and classes of politics, joining together to alleviate the universal distress that prevails, and forming a deputation to the Lord-Lieutenant to claim the suc cour of the Government." Fervently do we pray that this better feeling may become universal. If this should be the case the evils afflicting Ireland will not be without their good effect, the dissensions and dif ferences that so long have disunited her children and marred every effort made for her benefit, will be ter minated, and we may look for the greatest ameliora tion in the social and moral relations of the people as the happy result, the first fruits of this great and valuable change. We have only space to say further, that Mr. O'CoN NELL has made the amende honorable to the Board of Works for the attack on them at the Fermoy meet ing. A week since we stated our opinion that many circumstances existed to prevent the board from act ing so promptly as they would wish for the people. Already they have sanctioned presentments to the amount of 800,0001. sterling, and set sixty thousand labourers to work, thus providing for an average of 300,000 persons. They have even devoted their Sab baths to the pious work ; and it would, indeed, be hard to find a better or more suitable occupation for the day. Mr. O'CoNsiELL has gracefully acknow ledged the error into which ho had fallen, the mis conception under which he laboured with respect to the board ; and, we trust, that his statement may remove the bitter feelings that have existed in the country against the body. We hope that a little time and consideration will induce him to make a similar confession of error as to what he stated respecting the liberal and enlightened Nobleman at the head of the Government. 'We confess, that the observation, with respect to the Premier, was the only part of the speech we perused with regret, and could have wished totally omitted. We shall, however, hope that Mr. O'CONNELL'S candour will induce him to acknowledge his mistake, and that fully and speedily. The St. Petersburgh journals of the 24th October contain the following from the seat of war : " Accounts have just been received from the seat of war in the Caucasus. On the 26th September the commander in chief arrived at the camp of Fortunga, and inspected the new fortification. Thanks to the ex ertions of General Labinoff it is almost completed. The army of this officer is composed of 7,000 men, and during the whole summer he has only had 17 on the sick list. Schamyl had threatened to destroythe fort, but he has not made his appearance since the 18th, and then never fired a shot. The tribe of the Nehochanges resist all the promises and offers made them by Schamyl to in duce them to join him. " On the 30th of August, Soliman Effendi, a priest and friend of Schamyl, went over to the Russians with all his family, and it is expected that in a short time many more of his partisans will find it to their inters st to do the same. Ou the 15th September there was an engagement between the Russians and the mountaineers, i❑ which the latter were completely put to the rout. In southern Daghestan General Prince Argulinski keeps the enemy in check, and is able to protect the tribes who are faithful to Russia. The militia which had been or ganised there had attacked a large band of mountaineers and put them to flight. The enemy had one piece of cannon, and fought very desperately, but were repulsed with loss. The plain of Kumik is now covered with fortifications, and there is a strong reserve of cavalry." The Grand Council of Geneva met on the 28th alt , and received a report of the Provisional Go vernment, giving an account of their proceedings from the day of their installation, and concluding with an offer from each of the members to resign should the Gr:tnd Council find reason to disapprove of any of their measures. The Grand Council, after considering the report, came to the following resolu tion, which was carried unanimously : " Taking into consideration the decree of the Council General of Molard, the Grand Council does not accept the resignation of the members of the Provisional Govern ment, but testifies gratitude to them for the services which they hare already rendered to the country, and entreats them to continue their functions." The Journal de l' Ain had published a correspondence in which it was said that at the time of the approach of the French troops, the troops of Geneva at the same time took up a position on the frontier with two cannon. The Revue de Geneve replies—" This manner of announcing a simple measure t tin 29 t a and of police is altogether false; no c annon were sent. A t the most, 30 of the paid artill e ry men were p l ace d at the tw Grand Naconnex, and thi s feeble detachment has since ret urne d . " Th e C ouncil of Baosie p adopted points of on Mh by an immense m a j or i ty, the proposition for a revision o f t h e Constitution, and ne)e h alt., appointed a committee of 15 members, to prepare a re. port on the subject. Intelligence to the 30th of October has been re ceived from Lisbon. The QUEEN'S troops had been victorious in two encounters with the insurgents. The first victory was announced in the following telegraphic dispatch, which was received at Lisbon on the 30th of October F ROM SCHWALBACK, VISCONDE DE SETUBAL. " I arrived at the camp of the Baron de Estrenoz at eleven on the night of the 27th inst., having been in formed by him of the union of the sth and 6th Gaga dores and 4th Artillery. The B aron and I marched with our entire column at tour in th e morn i ng of the 28th to Y.W e met th em at half-past two o'clock inafternoon, in a str oLg position in the town of 1, meet -i a t h ii e e n a t . he a eal ttacked immediately, and at five o'clock r we had completely routed them, they leaving in our hands several cart-loads of ammunition and other effects, with two pieces of artillery. I calculate their loss at 200 men, between killed, w ounded, and prisoners. On our part we have had an officer killed and two wounded, together with some soldiers and horses. I will send you, Ohe Queen. DE SETUBAL. NDE when time permits, more details df t hi s d ay of glory fi.n. theservants her M:j v es i t s y c t „ va n a of Oct. 29, 1846." The second victory is thus announced in a letter from the north of the kingdom " Baron Cazal, on arriving at Villareal, met the de mocratic forces under the command of Veiga, Itibello, and Seixas. Ile defeated them completely, killing an immense number, and the two leaders, Veiga and Ribello died, the people of the district being struck with such terror in consequence, that the province of Tros-os- Montes need give no further concern. The Baron next arrived at Penaful with the 3d and 13th Infantry and 6th and 7th Cavalry, and went in pursuit of Almargen, who fled by Valongo to Oporto on the 26th. The blockade of the Duuro has been acknowledged by the English Consul. The consequence is, that no money is received at the Custom-house, which produces insubor dination amongst the insurgent troops, and despair in the mob." Count BOWFIN has escaped from Lisbon, and has joined the Count DAS ANTAS at Coimbra. The Diario de Governo of the 30th contains 1. A decree, by which the Queen, at the recommenda tion of her ministers, assumes the exercise of absolute power as long as the present rebellion lasts. . 2. A letter from the Queen to Count Das Antes, in viting him to make his submission. 3. His answer in the negative. 4. A decree, depriving Count Das Antos, Count de Mello, the Marquis of Louie, Viscount Sada Bandeira, and Baron Algodres, of all their titles and honours, for having taken arms against the Government." The British squadron, under the command of Sir W. PARKER, entered the Tagus on the 30th. The squadron consists of the Hibernia, the Trafalgar, the Albion, the Rodney, the Superb, and the Terrible and Rattler steamers. The military impressment still continued in Lisbon, an embar go was laid on all houses, and workmen were employed i n putting the lines in a state of defence. Madrid papers of the 29th ult. have arrived. It was reported that Count BRESSON was about to leave Madrid on leave of absence. .According to the Her aldo, the Government has received information of an intended Carlist rising. The decree dissolving the Cortes was to app ear i n the Gaceta :of the 30 th. Rumours of a mo difi cat i on of the Ministry were again current in Madrid. The Portuguese news contained in these papers has been anticipated by the later intelligence which we have received from Lisbon this morning. The move ment at Saragossa was completely repressed. MADRID BO] SA, OCT, og.—The Three per Cents. were done at 344 for cash, and 35 for paper; the Four per cent s ., a t 21i the Fiv® per Cents., at 211, the Debt without Interest, at 61; and the Coupons at 20. We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday. The Siecle, which has always boen opposed to the entente cordiale with England, is even more firmly opposed to the establishment of anything like an entente cordiale with the absolutist Governments, as recommendeeby the Presse. We believe that the following article, which appears in the Siecle of Tuesday, may be considered as the protest of the Odilon Barrot section of French Liberals against anything like a Russian alliance : To console themselves for the imminent ruin of the English alliance, our Ministers flatter themselves, or rather boast, to have regained at Vienna and St. Peters burgh all the ground that they have lost at London. For our parts, we do not perceive the trace of this happy progress, unless there be given to us a pledge of the benevolent dispositions of Austria in the efforts which she is making to have a cut at Switzerland, and to give a finishing stroke to Poland. On all sides the interests of this power are opposed to the interests and sympathies of constitutional France. Before forming an alliance with her, our Gosernment should commence by betray ing her. We are well aware that for M. Guizot that is neither an insurmountable difficulty nor an impossible condition ; but even supposing this alliance realisable, what would be the advantage of it ? Of all the states of Europe, Austria is perhaps that of which the power is most menaced. She has such difficulty to live that her action is neither formidable to her enemies nor of service to her allies. Italy, that slave always quivering, as one of her poets calls her, gives to the Nestor of the Holy Alliance too cruel anxieties to allow him to be at leisure to join in the diplomatic dreams of our Minister of Foreign Affairs. It fears that at Venice the winged lion of St. Mark may respond to the Roman eagle, but inefficiently lulled to quiet, and the 50,000 bayonets which line the southern frontier of Austria scarcely suffice for her security. By pressing on Poland, felled as she is to the ground, she with difficulty restrains her fatal convulsions. Let her abandon her prey for an instant, and at once the victim starts up to struggle with her executioner. In Bohemia and Hungary the spirit of modern liberalism unites with the anarchy of the middle ages to excite continually renewed embar:ass ments against Vienna. Occupied in watching her indo cile subjects can she exercise a high influence on the destiny of her neighbours ? In Germany an adroit and persevering rival is displacing the centre of Germanic unity ; Prussia, by means of the Zollverein, constitutes a great business feudality, of which she declares herself the suzerain, leaving to the self-entitled heir of the Caesars a shadow of a power which soon will not exist except in a vain ceremonial. Pressed or menaced on all sides, invaded by the advanced posts of constitutional opinion, penetrated by parts of other states which destroy the cohesion of her territory, Austria, even' supposing her to possess the will, could not have the power of giving an impulse to public opinion in Europe; her part is inert, and her policy negative. Is it to this power, now in a dying state, that our Ministers are about to hold out the hand ? Do they hope to fill up by such an alliance the chasm which the disap pearance of the English alliance would leave in our foreign relations ? They boast also with an indiscreet vanity of the unhoped•for advances which the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh has, they say, made to our Government. The Czar, the Ministerial journals lately declared, deigned to invite the Chargé d'Affaires of France to a family dinner. The whole importance and bearing of such an event are at once felt! Who can possibly doubt after that of the good dispositions of Russia? Does not Providence offer us, with a wonderful opportuneness, that consolation to diminish the bitterness of the divorce which separates us from England? Anxious to pay the dowry, even before the celebration of this new union, our Ministry lowers the customs tariffs in favour of the produce and vessels of Russia, without waiting for the ratification of the Czar to permit our flag to enjoy a like favour in the Muscovite ports. It is well known how we regard the Russian alliance as far as the interests of liberty are concerned in France and Europe. We should not advise a French Ministry to seek an ally so far, by passing over the body of unfortunate Poland. But, besides, is such a scruple the only obstacle which opposes the realisation of this project? Does there exist any point of contact between the petty spirit of our Government and the enterprising genius of the Romanoffs? The status quo is the system of the one, conquest is the object of the other. Only an offensive alliance can be contracted with Russia; it was possible, perhaps, immediately after the revolution of 1830, now it is only a chimerical idea. What pledges would our Government receive ? What part would be given to it in the profits of this association ? Whilst under favour of the assistance or of the neutrality of the French Government, the Russian arms invaded the East, where would there be found compensation for France ? Is it in Belgium, which has been declared neutral and in dependent? Or in Germany, on the banks of the Rhine, where the powerless and cold diplomacy of our Ministry has almost caused the French name to sink into oblivion? Can Poland at present rise up again ? Will Russia offer to reconstitute with the ruins of that unfortunate nation a state which shall re-establish in Europe the equilibrium that has been destroyed ? Russia has not conceived a sufficiently high idea of the energy of the French Cabinet to purchase its alliance. She will pur sue her destinies in her formidable isolation. If by chance her eagle unites with foreign colours, has not 1840 shown that it is to march against France or her allies ? Let us then be spared the vain boastings of a diplomacy pushed to its last shifts. At the moments of danger the Government will find itself alone between the contempt of courts and the distrust of nations. Such is the consequence and the chastisement of the wretched policy which it practices." The Republicans, as represented by the Nation , ll, and the Thiers party, as represented by the Constitutionnel, are equally opposed to an intimate alliance with the absolutist Governments; and we believe that there is not to be found throughout France a member ofany sec tion of the Liberal party who would not oppose to the utmost of his power the formation of any such entente cordiale. The Univers, the organ of the.parti pretre, rejoices over the misfortunes of Mexico, because it fancies that those misfortunes may tend to embarrass England. " The last events in Mexico," says the Univers " tend to increase the embarrassments of the London Cabinet. It is now obvious that the American Go vernment is intent on the conquest of Mexico. The menacing situation of Ireland, and the misunder standing between the Cabinets of St. James's and the Tuileries, are circumstances which the Americans will turn to account. The revolution of Portugal 13 additional complication. Lord PALMERSTON amidst those difficulties, appears to the Washington statesmen much less formidable than to the rulers of France. The occasion is certainly favourable to for ward our national interests. Nevertheless, and not withstanding the instructive example set to us by the Government of the United States, everybody anxiously inquires if the honour and industry of France are to expiate the success of our dynastic diplomacy. The strength of the United States lies entirely in the knowledge of the situation of Great Britain. The moment we shall prove to England that we are aware of her difficulties, and that we also mean to have a will of our own, the harshest exigen cies of the cordial understanding will vanish of them selves. The experience of late years has but too well demonstrated that the purchase of the friendship of England at the price it has hitherto cost us would compromise it seriously and for ever." The Minister has suffered a defeat in the election of President and Secretary of the Council General of Paris. Hitherto the Ministerialists have always obtained a majority, but on Monday M. ARAGO was returned as President by a majority of 20 against 17, the number for M. AUBE, the Ministerial candidate. M. LEJEMFTEL was elected Secretary by 22 votes. " This result," observes the Siecle, " was the more significant, as the Prefect of the Seine had used a' _ _ his influence to prevent the nomination of MM ARAGO and LEJEMPTEL." According to the Presse the bakers are selling bread in Paris at less than the market price of flour. It adds that flour is extremely scarce in the Paris market, in consequence of the flour millers on the Seine, the Marne, and the Eure, not being a bl e to grind during more than three days in the week, their supply of wheat being short. The stock of flour in Paris has diminished during the last eight days by more than 6,000 metrical quintals. There remain at present in the stores but 10,414 metrical quintals. The average price of wheat in France, which on the 30th of September last was 25f. lc. the hecto litre, had risen on the 31st of October to 26f. 36c. the hectolitre. The rise still continues in the depart.. ments of the east and in the neighbourhood of Paris. The price continues nearly stationary in the southern and western provinces. It is to be hoped that the price will speedily be reduced by the import of foreign grain, large quantities of which have arrived at Marseilles. The Journal des Debats gives the fol lowing extract from a letter written in that city on the 29th ult.:— There arrived here yesterday 145,154 hectolitres of grain of every description, of which 138,498 hectolitres were of wheat, 4,764 of barley, and 1,892 of maize. Of these 145,154 hectolitres of grain, 30,662 arrived from the kingdom of Naples, by nine Neapolitan and one Roman vessels; 1,220 hectolitres from Genoa, by one ' French vessel; 6,885 from the Wallachian ports by one Greek and one lonian vessel; 15,102 from Turkish ports by three Greek, one Russian, and ore Austrian vessels; in fine, 91,315 hectolitres arrived from the Russian ports of the Black Sea by 26 ships, of which two were Russian, one Neapolitan, one Turkish, two Austrian, nine Greek, and 11 Sardinian. The number of vessels which ar rived iu this port in one day laden with grain amounted to 44. Accounts from Constantinople announce that between the 2d and 16th of October there passed before that port 140 ve:,sels laden with grain coming from the Black gva, and belled fez Marseilles and Wetileu. 214960 Jo. New (isa. _7% dis.).. 17 1 / , .... to Birmingnam & Oxford June... 2 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction 2 3 /4 ...... ......to Boston, Stamf., & Birming 22s. Bristol and Exeter ... 7 5 ...... 81 Do., New .. ..... ... 5 Bristol and Gloucester........ 30 Bristol and Liverpool June... 2%..... to Buckinghamshire.._ B4s. ...... 5 / 8 • dis. to Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares Cambrian and G ran d Junct 42s. • —' - Chester and H01yhead....,.... 27% ..... Churnet and Blyth e Chester and Manchester 4" , s. Cheltenham and Oxfo r d 2 • •• --- Clydesdale Junction ............ 2 0 •• .... _— to Cork, Blackrock, & P assages 225. .. Cork and Killarney Cork and Waterford l% to Cornwall s Ditto, Half Sh ares .. 2 1 / 2 ..... Cornwall and Central Devon 2% Derby and Crewe 2% to Direct Lincoln, East lietford, and Sheffield Junction 2% to Direct Northern Direct Norwich 1 Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 10 - Dublin, Belfast, & Coleraine 2% — to Dublin and Galway Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 10 ...... Eastern Cou n ti es 141. 16s 22%%... to Do. New l2/. 16s .7 38 p... to Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d — .. ... to Do., do - Do., York Extension 2 ... 3% to East Dereham and Norwich 1 - Eastern Union 35 Ditto, Quarter Shares - Do. Extension to Harwich 1% — ...... to Do. Cambridge and Ely ... 2% — to East Lancashire Ditto, New . Do. ( late Preston & Ormsk.? 2 1 % 14 ... .. East Lincolnshire 1 ...... to East and West of England... 1% —. Edinburgh and Glasgow . Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares l 2 l /2 19% to Edinburghto Edinburghto and Northern ... Ip2 ___. Ely and Huntingdon Enniskillen and Sligo .. 2% _ to Yeovil, & Dorchester 5 1 % 3%...... t o G Ex la e s t g e o r ;-, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 Ditto, New - to Do. ,1 4 Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 12% . ..... .. • Glouc.,Aberystwith,andC en . of Wales Goole,Doncaster,Sheffid., &c. 42s — ...... to Grand Union (Nott. & Lynn) 1% — ... .. to Great Eastern and Western... 2% - Great Grimsby and Sheffield 10 Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 27% Great Muniter 2% — ••.... to Great North of Scotland 2 / 2•....• - . • - • !;,. ?, A , ir SECOND EDITION• 140 vessels cannot have had less than 500,000 hectolitres of grain on board. Alore than 300 other vessels are ex pected." Admiral DUPEREE died on Monday of a disease of the spine. The gallant admiral was in his 72d year. The Portefeuille states that there will be no change in the Ministry before the meeting of the Chambers, but that until that period, at all events, Marshal SOULT will continue President of the Council. The cause of free trade is rapidly progressing in France. The Dibats states that at a meeting of the Association da Libre Echange, which was held OR Saturday, the President of the society announced that M. D'ltaussoNviLLE, Deputy for Seine and Marne ; the Marquis DE LA VALLETTE, Deputy for Dordogne ; M. NICHOLAS KA:ECHLIN, the largest ma nufacturer in Alsace ; Messrs. JEAN and FREDERIC ZUBER, who conduct immense manufactures at Mul hausen ; and M. BossoN, the proprietor of the im mense spinning -works at Boulogne, who employs 1,700 workpcople, had joined the Association. The Moniteur contains a fifth ordonnance, granting money cn account of the losses caused by the inunda tions. A sum of 200,000 francs is allocated to the Minister of Finance, to provide for the derangement of the Post.office service, and to aid the postmasters in their efforts to secure regularity in the dispatch of the mails. The National estimates the damage caused by the inundation at one hundred millions of francs—four millions sterling. The Three 'per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Tues day at 82f. 80c. ; the Five per Cents., 1171. 75c. ; the Or leans Railroad Shares, 1,235 f. ; Rouen, 905 f. ; Havre, 682 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 663 f. 75e. ; Avignon, 8771. 50c. ; Vierzon, 575 f. ; Bordeaux, 5351. ; Basle, 217 t. 5Cc. ; Fam poux, 400 f. ; Dieppe, 3551. ; Paris and Strasburg, 482 f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes, 4851.; Paris and Lyons, 497 f. 50c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 490 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 475 f. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 56; Spanish Domestic Debt, 33%. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NOVEMBER 4. Boulogne and Amiens, 14% —East Indian, 1,, —Luxembourg, 1 % —Namur and Liege, 3 —Northern of France Constituted, 11 % Orleans and Bordeaux, 7%—Paris and Lyons Constituted, s—Rouen and Havre, 27. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was again rather dull. Sales 5,000 bales, including 500 American for exportation. American qualities were about id. per lb. lower than on Friday last, viz. 4d. to 61c1. per lb., Pernams 68d. to 7-d., Surat 4d. to 41d., and Egyptian 7d. to 7d. per lb. Shares have been better. A number of merchants and others, of the first stand ing and wealth at Liverpool, have formed themselves into a company for carrying out a line of railway be tween Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport. The sound ness and utility of the project is sufficiently attested by the names connected with it. From its locality and cheapness of construction, the line has every prospect of being highly remunerative. As a matter of interest to the manufacturing classes, and having been asked to give publicity to the following resolutions of the merchants, brokers, and others con nected with the important trade in Indigo, we give the resolutions recently passed at a meeting of the parties interested. Our country readers will thus be enabled hereafter, with safety, to make their arrangements for attending the periodical sales if they think fit. It was unanimously resolved (Sir George de 11. Larpent in the chair) as follows:- 1. That the periodical sales should take place on The second Tuesday in February, The second Tuesday in May, The second Tuesday in July, and The second Tuesday in October. 2. That no indigo be included in either of the sales, but such as has been on show six working days previ ously to the commencement of such sale. 3. That the new and old goods be kept distinct in separate catalogues, and that, as far as circumstances will admit, separate days be allotted to the sale of each, commencing with the new goods. 4. That goods previously bought in by, and still in the hands of the importers, but not otherwise, be considered as new goods. 5. That goods previously withdrawn be considered as new goods. 6. That on the day after the deposit prompt of the sales in February, May, and July respectively, the brokers meet to draw lots for their respective stations in the following sale, and to declare their quantities; and that for the February sale the like meeting take place six weeks before the day of sale. The commercial advices received this morning from the West Indies are of a most satisfactory character. The rains had been most abundant, and should things go on well, sanguine expectations were entertained that the crops of sugar for the season 1846-7 would make up for all the deficiencies of the last two or three years. The market for money was light, especially in Jamaica and Demerara. Much caution was used in making ship ments, except to first-rate houses. From Mexico we learn that Santa Anna had Placed himself at the head of the army, but seriously speaking it was held to be but a ruse. There have not been received any remittances by the present arrival for the Mexican dividends. Connected with East India affairs, it may be men. tioned here that the report that is current that the directors of the East India Company have all but unani mously agreed to concede a grand trunk line, has given much satisfaction among parties connected with the India trade; and the belief is in all quarters, that the East India Railway Company will have the preference, as among its directors there appears the names of most in fluential persons who are engaged in the trade to India and China. Consols for the Account have b een fi rm thi s morn i ng, at 94 a I , and tor Money at 94i 4. The premium upon Exchequer -bills has improved to 12s. ; but India Bonds are heavy at 18s. premium only. Bank Stock is at 2041. Only a few bargains were made in the Foreign Funds this morning. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been heavy at 39 to 40. Mexican are at 22 ; and the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, at 584 to 59. The Share Market is firm. BIIITISII FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 204% 3 per Cent. Reduced ...... 93M % 3 per Cent. Consols Anns 9 4% '2 3 / 4 New 34 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 9 15-16 Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 9 11-16 Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860.. 10 3-16 India Bonds 1,000/ _ Ditto under 1.0001 South Sea Stock 10334 Ditto New Annuities Consols for Account it chequer Bills. 1 1 / 2 d. 1,000/. 5001. .. Ditto Small - pm, PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.. Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account Portuguese 4 per Cents 3 9 1/ 39 Ditto for the Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2ILA per Cents BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SIIARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 3 ...... to 2% Armagh, Coleraine, &Portrush 1% ...... to Aylesbury and Thaine ...... to Belfast and County Down ...... to Birmingham and Dudley ...... to Birmingham and Uloucester 100 ...... to D N (iss. at 7 1 ,4 di ,1, „,„ ..... ' Great North of England 100 •••••• ..... ...... to ' Ditto, New 5 ••• •• to • Ditto, New 11/4...... •• „ • t o • Ditto, New Great Western Ditto, Half Shares ...... 5 08155 .... .................... : 17 8 7 ‘,4 11 . .: . .2 . ..0 . 1. ....... 1 i t : : : 0 „ :: Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... 10 ...... , t o f ..... , to , Ditto, Fifths 2O 2 ...... P/2-14 • t o ' Do. New Hull and Selby 5O .....•s 3 it ..... Ditto, Q u a a a lf rt s e t r ia S r h es ares 2 1 2 5 1 / 2 .......... : .....f' ....... .. .. t t . : .., Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 11% ...... ..... ...... to o o. Do. do. and Norwich 114 ...... --'' ~ to ' Killarney- Junctions Kendal and Windermere -- . to Lancaster and Carlisle 45 ..... 10%§'” / 5 ...... . ,to Do. New Lame, Belfast, & Ballymena 428. •••••• 743A•••••' ~, Leeds and Bradford 3O ..... " ...... W Leeds and Carlisle .... ..... to to, . Leicester and Birmingham 2 2 s. ...... ....„ ...... hi „., Leicester and Bedford ...„, ...... ; `,seeds and Dewsbury Leeds and Tnirsk 1 Ditto, New I Liverpool, Manchester, and I ss ..... _ ... Newcastle Junction 2% ...... .....' ..... to w Liverpool and Bury l4 ...... s t, , ..... _ .; ... London ~ illackwall...l6/. 13s. 4 d. ...... .....?* ... 1 . .. , Do. New ....„ ......... to , Do. Extension Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50 . .... ..„„ ...... Do. Fifths 4O ..... to " London and Croydon Guaran- ..„, ...... to teed 5 per Cent .... to London and Greenwich... 121.155.4 d... ...„, „...• th Ditto Preference ...... — lB/ 175 2(1... ..„„ „...• 0 10 London, Hounslow.&Western 2 • .. •:, 9 8 .... / London end North Western 100 ... • '.,„ .. to ...... to / Do. Quarter Shares ...... .. 2 . • .... 16 14,... to , Do. do. New .........• Do. do. Fifths Do. Eighths G. J. 12%•••••' „ . mp.. /,1 ... •• e i Do. New Quarters G. J. 5 ...... ~ ...... to o Do. 401. Shares.....L. &M. 8 .... 68% 2 t . to ' London and S. Western.... 41!. 65.10 d. ~..„ .....• to / Do. New consolidatedBths- 40 •••••.. •.'"' to / o Ditto New ......... ..., ....... 22%. .... „.. •••'" 0 Do. New lB ...... ,.. m s. London and Y0rk........ ....." •.•"•to/ Ditto Half Shares - ••• „, ...... te London end Windsor ••• I A. ..... 1% ... to ' London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2%••••• . .„ ...... 0 / Londonderry and Coleraine... 15 ........... 'to ..... , i 6 Londonderry and Enniskillen 15 ...... ~. .. " to ' Lynn amid Ely / Lynn and Der eham ............ 1,0 6 1 8654 ............ to Manchester and Leeds B2 •• •" •• to to ' Ditto Half Shares - 38 ..... ,•••• Ditto Quarters Ditto Fifths ..... ...... to / Ditto Sixteenths ..- 64. ..... , p••••• • to Do. Extension Manchester and Birmingham 40 ...... lee / 0 , Ditto Quarters (A) Ditto Quarters (B) ...... 8 „...• to • Ditto Quarters (C) .. 1 ...... lOS P Manch, Buxton, Si Matlock 425...••• . to , Manchester, Birmingh am, and -•• "..:: 0 / MouldJunction — ...... thi../ .to Manchester and Southampton 2 ...... 1 39 ..... to, Midland 100 •• • „... ....• to i Ditto Fifths --• „/ Ditto, New 24 .••••• Or' ••- ~ 0, Ditto, New 2 ...... ,- •••• to, Midland, Birm., and Derby 100 ••• " ~. •"/, t° s ss' Midland and Eastern Counties 2%.•••• ~. .... l i i 0 O Midld. Great Western (Irish) 15 ••• •• lt '' to , Newcastle and Berwick Do North Shields 25 ••••" ~. ...... to , Newcastle and Carlisle lOO •••••• ~. ..... to, Newmarket and Chesterfurd 5 ...... ,s. •''.' o/ Newport and Abergavenny. . 2% ...... . •'''' 0, Newry and Enniskillen Newark, Sheffield, and Boston 1%•••••• ~. .... to Norfolk. - 10 67 0 .. ... .......... .....: ,:, . '_ g. .:' ,l4 :: toto to ' , Do. Half Shares Ditto Extension North British Ditto Half Shares .. ll ...... ▪ ••• to • Ditto Fifths 5 •••••• 91‘ .... 0 , Do. Quarters l4 ...... izk, to , Ditto, Extension ~1 2 4 . 01 ' . to, Northern and Eastern 5O .......... 0 •-•.• . • / Ditto Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.) 45 ......... tt , ~, Ditto Quarter Shares ...... to Ditto New . . North Staffordshire North Wales I: (nth. & South. Connecting 42 2 315 4 4. ... ............... .... 244 .......... .. ... 10 Northampton, Northampton, Banbury, and .... ' ...- / Cheltenham ... .. ••• 2 ...... to, Oxford, Worcester, and Wol- 60 '1° , verhampton Oxfd., Witney, & Cheltnham 1%•••••• _, ~.- to, Portsmouth Direct Preston and Wyre .„ •••/ 0 / Ditto, Half Shares ...... Reading, Guildford, & Reigate 3L 125...' ...., 1;0 / Richmond l5 ...... 1% s_,' 0 / Royston and Hitchen 1N...." 50.4..' 10 4 , / Scottish Central Scottish Midland ... ........ Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Pot l O/ teries, and Crewe - ' tO 1% ...... ...... ... / Sheffield and Manchester lOO .. • ... „,„ ~.". to / Ditto i s s t Shares 8 ...... '.• „.. t o / Do. and Lincolnshire Junct l4 • .... „,.. ••/,, 0 / Do. and Great Grimsby „„„ •••' „0 / Do. do. do. Extension 42s. ...... ... A1 0 Shrewsbury and Birmingham 3 ••••" a‘,4 w- / Shropshire Union . 425.....•• s. 0/ Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, •••/ 0 / ..... a and S. Statlordsh. Junction 2 1 A.. 0.• .... 0 0 / Sligo and Shannon ..... 00'' tO/ South Devon ....... ... . / South Midland 42s. ...0* o' . 0 / South and - Midlands Junction 425. ..... -"*" ...0' £O, South Staffordshire Junction 2% ...... --- ../ 0 / South Eastern and Dover ... 33%••'"' -- ''''' °S Ditto, New, No. 1 - ....... tgi ..- Dine, New, N o 0 l2 ...... ~... '"".. . 0 Ditto, New, No. 3 l5 •.• ~• ..... ...„, / Ditto New, No. 4..... St. Alban's, Hatfi e ld, an d ..-- 0 ''' o/ Hertford Junction Staines and Richmond__ Staffordshire and Shropshire 2: 3 / 4 ..... 4 •'''' / South Wales ...... Swans. and Loughor and Ca- to / .....• „0 , o rneron's Stm. Coal ...... ... Taw Vale Extension ....„ ../ 0 Tring,Reading,& Basingstoke 54••••" , s . 0/ / Vale of Neatly ..... Wakefield, Pontefract, and t o / ••••• ~• th Goole .... - •• r / Warwickshire and London 42s. ...... ..„„ ••••' 0/ Warwick and Worcester 425. •••••• . •''';, t ° Waterford and Kilkenny 8 ~,,••• 0...„ ~.• / Waterford and Limerick ... Waterford, W exford, WI cklw, ..-- .o' . / and Dublin Wexford, Waterford, and .../ 0/ Valentia ..„, 0 / Waveney Valley ... .. „ „ , Welsh Midland • 2% ...... 1% P . , „I' / West Riding Union 4sts. ...... •'''' r / ....- ~• a West Cornwall . 2 ...... ,•„ m r West London, Old Shares 0 ° p Wexford and Carlow Wisbeach and St. Ives 2 ...... ' r 5 3 / 4 • ",. , ;/, Wilts,Somerset,&Weymo u th 10 •••••• - " . ,„' 'Psi Woreester,Warwick, & Rugby 425. ...... .„, •'''lOf York and Carlisle 3 i'• 1, 0 York Newwcastle ... 25 •••••, 8 .„) , 4, 4 Ditto, ... 5 ...... A • i• oit Ditto, Preference 2 ...... L' . 0 0. tO 1 .... to .... York and North Midland Ditto, Half Shares .....• s o' t o Ditto,D)iittttoo: E S sx c e a l rboro' Branch I t b e y nsion Ditto, Preference Ditto ast and West Riding 2o1i" „ / Extension . y.. to, FOREIGN RAILW A "'. tg / ....-•,,, 0 , Anglo-Belgian 4 •••••• , ,',„. 0 , Bar badoes 1 ...... „, ... ,t o / Belgian Eastern Junction.... 2% ••"" 14' ~ t Bouiogne and Amiens l6 ..... '''' / .-- t o Bordeaux and Mediterranean 2 •••". .„•• Bordeaux, Toulouse, & C e tt e ••••• to / / (Mackenzie's) 2 ..... ...' 0 / Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette O . ./.. tO , ( Espelete's) ..„„ .. , . 0 f Calais, Dunk, & W. Flanders 2 •••.... ',,,, „ t / Calcutta & Diamond Harbour 7s. ..... ,-. ":, t o / Callao, Lima, & Pacific Coast 1 •••''' ..-• / ~. ' t o /, Central of Spain ... 2 ..... ...- ''' ~ ' ' . ta , Ceylon Demerara. ..„, 2)9 ;:: ..... tO O /' Dendre Valley „ ••••• „.• t o , Direct Bombay and Madras 55. ••" .../ / o 0 ' Dutch Rhenish 6 ...... N ... : t o / East Indian ......, 0 0 ‘: t / ....... tt 1 / Fampoux and Hazebrouk 4 .... ..... s • t o Great Indian Peninsular ss, ...••• Ise" ' / to / . •' o Great Western Bengal 55.. •.... „..... ''• ,• $ 0 / Great Western Canada 34 •••"' --- ' .O „.• t o , Italian and Austrian Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 ..... ...- /,,•• t o / ' Jersey ..... „. / Louvain ii la Sambre ...... Luxembourg 2 ...... ' ‘• t / Lyons and Avignon ....., . 0 . .0 , Madras Madras, Nellore, and Arcot 'A ..... ..-- ' „.• t o /.., Madrid and Valentia Mauritius 1 ...... 3s,s •• ' O / Namur and Liege „.. , / Nn. of France Constituted - -,..• tO / North Jamaica 1 ..... .....- ~• 10 / Orleans and Vierzon ; Orleans and Bordeaux ... ~ 1 13 : 4a - . 5, ..-; ~..... to, ' Over Yssel " •••• 0 / Paris and Lyons Constituted 5 ..... -_ • „.• o Paris and Orleans... 20 ..... 35Y0' , „.. t o 20 . ..... ....- . • Paris and Rouen ,„•• 0 / Paris & Strasbg. Constituted 5 "''' ....•, 0 .• to 20 4)9/ , ..... Rouen and Havre ~/• ' to / Sambre and Meuse ............ 14 10 ...... .....- /„. to . ..... ...- ,„. Strasburg and Bale .... .• / St. Laurence and Atlantic -- .. --- to / Tours & Nantes Constituted 5 ...... „../ to / Tournay, Jurbise, Lander), •••*- •••••• to 8 •-• •• ''' ...... ' and Ilasselt ••• •• I L ..... ••••• Trinidad... .. ••••• 2 rs .. -••' / West Flanders _,,,.g 0 / nik NlS.,t, ....o. to / JOINT STOCK' ''' --" ' "to 40 • •''' ....- ~.• to / Australasia Colonial l North American 05 0 ............. ...........-- ~...*:,,..... ttoo Commercial of London ............. „ .' to / London Joint Stock .... ..... ...- ~„.• to , London and Westminster. -20 . .-- „.• , o s 5 ...... , • , . / National Provincial of Engld. .), PNraotli,oinneatlaolfoflrlerlealnadnd 2 2 5 2% ........... ......--• ~... t o ' Union Un i o n o o f f Australia Lond on .............. .. .......... 1. ( 5 ) ...... misEs• ... 4 ...... Real del Monte, Unregistered ES _., ,io:41 • .00l R AG 40 Vif AVE_ --- lt 0 1.- tot ost CORN - or P i too ..ii . ''''' ..-- to / For the Week ended Nor. 5, - _ GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES • uP t l ofij wade , ' Inspectors in the different Cities and TuWi''' per Imperial Quarter. o stfri t WHEAT. BARLEY. I OATS• 3 1% ; A 116 0 PRICE .. 1 6ls 9d 415 Sd 27s Od ' l4 i u 1846, arl 20 12 ‘ 1 DUTY... 4i 04 2 0 od la v- ( LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1846. Lord BESBOROUGH'S stoppage of the public works in the barony of Upper Tulla, county Clare, does not cause us the slightest astonishment. The deter mination of his Excellency is in accordance with the strictest principles of morality and with the most generous recommendations of humanity. It must be immediately manifest that the consequences of such a procrastination of Government relief to the destitute in those extensive districts will be of the most dis astrous character. In the notification of the Under- Secretary it is expressly mentioned that upwards of 20,0001. in public presentments, for that barony alone, had already received the approbation of the constituted authorities. If we bear in recollection the extremity of destitution which must have elicited so munificent a provision from the Executive, and if we remember, moreover, the cer `ainty with which the impoverished peasantry must have been latterly calculating upon that assistance. we shall be enabled to form some adequate concep tion of the miseries which will enevitably accrue to them from the postponement of that beneficent interference. So calamitous, indeed, must this delaybe, that, supposing it has any particular duration, deaths by famine will unquestionably swell the local bills of mortality. Hundreds have been pining with the direst penury in that neighbourhood ; they have been emaciated with continuous privations ; they have regarded the future with a stern and desolate despair. At the moment when absolute starvation appeared to threaten the community, the Government most opportunely advanced for the bodily salvation of those to whom a little while before that salvation had seemed an impossibility. There was to