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EATilmt.—sum OFFICE, DEcEmnEn 4. T JYRDIONETER, Lowest, 26; Highest. 36 ; Noon, 36. BAROMETER, 29.33.—W1ND W., fine sunshiny weather. _ 8, New Burlington-street, Dec. 5, 1846. MR. BENTLEY WILL IMMEDIATELY PUBLISH THE FOLLOWING NEW WORKS : SIR HARRIS NICOLAS'S LIFE . AND TIMES OF SIR CHRIS- TOPHER HATTON, K.G. Bvo. with Portrait, 15a. bound (now ready). FEATHERSTONHAUGH'S CANOE VOYAGE TO THE MIS NAY-SOTOR. 2 vols. Bvo., with Map and Plates, 28s. A SECOND EDITION OF SMITH'S ANTIQUARIAN RAMBLE Ix TEE STREETS OF LONDON. Edited by Charles Mackay, LL.D. 2 vols. Bvo., 28s. (now ready). IV HOWITT'S HOMES AND HAuN , rs OF THE BRITISH POETS. 2 vols. Syn., with numerous Illustrations, 30s. V. MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF GENERAL PEPE. Written by Himself. Three vols., post Bvo. A SECOND EDITION of WELL'S PICTURESQUE ANTIQUITIES OF SPAIN. Imperial, SYO. Bound, and splendidly Illustrated,2ls. India proofs, 1/. lls. 6d. Now ready. VII. THE THIRD SERIES of the INGOLDSBY LEGENDS, and OTHER POEMS. With a MEMOIR of the late Rev. R. 11. BARHAM. Edited by his Son. One vol., with illustrations, by Leech, and George Cruickshank, 10s. 6d. VIII THE QUEEN'S COOK. Second Edition of Francatelli's Modern Cook. One vol., with Illustrations,l s s. bound. Now ready. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY' SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales or Railway Shares, &c., ake place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle -street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day Previous to their being offered ; and advice* of results will be forwarded by the that post after the sale, and the proceeds imme diately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street, London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed the grand Opera of THE BOHEMIAN GIRL Count Arnhehn, Mr. Borrani ; Florestein, Mr. Harley ; Thaddeus. Mr. Rafter; Devilshoof, Mr. Stretton ; Queen of the Gipsies, Mrs. Hughes; Arline, Miss Rainforth. After the Opera, will be presented a new grand Ballet, called THE WAGS OF WAPPING (performed at the Academie Royale' Paris, under the title of " Betty.") In which will appear Mdlles. Sophie Fuoco, Louise, Benart, Madame Glubilei ; MM. Huguet, Adrien, Paul, Tell ; Messrs. Howell, Priorson, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. 'Ender the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original Comedy, entitled I.OOX. BEFORE YOU LEAP ; or, Wooings and Weddings. Mr. Oddington, Mr. W. Farren ; Mr. Rashleigb, Mr. Hudson ; Mr. De Vere, Mr. Roll ; Mr. Brandon, Mr. Howe; Mr.Hartirnan, Mr. Rogers; Jack Spriggs, Mr. Webster; Tcm Tilley, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Brown, Mrs. (hover ; Clartbel Odding-ton, Miss Fortescue ; Mary Oddington, Miss P. Horton ; Elinor Mortimer, Mrs. Yarnold ; Fanny Hardman, Miss Julia Bennett. After which an original Operatic Drama, called THE YOUNG PRETENDER. Captain O'Neal, Mr. Hudson ; Captain Cocker, Mr. Buckstone ; Chevalier Charles Edward Stuart, Mr. Braid ; Davy, Mr. Coe ; Mrs. Craggie, Mrs. Clifford ; Mary Armadale, Miss Horton. During the evening the Band will perform the Overture, " Pre aux-Clercs," " Clementinen " (Mazourka) ; " Camellion " (6'alop) ; the " Esterhazy" (Walzer) ; and a New Overture. To conclude with a new Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord Courtington, Mr. 11011; Sir Arthur Lovel, Mr. Howe ; Scoreup, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckingham ; Mrs. Scoreup, Miss Julia Bennett. Box-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of Mr. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper. TfIEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME 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, Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. Atter which the original Domestic Drama, called THE WRECK ASHORE ; or, The Bridegroom of the Sea. Marmaduke Magog, Mr. Wright ; Alice, Mrs. Yates. To conclude with a Bozzian Sketch, in one act, called MRS. DAMP'S TEA AND TURN-OUT. Principal characters by Messrs. Cullentord, Worrell, Ryan, Wright, Munyard ; Miss M. Taylor, and Miss Ellen Chaplin. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original romantic Opera, in three parts, entitled TILE N [MIT PINCERS ; founded on the Story of " Giselle." Tho principal characters personified by Miss eorgiana Smithson. Mss Rourke, Miss Sara Flower, Miss Somers, Misses Marshall ; Messrs. Leffler, Allen, Bodda, Walton, T. Hill, Honner, l'eren, &c. After which an entirely new Comic Drama, entitled THE TWO RAIN BOWS. In the course of the Evening the Band will perform " The Perlen Waltzes." To conclude with Goldsmith's Comedy of SIIE STOOPS TO C_ONQUER. Sir Charles Marlow, Mr.; Wynn ; Young Marlow, Mr. 1 , fining; Ilardcastlo, Mr. Granby ; Tony Lumpkin. Mr. Compton ; Hastings, Mr. Roxby ; Diggory, Mr. Cowell ; Miss Ilardcastle, Mrs. Stirling; Miss Neville, Mrs. Hughes; Mrs. Ilardcastle, Mrs. Fosbroke. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S TIIEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. ON MONDAY EVENING Will be performed the Comedy, entitled L'HOTEL GARNI. Cha racters by MM. Langeval, Berou, Cartigny ; Mada ne Deluc, and Mdlle. Cordely. After which, Moliere's celebrated Comedy of LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME. M. Jourdain, M. PQrlet ; Nicole, Mdlle. Brohan. To conclude with LE MARI ET L'AMANT. Col. Saint Leger, M. Langeval ; Ernest, M. Berou ; Frontin, M. Dumery ; 31. Motus, M. Tourtillon; Madame Saint Leger, Madame Adele Deiuc ; Lisette, Mdlle. Brohan. Boxes, Gs.; Pit, 31. 6d. ; Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THE A.TRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Drama, called PASSION'S SLAVE or, The Outcast Son. Supported by the principal talent of the Company. After which the popular Farce of THE WET NURSE. Mr. Grubb, Mr. Neville ; John Pry, Mr. Lewis;Tom Chipp, Mr. Webb ; Mrs. Grubb, Mrs. Lewis ; Patty Crimp, Miss Terrey. To conciude with the favourite Nautical Drama of MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. Messrs. Heslop, Webb, Johnson, Lewis, Plhdps, Pelham, Neville, Saville; Mias Terrey, Mrs. Daly, will support the principal characters. AST,ETN ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince ,t ;ben, and Royal Family. Mr. BATTY respectfully begs to acqaaint the Nobility, Gentry, and the Millie that, in addition to his present extensive Establishment, ho has purchased the whole of Mr. White's trained Lions, Tigers, Leopards, &c., being the same beautiful animals that the cele brated Mr. Carter, the American " Lion King," performed with in all the principal towns in England and on the Continent. THIS EVENING Will he performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en titled THE DEMO .S HOUSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Bit. New and entire change in the Scenes of the CIRCLE. To conclude with the grand Military Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Napoleon, Mr. Gomersal. ,tox -office opec trom eleven till Ova o'clock.—Doors open at six ant c .mmepce rt half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. P.Vron!sed by he: ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Immense success of the alteration of the prices of admission to one general level, so that all parts of the house shall bear a just and liberal proportion—viz., Boxes, Is.; Half-price, 6d. ; Pit, Gd.; Gallery, 3d. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE BLACK DOCTOR. In which Miss Vin• cent, Mrs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, Mrs. R. Barnett, and Messrs, Edwards, Bird, Searle, Forman, &c., will perform. After which THE STAGE-STRUCK LOVERS. Tommy Tape, Mr. Forman ; Sally Scraggs, Miss Lydia P. arce To conclude with THE SHIP OF DEATH ; or, The Children 01 the Deep. fittili IV Alth AT 1.0N1)0N-BUIDGV.THIti DAY. Morning .. 10 ininnte3 after 3. I Evening .. 29 minutes after a ornin :"I\iitt LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1846. There is a coincidence in the indignation of the different kingdoms of Southern and Western Europe at the execrable crime recently committed against the last vestige of Sarmatia, which will impart a peculiar force to the protests of England and France, and of the oth e r cons tit u ti ona l monarc hi es . Th e spoliation of Poland is consummated in the seizure of Cracow ; but in th a t consumma ti on R uss i an d espot i sm IS exposed to the wrath and execration of civilised millions. In conniving at, or rather instigating, the Austrian occupation, R uss i a h as d ra i ne d the goblet to the bottom, but there is poison in the dregs ; it has riven the oak asunder, but its hands are imprisoned in the aperture. It is quite certain that Austria has in a great measure b een seduced into this monstrous violation of faith, parti ally by the intimidation, partially by the voluble suavity, of the Government of St. Petersburgh. The Administration of the Kaiser FERDINAND possessed all the inclination to destroy the independence of its covetous but it lacked the courage to app ease covetous aspirations : it looked with especial abhor rence upon the liberal institutions of that miniature republic, and resented the fact of its existence in the im mediate neighbourhood of so many absolute and gigantic powers, but it feared to incur the displeasure of those western nations whom it dreaded for their prowess, and whom it loathed for their magnanimity. It re membered that when the imperial diadem girdled the brow of the paternal FRANCIS, thrice had it continued to exist as a state by the sufferance of France; it remembered how its capital had been taken and re stored ; how its regalia had been dashed into the mire and replaced in the hands and upon the, fore head of it s emperor ; i t remem b ere d the con cessions _ of C ampo F orm i o an d the ford of Wagram. Cherishin g an intense hatred of that poli tical emancipation which had so frequently perilled its existence, it preserved, nevertheless, a repre s si ve recollectio n o f the dangers consequent ro u p on arous i ng the polities of Western in jury of th ose Europe while it y earne d for the abasement an d Governments, it was cautious of evoking their rage o rof incurring their violence. Those were the conflicting sentiment, of Austria ; they held possessi on o f her sincethet ea of 1815 ; her covetousness and her co war di ce , her malicel t ee I and her pusillanimity, her hope and her trepidation racked her with a thousand different emotions. She vibrated between an obsequious tranquillity and an insolent display of despotism. Her fears, however, still continued predominant. Her awe of the en croachments of the constitutional Governments still preserved the mastery. Nevertheless Russia has striven unceasingly to remove her objections, to dis sipate her scruples, and to conquer the caprices of her conscience, and the volatility of her passions. Russia has at length been successful in these in sidious endeavours. She has persuaded Austria boldly to consummate, in one flagrant catastrophe, the envy and indignation of years ; she has adroitly im plicated Prussia in an act by which the ruggedness of the road to Constantinople is smoothed. Austria undoubtedly possessed all the will to incorporate Cracow with her dominions, but Russia has shown her the way and given her the courage. As in all the former annexations of Sarmatian territory, so it is in the last infamous violation of the rights of in dependence—the miseries of Poland are all traceable to the council-chambers of St. Petersburgh, the sub jugation of Sarmatia is mainly attributable to the lawlessness of Russian ambition. Circumstances, however, have followed the seizure of Cracow which are indicative of a new spirit, not only among remote kingdoms, but even among the subjects of the offending Power. Lord CASTLEREAGH in 1815 stipulated for the respect which was owing to the last remnant of Poland as forcibly as Lord ABER DEEN could have done in 1845, or as Lord PALMER STON has done in 1846. But neither in the first dis memberment of that kingdom, nor in the forcible seizure of the Duchy of Warsaw, did anything occur so indicative of the peril of such proceedings as the recent resignation of Count KOLOWRAT. By resign ing his Ministerial office, and seeking immediate re pose among the mountains of Switzerland, he is sig nificantly protesting against the violation of treaties and the piecemeal destruction of an unoffending nation. It is preposterous to assert that Austria is op posed to absolutism, or to the propagation of ultramontane principles. Those are a por tion of her very vitality. The locofocos have no such upholders among the citizens of the United States as the absolutists and ultramontanists have in the Cabinet of the Kaiser. It is, therefore, peculiarly remarkable when a Minister can oppose, in a manner so decisive, the wishes and views of that tyrannical Government, as Count KOLOWRAT has just done, by his resignation immediately after the annexation of Cracow. Beyond this, the various states of Germany are roused to indigna tion by the very reflection of the incertitude of their own existence henceforth. It is manifest to them that if the sixth and ninth articles of the Treaty of Vienna are thus violated those other articles may be as easily set at nought by which their independent existence was guaranteed. A stern and obdurate hatred is therefore roused throughout those Govern ments—a hatred none the less stern or the less obdurate because it is based upon selfishness. By the recent crime of the Northern Powers Poland has gained a multitude of sympathisers. Will their sympathy, however, be profitable or unprofitable ? Will Cracow be abandoned to the possession of Austria, amidst the pusillanimous lamentations of the rest of Europe ? Are treaties to be eternally violated with impunity ; are protests to be answered by impertinent sophisms ? The criminality of the French Government, in break ing the Treaty of Utrecht, is essentially different from the criminality of Austria in breaking that of Vienna. The former is a violation of faith, the evil consequence of which is, at the most, a mere contingency ; the miseries resulting from the latter are immediate—they are already experienced by the helpless Sarma tians. The elevation of an Orleans Prince to the Iberian throne is dependent upon the possible sterility of ISABELLA If. ; the freedom of Cracow is de pendent upon nothing—it is already wrested from its population. Let it be remembered that this is no time for cavilling over remote causes of hostility and supposititious grievances. In the occupation of Cracow are implicated the interests of liberty and ci vilisation. The corn-laws, being virtually abolished, with what rapid succession is the public mind addres'ing itself to the extinction of other large monopolies. The breath was scarcely knocked out of the body of the agricultural leviathan, before the disciples of free trade turned round, and, with one blow, prostrated another powerful enemy that preyed upon the vitals of commerce. The pernicious fiscal distinctions he- tween the produce of free and slave-grown sugar were instantaneously swept away. The monopolies of tea and salt are now being attacked with the like vigour, especially the former. Neither is it to be wondered at that these several onsets are being thus promptly made against such formidable restrictions on commerce, They all rest upon the same foundation. The argu ment runs upon all fours with every one of them. If the free-trade propositions in favour of extinguish ing the duties upon corn were sound, they must he equally so when applied, for the same purpose, in regard to sugar, tea, salt, and other articles of general consumption. But the data of political economy tell with more than equal force in relation to the com modities just enumerated than they do in connexion with foreign grain. The people must have bread, which is the indispensable staff of life ; hence, the main argument of the landed monopolists consisted in the inadvisability of allowing this country to become dependent upon foreigners for their daily food. This oft reiterated fallacy has been completely exploded. Of this the corn-law of last session is the best practical proof. Articles of the first necessity, as sugar, salt, and tea unquestionably are at present with the people, still they are not so, to the same degree, as corn. If the principles of unfettered commerce can he safely resorted to in respect to the latter, a fortiori ctin they be successfully applied in regard to the former. lt was this consideration that wisely determined the League to confine their exertions to the abrogation of the corn•laws, because they knew that, after their downfal, all other mono polies would speedily vanish. It was their thorough conviction of this that decided the League upon grounding their arms the moment they had achieved their signal victory. What remained to be done ? they knew well enough the nation would manage for itself, without the help of any gigantic organization. A sharp lesson had been read to all public men, who, it was justly conceived, would not be prone to repeat their former errors. The moral foi.ce which the League brought to bear upon all their proceedings, could not fail of its effect with suc ceeding Ministers whenever the country should display an anxiety to urge upon the Government any concession ofsimilar import to that of the corn.laws. This effect was indicated when Sir R. PEEL, in retiring from office, declared in Parliament that he was ready, in atiy future public capacity, to progress with the p nciples of c ommerc i a l re l axat i on . ye n r o n t m he e r n i t m fe p r or a t n an i t mm m e e d e i t a in te reg,fdorucmtieomn o ori f al t i h si e ng duv the G o , tea, was held a t L ee d s, on Wednesday l ast. Th e 1 1. cpiestion w as very a b ly treated, and appropriate reso lutions in furtherance o f the object of the meeting ware unanimou s ly passed. The hole question turns uppn whether a reasonable case can be made out to the Chancellor of the E xc h equer that, by sanctioning th desired reduction, the r evenue w i ll not suffer so as to endanger the national credit. F rom t h e statistics al ady furnished, there seems to be no doubt th a t thi s as ranee can be conveyed to the authoritie s o f t h e T asury, and more, that the public finances will be much improved by the proposed alteration. This beneficial result will be attained with the greater cer tainty, provided the diminution of duty be made a considerable one in the outset, viz. from 2s. 24d. to ls. per lb. If it be said that the consumption of teas, and particularly the black, within the last ten years, has not corresponded with the cheapness of their prices, compared with what they obtained before 1834, it must be remembered that the average raz upon tea is still two hundred per cent., and, also, that the humbler classes have not been in the condition in which, it is hoped, they will shortly be, by reason of our improved tariff, to com mand the means of purchasing tea. Wherever tea has been admitted on more favourable terms than we , njoy, the consumption has been considerably aug mented. In Jersey, Canada, and Newfoundland the , :onsumption averages 411bs. per head per annum, in Australia, 'Tbs., whilst in England it is not more than lilb. The cheaper we render tea the more we shall consume, and the further we increase its importation the quicker will the deficiency in the revenue be covered. The returns of our national income, since the bold reductions effected in the tariff by Sir R. PEEL, short as the interval has been, have been most encouraging, and warrant our persevering in the same course. But it is not merely the direct advantages to the Exchequer accruing from these seasonable reductions of taxes, the indirect are likewise of infinite value. China contains 350,000,000 of inhabitants. They admit our commodities at the low duty of 5 per cent. on the estimated value. Our trade with them has been materially falling off, and this year it has diminished, it is said, to nearly one third. We have only to liberalise our tariff in respect to their chief article of export, to revive and extend our intercourse with this important race.of people. By an enlarged consumption of tea we should secure a great stimulus to our manufactures, and, conse quently, in a variety of ways, increased demand for the exertions of our labouring classes. The time cannot be distant when the tax on tea will be as hap pily revised by Parliament as have been those on corn and sugar. It has been stated in a respectable Irish newspaper, the Freeman's Journal, that within the last few months, in fact, since the real extent of the calamity by which Ireland has been visited has become fully known, that no less than 1,200 notices have been lodged in the proper office in the Four Courts, in order to foreclose mortgages on Irish estates. We suppose that our Contemporary means that 1,200 bills of foreclosure have been filed for the purpose of com pelling payment of the money lent on the security of the several estates. Such proceedings, if instituted, must entail a fearful amount of suffering on a vast number of families who have hitherto lived in com parative comfort and affluence, and who will be little enabled to brave the ills of poverty and destitution. The cost of each of these bills may be averaged at 1,0001. sterling at the lowest computation ; in several cases, where there are many different incumbrances, or persons having charges affecting the land, all of whom must be brought before the Court, and who will be entitled to have their costs out of the produce of the estate, it may be taken at five or even ten times that amount before the mortgaged premises can be transferred to a purchaser, and the fund in Court distributed amongst the several parties who have established their title to payment thereout. By this means, therefore, no less a sum than twelve hundred thousand pounds sterling will be abstracted from the exigencies of the country, and wasted in useless and unprofitable litigation. This, however, will be by no means the extent of the evil. The first step that will be taken in the vast majority of cases, immediately on getting in the answer of the principal defendant ad mitting the validity of the mortgage, and that a certain amount of interest is due on foot thereof, will be to obtain a receiver over the lands. As this receiver cannot be called on to account for fifteen months after his appointment, and subsequently thereto only once in every year ; and also, as when he has so accounted the balance in his hands must be paid into the Bank of Ireland to the credit of the cause, from whence it will take a considerable time before it can be released and distributed amongst the parties entitled, a great portion of the income derivable from land will be locked up, and remain idle and unproductive, at a time when all the resources of the country should be brought into active operation. Again, it is only in the cases of minors and lunatics, who are the wards of the Court, and for whom the Court is entitled to act in such manner as in its discretion it may conceive to be most advantageous for their real interests, that reduc tion of rent can be made, that improvements can be effected, that labour can be employed, or subscriptions given in aid of the destitute poor belonging to the property, save with the consent of the inheritor of the estate—a consent which there will scarcely be a possibility of obtaining. The whole amount (in case of such consent) would fall upon the scanty portion which would remain for the nominal owner after pay ment of the full amount of charges and costs. He would have no interest in the future prosperity of the property, or the improvement of its soil ; he could not be expected to contribute to the public charities when, in a brief period, himself and family might themselves become objects of charity, and he will, therefore, refuse his assent to any reduction being made in the rent, as well for that reason as because he will hope that a higher amount of purchase-money may be obtained in proportion to the magnitude cf the nominal rent-roll. The late Lord Chancellor (Sir EDWARD SUGDEN) wrote several letters to Lord DEVON and his associate Commissioners, when conducting their inquiries into the laws relating to the occupation of land in Ireland, pointing out the great evil of such a state of things, and urging that the Lord Chancellor for the time being should be permitted to deal with all lands brought in any manner under the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery as fully as if they belonged to wards of the Court. Such an enactment, which would appear to be just and reasonable, and which, in the hands of a person of such sound judgment, enlightened liberality, and enlarged and compre hensive views as the Learned Judge who now holds ' the Great Seal of Ireland, could not fail to be in the highest degree beneficial to the country, and would go far to remove the national injury which must result from the present proceedings. Many months must elapse, however, before such a measure can obtain the legislative sanction, and during that period a fearful amount of mischief may be inflicted which cannot possibly be repaired. It may be worth inquiring into the causes that have led to such effects—to inquire how far the mort gagees and incumbrancers are justified in taking such a course, and what foundation there is fur the panic that has evidently set in, and which has induced pro ceedings injurious to the persons taking them, and fatal to the proprietors of the properties in question ? We hope to be enabled to show that there is no just grounds for such a panic —that estates in Ireland are still as sufficient securities as ever for the sums charged upon them—and that whatever may be the consequences of the failure of the potato crop, and the distress resulting therefrom throughout the country, whatever burdens may be imposed upon the lands for the relief of that distress, and the employment of the labouring population of the coup-. try ; and, however severely it may press upon ..thi; proprietors of the soil, the mortgagees and ineurrk: brancers cannot be affected thereby more than the recipients of equal incomes arising from any other description of property or security. If this can be satisfactorily established, we trust that it will calm the apprehensions of one class, and remove the real grievances that will be occasioned to the other class by those groundless fears. Our space this day for bids us from entering on this proof, but we shall re turn to the subject without any delay. Madrid journals of the 26th ult. have been received It is rumoured in Madrid that serious differences have taken place between the QUEEN and her mother, and that CHRISTINA will most probably retire into France. It is said that a reconciliation will take place shortly between Queen ISABELLA and the Pro gressista party. The Progressistas have nominated as their candi dates for Madrid, ESPARTERO, MENDIZABAL, and OLOZAGA. It seems that the accounts of the desertions of the troops of FLORES are very much exaggerated. General FLORES has arrived at Santander at the head of a very considerable force. As might have been expected, the Afrancesado Ministers have dismissed the Judge who dared to give a decision against Count BRESSON in his affair with the Tiempo. The Heraldo states that a serious increase of price in provisions generally has taken place in the capital, and many other towns in Spain. It attributes this state of things to three causes—the increase of the population, the deficiency of the harvest in many points, and the defective mode of taxation. MADRID BOLSA, Nov. 26.—A scarcity of money was felt on the Stock Exchange of Madrid. The Three per Cents. closed on the 26th at 34i offered ; there was subsequently a decline of 1-16th. Four per Cents., 201 ; Five per Cents., 21i ; Coupons non-Consoli dated, 19k. We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday. The Moniteur publishes three royal ordonnances, in virtue of the law of 1836, which permits the im portation of foreign products for manufacture and re-exportation; allowing colza seed to be imported duty free in French bottoms, for conversion into oil, and exportation in that state within a delay of six months; madder root to be received duty free, for grinding and exportation, on the same conditions ; and tartar in its rough state, to be received in a similar way, and under the same conditions, for conversion into cream of tartar or tartaric acid. The Constitutionnel has an article, which may be considered as a reply to the articles of the Minis terial press on the subject of England, an expression of the desire of the party of which M. TRIERS is the head to renew the English alliance. The following is the article to which we refer : " We have not for several days entered into the dis cussion on the new position in which France is placed. Her situation indeed is a very lamentable one. It pre sents to our contemplation none but disastrous conse quences. To add to the too real evil, it remains for the press only to make bitter reflections, and for these we have little taste. We shall find time to pass judgment upon what has been accomplished. We have, besides, considered that before entfring upon a too easy polemic, a duty was imposed upon us, and that duty we have ful filled. When at the moment of the annexation of Cracow, made in odious abuse of power, and threatening the independence of Europe, we found th a t England and France was divided, we performed our part of good citizens by recalling to the two countries the high and permanent reasons they h a d f or ,renewing their concord. We persist in thinking that, in the present state of the world, an accordance between France and England is the most powerful gu arantee f or p eace an d liberty. We believe that in Engla n d, as i n F rance , the great maj ority of the men who turn their minds to poli tics are, in the bottom of their hearts, of our opinion on this point. We judge so even by the manifesta tions of the English press, although in its vivacity and vehemence it does not always, as it seems to us, represent exactly the opinion of the country. It is against our Government that exclaim all the most resolute adversaries of all common protest and of all immediate re-establishment of the good under standing, but all at the sam e t i me express an appa rently honest and sincere sympathy towards the French nation. There are in the general policy of Europe but two great questions only to which all others are subordinate—the progress of moderate liberty, and the uncertain existence of the Ottoman Empire. Which will gain the day—absolutism or liberal rule ? To which shall belong the empire of Constantinople if it should fall ? All the affairs of Europe are resolved into these two problems, as debated between ideas and am bitions. Will Switzerland, will Italy enfranchise them selves ? Will Prussia at last keep the promise which she has so long ago gave, and enter gradually within the pale of constitutional governments ? Who will be master of the mouths of the Danube and the Straits of the Dardanelles 1 These are the essential points to be settled—sooner or later—between the nations of Europe; and in all these points the interests of France and Eng land are confounded. All England comprehends this." That a revival, or rather a continuation, of the al liance between the two nations (for as far as the na tions are concerned the alliance has never been inter rupted), is ardently desired by the great majority of both is not to to be doubted ; but most assuredly it is not to be desired that such an entente cordiale as that with the phantom of which M. GuizoT bamboozled poor Lord ABERDEEN should be again renewed. Over and over again we have had loud assurances from Lord ABERDEEN that France, in attacking Mo rocco, in extending her conquests in Algiers, in inter fering in Spain, sought not the exclusive aggrandise ment of her own interests; over and over again has Lord ABERDEEN expressed his faith in the disinterestedness of the love of peace pro fessed by Louis PIIILIPPE and his Minister, and in the honour and trustworthiness of both M. GuizoT and his master; and Lord ABERDEEN be lieved the professions of M. GuizoT and Louis Pm- LIPPE ; and on the authority of Lord ABERDEEN, the people of England believed them too, and stigmatised those who ventured to hint a doubt as to the sincerity of the man of Ghent as "firebrands"—" stirrers up of strife"—" the war party ;" yet these " firebrands " were right; Louis PHILIPPE and M. GUIZOT were during the whole of this time deceiving Lord ABER DEEN by a wholesale system of "enormous lying " unparalleled in the history of diplomatic mendacity. They now avow that during the whole period of the en tente cordiale they never allowed their own free right of action to be restrained by this alliance; that during the whole time M. GUIZOT has been in power he has been working to obtain for France an ascendancy in the Mediterranean, to the exclusion, if possible, of England, and that the Spanish marriage is the crowning act of this great system. Such are the statements made by the Journal des Debuts, in reply to the accusations of the Opposition papers, that he has sacrificed the English alliance to an interest merely personal and dynastic. The Siecle has the following, which may be con sidered as the programme of the accusations which M. GUIZOT will have to answer when he meets the Chambers : " Let us," says that paper, " enumerate M. Guizot's diplomatic conquests ; let us see how we stand with Europe, beginning with our allies. A few days since it was said, Spain is for us,' but for whom will she be to morrow? On all sides we have rumours of a civil war. The British Government must revenge itself, and pro bably it will as soon prefer taking its revenge in Spain as anywhare else. How do we stand with England her self? So far from being willing to protest jointly with us against the incorporation of Cracow with the Austrian monarchy, the Whig Cabinet has accused us of having secretly acquiesced in the measure. The Journal des Debuts admits that the accusation has been made against us, and the Presse does not hesitate to say that Lord Pal merston is the author of the charge. His Lordship finds it quite natural, that having been iniquitous ourselves in Spain, we should elsewhere he the accomplices of the iniquity of others.' To this point has come the entente cordiale which M. Guiaot congratulated himself on hav ing restored at the price of such painful sacrifices. The ends he sought for in Switzerland are well known ; and assuredly it is no fault of his if that country is not now wholly in the hands of the Jesuits and Austria. In Germany, the last act of the Northern Powers shows us clearly what sense was to be attached to M. Guizot's return into the European concert. He has now so other option than that of choosing to be reproached with being their dupe or with being their accomplice. This is a sad alternative ; but he must submit to it. We need not say that he has lest all influence in Italy, where (as in Switzerland) he has been wholly devoted to Austria. who has not left him long without proof of her gratitude. At home a partial scarcity of grain, which might have been foreseen, pro duces disturbances that might have been prevented. Our expenses increase without end, without reason, and without bounds ; our resources are mortgaged for the next ten years ; the Legitimatist party again rears its head ; the Radical party says to the ultra-democrats, The day is near at hand, be up and stirring!' Thus the Minister of the reign, it is evident, has not given the lie to his appellation of Conservative." The Journal des Debats has a long article in favour of free trade. It says— " Liberty of commerce must take its place by the side of the other liberties, from which the men of the power ful and glorious generation, to which we owe everything, never separated, and, like all public liberties, it will be imperishable. For our parts w e s h a ll a l ways support it i heartily, because it s for the Journal des Delicas a pro found conviction, already a thousand times expressed— in a word, one of the most precious traditions be queathed to us by the two eminent men who founded this journal half a century ago. But we shall never for get that this cause requires to be served with the mo deration always necessary in the affairs of great states, and with that spirit of conciliation which we always endeavour to adhere to." The Funds opened on the Paris Bourse on Wed nesday with much firmness. The interviews of the Count DE MONTEMOLIN w ith Lord PALMERSTON , having occasioned o b s ervatio n , an d l arge sa l es o f stock and shares having been made, a very consider able reaction took place. The Three per Cents. fell 30c from the highest point. Northern shares, which had reached 640, fell to 632. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Wednes day at 811. 80c. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 65c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,230 f. ; Rouen, 865 f. ; Havre, 633 f 75c. ; Great Northern, 632 f. ' 50c ; Avignon, 8671. 50c. ; Vierzon, 575 f. • Bordeaux, 547 f. 50 . c.; Boulogne, 432 f. 50c. ; Ba'se ' 2181. 75c. ; Diepp e , 3 52 f. 50c. ; Par i s an d S tras b urg, 47 8 E 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 487 f. 50c. •, Paris and Lyons, 500 f.; Lyons and Avignon, 48er. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 475 f. ; Belgian Two -and- a -H alf per Cents., 54k; Spanish Three per Cents., 37i ; Ditto Domestic Debt, 33. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 3. Boulogne and Amiens, 13 3 %—Dutch Rhenish, 5 1 4—Namur and Liege, 3%, Northern of France Constituted, 10% — Orleans and Vierzon, 12 1 /.j—Orleans and Bordeaux, 7'34 — Paris and Lyons Constituted. s—Paris and Strasbourg Con stituted, 4141—Sambre and Meuse, 4%. The new Duchess de Montpensier has appeared at the Academie R o y a l e and the Italian Opera. She was " the observed of all observers;" and it is but justice to say that her grace, bety-cy, and, above all, her extreme youth, pleased every one. If report be true, she is a very lively young lady —rather too much so, indeed, for the staid prudery of the Tuileries. Some of her sallies are said to have been sharply reproved by the Queen, who is solemnly rigid ; and her escapades are represented to have displeased the prim princesses of the royal palace. It is even said that her first interview with the royal family was marked by a piece of indecorousness — in embracing the King she a c cidentally deranged the royal wig, which is so mew h at o f the largest and curliest and instead of maki ng an excuse or sa ying nothing, she had the irreverence t o b urst i nto a hearty fit of laughter'. —Paris Correspondent of Me Brighton Gazate. The Bestwall and SrNinelaam estates of 296 acres, close to the town of Wareham, were yesterday sold by Mr. Robins, at the Auction Mart, to the Earl of Eldon, for 12.700 guineas. These estates were for many years possessed by the late Sir Claude Scott, Bart. Two renters's hares in Drury-lane Theatre were also sold, producing 66 guineas each. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of last Night.) The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was again very firm. Sales, 12,000 bales, of which 8,000 were to the trade, the rest being on speculation. American, sd. to 7d.; Maranham, e t d. to 61-,d.; Egyptian, 74d. to Bd.; and Surat, 4d. to 40. per pound.—The Share market has been quiet, hut in most cases was steady. It is not an unimportant fact to notice that the ac counts from the country grain markets are almost unanimous in stating, the supplies were coming in most abundantly. Hence the probabilities that present prices cannot be maintained. In " ship" that has been sent to us, we find the following remarks upon this subject ; it is from the pen of s competent authority, and worth quoting in all the journals of the country, particularly those published in the manufacturing districts, so that the " famine cry" set up a short time since by interested parties may be dis sipated. It is correctly remarked thus Our readers will see that the view we have, for some time past, taken of the state and prospects of the Corn Market is in course of being fully confirmed. Prices are decidedly, although slowly, declining, and a more considerable fall would ere this nave taken place, had it not been partially counteracted by interested parties keeping back supplies, and encouraging their country friends to hold on for still higher prices than those now current. Meanwhile we are receiving continued and large supplies of all kinds of foreign grain, maize, and flour ; and as duty is paid immediately on impor tation, it is to be presumed that the whole is going into consumption, in preference to home-grown corn. Supposing theti, that the last crop was deficiEnt to the extent of one month's consump tion, we may consider that the quantity already received and delivered, has more than made up for that deficiency, and that the quantities shipped, and on the way to this country, added to those which are in course of shipment, will not only secure us against bigh rates, but reduce prices to a moderate rate during the whole of the next year." There have not been any late colonial arrivals an nounced this morning. The Funds are scarcely so firm as they left off yester day afternoon. Consols for the Account, have just been sold rather largely at 95k, and at 958 for trans fer. It is probable that money is rather more tight, but then we find that Exchequer-bills have realised from 7s. to 10s. premium. The Reduced Three per Cents. have receded from 94* to 938 ; and the Three-and-a quarter per Cents. from 96 to 958. India Bonds are flat r.t 17s. premium. The market for the Foreign funds is very tranquil to day. The only fresh prices given are for Granada bonds, 19k, for Mexican Five per Cents. 24 I, for Portuguese Four per Cents. 39k, for Spanish 26 4 , and for the Three per Cents. 371 A steady demand for Shares exists. The corrected prices Oren this morning are annexed. ONE PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 20 6 1A 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 94 1 % 93% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9 5 14% 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities 96 95% Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 9 15-16 India Bonds, 1,0001 Ditto under 1,0001. . ... 17 p South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Consols for Opening, Jan. 15 95 % 1,4 Exchequer Bills, 10001. I%d. ... 710— p Ditto, 500/ Ditto, Small ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN _FUNDS. O'CLOCK Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent. 1 9 1,& Ditto, Deferred Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 22 % 1 /,i Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent Account 39% Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto. Account 2614, CLOSING PRICES. 206 1 2 931 / 2 95 i/ 2 10 p 10 p 10 p cLosrN6 inucEs 19 1 / 3% 2214 Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. Ditto, Account 37.5 A 31A Dividends on the above payable in London. 9514 941/1 9 15-16 17 p Dutch, VA per Cent . Ditto. 4 par Cent. Certificates 38g 26 5% 37% 92 1 / 8 PRICES or BUSINESS DONE CLOSING GAILW AY SHARES PAID ' AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%..... Armagh, Coleraine, and r.. „ Portrush l% -- Belfast & County Down 4 3 / — Birmingham and Dudley 4%. ... .. 6 1 4 1 / 4 p. ... Birmin. and Gltucester..loo 129 128 1 / 2 Ditto New 17% 3 l l /2 Birmingham and 0.- ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, _ 6 % P 128 t/ 2 31 1 / 2 9% and Cheshire Junc.... 2 3 / 4 Boston, Stamtd, & Birm. 225. Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 Bristol and Liver. June.. 2 1 A ...... Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Half Shares...... 2 1 / Cambrian & Grand Jane 42s Chester and Holyhead... 2 7 1 is 25 ... CLlurnet and Blyttr. 2 Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltexham and Oxford 2 Clyclesd al e unction.. ... 20 Cork, Blackrock, and Passages Cork and Killarney ... 2% Cork and Waterford ... 1% — Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares ... 2 1 4 Cornwall & Cent'l Devon 2% Direct Lincoln, East Bet- __ . 23. 5 / 21/t 25 1% ford, and Sheffd. June. 2% Direct Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and Belfast June. 12 Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublha and Galway..... 4 Dundalk & Enniskillen 10 Eastern Counties 14/. 165....... 23 1 A 2276 Ditto New Ditto Perpetual, 5 par Cent, No. 1. 61.135. 4d 3/ 4 3/ p l /4 p Ditto ditto. No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... Do., York Extension.. 2 ...... 3% 3 4 3 3 /4 EastDereli'm andNor'ch 1 N,astern Union Ditto, Quarter Shares 8 3 / 4 — Do. Exten.(Harwich) 1 7 / 8 — ......... ..... Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2% 2% East Lancashire Ditto. New Do., do. (late Preston and Ormskirk)... East Lincolnshire ...... 11 4 ...... 2 1 / s 2 21 East & West of England 1%...... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... ......... ... Ditto Half Shares ~. 10 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 / 4 ...... Edinburgh &Northern.. 12% — .. ••• Edinburgh and Perth... 3 Ely and Huntingdon ... 12 1 / 4 Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% — E xeter, Yeovil, &Dorset 5 1 / i — Glasgow, Kaman, & Ayr 50 Ditto, New Do., 1 4 Shares (5 per cent. guar.) Glouc.,Aberystwith, and Central of Wales 1%...... .• Goole, Doncaster, &c... 425. Grand Union (Notting and Lynn l% — .. ...... ..... Great Eastern &Western 2 1 / 2 ... GreatGrimsby and Shef field Great South. and West. (Ireland) Great Munster ... 2 1 / 2 ...... Great North of Scotland 2 1 / 4 ...... Great North of England..loo .234 Ditto New 5 — Ditto, New . Ditto, New Great Western B 5 Ditto lA Shares .. 50 ' Ditto 1 4 Shares Ditto Fifths Ditto, New . Huddersfield & Manchee. 13 ...... • ...... ••• •• D z i _ A P 18 1 / 2 31 VA 17 :3,i Ditto, Extension 3 Hull and. Selby Ditto 1 ,4 Shares Do. Half Shares 25 Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 11 1 ,E 12% Do., do., and Norwich 2% 2 3 / 4%% ......... Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Do. New Leeds and Bradford Leeds and Carlisle Leicester & Birmingham 225. — ••• ......•"•• Leicester and Bedford 225....... Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 22% ...... Do., Branch (Blue) ... 2 1 4 ...... • ........••"' Do. Extension( Grreen) 21 /2•• ••• • • Leeds and Thirsk 17%•..... 16 1 4 4 •16 12% 2% 68 753 / 4 - 331/2 16 5% Ditto, New Lpool., Mnchstr & New castle Junction ...... 2% Liverpool and Bury ... 24 L ndon and Blackwall. 16/. 135.4 d. Do. New ............... 3 ...... ....... Ditto Extension ...... 7 Lmdon, Brighton, and South Coast 5O .. 59 Ditto, Fifths Do. GUAratlt. 5 per ct 9 ••• •• •• • •• London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d 9 ...... .• • Do. Preference ... 18 / 17 s 2 d .... London, Hounslow, and 58% l i4 21 Western - •••••• I•• ...... L on don and N. Westernloo 193 195 195 Do. Quarters Do., do., New Shares.. 2 Ditto Fifths . Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12% — Do.. Nei. 1 , , i Shares i (G. J.) Do 40/.Shares(L. M.) 8 Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 6 3 1 /2 x n 6 3 l4xn Do. New Consol. Bths 40 ...... 49 Do. N env .. 1 4.. . . . 5 27% x n 2 7 3 /4 xn Do. New Ditto Tenths . .. Ditto Tenths ... ..... 4 Ditto Guaranteed • 5 Ditto ditto ...... . .... 4 L , ndon and Y or k 2 14 .. ••• Do. Extension London and W in d sor . 1A.... --......... ~..• London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ..... ..,. ........ 2 1 ,4 — Londonderry&Coleraine 15 ...... Londonderry and Ennis kdlen Lynn and Ely .....«..... 15 Lynn and Dereham :5 — Manchester and Leeds... 82 Ditto 1 4 Shares Do. quarters _ isx, 16% 49% 614 6YI• 41F kt, loza jiAW4 at ,:411111111110 , *- - eateov,r, - .--- Do. Fifths 5 .. .. 1118 ll% Do. Sixteenths 6 1% Do. Extension 42s. l l ll p l l4 p Manchester and Birmin. 40 Do. Quarters (A) Do. Quarters (B) ... 5 Do. Quarters (C) 1 Man,:hester,Buxton,and Matlock 423....... p Manchester Birm., and Mould Junction ..... Manchest. & Southampt. 2 ...... 1 ii," 2 111idland lOO .....130 127 Do. Fifths 2 Do. New Ditto, New Do. Birm., and Derbyloo lO6 Midlnd& East. Counties 2%...... Midland Great Western Irish Newcastle and Berwick 20 Do. North Shields ... 25 •Newcastle and Carlisle...loo Newmrket &Chesterfrd 5 Newport& Abergavenny 21...... Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newark, Sheffield, and Boston ... .. PA.. ••• ... ........ .. Norfolk Do. Half Shares ..... 9 Do. Extension Northern Counties Union 2 1 ,6 _.l North British ... ..... ... 25 Do. Half Sharcs Do. Fifths 5 Do. Quarters Do. Extension Northern and Eastern 5O Do. Scnp (isad. 5 dis.) 45 Do. Quarter Shares... 12 1 / 2 — Do. New North Staffordshire 5 .....• 8% 3 /. 1 • 9 8 3 / 4 ... North Wales Northern and Southern _ Connecting Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.... Portsmouth Direct 3 3 /1 — Preston and Wyre Do. % Shares Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 3/. 12s. Richmond Royston and Hitchen ... 1% — Scottish Central Scottish Midland 12% — . Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Potteries,andCrewe... 1% Sheffield & Manchester 100 Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Do. Lincolnshire Junc. 1 1 / t — Do. & Great Grimsby. 10 Do. do. Extension 425. Shrewsbury and Birm... 3 .... Shropshire Union Shrews., Wolverhamp., &S. Staffordsh. Jane. 21/ 2 .. Sligo and Shannon l% South Devon... 4O South Staffordshire June. 21 / _ outh Eastern & Dover. 33% 38 Do., No. 1 2O Do., Nc 2. Do., No 3 Do. N 0 .4 ' N St.Alban's, Hatfield,and Hertford Junction Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2 3 / 1 South Wa1e5...... ..... ... 5 - •••••••• •••••• - Swans. & Loughor & Ca- meron's Still. Coal. ... 2 ••• 000000 •• Taw Vale Extension ... 2 ••• •• •• Vale of Neath Wakefield, Pontefract, & Goole Warwick and Worcester 425. Waterford and Kilkenny 11 . Waterford and Limerick 22 1 / 2 ifVaterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin Wexford, , W aterford, and Valentia Waveney Valley 2 Welsh Midland West Riding Union 428. West Cornwall Wexford and Carlow ... 2 1 / 2 Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby York and Carlisle 2 3 /4 York and Newcastle. ... 25 .. Ditto New Do. Preference York and North Midland 50 Ditto 1 / 2 5hare5........ 25 Do. Selby 4O Do. Extension Ditto, Preference Do. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian ... 4 .. Barbadoes Belgian Eastern Junctn. 2 1 .. Boulogne and A miens l6 .., Bordeaux & Mediterran 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Mackenzie's) 2 .. Do. (Espelete's) Calais, Dunkrk,andWest 1• • • ".". .• • -- • 34 .•• . . Flanders Calcutta and Diamond Harbour ....... ....... . is. ... Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast 1 .. Central of Spain ... Ceylon Demerara 2 l /2 Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish 6 East Indian ... 58. .. Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4 .., Great Indian Peninsular ss. .., Great Western Bengal ss. .., Great Western Canada 3 14 Italian and Austrian 4 ... Jamaica S.Mid.Junction 1 Jersey Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 Luxembourg...... ..... 4 ... Lyons and Avignon Madras 1 .., Madras, Nellore, and Arcot Madrid and Valentia 2 ... Mauritius Namur and Liege . 8 ... Nn of Frauce Constituted 5 ... North Jamaica 1 .., Orleans and Vierzou Orleans and Bordeaux 6 .., Over Yssel 4l 3s 4d ... Paris StLyonsConstituted 5 ... Paris and Orleans 2O .., Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg .. 2% li • ..., •• 3 / 4 ' ..... .•• •••••• P.. ...... ... 101 .. 7%. 5 Constituted Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse lO ... Strasbourg and Bale St. Laurence & Atlantic . Tours and Nantes Con stituted ...... 5 Tournay, Jurbise, Lan- 25% den, 11(1 Hasseit Trinidad West Flanders . 6 JOINT STOC Australasia X BANKS. 21 .. 22 IES Real del Monte Unregd COURSE OF EXCHA Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 5 3y, 3 l /2 gGE.-(YESTERDAY.) Gibraltar...• . ..... Ditto, at sight • • .... 12 2 Rotterdam ...... 2U. 12 5% Antwerp .... 26 0 Ilamburgh —MM. 13 12% Altona • • ... Paris, 3 days' sight .. 25 70 Ditto, 3 months...... 25 95 Marseilles •••• • • • ••••• 25 0 Bourdeaux.. •••• • .. •• 26 0 Frankfort on Maine.... 121% Petersburgh, 3 U 5.... . • Berlin ................ Vienna, effec.flo— •• • • 10 6 Trieste, ditto.. •• • • .... 10 6 Madrid • • ..... .•• • . 35% Cadiz • • •• • •• ••• • •. 363 Bilbao.. • • • • • • • • • • •• Barcelona • • • • • • • • • Seville • . • • Leghorn ......... • • • 30 55 Genoa .. ••• • . . Milan .. • • ..... Venice.......... - Naples ...... ••• • • • 40% Palermo, per oz . • 120% Lisbon.... •• . .• ••• • • . 52% 0p0rt0.... •• . .••• • • • • 62N Rio Janeiro ....... ••• 25 Bahia .•• • . ...... Buenos Ayres .. ... •• • New York, 21 days' sight Philadelphia ...... PRICES OF BULLION, PER 02. Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .• 0 0 0 New Dollars ••. . • • 0 4 10% Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Silver in bars .......• 0 5 0i; COURT CIRCULAR. Count Alexander Mensdorf left Frogmore House, Windsor, the residence of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, yesterday, for the Isle of Wight. Sir Henry Pottinger, the Governor of the Cape of Good hope, had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial -office. Baron de Moucorvo, the Portuguese Minister, is slowly recovering from his long and painfully severe illness. Mr. Aston Key continues to attend the Baron, together with other medical gentlemen. The Marquis of Clanricarde, Postmaster-General, arrived in town yesterday. His Lordship had an inter view with Lord Juhn Russell at his official residence in Downing -street, and also visited the Chancellor of the Each eq uer. The Earl of Zetland had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home• office. The Marquis of Lorn had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey. Sir Do Lacy Evans had also an interview with the Noble Earl. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester day, at his official residence in Downing street. Major Brandreth had also an interview with the Right Hon. Gentleman yesterday. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office, for the Governor of the Faulkland Islands. Lord and Lady John Russell returned to their resi dence in Chesham-place yesterday afternoon, from a visit to the Duke of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle Sussex. Lord and Lady Alan Churchill have arrived at Far ranee Hotel, Belgravc-street, from Blenheim. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes terday, and concluded the hearing of an appeal from Bengal " Rewun Persad v. Mosmmat Radha Beeby•" An appeal from Jamaica, " Gordon v. Horsfall," was opened. The case was adjourned. FATHER EUSTACE.—The announcement of a new novel by Mrs. Trollope, under the title of " Father Eustace, a tale of the Jesuits," has created much in terest in the reading community. It is rumoured that the promised work of this clever writer, is not only a tale of the Jesuits, but a tale of the Jesuits in England; and moreover of the present day. The public have long desired to become acquainted with the revelations of this extraordinary religious community, and to learn something of those secret machinations, and terrible in trigues amongst us, which have subsequently been at tributed to thew, 1% p 1% 127 32 3 4 6% 106 84% AMERICAN AFFAIRS, , NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—Our latest advices from the army of occupation are dated Monterey, the 16th a October. Two United States mails, with public and private letters, had been captured by the Mexicans. The mail riders, it was said, had been murd ered ; but, as • they were Mexicans, it was suspected that they bad voluntarily surrendered the mails to General Arapudia.d It was understood in the camp that General Tar; for had received instructions in the new state e ... t . things, but shat they were had not transpiren. eon was thought, however, some movement was i. • templation. The most important information Ist that the Mexicans have evacuated Saltillo, having first destroyed the fortifications. They have aisl destroyed everything on the road to San Luis retest that could in any way be useful to an invading army 'for thus, according to the account, leaving nothing i General Taylor to conquer but a barren regi on of ruge'eu w ate ! . •- , mountains and thirsty plains, affording ne ither nor provisions for the subsistence of ma n or beast Ayer . a distance of 200 or 300 miles, before he reaches Sale Luis Potosi. • Thercement, same acchadounts a rr dd ved a thatatSanta Anna, wi th i ll reinfo rOt t li i where he intends making a stand. Sa nta Antis D given orders for the evacuation of Monterelt e . h 0 ..... ut they did not reach the commanding general b beat , the action had taken place. There is, with t he r ity informed Americans, a deep anxiety for t h e eeme oe , and comfort of our army. They have a long and tecl.ll march to reach Santa Anna; and by many it is d°lll3l r ee rh whether it can be effected but at great hazard. Th e its, treat from Saltillo is considered by military me t .', e , o f masterly movement, and is ascribed to t he sagalv Santa nna. A letter from Monterey says—" In fact, so far f o r° oi , Pi the war being ended, it has j ust c ommence d ' - 00 position is critical. Our supplies at Camargetvis miles distance, must be waggoned to this Place.treqh long line has no protection. The Rancheros .00, numbering near 2,500, are behind us as g eeri t off and, if they choose to act, our trains must be c i n nors , Although this is a rich valley, its supplies are ~, get quate to our wants, except in beef. ev e are ~ d e sert l 0 700 miles from the city of Mexico, with a vas' ~ most traverse. We have the fullest expectation of tee w ill, active guerilla war against us. Move where /J e w ry e • the mountains and passes afford every facility? , ~ it on successfully, and most disastrously for us. a s od • Details of the position 'of the American rell 'ablie. '. their means of attack, will be found in tb e o f y ell' journals which accompany this letter. It is, 1:1 0 , 0 01, e i • dent that the Administration have not 011 4 or otlit -•' ' in this war, very injudiciously, if not ; ign Of t he : but that they are themselves convinced 0 , ter' ''. own incapacity to conduct it to an honouree. spot mutation, They have therefore resolved te :.; Coo' in a great measure, all vigorous action:1:100i gross meets, when it is understood O r a l ore ° able body will be called upon to assume a . 3-1 It li the responsibility of future warlike movements, ' 1 . 9 110 14 said, and probably correctly said, that Gener al ,' t hat be armistice was disapproved by the President, an roe the was ordered to annul it, and forthwith to P r i d i pre M e lee enemy into the interior. Whether counter-e, ii aode e been issued is not known ; but we have an etn e . l e see .: that no additional volunteers will be called in until after the meeting of Congress. _ e on! novel' . te e In the present state of public affairs, the e d i e ttl , is at fault. The Administration is becoraing e etttsl:ii ••• and divided. Some of them are preparing, like lost ... t abandon a sinking ship. The cominuniitnYtrcoe daiefb'ee ~,,,:, confidence in them. Nearly every state the recent elections, has repudiated and de n The ree l?e (.1, ''- policy. The Mexican war is unpopular• d e of t",:e, 3 ,'. of the tariff of 1842 is condemned by two-thlrooeiolls American people. The Sub -Treasury laig 15,,, Gov re', • measure. In short, no prominent act of the ba S t ie rfr . ii , ! ment, since the dominant party came into p P o ny tiort of - ' , ee it, ,t ,( it ceived the approbation of the intelligent been" • ;,, r • paying citizens. bal e ir" .' ' Since the date of my last letter, elections eies: i e. e ' eft held in the states of New York, NOV tierselio wp , :r chusetts, lowa, and Delaware. In all of the p t i . ree l g it, . ;: '' , have triumphed. As the returns are 11 : 4 6 . ' e ll v - erat io y. t bel ' .i' 1' . 4 details cannot be accurately given. The . e d, , . ~,,:.:! however, may be given in the states mentio n 01 0..4 ', ' may be considered as settled beyond all contriebe non, 1 .• In my letter of the 31st ult., referring t. ° ,,, e lecOgs New York, and speaking of the approacho's'the 0 is, ' say—" Of the 34 representatives, I fit el will elect a majority ;" the result of 0 0 d fin °.. it that the Whigs have elected 23 members, s e ilea ' t er ne ts , hett . e parties and factions 11—a triumph as 1-1--Wither was unexpected. Massachusetts has done e . 0 fe *l for the Whig party than New York. 1 w itute pin eete A strong impression has been inau e ' in D ec- I WS• days, that Congress, when they COnveSessurfi ;eists r % i v , i h l i l s m o o p d in if i J o r n b i o i t a h s b t e h e e n ta p r r i o ff du a c n e d d, the Su b: b y t he u r e eeel lt I thi A n"'i n tbe t 'f o un- which the Locofocos have suff ere- is wi theil their , elections. The opinion, however, - not retrac t st ditch: ' dation. The party in power will the tele 1 n g 0 3f ! steps. They will sooner die 1 w he en l , t heir Until March next they have an over - an d - be •. jority in the House of ltepregentstiVe6, measure of_iiii pride will not allow them to abandon any Whig, "ha ,* last session. After the 4th of March the ~_ w ill l': have a majority in the house. That In b ri e l4 l,eee f ° C ; thorough tariff men ; but the Senate will elf 9 g sl Whether after their state has expressed its elf to o r , the free-trade system these Senators will cont' e oele, pose the re-enactment of the tariff of 184 2 is 1:" 00 the tical. In the next session, however, nothing subjects will be done. Se c ret For a few days past the application of the 45 be; • of the Treasury for a loan of 5,000,000 dollars b i '; IP' the sul t ject of discussion in Wall street. 00 tP h - o t tr. inst. the bids were to be opened at Washingtont„ - e esiv" non-arrival of the New York mail caused a sn.,e,rle s e : "! of the opening until the next day (the 13th). ' iv , be e- • deritood, however, that the required amount he" Oil , subscribed at about par, or a fraction above Pr' te sta' ~ stock is redeemable in ten years, bearing 00 ill° .. •.' six per cent. per annum. , def er „i; The money-market remains steady, with a -CP fer demand for money at a moderate interest. , o es . 0 t The arrival of the last steamer for a few ' C) trifil 1 dered our flour-market rather stiffer, with o ti ey e ° advance in price, but it has reacted, and floo r __ t. a be quoted at 5 dulls. 95-100 to 6 dolls. per baare;ile,Ele —Tizzies. A GENEVESE, 'FBA' ------.............--- Ole FLANDERS MAIL . , he oitoc., BRUSSELS, DEC. 2.—The average price o , 2 r o geft than , week ending Saturday the 28th November, lo wer -pd that of rye, 20f. Bc. These prices are a trlne o ,beett the preceding week, those of v i e ., 26c. e n Ite .' in tas t 27c. on rye. r oollt " - vibe s An experiment has been made at Gram lbs• of oft oread by an admixture of beetroot, vise l itt le 01 ea flour, 3, 2 -ilbs. of rasped beetroot, mixing d a. Pe rfec i -; than usual. The experiment has prov e-- Clzrea's to . dill f. cessful ; the result being 9lbs. of excellenesittelgo eile 'rho Chamber of Representatives, i° Lb rO• fii • fi 11S• it Afe ss- . 0 t wo._ • . 11 received the reports presented by - of e e eiecas sly David in the name of the Coram ittee for the after"'- fwards formed a eeeret committee o .T c i s , eb trial g a l e t o . sa t -, ne t distur he - et& f persona implicated sAocldcieetrrdsinagnd Nieuport during the fetes will be s h° d Ve er/t e e / 0 0 1 b a i er n e t rtileee inflicteds re ;n o ne, t he which have been legally proved ttowothceitiiznetniosrmaraetiotno receiyei The • g . .2 . , f extremely numerous. They were ~.,, eets.., no elte' ° -- butt-end of muskets, with , sabres end ' 3 1,• ° 01 1 ` - eich e ie, **! A letter from Alost, relative to the "with e i lifere'i Saturday, says, t , The additional duties the %0 t oll, linens are threatened in the states ef ic es th b e d el .. after the Ist January next, cause all the- t tbit - t o dtto ° to market to be eagerly bought up in or T his P r ° II ill ; be sent to Prussia before the new Yea r : e " t w ed %Oa 1 „ b o temporary advantage, which will be "f°-meat t e lt ar - o e '' crease of distress, unless the Goveen ffec te tele,ooo ~; necessary measures to prevent the fatal e ', et ) 0 3..- 0 fq result from the new blow with which our 0' of le , tures are threatened. a„, wr i er ,: of_„ s 0 %‘ COLOGNE.—Reports from the' eaane e , -- , c ee itaeee t o ere e e • circle of Gladlack addressed to r t a h e V iw ,holf o gte io r? Chamber of Commerce, upon the gong t it e tbe • ' of thousands of workmen during the e n- a front ot 1 spring ; 6,000 looms are standing still, an 1 .1, e e o, , 4 . CWO fir P. to 15,000 persons are utterly destitute still, .e 0 vie to means of obtaining any. Added to thst o t o q Isloos . . 4 e li ;, in the hands of the manufacturers will . vg 0ft: 45 04e ' than the end of December or the begin e „ l 4 e w w b eo t e , "It is manifest," says the Cologne Jou rn- on je if awn "4 -•,' t be the pitiable condition of the poor P e rat l e tee s r d i is the state of the manufacturers. The tiog for r".: sieged by crowds of suppliants e ntrea w ith i .: • which they are compelled to refuse them t be o . 4 ' lil t r hearts, because they have none to g lee e 10°' - lti e . effect of the misery upon the well-being s o rl e st i 10 1 c log 6o the district is but too apparent, and all 00 oof do, e s, . . ward with apprehension to the e ffect ri s e t i l ese i sio tY 0 1 / 1 0 5 0 , 1 :.; , turing population. The obvious something to meet this crisis are In° 3t ;t P is el e , e % eet ill t A' . , ' ' and doubtless efforts will be made ; but h - ou la - , ‘,., possible that individual benevolence„ se e• wants of so large a body of sufferers. 5 pec,, e BELGIAN FUNDS.-Batrgist ~... ...... si 4.: Actual Debt, 234 per Cent ..... '• • •:.• " .•••• -•!'''' Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent • • u • t ...• - ...... g „:,, ‘• Loan of"rhirty Milions, lour Per ee ..•" ..., ',-! Ditto Three per Cent •••••••• " • " :• •• " 9911 '' ' 1 Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ~.. 014 Ditto, ditto,1840 .. Ditto,ditto,lB42.• •• • • ..... ••• " • • ' -.- Ditto, 1836... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • :. •• ' 1 0 .-. 0,4 . • Ditto, 1838 ••..••••• • • • • • • • " ".••••• 91110 Ditto of the City, 1832 • • • "• '' • • .. •• • • 9 95 Ditto, 1843 • • • . .. ....... • • ..... ....•• Bank of Belgium ••• • •• ••••• ' ' •• 2 6 • -Brussels Papers, t ra, I.l° ‘' • 94 AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-- ~ t - ... • 1 99 4 , 5 per Cent. Metalliques• •••• • " • • ••• .• •• " •Ilrf 4 per Cent. ditt0..........:::, •• • ••• '• ; •... •• " ia6?! 3 per Cent. ditt0.................... •••••• • • • • " • •• .• •• ,125, 1 Loan, 1834 •••••••••• • • • ' • • " • • • .• •• •• 5P ~ Ditto, 1839 ••• • • ..... " •. •• • • ••-• , :: Bank Shares •••••••"•••• • ' • •• • • •• •• " . Esterhazy's Loan •••• " •• '•• •• fi••• ! ;• RAILW.A.YS. ........ _ ~,, The Northern, or Ferdinand •• • • • ...... *N ', ..••••• .• i , Cloggillta • . ..... ••••• • • '' .. •• • • 9. , ,,_ 0 . . Vienna-Milan • • ••" • ' • • • .... •••• •" 9 0, • 90 Leghorn 94 - v Sienna •••• • • • ...... •" • • ... :.. •••••• •" ---- (irospi b r u o r g i N • T • Ai " E " is • T • . ..1 ‘ y . i i r . r. ei : s e • y " i . 1 1 . 0. a. 9 . ' e ; :it o ". . hper pr: etto .• •• •••••••• • ... .... ••••• .. *---. ..;:: b ,• • •••,•••••• hg lest i l e i r ; Apennines - .1 -Allgemelne Zeltung, Nov. 29. Lo p.- A l p-, Philip : pi , sr O r r -11 ROYAL °Id A eI ~ olo:n rea , the a in perfumer, of Charing cross. appointed jest y . Fr omma,tnhuela Jersey y r of . . doubt, be • the ( 3 , h ue s few years will, we have no tillg l a air& I,_ s he respectable we e , I , ~, o r tri i, Triennial Stakes arc rbeugnEet2n'nisridn-egvC•tof-uod.-iau joeso gramme of every e e ate - ale.pee. - 1 tio.• d Newtuarket, Ascot, and Liv Soot thes e " 0 1, 5 crt,ther . Easby " Triennial," and a lii_V vv, _ sae, o r 4 . t his , ~c;t ~ advertised, and Catterick biro °f forty .fir d s 6 ,yersi; o 4, 4 A similar stake is opened at 1\ c0 „7 2 woo Y..„ ,i, places are about to engagement. '' pronoun 15% 3% 8 % 13% 51 /4 par 1% - 2p 37 3 A 12 1 / 4 7' 45 38 11% 17 1 / 2 ... 3/4 . . . . . 3% 3 % 10 lA, 7 3s 251 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 5, 1846,