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SECOND EDITION, Just ready, In 3 vols.. VE NON. 31 IL A TALE E R OF PAItISTA.N' LIFE, By HAMILTON MURRAY. " An uncommonly clever book."—Examiner. " A story of singular power."—Britannia. " This brilliant work is a sort of new and more refined ' Mysteres de Bar is."— Court Journal. " Mildred. Vernon will make a great sensation. It is emphatically a goo-1 hook ; it Is a great deal more than clever ;it is wise, true, and bohl."--•Tcrrold's Paper. henry Colburn, Publizher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now Ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., C I. AR A FA N E.; Or, THE CONTRAST'S OF LIFE, A NOVEL. By LOUISA STUART COSTELLO, Author of " Catherine de lledicis," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. F RASER'S MAGAZ Price 2s. 6d., or by I. The Arctic Expeditions. 2. Memoirs and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh. 3. Fuss Ina Book-club; as related INE for DECEMBER, post, as., contains 7. Life and Works of Leo pardi. 8. Christmas Festivities In Rus sia. by a Copy of Miss Marti- I 9. Tho Austro-Italian Ques- neau's " Eastern Life." 4. The Army and the People. 11. b. The Inandatiea of Pest. Con elud(Q. 6. The Wall-eyed Horse. A Ru ral Ballad. Lordon : John W. P Lion. 10. The Thames : Its Uses and Alm,ses. 10. Yea.it. Concluded. 12. Current Ili,tory. 'artier, West Strand. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. Man.r.mr, Mr. BUNN. GENERAL REDUCTION OF PRICES. The repealed representations that have been made to the manage ment respecting a reduction of prices, in order to meet the exigencies of the times, hive led to its present adoption. In complying with so genera! an expression of public feeling, it is only necessary to state th it precisely the same character of performance will be given. sup ported by the same artistes, and aided by all tile gorgeous parapher nalia of the establishment, presenting a series of attractions on a scale of admission suitable to all classes, without any precedent in so splendid a Theatre. SCALE OF ADMISSION. Dress Circle in the Grand Tier Six Shillings. First Circle ....... Five Shillings. Upper Boxes Pit •-• ..... ......• •... • • Half--a-Crown. -•--- ----- --------•- •---- .------- Lower Gallery •• .. .. .. .•• • .. One Shilling and Sixpence. Upper Gallery .............. One Shilling. r:ivate Boxes, One and Two Guineas; Stalls, Seven Shillings. Half-price at Nine o'clock. Dress Circle, Es. ; First Circle, 23. 61. ; Upper Boxes, 29. ; Pit Is. 6d.; Lower Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, THIS EVENING. The Entertainments will commence with a Grand Opera, entitled THE LOVE SPELL. Nemorino, Mr. Travers ; Dr. Dulcamara, Mr. H. Corsi ; Adlna, Miss Romer. To conclude with the Opera of THE LADY OF THE LAKE. The Knight of Snowdon, Mr. Travers; Douglas, Mr. Borrani ; Roderick Dhu, yr. W. Harrison ; Malcolm Grxme, Miss Bassano ; Ellen, Mrs. D. iting. Doors open at Half-past Six, performance to commence at Seven. The Box-office is open from Ten till Five, wider the direction of Mr. John Parsons. TIM kTRE itorAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. The public ise respectfully informed that this Theatre has, daring he recess, undergone ♦ery extensive repairs and alterations and the whole re-decorated. THIS EVENING. Will be performed the Comedy of MONEY. Evelyn, Mr. Charles Kean ; lara Douglas, Mrs. Charles Kean. After which, en entirely new and original Comedy, entitled THE KNIGHT OF ARVA. The Knight of Arva, Mr. Hadson ; the Primness Marina, 3(iss Reynolds. To conclude with the Farce of SPRING GARDENS. Lord Court ington, Mr. H. Hell ; Sir Arthur Lovel, Mr. IL Vandenhoff ; Scoreup Mr. Kuley ; Laly Clarissa, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham ; Mrs. Scoreup :Arils Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL — Frier the direction c 4 Madame celeste During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the o - lginal designs by Di4loy Wyatt, Rag , executed by Mr. Sang. A new Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys tim of Ventilation, Stc., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs aided to the Seats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable. THIS EVENING Will be performed ST. MARY'S EVE. A Story of the Solway. Tom Bagr,es, Mr. Wright ; Madeline, Madame Celeste. To be followed by THE ENCHANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Prospero, Mr. 0. Smith ; Ariel, Madame Celeste. After which a new Farce called SLASHER AND CRASHER. 31r. sla,her, Mr. Wright ; Mr. Crasher, Mr. Paul Bedford. To conclude. with THE DANCE OF THE SHIRT. ILOYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the .`,lanagement of Madame Yestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING. Will be performed THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Cha raetc.rs by Messrs. Granby, F. Matthews, C. Mathews, Cooper, Bel- Ingham, Meadows, Selby, Hall, Binge, Bonner, F- Cooke, Charles, Ml s Marshall, Madame Vestris, Mrs. Yates, Miss K. Fitzwilllam, and Mrs. Macnamara. To conclude with A cunrous CASE. Characters by Messrs. Pars,tl6.. Selby, Charles 'Mathews. and Miss II Gilbert. Dress ~ ,# xes, ; Upper Boxes, 41. ; fit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No hall-price to any part of the house. - ,ew woe-once, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the pu),lle , y -lay, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. Durin,, , , the Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and embel _felled In a superb and costly manner by Mr. Ilunvitz. A new Chan delier has been fitted, and the best arrangements have been made for hli d;ie Ventilation of the Theatre, and the comfort and convenience el the audience. THIS EVENING, Wtll be perfoPme,l the comic Opera of LOVE IN A VILLAGE. Hawthorn, Mr. Charles Braharn; Yowl, Meadows, Mr. Allen; Hodge, :Ir. Ozberry ; Madge, Miss Emma Stanley; Rosetta, Miss Julia Hafaild. To be folowed by a New DIVERTISSEMENT. To einieluils wtj the Opera of LA VIVANDIERTA. TO CORRESPONDENTS. No communication can be attended to unless authotti . ca:ed by tha name and address of the writer. tl., , iet•ed communications cannot be returned. WEATHER.--Star OFFICE, NOVMEEER 24. Til ., :nmomr.TEn, Lowest, 42, liiv,hest, 52; Noon, 42 BwrtomuTEtt, 29 82. WIND N.E.; fine sunshiny weather. ;;it WATER AT LONDON EIiZIDGE THIS DAY. Th - Tning .. 53 mtn. after 12 ETening 12 min. after 1 g • -) _eft e 1 7Z p s €4 0 6 ; i 7 i •0 a - "' = . r -- 0!;•=ls-C 4 tg 1V i '' , 0 !MI6 v, 1 I 1 . Iri , A 1 / ) 4, - UNITA . , LONDON, FRIDAY, NO - VEIT3ER 24. 1848. RUMOURED CHANGE OF MINISTRY. It is rz:moured that the state of Lord JOHN LEFEEIL'3 heal,h will compel him to retire from the arduous duties of office at an early period, and that th:s retirement must necessarily bring with it exten sive Ministerial changes. The decl - aration made by Sir ROBERT PEEL to the highest personage in the realm that the state of his healfh would prevent him from ever again under taking the onerous duties of Prime Minister, unavoid ably comp:da those who think on such subjects to con template the composition of a Government that would not include him as the head of it; but no one would &sire to see a Government formAl that had not the a !vantage of Sir R. PEEL'S cordial support. To ob r.in this some of the leading Members of the late Cabinet must be comprised in the arrangement The bond of union in such a Government would be unity of principle—" ideas velle et idem nolle: The members of it must agree on the financial, the commercial, and the colonial policy. It is unneces sary to advert to foreign policy, for in the present state of Europe it is impossible to predict what the foreign policy of this or of any other country is to be. The following, sketch of the alteration in the h(dders of office, which such a fusion of parties would involve, is submitted as one that would at once ob- j tain the entire confidence of the, country : Lora CLARENDON—instead of Lord JOHN RUSSELL. 81r J. GRAHAM —Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. GLADSTONE—Board of Trade. Lord Anaanmart—Privy Seal. Lord LINCOLN —Board of Control. Lord HARDINOB—Lord-Lieutenant. Mr. Ca anwaLL--Secretary for Ireland. Lord MAHON and Lord JOC RLYN—Secretaries to the Board of Control ; end other arrangements. Presuming that th e cordial su pportgin fo b il y Sir R. PEEL to such a Government would b by the support of his frie n d s i n and out of ProiZad ment, it is not too much to esti mate the addition to the working Ministerial majority of 30 votes. It is also highly probable that a large portion of the Conservative Members, who, although they differed from Sir ROBERT PEEL on the great qu es . tion of the repeal of tha corn-laws, never lent themselves to the virulent hostility displayed by a few individuals, would support such a Government. The motive for doing so is sufficiently obvious—the present state of the British empire, and the un s,ttled and alarming condition of Europe, imperatively requires that there should be a strong Government in England. It may be confidently asked from what other com binations can a strong Government be formed? The elevation of Sir C. WOOD, Sir J. lionnousE, and Mr. LABOUCIIERE to the Peerage, will give additional strerrg:h to the Administration in the House of Lonl'3. Comnzunicatal. Y)v; that the Hon. CIIAIMES FITZWILLIAM has secured himself from further derision by withdraw ing- from ti. , contest for the representation of the West Riding of Yorkshire, three men, whose names aro familiar to the population of the United Kingdom, are :Areadv recognised, if they are not all of them p ii4 s . tly u t forward, as candidates for the suffrage o t:: .. T. stituency. Those three men Ar. , :_. ___ F kritimg, ne of the most eloquent and en :4l ' I V III 4 --0M4(..\ al reformers—Mr. DENISON, 4 '' .R'41• 1 40 -- ' '; id, half free-trader, half pro ,,-*tioniike-ttii n only partially ratted from the AI A principles of Toryism—and Sir CULLING Eerweey, Many valuable suggestions are contained in that a person as liberal as a politician as he is conservative letter ; and although we cannot agree with the author as a Churchman. From among these three aspirants in every particular, we must admit that the points West to which he refers arc w or th y o f mature and for the votes of 35,000 e l ec t ors , t h e men o f t h e Riding of Yorkshire will have to make their selec- attentive consideration, and that beneficial re- Con. Let them not act with undue precipitation. sults would very probably follow if some por- Their proceeding is of a momentous character ; for tions of his advice were carried into execu the largest of all the constituencies of England must tion. We are disposed to place confidence in Mr. necessarily influence the political opinion of the rest of WHITEHEAD'S assertion, that he wishes "to sustain our elective population. They must not falsify the railway property in its integrity, to see it placed many glorious retrospects of the legislators sent by above doubt, so that the most timid may select it them to participate in the hi g h l a bours of Parliament without fear for the means on which their income -representatives such as HENRY BROUGHAM, as their all--depends." His letter contains internal RICHARD COBDEN, and as Viscount MORPETH. The evidence of the fact. It is not vox et preeterea nihil, constituency of the West Riding must rival the assi- a mere lip service, a profession of friendliness towards (laity of the rival candidates : before the candidates those whom he is at the moment endeavouring to in canvass the votes of the constituents, the constituents jure. On the contrary, ho speaks in the most must canvass the merits of the candidates. favourable terms "of the present and prospec- Of the merits of Mr. ROEBUCK we are very far tive position of the company," about whose from being ignorant. His long and energetic affairs he is writing, as detailed in their recent labours in the House of Commons as one statement, which he truly declares to be "a docu of the Members for the city of Bath, hi s went of the highest importance," and adds, " its perfect devotion to the cause of Reform, his publication has not only dispersed every doubt of the perpetual allegiance to the great political creed of .-olidity of that enterprise; but it has done more—it Civil and Religious Liberty, are all of them truths has imparted confidence and comfort to proprietors in as indisputable as the vigour of his terse and sar- these railways, the stocks of which have experienced castic oratory. It remains, nevertheless, to be de- equally with your own, the blasting effects which monstrated whether the souvenirs of his Parliamers want of confidence ever carries with it." This is not tary life are precisely those which would best accord the language of a concealed enemy. It is an admis with the character:and the endowments looked for in sion that would not readily be made by one anxious the representative of the West Riding of Yorkshire. to promote the objects of the " Bears." His ob How far Sir CULLING EARDLET possesses a claim jections may, therefore, be regarded as those of upon the consideration of the great liberal consti a friend anxious to see a really sound undertaking tuency may now be tolerably well estimated from placed upon the most favourable foundation, and to have the address just published by him, in which he reveals its capabilities fully developed. His arguments are to the electors his exact Views as to the political in- therefore entitled to a calm and dispassionate perusal, novations at present required. Conspicuous among and to carry with them the weight to which they may these revelations of his liberality is the declaration be justly entitled. made by the Honourable Baronet in favour of the Mr. WHITEHEAD argues forcibly against the prat BALLOT ! And still more conspicuous among the tical monopoly of the goods -trade that has been ob great questions which must be agitated during tained since the company became carriers on their the forthcoming election is the question of own account, and compelled those who had previously the day par excellence—the question of the endow- carried on the business to retire from the unequal went of the Roman Catholic priesthood in Ireland. contest. This course, he avers, has been alike inju 'The necessity of such an endowment Sir CUL- rious to the interests of the community and of the LING EARDLEY is prevented, by his religious scruples) shareholders. According to the former system, all from perceiving, and in his devotion to the Protestant private carriers were permitted to use the line under Establishment, he announces that he will never consent certain regulations. They collected and delivered even to a restricted and conditional endowment. The the goods, took every risk upon themselves, and paid arguments contained in a recent pamphlet' respecting certain stipulated tolls for the use of the road, and for this important question are not yet comprehended by the locomotive power. This allowed a clear and cer- Sir CULLING EARDLEY ; and assuredly the decision tain profit to the company on every transaction, arrived at upon this great question of religious tole- while at the same time that competition was main ranee will exercise no feeble influence over the judge tained amongst the parties engaged in the traffic that ments of the candid and enlightened electors of the was so very desirable, and which afforded the best, if West Riding of Yorkshire. not the only, security to the public against any over dose charge, undue detention of goods, or other impropriety of conduct. This has now been altered. The private carriers have been driven from the field, and the mo nopoly would be complete but that new and unex pected rivals appeared. The canal companies have followed the example of the railways, and also become carriers on their own account. A brisk com petition is now taking place. The canals convey bulky or heavy goods at a much cheaper rate ; on the other hand, the railway possesses incalculable ad vantages in the additional speed obtained (often of the utmost importance), and also in the certainty that the traffic can be carried on at all times, without impediment or interruption— that the " goods" sent for speedy transmission cannot remain icebound for weeks together to the serious injury of the owners. Both parties are exerting all their energies to defeat the other.. The charges are, therefore, at present (as stated by Mr. WHITEHEAD) ruinously low, so much so, " that a considerable portion of the profit derived from passengers cannot fail to be absorbed by the losses which are incurred in the conveyance of goods." Without in any respect pledging ourselves to the accuracy of this assertion, sufficient appears in the comparisons which Mr. WHITEHEAD his made between the earnings of carriages for the conveyance of passengers and those for the conveyance of goods to justify the alternative, that " either the goods rates are too low or the passenger rates are too high." It may be said that the public benefit by the present low charges for the carriage of goods and merchan dise, and that if the company are willing to carry on the traffic, either at an absolute loss or a very inade quate remuneration, they should not Le interfered with therein. This argument, however, can not stand ; for any position radically wrong cannot permanently be maintained. The gain, therefore, will be but temporary, and much more will bs extracted from the pockets of the public when the monopoly is completely establishtd, than will he an equivalent for the present advantage. Mr. WHITEHEAD shows that, at present fares, a first-class express carriage from London to Manches ter " is capable of earning 38/. 55.; a second-class carriage, fur the same distance, 40/, ; a third-class ditto, 251. ls. 41; while a goods truck can only ob tain 51. 55., and a cattle truck only 41. 14s. These are certainly startling facts, and require explanation. The suggestion that the passenger fares should vary in proportion to the rate of speed at which they are conveyed appears to be a useful one. Third-class carriages would not then be made uncomfortable for those whose necessities compel them to resort thereto, in order that others in better circumstances may be forced, into the other classes. The Legislature should, however, be appealed to, to sanction such an arrangement, the present enactments forbidding such an attempt. Persons having capital at their disposal cannot do better than to inspect the table of returns that may be obtained for money invested in Government Stock, or in what is termed Preference Shares —that where one of the great companies has guaranteed a certain amount of dividend, which must be paid in full before any sum can be divided among the share holders. These guaranteed stocks are fully as safe as Consols themselves; and yet, in many instances, nearly 6 per cent. can be obtained without a possibi lity of risk or loss. Yesterday the Court of Common Council was pre sided over by the Right Hon. the Chief Magistrate of the city of London, for the first time since his accession to the mayoralty. From the knowledge which had long since been acquired by the members of the metropolitan Corporation as to the character of Sir JAMES DUKE, whether as a citizen, a merchant, or a politician, it was but natural that his reception on his first appearance yesterday, in his high official position, before the Court of Common Council, should have been marked by so much cordiality and enthu siasm. Under every circumstance the annual transference of the office of the mayoralty is calculated to forward the interests of the capital and its inhabitants, partly from the generous emulation excited among the successive residents at the Mansion-house, partly from the infusion of new blood, or rather, we should say, from the imparting of a novel stimulus to the proceedings of the municipal authorities, partly from the continual revision of the various public operations in the City, but, above all, from the laud able ambition which is by this means instilled into the hearts of the more conspicuous members of our great commercial community —an ambition prompt ing them to unremitting assiduity, to probity beyond the touch of imputation, to skill, to enterprize, to consistency, to virtue, to perseverance, to equanimity, to decision, to all those important qualities which constitute in the aggregate the perfection of the mercantile character. Of these advantages the City of London has afforded innumerable illustrations in the catalogue of her chief magistrates, dating back from Sir JAMES DUKE to Sir THOMAS GRESHAM, and from Sir TuomAs GRESHAM to Sir RICEIARD WHITTINGTON. That extraordinary has, with a few exception, presented to the comn mercial generations of England an uninterrupted spectacle of the honours which become the recom pense of the trader who, within the circumference of the City walls, has elevated himself in the estimation of his fellos-citizens. Insomuch is this the inevitable consequence of the nobler dealings among our more distinguished merchants, that the mayoralty has comae to be regardel by Englishmen as the crowning point, the reward, and the consummation of an honourable mercantile career in the metropolis. If this be the case in the generality of instances, it is indisputably so in the instance of the Honourable Representative for Boston, the gentleman now in office as the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of London. Nor can we anticipate from the elevation of Sir JAMES DUKE to the mayoralty other consequences than such as must prove beneficial in the highest legree to the inhabitants of this vast and populous capital. As inaugurative of such results the Proceedings of the first Court held by the Common Councilmen, under his jurisdiction, may be regarded as a favourable assurance. Among the topics discussed upon that occasion it will be observed, for example, that most conspicuous were the measures relating to the supply of gas and water to the crowded thoroughfares and byelanes of the City, as well as the general improvement of the sewerage and other sanitary regulations. That the present Lord Mayor will stimulate these admirable exertions by his own personal interposi tion between the citizens and their grievances, is as sured to us by a variety of guarantees, guarantees afforded by his previous labours as an Alderman, and spontaneously reiterated since his installation at Guild hall. While, however, the attention of the Chief Magistrate is directed in a particular manner to the furtherance of these physical improvements within the boundaries subject to his jurisdiction, he will con tinue to sustain the character for hospitality which has hitherto constituted one of the noblest, and cers tainly one of the most proverbial, qualifications of the first citizen of the British capital. That such is the determination of Sir JAMES DUKE was suffi ciently manifested on the very day which witnessed the ceremonies of his inauguration, when he pledged among his guests in the Guildhall so many of those Englishmen whose names are illustrious whether as statesmen, warriors, administrators, or publicists, among the nations of continental Europe. In allusion to this circumstance we may observe, by the way, that immediately after the civic banquet of the 9th of November, a morning Contemporary, generally supposed to be in the confidence of the Liberal-Con seriative party, inveighed in no measured terms against the Lord Mayor for not having invited Sir ROBERT PEEL to partake of his hospitality, and to honour the distinguished company by his atten dance. It was maintained that the omis sion of this one illustrious name from the list of the guests at Guildhall was the more re prehensible from the circumstance of Sir ROBERT being the great man of the age, the cynosure of neighbouring eyes, and one whose genius embraces and long expected Homo Veniens The 30 many of the tokens distinctive of th e m uch- br uited indignatiindignation of the journal in question sounds oddlynteanouhgh to our ears, seeing that we have very excelle min u e t nt ori ii ty for c ur a a ra ti knowing that among the first of the e ters invited by the Lord Mayor to his inau banquet was—the Right lion. Sir ROBERT PEEL It was impossible, in truth, th at i t could be other- . w i se ; for, although an earnest supporter of the Government of Lord Joins ltussELL, the newly. elected Lord Mayor had too much political discern ment, and too cordial an appreciation of whatever de served to be regarded as genuine liberality and prac tical patriotism, not to recognise in the career of tl-e illustrious Baronet those deeds which command respect and excite admiration. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris pipers of yesterday. The Legitimatists, or more properly speaking, the Parti Pretre, speaking through their organ, the Gazette de France, have at length thrown off the mask, and declare openly that they shall vote for Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, because his success will lead to the immediate dissolution of the Assem bly, and ultimately to the destruction of the Republic. As the Semeur justly observes, "the Legitimatise party, squires and priests, peasants and beggars, shop keepers ruled by their wives, and traders, wishing to preserve the custom of the clergy, will, -with some honourable exceptions, vote for Al. Louis BONAPARTE. Those very Legitimatists who, the day after the revo lution of February, pretended such enthusiasm for the Republic, now enter into a plot for the avowed purpose (a purpose which they seek not to dissemble) of destroying the Republic. They will drive their herds of peasants, the pagani, the ignorant Pagans of the 19th century, to the poll, but the day will come when these very peasants will turn against them, and then they will deplore the ruin of that faith which they were themselves the first to betray and to dishonour." Among the honourable exceptions alluded to by the Semeur we are glad to be enabled to class M. BERRYER, who, if he does not support General CA YAIGNAC "with his exclusive Republicanism," is at least equally opposed to M. BONAPARTE, " with his palpable incapa c ity an d en ti re i gnorance o f his situ ation." The Gazette de France and the Legitimatists, in deed the Monarchists of all shades, insist upon the necessity of excluding General CAVAIGNAC from the Presidency, and of utterly destroying him, if pos sible ; and the Constitutionnel, we are sorry to find, is following the example of the Presse in resorting to the weapons of calumny and slander. M. TRIBES should, however, be cautious. His antecedents will provoke some crushing retorts ; he, of all the living statesmen of France, should avoid provoking a per sonal controversy. M. CoquaßEL has addressed the following letter to the editor of Galignani'a Messenger : "Sir, —The Messenger has inserted a few lines bor rowed from L'EvenerneNt of Monday last, stating that I have refused to recommend G“i ral Cavaignac, as Pres;dent of the Republic, to my brethren, the ministers of the Protestant churches of France. This is in every respect a mere invention. I have not had to refuse what has nover been asked. Though lam far from for getting the eminent services General Cavaignac has rendered to his country, writing a circular letter or charge to my fellow-ministers would be affecting a sort of episcopal influence. We are Presbyterians, and such a presumption would be at once in direct opposition with the principles of our Church and my constant line of conduct. " I remain, &c., ATRANASE COqUEREL, "Pastor of the Reformed Church of Paris; Member of the National Assembly." On Tuesday we alluded to some facts noticed in a letter to GEORGE CARR GLYN, Esq., M.P., by Mr. WHITEHEAD, late secretary of the South-Eastern lailway, and now a member of the Stock Exchange. * " A Few Words on a State Endowment for the Irish lergy." By a Catholic Ecclesiastic. Pp. 32, Bvo. ;idgway: London, 1848. Y` EVENING, The Patrie gives the following account of the cir cumstances attending the duel between M. GOUD cuLux and General BARAGUAY D'HILLIERS. " On Tuesday, when M. Goudchaux was maintainilg from the tribune of the National Assembly that all the holders of the Treasury bonds should profit by the rrea- Aire proposed by M. Trouve Chauvel, General Baraguay qlilliers said from his place that it was for the interest of M. Goudchaux to extend this lenefit to all holders of these bonds, because he held a large share of them, in concert with a celebrated banker of Paris. Coming down from the tribune, and going up to the General, M. Goudchaux gave him the direct lie. The General, with out attempting to support his assert i on, i mmed i ate l y de manded satisfaction, and sent two friends, M. I)ariste and M. Laussedat, both representatives of the people, to make arrangements with M. Clement Thomas and M. Kestner, whom Goudchaux had chosen as his seconds. They met with pistols, at twelve o'clock, at the Bois de Boulogne, and, being placed at a distance of forty paces, advanced upon each other and tired. Neither shot took effect, and the seconds interfered, declaring that enough had been done to satisfy the honour :)f both. General Baraguay d'Hilliers then withdrew the expression he had used, and declared that he did not intend to insult M. Goudchaux." The following letter :was on Wednesday addressed by several members of the Club of Deputies of the Institute to the Vice-President of the Club : .‘ We have the honour to address to you our resigna tion as members of the Club of the Institute. We re gret that a profound difference of opinion as to our duties towards the country in the present circumstances should place us under this painful necessity; but we can not admit that we have in the eyes of some of our col. leagues failed in these duties either as citizens or repre sentatives. We think, on the contrary, that we have in both respects understood them, and we have been desirous to perform them in an unequivocal manner, without reserve, and after a mature appreciation of men and things. This is our conviction, and we firmly be li;:ve that it is entitled to general respect. " Signed—Dupont (de l'Eure), Armand Marrast, Buchez, A. Legend:e, Barthilemy (Vienne), Sautcyra, Langlois (Eure), L. Liechtemberger, Goutay, Natchet, Bonnin (Vienne), Dave, Flan din, Turck, Tassell, J. Renouvier, Guill. Louth, E. Deposit., F. Engelhart, Walferdin, Dezeiinc ries, Groslhier-Debrousses, T. de Tillancourt Alfred Lecuyer." , The National announces the formation of a new society (among the members of which are to be found the greater number of the seceders from the club of the Institute), which is called the Democratic Society of the Friends of the Constitution. The object of its members is to maiatain by every means in their power the Ainciples - of the Republican constitution, and it takes for its motto—Conciliation for persons— Inflexibility for principles. M. BUCHEZ, the first President of the National Assembly, is the President of the Association. M. PROUDIYON'S paper, the Peuple, which was sus pended by General C AVAIGNAC in June, re appeared on Wednesday. The Conititutionnel publishes a list of thirty-four individuals, inhabitants of Lombardy, upon whom Marshal RtDETZKY has within the last few days raised a forced loan of 11,710,000 Italian lire (up wards of 400,0001. sterling). The Constitutionnel says that this proceeding of Marshal RADETzKy's is nothing but an abominable confiscation, which can only be compared to BARBES'S proposal on the 15th of May of a.tax of a milliard on the rich. This proves the truth of the proposition on which we have of late had so frequently to insist that the principles of protection and of Red Republicanism, of Absolutism and of So cialism, are essentially the same, and have the same end in view, via., the plunder of the industrious for the benefit of the idle. Among the persons from whom this loan is forced are four members of the ex-Provisional Government, namely Count VITALIEN BoRRoMEE for 800,000 lire, Count GABRIO CASATE for 300,000 lire, M. BARETTA for 50,000 lire, and Count POMPEO LITTA, the his torian, for 60,000 lire. The Duke ViscENTE. the Duke LITTA, the Marquis ALA, and several others, figure for 800,000 lire. _ _ •-• twenty-eight representatives of the depart.. ment of the North have unanimously determined to vote for General CAvAioNac. Several persons collected yesterday under the win dows of the residence of Louts NAPOLEON, in the Place - Vendome, shouting Vive l'Empereur. He immediately came out, and shook hands with several of the crowd. He was loudly cheered by his ad herents. The Presse says, the Marshal BUGEAUD has pro nounced in favour of Louis NAPOLEON BONAPATETE. M. DE BONNARD, a physician, and MM. DR LE amicic and CLovis MORTIER, advocates, founders of the Club of the Redoute, in the Rue de Grenelle St. Honore, which club was provisionally cl ose d , b y order of the Chamber of Council, until the jury should have pronounced on the speeches delivered there, ap peared yesterday before the 6th Chamber of Correc tional Police, on a charge of having, at a pretended electoral meeting, refused entrance to the commissary of police. M. DB LERIGNAC argued that the tribunal was incompetent, and that a jury ought to be called in to give an opinion is to the character of the meet ing which had occasioned the prosecution. The tribunal declared itself competent, and ordered the case to proceed. The accused then declared that they made default. The Court condemned them to 200 f. fine each arid costs. A meeting of the supporters of Louts NAPOLEON BONAPARTE was held at Batignolles, on Tuesday, under the Presidency of General MONTIIOLON. An irruption of Red Republicans took place, who expelled the partisans of the Prince, and carried resolutions in favour of RASPAIL- BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23. THREE O'CLOCK.—The Bourse has to a certain extent recovered from the panic of yesterday. After a few fluctuations the Rentes rose steadily till they reached fully one-half per cent, above the closing prices of yes terday. They closed at the highest. For the Account, the French Three per Cents. have advanced 60,:.; the Five per Cents. 750. ; and the Loan 65c. For Money, the Three per Cents. have advanced 50c.; the Five per Cents. 700. ; and th e L oan, 1 03.; B ons d u T r e 3or not quoted; Ban of France Shares have risen 10f.; Belgian Bank Shares not quoted ; ditto Five per Cents. have risen per cent.; Spanish Active not quoted; Three per Cents. have risen 1 per cent. ; Passive not quoted; Roman has advanced, 4 per cent.; and Rothschild's Re c. ipts not quoted Exchange on London (30 days), 25 50; ditto .(90 days), 25 37k. Railway Shares have also risen, and closed firmly. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK -EXCHANGE, Nov. 23. Orleans and Bordeaux,l3/4—Paris and Lyons (101.), 4 Paris and Strasbourg, 2 —Tours and Nantes, 14. S PAIN. - - Madrid journals of the 18th have arrived. It is now acknowledged that the attempts of COR DOVA to bribe CABRERA have been fruitless, and that redoubted Carlist chief is again up and doing. The Espectador publishes the following letter, dated Barbastro, Nov. 11 : " We are in a continual state of alarm since the authorities of this place received a communication from General Oribe, warning them that Cabrera, according to trustworthy information, is seeking to invade Upper Aragon, and to fall on this town. All the boats of the Cince have been at once removed, and the bridge of Mediano has been broken up, in order to prevent the Carlist chief repassing the river which serves as the boundary line with Catalonia." The Carlists are fortifying the Mountain of Buss. The Duke and Duchess of MONTPENSIER arrived at Port St. Mary's on the 13th. There were some rumours of an impending Minis terial change in consequence of an offence taken by NARVAEZ at his having been excluded from the royal residence of Casa del Corpo, where he had asked some friends to join a hunting party. As the QUEEN intended to spend the day there herself NARVAEZ and:his friends were refused admission by the porter. The Gageta publishes the following rules to be adopted with regard to the vessels entering Spanish ports from countries in which the cholera prevails : " 1. Are-sletelareil to be foul, vessels proceeding from ports where Asiatic cholera existed when they left. " 2. Ditto those proceeding from ports free from cholera at the time of their leaving, but which called at, or been forced by stress of weather into,:any port where that disease exists, or which had come in immediate con tact during their voyage with another vessel of the c►ass cited in the previous section. " 3. The vessels to which the preceding dispositions refer shall be classed under the head of pestiferous:'- Ist, whera-thare-bas been any one dead or ill of the said disease on board during the voyage, without SO days having elapsed since any death, or the entrance of the last case of illness into a state of convalescence; 2d, when there should be any one with cholera on board at their arrival; 3d, when any one should be taken ill with the same disease during the quarantine. "4. Are declared to be suspicious vessels proceeding from ports which, though free from cholera at their leaving them, may be in free communication with other ports, or points of the interior distant less than thirty leagues, if the disease exist in one or other. The ports comprehended in a district which the Government may declare suspicious will merit the same conception. "5. Whatever doubt may occur as to the respective declaration to which the preceding dispositions refer shall be resolved, firstly, by the boards of health, with view of the ship's bill of health, manifest, log-book, ;and other papers; and, secondly, of the official notices which they may have either from the Government or our consular agents abroad ; fur which object the proper dispositions shall be made. "6. Vessels classed as foul, whether pestiferous or not, shall be admitted solely into the lazarettos of Mahon and Vigo. For those n o t pestiferous, the Government will adopt the opportune measures in order to fit up, Provisionally, in two other ports, the respective lazarettos in which they them. may make the quarantine des i g ned for " 7. Vessels classed as foul, but not pestiferous, shall suffer ten days' quarantine now in the lazarettos of Mahon anti Vigo, and afterwards in the two lazarettos which may be prepared—the time beginning to count from the day in which the vessel concludes its discharge, and observing the rules which the regulations of Mahon establish for purification and cleanliness. But if the vessel should have had any one dead on board during its voyage,. that was not from cholera, five days' quaran um% shall be added. NOVEMBER 24, 1848. " 8. Ves.els classed as pe , tiferous. comprised in the first case of dispoiition 3d, shall make a quarantine of 15 thys, coduting from the conclusion of tlmir dis• charge. Th,, operations to be conducte,l in both cases according to the terms or the 16th art. of the sanitary operati , ns of the lazzaretto at Mahon. - "9 Veselsclassed assuspicious which arrive in ballast, or without having on board any goodi susceptible. of contagion, shall be admitted in all boards fitted fur com merce, and shall be placed in - observation there for three days, if more than twelve shall have been spent in the voyage, completing the term up to fifteen days, should the time of the voyage have been less than twelve.! 10. When these same vessels have any goods or effects susceptible of contagion on hoard, they shall only be able to make their quarantine of observation in the ports of Barcelona, Tarragona, Mahon, Alicant, Cartha gene, Almeria, Malaga, Cadiz, Vigo, Corrunna, Gijon, Santander, Bilboa, St. Sebzstian, and Santa Cruz de Teneriffe, the quarantine lacing of five days, with ven tilation in the air, or cleansing of the goods and effects, if they have been more than twelve days on the voyage, and increasing it so as to complete seventeen days, if the voyage had been less than twplve. " 11. In order to carry into effect what is provided in the preceding disposition, care shall be taken to provide provisional laziretto3 of huts (bar racas), or other tqui va'ent buildings, where ventilation or cleansing of the sw;ceptible g% - :cds may be car: it on. " 12. The political chiefs of the maritime provinces to take care that the boards of health of the ports exercise the greatest vigil-once with fishing vessel:, not allowing them to pass more than one night at s.a, n- - ir to come in contact with other vessels. " 13. The vessels which may enter our ports, from stress of weather, shall be supplied with such assistance as they may require; but they shall be kept on strict in communication until they sad, according to the class to which they correspond. " 14. The political chiefs will adopt the proper dispo sitions to chastise any sanitary infraction with all the rigour established in the regulations. " The which I communicate to you by royal order fur your fulfilment and other effef.tts. " God preserve, &e., (Signed) "Madrid, Nov. 15, 1848." " SARTORIUS. MADRID BoLSA, Nov. 18.—The Three per Cents. were done at 19 7 16 cash ; Five per Cents. 91 sellers ; Coupons, 54 buyers; Passive Debt, 31 sellers. Exchange on London, 48 25. GE R ZANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES AUSTRIA. The Wiener Zeitung of the 17th publishes the following official account of the murders of BLum and MESSENHAUSER " In order to meet the malevolent reports which have come to the ears of the military auth,rities in regard to the execution of I4obert Blum, tho3o authorities deem it expedient to recapitulate some statements previously notified by them. " Rober - t Blum, of Leipsic, notorious as one of the most active leaders of the insurrection in October last, was, in pursuance of the state of siege proclaimed for Vienna and it s env i rons , on t h e 20th October, arrested and brought before a court-martial, after the entrance of the Imperial troops into the capital. "In the examination consequent thereupon he was convicted by his own confession, and by that of witnesses on oath, of having on the 23d October, fanned, by an inflammatory address, the armed insurrection in the :hula of Vienna, and having taken part in the same, with weapons in his hands, as a leader of a company of the corps d'elite. a Robert Blum was consequently, in conformity with the existing military- law of court-martial, unanimous!) , condemned to death by hanging, and this was corn muted into that of being shot, which was carried into execution within 24 hours of his being placed before the court martial. " Wenxel Messenhatiser, a native of ProsF,nitz, in Moravia, thirty-five years of age, Roman Catholic, a single man, and an author, was convicted at the court martial examination by his own confession, as well as by overt act, that he, in his quality of provisional commander in-chief of the National Guard, incited the armed insur rection in Vienna, its environs, and divers provinces, by placards and summonses to the Landst arm ; that he, after the announcement of the state of siege of the city of Vienna, its suburbs and environs, by means of procla mations of his Serene Highness Field-Marshal Prince Windischgratz, under date 20th and 23d October, did issue and propound a further call, on the 25th October, to rebellion against the troops sent by his Majesty, the Constitutional Emperor, against Vienna, for the re storation of peace and order, and endeavoured to se duce the said troops to a breach of their faith ; that, finally, he did, by a threatening command, urge the defence of Vienna to the uttermost against the approaching troops, and thereby energetically con tinued the armed resistance. Nay, that he, even after the conclusion of the capitulation for the sur render of the city to the General Field-Marshal, on the 30th at noon circulated numerous copies of two bulletins, respecting the pretended victorious progress of the Hun garian army, announced already on the 28th October, and thereby induced the breach of the already concluded capitulation. " Therefore, Wenzel Messenhauser was condemned to death by hanging, by a sentence of court-martial, under date of the Ilth, published on the 14th November, in pursuance of the cited proclamation, in connexion with article 62, section 4, of the military penA c )de; and that sentence big commuted into death by shooting., was executed on the 16th of this month at half past eight in the morning, in the trenches of the city." Accounts from Gratz state that the Hungarian troops made an irruption on the Bth into the city of Priedlaw in Styria. They consisted of four battalions of Landwehr, and including the cavalry, were about 4,000 men strong. They had with them four pieces of cannon. After committing great devastations and levying contributions on the city they retired, fol lowed by the Imperial troops. A heavy cannonading was, heard during the night of th e 13th i n th e direc tion of the Hungarian frontier. The Wiener Zeitung of the 18th states that ANTorg BROGINT, of l3runne, in Moravia, aged 29 years, was shot early that morning, after trial by court-martial. The Austrian Lloyd contains intelligence from Gratz of the 13th, from which it appears that Count NUGENT has received intelligence that General DAHLEN and General BEVRITS hail driven the enemy from Nedelitz and Csuleathurn, on the night of the 12th. The island has now been occupied by three brigades. PRUSSIA. A most important decision was arrived at by the Court of First Instance and the Criminal Chamber of the Tribunal of Berlin on the 22d inst Having considered the question of the publication of martial law in Berlin, in full sitting, these Courts have de clared it to be illegal. At Bonn, on the 21st, troops from Cologne,who ar rived during the day with two pieces of cannon, took possession of the gates of the town, which were evacuated by the civic guard and the students without resistance. The soldiers are, it is said, to be em ployed in collecting taxes. At Dusseldorf, on the 19th, the provisional com mander of the civic guard reviewed an entire legion, consisting of 2,800 men. After the parade he ad dressed them from the balcony of the Town-hall, to the following effect :—" Comrades, the day of danger has arrived; your liberties and rights, so dearly gained, are not only menaced and attacked, but the laws trodden under foot. The Crown has broken the treaty concluded with it in March. It is for you to defend the constitution against all attempts of the Government; for this you were formed, for this arms have been intrusted to you. Swear, comrades, to me, as I swear to you, that you will die rather than allow your liberties to be taken from you." The men took the oath. The commander then informed them that the communal administration would side with the National Assembly. A letter from Breslau of the 17th, says : " As soon as the news of Berlin being declared in a tate of siege was known, it excited terrible commotion among all classes. The magistrates immediately as sembled and declared themselves in favour of the Na tional Assembly, and declaring that they deemed the conduct of the Ministry illegal, they resolved to disavow th, it authority. The same evening they sent delegates throughout all Silesia to make this resolution known, and everywhere it was approved. Energetic protests were sent to the King at Berlin, but without producing any effect. Stettin immediately placed the public treasure at the disposition of the magistrates and the National Assembly. Yesterday accusations were posted up everywhere against the Ministry, de claring them traitors to the country; but they still con tinue in power. This day it was resolved that no more taxes should be paid to any one but by order of the ma gistrates, and no public functionary was to receive his salary until be had declared that he would support the Assembly. At nine o'clock all the National Guards were under arms, and the greatest order prevailed when it became known that the people could depend upon the National Assembly. At ten o'clock deputations waited on the Governor of the province, to demand from him the key of the public treasure-chest, and also to demand a categorical answer to the question whether he would obey the orders of the King or of the Assembly; the palace of the governor was then put under the charge of a battalion of the Na tional Guard. The deputation having remained at the palace of the governorotei de unt v il i e u l e e , ve w n h o er 'c o lot t : h k e , without re turning to the were waiting for them, it was resolved that the magis trates should go in a body to the Government -house. When they arrived there they were informed that the governor could give no reply until the next (this) day. As they were apprehensive of some snare being laid for them, the alarm was sounded, and the National Guard was instantly under arms, although the snow fell heavily and the cold was intense. To-day the governor declared that he had placed himself at the disposition of the National Assembly. The Prussian Staats Anzeigcr of the 22d con tains a prohibition of the President of Police of the sale of all political pamphlets. The peace of the city has not been disturbed. The payment of the taxes meets with but few obstacles, in consequence both of the activity of the various Governments and of the good sense of the inhabitants. In Silesia some difficulties are met with. The Landwehr are being organised in various parts of the country. Numerous addlesses continued to pour in from all quarters, ex- pressive of gratitude that the KING upholds the con stitutional rights of the Crown, praying him to per severe in the cause which he has adopted, and in several instances expressing the highest disapproba tion at the votes given by their delegates, and the line of conduct pursued. The resignation of the BCANDENBURG Ministry is not confirmed. HAMBURGH. HitunuaGH, Nov. l.—lt is the general opinion on our Bourie that the conflict now carrying on at Berlin between the KING and the National Assem bly will not involve those consequences which were at first apprehended. The family of KOSSUTII is expected here. Apart ments have been prepared for them. The Hungarian Dictator appears anxious to secure them against all the eventualities of war. Marshal MARMONT, who has been at llamburgh for the last eight months, seems likely to prolong his stay there. He has just hired an hotel, and taken up his residence in it. In all the northern cities of Germany subscriptions have been opened for the widow and four children of ROBERT BLUM, who was shot at Vienna. On the 22d a grand funeral ceremony is to be celebrated here, to which all the members of our Democratic Clubs have been invited. The coldneis of the weather has at length de livered us from the cholera. This scourge has now quitted us, and cases of mortality are rare. DENMARK. COPENH A GEN, Nov. 19.—1 n the h;gher circles the copy of a note is circulated here addressed by the EMPEROR to the Russian Ambassador in France, in which the EMPEROR declares that he will uphold the rights of Denmark though he should be compelkd to do so by force of arms. It is generally believed that the new Ministry, in conjunction with the KING, will not enter into any conditions in the negotiations for peace now pending in London, which are contrary to the wishes of the people, as expressed at the Frankfort Parliament. The important post of Director of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs has not yet been filled up. The late Ministers have, it is asserted, promised their support to the new Ministry. S WEDEN. STOCKUOLM, Nov. 14.—The French Minister has called upon all Frenchmen who are resident at Stock holm to give in their names, in order that they may take part by means of balloting papers in the elec tion of a President for the French Republic.--Ham burgh Borsenhalle, Nov. 21. SAXON Y. The Ober Post Amts Zeitung of Nov. 20th pub ishes the following from Leipsic, dated Nov. 18 : "The free bands, who in conjunction with others from the province of Saxony, intend to go to Ber!in, al ready amount to nearly 300 men. They go about beg ging contributions of money from house, to house, and keep a list of all those persons who refuse to give, in order to be avenged on them in due time. They have, however, received a very great check by a proclamation from the Municipal Council and the President of the Police, which states that the formation of every such body of armed men is illegal and will be subject to con dign punishment. consequence of a political meeting having been held in the church at Leipsic, and another in the church at Wurzen, in Saxony, the Minister of Religion and Pub• lic Instruction has issued a command positively pro hibiting the use of ecclesiastical buildings for political assemblies. THREE O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON.— At this moment the generale is being beaten. The Com munal Guard having undertaken to disarm about fifty of the free bands who were assembled in Metiers garden, the latter fired upon them, and wounded two of the Com munal Guardists. The authorities, it is said, intend to arrest the free bands. Peace has not otherwise been disturbed, nor is any excess apprehended. Large bodies of the Communal Guard are gathering. The Senate house and market have been occupied by the sharp shooters. ITALY. The Milan Gazette state 3 that an attempt was made on the 18th to assassinate the Duke of MC/DENA. He was twice fired at but was untouched. Major GUERRA who apprehended the assassin was wounded in the arm. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Madlle. Helene Stoepel, the Pianiste, was completely successful last night at Jullien's concert: Her perform ance of De Meyer's fantasia oil airs from Lucrezia Borgia, was replete with taste and expression, whilst the execution was most brilliant. Sho was encored, and had several splendid bouquets thrown to her. LYCEUM THEATRE. A new one act farce, most properly described in the bills as a " caricature," was produced here last evening under the title of Two Owls in one Ivy Bush. The two owls, Major Muddle and Captain Addle, were respectively represented by Mr. Frank Matthews and Mr. IL Hall. These two worthies are both afflicted with absence of wind to a transcendental extent--indeed the writer ap pears to have read up all the American j.,kes upon this subject, and to have put them in action in this farce. Some of the blunders committed by these absentees are sufficiently amusing, but as the piece depends solely upon situation, it should be condensed, for a constant succession of contretemps, all of a similar character b-!-- comes at length wearisome. The piece was well acted, by Frank Matthews, 11. Hall, and Miss Marshall, who had but a little part, yet of which she made much. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lucia de Lammermoor was performed here last night, with Madero:idle de Roissi as Lucia. In the character of Lucia, Mademoiselle de Roissi fully maintains her high Continental reputation. Her impersonation of the character is full of passion and pathos, yet absolutely free from rant or exaggeration; it is, as we have said, full of passion, but that passion is chastened by taste and controlled by judgment. The contract scene was ren d red most artistically, and in the mad scene she was exceedingly fine. Her fiorture were novel, and were executed with true artistic taste. She was applauded most raptuously throughout the opera, and was called before the curtain twice during the evening, with Mr. Allen, when several bduquets were thrown to her. We perceived a marked improvement in her pronunciation of the English language. Mr. Weiss's Ashton, and Mr. Allen's Edgar, are too well known to require further no tice than to say they were excellent as usual. Mr. Allen's last scene was indeed exquisite. STRAND THEATRE. A pleasant adaptation from the French, entitled Our Friend the Duke, was produced here last evening with tolerable success. The plot turns on the circumstance that the Duke de Beameis (Mr. Conway), a grandson of Henry the Fourth of France, has incurred the dis pleasure of Cardinal Maz triu, and is consigned to the prison of Vincennes. The Duke believes that the minister has been wrought upon by the Duchess de Mont bazon (Mrs. Hooper), in a fit of jealousy at an act of gall sntry by the Duke towards another lady; but the Duchess shows herself superior to such feelings, and, under a disguise, is instrumental in effecting the Duke's liberation from prison, and subsequent reconciliation with the minister. The piece was saved by the spirited acting of Mrs. Hooper, who, as the Duchess de Mont bazon, made the comedy. Her disguise as Marie Michaud, the hostess of th(.‘ country inn was admirable. Mr. Conway as the Duke, was also excellent, and 11. Webb as Grimaud, a facetious turnkey, kept the house in a roar whenever ho appeared. The return of his Excellency Count Reventlow, who has been absent for some weeks at Copenhagen, is daily expected, as the steamer Skirner has been placed at his Excellency's disposal by the Danish Government since the 12th inst. During his stay at Copenhagen his Excellency has been made a Privy Councillor of State, as a mark of the approbation with which his royal master regards the energy and ability displayed by Count Reventlow in conducting the negotiations on the Schleswig-Holstein question. Several distinguished men have been mentioned as likely to accompany Count Reventlow in order to take part in those negotiations which are still pending; but we hope that the further conduct of this difficult matter will be left entirely to his Excellency, who has so well defended the rights of his country ucder adverse circumstances, and who will knoiv how to maintain the reputation he has gained as a skilful diplomatis t.— Times. THE LATE FATAL COLLISION ON THE RICHMOND LlNE.—Yesterday having been appointed for the re examination of William Watkins, the fireman of the Vulture engine, who stood charged with driving that engine against the Hornet engine, and thereby caus i ng the death of Richard Perry, the prisoner was brought up at one o'clock, and placed before a full bench of the Richmond magistrates, of which Mr. P enry h n was chairman. A mass of evidence hav ing been heard, after some conversation between the railway o ffi cials and th e bench, it was agreed that the prisoner should stand com mitted for trial at the Central Criminal Court for the manslaughter of Richard Perry, but would be brought up again on Saturday next for the depositions to be completed. It was stated that the driver would not be able to undergo an examination for a fortnight or three weeks. Favoured by the continuance of fine weather, great progress has been made in sowing in this neigh bourhood; and, notwithstanding the wet season, the land is said to be in excellent condition.—Stamfor d Mercury. TIIFNAVT.-A splendid first-class frigate, to be named the Phaeton, will be launched from Deptford dockyard at about a quarter-past one o'clock to-morrow afternoon. =METROPOLITAN COMMISSIONERS OF SE WERS.- Yesterday morning a general court was heH at the office, Greek street, Soho, the Earl of Carlisle in the chair. The commissioners present were the Hon. F. Byng, Mr. Chadwick, Mr. Hutton, the Rev. Mr. Stone, Mr. Bedwell, Mr. Lambert Jones, Mr. Broderip, and Mr. Leslie. The business was unimportant. A considerable order for bayonets has been received in Sheffield, which town was formerly the principal seat of the manufacture of those weapons. The cost of each prisoner in the county gaol of Carlisle is stated to be ss. 6d. a week; while the cog of paupers in the same locality is only 2s. 9d. a week. 'IONIEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS' CITY, QUARTER TO 7 ',REA. The demand for Cotton at Liverpool yesterday was brisk, and pr:ces had an upward tendency. The sales were ( stimeted at 7,000 bales, and include 5.000 Ame rican, at 4id. to 51d.; 450 Pernams, &c., at Cid. to 5441.; 150 Egyptian, at 4V. to 64d : and 800 Surat, at 24d. to 311—Itailvvey Shares were firm, with a fair demand fur good stock. The Continental letters and papers to hand this morn ing seem to furnish a slight indication of improving markets for some articles, and we understand by the MariFfiester reports that there have been a few more continental orders given during the last day or two. The stocks of goods abroad are low, and there must be a material replenishment whenever the demand improves. Surprise is still expressed at the marked inertness of our produce markets. The abundance of money has had seemly any effect upon prices, although there are certain articles which have been in greater favour. We may instance particularly wool and cotton, both of which are at higher prices. It is staples constituting a portion of our food, whether as luxuries or necessaries, which are lowest, and least remunerative to the importers, though to a great extent because of the large supplies. We should hail this as a direct advantage to the con sumer, but that we are aware of the improbability of imports continuing to be made at a loss, as is too gene rally the case at present. The circular to bankers, no mean authority in the monetary world, takes a very hopeful view of the future. The writer states that people are looking about for an opening to employ their money, and that this is a sure precursor of improvement, and of returning confidence after two years of trial and prostration. Ile then gives his opinion as follows: There will be no revival of what Mr. Huskisson called a wholesome spirit of speculation under our pre sent monetary regulations. Still we see ne reason to doubt of a satisfactory revival of confidence and exten sion of business for a given space of time under our ex isting monetary system. If we cannot again soon reach 100, we may have eighty, while almost all other coun tries except the United States have sunk from sixty to forty or thirty in their power of producing, manufac turing, and vending goods." Perhaps a glance at the position of the country in re spect to its Bank note circulation may be appropriate now that we aro presumed to be entering upon better times. During the month ending the 4th inst., the average weekly circulation in the United Kingdom was 34,675,0341, showing the gratifying increase on the previous month of 2,172,4514, of which about 1,500,0001. was in. England, over half a million in Ireland, and the rest in Scotland. Harvest operations and sales have no doubt much to do with the increase, but we hope trade will further deve!op it, as the Bank circulation is still 4,000,0001. under the amount at which it stood in No vember, 1847, although the bullion even in the banks which make a return exceeds by 3,000,0001. the sum held at this time last year. The West India accounts bring us the complaint so prevalent of late of scarcity of money and dullness of business, but they advise us likewise of beautiful weather for the crops, cheaper labour, less competition from the working of worn-out plantations, and more confidence in the future ; all circumstances which may surely inspire hope. As to the proceedings of Deme rara in withholding supplies, even the Co:onies most dissatisfied with the withdrawal of protection, censure them as shortsighted, and as calculated to recoil upon the colony. The Stock Market is rather heavy, but there is very little doing. Consols realize 87+ I for Transfer, and 87i j for Account. Bank Stock has been at 188 to 189. Exchequer bills are firm ut 41s. to 445. premium. The rumour set abroad yesterday afternoon of an intended change in the Ministry, excites very little attention, and for the simple reason that it is not believed. East India Stock has been at 234. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been marked 861 4. The Foreign Securities are generally f a i r ly sup ported, but Portuguese Bonds have been an exception, for they have receded to 25+ and 24 Spanish Three per Cents. have Le en 244 to 25, and are looking well. Mexican have touched 21 and 211, and it appears that 27,000 dollars have been received for the dividends. This is still short of what was expected. Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. have been 47i to .1, and appear to be rising. Railway Shares, though very quiet, are flat. Mid land, North Stafford, Great Western, Eastern Coun ties, Caledonian, and the York lines, have been rather lower. Brighton and South-Eastern steady. ONE CLOSING P clf •Es OF hILITISH FUNDSI O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock ... lBB 189 189 3 t or Cent. Reduced Arms. B6 86 1 86% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities.-- 87% 1 4 87% New 3 1 4 perCent.Anns...... 86%% Long Anns. to expire Jan.lB6o 8 11-16 % India Stick 234 234 India Bonds, 1,000/. Ditto under 1,0001. ...... 39 p 39 p South Sea Stock ...-.... Ditto Old Annuities Consols for Account. Exchequer Bills. 2%d. & 2d. 1,(K)0/. March 1,000/. June 3B p 38 p Small, March 4l:p 41p Small. June PRICES OF FOREIGN' FUNDS ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds - 72% Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 72% Chilian-Bonds 6 per Cent-- .- Ditto 3 ear Cent — Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. — Ditto, Deferred 2 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 — Ditto, Account Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents — 34 Portuguese per Cents. — Ditto, 4 per Cent — Ditto, Account Russian Bonds ... - Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Passive Ditto, 3 per Cent Ditto. Account ... ....- ..... 24 3 / 4 25% Dividends on the above payable iii London. Dutch 214 per Cent., 12 Guild....• 47 5 / 8 34 1 ,4 47 1 ,E Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 71% 71% PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING i , A IL WAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. 3 berdeen PAID. Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 414 — Ayrshire and Galloway.. 7 Belfast & County Down. 19 Birmingham and Ox turd Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Do, withoutguarau tee 20 . oi. ruing, Wolverh'ton, and Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 10 — H Do. withoutguarantee 10 Binning., Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 13/. 145... Birkenhead, Lancashire, an Cheshire June.— 10 ...... Poston, Stainfd & Birm. 5 ...... Bristol and Exeter 9O .... - Ditto, Thirds Luekinghamshire... 141. 4a Caledonian . Ditto, Half Shares .. 8 3 4 ...... •••••• Do. New 10/. Pref..... 5 ... .. Ditto,ClydesdaleJunc 50 Chester and Holyhead.- 50 — Ditto, Prefetencc Clarence ' 78 1 4 — Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Ports mouth - ...... ...... Dublin and Belfast June. 35 ..„ Dundalk & Enniskillen 20 — East Anglia, 254 L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 — Do., 18L, E. & H.... 18 Do., 31.103. Eastern Counties........ 20 ...„. 111 NA Do. New Guaranteed 46% 13% 11% 6 per Cent. .... ..... 7% B3-, % ..... ....... Ditto, Extension, 5 per Cent., No. 1 61. 13s. 4d.... Ditto ditto, No. 2 61. 133. 4d... Do. North. & Eastern 50 Do., 5 per cent. Do. Quarters ..- ..... 12% Do. New Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Ditto, Class A, ditto... 1 Ditto, Class B (L & • and B.) 2O Ditto, Class C, ditto... 20 . 1)o. Scrip (6 percent.) 10 Ditto, ditto Ditto (C. & E.) guar. 5 per cent.-- ...... 2 1 ,4 . East Lancashire Ditto, New Ditto, New Quarters 6 1 ,4 — ..... ••••• Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... 651 ...... •••••• East Lincolnshire ...... 25 , 24 'l ... .... ....... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto, Half Shares ... 15 .. Edit' burgh andNorthem 25 --- Ditto, Newport ls Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorcb. 2% 134- ......... Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Gla.sgovr,Kilmar.,& Ayr 60 ..... „ Do. Preference Consol. • ..... ado • .a. Great Northern Do., A Deferred ... 4 ....... Do., I/ 2 B 6 per Cent. guaranteed ..... 4 1 h 3 4 Do. Extension 2► ...... • ;reat South. and West (Ireland) .. 4 2 1 / 2.... ... ... .• .. Groat North of England 100 ...... Ditto, New, 401 4O Ditto, ditto 25 Ditto, New, 30/ 3O Ditto, New, 15/ l4 „ ,„ .......... ..... Great Western Ditto, 1 / 2 Shares Ditto, 1 4 Shares Ditto, Fifths ...... ...... 20 • Ditto, New 17/... .• •.. 13 ... — ......... Huddersfield and blanch. 30 — ........ ....... Ditto, Thirds . lO .. — [lull and Selby .. ...... 50 — Ditto, Half Shar e s ... 25 Ditto, 1 ,4 Shares ..... 12 1 / 2 .. ... .... .. Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds ... ...... lt; Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 Ditto, ditto ...... t 6 Ditto, 1 / 2 Shares 43 ... .. 29 1 / 2 •••• • 29 41 Do. Quarter Shares... 17 1 / 2 9 3 /a ... Do. Fifths .. 9 Do. Sixteenths 6 14 Do. Thirds (Reg.) l3 .. . .. ..• 34i Do. New, Gua.6 p er c t. 5 •• 5 Do. 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