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MRS. GORE'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., THE DIAMOND and the PEARL. A NOVEL. By MRS. GORE. henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Groat Marlborough-Street. New ready, in 2 vols. post Eivo., with Portraits, &c., 11. is., neatly - - bound, T HE LIFE and REMAINS of THEODORE HOOK. With Anecdotes of some of his Contemporaries. Author of " Sayings and Doings," " Gilbert Gurney," &c. By the Rev. R. DALTON BARHAM. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, (rublisher in Ordinary to her Majesty). THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. Manager, Mr. BUN N. GENERAL REDUCTION OF PRICES. The repeated representations that have been made to the manage ment respecting a reduction of prices, in order to trier t the exigencies o of the times, have led to its p resent adoption. In plying with s general an expression of public fe elin g , it is only ac.iessary to state that precisely the same character of performance N..'11 be given, sup ported by the same artistes, and aided by all the 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. ••.. • • •....• • • Four Shillings. Pit . ...... Lower Gallery • • • • . • • • One Shilling furl Sixpence. Upper Gallery .. •••••• • • . • . One Shilling. Private Boxes, One and Two Guineas ; Stalls, Scv.,n Shillings. Half-price at Nine o'clock. Dress Circle, 3s. ; First C ircle, 25. 6d. ; Ui I..er Boxes, 2s. ; Pit , . 6d.; Lower Gallery, Is. Upper Gallery, 60 . THIS EVENING, The Entertainments will commence with a Grand Ope ra, entitled MARITANA Don Caesar de Bazan, Mr. W. Harrison ; Lazarillo, Miss Rebecca Isaacs ; Maritana, Mrs. D. King. After which, a New Divertissement, entitled LE BAL MASQUE. To conclude with Dibdin's popular Farce of TAE WATERMAN. Doors open at Half-past Six, performance to commence at Seven. The Box-office Is open from Ten till Five, under the direction of Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager. Old Brompton. The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during the recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations and the whole re-decorated. Tins EVENING, Will be performed THZWIFE'S SECRET. Sir Walter Amyott, Mr. Charles Kean ; Lady Eveline Amyott, Mrs. Charles Kean. After which, an entirely new and original Comedy, entitled THE KNIGHT OF ARVA. The Knight of Arva, Mr. Hudson; the Princess Martha, Miss Reynolds. To conclude with the Farce of DEAREST ELIZABETH. Mr. Lionel Lax, Mr. Keeley ; Betsy, Mrs. Keeley. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Roder the direction of Madame Celeste. During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the original designs by Digby Wyatt, Esq., executed by Mr. Sang. A new Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys tem of Ventilation, &c., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable. THIS EVENING Will be performed ST. MARY'S EVE. A Story of the Solway. Tom Baggs, 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. Mr. Slasher, Mr. Wright ; Mr. Crasher, Mr. Paul Bedford. To conclude with THE DANCE OF THE SIIIRT. ItOTAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestria. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles sla• he a.s. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE MERRY WIVES 0 F WINDSOR. Cha racters by Messrs. Granby, F. Matthews, C. 3lathews, Coper, Bel lingham, Meadows, Selby, Hail, Binge, lionne,. F. Cooke o , Charles, Mi a Marshall, Madame Vestris, Mrs. Yates, MI is K. Fitzwilliam, and Mrs. Macnamara. To conclude with an APPEAL TO THE F ÜBLIC. Dress Boxes, 55.; Upper Boxes, is ; Pit, 2 .; Gallery, Is. No half-price to any part of the house. The Sew Box-office, No. 2, Welllngton. st e .1, is open to the public every day, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S THEAT Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. During the Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and embel lished in a superb and costly manner ty Mr. Hurwitz. A new Chan delier has been fitted, and the best arrant , meats have been made for the due Ventilation of the Theatre, and the couuort and cenvesience of the audience. THIS EVENTN(I, Will be performed LA SONNAMBrLA. After which, a PAS DE TROIS. To conclude with the comic Opera o; LC,VE IN A VILLAGE. Hawthorn, Mr. Charles Braham; Young Meadows, Mr. Allen ; Hodge, Mr. sherry; Madge, Miss Emma Stanley; Rosetta, Miss Julia Harland. TO CORRESPON DEIN Tb. No communication can bo attended to uilless authenti. cated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot bo returned. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE. NOVEMBER 29. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 47; Highest, 51; Moon, 5 5 . BAR( METER, 30.01.—WIND S.W.; dull weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAT. Morning .. 41 min. after 3 I Evening .. Tlt min. after 3 of troninco LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1848, In the movements now making in various quarters of Europe there is evident the commencement of a struggle which must ultimately terminate in a general war throughout the Continent. It has at last become impossible to close the eyes to this certainty, to shut the heart against this conviction. The characters on the wall are already too legible. The first resonance of the horn of war may even at this moment be heard. Nothing but a miracle can prevent a general resort to arms in France, in Austria, in Prussia, in Italy, in Spain, in Portugal. Of this there is unfor tunately too ',much evidence• Since the beginning of the year 1848 the two great Powers of society have been gradually accumulat ing their strength and concentrating their hatred. They now stand face to face with their passions inflamed by a variety of reverses, by a con fusion of success and discomfiture, by a chaos of hopes and fears. On the one side are the champions of liberty, and on the other those of absolutism. here are grouped together the people and their most distinguished leaders ; there, on the contrary, are the kings and the aristocrats, the oligarchies and auto cracies, the rulers by the sword, the dungeon, and the scaffold. Wonderful as have been the events of this memorable year, the revolutions which have already occurred have only been the preliminary skirmishes of the encounter. The two conflicting powers of the European commonwealth cannot rest satisfied with a drawn battle ; one or other of them must be annihilated. The combat is for a final victory or overthrow—a conten tion ala vie, ala mort I When, however, we speak of general war being inevitable throughout Christen dom, we mean not a war between state and state, between people and people, between the subjects of one sovereign and those of another—but an intestine battle of life and death, between the democratic and despotic classes in the several dominions of conti nental Europe. We mean a decisive war within the boundaries of each nation, between the men in favour of advancement and those in favour of retrogression, between the reaction sires and the friends of liberty, between the revolution and the counter-revolution. The signal for this definitive struggle will emanate from Paris, exactly as the signal fur the °Pening of the popular campaign in February came from the same capital. And the event which will constitute this signal will be the election of the first Republican President. No matter whether the suc cessfulouts NAPOLEON, LEDRU ROL LIN, EUGENE C&YAIGNAC, or ALPHONSE DE LAMAR TINE—the signal will be recognis e d, the str ugg l e w ill ensue, the fate of despotism or democracy will be de cided. No doubt but that the characterof the move ment would vary accordi ng to th characte r individual selected by the French multitude. I n of the one case the predominant consequence would be bloodshed, while in another the chi e f weap ons em. ployed by the combatants would be moral and di lo matic. It is from this co nviction as to th e connexion existing between the contest for the Presidency and the ultimate triumph of Opinions among mankind, that we imbibe such a peculiar solicitude for the result of occurrences on the 10th of December. And it is because we would see blood spared as much as possible in the capitals of the different Powers of Europe, that we are anxious to witness the rejection of LEDRU ROLLIN and Louis NAPOLEON, and the triumph of either CAVAIGNAC or LAMARTINE. Sup posing LEDRU ROLLIN were, by some extraordinary chance, to gain the majority of suffrages, it would be one grand step towards the revival of Terrorism and the guillotine ; it would heighten the animosity and nerve the arm of the counter-revolution, by en hancing its dread of Democracy; while, above all, it would afford a terrible encouragement to those evil hearted conspirators who would drive " liberty mad'' by subverting. all the foundations of the social fabric and giving loose to the unruly passions of the un educated million. In the event, again, of Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON being nominated to the chair of the Presidency, a disastrous blow would in that one act have been stricken at those very institutions which have been gained with so much difficulty. The reactionaires would be ani mated to a renewal of their efforts at retrogression, regarding the acceptance of the Prince, very natu rally, as a direct encouragement to themselves. If 91 France, on the contrary, declares herself boldly for either CAVAIGNAC or LAMARTINE, she will honour herself in so doing, she will consolidate her newly acquired institutions, she will secure her own free dom, and give the death- blow to despotism in every nation on the Continent. Well will it be for her, therefore, and for Europe in like manner, if the claims of these two great citizens are maturely reflected on, and one or other of them raised to supreme authority in the Republic. The question is not a question of men but of principles ; and the French electors, in exer cising an enormous power over the destinies of their own land, will, when dropping their votes into the urn of election, be wielding an awful influence over the futurity of Christendom. One only doubt consequently remains to be solved, according to our estimate, of the approaching contest—the doubt as to the expediency of supporting CAVAIGNAC or LAMAR TINE. The electors must decide at once, if they have not already arrived at any determination. They must decide for the poet or for the soldier. Poet or soldier—they are both patriots, both true and devoted Republicans. They have both displayed capacity in the arts of government, they are both statesmen, both diplomatists, both orators, both men of unimpeach able probity, of unwinking vigilance, and of unconquerable valour. CAVAIGNAC defended the Republic in June—but LAMAUTINE created it In February ! CAVAIGNAC beat down the anarchists with his sword—but LAMARTINE had pre viously blighted them into the dust with the audacity of his unarmed heroism, and the lightnings of his superb eloquence ! CAVAIGNAC has preserved tran quillity in France during a period of five months, from the close of June to the close of November—but LAMARTINE has other claims upon the population of his mother country, he preserved peace in France, and not only in France but in Christendom, during the more perilous months preceding that interval, dur ing March, and April, and May; he abolished capital punishment, he proclaimed the Republic, he decreed the system of universal suffrage, he inaugurated the National Assembly, he spoke in the tribune and fought before the barricades, he laboured for France in the privacy of his cabinet and struggled for her salvation in the uproar of the streets, he has proved himself firm in danger, patient under calumny, and capable of sacrificing for his country, fame, and , name, and property, and life, and, as a final claim upon the suffrages of the multitude, he it was who, by his last and perhaps his most felicitous master piece of oratory, preserved to the people themselv es the right of electing their President. Between these two great candidates, therefore, France has now to make her selection. Were we asked to express an opinion upon the alternative, we should say that France would gain greater safety by the acceptance of CAVAIGNAC, and greater glory by the election of LAMARTINE. We recently directed the public attention to cer tain observations upon railway management con tained in a letter to GEORGE CARR GLYN, Esq., M.P., by Mr. WEITEuBaD, late secretary to the South- Western Railway, and now a member of the Stock Exchange. The position formerly filled by the writer, his experience in everything relating to rail way management, and, above all, the tone and manner of the communication, entitled his suggestions to an attentive consideration, and to receive something more than a mere passing notice. That letter has since called forth a reply from Mr. MARX Hulse, the ge neral manager of the London and North-Western Railway, in which the several points alluded to by Mr. WIIITEHEAD are answered in detail, and placed in a very different point of view. And it is only just and equitable that the justification put forward should receive the same currency as the original strictures. The arguments of Mr. WHITEHEAD were princi pally directed against the practical monopoly of the goods' trade since the company became carriers on their own account, a course which he maintains to--- be alike injurious to the interests of the shareholders and of the country in ge neral. He also asserts that the rates charged L•. hv no means remu nerative, that in fact the traffic i s attended with losses which absorb a considerable portion of the profit re c,i; ed from passengers. Mr. HUISH grapples with these Narious assertions, and certainly produces facts hich strongly support his vie As in opposition to Bose of Mr. WHITE/MAD. We confess that we are at all times opposed to any thing in any degree tending to the creation of a monopoly. There is something so odious in the very name that it at once excites a spirit of opposi tion. No practical injury has, however, as yet re sulted from the change. Mr. Huisu declares that the rates are the same formerly paid, and no charge has been made against the company of not duly attending to the public convenience. There is, however, the possibility of some future evil from want of that active competition which at all times affords the best assurance that the wants of the community will be fully provided for. Mr. Huisu merely regards the question so far as the interests of the shareholders are concerned, and in this respect he certainly makes out a complete case. He says, " that the matter is settled by the almost universal fiat of the railway boards," and claims as a strong argument in favour of the system, the fact adduced by Mr. WHITEHEAD against it, viz., " that the canal companies have been compelled to adopt it as their only means of maintaining any competition with railways." And he adds, " that the system must work very profitably indeed, since the rates are the same and the carriers' profit comes also into the company's exchequer." The facts of the amounts derived fro:n the traffic, however, afford stronger proofs than any mere speculative reasoning , however plausible, and these - are altogether with Mr . Huisu. So far from the goods' traffic being carried on at a loss, as insinuated by Mr. WHITEHEAD, it appears that the total cost of working the railway in every department, was very nearly defrayed by the receipts for goods and merchandise, in the very first year that the company became carriers on their own account. That the re ceipts for passengers, mails, and parcels for the year ending the 30th June last, was 1,417,6591., of which 105,0871. was for parcels, which might fairly be in cluded in the goods' traffic, while for goods, coals, &c. (after deducting collection and deliveries and terminal charges at Camden-town), the receipts amounted to 722,376/. for tonnage only, the cost of working the line being 751,1721. There can, therefore, be no possible grounds for supposing that the traffic in goods is carried on at a loss, as asserted by Mr. WHITEHEAD. Mr. Iluisu also explains the apparent anomaly of the difference in charges between goods and passen gers, alluded to by Mr. WHITEHEAD, when he makes the assertion " that either the goods' rates are too low, or the passengers' rates too high." He shows that the receipts per mile for the merchandise trains were ss. 6d. during the past year, while for passengers it was 6s. 81d. only during the same period. This is accounted for by showing that that ass enger c arr i ages are very se ld om en tirely full, in fact on the average little more than one-half f a o rinugada the seats average ar ni e cyr o e c , occupied; that a passenger train does not o g z e en ea c rr ar ie r d iag fr e e s e , ) of a w re hichtwo (guards' yan g to 35 trucks. Themerchandisecomlp2an passengertrain ea w rr il i l ag c e o s n , sis a t t of 30 unpro ductive, while z•osienvery journey double the each, cost the capital to carry on the dice trucks at 651. each. The former, of the 30 merchan. at 36 miles an hour, while the others too, are carried at only: half that speed. This s ers l are conveyed Mr. WHITEHEAD'S own showing, who recommends fact, on rteocommends that passengers should be char ge d i n ' the speed at which they are carried,pforpms ortion to material element in the calculation, which has a been wholly lost sight of by Mr. WHITEHEAD. Another fact stated by Mr. lima is of importance. It appears that the passenger trains which left the Euston•square station during the month of October last averaged sixty-one passengers each ; the mer chandise trains during the same period about seventy two tons. That as there are a greater number of third than of first-class passengers, a receipt of lid. per passenger per mile was above the average, while • Letter to George Carr Glyn, Esq., M.P., in reply to a Lato Pamphlet. By Mark Huish, General Manager of the London and North-Western Railway. London: W. H. Smith and Son, 136, Strand. the receipt on each ton of goods exceeded that amount, after deducting the cost of collection and delivery. No analogy between the comparative weights of goods and passengers will assist the calculation of the charges that should be made to each. " A run of 238,732 miles was sufficient to convey a weight of goods which it required 4,220,078 miles to transmit when converted into passengers." Again, the capital employed to transmit 100 tons of goods would be but 3,6501., while it would take 14 times that amount, or 51,6001., to convey 100 tons of passengers. This extraordinary circumstance is explained when we are told that " four tons of passengers require a dead weight, including engine and tenders, of no less than 52 tons to convey them, while 72 tons of goods required only 80 tons, including the engine ; thus it appears that there is 13 tons of dead weight for every ton of passengers conveyed, and but little more than one ton of dead weight fur each of mer chandise. The above facts, recorded by Mr. Huisu, appear conclusive on the points of difference. We cannot conclude, however, without giving one extract ex plaining his views on railway prospects. He Bays— " The attention now directed towards Railways—the spirit of inquiry which prevails—the collision of opi nions—the necessity for increased care and vigilance to recover the ground which has been lost from a viciou s system (or rather want of system) in legislation—all tend to a healthier state of things. Called as you have been to preside over one of the largest of these under takings, no one *an have a greater interest in pro moting and extending the circulation of authentic information on the subject of railways than yourself. Few know the labour and anxiety of such a position ; very few will ever know the mental cost of the last three years—but the horizon is clearing, a calmer future is at hand, clashing interests are settling down, the disap pointment and the triumph are over, and the pause which has succeeded will not be wasted in refl.ctions on the past (save as a beacon for the future), but devoted to the internal improvement of a property as secure as the soil upon which it is based, and to the full development of a system which, amidst all the struggles of its early career—the discouragements of one Parliament and the oppressions of another—the mistakes of its friends and the opposition of its enemies—not only exists as one of the greatest monuments of modern improvement and social advancement, but (unless this country also is doomed to pass through the furnace of affliction) must improve with the increase of population and the exten sion of commerce." THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. Prince Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE has at length issued his electioneering address, which bears in ternal evidence of having been drawn by some "practised hand" of the English Carlton Club. It bears a family likeness to those tissues of ♦ague generalities which were wont some twelve years since to be issued by gentlemen of the Conservative party, who " were desirous of reforming all proved abuses," without stating what proof was necessary to satisfy their minds of the existence of an abuse. Our readers will at once perceive that this manifesto is as much made up of vague generalities as a royal speech. It pledges to nothing, it throws no light whatever upon the opinions of the writer. lie may be an Absolutist, he may be a Red Republican, and the only conclusion to be drawn from a perusal of it is that the writer is purposely endea vouring to deceive and mislead. The following is the address : " LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE TO 1115 FELLOW•CITIZENS. " To recall me from exile you have chosen me repre sentative of the people, On the eve of electing the chief magistrate of the Republic, my name is placed before you as a symbol of order and security. " This testimony of confidence, so honourable, is offered, I am aware, much more to that name than to me, who have as yet dune nothing for my country; but the more the memory of the Emperor protects me and influences your suffrages, the more do I feel myself bound to explain to you my sentiments and principles. Between you and me there must be no misunder standing. " I am not an ambitious man, who dreams now of empire and of war, now of the application of subversive theories. Educated in free countries, in the school of misfortune, I shall ever remain faithful to the duties imposed on me by your suffrages, and by the will of the Assembly. " If I were elected President I would not shrink from any danger, from any sacrifice, to defend society, so audaciously attacked; I would devote myself entirely, and without any reserve, to the consolidation of a Re public, wise by its laws, honourable ,by its intentions, great and strong by its actions. " I would make it a point of honour to leave to my successol:' ,, t. 4, a en d rI irF Mo vpsirs. nowpr ~,,..1,r1.4., ,a , 1, --•,- .ntouched, and real progress accomplished. " Whatever be the result of the election, I shall bow before the will of the people; and my concurrence is ob tained in advance for whatever just and firm govern ment shall re-establish order in the public mind, us well as in public affairs; shall effectively protect religion, private life, property—the eternal bases of every social state; shall bring about reforms where they are possible, shall calm animosities, reconcile parties, and thus permit our troubled country to calculate on a morrow. " To re-establish order is to bring back confidence, to provide by credit for the temporary insufficiency of re sources, to restore the finances. " To protect religion and private life, is to ensure liberty of worship and liberty of education. " To protect property is to maintain the inviolability of the produce of all kinds of labour; it is to guarantee the independence and the security of possession—the indispensable foundation of civil liberty. " As to practicable reforms, the following are those which appear to me the most urgent:— " To allow every economy which, without disorganiz ing the public service, may permit a diminution of the imposts that are most burdensome to the people. To encourage enterprise, which, by developing the resources of agriculture, may, both in France and in Algeria, afford labour to unooeupied hands; to provide for the old age of labourers by provident institutions; to intro duce into our industrial laws ameliorations which may tend, not to ruin the rich for the benefit of the poor, but to found the well-being of each on the prosperity of all. " To restrain within just limits the number of em ployments that depend on the Government, and which often make a free nation a nation of applicants. "To avoid that disastrous tendency which leads the State to execute of itself what individuals can do as well, and better than it. Centralisation of interests and of enterprise belongs to the nature of despotism—the nature of a republic repels monopoly. " In a word, to preserve the liberty of the press from the two extremes which always compromise it—the arbitrary and the licentious. " With war their is no relief for our evils. Peace shall, therefore, be the dearest of my wishes. France at her first revolution was warlike, because she was compelled to be so. Invasion she met by conquest. Now that she is not assailed she may consecrate her resources to pmcific ameliorations, without at the same tima abandon ing a policy true and resolute. A great nation should either be silent or never speak in vain. " To have regard to the national dignity, we must not neglect the army, the noble and disinterested patriotism of which has often been misunderstood. At the same time that we maintain the fundamental laws which constitute the strength of our military organiza tion, we must lighten, and not aggravate, the harden of conscription. We must watch over the present and the future, not only of the officers, but also of the sub officers and soldiers, and provide a sure subsistence for the men who have long served under our colours. " The Republic ought to be generous, and have faith in the future ; hence I, who have myself been familiar with exile and captivity, anxiously desire to see the day when a magnanimous pardon may without danger put an end to all proscriptions, and obliterate the last traces of our civil discords. " Such, my dear fellow-citizens, are the ideas that I would carry with me to the exercise of power, it you should call me to the Presidency of the Republic. " The task is difficult, the mission is immense—l know it; but I should not despair to accomplish it, by taking to the work, without distinction of party, men whom public opinion and their own elevated intelligence and probity would recommend. " Besides, for whoever has the honour to be at the head of the French people, there is au infallible method of doing good—namely, to will it. " Lours NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. " Paris, Nov. 27, 1848." The National states that the Austrian army en tered Hungary on the 23d November. The .Aloniteur du ,S'oir contains an official announce ment that the POPE has been expelled from Rome. It was currently reported last evening in Paris that he had arrived in France. The Univers says—" The Minister of Foreign Affairs yesterday communicated to several represen tatives dispatches which he addressed t• the Duke D'HAII.COUBT, the French Ambassador at Rome, after receiving accounts of the disastrous events of the 15th and 16th of November. If our information be correct, in that dispatch the Minister charges the Ambassador to offer to the Sovereign PONTIFF the expression of the profound and dolorous sympathy of the French Government, and to state that the French Republic is determined to remain the eldest daughter of Me Church, and that as a Catholic and Republican, the Minister owes a double homage to the Head of the Church and the great reforming Pope." At the sitting of the National Assembly yesterday M. Bum addressed certain interpellations to the Governuent on the subject of the affairs of Italy. lie demanded in what situation the Anglo• French mediation was. He then called attention to the ac counts which h ave arr i ved of what is taking place in home, and declared that the demagogical party had aato Generalmade w .\ ti teanc n ar ka lon had oAdt nvhAeihisGpreventedr cause c of f Holinesst repliedli h et mediation t ee y. It t dhp. that oe was commenced by a cowardly assassination, n. the and it now finished by recent from m e a v k e i n n events g much progress, but that it was now going on with great activity. With respect to what was taking place at Rome, as soon as the news was known the French Government a t once sent 3,500 men from i. 1:0 • 1 . 9 : .11111011,' L '‘ . 1 4 1.401141*^ •.- - - • . THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1848, Marseilles and Toulon to Civita Vecchia. lie added that M. DE COURCELLES had already left Paris for Rome, as Envoy Extraordinary. He then read the instructions given to M. DE COURCELLES, of which the following is the substance—to protect the person of his Holiness the POPE, and to facilitate his entry, in case of necessity, into France. The Assembly directed that this point should be brought again under discussion on Thursday next. The debate on the budget was then resumed, and continued up to the hour of post. The Archbishop of PARIS has addressed the fol lowing past ral letter to the clergy of his diocese, dated the 20th : " Monsieur le Cure,—Our soul is plunged in grief. The Church suffers in its chief. The capital of the Christian world is a prey to factions. Blood has been shed at Rome, even in the palace of our well-beloved Pontiff, Pius IX. The Vicar of Christ has commenced his passion. He is drinking from that bitter cup of in gratitude which he foretasted on the day when his magnanimous soul resolved to effect by confidence and love the redemption of his country. The father of the liberty of Italy is, perhaps, at this moment no longer at liberty himself. The events which have ensanguined Rome, and clothed in mourning the whole Catholic world, are not yet fully known. But we do know enough of them to be able to judge of their gravity. We know enough to cause our tears to flow, and feel the necessity of putting up our prayers to God. He holds in His hands the hearts of all men. May He enlighten the blind, repress hatred and animosity - , appease civil discord, and confound the plots of the wicked. These plots are vast and covered with darkness; and those who are weaving them do not intend to direct them against the temporal chief of one of the smallest states of Europe, but against the head of Catholicism. To en slave the people, they are trying to break the bonds which bind them together. But God will not permit this. Our confidence in the issue of this conflict is undoubt ing. All we ask is that it may be shortened. This is what we have to pray for to heaven. Let us hope, more over, that the Catholic nations will become aware of the danger with which they are threatened; and which, at the same time, threaten all the modern conquests of liberty and civilization. Can France, above all, suffer herself to be thus attacked in her belief, her traditions, her highest interests? If Rome is the head, France is the heart and the arm of Catholicism. Let us all pray, M. le Cure; the priests will every day at mass recite the prayer Pro swim° Pontifice: Call upon the faithful to join their prayers to yours. Let all men of holy r finds unite with us in fervent communion. At a future day, if circumstances require, we will ordain public prayers to be put up. Accept, M. le Cure, the assurance of my sincere and very affectionate attachment. " V, MARIE DOMINIQUE AUGrISTE, Archbishop of Paris." General BEDEAU will, it is said, take the command of the expedition to Civita Vecchia. The following are the instructions of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs to M. CORCELLES ".My dear Colleague,—You know the deplorable events which have taken place in the city of Rome, and reduced the Holy Father to a sort of captivity. In consequence of these events the Government of the Republic has just decided that four steam frigates, carrying a brigade of 3,500 men, should be sent to Civita Vecchia. It has also been decided that you should repair to Rome as Envoy Extra ordinary. Your mission has for its object to interfere, in the name of the French Republic, in order to restore to his Holinesshispe i r t tesoennalrleibdehrtiys,ifh intention,ehasbeende- de prived of it. If ever consider ing eireumstances, to retire for a while to the territory of the Republic, you will ensure, as much a s i n y our power lies, the realization of that wish, and y ou w ill assure the Pope that he will experience from the French nation a reception worthy of them, and worthy also of the virtues of which lie gave so many proofs. " You are net authorised to interfere in any po!itical question pending at Rome. It belongs to the National Assembly alone to determine the measures which the Government of the Republic shall adopt for the re-esta blishment of a regular situation_ in the States of the Church. For the present you have—in the name of the Government which sends you, and which, in doingi so. remains within the limits of the power confided to it— to secure the liberty of the Pope and respect for his person. " On your arrival before Civita Vecchia you will land in person, and proceed to Rome to confer with M. d'Har caonud a r t'cafterwards with ithwhorayou will come to an underst an di ng , jointly, in compliance with the in • structions given to you by the Government. You will cause the troops at your disposal to land, either at Civita Vecchia itself, or wherever that force may with safety co-operate in ensuring the success of your mission. Measures have been adopted to reinforce that brigade, if necessary, and you will no doubt receive subsequent and more detailed instructions if the National Assembly should consider them indispensable. " I cannot too often repeat that your mission has not, and cannot have for the moment, any other object than to ensure the personal safety of the Pope, and, in an ex treme case, his temporary retreat to the territory of the RepUblic. You will take care to proclaim loudly that you are not come to interfere, in any respect, in the dif ferences that divide to day the Holy Father and the people he governs. The Republic, moved by a sentiment which is an old tradition among the nation, • FG4ZI tlAv s•or; • forynn son of the Pope. It entertains no other intention. Your mission is a delicate one. It requires a great clearness of view and appreciation. The Government of the Re public places every confidence in the sentiments that will direct you. " I must also call your attention to the use you may be obliged to make of the troops confided to vour superior direction. Their landing must only be effected the very limited range in which it may be possible for them to act with efficacy in obtaining the sole object of your mission—the security of the Pope. " It is possible that the events may suggest to you necessities which I cannot foresee. In that case you will have to apply without delay for the orders of the Go vernment of the Republic, which, according to circum stances and the propositions you may submit to it, will act on its own impulse, or after consulting the Assembly. " Receive, &c. (Signed) " The Minister of Foreign Affairs, " Paris, Nov. 27, 1848." " JULES BASTIDE. BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, Nov. 28. THREE o'CLocK.—There have been considerable fluc tuations at the Bourse today. The Rentes opened con siderably below the closing prices of yesterday, and were rapidly declining, when all of a sudden the process of discounting (which is carried on to a large extent every day) sent the Five per Cents. up fully o!ie halt per cent., and they afterwards continued rising till nearly the close of business, when there was a sliiht reaction. The Roman Funds fell per cent. in consequence of the flight of the Pope. The news from that quarter was looked to with great interest. For the account, the French Three per Cents. have risen 6c.; the Five per Cents. have fallen 15c.; and the Loan has fallen 10c. For Money, the Three per Cents. remain the same as yesterday; the Five per Cents. have advanced sc. ; and the Loan has fallen 30c. ; Buns du Tresor not quoted; Bank of France Shares have declined 5f.; Belgian Bank Shares not quoted; ditto Five per Cents. are at yesterday's prices. Spanish Active not quoted ; Roman has fallen 31 per cent. ; Rothschild 's Receipts not quoted. Exchange on London (30 days), 25 421 ; ditto (90 days), 25 35. In Railway Share, there is no very material change. A good deal of busi ness was done in Rouens and Northerns. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIF LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. Nov. 23. Luxembourg (10/.), 114—Northern of France, s%l—Or leans and Bourdeaux, 1%. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 22d have arrived. They confirm completely the intelligence which we published yesterday of the defeat and dispersion of the column of the QUEEN'S troops under General MANZANO by the Carlist forces commanded by CA BRERA. The battle took place at Avinon, about three leagues from Manresa, on the 16th. The QUEEN'S General, MANZANO, 16 officers, 600 soldiers, 600 muskets, 20 horses, &c., &c., fell into the hands of CABRERA. The rest of the column, 300 in number, took to flight. CAMBER!, had under his orders BORGES, MARSAL, and the two brothers TRISTANI. During the fortnight preceding the engagement the Montemolinists captured more than 300 prisoners, 500 muskets, and the forts of Prades, La Garriga, El Abisbal, Cabra, and Gerra. After the defeat of MAN. ZANG, General CORDOVA, the Captain-General, re turned to Barcelona. On the 120, four days before the battle, a large Carlist band, under the brothers TRISTANI, got posses sion of the extensive salt magazines in the immediate neighbourhood of Cardona on the night of the 12th, and were joined the next day by CABRERA; according to a letter from Coromina, the force altogether amounting to 800 men. They were fired at by the guards from their strong house, and several shots were fired at them from the fort at Cardona, but without effect. They had previously made all their dispositions for disposing of the salt in a most busi ness, like way For some time before that they had placed these salt depots under an interdict, warning the country people not to supply them selvea there; and as much salt is required for the cattle at this time of year, and the country people did not venture to disobey these injunctions, scarcely any salt was sold by the Government employes, and the price was raised enormously, reaching as high as 40 maravedis the pound (about 3d). Having planned the present attack, the TRISTANIS sent parties in all directions to tell the country people to come with their horses, &c., and that they should have as much salt they liked at twelve reels per load ; and on the 13th there were above 100 beasts of burthen employed all day carrying away salt; the Carlists pocketing, a large amount in dollars, and the country fol ks hi g hl y contented at getting that necessary article so cheap. CoaDova has dispatched General MATH Y ALo s to Madrid to demand a reinforcemen t of 20. addition al battalions, and 26,0 00 , 000 of reals, w ithout which it will be impossible to make head against the Carlists in Catalonia. It was at one period in contemplation to send NABYAEZ to Catalonia, but he fears to leave the field open to the intrigues of CHRISTINA and Mosz, by quitting Madrid. MoN and PIDAL bitterly reproached him with the appointment of CORDOVA, whose instant removal from the chief command in Catalonia was at once agreed on. It is said that General MANUEL CONCHA will be appointed his suc cessor. The intelligence from Catalonia has occasioned the greatest consternation at the Court of Madrid. MADRID BOLSA, Nov. 22.—The Three per Cents. area per cent. lower to-day, being reported at 19 4 1 to 5-16 buyers, sellers ; Five per Cents., 91 to 1 ,1 buyers, sellers : Coupons, 5:1- buyers ; Passive Debt, 3 9-16 buyers, a sellers ; Bank Shares, 40 sellers ; Discount on Notes, 2 per cent. Exchange on Lou don, 48 35. G E R AI A N AND THE NORTHERN STATES. PRUSSIA. It is said that 140 of the Members of the National Assembly have determined to attend the sittings at, Brandenburg, but it is currently rumoured that it is the intention of the KING at once to dissolve the As - sembly, and to grant of his own full power a const!, tution, the main features of which will be the follow ing :—Two Chambers, one cf Deputies (the electors for which, as well as the elected, must possess an income of about 301. sterling), and the other, also an elective one, composed of persons having an incomo of 751. Another rumour is that the KING will convoke the United Diet, which voted the Law of Elections, and leave it to decide between himself and the As sembly. Several private soldiers of the 40th Infantry Regi ment, in garrison at Mayence, were arrested on the 24th, far having uttered seditious cries; their com rades went to the colonel anti in a tumultuous manner demanded their release, and it was only by the inter ference of some Austrian officers that they were in duced to return to their barracks. The next day the regiment was sent to the Lower Rhine. Tlae Inspector of Police of Dusseldorf has been suspended for stating that the National Assembly has acted legally. Six members of the Government Board of that city have been dismissed, and two others have in consequence resigned their places. It is stated, in a Berlin correspondence of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, that 25,000 guns are still " in good hands" in that city. The Karlsruher Zeitung states that, according to all appearances, another republican insurrection is at hand ; numbers of young working men are assem bling on the Swiss frontier ; and in French Alsace people, it is said, are busy recruiting for the " social republic," holding out tempting promises to persons who have served in the army. The congress of deputies from the civic guards of the kingdom is fixed to take place at Breslau, on the 4th of December next. Mr. JosErn MENDELSSOIIN, the banker, of Berlin, and the eldest son of the celebrated :MOSES MENDELS.. SOHN, and uncle of the late FELix 271E1DELSOLIN BAR 'MOLDY, the celebrated composer, died at Berlin on the 2'th inst., in the 79th year of his age. _ . The arrival of VON GAGERN in Berri* on the 26th had given rise to a rumour that the KING had sent for him to construct a Ministry. The Municipal Deputies of Berlin have published the following address to the National Assembly " HIGH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. " The rights of the nation have boon trenched upon (yekrankt) by the Ministers of the Crown—encroached on by Ministers who never did, and never can, obtain the country's confidence, and, with most unfortunate delusion, are hurrying our fatherland into an abyss of destruction. The sacred rights of the nation have been honourably combatted for—they have been ratified (be siegelt) by the Royal word; and the citizens of Berlin will be the last to renounce them, for they were the first who openly declared that we would side with the Na tional Assembly (out der scits. ache). The firm will of our citizens, the will of a great nation, is— " We will concord a constitution, but not accept one as a gift. " For this purpose we selected you. You, the men of our confidence, belong to us. No servants of the Crown shall take you from us. No one shall limit the full powers which you derive from the nation. We never were stronger than we are now, under the dominion of force (gewalt der watfen), and in the consciousness of our lkwful rights. This consciousness will strengthen you, the National Assembly, in following with firmness and constancy the path which will lead to the triumph of our just cause. Under this consciousness you will know how to protect you► own rights, as well as the supreme rights of the Crown, and to bridle all passions that may tend to overpass these limits. In the execution of these duties you will be careful to avoid all measures that may tend to the destruction of our fatherland. Therefore we beg and implore of you to revoke forthwith the proposition (antrag) for the refusal of taxes. We are too strong to require the adoption of desperate measures (Why not say illegal?) which must tend to entail incalculable misfortunes upon the country and Crown, to produce years of confusion, and to estrange men's hearts from our cause. We implore of you to respect the rights of the Crown, and the Crown will then respect our rights, and henceforward select its advisers from amongst those men who possess the confidence of the National As sembly. Wo pray and beseech the National Assembly to stretch forth its hand to tin honourable arrangement L.,64, cell it and beComine fO5 two co equal powers. An arrangement dishonourable to the Crown would not only turn from you (the National As- . - sembly) the hearts, but all the convictions of the country. We implore you, thereforb, *to direct all your efforts to bear up with constancy and patience against the domi nion of force as well as passion—to hold fast to our just rights—but to restore-peace to the country and give to the people a free Constitution. (Signed) " THE MUNICIPAL DEPUTIES OF BERLIN. "Berlin, Nov. 23" The Magian State Gazette of the 25th announces that a Royal ordonnance, inserted in the Bulletin of Laws, continues the tariff of customs duties which was to expire at the end of the present year. This continuation takes place in consequence of a con ference being at this moment open at Frankfort to establish a general regulation of customs for the states of Germany. AUSTRIA. The arrests in Vienna still continue—upwards of 200 persons were seized on the 21st. Such is the state of misery and starvation among the working classes, that, notwithstanding the severity with which the laws against clubs and meetings are carried out, they continue to hold their clubs and meetings in suburbs. It is thought that they have the means of becoming armed, as not more than one-half the arms taken from the arsenal by the people have as yet been delivered up. Couriers are constantly passing between Olmutz and Peters burgh, and it is said that the Sovereigns of Russia, Austria, and Prussia have formed a Holy Alliance. The MPEROR has subscribed 4,000,000 florins towards the relief of those persons whose property was destroyed by the storming of Vienna. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, under date Olmutz, the 17th inst., states that in consequence of the excesses committed at Leipsic against the Austrian General-Consulate, the Austrian Government had re solved to assume a hostile position as regards the commercial relations with Leipsic, that the Austrian General-Consul for the kingdom of Saxony had been recalled, and the Austrian archives handed over to the English General-Consulate at Leipsic. Letters from Vienna of the 21st state that Count STADION insisted on the dismissal of WHINE ' PIG NITZ, and HUNTER from the Co unc il o f State before he would accept office. These men were all of them tools of METTERNICH. HUNTER was deeply impli cated in the intrigues with the Sonderbund. A letter from Pesth of the 14th says that an at tempt had been made on the previous day to assassi nate General BEM. The Breslau Gazette of the 23rd says, we learn from a Hungarian traveller that the news relative to Hungary reported at Vienna is completely false. The Hungarians have no idea of making terms with WINDISCIIGRATZ. The latter has not yet dared to make an attack, and if he now attempts to enter the country the roads will be found impassable. The efforts of KOSSUTH and of GEORGES will no doubt be successful. The Germans and Sclavionians sympathise with the Hungarians, and all national differences are laid aside. The Itaitzes are ready to make common cause with Hungary. The Turkish Government has recalled all Servians from Hungary. PERRZEL is making progress in Croatia, having de feated a Croat-Austrian corps, and taken by assau l t Fridau, in Styria. Tho Servians have been beaten near Longdorf. In Transylvania the Valaches ad vanced to Marosvasarhely, but some Hungarian regi ments dislodged them from their position. FRANKFORT. In the Allgemeine Zeitung of Friday there appeared the following protest from the ultra-Democratic Members of the Frankfort Assembly, relative to the course taken in reference to the Berlin Parliament : " The undersigned Members of the German State Assembly have heard, with the deepest grief, that the majority of the Assembly yesterday exercised a most improper influence over measures which, in the present state of conflict existing between the Crown of Prussia and the Prussian National Assembly, is most prejudicial. We are still impressed with th e conviction, that the history of Prussia and Germany is now arrived at that point of which it must bo decided whether the freedom and unity of Germany is to be renewed in a quiet and workman like manner, or rather, whether it shall be won by per haps a most blocdy revolution. We are perfectly satis fied that at the present moment the occurrences of a single day may affect the position of our people for a long time to come, and therefore we will not be silent, but will call upon the noble people of Prussia; and we say to them—stand fast as one man by your national representatives. Follow implicitly their advice. Sacri floe for it all that is dear to you, and you will obtain what is dearest of all—freedom! It is as clear as the light of the sun, that right exists on the side of your representatives. The mere comparison of the National Assembjy, which, in the question :of its functions, and even of s existence, stands en en equality with the Crown itself, with the rude power of the Crown, is an insult to the people themselves. ." Is it not known that any guilty meddling can have no other result than the most lamentable excesses, which must inevitably bring back those legal measures of se verity, which can never again be in force without doing saious injury to the freedom of the people ? Prussians, Your history and that of Germany generally, are indis solublri bound up together. Turn out then f, r the righteous struggle. We on our parts shall be true to Yr,u; unity and freedom shall be victorious." ITALY. ROME. The latest accounts received direct from Rome state that the POPE was besieged by the people in the Quirinal ; and the Diario di Roma of the 18th states that he at that time meditated flight. The Alba of Florence of the 23d gives the following account of the progress of the insurrection. It will be seen that the son of LITCIEN BONAPARTE, the Prince of CANINO, is one of the chiefs of the insurgents. The Alba says:— " As soon as the Pope had consented to change his Ministry, and had accepted the conditions which the Democrats had dictated to him, it was announced to the people who were splitting the air with their cheers, that if they would be for a moment silent, M. Galetti would come and give them an account of all that had been done. Quietness was immediately re stored, and M. Galetti came and announced, first, that the Pope would leave it to the Legislative Chambers to determine on the demands of the people ' • and, secondly, that a new ministry had been formed. M. Galetti added that it was necessary that all feeling of hatred and vengeance against the. Swiss troops should be laid aside, and that the more especially because many brave men of that nation had fought for the cause of Italy at Vicenza. lie then requested the National Guards to go home, and ordered the troops to return to their barracks. " Immediately after this news became known the troops defiled through the Corso, which was magnifi cently illuminated. The National Popular Club met at half-past five in the afternoon ; MM. Sterbini, Vincig nerra, Bonaparte, Spini, Pinto, and other members were present, and for the sake of public tranquillity they re• solved to issue a proclamation. " Half-past Seven.—The Club has written to Colonel Stewart, the Commandant of the Castle of St. Angelo, to continue in the command of that fort. He immedi ately gave in his adherence. ,It is announced that half of the dragoons kept back by Col. Savini do not frater nize with the people. :Orders have been given for the dismissal of the Colonel, and' for his being succeeded provisionally by Major Piccinetti. It is now said that the dragoons have come over to the people. "Eight o'Clock.—Notice has been sent to the Cham ber of Deputies to inform the President of the measures adopted by the Popular Club for the preservation of order, and to invite that body to send a deputy; but the Chamber bad adjourned before the arrival of the message." The Diario di Roma of the 18th instant has the following:— " The Pope intends to escape from Rome; last night he was kept under strict guard; he will not give way. Several ambassadors of foreign powers encourage him. A Spanish ship is ready to take him either to Malta or Marseilles; the Cardinals have almcst all fled. The Popular Club now governs alone at Rome; to-morrow or the day after the Chamber will be constituted, and the people will present to it as the first question that of an Italian Constituent Assembly. The Pope has written a letter to the ambassadors, in which he takes leave of them." The following declaration has been published by the Popular Club : " The country is in the greatest danger. The blood of our citizens has stained our soil. At this decisive mo ment it is the duty of all good citizens to devote them selves for the public safety. The Popular Club assumes the grave respoEsibility of adopting provisional mea sures necessary to assure the life, honour, and pros perity of every Roman, and to consolidate order until a Government shall have been formed. The people are, in consequence, apprised that the centre of operations is fixed in the Popular Club at the Fiano Palace. All good citizens are invited to respect the measure which shall emanate from that centre, as representing the true and absolute will of the people. " Dated from the Popular Club, 16th Nov., 1848." The military authorities and the colonels of regi ments having been invited to send officers to the Club to concert measures with it, the general staff established at the Pilotta sent a deputation of su perior officers to the club, who declared that they were fully disposed to execute the will of the people and to protect their rights, guaranteeing, however, the inviolability of the sacred person of the PONTIFF. M.M. STERBINI, VINAGUERRA, SPINY, and PINTO replied in terms of gratitude, and 'assured the deputa tion that the POPE'S person was the object of the veneration of all, and that the ecclesiastical govern ment should be fully guaranteed. It was then re solved to reinforce the gates of the prisons and to send patrols into the districts where danger to property might exist, to maintain order. A detachment of dragoons arrived at the Fiano Palace, and the Commander placed them at the or ders of the Club for the transmission of dispatches. _ _ The battalion of Transteveri, to the number of 300 men, offered to place themselves at the orders of the Club. At half-past seven o'clock a letter was written from the Club to Colonel OTEWAxI, tho Commander of the Castle of St. Angelo, to re tain his command, to which he assented. It was announced that half of a regiment of dra goons, restrained by Colonel SAVIRI, would not fraternise with the people. Orders were immediately issued to cashier the Colonel and to give the com mand provisionally to Major PICCINETTI. At eight o'clock a message was sent from the club to the Chamber of Deputies to inform the President of the measures adopted by the Popular Club, and to request him to send a deputy. An answer was returned, saying that the Chamber was closed. It was subsequently announced to the Club that the new Ministry had been formed. The new Ministers were invited to meet on the following day at the residence of Abb6 RoSMINI. A courier was dispatched to MAMIANI at Genoa to invite him to return to Rome. The re presentatives of the Popular Club then re signed their functions. The Ministers, GALLETTI and STERBINI, commanded that all the extraordinary precautions adopted should no longer be enforced. They invited the Civic Guard to watch over the maintenance of public order. They then withdrew, in the midst of the enthusiastic applause of the peo ple, who cried " The Line, the Cardinals, Fraternity, and Union for ever." The Abbe RosMINI had re fused to accept the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. He was replaced by Cardinal MUzzARELLI. A letter from Leghorn of the 22d inst., states that TERENCE MAMIANI, the new Roman Minister, had arrived there on his passage from Genoa, and that he had received a visit on board the steam-boat on which he was a passenger from the Tuscan Minister GUER • RAZZ!, during which they had a long conversation. NAPLES. Letters from Naples of the 17th state that on the previous Sunday an English Foreign-office messenger arrived from London, with the ultimatum of the great Powers for the decision of the Sicilian question, which had been approved by the French, Russian, and Neapolitan Ministers in London. The contents of this important document have not transpired. In the meantime the KING continues his military prepa rations. The forts of Naples fronting the sea have been doubly fortified, and the army has been aug mented to do effective force of 90,000 men. Great pains have been taken to form a corps of cavalry capable of acting efficiently in the mountains. The Sicilians are greatly exasperated against the KING, and declare they will accept of no conditions from him. Calabria also is in a very disturbed state, and troops have been dis patched to that province from Naples. The city of Naples itself is exceedingly ill guarded, and street robberies and assassinations are of so frequent occur rence that it is not safe for persons to venture out at night. The police are exclusively employed in watching secret societies, and arresting political offenders, so that the thieves and assassins are left in undisputed possession of the streets. All the returns that have been to the Chambers from the pro vinces up to the 17th are anti-Ministerial. In the last Chamber the anti-Ministerial majority was thirty five. It will be" largely augmented in the present Chamber. Intelligence of the death of IBRAHIM PACIJA had been received at Naples. DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES BULLER, M.P. The Right Hon. Charles Buller, M.P. for Lis keard, and President of the Poor-law Board, died between five and six o'clock this morning, at his resi • dente, 2, Chester-place, Pimlico, aged 42. It is rumoured that Jacob Omnium, Esq., a gen. tleman well known in the City, has been appointed to the governorship of Sierra Leone and its dependencies. Mr. (Thulium is, we understand, extensively connected with the colonies, and during the last session rendered important services to the Government, by correcting various errors of fact into which they had inadvertently been betrayed. Whatever credit is due for making so just and judicious a selection belongs to Lord Grey. There was no family connexion in the case—not even, we are informed, personal acquaintance. The appoint ment was wholly unsolicited, and was made solely on public grounds. It cannot be attributed to political favouritism.— Ministerial paper. THE LATE LORD PROP:MT.—We believe we are betraying no secret when we state that within the last few days a baronetcy has been officially offered to Mr. Mack ' the late respected provost of the city, but that it has been respectfully declined.—E dinburgh Evening Pont. The Count de Grammont was married on Monday last to Mademoiselle de Praslin. The happy couple are to be established in the apartment of the late Duchess de Praslin, the bride's mother, which has laaen newly cleansed and decorated for the occasion. _ The rate of exchange at Rio on London was Quoted 24d., at which figure some considerable transac tions had taken place; Paris was marked 400, and Ham burgh 720. Freight to London was , 45s • • and to the Channel 40s. to 455. Local stock continued at 87k- to 88. The profit of the Del Rey mines for September was 3,366!., and their working is described as extremely satisfactory. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEN" CITY, QUARTER TO THRE E ' There was an tect.ve demand for Cotton at Liverpo l 6 yesterday, but the supply was not good. Prices of , kinds are extreme. American at and under 43 • is t; higher since Friday. The transactions include 5,0001 6,000 bales of American at 344. to 6d.; 500 Peruse' , &c., at 40. to 5d.; 100 Egyptian, at 50. to W.; z, u Surat, at 2fd. to 3P.; and 40 Sea Island, at Bd. to t a e —The Railway Share Market was better, and at ra ts higher prices. In the London Colonial and Foreign Produce market' as far as the present week has progressed, there is Ye . little animation, and sugar, coffee, rice, tallow, a nd t are flat. Cotton and wool have an upward tendea e In metals business is rather dull. The letters and papers received by the Continen r mails state business was not brisk, and money . we s o luctantly parted with, both in Austria and Prussia. , 1" temporary triumph of the ruling powers is predicted , apprehensions are expressed of a return to the old regime' which case, as experienced and cool men of busiso observe, there can be no security, and renewed trolls' may at any time occur. The address of Louis NaV ie ' is looked upon as a very moderate production ; b few giVe the Prince credit for having himself d r S it up, nor are the assurances of pacific 'l e sufficient to inspire confidence, or to secure a P ferential feeling to him while there are such men e s martine or Cavaignac. The reported interference ° f French in the affair of the Pope affords much satin tion here, and very little doubt is ente r t a i ne d of the e currence of Lord Palmerston. The prosperity of Provident Institutions calin°t _,,d be a matter of interest in su c h ti mes as these, 1 " may be useful to give the result of recent O.' rience at Birmingham. Upon a recent occsey it was resolved that the St. Bartholomew's e h ' be united to the General I ns tit u ti on , and ,t ; . stated that this is the third of the sma ller see' v.hich have recently joined, and others are likely to so. That small friendly societies cannot be secure point as fully established as the necessity of grad {t' tables and good management. The Select COI% of the Lords, in the important report and 0 4 dence which they laid before the House, it as their " opinion that there are advse t connected with the larger provident associations e ', l smaller bodies can hardly expect t o a tt a i n , e xcept is ticular cases of extraordinary local support and fiUe vison. While the slightest deviation from the SC" contributions and benefits deranges irretrievab l y finances of small associations, larger and no ° . ; fluential bodies may be able, by exerti on , to extr a themselves from even serious difficulties." And 1 1; " When societies are small or isolated bodies, r ` l ; members are too few in number to be influenced bl; sense of mutual support, and whose funds, notwit o 2 ing their tables are certified, are insufficient to '1 any accidental pressure in an unhealthy seas° l3 ,,V make them bankrupt." So Mr. Neison, the ernine' o , tuary, in speaking of clubs containing 70 members' " However well graduated the tables or rates of cor t, Lion might be, there would still be no security in a , of so small a number;" and elsewhere urges the dieney of having at least ten times this number society. But in a large, widely-spread town like, mingham there are other advantages in union, ti cannot be enjoyed by any society of wh e i i, size, existing only in connexion with a school. However near together the members may at the time of entering, a few years scatter ° through every quarter of the town, and subject s to great inconvenience. Of the memb er s of !, if , tholomew's Institutioe, for instance, upwards are now living in different districts. They 1 7, have the privilege of joining offices close own homes, enjoy, medical attendance near It and never be called on to visit at a distance" Benevolent Fund also, which can only exist in with a large institution, offers peceliar benefite'r'-' a member has, through long illness, been :c= ' ' quarter pay, however provident he may WO' voured to be, there remains no resource but 00 1 It was stated by Mr. Simons at the meeting, had that morning signed a note for parssa. for a member of a provident society. did not possess such a fund. In the General Ins; during the last two years it had been. worked, 0 . 0 . ber has applied for parish relief, as this fund lase ,/ cases " helped those who had endeavoured to big selves." Several widows receive from it we e o p and fifteen orphans are educated in the various . ° 0; while many cases of severe distress from old other causes are constantly relieved. 4t In these times practical and pecuniary suppor t ,' ' poorer classes must be the best curative of th e '" tent and poverty so widely spreading. 0' The English Funds left off heavily and at the commencement of business thi 1 s no Consols were not higher than 874 The ze s to f of profits after the late advance is the chief ca o . doubt, for the speculative sales have exceeded t'„;,' money, while the idea that the interfere Pt France in the affairs of Italy may ~ 1 1°, 3 3s with the restoration of the Papal authority, s aP pretext with the "Bears." There may be th e d ante of cause for uneasiness, but we think the re , nothing snore. Consols now are only e7i to 8 73 ' f , New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. realise., and the Three per Cents. 86 to Bank Stock I h '. 1871 to 189 k, and India Stock 237. E xc h e quer " 39s_ to 42e. premium. The Foreign Stock market has Fenn steady. ,S Q Five per Cents. have been quot e d and 0 " per Cents. are 25i to Portuguese Four Pe r , ; , brought 242. Brazil small Bonds are 74. Dart and-a half per Cents. have been firm, at 4* 4- Stock is quiet at 214 to In Railway Shares the transactions have n e/ ' large, and the quotations have rather given we yesterday. North-Western, Midland, South,' Great Western, and Eastern Counties, are in is , buyers. ONE ) PItICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Reduced Anna B6 86% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities.-- 87 1 ,E IA 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 • New 3% per Cent. Anna...... 86t ,2 41,! , Long Anne. to expire J an. 1860 -16 5 4 Ditto, Oct. 10, 1859 ..... -16 India Stock 237 India Bonds, 1,000/. . Ditto under 1,000/. ... ..... Consols for Account B 7 A I / 2 14 exchequer Bills. 2 1 ,id. & 2d. 1,0001. March 1,000/. June 42 39 p 500/. Match. 45 p 5001. June Small, March .. 45 p CI PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. ONE 1 O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds Ditto, Small 74% Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent..... Equador Bonds Grenada Bona% 1 per Cent. l2 ... Ditto, Deferred - 2 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 2 I IA % • Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents — Ditto. Account ..... ... ...... Portuguese 5 per Cents. 7 0 1% i Ditto, 4 per Cent 24% Ditto, Small 25% Russian Bonds ... Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Venezuela Bonds, 2 1 .,,i per Cent l4 Ditto Deferred ... 4 Diiidends on the above payable in London . Belgian 4% per Cent ...... 70 Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild.... 47 3 / 4 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 72 1 A 73 c. PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DDONE V RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCIL Aberdeen 5O ""•• .. ............ • amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 41A ...... ......... ••••" Ayrshire and Galloway.. 7 ........... Belfast & County Down 19 ............... Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Do, withoutguarantee 20 . ..... . .... Birming, Wolverlf ton, and Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 10 .. Do. without guarantee 10 - ..... .• ........ : Birming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 131. 145... .. ......... .0' Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Juno 10 ...... ........ ...."' Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 5 ...... - ............. Bristol and Exeter 9O ...... .............. Ditto, Thirds 27% — ..... - ........ t uckinghamshire... 141. 4 s . .‘,...... • ••• . Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares Do. New 101. Pref 5 ..... 4% 3 / 4 . ......... Ditto,Clydesdale June 50 Chester and Holyhead... 50 ......... ...... Ditto, Preference .• Clare Do.n ce . 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 Junc. 35 — ............... Dundalk & Enniskillen 20 — .. .......... East Anglia, 251., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 — ... ........ '. Do., 181., E. & H.... 18 — ............ '• D0., 31.105. Eastern Counties 2O ...... 11% NIA ,i•••'" Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent. Ditto, Extension, 5 per Cent., No. 1 61.135. 4d.... % p........ •: Ditto ditto, No. 2.-61. 13s. 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 (I. & and B.) Ditto, Class C, ditto... 20 . ............ Do. Scrip (6 percent.) 10 Ditto, ditto Ditto (C. & E.) guar. 5 per cent............ 2% • East Lancashire .. .... • Ditto, New .... Ditto, New Quarters 6 1 ,A — ......... Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference ........ Quarters ... 61 — ••• ... East Lincolnshire ...... 25 . — Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto, Half Shares ... 15 - Edinburgh and Northern 25 Ditto, Newport ..... ••• ...... Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorch. 2% —.•-• . Glasgow, Dumfries, and .... ••• Carlisle ....... ... .81.65. 8d — -• ..... ,•••• Glasgow,Kilmar., & Ayr 60 .... Do.Prefereuce CosQL -- -. .... "' ............ •, .....