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lgl , • 1201 • 53s 53* I, Tl3l l e t .7.3 lli ~... O 10 i '; O 0 7, O 4 ilvo‘ iat G'eorv e Liei t .' ov4 " s;e ol° , t las be e " Alder' ve TDY. kept l a i t ic ' ill, o b. A, be ,?,9 of Go blic c'; le seve r e - ,n 000 n to , , he >ststilish rd Qile/ go VerY miclE SUN, LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) :NuV. . to breeze and fine. BONCHURCII, I. W., Nov. 13.—The Gaulle (Hano verian gullies.), from Wilmington, N. E., to Bremen, was run on shore near Shanklin this morning, her cargo having caught fire, end is burning to the water's edg... LIVERPOOL, Nov. 13.—The Europa, from River John to this port, was totally wrecked 25:11 ult., at Living atone Cove; crew saved. The Eglinton, Montreal and Quebec to this port, put into Sydney, C. 8., 26th ult., with cargo shifted, but would sail again in a few days. Arrd. Elizabeth, Barclay, Charlestot:; China, Attridge, Quebec. Sid. Ventura, Africa; Portland, Coquimbo; Wyoming, Philadelphia; Andrew Foster, N( w DEAL, Nov. 13.—Wind W.& W. to S.W.— Arid. Prince of Wales, Wilson, Manilla; Yorktown, I'ebor, New York; Aomori, Benson, Q reb e; O'ga, Crewe, ditto. Arrd. from the River, Surpass. Sperris, Palermo. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Mont rose. steamer, Gibraltar; left 6th, Cadiz 6th, Lisbon, 9th, Oporto and Vigo 10th inst. LEITH, Nov. 12.—Arrd. Prince George, Quebec, LEITH ROADS —Arrd. Gipsy, Rubinson, Utill3o,, BRISTOL, Nov. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. John Cabot, Thomas, Africa. PLvAtouTri, Nov. 13.—Wind, W.S. W.—Arrd. 12th, Prince, Richards, Prince Edward's bland; Marsella, Hawke, Labrador. 13th, 11. M. S. Serpent, Rio Janeiro. SHIELDS, Nov - . 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. 12th, Two Sisters, Browne, Dalhousie. Sid. James Ilart, Aden; Eliza, Brazils; Vesta, Carthagena; William Botsford, Coquimbo; Ashley, New York. SUNDERLAND, Noy. 13.—Wind S.—Arrd. William, Churlistoc, Quebec. MILFORD, Nov. 12.—Wind W.—Arrd. Christina, Swinton, Quebec. SCILLY, Nov. 10 AND 11.—Wind S.W.; 12th, W.S.W. —Arrd. 10th, Regolo, Mangan, Ragusa, for Queenstown or Falmouth. FALMOUTH, Nov. 13.—Wind W.N.W., fresh breezes. --Arrd. Voluna, Bulman, Quebec, for Truro. Off port, 12th, Enchantress, Punchard, Rio Janeiro, and sailed for Altona. MARKET INIEWS.-(TIIIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY This week's arrival of E❑glish wheat, coastwise, has been confined to only 910 quarters, chiefly from Essex. Although the show of samples here to-day was small, the demand was far from active, nevertheless Monday's improvement in value was freely supported. Only 970 quarters of wheat have reached us from abroad. Se lected qualities of both red and white moved off steadily at full prices. In the middling and inferior kiwis ex ceedingly little business was transacted. Floating cargoes were held at full currencies. The show of barley—both English and foreign—was small. Grind ing samples sold freely, other kinds slowly, at late rates. Malt was in moderato supply and sluggish inquiry, at unaltered quotations. The best parcels of Oats were held at full prices. Damp qualities ruled very dull. English • • .... Scoteh...... Irish .......- Foreign .. .. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat, Barley. Oats. Malt. Flour. Qrs. Qrs. I Qrs. Qrs. Sacks 910 1,-180 i 1,4 i 0 1,020 1,860 970 3,160 4,010 71022,0UG1Et 31OP 11111.14,MET. Really find Hops continue in stesdy request, at fully last week's quotations. In other kinds very little busi ness is doing. WELITECIMPE L. Each kind of Meat sold heavily, at barely stationary prices:—Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 23' 103 to 39 10d; ;Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 8d; and Pork, 3s 2d to 4s 2d per 31bs by the earea,e. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early walk. The Iloyal Family took waking and pony exercise in the Slopes and Eastern Terrace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot ing this morning, accompanied by their Royal High nesses the Prince de Joinville and the Duke d'Autnale, and attended by Lieut.. Colonel Hon. C. 13. Phipps and Lieut.-Colonel Hoy. A. Gordon. There is no addition to the royal dinner party this evening. Lord Dufferin has relieved the Marquis of Or monde in his duty as Lord in Waiting to the Queen; and Captain Hon. Joseph Denman has relieved Sir Stovin in his duty as Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. Sir Thomas Freemantle, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer :yesterday. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board sof Inland Revenue, had also an interview yesterday with the Right lion. Baronet, at his official residence in Downing. street. The Bishop of Guiana had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Attorney General had an interview yesterday 'with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The members of the General Board of Health, lord Ashley, Mr. Chadwick, and Dr. Southwood Smith, accompanied by Dr. Sunderland and Mr. John Griffiths, the architect, yesterday visited and inspected the Kensal-green Cemetery and catacombs. EALTH of the QUEEN DOWAGER. (From the Court Circular.) " The Priory, Nov. 13. "The Queen Dowager slept for several hours awing the night, and her M9jesty is tolerably com fortable this morning. "DAVID DAVIES, M.D." EXECUTION OF THE MANNINGS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. was a witness of the execution at Horse "nnger-lane this morning. I went there with the intention of observing the crowd gathered to behold it, and I had excellent opportunities of doing so, at intervals all through the night, and continuously from daybreak until after the spectacle was over. I do not address you on the subject with any in tention of discussing the abstract question of capital punishment, or any of the arguments of its opponents or advocates. I simply wish to turn this dreadful experience to some account for the general good, by taking the readiest and most public means of advert ing to an intimation given by Sir G. Grey in the last session of Parliament, that the Government might be induced to give its support to a measure making the infliction of capital punishment a private solemnity within the prison walls (with such guaran lees for the last sentence of the law being inexorably and surely administered as should be satisfactory to the public at large), and of most earnestly beseeching Sir G. Grey, as a solemn duty which ha owes to so ciety, and a responsibility which he cannot for ever t away, to originate such a Legislative change himself-. I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the Wickedness and levity of the immense crowd collected at that execution this morning could be imagined by no man, and could be presented in no heathen land under the sun. The horrors of the gibbet and of the crime which brought the wretched murderers to it, faded in my mind before the atrocious bearing, looks, and language of the assembled spectators. When I came upon the scene at midnight, the shrillness of the cries and howls that were raised from time to time, denoting that they came from a concourse of boys and girls already assembled in the best places, made my blood run cold. As the night went on, screeching, and laughing, and yelling in strong chorus of parodies on negro melodies, with substitu tions of " Mrs. Manning" for " Susannah," and the like, were added to these. When the day dawned, thieves, low prostitutes, ruffians and vagabonds of every kind, flocked on to the ground, with every variety of offensive and foul behaviour, Fightings, faiutings, whistlings, imitations of Punch, brutal jokes, tumultuous demonstrations of indecent delight when swooning women were dragged out of the crowd by the police with their dresses disordered, gave a new zest to the general entertainment. When the sun rose brightly.—as it did—it gilded thousands upon thou sands of upturned faces, so inexpressibly odious in their brutal mirth or callousness, that a man had cause to feel ashamed of the shape he wore, and to shrink from himself, as fashioned in the image of the Devil. When the two miserable creatures who attracted all this ghastly sight about them were turned quivering into the air, there was no more emotion, no more pity, no more thought that two immortal souls had gone to judgment, no more restraint in any of the previous obscenities, than if the name of Christ bad never been heard in this world, and there were no belief among men but that they p. risk like the beasts. I have seen, habitually, some of the worst sources t o ' general contamination and corruption in th i s coun t -nnotdlthink there are not many phases of L ondon I,lreaat u that could su rprise me. lam solemnly convinced nothing this • that ingenuity could devise to be done in sueh city ' in the same compass of time, could work ruin as one public execution, and I stand astou n d e d and appalled b y the w i ckedness i t ex hibit s . I do not believe that any community can prosper Where such a scene of horror and demoralization as I ,v,as enacted this morning outside Ilorseinonger lane krsol is presented at the very doors of good citizens, and is passed by, unknown or forgotten. And when, la Our prayers and thanksgivings for the season, we are hutnbly expressing before God our desire to re 14ove the moral evils of the land, I would itsk your readers to consider whether it is not a time to think of this one, and to root it out. I am, Sir, your faithful servant, CHARLES DICKENS. Devonshire-terrace, Tuesday, Nov. 13. The Master of the Rolls has appointed Tuesday, November 20, at the Roils Cuurt, Chancery-Tane, at t hree o' c l oc k i n the afternoon, for swearing solicitors. V ery person desirous of being sworn on the above day must leave his common law admission, or his certificate ° t practice for the current year, at the Secretary's office, L t ulls-yard, Chancery-lane, on or before Monday, November 19. LITERATURE; SHIRLEY ; A Tale. B , Currer Author of dace leyre." 3 Vols. The rewiers and the admirers of ° Jane Eyre " and the terms are almost synonymous—have been ex pecting with considerable interest a new work by Currer Bell. " Shirley" makes its appearance ac companied by all the advantages and disadvantages attendant upon the second effort of a successful writer. All who admired "Jane Eyre" will read "Shirley, and all who read " Shirley" will institute a strict comparison between that work and its fortunate pre decessor. happily for " Shirley" it will lose nothing by the comparison. The satne features which, not withstanding their sometimes revolting accompatii tnents, rendered " Jane Eyre" so attractive, are to be met with abundantly in " Shirley." Foremost among these is the style—the peculiar style, so fresh, so vigorous, and so emphatic. So emphatic that the meanest incidents are rendered impressive as realities ; so vigorous as at times to be positively startling, and so new and fresh that it differs from the language of ordinary novels as the keen breeze of the mountain differs from the soft atmosphere of the hot-house. So it WAS in " Jane Eyre," so it is in " Shirley." As a specimen of this energetic and animated style, take the following remarks, which are almost at the very commencement of the first volume. We give them merely as a specimen of a peculiar style, almost too flippant, perhaps, in this individual instance:— " Of late years, I say, an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England; but in eighteen hundred-eleven-twelve that stlluent rain had not de scended; curates were scarce then: there was no Pasto ral Aid—no Additional Curates' Society to stretch a helping hand to worn-out old rectors and incumbents, and give them the wherewithal to pay a vigorous young colleague from Oxford or Cambridge. The present successors of the apostles, disciples of Dr. Pusey and tools of the Propaganda, were at that time being hatched under cradle-blankets, or undergoing regeneration by nursery-baptism in wash-hand-basins. You could not have guessed by looking at any one of them that the Italian-ironed double frills of its net cap surrounded the brows of a pre-ordained, specially-sanctified successor of St. Paul, St. Peter, or St. John; nor could you have forcs , en in the folds of its long night-gown the white surplice in which it was hereafter cruelly to exercise the souls of its parishioners, and strangely to nonplus its old-fashioned vicar by flourishing aloft in a pulpit the shirt-like raiment which had never before waved higher than the reading desk. " Yet even in those days of scat-city there were curates; the prrci,ais plant was rare, but it might be found. A certain favourcd district in the West Riding of Yorkshire could boast three rods of Aaron blossoming within a circuit of twenty miles. You shall see them, reader. Step into this neat garden-house on the skirts of Whin bury, walk forward into the little parlour—there they are at dinner. Allow me to introduce them to you:— Mr. Donne, curate of Whinbury; Mr. Malone, curate of Briarfield; Mr. Sweeting, curate of Nunnely. These are Mr. I)onne's lodgings, being the habitation of one John Gde, a small clothier. Mr. Donne has kindly in. vited his brethren to regale with him. You and I will join the party, see what is to be seen and hear what is to be heard. At present, however, they are only eating; and while they eat we will talk aside." The story of " Shirley" is almost wholly devoid of intricate plot or abundance of incident. It serves merely as the framework for a group of striking portraits, and as the occasion for the delineation— and a most exquisitely natural delineation it is—of various phases of human passion. To reveal the plot of a novel is generally unfair, for it puts an end to the curiosity of the reader ; but to reveal the plot of " . Shirley"would be harmless, for it is not the plot but the manner in which it is worked which renders this novel so attractive. The characters of the heroines, Shirley Keeldar awl Caroline Helstone, are especially felicitous. Shirley, the chief heroine, is just of age, and consequently the independent mistress of great wealth and large estates. Somewhat spoiled, perhaps, by the peculiarity of her position, she is proud and wilful, bat withal graceful in her wilfulness and womanly in her pride. Louis Moore, the impoverished son of a once wealthy family, half foreign, half English, is a tutor in the house of Shirley's uncle. This Louis Moore is the hero of Shirley's romance. His character does not appear very attractive, perhaps, oo account of the painfully embarrassing position in which he is placed. Loving Shirley, he is too proud to woo the wealthy 'Miss Keeldar, and she, on her, part, is too proud to give the smallest token of encou ragement unsought. The situation is well imagined and marvellously well described. Alluding to an interview with Shirley, Louis Moore writes thus:— " She could not hear me speak so unmoved, and she was moved: It was right—l meant to move her. She could not answer me, nor could she look at mc. I should have been sorry if she could have done either. her cheek glowed as if a crimson flower, through whose petals she sun shone, had cast its light upon it. On the white lid and dark lashes of her downcast eye trembled all that is graceful in the sense of half-painful, half pleating shame. " Soon she controlled her emotion, and took all her feelings under command. I saw she had felt insurrec tion, and was waking to empire —she sat down. There was that in her face which I could read ; it said, I see the line which is my limit—nothing shall make me pass it. I feel—l know how far I may reveal my feelings, and when I must clasp the volume. I have advanced to a certain distance, as far as the true and sovereign arid undegraded nature of my kind permits—now here I stand rooted. My heart may break if it is baffled; let it break —it shall never dishonour me—it shall never dishonour my sisterhood in me. Suffering before degradation ! death before treachery! "I, for my part, said, If she were poor, I would be at her feet. If she wero lowly, I would take her in my arms. ller Gold and her Station are two griffins, that guard her on each side. Love lo o k s an d l ongs, and dares not. Passion hovers round, and is kept a t b a y. Truth and Devotion are scared. There is nothing to lose in winning her—no sacrifice to make—it is all clear gain, and therefore unimaginably " Yet the continuation of this scene, however truthful it may be, considering the peculiar character of the actors, is not quite pleasing. There is not enough of the softness of love in it to temper the ungenial pride of the penniless lover, too proud to open his lips, and the wealthy maiden, "who would be wooed, arid not unsought be won." We were about to quote a passage illustrative of our meaning, but on second thoughts we refrain, and leave the revelation of the denouement to the readers of " Shirley." The following passage will give a correct idea of the peculiar character ei6 the proud and yet gentle Shirley. She has been for some time pale and apparently unhappy, but she persists in de claring that nothing ails her. At last the tutor, grown anxious, entreats her to confide in him, and, like a submissive child, the imperious heiress obeys. She tells that the following accident had befallen her : " I heard a panting sound ; a dog came running up the lane. I know must of the dogs in this neighbour hood ; it was Phoebe, one of Mr. Sam Wynne's pointers. 'rho poor creature ran with h , r head down, her tongue hanging out ; ehe looked a; if bruised and beaten all over. I called her; I meant to coax her into the house, and give her some water and dinner; I felt sure she had been ill-used. Mr. Sam often flogs his pointers cruelly. She was too flurried to know me; and wilen I attempted to pat her head, she turned and snatched at my arm. She bit it so as to draw blood, then ran panting on. Directly after, Mr. Wynne's ke,:per came up carrying a gun. Ile asked if I had seen a dog, I told him I had seen Phcehe. " You had better chain up Tartar, ma'am,' he said, and tell your people to keep within the house, I am after Phoebe to shoot her, asd the groom is gone another way. She is raging mad.' Mr. Moore leaned back in his chair, and folded his arms across his chest; Miss Keeldar resumed her square of silk canvass, and continued the creation of a wreath of Parmese violets. " ' And you told no one, sought no help, no cure; you would not come to me l''_ " I got es far as the school-room door; there my courage failed; I preferred to cushion the matter.' "‘ Why ? What can I demand better in this world than to be of use to you ? ' "' I had no " < Monstrous ! And you did nothing? ' "' Yes; I walked straight into the laundry, where they are ironing most of tha week, now that I have so many guests in the house. While the maid was busy crimp ing or starching, I took an Italian iron from the fire, and applied the light scarlet glowing, tip to my arm; I bored it, well in; it cauterized the little wound. Then I went up stairs.' " I daresay you never once growled? " I am sure I don't know. I was very miserable Not firm or tranquil at all, I think; there was no calm in my mind.' 'There was calm in y s o a u tt r person. I remember lis tening the w was tiieh sittingroomo le time at w above; the ee foot n l at owi a l t u sh ni t h bi ieeedot:l,to hear wishing i f Phoebe you moved had not bitten me.' "' And alone! You like solitude.' "' Pard:in me.' " You disdain symnsthy: " ' Do I, Mr. Moore? ' With your powerful mind, you must Act indepen dent of help, of advice, of' society.' So be it—since it pleases you.' " She smiled. She pursued her embroidery carefully , and quickly ; but her eyelash twinkled, and then it glit tered, and then a drop fell. " Mr. Moore leaned forward on his desk, moved his chair, altered his attitude. If it is not so,' he asked, with a peculiar, mellow change in his voice, how is it, then?' "‘ I don't know.' "' You do know, but you won't speak; all must be locked up in yourself.' " 'Because it is not worth sharing.' " Because nobody can give the high price you re quire for your confidence. Nobody is rich enough to purAa6e it. Nobody has the honour, the intellect, the power you demand in your adviser. There is not a Shoulder in England on R hic h you would rest your hand for support—far less a bosom which you would permit to pillow sour head. Of course you must live alone.' " I e,th live alone, if mod be. But the question is not how to live—but how to die alone. That strikes rue in a more grisly light."' A conversation between the two heroines, Shirley and Caroline, throws still further light on the elm- LONDON, ratter of the former. This conversation, which ap pezirs really the simple and natural discourse of two girls, is one of inauy proofs that, whether or no Currer Bell be a true appellation, "Shirley" is the work of a woman's pen. " I often weirder, Shirley, whether most men re remble my uncle in their domestic relations; whether it is necessary to be new and unfamiliar to them, in order to seem agreeable or estimable in their eyes ; and whether it is impossible to their natures to retain a constant interest and affection for those they see every day.' " I don't know : I can't clear up your doubts. I ponder over similar ones myself sometimes. But, to tell you a secret, if I were convinced that they are necessarily and universally different from us—fickle, soon petrifying, unsympethizing -- I would m vor marry. I should not like to , MA out that what I lobed did not love me, that it was weary of me, and that whatever effort I might make to please would hereafter be worse than useless, since it was ir.esitably in its naturo to change and become indifferent. That dis covery once made, what s'iould I long fbr ? To go away--to remove from a presence where my society gave no pleasure.' " But you could not, if you were married.' " No, I could not—there it is. I could never be my own mistress more. A terrible thought!—it suffocates me! Nothing irks me like the idea of being a burden and a bore—an inevitable burden—a ceaseless bore ! Now, when I feel my company supei fiuous, I can cora lertably fold my independence round me like a mantle, and drop my pride like a veil, and withdraw to solitude. If married, that could not be.' "' I wonder we don't all make up our minds to remain single,' said Caroline : ' we should if we listened to the wisdom of experience. • My uncle always speaks of marriage as a burden; and I believe whenever he hears of a man being married, ho invariably regards him as a fool, or, at any rate, as doing a foolish thing? " But, Caroline, men are not all like your uncle : surely not—l hope nat.' " She paused and mused. "' I suppose we each find an exception in the one we love, till we are married,' suggested Caroline. " I suppose so: and this exception we believe to be I of sterling materials ; we fancy it like ourselves; we imagine a sense of harmony. We think his voice gives the softest, truest promise of a heart that will never harden against us: we read in his eyes that faithful feeling—affection. I don't think wo should trust to what they c ell passion, at all, Caroline. I believe it is a mere fire of dry sticks, blazing up and vanishing: but we watch him, and see him kind to animals, to little children, to poor people. He is kind to us likewise— good—considerate : he does not flatter women, but he is patient with them, and he seems to be easy in their presence, and to find their company genial. Ile likes them not only for vain and selfish reasons, but as we like him—because we like him. Then we observe that he is just—that he always speaks the truth—that he is conscientious. We feel joy and peace when he comes into a room: we feel sadness and trouble when he leaves it. We know that this man has been a kind son, that he is a kind brother: will any one dare to tell mo that he will not be a kind husband?' " My uncle would affirm it unhesitatingly. "He will be sick of you in a month," he would say.' "' Mrs. Pryor would seriously intimate the same.' " Mrs. Yorke and Miss Mann would darkly suggest ditto.' " ' If they are true oracles, it is good never to fall in love.' " Very good, if you can avoid it.' "' I choose to doubt their truth.' " I am afraid that proves you are already caught.' " Not I : but if I were, do you know what swth sayers I would cinsult?' Let me hear.' " Neither man nor woman, elderly nor young : the little Met beggar that comes barefoot to my door; the mouse that steals out of the cranny in the wainscot; the bird that in frost and snow pecks at my window for a crumb; the dog that licks my hand and sits beside my knee.' " Did )ou ever see any one who was kind to such things?' " • Did you ever see any one whom such things seemed instinctively to follow, like, rely on?' " We have a black cat and an old dog at the Rectory. I know somebody to whose knee that black cat loves to climb ; against whose shoulder and cheek it likes to purr. The old dog; always comes out of his kennel and wags his tail, and whines affectionately when somebody passes.' "' And what does that somebody do?' " He quietly strokes the cat, and lets her sit while he conveniently can, and when he must disturb her by rising, he puts her softly down, and never flings her from him roughly; he always whistles to the dog and gives him a caress.' " Does he. It is not Robert?' " But it is Robert.' "' Handsome fellow!' said Shirley, with enthusiasm : her eyes sparkled. ' " Is he not handsome? Has he not fine eyes and well cut features, and a clear, princely forehead?' "' He has all that, Caroline. Bless him! he is both graceful and good.' " I was sure you would see that he was: when I first looked at your face I knew you would.' " I was well inclined to him before I saw him. I liked him when I did see him : I admire him now. There is a charm in beauty for itself; Caroline; when it is blent with goodness there is a powerful charm.' " ' When mind is added, Shirley.' " ' Who can resist it?' " ' Remember my uncle, Mesdames Pryor, Yorke, and Mann.' " Remember the croaking of the frogs of Egypt He is a noble being. I tell you when they are good, they are the lords of the creation—they arc the sons of God. Moulded in their Maker's image, the minutest themod, han d a s l m o m o s e t m a a b n o t i • s e t m h e o r fi t t i t o y f . I sp n a d rik sp o u f tab l y is , a s p g i r r i e t a f g t e s created things.' "' Above us?' "' I would scorn to contend for empire with him—l would scorn it. Shall my left hand dispute for prece• deuce with my right?—shall my heart quarrel with my pulse?—shall my veins be jealous of the blood which fills them?' "' Men and women, husbands and wives, quarrel hor ribly, Shirley.' " Poor things!—poor fallen, degenerate things! God made them for another lot—for other feelings.' "' But are we men's equals, or are we not?' " Nothing ever charms me more than when I meet my superior—one who makes me sincerely feel that he is my superior.' "' Did you ever meet him?' " I should be glad to see him any day: the higher above me, so much the bettcr: it degrades to stoop—it is glorious to look up. What frets me is, that when I try to esteem, I am baffled: when religiously inclined, there are but false gods to adore. I disdain. to be a Pagan.' " Miss Keeldar, will you come in? We are here at the Rectory gates.' " Shirley does net make her appearance until the close of the first volume, yet the first volume is not the least interesting of the three. It is rendered attractive by the exquisitely natural presence of Caroline Ilelstone, whose heart-history is detailed with a simple tenderness and pathos quite affecting from . its apparent truthfulness. Robert Moore, the brother of the Louis above mentioned, is a Yorkshire mill-owner of a somewhat stern and determined character. Being half a foreigner, he is regarded with little kindness by his neighbours, and in his zeal for progress, being a patron . .of all new inventions in machinery, he is an object of indignation to the majority of the workmen. Beneath his outward austerity Robert's better nature occasionally peeps forth, never more visibly than when in presence of diroline Ilelstone, the rector's niece, and his own dis tant relation—the gentle, tender, devoted Caroline, who conies daily to take her lesson in French from Hortense Moore, and who almost daily contrives to find greater pleasure in • the society of Hortense's brother Robert. The time in which these incidents took place was during the Peninsular war. '1 he " orders in Council," the object of the rnillowners' abhorrence, which closed foreign ports against British manufactures, were reducing Robert to the verge of ruin. To make money was in his case almost a duty, seeing that it was his purpose to restore the credit of his family, ruined by his father's unsuccessful speculation. Robert, therefore, must not marry unless he can meet with an heiress, and accord ingly he woos Shirley Keeldar. Before this proceeding he has, perhaps thoughtlessly, trifled with his little loving cousin—hence the sorrow which overwhelms poor Caroline. This portion of the narrative is invested with a vivid air of reality—e. g., Caroline has been passing a happy evening at the cottage of the Moores. She repeats the poem of " La Jeune Captive"— " Caroline, b , ginning in a low, rather tremulous voice, but gaining courage as she proceeded, repeated the sweet verses of CLitaier; the last three stanzas she rehearsed well. " Moore listened at first with kis eyes cast down, but soon he furtively raised them: leaning back in his chair, he could watch CAI olive without her perceiving where his gaze was fixed. ller cheek had a colour, .her eyes a light, her countenance an expression, this evening, which would have made even plain features striking; but there was not the grievous defect of plainness to pardon in her case. The sunshine was not shed on rough barrenness; it fell on soft bloom. Each lineament was turned with grace; the whole aspect was pleasing. At the present moment—animated, interested, touched—she might be called beautiful. Such a face was calculated to awaken not only the calm sentiment of esteem, the distant one of admiration; but some feeling more tender, genial, intimate: friendship, perhaps—affection, interest. When she had finished she turned to Moore, and met his eye. " Is that pretty u ell lapeated?' she inquired, smil ing like any happy, docile child. " I really don't know.' " Why don't you know? Rave you not listened?' " Yes—and looked. You are fond of poetry, Line?' 4 " When I meet with real poetry, I cannot rest till I have learned it by heart, and so made it partly mine.' " Mr. Moore now sat silent for several minutes. It struck nine o'clock: Sarah entered and said that Mr. lielstone's servant was come for Miss Caroline. " "filen the evening is gone already,' she observed; ' and it will be long, I suppose, before I pass another here.' " Hortense had been for seen time nodding over her knitting; fallen into a doze now, she made no response to the remark. " You would have no objection to come here oftener of en evening?' ixquirt d Robert, as he took her folded mantle from the side-table, where it still lay, and care fully wrapped it round her. " I like to come here; but I have no desire to be in- WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14 1849. trasive. lam not hinting to be asked: you must under• etar. ,l that.' I un4(;r6tanl th‘.e, 17 , )u sonatimes lectu.e rne for wishin4 to be rich, Lina; Lut if 1 21 ere rich, you nhould live here altv:!ys: at any rate, you should live ,t-ith me wherever my haiiitation might be.' " That SCeu!d be pleasant; and it you were poor— ever so poor—it would still be pleasant. Good night, Rohert.' " I promised to walk with you up to the Rectory.' " I know you did; but I thought you had forgotten, and I hardly know how to remind you, though I wished to do it. But would you like to go? It is a cold night; and, as Fanny is come, there is no necessity—' Hero is you muff—don't wake Hortense—come.' " The half mile t) the Rectory was aeon travcraed. They paved in the garden without kiss, scarcely with a pressure of hands; 2:et Robert sent his cousin in excited and joyously troubled. He had been singularly kind to h.m that day: not in phrae ; compliment, profession; but in mariner, in look, nod in soft and friendly tones. " For himself, he came home grave, almost morose. As he stood leaning on his own yard gate, musing in the wa.',ery moonlight, all alone—the hushed, dark mill before hire, the hill-environed hollow round—ho exclaimed abruptly , . . . " This won't du! Thk.re's weakness—there's down right ruin in all this. However,' he added, dropping his voice, the phreLzy is quite tetnp3rary. I know it very well: I have had it before. It will be gone to morrow.'" And it was gone to-morrow. After an evening of blissful meditation, the unconscious Caroline repairs the next morning to the cottage (for her lesson), her heart full of happiness at the thought of meeting Robert. She does meet him : "Arriving in sight of the white house, and within hear ing of the thundering mill and its rushing water-course, the first thing she saw was Moore at his garden gate. There he stood, in his belted Holland blouse, a light cap covering his head, which undress costume suited him: he was looking down the lane, not in the direction of his cousin's approach. She stopped, withdrawing a little behind a willow, and studied his appearance. " 6 Ile has not his peer,' she thought; he is as hand some as he is intelligent. What a keen eye he has! What clearly cut, spirited features—thin and serious, but graceful! Ido like his face—l do like his aspect—l do like him so much! Better than any of those shuffling curates, for instance—better than anybody: bonnie Robert l' " She sought bonnie Robert's' presence speedily. For his part, when she challenged his sight, I believe he would have passed from before her eyes like a phantom, if he could; but beirg a tall fact, and no fiction, he was obliged to stand the greeting, He made it brief: it was cousin -like, brother like, friend-like, anything but lover like. The nameless charm of last night bad left his manner: ho was no longer the same man; or, at any rate the same heart did not beat in his breast. Rude disap pointment! sharp cross! At first the eager girl would not believe in the change, though she saw and felt it. It was difficult to withdraw her hand from his, till he had bestowed at least something like a kind pressure; it was difficult to turn her eyes from his eyes, till his looks had expressed something more and fonder than that cool welcome. " A lover masculine so disappointed can speak and urge explanation, a lover feminine can say nothing: if she did the result would be shame and anguish, inward remorse for self-treachery. Nature would brand such demonstration as a rebellion against her instincts, and would vindictively repay it afterwards by the thunder. bolt of self-contempt smiting suddenly in secret. Take the matter as you find it: ask no questions; utter no remonstrances: it is your best wisdom. You expected broad, and you have got a stone; break your teeth on it, and don't shriek because the nerves are martyrized: do not doubt that your mental stomach—if you have such a thing—is strong as an ostrich's—the stone will digest. You held out your hand for an egg, and fate put into it a scorpion. Show no consternation: close your fingers firmly upon the gift; let it sting through your palm. Never mind: in time, after your hand and arm have se riled and quivered long with torture, the squeezed scorpion will die, and you will have learned the great lessen how to endure without a sob. For the whole remnant of your life, if you survive the test—some, it is said, die under it -e-you will be stronger, wiser, less sensitive. This you are not aware of, perhaps, at the time, and so cannot borrow courage of that hope. Na ture, however, as has been intimated, is an excellent friend in such Cases; sealing the lips, interdicting utter ance, commanding a placid dissimulation: a dissimula tion often wearing an easy and gay mien at first, settling down to sorrow and paleness in time, then passing away and leaving a convenient stoicism, not the less fortifying because it is half-bitter. " But what has been said in the last page or two is not germane to Car..line lltistone's feelings, or to the stAto of things between her and Robert Moore. Robert had done her no wrong: he had told her no lie; it was she that was to blame, if any one was: what bitterness her mind distilled should and would be poured on her own head. She had loved without beine , asked to love —a natural, sometimes an inevitable chance, but big with misery. " Robert, indeed, had sometimes seemed to be fond of her—but why ? Because she had made herself so pleas ing to him, he could not, in spite of all his efforts, help testifying a state of fooling his judgment did not approve, nor his will sanction. He was about to withdraw de cidedly from intimate communication with her, because he did not choose to have his affections inextricably entangled, nor to be drawn, despite his reason, into a marriage he believed imprudent. Now, what was she to do—to give way to her feelings, or to vanquish them? To pursue him, or to turn upon herself? If she is weak, she will try the first expedient—will lose his esteem and win his aversion; if she has sense, she will be her own governor, and resolve to subdue and bring under guid ance the disturbed realm of ber emotions. She will determine to look on life steadily, as it is; to begin to learn its severe truths seriously, and to study its knotty problems closely, conscientiously." The readers of " Jane Eyre" failed to recognise the authoress, but no one who peruses the touching narrative of Caroline's sorrows and struggles—a narrative too long to be quoted here, and too beau tiful to suffer us to mar it by curtailment—will doubt for a moment that a woman s heart has dictated this revelation of a woman's sufferings. Apart from the interest attaching to the two love stories, the dangers and difficulties of the enterprising mill-owners, unro mantic though they be, are full of attraction. The scene in which we are first introduced to Robert Moore is well described. He is waiting with more anxiety than he is wiling to confess for the arrival of some waggons containing new machinery. It has been threatened by men, thrown out of work by the improvements, that all such machines shall be destroyed, but Moore perseveres. The hours pass and the waggons do not arrive. At last their rum bling sound is heard. Moore goes out to meet them ; he can hardly distinguish them in the darkness, "Is all right, Joe Scott ?" he exclaims. No answer. "Is all rigat ?" he asks again, and this time a loud voice replies, " Ay, all might, divil, we've smashed em !" Written, as it is, in an earnest, unaffected, and impressive style, and abcundin4, as it does, with most masterly delinea tions of human passion, " Shirley" cannot fail to be successful. Its influence on the heart is good ; it gives exercise to some of our best emotions ; yet " Shirley" is not * quite faultless. We have, it is true, no such repulsive hero as Mr. Rochester, yet the pro minent features of all Currer Bell's heroes are stern and hard—at least they seem so by the side of the all attractive and most womanly heroines. Robert Moore is perhaps an exception ; his character is delicately and naturally drawn. We are loth, however, to dwell on the faults of a book which has pleased us so much as " Shirley." Its author is evidently endowed with a , tender heart and a thinking brain, and will confer 1 yet further obligations on the reading public. As " Shirley " is an improvement on " Jane Eyre," in some particulars, warmed with a greater glow of human tenderness ; so we doubt not that the next production of Currer Bell will again be an improve ment in some respects on "Shirley "—in some reswcts only, for in others " Shirley "is perfect. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —The Observer of Sunday next, Nov. 18, will give the fullest particulars of the Execution of the Mannings , with his Confession, and ;ill other mato rs coniected therewith. The Observer of Sunday, Oct. 28, which gave 22 columns of the trial, is f.tgain reprinting, and copies, at sixpence each, be had all this month of November. The extensive publication of the Observer commesces at four o'clock on Sunday morning, in time for all the early railways. A sixpence, inclosed to Mr. Clement, jun., 170, Strand, will insure a copy of either dated Observer, by return of post, to any part of the United Kingdom. STATE OF TRADE.--MANCHESTE R, TUESDAY. There has been a degree of excitement in the market to-day, owing to the arrival of the Niagara steamer, with dates from New York to the 31st ult., and in reply to letters hence of the 13th ult., showing en excited cotton market in Liverpool, with .advanced prices of -11 to ?I per lb. Cotton has advanced in New York 4to I nept, and no better estimates of the crop are given than have before appeared. Some of the larger producers here do not offer their stocks; others require further advances, the general result being . that there has been more disposition on the part of buyers to do business, particularly in cloths, at rates which could not have been conceded last market day. There appears to be very large orders for cloth in the hands of buyers, but at pre sent limited producers will not accept. Heavy cictha do not improve. Upon the whole, th e f ee li ng i s h ea l t h y and firm, and the opinion that higher rates must prevail ,gains ground. TaiN, Nov. B.—SNow STORM.—On Monday last, we had the first unmistakeable sign of an approaching winter, for the day was very rainy—and we had showers of snow also in abundance. On Tuesday it s n owe d the whole day without intermission ; and yesterday morning, the whole ground was covered with it to the depth of about six 'inches. The mails from the North and south have been irregular since Monday in conse quence; and yesterday, the ' coach from the so u th did not arrive till about four o clock. To-day it is still very frosty, but we hope that the snow will soon dis appear. . HIGHLAND STOCK mu ENGLAND.--A few days ago, a lot of ten very fine three year-old highland stots were shipped at Fiudhorn per North Star steamer, from the stock of Dunphail, the property of Major Cumming Bruce, The stock had been iurchased for the Right Hop. Charles Shaw Lefevro., Speaker of the House of Commons.—Nor tie CHESTER AND IfoLninaD RAlLwAy.—Traffic for the weds ended Nov. 11, 1849 :—Coaching traffic, 9941.; parcels, &c., 53/.; goods, cattle, &c., 413/.; steam boats, 64 C; Mold, 434—Total, 1,5084 FRAN CE. The ilfoqiteur pub;iihes the following circular, dated the 11th, from the :Minister of the Interi!ar to the Prefects of the departments:— " Monsieur le is Coe duty of the Govern ment to require, from all the; functionaries ti whom it accords its confidence, an energetic and sincere devotedness to the cause of order. Order means authority every where obeJed and respected, security for all persons, labour protected and confident as to the future, and liberty within the limits of the law. In a time of calm, when things follow their regular course, the administration, invested with htli patronage, may lock at political struggles with a sort of neutrality; all that is then necessary is the pacific co-operation of ideas and doctrines. But . _ in a time of terioul convulsion, when tin se strug,glos are fo:_the greater part violrnt, and have for their object the overthrow or the maintenance of eoeial order, thu part of the achninistrators becomes more active, and their opera'Lns more extensive and more imperative. They are then the first soldiers of order; it is their duty to rush to every breach, to defend it with energy, and to endeavour by intelligent and assiduous (Gas to close it. To resist the enterprises of anarchy is not reaction against progress, it is to secure its course and enlighten its objrct. The policy of the Govern ment of the Republic has two essential conditions: irresistible firmness in the execution of the laws, and prudent and enlightened solicitude for all interests. It is by uscful and patriotic efforts, such as those which I require from your zeal, that you will rally to the present Government all the men of order, and re - alise that cohesion of view.; and tendencies which is so necessary to the work of defence and salvation which it is our mission to accomplish. The active and watchful co-operation which I confidently expect from you, you will rigorously exact from all functionaries placed under your orders ; you will obtain it, Monsieur le P, 4fet, from all good cithens, whom love for their country and a regard for their own interests ought to draw round a strong and vigilant administration. It is necessary that the impulse should be general, energetic, snd sustained, in order to produce all its effect. We take our example is the conduct of the Chief of the Government himself, who has loudly and firmly ma nifested his will not to forget any one of the obli gations of his popular mandate. The course that he indicates to us with the sure instincts of his patriotism is the best; let us not hesitate to engage in it with him; we shall find him courageous and persevering; our surest reward will be in the conviction of having accom plished our difficult and imperative duties, and in the gratitude of a society whose adversaries increase in number and violence only in proportion with the weak ness and hesitation of those who are called upon to govern. Be assured, Monsieur le Pi 6fet, that the proofs which you shall give of your devotedness to the cause of the country shall be faithfully reported to the President of the Republic, who so well knows how to appreciate the service rendered to France, and who feels sincere joy when the occasion presents itself for rewarding them. I desire that you should make me acquainted within the shortest possible delay with your opinion of the state of things in your department, with the wants which are there manifested, and the measures which you consider necessary to strengthen authority and protect order, so necessary for the liberty and the prosperity of the coun try.—Receive, Prefet, the assurance of my very distinguished consideration. " FERDECAND BAUROT." The Presse says:—" M. earlier has caused to be effaced from the head of the placard which made known his proclamation to the public the words— Republique Francaise, Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite. It is positively stated that, by his orders, the words will be henceforth omitted from all the documents of the Prefecture of Police." The Moniteur publishes the following official ac count of the reception of the new ituaerican Minister by the President of the French Republic : "On Thursday evening last the President of the Republic received, in a private audience, the Minister of the United States, with whom tho communications had been interrupted, in consequence of the difference that has arisen between M. Poussin and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Cabinet at Washington. Tale President of the Republic declared to the Minister of the United States that, notwitu standing the faults which it was right to admit on both sides, he willingly took the first step towards the re establishment of good harp my between the two countries ; and that a susceptibility which would be, perhaps, natural with respect to a Monarchy, did not appear to him to have the same serious motive as regarded an elder Republic. He added that, however jealous he ought to be of the honour of Franco, he had too high an opinion of the enlightened character of General Taylor, to hesitate a moment in acknowledging the pain which he felt at seeing sentiments of friendship, so intimate and of such ancient date, altered on account of a misunderstanding without importance. " The Ambassador of the United States received this frank and loyal declaration with entire cordiality." It is said that the Government has received dispatches from Rome, announcing the approaching return of the Pope to the Holy City. only partly found purch asers a t rat h er l ower rates; ord I to good soft brown went at 29a 61 to 30s 6d, low yellow 11 3 Li, rind 34 Gd, good 3Gs t o 36 s 6.1. O ! 3,061 bags Ma villa, a part only sold at 34s to 35s for strong greyish imee'n, and at 33s to 34s for syrupy. FOILEIGN.—To-day there wa, no public sale for Fo• reign Sugar, and by private treaty operations were to a fair event for export, whilst full rates are paid for white, brown, and yellow kinds. NOLASSF.S..—West India met with less attention, and prices are not so firm, still there is only a limited supply at market. The private sales have been only 100 puns of Demerara and Trinidad at 15 i to 153 6d, and small parcels of better sort at 16s 61 to 18i. For Bengal Treacle the market has a quiet appearance, and a desire is evicted to sell at 14s 6d to 15s; the tendency of prices is evidently downwards, and a larger quantity is on offer. COCOA.— The low prices cuirent fur Foreign have at length attracted atteeii( n, ar d by private treaty 1,000 hags Guayaquil were disposed of at 26s per cwt. In West India operations have been upon a more extended scale, in consequence of rather lower rates having been acceded to, and 350 bags Trinidad at auction were all sold at from 38s to 44s per cwt. Au impression exists that prices have arrived at their lowest point, although there is a larger stock. COFFEE.—This afternoon there was less excitement in the Coffee mar ket, chippers and home dealers were not so willing to purchase: at public sale, 377 casks and 1,000 bags Plantation Ceylon were offered, and about two thirds sold at the former value—fine at 65s to 70s, good 60s to 645, mid 57s to 595, low mid 54s to 565, other sorts 483 to 535,_ and triage 42 s 6d t o 48s. Native is less wanted, and 400 bags at auction were taken in at 46s to 46s 6d, for good ord; 57 bales 92 half-do Mocha went at higher rates, good greenish clean garbled at 603 to 645, low mid 545, and triage at 34s to 375; 278 bags Madras fine sold at 62s 6d to 63s 6d, good ord 445 6d; 420 bags Manilla, good ord pale 46s to 46s Gd; 60 bags Rio taken in at 43s 6d, and 80 bags St. Domingo at 455, but 97 bags Java sold at 43s Gd for Singapore. TEL—A further improvement has taken place in the demand for Green, and large parcels have been disposed of at fully former terms, indeed Young Hyson realised an advance of id to id per lb; the lower kinds continue most in request. For the better sorts of scented caper and orange Pekoe there are still free buyers at from Is 3d to Is 7d. Black Tea is not offered at any further decline, still town and country dealers continue to operate with caution. For ord and good ord Congou holders ask 81e1 to 9d, mixed blackish leaf 9d to 141, blackish leaf rather strong lid to is ()id, ditto strong Is Id to is 2d, fine and Pekoe flavor Is lid to is 93 per lb. None has been offered at auction, but a parcel of Assam is declared. RICE —To-day there was no public sale of East India Rice, but by private treaty operations are upon rather a larger scale, and former rates aro well supported. • SPICES.—To-day at auction 22 bags of Ceylon Cinna mon were taken in at 11d to Is 2d; 4 cases Penang Cloves, mid is 2d; 441 begs African sold at 7d to lid, ord 641, and damaged Gid to 73d, these are rather lower rate.; 195 bags Pimento sold well, mid and good 5 1 1 d to 5Ad; 7 pkgs Nutmegs, ord and good mid brown 2s Gd to 33 2d, broken is 7d to 2s, wormy 10d to Is, and fair limed 2s 6d; 112 bags wild in the shell taken in at Gd; 44 bags Malabar Pepper was withdrawn; 220 bags Malabar Ginger sold at 22s for fair wormy export sorts; 2 cases 11ace ord and good ord red lid to 2s Id per lb. SPlRlTS.—Leeward Island Rum has not improved in value, still operations have been upon a large scale, and amount to 800 puns at Is 41-d to is 5d per gallon proof. At these rates there are not generally sellers. In East India a good trade has been concluded at fully former terms, and the sales are 400 hogsheads at is 3d to Is Sad proof. Of Demerara several parcels have been disposed of at from 2s to 2s 3d for 30 to 36 per cent over proof. Previous rates are insisted upon for all sorts of Jamaica, and the home as well as export de mand is good-ord and mid quality 28 to 32 per cent over proof realised 2s 4d to 2s Bd, good 23 9d to 3s, and su• perior 33 to 36 over 3s 21 to 4s per gallon. Brandy is offered at further rEduced terms. Cognac, best brAnds of the vintage of 1848 at 4s to 4s 21; 1847 ditto 43 101 to 5s ; 1846 ditto 53 8d to 53 101; 1845 ditto at Cs 21 to 6s 4d, inferior sorts 2a 41 to 4s, and Bor deaux at 2s 6 1 to 2s 8d per gallon. The operations in Geneva have been small; export ;sort is 9I to Is 10d, and fine for consumption at 24.1 to 3s 31 British made Spirit has been operated in with caution at 9s Bd, and Gin at 8s to Sc 61 for 17 and 22 ver cent. under proof. SALTPETRE.—OnIy limited purchases have been made by private treaty, although there are sellers at rather lower terms. A part only of 900 bags Calcutta at auction found buyers at 2Gs 61 to 27s for 104 to 74 per cent refraction. The value of good and fine is from 27s to 28s. For British Refilled the trade is quiet, and 30s to 30s 6d is the value. Nitrate of Soda at 12s to 123 3d per cwt. Faurr.—Raisins have been in extensive request, and an advance in the value has taken place; on the part of holders there is firmness, and prime new Valencias can not be obtained under 45s per cwt. In Currants a good business has been concluded—new at from 38s to 425, and old at 345 to 365; Turkey fulled Figs from 50s to 80s; Muscatel from 56s to 86s, and the demand is get-' ting larger; Sultanas 62s to 64s per cwt. CocIIINEAL.—This afternoon the quantity of Cochi neal submitted to public sale was large, and amounted to 330 bags. There was a good demand, and nearly the whole sold upon full terms—Mexican silvers went at 3s 61 to 3s 7d, blacks 3s 81 to 3s lid; Honduras silvers 33 6d to 4s, black 3s 81 to 4s 71, and Teneriffs 3s lid to 4s 3d per lb. _ INDIGO.—There was firmness in the market for East India to-day, and shippers as well as home dealers were buyers to a fair extent. At auction 75 chests sold at 2s 31 to 3s led for Madras and Kurpah, and a few chests ordinary Manilla at is 6d to is Bd—being full rates. OILs.—To-day a public sale of 300 hhds Cocoa Nut Oil went heavily, and nearly the whole was taken in at 33s for good East India. TALLow.—There has been a much better demand for Russian on the spot, and prices have assumed en upward tendency, fine P.Y.C. selling at 37a 3d to 37s 6d per cwt, and on the part of holders there is firm ness. For delivery up to the close of the year pur chases to a fair extent made at 37s to 37s 3d ; and for the early part of 1850 some contracts have been concluded at 37s 61 to 37s 9d ; at these rates there are not free sellers. Home melted has been in lively demand at 36s 6Li to 37s net cash. Of other kinds of Tallow large parcels have been sold at full terms. At auction 480 casks of new South Wales went from 33s 9d to 36s 61 for liw to fine; 1,284 pkgs South American 33s 3d to 37s per cwt. The value of rough Flit is )et 2s Id per stone, and there are free sellers. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nor. 9, 1849. The Queen has been pleascd to approve of M. Antoine Schembri as Consul, at Malta, for his Majesty the King of the BelgianF. DOWNING-STREET, Nor. 13. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry John Glanville, Esq., to be Chief Justice for the Island of St. Christopher. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Henry Isles Woodcock, 1;;41., to be Chief Justice for the Island of Dominica. Iler Majesty has further been pleased to appoint Archibald Paull Burt,E.q., to be her Majesty's Attorney• General for the Island of St. Christopher. A DMINALIY, Nov. 12. The following promotions have taken place, dated the 30th ultimo, consequent on thu death of Admiral of the Fleet, Sir James Hawkins Whitshed, Bart., G.C.B.:— Admiral of the Rol, Sir Thomas fiyam Martin, G.C.13., to be Admiral of the Fleet. Admiral of the White, Joseph Bullet], to be Admiral of the Red. Admiral of the Blue, iloncwable Sir Thomas Bladen Capel, K.C.8., to be Admiral of the White. Vice Admiral of the lied, Sir Edward Durnford King, Knt., K.C.H., to be Admiral of the Blue. Vice Admiral of the White, Christopher John liams Nesham, to be Vice-Admiral of the Red. Vice-Admiral of the Blue, Henry Gordon, 0 be Vice- Admiral of the White. Rear-Admiral of the Red, Sir Josiah Coghill Coghill, Bart., to be Vie;:-Admiral of the Blue. Rear-Admiral of the White, Sir Edward Thomas Troubridge, Bart., C. 8., to b© Rear-Admiral of the Red. Rear-Admiral of the Blue, Edward Harvey, to be Rear- Admiral of the White. Captain Maurice Frederick Fitzhardirge Berkeley, C. 8., to be 'tear-Admiral of the blue. The under-mentioned Officers have been also pro moted to the rank of Retired Rear-Admiral, on the tetras proposed in the London Gazette of the Ist Sep tember, 1846, without increase to their pay; viz.:— Retired Captain Thomas Dick. Retired Captain William Isaac Scott. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 12. _ _ _ The following promotions have also taken place, dated the sth iust., consequent on the death of Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel John Brooke Pcchell, Bart. C. 8., K.C.11.: Rear-Admiral of the Blue, William Fitzwillium Owen, to be Rear• Admiral of the White. Captain Sir David Dunn, Knight, K.C.H., to be Rear- Admiral of the Blue. And the undermentioned officer has been also pro moted to tho rank of Retired Rear-Admiral, on the terms proposed in the London Gazette of the Ist September, 1846, without increase to his half-pay, viz.:— Retired Captain Bertio Cornelius Cator. WIIIrEIIALL, Nov. 5. The Right Honourable Sir Thomas Wilde, Knt., Lord Chiet Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at Westminster, has appointed Joseph Shipton, of Chesterfield, in the county of Derby, Gentleman, to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by married women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of mot; simple modes of assurance, in and for the couuty o Del by. CENTRAL GERMANY. The franchise of the electors to the German Par liament of the Prussian Federation is confined to those who have a vo`e in the management of the communes, and who pay direct taxes. It is said that Parliament will assemble not at Erfurth, but at a town on the Rhine. PRUSSIA. Several meetings of the Opposition have of late been held, which have been dispersed by the police. The resistance was in some cases so obstinate that the police had recourse to weapons : the ill feeling towards the Government is increasing in intensity every day. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. A deputation of Slovacks arrived at Vienna on the sth, to demand the abolition of corporal and other punishments, which they said were as severe under the new Austrian functionaries as they had been under the Magyars. A letter from Vienna of the 6th states that the corps d'arma in Bohemia had received considerable rein - forcements. By decree of the Emperor of Austria, of the sth, a new judicial organization of Hungary is made; it puts an end to all privileged jurisdictions, establishes permanent tribunals of districts, with a superior court for all the kingdom, and effects important reforms; but it declares that the country is Rot yet sufficiently tranquil to allow of the jury being established. RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburgh of the Ist instant says : The cholera, which has existed in this capital with greater or less intensity during the long space of nearly three years, that is to say, from Nov. 26, 1846, has at last lost its epidemic character. Prom the 10th of lait October the number of new cases of this malady has only been from 1 to 3 per day, so that the municipal authorities have now given over publishing any more bulletins." A letter from Kalish of the Ist says, that a recent ukase of the Emperor of Russia establishes seven new series of taxes in Poland. ITALY. The Opinione of Turin, of the Bth, says that the Constitution of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom is shortly to be published. The provinces of Lombardy and Venice are each to have a separate Consulta, and a common Parliament is to be established for the whole kingdom, which would, moreover, send Depu ties to the general Parliament of the empire. The Concordia of Turin, of the 7th, states that Count Terence Mamiani has been elected a deputy by the to wn of Pignerol. General Pepe left Turin for Paris on the 7th, highly gratified by the kind reception he had met with at the hands of Victor Emmanuel. The Legge of Turin states from Rome, Nov. 3, that the Commission of Cardinals having ordered the dismissal of 13 noble guards, Prince Barberini, Com mandant of that body, threatened to lay down his command, unless the order was 'evoked. lie obtained his demand, on condition of his convoking a court martial to judge their conduct. A letter from Rome of the 2d, quoted by the Piedniontese Gazette, states that M. de Corcelles has lett Rome, to entreat of the Pope to return to that city. General Rostolan intended to follow him for the same purpose. The Riforma of Lucca, of the sth, states that the new plan of the Tuscan Government for opening a 1 , an by subscription and public auction has been favourably received. It hopes to obtain the support of two great Tuscan banking- houses, who are to be aided in the operation by the bank of Rothschild. General d'A.spre has not yet left Florence ; it is said the order for his recal has been revoked. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, Nov. 13.) SUGAR.—To-day the West India market presented a quiet aspect, and only limited purchases were made in grocery or refined sorts. Merchants appeared more disposed to sell, and accepted prices in several in stances 6d per cwt under those of Friday. The total quantity sold amounted to 510 hhds, &c., including at public sale 150 hhds Barbadoes, which went at easier rates for inferior and middling, but at former terms fur other kinds; fine yellow realised 41s, and low to good 3i;s 6d to 40s. 51 hhds Demerara chrystallizA sold at steady rates; greyish at 42s 6 1 to 445, brown 383 to 413,1 one lot low 345. 19 hhds Trinidad went at 35s for ordi nary soft yellow, being rather cheaper. REFINED. —To-day Refined Sugar was purchased with caution for home trade purposes, and prices have still a downward tendency. Sales of brawn Lumps were made at 475, and fair grocery at 485. Bonded Crushed Sugar is still in good demand for export at former terms. MAURITIUS —This afternoon there was no public sale of Mauritius Sugar, and the limited parcels disposed of by private treaty were ut ra:her lower rates. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon four public sales of Bengal sugar took place consisting of 7,135 bags ; the grainy kinds all sold at from 41s Gd to 445 for good to tine, these are full rates; the remainder consisted of Mauritius sorts, and only in part sold, generally at Gd decline; brown went at from 31s Gd to 333 Gd, low yel low 34s to 355, mid 36s to 375, good 37s 6d to as, fine and superior 38s Gd to 404. Of Maras, 649 bags IVIIITEIIALL, Nov. 5. . _ The Right Honourable Sir Thomas Wilde, lint., Lord Chiet Justice of her AL:jesty's Court of Comm Al Pleas, at Westminster, has appointed Ch ar l es D ixon Craig, of Shrewsbury, iu the county of Salop, Gentle man, to be one of the Perpetual Com m i ss i oners for takii g the acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by married women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and fur the county of Salop. WHITEHALL, Nov. 5. The Right Honourable Sir Thomas Wilde, Kat:, Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pima, at Westminster, has appointed Edward Falkner Fair thorne, of l3rackley, in the county of Northampton, Gentleman, to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for L.king the acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by married women, urnier the Act passed for the aboli tion of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for the county of Northampton. WHITEHALL, Nov. 5. S rt:r The 114 t llonourable Sir Thomas Wi Chi: f ju,tiLe of her Majesty's Court of at Westm•rster, has appointed Charle of Bishop' Waltham, in the county man, to be onu of the Perpetual Cotyinissioners for taking the Lc:knowledge:Lents of deeds I t tY4o t.',:xeuted_ , - by married women, und er th e A c t passai`fprAnabgli lien of fines and recoveries, and for the oktif i iitiorof more simple mcdcs of insurance, in and fol'ltre of Hants. BANKRUPTS. John 0. msby Culyer. garei tte r, Edmonton, Middlest x, to surreadcr Nov. 22, at two, and Dec. 27, at eleven, at 'he Cou t(f 1 3..mkruptcy. 13211, official assignee, CJie man-street buildings; Bishop, New Bridge-street, Black • 1; iars. John Jones, wine merchant, Knightsbridge -terrace, Knightsbridge, Nov. 30, at one, and Dec. 21, at twelvc, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official asEignt,,, A bellureh-lane. Dimmock and Burbcy, Suffolk. lane. John Cowlisbaw, victualler, Derby, Dec. 7, and Jan. 4, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Nottingham ; W histon and Son, Derby ; Bowley, Nottingham. John Houston, hotel keeper, Whitby, Yorkshire, Nor. 23, and Dec. 21, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Pringle, Ste venson, and bhum, King's-road, Bedford-row ; Ste phenson, Whitby. Charles Sanderson, iron merchant, Sheffield, Nov. 24, and Dcc. 22, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Sheffield; Aldam, Sheffield. Janes Saunders, licensed victualler, Liverpool, Nov. 22 and Dec. 27, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ; Tyrer, Li verpool, AMERICAN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, Nov. 13. We have just to hani one week's later intelligence from New York and the British American possessions, per the steam ship Niagara, which left New York on the 30th ult., and Halifax on the 2d instant, and arrived here a few minutes since. Although work ing only one engine, the other having been disabled during the outward passage, the Niagara has made the run in 12/ days. The Niagara has brought 30,0001. in specie on freight. The Europa, Captain Lott, hence, arrived at Boston on the 25th ult. The llibernia, Captain Stone, hence for New York, was spoken by the Niagara on the evening of the 21 inst., off Sanabro' Head. Beyond the intelligence from the West India islands, which will be found elsewhere, the advices are totally uninteresting. From - Canada we have the confirmation of the rumoured change in the seat of Government from Montreal to Toronto. The following is the official notification : " Crown Lands-office, Montreal, Oct. 28. " Mr. Mayor,—After mature deliberation upon the address of the Legislative Assembly, dated the 19th cf May lag, in favour of holding the seat of Government alternately at Toronto and Quebec, and on considera tion that nothing has since occurred to diminish the weight of the reasons which gave rise to that address, the Governor-General in Council has come to the de termination of acquiescing in the desire of the Legisla tive Assembly. " This decision necessarily causes the removal of the wet of Government to one of the two cities. " It has been determined that the new arrangement shall commence by the immediate removal of the Go vernment to Toronto, there to remain till the expiration of the present Parliament, after which it will be trans feared to Quebec for the four following years. " For these reasons, I am commanded by his Excel lency the Governor-General to notify to the corporation of Quebec, in accordance with the subsisting contract, that in one year from this date the Government will again take possession of the public edifices now in charge of the said corporation.—l have the honour to be, Sir your obedient servant, " T. BOUTHILLIER." The League had been called together, to meet at Toronto on the Ist of November, to take into consi deration matters of importance. The plan proposed to be pursued by the League is said to be as follows : "every branch of the League, in all the constituen cies in Canada, is to agitate in its respective location, so as to induce its representative in the provincial Parlia ment to vote for the introduction of a Bill authorizing the assembling together of the people of Canada, by means of delegates, in convention, for the purpose of determining on wl.at changes in the Constitution are necessary, and, having done so, a measure in accord. ance with their views is to be brought into Parliament, and, when carried, sent home for consideration to England. It is for this purpose that the conventio❑ of delegates of the British American League is to meet. A union of the North American provinces will also be con sidered." A slight but unimportant disturbance had occurred at Quebec. We have Mexican advices to the sth of October, but they contain no intelligence of importance. The Washington correspondent of the New York Ti' ;Lune states that the result of an interview which lately took place between Mr. Rives, the United States Minister to France, and Lord Palmerston, leaves little doubt of such an adjustment of the matter as will throw the Nicaragua route open to all nations on an equal footing. The steamship Crescent City had arrived at New York from Chagres, with advices from that port to the 17th ult. She left Kingston, Jamaica, on the 20th ult. We have no later intelligence from the gold mines. Panama remained healthy. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, OCT. 31. Money Market—The Stcck market since the kat steamer had had buyers, and the quotations have nearly all improved. Demand for Government Stocks has bee❑ large for remittance to England and the Continent, and at advancing prices. The amount of Government and State securities by this steamer we estimate at 300,000 dollars. In exchanges the market is a little softer. The supply of these had somewhat increased by the movement in cotton and produce. The demand is moderate, and first. class sterling sold at 10i, which is about the top of the market. The leading drawer reduced his buying price I per cent. Francs at 5.221 to 5.20, and firm. Cotton—On the 27th, on receipt of letters by Europa. buyers came freely forward, and 3,400 bales were sold at an improvement of cent., establishing the improve ment for the week of fl to cent. and quotations of the highest point of the stason. Yesterday the sales reached 3,000 bales, and to-day, 260 bales, at extreme prices. The unfavourable advices from the 4th giving a new impetus to the demand, the market closes with a good inquiry, being easier to sell than purchase at the Tula (ions. Breadstuffs—The lower grades of flour hare declined 64 to 12f cents. pee barrel, being in plentiful supply. the price of the better kinds was steady. The stock in store waii modetate for the season. We are continuing to receive Canada flour and wheat in bond, bat in moderate quantities. Sales have been made largely of flout. at 4604 dollars to 475 dollars per barrel, and wheat at 104 to 105 in bond. _ Iron—The mat knt is quiet, and we quote Scotch pig 19 dollars to 19 dollars 50 cents., cash; 20 dollt.rs to 21 dollars six months, at which further sales of 1,000 tons have been made. Inferior sold at 19 dollars 50 cents. six months. NEW ORLEANS, Ocr. 26, r.m.—There has been a i good demand for cotton to day, and the market s without change from yesterday. The operations are partly for export. Saks of to-day embrace 4,000 bales, including middling qualities at 94c. to 9ic. Dealers are anxiously waiting the Europa. OCT. 27, A m.—The news by the Europa was re ceived here last evening, and made public this morn ing. The advices being considered highly favourable, holders advanced their prices 9, but as the market has not fairly opened it would be difficult to give a correct line of the same. Freights to Liverpool are declining, and are quoted ie. for cotton. TII F. BRAZILS. By the way of the United States we have advices from Rio de Janeiro to Scpt. 12. Nothiug-of inte rest had transpired, excepting the celebration of the independence of the empire, which touk place with great ceremony on the 7th. There entered the port of Rio, from foreign ports, during the month of August, 96 ships, with a tonnage amounting to 21,507; and 79 sailed, with 25,408 tons of goods. The commercial intellig►ence mentions the arrival of the Tartar, from Lisbon. The flour• market was very dull. The coffee market was firm, although very quiet, and prices remained unchanged—stock, 80,000 bags. Freights were dull. Exchange, 26d. THE COLONELCY OF THE 16TH LANCERS.— We are enabled to state that the Colonelcy of the 16th Lancers, vacant by the death of Sir J. C. Vandelcur, G.C.8., has been conferred upon that very distin guished cavalry officer, now serving in India, Major- General Sir Joseph &c. The Colonelcy of the 4th Dragoon Guards is still in abet' ance. 111 E MURDER AT MILLBANK PENITENTIARY. — We are T.( qut:stid to contradict a statement which ap praud in our edition of yesterday, that 50/. had bei n given to the widow and six children of the deceased warder, Hall, who was so brutally murdered by the convict John Francis, out of a fund be longing exclusively to the officers, and raised by weekly sulricription.9, and fines inflicted fur direliction of duty. This fund, wo are informed, is very limited in amount, and will only admit of a gratuity to the widow of 10/. As she is left with six children en tirely helpless, and has no means of supporting herself or them, it is to be hoped that the Government will make some provision for her, or, in the event of their failing to do so, that some generously disposed pawns who are ecquainted with the distressing nature of the case will render her sonic assistance. - §IiFFRON WALDEN. - Mr. Campling, the chief constable of Saffron Wald* n, the attempt to asgasainate atom we announced a few days ago, died on Friday last. An inquea was Ladd on the body on Saturday, which was adjourned till Monday, in order that the dying man 'a statement might be put in as evidence 13 1 4 I ... 1 •••° ) IMMO ) ..."' 1 ••••• I••••• . ' 1...-.. >- ) .-.." ) "-- I•••••• >- ) •,-- r- ) -- 1 •••••• ) ..m., ) -- ) -..- ) ..... ) ...... ) ,--- 0 --- D-- D....... 0 ••-•-• 0 - I) - o- 0 --' 0 -... 0 '-'' 0 ..-- 0 0 --- 0 n•••• 0 ...... D .... 0 ...... oo 0 ,vim 0 , ...••• 0. ""'" G . ....... :C. 0 .0 .0 ,o-- 31 -3° 6O