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MR. GRANT'S NEW WORIS, TOSEPH JENKINS ; or, Leaves from the Life CY of a Literary Man, in 3 vols., post Bvo., by the Author of " Random Recollections of the Lords and Common s," " The Great Metropolis," &c. &c., IS NOW READY, And may be had at all Lit)raricrl and of all Bookselleri. Saunders and Otley, Conduit-street. THE NEW NOVEL.. Now ready, at all the Libraries , in 3 vols. QELF-1) E V OT1ON; 1.7 0%, THE HISTORY OF KATHARINE RANDOLPH, Be the Authoress of " The Only Daughter s 't EDITED - BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE SILBALTEIIN." " A perfect woman, nobly formed To warn, to comfort, to -. .ommand; And yet a spirit. still % ,(1 With sometLine-4 of an angel light." WORDSWORTH. Henry Colburn, P . ,;nlisber,l3, Great Marlborough-street. C ., OPT AND'S MEDICAL DICTIONARY. Pub . ...shed thi9. day, Svo., 4s. fid. sewed, Part VIII. of - DICTIONARY 6f PRACTICAL MEDI- Lt_ 'ONE; comprisin ,, General Pathology, the Nature and Treattlv nt of Diseases, Morbid Structures, and the Dison!ers rspenially incidental to Climates, to the Stx, and to tile diffe rent Epechs of Life, with numerous Prescriptions for the Medi vines recommended ; a Classification of DiseaFes, according to Pathological Principles; a copious Bibliography, with Refe rences ; and an Appendix of improved Formuhe ; the whole forming a Lib.ary of Pathology and Practical Medicine, and a Digest of Medical Literature. By JAMES COPLAND, M.D., P.P.. S., tze. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman. 8 900 MONEY DIVIDENDS will be divided 1— on the ?oth Instant, atrtnngst EIGHT THOU SAND TWO lI,UNDRED SELECTED Bonds of the LOAN nezotiaLed in the year 1820, and GUARANTEED by the GO VERIENT and his Royal Highness the GRAND DUKE of BA D EN. .1 Dividend 50,000 Florins 50,000 Florins 1 do. 25,000 do. 1 do. 12.000 do, 12,000 do. 1 do. 10,0i)0 do. 10,000 do. 1 do. 5,O'J) do. ••• • • 5,000 do. 8 do. 1,000 do. each B,OOO do. 10 do. 500 do. each Ii) do. 200 do. each 2/0 'do. 110 do. each 2010 da. 105 do. each 467 do. 100 do. each 46,700 do. 7,300 do: 9.1 do. each 686,200 do. ----- 14,:100 Money Dividends, amounting. to 892,900 Florins, or . .1.:7.1,400 Sterling Money. ) 4 ,200 SELECTED 13.-= s, each of which is sure to obtain WM of the al - Rive Dividerds. Larg•N - it £4,166 13 4 Smarest I`•ividend £ 716 8. 12 flkorins equal to £1 sterling, a trifle more or less, as per the day's ex,ehange. ALL tilE DIVIDENDS PAYABLE WITHOUT ANY MiDUCTION WHATEVER. Direct for the few Bonds wl:ich are F.tia oa sale, WITHOUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS nt lIAMBURGH. Bonds are on sale NOW at £l3. Against the end of this Month the price will rise to £l5, and the Sale will close before the end of this Month. Those who remit £1 5 BEFORE the 15th instant, will re ceive an order for £2 upon our London BaLker, together with the Bond. To those order int , : too late for being itrtend2d to, their re mittances will be returned by fir3t post. FIEINU BROTHERS. HAMBUR.6II, November I, 1812. lIEATHE ROYAL; COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING. NOV. 10, Will he repeated the English Version of Rossini's nrand Opera of SEMI ft AMIDE. —The Cbtaraf•ter of S'emirami,le by Miss Adelaide Kenai>le; Assace, Mrs. Alfred Shaw (ft c:n for principal Theatres in Italy) ; Assur, Mr. Giubilci ; Oree, Mr. Leffler ; Idreno, Mr.. Travers ; Shade of Ninus, Mr. J. Blar Afier which will be repeated a New, Original, CiJnic Drama, written by Mr. Mark Lemon, Author of " The Ladies' Club," Ste., entitled THE TURF. Captain •Flatooker, Mr. Walter Lacy; Clovis Culpepper, Mr. Bartley; Gallop, Mr. IMeadows ; Aaron 'fret, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Culpepper, Mrs. Humby ; Miss Warren. Miss Lee. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 73, Si rend Price 3s, 3d. ; First and Second Circles b 3., Second i'riee '2.s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Placoa for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low. at the Boa-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Mixes to ba had at the Box-n!liee ; of Mes'rs. An drews, Pii, New B .nd-street; Mr. Mitchel, Old 80.. d-street ; and of Mr. Sain3,4Pall Alan. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING. NOV. PI, Will be repeated THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prin cipal Characters by Mews. 0. Smith, Ly.rn, H. Beverly, Wright, Sterling, Wilkinson, 41apard, Craven, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, Miss F.tncit, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Beverly, &c. After which, a New Comic Burletta, called AN PONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss Murray. To be followed by a Grand Barletta Spectacle. entitled ALNIA, Principal *Character , by Messrs. Paul Brdfrnd, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. 11. P. Grattan, and Madame ProLhe To sonehrie with DEEDS OF DREADFUL NOTE. Bcies, 4s. ; • Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, NOV. 10, Will be presented an entirely New Nautical Drama, en titlej THE UNION JACK; or, the SAILOR and the SETTLER'S DAUGHTER, written expressly for Mr. I'. P. Cooke, who will be supported by Messrs. Hicks, Neville, Heslop, Mrs. IL Honner, and the entire Company. Nentsccnery and splendid nautical effects never beforeattemptea. After which, THE TWO LOCKSMITHS. Burl, Mr. Hugh-s ; Ellen Murray, Mrs. H. Vining. To conclude with the Comic Drama of MILITARY TAC TICS; or, THE LADY AND THE LANCER. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-aloe, from eleven to four. HIGH W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning...—. 57 minutes after 6 I Evening 27 minutes alter 7. ‘&tA.' 4 ,; ~~- ZL LL ) ~ ~~ Vitt LONDON : THURSDAY MOTINIffG, NOVEMBER 10, 1842. Our Contemporary, the Chronicle, yesterday reminded the public of some resemblances be tween the condition of the country at present and under the Tory Government on the 9th of November, 1830. If physically the condition of the people now is as bad as in 1830, and we are afraid it is much worse, it is morally, in one respect, amazingly , deteriorated. Then there was nothing like despair amongst them. Then they had a great party, abounding- in popular leaders, to fall back upon, in some of whom they placed the greatest confidence. Then the Whigs had not been in office for many years, and then the favourite panacea for every political disease had not been tried. The Parliament had not been reformed. The old boroughmongering Assembly existed with all its anomalies and absurdities, and then the public bad great expectations from substituting the representation of masses of population for the representation of Gatten and Old Sarum. Then the community had robust hopes ; now the Whigs have been eleven years in office, the Parliament has been reformed for ten years, popular Ministers and popular mea sures have been tried, and the nation, without being relieved from physical sufferings, has had all its hopes cruelly blighted, till it borders on despair. It has no longer any leaders whom it trusts, and there are No measures which it be lieves will bring healing on their wings. So far as - politics are concerned, it is without a head, andwithout faith. The twelve years, however, have not passed without teaching- irnpresssive lessons to both rulers and people. That the former have pro fited much by them we do not belieVe, for they s till pursue their old course. They still try to govern by deceit, and, that failing, they rely on ti l p e . They ding to old theorieq,and will not' open,,their eyes to the facts which daily disprove e fi ern . Right or wrong they are determined to govern, as they suppose their predecessors did, in spilt, of the people (though that seems a Mistake), toad the last thing they consult is the opinion of the multitude. The people have at least learnt to mistrust them. We believe, too, that they have learnt that patience is a surer means of success than violence; mobbing and outrag es , from political causes, have become rare in the land. S&f-education has diffused many of its blessings over the masses, and their great distrust, for which we have mainly to thank, first the failure of the Whigs, and now the failure of the Tories, is a symptom that the reign of po litical delusion draws to a close. It was for us a remarkable illustration of the progress ofpolitical Ic7nowledge to find the Chro- . niele and the Post yesterday agreeing on a most important point. By its complaints of the present misrule of the Tories, and the present condition °rale country, the Chronicle implies that the great measures of the Whigs have not answered the intention of their framers. The Post proved at considerable length that the pri nc i pa l of those measures, the Reform Act, had by me ins rea lised the expectations of the people. Our Con temporary proved that it is amazingly easy to detect errors and faults in institutions, but ex cessively difficult to ascertain the consequences of any great change in them. Thus we have it - L ~- : shown on the one hand,' and admitted, that the present coittlition of the country is alarming, that our institutions are imperfect, that our policy is defective, that our Ministers inflict evil on us ; and - we have it shown, on the other, that those who make institutions know little or no- thing beforehand of what will be their effects. They labour completely in the 'dark. It is im possible that the clever men who write for these journals can be so stupid or so immoral as to put firth whole colturins of falsehood; and when w•e find two opylosite parties substantially agreeing, that the present system is erroneous and mis chievous, and that those who make the laws can not tell what will be the effect of any proposed alteration, can we avoid concluding that the distrust of public men with which the people are reproached, is • a prodigious step in political knowledge and political wisdom? What the Post truly said of the Reform Act, is applicable to a great number of institutions, p,lrticularly to all institutions concerning trade. They were originally framed in ignorance of their effect, though society has adjusted it- self with more or less annoyance to the prolrus Lean bed. One of those who make the laws has honestly but unthinkingly said that he could not tell what would be the effect of enactments, to which he had given his assent, in terfering with the supply of food. - The Duke of RUTLAND, who probably guides more votes in Parliament than his own, stated at the Wal them meeting, to encourage the farmers, that he did not know how the new laws would' oper.ite. Not know I Is it true, as the Duke admitted; is it true, as the Post argued; is it true, as the Chronicle has shown, that men make laws putting trade in shackles, taking away the rights of free thought and free expression of opi nion, depriving some men of liberty and some of life, consigning some to servitude, and elevating others to dominion; taxing some, and dooming them to poverty, to enrich others, without knowing what will be the consequences of their arts? That individual is held to be somewhat destitute of common sense who shapes his conduct, with out having some reasonable ground for antici pating the consequences which will flow from it ; and shall it be said that statesmen are rational and wise who make laws affecting a whole nation in utter and complete ignorance, whether the resultS will be the weal or woe of mil lions? Yet such is now the doctrine taught by journals of opposite parties, and well is it cal culated to annihilate all hope in the promises and acts of public men. If the community be almost plunged in despair, it is despair arising from knowledg - e that those in whom they have hitherto confided are unworthy of confidence. There is, however, a distinction to be drawn between results under our control, and those which are not. When we say under our con trol, we mean that man knows they will happen. When a watchinaker, for example, adjusts to gether all the separate parts of which a watch is composed, he knows to a great nicety what will be the effects, and he may even tell, from his knowledge of the qualities of metal, nearly how long the instrument will last. The same is true of most of the common every-day acts of every artisan in fashioning matter to his purposes. 'Confining ourselves to the ends they mean to accomplish, and not assuming any.ideal standard of perfect watches, shoes, and houses, to judge the works of our artisans by, we are not accus tomed to speak of their prod tv•tions as imperfect. On the contrary, we say of the h2st if them, they are perfect instruments. They answer all the purpose;. we intend theta to answer. But the consequences and results of institu tions and laws are not under the control of man in the same degree, or we.know not what will be their effects, as we know the effects of making a watch, a pair of shoes, or building a bridge. Hence the Post affirms that every "human sys tem," not being watches, shoes, or Louses, "is imperfect," and speaks of it as " being fraught with practical inconvenience." Clearly these hu man institutions arc imperfect, because those who make them have not the same knowledge of the elements with which they deal, as has the watch maker, the shoemaker, and the carpenter. They cannot foreknow the results of their own conduct to the same degree, though the mighty interests they deal with comprise the happiness or misery of all the millions who make and use watches, shoes, and houses. In this point the rulers of society seem not to have profited by the lessons of the last few years like the people. They have not acquired a knowledge of their own ignorance, and their own real powerlessness over the course of society. Had they acquired that knowledge, they would probably have the mo desty to let society alone ; they might then con clude, as they do not make it as a watchmaker makes a watch, that it is part of the system of nature, not of man's will, and then they might perhaps doubt whether they were not endea vouring to subject a perfect system—if society be a part of nature—to imperfect institutions. But if they do not le this, the people will ; and distrust in them and their professions must and will increase. We learn from the following paragraph of the Leeds Mercury, to which we cannot give too much prominence, that the distress in that great scat of our woollen manufacture increases in stead of diminishing. We are afraid that similar results are to be met with in other places. The table of mortality, which we pub lished on Saturday, indicates something of the kind in the metropolis, and makes us agree with the Mercury, in saying, that we have a bad prospect for the winter : INCREASED DISTRESS IN LEEDS. We regret exceedingly to find that the condition f the working classes in this town is considerably worse now than it was in either of the years 1840 and 1841, bad as those years were. The most decisive proof of this fact is to be found in the following return of the amount of relief, given at the Leeds Workhouse, in the months of September and October of the years 1840, 1841, and 1842 respectively :—. AMOUNT OF RELIEF GIVEN AT THE LEEDS WORRIV)USE. 1840. 1841. 1842 September... £1,085 £1,198 £1,520 October* ... 1,523 1,796 2,139 £2,608 £2,994 £3,659 Thus it appears that the amount of relief paid in the two months of 1842 exceeded that paid in the corresponding two month.?..of 1840 by 1,051/. an increase of 40 per cent. on the amount paid in the year 1840 ! The following corroborative evidence was yesterday laid before us by a trustworthy person, who ✓ has made clo3e personal inquiries of some of the principal stuff manufacturers in the East Ward of this town. He found that the amount of wages paid by three of the principal firms in the eight weeks following the Ist of September, in the three years, was as follows: WAGES PAID BY THREE FIRMS IN THE EAST WARD, IN EIGHT WEEKS OP SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1840, 1841, AND 1842. 1840. 1841. 1842. No. 1 2 3 £1,821 £1,680 £919 Here it appears that the wages paid in 1842 were only about one-half of the wages paid in 1840 ! Four other firms declared that they had this year paid one-third less wages in the months of September and October than in the corresponding months of 1841. In the same ward three flax mills have been closed, the owner of one of which, however, has opened a mill in another part of the town. It must be understood that the reduced amount of wages paid does not pro ceed from a lowered rate of wages, but entirely from the diminished quantity of work done. These facts afford us a sad prospect for the winter. * The month of October, in each of the three years, contained five pay-days. Thattahlre( l e 1 others, THE COLONlALanßdunors. &gland for their distant Diemen's Land —The Bishops of Van Antigua are expected to leave cesea in w h t o he we c r o e urseo a very few days. conse crated last August, The Lord Bishop of Bw•baedaoti.Y taken their departure. 16tH of September. ' the Rei''''r. Parry, left on the ippninted the Rev. Charles Lawson,g t M.A., morning Rev. Prelate has preacher at the Foundling Hospital, to the Archdea onry, and has nominated the P Tomlinson, church in " e v- W Chamberlain, Bishop of M.A. to the incumbency of the principal* ; and the he island , of Trinidad. Dr. libraltar, sailed on the 20th of last month, phiircompa nied by his two chaplains, the Rev. ALA., fellow of Exeter College, Oxford Rev. James Lonsdale, M.A., fellow of Balliol College. Dr. W. Piercy:Austin, Bishop of Guiana, set sail from Falmouth on Thursday last. TUE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1842 COVENT-GARDEN T HEATRE. " The Tempest was revived at this 'theatre last-even ing, and with complete success. Vandenhoff was the Prospero, andhis.nne deep tones, correct declamation, and subdued, yet commanding, action, told e xcellently in the part. His Prospero is certainly, as a whole, supe rior to Macready's. Without those sudden bursts ofpas sion which Macready at certain times threw into the part,the Prospero of Vandenhoffis, as a whole, in better keeping ; it, throughout, exhibits the calmness of con scious power. Miss Vandenhoff was the Miranda, and a very exquisite Miranda she made. This character is one of the most beautiful of the Shaksperian crea tions, but its beauty is the beauty of repose ; it makes no great demands upon the physical powers, although it requires a cultivated intellect, chastened by a pure taste, to develop fully the requisite refinement of its modest and maiden-like simplicity. It was evident that Miss Vandenhoff had studied her author care • fully, and thoroughly understood his meaning. The character is completely within the compass of her powers, and consequently she performed it beautifully, for whenever she does which she sometimes has done in other characters, it has always been from deficiency of physical, never from want of mental, power. We could have wished her a better Ferdinand than C. Pitt. The dainty Ariel found a dainty re presentative in Miss Rainforth, who acted and sung delightfully. She was deservedly encored in Where the bee sips," which she sang with great taste and beauty and correctness. It was the most beautiful little bit of melody that we have heard for many a long day. The Calaban of J. Bland, although certainly not equal to that of G. Bennett, was a very creditable performance ; and the Trinculo of Harley, and the Stephano of Bartley, have lost none of their laughter moving qualities. .The raise en scene of the piece surpasses anything of the sort that has been produced at this theatre for years, and throws even the glories of the Midsummer Nights Dream into the shade. Macready's revival of the same piece at this . theatre some four years since, is not to be compared to the revival of last evening, in point of splendour and scenic decorations. It will be remem bered by old players, that under Macready's manage ment the first scene was omitted, and a dioramic view of a shipwreck substituted. Last night, however, the text of Shakspeare was rigidly adhered to, and the first scene was preserved, " The sea, with a ship." Such are the directions given by Shakespeare himself as to the locus in quo of his first scene ; and, accord ingly, last night, we had. " the sea with a ship ;" and such a ship—a completely rigged frigate, with the dramatis personm walking her deck, appeared tossed about by the fury of the tempest, and was dismasted by the storm. Never have we seen anything on • the stage in the way of machinery approaching to the frigate. The audience were in ecstasies of delight at this splendid scenic triumph, and testified their approbation by repeated bursts of applause. The scenery of • the island, too, was beau tiful and diversified, and the last scene, in which the cavern of Prospero vanishes, and the sea appears calm and beautiful, with the gallant frigate of the King of Naples at anchor, was a fine piece of effect. At the fall of. the curtain, Miss Rainforth was called for, and led on by Cooper, who announced the piece for repetition every Wednesday and Friday, until further notice, amidst shouts of applause. This revival of the Tempest is a decided hit, and it will no doubt draw crowded houses. The house last night was exceedingly well filled before the rising of the curtain, and long 1 .K.. - fore half-price commenced it was crowded. points which relate to the internal prosperity and government of the country. A loan has been contracted- on favourable terms—a proof that the credit of the State is considered good. The law passed last session for encou raging education has been eminently successful, and all the difficulties caused by the violent se paration of Belgium from Holland, have been finally removed by a friendly treaty, which ap pears equally acceptable to both countries. This may be regarded as one of the_beneficial results of the abdication made by the late KING in fa vour of his son, for his obstinate and violent antipathy to the Belgian nation would in all pro bability have precluded any amicable settlement during his life time. As regards foreign coun tries, and especially England and France, the speech does not afford subject for congratulation. Therage of the day has also seized tho Belgian Go vernment, and measuresare to be proposed during the session for increasing the duties on imported goods, and lowering them on exports, in order to raise the revenue and encourage home manu factures. The KING could not fail to see on his visit to Paris that the delegates from the manufacturing and corn-growing dis tricts were totally unmanageable, and de termined to resist every rational plan for a commercial union, and he therefore takes the earliest opportunity of convincing them that Belgium can return the compliment. This is a pitiful, and at the same time a destructive system of annoyance to two countries so intimately connected by position, language, and family ties, and - must in the end produce an unflivourable influence on their political relations. The KING carefully avoids all allusion to the late negotia tions with the French Government, but in two brief sentences points out to the monopolists the return they may expect from other countries for their obstinate attempts to isolate France and carry on the war of tariffs. The Madrid journals of the Ist instant have been received, but their contents are barren of interest. The REGENT has given a grand ban quet to all the members of the Cabinet, at the Palace of Buona Vista, in order, it is tholght, to throw discredit on the rumours which have been prevalent of a want of accord between the Minister:. Nothing doing on the Bourse. The editors of Paris fournals,•finding. their a tacks on England little noticed here., and weary of fighting with phantoms of their own imagi- nation, amu-;e themselves occasionally by all writing against each other. The Courrier Fran cais hada furious article, some days ago, against their own Government, and. especially M. Gutzor, for daring to reduce the navy, in defi ance of a vote of the Giambers. The Presse s in reply to this, defends the Minister for Foreign Anirs, and points out the folly of those warlike editors in calling 'for large armies and large fleets in a time of peace. It at the same time tells them some plain truths respecting the enor mous sums thrown away since M. TRIERS raised the war-cry . against England, placed France in a state of isolation, and drove her Govern- meat to the necessity of increasing the eqi mates to an amount totally disproportioned to the resources of the country. " There is," says this journal, " assuredly in France an injurious propensity to prodigality as regards expenditure for the national forces. Owing to this tendency, an immense force is kept up, to the great de triment of our finances, and of agricultural labour. Emamine fur a moment the progressive increase of the expenses into which France has been successively drawn of late years. In 1837, the army estimates were 230,030,030, undoubt cdly a very considerable sum. In 1812 they amounted to 301,000,090, being 131,000,000 more, or fifty per cent. of increase. The navy esti mates in 1837 were 66,000,000, and in 184% 130,000,033, or more than double I And this is not deemed sufficient And every day the journals of the Lea, those great cleavers-down of large budgets, cry out, treason 1 if they only suppose the Ministry to have the slightest in tention of effecting a slight saving ! Can it be supposed that our finances can long resist these enormous expenses, out of all proportion with the state of our resources ? What is to be left for the day on which some great effort is to be made, if thus, when all is ealni and tranquillity around, when the chances of collision are on every side removed to a distance, you fritter away your revenue in unproductive sacrifices ?" The same journal contains the following ex_ tract from a letter dated Alexandria, the 25th ult. This morning a French brig of war arrived here from Beyrout, which announces that the Druses and the Maronites have risen in a mass ; that the most Terfect agreement exists between them, and that the urks had retired from all their positions in the moun tains, not being able to stand against the population. Artillery had been dispatched from Beyrout, but it could not penetrate to the mountains. A caravan from Beyrout had been pillaged by the insurgents, but all the goods belonging to Europeans, Syrians, and Chris tians were respected. Letters from Constantinople of the nth also state that MUSTAPIIA PACHA has had orders to remain in Syria, on account of fresh disorders in the Lebanon, and because the Envoys of the Great Powers have not accepted the offers of the Porte relative to Syria. OMER PACHA also remains. The Arnauts are ordered to the Per sian frontier. The SULTANA MOTHER has recon ciled RIZA PACHA with the SULTAN'S brothers in-law, FETHA ACHMED and HALIL, so that the appointment of them is extended. cconti_Zbition SUN OFFICE Three o'Cltich. It was recently proposed at a meeting of Not tinghamshire Magistrates to increase the police force for that county one-third, and the proposal, we believe, remains over for consideration. At a meeting of Staffordshire Magistrates, at Stafford, on Tuesday, Lord SAN DON moved a resolution , that it is expedient to take measures for the in troduction of a more efficient system of police into the county of Stafford, under the 2d and 3d Of VICTORIA. After some discussion, the resolu tion was unanimously carried, and followed by other resolutions, carrying into effect the Report of a Committee. According to its recom mendations there will be appointed four police superintendents to the Pottery district, one at 1301. a year, and three at 1001. a year, with sixty constables at weekly salaries of Hs., 18s., and 205.; six police superintendents and ninety constables at the same rate of pay ment, for the mining districts; one of the super intendents to be mounted, and have a salary of 150/. a year; and eight superintendents, with seventy constables, for the rural districts of the country. Over all there is to be a chief consta ble with a salary of 3301 a year. Thus we find the country gentlemen busily engaged in orga nizing a pike for their own security. What may be the cost of this new force in the rural districts of Stafford we do not see stated, b'tt it is proposed to levy on the Potteries and mi►,ing districts, for the Support of this police no less a sum tha❑ 9,2401. a•year. Our view of what is at present good policy in our rulers is perhaps simple and erroneous, but it strikes us, when the country. is groaning under the weight of local and general taxation, that every addition to it, fur whatever purpose, is very much to be deprecated. The Staff-yrdshire nobles and squires have adopted a different con clusion, and they are helping Sir ROBERT PEEL to destroy the incomes of the industrious classes, and the nourishment of future industry. In the course of the discussion Alderman COPELAND observed, that unless the Potteries were supplied with an additional police "he would not atL3wer for what might occur during the ensuing winter." From the apprehensions, therefore, which the opulent and unpro ductive classcs in Staffordslihe entertain of t'he masses engaged in productive labour, they are about to establish a new and an addi tional coercive feree. The proceeding is ob % iously the result of fear. Instead of living like brothers in this England of ours, class dreads class, and tnan dreads man. It is plain and palpable, too, that the poverty of the people, the tumbling down of their wages, their want of employment, and their consequent discontent, are the causes why the COPELANDS and the SANDONS are filled with alarm and urged on to establish alarger protective andeoerciveforee. But what makes the people poor and discon tented? Restrictions on the supply of their food, and excessive taxation ; and without re moving the former, the Staffordshire 'squires are augmenting the latter. One of the pretexts for Corn-laws is county rates, and county rates are to be augmented, furnishing a pretext for the continuance of the Corn-laws. The Magistrates, therefore, are, in a measure, the cause or all our disorders, and the cause of their own alarm. Such policy must end in mischief. Coercion, we arc assured by every page of his tory, can only in the long run answer the pro. posed object by ruining all prosperity. The peace which it establishes is the peace of desolation. It is incompatible with the hum of energetic industry. No good there fore can ultimately come from the eagerness of the Tories to carry into effect the Whif,- ; scheme of a general police. It might do were the country very thriving, but then they would not think of it, and it would not be requirea. It is the wretchedness of the people which begets the necessity for constables, and supplies them. Were they prosperous , men would not be found for the unpleasant occupation. But when the wages of labour are B s. or 93. a.week, the pay of a constable 16s. or 9.05. will b e opu l ence an d case. To us it is a singular spectacle, to see the opulent and unproductive cla sses o f E ng l an d i o n n ce t s h s e at i l n tls: and rivetting fetters t e s n tr g i a o g u e s d a i n n d fo p r r g o i d ng uetive classes. Such is not the end nor approved object of Govern ment,Nn interests of such Corn and in despite of the calculating prudence COPELAND, and the ests s o o f rd su id ch ea m re en for asAlderman their ov Corn law makers as Lord SANDON, we venture to pre dict that their protective and coercive police will hasten the national decay. Jut pated, people are everywhere beginning s a sae to au cry ci out against the Income-tax. The shoe pinches, even before it is well on to the foot. " We daily hear," t says a Morning Con temporary," of mercantile establishments in the City, of reputation as unimpeachable as any of her Majesty's Ministers, being served with sun charges by a huckster or vender of small wares, residing in some obscure alley or lane in their loCality." But this, though:nuite bad enough, is not, it seems, the worst part of the business. The same authority a dd s, that it has good reason to believe that the per centage of the tai:-collector is to be doubled fur diligence that is, of course, for speedy returns. Pleasant prospect this for John Bull! He will now reap the full harvest of his exertions in the cause of Toryism. A host of ravenous harpies, in the shape of tax-collectors, who have a direct per sonal interest in annoying him, inasmuch as they will be paid in exact proportion to the ex tent and activity of their annoyance—a host, we say, of these ravenous creatures will avail them selves of every opportunity of subjecting him to their paltry, teazing importunities and insults, and establish a raw in his temper which they will take good care shall not very .sooa heal. We cannot say we think honest John wholly un deserving of such treatment. He was desirous of having, what he called, a respectable set of men to govern him, and he is now paying the penalty of his lore of respectability. Seven pence in the pound is the exact sum John Bull pays for his admiration of the genteel and the respectable I That the clamour against the Income tax will very shortly be universal, and that the proposed doubling of the per centage of the collectors will add greatly to the popular detestation of the impost, we have not the slightest doubt; but what will Sir ROBERT PEEL care for all this general discontent? What will he care, even though Anti-Income-tax Meetings should be held in every county, town, and village throughout the kingdom, so long as he can com mand his present subservient majority in Parlia ment ? He has a giant's strength, and he knows it ; and lik e a giant, will he use that strength, utterly indifferent as to whether his measures are popular, or the reverse. I n the partieular case of the Income-tax, however, he bad some grounds for supposing that his pro position would be readily agreed to by the people, for, when it was first broached, scarce a whisper was heard against it, out of Parliament. No meetings were held—no remonstrances made —and the petitions, considering the repulsive nature of the impost, were singularly few. But now, when the tax is fairly clapped on John Bull's back, and his broad shoulders ache under the burden —new, when the nuisance is no longer distant, but brought to his own door ;—in a word, now, when it is too late, honest John be gins to cry out against the Income-tax, and to abuse his respectable friend, Sir ROBERT PEEL, for having saddled him with it. John 'Bull— John Bull, you may as Well bold your tongue, and be resigned, for say what you please—do what you please—you will not prevent the collector from honouring you with an official visit twice a • year, for at least five years to come. The Spuch of the Elt:,a of the BELGIANS, on opening the Chamlwrs is very satisfactory Qllll,ll COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, under the command of Colonel Thorn ton, and the second Regiment of Life Guards, com manded by Colonel. Reid, marched into the Little Park this morning, and fired a feu de joie in honour of the birthday of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. The regiments afterwards marched in review order. Tha Queen and Prince Albert enjoyed their usual walk in the Home Park this morning, and again in the afternoon took pedestrian exercise. - Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci left the Castle this morning. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent paid a visit this morning of congratulation to her Ma:esty and Prince Albert, on the natal day of the Prince of Wales, and remained to lunch. Her Royal High ness and Lady Charlotte Dundas will join the Royal dinner circle at the Castle this evening. The fol lowing have also been honoured with invitations Lord and Lady Haddo, Ma:or-General Wemyss, and Mr. Anson. . . . The Earl and Countess Bruce took their departure from the Castle on Saturday. Many of the tradespeople of the town have illumi nated their houses this evening in honour of the auspicious event of the Prince of 'Wales's birthday. ller Majesty, and her Illustrious Consort and suite, are expected to leave here to-morrow (Thursday) morning, at about half-past seven o'clock, for Wilmer Castle. Her Royal Highneis the Duchess of Kent remains at Frogmore during the absence of the Court from Windsor. The Duke of Wellington left his residence, Apeey House, yesterday morning, for Dover. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na tional Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official ruf.dence in Downing-street. Sir Henry Hardinge has left town. LITERATURE. THE NABOB AT. HOME. 3 Vols. Colburn, London, 1842. There are one or two stirring incidents in this tale, and among the most striking, we may men tion the shipwreck of the homeward-bound East Indiaman, Snowdon, which gets among breakers in the Bay of Bengal, during a thick fog. The whole of this scene is described with.great vigour and minuteness; indeed so minute is the descrip tion, that it seems to be less an effort of fancy, than a literal transcript from reality. The tale, on the whole, is clever, and the various pictures of life in India aro touched off with spirit. The chief personage is a Scotch Highlander, who, having made a fortune in the East, returns in the autumn of life to his native land ; his cha racter throughout is drawn with feeling and dis crimination. COMIC ALMANAC FO1? 1843. Tilt and Bogue, London ; 1843. The Comic Almanac makes its appearance—as if out of a considerate regard to its readers—just at the fitting season, when the fogs and frosts, and rains of November announce the immediate advent of winter. A &arty laugh is now a social luxury infinitely to be coveted ; even a grin is not to be despised ; and the volume before us will supply both these desiderata in abundance. Seat yourself in fancy beside us, gentle reader, at a bright, cozy fire-side—let the warm, flowing curtains be close drawn, and the lamp newly trimmed—let a sparkling decanter embellish the table, by way of fron tispiece, while an uncorked, well-crusted black bottle stands, stiff as a sentinel, in the remote distance s un derneath the side-board—and thus snugly located, reader, let us laugh together at the k droll fancies of e G oicr e a o try r hy g ,ep e a ,C ce ruikshank, as they exhibit themselves in observe,oo d f thel particular,p r Watere present C t ur eh, eAnnual, Diduo quizzical z r yi a co t a h ul e Perennial. r illustrationse n n i a a l l l . yorfilgre o ifueseefatu oldol anything is sitting le v laugiablet , in the d( than , the face and of winter, up to his knees in an ice-pail ? He fancies himself uncommonly comfortable, but you can see by the rough goose-skin creeping over his legs, that he is within an ace of becoming a petrifaction. Close beside him is a fellow who is lying in bed with a big lump of ice in his night-cap, while a German doctor is deluging the sheets with the contents of two watering-pots, by w a y of keeping up a healthy and refreshing moil.. ture in the invalid's system ! Next. observe the credulous youngster who is stretched, full-length, with his mouth wide open, right under the water-butt, because he has been told that cold water —the colder the better—drawn fresh and frisky from the butt, is an . infallible remedy for the tooth-ache ! Distrust seems struggling with faith in his countenance—and well it may, for we can see by the convulsive movement of his hands that he has just got such a twinge as would set him roaring put . like. a bull of Basilan, if his mouth were not full 'of %the ',cooling' element. "Oh, Law I" is a truly . tQT;liingillustratioti. - .,The age has become moral, virt itpus, and peaceable, and - the lawyers, inconsequence, are all ruined. 'The Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer are advertised to be let or sold ; and of the three Chief Judges, one is selling apples at a fruit-stall, a second has turned street-sweeper, and is plying disconsolately at Charing-cross with his broom in his hand, and the third is hawking pies about Westminster. Such a set of scamps as they look ! We wonder how the police can have left them at large, for not one of the three but appears fully capable of petty larceny to say the least of it. " Distraining for sent" repre sents a party of legal functionaries attempting to force their way into a house, to the infinite disgust and annoyance of the establishment, who are attacking them with all sorts of weapons. The cook heads the charge, armed with a gridiron, which she has just let fall on the unprotected sconce of a thick-set sheriff's officer, while the scullion brings up the rear, flourish ing a frying-pan above her head, destined, we fear, ere long, to floor one or more of the advancing foes. This plate is in Cruikshank's most grotesque style, but, indeed, his genius appears to signal advantage throughout the Comic Almalack, which is this year better than it has yet been. The Courrier de la 2lfoselle contains the fo lowing : The Chamber of Commerce of Metz, after a long deliberation, during which the majority (7 out of 8) declared themselves in favour of a commercial union with Belgium, refused to accede to the demand which the iron-masters had made to them to send one of their members as - a,delegate to support their representations with the Government. The Chamber of Commerce contented itself with again expressing its desire of last year, that the iron-masters of the Moselle should have their interests considered as much as possible, but without intending, by so doing, to declare against the commercial union of Belgium, which appears con formable to the wishes of the majority of the traders and manufacturers of the department. The adjudication of the contract for the works of the first section of the railway from Paris to the Bel gian frontier took place yesterday, at the Prefecture of the Seine. There were seven tenders ; two by Messrs. Lacasse and Laboure and M. Beaubau, at a sum beyond that fixed by the Government; the third by M. Nepveu, at a reduction of three per cent.. on that sum ; the fourth by M. C. Seguin, at a reduction of If. 60e. ; the fifth by M. C. Langlois, at a reduc tion of six per cent. ; the sixth by M. Paucellier, at two per cent. reduction ; and the seventh by Messrs. Sherwood at seven per cent. under the Government estimate. The latter were consequently declared the contractors. Messrs. Sherwood were the contractors of the London and Croydon railway, of which the en gineer was Mr. Gibbs. The Commerce states that after the adjudication, some of the persons who had put in tenders demanded the production of a certifi cite of capacity by Messrs. Sherwood. This demand not being sanctioned by the parties acting for the Go vernment, a protest was made against the contract, on the ground that Messrs. Sherwood were foreigners, and could not therefore have a certificate of capacity from a French engineer.—Galignani. BOURSE---PARIS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 119 ... 119 15... 119 ... 119 5 Four per Cents. 101 70... 101 7 0.. 101 70... 101 70 3 per Cents... 8') 35 .. VO 40... 80 30... 80 35 Dank of France ...... ...3280 ...3289 ...3280 .. 3280 L Mil tto Dank 1,000f...1055 ..1055 —.1055 ...1055 5,000 f 5082 50...5082 50...5082 50 4.5082 50 Belgian Bank BlO ... 810 ... 810 ... 810 Belgian Five 3 1031 ... 1031 ... 1031 103 k 1840 104 i ... 1041. ... 104/ ... 1041 Threes 72 ... 72 ... 72 ... 72 Spanish . Active O2l ... 221 ... 221 ... 221 Passive Neapolitan Roman, ex div. ...... Portuguese Fides 32& ... 32A ... 32i ... 32 RAILWAY SHARES St. German 865 ... 565 ... r 65 865 Versailles, R. B 265 ... 2.65 ... 265 ... 265 L.B . 95 ... 95 ... 95 ... 95 Rouen Orleans. 5BB 75... 588 75... 587 50... 587 50 Strasburg to Bale 206 25... 206 25... 205 ... 205 iler Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Al bert passed through town shortly before nine o'clock thi s morn i ng , on their way to Walmer Castle. Her Majesty and the Prince came to town by a spe ci2l train on the Great Western Railway, and imme 1. :telv tool( their departure from Paddington. r,r Castle, escorted by a detachment of hussars. The Royal Cortege occupied three carriages and four. kTpuipikßy GF .EWS' os„,„ AND A X tt* " Who runs may read.' rom.miow. " The French Ministry," according to La France, " has twice discussed the question, whether there shall be a sitting to re-open the session, and a speech from the throne. The first time the Council unanimously decided in the affirmative ; but since the affair of the Belgian treaty this first decision has been re-consi dered. The Council is divided in its opinion, and the arrival of M. Teste is waited for to turn the scale." A pretty considerable number of Spanish refugees, especially of the Carlist party, have lately passed through Bayonne, and are provided with regular passports, delivered by the Spanish Consuls by virtue of the decree of amnesty : The ex-General Dominique Vandersmissen, one of the persons condemned for conspiracy against the Belgian Government, has succeeded in escaping from the prison of the Petits Cannes. The escape was effected in a manner similar to that of the celebrated La Vallette. The session of the Belgian Chamber was opened on the Bth by a speech from the throneololivered by his Majesty in person. Her Majesty the Queen arrived at the Palace of Lacken on the 7th. The contract for the execution of the first portion of the railroad between Paris and Belgium has been finally adjudged- to an English company of the name of Sherwood, at 7 per cent under the estimate. A new cathedral is to be erected in Berlin on the site of the old Domlcirche. It has bean designed by Stuler, after the King's ideas. It is to be a Roman Basilika, with two high towers. We learn from St. Petersburgh, 29th ult., that the Emperor had recovered from the cold which he caught on his late tour. He had, since his return, received the English and Austrian Ambassadors. The Augsburg Gazette states from Goritz that the Archduke Stephen had just paid a visit to the Duchess of Angouleme. The Duke of Bordeaux is, it says, to repair, in the beginning of November to Prague, where he' is to pass a few weeks. "It is said that the postal convention between the Grand Duchy of Baden and Austria has been signed by the contracting parties. The principal object of this convention is to render unnecessary the pre-pay ment of postage. The negotiations on the same sub , ject with Prussia offer more difficulties on account of the high rate 01' postage in that country. It was confidently stated at Alexan - dria, according to the latest accounts, that the Maronites had united with the Druses in Mount Lebanon and attacked and defeated the Turkish troops. IIli: 1 - -zrE sic olzimxori. The Times, alluding to the Emperor of Russia's attempt to introduce uniformity in religion through- • out his dominions, observes:—" If there is one kind of religious intolerance more odious than another, it is that which lacks the pretext of an earnest conviction or the blindness of sincere fanaticism, and which per petrates the crimes of bigotry with no higher motive than the fulfilment of a scheme of political oppression. The rod of persecution was a cruel and unnatural weapon in-the pious hands of Isabella the Catholic ; but it is degraded to a meaner and more hateful office when it is used to complete the work of mili tary eonquest, and when the anathema of religious intolerance is directed, not only against the tenets, but the nationality and the ancient religious • practices of a people. The cruelties perpetrated in former ages in the name of the Church• of Christ were at least regarded by the nations of those times as the natural consequences 'of a struggle between eccle siastical zeal and obdurate heresy; but it was re served for the present Emperor of Russia to outrage the feelings of Christendom, by a revival of scenes which have not been witnessed in Europe since the edicts of Louis XIV. against the Protestants. It was reserved for the Emperor Nicholas to exact conformity to the Church of Russia as a political institution, and to direct against the sister churches in his dominions the whole energy of the secular power, far the sole purpose of reducing certain classes of his subjects into more absolute subjection to his own temporal authority, and more complete uniformity with the in stitutions of Russia. When_ new provinces or king doms professing a different form of Christian worship have been annexed to the Crown, and when that form has been solemnly recognised in the treaties of cession and the public acts of several reigns, to attempt to extend the religion of the conquering country by force, and to extirpate these varieties of divine wor— ship, for the purpose of reducing every portion of a vast and motley empire to one precise standard of orthodoxy, is to stretch the monstrous principles of the Inquisition itself. In Russia the standard of or thodoxy is that the Emperor is the head of the Church. Provided the clergy inculcate on their flocks a vene ration for the Emperor, which is easily confounded in their simple minds with the adoration due to the Supreme Being ; provided the portraits of the mem bers of the Imperial House are enshrined beside the sacred elements ; provided the mysteries of th 6 faith are made to bear the stamp of Russian authority, and the persons of sacred history to wear a sort of Russian uniform, the exigencies of the Government are satis fied, without interfering with the more subtle distinc tions of doctrinal controversy." The following appears in the Post :—" .An abusive and yet a very feeble article appeared in the Morning Chronicle of yesterday on the subject of the new appointments of Bankruptcy and Lunacy Commis sioners. This lengthy and lame composition, set out in our Contemporary's most conspicuous type,_ pur ports to come from a retired Judge. It is much more probable that it is the contribution of a disappointed barrister ; and truly, if it be so, he furnishes very good evidence that he ought to be disappointed if his expectations pointed to any office which required some ability and some good temper for its discharge. The article in question is of the agreeable length of seven feet and one inch, or eightartive inches, of as pointless trash as we ever saw in a newspaper. Mere dull, stupid scolding; plentifully besprinkled with lies ; and yet the subject chosen is one which from its very nature afforded abundant opportunity for sharp remark, if the critic had not been one of the most tedious dullards that ever held a pen." The Herald thus speaks of the Income-tax :—" The Income-tax it ought to be recollected is something very different from the Assessed-taxes or the Parish rates, and yet are the same class and order of persons employed in its management. It is the mercantile and trading community who will chiefly experience the annoyance of these surcharges ; the income of land owners is easily ascertained; the fundholder is treated with sharp but not imuisitorial practice ; while no one will presume to doubt the accuracy of the return of the county magnate; but that large and impor tant class of persons who live by the conjunction of energy, enterprise, and knowledge with capital, they who may really oftentimes have some difficulty in ascertaining what the profits of the year's adventures may have been, they to whom credit and the reputation of well•doing are honestly and fairly worth more than the, capital invested, are the indi viduals on whom the severity of the tax will fall, and these are just thew to whom not the least consideration is paid either by . the Act or by its officers. Against the imposition of this tax so far as income—contra distinguished from the produce of dead capital—was concerned we incessantly protested ; we warned Sir Robert Peel of the odium and detestation which would be begot by the pertinacity with which he ad hered to his original proposition ; but we certainly did anticipate that the Premier would have the pru dence to protect his measure from unnecessary seve rity, and that an oppressive tax would not be vexatiously and unjustly collected. It has proved otherwise." The Chronicle says :—" Any person sceptical as to the extent and variety of the existing distress, and somewhat ignorant of the condition of the country, must at least have been struck by one ominous indi cation, to which we adverted yesterday, presented by the London morning newapti;%ers of the preceding day—that of extracts from the 1 72-ovincial papers, arranged under the appalling title oi ' .Incendiary Fires.' Till within these few years this ho::ible crime, as well as that of the cowardly ann brutal habit of using the knife in casual quarrels, were held to be quite alien to the character of the English population, and it was even boasted that we had to go to a foreign language for a word descrip tive of the first. Be this as it may, it would appear, if we are to trust to the accounts which have been published, that incendiarism' is naturalised in our rural districts. Whenever our agricultural population are feeling the pressure of any extra amount-of pri vation, they exhibit an inclination to revenge them selves, as they imagine, by burning . the property of the farmers ; and so, as the lengthening nights of the winter, in which we are already involved, are casting their gloomy shadows over the country, that concen tration of amazing ignorance, severe poverty, and reckless malignity, of which an English agricultural labourer is but too often a type, displays itself by the lurid light which it sheds over the security—or rather the insecurity—of property in the agricultural districts of happy England. ELECTIONMEEING.__ The electors of Bute have been publicly addressed by Mr. James Stuart Wortley, as a candidate for the seat vacant by the death of the Lord Advocate. Z 7.11.17.8.16 AND rizzLrrix.R.y. The half-yearly examination of the officers and gentlemen cadets at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst took place on the 3d, 4th, and sth instant. Sixteen gentlemen cadets Were recommended to the Commander-in -Chief for appointment to ensigncies, and fifty others were declared to be qua lifyi ng them sel yes for commissions. AND F97,,,irc.r., John. Cormick, a smith, residing at was yesterday brought u for final examinatip at Ken- ~ ~. sin ton, charged with marrying a second wife, vCbile Hall, his first wife, it widow, with three c 1. 01 1: dren, was living. The prisoner was fully committ for trial. James Syble, an engineer, was charged at th . Thames Police-office, with being concerned in Oen° during Messrs. Pinchin and Johnson, oil and colour e men in the Commercial-road, of property to a larg amount. The two sisters, Eliza and Ann Kirby, WI had been his accomplices, were, as will be remem bered, committed on Monday. After a lengthened. investigation the prisoner was committed to IleNvg at(* for trial as a principal in the felonies. LITERARY 41ND SCIENTIFIC Mr, Allan Cunningham's surviving family co nsists of four suns and a daughter, of whom the two eldest;, Joseph and Alexander, and Francis Ch antre y , youngest, are in India, the latter having b een one of the devoted band shut up in Jellalahad du rin g its he-• roic defence by Sir Robert Sale. Mr. Peter Curl . :gbain. the third son, fills a respectable situation in no Audft-office, Somerset House, and is author of a ' Life of Drummond of Hawthornden." Mrs. CUIr ningbam, the mother of Allan, is still alive at Dum fries, and is upwarli of 90 years of age. C OURT—r.'AsnioN.anx.r. The Duke of Wellington left Apsley Home yeste" day for Dover. • The Duke of Devonshire is still residing at Chou worth. The Duke and Duchess ofßedford arrived at Burgh— ley House, on Tuesday last, from Newmarket. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster have been staying at Halpin Hall, since Wednesday last. The Marchioness of Cornwallis left town yesterday for St. Leonard's. The Earl and Countess of Granville have arriyeu at Florence, from Germany. The Countess of Norbury is passing the autumn a t Englefield Green. Lord and Lady J. Russell arrived in Belgvav e " square on Tuesday, from Bowood Park, Wilts. Lord Ward arrived at Mivart's Hotel on Mondal, from Himley Hall. Miss Burdett Coutts is entertaining a select circle at Cliefden House, Berks. MISCELLANEOUS. Ms Grace the DUlie of Wellington has tokerl,_Atbe marine mansion at Dover, belonging to James taken dard Douglas, Esq., one of the Members for Rochessi ter, during the time the Royal family remai n Walmer. M. Arago is of opinion that the newly - an comet in Draco will in a few days become more i more visible. Its tail has already become more lug nous, but there is reason to fear from the varia tionsn 1 its light that it is rapidly approaching to perihelittol• !!TONE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. Rather more cheering advice: have been receivet.', from the manufacturing districts, and at Lir-erre' a very extensive business has been done in cotton. The trade, are described as having bought eagerlY" though,. as the demand was freely met, n in prices occurred. The sales were 8,000 bales, which 1,000 bales American were taken on sPe ell at tion. The quotations were for 1,500 bales Sara b a les 31d. to 40. ; 200 Egyptian, 61-,d • and 6,3 0 ° American, 3id. to 6d. per lb.— " ln the Rai l ` v % Shares thare was no change. Eastern Counties New fit , 108 ; Grand Junction, 173 ; Great Western 61:x; II London and Birmingham, 18q; Ditto Que rt an er i 471 ; Brighton, ; Paris and Rouen, 0 3 ; South Eastern New, or scrip, 171. The effect of the new tariff as regards provisicar,; has evidently been felt in a very small degreel.; what May be anticipated hereafter. In confirinatl,...° 0 alteration,. of this, we may allude to the almost incredible ment made in recent advises from Buenos Ayre'.:,:. viz., that an Englishman resident there 17,, tended to slaughter 4,000 oxen, and 20,000 sheep,' . October, for the purpose of salting the me at and _„ebil; .ping it to Liverpool. The statement, we say, apv— b3 rather incredible, but possibly it may correct. in the Argentine provinces, a s vve 1/ ;: formed by parties in the City, who have reside' t h e and continue to trade with South America, _ s t herds of cattle are of great magnitude, and the s it ' n. „ range of country open to pasturage, causes se t it usually rapid an increase in their numbers, tha,ts, is worth while for the proprietors to kill their hearts, is a solely for the hides and tallow, the flesh for We i n " j' es g• sufficient population being comparatively v.,eltio,cii3h, If the curing is so improved as to suit the ri n f r i e tin we may expect, therefore, to have South An meats at about 2d. per lb. turn out t. the The speech of the King of the Belgia ns, t 1 erect occasion of the opening of the Chambers satisfactory, and shows the efforts of the G e i ? he re merit to extend the trade of its subjects ; tholV : j ' a . to is one point we look upon as rather threateni,'''ira foreign commerce ; viz., the declaration that t_ . ,, l ' e m ed port duties upon many articles may he in ev• with advantage to the country, while those te ll po . rts can be redwed. 0•• tri o . !l . The Consol Market has been very steady this ing at 94k both for Money and the Account. 'P; th r ough Commissioners for the Savings' Banks have t d a p their brokers made another small investment t 0 have is consideror The Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents! pi - an la inclined to 1003, and the New Stock to 101/. ' da p Stock has only fluctuated from 172 to 17 3 t f: „ t er the former being now the nearest value. l e t '' . ;. c ay, 13111 s are a trifle cheaper than they were ye: co ot viz., at 595. premium. India Stock for the has been bought at 258. iri We cannot quote any movement of importance the Foreign Stock Market to-day. A ou react i°n t be Mexican Stock has taken place to 32i, thgh Buenos market may now be quoted a shade fi r mer. at Ayres Stock has fallen to 21i, and Brazilian is at SR. The transactions in all the bonds are trloli, Spanish Three per Cents. have just bee n sold at .i " ` the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 521, an Five per Cents. at 1001. -e oties Railway Shares are not brisk. Eastern Gres. Debentures may be had at premium ; th e : D o- Western at 191 premium ; the Fifths do. a i t, mium ; the London and Brighton at 148 alsc stcroi the Loan Notes a temium ; the South - We 18k premium ; the South-Eastern and l' Dover st, discount ; and Scrip (issued at 25 discount) a or . discount ; Union Bank of Australia, Ne w Shares' at 21 premium. a a There were not many public sales of Colotn‘ or , other produce to-day. By private contract, h°,4 0 . 1 e ber we hear there is a better trade doing. Th e ''s trade is very active. Another large public sale . 1 „ 5. nounced, comprising Canadian and foreign qua E PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT 0 ? 1 . It A umeirs. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties - 23 ... ...... °P oi Ditto Debentures .Bl. 6s. Bd. ....... 841 Great Western London an Brighton ...... -.60 o Ditto Loan Notes 0 London and South Western ... 4 1 1 0 16 •.. t 591 ...... to u to -*** ' Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip.. . ............ 5 . 6i.....• - to South Eastern and Dover. Ditto Scrip MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE , Nor', the market is still depressed, and not much dor'c'The business being almost confined to local Stec's. go sales are—Manchester and Birmingham, 19i ;„ ii th chester and Leeds, 68, Ditto Quarters, 4k; Eastern Scrip, 17i. ) LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS I'A LoriDox, Nov. 10.—Wind southerly, ligp. cloudy. N. oy 6 . m t to G I 3 A o T r E g ' o Nov.. es. 25th ult., a derelict, .—Wind S.W., strong breei.t.o. _ I • Wellingtons, New York. Sld. Jane, Ma llil Lio Ca l di A z . which commenced 9. was--The br l o l s m igs a ici r bt e a , ri go L i. nie heret ho her ro , tic l ar q s oh e PORTSMOUTH, NOV. 9.--Wind S. W., strnea old. to-day. & Oa squally.—Arrd. Justina, London for Calcutta. her Majesty's ship Thunderer, eastward. , 1 Lymouni, Nov. 9.—The 'Sterling, ofG Gloucester to Hamburgh, has put in here with 4 z€ . foremast, having bean in contact with th LI" p l pl, off Falmouth, yesterday. xe. _ A ALmouTii, Nov. 9.—Wirid 1•.T.W., strong bree.th loss rrd. Mazeppa, Gloucester for Sunderland, or' of bulwarks, 'stancliii; :sr t • been i ll c°ll - ....c. nailing tn.& wit ,_ h the Sterling, H l as is tie. ' IN I LIVERPOOL, el-mt.:ET, Nov. 6.—Sid. Broad Axe, N ew 'York% BRISTOL, NOV. 9.—Arrd. Sovereign, 3.liramicht• SHIELDS.--Sits. Rambler, Pernambuco. • CORK N ißlaPnOl'aiNiaZ;sag-efV...iiinydlos..lvAraslrrdt::De-o°Picll)9o3sl men's Land. - , ... ov. 7.—Sid. Britm,:f...nmoor, , -_--- - r-"r- -- - ------------"'_.._------------ e G orge 'METROPOLITAN BURYI NG PI. 4 CES.----Ml' - er i e s Alfred "Walker, the surgeon, has commenced a 5 ., _,..„, of letters addressed to the Editor of the *VZ, Herald, on the evils arising from the internae,ntlLga dead in crowded toi,vns. No man is better _q 1 I . ‘ ego' ' for such a task than Mr. Walker, since to been prominently drawn to a question of so intih le l;_ tions it unques ti o nably is o wing, - that attentionh;soniflaitioe importance. On this point a, highly r espee ,Ab e ._ riodical (the Provincial .Ifedical JOurnal), after a____.r.l. ing to the labours of the recent Parliantentar.ystie'von'of mittee, says :—" We cannot lay aside the ing unto Cesar the things that are Ceesar b,to 4r. a. intramural sepulture for the present withot:litt:tireonidaecr: knowletjging the obligations which w e o we ts -L"•d ev ince- A. Walker for the public spirit which lie 11: . q uirc. Burin;; the whole of this delicate and :diflicul..t ,Troogry To Mr. 'Walker is due the merit of having rsVrc,`" In tlie directed public attention to the evils arising ,sraikees interment of bodies in towns; through Mf. " zeal a groat portion of the evidence uirY b ls Committee was obtained, and now that the inq s‘e tri , F been conducted to a satisfactory co,-.lw:!oD._:,,:,Nved ott that ''iome iliark of public respet v, ,"•_ b li c ratiA the author of a measure from which the vu„ reap such great and enduring avantres• give], ;before the , v,.,,_ j~,~; (lit The th, re