The Sun. — London, England, 1842-11-19 00:00:00

----- INTERESTING NEW BIOGRAPHICAL WORK. Just ready, in 2 % ols. post 870. THE LITERARY LADIES OF ENGLAND. By MRS. ELWOOD. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. QELF-DEV 0 T I O N; 1,7 or, the HISTORY of KATHARINE RANDOLPH. By the Authoress of " The Only Daughter." EDITKIYBY THE AUTHOR OF " THE SUBALTERN." " A tale of fare merit and engrossing interest. The cha racter of Katherine Randolph is as admirable as any which has ever found its way into a work of fiction."—Literary Gazette. " One of the most touching and fascinating fictions which the liveliest fancy could picture."—Court Journal. " One of the best novels of the season. The story is full of interest."—Sunday Times. " This novel belongs to an excellent school—that of the Austens, Ferriars, and Bruntons. 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THIS EVENING, NOV. 19, Will be repeated the English Version of Hossini's Grand Opera of SEMIR AMIDE.—The Character of Semiramide by Miss Adelaide Kemble; Arsace, Mrs. Alfred Shaw (from the principal Theatres in Italy) ; Assur, Mr. Giubilei ; Oroe, Mr. Leffler ; Idreno, Mr. Travers ; Shade of Ninus, Mr. J. Bland. After which will be repeated a New, Original, Comic Drama, written by Mr. Mark Lemon, Author of " The Ladies' Club," &c., entitled THE TURF. Captain Flatooker, Mr. Walter Lacy; Clovis Culpepper, Mr. Bartley; Gallop, Mr. Meadows ; Aaron Tret, Mr. Harley ; Mrr. Culpepper, Mrs. Humby ; Miss Warren, Miss Lee. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price :Js. ; First and Second Circles 55., Secod Prise 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-office, from Tea till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ; of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Bond-street ; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street ; and of Mr. Sams, Pall 3Lall. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, NOV. 19, Witt be repeated THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prin.- Opal Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Lyon, H. Beverly, Wright, Sterling, Wilkinson, Maynard, Craven, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, Miss Faucit, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Beverly, &c. After which, a Piew Comic Barletta, called AN PONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss Murray. To be followed by a Grand Barletta- Spectacle, entitled ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche Giubilei. o conclude with THE SECRET. Thomas, Mr. H. Beverly. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors .pen at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Immense success of the new Nautical Drama. Mr. T. P. Cooke as Union Jack is highly cheered by crowded audiences— the novereffects surpass everything hitherto attempted, and tie ship on fire creates a complete hurricane of applause. THIS EVENING. NOV. 19, Will be repeated an entirely New Nautical Drama, en titled 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, Smith, Healey), Mrs. 11. Honner. and the entire Company. New seenery and splendid nautical effects never beforeattempted. After which will be produced an entirely new Drama, en titled THE BLACK LAW OF MARTINIQUE; or, the FUGITIVE SLAVE. Zamba, the Slave, by Mrs. H. Vining. The other Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Neville, W. Smith, Mrs. Hughes, and Miss E. Terry, who will sing Miss Eliza Cook's Song of the " Red Indian," composed by Mr. G. Stansbury. To conclude with THE PLEDGE OF LOVE ; or, a SIS TER'S SACRIFICE. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box office, frora eleven to four. II!GH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Mcnnin l2 minutes after 2 1 Evening 32 minutes after , t t t Stto "tro., • . ..? • . 1$ u t ..., , .- 4 `,,*; 4. ; ',1111.11-.W4: 2 --1- : . 1 AVL 4t • ' '''. ' , 4 , 40'0 , '', •,„*.. '!-,- 4., -,-, '"' '''',,,, - - _1!..."WW1.4., -c,c, w. ' -ft •.- ..... -- ..:'=FF. :,; ' . . 8 - {,r.7 , 17,4rai; '-'4 , -- • 7. , --,, = •-• Zbit ~.... ~,......., .._. "In, LONDON : SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1842. The agriculturists just now are making a great stir about draining the soil, and we might sup pose, from their pother, that this practice had been heard of fur the first time within the last year. The fact, however, is, that draining was strongly recommended and practised in many places, to our personal knowledge, more than a quarter of a century ago. All that has latterly been invented is, that draining has been more generally recommended, and we believe more effectually done. In the List number of the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Mr. PusEy, M.P., says : , It is only seven years since we keard in England, chiefly through the present Speaker a the House of Commons, that a manufacturer in Scotland, now well known as Mr. Smith, of Deanston, had found the means of making all land, however wet and poor it might be, warm, sound, and fertile, and that this change was brought about by two processes, thorough draining, and sub-soil ploughing. His rule of draining was this : That we are not to endeavour merely to find out hidden springs, and to cut through them by a single drain, which in some of our books appeared to be regarded as all that was necessary ; but that, as the whole surface of retentive soils' is rendered wet, not by accidental springs, but by rain, the whole surface of the field must be made thoroughly dry by under-drains, running throughout at equal distances. Any fi e ld, he said, however wet, might be so dried, provided these under-drains were cut sufficiently near to cult other, - This was the principle of thorough or frequent draining, asserted by Mr. Smith, of Dean ston, in 1835 ; and this principle, which was then new and startling, may now be regarded as firmly established." In further speaking of Mr. SMITH, who has many claims on public esteem, Mr. PUSEY —do not let us forgot that he is an M.P.—said: "In proving that Mr. Smith's system is not new , I do not lower his claim s t o our t h an k s ; f or h e proba bly invented it also, ands at all events carried it out with an energy which made it new in his hands ; but I think the fact of its previous practice in Suffolk and Essex—[he might have added, Kent]—worth no tice for two reasons ; one, that any new method, how ever highly recommended, 'must be received with doubt as long as it continued new, and that conse quently the best praise by which any method, can be recommended to practical farmers, is, not that it is new, but, on the contrary, that it is old and tried; the other reason is this, that here was a plan of drainage which was regarded as novel, yet had been employed and established for half a century, at no great distance from London ; and this is by no means a singular proof how little the farmers in one part of , England knew, until lately, what the others were doing." This statement is of far less importance to prove the value of under -draining, and the length of time it has been practised, than to prove the worthlessness of the landowners, and the inestimable advantage even to them of com petition. Would any man believe, after the century, nearly, of talk and writing we have bad about agricultural improvement and en couragement of agriculture, after the patronage o f GEORGE 111., the establishment of scores of Agricultural Associations and Royal Agricul tural Societies, after all the labours of the late Earl of LEICESTER and several other friends of agriculture—would any man believe, if it were stated in The Sun on our authority, or stated on any less exalted authority than an agricul tural M.P., that the farmers in one part of Eng land knew little or nothing, until lately, of what the farmers in other parts knew, and were doing ? Yet such is the f.tct ; and it is our belief that'. except in the immediate neighbourhood of i market towns, and on a few estates, the owners of which, like Lord SPENCER, are themselves practical farmers, the bulk of the tenants-at-will throughout England, know very little indeed now of the practices in any district but that in which they reside. But waiving our belief, and taking the fact on the undisputed authority of an agricultural M.P., is it possible to bring a stronger proof of the uselessness of landlords to agriculture, and of the utter worth lessness of all their schemes and laws for encouraging and improving it, than this avowed ignorance of the farmers of practices the utility of which has been demonstrated for years ? For what purpose do the landowners meet in their clubs? Why do they congregate at one season of the year in the metropolis, and at another dis perse over every part of the empire, if they diffuse no useful information ? Wherefore. are their peculiar sports cherished and pro tected at such an expense of humanity and pub lic happiness, if they cannot and do not convey the knowledge, the value of which is proved in one district, to another where it is not possessed, and where the stationary farmer, toiling day after day for a living, has scarcely time to read, and cannot quit his farm to gather information ? We always thought the great and the only use of the landlords to agriculture was, that they diffused the knowledge of improvements amongst their tenantry. It now appears that they do no such thing, and the statements of the self-suffi cient Mr. PUSEY, which he makes as a slur on the tenantry, is a severer condemnation of the landlords then any member of the Anti-Corn law League ever pronounced. Let the reader mark the confession of gross ignorance, not in the toiling tenants-at-will, but in leisure landlords, which Mr. PUSEY avows. " It is only," he says, " seven years since WE," the landlords, " beard in England" of Mr. SMITH of Deanston's practices, and they do not all know yet of the practices in Suffolk, Essex, and Kent. Not the te nantry only, therefore, the , landowners of one part of England were ignorant, until lately, of what was done in another part, and in Scotland. Now Mr. PUSEY, who makes this extraordinary confession, is a kind of literary man, the brother of the " Seraphic Doctor," and one of the best instructed and not the least liberal of his class. He is spoken of by the Morning Chronicle as an " agriculturist of practical knowledge and scien tific acquirements." If such were HIS dense ignorance only seven years ago of what so in timately concerns his own business, what must be the still denser ignorance of the great mass of country gentlemen ? If they know so little of agriculture, how can we give them credit for any knowledge of the influence which their own laws exercise over it ? Suppose the Manchester manufacturers were to ask Parliament for a high protecting duty on cotton cloth, because they were under sold, and it should be proved, not merely that they did not use superior machinery which 1 1 was in use at Glasgow, or at Liege, but that they actually did not know of its being used, would they not be booted at as most ignorant, lazy ' blockheads, and sent to improve their own pro cesses, instead of laying a tax on the community, to enable them to keep the cottons of Glasgow or Liege out of the Manchester market ? The case of the landlords on Mr. PUSEY'S statement is parallel to this, except that these most ignorant and useless men, having had the political power of the State in their hands, have passed such a law as we have supposed the Manchester men to demand, and to have been refused. The land lords have actually compelled the community to give them a large price for their produce, that they, according to Mr. PUSEY'S statement, igno rant and lazy blockheads, might doze on in their old slovenly and unimproved methods. All at once, however, these gentlemen have started on their feet, and after rubbing their eyes they resolve on exerting themselves. From all quarters we hear of improvements in agricul ture; we find the landlord sedulous in spreading abroad information, in teaching the doctrine that there is no fear, arid in inviting the tenantry to invest more capital in the soil. What has so suddenly put them on their metal ? What has all at once spread the knowledge of Mr. SMITH'S practices to every agricultural hamlet of the country ? A little, and only a little healthy competition, and the fear of competition. It is now about five years since a shock to trade and a deficient harvest began to direct public attention to the Corn-laws. The landlords be came alarmed for their monopoly. Successive bad harvests and a declining trade made, every year, the attack on their stronghold more alarming. To defend it, they were bound to in crease the supply of food. To uphold it entirely was impossible. Ministry after Ministry has de clared against it ; and no sooner was a breach made than the supine and ignorant landlords discovered that their own acres were only half cultivated, and might be made, by skill and labour, to produce twice as much as at present. That is the beneficial effect, not of Corn-laws, but of the probability that they may be done away. The apprehension of competition, and some little competition, have done more within the two last years to diffuse agricultural knowledge amongst farmers and landlords than was done in all the previous years that elapsed subsequent to 1815. Now if we see on the one hand such gross and avowed ignorance, and such un couth practices nourished by the protective system, and see on the other such a won derful increase of knowledge by a little competition, have we not good reason to expect that, by exposing our agriculturists to the effects of a complete free trade in food, we shall very soon bring them all to be as thoroughly acquainted with the best system of agriculture known in the world,. as the men of Manchester are ac quainted with the best known system of spinning? We have no doubt that such would be the case, and no doubt that it is only requisite to expose our agriculture to free and healthy competition, to place it abreast of our manufactur es , an d in advance of the agriculture of every part of the world. We have no doubt, as the produce of agriculture depends far more on skill, than on any supposed fertility of the soil, that only com petition is necessary to make our agriculturists more skilful than those of other countries, and produce corn, as our manufacturers produce cotton cloth, cheaper than any other persons. In all that concerns the manufacture of agricul tural instruments and facility of conveyance, two great portions of the price of agricultural pro duce to the consumer, the growth of corn is al ready effected at a much less cost in England than abroad. There is good reason, there fore, to conclude that the other portions of the price of agricultural produce might be reduced in like manner were the corn trade only free. To obtain such inestimable results, so teeming with happiness to all classes, we must lay aside all respect for the opinions of those useless and idle landowners, who, we learn from Mr. PUSEY, are completely ignorant of what they are most bound to know, and whose arro gance and presumption in lording it over us in Parliament, even surpass their dense ignorance. We must own that, despite the assurance given apparently from authority, " that the under writers at LLOYD'S are satisfied of the sea-worthi ness of the Waterloo, and have agreed to settle for the loss at once," we have many misgivings as to the strength of that ship. We should be able to form a more correct judgment of the value of this decision, did we know the amount of the premium and the nature of the policy. In our ignorance of those circumstances, we cannot help thinking, and we must be permitted to say, remembering that two or three other cases have occurred, within these few years, of the loss of transports carrying convicts, that sufficient care is not taken to provide proper ships for the con veyance of such large numbers of persons, who can exercise no volition of their own in the matter, to the other side of the globe. We shall briefly allude to the circumstance which makes us conclude that the Waterloo was not a proper ship fir such a purpose. W e saw from the first moment that we read the accounts, some reason, in the facts, that the Waterloo had drifted broad-side on the beach, while the Abercrombie Robinson had gone end on, why one ship should much more speedily be destroyed than the other. The one ship parted her cables and ran on the beach, the other ship dragged her anchors and drove broad-side on the beach. It would be rash to judge and condemn on such imperfect evidence as we possess, but we have always understood it to be a part of seamanship, when it is found impossible to save a vessel from wreck, to put her head if prac ticable to the beach and force her as high on the land as possible. In the case of the Aber cromby Robinson, this appears to have been done, and it appears not to have been attempted i n the Waterloo. If there were any oversight of that kind it was the fault of those who bad the ship in charge. As to the sea-worthiness of the ship, she was 27 years old, she had been, it is said, completely repaired, had a new deck and been doubled ; but those circumstances do not vouch for her sound ness. We say nothing of her age, which is not very great provided she were originally a sub stantial, well built ship ; but 27 years ago, just at the close of the war, when prices were very high and timber scarce, we are inclined to believe that it was not the custom to build ships re markably strong. The doubling, as our readers are probably aware, is putting an addi tional outside case on the ship, adding conside rably to her weight, without necessarily impart ing any new strength to the frame-work, on which all depends. It is often employed to make an old ship hold together, and will answer that end well in fair weather, and under no adverse circumstances ; but it does not add to an old ship ability to resist the destructive power of waves and rocks. Such a ship can be insured, at some premium or other; so can all the goods which are sent in her; but a cargo of living beings cannot be insured. It seems to us highly improper to send vessels of that description to the other side of the globe, so laden. We feel pretty confident that the chief of the Transport-office and the surveyors of transports, would not select such a vessel to con vesy their own families, and therefore we con clude that she ought not to be e►nployed by them to convey men who have no will of their own. On the heels of such a great misfortune, when many hearts are sorrowing and suffering, we are averse from employing strong language, but we must advert to the subject, because it is only at such times that the public can be sufficiently in terested in such a matter as to make its opinion of commanding weight with men in office. The honour and humanity of the country are con cerned. England is not very tender of the lives of poor criminals, and successive accidents like that of the Waterloo may receive a name from fOreigners, borrowed from the worst period of the French Revolution. We must be careful not to merit such a terrible stigma. Besides the defects in the ship, she seems not to have been well provided with means for the men to escape. We read of no boats being launched, no apparatus brought into use, either by the officers of the ship or the persons on shore, which could contribute to save life. No attempt was made either to send a line from the shore to the ship, or, which probably would have been more easy, to send a line from the ship to the shore. We hope that such circumstances will call the attention of men in authority to the provisions made for safety in convict ships, and that they will take care that every transport carrying convicts be pro vided with all the ordinary means of escape, under such dreadful circumstances proportionate to the number of the people on board. We trust, too, that no anchorages, whether colonial or other, will be allowed to remain so destitute of the means of help on an emergency, which will cost only a few pounds, as Table Bay appears to have been on the lamentable occasion of the wreck of the Waterloo. The Belfast News Letter states, that it is in contemplation to commemorate the great moral revolution effected by Father MATnEw through.. out Ireland, and that a national testimonial in his honour is also contemplated by his friends. "No Irishman," observes our. - Contemporary, "deserves better that his really patriotic services should be rewarded. He has, indeed, effected a great moral revolution in the country. By the magic power of temperance, the aspect of affairs has been wonderfully altered. Men of different religious creeds, and different po litical opinions, have borne decided and concurrent testimony to the spread of temperance in Ireland, and the good fruits it is producing. There is now peace instead of quar rels, industry instead of idleness. Irishmen are improving in their worldly circumstances.' When we state that it is a Tory journal which holds this language—one of the organs of that party, which, when Father MATHEW first com menced his grand experiment, styled him a dreamer and visionary, and ridiculed his ideas as Utopian and impracticable, our readers will readily admit that the Temperance Apostle's exertions must indeed have been successful to have wrung such an acknowledgment from an avowed enemy. In fact, so successful has Fa ther MATIIEW been in his comprehensive scheme of working out the moral regeneration of his country, that the Tories are now taking advantage of his peaceful triumph to benefit themselves ; and have actually the cool impu dence to assert that the pacification of Ireland is owing, not to the spread of temperance, but to Earl DE GREY'S. Government! Never was a greater falsehood yet promulgated, even by ex perienced and unscrupulous Toryism. If Ire land be now comparatively tranquil, it is in spite of Earl DE GREY'S halting Administration, not in consequence of it. The real Pacificator is Father MATHEW. He has achieved what Tory Government after Government has been in vain attempting for the last fifty years and upwards. By arrivals from Berlin we learn that the session of the Provincial States closed on the 4th instant, having lasted twenty-two days. The close of the session somewhat resembled the prorogation of the British Par liament, with this difference, that the Royal Speech was not delivered in a formal manner from nKteierlsnN : tG t i‘g l t l i e :a,aer T ianiik h tb r aey o las n h e i s , b; i t A t a a E t s T a y hospitable ,to we enter t m e ain ni s - , t a h n e d m D f e o p r u t t i i l e e s e l ifi ve c r i e en in t v n it l e a d n . ner Th in e which they had deliberated on the different mea sures of State presented to them by his Mi nister, and expressed his high satisfac tion at the good order and discretion which had marked their proceedings. His MA. JESTY has adopted at least one point of the Char ter, for, on the Deputies closing their labours, he ordered three dollars a day, with travelling expenses, to be paid to each Member, without distinction of rank. The proceedings altogether do great honour to this excellent Prince, and cannot fail to produce a lasting effect on his grateful people. The accounts from Hanover respecting the KING'S health arc still very gloomy. According o these, no symptoms of improvement have taken place, and his MAJESTY continues to labour under great depression of spirits. We have perused with much interest the note of Lord CUNINGHAME appended to the interlo cutor or judgment pronounced by him in a Non- Intrusion case, entitled " The Rev. Mr. CRUICK SHANK and others against the Rev. Dr. GORDON and others." The seven deposed ministers of Strathbogie sought redress from the Court of Session, because they had been deposed by the General Assembly for obeying the statutory law of the land, and had applied to the Civil Courts for protection against previous incom petent sentences of suspension pronounced by that body of which Dr. GORDON, one of the ministers of Edinburgh, was moderator. His Lordship gave judgment in favour of the plain tiffs, and adduced among others the following arguments in support of his decision : In so far as the Church claim the station and privileges of a supreme legislature, their pretension is essentially unfounded. In the words of Erskine, they derive their whole powers from the State, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1842. hrough tie Acts of the Civil Legislature. It was by Act of Parliament that a change from the ancient Catholic faith to the Protestant creed was authorised; by the same authority the confessions of the new faith from time to time were sanctioned and enforced; and th* judicial powers of the Church in spiritual matters were also defined by Act of Parliament. According to the defenders, there may be two Courts in the same State, both legitimately entitled to interpret the same law, and neither is bound to yield to the other, because there is an irreconcilable collision between equally competent jurisdictions. The Lord Ordinary conceives that this is an anomaly contrary to every principle and precedent in the law. Lord CUNINGHAME quotes precedents from BACON and other authorities, clearly proving that the Judges of the Temporal Courts both in England and Scotland have the supreme power of construing a statute, and thus concludes : The Legislature of Scotland did not choose to in vest a popular body, consisting of above a thousand members, with any of the powers and privileges of the Supreme Civil Judges. Accordingly, every power of carrying their own sentences into effect was withheld from the Church ; and even if the Moderator were insulted in the chair, he has no power of committal. He must appeal to the Civil Magistrate, who, of course, would repress and punish every offence of the sort. But with regard to the ordinary ecclesiastical sentences, these are by special statutes, quoted in the pleadings of the case, appointed to be carried into effect by the Civil Courts alone. Finally, the jurisdiction and interference of this Court, in the present case, might, it is supposed, be justified, if necessary, by the compact b e t ween th e Church and the State in the Confession of Faith. The 23d chapter provides that "the civil magistrate may not assume to himself the administration of the word and sacraments, or the power of the keys of the kingdom of Heaven; but he bath authority, and it is his duty to take order, that unity and peace be pre served in the Church." It is manifest that, under constitutional Governments, the civil magistrate must speak through the supreme courts of justice ; but in what case could such interference more competently and appropriately take place under the power, than on the present occasion, when a large majority of the General Assembly have ventured to deprive seven of their brethren of their offices, for yielding obedience to a law which the supreme courts of the country have found that they are bound to obey ? It is on these grounds that the Lord Ordinary has sustained the jurisdiction of this Court in these processes. As the case stands upon the documents produced, and the statements hitherto advanced, the pursuers complain of grievous injury and oppression inflicted on them, for conduct not only not inferring blame, but constituting high merit in public func tionaries. If the reasons of reduction shall be esta blished, it is a matter of the greatest concern, both to the law and to the established religion itself, that its ministers and Courts should be restrained, by com petent authority, and with as little delay as possible, from every abuse and excess of power calculated to bring themselves and the Church with which they are connected, under the condemnation of those tribu nals to whom the interpretation of the law is com mitted by the constitution of the country. In the Paris papers recived the leading articles relate chiefly to the project for a Com mercial Union with Belgium, but that has lost all interest for English readers. The following, from the Sentinelle of Toulon, is the only extract of interest : " Our neighbourhood is encumbered with troops, waiting for their turn of embarkation for Algiers, and new detachments continue to arrive almost daily. These detachments are furnished from the depots of regiments at present in Africa, and which are not intended to return speedily to France. To judge by the movement of troops which has already taken place, and which is to last for a good part of the winter, some grand military operations must be con templated for the spring. As has been already an nounced, the Due] d'Aumale is to have the command of a moveable column, the head-quarters of which will be at Medeah. In this case General Changarnier will, to all appearance, leave the province of Tittery." The Three per Cents. at two o'clock on Wed nesday were 80f. Mc. THE POST MAGAZINE ALMANAC FOR 1843. This Almanac contains a brief history of the Post. office, with copious information on the present rates of postage, the hours of delivery in the London dis trict, and the departure of foreign mails, distinguish.. ing those countries to which newspapers are sent free. It contains the usual calendar and A number of useful tables, among the rest one showing the value in Eng lish money of the various coins in the principal places with which England has commercial intercourse. It is only half the price of the ordinary almanac, but the printer or the compiler has somewhat lessened its value by an unpardonable blunder in the calendar for the month of November all the day s o f th e mon th being made to fall on the same days of the week as in the present year. FRENCH PAPERS. The Constitutio nnel has an article on the rupturebe tween the King of Naples and his brother, the Prince of Capau. The writer says that the King has never required the dissolution of the Prince's marriage, but that it and the relations arising out of it should be rendered conformable to the family laws which regu late the Court of Naples in common with the other Courts of Europe. lie also denies that the Prince has been deprived of his resources, and left to the mu nificence of the British Court. The Report of the Duke de Broglie, on the slave trade, was understood to be about to appear imme diately. The recent Spanish amnesty had already produced the effect of inducing several refugee Carlist families to return to their country. There had been some tumults at Gibraltar ; the clergy, it appears, having refused the rites of burial to a person lately dead In that city, a mob of the people had seized the body, borne it to the church, and com pelled a priest to read the funeral prayers. M. Levasseur had gained his election at Dieppe, on the second ballot. The National says, that the hopes which had been entertained from the late visit of the Emperor to Warsaw, of either an amnesty, or an organisation of the army of Poland had all vanished. The Gazette (le Cologne states that the Druses, Ma ronites, and Mutualis had re-established the confedera tion of 1840, and in a Council General had deter mined to place themselves under the protection of the five European Powers; pledging themselves against peace with the Turks, until the ancient c ipital (Be}•rout), and the whole coast of the Lebanon, in cluding Tyre and Sidon, shall be restored to them. There had been been some engagements in which the Turks were worsted; three of the places at which these struggles occurred are named, Biscari, Kan-he- Sein, and Khan-Ussein. The son of the celebrated Tippoo Seib hadjust died in Paris. HAMBURGH and FLANDERS MAIL. BERLIN, Nov. 10.—This forenoon the concluding sitting, or last meeting of the Committee of the Es tates of the Kingdom was held, after which they were dismissed in due form, in the presence of the King and of all the Ministers of State. After this there was a grand dinner in the White Saloon, to which all the Ministers, the Marshals of the Estates, and the Deputies were invited. His Majesty spoke in the most gracious manner, first, in general, and afterwards to several individual representatives, expressing his satisfaction and thanks. The Treasury has paid, without distinction of classes or of ranks, to every De puty three dollars per day from the time of their set ting out, and one dollar ten silver groschen for every post-mile, according to the distances from their places of abode. HANOVER, Nov. 11.—We hear that his Royal Highness the Crow n P r i nce w ill se t ou t t o - m orrow to pay a visit to his bride. He will stop a fortnight at Altenburg, and before his return pay a visit to Berlin. His Royal Highness enjoys excellent health. On the other hand, neither the journey to Rothenkirchen nor his return to Hanover peared to have had any favour able effect on the Kings health. It is said that within these few d ays some circumstances h ave h a pp ene d which have c a st a gloom over t h e genera lly c h eer f u l temper of th e Ki ng:, O ne of these circumstances is the death of D r. lcohlrausch ' s w id ow , w ho was f or many years th e attached frien d an d com panion of the late Queen. Sh e was burie d yes t er day, and by the King's order all the household and servants of the Queen attended the funeral. The death of this lady is said to have very greatly affected the King. DIRSCHAN, N ov. 7.—We have had constant frost for several days. This morning Reaumur's thermometer was 61 degrees below freezing point, in consequence of which there is so much ice in the Vistula that it was neces sary to begin late y es t er d a y e vening the taking up of the bridge of boats; the passage over the river is now effected by boats, through the ice, whi c h a t pres ent is but thin. The Vistula is rising Which are able to force their way everyl day. This is the first time for many years that the bridge has been removed so early. The King, the Ministers, and other persons of dis tinction, who went to Tournay, arrived at Brussels yesterday evening. We are assured that M. Van Volxem, the Minister of Justice, has made a report to the King on the escape of General Vandersmissen, and that he pro poses to his Majesty t o exerc ise a new act of clemency towards the other th ree prisoners Vandermeere, Van Laethern, and Verpraet. BRUSSELS, Nov. 16.—The average price of wheat last week was 21f. 7c., and that of rye 14f. 10c. per hectolitre. 'Wheat therefore is still exempt from im port duty. On rye the duty is 21f. 30c. per thou sand killogrames. 'rhe export duty on both wheat and rye remains fixed at 25 centimes per 1,000 kilo grames. The journals contain to-day long details of the opening of the sections of the iron railway between Courtray, Mouseron, and Tournay, and the manner in which Majesty was received. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bnvessta, Nov. 18. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent , .,.. 534( Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. 109% Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent — --- Three per Cent........... —.Thirty-seven Milli ns, ditto ........----- (1840) 104% Loan of City, 1842, Four per Cent. 9B Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent. Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 76 National Society ... — Exchange on London (short) ••••••••••••••• - -Brussels Papers, Nov. 16. A thSTRI AN FU ND3....Vreit/ta, Not. 8 Five per Cents. Meta11ique5t.....:.................»...:.. 118 15-16 Four per Cents. •••••••••••«••• 0000000 •••••••••••••:••• 00000000 100 k Three per Cents ..•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.i.i•• 76 Bank Shares .. 0 0 0 - o ...... dlllgemeine - Zeilung, - Nov. 19. HA MI3U RGH BORSEN HALLE, Not. 15. • Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. ............ ....... .. ..... 110 Bank Shares ..o 1635 Anglo-Russian Loan lOB% 10834 Russian 5 Der Cent., Ist series, Certificate., 1035 Inscription, Ist series lO3 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series — _— Ditto in Certificates ... ..... ........98 -- New 4 per Cent. (11340) . . 87% 87% Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ........ Ditto • 5 per Cent. - Polish Bonds — New Tickets — Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent Bl 8 % Spanish, New 5 p..r Cents. — PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Nov. 12. Bills. Money . St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. Prussian English Bond , , 1830, 1 per cent. 1211 IIS Exchange on London .. --- 6 23h Prussian State Gazette. Nov. 12. COURT CIRCULAR. Ms Imperial Highness the Archduke. Frederick of Austria visited Buckingham Palace yesterday; for the purpose of viewing the State-rooms. His Imperial Highness, attended by Count Caroly, Captain Marinewitch, Captain Dumont, and other Noblemen and Gentlemen of his suite, arrived at . the Palace at half-past two o'clock, and passed into the Library. The Archduke and suite were then conducted by the private staircase to the Picture Gallery, the Drawing room, the Grand Saloon, the Ball-room, the State Dinner-room, the Green Drawing-room, and the Throne-room, afterwards descending by the grand staircase to the Marble Hall. Before arriving at the Palace his Imperial High ness had called at the Royal Mews at Pimlico, and inspected the Royal stables. On leaving Buckingham Palace the Archduke and suite proceeded to, St. James's Palace and were conducted through the Royal Closet, the Throne room, the Entree-room, Queen Anne's room, the Portrait Gallery, the Presence Chamber, and the Grand Chamber. His Imperial Highness afterwards went into the Chapel Royal, and examined that edifice. His Imperial Highness, attended by his suite, took his departure shortly before four o'clock. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yes terday at Gloucester House. A deputation from the New Zealand Company, consisting of Mr. Somes, the Governor, Mr. Alder man Thompson , M.P., Mr. Charles Buller, M.P. and Mr. Mangles, accompanied by Mr. Ward , the Secretary, had an interview with Lord Stanley yes terday at the Coloniai-office. _ _ _ The Belgian Minister transacted business yester day at the Foreign-office. Dispatches from the Governor of the Mauritius, and also from the Governor of Sierra Leone, were re ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Co lonial-office for Sir Charles Bagot, Governor of Canada. PRICE OF SUGAR. EFFECTS OF MONOPOLY. LONDON, Nov. 19, 1842. The following average prices of Brown or Musco does British Sugars, exclusive of duty, were pub lished in the Gazette of last night : West India 355. 7i-d. per cwt. East India , 37 111 Mauritius '36 54 The average price of the three kinds, taken jointly, is 365. 54d. per cwt. . The actual weights of sugar sold on account of the importers, in the week ending the 15th inst., accord ing to the returns made upon oath by the sugar bro kers, in compliance with the Act of Parliament, and on which weights the above prices are computed, con• sisted of 16,128 cwt. West India, 9,596 cwt. East India, and 1,222 cwt. Mauritius. About 750 cwt. of very dark unsound sugar have been sold , in the same week at from 20s. 6d. to 21s. per cwt. ; these having been classed in the returns as East Indiq unfairly depresses the average price of that kind of sugar, as well as the total average price. Strong brown Manilla sugars have been offered for sale at auction, and bought in at 14s. per cwt., their value. White sugar, equal to doubled refined, manu factured from foreign raw sugar, may be put free on board a British ship for 255. 6d. per cwt. Foreign Muscovado sugars, equal to the average quality of West India sugar, are to be had at 17s. 6d. per cwt. ; the former'being 18s. per cwt. cheaper than the latter. The total sales of British sugars for the week, in Min cing -lane, were 27,000 cwt., assuming that the sales, added together, at the outports, are to the same ex tent as the weight sold at the London market. The consumers bought 54,000 cwt. of sugar, at 365. 54d. per cwt., amounting, in round numbers, to 96,5001. They might have bought 54,000 cwt. of foreign sugar, equally good, at 17s. 6d. per cwt., amount ing to 47,2001., exhibiting a difference against West India sugar of 49,3001, which, being added td 161,000/. shown last week, for the previous fort night, gives 210,300/., being the value of the sugar monopoly to the sugar producers, and the cost thereof to the public, for three consecutive weeks. Endeavours having been made to explain away the effects of the statements published in The Sun in the two weeks preceding this, charging the sugar mono polists with having received enormous gains through excessive price obtained for their sugar, by saying that those two weeks in particular were selected be cause they happened to display a maximum account, we have determined, in order to undeceive those who may have given credence to these attempts at ex planation, as well as to set the explaining parties themselves right, should they really think as they speak, to publish, week after creek , as we h ave d one this day, the amount of the excess of price over and above the foreign market value of the sugar, paid by the consumers, and to add the same to the amount al ready announced ; it will then be seen, at the expira tion of twelve months, should the prohibitory duties continue in existence for that length of time, whether the sugar monopoly does or does not operate as an indirect tax upon the country, of at least three mil lions sterling per annum. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Nov. 18.—Wind this day at noon ; westerly, light and cloudy. DEAL, NOV. 17.—Wind E.N.E., fresh.—lt blew very hard last night at E.N.E., with a heavy sea, and continued until noon to-day. The outward bound are riding all well. PLYMOUTH, Nov.l7.—Wind E.—Arrd. North Star, Tessier, Rio Janeiro. Sid. Nunez, Gambia. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 17.—Wind E. to N.E.—Arrd. Emly, Paddonaccra, St. Vincent's; Planter, Allen, Jamaica. Sld. Diana, Strickland, Bombay. Off port, Goddess, Fayal. DOVER, Nov. 17.—Off port, Elizabeth, Dagnall, Quebec. TORBAY, Nov. 16.—Sld. Chatham, Sydney. LivEnrooL, Nor. 17—Wind S.E , fresh.--Sld. Asia, Rio Grande ; Priscilla, Pernambuco ; Jackson, Trinidad; Sarah Trotman, Barbadoes ; Jamaica, Ja maica ; Shakspeare, New Orleans ; Eliza, Savannah. WATERFORD, Nov. 14.--Acrd. Thistle, Quebec. CoRR, Nov. 15.--Sld. Bache, llalifax. BELFAST, Nov. 15.—Arrd. Ceylon, Whitburn, St. John's, New Brunswick. YARMOUTH, Nov. VT.—The Diana, Robson, of Shields, has been assisted in leaky, and with pumps chocked. BIDEFORD, Nov. 15.—Arrd. British Lady, Prince Edward's Island. SWANSEA, Nov. 15.—Sld. Dorothy, Yates, Cuba. FALMOUTH, Nov. 17.—Wind E.N.E., fresh gales. —Arrd. Crane, packet, Rio Janeiro, sailed 13th ult., with about 19,0001. in gold and diamonds. :Sid. Nine, Cape de Verds and Monte Video. SWANSEA, Nov. 16.—Arrd. Stockton, Sims, Cuba; Fortune, Williams, Quebec. FISHGUARD Nov. 161—Arrd. Triton, Quebec. MILFORD, NOT. 16.--Sld. Liverpool, New Orleans. MADEIRA.—The Dart, of London, Wave, of Jersey, Creole, Novo Beiginho Gloria, Madre; and Esperance (Sardinian), were totally lost at this port 26th ult., during a gale, crews (except the latter vessel) s a ve d. DUBLIN, Nov. 16.—The Cygnet, of Whitehaven, was driven ashore near Malatude, on the 15th inst., crew saved. The British Queen, schooner, Dixon, was driven ashore at Baldoyle, on the 15th inst., four of the crew drowned. TENBT, Nov. 17.—The Columbia, John, from Waterford, was driven ashore near here, on the 16th instant, part of cargo washed out. GOTHENBURG—The Preciosa, from Christiansand to London, was wrec k e d ne ar the Waigo Beacon, on the Bth inst., crew saved. RIGA..—The Margaret and Sarah, from Riga to Sheerness, was totally wrecked on Domesnass, pre vious to 26th ult., crew saved. FALMOUTH, Nov. 17.—At 8 A.M., the wind veered from S.W. to E.N.E., and blew a strong gale, but it is more moderate. PILL, Nov. 16.—Arrd. Eldon, Moon, Quebec. DEAL, Nov. 16.—Arrd. Emily, Stone, Quebec. DOVER, Nov. 16.—Arrd. Sophia, Fornsten, Ha vannah for Hamburgh ; Nassau, Batavia for Amsterdam. SUMMARY OF NEWS' AND tibitc Optuton. " Who runs may read.' rozemroN. The session of the Prussian States was closed by the King in person on the 10th inst. A letter from Belgrade, Nov. 3, announces the arrival there of Emin Effendi, with the <berat of the Sultan for the new Sovereign of Servia. The inves titure Was to take place on the 7th. The Augsburg Gazette states that the recent changes in Wallachia and Servia are the subject of frequent and important conferences between Prince Metternich and the Russian Ambassador at the Austrian Court. A letter from Constantinople, October 17, in the Sud of Marseilles, mentions the arrival in the Turkish capital of a Lieutenant of the French army, who is to act as instructor of the Turkish Imperial Guard. He was sent out by the French Government at the re quest of Riza Facha. The Duke and Duchess of Leuchtenberg left Ve nice on the 3d instant for Ancona, from whence they will proceed to Florence and Bologna. By the Jornal do Commercio of Rio de Janeiro to the 12th ult., received by the Crane packet, we are informed that the late disturbed provinces were in a state of great tranquillity, and Baron Caxias, with 3,000 troops, on the eve of embarkation for Rio Grande, where the insurrectionists were already dis heartened by the prospect of his speedily attacking them. PUBLIC OPINION. The Chronicle, alluding to some recent agricultural meetings, and the spirit displayed at them, says— " Thank Heaven, these illusions are gradually pass ing away. Agriculturists and manufacturers are be ginning to discover that they need not gaze upon each other, like antagonistic Indian braves,' each with tomahawk in hand, and whom nothing can appease but the possession of each other's scalp. Arrogant claims are no longer put forth for agriculture, as if it were an interest which could live and flourish though Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow Liverpool, and Sheffield were sent to the bottom of the sea. And in the pro portion in which agriculturists admit the claims o manufactures and commerce, so will they find that manufacturers are ready to concede to British agri culture its just importance, and, with unfeigned and unaffected readiness, to admit that it, constitutes a prime element of British greatness and glory. We do not know that we need go about to adduce proof of the prevalence of this better spirit, for every agricul tural meeting exhibits it." The Post reverting to the question of free• trade, observes :—" We are straining after the supply of foreign countries with British manufactures, at the very time that foreign countries have resolved to manufacture for themselves, and to exclude our manu factures as much as possible. 'We know that, not withstanding this, the Minister has said that he sees no way out of the difficulties of the manufacturing classes but in the extension of foreign trade, and knowing this, how can we hope that the Parliament will take any other view ? But we must say, that in the present state of the world, to rest one's sole hope upon the extension of foreign markets, for the produce of British industry, seems to us much about as comforting a state of things as if,, on the 22d of June, one should rest one's hope on the extension of the length of the days. No ; we should trust to something far more within our own power than the extension of foreign markets. How can we control the determinations of this foreign country or of that, which may tell us it has no wish to deal with us ? Why should we put ourselves at the mercy of foreign Governments ?" Speaking of Lord Lyndhurst's Law Reforms, the Herald expresses itself as follows :—" It is doing no injustice to Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst's great merits, either as a judge or as a statesman, to assert that his ex ertions as a law reformer are not equal in value and importance to his judicial and political services. The Noble Baron has, doubtless, saved the country from much crude and hasty legislation, projected for the removal of defects in the administration of the law ; he interposed when Lord Langdale suddenly signalised his newly acquired, some say enforced coronet by an attempt to sweep away the present equity institutions and substitute a philosophical-looking scheme of his own ; he checked Lord Cottenham's well-intended efforts when they occasionally verged on extravagance or rashness; he rehuked the absurd crotchets of plain John," now Lord Campbell, and he has prevented the establishment of local courts until every doubt is removed that cheap law means cheap justice. One qualification Lord Lyndhurst does not however possess; and it is resolution to accomplish the diffi cult task. Its want may proceed from age, love of ease and quietude, hopelessness of success, or the ab sence of high moral motive • but the want is obrious. These improvements, indeed, which cannot be de layed, or which the labours of others have prepared for his adoption, Lord Lyndhurst has adopted, and will again adopt; but he wrestles not with' the giant himself, his heart is not in the cause; and though he abhors the abominations of the Equity Courts as much as the sternest reformer, and regrets the practical in justice that is perpetrated by their continuance, still has not Lord Lyndhurst the energy and the industry to remove the abuses, rectify the defects, and improve the good points of the system." lECCLESIASTICAL. The Tories of St. Pancras having it in intention, by a sort of side-process, to perpetuate Church-rates in that parish, the churchwardens called the attention of the Vestry to this fact on Wednesday, when a Com mittee was in consequence appointed to watch and oppose the proposed Bills in every stage, which the former party are about to present to- Parliament upon this score. The Rev. T. Robinson, the new morning preacher at the Foundling, was travelling companion and chap lain to Bishop Heber. He was subsequently pro moted to the Archdeaconry of Madras, which he re signed two or three years since. Archdeacon Pakenham, brother-in-law of the Duke of Wellington, is spoken of as the new Bishop of Cashel and Waterford, in the room of the deceased Dr. Sandes. Dr. Daly and Archdeacon Torrens are mentioned as his opponents. LAW AND POLICE. Cesare Ungheretti, an Italian, was charged at Guildhall with threatening the life of Dr. Belluomini (one of Napoleon's physicians, and the introducer, of the homoepathic system into England), and also that of Miss Clorinda Sagramoni, residing at his house in Great Marlborough-street. The defendant was held to bail. LITERARY (IND SCIENTIFIC. Thursday concluded the seventh day's sale of the third part of the library of the late George Chalmers. So extensive a collection of the proclamations of James 1., has not occurred in any sale for many years ; since, being generally stuck upon walls and dilapidated buildings, they are very generally de stroyed. Many of them were obviously the produc tion of the King's own pen. The charge of whitewashing our churches to hide the paintings, carved work, &c., is generally attributed to the Reformers in the days of Henry TIII. or Elizabeth. Many circumstances, however, show that most of the whitewashing was done during the great rebellion, and was not intended as a work of deface ment, but to serve as a defence against CromWell's Iconoclasts. COURT-WASHIONABLE. Her Majesty will leave 'Palmer for Brighton, ac • cording to the present arrangement, on the 22d inst. Earl and Countess Amherst have gone to Montreal, Sevenoaks, for the winter. The Duke of Bedford arrived in Belgrave-square on Thursday from Oakley House, Bedfordshire. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, left Loch Laggan for Baron's Court, Ireland, early in the week. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have post poned their departure for Paris until Monday next. The Earl and Countess of Harewood and family have been passing the autumn at Goldsborough Hall. twisCELLANEOUS. _ _ At the Sandwich islands, owing to missionary labours, there are at present, 385 schools, containing 18,034 scholars. In the printing department 10,583,950 pages have been struck off in 1841, and about 50 books printed. The skin and skeleton of the large fin-whale, which a short time ago was caught by some fishermen in the Thames, off Deptford, has been purchased for the British Museum, whither it has been conveyed. A lucifer-factory, in William's-court, Southwark, was burnt down on Thursday. M'Neil, a wire -worker, with a large family, suffers much by it ; the pre mises are uninsured. The 'death of Dr. Sands, the Bishop of Cashel, is likely to lead to,Pa vacancy on the Judicial as well as on the Episcopal Bench. It has been understood for some time past that Judge Torrens was willing to retire in favour of any of the Government men, pro vided his brother, the Archdeacon, was elected to the Episcopacy. This opportunity has presented itself, and the probability, is, that the descent of the Judge will be but a preliminary to the exaltation of the par son. Mr. Sergeant Warren, it is thought, will be the successor of Torrens in the Common Pleas.--Cor respondent of the Advertiser. A rich copper mine has been opened at Cumber land, R. I. Within the last week fifteen tons of ore have been shipped for Boston, from the mine; corn menced this season, and worked by f our men only. The ore was sent to Liverpool, to be sold at the monthly. mart of ore at Swansea. There is not a single smelting surface for copper in North America, CHEAP MEAL, &c.--A correspondent from Banff shire writes us this morning, that oatmeal is selling for los. per boll in Banff; potatoes, 3d. per' peck ; beef, 4d. per lb.; eggs, Bd. per dozen and coals at ls. per barrel.—lnvernen Courier. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, FRIDAY' EVENING• A steady business was done in Stocks this after noon, and, after our report in the morning, an improvement occurred in Consols to the amount of * per cent., the latest rates being 941 to 941, both for Money and the settling day, on Thursday next. For January, the quotations are about 94i to 94k. Exchequer Bills continued heavy, on account of the supposed intention of Government to reduce the interest. The, premium was 55, and upon India Bonds 51 to 53 ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were 101* to 101,1; the Three per Cents., 93i ; and Bank Stock, 169. All the Foreign investments were done at high prices, the bargains this bgng at the fol lowing rates :—Chilian, 91 ; Colombian, 21/} to•2li ; Portuguese Converted, 321; Buenos Ayres, 22f to 224 for Account ; and Spanish Three per Cents., 1 8 1 to 181 for Account. Notwithstanding .the paucity of business, there was ; certainly rather a firmer market for Railway Shares, the operations, in addition to those .of . the morning, „Iri., being, however, limited to the following :—Bristol s and Exeter, 251 to 241; and Eastern Counties, 14i • rt.'” discount; Birmingham Quarter Shares were 234 ; Paris and Rouen, 21 to 3*-; and Eastern Counties, , , tttlO New, 21 premium. , ,;tv The business noticed by.us for some days past in .•,;1_4"" the rates of Foreign bills continued again to-dah ir74 having been 25f. 80c. to 25f: 821 c. on Paris ; 13 1011 to 13 11 on Hamburgh ; 12 51 on Amsterdam ; 12 44i to 12 41 on Antwerp ;957t09 58 on Trieste ; and .t; 151 to 151.1 on Frankfort. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The accounts from Liverpool state that there has been more disposition to sell Cotton since the arrival q of the Britannia, but that prices have not gone lower. The quantity which changed hands was 4,000 bales. In Railway Shares there was only a small business done. Eastern Counties were 8i ; Birmingham, 10; . Brighton, 351 ; and Great Western New, 591. 1et.'15,4 The very quick passage of her Maj'esty's packet i:;!, Crane, from Rio de Janeiro, -furnishes advices from '11.11,0 that lace as late as the 13th October, from Buenos jsrfi, l Ayres of the 16th of September, and from Monte. 00'0, Video of the 17th of September. From all that i 3 .0119 Ciro stated,- it is much to be feared that the contest be- , ;90:01 tween Rosas and the Oriental republic will end in:it fivri'il"of the sub ugation of the latter, though, perhaps, if the aim of Rosas be simply to displace Rivera, the con- iilo4 sequences may not be very serious, Rivera having _!of given Roses good cause for offence. The Buenos ,09 211 y Ayrean Government has done at least some good bY opening the navigation' of the Parana and the com munication with Uruguay, finding, probably, that our Minister had set off in another direction for this litter place, and being jealous also of the growing comroor' ,• cial importance of Monte Video. • The following is a statement of the number of Bri • tish vessels that entered the port of Monte Video • the years 1830 and 1841, and which shows tile irn" • , portance of our trade with that Republic 1830 the number was 41 ships, with 7,480 tonnage and 425 men, while they had increased in 1841 to 159 shirt 34,537 tonnage, and 1,788 men. - . Another interesting return proves the relative nor .•.; nitude of the trade of Buenos Ayres and Monte Vicle °9 by giving the number of merchant vessels. In Monte Video there were 112, of whi c h 24 were B r itish, and : at Buenos Ayres 45, 10 being British. 7 These items are sufficient t o s h ow th e i n terest We ; „„ have in the disputes of the two Republics. :1111 It v, as thought the c o r n t ra d e h a d se ttl e d downs' but we are sorry to hear of two other failures, both here and at Amsterdam, in addition to those which we mentioned yesterday as having occurred at Montreal. 414 01 { In the accounts received y es t er d a y f rom Canada, it - ' l O , / is stated that the settlement of the Boundary Ques tion will open up a most splendid country for settle' o f 4 ",0 ment. In the valley of Aroostook alone, there are .;.f fo i ninety townships of six square miles each, and ea .011 4 pable of supporting a p o p u l a ti on o f 100,000 souls. .4 ~.. The river St. John is n av i ga bl e b y b oa t s up to -S O source, a distance of 360 mil es f rom it s mo uth. Or rican enterprise and capit a l, as th e coun try in the:; vicinity becomes populous, will overcome those fel / 10 0i j obstructions that at present impede its navigation and it is for the people of this part of the province , l a . particular, to set about l a yi ng th e F oun d a ti o n of th_ i i t y social intercourse whi c h o th erw i se ma y b e divert' . through some other chan ne l. 4 The exchange from Hamburgh comes over lower, viz., 13 71 ; and the price of gold 431 k. n f We have an unfavourabl e re p or t o f th e prospects, the autumn fair at Frankfort on the Oder. '• The Funds have shown great firmness this mornirtot o , Consols for Money and Account have both been 3 .,. ° '-'5l l / * LI at 94+- The Commission ers f or th e S av i ng s' through their brokers, made a further sre a ,Nts, ai purchase this morning. Alt oge th er a considerab f#lloo amount of business has been t r a nsac t e d. Reduce s . I' d( Three per Cents. h ave reac h e d 93f ; R e d uce d Thre e :l4 l ;o and-a-Half per Cents. 100 1 ; the New Three-aca'i.as 4 ,• a-Half per Cents. 101 i, and Long Annuities 12 7 -11 "' tog/ Bank Stock has f a ll en to 169, but India,Stock for the 'og Account has reached 261 f. The value of Exchequ ar d 9i/ 1 ; Bills is rather l ower , th e prem i um now being A nn { ? 1°;. 0 1 4 ,0 lor India Bonds 51 53 premium. ter There has been a- good deal of business transae- 9 ,4 in the Foreign Securities to-dav, especially in Spaiii isi i i ' 'll ,;: f fl which have reached 19. Tge price now is 18-4 1 , 5 ; The Spanish Th ree - per -C en t s . have risen to 23k• I , he Portuguese Fi ve -p er -C en t s . may b e h a d a t 381't 21, ;;"; Three-per-Cents. at 22*; Dutch Five-per-Cents. the Fives at 101*; and Belgian, at 102 i. Colo ( Stock has been pretty steady at 32* to 331. bian at 21+ 1, and Brazilian' at 65. Ti The London and Birmingham Railway Shares !is: .„4, been in request, and the premium has reached 9 6 P e !„ share, being a much higher price than has been s cently obtained. The Brighton, too, has been to -ai g. in rather bett e r d eman d. S ou th W es t ern w as a 31)a lower than they were, and the same remark will apPt to the market for the Great Western, the Edinba r g t h and Glasgow, the Midland Counties, and the N°r Midland Shares. Joint Stock Bank Shares were O r / steady. MANCHESTER STOCK • EXCHANGE, No v. 1/119 i, There is no new feature in our Ma r ket to-dap 0 - ness still continues limited, and prices generally unaltered. South Eastern Scrip, 17i to 171; lien cheater and Birmingham, 19.1 to 191 • land Halves, 30 to ; Manchester and Lek f ey , to 69i ; !Edinburgh and Glasgow Quarter - 44 to 41 ; Manchester Assurance, 9. CLOSING PRICES. Nort h BRITISH FUNDS. it pl l Rank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ....,... 93/1 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. C0n5......... 941 Ditto Old Annuities ; 3i per Cent. Red.........10V4 Ditto New Annuities.- s '; pil l New 31 1 per Cent... ...... 1014 !Ex. Bill s , 1,000/..•.941' 520 New 5 per con', — Ditto 5001... ••.• 5 5 pol Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small .... . Jan. 1860 . , Oct. 1859 l2 5-16 I n di a St oc k f o r Acct... . 94 i Jan. 160 l2 11-161Consols for Acct. ....•• FORIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... jPortuguese,s per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent lO4 Ditto, New Ditto ....••••• Brazilian Bonds... 65 . Prussian, 5 per cent.. ..• Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. Russian, 5 pet cent- ••'" Chilian, 6 per cent. 9l Ditto, Metallic .....« •••• Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent.....• Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred.... c. Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 79 French, 5 per cent. Danish, 3 per :eat Exchange........... Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — French, 3 percent. --*" Mexican, 5 per cent 33 Dutch, 2i per cent.. .... ioli Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Ditto, 5 per cent. •• Perunian,lB2s,6 perct. ~.• SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) .. . ••• '' Eastern Counties (23 paid) lOl Ditto New (—paid) .... Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... ••• 4i Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid). . . ..... - ..... •B4 . Great Western, (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) . Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) .. ... ..... .... London and Brighton (50 paid) ..........• lB5 London arid Birmingham (90) ........•.• Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 84 f , Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) North Midland Railway (100) Ditto Half Shares (40 paid) ............ ;` , 4 • ~ Paris and Rotten (20 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid).- ...... is Ditto Scrip (20 paid) ..................... ... . v. ) -, COURSE .01. EXCHANGE—(YESTERO4". id - • Amsterdam -4 CF. 12 8i [Gibraltar - .•••••• • ...... •30 7 . 1 !, Ditto, at sight R0tterdam..........2 U l2 9 Genoa ... ............. "... 3 1 Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 14 Venice ............ . ... ••• , fi Altona Paris, 3 days' Ditto, 3 m0nth5......... 25 95 Lisbon ................... wit,, . „ t ! Marseilles 26 0 Oporto ............. • . .. . .. wat Bourdeaux 26 0 Rio Janeiro ........... ~ ~,„; ~ sight 25 14 7154/ Palermo,N aples . . pe....r.0..5............. . .... ........... ... Frankfort on Maine l5ll Bahia .................... '''"_._ l'etersburgh, 3 Us. Ilerlin Vienna, effec. fl 3M. 10 1 Philadelphia ................ _ , Etrados, ! I ', Trieste, ditto lO 2 Paw" o r - 0 17 . bars Madrid Cadiz Gold C0m....' 0 0 361 Portugal .. i Bilbao 7 New York , 21days sigh! t a x ,. r --.. Dollars... ...... • 4 Ili Barcelona . 36 New Deo - Seville 36 Silver in Bars... ..... 0 Mr: Chadwick, Secretary to the Poor -law Com : . missioners, transacted business yesterday at the gur ae office. the 2 . 8 t" Pitivy COUNCIL.—The Judicial Commitieee of the Privy Council will assemble on Monday, inst., to hear appeals from decisions of the tical Courts. ions Lord Lowther, Postmaster-General, hid a " s ., interview with the Chancellor of .the Exchequer Ye terday in Downing-street. at Beef and mutton are now selling in this town rof reduction of from ld. to 2d. Cliebne per lb. — Chronicle. gal l ' The Rev. Dr. Cramer, principal of New fil n ,,,i t he regius professor of modern history, has resir, Shed public oratorship of the Uni 1 Cambric'g`i- for ve . rst y , . _ next ,_.... the Vice-Chancellor has appointed Thursday ). the election of a successor. ECCICSIa3' . ,