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THE PUBLIC PRESS. Now ready, New Edition. price is. ITAMMOND'S COMPLETE LIST of all the NEWSPAPERS published in the UNITED KING DOM, corrected to the present period ; arranged in Counties, so as to exhibit the journals of each at a glance, together with their Political principles an I sphere of circulation. An Ana lytical Table is &Tended. N.B. This List is Copyright,and is entered at Stationers' Hall. Advertisements received for all the London and Provincial Newspapers. the London Gazette, the Periodicals, and the Paris Journals. Newspapers from every county regulzrly Sled; also the Times, the Railway Journals, and other London Papers. 27, LomLard-street, two doors from Clement's- lane. NEW ROMANCE OF PERSIA, BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE KUZZILBASH," &c. Just ready, in 3 v 015.., post Bvo. ALLEE NEE MROO THE BUCHTIAREE ADVENTURER. By J. LI. FRASER, EN. Richard Bentley-, New Burlington-strt-et. NEW STORY OF THE SEA, BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE PILOT," " THE TWO ADMIRALS," tke. 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Bonds are cn sale NOW at £l3. Against the end of this Month the price will rise to .E. 14, and the Sale will close in the first days of November. Those who remit £l5 BEFORE the 28th instant, will re ceive an order for £2 upon our London Bankers, together with the Bond. To those ordering too late for being attended to, their re mittances will be returned by first post. HEINE BROTHERS. HAMBURGH, October 4, 1842. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING. NOV. 3, Will be repeated the English Version of Rossini's Grand Opera of SENIIIIAMIDE.—The Character of Semiramide by Miss Adelaide Kemble; Arsace, Mrs. Alfred Shaw (from the principal Theatres in Italy) ; Assur, Mr. Giubilei ; Oroe, Mr. Leffler ; ldreno, Mr. Travers ; Shade of Ninus, Mr. J. After which will he - repeated a New, Original, Comic Drama, written by Mr. Mark Lemon, Author of " The Ladies' Club," &.e., entitled THE TURF. Captain Flatooker, Mr. Walter Lacy; CLyis Culpepper, Mr. Bartley ; Gallop, Mr. Meadows ; Aaron Tret, 'Mr. Harley; Mrs. "Culpepper, Mrs. Humhy ; Miss Warren, Lee. Doors open at Half-past six, and the Performances com mence at Scven.--::Di - ess Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. ; First and gccond .Circles as., Second Price 9.5. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets. and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-efliee from Teri till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. _ Private Boxes to he had at the Box-office ; of I%lerrs. An drews, 167, New lit.nd-street; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street; and of Mr. Sams, Pail Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, NOV. 3, Will he presented THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prin cipal Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Lyon, H. Beverly, Wright, Sterling, Wilkinson, Maynard, Craven, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, 111i55 Fancitt, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Beverly, &c. After which, DEEDS OF DREADFUL NOTE. Prin eipal Characters by Alessrs. Wright, Wilkinson, Paul Bedford, and Mrs, H. Beverly. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE. The Imp, Mr. Wieland ; Fleur-des-Champs, Mdme. Proche l;inbilei; " The Frightful, Spiteful, Old Bachelor," Mrs. H. P. Grattan. To conclude with NORMA. Polio, 'Mrs. N. P. Grattan ; Norma, Mr. Paul Bedford; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25. ; Gallery, is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. DA VIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. In consequence of the numerous applications for Mr. T. P. Ccoke to appear in a succession of his favourite Characters, and •he nightly overflows to witness his inimitable acting, he will change every evening, being the last times of their performance. THIS NOV. 3, V. ill be acted % New Drama, EVENING entitled ESTELLE DUMAS, supported by the best Company in London. After which, the Nautical Drama of POOR JACK; or, THE WIFE OF A SAILOR. Poor Jack, Mr. T. P. Cooke, whose performance attracts nightly overflows. Eleanor Mrs. To conclude with Mr. Albert Smith's new Drama, called BLANCHE HERIOT, which has met with. most decided success. Neville Andely, Mr. 11. Hughes ; Hugh Laneret, Mr. N. T. Hicks; Herrick Evenden, Mr. J. Webster; Blanche Heriot, Mrs. R. Honner. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box office, from eleven to four. TO CORRESPONDENTS. "lla."—Never in England, but for some time in Switzerland. HIGH ATER AT LONDON BRIDGF: THIS DAIL I;,..rning 44 Iniantes after 1 I Evening 4 ....- 4.1_“!) I •g 3 : 1 0 , ~,,. .4rY , 4 ...44 sisNl.ll46',-,!, , ; .6 - : -siTli, ~.. ' V* 4,irli..;;:tjtonie,*!--44,;,_4 —A/v . _ ,'f• ‘i‘k'__, V - Ikk ‘U11.(,.> LONDON : MOTLMNG. NOATEMBEIZ , 3, 1842. 4 -Pavagraph isgoing the rounds of the news 114.per to the;eii g ect that the Government is insti tatin inquiries i nto the price of flour and bread in various places., with- a view to make some re gulations for the trade of the miller and the baker. It seems not at all unlikely that advan tage may be taken of the present high price of bread, compared to the price of wheat, to impose so me restrictions on these trades. At any rate t :ere is a treat numb er of persons amongst the , consumers, who, being to o careless or indifferent to Frotect themselves from extortioo, demand and expect to be protected i;gainst their own fol lies by some new law. They will not neglect so favourable an opportunity, and calling loudly for a rifv regulation, they may be able, by the pres ure of 'a momentary and passing evil, which com _ s petition will speedily' cure, to fasten a n ew and mischievous assize of bread on the publi and inflict injury on it for ages. All such laws are based on this principle, that a certain definite proportion shall always obtain, and in all places, between the price of wheat, the price of flour, and the price of bread, which is manifestly unjust. Wheat is of various qualities, and will yield much more and better flour one season than another. A law which should fix the price of flour in relation to the price of wheat would be too low when the wheat ground badly, and too high when it yielded an unusual quan tity of fine flour. In one case it would be unjust to the miller, in the other unjust to the buyer, but it would be almost always unjust to one or the other. Similar facts are true of flour when made into bread. Some flour will make more bread than ther flour. There maybe something also in the art of baking, which will enable one .man to make more loaves out of a sack of flour than his neighbours. If lie sell his bread below the assize, he affronts other bakers. To fix :In assize is to prevent the consumer in some cases from reaping the advantage of the increasing skill of the baker. It is a fact also, that the addition of potatoes to I flour, far from injuring bread, makes it light and wholesome, and at present there- is very little bread made in the metropolis which does not contain a small quantity of potatoes. How shall that proportion be measured by an assize, so that the consumer shall not pay more or less than he ought, and more or less than be would pay with an open trade and the fact avowed? Some bakers, too, live in a populous, and others in a thinly inhabited neighbourhood; and there are situations where a baker who bakes only a sack of flour a week is as much required as in others a baker who bakes half a dozen sacks. One of these may make a fortune by his trade, while the other will scarcely make a living. Now why is the man whose services are needed as a baker, and who can only sell a sack of flour per week, to be prohibited from charging a half penny or a penny more for a loaf, if his few cus tomers are agreeable to pay him, and without which he may be unable to supply them ? To prohibit that is, in fact, to prohibit them from having bread from him, for the condition on which he can supply them is, that he makes his own living by it. Or why should the man who makes a great deal of bread, and who is perhaps at comparatiVely little more expense than the man who makes a little, be prevented from selling it if he can with a pro fit below the assize price ? The law may not prevent him, but if it ordain a proportionate price, it will be invidious in him to sell below that—he will be slow to do it, and the consumers will be deprived of an advantage which they ought to derive from their numbers. These facts are shadows of the actual variations in the varying value of a loaf in different situa tions and circumstances, which must make every law which fixes a definite proportionate price on bread and flour in relation to wheat unjust either to the producer or the consumer. No law can be adapted to these varying circumstances, and therefore no such law ought to be enacted., In confirmation of these remarks, let us refer to the case of coach and cabmen, and watermen, whose fares are regulated on one settled plan by the Legislature or the Watermen's Company, and who are continually summoned before the Magistrates for acts of extortion or attempts at extortion. It is generally admitted that to re gulate the fares these workmen are to demand is extremely proper. No doubt it saves many - gentlefolks a great deal of trouble, and enables them to put their own discretion in their pocket, as they can rely on the law instead. But sup pose the weather to be extremely fine, and it is a pleasure to go on the water, or ride behind a horse, and there are numberless watermen or cabmen willing to be hired; or supposing it to be excessively stormy, pouring down rain and hail, so that the coachman can scarcely sit on his box, or the waterman scarcely make any way against the storm across the Thames, is it not, in the first instance, a gross and palpable in justice to the public to make them pay the same fares as in led weather, and in the latter an equally gross and palpable injustice to the water men and coachmen to ordain them the same payment as in fine weather? A -regulation better calculated to make watermen and cabmen keep within doors when the weather is very bad, and deprive the public of accommodation when it is probably most needed, cannot well be conceived. When it rains it is continually said a coach is not to be had for love or money. The same is said of boats. Why should either coaches or boats be obtained ? How can the public expect that coachmen or cabmen should brave all the inclemency of a storm, spoil their own cloth ing, damage their cattle or their vehicle, submit to great annoyance and expense, for the same reward as they obtain in fine weather, when it is a pleasure to serve the public? If it be said that the fares, being too high in fine weath er balances the too low fares in bad, we answer that it is not so, and that in fine weather injustice is done to the public by not permitting-perfectly free competition, and that in bad weather gross injus tice is done to two useful classes of men by cut ting off the rewards properly due for their ex posure and exertions. It may be convenient to the public to have a tariff of fares, but would it not also be convenient to have a tariff fur all other services? The master-tailor, hatter, and shoe-maker, in many cases, charge much xnore than the sum they pay their workmen ; and if there must be an assize of bread, and cab fares fixed by statute, why not also have a law to regulate the price of a coat proportionate to the price of cloth, the price of a hat proportionate to the cost of felt and beaver, and the price of a pair of boots proportionate to the cost of leather ? It is felt by many classes of opulent tradesmen that such regulations would be an unbearable thraldom, and they have sufficient political power to keel) their business unshackled. If cabmen and watermen were at once opulent, numerous, and enlightened, they would also be able to throw off a law which gives them a fixed reward for services extremely variable in value. If these two cases of cabmen and watermen, which are two of the strongest to justify re gulations, and are generally approved of, admit of many doubts, do not those doubts confirm the objections we have made to affixing an invariable proportionate price to flour and bread when their relative value must continually vary ? We think they do, and we would at once warn the public against countenancing or demanding new re strictions. We are the more disposed to call attention just now to these circumstances, because we ob serve, besides the project for fixing an assize of bread on the public, it is proposed by some med nalrilecii.rogfa t n h is e e F d r C en h c a i m l o b n er ti o l dcl(iinaglmLeirbceer,aalfstetro thn e City of London. Some superannUated or'uniuc cessful old gentlemen, who, not having regulated their own affairs very well, suppose they can re gulate the affairs of our trading metropolis, want to have a power of that kind placedin their hands. There is a Chamber of Commerce at Glasgow are the affairs of that city better regulated than those of London ? There is one at Manchester, some of the leading members of which were also Directors of the Manchester Bank; has its skill and knowledge saved Manchester from a great calamity and a great stigma? There are Cham bers of Commerce in all the ports of France; have they done anything for the trade of that country, except to stifle it ? Of all the contemptible and absurd importa tions of political institutions that we are ac quainted with, the importation by England—the most successful maritime and commercial nation of the world—of the commercial and maritime re gulations of France, the least successful com mercial country of the globe, is the most contemptible and absurd. We can pardon the Spaniards, the Mexicans, the Portuguese, and the French for importing our insti tutions, in the expectation of obtaining thereby Prosperity and greatness, because Britain has been prosperous and great under them; but We cannot pardon the poor and wretched spirit of imitation which would import amongst a free and successful people the slavish institu tions of a n unsuccessful nation. All suc h insti tutions :l ei s , Chambers of Commerce, except . they be nl voluntary, and such regulations as assize of bread, and fares of coaches, fixed by law, are contrary, and even hostile to trade, the spirit of which is perfect freedom. Society must be governed by the principle of competition in all things, or by the principle of fixed regulations. If the Legislature essay to fix the price of corn, it must settle the wages of labour; Wit determine what profit a baker shall snake out of a sack or flour, it must settle how m uch a tailor shall make by a pi ece o f c l o th. To regulate all the business of individuals is fiir beyond the power of arty Legislature, even in communities where the people are divided into castes; and as the reg uiating principle, there- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY k MOANING. NOVEMBER 3, 1842. fore, implies an impossibility, there is no alter native but to admit the principle of competition and allow it to rule unchect ed, unrestrained, undiverted, over every part of buying, selling, letting, and hiring. The following observations, which we borrow from the New York Herald, show how the new American tariff may be expected to operate there. They show also what a powerful auxi liary we should find in that commercial metro polis of the western world, in repealing that tariff, would we only open our corn trade. They show further, that there are other causes of alienation besides the tariff between the north-eastern States, and the southern maritime States, which would help our interest, and help the interest of the Americans also, were our legislators only to be just to our own people : _ The city of New York has grown to be the metro polis of America. It is the largest city in the New World. The cause of its prosperity, and the means by which it has attained its ascendency, have been its foreign trade. It has been the point of communica tion with Europe from which a large proportion of domestic goods have been sent abroad, and to which sixty per cent. of the imports of foreign goods have arrived. Its increase, in proportion to other parts of the Union, may be estimated by the fact, that the proportions of the whole imports ar rived here in 1823 was 35 per cent., and gradually in creased to 60 per cent. Under the descending grade of the Compromise Act its prosperity rapidly increased. In the same time Boston and New England have grown surprisingly in manufacturing strength. Their goods, for the most part, however, came to New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, for distribution through out the Union. According to the census returns— sll4,ooo,ooo of goods were manufactured in the New England States : of this, $75,000,000 may be esti mated to have been sold through the cities men tioned, and of that 340,000,000 came yearly to New York for distribution, mostly by way of the canal, west. The foreign goods imported into New York were $60,000,000, making an aggregate of 3100,000,000 of trade, depending partly upon its geographical position in relation to the western trade, and partly upon tariff law, restricting the competition of the im ports with the, domestic goods. This being the posi tion of the city of New York, what have the New England States done ? By building a railroad direct from the heart of the factories to the mouth of the Erie canal—the great avenue for the western trade — they have opened a short, speedy, and cheap route for that trade, which completely isolates New York in regard to it. The whole trade of New England, which formerly passed through this city to and from the west, now leaves. New York and passes, under the direct influence of the vast capital of Boston, over the railroad, commanding all the markets west of Albany. The operations of the railroad may be judged by the following receipts for three days at Boston :-5,045 brls. flour, 147 bales wool, 266 kegs and tubs butter, 30 casks cheese, 17 brls. beer, 37 boxes Saratoga water. That this is not a rare occurrence, the following notice will testify :—" Consignees of flour by the 'Western Railroad are notified to remove the same immediately, as there is not room enough in the depot to unload the cars." _ . The nett receipts of the road for three years in September were as follows :-1840, $16,581 ; 1841, $23,559 ; 1842, $60,442. Last year the road was not open west of Spring field. If we allow that the increase of that portion of the road was the same as that of the previous year, viz., 50 per cent., it will give $26,000 as the re ceipts from the freight from Albany for September. This is sufficient to show that the enterprise of the Bostonians has taken the wind out of the sails of New York in relation to the western trade. Not satisfied with this, however, her leading men, Abbott Lawrence and others, have, with untiring perseverance, procured the passage of a tariff, which, in the present state of trade, strikes a fatal blow at the import trade of New York. After having, by legiti mate enterprise, deprived New York of the commis sion trade of Eastern manufactures, they have pro cured the interposition of the law to turn the foreign trade from our ships and wharfs to British bottoms and the St. Lawrence river. While these vast events, big with the ruin of New York and the aggrandize ment of New England, have been going on, the people of New York have been lulled to sleep by the false representations of the press which they support. Like the fabled vampire, which, by its waving Mr ings lulls its victim in a fatal sleep, while it silently sucks his heart's blood, a corrupt partisan press have been singing the praises of a high tariff, while the com merce and trade of the city have been drawn to other quarters. With cool decision the English merchants, instead of checking their operation, only alter the destination of their wares from the Hudson to the St. Lawrence, and smile at the folly of our Government. That teaches a valuable lesson. The people of New York could tolerate the loss of the western trade by the railroad, which is legitimate traffic, but they cannot put up with the new tariff. The one only changes the course of trade in the Union; the other banishes it beyond the frontier. New York has flourished much, notwithstand ing our Corn-law, but the American tariff threatens it with ruin. Smuggling will become rife along the whole Canadian frontier ; the shipping of the United States; with all the towns on their sea-board, will be injured ; and their own laws, and not our laws, will inflict on them in jury and ruin. So it is with us. Their tariff will inflict on us much less harm than our own regulations. In fact, were we to abolish our own unjust commercial restrictions, and the United States were to retain their ,tariff, the bulk of the trade between that country and England would be carried on through Canada by English shipping. W e should lose nothing by it. So it is with other nations. The high duties on linen yarn imported into France, do not injure our trade so much as our own Corn-laws, and our high duties on French wines and French brandy. It is in our power to-morrow to extend our trade with France by lowering or abolishing our own duties. Ifit be for the advantage of the French to receive our commodities—and that advantage would be great in proportion as we took their commodities—no laws, no armies, could keep them out of France. If the French Govern ment continued its prohibition, it would not stop the trade, it would only lose its revenue. It is, we believe, universally true, that the trade and prosperity of any one nation depend much more on its own regulations than on the regulations of other nations ; and, therefore, we conclude that it is the great business of our Legislature to do justice to our own people, and encourage foreign Governments to do the same. The Dublin Pilot has an article on the subject of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S policy, from which it is manifest that our Irish Contemporary is no ido latrous admirer of the Right Hon. Baronet or his measures. " Never did man," says he, "so heartily deserve the epithet of Deceiver-General as . PEEL has done in the short period of his Pre miership. Contrasting his promises with his pgeuriudor for which a p i r u e n t e e lic h e e s w s i e t e h m l e i i d s a t c o ts—tlm value i p t o s w e e r x , e r a e n i s d e — ti n e e w a a n c t t u on ally evil sta h n e ds ha a s d ston on is e in astonished at human endurance." This is a pretty good sample of sincere and cordial vituperation. Doubtless when Sir It. PEEL exempted Ireland from the operation of that most iniquitous of im posts, the Income-tax, he imagined that he was establishing a claim, if not on her gratitude ' at least on her'fbrbearance; but he now find s to his cost, that he was mistaken in this, as in most o his other expectations. Really he is much to be pitied, notwithstanding his acquisition of that high post which he has so long coveted. No one seems to be satisfied with him—no one gives him credit for any thing but an incorrigible habit of temporising. If he brings forward a liberal Tariff, forth steps the Edinburgh Review, and indignantly asserts that he has stolen the idea from the Whigs. He is allowed to call the Income-tax his own—which it is not, by-the-bye —but this only because it is generally abhorred, and consequently no one is willing to acknow ledge the paternity. By endeavouring to stand well with all classes, Sir ROBERT PEEL has met with the usual tote of temporisers, and earned the dislike and distrust of those whom he was most anxious to propitiate. From the friendly political relations between this country and Prussia, the similarity of their established religions, and the reform movement commenced by the Prussian SOVEREIGN, the proceedings in that kingdom now excite more than ordinary interest among Englishman. Prussia, from being a small insignificant State, has in a brief period risen to great power and authority with its neighbours, and already exercises more influence over Germany than Austria did when at the head of the Confedera tion. It is gratifying, therefore, to find that this influence is exerted, not for the purposes of war or aggrandisement, bat in advancing the arts of peace' and improving the institutions of the country. The meeting of the Provincial States, which we announced some days ago, forms not the least remarkable feature in the new sys tem, of government adopted by this wise and just Sovereign. A imemorial, entitled in German Denhschrift, and laid before the Assembly on the first day of their meeting, has been pub lished in the State Gazette, and contains the different Bills, to use a Parliamentary phrase, which are submitted fbr consideration dur ing the present session, with a budget resembling that annually submitted to the House of Commons. It has this advantage, however, over English budgets in general, that it an nounces a reduction of taxes, to the amount of 660,0001., without any substitute in the shape of Income-tax, or any new tax whatever, and that is to be applied to the benefit chiefly of the poor by diminishing the import on salt. His MAJZSTY then submits to the Assembly propositions for different new railroads—two from the capital to Stettin and Frankfort on the Oder, and four others for connecting some of the principal townsin the kingdom. Independent of these, which are to be commenced forthwith, it is also pro posed to construct at some future period lines of greater length, which will extend towards the frontier, making altogether, inde pendent of those formed, about 1,000 miles of railroad. These are to be undertaken by the State, while at the same time encouragement! will be held out to pub lic companies to embark Capital. His MA JESTY, towards the conclusion of the memorial, submits to the consideration of the States the three following points :—" 1.. Whether they re cognise the executiou of so comprehensive a sys tem of railroads as a national want? 2. Whether they deem it necessary or expedient that the State should endeavour to effect the realisation of such a system, by guaranteeing a certain amount of dividend on the capital invested? 3. Whether they are of opinion that such a guarantee, sub. ject to the contingency of an augmentation here after of the price of salt, would be consonant to the general wishes of the country ?" The Assembly took these subjects into consi deration, and after a lengthened discussion the Government proposal was carried by a majority of 87 to 11. At the second sitting a general wish was manifested to vote an address of thanks to the KING, but this was opposed by the Minister, on the ground that the Assembly, by such a vote would exceed their legitimate functions. The session will close in about a fortnight. The Math.zd Gazette of the 24th ult. has an announcement from the Minister of the Interior to the Commander-in-Chief at Ceuta, that the Intendant at Malaga holds at his dispOsition the sum of 12,000 duros to be divided amongst the families who suffered most by the effects of the late tremendous hurricane. The Minister gives notice, moreover, that subscriptions for the same purpose will be opened throughout Spain. The Gazette tiirther states, that in addition to the sum of 20,000 reals, subscribed by the QUEEN, the REGENT has subscribed 4,000 reals, and his Highness's Aide-de-camp 1,000:reals, for the same purpose. The Five per Cents were done on the Madrid Bourse of the 24th ult. at 22 21f at 60 days; the Four per Cents. at 19 at 60 days; the Fives at 261 cash, 27 26 15-16 at 60 days. The Paris papers gi v e fresh proofs of the ignorance of the French Deputies on almost every question connected with trade and commerce, and of the vast difficulties with which M. GUIZOT has to contend in for m i n g treaties of any description with foreign nations. - ' Petitions and remon strances pour in upon him from all quarters ex cept the unfortunate wine-producers of the South, against any commercial union between France and Belgium. Valenciennes, Rouen, Sedan, Abbeville, and Elbceuf, have protested against the proposed treaty. The latter place gives. the foll ow ing emphatic reason for rejecting the alliance ;—" The German Customs' Union has rejected the dangerous alliance of Belgium, because its production is out of all proportion with its population; and we are confident that your Majesty's Government will show no less prudence." The manufacturers of Lyons, who have suffered more from competition with foreigners than any other class in!France, and have acquired by expe rience some knowledge of their own interests, as well as the general good of the country, form a noble exception in this general rage against even an approach to free trade, and have informed the Minister of Commerce that the present dis astrous state of the French silk manufacture is owing to reprisals, Ordained by the Governments of foreign markets, in revenge for French pro hibition. The South of France, in fact, is ar rayed against the North, but the latter will pre vail, as many Deputies, though having no par ticular interests to serve, will side with the bigots, who seem absolutely frightened at the very idea of foreign competition. This' is sad news ibr the proprietors of vineyards; but it is hoped that they Will bestir themselves, and take active measures for inducing the Government to bestow some protection on the staple produc tions of France. The brief, and we must say rude, letter of Mar shal Souvr to General PAJOL, on announcing that the KING had dispensed with his services as Commander of the first military division , gives rise to some strong comments both on the KING and the Minister of War. The letter, with re marks on it by the Natio na l, will be found in another part of the paper. The same journal contains the following just a ni ma dversions on the barbarous and impolitic syst em o f warfare car ried on in Algeria : " The last report of General Bugeaud (which we have already given) shows that the military authori ties persist more than ever in their system of razzias (that is, of destruction, desolation, and plunder), and of making ' points. The Governor and several other Generals, each at the head o f a co lumn, have again overrun the country, without affording to us any clue to the object of their expeditions. In fact, it would appear that, after numerous military marches and ex hibitions, after having captured sheep and burned encampments, each re-enters his cantonments, leav ing matters precisely where they were, with this sole difference—that of reviving the hatred of the Arabs and of augmenting the number of our sick. What end, we ask once more, can he served by these expe ditions, like the fever periodical, and which, in con cert with that - scourge, have carried off 70,000 men in twelve years ?" The writer then proceeds to advise a different system—c, Generals and Princes.' " o ne less productive of eclat to The Journal d e R ouen o f the 30th ult. states that the operati ves emp l o yed at the manufacto ries of Drucourt, near ' Bernay, assembled on the 28th ult. in considerable numbers (some say 000, o thers 2,000), an d deman d e d of the Sub-Prefect an increase of wages. Fi na lly, it is stated that their remonstrance became so violent that the Prefect was obliged to order the gendarmerie to charge the people, in which operation several were wounded. The Presse says that the Congress of Stutgardt has doubled th e duty o n j e wellery, plate, bronze, and hardwares, which will considerably affect French trade. According to the Helvetic, the import duty on cotton, goods will be diminished 50 percent. from January, 1843. BO URSE—Elitis t MONDAY, OCTOBER 31. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five p er Cents. 118 40... 118 50.•• 118 40... 118 50 Four per Cent s . DA 101 .. 101 ... 101 3 per Cents.... 79 95... 79 95... 79 90... 79 90 Bank of France ......... 3 0 70 ...3270 ...3270 .. 3270 Latlitte Bank 1 , 0 00f...1052 50 ..105•2 50-1052 50...1052 50 Belgian Bank ............ 802 50... 802 50... 802 50... 802 50 Belgian Fives 1840.... 104 .. 104 ... 104 ... 104 Dutch 24 per Cents.. 531 53 N ••• 53 ,1 ••• 53} Spanish Active ~.. „ 22i ••• 22 1 ••• ••• 22 3 Passive, ...... 3& ••• 3a. ••• 34 Neapolitan... ............ 108 45... 108 45... 108 45... 108 45 Roman - 1051 ... 1051 ... 105-1 •• RAILWAY • SHARES St. Germain ......... 840 ... 84 0 ... 840 ... 840 Versailles, R.B ........ . 265 ... 265 ... 265 ....65 LB. ......... 96 25... 96 25... 96 25... 96 25 Orleans. 582 50... 582 50... 582 59... 582 50 Strasburg to 8a1e...... 205 ... 205 ... 205 ... 205 THE PRIVY CouriclL.---Sir R. Peel, Lords Aber deen, IVharncliffe, and Stanley, Sir J. Graham, the Chancellor, of the Exchequer, and other Ministers, left town soon after one o'clock yesterday afternoon, for the Great Western Railway station, at Paddington, to take their departure for Windsor Castle. The Ministers returned to town in the evening, after the Privy Council. It is rumoured Parliament will not he summoned to met for public business before February. ENGLISH LANDLORDS.—The Morning Post yester day had a long article to prove that English landlords were such angelic beings that their tenants might always rely on receiving from them the value of all their improvements, and of being left, as long as they continued to cultivate well, in undisturbed possession of their holdings. A single fact is worth a ton of reasoning, and if the Post could show that the follow ing assertion of the Stamford Mercury, which we repeat, is false, its other statements might find credulous believers :—" A few days ago an old tenant of thirty years' standing received notice to quit, and was informed by the steward, who servel the notice, and subsequently by the Earl hiinself, that the only reason for the discharge was, that he went to the Methodist chapel, and was a Methodist preacher." The Post should also prove that no tenant has been dispossessed during our late political struggles, be cause his opinions and those of his landlord did not coincide. DEATH OF MR. SERGEANT SPANKIE.—We regret to announce the demise of Mr. Sergeant Spankie, which melancholy event took place yesterday morning, at half-patt six o'clock, at his residence in Russell square. The deceased was for many years Principal Counsel to the lion. East India Company. At his outset in life, he was for some time engaged on a morn ing paper. He subsequently went out in a legal capacity to India, where he realised a large fortune. On his return to this country he became Member for Finsbury, and sat after his election in the first Re. form Parliament. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning in the Slopes and the Home-park, and the Prince of Wales and the Prin cess Royal were taken out as usual for an airing. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr. Francis with a second sitting for his Royal Highness's bust. 'The Earl and Countess Bruce arrived at the Castle on a visit to her Majesty. The Royal dinner party this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Earl and Countess Bruce, Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Earl Spencer, Countess of Dunmore, Lady Charlotte Dun des, Lady C. Cocks, Hon. Miss Devereux, Viscount Hawarden, Hon. C. A. Murray, Sir George Couper, Sir R. Otway, Lord C. Wellesley, Colonel Wylde, and Dr. Preetorius. The 10th is now named for the departure of the Court from 'Windsor. Her Majesty and her illus trious Consort will proceed to Walmer Castle, and from thence to Brighton. Mr. Henry Graves, accompanied by H. T. Ryall, Esq., Historical Engraver to the Queen, had the honour of an audience of her Majesty and his Royal Highness, to submit a finished proof of the engraving of the Picture of her Majesty's Coronation, painted by Sir George Hayter, of which her Majesty and his Royal Highness were pleased to express their approval. The Queen held a Privy Council at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Windsor Castle. It was at tended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President ; the Lord Chancellor ; the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Privy Seal ; Sir R. Peel, First Lord of the Treasury ; the Duke of Wel lington ; the Earl of Aberdeen, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for- the Colonies ; Sir James Graham, Secretary of State for the Home Department; Earl of Hadding ton, First Lord of the Admiralty ; Earl of Ripon, President of the Board of Trade; Sir E. Knatchbull, Paymaster of the Forces • the Earl of Liverpool, Lord -Steward ; the Earl Delawarr, Lord Chamberlain ; and the Earl of Jersey, Master of the Horse. Parliament was ordered to be further prorogued from Thursday, the 10th inst., until the 13th Dec. Her Majesty's Consent was given to the marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta of Cam bridge with his Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz. An Order was issued respecting the Bankruptcy Courts. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in 'Waiting. Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Wharncliffe, the Earl of Aberdeen, Sir James Graham, and other Ministers, went from town to attend the Council, by a special train on the Great Western Rail way. After the Council the Lord President, the Earl of Aberdeen, and the other Ministers and Great Officers of State, and Mr. C. Greville, took their departure from Windsor Castle ; the Cabinet Ministers return ing to town by the Great Western Railway. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived in town yesterday from Newmarket. His Royal Highness visited the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House, and in the afternoon went to Kew. The Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer yesterday at his official residence in • Downing-street. The Hon. Edward Stewart, Deputy Chairman of the Customs, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Lord Brougham hss arrived in Grafton-street, from Brougham Hall, Penrith, and we believe his Lordship contemplates a visit to his estate at Cannes, in the south of France, before the meetipg of Parliament. Lady Brougham, who has been passing six weeks at Leamington Spa for the improvement of her health, has also returned to town. DUBLIN, OCT. 31.—The Queen's letters patent arrived this morning, and now only await the sign manual of his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, confirming the appointments consequent on the elevation of Mr. Blackburne to the Master ship of the Rolls. Mr. Smith is the Attor ney, and Sergeant Greene the Solicitor-General. There is no official notification as to the sergeantcy vacated by the promotion of Mr. Greene, but I under stand the appointment has been conferred on Mr. W. H. Brooke, an eminent member of the Chancery bar— and a better selection it would not be easy to make. Mr. Brewster retains his office of law adviser at the Castle, at the express desire of Earl De Grey and Lord Eliot. An active canvass is going on in the City for the vacant situation of housekeeper to the Old Bailey ; and there are no less than five candidates, namely, Mr. Day, Mr. Hoard, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Leech, and Mr. Harker. The first three named were for some time members of the Common Council ; Mr. Leech was the proprietor 'of the Landon Coffee House, Ludgate-hill; and the last-named candidate is Air. Harker, the crier of the Old Court at the Old Bailey, so well known for his clear and sonorous voice. The election takes place on Friday. ARCHES' COURT. —The case of Jones v. Jones came on for hearing yesterday, being a suit for nullity of marriage, on the ground that the wife was married in a wrong name. It appeared that the surname only was incorrect, and the Judge (Sir Herbert Jenner) was of opinion that the libel could not be admitted. and that a party being married even under an as sumed name, did not vitiate the contract. He ac cordingly decreed the marriage valid. ADELAIDE GALLERY.—The promenade concerts at this institution become more and more attractive, and bid fair to rival those of the same description given at the English Opera House. The gallery has been crowded during the past week with fashionable au diences. Mr. Jones has made another addition to his dissolving views, by a Portrait of NelSon and a View of Langollen, both painted by Acres. The Dissolving Views are accompanied by songs expressive of the scene, which have a very pleasing effect. THE O'CONNELL TRIBUTE.—The collection took place yesterday in all the parishes of Dublin and suburbs. According to the accounts in the morning papers, the result of the parochial collection yester day was 1,7461.—1a5t year the sum returned was 2,0061. In addition to the parochial collections, we find a sum of 2871. set down as " receivable at offices."—Dublin .3lonitor. LOCHMADEN.-At the annual election of the Ma gistrates and Council of the burgh of Lochmaben, held on the 29th of September, the Council unani mously resolved to tender their best thanks to David Johnstone, Esq., of Riggheads, ruling elder to the last General Assembly, for the constitutional views he supported on that occasion, and for his independent and Christian conduct in going to Strathbogie and assisting the minister of Rhyniei and the Provost was instructed to convey the thanks of the meeting accordingly.--Scotch Paper. PROPOSED EXTENSION OF THE BRIGHTON RAIL-. NAT.—A survey is now in progress for the continua tion of, the Brighton Railway, by means of a coast line, to the towns of Chichester and Worthing. The cost of the line, it is conceived, will be but small, as the country through which it runs is of a level nature. The plans and sections of the proposed line have already been deposited with the clerk of the peace, and it is the intention of the Brighton Company, in the next session of Parliament, to apply for a Bill to carry out the line, the expense of constructing which, according to the engineering estimates, will not exceed 15,0001. per mile. The project is supported by his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, and by Mr. Jelin Abel Smith, M.P. SUMMONS FOR "CALLS."--At the Stockport Police Court, on Saturday, the overseers of the poor for that township' appeared, by Mr. Tate, the poor -rate col lector, to answer the complaint of the Board of Guar dians, and to show cause why an order should not be made upon them for the payment of the sum of 2,6091. 1 ls. 4d., being arrears of "calls" made upon them for the relief of the poor. Mr. Tate informed the Bench that the neglect arose from a want of funds; but he thought the amount could be raised in the course of a fortnight or three weeks, as a new rate of two shillings in the pound had recently been granted. A n or d e r was made for payment within twenty-one :days.— Manchester Guardian. SAPV:ARI7 OF NEWS AND üblit (413ttitoit. " Who tuns may read.' roraErGN. Three men, named Vallet, Mirault, and Villelard, were tried at Paris on Friday, for the murder of a cab driver, and were convicted. The two former were sentenced to death, and the other to the pillory and hard labour for 20 years. The Courrier Francais contradicts the report which appeared in a Morning Contemporary, :that Louis Philippe was about to abdicate in favour of the Duke of Nemours. The C'ourrier de la Drama contains an account of an atrocious murder committed near Aubenas, in the Ardeche, by a farmer, on the son-in-law of his land lord, who came to collect his rent. " This," says the Courrier, " is the sixth murder committed in this de partment within the preseiit month." Dwarkauauth Tagore visited on Saturday the ma nufactory of M. Hebert, the shawl-manufacturer of the Rue du Mail, Paris. On Sunday he took his de parture from Paris for Marseilles, on his return to. The Emperor of Russia arrived at St. Petersburgh on the 17th ult. in good health. Count Nesselrode arrived at St. Petersburgh on the 14th ult., on board the steam-boat Nicholas, on his return from Germany. The Cassel Gazette of the 23d ult. repeats the re port that the King of Hanover proposed to make a journey to England about the 15th of the ensuing month. The Humburgh Correspondent gives the following from Hanover, Oct. 22 :—" The indisposition of the King continues ; he no longer leaves the palace, ex cept in a carriage, and the usual receptions do not take place." _ _ The King of Prussia has forbidden any music to be executed in the churches of the Rhenan p •ovinces, which is not of a strictly devotional character. During the ten years ending in 1840, the exports of Stockholm have increased fifty per cent., and the imports forty-three. the opening of the international railroad between France and Belgium, will take place on the 14th of this month. M. de Triqueti has presented a design to the King for the tomb of the lamented Duke of Orleans, which has been adopted. The first stone of the Walhalla was laid by the King of Bavaria, on the summit of the Brauberg mountain, on the Danube, in 1830. The plan of the temple was made by Leon de Kleuze. At present it contains about 100 busts. PUBLIC OPINION. We quote the following from the Morning Post : " Some of our Contemporaries, who, without proper knowledge or consideration, allowed themselves to be betrayed into violent and rather silly expressions of opinion on the course pursued by the Governor of Canada, are beginning to atone for, though not. to ac knowledge, the error they committed. We are glad to perceive the salutary effects of second thoughts' on the ruminations of the Times, which journal thinks it worth while to reproduce, in a new verbal dress, the remarks we ourselves made several days ago. Our Contemporary is welcome to avail himself of the bene fit of our researches. We always rejoice at symptoms of returning reason, and when this influential jour nalist comes forward to second our demand for a fair hearing of the motives and policy of Sir Charles Bagot, we know that the cause of truth has enlisted a very powerful supporter, and are well pleased ac cordingly." The Herald, speaking of the break-up of a Joint stock Company, entitled the British American Asso ciation, says :—" When the ease of the AssociatiOn's dupes was first brought before the Lord Mayor its attorney assured that Magistrate that the Association was the Duke of Argyll's own child; his Grace it ap pears repudiates the honour of any such paternity, though he admits being its patron, has attended meet ings of its Directors, and has subscribed towards its funds. The Duke is now desirous of withdrawing his name from the roll of subscribers or Shareholders, as they are called,' and certainly does not consider himself responsible for any of the pecuniary transac tions of the parties in London who assume the managerrient of the Company's affairs at present.' With great submission to so highly respectable a nobleman as the Duke of Argyll we suggest that his Grace is bound to see that the use . which he has per mitted others to make of his name and patronage has not injured many of his countrymen, and if it have, to take care that they are indemnified. Responsibility cannot be got rid of, quite so easily as his Grace seems to suppose; it is not what the Noble Mike' considers, but what the law will determine, that will regulate his liability. The parties in London who assume the management of the Company's affairs at present' may be great rogues, but their roguery does not divest their patrons, vice-patrons, - presidents, vice-presidents, and honorary directors of responsi bility." Tile following is from the Times :—" The Six Clerks'-office in the Court of Chancery has for many years past been the great and accumulating grievance of the English judicature. Its principle is, and long has been, simply this —pay, and no work. Nominal services performed to the suitor, without any sort of benefit resulting from them, or any sort of reason why he should make use of them, except that ita lex scripta fuit, constituted each of the six clerks (if eve except only his one single point of real utility., viz. his taxing of costs) as complete a sinecurist, with all his subordinate functionaries, as if every suitor in court had been bound to pay him and diem 101. a piece, without more. S uc h being the case, the busi ness in the Court of Chancery, has within the last fifty, nay, within the last ten years, owing to the growing commerce of the country, the complicated nature of commercial accounts and affairs, and the convenient adaptation of equity jurisprudence to meet this com plex system, increased beyond calculation ; and with that increase the attendant abuse has, of course, in creased also in proportion. It is not, therefore, without disappointment--we had almost said indignation— that we have at length witnessed the abolition of the office, and the preservation of its principle—the no minal destruction of the system, and the aggravation (absolutely the aggravation) of the abuse. There are, it is true, some minor improvements ; but they are duly compensated by the infliction of greater evils." MONEY - TRADE-COIVIDIXII2,CE. Six months ago the price of a quarter of the best wheat was 705., and the 41b. loaf was then 9d. The price of a quarter of wheat is now 505., and the 41b. loaf is Bd. Wheat has thus fallen 30 per cent., and the diminution on bread is only l d. ELECTXONEt RING. Alderman Roe, it is said, wili be chosen Lord Mayor of Dublin for the ensuing year. AGRXCITLT ORAL. At the Tuam Agricultural Society's show, the gold medal was adjudged to the Lord Bishop of Tuam for the best Durham bull. LAW AND POLICE, John Roberts, a seaman, was on Tuesday charged at Thames-street, with breaking into the parsonage-house at Lawford, in Essex, and stealing watches and jewel lery to the amount of 2001. He was remanded until next Tuesday, and the witnesses bound over to pro secute. Thomas Green, a policeman of the R division, was charged at Union Hall on Tuesday with taking a clerk into custody without reasonable grounds for such a proceeding. The Magistrate fined him 10s., which amounts to his dismissal from the force. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. Professor Gessenius, of the University of Halle, died there on the 23d ult., in the 57th year of his age. SPORTIATO. On Wednesday last, a man named Hambridge, at Dorset, undertook to walk 50 miles in 10 successive hours, and without breaking his fast. He accomplished the distance in the given time, with one minute to spare. CO URT --- -PASIZIONABLE. The Duke of Wellington came to Apsley House from Walmer, on Monday, in order to attend the Cabinet Council on Tuesday. The Marchioness of Douro is still at Walmer, in improved health. The Marquis and Marchioness ofEly are entertain ing a select circle of friends at Ely Lodge, Fermanagh. The Earl of Haddington arrived at the Admiralty on Monday, from Tyninghame Castle, Haddington shire. The Earl of Liverpool returned to Fife House on Tuesday, from Pitchford Hall, near Shrewsbury. The Earl of Ripon arrived in town on Tuesday, from Nocton, Lincolnshire. The Earl of Lonsdale entertained a select party at dinner on Tuesday, in Charles-street, Berkeley• square. Earl Fitzhardinge has left Berkeley Castle, for Cheltenham. The Countess of Jersey arrived in Berkeley-square on Tuesday, from Middleton Park. Viscount Villiers has joined the Viscountess at Upton House, near Banbury, from Newmarket. Lord Redesdale arrived in town on Tuesday, from Newmarket. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left town on Tuesday, for Broadlands, Hants. ZWISCELLANEOUS. The Palace at Brighton is to be re a dy f or t h e C ourt on Tuesday next, the Bth inst. Solomon Herschel!, Chief Rabbi of the Polish and German Jews in England, whose death was noticed in The Sun of yesterday, was 82 ye ars o f age, an d h as officiated as Chief Rabbi upwards of 42 years. He had not been able to attend the Synagogue since he met with an accident about two 3Tars ago, on which occa sion his thigh was dislocated. The accident was caused by the conductor of an omnibus telling the drirc, "go on," while the deceased was still un the steps of the vehicle. ....--__ MONEY aLd COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Stock market assumed more firmness after our morning report, in conseq u ence of purchases. °, 50,0001. stock by Messrs. Cole, the Government brokers, besides investments by other pa rt sie uf 10,0001., and in one case of 100,000/. Money to-daY was a complete drug, and this also had its influen? Consols on prices, which closed generally higher. x chequer were 93i to 938 for money and time; E Bills. 57 to 59 premium ; New Three-and -a-Half per Cents. 1012 to 1011 ; and the Three per Cents. 9 9 3 . to 93. Bank Stock was at 166. , The Foreign Bonds were snore salea ble also, n . o c l improved in value. Mexican broug ht S 2, Chi touched 85, and Spanish Actives 18. . In Shares there was no particular increase of b usi- B r igh , teu ness after our statement in the evening. were 13.1 discount, Great Western, 19 and . 1 ) i. r .", mingham 912 premium. Union Bank of Australia New • Snares were 8 premium. We have beard no accounts yet of the Briti4ll Queen (From The . Sun of Last Night.) The British Queen steamer is still out. With the Amsterdam advices, received ing, we have a copy of the answer given by the S, t o , f General to the King's Address, upon the openinke of Legislative Session, and which, in many, poil if view, may be regarded as of considerable 111 We-coin. not importance. The very liberal sentiments in . ~,,,s , nection with freedom. of commerce, to which 011,;5 Sion is given in these accounts, afford a str ila h ., contrast to what is recorded of Dutch doingv_..e ' r ale the olden time, when monopoly and restriction el this moor; the favourite measures, and jealousy the standiag,, ve of conduct. The Dutch begin to And out (asapell:co done before them, only that our legislators h. i ii to suffered us to show it) that to keep pace ` l „ .it r i t als times no country must attempt to shut Mit " 5 i t he from free and fair competition. The rePIY °f the States-General, in allusion to this important 511 • an d intimates the hope that the new tariff for imPertsryor advanced as to allow of some decisive exports, promised by the Government, will be 5 _ it , , ,,' before the lapse of any considerable period; and t . we nt emphatically expresses its desire that the Gover h t w i t may not lose sight of the ack ledged now ~ truism, e, moderate dequal an duties, h the pe. can alone em te „ ere 0 while they increase the revenue of the State. -1- ` o of theyy a refutation of the oft-repeated asser.tylies Corn-law advocates, that liberal comtnerel Wet* were not to he expected from continental P ° • ve a ction ur i t l her -, however great the concessions we should rank e e s iq y at.• The States-General urge the necessity °c o t 'lndia tention to the declining condition of the " the co possessions, and are of opinion, ti ' 4 l t v e v i ° ? r i lonies in the East Indies, if 7 ) , e ' receive shochthe inane from the injury done to private credit , l'Y unti e peace, will soon recover the rous failures. An increase of ex the cons iders weight of its heavy debt, the States-Genera' h benefi t to be impossible, though it anticipates in er e °°- from a new tariff; and still more from a p ro l p o bo d y . trol T of the national finances by a resPolV Belgium The arrangement of the differences with gives satisfaction. • li st a° %c ' brisk Ju. The Colonial Markets are not very T ., i s sa t '` the sales to-day not being of 't de• " 'cies magrn ti - any a rti factory to observe, however, that in u ' pr o doll used by our manufacturers there is r egP ° 4 ; although the raw material, so depressed ii ° li lt prO 6 ' • sa fficiet trade, is even now too high to leave upon fabrics. daltv The new regulations for the prevention all viti ch . penditure,io ration in the article of tobacco, have not ;„ ssil ° been doing recently. Prices rang effect upon the trade, although a fair hil s `,"h e ot Jest. lowe r ' b u t , th d. year, in consequence of the larger suPPlies 'an aione, present crop is said to be very inferior, .;; ~ ,' , ..• 5 ,, credit is attached to the statement. The municipal election at Liverpn teen Town Councillors, has terminated in ton ed; of the Tories, who have thirteen r e r ~,s t l i tel while the Reformers number 3. The affe, i t l- t he de' to have been conducted with but little sPir'b r iberY , feated party not being inclined to res ort to Blois in which the others, it is said, were less theresort Colin' doing. This increases the Tory majord..\ in ie. The cif by 6, and it was previously- cooties 6 Ile -16 retired officers comprised 10 Tories 11- t formers. t 6 f e ie . The accounts from Liverpool state tha t pro lous business was done in Cotton yesterdaP aecalati°,l3. rates. Sales 3,000 bales, 1,500 being on 5 P FAO"; Railway Shares were , without alteration,;,:fths, 71;. Counties were 8/. ls.; Great Western 1 ,.` ; . - orti 2 ol far ' er r; Liverpool and Manchester Quarters, 4 ,k ir 16. i„ Midland, Half, 314; and South Eastern - 11e `,, ti .', OW The funds are rather heavy, as the re ; Ins ferll re 934. to 934, and for Account, sales still making. Consols for immedMte tr . %c lie' quer 'Bills are 575. to 595. rem.; nn a TT „ l i n f n e' r C,,,,e nt :; 503. to 625. prem.: New ThPree-and-n-,`„,"74.-- ' to le a Stock, 253 to 254. I ' l ong are 101-i- to 101 i ; and Reduced, JT_East In , t° 931 i, Boliii , Bank Stock is worth 165 2 to 1 66 ;' an lise the Stock, the A n nuities 5-16ths. A bargain, which belongs to nn e ,,,, to rarities of the Stock Exchange, has taken •P u T tie g st day, being in the New Five per Cent. Ar„,,, r cent -123*, which is a rise of no leas than 44 r since the 25th of October. Iter tiell. The Foreign Bonds are witho it material.ll. rata- SpaLish Actives, 174 to 173 ; Mexican, 3,,,,,,,,.; CO' guese, New, 3 ; the Converted, 32/ to ii - l es, 623 ; lombian, 201 ; Peruvian, 17 ; and Buoios A,Y: Du tch Belgian are 101 i to 1011 ; and Austrian Ilu , Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 524 to 521; At ill 1° The Railway Shares are rather more Ciee' Tile about previous rates generally. N0v ,1. - '".,„c MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGI4, '-', o no.- market for Railway Stock is steady, and a falrbee, sel' of business would have been done, had there geed at lers, at previous prices ; but Bank Stock aa is ____.alane; rather below former quotations. T he sales Ol e o a chester and Birmingham, 20 to 19 i ; She Manchester, aq ; District Bank, 10k. CLOSING PRICES. 4 p 0 BR ITISH FUNDS. .2 5 Bank Stock .1 66 India Stock ...........''4 ~, 3 per Cent. Red. .. ...... 93 Dit to Bonds ....... ''' 9 3 per Cent. C0n5.......... 93 1 Ditt o Old Ann uiti!• s ••• ~. 0 3i per Cent. Red... 1000 Ditto New Annuitiesa" 511' 0 New 31 1 per Cent... ...... 1010 Ex. Bills, I, o °l '' 3 . 01 ,0 New 5 per Cen'.. l23* ► Ditto buu_•,.. "'5 9 I Long Annuities to expire Ditto Sn'llw ..... ' ...• Jan. 1860 .. ...... 121 Bank Stock for Me t ' ....• Oct. 1859 Jan. I*6o l2; Consols! for Ace. . ..... .••••... FOREIGN FUNDS. ,ra nt' Austrian, 5 per cent. ... 110 'Portuguese, 5 P • `." Belgian, 5 per cent lOl Ditto, New Ditto ........ • Brazilian Bonds. ~6 „. Buenos Ayres6 per cent 22i Russian, 5 pei cent . ••' ...• Claim, 6 per cent. Ditto, Metallic ...... . •••• • if) Claim, Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per Ad ent. ,"• . ~..a• Ditto, 1824 — Ditto Defer.• •• •_ f Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 79} French, 5 per cent. --......f' Wit, .. Danish, 3 per .ent Exchange ...... •• t • ..„.f. • a Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. French, 3 per e a g s" Mexican, 5 per cent 32 Dutch , 2 i per c r t ' ..... iv-- Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Ditto, 5 per `. en'-" ... • ......,.. Peruvian,lB2s,6 perct. SHARES. 40 Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (WI)/ Eastern Counties (23 paid) ... ..... . ........ ••• 10 Ditto Debentures ( paid) .................. 46/. Eiiinburgh and Glasgow (5 0 paid) .. 4 11 Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) ............... erk Great Western, (65 paid) ..................... 61 Ditto New Shares (50 paid ...- ......... 6 Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) ... ...... 36h London and Brighton (50 paid).. ......... ••• London and Blackwell ( paid) -•••••• 16 1 1 1 London and Birmingham ( 90 ) ..... • ••• • 4 ' 7 Ditto Quarter Shares (25 aid) ......... •• ,) 41 London and Greenwich Railway (12/ 15s . / (11 " , 59 London and South W es tern (41/ tis 10d Pd) 671 7 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ............ - Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)." North Midland Railway ( 100 ) ............. 9Y' Ditto Half Shares ( 40 paid) ............ 2 Paris and Rouen (18 paid) ............... SoDutihtto Scrip %o and p li lver (50 l6l SPORTING INTELLIbrinAsE. 17th NEWPOIIT-PAGNEL STEEPLE L' l for t he 1 ' " The weights for this event which is fixed i ~ e tef inst., have been declared as follows : vk i n Mr. Elmore's Gay Lad, 13st—Mr. ins-c Simple, 12st 81b—Mr. Dyke nd .Lottery, ". 0 , 5 CiP, 5 Jenkins's Lycurgus, l2st 61b.-11cIr. Quatermat,ir. 12st 61b—Captain Price's Clinker, 12st 41b Vanguard, 12st 41b—Lord MaiditonYs Lord E. Russell's h 185 t 1016—.Mr•IJ• t 80/ er, , •ls 00 1. Buffoon 11st 101b—Mr. Higgins Creegil;:_ur. 5 Mr. Oldaker nd Harrow Boy, 11st I ! 3 B u cePl j , tl ,.! man's Dragsman, I Ist 71b—Mr. Bunter ist 11st 71b Baron Rothschild's Consu l, rd 5h Mr. Anderson's Roderick Random, 12st— blip, llst chin rti False One, I Ist 61b—Mr. 'Tilbury's Go Mr. M. Sadler nd Spangle, 1 Ist 51b--1‘lr• `,',1511). Helpmate, list 51b—Mr. R. Ekin's Duenna,lb-1:1'r. Goo 411; Mr. A. 11.1‘Donogh's Vanguard, I Ist )„, Ist 3 _ s IT an's Croxby, llst 31b—Mr. Bainbridge Vever's Little Tommy , 11st 31b--:- ISAtr 10 yMr' erii. die rage, list 3 1 b—Mr. Geo. Folidgl a Icy, llst Slb—Mr. Messer nd the red.ri.t 1 iS t rbineer, l ist M'l)onogh's Wilmot, list—Mr. Smith's (i` S " th• —Mr. Anderson's Negus, lOst 121 b b . Forfeits to be declared o n or before 10th instant. 50 to 1 agst Everton--(t) agst Cotherstooe-oc --,. st ' Ph ilip a ti to 18 L 50 to 1 sour 7 to 2 ag st Scott's lot licatb -14 to 1 ag st sir 0, co te's lot. DEI 8 to 1 agst Briti.li Yeoman 18 to 1 apt Mlirat 25 to 1 agst Winesour 27 to 1 agst Philip 35 to 1 agst Aristides 40 to 1 agst Oxygen c 40 to 1 agst Napier 50 to 1 agst Newcourt — (o OA] KS. 1 12 to 1 aget s to Coronation. 7 to 1 agst Maria Day After 10 to 1 agi.t. On Saturday last, • duke Frederick e of Austria and suite visited ti works ofM his Royal highness t.ll,.:l'..,‘`rriciiir, Messrs. Wilson, Brother, and Co., witnessing the various operations f/nr) blisb P",rc,siry ment.-111anchester Gu ardian. he woilpt.. • , vpie employed NI teat ef t "j . ti. t