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The Eglinton, Montreal and Quebec to this port, put into Sydney, C. 8., 26th ult., with cargo shifted, but would sail again in a few days. Arrd. Elizabeth, Barclay, Charleston; China, Attridge, Quebec. Sid. Ventura, Africa; Portland, Coquimbo; Wyoming, Philadelphia; Andrew Foster, New York. DEAL, Nov. 13.—Wind W.S.W.to S.W.—Arrd. Prince of Wales, Wilson, Manilla; Yorktown, Pebor, New York; Actremi, Benson, (4uebcc; Olga, Crewe, ditto. Arrd. from the River, Surpass, Sperris, Palermo. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Mont rose. steamer, Gibraltar; left 6th, Cadiz 6th, Lisbon, 9th, Oporto and Vigo 10th inst. LEITH, Nov. 12.—Arrd. Prince George, Quebec. LEITH ROADS —Arrd. Gipsy, Robinson, Callao. BRISTQL, Nov. 13.—Wind S. W.—Arrd. John Cabot, Thomas, Africa. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 13.—Wind. W.S.W.—Arrd. 12th, Prince, Richards, Prince Edward's Island; Marsella, Hawke, Labrador. 13th, 11. M. S. Serpent, Rio Janeiro. SHIELDS, Nov. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. 12th, Two Sisters, Browne, Dalhousie. Sid. James Hart, Aden; Eliza, Brazils; Vesta, Carthagena; William Botsford, Coquimbo; Ashley, New York. SUNDERLAND, Nov. 13.—Wind S.—Arrd. Churliston, Quebec. MILFORD, Nov. 12.—Wind W.—Arrd. Christina, Swinton, Quebec. SCILLY, Nov. 10 AND 11.—Wind S.W.; 12th, W.S.W. Arrd. 10th, Regolo, Mangan, Ragusa, for Queenstown or Falmouth. FALMOUTII, Nov. 13.—Wind W.N.W., fresh breezes. —Arrd. Voluna, Bulman, Quebec, for Truro. Off port, 12th, Enchantress, Punchard, Rio Janeiro, and sailed for Altona. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY CORN-EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY This week's arrival of English wheat, coastwise, has been confined to only 910 quarters, chiefly from Essex. Although the show of samples here to-day was small, the demand was far from active, nevertheless Monday's improvement in value was freely supported. Only 970 quarters of wheat have reached us from abroad. Se lected qualities of both red and white moved off steadily at full prices. In the middling and inferior kinds ex ceedingly little business was transacted. Floating cargoes were held at full currencies. The show of barley—both English and foreign—was small. Grind ing samples sold freely, other kinds slowly, at late rates. Malt was in moderate supply and sluggish inquiry, at unaltered quotations. The best parcels of Oats were held at full prices. Damp qualities ruled very dull. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Malt. Flour. English Scotch Irish Qrs. Qrs. 910 1,440 Foreign . • • • • Qrs. Qrs. Sacks 1,450 1,020 1,860 970 1 3,160 4,010 BOROUGH HOP MARKET. Really fine Hops continue in steady request, at fully last week's quotations. In other kinds very little busi ness is doing. WHITECHAPiII L. Each kind of Meat sold heavily, at barely stationary prices:—Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 10d; :Veal, :3s 2d to 3s 8d; and Pork, 3a 2d to 4s 2d per Sibs by the carcasie. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert took their um' early walk. The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise - in the Slopes and Eastern Terrace. 4is Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot ing this morning, accompanied by their Royal High nesses the Prince de Joinville and the Duke d'Aumale, and attended by Lieut.-Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps and Lieut.-Colonel Hon. A. Gordon. There is no addition to the royal dinner party this evening. LOrd Dufferin has relieved the Marquis of Or monde in his duty as Lord in Waiting to the Queen ; and Captain Hon. Joseph Denman has relieved Sir Frederick Stovin in his duty as Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. Sir Thomas Preemantle, Chairman of the Customs, bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, had also an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. Baronet, at his official residence in Downing street. The Bishop of Guiana had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Attorney General had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The members of the General Board of Health, Lord Ashley, Mr. Chadwick, and Dr. Southwood Smith, accompanied by Dr. Sunderland and Mr. John Griffiths, the architect, yesterday visited and Inspected the Mensal-green Cemetery and catacombs. HEALTH of the QUEEN DOWAGER. (From the Court Circular.) " The Priory, Nov. 13. "The Queen Dowager slept for several hours during the night, and her Majesty is tolerably com fortable this morning. "DAVID DAVIES, M.D." EXECUTION OF THE MANNINGS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. was a witness of the execution at Horse monger-lane this morning. I went there with the intention of observing the crowd gathered to behold it, and I had excellent opportunities of doing so, at intervals all through the night, and continuously from daybreak until after the spectacle was over. I do not address you on the subject with any in tention of discussing the abstract question of capital punishment, or any of the arguments of its opponents or advocates. I simply wish to turn this dreadful experience to some account for the general good, by taking the readiest and most public means of advert ing to an intimation given by Sir G. Grey in the last session of Parliament, that the Government might be induced to give its support to a measure making the infliction of capital punishment a private solemnity within the prison walls (with such guaran tees for the last sentence of the law being inexorably and surely administered as should be satisfactory to the public at large), and of most earnestly beseeching Sir G. Grey, as a solemn duty which he owes to so ciety, and a responsibility which he cannot for ever put away, to originate such a Legislative change himself. I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the Wickedness and levity of the immense crowd collected at that execution this morning could be imagined by no man, and could be presented in no heathen land under the sun. The horrors of the gibbet and of the crime which brought the wretched murderers to it, faded in my mind before the atrocious bearing, looks, and language of the assembled spectators. When I came upon the scene at midnight, the shrillness of the cri es an d h ow l s th a t were ra i se d f rom ti me t o time, denoting that they came from a concourse of boys and girls already assembled in the best places, made my blood run cold. As the night went on, screeching, and laughing, and yelling in strong chorus of parodies on negro melodies, with substitu tions of " Mrs. Manning" for " Susannah," and the like, were added to these. When the day dawned, thieves, low prostitutes, ruffians and vagabonds of every kind, flocked on to the ground, with every variety of offensive and foul behaviour, Fightings, faiatings, whistlings, imitations of Punch, brutal jokes, tumultuous demonstrations of indecent delight when swooning women were dragged out of the crowd by the police with their dresses disordered, gave a new zest to the general entertainment. When the sun rose brightly.—as it did—it gilded thousands upon thou sands of upturned faces, so i nexpress ib ly od i ous i n their brutal mirth or callousness, that a man had cause to feel ashamed of the shape he wore, and to shrink from himself, as fashioned in the image of the Devil. When the two miserable creatures who attracted all this ghastly sight about them were turned quivering into the air, there was no more emotion, no more pity, no more thought that two immortal souls bad gone to judgment, no more restraint in any of the previous obscenities, than if the name of Christ had never been heard in this world, and there were no belief among men but that they perish like the beasts. I have seen, habitually, some of the worst sources of general contamination and corruption in this coun try, and I think there are not many phases of London life that could surprise me. lam solemnly convinced that nothing that ingenuity could devise to be done in this city, in the same compass of time, could work such ruin as one public execution, and I stand astounded and appalled by the wickedness it exhibits. I do not believe that any community can prosper where such a scene of horror and demoralization as 'was enacted this morning outside llorsemonger lane Gaol is presented at the very doors of good citizens, and is passed by, unknown or forgotten. A n d w h en , in our prayers and thanksgivings for the season, we are humbly expressing before God our desire to re- Move the moral evils of the land, I would ask your readers to consider whether it is not a time to think of this one, and to root it out. I am, Sir, your faithful servant, CHARLES DICKENS. Devonshire-terrace, TuGsday, Nov. 13. The Master of the Rolls has appointed Tuesday, November 20, at the Rolls Court, Chancery-lane, at three o'clock in the afternoon, fa- swearing solicitors. Every person desirous of being sworn on the above day niust leave his common law admission, or his certificate of practice for the current year, at the Secretary's office, Rolls-yard, Chancery-lane, on or before Monday, November 19. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1849 LITERAT URE. SHIRLEY; A Tale. By Currer Bell, Author of Jane Eyre." 3 Vols. The readers and the admirers of " Jane Eyre " and the terms are almost synonymous—have been ex pecting with considerable interest a new work by Currer Bell. " Shirley" makes its appearance ac companied by all the advantages and disadvantages attendant upon the second effort of a successful writer. All who admired "Jane Eyre" will read "Shirley," and all who read " Shirley" will institute a strict comparison between that work and its fortunate pre decessor. Happily for " Shirley" it will lose nothing by the comparison. The same features which, not withstanding their sometimes revolting accompani ments, rendered " Jane Eyre" so attractive, are to be met with abundantly in " Shirley." Foremost among these is the style—the peculiar style, so fresh, so vigorous, and so emphatic. So emphatic that the meanest incidents are rendered impressive as realities ; sa vigorous as at times to be positively startling, and so new and fresh that it differs from the language of ordinary novels as the keen breeze of the mountain differs from the soft atmosphere of the hot-home. So it was in " Jane Eyre," so it is in " Shirley." As a specimen of this energetic and animated style, take the following remarks, which are almost at the very commencement of the first volume. We give them merely as a specimen of a peculiar style, almost too flippant, perhaps, in this individual instance : " Of late years, I say, an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England; but in eighteen hundred-eleven-twelve that affluent rain had not de scended; curates were scarce then: there was no Pasto ral Aid—no Additional Curates' Society to stretch a helping hand to worn-out old rectors and incumbents, and give them the wherewithal to pay a vigorous young colleague from Oxford or Cambridge. The present successors of the apostles, disciples of Dr. Pusey and tools of the Propaganda, were at that time being hatched under cradle-blankets, or undergoing regeneration by nursery.baptism in wash-hand-basins. You could not have guessed by looking at any one of them that the Italian-ironed double frills of its net cap surrounded the brows of a pre-ordained, specially-sanctified successor of St. Paul, St. Peter, or St. John; nor could you have foreseen in the folds of its long night-gown the white surplice in which it was hereafter cruelly to exercise the souls of its parishioners, and strangely to nonplus its old-fashioned vicar by flourishing aloft in a pulpit the shirt-like raiment which had never before waved higher than the reading-desk. "Yet even in those days of scarcity there were curates; the precious plant was rare, but it might be found. A certain favoured district in the West Riding of Yorkshire could boast three rods of Aaron blossoming within a circuit of twenty miles. You shall see them, reader. Step into this neat garden-house on the skirts of Whin bury, walk forward into the little parlour—there they are at dinner. Allow me to introduce them to you:— Mr. Donne, curate of Whinbury; Mr. Malone, curate of Briarfield; Mr. Sweeting, curate of Nunnely. These are Mr. Donne's lodgings, being the habitation of one John Gale, a small clothier. Mr. Donne has kindly in vited his brethren to regale with him. You and I will join the party, see what is to be seen and hear what is to be heard. At present, however, they are only eating; and while they eat we will talk aside." The story of " Shirley" is almost wholly devoid of intricate plot or abundance of incident. It serves merely as the framework for a group of striking portraits, and as the occasion for the delineation— and a most exquisitely natural delineation it is—of various phases of human passion. To reveal the plot of a novel is generally unfair, for it puts an end to the curiosity of the reader ; but to reveal the plot of "Shirley"would be harmless, for it is not the plot but the manner in which it is worked which renders this novel so attractive. The characters of the heroines, Shirley Keeldar and Caroline Helstone, are especially felicitous. Shirley, the chief heroine, is just of age, and consequently the independent mistress of great wealth and large estates. Somewhat spoiled, perhaps, by the peculiarity of her position, she is proud and wilful, but withal graceful in her wilfulness and womanly in her pride. Louis Moore, the impoverished son of a once wealthy family, half foreign, half English, is a tutor in the house of Shirley's uncle. This Louis Moore 'is the hero of Shirley's romance. His character does not appear very attractive, perhaps, on account of the painfully embarrassing position in which he is placed. Loving Shirley, he is too proud to woo the wealthy Miss Keeldar, and she, on her part, is too proud to give the smallest token of encou ragement unsought. The situation is well imagined and marvellously well described. Alluding to an interview with Shirley, Louis Moore writes thus:— " She could not hear me speak so unmoved, and she was moved. It was right—l meant to move her. She could not answer me, nor could she look at me. I should have been sorry if she could have done either. Her cheek glowed as if a crimson flower, through whose petals the sun shone, had cast its light upon it. On the white lid and dark lashes of her downcast eye trembled all that is graceful in the sense of half-painful, half pleasing shame. " Soon she controlled her emotion, and took all her feelings under command. I saw she had felt insurrec tion, and was waking to empire —she sat down. There was that in her face which I could read ; it said, I see the line which is my limit—nothing shall make ms pass it. I feel—l know how far I may reveal my feelings, and when I must clasp the volume. I have advanced to a certain distance, as far as the true and sovereign and undegraded nature of my kind permits—now here I stand rooted. My heart may break if it is baffled; let it break —it shall never dishonour me—it shall never dishonour my sisterhood in me. Suffering before degradation ! death before treachery! "I, for my part, said, If she were poor, I would be at her feet. If she were lowly, I would take her in my arms. Her Gold and her Station are two griffins, that guard her on each side. Love looks and longs, and dares not. Passion hovers round, and is kept at bay. Truth and Devotion are scared. There is nothing to lose in winning her—no sacrifice to make—it is all clear gain, and therefore unimaginably difficult.'" Yet the continuation of this scene, however truthful it may be, considering the peculiar character of the actors, is not quite pleasing. There is not enough of the softness of love in it to temper the ungenial pride of the penniless lover, too proud to open his lips, and the wealthy maiden, "who would be wooed, and not unsought be won." We were about to quote a passage illustrative of our meaning, but on second thoughts we refrain, and leave the revelation of the denouement to the readers of " Shirley." The following passage will give a correct idea of the peculiar character of the proud and yet gentle Shirley. She has been for some time pale and apparently unhappy, but she persists in de claring that nothing ails her. At last the tutor, grown anxious, entreats her to confide in him, and, like a submissive child, the imperious heiress obeys. She tells that the following accident had befallen her : " I suppose we each find an exception in the one we love, till we are married,' suggested Caroline. " I suppose so: and this exception we believe to be of sterling materials ; we fancy it like ourselves; we imagine a sense of harmony. We think his voice gives the softest, truest promise of a heart that will never harden against us: we read in his eyes that faithful feeling—affection. I don't think we should trust to what they call passion, at all, Caroline. I believe it is a mere fire of dry sticks, blazing up and vanishing: but we watch him, and see him kind to animals, to little children, to poor people. He is kind to us likewise— good—considerate : he does not flatter women, but he is patient with them, and he seems to be easy in their presence, and to find their company genial. He likes them not only for vain and selfish reasons, but as we like him—because we like him. Then we obser►e that he is just—that he always speaks the truth—that he is conscientious. We feel joy and peace when he comes into a room: we feel sadness and trouble when he leaves it. We know that this man has been a kind son, that he is a kind brother: will any one dare to tell me that he will not be a kind husband?' " My uncle would affirm it unhesitatingly. "He will be sick of you in a month," he would say.' " Mrs. Pryor would seriously intimate the same.' " ' Mrs. Yorke and Miss Mann would darkly suggest ditto.' " ' If they are true oracles, it is good never to fall in ,ove.' " a Very good, if you can avoid it.' " ' I choose to doubt their truth.' " I am afraid that proves you are already caught.' " Not I : but if I were, do you know what sooth sayers I would consult?' " Let me hear.' " Neither man nor woman, elderly nor young : the little Irish beggar that comes barefoot to my door; the mouse that steals out of the cranny in the wainscot; the bird that in frost and snow pecks at my window for a crumb; the dog that licks my hand and sits beside my knee.' " Did you ever see any one who was kind to such things?' " • Did you ever see any one whom such things seemed instinctively to follow, like, rely on?' " ' We have a black cat and an old dog at the Rectory. I know somebody to whose knee that black cat loves to climb ; against whose shoulder and cheek it likes to purr. The old dog always comes out of his kennel and wags his tail, and whines affectionately when somebody passes.' " And what does that somebody do?' " He quietly strokes the cat, and lets her sit while he conveniently can, and when he must disturb her by rising, he puts her softly down, and never flings her from him roughly; ho always whistles to the dog and gives him a caress.' " ' Does he. It is not Robert?' " • But it is Robert.' " ' Handsome fellow!' said Shirley, with enthusiasm : her eyes sparkled. " Is he not handsome? Has he not fine eyes and well cut features, and a clear, princely forehead?' "' He has all that, Caroline. Bless himl ho is both graceful and good.' "' I was sure you would see that he was: when I first looked at your face I knew you would.' "' I was well inclined to him before I saw him. I liked him when I did see him : I admire him now. There is a charm in beauty for itself, Caroline; when it is blent with goodness there is a powerful charm.' " ' When mind is added, Shirley.' " Who can resist it?' " Remember my uncle, Mesdames Pryor, Yorke, and Mann.' " Remember the croaking of the frogs of Egypt ! He is a noble being. I tell you when they are good, they are the lords of the creation—they are the sons of God. Moulded in their Maker's image, the minutest spark of His spirit lifts them almost above mortality. Indisputably, a great, good, handsome man is the first of created things.' " Above us?' " I would scorn to contend for empire with him—l would scorn it. Shall my left hand dispute for prece• deuce with my right?— shall my heart quarrel with my pulse?—shall my veins be jealous of the blood which fills them?' " Men and women, husbands and wives, quarrel hor ribly, Shirley.' " Poor things!—poor fallen, degenerate things! God made them for another lot—for other feelings.' • " But are we men's equals, or are we not?' " Nothing ever charms me more than when I meet my superior —one who makes me sincerely feel that he is my superior.' " ' Did you ever meet him?' 6 " I should be glad to see him any day: the higher above me, so much the better: it degrades to stoop—it is glorious to look up. What frets me is, that when I try to esteem, I am baffled: when religiously inclined, there are but false gods to adore. I disdain to be a Pagan.' Miss Keeldar, will you come in? We are here at the Rectory gates.' " Shirley does not make her appearance until the close of the first volume, yet the first volume is not the least interesting of the three. It is rendered attractive lsy the exquisitely natural presence of Caroline Helstone, whose heart-history is detailed with a simple tenderness and pathos quite affecting from its apparent truthfulness. Robert Moore, the brother of the Louis above mentioned, is a Yorkshire mill-owner of a somewhat stern and determined character. Being half a foreigner, he is regarded with little kindness by his neighbours, and in his zeal for progress, being a patronof all new inventions in machinery, he is an object of indignation to the majority of the workmen. Beneath his outward austerity Robert's better nature occasionally peeps forth, never more visibly than when in presence of Caroline Helstone, the rector's niece, and his own dis tant relation—the gentle, tender, devoted Caroline, who comes daily to take her lesson in French from Hortense Moore, and who almost daily contrives to I find greater pleasure in the society of Hortense's brother Robert. The time in which these incidents took place was during the Peninsular war. The " orders in Council," the object of the taillowners' abhorrence, which closed foreign ports against British manufactures, were reducing Robert to the verge of ruin. To make money was in his case almost a duty, seeing that it was his purpose to restore the credit of his family, ruined by his father's unsuccessful speculation. Robert, therefore, must not marry unless he can meet with an heiress, and accord ingly he woos Shirley Keeldar. Before this proceeding he has, perhaps thoughtlessly, trifled with his little loving cousin—hence the sorrow which overwhelms poor Caroline. This portion of the narrative is invested with a vivid air of reality—e. g., Caroline has been passing a happy evening at the cottage of the Moores. She repeats the poem of " La Jeune Captive"— " Caroline, beginning in a low, rather tremulous voice, but gaining courage as she proceeded, repeated the sweet verses of el:limier; the last three stanzas she rehearsed well. " I heard a panting sound ; a dog came running up the lane. I know most of the dogs in this neighbour hood ; it was Phoebe, one of Mr. Sam Wynne's pointers. The poor creature ran with her head down, her tongue hanging out ; she looked as if bruised and beaten all over. I called her; I meant to coax her into the house, and give her some water and dinner; I felt sure she had been ill-used. Mr. Sam often flogs his pointers cruelly. She was too flurried to know me; and when I attempted to pat her head, she turned ad snatched at my arm. She bit it so as to draw blood, then ran panting on. Directly after, Mr. Wynne's keeper came up carrying a gun. He asked if I had seen a dog, I told him I had seen Phoebe. " You had better chain up Tartar, ma'am,' he said, ' and tell your people to keep within the house, I am after Phoebe to shoot her, sad the groom is gone another way. She is raging mad.' " Mr. Moore leaned back in his chair, and folded his arms across his chest; Miss Keeldar resumed her square of silk canvass, and continued the creation of a wreath of Parmese violets. " And you told no one, sought no help, no cure; you would not come to me ?' " I got as far as the school-room door; there my courage failed; I preferred to cushion the matter.' "' Why ? What can I demand better in this world than to be of use to you ? ' " ' I had no claim.' " Monstrous I And you did nothing?' "' Yes; I walked straight into the laundry, where they are ironing most of the week, now that I have so many guests in the house. While the maid was busy crimp ing or starching, I took an Italian iron from the fire, and applied the light scarlet glowing tip to my arm; I bored it well in; it cauterized the little wound. Then I went up• stairs.' I daresay you never once groaned? " I am sure I don't know. I was very miserable Not arm or tranquil at all, I think; T there was no calm in my " m ' in htie was calm in your person. I remember lis tening the whole time we sat at luncheon, to hear if you moved in the room above; all was quiet.' I was sitting at the foot of the bed, wishing Phosbe had not bitten me.' '‘' And alone! You like solitude.' "' Pardon me.' " You disdain sympathy.' " Do I, Mr. Moore?' With your powerful mind, you must feel indepen dent of help, of advice, of society.' " So be it—since it pleases you.' " She smiled. She pursued her embroidery carefully and quickly; but her eyelash twinkled, and then it glit tered, and then a drop fell. " Mr. Moore leaned forward on his desk, moved his chair, altered his attitude. " If it is not so,' he asked, with a peculiar, mellow change in his voice, how is it, then? ' "'I don't know.' " You do know, but you won't speak; all must be locked up in yourself.' " Because it is not worth sharing.' " Because nobody can give the high price you re quire for your confidence. Nobody is rich enough to purchase it. Nobody has the honour, the intellect, the power you demand in your adviser. There is not a shoulder in England on which you would rest your hand for snpport—far less a bosom which you would p ,, rinit to pillow your head. Of course you must live alone.' " Moore listened ai first with his eyes cast down, but soon he furtively raised them: leaning back in his chair, he could watch Caroline without her perceiving where his gaze was fixed. Her cheek had a colour, .her eyes a light, her countenance an expression, this evening, which would have made even plain features striking; but there was not the grievous defect of plainness to pardon in her case. The sunshine was not shed on rough barrenness; it fell on soft bloom. Each lineament was turned with grace; the whole aspect was pleasing. At the present moment—animated, interested, touched—she might be called beautiful. Such a face was calculated to awaken not only the calm sentiment of esteem, the distant one of admiration; but some feeling more tender, genial, intimate: friendship, perhaps—affection, interest. When she had finished she turned to Moore, and met his eye. " Is that pretty well repeated?' she inquired, smil ing like any happy, docile child. " I really don't know.' ' Why don't you know? Have you not listened?' 4" Yes—and looked. You are fond of poetry, Lina?' " When I meet with real poetry, I cannot rest till I have learned it by heart, and so made it partly mine.' " Mr. Moore now sat silent for several minutes. It struck nine o'clock: Sarah entered and said that Mr. Helstone's servant was come for Miss Caroline. " Then the evening is gone already,' she observed; ' and it will be long, I suppose, before I pass another here.' " Hortense bad been for some time nodding over her knitting; fallen into a doze now, she made no response to the remark. " You would have no objection to come here oftener of an evening?' inquired Robert, as he took her folded mantle from the side-table, where it still lay, and care fully wrapped it round her. " I like tto come here; but I Imo no desire to be in- I ecru live alone, if need be. But the question is not how to live —but how to die alone. That strikes me in a more grisly light.'" A conversation between the two heroines, Shirley and Caroline, throws still further light on the chi- ratter of the former. This conversation, which ap- trusive. lam not hinting to b e as k e d : y ou m ust under ' i pears really the simple and natural discourse of two stand t h a t .' girls, is one of many proofs that, whether or no I" ' Oh! understand thee, child. You sometimes Currey Bell be a trge _appellation, " Shirley" is the ; lecture me for wisrich, hing to be Line; but if I were rich, you should live her o always: at any rate, you should I work of a woman's pen. live with me wherever my habitation might be. "' I often wonder Shirley, whether most men re " ' that would be plea san t ; an d if y ou were poor— ! semble my uncle in their domestic relations; whether T ever so poor—it would still b e pl easan t. G oo d n i g ht, it is necessary to be new aid unfamiliar to them, in romised to walk with y ou u p t o th e R ec t or y. e order to seem agreeable or es t i 2lable in their eyes ; ' and whether it is impossible to their Itatures to retain though I wished every day.' licr l t. p ' " ' I know you did; but I th oug h t you h a d f orgot t en , and I hardly knew how t o rem i n d you a constant interest and affection for tiaO2e they see I t a o nd d , o a i s t. Fa ß nn a y t w is o c u o ld m y e ' , o t u he li r k e e is t n o o go n l' ec Ll s t it i y s — a cold night; "' I don't know : I can't clear up your doubts. .i. ponder over simil ar ones - m y se lf sometimes. But, to " ' Here is you muff—d on 't wa k e llortense—come.t tell you a secret, if I were convinced that they are " The half mile to the Rectory was soon traversed. necessarily and universally different from us—fickle, They parted in the garden without kise, scarcely with a soon petrifying, unsympathizing I would never pressure of hands; yet Rob er t sen t hi s cous i n i n excited did root I love me should not like it to was weary of me, a find out that what nd I loved that and joyously troubled. He h a d b een s i ngu l ar l y ki n d t o , that her that day: not in phrase, compliment, profession; but whatever effort I might make to please would hereafter in manner, in look, and in soft and friendly tones. be worse than useless, since it was inevitably in its " For himself, he came home grave, almost morose. nature to change and become indifferent. That dis- As he stood leaning on his own yard gate, musing in the covery once made, what should I long for ? To go watery moonlight, all alone—the hushed, dark mill before away—to remove from a presence where my society hire, the hill-environed hollow r o un d—h o exc l a i me d gave no pleasure.' " ' But you could not, if you were married.' abruptly:— " ' No, I could not—there it is. I could never be my " `This won't do! There's weakness — there's down own mistress more. A terrible thoughtl—it suffocates , right ruin in all this. However, be added, dropping hi s voice, ' the phrerzy is quite temporary. I know it very me! Nothing irks me like the idea of being a burden and a bore—an inevitable burden—a ceaseless bore ! well: I have had it b e for e . It will be gone to morrow.'" And it was gone to morrow.. After an evening . of Now, when I feel my company superfluous, I can com fortably fold my independence round me like a mantle, blissful meditation, the unconscious Caroline repairs and drop my pride like a veil, and withdraw to solitude. the next morning to th e co tt age (f or h er l esson ) , her If married, that could not be.' heart full of happiness a t th e t h oug h t o f meet i ng "' I wonder we don't all make up our minds to remain Robert. She does meet him : single,' said Caroline :' we should if we listened to the "Arriving in sight of the white house, and within hear wisdom of experience. My uncle always speaks of ing of the thundering mill and its rushing water-course, marriage as a burden; and I believe whenever he hears the first thing she saw was Moore at his garden gate. of a man being married, he invariably regards him ass There he stood, in his belted Holland blouse, a light cap fool, or, at any rate, as doing a foolish thing.' covering his bead, which undress costume suited him: " ' But, Caroline, men are not all like your uncle : he was looking down the lane, not in the direction of surely not—l hope not.' his cousin's approach. She stopped, withdrawing a little " She paused and mused. behind a willow, and studied his appearance. . . . " He has not his peer,' she thought; he is as hand. some as he is intelligent. What a keen eye he has What clearly cut, spirited features—thin and serious, but graceful! Ido like his face—l do like his aspect—l do like him so much! Better than any of those shuffling curates, for instance—better than anybody: bonnie Robert!' " She sought bonnie Robert's' presence speedily. For his part, when she challenged his sight, I believe he would have passed from before her eyes like a phantom, if he could; but being a tall fact, and no fiction, he was obliged to stand the greeting, He made it brief: it was cousin -like, brother like, friend-like, anything but lover like. The nameless charm of last night had left his manner: he was no longer the same man; or, at any rate the same heart did not beat in his breast. Rude disap pointment! t s h h e e ea s g a e w r a g n i d rl f w el o t u i l t d . s it was difficult to turn her eyes from his eyes. till his h nipt a oo dtiwnbabt b e lieve effil e c d siuhn a l at t trhtpo l e e c a wer s hoi t tash e snci o lgr me eaAwtththbi though hand from his, till he efirgs like a kind pressure; more and fonder than t l h oo a k t s coo h l a w d el e co x m pr e e . ssed something " A lover masculine so disappointed can speak and urge explanation, a lover feminine can say nothing: if she did the result would be shame and anguish, inward remorse for self-treachery. Nature would brand such demonstration as a rebellion against her instincts, and would vindictively repay it afterwards by the thunder bolt of self-contempt smiting suddenly in secret. Take the matter as you find it: ask no questions; utter no remonstrances: it is your best wisdom. You expected bread, and you have got a stone; break your teeth on it, and don't shriek because the nerves are martyrized: do not doubt that your mental stomach—if you have such a thing—is strong as an ostrich's—the stone will digest. You held out your hand for an egg, and fate put into it a scorpion. Show no consternation: close your fingers firmly upon the gift; let it sting through your palm. Never mind: in time, after your hand and arm have swelled and quivered long with torture, the squeezed scorpion will die, and you will have learned the great lesson how to endure without a sob. For the whole remnant of your life, if you survive the test—some, it is said, die under it—you will be stronger, wiser, less sensitive. This you are not aware of, perhaps, at the time, and so cannot borrow courage of that hope. Na ture, however, as has been intimated, i s an exce ll ent friend in such cases; sealing the lips, interdicting utter ance, commanding a placid dissimulation : a dissimula tion often wearing an easy and gay mien at first, settling down to sorrow and paleness in time, then passing away and leaving a convenient stoicism, not the less fortifying because it is half-bitter. . . " But what has been said in the last page or two is not germane to Caroline Helstone's feelings, or to the state of things between her and Robert Moore. Robert had done her no wrong: he bad told her no lie; it was she that was to blame, if any one was: what bitterness her mind distilled should and would be poured on her own head. She had loved without being asked to love —a natural, sometimes an inevitable chance, but big with misery. " Robert, indeed, had sometimes seemed to be fond of her—but why? Because she had made herself so pleas ing to him, he could not, in spite of all his efforts, help testifying a state of feeling his judgment did not approve, nor his will sanction. He was about to withdraw de cidedly from intimate communication with her, because he did not choose to have his affections inextricably entangled, nor to be drawn, despite his reason, into a marriage he believed imprudent. Now, what was she to do—to give way to her feelings, or to vanquish them? To pursue him, or to turn upon herself? If she is weak, she will try the first expedient—will lose his esteem and win his aversion; if she has sense, she will be her own governor, and resolve to subdue and bring under guid ance the disturbed realm of ber emotions. She will determine to look on life steadily, as it is; to begin to learn its severe truths seriously, and to study its knotty problems closely, conscientiously." The readers of " Jane Eyre " failed to recognise the authoress, but no one who peruses the touching narrative of Caroline's sorrows and struggles—a narrative too long to be quoted here, and too beau tiful to suffer us to mar it by curtailment —will doubt for a moment that a woman's heart has dictated this revelation of a woman's sufferings. Apart from the interest attaching to the two love stories, the dangers and difficulties of the enterprising mill-owners, unro mantic though they be, are full of attraction. The scene in which we are first introduced to Robert Moore is well described. He is waiting with more anxiety than he is willin g t o con f e ss for the arrival of some waggons containing new machinery. It has been threatened by men, thrown out of work by the new improvements, that all such machines shall be destroyed, but Moore perseveres. The hours pass and the waggons do not arrive. At last their rum bling sound is heard. Moore goes out to meet them; he can hardly distinguish them in the darkness, "Is all right, Joe Scott ?" he exclaims. No answer. "Is all right ?" he asks again, and this time a loud voice replies, "Ay, all raight, divil, we've smashed em !" Written, as it is, in an earnest, unaffected, and impressive style, and abounding, as it does, with most masterly delinea tions of human passion, " Shirley " cannot fail to be successful. Its influence on the heart is good ; it gives exercise to some of our best emotions ; yet " Shirley" is not quite faultless. We have, it is true, no such repulsive hero as Mr. Rochester, yet the pro minent features of all Currer Bell's heroes are stern and hard—at least they seem so by the side of the all attractive and most womanly heroines. Robert Moore is perhaps an exception ; his character is delicately and naturally drawn. We are loth, however, to dwell on the faults of a book which has pleased us so much as " Shirley." Its author is evidently endowed with a tender heart and a thinking brain, and will confer yet further obligations on the reading public. As " Shirley " is an improvement on " Jane Eyre," in some particulars, warmed with a greater glow of human tenderness ; so we doubt not that the next production of Currer Bell will again be an improve ment in some respects on " Shirley "—in some respects only, for in others " Shirley "is perfect. [Anv - EnnsEarENT.j. —The Observer of Sunday next, Nov. 18, will give the fullest particulars of the Execution of the Mannings , with his Confession, and all other matters connected therewith. The Observer of Sunday, Oct. 28, which gave 22 columns of the trial, is again reptinting, and copies, at sixpence each, csa be had all this month of November. The extensive publication of the Observer commeeces at four o'clock on Sunday morning, in time for all the early railways. A sixpence, inclosed to Mr. Clement, jun., 170, Strand, will insure a copy of either dated Observer, by return of post, to any part of the United Kingdom. STATE OF TRADE.—MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.— There has been a degree of excitement in the market to-day, owing to the arrival of the Niagara steamer, with dates from New York to the 31st ult., and in reply to letters hence of the 13th ult., showing an excited cotton market in Liverpool, with advanced prices of to per lb. Cotton has advanced in New York I- to I cent, and no better estimates of the crop are given than have before appeared. Some of the larger producers here do not offer their stocks; others require further advances, the general result being that there has been more disposition on the part of buyers to do business, particularly in cloths, at rates which could not have been conceded last market day. There appears to be very large orders for cloth in the hands of buyers, but at pre sent limited producers will not accept. Heavy cloths do not improve. Upon the whole, the feeling is healthy and firm, and the opinion that higher rates must prevail gains ground. 'PAIN, Nov. B.—SNOW STORM.--On Monday last, we had the first unmistakeable sign of an approaching winter, for the day was very rainy—and we had showers of snow also in abundance. On Tuesday it snowed the whole day without intermission ; and yesterday morning, the whole ground was covered with it to the depth of about six inches. The mails from the North and south have been irregular since Monday in conse quence; and yesterday, the coach from the south did not arrive till about four o'clock. To-day it is still very frosty, but we hope that the snow will soon dis appear. HIGHLAND STOCK FOR ENGLAND. --A few days ago, a lot of ten very fine three year-old Highland slots were shipped at Findhorn per North Star steamer, from the stock of Dunphail, the property of Major Cumming Bruce. The stock had been purchased tor the Right Hon. Charles Shaw Lefevre, Speaker of the House of Commons.—North Britishililail. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RA ILWAY.--Traffic for the week ended Nov. 11,18-19 :—Coachin g traffic, 904/.; parcels,_ &c., 534; goods, ca ttle, &c., 4134; steam-boats, $ 41 .; Mold, 484—Total, 1,60i4 road, St. James's, Bermondsey ; one in Walwertb, and one in Lambeth. A death from apoplexy, on which an inquest was held, occurred in Huntin'gdon street, Hoxten. The deceased was a woman of 65, who for the last four years had lived in an under ground cellar, which is only 11 feet in length, 8 feet 6 inches in width, 5 feet 9 inches in height, and sunk 5 feet 7 inches below the surface of the street! A small window scarce gives light or ventilation, and " the walls, " says the registrar, " are so damp that you might brush the water from them." The mean daily reading of the barometer was above 30 inches on the last three days of the week. The mean of the week was 29.732. The temperature on the last three days was considerably higher than the average of the same days in seven years. The mean of the week was 50 2 degrees, which is higher than the average by 4.1. THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC AND THE ARMY AND NAVY CLUB. The members of the Army and Navy Club re ceived on Thursday last a superb piece of Gobelins tapestry, a present from the Preaident of the French Republic, with the accompanying letter from the French Ambas3ador " Hertford-house, Nov. 5. "Monsieur,—Le Prince Louis Napolem Bonaparte, Pre,ident de la P6publique PrancAise, m'a char t .,6 de voui informer de son intention d'ofFrir au Nouveau Club de l'Artnea et de la. Marine un tapis des Gobelins. Le Pieddent de la R6publique aime a esrfrer quo Messieurs les membres du Club voudront bien l'accepter comme un temoignage des excellens souvenirs qu'il a conserlei de son tejour en Angleterre et des precieuses relations qu'il a t-u le plaisir d'y entretenir avec plusieurs officiers de l'Arn: ba et de la Flotte de Its Grande Bretagne. " Vous pourrez, Monsieur, faire prendre ce tapis chez MM. Hindley et Sons, 134, Oxford -street. " Recevez, Monsieur, I'assurance do ma consideration distinguee. " E. DROUYN DE LIIYS " Monsieur le S6ere.taire du Nouveau Club de l'Artr‘a et de la Marine." TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six,—lf public executions are justifiable on the ground of their teaching "a grand moral lesson," how comes it to pass that in some parts of her Majesty's dominions they are always concealed from the public gaze ? I was in Sydney at the time of the execution of the Norfolk Island pirates--I saw the wretched men in their cells the Sunday before they suffered, I saw the gallows erected in the prison yard ; but no one was permitted to sue the last scene except those whose duty called them to the spot. I state a fact—l offer no opinio❑ ; hut I again ask, if executions are adapted to teach morals to mankind, why are they shrouded from the view in a country where the state of morals is certainly more depressed than it is in Grea Britain and Ireland ? London, Nov. 12, 1849. A TRAVELLER. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. R. H. Moore, Paternoster-row, bookseller and pub sher, Dec. 6, at half-past twelve—W. M. Nobbs, Maiden-lane, hotel-keeper, and Upper Seymour-street, Euston-square, chemist and druggist, Dec. 8, at eleven— J. T. Übsdell, Exbury, Hampshire, brickmaker, Dec. 8, at eleven—H. Bramley, New City-chambers, City, in surance broker, Dec. 6, at one—H. Hall, Lamb's Con duit street, ironmonger, Dec. 8, at half-past eleven—A. Atkins, Finsbury -square, merchant, Dec. 6, at twelve— A. Macdonald and A. Campbell, Regent-street, St. James's, army agents and bankers, Dec. 6, at one—C. J. J. Turner, Bucklersbury and Old Jewry, auctioneer and surveyor, Dec. 5, at twelve—J. B. Hamilton, Grange walk, Bermondsey-square, wnolesale confectioner and Italian warehouseman, Dec. 5, at twelve—lt. Daw, Jun., Launceston, Cornwall, linendraper, Dec. 5, at half-past eleven—J. G. Ufford, Holloway, common brewer, Dec. 5, at one—J. H. Garrood, Thornham Magna, Suffolk, grocer and draper, Dec. 5, at one—S. Leon, Rathbone place, tailor, Dec. 5, at eleven—J. King and J. F. King, Wells-row, Islington, builders, Dec. 5, at eleven—J. Williams, Hampstead-road, builder, Dec. 6, at eleven— W. Blacknell, Plumstead, Kent, baker, Dec. 6, at eleven —F. Macqueen, Macao, China, merchant, Dec. 5, at half-past one—G. Staight, Skinner-street, Snow-hill, cutler, Dec. 5, at half-past twelve—J. Cottin, Bread street, City, merchant, Dec. 6, at twelve—L. S. Butler, Ludgate hill, and City-road-basin, stationer and coal merchant, Dec. 6, at half-past eleven. In the Country. A. Twnstall and J. W. Cash, Bristol, oil merchants, Dec. 6, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—S. Mayfield, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, upholsterer, Dec. 12 at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham —J. L. Norton Birmingham, stationer, Dec. 12, at twelve, at the Court Birmingham—J. Hewitt, Liverpool, merchant, Dec. 6 I at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—T. Turner, D. Brade, and C. Schwind, Liverpool, merchants, Dec. 6, at eleven at the Court, Liverp oo l. , PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. Elizabeth Aydon and T. W. Ferguson, Newcastle upon-Tyne, grocers, 2s. 2d., on Saturday, Nuv. 17, or any following Saturday, between ten and three, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. M. Burton and B. Shaen, Manchester, cotton spinners 205., on Tuesday, Nov. 27, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the (Alice of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. T. %les, Gloucester, grocer, ld., on Wednesday, Nov. 14, or any subsequent Wednesday, between twelve and two, at the office of Mr. Acraman, Bristol. J. B. Sanger, Bristol, cabinetmaker, 25., on Wednes day, Nov. 14, or any subsequent Wednesday, between twelve and two, at the office of Mr. Acraman, Bristol. P. Vaughan, Brecon, scrivener, 4d., on Wednesday, Nov. 14, or any subsequent Wednesday, between twelve and two, at the office of Mr. Acraman, Bristol. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. J. S. Story, St. Alban's, Bedfordshire, banker, Dec. 7, at twelve—W, Garrod, Hackney, draper, Dec. 5, at eleven. In the Country. J. Lloyd and G. Lloyd, Brinnington, r Cheshire, builders, Dec. 7, at twelve, at the Court, Slanchester—T Oakes, Kingswinford, Staffordshire, ironmaster, Dec. 5 at 12, at the Court, Birmingham—J. Jones, Kingswin ford, Staffordshire, iron master, Dec. 5, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—G. Webb, Tamworth, Staffordshire, wine merchant, Dec. 5, at twelve, at the Court, Birming ham —A. Webb, Wakefield, Yorkshire, seed merchant, Dec. 6, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. W. T. Creech, Brighton, licensed victualler, certificate of the third class, after 21 days from Nov. B—T. Parfre meat, King-street, Holborn, bootmaker, certificate of the first class, after 21 days from Nov. 9—W. Colcock, James-street, Covent-garden, after 21 days from Nov em b er 9—H. N. Dale, Liver pool, stock and share broker, certificate of the first class, after 21 days from Nov. 9—W. Husler, Leeds, stone mason, certificate of the third class, after 21 days from Nov. B—A. Denoon, Adam's-court, Old Broad•street, City, merchant, certificate of the second class—G. Munro, Birmingham, hackneyman and coach proprietor, certificate of the first class, after 21 days—G. Nye, Maid stone, Kent, certificate of the second class—W. Boucher, Bristol, bed, mattress, and bedstead-manufacturer, after 12 months from May 26—J. Spikins, Regent-street, Westminster, certificate of the third class, after 6 months from Jan. 9—C. Nixon, Birmingham, picture frame maker, certificate of the first class. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Hussey and W. G. Coles, Crewkerne, Somerset shire, attorneys and solicitors—J. Dean, J. N. Slater, and J. Cronkshaw, Haslingden, Lancashire, cotton spin ners and manufacturers—M. Shaw and W. B. Robinson, Stoneferry, near Hull, coal merchants and licensed vic tuallers—J. Rhodes and E. Hayes, Leeds, share brokers —W. Hargreaves, jun., and J. Kennedy, Bradford, York shire, railway founders—J. .Phillips and G. Hunt, Bir mingham, wood button makers—E. Platte and W. Whit teron, Manchester, brewers—J. Rennie, J. Logan, and A. Duncan, Newport, Monmouthshire, contractors—W. S. Kelsall, E. C. Buxton, R. Hoare, and T. S. Kelsall, London, Manchester, and Calcutta, commission-merchants and agents (as far as regards W. S. Kelsall)—M. Spencer andW. Spencer, Coventry, ribbon-manufacturers—J. Field and G. J. Powell, Cross-street, Hatton-garden, bookbinders —W. Bilby and C. Harness, Gresham -street, City, agents and warehousemen—J. Spiller, S. W. Browne, and C. B. Mogg, Bridgwater, Somersetshire, millers— G. Gates and G. Gates, jun., Steyning, Sussex, brewers —G. Collins and J. Lees, Birmingham, brick and tile• makers—F. Cosslett, J. Cosslett, and S. Morgan, Caer leon and Newport, Monmouthshire, and Cardiff, Gla morganshire, railway contractors—J. Townsend and J. Shackleton, lladinmill, near Littleborough, woollen manufacturers—T. Peet and 11. F. Peet, Nottingham, lace-manufacturers—F. Taylor, J. J. Bibby, J. Bibby, H. Willyams, H. J. Nevill, and A. Druce, copper smelters, St. Helen's, Lancashire (as far as regards F. Taylor). INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. James Fawcett, Liverpool, grocer. William Killon, Liverpool, hairdresser. Theophilus Jonas Sutton, Liverpool, merchant's clerk. Andrew Irwin Birrell, Liverpool, commission agent. Thomas Augustus Vesey, Haleswortb, Suffolk, brazier. Robert Morris, Poulton-cum-Seacombe, grocer. Henry Simmons, Awre, Gloucestershire, railway fore- man. Charles Simmons, Newnham, Gloucestershire, railway gauger. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. D. Hume, Costerton Mains , n e ar Blackahiels, farmer, zo meet Nov. 19 and Dec. 17, at two, within Cannon's Commercial Temperance Hotel, Edinburgh. W. Connell, jun., Greenock, cordage manufacturer, to meet Nov. 20 and Dec. 13, at twelve, within the TontMe Hotel, Greenock. D. Graham, Edinburgh, grocer, to meet Nov. 19 and Dec. 10, at two, within the Railway Station Hotel, Edin burgh. F- _READFUL _ IRE AT CIRENCESTER.—An alarm ing conflagration took place at about a quarter before six o'clock this morning at Cirencester, on premises occupied by Mr. Daniel Thomas, hatter, Cricklade street, and which could not be subdued until after the entire stock had been destroyed. Both Mr. Thomas and his wife were severely burnt, and, in consequence of the fierceness with which the flames raged, narrowly escaped with their lives. The disaster appears to have arisen from a spark falling from a candle npon some paper while Mr. Thomas was packing up a quantity of goods for Fairford fair. We understand that the stock was insured.—Cheltenham Journal of yesterday. BOUTHILLIER. The League had been called " together, to meet " at Toronto on the Ist of November, to take into consi deration matters of importance. The plan proposed to be pursued by the League is said to be as follows : "Every branch of the League, in all the constituen cies in Canada, is to agitate in its respective location, so as to induce its representative in the provincial Parlia ment to vote for the introduction of a Bill authorizing the assembling together of the people of Canada, by means of delegates, in convention, for the purpose of determining on what changes in the Constitution aro necessary, and, having done so, a measure in accord ance with their views is to be brought into Parliament, and, when carried, sent home for consideration to England. It is for this purpose that the convention of delegates of the British American League is to meet. A union of the North American provinces will also be con sidered." A slight but unimportant disturbance had occurred at Quebec. We have Mexican advices to the sth of October, but they contain no intelligence of importance. The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune states that the result of an interview which lately took place between Mr. Rives, the United States Minister to France, and Lord Palmerston, leaves little doubt of such an adjustment of the matter as will throw the Nicaragua route open to all nations on an equal footing. The steamship Crescent City had arrived at New York from Chagres, with advices from that port to the 17th ult. Sbe left Kingston, Jamaica, on the 20th ult. We have no later intelligence from the gold mines. Panama remained healthy. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, OCT. 31. Money Market—The Stock market since the last steamer had had buyers, and the quotations have nearly all improved. Demand for Government Stocks has been large for remittance to England and the Continent, and at advancing prices. The amount of Government and State securities by this steamer we estimate at 300,000 dollars. In exchanges the market is a little softer. The supply of these had somewhat increased by the movement in cotton and produce. The demand is moderate, and first class sterling sold at 10/, which is about the top of the market. The leading drawer reduced his buying price per cent. Francs at 5.22 i to 5.20, and firm. Cotton—On the 27th, on receipt of letters by Europa, buyers came freely forward, and 3,430 bales were sold at an improvement of / cent., establishing the improve ment for the week of Ito cent. and quotations of the highest point of the seuson. Yesterday the sales reached 3,000 bales, and to-day, 260 bales, at extreme pri c es. The unfavourable ad v i ces f rom the 4th giving a new impetus to the demand, the market closes with a good inquiry, being easier to sell than purchase at the quota tions. Breadstuffs—The lower grades of flour hava declined 61 to 12i cents. per barrel, being in plentiful supply. Ihe price of the better kinds was steady. The stock in store was moderate for the season. We are continuing to receive Canada flour and wheat in bond, but in moderate quantities. Sales have been made largely of flour at 4601 dollars to 475 dollars per barrel, and wheat at 104 to 105 in bond. Iron—The market is quiet, and we quote Scotch pig 19 dollars to 19 dollars 50 cents., cash; 20 dollars to 21 dollars six months, at which further sales of 1,000 tons have been made. Inferior sold at 19 dollars 50 cents. six months. NEW ORLEANS, OCT. 26, P.M.—There has been a good demand for cotton to day, and the market is without change from yesterday. The operations are partly for export. Sales of today embrace 4,000 bales, including middling qualities at 9kc. to &lc. Dealers are anxiously waiting the Europa. OCT. 27, A.M.—The news by the Europa was re ceived here last evening, and made public this morn ing. The advices being considered highly favourable, holders advanced their prices but as the market has not fairly opened it would be difficult to give a correct line of the same. Freights to Liverpool are declining, and are quoted Ic. for cotton. AMERICAN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, Nov. 13. We have just to haul one week's later intelligence from New York and the British American possessions, per the steam ship Niagara, which left New York on the 30th ult., and Halifax on the 2d instant, and arrived here a few minutes since. Although work ing only one engine, the ether having been disabled during the outward passage, the Niagara has made the run in 124 days. The Niagara has brought 30,000/. in specie on freight. The Europa, Captain Lott, hence, arrived at Boston on the 25th ult. The Hibernia, Captain Stone, hence for New York, was spoken by the Niagara on the evening of the 21 inst., off Sambro' Head. Beyond the intelligence from the West India islands, which will be found elsewhere, the advices are totally uninteresting. From Canada we have the confirmation of the rumoured change in the seat of Government from Montreal to Toronto. The following is the official notification : " Crown Lands-uflici., 111 mitre al, ()c . 2S. " Mr. Mayor,--After mature duliberit;ion upon the address of the Legislative Assembly, dated the 19th of May last, in favour of holding the seat of Government alternately at Toronto and Quebec, and on considera tion that nothing has since occurred to diminish the weight of the reasons which gave rise to that address, the Governor-General in Council has coma to the de termination of acquiescing in the desire of the Legisla tive Assembly. " This decision necessarily causes the removal of the seat of Government to one of the two cities. " It has been determined that the new arrangement shall commence by the immediate removal of the Go vernment to Toronto, there to remain till the expiration of the present Parliament, after which it will be trans ferred to Quebec for the four following years. " For these reasons, I am commanded by his Excel lency the Governor-General to notify to the corporation of Quebec, in accordance with the subsisting contract, that in one year from this date the Government will again take possession of the public edifices now in charge of the said corporation.—l have the honour to be, Sir your obedient servant, 7 c, 4 t trb Lai'trttton SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER. —TUESDAY. AYLESBURY STEEPLECHASE. 5 to 1 agst Math Day Even on British Yeoman and Vain Hope. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 7 to 1 agst The Young-un— taken 8 to 1 agst Knight of Gwynne—taken 10 to 1 agst The Oaks—taken DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Bolingbroke—taken 11 to 1 agst Ghillie Callum 18 to 1 agst The Italian—taken 20 to 1 agst Sweetheart 30 to 1 agst The Nigger—take 33 to 1 1,000 to 20 rgst Yew Tree—taken 1000 to 20 agst The Swedo CHESTER CUP. 1000 to 18 agst Whim colt—taken 1000 to 9 agst each of the fellowiug—Beebunter, Da mask, and Mark Tapley —taken. FRANCE. The credit of the amnesty is entirely due to the President of the Republic who, had he followed his original intentions, would have granted it without making a single exception. At eleven o'clock on Sunday night he summoned to the Ely see the Cabinet Ministers, together with M. Victor Foucl.e, the Procureur of the Republic. He informed them briefly, but decidedly, that, after due consideration of the subject, he had come to the determination of grant ing their liberty to the ,whole of the prisoners o f 1 Belle Isle, amoun ti ng to ,200, and who, it will be re membered, were confined there in consequence of their participation in the terrible and most sanguinary in surrection of June, 1848. The Ministers looked dis mayed at the announcement of so bold a design. They prayed him to examine the question still more carefully, and to weigh well the danger to society at large by letting loose so many desperate men. Louis Napo leon replied that he had already long and carefully considered the subject. He was convinced that no danger was to be apprehended from them ; and he further said that his convictions perfectly agreed with those of the Prefect of Police, who had assured him that not the slightest peril would result to Paris or any other place from the liberation of these men ; and that, above all, he (M. Carlier) stated that he was ready to answer with his head for the tranquillity of the capital. The Ministers were encouraged by a de claration made in such terms, and on such grounds; they yet suggested to the President that amongst the men at Belle Isle there were many whoseperversity and whose hardness in crime were such that they would not only refuse with contemptuous arrogance the pardon offered them, but would even demand compensation for what they affected to believe were the wrongs inflicted on them. There were also amongst the number many who were not guilty merely of political offences, but whose previous career had been one of crime against society at large—offenders who availed themselves of insurrection merely to gratify the lust of rapine and of murder. They intreated him at all events to make a selection. The President could not be heedless , of these suggestions. He, therefore, consented to the exceptions demanded; and, assisted by the Ministers, the Procureur of the Republic, and the Prefect of Police, passed nearly the whole of the night in examining the characters of the numerous prisoners whose names filled the lists. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The Kelner Zeitung has letters from Kiel of the Bth instant, stating that the Schleswig-Holstein Diet have treated the question of the war with Denmark in a secret committee, and that energetic proceedings were resolved on. The Prussian General, Hahn, passed Flensburg on ,he 6th inst., on his way to the north. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. Vienna letters of the Bth instant, is the Kolner Zeitung, state that no less than fifteen of the Hunga rian prisoners, at Arad, have agai n b een sentenced to death, and that the executions were to take place in the course of the next week. General Haynau has informed the Jews of Pesth thit unless a contribution of 200,000 florins (about 18,0001.) be paid within 48 hours, he intends to adopt violent means to insure obedience to his commands. We find it stated in the German papers that the chief reason why the Jews of Pesth have not yet paid the contribution is because they are utterly impoverished, and unable to raise so large a sum. There is no likelihood of the state of siege at Vienna being raised. STATE OF TRADE. From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The sympathy that ex ists betwixt the cotton and the yarn markets is stil sufficient to render a notice of the former quite requi site, in connexion w ith any account of the latter. It has been expected that on the arrival of the Boston steamer we should hear of a further rise in prices at New York, consequent on the receipt of intelligence as to the buoyancy of the Liverpool market a month ago. The effect of such expected information was, in a considerable degree, anticipated in the latter half of last week, when both spinners and speculators operated so freely in the Liverpool market as to add nearly fd. per lb. to the value of the current qualities of American, and id. to that of other descriptions ; while, in this market, rather higher prices were paid for yarns to the extent of the business effected, which, however, was but limited. When advices came to hand this morning, showing that no further rise of consequence had taken place on the other side; and when it became known that only a limited, thottgli steady, business was doing in Liver pool, the character of our market was decided for the day ; a general quietness was observable; a fair yet by no means a large amount of business was transacted, and prices continued decidedly firm, marked, indeed, by a still upward inclination, particularly in the finer numbers. The operations in goods have been on a very restricted scale; and any required advance of price has proved a greater hindrance to business in this department than in that of yarns. There con tinues to be a good demand for printing cloths of various descriptions from a 66 reed downward, and previous quotations are fully maintained. The home dealers are purchasing stout domestics with rather more freedom at the rates of last week ; but the dulness of long-cloths and T's is in no degree diminished. Madapollams go off with ease, and' prices are hardening. The makers of 40-inch shirt ings still find a difficulty in disposing of their pro duction. ROC lIDALE, MONDAY.—There seems but little change in the flannel market to day from that of the preceding week ; prices are much the same, and the demand is good. The wool market is quiet, and the manufacturers buy sparingly at former prices. MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—The throwing trade of this town continues tolerably steady, the foreign de mand having for some time helped off surplus stock to a considerable extent; and this has caused the hands to be well employed in this branch. With regard to the manufacturing interest, there is complaint in some branches of the business. Those houses which are producing an article for shippers are reported to be very brisk; this also applies to the piece-goods trade generally. The stocks of goods on hand are . reported comparatively light, and the buyers are looki ng about to come in at old prices, which, in many instances, will not be accepted. The dyers, we understand, are complaining of a scarcity of orders. IlArayeac. SATURDAY.—The demand for worsted goods has been to. day much the same as it was this day week, the principal inqury being for mixtures for the American market. The spinners are still busily employed, and the quotations for yarns are maintained with firmness. There is no noticeable alteration in the state of the wool market. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—FIat market to-day. The season being considerably advanced, the merchants are only purchasing to a:moderate extent. No change in prices. Stocks low. There is a fair business in the warehouses, but the mild weather checks the de mand for winter goods. HEALTH of LONDON during the WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Return.) In the week ending last Saturday the deaths re gistered in the metropolitan districts were 893, a number which shows an excess of 56 on the return of the previous week, but a reduction of 269 on the corrected average of five autumns. If the present return be compared with that made in the same week of each of the years 1840 8, it will be found that, with but one exception (in 1841, when the deaths were 841), the mortality ranged formerly from 910 to 1,165, and therefore was considerably higher than in last week, though the popula tion in those years was less. The increase of 56 now observed on the week ending No vember 3 partly arises from pneumonia and bron chitis, the deaths from which b ecome more numerous as the winter advances, having been 104 in the previous week, 127 in the last. The total number of deaths from cholera in the week was only six (five less than in the previous week) ; in the same week of 1848 there were 62. The steady decline of diarrhoea and dysentery is shown by the numbers of the last five weeks, which were respectively 105, 63, 51,.40, and 29. A boy died of diarrhoea in Peterborough row, Fulham, whose father h a d b een carr i e d off by cholera in September ; a boy of the same disease at Brudenell-place, New North-road, from an unwhole some condition of the house ; arid a girl at Maidstone place, in the house in which a death from cholera, reported in the former week, occurred, and in a locality then described as " low and ill-drained." Uf the six deaths from cholera, one occnrred in Water-lane, Ho znerton ; one at Weatherhead-gardens (Hackney-road), a place low, undrained, and drenched by waste water ; one in Christchurch, St. Saviour's ; one at Drummond- THE BRAZILS. By the way of the United States we have advices from Rio de Janeiro to Sept. 12. Nothing of inte rest had transpired, excepting the celebration of the independence of the empire, which took place with great ceremony on the 7th. There entered the port of Rio, from foreign ports, during the month of August, 96 ships, with a tonnage amounting to 21,507; and 79 sailed, with 25,408 tons of goods. The commercial intelligence mentions the arrival of the Tartar, from Lisbon. The flour-market was very dull. The coffee market was firm, although very quiet, and prices remained unchanged—stock, 80,000 bags. Freights were dull. Exchange, 26d. It is expected that the Court will remove very shortly to Osborne. The Fairy and Elfin, royal yacht tenders, are specially ordered to be kept in readiness for her Majesty's use. THE COLONELCY OF THE 16TH LANCERS.—We are enabled to state that the Colonelcy of the 16th Lancers, vacant by the death of Sir J. C. Vandeleur, G.C.8., has been conferred upon that very distin guished cavalry officer, now serving in India, Major- General Sir Joseph Thack well, G.C.8., The Colonelcy of the 4th Dragoon Guards is still in abeyance. THE MURDER AT MILLHANIE PENITENTIARY.-- We are requested to contradict a statement which ap peared in our edition of yesterday, that 50/, had been given to the widow and six children of the deceased warder, Hall, who was so brutally murdered by the convict John Francis, out of a fund be longing exclusively to the officers, and raised by weekly subscriptions, and fines inflicted for direliction of duty. This fund, we are informed, is very limited in amount, and will only admit of a gratuity to the widow of 101. As she is left with six children en tirely helpless, and has no means of supporting herself or them, it is to be hoped that the Government will make some provision for her, or, in the event of their failing to do so, that some generously disposed persons who are acquainted with the distressing nature of the case will render her some assistance. SAFFRON WALDEN. Mr. Campling, the chief constable of Saffron Waldcn, the attempt to assassinate whom we announced a few days ago, died on Friday last. An inquest was held on the body on Saturday, which was adjourned till Monday, in order that the dying man's statement might be put in as evidence MARRIAGE IN RIGA LlFE.—Yesterday was solem nised at All Souls' Church, in Langham-place, by the Rev. Count J. De laField, Canon of Middleham, the mar riage of Paulet Henry St. John Mildmay, of Hayle grove, in the county of Somerset, Esq., grandson of the late Sir Henry St. John Mildmay, of Dogmersfield-park, Bart., and Caroline Adela Catherine Valentine, daughter of the late Orlando and Lady Lucy Standish, of Brecon hill Tower and Scaleby Castle, in the county of Cum berland, and Farley-hill, in the county of Berks, and granddaughter to the late Earl of Limerick. The cere mony was attended by a very numerous assemblage of the nobility and gentry, relations of the bride and bride groom, who subsequently adjourned to the residence of the Countess (Dowager) of Limerick, in Mansfield street, where a superb, dejeuner was served. The happy couple left town at three o'clock i n an e l ega nt equipage and-four for Farley-hill, in Berks, the seat of Pery Standish, Esq., the brother of the bride. Mr. Harding, of Clifford -street, had the honour of furnishing some very beautiful bridal bouquets for the occasion. IMPERIAL BRAZILIAN MINING COMPANY.—The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern. Mr. J. Walker was in the chair. The report of the directors stated that the receipts for the past half-year consisted of dividends upon 25,0001. reserved stock, 3941. Bs. ld.; receipts from gold, 9,148/. Bs. 5d.; arrears of calls, 1051.; proceeds of 223 shares, 599/. 6s. 3d.; making a total of 10,247/. 2s. 9d. On the debtor side of the account there appeared—balance from the 31st December last, 5771. 4s. 10d.; salaries and expenses, 7,4071. 9s. ld.; balance of c a ll o n 20 s hares, 12 . 10s.; in the total, 7,998/. 4s. 3d.; leaving a balance in favour of the company of 2,2491. 18s. Od. 12 1 4 ... aU 97% 3% 7414 30% - WA 47 54 15% 5 814