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THE NEW lIISTORICAL ROMANCE. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.. THE MAID OF ORLEANS.' By the Author of " Whitefriars," " Owen Tudor," &c. " A romance rarely equalled In our day for vigour, brilliancy, pa thos, and dignity of style. It is a work of surpassing interest, o- i which a peat sgbject is handled with a vigorous appreciation of non tives and character, a facile and graceful power of description, and that rare perspicuous command over the ideal of an intricate plot, and numerous array of characters, which bespeak the possession of the I•lgher attributes of the romancist. The glories and the wrongs of the heroic maid have never fount a chronicler more worthy of commemorating them than the gifted author of the work now before as." —Weekly Chronicle. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. sEA, FIRE, LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE. Established by Act of Parliament, 31, CORNIIILL, LONDON. 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TIRO ~•,, • 1 1 , E • 4 1111* tvnirtg LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1849, The point raised on behalf of MARIA MANNING at the recent trial at the Central Criminal Court, as to her right to be tried by a jury de medietate linguae, was, as we had anticipated, unhesitatingly and unani mously overruled by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeal. No doubt could indeed have existed in the mind of any person at all acquainted with the prim ipl -s of law as to the ultimate result. The fate of the wretched criminal might possibly have been postponed, but it could not have been averted. if the objection had been placed on the record, and carried on to the house of Lords, the execution might have been delayed for eev r months, and that couli: be the only advantage gained by the culprit. But would that have been really beneficial to the miserable woman ? Would it not rather have kept alive a wild and unreasonable fop! that could never have been realised ? Would it not have multiplied her agonies a hundredfold, while enduring the ' hope deferred that maketh sick the heart," and which hope must have eventually been disappointed ? It has been truly said that the actual execution of the sentence forms but a small part of the punishment of a person capitally convicted. The bodily sufferings are of brief duration, but the fearful antici pations of the vast and incomprehensible change that must be undergone occasion bitter and heartrending p trigs, on the intensity of which it is impossible to speculate. If, then, the inevitable termination of the proceedings could not be doubted for a single mo ment, it is a mercy to the criminal that it should be speedily decided, and that the unreasonable expecta tions in which she s 9 confidently indulged since her condemnation, and by which her spirits were unduly buoyed up, should be set at rest at once and fur ever. It is also of the highest importance that the majesty of the law should be promptly vin dicated in a case of such magnitude and importance, and that the public should not be led to suppose that the salutary penalties affixed to crime could be evaded or: indefinitely postponed on such frivolous pretexts. The "certainty" of punishment has even a greater effect than its severity, and a greater delay in the execution would be fraught with the most injurious consequences, while the public mind remained highly excited and in doubt as to the fate of the criminal. The Attorney-General, therefore, acted judiciously in refusing his sanction to the writ of error, while the fullest justice was accorded to the convict in permit ting the case to be brought under the consideration of six of the Learned Judges of England. The question itself, as we long since stated, lay in a nutshell. It was simply this—what was the status or condition of MARIA MANNING at the time of her trial ? Was the issue to be taken, and which the jury was iinpannelled to try, one between the QUEEN and an alien ? If the prisoner was at that time a naturalized subject, entitled to the rights and pri vileges, and s ubject to the responsibility of an Englishwoman, she could not only claim a trial by a jury de medietate lingw, but it would have been a mis trial, if it had been granted. In our impression of the 30th ultimo we pointed out this fact, and showed that among the privileges so acquired was that of being tried by twelve of her peers, who must be of " the king's liege people, returned by sheriffs or bailiffs of franchises, and of whom none shall be out lawed, or fled to sanctuary for treason or felony." The Attorney-General in his argument fully explained this point, which was indeed so plain, that the Learned Gentleman declared that "he made the observation, not for the purpose of the argument, but because several learned persons, or persons wh© were considered learned by courtesy, had made observa tions, and written opinions, that the right ought to have been conceded as a matter of fairness ;" in deed, as the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas remarked, "it would have appeared by the record, not simply tbat she was admitted to be an alien, but the matter of fact would have shown that she could not have been an alien." It would have appeared that FILEDERICK. GEORGE MANNING was a natural born subject ; that she was his wife, and, consequently ' that she was b y the o p eration of the statute 7 and 8 Victoria, chap. 66, sec. If, a naturalized subject of Great Britain, as fully as if a Bill of na turalization had been passed. The effect of such a Bill had not been questioned; all our eminent jurists, Hour, HALE, BACON, BLACKSTONE, and numerous legal commentators, have laid it down as settled, on indisputable autho- --- - Wthat a person naturalized became, to all intents pl.l , v9ses, the same as a British born subject. f.? Here, 'then, was a person naturalized by Act of ~Xarliaineut, which as fully related to her '_— • as 'if she had been mentioned by name - therein. It gave her " all that belonged to the chuacter of s British subject ; it took q ; SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8 1819 away " all that did not belong to a British sub ject." Her entire status was changed by the act of marriage, and therefore the privilege that belonged to her former status as an alien—that of being tried by a jury de medietate linguce—thereupon ceased and de- termined. The Judges very properly rested their decision on the effect of the statute. They very properly declined to enter into the elaborate arguments adduced as the effect of BIERE's Case, which, to say the least of it, is of very doubtful authority, as well as being exceedingly obscure. Indeed, the Attorney-General was unable to state whether the reported decision had been made in a civil action or in a criminal prosecution, a matter on which the result might very easily turn. It would palpably only weaken the effect of their clear and unequivocal judgment on the operation of the statute if such a precedent were relied on. The Learned Counsel for the prisoner—Mr. BAL LANTINE—did all that man could do on behalf of his client. He contended against fearful odds. The law and the facts were alike against him but he laboured zealously and energetically for his client, as he was bound to do. We cannot blame him if his arguments could not stand the test of reason. They were the best that could be adduced, and it was his imperative duty to bring them forward. An advocate, as we have already stated, must consider his client, and his client alone; he must disregard all other persons, and let no feelings of compassion or of sensibility influence him in the performance of his task. Thus it was that Sergeant WILKINS acted in his admirable defence of MANNING, the husband. Thus it is that Mr. BALLANTINE has acted for Mrs. MANNING, the wife. Lord BROUGHAM has placed this just principle in so strong a point of view, when defending Queen CAROLINE before the House of Lords, that we cannot refrain from quoting his very words. They will be found in Vol. 1., p. 105, of his published Speeches. He says— " Let no man vainly suppose that not only I, but that any, the youngest member of the profession, would he sitate for one moment in the fearless discharge of his paramount duty. I ;once before took leave to re mind your Lordships—which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind— that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows in the discharge of that office but one person in the world—THAT CLIENT AND NONE OTIER. To save that client by all expedient means, to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and, among others, to himself, is the highest and most un questioned of these duties. And he must not re gard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction which he may bring upon any other. Nay, separating the duties of a patriot from those of an advocate, and casting them, if need be, to the wind, HE MUST Go orr reckless of the consequences, if it should unhappily be to involve his country in con fusion, for his client's protection." Let those who prate about how far a barrister should go in defence of his client consider this deli berate opinion of one of the most brilliant advocates that ever appeared in a court of justice, and relin quish their own ridiculous crotchets on this point. Our naval intelligence of this evening affords another melancholy illustration of the mismanagement of that noble service which has been the instrument at once of the creation and the conservation of the puissance and the glory of England. It will be ob served in the accounts transmitted yesterday from Portsmouth that the difficulty experienced in manning our vessels, so far from diminishing in any respect, is rapidly on the increase. Even a twelve gun brig, " the most tempting craft in the navy for seamen," finds almost insuperable obstacles to obtain its neces sary complement; while "a dashing first class frigate, with a popular captain," is compelled to put up with a number of inefficient hands and the offscourings of various seaports. The futility of the efforts recently made by Captain DACaES to collect together an adequate complement of able bodied mariners to man the 50-gun frigate Leander, lately put in commission, is a glaring and lamentable testimony of the rottenness, not to say the insanity of the prevailing system—a system by which the maritime power of the country is very materially deteriorated, while a vast number of excellent seamen, rough and tough salt• water Jacks, noble fellows who deserve better treatment from the nation, are thrown suddenly out of employment, and very frequently cast adrift upon parishes but ill qualified to afford them assistance. _ .. , . Grievous, however, as are the evils resulting from this deplorable mismanagement, it is not to them that we are now going to refer. Our object at present is to pursue the line of argument commenced by ourselves on Monday—to dilate upon the grievances accruing to the naval profession, and the unnecessarily heavy disbursements required from the na , ional Exchequer, in consequence of the enor mous number, the preposterously enormous number, of superior officers, whose names are inscribed upon the Navy List as post captains, rear-admirals, vice admirals, and full admirals. Already we have shown that, while the United States navy is without one, while the French navy ha, but thirty-one, and the Russian navy but sixty three, the navy of England is encumbered with no less than one hundred and ninety-four admirals-43 on the retired list, 151 on full pay, 31 full admirals, 45 vice-admirals, and 72 rear-admirals 1 We have intimated, moreover, that this enormous assemblage of flag-officers is exactly 158 more than were enu merated on the books of the Admiralty during the period of our gigantic wars with NeronEoN. At that period 36 admirals were found s ufficient for all the emergencies of war, for all the wants of the service, for all the advantages of the profession. It is quite manifest, therefore, that a number so monstrously disproportioned as 36 for war-time and 13'4 for peace-time is indicative of a shameful unsoundness in the organization of the Reyal Navy. It demon strates quite unanswerably that the evil has become so immense as to render its instant diminution and its gradual dissipation imperatively necessary. Nevertheless it may be asked how on earth matters can be remedied ? The answer is sufficiently obvious. Let the number of superfluous admirals, vice admirals, and rear -admirals be diminished—slowly, and to a certain extent almost imperceptibly, if you will—but still diminished. According to the present arrangements of the service, no sooner is a superior officer deceased than the Gazette is crowded with a long list of consequent promotions. Some octogena rian dies admiral of the fleet; and forthwith we are informed that the vice-admiral of the United King dom becomes admiral of the fleet as his successor ; senior admiral of the red becomes vice-admiral of the United Kingdom ; second admiral of the red becomes rear-admiral of the United Kingdom ; admiral of the white becomes admiral of the red, admiral of the blue becomes admiral of the white, senior vice-admiral becomes admiral of the blue, vice-admiral of the red becomes senior vice -admiral, vice-admiral of the white becomes vice-admiral of the red, vice-admiral of the blue becomes vice admiral of the white, rear-admiral of the red becomes vice-admiral of the blue, rear admiral of the white becomes rear-admiral of the red, rear admiral of the blue becomes rear-admiral of the white, and the expectant post captain fortunately succeeds to his flag rank, moderately beginning upon the superior catalogue as rear-admiral of the blue. Phew ! the mere list makes one breathless. " And so the world wags !" Now such as the foregoing are the nature of the changes occurring immediately upon the death of any old " tarpaulin " of an admiral. We would see this interminable accession to the highest rank in the service retarded in some measure until the present preposterous list of 194 flag officers were reduced to within a rational compass. Nor would we desire that this beneficent innovation should be accom plished with an abruptness such as would entail any hardship upon any class of the naval profession. Let the reduction be effected in a manner so graduated as to excite no reasonable disappointment among the numerous aspirants for promotion. At present the senior post-captain obtains his flag-rank immediately an admiral departs life, be he admiral of the fleet or junior rear-admiral of the blue. Now instead of the senior post-captain attaining bis flag-rank with evc-ry i n di v id ual death, let i t be w i t h every two, or three, or four deaths among the admirals. Say, with every three deaths—and let this regulation continue in force until such time as the present monstrous list of admirals, vice admirals, and rear-admirals shall be sufficiently diminished. The felicitous result of such an arrangement would very soon be perceptible. We commend the plan with all earnestness to the consideration of the honourable Gentleman the representative of Montrose, or to some other energetic and ptitziotic ALenaber of the 11,4„ of Commons—so that the matter may be brought under the consideration of the Legislature very soon after the commencement of the approaching session of Parliament. What we have proposed with regard to the gradual abatement in the number of admirals might be equally applied, if considered advisable, to the dimunition of the extravagant list of post-captains. While, if it be objected that any such innovations would be the infliction of a grievous injustice upon deserving officers, by preventing their promotion — we can only reply that the plan just suggested would in no manner stop, it would only tend to retard promotion. Besides—You talk forsooth of injustice to superior officers, and have no complaint whatever to make with regard to the deep and interminable injus tice shown to those whose rank happens to be in some measure subordinate. Place yourselves exactly at the turning point in the. naval service—immediately between the junior post-captain beyond whom a rise is always with life inevitable, and beneath whom a rise is frequently impossible. Which division, we ask you, is deserving of the most numerical commiseration ? Above are 194 admirals and 554 post-captains, in all 748 superior officers—below are 876 commanders and 9 ,363 lieutenants, in all 3,229 inferior officers — consequently 2,481 more of the latter than of the former. Any one of the former (if they only live long enough) are certain of rising even to the su preme dignity of Admiral of the Fleet. With the latter, as is notorious, it is altogether otherwise. Fortunate young striplings with interest may jump up to the elevation of their post rank within a month or two of becoming commanders ; while old veterans, of long service and indisputable merit, may continue thirty, forty, or fifty years, as the case may be, simple commanders, and die at last without the con solation of being, as the phrase is, "posted." Lieutenants, in the same way, are frequently doomed to waste the energies of a long life without the reward of any higher promotion. Nay, there have been at times, to our own knowledge, instances of midshipmen growing gray in the service in the futile hope of ob taining their epaulettes—and at last, when the news of their elevation has arrived, shedding tears of mingled joy and incredulity. Shall these miseries and this injustice continue among the subordinate officers, among the lieutenants and commanders, while the list of post•captains and admirals continues to be egregiously overstocked ? It behoves the Admiralty to pronounce the negative. rHE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The reception of M. FERDINAND BARROT by the parti pretre and Legitimatist Members of the Assembly, on Monday, was exceedingly cold, ac cording to the Debats, notwithstanding his speech was in support of the measure introduced by his predecessor for suspending the re-organization of the National Guard of Lyons, a measure introduced by M. DUFAURE as a peace offering to the parti-pretre, and accepted by them as such. The coldness of the reception of M. FERDINAND BARROT can only there fore be accounted for by the fact that the parti pretre are perfectly aware that the PaEstueNT and his Ministers possess the most accurate information on the subject of the conspiracies in which the members of the White Mountain have been recently engaged, and that the same vigour will be exercisedagainstthe Legitimatist and Sacerdotal traitors, should they at tempt an overt act of treason against the Republic, that was exercised in January and Juno against the Red Republicans and Socialists. It was rumoured that the appointment of M. F. BARROT to the Ministry of the Interior was merely temporary, and that he would shortly make way for M. LEON FAUCHER. We attach no credit to this rumour. M. FERDINAND BARROT is, in point of ability, equal to M. LEON FAUCHER, and in - point of education and manners and temper (and in a Minister of the Interior good manners and good temper are essential qualifications) is infinitely his superior. M. FERDINAND BARROT is, moreover, a lawyer, while M. LEON FAUCHER is not, and, therefore, M. FERDINAND BARROT will not suffer his zeal to hurry him into the commission of Illegalities, which was too often the case with M. LEON FAucnEn, and which told with most damaging effect upon the Ministry with which he was con nected ; besides, M. FERDINAND BARROT is, and 1 - As been for years, the personal friend and the devoted adherent of President Louts NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. Re defended Colonel VAUDRT before the Court at Strasburg ' he defended Prince Levis NAPOLEON before the Chamber of Peers after the affair of Bou logne ; he was as intimate and as attached to the prisoner of Ham as he has ever been with the occu pier of the Ely:6,?, and he was the first man of any political importance who came forward openly and boldly to advocate the pretensions of Citizen Lotis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE to the Presidency of the Republic. It i 3 not at all probable, therefore, hat the PRESIDENT will displace M. FER DINAND BARROT. M. LEON FAUCHER may perhaps enter the Cabinet as Minister of Finance, for all parties seem to agree that M. ACHILLE FOULD'S lease of office is not likely to be a long one. The present Prefect of the Seine, M. BERGER, who is the intimate friend of M. THIERS is to be removed, and will be succeeded in all probability by M. TIIAYER or by the Duc DE PADONE. M. DR PERSIGNT, one of the PRE SIDENT'S Aide-de- camps, will be appointed Minister of Police. General BEDEAU will, it is said, super sede General AUPICK at Constantinople, and M. ARMAND MARRAsT is spoken of as Ambassador to Spain. The Assembly on Monday decided, by a majority of 377 to 201, to take into consideration a proposition of General BARAGUAT D'HILLIERS, relating to the repeal of the decree of last year as to the free admis aion into the Polytechnic The ballot for the Committee of Inquiry into the State of the Navy took place on Monday. The following is the result : Number of voters Absolute majority M. Colas M. Daru M. Ilerneux M. Charuer M. J. Lasteyrie ... M. Bernoist d'Azy M. Dufaure M. Charles Dupin The ballot for the eight remaining members to be elected will be continued to-day. The appointment of General BARRAGUAT D'HIL LIERS to the command in Rome is disapproved of by the organ of the parti-pretre the Univers. We, therefore, conclude that the appointment must be an excellent one. The organs of the Legitimatists and of the parti pretre continue to growl their dissatisfac tion at the recent changes in the Ministry, but they are evidently " afraid to strike," although willing to wound. The Courrier Francais, which has warmly ap proved] of the message of the PRESIDENT of the Re public, urges him to act with vigour against the enemies of order, and then'says:— " The nation cannot enter into the full enjoyment of its liberties until it shall have conquered the revolution • ary spirit which has agitated it for the last sixty years. In order to remove all pretence for agitation, the new Ministry should hasten to adopt all the useful measures which are called for by circumstances. It is by so doing that it will merit the title of the Ministry of ac lion which it is wished to be able to give to if. Without losing itself in projects of impracticable improvement, it will suffice for it, in order to merit well of the country, to resolve questions the solution of which is desired by really practical men. The Ministry would, we think, give a sufficient satisfaction to these wants in indicating how it means to e s t a bli s h t h e equ ilib r i um b etween t h e receipts and expenses of the budget of 1850, and in promptly voting th a t b u d get; i n com i ng to a decision on the lo an o f 500 m i l li ons wh i ch it will be necessa r y t o contract to reduce the floating debt, and to meet the expenses of the public works to be executed in 1850; in definitively decidinr , on a Bill for the execution of the railways from Paris to Lyons and from Lyons to Avignon; in using its irflu ence to vote as promptly as possible the different Bills tending to establish a good mortgage system in France; in expediting the vote on the Caisse des Retraites and on the mutual assistance societies; in presenting on the question of assistance a Bill in accordance with the wish of the Constitution, withont entering into the impossibi lities of Socialism, or into the inconveniences of the tax Ministry accomplishes merited theappellation this of compli catedon th et task, it t wilthel have really a Ministry of action." The Sieele has the following on the Eastern question : " Our reactionists render their beat assistance to Russia and to Austria, who seek to dissemble the depth of the check they have received in the East, in conse quence of their arrogant demand to the Porte on the subject of the Hungarian refugees. If the Cabinets of London and of Paris had confined themselves to sending notes, it might have been maintained that it suit« d the Czar and the Emperor Francis Joseph to be satisfied with the sending into the interior those refugees whose Extradition she hud demanded. But the English and French fleets were placed at the disposal of the ambas sadors, and hence a light was thrown on the retrograde movement of the two great Courts. That is a sad case for those who reckoned on the mo narchical phantasmagoria of the North, but the *solid knows, and will never forget, that be . .. fore the union of the two great liberal powers, if the autocracy did not impose silence on its diplomatists, it prudently returned the sword to its scabard. In order to console a little the misadventure of the schis matic Popo of Moscow, to whom they are not less de , voted than to that of Rome, the Catholics of the new stamp now announce that the fleet of Admiral Parseval- Desel &les, which was seen from Malta steering towards Smyrna, is to have another destination. It is, in fact, probable, although it has not yet been thought proper to inform the Assembly of it, that the fleet is to proceed to Morocco to chastise the Moors, but that in no way changes the policy declared by France and England—a policy which has received a commenument of execution sufficiently significative to change the respective positions of the powers with regard to Turkey." The Debats says he accounts which we have received through various channels from Morocco agree in stating that an amicable arrangement between that power and the French Government has become impos sible. We learn that almost all the consular authorities and the French subjects in Morocco have been com pelled to quit the country and take refuge at Gibraltar. In such a state of things we are led to believe the re ports which have been current that the French GQ vernment has dispatched a counter order to the fleet under Admiral PARSEVAL•DESCHENES. It is said that a steam-corvette has been dispatched to the Admiral, ordering him to proceed with his squadron to the coast of Morocco, where his appearance cannot fail to produce a great effect. The force which operated against Tangier and Mogador in 1845 was only composed of three sail of the line, a frigate, and some steamers ; the Mediterranean squadron has now six sail of the line and two frigates, besides the steamers which can readily reinforce it from Toulon and Algiers." We read in the Journal du Havre :—" We have received a copy of a request which Captain CURET, commanding the Edouard of the port of Havre, addressed to the French Republic at Valparaiso, t demand the disembarkation of several passengers whose presence on board had be come dangerous, owing to their turbulent and undisci plined conduct. Among these passengers we notice in the first rank M. JACQUES ARAGO, who, although blind, is chief of a society of gold. seekers. M. ARAGO placed himself in constant opposition to the eaptain. By means of seductions and promises of favour, M. ARAGO succeeded in rendering some of the crew the accomplices of his insubordination. On 14th July he made an appeal to revolt, and placed himself in open hostility to Captain CURET, declaring with violent ges tures that he would break the ice, that he would pass the Rubican, &c. Captain CURET accuses M. ARAGO of having, unknown to him, sent provisions of the first class to his associates of the second class, thereby making an abusive use of the privilege which the Captain had given him of being treated as a first class passenger, though he had only paid second-class fare. M. SAINTIN BAUDRY, secretary of M. ARAGO is also accused by the Captain of the Edouard with having been one of the principal getters up of disorder, and of. having encouraged gambling on board, contrary to the orders of the Captain. These and other circumstances, caused M. CURET to make a formal demand to the Consul of Valparaiso for authorization to disembark at that port MM. JACQUES ARAGO, S AIN TIN-BAUDRY, BERTLION, PROD, JOUBERT, PLANTE, BOUCHERAT, FOURNIER, ALOUZE, and DELAMARRE ; and the Captain offered to pay these passengers as an indemnity for not con veying them to their destination 400 francs for those of the first class, 200 franca for the second class. The price agreed on for the passage from Havre to San Francisco, had been 1,500 francs first, 800 francs second. It appears that the Consul, M. BLANCHARD, did not receive favourably the request of Captain CURET: the name of ARAGo intimidated him ; he believed from what the passengers, and especially M. JACQUES ARAGO said that the Democratic and Social Republic had by that time been proclaimed in France. We are assured that a complaint OR the conduct of this agent will be addressed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Captain CURET en revanche gratefully expresses his thanks for the assistance and support given him by Commandant LERORGNE, of the war corvette the Sarcelle, who caused the second captain, the master of the crew, and a sailor to be removed from the Edouard, for indisci pline and mutiny." BOURSE, Two o'CLocK.—Five per Cents. 88f.; Threes 55f. 70c.; Bank Shares 2,330 f. BUSINESS DUNE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TOE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Nov. 7. Boulogne and Amiens, s%—East Indian, 3%—Namur and Liege, 57—Northern of France, 31, 8 dis.—Orleans and Bordeaux, 27 8 —Sambre and Meuse, 2—Tours and Nantes, SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 2d have arrived. General EVARISTO SAN MIGUEL has refused the seat m the Supreme Tribunal of War which was offered him by IN ARYAEZ, and the appointment has been conferred on General LLAUDER. In the sitting of the Senate, on the 10th, Senor PINA AGUAYO put a question to the Government respecting the rumours of a Ministerial crisis, which he said had prevailed ever since the late events of the 18th of October, and which kept the country in a state of disquiet ; and wished to know whether there was any foundation for those reports, or whether the Ministers continued, as he presumed they did, to en joy her MAJESTY ' S confidence. He should be glad , If the Government saw no inconvenience in doing so, to have an answer on the subject which would con tribute to alleviate the public anxiety. General NAN VAEZ stated, in reply, that on the 18th instant the Ministers had good reason for think ing that they did not enjoy the full confidence of her MAJESTY ; that he thought it his duty, consequently, to call his colleagues together forthwith, and that they were all of accord as to the line they ought to follow, believing that they could not govern under the representative system without the entire con fidence of the SOVEREIGN , r and the decided support of the Cortex. They resolved, consequently, to give in their resignation, and waited upon her AlaJEsTy for that purpose. The QUEEN was pleased to accept them, and in the use of her royal prerogative she named the Ministry which she thought most proper. These events were known to every one. W ith respect to himself, what he could say was, that he had the honour to be summoned by her .MaimsTy on the 20th, when the QUEEN made known to him her desire that he should again organize the Ministry, over which he had previously presided, in the same manner as before. In reply, he had thanked her MAJESTY in the name of his colleagues, but had entreated her to think of other worthy persons whom the nation contained, as he considered that the preceding events had weakened the force of the Ministry which her MAJESTY desired to charge again with the direction of public affairs. After stating other arguments of the same kind, General NARVAFZ said that he thought it his duty to persist no further, in consequence of the express desire of the QUEEN that they should return to office, and that her MAJESTY, " with evident signs of joy," signed the decrees naming the Ministry which was then before the Senate. General NARYAEZ then went on to refer to the rumours alluded to by Senor PENA AGUAYO. He said the Government was aware of them, and that, being firm in its resolution not to continue at the head of affairs without possessing the complete confidence of the Crown, they presented themselves to her MAJESTY - last night, and stated that they desired, before submitting to the legislative bodies the various measures which they had prepared, to hear from her royal lips whether she con . - tinued dispensing to them her confidence; and that if not, if her MAJESTY thought th at other persons could better serve the public cause, and that of her august person, she would please to nam e them, in which case they would do their best to support the Cabinet that her MAJESTY might name in the Chambers to which they belonged. To this the QUEEN had replied, by stating repeatedly that they possessed her whole confidence, that she desired they would con tinue at the head of affairs, and that they might state the same everywhere, and in the Parliament itself. These proofs of her MAJESTY'S esteem were so grati fying and unequivocal that persons of the most exqui site susceptibility would say, as they did at this mo ment, that they possess the absolute confidence of the QUEEN. Senor PENA AGUAYO declared himself completely satisfied, and the House adjourned without fixing any day for its next sitting. In the Chamber of Deputies on the 2d, Senor OLozAGA. and otters deposited a demand for the production of papers on foreign and interior affairs. The palace affair would, it was considered, be ar ranged. The municipal elections, which had taken place, had given a majority to the moderate party. GENERAL THEATRICAL FUND.—We are happy to learn that the next anniversary dinner of the above excellent institution will be presided over by Benjamin Webster, Esq , a deputation consisting of Messrs. Buckstone, Cullenford, Worrell, and Craven, having waited upon that gentleman at the Haymarket Theatre on Monday, for the purpose of soliciting Mr. Webster to take the chair, to which request Mr. W. most kindly and cordially acceded. This is as it should be, and we are gratified to find the acknow ledged heads of the profession thus coming forward al year after year to testify their sense of the value of this valuable and libera l association. }MARRIAGE Or MADEMOISELLE RACHEL.—The Paris papers state t hat Mdlle. Rachel, the celebrated the The necessary nupt prepara tions are being made. Mdlle. Rachel will, of course, ig are to be Jewish actress, is about t o be married to a M. Rodri gc e u ar a a t B ed ' r a c t h i a , n a t u s o s f a ßordeaux. w he al e where re tire from the stage. DISCOVERY AT IZEDCLIMS CHURCH. —At a late meeting of the Archveological Association, Mr. Godwin, as an evidence that in early times they had treated the monuments of their progenitors as badly as had been done more recently, mentioned the discovery, a f ew weeks ago, of a carved monumental slab, of the thirteenth century, under one of the buttresses of the north porch of Redcliffe church, for which it had been made to serve as a foundation. The slab shows a cross occupying the centre, with two sculptured heads projecting hem the plain face of the stone, one over each arm of the cross. —Builder. GRAY'S-INN, Nov. 7. --john Deverell, Esq., was this day called to the degree of Barrister-at-Law by the atm. Society of Gray's lan, G E MA N AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. The judicial murders have ceased in Hungary only to recommence in Transylvania. LADISLAS SANDOIt, and another Magyar chieftain, were banged at the end of last month. The "Wiener Zeitung, of November Ist, contains an official communication from WIDDIN, -which is so far important as it confirms the reports already in circu lation with respect to the mission of General HAu- SLAB. His object was to recover, if possible, such of the insurgents as were not too deeply implicated in the late war to exclude them from the benefits of an amnesty. The Austrian general landed at Widdin, where he found the refugees encamped outside the town. He was received by the Pacha with Oriental pomp. On the 16th a placard appeared on the walls of the Austrian Consulate, offering safe conduct and free pardon to such of the refugees, who were Austrian subjects, from sergeants downwards, who were desirous of returning home. On their arrival on Austrian ground, the stout and active will be enrolled in the army. This amnesty includes cadets and subaltern officers of the Honved. Those who attained officers' rank, and the officers who formerly followed the Imperial standard, must consent to appear before a commission, appointed to examine them. This pro clamation is said to have been read with joy by the unfortunate men, and between two and three thousand availed themselves of the offer, and were shipped off in an Austrian steamer that had arrived from Orsova for the purpose of bringing them back to their country. It was belieVed at Vienna on the Ist November that Russia would not persevere in her demand for the extradition of the Hungarian refugees from Turkey. A Berlin letter of the 4th states that the Austrian Cabinet has expressed approbation of the protest of Saxony and Hanover with reference to the federal state. The Austrian Lloyd's states that General DE HAS FORD, commanding the 15th military division, has ordered a monument to be erected on the Capellen berg, at Cronstadt, to commemorate the union of the Russian and Austrian armies. The Agram Gazette announces that 3,000,000 florins have been allowed by the Austrian Govern ment to the distressed populations of Baeska and the Banat of Temesch. PRUSSIA. The Independance of Brussels publishes the follow ing letter from Berlin, 3d inst. The Second Chamber held a long sitting to-day, which did not close until half-past five. The question was the Bill relative to the Eastern Railway, and those of Westphalia and Saarbruck. The discussion was very animated. The affair of the loan to be contracted for the Eastern Railway was before the Diet in 1847. On the present occasion the left demanded the adjournment or the modification of the vote until the Government had made known the real state of the finances of the country. It is equivalent to a renewal of the opposition of the Diet, which demanded, before granting the necessary funds for the construction of the Koanigs berg Railway, that constitutional rights should be granted to the States General. There is a great interest attached to this discussion. On the subject of the vote of the taxes, it is foreseen that a reconciliation amongst parties will take place. The Left appeared to be divided on the railway ques tion. M. Simson was of opinion that the funds to be voted should depend on the account rendered by the 'Government above alluded to. M. Harkort proposed to change ten millions of the Loan Bonds into Railway Bonds. M. Beckerath demanded that State Bonds should be issued. M. Wentzel, President of the Tribunal of Ratbor, went into the political bearing of the question, and alluded to the recent conflict between the Ministry and the Moderate Left. A reply from the Minister of the Interior led it to be understood that the Govern ment would hold out the hand of reconciliation. The Minister declared that not to vote the 21 millions of thalers demanded would be to reject the bill. On coming to a vote, the amendments of the Left were rejected by large majorities. The Chamber afterwards, adopted the proposition of the Committee authorizing the Government, in case the funds voted were not sufficient, to contract a loan of not exceeding 21 millions. The First Chamber has adopted Article 105 as drawn up by the Second Chamber, with the excep tion of the concluding phrase, which will be as follows: —` If any doubts should arise on the question of know ing whether the ordonnances promulgated without the consent of the Chambers require that consent, the ques tion is decided by the propositions and the votes of the Chamber.' Art. 106 will be thus worded, The Consti tution may be modified in the ordinary line of legislation, in this sense that, in the two Chambers, the simple abso lute majority is sufficient. A lapse of 21 days must expire between the two votes.' Article 107 to 112 were after wards adopted in accordance with the advice of the committee of the Second Chamber. Baden and Bavaria have adhered to the Convention of September 30. The Government is about to submit to the Chambers the Convention relative to the cession of Hohenzollern. 1 learn that the motivo of this decision of the Ministry is that it has renounced the idea of establishing a personal union for Hohenzollern. That country will be trans formed into a Prussian province. If it is necessary one day to defend the new possession by force of arms, the other province will have to support the expenses of the war. Hence the necessity of obtaining the consent of the Chambers, of NY hich, however, there is no doubt. The son of the Prince of Prussia left this evening for Bonn, where ho will pursue his studies." GREECE. A letter from Athens, of the 24th ult., states that the Greek consuls have received orders not to give any more passports to political refugees, and the local authorities have been directed not to receive refugees unprovided with passports. THE BRITISH AND FRENCII ALLIED SQUA MONS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. We have already announced that the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Sultan, which reached that island late on the afternoon of the 25th of October, reports to have fallen in, off Psara, at four A.}l., on the 23d, with the squadron under Sir Wil liam Parker, consisting of six sail of the line and a steam-frigate. We have now another letter from Malta, written at noon on the 26th of October, which informs U 3 that the French fleet of six sail of the line, a frigate, and the Descartes war steamer, were then passing that island, under a heavy press of sail, with a fair wind from the N.W., steering E.S.E. ITAL Y. Accounts from Portici state that the POPE has decided to expedite the promulgation of the organic laws announced in the mote proprio, and to extend the too narrow limits of the amnesty. His HOLINESS lett Naples on the 30th ult. for Be nevento. The Legge of Turin quotes a letter from Rome, of the 29th ult., in which it is said that Cardinals BEE NETTI and LAMBRUCIIINI are shortly to replace Cardinals DELLA. GENGA. and VANICELLI in the Commission of Cardinals. Count PIETRO FERRETTI, who had made his escape from Naples, has arrived at Ancona. It was again rumoured that the Porn would retufn to Rome in the beginning of next month. An ord,.?r of the day of the 28th has announced to the ROlan troops that they are no longer under the commahrl of the French military authorities. On the 28th ult. General BOSTC,sLAN, Commander in-Chief of the French troops at Rome, held a grand review on the plains of Acqua Acetosa. The troops present at this review consisted of 22 batil. l ions, 8 squadrons of cavalry, and 4 batteries, The Constituzionale of Florence states from Bo logna, 29th ult , that the military authorities have been obliged to distribute arms to the country people, that they may defend themselves against the robbers who infest the country. The Turin journals of the 3d confirm the intelli gence of the resignation of General BAVA. They generally concur in saying . that this resignation is owing to a difference of opinion existing between the late Minister of War and the Superior Commission for the re-organization of the army, and is of no political importance. The Opinione of Turin of the 3d states that General LSMARMORA is spoken of as the probable successor of General BATA to the Ministry of War, and that M. PALEOCAPA. is likely to accept the port- folio of Public Works. The Risorgimento of Turin states that the King of SARDINIA has sent one of his aides-de-camp to pay a visit to General PEPE in his name. A letter from Naples of the 30th ult. says— " Arrests, which for a moment were suspended, have again begun here, without any one being able to explain the cause. There is certainly danger, even at Naples, in proceeding with measures as abrupt as rigorous, with out taking the precaution of putting forward some pre text for them. The society of Jesuits has been solemnly and officially installed here, and the effects of it have been already felt ; a royal decree, dated the 27th, has just been promulgated, which enacts that in future every tutor, whether public or private, male or female, whatever may be the nature of the instruction given, sciences, letters, languages, or fine arts, must be pro vided with an authorization from the King, another from the University, and undergo a written examina tion on the great catechism of the Christian religion, and must, moreover, answer before the members of the Faculty of Theology to questions on the special points of his instruction which regard religion. The decree says in express terms that this examination shall oven be required from masters who teach writing and reading, and trom the professors of foreign languages and drawing. An indication not less certain of the re appearance of the celebrated society, and of its influence in the councils of the King, is visible at the theatre; the female dancers have resealed the green drawers which they had laid aside last year when the Constitution was proclaimed, and an order has been given that they are to avoid anything red in their costumes, the mixture of the red and green with the white of their petticoats having the inconvenience of calling to m'nd the trio lour flog of It4iitia indepeadoce.7 HONE Y and CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. In the Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday specu lators operated to a large extent, say 10,000 bales—the sales for the day being 20,000 bales. Compared with Friday's rates prices were l id per lb. dearer for nearly all descriptions.—Railway Shares were worse, and lower prices were taken. In the markets which regulate the Corn Averages for the Kingdom, the quantity of Wheat sold during the week to Saturday last was 100,427 quarters. The Flanders mail has not yet arrived, and there are no later ship arrivals. The project for a railway to the Pacific has been taken up as none but Americans would take it up, viz , in a spirit of enthusiasm. At St. Louis a convention has been held, at which a resolution was introduced calling upon Congress to act promptly in regard to the Pacific Railroad, and other interesting proceedings took place, of which we may give an outline. A letter was read from Colonel Fremont, requesting the Convention not to designate any route across the Rocky Mountains. He believed the pass between the head of the Arkansas and the Rio del Norte the most practicable and nearest to the Pacific. General Persifor F. Smith has sent an exploring party, with a view to report before the termina tion of the next Congress. Mr. Benton dwelt long and eloquently on the importance and nationality 0 the road. Four hundred and sixty-five delegates were present, of whom seventeen were from Missouri, three from Pennsylvania, twenty- five from New York, thirteen from Ohio, thirty-one from Tenessee, three from Indiana, two hundred and sixty-four from Kentucky, forty-seven from Illinois, three from lowa, and five from Michigan. A delegate from Louisiana offered a resolution, which was passed, that a committee of one be appointed from each State, to draft a memorial to Congress, in which should be presented the objects designed by the Conven tion. Judge Birch here presented a resolution, recom mending 48 degrees as the parallel of latitude for the best route for the railroad. The Committee ,on Resolutions reported a series of resolutions for consideration, setting forth the object and spirit of the convention as truly national, and observing neither party, sectional, or local interests, and recom mending Congress to make immediate provision for the construction of a great trunk road to the Pacific, in California, with a branch to Oregon, from some point on the Mississippi, or frontier, as may be found eligible. MI the eastern lines now tending towards the west may be considered parts of the same. Also, that Congress establish military posts for the protection of settlers and emigrants, and that grants of land be made encouraging population, and that Congress be memorialised to con struct a telegraph on the road, and that a committee of five be appointed to prepare and publish an address to the people of the Union, urging them to procure the action of Congress. The Hon. J. W. Thompson, of Indiana, addressed the convention in an able and eloquent manner, and offered,the following amendment:—" That the grand trunk railroad be constructed with branches to St. Louis, Memphis, and Chicago, and that a committee of fifty be sent to the Memphis Convention, requesting the co operation of that body." The report of the topographicaljengineers, as to the various routes for the railroad, was referred to a com mittee. Some parties were in favour of a resolution being introduced, that Congress should be memorialized to favour the immediate commencement of the road, at a point west of the organized states, to be continued to San Francisco, but this was opposed, and it was said that the road west of the organized states would be com pleted within ten years. The Convention: ultimately adjourned after adopting a resolution to re-assemble at Philadelphia on the Ist April next, to resume the consi deration of the subject. - Guadeloupe papers of September 26 have come to hand, and the following are extracts : " The colony enjoys a perfect calm at present, thanks to the energy of the Governor. The President of the Court of Appeals and the Commissary of Police, Messrs. Hardoin and Babeau, had been called to France to give an account of their conduct. They both belonged to the Socialist party. Everything has been re-or ganized on the European system again, under the pro tection of France. Five hundred francs of indemnity for each slave was the sum fixed upon to be given to the planters. " We see that 14,790,334 kilogrammes of sugar had been exported on the Ist September. The harvest was ended, but the produce was less by one-half than in former years. " The Administration is actively engaged in the es tablishment of places of asylum, or, rather, of civil hospitals, for the sick, the miserable, and the aged, who are now as thick as blackberries at Guadeloupe ever since the emancipation of the slaves. The object in tended to be attained, if possible, is to prevent mendicity, which would otherwise become the pest of the colony. One of these hospitals has been established at Daulle; the situation of the other, which it was desired to place at Grande Terre, is not yet decided upon." The exportations from this colony have been, from January Ist to September Ist, 1848 and 1849, as iollows CIAL NEW S, I Eastern Union, Class A (late E. . Shares) 25 Ditto, Class A, ditto... 3% — Do., Class B (I. & B.) 25 Ditto, Class C, ditto... 25 . .... Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ...... East Lancashire Ditto, New - 000000000 ...... Ditto, New Quarters 64 ...... .. . . Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters East Lincolnshire ;dinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... ..... ...... ..... Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 .. .. Edinburgh and Northern 25 — Ditto, Newport l5 .. ... Exeter.Yeovil. & Dorch 2 5 , a...... Exeter and Exmouth... 21s. Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Glasgow,Kilmar , & Ayr 50 Do. Preference Consol. +.4reat Northern Do., 1 , 2 A Deferred Do., 1,4 2 B 6 per Cent 7% — ... Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 10 ;rest South. and West. (Ireland) Great North of England 100 ......210 . ... Ditto, New, 401 4O Ditto, ditto B5 Ditto. New, 301 3O Ditto, New,ls/... ...... 15 .. Great Western 100 ...... 60 5 / 4 % Ditto, 1 ,4 Shares 5O ...... .., ........ .. Ditto, 4 Shares 23 ... 11 1 Ditto, Fifth 5........... 20 Ditto, New .... 15 ... Hull and Selby ...... 50 Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 Do. Quarter Shares... 12% — Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 ...... 50 .... Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshireloo Do. do. M. B. ta 8... 98 Ditto, ditto . Ditto, t 4 Shares ...... 49 .. Do. Quarters Do. Fifths... ....... 10 Do. Thirds ....... 16% — Do. New Guarantoed 6 per Cent. •.. Do. Liverp. and Bury 49 Ditto (Huddersfield and Sheff.) 5O Do. (W. Riding Union) 10 -.- Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. IA Shares (A)... 10 ...... Leeds and Bradford 6O " n " 00000 •• •••• Leeds and Thirsk ...... 50 Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 6 Do., Pref. Quer., ISIS 9 Liverpool, Crosby and Southport . lO London &Blackwall...ll/. 68. 3d London, Brighton, and South Coast... .....100 Do., New 51., guaran teed 6 per Cent..... 100 Do•Guarant. 5 per et.. 9 ...... Do. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 .. London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d... ..... Ditto, PrefereneP .20 London and N. Western 100 ..... 114% Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 Ditto, ...... .. Do. 401.Shares(L. )35 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) C. 1 Lond. &S. W estern 50 .. .......... Ditto, New 50/. ...... 424 — Do. New 40/. .. 34 Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. ... 5 Londonderry &Coleraine 25 Do. 1 / 2 Shares ~... 5 Londonderry and Ennis -25 •- Do. Shares Lowestoff. guar. 4 per ct 20 Ditto (6 par ct.) Manchestcr,Buxton,and Matlock S Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...loo Do. Quarters (No. 1) 23 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... '25 D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 12% -- Do. New 101. Pref..... 10 10 Ditto, Gt. Grimsby ... 50 - • • ••• ••• 000000 Ditto ditto • •••••••••• 19 MINUS Ditto ditto ....... ll% — Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 22%. ... ...- Do., Grimsby Dock 25 ..... Do., Manchester and Lincoln Union. 4l. 2s. — Midland ....... 100 48 47% Do. Consolidated Pref.loo Do., do., 501. Shares 30 8 ...... Do. Birm., and Derby 100 Do•Consol. Bristol and Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 l2O I Ditto, Brist. & Glocstr. 42 Ditto ditto .... 221. 7s— Do.,ErewashVal.,Pref. 50 Ditto, Leieest.& Swan nington, 8 per ct. guar.lo3 Midland Great Western Irish bliddlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. Newcastle and Carlisle.loo Do. Quarters Newmarket Do. Extension Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford . 6 Newry and Enniskillen 7 N ewry, Warrenpomt, and Rostrevor .. 20 Norfolk ........... ....100 Do. New 201. Do. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 20 Do. Guaranteed 5% pc. 5 Do. do. Waveney VaL 2 ...... Northern Counties Union 4 ....... NON North British ........ ... 25 ..... Ditto, Halves .. Ditto, Quarters - Ditto, Thirds .... 8% —...- Ditto Preference 5 — mint North Staffordshire ... 17% 8 % 14 North Wales . N. 3 1,6 North-Western . 13% oxterd, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Reading, Guildford, and Reigate l5 ••••,. ..... Royston and Hitchin Scottish Central Scottish Midland Ditto, New Shrewsbury and Birra... 12 ....- D.tto ditto. Class B. 8 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shrewsbury and Herefd. 4 Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) lB Ditto Halves -. ditto 9 Ditto Oswestry 18% — Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref Shropshire Union ,outh Devon Do. Preference So ith Staffordshire B% —. •••••• •••••• ••• south Eastern Do., N 0.2. Do., No. 3 ......... Do., Registered No. 4 10 Do., Scrip No 4 South W ales (luta Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole l2 Sheffield, Rotherham, & Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent. 16% — Do. do (Sou. Div.) -. 5 ....... swans. & Loughor &Ca meron's Stm. Coal. 7 Taw Vale Extension ... 8 themes Haven Dock and Railway ..... 17% — Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 20 . Waterford and Limerick 47% Waterfd,Wx.frd,Wicklw and Dublin - Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... ...... 60 Do. • do. do. ... 25 Do. do. do. ... 15 West Cornwall ......... 6 ... Whitehaven & Furness 18 Windsor, Staines, and South Western ..... 14 Wilts, Somerset, & W ey mouth York, Newcastle, and Berwick..... 25 Do. Newcastle Eaten. 20 Do. 14.N.E.Preference Do. Hartlepool Dock and Railway 100 ...... •- ......... ..• Yorkand North Midland 50 19%% Ditto, Preference 10 FOREIGN RAILWAYb. Anglo Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian). ... Boulogne and Amiens... 20 ... Central of franca (Or leans and Vierzon)... 20 Demerara 17% — Dutch Rhenish ..•...... 8 East Indian ........ 3 1 4 — Great Indian Peninsular 5 Do. D 0.... 10s. Louvain la Sambre ... 7% Luxembourg Ditto ...... Madrid and Valentia.... 2 Namur and Liege 20 ... N or thern of France...... 14/. 8s — dis ..... Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 2% % Paris and Orleans ...... 20 ..... ...... Paris and Rouen 2O 20 Paris and Strasbourg 12 Rouen and Havre ...... 20 Sambre and Meuse 2O N. .. Strasbourg and Basle Tours and Nantes l3 •-• Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hassell...—. 20 West FlandersB%•. Ditto ..... JOINT STOCK BANK& Australasia British North American 50 Colonial 25 6 1 ,4 ......... Commercial of London 20 London Joint 5t0ck...... 10 London & Westminster. 20 ............... National Prov. England. 35 Ditto New........ 10 ••••• ....... National of Ireland 22%...... ....... Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New ••• 10 Union of Australia Ditto,New.". ..... ••• 2%•••••• • MINES. Anglo-Mexican lOO "•••• Asturian Mining Cons 15 4Witrialang2l.ll/11. ....... I Oin. rt. .. 1849. 1848. Clayed sugars 226 kil. 403 kil Raw sugars 14,790,334,50 „ 25,707,583 ~ Coffee ,_ _ . 11 Cotton Cocoa Syrup Rum and Tafia 2,044 „ 6,630 „ 7,393 „ 10,249 „ 6,580 gals. 45,274 gals 14,307 „ ..... 46,637 „ . . Lloyd's Subcription Rooms and offices will be closed on Thursday next, and no doubt the North and South American and other places of resort and business will follow the example. The following are the latest weekly traffic returns of some of the principal railways, as ascertained this day : London and South-Western... Great Western Bristol and Exeter ... Midland London and North-Western... ... X 8,959 ... 15,723 ... 3,685 ... 22,320 ... 40,165 The English Funds have been without the least move ment. Consols realise 92,1 j; the New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents., 92-1 ; and the Three per Cents., 91i 1. Bank Stock has been firm at 1981. Exchequer bills were worth 455. to 485.; and India Bonds, 81s. to 84s. premium. The Foreign Securities have been very quiescent again. Equador Stock, however, has touched 31 Grenada Bonds have been 16k, Chilian 94. and Brazilian New 82. Danish Bonds have been at 72, and Dutch Four per Cents. at 82 to f. Nominally Spanish Three per Cents. have been 34i to 35. Portuguese Four per Cents. 33 to 34. Railway Shares have been dull, but not lower, if we take the general run. Great Western are even better, and also Brighton. North-Western are rather heavy, and also Caledonian. Midland and South-Eastern much the same, and North Stafford a trifle better. Namur and Liege are higher, and Orleans and Bordeaux flatter, as well as Sambre and Meuse. 0N B O'CLOCK. ci.eszqr G e l crs OF isRITIBII FUNDrs PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Antis . • 9 I 5 ,04% 904 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 92 % 3% 92 3 4 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anna.-- 92 % 5i% 92% Long Anne. to expire J an. 1860 -16 8% 8 V 4 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10. 1859 -16 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 B% 8% India Bond*, 1,0004 ........ ..... Ditto under 1,000/.. .. South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Consuls for Account 9 2%% Exchequer Bills. 130. & 2d 1,000/. June 45 48 p 500/. June Small. June 45 48 p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. ONE O'CLOCK.. 90 1 4, 9234 45p 48 P 48 p PRICES. 83% 82 95 Brazilian Bonds Ditto, Account Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent . Ditto, 3 per Cent... Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. Equador Bonds .. 3% Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons .. . — Ditto, Account ............ 26 Ditto, Small Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto Deferred Russian Bonds Ep.nish 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto, Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. .. 53% Ditto, 4 Der Cent. Certificates B2 82% 82% PRICES OF PAID . BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. • AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Ab er d een Do. Preference Amber. Nott., Boston, ^d Eastern Junction 6 5314 72 37i, 16% 26 1 / s 26 1 / 4 62 18 1 4 108 -- A.yrshife and Galloway.. 73/4••••. Belfast & County Down 28 ...... Berks & Haniz Extens. (Gt. West. Per. 5 per ct.) 6 ...... Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or w ith a gaaran. 20 Do, without guarantee 20 Binning, Wolverh'ton, and Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 10 ...., Do. without guarantee 10 3i rming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 131. 14s ••• Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 20 Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 71. 4s. Bristol and Exeter 9O Ditto, Thirds 274 11% 814 3uckinghamthire ...... 17 % Caledonian Ditto, New 10/. Pref... 10 Ditto,Clydesdale June 50 Chester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference l5 ...... Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 ...... Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 ...... —. Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. ........ 10 ..w.. --. Direct London & P0rt5................. ................. 5 1 4 ...... ~.. ........ .... , , mouth Dublin and Belfast June. 40 ...... Dundalk & Enniskillen 27% East Anglian, 251, L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 Do. 18/., E. & H.... 18 Do., 31. 108., Pref... 3% , — Eastern Counties.— 2O ......, 7 63i. ..... ... 6711 Do. New,Gua.6 perct lO ...... •..........w„ _ Ditto,Extenston, 5 per Cent., No.l 6/. 13s. 4d... p..._ ...... .... Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s 4d.. .............. Do. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 DO. New ............... 4.3 _ .... THE 1 7% 7 1 ,4 29% 210 11% 11% 7% - x.i 814 tli 3% 3% 74 47% 814 23 4 % 7 1 4 18% 11% 19% ........ 5% 3 6% ... die 2% 2i 6 1 ,4 4 , 1 (