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Now ready, in 2 vols. smill Svo., with Portraits, 213. bound, MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENS OF FRANCE, AND ROYAL FAVOURITES. By Mrs. FORBES BUSH. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW STORY OF THE SEA, BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE PILOT," " THE TWO ADMIRALS," &c. On the 21st inst., in 3 vols. post Bvo., THE JACK O'LANTERN (LE FEU FOLLET); OR, THE PRIVATEER, A Story of the Sea. By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. NEW WORK BY JOHN POOLE, .ESQ. In a few lays, in 3 vols. poet Bvo., P RINE A S QUIDDY; OR, SHEER INDUSTRY. By JOHN POOLE, Esq., Author of " Paul Pry," " Little Pedlington," " The Comic Sketch-Book," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Q ono MONEY DIVIDENDS will be divided en the 30th Instant, amongst EIGHT THOU SAND TWO HUNDRED SELECTED Bonds of the LOAN negotiated in the year 1820, and GUARANTEED by the GO VERNMENT and his Royal Highness the GRAND DUKE of BADEN. 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Those who remit £l5 BEFORE the 15th instant, will re ceive an order for £2 upon our London Bankers, together with the Bond. _ To those ordering too late for being attended to, their re mittances will be returned by first post. HEINE BROTHERS. 'HAMBURGII, November I, 1842. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, NOV. IS, Will be repeated Shakspeare's Play of THE TEMPEST. Alonso, Mr. Cooper ; Sebastian, Mr. Diddear ; Prospero, Mr. Vandenhoff ; Antonio, Mr. J. Vining ; Ferdinand, Mr. C. Pitt ; Caliban, Mr. J. Bland ; Trinculo, Mr. Harley ; Ste phano, Mr. Bartley. Miranda, Miss Vandcnhoff ; Ariel, Miss Rain forth. After which will be repeated a New, Original, Comic Drama, written by Mr. Mark Lemon, Author of ‘. The Ladies Club," &c., entitled THE TURF. Captain Flatooker, Mr. Walter Lacy; Clovis Culpepper, Mr. Bartley ; Gallop, Mr. Meadows ; Aaron Tret, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Culpepper, Mrs. Humby ; Miss Warren, Miss Lee. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 3d. ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 25. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-office, from Tees till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ; of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Bond-street ; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street ; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, NOV. 18, Will be repeated THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prin cipal Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Lyon, H. Beverly, Wright, Sterling, Wilkinson, Maynard, Craven, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, Miss Faucit, Miss Murray, Mrs. 11. Beverly, &c. After which, a New Comic Burletta, called AN PONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss Murray. To be followed by a Grand Burletta Spectacle, entitled ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche Giubilei. To conclude with THE SECRET. Thomas, Mr. H. Beverly. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Immense success of the new Nautical Drama. Mr. I'. P. Cooke as Union Jack is highly cheered by crowded audiences— the novel effects surpass everything hitherto attempted, and the ship on fire creates a complete hurricane of applause. THIS EVENING, NOV. 18, Will be repeated an entirely New Nautical Drama, en titled THE UNION JACK; or, the SAILOR and the SETTLER'S DAUGHTER, written expressly for Mr. T. P. Cooke, who will be supported by Messrs. Hicks, Neville, Smith, Hcslop, Mrs. R. Honner, and the entire Company. New scenery and splendid nautical effects never before attempted. After which will be produced an entirely new Drama, en titled THE BLACK LAW OF MARTINIQUE; or, the FUGITIVE SLAVE. Zamba, the Slave, by Mrs. H. Vining. The other Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Neville, W. Smith, Mrs. Hughes,. and Miss E. Terry, who will sing Miss Eliza Cook's Song of the " Red Indian," composed by Mr. G. Stansbury To conclude with THE PLEDGE OF LOVE ; or, a SIS TER'S SACRIFICE. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, al the Box office, from eleven to four. [UGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. M nning 3l minutes after 1 Evening 5l minutes after 1. qR * ET LAP,A . • . - - - ''''..-..-- ' 4 1.1 o_,. gibt ,§Atit LONDON : FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER IS, 1842. There is an avowed conflict going on, not only in England and Europe, but in America, be tween the aristocratic and democratic principles, and hence our Tory Contemporaries, who neces sarily champion the former, have thought it their duty to excuse and palliate the late exposures in our Courts of Law of the vices of some members of the aristocracy. They nation, c t t members,s foit forth that c, thetii "the Peerage contains, amongst brightest ornaments of the pro found learnin men of g, practical ability, and sound, of its they say, state:manlike views." "affords, in the bulk members, examples of' pure life, decent conduct, generous charity, and and justice well administered." Thy, the HERTFORDS, the FRANKFORTS, the ll s t p iN a Tnc( f TOWERS, and the CHESTERFIELDS, as mere ex ceptions to the general high character of the Peerage; and they call upon the body to make war upon those individuals who are bringing the whole of the Peerage to public ,shame. Our Tory Contemporaries have not acted with their usual prudence in directing attention to these blots in the escutcheon of the Peerage, and it would have been wiser for them to have followed their usual course, and have passed stains unno ticed which only become the deeper and extend the further the more they are rubbed. If the Peerage contain men of profound learning and great practical ability, they have not in general been born in that station. For twenty years the principal man in the tipper Ijoase, despite the great sagacity of Lord G viLLE, the vast and playful learning of Lord HOLLAN D 1 , tIC majestic good sense of Earl GREY, and the official influence of Lord LIVERPOOL, was the son of a Newcastle coal whipper, Rarelycommandingtalent found rarely, indeed—is any found in a Peer who has in herited his titlet through three generations. The leading m en here b e Lords LYNDIIURST and UH BROGAM, were born members of the demo cracy, and their original, h ar d y, or v i rtuous nature enabled them to rise in influen ce an d in tellectual power, hi g h a b ove Peerage, great majority of those born in the Duke Of WELLINGTON, the gyeu. Nor can son of a' the army, be poor Irish Peer, and schooled ? a ng l er aristocracy considered an exet ption to the rule. Of all great Admirals, in modern times at le - our the navy has been freely open to the NELSON, DUNCAN, COLL/NGWOOD, E xm 9CraC Yl not one, we believe, except, perhaps, Lord HOWE, was by birth a member of the Pee rage or of a family allied to the Peerage. Fur the sake of human nature, for the sake of those whose Parents pass a toilsome or a turbulent life, in order to transmit coronets to the brows of their children, the truth must he impressed on the public mind that, in the majority of cases, to be born in the Peerage is to be the iheir of compa rative imbecility, It is a sad ambition that men should waste th e i r own happiness, and sometimes sacrifice their_ peace, in order to doom their posterity to certain feebleness, if not to annihi lation. Is not also, let us calmly inquire, the apology for the Peerage carried too far, w h en i t is asserted that those individuals who have of late made themselves notorious, are rather the exceptions than the rule ? In their case the vice was bla zoned before the face of the world but are not similar deeds common among the aristocracy ? Is it anything rare or strange for a married Peer to have a mistress? Is it uncommon for Peers to barter settlements for the possession of a woman ? Do not a great many of the scions of nobility incur, like Lord HUNTINGTOWER, great debts, which they expect to pay when they come of age ? Most of the reproachful acts committed by the late Marquis of HERT FORD, by Lord FRANKFORT, by the Earl of CHESTERFIELD, and by Lord MINTINGTOWER, are of every-day occurrence, among men of title and wealth. What is remarkable in these cases, and proves, we think, the low tone of moral feeling and debasement of the class, as much as of the individuals, is this —they went voluntarily into a Court of Law to make known their depravity, which if they had possessed one scintilla of right feeling they would have given the wealth of worlds to hide. To the Marquis of HERTFORD, of course, the remark does not apply. No ; it applies with great force to his executors, to his family, and friends—to a class, rather than an individual, who, for the sake of a few thousand francs, or perhaps to gratify a vindictive feeling, unfolded all that old man's hideous private life to the scorn and detestation of all decent people. To Lord FRANKFORT, to Lord HUNTINGTOWER, to Count BATIIYANY, to Lord CHESTERFIELD, and, to all their friends and advisers, the remark does . apply. At , a comparatively small sacrifice—for of what value was Lord FRANKFORT'S trinkets, Lord CHESTERFIELD'S 3001. a year, if he had to pay it himself, or ten times Lord HUNTINGTOWER'S whole estates, compared to a good name ?—these noblemen and their friends might have pre vented the public coming to any knowledge of their conduct. But they rushed into Court ) and proclaimed their own vices to the world, as if they knew not that they were vices. That is an almost infallible index to the moral opinions of the class among whom, and by whom, they were educated, and with whom they live, and move, and have their being. It proves, as clearly as if similar facts were brought home to every Peer of the realm, that the conduct which the Times and the Herald vehemently and justly condemns is common: amongst the upper classes, and is not by them branded with shame and disgrace. Another index to the general character of the Peerage is to be found in their corporate acts. ! There can be no mistake about what the body does publicly. "In no country," says the He rald, " has the Peerage such inducements to virtuous and patriotic careers as in England." They have " the SOVEREIGN'S favour, national honours, the people's applause, power, and the gratification of ambition." "They are secured in the possession of their estates, they have perma nent wealth and permanent power." How have they rewarded the generous and confiding people for their vast social advantages ? They have, for their own selfish purposes, to add a little to their wealth, and extend their power, doomed the industrious classes to still severer toils to obtain a living, and doomed many of them to the slow and torturing death of starvation. Tell us not of any political expediency in the Corn-laws; tell us not of any patriotic notion of making the nation independent of to Feigners, in those who almost live on foreign productions—that was the I after-found-out defence of a pre-enacted ini quity; tell us not of any wish to have a great' abundance of strong-backed and independent minded agricultural labourers—which, of all things, the landowners abhor; none of these dictated the Corn-laws. They were avowedly dictated by a low and mean desire in the aris tocracy to increase their wealth, and keep up their state and their extravagance. If, instead of increasing rent, the Corn-laws had been sup posed to lower rent, they would have been, regardless of every interest but that of the aris tocracy, at once swept out of the statute-book. If the aristocracy, too, as a body, had been as generous as they are extortionate, supposinc , the Corn-laws to be productive of wealth to them, they would have been sensible of the bias their minds must receive by their own advantage, and they would have spurned the dishonest proposal to enrich themselves by laws which plunder the people. But they are neither generous nor grateful to the people, who submit to unheard-of privations out of respect to them, and show by their corporate acts that the world may readily believe the whispered stories of the shamelessness of their private lives. If they had those feelings of charity, of bro therly love to their kind, of respect for justice, which the Herald ascribes to them, would they go on, year afteryear,obstinately enacting one punish ment after another for trespasses which only the poor and humble classes can possibly commit, when experience has proved that the punishments are so much gratuitous misery, for they prevent no crimes ? Men of the most lukewarm feelings of humanity would recoil from ord aiuing and in flicting, month after month, and year after year, those slow and lingering tortures in prison, to which the Press has lately adverted, for offences which spring from sheer poverty and want, such as the Peers can never experience. Law after law, heaping these tortures on their fellow creatures, and sharpening them, have the Peers passed, selfishly to protect their own sports. They have unthinkingly or wilfully inflicted such misery on their fellow-creatures for killing a par tridge or a hare as no matt of average humanity would doom a dog to suffer. Time statute-book is the index to the generosity and humanity of the Peerage. Its numerous and bloody decrees, its sad and disgraceful enactments regarding such things as young trees and young birds, to which a feliow-creature's life is as nothing, which have been somewhat meliorated, or reformed, as the intelligence of the middle classes have come to influence the decision of the Legislature—the nu merous, sad, disgraceful, and bloody decrees, which have preser e v n e c a t encumbered, which b oendg, tile' se d still encumber, the sta tute-book,' possible, Peer show w e t zealously have no respect for their fellow-creatures, no love for their kind, and no confidence in human nature. All that is a sign of men degraded, not ennobled, by the wealth, luxuries, and honours they enjoy. ' The meeting held at the Crown an d Anchor Tavern, last evening, to which we yesterday r were ad verted, was numerously attended. l‘ DuN COMBE was in the chair. The resolution s carried unanimously, and were of a description, we believe, to command a very general assent. The fewer examples there are, and happily they arc very few, of Judges exhibiting themselves as intemperate political partisans, and expressing opinions vindictively hostile to the men they are about to try, the more necessary it is, when such a case does occur, that the public should pro nounce a strong and unanimous condemnation on such conduct. Possibly the expression of public. opinion, to which a beginning and an impulse were last night appropriately given, may not suffice to remove Lord ABINGER from the Bench, but we are sure that it will suf , fice to impress a lesson of moderation and caution :on him and all other Judges. Considering how very strongly the feelings of a large portion of the people are excited by the late proceedings in the north, their conduct last night seems to have been highly creditable. Several ladies were pre sent. The meeting was peaceably conducted to its close. A very smart hurrichurricaneappears to be getting up against the Income-tax. In the Isle ofWight it already "blows great guns"—Cowes .orted is disconso late, and Ryd e " re f use d ) t o be comf the manufacturing districts the discontent is not less general; the metropolis and its suburbs arc in a similar state of effervescence ; while in no rt h and south Devon—as we gather from the local journals—numbers of families are reducing their establishments, in order that they may be en abled to provide against the detestable tax in question. Every where, in short, a grinding system of household economy is the order of the day. Mrs. Deputy Dobbs, : )mkin s h as taken who once rejoiced in three is now compelled to rub on N f i e r ; :I I ; ; - 1. 1 e t s s v e o r %;an rit's his eldest son from the grammar-school ; Jenkins has put , 1. stop to his daughter's d unc i ng-lessons; and of the the thousands of Smiths w i t h which overrun, hundr e d s h ave given up country is their "one-horse shay," shot or sold their dog, and substituted swipes for port at their five o'clock dinner ! On all household domestics, in particular, this iniquitous Income-tax presses with re morseless severity. Betty has just received her discharge ; Molly has got a hint thrown out about a reduction of wages; Tom, the footman, has been told that he need no longer walk behind his mistress in velvet shorts to Church, carrying her prayer book, and a gold-headed stick as tall as himself; and Polly the scullion, is threatened with a "month's notice" the instant the Col lector calls for his first half-year's dues. A tax that causes all this unmerited suffering, and makes itself specially felt among classes which never, by any chance, interfere in politics, must of necessity be grossly unjust in its character. Let it fall upon the rich and the independent, and welcome; but why should Betty be dismissed, because Sir ROBERT PEEL wants money? Why should Molly's wages be reduced, because Gen. PoLLocic has received orders to join Gen. NOTT at Caubul ?—and why—oh why, should Tom be told to leave his velvet shorts behind him in the pantry, and take himself ff at " a month's notice," because the Chinese refuse to yield sub mission to the " Barbarian Eye ? " When Sir ROBERT PEEL can explain these matters to our satisfaction, we will believe that his Income-tax is not quite so flagrantly unjust in its operation; but till then, we shall take leave to consider it as the most harassing—inquisitorial--outrageous —and insolently oppressive measure that was ever hatched by the Devil, or a Tory, for the express annoyance of John Bull. Our readers may perhaps imagine that the un popularity of this precious Impost is chiefly con fined to the Whigs and Radicals. But the case is not so. The Tories detest it with equal hearti ness, for Mr. Deputy Dobbs, who has just turned off his footman Torn, and the six Smiths, who have just got rid of their six housemaids, are all Tories, and bitterly regret the vote they gave at the last,City election. So is it with the respectable families of the Tomkinses, the Jenkinses, &c. They too, arc Tories. They, too, thought it a fine thing to have such a respectable man as Sir ROBERT PEEL to tax them—thinking, of course, that he would have a sort of fellow-feeling for pockets of respectability—and now they find to their cost that they have been deceived, and in the agony of their disappointment have serious thoughts of turning Chartists, and swallow ing the Five Points at a gulp ! But as if the Income-tax were not in itself bad enough, the utmost efforts are being made—one would almost suppose on purpose—to render it as galling as possible. Si►r ROBERT PEEL has not only established a raw in John Bull's sides, but he has hired a set of assistants, and armed them with whips, for the express purpose of keeping that raw in a constant state of irritation. The Times and Herald of yesterday, and the Post of to-day, make grievous complaints on this score. The latter observes, "It is high time that some dismissals ofAssessors under the Income tax took place. Severe examples have become necessary. Many a poor creature is justly sent to the treadmill for a less guilty thing than en deavouring to extort a tax from those who are not liable, in order to pocket a per tentage on the sum extorted. A taste of the treadmill would, we have no doubt, be very efficacious." It is not often that we agree with the Post; but when we do agree—as Puff says in The Critic --"our unanimity is wonderful !" In the above passage there is not a sentence of which we do not cordially approve. The hint, in particular, about the treadmill is admirable. But why, oh Post, why restrict thine indignation to the subordinates? Why not launch thy thun ders at the heads of the chief offenders? The Assessors, no doubt, are much to blame, but who first put it into their heads to do mischief? These last, and not their helpless tools, are the fit subjects for the treadmill ; and civilised hu manity cannot imagine a more gratifying spec tacle—or one more replete with useful warning— than that of Sir ROBERT PEEL :picking oakum, with his bead cropped, at Brixton ! Slop clothes are proverbially worthless. Sailors deal in them more than any other class of men, and generally pay a good price for what they purchase. No men, as the rule, are more fleeced by dealers than sailors; and, it appears, from a recent meeting on the subject of the distressed shirt-makers, that slop-sellers are two-edged dealers, and cut as much off the wages of their work-woman as they cut off Jack's earnings. They pay one penny a piece for making sailors' shirts, and a skilful work-woman makes one in two hours. The cost of making them accounts at once fbr their worthlessness when made. They are only run, not sewed together, and when .the sailors get to sea they find employment in re-making their - shirts. The excessive smallness of the pay of the work-woman, and the excessive high price generally asked by slop-sellers, make the ' honesty of that class of tradesmen very doubtful. If there be exceptions in the trade, as there probably are, it is to be regretted for their sake that the names of those who pay one penny for makinga shirt were not mentioned at the late meeting, that the public indignation might be directed against them. By withholding their names justice was not done to the trade. Fourteen hours a day do these sempstresses la bour for sixpence. What a noble field for Lord ASHLEY! The factory slaves and the colliery slaves get three times as much money for a less degree of toil. Their condition, however, is only a specimen of the general condition of the work ing classes. They are not worse off than agri cultural labourers. They are much better off than the unemployed labourers of Greenock and Paisley. They are generally either single women or they have partners who contribute to their subsistence. They have not families, we hope, to provide for out of their hard-earned sixpence a day. They are not exposed when they toil like an agricultural labourer to all the severity of the weather ; nevertheless, they deserve public commisseration and public support, but they do not deserve them more than the agri cultural labourer who earns a shilling a day, and must with that support a family. The slop-makers and sellers do but take ad vantage of the necessities of the poor, and they are far less criminal, worthy as we deem them of reproach,than thosewho make the poor necessitous. Those who stop up the channels of employment and impede the labouring classes from finding healthy occupation in factories, in embroidery, in lace-making, in stocking knitting, are far more to blame than the slop-sellers. In every part of society there are too many persons for the work to be done ; their competition is their own de basement; and those legislators are their worst enemies who place restrictions on trade, and pre vent a single human being from engaging in any honest pursuit by which he may obtain subsist ence. But if we look at our laws we find one forbids a man to import wheat, another prevents him from importing butter and cheese, and a third prohibits him from bringing in sugar. We have no hesitation in saying that these and simi lar restrictive laws are the causes of the la mentable want of work which now makes the people injure each other by excessive t p h e e rson co- c e a x n iste d n e c n e y N of I V a a w n s t of competition. work ,and men from engaging in particular occupations; g s and should we seek further than the existence of laws so well calculated to deprive the people of profitable employment for the cause of that want which actually exists ? Our restrictive system is the cause why sempstresses are obliged to put up with a penny for making a shirt, and why agricultural labourers cannot get above one shilling or one shilling and sixpence fbr a day's hard labour. In this case machinery cannot be blamed, for sewing machines have not yet come into use, if any have been invented. We have received by the Levant Mail copious intelligence from the East. Letters from Con stantinople state that ALEXANDER, grandson of CZERNI GEORGE, had been solemnly recognised by the Porte, and that the firman fbr the depo sition of Prince GniKA had been forwarded to Bucharest. Two special Commissaries had been appointed to carry the faman into effect. The quarantine station has been removed from THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18, 1842 the banks of the Bosphorus to one of the castles of the Dardanelles, much to the dissatisfaction of the European legations. The intelligence from Persia is favourable, and strong hopes are entertained that all the differences between that country and the Porte will be amicably arranged. A mutual agree ment had been come to by the Commanders of the Turkish and Persian forces to withdraw their respective troops from the frontier, in order to prevent any further collisions. From Malta we have a confirmation of the rising of the Arabs against the French in Algiers. It would appear that up to the 31st of October the loss of the French, in officers alone, amounted to twenty-six. Though no intelligence had reached Constan sfantinople of the; rising in Syria, little doubts remain that serious disturbances had taken place, and that great discontent prevailed in the northern district of Lebanon. According to French accounts from Beyrout, a rising had taken place in the district of Becher, and the Albanians sent to restore orderhad been defeated with considerable loss. We regret to learn that the mortality among the cattle in Egypt still continues to a frightful extent. MEHEMET Au on his way to Cairo bad stopped at the Delta, where he intended to remain for some time, in order to inves tigate the causes of this dreadful malady. Before his departure he bad abolished the tax upon slaves, and had also adopted measures for providing food for the people, in case the morta lity among the oxen should render it impossible to cultivate the land this season. The intelligence from Madrid is to the Bth instant. Reports were in circulation that the army was to be reduced to 60,000 men, and that a treaty of commerce, and a loan also, was to be made with this country. It will be some time, however, before English capitalists again lend money to bankrupt States, which seem to have only one object in view—cheating their creditors. The Spanish Government is described as sin cerely disposed to carry out the first measure still, from the difficulties which it will have to encounter, its success is anything but certain. The Three per Cents. were done at 21/ at sixty days, and the Five per Cents. at 26 9-16 for cash, and 27 at sixty days. The debt bearing no in terest sold for 51 at sixty days. We are glad to find by the Paris papers received, that the new tariff adopted by the German Union, is opening the eyes of the French manufacturers, and compelling them to admit that a state of commercial isolation, such as the monopolists would establish for France, would be ruinous to the country. In return for the Royal ordinance issued in July, directed chiefly against England, but to a certain extent injuring also Germany, the Customs' Union have doubled the duty on most of the articles of Parisian manufacture. It appears that on Mon day the merchants and manufacturers of the capital, engaged in the foreign trade, alarmed at this mode of retaliation, had an audi ence of the Minister of Commerce, and directed his attention to the fact, that the new tariff was almost equivalent to a prohibition of most of the articles manufactured in Paris. For example, they said—" Gilt bronze •of the value of 100 f., subject by the existing tariff to 25f. duty, will pay from the commencement of next year me. A chest of plated goods of the value of 2001., which now pays 150 f., will pay hereafter the enormous duty of 300 f. A bale of stained paper of the value of 3001., now subject to a duty of 75f., will hereafter pay 150 f. A chest of per fumery of the value of 400 f., now paying 200 f. duty, will hereafter be subject to 400 f., being 100 per cent. on the value. Iron and tin wares, fine haberdashery, and kid gloves, in the same proportion. With such extraordinary facts before their eyes, the undersigned have asked them selves what could have been the motive for this conduct of the German Union? What new mea sures taken by our Government could have au thorised the commercial interests of Germany to consider themselves injured?" We have no in formation respecting the reply made by the Minister to this very needless question, but he m i g h t h ave told them that the new measures taken by the French G overnment i n July had compelled the Germans to act in their own defence, and would probably make all other countries, one by one, follow the example till France was left alone in her folly. The Paris traders seem afraid of such a result, and ask the Minister to use his influenc e i n pre venting the German Union f rom t h us i n j ur i ng French nci manufactures. B u t t h e Mi n i ster must begin a l t home. He must remove heavy restric tions on imports from other countries, and con- ' vince commercial men that France is ready to meet them on fair and reciprocal terms. "We trust,". said the Deputation in conclusion, " that the German Union has not adopted these mea sures for the purpose of isolating itself. Reci procal isolation would be as easy as it would be fatal, and cannot suit enlightened Govern ments. Confiding in your anxious solicitude, and in the benevolent dispositions of friendly nations, the undersigned trust that the delay of the Ist of January, adopted by the Congress of Stut gard, will permit the Government to remove the injuri ous t o th e two counties." e equally ncllbooksellers, too, are in great a their trade, an d h e ld a mee ti ng on Monday,dliaffiTrliclileulfir Fr es inn the hall of the municipality, to con sider the expediency of the commercial union with Belgium. After some discussion, they una nimously agreed to the principle of the measure, and voted an address to that effect to the Coun cil of Ministers. The following appointments have appeared i the Itloniteur: Major-General Aupick, Commandant of the Ecole d'Application d'Etat Major, is appointed to the com mand of the garrison at Paris, in the room of Lieut.- General Darriule, who passes into the second section of the Cadre de Reserve. Major-General Caminade, Commandant of the Military School of St. Cyr, re places General Aupick at the Ecole d'Application, and Major-General Tarlet succeeds General Cami nade at St. Cyr. The Commerce states that it was the general e fe tu t n o d f a yt,htelisactiCneo,ucnotuDlcisnßotA re tainm- trial of the clerks at t h e H o t e l d e Vill e , an d BbeU beli ef leis in, post P tl a e r Prefect after the disclosures elicited at the that he was to be replaced by M. GABRIEL DE. LESSERT) the Prefect of Police. 13 °URSE--Pams, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 118 95... 119 ... 118 90... 118 90 Four per Cents. 101 20... 101 20 .. 101 20... 101 20 3 per Cent,.... 89 25_, 80 25... 80 10... 80 20 Bank of France„ ... 3285 ...3285 ...3285 3285 laffitte Bank 5,004 ... 5 9 80 ..,5080 ...5080 ...5080 Belgian Bank ............ 805 ... 805 ... 605 ... 805 1 841 Iwo ...1060 ...1060 ...1060 Belgian Five 5....,...... 103 i 103 ... 103 ... 103 1840. 104 k • 104 ... 104 ... 104 k ... 4 i Spanish Active. ... 23* •.. 2 3 k ". 23 % 23 Passiv e : . 4 ••• ... 4 ... 4 N Pertugnp wives eapolitan ...... ... ... .. .. Roman, ex ........... 103 E ... 104 ... 103 i ... 103i_ RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain . . 835 835 ••• 835 ••• 835 . 108 50... 108 50.:. 108 50... 108 50 Versailles, L 33 ......... - 91 25.... 91 25... 88 75... 90 R. 13 ........ 2 85 267 50... 265 ... 267 50 Rouen .... ....... - ss . 25.. . 582 50... 550 ... 581 25 Orleans. ............... 1- 9 588 75... 587 50... 588 75 Strasburg * 2 5 0 8 5 7 5 ~,•• ... 205 ... 205 ... 205 We hear fr om and other en tered good authority, that Lord Lowther, Persoris of rank and property, have en and we since re l y into a contract with the assignees of Mr. Chambers f house. 1 -°r the purchase of the Italian Opera -1\-- r• Lumley, the present lessee, has con ducted the negotiations on the part of the purchasers, Court of hope that th e new arran g ement ma y lead to the pay ont of the long looked-for dividend. This property has now be en in Chancery, or the Yyßankru te or some other Court of law or equity, for e.; ghtePen' ears , and it is high time for the creditors t o get what remains. Hotel, from The Counter ' o Glare 14 arrived at Miva r t' s The Duk e of We lli ng ton left town yesterday morning f or hi s seat, Strat hfieldsaye. COURT-MARTIAL, li(;lllc.rsham-hall, near I p swich. ON LIEUTENAN T GEALE.—The cork 0,, 0 , tstituti on says it is expected t h a t t h e charges preferred again s t Second Lieuten ant Piers Geal e , of the . sth officer has app Fusili ers , w ill not be inves ti g ated, as that lied to the Horse Guards for p ermissio n to sell out o f the army. If the permission be granted, of course the proceedings will drop. This unexpected finale to Lieut. Geale's military career, forms the sub. ject of much discussion amongst all classes in Dublin, SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vubitt ptittott. " Who runs may read.' FOREIGN. It appears from the Marseilles papers that the Bishops, with the bones of St. Augustine, had a rough and stormy :passage to Bona. The vessel of war which escorted them was forced to make for the coast of Spain to obtain shelter. M. Alphonse Rocca, son-in-law c . f Count de Ram bateau, and last surviving son of M. de Siael, died on Sunday at Paris. - The funeral obsequies of the late Baron de Gerando took place yesterday, at St. Sulpice, in presence of a great number of high functionaries, amongst whom were the Ministers of Justice, of Public Instruction, of Public Works, the Prefects of the Seine and of Police, Baron Thenard, and General Excelmans. After the religious ceremony had concluded, the fune ral cortege proceeded to the ceremony of Pere la Chaise, where the body was placed ih the family vault. There are still living in the Canton de Vaud, says a Swiss journal, five of the Swiss regiment which defended the Tuileries on the 10th of August, 1792. In 1819, all who survived that sanguinary day, and returned to their own country, were summoned to Lucerne to have their names inscribed in a register. The Carlsruhe Gazette of the 10th inst. announces officially the betrothment of the Princess Maria of Baden, daughter of the Grand Duchess Dowager StephLia, to the Marquis of Douglas, son of the Duke of Hamilton, with the assent of the Grand Duke. There is much talk at Berlin of the rupture of the marriage between an august personage, a member of the Royal family, and his wife, the sister of the King of the Netherlands. There are various rumours as to the cause of this event, which has, unhappily, been rendered too public by the indiscretion of some per sons at Court. Accounts brought by the Levant Mail confirm the report published some days ago, that the Syrians had risen against the Turks in Lebanon, but not to the extent stated. The murrain among the cattle in Egypt continued to commit great ravages without any appearance of abatement. According to intelligence brought by the Britannia steamer from the United States the war between Mexico and Texas is carried on with vigour, and a general battle was soon expected to take place. Sir Charles Bagot, Governor-General of Canada, had succeeded in forming a new Ministry, and ap pointed R. B. Sullivan, Esq., President of the Council. The death of Sir ohn Caldwell, late Treasurer- General of Canada, took place at the Tremont-house, in Boston, on the 26th of October. PUBLIC OPINION. The Post thus forcibly alludes to ;One of the griev ances of the Income-tax :—" At last we find our Con temporary the Times using its influence to abate the great nuisance of the misconduct of the assessors under the Income-tax. We wish it had begun a little sooner, when its interference• would have been of more use. Our Contemporary attributes the monstrous , mischief done by these functionaries to stupidity. We propose an alteration of the first syllable : we think it is their cupidity which is to blame. They do not hesitate to worry and torment people whom they well know they have no right to ask for a single farthing, because possibly they may wring something from the ignorant, or the timid, or the busy, and then they will have their poundage all the same as if the money were fairly taken. This is. abominable work, and it is strange that the Government should not observe the excessive mis chief it will do, and take measures for putting an end to it. In Constantinople the bakers, who endeavour to assess the public by giving short weight, are re minded of the impropriety by being nailed by the ears to their own doors. We wish that a similar rule were enforced with respect to extortionate assessors under the Income-tax. Really it is high time that some dismissals took place. Some severe examples have become necessary. Many a poor creature is justly sent to the tread-mill for a less guilty thing than endeavouring to extort a tax from those who are not liable, in order to pocket a per tentage on the sum ex torted. We recommend Sir Peter Laurie to see whether he cannot deal with a few of these assessors in a summary way. A taste of the tread-mill would, we have no doubt, be very efficacious." The Chronicle observes, in• reference to the new law appointments :—" The excuse for the jobbing in the new bankruptcy appointments is, that it is not mere political jobbing. The name of one Commis sioner of Liberal politics is pointed out, and another is said to owe his appointment to the interest of Lord Cottenham. Those must have a low idea of the spirit in which important judicial patronage should be ad ministered with whom excuses such as these can amount to any justification of Lord Lyndhurst. If the entire list of the new Commissioners had been Liberals of the most approved shade of politics, it would still have been not the whit less a list of most discreditable in competence. If Lord Cottenham had persuaded his successor to make all the appointments, he would, un doubtedly, have deserved severe reprobation for such participation in a job ; but he would have taken his share of blame without, in the least, diminishing that which Lord Lyndhurst could in nowise shake off him, by showing that it is for other men's benefit that be has tarnished his name by rendering himself respon sible for this abuse of patronage. But the truth is, that the list would have been better, had its sole ob ject been political jobbing. If Lord Lyndhurst's ob ject had been merely to serve his party, the Tories of the Bar would have supplied him with the means of making a more creditable list." The Times says :—"lf the present Government have any regard for decency and order, one of their ear liest practical reforms will be the revision of the law of vestries, and especially of that masterpiece of bad legislation the Select Vestry Act. The leading me tropolitan vestries belong to the first class of public nuisances. Their appetite for political intrigue and jobbery, their impertinent and offensive intrusions in to matters with which they have no concern, and their constant tendency to prostitute their powers to the worst purposes of lowest Radicalism, have brought theminto universal contempt. If these bodies were constituted for the discharge of political functions, nobody would have a right to blame them because their politics did not agree with his own. But the contrary is the fact. The Constitution knows no thing of them except as a machinery by which the local rates are collected and applied. If, in right of their authority over scavengers and paviers, they preach sedition in the streets—if, as relieving-officers, they teach infidelity in the parish schools—it; as con servators of the church fabric, they obstruct the clergy of the Church in the performance of their duties, or the enjoyment of their legal rights—if, as 'parochial treasurers, they waste in political propa gandism the money of the parish—they become a rank, flagrant, and rotten corruption, and ought to be taken away." The following appears in the Herald:—" There are, we should suppose, few ladies who suspect the low amount of wages paid by their milliners and dress makers to the unfortunate needle-workers engaged in the production of their dresses—who know the inces sant toil and exertion of the poor girls who are so employed—or who have thought of the amount of pain, anxiety, and elisease generated by such employ ment. Yet are these topics, by acquaintance with which ladies in the enjoyment of comfort and wealth, might, if so disposed, accomplish much good to their own sex—and they could achieve no greater temporal good than the elevation and better remuneration of that portion of their sex from which debauchery and profligacy " now receive their amplest and their readiest supplies. MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE. The sale of Mk. Claimers' library was continued on Wednesday. A collection of proclamations in the reign of James 1., was the most important and valuable lot disposed of on Tuesday, and sold for 711. " Older's Acquittal," stated to be the second book printed in Ireland, and bearing date at Waterford, in 1555, pro duced only 21. 18s. NAVAL AND NLILXTATLY. The Hamilton, a fine brig of 300 tons, was totally lost near Harwich on Tuesday, and out of her crew of 12, only one was saved ; Captain Bradbury was among the drowned ; her cargo is insured. The Gannet, from Shields to London, was entirely wrecked on the 14th, the crew being saved, but the coal-cargo and vessel destroyed. On Wednesday - the schooner Arthur and Rachel, of Belfast, struck near Portpa trick, and became a total wreck ; the crew had scarcely time to escape before she went to pieces. LAW AND POZta~. Mr. James Travis, a gentleman in shabby attire, was on Wednesday charged by eight different cabmen with defrauding them of their fares. Being unprepared to , pay the amount of tl - e first demand of 245., he was ordered to be imprisoned for 21 days, and at the ex piration of that time to be detained to meet the other cases. THEATRICAL. Dryden's play of King Arthur, revived at I-7-11u lane on Wednesday, was first produced in 1691. Purcell having composed iti music, at the Quee n ' s th ea t re . Garrick brought it out in 1770 at Drury-lane, and in 1784, it was again played at the same theatre, Kemble and bliss Farren sustaining the principal characters. In 1819, Miss Foote performed Emmeline, and in 1827 Miss Kelly. Betterton, in 1691, pourtrayed the King to admiration. COURT-FASHIONABLE. His Imperial Highness the Archduke Frederic of Austria will honour Baron Brunnow with his pre sence at dinner, on Saturday next, the 19th. The Earl and Countess of Wilton on Monday pro ceed to Melton Mowbray, for the hu n ti ng season. Lord Lynedoch arrived in Stratton -street on Mon day, from his seat, near Perth, making visits en route , to town. The venerable and gallant nobleman is in the possession of most excellent health, but will repair again to the Continent for the winter, for the advan. tages of a milder climate. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douro intend to go to Strathfieldsaye Hants, on Saturday next, to join the Duke o f Wellington. Lord Glenelg is making a tour in the south of Europe. Count Pahlen returned to Mivart's Hotel on Tues day, after a tour of several weeks in Scotland and the manufacturing districts. IVIXSCELLANEOUS. The six columns in the round tower of the Temple Church have been divested of the Roman cement, which has long covered and concealed their mouldings and carved capitals. The stone mullions of the windows, and in every part of the Church, are found to be of fine Purbeck marble. The wife of General Vandersmissen, whose courage and presence of mind has just enabled him to escape to Prussia, is the daughter of the late Admiral Graves. Abu-bekr, th 4 servant of the late lamented Mr. Davidson, is still alive at Mogadore, and strongly attached to Mahommedanism. It is expected some entertaining particulars of the interior of the country may be obtained from him. A triangular survey is now in progress in Greece, under the direction of French officers. A new road has recently been finished from Athens to Thebes, a distance of 30 miles. Others are now in progress to connect this town with Corinth, Eleusis, and Megara. COURT CIRCULAR. Yesterday morning her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte Dun das, took a carriage airing from her residence at Frog more Lodge, near Windsor. Her Royal Highness took a carriage drive on Tuesday, the weather only has prevented the Royal Duchess taking an airing every day. The Governor of the Bank of England and the De puty Governor had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official reside nee in Downing-street. The Earl of Lincoln had an interview with Sir James Graham yesterday. Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, gave a grand dinner last evening at the residence of the Embassy in Manchester-square, to his Imperial High ness the Archduke Frederick If Austria and the No blemen and Gentlemen of his Suite. -M. Dedel, the Netherlands' Minister; Prince Castelcicala, the Nea politan Minister ; the Lord ' Chancellor, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci, and a select party were honoured with invitations to meet his Imperial Highness. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street. Dispatches from Sir Charles Bagot, Governor of Canada, and also from the Governors of the other North American Colonies, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS, CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. The Public Securities left off with a good appear ance this afternoon, and Consols, both for Money and Time, were 94* to 941 ; Exchequer Bills realised 56 to 68 premium, and India Bonds at 51 to 53 premium. The other Stock underwent no alteration. In Spanish Bonds the improvement was maintained up to the close of business, the Actives being marked 18*, and the Three per Cents. 224 f. Mexican were done at 33 ; Colombian, 211 ' • Chillian, 89 to 91, and Brazilian, 651. Portuguese Converted brought 32f ; Russian, 113, and Dutch New Fives, 99f. No animation was exhibited in Shares, and the quotations were heavy, except for Birmingham, which touched 931 and 94 premium. Croydon were 41 discount. In Brighton Railway there was scarcely a bargain. Great Western were 18f premium. An glo-Mexican Mint Shares were 2* premium. The large amount of 1,700,000 dollars in bullion, brought by the Curacoa, from Rio Janeiro, is ex pected to have a favourable effect upon the foreign ex changes here, as we can afford to send some of it abroad. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The Cotton Market at Liverpooryesterday was rather more animated. Sales, 6,000 bales, of which 1,200 were Maranham. Prices were steady.—Rail way Shares were not so good. Bristol and Exeter brought 45 ; Great Western Half, 61 ; Liverpool and Manchester, Quarter, 43i ; North Midland, 60 ; and Paris and Rouen, 22g. The Britannia, from Boston and Halifax, brings advices to the 3d inst. From Canada the accounts reach to the 29th ult. The letters and papers re ceived in the City, in referring to commercial matters, do not notice generally any particular change or im provement. A moderate business was doing in many articles of absolute necessity, but not an extensive one, and it is given as a satisfactory indi cation of a disposition on the part of the people to re turn to more steady and honest courses, after so much bank swindling and prosperity inflation, that articles of luxury had a very indifferent sale. Money was plentiful, and it was difficult to find safe and at the same time profitable employment for it. At Philadelphia and New Orleans business was dull, and Flour and Wheat, owing to the abundant crops, were declining all over the Union. Complaints were made of the want of promptitude exhibited by the dealers in the West in making remittances, and which appears to arise from the scarcity of money in that direction (more likely the want of credit and confidence, we should say), and the low prices of produce. We are glad to find that the Americans have re ceived full instructions from their English corre spondents for the proper curing and packing of their salted meats, so as to adapt them to the tastes of con sumers in this country ; and if Brother Jonathan will but favour us with a little of his Cincinnati pork and New Orleans cotton, in part payment of the heavy sums he owes us, he will rise considerably in the estimation of honest men. The accounts from Canada furniih a copy of the Act passed for the regulation of the lumber trade, and which appeared to be considered prejudicial. The further stoppage of one or two establishments in Montreal, but not for large amounts, and being houses expected to go for some time past, is announced in the letters received to-day. A comparative state ment of arrivals, tonnage and passengers at Quebec to the 28th Oct. of the present year as compared with 1841, exhibits the immense falling off this year of 389 vessels and 117,863 tons, although the passengers show an increase of 16,109 persons, or to 44,388. The weather was fine, and the fall ploughing was carried on with vigour. Mr. Wakefield was can vassitig for the representation of Beauharnais. The latest sales of flour at Montreal were at 245. cash, for America, being a shade higher. Mess Pork was rather heavier of sale. In the English funds a fah- amount of business has been transacted. Consols have been supported at 94 to 94* 4 for Money, and 94* for' the 24th instant, being so far something like a baccadation. Exchequer . Bills are lower, having been marked 56 to 58 pre mium. Bank Stock is offered at 169 and 170, and the heavy investments keep at their previous rates. Foreign Securities are neglected, except Spa nish, which have attracted the attention of some of the speculators, and have been got up to 181 j- for the Five per Cents., and to 22i and 221 for the Three per Cents. In South Ameri can Stocks the transactions are few. Mexican are dull at 33 to *, and Colombian at 21t. Dutch Five per Cents. are 1001 to 101. There is no improvement in Railway Shares, which here, as at Liverpool, are not in demand. Bir mingham and Derby are 60 • Eastern Com* , ties, 14i ; Edinburgh an d Glasgow 21 ; and South Eastern, 271 discount. IsTeweastle and Darlington Junction have been done at 1 prem.; South Western at 18* prem.; and Great Western at 18i prem. ; Union of London Bank Shares are par to* prem. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 16.—We have had a dull market to-day, and very little busi ness has been done. Our only quotations are—Man chester and Salford Bank, 10; Union Bank of Man chester, 7. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ........ 931 Ditto Bonds .... 51 pm 3 per Cent. C0n5.... 3i per Cent. Red 10C1 Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent... loli Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 56 pm New 5 per Cen'.. — Ditto 5001...... 58 pm Long, Annuities to expire Ditto Small 5B pm Jan. 1860 ... l2 Bank Stock for Acct. 169 Oct. 1859 Jan. IWO l2l ;Consols for Acct. ...... 94* FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, h per cent — Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds... 6si Prussian, f , per cent. Buenos Ayres 6 percent. Russian, 5 pei cent Chilian 6 per cent. p9 Ditto, Metallic ..... .. Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent. lB4 Ditto, 1824 — Ditto Deferred.... „, Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 79 French, 5 per cent. —f. ..... e . Danish, 3 per :ent — Exchange —f —c, Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. French, 3 per cent —f. —., e . Mexican, 5 per cent..... 33 Dutch, 21 per cent....... 521 Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 101 Peruvian, 1825,6 per et. SHARES. 40 E Birminghamasternu n a t n i e d s o Derby ra i ( d 1 ) 00 paid) 84 Ditto New (—paid) loi Ditto Debentures ( paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... Great Western, (65 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) 3.5% London and Birmingham (90) London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 59f London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) ... 9 i Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) Eif North Midland Railway (100) Paris and Rouen (20 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid ) 2 24 Ditto Scrip (20 paid) AMERICAN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE• 'BRITANNIA. - - - LIVERPOOL, WEnNEsnAv The steam-ship Britannia, Captain Hewitt, reached the Mersey to-day, soon after twelve o'clock, after an extremely boisterous passage. during the last few days of which she ertcound. tered a constant succession of heavy gales. She left Boston on the Ist, and Heinz on the 3d inst The principal news in the papers relates to Texas and Mexico. Both countries ar e pre paring to strike a decisive blow. Five thousand Mexican troops had left Matamoras for Texas' while the citizens of the latter country were uP in arms and rushing to the frontier to meet their assailants. In the neighbourhood of San An. tonio, where a short time previously the Mexi cans hod entered in triumph, a battle bad taken place, and although they outnumbered their opponents by three to one, t ut n retired ("scampered" is the term used) tea eon' siderable distance, leaving upwards of one hun dred dead on the field, and about twice that number wounded. Anxious to put a stop to this conflict, and bring about, if possible, a reconci liation between the belligerents, Mr. Webs ter . ; the American Minister for Foreign Affair s, ha ,, addressed a communication to the representativ` of his his Government at Mexico, offering th e vices of the United States as a friendly i s F and stating it to be the opinion of PrOideriB Tyler that the war, as it relates to Mexico, 'ica " useless and hopeless." In the United States elections for members oft the States Legislatures had taken p lace for ab.ou_. two-thirds of the number compOsing the v The result, as far as it had gone, was gene tic eralExecue,wi t i l i t c e h, power aithou of gh favourable to the Loass4eco or D ell"c ;4 - (0; party—strengtheningred the by the opposite party, has exhibited, siuce .death of General Harrison, political teygiellc' inimical to those professed by that functie aar d tg The picking of the cotton crop proce e . • favourably. From Yazoo, on the MissisAsPirli; 1,000,000 bales will, it is said, be shiPP e '. e ar, e. year, being an increase on the -crop of last ) e lected which was deemed above an average crop' stat ed Great quantities of counterfeit coin s— state s, to be in circulation throughout the Unite d s ee One of the papers say, " As to cents, t he ' t late and sold by the keg, are nails.. The privately manufactured e e „; Go worth just as much as those made 1 31 Y t " tan vernment, but in silver coin the free tr ade P gets in too much copper. A seizure had been made by house officers at Boston, the nature airy.ll ought to be made known in t his COO io the quantity of goods from Paris was shipPe d _,„ o rt, Royal Mail steamer, which touched at tlial v r esse l and seized on the ground that an Eng lish t t hose could not legally bring any goods exc e l ) the Costhaitric; manufactured in Great Britain. i•eceStli A sad " cut" to American cre dit Was • t sixty given at Havannah. Good priva te bills, t t of t wo days' sight, were negotiated at a prentinTi,..vera• per cent., while the bills of the Federal nte6o, ment, at thirty days sight, cou ld ,onlY be tiated at three per cent. discount. 'to 100 i. The rate of exchange is very low, 10 0 of th e The market dull, and little doing in any rf local stocks. On France the rates were e) to sf. 421 c. tints foal The following are the late st accoers:., Canada, extracted from the New York Pa,P li6o s. There is still a very stubborn and violenyof the sion going on in Canada, about the Toronto sad seat of government. he people of Te rt r i v ilege; Montreal want their towns to have the P than whilst the people of Quebec clamour loud t here. the rest to have the seat of government loe.B7so.„tiots With regard to Sir Charles 13agot's ado° mo re A and popularity, or want of it, we shall hea r , s o rtie the next session of the Canadian Parliarnelh,l', of the papers state that their confidence 1 1 D' A ' va ' a t o . is so great that they feel sure, if a vote of 3 __, t iceel confidence should be attempted, it would be !Iv e lc ilaa l immediately by a large majority . . . On the ost w he• several of the papers condemn his policy rafontsil/e. mently ; and particularly his calling clean° Baldwin, and others, .to take seats in the Council. for The arrangements of Sir Charles Bo g tea, ing a new Ministry have been fully cony le n arcs! ' the following is the result :—R. 1 3 - S alllva- .'C•l ir.; dent of the Council ; S. B. Harrison, Secretarilti se. J. E. Small, Solicitor-General, C. W.; P. cretary, C. E.; L. H. Lafontaine, AttorneY jolt. C. E. ; T. C. Aylwin, Solicitor-General, C. 1.." e tor Ge ; Dunn, Receiver-General ; Hincks, Dl:P e f iVork s. neral; H. H. Killally, President of Boar° A. N. Morin, Commissioner of Crown Lan(L, pers. These eleven are all men of ability, and vet.ri, cold in their politics. In the House of Assernu,_s,' g OO/ .posed of 84 Members, it is asserted, u pon Prel o J a pose' authority, that there are only 13 decidedl,v's WI; to the Ministry, and 11 of them doubtful; t'i nibe sr!" ing them 60 firm supporters. Mr. von ti tho e r Mr. Parent will retire from Parliament, places will doubtless be supplied by Mr. E. ;I c s. field and Mr. A. N. Morin, of the same' ° 1;1 10 atie, The British frigate Pique had s ail ' d fr e ao an d bee with two companies of the Coldstrc ih e two of the Grenadier Guards on beard' were to b e Hussars had arrived at Quebec, and we' • sent home immediately. OLD The public works in Canada are a lreadi tt • fr° tl3 the Erie Canal, if we may judge by the follow resetlt • the Rochester Democrat : Xll te' " THE WELLAND V. THE ERIE CA•N A :, fib" e down as a conceded fact—a fact establisheu. cdrettsiSFA —that the business of the Welland canal is w 2 oce v t The tolls during the month of August , 18 , 4. ' 1 0 10 ,15 those of the same month in 1841, to tu e din g of about 9,000 dollars. Yet, notwithstan of t " increase, only a comparatively small porlainvel.,,e produce of the west passes through tha t e r 11 !" - d The Cleveland Herald says that produce ° 1 .., 0 19 ! of $309,936 26 was shipped from that nelv ot 00 1 the month of September, and of that 0 111 ,1 0 1. $157,190 38 went through the IVelland stung that there is yet, as they say in the w est ' sec'. ° , 1 ..10 chance' to have the Canadian trade iocreaci, ou there is no doubt but that it will be increase cou nter some efficient means are promptly taken now %ogre°. act the effect which the improvemen ts „ 4 0 ing in Canada will have upon the t rade. SOMETHING NEW.—MORE OF TlO3 wired rif i ; CANAL.—A schooner came into our port on withps,u, day, from St. Joseph, on Lake Michigan, .evelit.] bushels of wheat for Charles J. Hill.gelhiel„,broanocbs'ei important. We are assured,.. by a quainted with the forwarding bus iness in ad Jrlts to the that if there was a good M'Adarn roacl,Bl)iealitbatitstb'el river, opposite Carthage, he could landtits mills in Rochester at from two to five cheaper than if brought down the E rie Call 3 is I II "' The news from Galveston, in Ten' e tail s. portant, as will be seen from the subjoin e r : obel i ; A despatch, dated Camp Salado, 20th e e l 3 o t . 3.?; mentions that Colonel Caldwell, with s t bre ivall, 1 Texians, had an engagement with Gen,„er, al gesio s to n which the latter came off victorious. .-"Ie ,ides e left 100 killed on the field of battle, b e F oett i wounded. A company of 59 men, called udeolorie, Volunteers, in attempting to join the cao/P t hicke:: Caldwell, were cut off, and took position in a t 8 „ in from which they defended themselves again s wes; he nitely superior force, until completely do rat the thirty-three of the number were found d'73 field, and the remainder supposed to have bee prisoners of war. de' Accounts were daily expected at Galveston of cisive battle between the contending forces. . c an A rutnour prevailed at Linville t hat a Aleil sae inforcement of 2,500 men were at the Nueee';retio Colonel Clark Owen, of Texiana, was tO 3 , Se _ fielil its truth. Colonel W. G. Cook wa s again in t he to t i having joined Colonel Burleson wit h 200 Tex.'ali 100 Indians. MEXICO AND TEXAS. ld day "). NEw O RLE ANS, •OCF. 17.---We had yester 1.8 ') (Correspondence of the N ew York Hera • ther accounts from Texas. The schooner A • c t ° _ t fi re' rived from the Sabine river, an d re p orts tha t t here [roil vious to her sailing a schoo ner arrived ri der, o a f Galveston, with accounts of the capture, p __ en t o f burning of Austin, the scat of the Geyer:H:ol.K, Texas, by the advanced guard of the Mexi. _ 0 „, last seeelin position, and did not lose a man. Our v .., J on under General IVall, who it appears met wit h nu r ts previous to this, left General Burleson,, ,:ews Texians; near Antonio, and if the -prf the eastern is true, he must have fallen back on _„ ‘‘s t his counties, as Austin is four hundrend 01708 k, ig side. If so the Texians prOb . Dif oun trf stand near the Brazos River, where tn? l ,_ xB , n otdf; populous, and the people of Eastern_ _ecv..B; readily join them. My opinion is the M o ,?e,: . Thst march through Texas and take possession lioteeri ass ist I. t o who went down there last spring to _ A iron rill country has no money and no credit, the v e .,. w ere shamefully used, and none could be Eon Ge nii; G ors; assist it when the wolf has really c ome_L •ed pare Adrian Wall, who commands the Ate7cbtoo of the Mexicans, is either a Pole or a e „ - •t: 'O - F-t-o'zl