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Now rea ly, in 3 Vols., post Bvo., with numerous Illustrations by Leech. RICIIARI) SAVAGE. A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE. By CHARLES WHITEHEAD. Author of " The Solitary," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. * * To be had at all the Librarie3. Now ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo., T HE NABOB AT HOME; OR, THE RETURN TO ENGLAND. By the Author of . " LIFE IN INDIA." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEWWORK BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE CHASE, THE TURF, AND THE ROAD." Just ready, in 2 vols , small B R 0 AD. Bvo., NimROD A By C. J. APPERLEY, Esq. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. *,.* Orders received by all Booksellers. Just ready, in 2 vols. small Bvo., with Illustrations, NARRATIVE OF THE ExrEDITIoN to CH INA, from the Commencement of the War to the Present Peliod, with Sketches of the /Manners and Customs of that singular, and hitherto almost unknown country. By Commander J. ELLIOT BINGHAM, R.N., Late First Lieutenant of her Majesty's ‘hip Modeste. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 13, Great. Marlborough-street. HISTORY OF TH LANDED GENTRY, A GENEALOGICAL and HERALDIC ACCOUNT of the COMMONS of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND; comprising Details of ALL THE EMINENT FAMILIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, and upwaids of 100,000 Individuals connected with them. Mr. COLBURN begs to announce that he has nearly ready for publication the NEW EDITION of this Important Work, with considerable Additions and Improvements, by JOHN BURKE, Edq., Author of " The Peerage and Ba 0- sietage," and JOHN BERNARD BURKE, Esq.,of tbe Middle Temple, Barri,ter-at- Law. This Edition will accord precisely in arrangement with Mr. Burke's Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, and will be comprised in a single volume. 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THIS EVENING, OCT. 10, Will be presented Sheridan Knowles's Play of the HUNCH BACK. Master Walter, Mr. Vandenhoff; Sir Thomas Clif ford, Mr. Charles Pitt ; Modus, Mr. J. Vining ; Lord Tinsel, Mr. Walter Lacy; Fathom, Mr. Meadows; Julia, Miss Van derihoff ; Helen, Mrs Walter Lacy. After which, will be revived GT etry's Opera of RICHARD CIEUR-DE-LION. Richard, Mr. Travers ; Sir Owen, Mr. Lerner; Blondel, Mr. W. Harrison ; Florestan, Mr. Horn castle; Guillot, Mr. Binge ; Antonio, Miss Poole ; Wilhelm and Collette, Master ald Miss Marshall; Matilda, Mrs. Vidal; Lauretta, Miss Rainforth. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price :is. 6d. ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; 3s, Second Price 2s. ; Gallery ls. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-office, from Ten 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, Bond-street; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, OCT. lit, Will be presented a Drama, by Douglas Jerrold, Esq., en titled THE HAZARD OF THE DIE. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Maynard, H. Beverly, Wright, Paul Bedford, Wilkinson, Mrs. H. Beverly, and Miss Chaplin. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE. The Imp. Mr. Wieland ; Jeunegarde, Mdme. Proche Giubilci. To which will be added the OWL SISTERS; or, the HAUNTED ABBEY RUINS. Principal Characters by News. Lyon, 0. Smith, H. Beverly, Craven, Wilkinson, 3laynard, Frampton, Miss Faucit, Miss Chaplin, and Mrs. IL P. Gravon. To conclude with NORMA. Pollio, Mrs. H. P. Grattan ; Norma, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. 11101 i TER AT LONDON BRIDGE Tins DAY. Morning...—. 37 minutes after 4 I Evening ... 0 minutes after 6. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Continuation of the Nautical Dramas, in consequence of the immense overflows attracted by the heart-stirring acting of Mr. T. P. Cooke,the only acknowledged Sailer on the Stage. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 10, Will be acted Mr. Albert Smith's new Dratna, called BLANCHE lIERIO, which has met with most decided mcess. Neville AudeTly, Mr. H. Hughes ; Hugh Laneret, Nr. N. T. Hicks; Herrick Evenden, Mr. J. Webster; Blanche Heriot, Mrs, R. Honner. After which, BLACK EYED SUSAN,with the Original Cast. To conclude with Lett - an Rede's popular piece, called WEALTH AND WANT, and THE VILLAGE POLI TICIAN‘4, in which Mr. R. Honner and the entire Company will appear. Places an,' private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, from eleven to four. • -2, 4 - „ h ' r • Trll- ''AVW:tor -- • Ot t ..6. t ,') UM LONDON MOND X.Y MORNING. OCTOBER 10, 1842, It seems, by the article we copy from the Leeds Mercury on the tariff of the German League, that there has suddenly emanated frOm the Congress at Stuttgard, without any previous yuhlic discussion, and without any warning to other States, a new schedule of duties. Reports Lad certainly got into circulation that some alte ration in the duties inimical to our interest were ia contemplation, but the secret was so well kept, that in July last Sir R. PEEL had no in fmnation on the subject, and stated to the House of Commons that he had had some conversation with the Prussian Minister, who knew of no such designs. - Now, however, we are assured by the Mereuiw, that the Congress has agreed to raise the duties on mixed worsted and cotton goods fron thirty to fifty dollars per cwt., an alteration which, it is said, will have an injurious effect on a number of articles manufactured. in Yorkshire and Lancashire. Our industry, then, is assailed on all sides, and the patriotic efforts of our anti-manufacturers, who wish to have half our towns cngulphed, and a stop put to the in crease of a manufitcturing population, are well seconded by the commercial legislation of France, of the United States, and of Germany. If the Government, and the middle classes who con trol it, continue to support our present policy, the desire of those who would like to drive a ploughshare over the site of Manchester, may perhaps, ere long, be gratified. Of course we shall be stunnedon this occasion, as on the occasion of the alteration io the tariff of the United States, with declamation from the Tory journals against the ingratitude of other States, which repay our reductions of duty on their commodities with an augmentation of duties oti ours; and we shall again be told of the folly a expecting that other States will follow our example. Let us prepare to encounter this de clamation, by reminding our readers that the principal reductions of our duties, that on timber, was of no i m portance to any other member of the League than Prussia ; and that admitting cattle, thowdi useful perhaps to Holland, Bel gium, and Holstein, is of very little consequence to the States of the Zoll Verein. At the same time we levied a new duty on the coals Ger manyT;' impo rts f rom ngland. The Zell Verein has, therefore very little to be grateful for, and will not, on that account, merit Many reproaches. But what is our example which the Germans wall proliably be blamed fur not 11)1lowing ? Does not oar . whole t ar iff procee d 00 t h e principle of protectmgoative and co l on i a l i n d us try; and does not the . Vurein act on that principle ? The more or less, the thi rty or f i fty dol l ars, i s. a questiao of Nvlich the (ierrnaus must It onl . f follows our example in protect ing, as it is called, the manufactures of Germany, a s England protects the growth of corn. In E4.4.land, he it remembered, this principle of protection has been hotly assailed. It has been denounced as a trespass on honesty. It has been accused of inflict ing; death on the people. Political econo mists lrlve shown that it is destructive of national wealth, sensible men have proved that it overturns all morality, and the ministers of re ligion 116 - Ve - d . C. , m6iiStrated that it is shockingly impious. Here it has been tried and tested by the public reason, and all that has been said against it has been wafted all over Europe. En. joying more than any other nation of Europe the freedom of the press, and having attained to a greatness almost unexampled, the conduct of Great Britain has great moral influence over the rest of the world. She is reputed one of the wisest of nations. By the wisest statesmen of this wise nation, after the principle of protection had been assailed as we have described—in the teeth, too, of a great and powerful party—it was maintained and enforced. Not contented with preserving it throughout the tariff, Sir R. PEEL established for the first time a whole system of differential duties, thus informing every State of the world that it was his solemn practical con viction, and the conviction of our Legislature, after much discussion, that the principle of pro tection, that is, plundering by law, was the sure and certain means of promoting national great ness. On that principle so confirmed, the Zoll Verein is acting, and by enhancing the duties on mixed woollen and cotton goods, it follows the example of Great Britain, and protects its native industry. W e might take the opportunity to taunt the Morning Post with the fickleness and caprice of the m onarchial Zoll Verein, and to borrow from this se cret proceeding a confirmation of our o pinion that the manufacturers may rely more securely on a democracy than on a monarchy ; but when we see the best interests of our coun- try, and, we believe, of mankind, endangered by commercial restrictions, we have no spirit for newspaper contention, though we fancy we could snatch a triumph. We pass rather to con sider how these attacks on our national prospe rity and greatness by a virulent faction at home, and by envious foreign nations, can best be re pelled. The faction can only be put down by the growth of sound knowledge, and no day now passes which does not teach the public, by im pressing on them painful facts, the folly and cruelty of this commercial nation cutting off sources of trade. We look to the progress of knowledge for a speedy triumph of the principles of free industry, and no sooner will they triumph at home than they will stifle folly abroad. It is obvious that the best and surest means of counteracting German, French, and American tariffs, is to set free the trade in corn, and to take off the duties on wool, cotton, and every other raw material which enters into manufactures, so as to enable our people to ,produce articles desired abroad at the smallest cost. BONAPARTE, at the height of his power, could not keep Eng lish goods out of the Continent. FREDERICK THE GREAT, when he had nothing else to do with his armies, could not put down smuggling. The United States, Germany, and France, have all extensive frontiers; and if, by abolishing our own mischievous laws, we set our manufacturers en tirely free, we may rely on the smuggler spee dily redressing the wrongs which protecting tariffs inflict on the whole family of mankind A bold and a just policy—but that our states men are not capable of; for they are unfortunately allied with foreign Governments in maintaining a kind of police against the people, and would rather aid them, we are afraid, in stifling trade than in setting it tree in opposition to their ignorant decrees—a bold and a just policy would dictate the assembling of Parliament before Christmas, instantly to abolish the Corn-laws, and al_ the duties on raw materials ; to establish in earnest and effectually the great principle of freedom for industry, which would speedily compel every other nation to act on the same principle. Such a bold course, honest to our own people, and just to foreigners, we cannot anticipate ; and we must content ourselves, therefore, with having pointed it out as an effectual cure, operating both by its example and its direct effects, for those systems of mutual and revengeful damage which at pre sent statesmen in all countries seem bent on up holding. We observe with regret, from Mr. COBDEN'S and Mr. BRIGHT'S statements, at a meeting of the Anti-Corn-law League, held at Manchester on Thursday, that the prospect there is darker than ever : " We have been suffering," said Mr. Cobden, "now in the north of England six years. It is six years since that revulsion occurred, which has led to a de pression greater, of longer continuance, and of far more intensity, than has ever been witnessed by the oldest resident in this neighbourhood. But, bad as has been our condition before, at the end of these six years, our prospects are worse than they have been in any previous year.—(Hear, hear.) It would seem as if the American tariff that had just been passed was to he the last feather to break the camel's back. It found us almost in a prostrate condition, and it has utterly prostrated the energies of this district." Another feather has since been added, by the increase of duties in Germany, which, if possible, will add to the gloom and suffering at Manches ter. The League, however, seems resolved not to despair. It proposes to raise 50,0001., and we presume it will succetd ; it is sending its tracts and its lecturers all through the country, and confidently expects that the Corn-law will, be fore long, be abolished. Both Mr. COBDEN and Mr. BRIGHT referred to gentlemen, Members of Parliament, who had voted for the Corn-law, and yet said they knew ,that it could not be long preserved. One of these gentlemen had the honesty to confess that lie voted because his estates were mortgaged. "He said he believed that rents would be as high in ten years with the Corn-laws repealed as they were likely to be ten years hence with the Corn-laws in being; but fur the first three or four years rents would go down; his own would fall below the amount of his mortgages, and he should be ruined." We have no doubt many other Members vote from similar motives; but would it not be more honest and more humane in them to vote the other way, and appeal to the Legislature to make a fair adjustment of such incumbrances? The Income-tax, by making them known to the taN-gatherer, may enable such gentlemen to get over their reluctance to made a confession, and induce them to advocate a plan by which justice may be done to them, to their creditors, and to the suffering people. It is horrid to think that the Corn-laws are to be maintained for a few months or years longer, to the ruin of our trade, and the starvation of many people, because a few landlords are in debt, while they themselves know that the law is unjust and cannot be long continued. If the League has many such con science-stricken supporters amongst the land owners; and we believe and hope it has, its spirited exertions will soon he crowned by success. We have given at considerable length the public dispatches and correspondence relative to British affairs in the East. Embracing as they do such a vast surface of country, extending from China on the East, to Afghanistan on the West, a distance of nearly six thousand miles, the events are of a multifarious character, but on the whole are satisfactory. Since fresh instruc tions had been sent out to India new vigour has been inspired into the Governor-General. H e was to leave Allahabad towards the end of August, and proceed by Delhi to Simla, and thence probably to Ferozpore for the purpose of inspecting the troops collecting in that quarter, and also for communicating more speedily with the English Generals in Affghauistan. The army of observation, which will amount to fifty thousand men, is placed under the command of Sir CHARLES NAPIER, an Indian officer of some standing and repute, who, we trust, will rival his namesake, and render the name as celebrated in India as it is on the Syrian coast. It ap pears that the selection is highly approved of by the army in general, and that great confidence is placed in his military skill and judgment. For what purpose this army is ass.t.mbling no correspondent can tell, as Lord ELLLNBOROUGH, to the surprise of many, keeps tl; es ccret wonderfully well, but it is generally be lieved to have two objects in view—to give moral strength to the operations against Caubul, as well fIS to watch some expected movements in the around the frontiers of which it is chiefly to b e collected. Fortunately for all these movemen ts, the rest of our posses sions in India, as well as the adjoining States, are quite tranquil. We regret that affairs in China display much less vigour, and that wing, no doubt, to the want of troops, Chousau THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 1842. and also Ningpo, with the exception of a small garrison, are to be evacuated. Had a few of the regiments, which for years have been lying idle in Canada, been sent to that quarter, the Chinese war would have exhibited very different results. Let us trust, however, now that our relations with America are placed on an amicable footing, that a new system will be adopted, and that by dispatching all the forces that can be spared, and by exhibiting the same spirit and activity as displayed in the West, the differences between this country and China will be brought to a speedy conclusion. The soreness of the Torj• journals towards Sir ROBERT PEEL still continues to be conspicuous a their diurnal lucubrations, notwithstanding their evident anxiety to keep it under. When ever they can plant a safe hit they never fail to do so, and sometimes they even borrow the soft, friendly language of compliment in order to con vey the bitterest sarcasm. Thus a Morning Con- temporary, in an article on the Church Extension queqion, says:—"Few men, be their opinions Conservative or Radical, doubt that Sir ROBERT PEEL has a very just and sound concep tion of the wants of the country ; few hesitate in acknowledging the Premier's ability and great judgment ; but there is, notwithstanding, a ge neral hesitation in anticipating good measures at Sir R. PEEL'S hands, because of his continual dalliance with that `unclean' beast, expediency, • which, be it remembered, has brought the country to its present condition. Sir R. PEEL is doubtless surrounded by difficulties, but the greatness of statesmen consists in their conquest of difficulties ; and expedients and compromises are but arms to fight such battles." It will be observed, that under the plausible guise of coot plintent, our Contemporary here adroitly con trives to insinuate the most stinging invectives; and at the very moment when he is expressing the utmost respect for the Tory Premier, as a statesman who " has a just and sound conception of the wants of the country," he accuses him of " a continual dalliance with that unclean beast, expediency"—in other words, of being a mere tricky, temporising expediency-monger ! " Call you this backing your friends ?" But this is not the worst. Sir B. L'Elm,itseems, isnot only a time server—an obsequious waiter on the chapter of accidents—but, hints our Contemporary, there is a natural distrust of him even among his own party—" a general hesitation in anticipating good measures at his hands!" So, the " hesita tion" to place confidence in the Premier is not partial, but "general"—not confined exclusively to his own adherents, but shared squally by all classes of the community! Why, this is worse and worse ! We ourselves have often spoken in terms, anything but laudatory, of Sir E. PEEL; but we know not that we have ever used lan guage so bitter and so sarcastic as that which we have just quoted from our Tory Contem porary. We have frequently said that be truckled too much to expediency; but we never said that he was generally distrusted by his countrymen. We thought at least that his own party confided in him ; but we are now assured that they do not ; and this assurance we have on the best authority—namely, one of the most in fluential of the Tory organs. From the abuse that is now so constantly lavished on him by his own heretofore adherents, we begin to entertain 'Elite a favourable opinion of Sir ROBERT PEEL, fin- surely there must be some redeeming quali ties in that statesman whom prejudiced, purblind Toryism considers undeserving of its confidence. We have space merely to call attention to an article in the Leeds Mercury on the new Ger man Tariff, the facts of which are of very great importance to the trading interests of the country. We may perhaps on a future accasion make some remarks on the subjects to which it refers. The accounts from Madrid are to the 20th ult. ft appears that the Government had imposed such onerous conditions on the contract for the quicksilver mines of Almaden, that no capitalist was willing to bid for them. As the produce of these mines was to be assigned as security for the loan of the forty millions of reals, it is probable the latter Nvi 1 1 remain a dead weight on the Go vernment, and is a further proof of the embar :assed financial position of the country. The reported insurrection at Valencia proves to have been a fabricatibn. The Heraldo announces, under the date Gib raltar, that the American frigate Fairfield had brought intelligence of the amicable adjust ment of the differences that had arisen between Morocco and the United States. The Three per Cents. were done at 211 at 60 days, and the Five per Cents. at 25 13-16 for cash, and 26i at 60 days. The floating debt of the Treasury sold for 41 at 50 days. The only leading articles of interest in the Paris papers received refer to the dispatches From Algeria. Both the Constitutionnel and the Cozi.rrier Francais treat the affair lightly. The former states that "It is not possible to make war, even upon the Arabs, without the sacrifice of much treasure and blood. The superiority of our arms cannot in vic tory prevent the natural mortality of battles, and if our young army gain their spurs in Algeria, and by their brilliant deeds rejoice the hearts of the old sol diers of the empire, it is at the price of blood and fatigue that they maintain our military fame. Dis cipline and science guarantee success, but we must purchase it by sanguinary conflicts. We must wait tbr it patiently and resolutely, and make up our minds to some disappointments." The C'ourrier Francais, after severe remarks on the conduct of the Government in delaying the publication of the dispatches, has the fol lowing:— " The public mind may tranquillise itself. The success of our ar my in Africa has not been inter rupted, and the Arabs will no longer seriously con tend against the domination of France. The affair of the 19th and 20th of September, was a military imprudence which the valour a our troops and the skill of tluir chief has gloriously repaired. We may regard this unforeseen but glorious en counter as to its results as having augmented our authority in Algeria. If some tribes, whose territories were deemed u nassailable and who had ef fectually resisted Abd-el-Kader himself, have not been able, under all the advantages of a surprise, to shake the steadiness of our soldiers; if the losses these tribes live sustained have spread, as General Changarnier affirms, desolation through their country, we may well believe that they are half reduced to subjection, and the trial they have made of their strength is not likely to be reneged." La Presse states that M. DE LANGSDORF, the French Minister to the Court of the Brazils, has been specially sent there to prevent the renewal of the commercial treaty concluded between Great Britain and that country in 1827, and which is to expire on the sth of November next, The weather had become fine, but was still cool in France. The vintage was proceeding fa vourably. The Echo Tournaissen states, that the cold had been so intense in the north of France for the last few days, that " the swallows which had not taken their departure fell lifeless to the ground, and were picked up by the peasantry in clusters of six or seven." The French Government has received a tele graphic dispatch from Bayonne, announcing that the Spanish Cortes are convoked for the 14th of November. BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 118 80... 119 ... 118 80... 118 90 Oh per Cents 106 50... 106 50... 106 50... 106 50 Four per Cents 101 25... 101 25 .. 101 25... 101 25 3 per Cents 80 ... 80 10... 80 80 05 Bank of France 327 J ...3285 ...3270 .. 3285 Latlitte Bank 5, I,oof 1040 ..1040 —lO4O ...1040 0000 f 5045 —.5045 .4.5045 ...50 45 Belgian 8ank..... 787 50... 787 80... 787 50... 787 50 Belgian Fives lO3 ... 103 i ..• 103 103* Belgian Fives 1840, ex dividend 1031 ... 103 ... 1031 Threes 7l 10... 71 10... 71 10... 71 10 Dutch 9 1 per Cents 53 ... 53 ... 53 Portuguese 53 N S a a n p i o s t h it a n Active 11(03:824 1 ,6 3 0 2.0 8 21 20 •••• :•• 1 10 32 0 6 0 8 1 1 1 3 06 0 20 8 1 20 Roman RAILWAY SHARES Versailles, R.B NO ... 265 ... 260 ... 265 L.B lOO .., 100 ... 100 ... 100 Rouen Orleans. Strasburg to Bale 205 ... 205 .... 205 ... 205 Lord Aberdeen has arrived in town, from a visit to Sir Robert and Lady Peel, at their seat, Drayton Manes s Stallordshire. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—The Queen and Prince Al bert, and the Royal suite, attended Divine Service this morning in St. George's Chapel Royal. The Rev. W. C. Knyvett performed the first part of the service, and the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Stopford and the Rev. Mr. Canning officiated at the altar, the latter gentleman preaching the sermon from part of the 13th verse of the 2d chapter of St. Paul's First Epistle to the Thessalonians—" When ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as- the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God." The Te Deutn and Jubilate were Dr. Boyce in C.; the Kyrie Elieson and Creed, Dr. Nares in F. The Anthem, " 0 God, who bast prepared" (Corfe). Dr. Elvey presided at the organ. Yesterday morning Prince Albert, attended by Sir E. Bowater, Colonel Arbuthnot, and the Hon. Cap tain Duncombe, enjoyed some hours shooting in the Great Park, and had excellent sport. Her Majesty and the Prince rode out in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving, attended by a part of the suite in a pony phaeton and on horseback. On Friday Mr. F. Newingham had the honour of submitting to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, a finished design of a full-length portrait of his Royal Highness, of which the Prince was pleased to express his approbation. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex has ar • rived at the seat of the Earl of Zetland in Yorkshire, on a visit to his Lordship. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester has arrived at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, to honour the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland with a visit. His Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of ' Mecklenburgh Strelitz visited Covent-garden Theatre on Saturday evening. The Prince afterwards left town for the residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Kew. Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador, tran sacted business en Saturday at the Foreign-office. The Earl of Jersey, Master of the Horse, left his residence ir. Berkeley-square yesterday for Newmarket The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on Sa turday for Hyde, Isle of Wight. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS, - - _ CITY, SATURDAY EVENING. The receipt of the details of the Indian news had a favourable effect on the prices of the Funds, and this, together with a purchase of but small amount, gave increased firmness to the Market, Consols leaving oft at 93* 931 for Money and for the Account; India Stock, 248 250; Exchequer Bills, Old, 52 54; New, 51 63 prem. The prices of Foreign Securities were—Belgian, 1024 1034 ; Dutch Two-and-a-fialf per Cents., 52 52-4- ; the Five per Cents., 100 1001 ; Danish, 82 83 ; and Brazilian, 63 64. The desire to sell Mexican Bonds continued, but it appeared chiefly to arise from speculation in the ex pectation of considerably depressing the market, in order that the operators might re-purchase at lower rates. The quotations were 324 33. Tye Share market was steady, without, however, any extensive business. London and Birmingham were 183 185 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 39 41 ; Great Western, 824 .834 ; the Half-shan e, 59* ; south Western, 574 58 ; Nor h Midland, 56 58 ; the New shares, 274 284 ; South Eastern and Dover, 23 234 ; Eastern Counties, 84 84 ; Northern and Eastern, 35-4 364; Black wall, 61 64 ; and Brighton, 36 361 per share. The quotations for the Bonds were—Colombian, 20* 21 ; Peruvian, 15 16 ; Portuguese Five per Cents.. 36 364 ; the Three per Cents., 211 21* ; Spanish Five per Cents., 154 16 ; the Three per Cents., 20* 21. The chief business in the city to-day has been the perusal of the Indian correspondence, which has been unusually voluminous. The exceedingly copious accounts in the Second Edition of The Sun., leave but little new matter to to be gathered from the private letters. (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) Rank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons.... 3h per Cent. Red — New 3h Per Cent... lOl New 5 per Cen' . — Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 . Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 — The 'Funds continue exceedingly flat, and With less business to-day than is usual on a Saturday. Consols are 93 for Money, and 931 for the Account; New Three-and-a-Halfper Cents., 1011; Bank Stock, 1691. Money continues to be very easy, and the difficulty of employing it appears to be increasing, the first de scription of mercantile paper being sought after at as low a rate as 2 per cent. ; consequently the premium on Exchequer Bills has further advanced to 53 54 for the Old, and 51 53 for the New. The business in Foreign Securities has been limited to Dutch, and these have given way a shade :ince the morning, the Five per Cents. being now 1001 1001 ; and the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 521. Mexican Bonds are dull, and the quotation is again a trifle below that of yesterday, being 324. The Share Market has been almost wholly without business, but what little has been done has been at an improvement. Great Western Halves have been sold at 60; Brighton, 361; the Loan Notes, 10g; and Great North of England, 521. The quotations of the bonds are—Colombian,_ 20' _ Spanish'Five per Cents., 16 ; and the Threeper Cents., 201 21. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 7.—Bu siness still continues very limited, and Shares have rather a downward tendency. Manchester and Leeds are par to los. premium ; North Midland may be quoted 56:: T s to 571; Brightons are offered more freely at the last quotation. Bank of Manchester are more in demand at 2/. per share. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH. FUNDS. India Stock — pm Ditto Bonds Ditto Old Annuities ... Ditto New Annuities... 904 Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 53 pm Ditto 5001...... pm Ditto Small Bank Stock for Open. 1691 India Stock for Acct... Consols for Acct. FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 pei cent. Ditto, Metallic ...... . Spanish, 5 per cent l6 Ditto, Deferred.... . 9 French, 5 per cent. Hat. 50 Exchange French, 3 per cent — Dutch, 2} per cent.... Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Opintoti. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The Spanish Cortes are convoked for the 14th of Norember. The Duke d'Aumale has returned to Paris, and is preparing to depart for Africa, where he will make his debut as Marechal de Camp. The Prince de Joinville resumes the command of the Belle Poule for a long cruise, having refused the rank of Rear-Admiral. Their Majesties the King and Queen of the French received on Tuesday evening the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Chancellor of France, the Sardinian Am bassador, the Ministers of Prussia, Portugal, Brazil, Sweden, Greece, Baden, Bavaria, Mexico, Wurtem berg, Hanover, Holland, Mecklenburg, the Pope's Nuncio, the Russian Charge d'Affaires, the Prince de la Moskowa, Generals de Lawcestine and Ventura, and the Count de Sercev. In the course of the afternoon the King went to Neuilly, and returned to Saint Cloud at five o'clock. A deputation from the Bureau of Longitude, with Admiral Roussin at its head, had the honour of being received by the King at St. Cloud on Tuesday. The chief clerk or cashier of a great Manchester house at Monte Video, who in August last absconded from South America with cash and bills, it is said, to the amount of 12,0001., has been secured at Bordeaux, with nearly the whole of the property in his possession. The cold, in the neighbourhood of Tournay in France, has been 30 intense that the swallows that have not yet migrated have fallen lifeless in the streets. The difficulties which had arisen relative to the testamentary intentions of the late Cardinal Fesch, in favour of the town of Ajaccio, have been removed, by a donation made by the Count of Survilliers (ex -King of Spain), the universal legatee. The King of the Belgians returned to the Palace of Lacken on Monday, from his visit to the camp of Be verloo, where a grand dinner was given in honour of him by the commanding officers and staff. MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE. Reports were general in Stafford on Friday evening that disturbances had again broken out in the Potte ries, and that large bodies of the workmen had again struck for higher wages. The absence of the local Magistrates at the Special Commissions, of which the labouring classes have not been slow to take advan tage, is alleged to have been the immediate cause of this renewed movement. The Islington Branch of the Church Pastoral Aid Society held its meeting on Friday. From the Re port it appeared that the expenditure for the parent Society for the past year was 21,7671., and its income only 18,9001. The Branch Society had fallen off 60/. in its receipts since last year. Barham Court, the Earl of Gainsborough's seat, near Maidstone, and other of his property in the county of Kent, is about to be brought to the hammer. LAW AND PDX4c:E. Miss Matilda Ann Layell, whose father holds a high situation in her Majesty's Excise, and who, on coming of age,will herself be entitled to considerable property, was on Friday charged at Lambeth-street, with being accessory to the utterance of a forged bill of exchange for 1001. She was remanded till Tuesday, and ad mitted meanwhile to two sureties in 2501. each, to appear on that day. Richard Felton, steward of the Batavier steam-ship, now under seizure, was charged at the Thanes police on Friday, on a Custom-house information, with smuggling 2131b5. of cigars and tobacco. The prisoner was sentenced to pay a fine of 1001. to the Queen, and in default, was ordered to be imprisoned at Clerken , well for six months. Charles Gifford, apprehended and examined as the party concerned in the alleged Chartist conspiracy at Southampton, was acquitted unanimously by the Ma gistrates of that town on Thursday. The Cheshire Special Commission opened at Chester on Thursday last, when Lord Abinger ad dressed the Jury, and the trials commenced. At an inquest held on Friday evening at the Bridge house, Borough- road, held for .the fourth time, to pronounce the cause of the death of Joseph Bowler, a chair-maker, poisoned by arsenic, the Jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against Jane Bowler his wife, who was committed to Newgate. LITERARY &ND scxxig"rxric. A new periodical, under the title of Zeit Regis trande, appeared at Weimar, the middle of last July. It is intended to serve as an index to all newspapers of Germany, for reference to any public document or event. THEATRICAL. The theatres at Paris are opening for the winter season. Madame Stroltz played this week brilliantly in the Reine de Chypre. The Opera Italien will open shortly with a new tenor, M. Corelli. C OIIRT-I'ASBZ ONA.BLE. The Dowager Countess of Essex and Miss Johnson return home on Monday next. Egerton are still on a visit- Lord and Lady Francis Eg ing tour in Lancashire. Lord W. Russell has been passing the autumn at Carlsbad. Lord Cowley arrived in London on Friday from Boulogne. The Countess of Clare has left Mivart's Hotel for Hentlesham Hall. near Ipswich. The Earl and Countess of Cawdor have been staying at Drumlanrig Castle during the week, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch. The Marquis and Marchioness o: Camden are pass ing the season at - the Wilderness, in Kent. The Earl and Countess of Hillsborough returned to town last week, from Willesbowne Castle. The Earl of Dunmore arrived last week at Armi dale, Isle of Skye, on a visit to Lord Macdonald. The Earl and Countess of Sefton commenced their parties at Croxteth on Monday last. nixscEzzatzrEotrs. ca l n l f e o r rd M o a n jes i t7 hur t s h d e ay Qluaeest, for a s o jo u r n in then Dowager arrived at county of Dorset. Upwards of 5,000 persons, and several hundred horsemen, a ssembl ed to meet her at the entry of the village, which was decorated with a triumphal arch. RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway Magaz;ne the sums re ceived on the principal Railways of Great Britain for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to each. The return includes the money received for . d. passengers, parcels, carriages , horses, mails , an d mer chandize : Week ended Opened . R. s. Name of Railway. Miles Total. Oct. 1 Birmingham & Derby Junct. 48 1,535 11 9 Sept. 30 Birmingham and Gloucester 55 2,210 7 8 24 Brandling Junction 25 887 10 4 30 Chester and Birkenhead .. Oct. 2 Dundee and Arbroath ... 1 Edinburgh and Glasgow 2 Eastern Counties ........ 1 Glasgow and kyr 40 1,008 15 10 1 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenot . k 22 i 843 5 8 1 Grand Junct., Chester &Crewe 113 7,749 910 1 Great North of England 45 1,425 810 2 Great Western Sept. 9 Hayle Oct. 1 Hull and Selby Lancaster & Preston Junction 201 Sept.3o Liverpool and Manchester 3l 4,654 4 6 Oct. 1 London and Birmingham-- 1121 17,387 16 4 6 London and Blackwell • 34 715 0 2 1 London and Brighten Ditto Shoreham Branch 4 London and Croydon 6 London and Greenwich 34 873 19 6 2 London and South Western ' Sept. 29 Manchester. Bolton, and Bury TD 575 9 3 Oct. 1 Manchester & Birmingham 1 Manchester and Leeds 1 Midland Counties s7i 3,151 711 i 1 Newcastle and Carlisle ...... Sept.3o Newcastle and North Shields 7 344 3 8 Northern and Eastern 72 1 5,409 - 17 2 Oct. 1 North Midla n d Sept.3o North Un ion Oct. 1 Preston an d W y r e 1 Sheffield and Manchester__ 7 220 8 2 1,627 6 South Eastern 1 Taff Vale .... 39 557 1 7 2 Ulster 1 York and North Midland 2B 1,970 16 6 Li.° MARGATE, OCT. 7.-22 casks of paka LONDON, OCT. B—Wind this day at noon, N. E., mode rate breeze, and hazy. 3 casks of spirits of turpentine, 6 crates o f glass bottles, and 161 Sierra Leone ; Crusader, Hond u r a s ; staves, have been brought i n f rom t h e w reck of the Susan. DEAL, OCT. 7—Wind W. N.W. light. — S id. Gambia, OFF DOVER, OCT. 6.—W ar - s t ea mer, Etna, Tercel, for the West Indies. • OFF THE WIGHT, OCT. 2.—Norman. uo pennsgen, fcr SClLLY.—Previous to September 3 0 Mars, Bermuda. St. Thomas. the Harmon from London for Glasgow , put in here, w ith bows stov e, having been in contact. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 7.—Wind N.N.W. to N.—Arrd. Numa transport, London, for Bermuda." SHIELDS, CCT. 6.—Sid. Romulus, Demerara. The Australia, bound to Bombay, day took the ground, but is not supposed to have re ceived any damage. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 7.—Wind vr.s.w6, fresh.—A rrd. Marth, Stute, Porto Cabello. in being towed out yester- SOUTH IiONALDSAY, OCT. 2.—The Dahlia, from Li verpool to St. Petersbnrgh, which got ashore on the Little Pentland, Skerry, on the 30th ult., has become a total wreck ; crew saved. CLYDE, OCT. 4.—Sld. British America, Antigua ; Clydesdale, Antigua ; Callao, New Or leans. HULL, OCT. 6.—Arrd. Sir E. Hamilton, Lundie, St. Andrews. NEWPORT, OCT. 6.—Sld. Czar, St. Thomas. The Right Hon. the Lord CowleY, Ambassador Extri ordinary, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Paris, arrived in London on Friday by the General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship, Magnet, Captain R. Stock, from Boulogne. FOREIG. Austrian, 5 per cent. — Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian Bonds — Buenos Ayres6 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent. Colombian, 6 per cent — Diito, 1 ht 24 Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 7B Danish, 3 per :ent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Nlezican, 5 per cent Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian,lB2s,6 peret. SHARE% Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ........ aF Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... 411 Great North of England Railway (100 pd) 52 Great Western, (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) 7; London and Brighton (50 paid) Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid) .. lOl London and Birmingham (00) Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) Loadon and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 573 Paris and Rouen (18 paid) FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL. BRUSSELS, OCT. 7.—The average price of wheat last week was 21f. 9c., that of Rye, 13f. 82c. The Moniteur publishes to-day the law of the 29th of September, which authorises the Government to con tract either at one or at different times a loan to the amount of twenty-nine millions two hundred and fifty thousand francs. FRANKFORT, OCT. 3.—The accounts from Leipsic, respecting the commencement of the Michaelmas fair, are, on the whole, favourable. Very large wholesale purchases have been made. It is remarked with pleasure that, among the numerous strangers, there are many Arminians and Austrian Jews, and also numbers of Russians and Poles. We hear from Berlin that Count Bussen, the French Ambassador, has presented to the Russian Cabinet a very detailed plan for a commercial treaty between France and the Gorman Customs. POLISH FRONTIER, SEPT. 26.—Letters from Mos cow and St. Petersburgh confirm the account first given by the Malta journals of the defeat of the Rus sians by the Circassians. The Russian Camp at Kiew consists of 70,000 in fantry, and that at Wosnosensk of 32,000 cavalry. DUTCH FUND'.—Amerrannam, OCT. 7. Money. Bilk. Actual Deb , 254 per Cent 52% 52% Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amart Syndic,4s per cent.... ......... 94' 24% PAM, ditto, 8% pet cent 7 75( 77 ., Commercial Company, 4% per cent-- Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... 100% INA Loan 1837, 5 per cont. il ll2 % 100 Exchange on London, One Two months 12 IT% Hamburgh, One month 35 87% Two months 95 58% Dutch Papers, Oct. 8. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussms, Ocr.7 Actual Debt, 2% per Cent , Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. ............ Loan nt Thirty Millions, Four per Cent ... 9l Three per Cent .......... --Thirty-seven 51:11i ns, ditto -- (1840) 10214 Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent 92 Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent B6 Rank of Belgium, Five per Cent National Society . Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Oct. 7. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on Saturday, to rejoin .11Irs. Goulburn and family in the Isle of Wight. 111‘Douall, the Chartist, has been taken into custody in Guernsey.—Leeds Mercury. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, OCT. 7.—Our offices are well supplied with samples, but the greater part on show are of a description not wanted. The low prices of refined goods afford no encouragement to the manufacturer to work, and the grocery demand seems to be confined almost exclusively to the better sorts, which are very scarce. The result is, that low, grey, and soft sugars are declining daily in value, whilst any thing good or bright readily fetch extreme ilrices.—Brisiol Mercury. 0.101 C INA APPREHENSION ' OF MORE CH AR- INDIA, AND TISTS AND RIOTERS AT MANCIIEST EIL H On Wednesday last, a Man name'd fames Chippen- AFFGHANISTAN. dale, a journeyman sawyer, living tit 1-Itilifak; ttitg apprehended at that town by Feat hers, of`tllE tltilitak police. On Thursday night, a man named Thomas Guest was apprehended in his own dwelling in Sal ford. On Thursday, John Eccles, a watchtnan tit the foundry and works of Messrs. Nasmyths and Gasket], at Fatricroft, was apprehended there by Superinten dent Wovenden. They were examined at the New Bailey yesterday, Chartists and rioters, and the result was as follows: — Guest was committed fir trial, at the Special As sizes, commencing on Monday, at Liverpool, the amount of bail required being two sureties in 601. each. James Chippendale, for conspiracy, was remanded till to-morrow (Friday). John Eccles, for sediti in, was committed for trial at the approaching Special Commission; the amount of bail to be taken being fixed, as in the case of the three prisoners, Williams, Braid, and Forrest, com mitted in August last, for the part they took in the same proceedings, at two sureties in 601. each. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Semiramide was performed on Saturday night to a crowded audience, and was eminently successful. The opera was followed .by a new farce, said to be wi itten by Mr. Morton, and resembling, in some re spects, a short piece, entitled A Wife for a Day, played someyear or two ago at the Haymarket. The language is common-place, and the few jokes at tempted are not of the highest order. The audience, however, were in good humour, and ;bestowed their applause with liberality upon the slightest provoca tion. The plot runs thus :—Squire Mulberry (Mr. Bartley), a jolly fox-hunting country gentleman, has a niece, who marries Captain Bantam (Mr. Walter Lacy). The captain is a duellist—an accomplishment which the Squire detests—and being engaged in an affair of honour soon after his marriage, Mrs. Bantam (Miss Cooper) endeavours to conceal the fact, by passing off her cousin, Doctor Lambkin (Mr. 1 Harley), upon the old gentleman as her husband. The Squire, who had never seen either of the gentle men, is delighted with his new relative—and the Doctor, who is really in love with the Squire's ward, Rose Maynard (Miss Lee), finds himself under the disagreeable necessity of sustaining the character which had been forced upon him. in the meantime the real Captain Bantam, having disposed of his duel by wounding his antagonist, resolves on paying a visit incog. to his wife's uncle on his way back to town, and assumes the name of Cou.sin Lambkin. The Squire receives him as his ward's intended suit )r, and the mistakes arising out of this double personation are very laughable. The Captain gets furiously jealous when he learns that another person has usurped his name and place, and the Doctor is equally enraged to find that there is another Richard in the field who, is making love to his intended. At length the Captain and the cousin meet, a mutual explanation takes place, and they each agree to keep up the decep tion. The honest Squire perceives that there is some mystery which he cannot penetrate—passes himself as Captain Bantam to a strange gentle man, who is making particular inquiries for the Cap tain, and gets himself arrested for a breach of the peace, instead of th, real delinquent. A general ex planation and reconciliation at length takes place, and all parties are made happy and comfortable, according to stage custom. Bartley played the old Squire ex (ellen ly ; and Harley was quaint and humorous , in a part which afforded little scope for his talents. Mrs. Humby had a little chambermaid part, which she did well. HAYMARKET THEATRE.—The performance ct this theatre on Saturday included the Irish Lion. The celebrated part of Tim Moore was filled by Mr. Malone Raymond, and the applause which that gen tleman obtained from the audience was very richly deserved. Mr. Raymond is gifted with a fund of quiet humour, and may be said now to stand alone in that department of the drama Which was so long and so ably filled by Mr. Power. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.--Amongst the new engagements entered into at this theatre we notice the name of Miss Lavinia Melville, a young lady who has acquired not only considerable provincial celebrity, but has been for a considerable time a favourite in town. This lady's performance of Gertrude Douglas, in The Adventures of a Gentleman, was such as to convince the most sceptical observer that she possesses the capabilities requisite for a pleasing and a sterling actress. MRS. ALFRED' SHAW.—The story of this accom plished vocalist, who has recently made so successfu a debut at Covent-garden, is an odd one. She was a factory girl in one of the manufacturing towns of Lancashire—Rochdale, we believe, and some one noti cing that she had a fine voice, had her taught singing, and she is now unquestionably the first contralto of the day. Mrs. Shaw was engaged at the Liverpool Festival in 1836, when the town was thronged with factory girls (her old companions), who had come from Rochdale to " hear Peg Postans sing," for, by her new name, they had not schooled their tongues to call her. The lady's husband is an artist o: some celebrity, and a brother of Mr. Shaw the architect of Christ's Hospital, under whose superintendence the new wing of Eton College was erected, and who has also been appointed architect for the proposed Royal Naval School. Musical Review. THE GLACIARUM AT THE COLOSSEUM.—The " Gla ciarum," or " Skating Hall," at the Colosseum, has been so much approved and called into action, that it has long been the intention of the proprietors to form a surface of artificial ice, for the purposes of safe skat ing, upon the most extensive and elaborate scale ; and, in order to give effect to this extraordinary invention, and to represent as far as possible the characteristic and sublime features of the chain of alpine mountains, co vered with eternal'snow, Mr. P. Phillips, the artist, was, nine weeks since, dispatcled to Switzerland, to transfer some of the magnificent scenery of those icy regions to the walls of the new establishment. Mr. Phillips returned to town yesterday from a profes sional and purely artistieal tour through Belgium, Rhenish Prussia, Northern Germany and Switzerland, having in the brief period ofa little more than two months succeeded in making no less than forty-five sketches, taken from the most picturesque scenery of those highly interesting countries, and so elaborately worked, and so happily combined, as to enable an artist of even moderate pretensions to convert their similitudes to the smallest cabinet pictures, or to ex tend them to the amplest scope necessary for dioramic, panoramic, or pantomimic exhibitions. DEAL.—(From a Correspondent of the Dover Chronicle.) —The hopes of Captain Bush regarding the establishment of his " Light of all Nations" on the fatal Goodwin appear to be as bright as ever. A damp has been attempted to be cast on the project by the Globe and Ti aveller ; but that organ has "travelled" a long way out of the course every well wisher to so desirable a desideratum ought to have kept in view, to say the least of it, by throwing cold water on the laudable and humane enterprise. SALE OF A RAILWAY.—The sale of the Clarence Railway, the first of the kind in connection with rail ways, is authorised to take place by the Loan Com missioners for Public Works, to whom the railway is indebted. The line is situate in the county of Dur ham, extending from the river Tees to Stockton, with numerous branches, a distance of thirty- six miles in length. It was constructed soon after the Liverpool and Manchester, and cost upwards of half a million. The traffic in passengers is small, the trade being principally derived from the haulage of minerals, wharfage, and shipping. WILL OF TUE LATE EARL OF FALMOUTH.—The will and six codicils of the late Right Hon. Edward Boscawen, Earl of Falmouth, and Baron Ross Bos cawen, has just been proved in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, by Charles Lord Bayning, Vice-Admiral Nicholls, and George Bankes, Esq., the executors. Amongst the several legacies, he gives his wife Frances 4,0001. to purchase a house ; to Vice-Admiral Henry Nicholls 5001., " as a token of esteem for valuable and impartial advice and as sistance;" to his son, George Henry Boscawen, all hid estates in the county of Cornwall. The will is dated 15th July, 1819, and the property sw•rn under the value of 60,0001. DRAYTON MANOR, THURSDAY. —The Earl of Aber deen and Lord Stanley have joined the party assembled here to meet his Imperial Highness the Archduke Fre derick of Austria. His Excellency Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador, has left for Chandos House. Dr. Whitfield, the botanist, has lately returned from Africa, with a large collection of rare plant s and animals. They have been consigned to Knowsley Park. The Doctor has devoted upwards of a quarter of a century to his favourite pursuit, and in the course of that time has visited the four quarters of the globe. his last voyage was undertaken expressly at the request of the Earl of Derby, who has in his menagerie many objects totally unknown in our public collections. The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby, after visiting the Duke of Devonshire at Cht.tsworth, and Earl Fitzwilliara at Wentworth House, went to Ravens worth Castle, Durham, the seat of her Ladyship's father, Lord Ravensworth, to join the distinguished circle invited to meet their Royal Highnesses the Duke f Cambridge and Duchess of Gloucester. Her -Royal Hi g hness the Duchess of Glouc ester, accompanied by Lord and Lady Ravensworth and a select party, left the Castle on Tuesday last, attended by Lady Caroline Legge, for Alnwick Castle, to honour the Duke and Duchess of Northtunberland with a visit. The Royal Duchess was received with all the honours due to her elevated station. SHEERNESS, OCT. 4.—An order has been received here to increase the complement of the Camperdown to the peace establishment crew ; she will therefore carry 620 me n. Volunteers are coming forward smartly fur the navy ; the Ocean has now a full complement of men, who have been entered for general service, and in conse ouence of their coming forward so fast they are drafting all the Ist class boys from the Ocean to are othe amongstCaier- down. A number of ver y fine young fellows the general service volunteers at this port, which gives a very - striking proof that the new regulations in the ser vice are duly appreciated by them.—Devtneport Independ. IltnEstsfisn, Auo. 23.—1 t is ;HOW broadly stated that Cieneral Pollock was not in a condi tion to retire when the Governms-General' t s hat h order e arrived fur hitt: to retrace his steps, assi could not move the whole of his army witliou: a reinforcement of citeriag,e. Advance, therefore, 'would have been out of the question, except by st small portion of his force, and would have been fu tile without a eoreesponding movement from Can dshar. Brigades, however, from both the? forces have ben actively ettivioyed during the past month. One under Col. Monteath advanced as far as Pesh Wok, and demanded the property abandoned there by Captain FerriS, which wa 6 in a great measure restored. On the ss.:Siti to Pesh Bolak, at the village of Ali Bog-ha.:: some accoutrements of' the men of the 44th were discovered ; and I regret to say that there were some excesses committed, both by Europeans and natives, roused as they were to exasperation at the sight of their murdered comrades' property. From the occurrence at Ali Boghan, the press argued a universal scene of rapine and destruction in the advance of either army, and it is satisfactory to observe in what has been done, that discipline has been entirely preserved, and that though forts and mud walls have been plentifully overthrown, no violence has been done to the people themselves. Briga dier Monteath's present occupation is not only to blow up the forts of those chiefs immediately in the mighbourhood of Pesh Bolak who at. racked Captain Ferris, and notoriously assisted in the destruction of the fugitives from the Khoord Caubul massacre, but to, collect the revenue from that district, and from the chiefs under the Suffed Koh. As yet we have not heard of his having experienced any opposition, nor that his brigade has beet, in any way under fire. It is reported, however, that he has at last come upon a refractory chief who occupied a very strong hold, and who had defied him. • The reduction of this castle bad, of course, been determined on, and elephants had been dispatched from Jellaiabad, to assist in trans sporting the gulls through a mountain pass which ltd to the chiefs abode. Monteath's operations have had some moral effect also. The chiefs of the Lughman valley, seeing that those near Ptah Bolak and under the . • Suffed Koh have been unable to make any op' position to the force, and that their castles have been deliberately destroyed, have naturally be come anxious for their own, and have therefore been exerting themselves, by their agents at Caubul, to procure the liberation Of the prisoners or some terms for the evacuation of Affghanistan. What real power or influence they do possess does not appear, but there is 110 doubt that various quiets Of rank are occupied in arranging negotiations independently of Akbar Khan, who, though supreme in Caubul and the Balla Flissar, doss not appear to possess any power elsewhere. Akbar Khan's position is a curious one : pos sessed of the supreme authority by the, defeat of the Prince Futteh Jung , he apparently dared nut assume it. He has consequently set the Sudogye Prince upon the throne, and has made himself' Vizier, thus virtually retain ing the power. The Kuzzilbashes, however, keep him in check, and upon his intention being made known to seize Mohunhall, the traveller, who is in Caubul, and whom the tribe protect, they declared to a man that they would take up arms against him, and overthrow him-- a threat which they could, it is understood, exe cute at any time. According to accounts also, it is said that he appeals for aid to the English officers, and for their intercession on his behalf to the British Government, pointing, as a proof of his pacific intentions, to his having raised a Sudogye Prince to the throne, and recognised the validity of the claims of Shah Soojah's de scendants. To this Lord Ellenborough is said to have replied by an offer to exchange all pri soners, including his father. Here, however, is another dilemma. post Mohamed, and his son, Akbar Khan, as a supporter of the Sudogye family, could not together inhabit Caubul, nor Afghanistan.eveAfghanistan. Nor could Akbar Khan preserve his present position, which all agree he is bent on doing at all risks. What course will be pursued, then, it is impossible to divine. Of time army of reserve nothing further has transpired, than that it is to assemble at Ferozes , pore, and that many officers in the staff, belongs , ing to regiments which are to compose it, have been ordered even from Calcutta tojoin it. From this it is argued that something more is intended than a mere demonstration or military display, and that asnothing has been omitted to complete the army in every material, including heavy siege ordnance, intrenching tools in large quan tities, and ammunition to an immense amount, that it is meant fur a hostile purpose somewhere. It is not likely that it is to be marched toCaubul, because it would be impossible to transport heavy ordnance, or halt' the army there. The insurrec tion iii Bundlekund, if not entirely suppressed, i$ nearly so, and a force is to be formed to averawe that country after the rains, com posed of some Madras and Bengaltroopsjoined. Politically speaking, the possession of the Pun jaub is too obviously necessary to admit of doubt, and with the Indus our own, we should not only possess the noblest frontier possible for India, but with our steamers upon its waters could do more to extend our commerce , a hundred fold, than has been effected by the advance of our armies into regions they ought never to have seen. The Bombay Times has done good public ser vice, and saved Ministers, both former and pre sent, a vast deal of trouble, and hosts of excuses in publishing Burnes's correspondence " e ntire " and noticing the Parliamentary Blue Book edi tion of it. I suppose that no documents were ever so mutilated to serve a purpose, or no matter ever so perverted to gratify the ambition of one man (the late Envoy) than those letters were. In no one case does it appear that Burnes was treated coldly by time Ameer, Dost Mahomed, nor that other than the utmost deference was shown to him. Even the admission of the terrible Russian Envoy to Caubul would have been forbidden by a word of his. It is true, Dust Mahomed made no secret of his ap prehensions of the encroachments of Runjeet Singh, and of time danger of his leaguing with Soottan Mahomed Khan in Peshawar, to rob from him more of the Affghau territory. It is also true that be feared Persia, and wished us to interfere to prevent heraggressions. In regard to the former, we can only say that the star of the Punjaub was in the ascendant, and had for the time dazzled the weak understandings of the Po.. liticals, who could not be brought to see that Runjeet Singh could hardly retain his conquest of Peshawar .without the British aid, in enmity against Dost Mahomed. But in regard to the latter, we can only see wilful blindness and wil ful aggression. The brothers of Dust Mahomed had openly turned back time emisaries of Persil? , from Candahar, " reported by Burnes," and yet in the Si ela pruclamatiou, said to be based upon Burnes's correspondence, Dust Mahomed ib openly accused of giving his support to the -Per sian designs in Affghanistan, as it' it were possible for him to have done so without contriving his own ruin with the Affghan people. During Lord Auckland's government of India, it appears by a general notification from Lord Ellenborough that the charges in the civil ad ministration in Bengal and the north-western provinces had gradually increased, till an excess of expenditure over previous years of one crone (1,000.0001. sterling) had been gained. How this has come to pass no one can divine, and it has been a wise act of his Lordship to institute It Committee to inquire into the subject of an in crease so enormous, without any apparent corm' mensurate benefit. The papers say, that there is no increase observable in any department, and that the late Governor-General was constantlY, occupied in making savings whenever he c onic ' effect them. It is unfortunate that his exertioaft should have had a contrary effect. The Goner' nor-General's notification is very distinct, and allows of no compromise, and the Committee are exorted to do their duty impartially and withou t any reservation in favour of individuals or vidual convenience. A similar Committee bs 6 been ordered for Bombay. Another subject w Bien early pressed itself upon the notice of the Governor-General, is the polic e of the Bengal Presidency, which by every ac count, official and private, could not by , any Po' sibility be in a worse condition. The prese" plan of Lord Ellenborough, which is but a prr position, however, is to form the whole of " me constabulary into a semi-military body, to hae additional mounted men, and that all - wi ld DP enabled to act in bodies, either for the protectio_iii, of districts, for the suppression of' g angs t_ l ! thieves, or insurrections. His Lordship p ropos" le to dress the policemen regularly in a s it Bpd manner, and to arm them with musket 11_4 bayonet, that they should be accustomed to . es cort a ttack together regularly, and be efficient to es t re asure, to act as irregular troops in the c'l: of mud-walls and in jungle, over' if it had not been utterly neglected an , , s ter t h ro wn, for the most part in the Compan) • r i tor i es , the whole of India possesses an a,,.."re, I able and very numerous police in every vilirich a certain number of the inhabitants of to hold. or held lands to serve as watchm en, woe ja look after their own boundaries. 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