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On Friday next, the 11th inst., will be published, in Bvo., with Woodcuts, 245. cloth, A TREATISE on the MECHANICAL -L-1 PRIN CIPLES of ENGINEERING and ARCHITEC TURE. By the Rev. HENRY MOSELEY, M.A., F. R. S., Professor of Natur.' l Philosophy and Astronomy in King's College, London. By the same Author, foolscap Bvo., Bs., cloth. ILLUSTRATIONS of PRACTICAL MECHANICS. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 8, New Burlington-street, November 5, 1842. MR. BENTLEY WILL IMMEDIATELY PUBLISH THE FOLLOWING WORKS :- ALEE NEEMROO ;*the Buchtiaree Adventurer. A Ro mance of Persia. By J. B. FRASER, EN , Author of •' The Kuzzibasb," &c. 3 vols. post Bvo. (Now ready.) THE JACK O'LANTERN (LE FEU-FOLLET); ►or. The Privateer. A Story of the Sea. By J. FE.NDIORE COOPER, Esq., Author of " The Pilot," " The Two Ad mirals," &c. 3 vols. post Bvo. The HISTORY of the MANNERS, CUSTOMS, ARTS, &e., of ANCIENT GREECE. By J. ST..JOHN, Esq. 3 vols. Bvo. MEMOIRS of the COURT of ENGLAND, from the REVOLUTION in 1688 to the DEATH of GEORGE 11. By JOHN HENEAGE JESSE, F.sq., Author of " Me mks of the Court of England during the Reign of the Stuarts." 2 vols. Bvo., with Portraits. NEW WORKS NOW READY. A VISIT to ITALY in 1841. By Mrs. TROLLOPE. Author of " Paris and the Parisians," &c., 2 vols., Bvo., price Twenty-eight Shillings. WIDOWS and WIDOWERS. A Novel. By Mrs. THOMSON, author of " Constance," " Anne Boleyn," &e. 3 vols., post Bvo. 111. NARRATIVE of VARIOUS JOURNEYS in BA LOCHISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, and the PANJAB, in cluding a Residence in those Countries from 1826 to 1838. By CHARLES MASSON, Esq. 3 vols., Bvo., with numerous plates, &c. Price Two Guineas. RICHARD SAVAGE, a Romance of Real Life. By CHARLES WHITEHEAD, Author of " The Solitary," & c . 3 vols. post Bvo., with numerous Illustrations by Leech. V. ROMANTIC BIOGRAPHY of the AGE of ELIZA BETH ; or, Sketches of Life from the Bye-ways of History. By the Benedictine Brethren of Glendalough. By W. C. TAYLOR, LLD., of Trinity College, Dublin. 2 vols. Bvo., with Portraits, price 28s. DOCTOR HOOKWELL ; or, the Anglo-Catholic Family. A Novel. 3 vols. post Bvo. VII. WILLIAM LANGSHAWE, THE COTTON LORD. A Story of Manchester in the Present Day. By Mrs. STONE, Author of the " Art of Needlework,' &c. 3 vols. post Bvo. Richard Bentley, New Burlington.street. (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.) 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Against the end of this Month the price will rise to El 4, and the Sale will close in the first days of November. Those who remit £l5 BEFORE the 28th instant, will re ceive an order for £2 upon our London Bankers, together with the Bond. To those ordering too late for being attended to, their re mittances will be returned by first post. HEINE BROTHERS. HAMBURGH, October 4, 1842. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, NOV. 5, Will be repeated a Comic Opera, called THE SECRET MAR . RIAGE. Being an English version of Cimarosa's "II Ma trimonio Segreto." The Character of Carolina, by Miss Adelaide Kemble ; Fidalma, Mrs. Alfred Shaw ; Elisetta, Miss Rainforth ; Signor Geronimo, Mr. Giubilei ; Count Montoni, Mr. Leffler ; - Paolino, Mr. W. Harrison. After which will be repeated a New, Original, Comic Drama, written by Mr. Mark Lemon, Author of " The Ladies' Club," &cc., entitled THE TURF. Captain Flatooker, Mr. Walter Lacy; Clovis Culpepper, Mr. Bartley; Gallop, Mr. Meadows ; Aaron 'fret, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Culpepper, Mrs. Hinnby ; Mies Warren; Miss Lee. To conclude -with-Abe Farce of COUSIN LAMBKIN. . Squire Mulberry, Mr. -Bartley t, Captain Bantam, Mr. Walter Lacy; Doctor Lionel Lambkin, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Bantam, Miss Cooper ; Rose Maynard, Miss Lce ; Dainty, Mrs. Humby. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. ; First and Second Circles be., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-effice, 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, Old Bond -street ; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, NOV. 5, Will be presented THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prin. eipal Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Lyon, H. Beverly, Wright, Sterling, Wilkinson, Maynard, Craven, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, Miss Faucitt, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Beverly, &c. After which, DEEDS OF DREADFUL NOTE. Prin cipal Characters by Messrs. Wright, Wilkinson, Paul Bedford, and Mrs. H. Beverly.- After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE. The Imp, Mr. Wieland; Fleur-des-Champs. 3ldme. Priebe Giubilei ; " The Frightful, Spiteful, Old Bachelor," Mrs. H. P. Grattan. To conclude with NORMA. Polio, 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. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. In consequence of the numerous applications for Mr. T. P. Cooke to appear in a succession of his favourite Characters, and the nightly o7erflows to witness hi 4 inimitable acting, he will change every evening, being the last times of their performance. THIS EVENING, NOV. 5, N\ ill be acted a New Drama, entitled ESTELLE DUMAS, supported by the best. Company in London. After which, THE PILOT. Long Tom Coffin, Mr. T. P. Cooke. To conclude with Mr. Albert Smith's new Drama, called BLANCHE HERIOT, which has met with moat decided sttccffs. Neville Audely, Mr. H. Hughes ; Hugh Laneret, Mr. N. T. Hicks; Herrick Evenden, Mr. J. Webster; Blanche Heriot, Mrs. R. Honner. HUGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. 11erning ltl minutes after 2 1 Evening ..... 31 minutes after 3. ult. LONDON : SATURDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 5, 1842. No inconsiderable complaints are made by the large class of wholesale and retail dealers, of the injury they have sustained by the sudden and unexpected impulse which has been given to the consumption of tartans, in consequence of her MAJESTY'S visit to Scotland. Orders had been given for fancy goods, or stocks laid in for the 'winter trade, which have been entirely su perseded by the use of tartans, and the value of their stocks has fallen 50 or 60 per cent. The manufacturers of tartans are, no doubt, profit ing by the change, and can scarcely supply the numerous orders they receive. In some cases, perhaps, the double business may be united in the same hands, a n d what they lose on their fancy goods they may gain on their tartans; but where it is not, and the stocks are heavy, the loss must be severe. Such persons may find consolation in the reflection, that the trade they are engaged in is subject at all times to these vicissitudes of fashion, that it approximates to a game of chance, and that, if they lose now, they will gain at other times. They may remember, • too, that from the vicissitudes of fashion to which they are rsady panders, they at all times reap their great profits with great ease, and they w ill scarcely feel themselves entitled to murmu r at one little frown from a goddess who showers on them so many favours. But though the individuals may have little right to complain, we are not disposed to regard as very favourable to society a trade which de pends so m uc h on caprice, and partakes so much of the nature of gambling. Sudden and unex pected gains, or sudden and unexpected losses have no good effects. The former makes men arrogant and extravagant, and the latter are apt to sink them to despair. It is a mistake to sup pose in such cases that the losses of one are com pensated by the gains of another. In both the evil predominates, and such a trade is scarcely to be called wholesome. It is at variance with those great trades which depend on gratifying the animal wants of the masses, in which the supply and the demand are equal and regular, and of which the extension is gradual but con tinual. To explain or excuse these vicissitudes a good deal is said about the caprice of fashion in an opulent community, but it is unworthy of us to content ourselves with such a phrase. Ours no longer deserves the name of an opulent commu nity. A few persons have got plenty, and live at their ease ; but the masses are steeped in poverty ; their wages, and the value of their work has been for a few years continually de clining. A great number of the people are given up to frightful beggary. Amongst the opulent, indeed, who are exclusively the customers of the tradesmen in question, there is much caprice, but it springs less from their opulence than theiritni tation of those above them, and their blind admi ration of some higher degree of opulence. In truth it is not the opulence of the community but the spirit of an idle aristocracy, to gratify which meets us here as in every other part of society, and is found much more redolent of mischief than advantage. _ _ _ Much to the discredit of the industrious middle classes we must say, considering the HERT FORDS, FRANKFORTS, and bread-taxing land lords, of whom the aristocracy is composed, they blindly follow the idle aristocracy, and be come, without their motives and enjoyments, the victims of their whims. Instead of studying what is graceful, useful, and convenient, they only study what the aristocracy do; and the industrious classes thus wilfully continue the slaves of the idle and rapacious classes, after time arid circum stmice have emancipated them. Of course, they are much laughed at for their silliness. The titled aristocracy, who have a large annual income from the land, increased by the bread tax, are delighted to see the hard earnings of the professional man, the manufacturer, the merchant, or the wholesale tradesman, squan dered in imitation of their worthless pursuits. By that they are longer maintained in ascendancy, and they are kept in countenance, and the toil ing classes doomed to a whole life of irksome drudgery. This is not the worst of the matter. The middle classes, by their imitation of the aristo cracy, are compelled to be the hard task-mas ters of those beneath them. We remind them, not reproachfully, but sorrowfully, that out of this has grown that contest between them and the lower classes which at this moment makes the whole society feel insecure. Changes in fashion, therefore, are not due to opulence, which seems attended with no startling and ruinous caprice in the United States, but to the aristocratic nature of our society. Be cause one great Lady chooses to wear tar tans for a few weeks, out of compliment to the gallant people amongst whom SHE has had much pleasure, and by whom she has been much honoured and feasted, all other ladies, who have been neither feasted nor honoured, must do the same. They cause, by their taste in following the fashion, no little confusion, it appears, in the course of trade, and if they give an impulse to it in some quarters, withdraw it from others where it seems quite as much wanted. The dissatisfaction of the agriculturists, and of a considerable portion of the trading community, with Sir ROBERT PEEL, is an edifying comment on that blind confidence which John Bull is so apt to bestow at times on a public man, merely because he maintains a cold, reserved, but plau sible, demeanour, vents clap-trap common places at every suitable opportunity, and is as siduous in his cultivation of all the conventional respectabili ties oflife. Raised to power on the broad shoulders of the agricultural party, who found excellent allies:in the trading middle classes, and the genteel, orderly Toryism of the professions, the Right Hon. Baronet has contrived to asto nish, disappoint, andJairly mystify them all. The landowners and farmers thought, as a matter of course, that as they were mainly instrumental in elevating him to his present post, he would make a point, in *framing his remedial measures, so to contrive, as that their particular interests should remain, nearly, if not quite, uninjured. The traders were influenced by the same agree • able hopes, as far as they were concerned; and those members of the professions who were still struggling hard to obtain a decent competence, never imagined for an instant that the Premier's measures would affect their especial interests; so —like their brethren in affliction the agricultu rists and the traders—thought it the wisest plan they could adopt to support a Minister who was not only a paragon of respectability, but pro fessed a genteel and orthodox abhorrence of all such vulgar, revolutionary changes as were pro jected by his predecessors. And what is the result of all this purblind confidence ? Why, just this, that each party has been outwitted, and now finds to its cost that its selfish cunning has overshot the mark. In recompense for their disinterested services, the Tamworth Doctor has administered to the agriculturists a strong emetic, in the shape of a Tariff, that has made them all as sick as dogs ; and the trading and professional classes he has all but thrown into convulsions by such a free use of his Income-tax lancet as in a short time will scarcely leave them a drop of blood in their veins. Each party now looks at the other, with a penitent, woe-begone expres sion of countenance, that seems to say, " What a set of fools we have all been !" The agricultu rists cry out that the iniquitous Tariff will be the death of them, and in the few melancholy din ners that they get up for the purpose of record ing their sense of the awful and undeserved cala mity that has befallen them, make a point of diligently forgetting to drink the usual toast of " her Majesty's Ministers ;" and tradesmen and struggling:professional men in town and country, exclaim with equal bitterness, that, since the first invention of taxes—an invention, we sus pect, coeval with the Deluge—there never has been so rascally—so mischievous—so teazing, impertinent, and inquisitorial an impost as the Income-tax. We confess we are not altogether sorry that these parties have been tricked by Sir ROBERT PEEL. They were warned before-hand, not once but a hundred times, that he would play them off, one against the other, and end by making dupes of them all; and, consequently, they were without the shadow of excuse for their blind confidence. Sir ROBERT PEEL is fast becoming unpopular throughout the empire. He has deceived the hopes of the commercial and manufacturing classes. The agricultural classes are very gene rally offended by the results of his measures. The worrying Income-tax, almost before any portion of it has been levied, is rousing against him the bulk of those who live comparatively at ease. He has done nothing whatever to soothe the irritation of the lower classes, who hate him, and hate his party from old recollections, per haps even more than they now hate the Whigs. His Government: rests no longer on the hopes or on the satisfaction of any of the great pro ducing interests, or on the bulk of the people. It is neither loved nor respected ; it is borne with, because at present those who hate and despise it cannot change it for a better. The choice lies betwixt him and the Whigs; and great as may be his present unpopularity, contemptible and hateful as may be his Govern ment to the majority of the people, it is still less unpopular—less contemptible—and less hate ful than that of the Whigs. His failure is shielded by their still greater failure. Neither has, for the bulk of the community, any char acter of goodness; but his Government is, as yet, less bad than theirs. It is not his own virtue but their demerit which keeps him in office. The country owes him nothing for au increase of prosperity since his accession to power, but it cannot forget that its decay and its sufferings began before he was Prime ,Minister. It has been deceived by his petty, paltry, meddling commercial alterations (they do not deserve the na me of reform s ), b ut it 'has no faith in the changes proposed by the Whigs. It seems to need other measures, and other men to execute them ;i tc r a E n L n . o t yet find these, a n d th ere f ore it en endures r. If the public complain of the Income-tax, the answer is, that the wasteful expenditure of the Whigs has made it necessary; and were they to return to power, it is doubtful whether they could or would abolish it. When the farmers. "dom" and "drat " Sir ROBERT, they are re minded that he is their friend, and that the mea sures of the Whigs would inflict on them a still greater injury. If the manufacturers say he has done very little for them, they are told that the Whigs were ten years in office, and never at tempted to set trade free till they had lost the power to carry such a resolve into effect. When the Chartists complain of the prosecutions of 1842, they are reminded of those of 1838 and 1839. The Whig journals are trying hard to make out a case against Sir JAMES GRAHAM, because HOLBERRY died in prison; but the Char. tists—and they are a very numerous body— reply, that the Whigs put him there. They k now from Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S repeated ;de claration, that they have nothing to hope from his finality principle ; the Tories are their open and declared enemies, who never beguiled nor deceived them. The Tories never said other wise than that they were determined to be their masters. They never toasted " the sovereignty of the people." If the Chartists hate the Tories more, they perhaps despise the Whigs more, and will have none of them. There is no great interest in the country which looks with con fidence to the Whigs, or they might soon oust their now unpopular opponents ; and therefore all submit, with grumbling, to the Tories. If these remarks are a pretty fair representa tion of the feelings and opinions of the majority of the community, it appears that the Whigs are now severely punished for their short-com ing and injudicious proceedings. It is for them a sad thing to be regarded by the public as worse than the Tories. Though we do not agree with the public as to the degree, we coincide with it in looking at both parties with mistrust. Both have contributed to bring on the present con dition of England. The policy of both has been erroneous. Neither has ever thought of doing justice to the people. Both have gone on in a career of extravagance, disregarding the welfare of the masses, till great difficuties have come upon us. The community has ceased to place unlimited confidence in either party, and has ceased to he Whig or Tory. The Whigs per ceive that they do not gather strength as their adversaries become weak ; and they begin to rail against the neutrals, or men of neither party, be cause they stand aloof, and will not again place them in a situation to break all their promises and deceive all the hopes of the people. We hail with pleasure the unexampledly rapid in crease of a party which is neither Whig nor Tory, which looks to the interest of the commu. nity, and which will, we hope, ere long become the most numerous in the country, and then it will be the most influential in the Government. At the same time it is not satisfactory to find the leading politicians of both parties objects of general distrust. Both are condemned by facts. The want of prosperity, which is a reproach to both, is the source of the want of confidence. It is too palpable to be concealed or denied that both have failed. The policy of neither is adapted to the circumstances of the times, and the wants of the community. The nation is in a peculiar condition. It is without leaders whom it loves and respects, and without a system of policy in which it has a lively faith. It must, therefore, work out its safety on some other plan, and under other guides. The present is probably the most remarkable acre on record since the Reformation for innova tions in religious rites and ceremonies, taking their rise not from any wish or feeling whatever in this respect among the people, but planned and carried out by the priesthood. The worst feature in the general movement is the little regard paid to the truths and doctrines of Christianity, and the vast importance attached to outward forms and symbols, hitherto regarded by Protestants as little better than Catholic mummeries. These follies are not confined to this country, but arc exhibited in still greater perfection among our lively neighbours, so long accustomed to look upon them with contempt and derision. LOUIS PIIILLIPPE being anxious to establish the Catholic religion in Algiers, appointed a Bishop for that purpose, as well as to minister to the religious wants of his own people. The prelate, on arriving at his destination, found the task, it would appear, rather irksome, as the land was polluted by Paganism, and there was no sacred spot for erecting a Cathedral, to which worshippers might look with veneration and awe. To remedy these evils he hit upon a noble device, and resolved to go in quest of the bones of ST. AUGUSTINE, who was a native of Africa. The Saint had died in Italy, and no one could say exactly where he had been buried; but this difficulty was easily overcome. The Bishop and his assistants resorted to the most likely spot for recovering the venerated bones, and, after digging carefully, at last beheld, to their great delight, the precious treasure fully identified by a gold ring on one of the Saint's fingers. They were collected, placed in a sarcophagus, and brought in triumph to Toulon. A grand procession by torch-light crossed the town, with the Bishop of ALGIERS at its head, accompanied by the Archbishop of BORDEAUX, six Bishops, and the entire Clergy of Toulon and the vicinity. The Government, too, patronized the scheme, for the sacred relics are to be conveyed to Bona in a war steamer. escorted by two ships of the Royal navy. Will mockeries like these increase the respect of the French for Mother Church? Will they not, on the contrary, be viewed in the same ligh as the schemes of our Puseyites, and treated with as much ridicule as the lectures of our Bishops on burning candles at the altar, on genuflexions and signs of the cross, and all those other frivolities, which seem to be regarded with much more veneration than the beauties of Divine truth? In the Scotch Church, too, a rage of different kind prevails ; but it is as little connected with religion, and has, perhaps, been more injurious to the very character of that establishment which it is meant to uphold. Even among the quiet people of Switzerland new ceremonies and new sects are springing up. One has just been established at Ge neva, which has not yet acquired a name, but from all accounts it is of a rathersingular kind, as their have tongues; the n meetings are s o no i s y t h a t th ey cannot procure a Then l place e we rwallsvdi ng.e sthe iperformk th e t t o y,a ee sspeakers h t a h ei inun knownt he rites.their wetolintiv i the Mormonites, perhaps exceeding all others in ex travagance. These are facts which forbode no good, and inspire the sober-minded Christian with feelings of sorrow and shame. The Madrid Gazette of the 26th ult. an nounces, that the REGENT, wishing to reward the officers and soldiers who, in 1823, after having fought for liberty, desired to remain prisoners of war rather than join the anti national party, which, with the assistance of a'foreign army, had restored a system of absolute power, had issued the following decree : " 1. A cross of distinction is - granted to the officers and soldiers who in 1823 were conveyed into France as prisoners of war after having fought for the cause of liberty. "2. This cross will be made of gold for the officers, and silver for the privates." The Herald° states that the REGENT had granted permission to the Infante Don Flux cisco de PAULA to proceed to Andalusia through Valencia witligut passing through Madrid. Desertions into France had again commenced amongst the Spanish troops on the frontier. The Three per Cents. were donc on the Ma drid Bourse on the 26th ult. at 21k 15-16 at 60 days, and the Fives at 261 cash, 26k 13-16 at 60 days, and 21f at 60 days with four coupons. The Paris papers received yesterday refrain entirely, a most unusual occurrence, from angry comments on the policy of England. It would appear there is now no longer any doubt as to the result of the negotiations for a treaty with Belgium, and that the affair is at an end. The Courriar Francais has a long article on the sub ject, and.seems to impute great blame to the Government for entertaining a project which they might have known would end in smoke We are not aware that that journal predicted any such result at the commencement, or even hinted that it would be injudicious to attempt a closer commercial connection with their neigh bour and protegee, but the truth is, Frenchmen cannot write without grumbling, and never seem contented with any arrangement, or with any Government or country. King LEOPOLD must see, from the proceedings which have taken place at Paris within the last ten days, that Bel gium can expect little favour from France, ex cept the favour of being taken entirely under her protection and then swallowed up. Here is the latest attack from the Courrier on M. GITIZOT : " To excuse the Cabinet it is asserted that we are in a state of commercial convulsion. But who has produced this agitation, if not the Ministry them selves ? Before they mooted the question of a com mercial union between France and Belgium, were they not aware that those of our manufacturers who live under the protection of prohibition would raise a loud outcry, would speak of the despair of their work men, and would exclaim that national labour was on the point of being ruined. Had they not a precedent for this in the commercial inquiry of 1814, and the not less significant example of the illustrious Hus kisson ? Might they not surmise, from the attempts at intimidation made by certain deputies, what some of the electors would do • and, in fine, ought they to have been ignorant that their position would be threatened the very day on which they ventured to add to the power of their political adversaries the op position of the manufacturers feudally organised ? The Ministry were, in fact, fully warned, and before rushing into so arduous an undertaking, they ought to have measured the consequences, and have calcu lartoeerd on nowopposition as well as defection. It is not p us that the Cabinet should h av e ptotell taken steps to make the question subordinate to their existence, and not their existence to the question. The country cannot stop at such trifles, and the existence of the Ministry is not of such great value, at to sacrifice to it the permanent union of two nations, which the Congress of Vienna had endeavoured to separate, but which their revolutions have brought together. As long as the Ministry left the question in repose the manufacturers tacitly admitted the possibility, that one day or other an attempt might be made to remove the commercial barrier; and now, because a Government without any fixed resolution has inop portunely thrown the matter to the world for discus sion, they demanded to lay down as a principle the es sentially transitory regime of the protective system. Decidedly we have retrograded during the last six months for such demands to be put forward, and the Ministry, in thus recognising the preponderance of privileged interests, makes subordinate to them not only its own existence, but even that of all govern ment. We protest against this degradation of autho rity in France. There is no longer liberty in a coun try where the interests which speak the loudest are certain of bringing the Government to terms. Before 1830 the Government was the oppressor, but now it figures in another shape, and we do not find its cha racter of oppressed more worthy of it, or more happy for us. Every one has his place 'marked in society, and ought to remain there, and the Government ought no more to be directed by a manufacturing party than domineered over by a political one." The Commerce states "that the sons of General PAJoL, with a generous spirit of self-denial, have relinquished their patrimonial fortune to present it to their father, in order that, in his old age, after having so long enjoyed the comforts of opulence, he should not suffer the privations at tached to the want of employment." SEDASTOPOL.—In a lettor from Sebastopol, in the Journal de Frankfort, we read :—" The fleet, which sailed from this port a month ago, to cruise in the Black Sea, has returned. It is composed of six ships of the line, two frigates, and three sloops. We have also in the roadstead six other ships ready for sea. The Russian fleet stationed in the Black Sea consists of eight ships of the line, six frigates, eleven sloops, and six steamers, which are constantly cruising along the shores of the Caucasus, to prevent all intercourse be tween the Circassians and the ports of Asia Minor, whence the mountaineers procure their provisions and ammunition. The fortifications of Sebastopol are going on very rapidly. Forts Alexander and Con stantine, which command the entrance into the bay, and will be mounted with 320 guns, are quite finished. Fort Nicholas, which has three ranges of b as ti ons , one over the other, and are to be armed with 260 guns (of which 50 are already mounted), to protect the harbour and docks, is also nearly completed. These docks, which were commenced twelve years ago, are of gigantic dimensions, of which no idea can be formed without being seen. In order to supply them with water, it has been necessary to cut a canal about fourteen miles in length, and construct several tun nels and aqueducts. All these works have been car ried on under the direction of Mr. Hopton, an Eng lish engineer, With whom the Emperor is so highly satisfied, that he has created him a Major in rank, and conferred upon r him the insig n i a o f one o f the Impe rial Orders. BOURSE—PARIS , WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 118 40... 118 50... 118 40... 118 45 4% per Cents 105 50... 105 50... 105 50... 105 50 Four per Cents 100 50... 100 50 .. 100 50... 100 50 3 per Cents 79 95... 80 ... 79 90... 80 Bank of France 3270 ...3270 ...3270 .. 3270 Laffitte Bank 5,000 f 5075 ...5075 —.5075 ...5075 Belgian 8ank...... BO2 50... 802 50... 802 50... 802 50 Belgian Fives . 1840 lO4/ 104/ ... 104 ... 104/ Spanish Active. ...... 22 4 —. 224 —. 224 ... 224 Portuguese Fives 321 32} ... 321 ... 321 Neapolitan... lOB 10... 108 20... 108 10... 108 20 Roman ............... 1054 ... 1054 ... 1051 ... 1054 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, LB 96 25... 96 25... 96 25... 96 25 Rouen Orleans. 585 ... 585 ... 585 ... 585 Strasburg to Bale 205 ... 205 ... 205 ... 205 HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, Nov. 1, Bills. Money. 110 Austrian 5 per Cents. Fault Sharei ems Anglo-Russian Loan MI% 10836 Russian 5 Der Cent., let series, Certificate 103% Inscription, Ist series lO3 —.. Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series 9B 97% Ditto in Certificates 97% 97% New 4 per Cent. (1840) Dutch Actual Debt, 25 per Cent. ......... ...... 51 51% Ditto 3 per Cent. Pollsh Bonds _— New Tickets I iS A ng l o . Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. Bl 8114 EXCHANGES ON LONDON. H Spanis h , New 5 wit' Cents. lB mr, Nor. 1 .-13 10, Two months 13 EN PETERSBURG, OCT. 2 1—Three months. 37% pCO4E. STOCKHOLM, Oct. 2 5.—Seventy.6ve days, 12 12. DUTCH FUNDS.—Amsmumm, Nov. i. Money. Bi Is. Ac til a I Debt, roi per Cent •••••••••••••••••••••• 5 2 % AineJitto, ditto 5 per cent. t Syndic, 4% per ...... 03% s P.tto, ditto, a% INT cent. ..... N.••••••••••••• 77 77 Commercial Company, 434 percent 13534 36 Loan 1837, 5 per cent... 9934 100 Exchange on London, One Two months 12 14 Hamburgh, One month 35 87% Twe months 35 8234 BELGIAN F UNDS.-BRUSSELS, Nov. 2. . Nov. 2. Actual n Duet:ht. Pa p ers , Nov. .53% Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. 10234 Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 92A Three per Cent.... ..... .. --.- Thirty-seven Minims, ditto (1840)....•...... ..... 1( II X Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent. 92 Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent B6 Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 77 National Society Exchange on London (short) 00000000 6411411111••••••••••••• - -Brussels Papers, Nov 2. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, OCT. `,1.. Five per Cents. Metalliques ••••••••••••••••• 000000 meows lO9 Four per Cerds• ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 00000000000 100% Three per Cents Bank Shares *tel. oo 00000000 0 0000 se . V e_e oemseeeeelseee.•• 34 . JUgetneine Zeilurrg,oooo.. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Britutt, OCT. 81. Bills. Money St- Schuld Sch., 4 per cent.. ..... .... ....... 1034, 106% Prussian Engli s h Bon d 4, 16 4 per cent I , 2 A 1 2 Exchange on London - 6 24% Prussian State Gazette, Nov. 1. NI3W COMMISSION 01" LUNACY. — The large man sion on the south side of Lincoln's Inn-fields, formerly the residence of Mr. Harrison, Parliamentary Counsel, lately deceased, has been taken for the establishment connected with the Lunacy Commission. Mr. En field, who has for many years held an important situation in the lunacy department, under the Lord Chancellor, ha s b een appo i n ted to the secretaryship of this Commissi on , w i t h a sa l a ry of 1,0001. per annum. A new P o li ce C ourt ,h as been erected in Arbour square, St e p ney, and has been for some time com pleted, the furnit ure a l o ne been required to render it lit for occupation and business. There is a large Pliee-station, with a kind of barracks. for the single 'non belonging to the K division of the police force, stables, a range of cells, and a covered shed for the police-van annexed to the Court. The erection of the new Court and station, and buildings attached, has cost upwards of 15,0001. We understand that the London and Brighton Railway Company have prepared plans and Estimates, with a view of going to Parliament in the next session for an Act to authorise the construction of a branch line from Croydon to Vauxhall, in order to form a west-end terminus to their railway. The line, we hear, is easy of formation, and it is evident that, if carried into effect, it will he a great convenience to the inhabitants of the western part of London, who form a considerable portion of our visitors. —Brighton Gazette. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT WHlTECHAPEL.—Yes attended with tarday morni ng , a b out t en minutes before two, a fi re great destruction of property, b ro k e out on the im mense range of premises belongin g t o Messrs. Colyer, Cooper, and Co., situated in Leman street, Whitechapel, nearly opposite the Garrick Theatre. Damage to a considerable amount was sus tained. The origin of the fire could not be aseer• tamed, nor yet whether the firm Was insured , Ne , ', , • vtt Alt Vitt • ":"' SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Public ilinatittoit. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. Only three Paris papers were published on the Wed nesday, the preceding day, " All Saints," being a close holiday. In the Royal domain of Bizy, a little chateau is being constructed, entirely after the King's own plans. This is intended as a present from his Majesty to her Royal Highness the Princess Clementine. The woods surrounding this. Princely habitation bring in alone a revenue of 300,000 f. a year. There is such a quantity of game in the forest of Chambord (says the Courrier de Loir-et-Cher), that nearly 200 persons are now engaged in taking the deer alive, with nets, and putting them into cages, to be conveyed to other forests. Marshal Marmont, Duke of Ragusa, has arrived at Munich, and purposes remaining there for some time. M. Pierre de Castellane, son of the General of that name, who commanded the army placed at the defiles of the Pyrenees during the late Spanish intestine war, has just engaged himself as a private soldier in the African army. A letter from Bruges, in the Independant of Brussels of Monday, states that the Commissioners of the Societe de Commerce of Bruges, who were sent to Brazil to open negotiations for the establishment of a Belgian colony in that country, have purchased, in the province of Ste. Catherine, a tract of territory twenty French leagues in length, and the same in width. The Prussian Government has just reduced the duty on salt one-fifth. PUBLIC OPINION. The following remarks are from the Post:— " What is to become of Irish agricultural prosperity while the form of insanity called liberal views' is in the ascendant among legislators and governors ? A paragraph has appeared in most of the Irish papers, and also in the letter of our own Dublin cor respondent, to the effect that the Custom-house Commissioners in Ireland have received orders from the Lords of the Treasury to allow all vessels to take on their outward voyages as much foreign salted beef and pork as will serve to victual the crews until their return. We suppose it is meant that this foreign meat may be taken out by these vessels free of duty, for otherwise there needed no order to the Custom house on the subject. The Irish commentators upon the intelligence make a loud complaint of the loss of custom which this new regulation will occasion to the sellers of Irish provisions, and think it very un accountable' that this source of emolument to them should be abolished. Certainly it would be unac countable were not the 'liberal views' taken into consideration, by which the governors of this pecu liarly happy nation are influenced. It is clear that shipowners may victual their ships for foreign voyages at a cheaper rate, by purchasing foreign provisions free of duty, than by purchasing British or Irish provisions. It is consistent with liberal views' that what is cheapest is best, except, indeed, where the professors of these views have their own services brought into consideration." The Herald observes on the subject of Irish poli tics :—" The spirit of tranquillity which Lord De Grey's Government has so generally diffused through out Ireland has apparently penetrated even Mr. Da niel O'Connell's person and affected his conduct. Not a dinner has that eminent diner-out got up for himself during this recess ; not a sheet of letter-paper has he spoilt this year at Derrynane in agitation or sedition ; his private correspondence, intended for public peru sal, with " Dear Ray,' or Barrett the best beloved, who suffered vicarious imprisonment for his chief, has dropped; and as Mr. Daniel O'Connell seems for the first time during his public life to have given a few months to reflection--let us trust his violence is sub siding :as old age advances. We do not drop this hope, because he' is now again troubling the land ; he troubles it for the rant, which seems pour ing in with undiminished vigour ; let him continue to extract the pence from his dupes in peac e , if he will only give up his itinerant and epistolary habits of agitation. It was amusing enough to notice the gravity with which the man bags the contributions, and the skill with which he stimulates the charity on which he lives. T a k e a scene f rom yes t er d ay ' s Herald—Mr. O'Connell sitting at the receipt of custom, in the Corn Exchange, as usual during the rint season, reads. to his auditory a letter from the son of Sir Thomas Lethbridge, the heir to a baronetage,' the language of which was discreditable to a person of education, and suggests the insanity of the writer. It concluded however with a subscrip tion of five guineas to the rint; whereupon said Mr. O'Connell taking his eye-glass from his nose and chuckling with delight—' The letter just read affords materials for thinking; every man should read it, statesmen in England should read it!' Materials for eating and drinking too, good Daniel ; Mr. Lethbridge might have written until doomsday without this compliment, had he not enclosed a cheque." The Chronicle thus speaks of the recent Irish legal appointments :—" The late legal appointments in Ire land are, perhaps, the least exceptionable doings of the present Government. Mr. Blackburne, as Attor • ney-General, had a right to his choice of any judicial situation which might fall vacant; and it is a subject of congratulation that he has taken one which his pro fessional abilities will enable him to fill in a respect able manner, while it removes him for ever from all dangerous conflicts with the political rights or liber ties of the subject. As Master of the Rolls he will exercise authorities in questions of property only ; and, being a sound lawyer, and exempt in that position from all party bias and resentment, his decisions will, we doubt not, give general satisfaction. Mr. Smith, 'the new Attorney-General, is a gentleman of the highest professional character ; and as he has never been in Parliament, has nothing to renounce. The road is clear before him, and it is not to be doubted that he will choose that side, which even a Litton or a Shaw would now choose, were they to begin again —the side of moderation and common sense. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Greene, belongs to the sup posed neutral character—a man of no politics; a class of men always, and under every dynasty, special favourites of the Tories." The Times says :—" It is notorious that the quarrel ling party in France is the revolutionary party. The Frenchmen who want a war, want a war of Propa gandism. And but for Louis Philippe, they might, in 1830, when Kings were in a fright, and subjects in a fever, have prosecuted such a thing with some success. But that opportunity is past—the fever has subsided—the fight has been modified into a salutary caution. The snap of 1830 recalled too vividly to the European Powers the bite of Napoleon ; and till the memory of the French empire has ceased to be a reality, it is in vain for France to hope for European sympathy with her ambitious moods. In a war un willingly entered upon by a respectable Government and in a just cause, France might doubtless find her party not only among the disaffected conspirators, but among the established Sovereign Powers of Europe, though even this might prove, in some cases, difficult. The emergency must be a startling one which would reconcile the Prussian soldier to fight in the same ranks with the Frenchman, with any object and under any conditions ; but in a war of conquest or revenge she will find herself at once and unfailingly alone. She comes into Court with the very worst character, and will be cast on the very first symptom of perverse pugnacity." The following is from the Advertiser :—" We have already pointed out the dishonesty of those monopo lists of political power, who, like Lord Abinger, en deavour to make it appear that, in seeking for a due participation in the aggregate of constitutional rights, the no-property class seek for exclusive power—power to make laws for binding those who are the possessors of property. The no -property class,' as Lord Abinger designates the labouring classes, destitute of a given amount of tangible pro perty, desire no monopoly, but a mere equality of right—an equality of right guaranteed to them by the Constitution, but of which they were gradually de spoiled, as the aristocracy encroached upon the rights and privileges at once of the Crown andof the people. But the people are represented to be unfit for the exercise of even that lower degree of political power, which we have shown to be included in the Parlia mentary franchise ; and evils, almost indescribable in their enormity and magnitude, are predicated as the result of any such concession being made to them. It is a strange thing to find that, as the people have become educated and intelligent, which they undoubt edly have (however defective in these respects some of them may still be), as compared with the sane classes in remote periods of our constitutional history, the objections to their political franchise should have been devised and set up. . In former times, that is, before the aristocracy assumed and exercised its dominant power, such objections were unknown." MONEY-TRADE-COMIKERCE. The meeting of the Commissioners in the bank ruptcy of the firm of Parker and Smith, solicitors of Hereford, was held a few days since in that town. The total amount of debts proved exceeded 21,0001., whilst the assets realised gave only 1,6001. The whole of this has been expended in law-suits and charges, except 901. The meeting of the Vauxhall-bridge Company was held on Thursday at Cornhill. It appeared from the Report, that during the last six months there had been a decrease in the tolls, amounting to 7331. The balance in hand amounted to 3,2691., and a dividend of 15/. per share was recommended. The Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law Association has already commenced its operations strenuously. Every evening this week large meetings of the local societies have been held in the several districts of the metropo lis, either for lectures or the pursuance of active mew. arm PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. The opening of Queen's Co'leg..., litasgow, for the education of ladies, took place on Fiiday last in that city, before the Lord Provost,',and a number of clergy and gentry. NAVAL aND IVIELITARY. The Secretary at War has addressed a complimen tary letter, praising the meritorious conduct of Ser geant-Major Harvey, of the 'West Essex Yeomanry Cavalry, who, being accidentally in Staffordshire at the time of e late disturbances, placed himself at the disposal of the authorities. He was formerly in the 15th Hussars, and engaged in very harassing duty under Sir John Moore, at Corunna. The Earl of Lucan, at Mayo, having heard that language disrespectful to him was made use of pub licly by Lieut. Verner, an officer of the 47th depot, demanded him instantly to retract it in writing, or adopt the usual alternative. Mr. Verner gave a written disclaimer. LITERARY AND SCIENTITIC. At the meeting of the Geological Society on Wed nesday, Mr. Lyell stated that there were coal-fields in Ohio larger than the whole of Great Britain. Ex plorations by the New York geologists are proceed ing rapidly. COURT-PA.SRIONABLE. Lord and Lady Jocelyn are expected to leave Cur zon-street in a fortnight, on a visit to the Earl and Countess De Grey. Lord and Lady Southampton are prolonging their sojourn at Leamington Spa. The Earl and Countess of Sefton are passing the autumn at Croxteth Park. The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings will pass the winter at Donnington Castle. Lord Fitzroy Somerset arrived at Deal Castle, on a visit to the Earl of Mornington. The Marquis of Douro left Kimberley Park, Nor folk, to join the Marchioness, who is staying with the Duke of Wellington at Walmer Castle. ,The Bishop of Gloucester is suffering from a slight indisposition at the palace, Gloucester. The Countess of Tankerville commenced her even ing parties on Wednesday last. Sir R. and Lady Peel are expected to leave town for Drayton Manor about the middle of next week. Ladi Seymour arrived in London on Wednesday morning last. _ _ MISCELLANEOUS: The re-opening of the Temple Church, originally appointed for to-morrow, has been - postponed, in consequence of the indisposition of the Rev. Mr. Ben son, the master. An old tenement, in the Tolbooth-wynd, Leith, fell down on Tuesday, and, out of twelve persons, seriously injured several and killed two. _ Mr. Bond, the Recorder of Poole, and a barrister of fourteen years' standing, succeeds the late Mr. Gregorie, senior Magistrate at the Queen-square Po lice Court. The grand Polish ball at Guildhall is to take place on Wednesday, the 16th instant. Mrs. Alfred Shaw and Miss Rainforth contribute their talents to the concert, and the proprietors of the London Tavern supply the refreshment. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Nov. 4.—Wind, this day at noon, N. to N. E., light airs and hazy. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 3.—Wind, E. S.A.—Arrd. her Majesty's steamer Dee, Woolwich, for Barbadoes. DATMOUTH, Nov. 3.—Arrd. Emelia, Grand Canary. FALMOUTH, Nov. 3.—Wind, S.S.E., strong breeze. Arrd. Edmond Castle, Howard, Odessa, with loss of bulwarks, &c. ; Tay steamer, Southampton, for West Indies. Sld. Oriental steamer, Alexandria. Arrd. off, Laura Louisa, Mont Video, for Hamburgh. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 3.—Wind E. light.—Sid. Alex andrina, Calcutta; Globe, Lima : Georgiana, Valpa raiso ; Ferris, Monte Video; Semnos, Rio Janeiro ; Velocifero, Bahia; Wannau, Rio Grande ; Caledonia, Hayti ; lary Ann Henderson, La Guayra ; Hec tor, Savannah. The Port Jackson, bound to Maryport, was in contact last night with the Royal George, from the Clyde, and lost bow sprit, bulwarks, &c. The Coana Baba, from Senegal, which was ashore on Burbo Bank, has been got off, and towed into the river, bottom up. The Edward, Hughes, bound to Carnarvon, broke adrift last night, but was picked up by some boatmen off Crosby Point; the crew had gone ashore and left her at anchor off Woodside. • Orr SALCOMBE, NOV. I.—Lucelle, Dundee, for Port-au-Priuce. DOUGLAS, OCT. 27.—Arrd. Wingrove, Clyde, with loss of fore-topgallant mast, &c., and stanchions, &c., carried away by the shifting of her cargo. PORTLAND, OCT. 31.—Arrd. Atlantic, New York. YARMOUTH, Nov. 2.—Arrd. Alexande'r Darnell, Quebec. Conic, Nov. I.—Sld. Marion, Mills, New Orleans. SHIELDS Nov. I.—Sld. Wellington Bermuda. - • BRISTOL, Nov. 3.—Sid. Ajax, Stark, Trinidad; Eling, Luens, ditto. PENZANCE, Nov. I.—Arrd. her Majesty's ship Racehorse, Halifax. DOVER, Nov. 3.—The Carl Adolph, Prins, from Hamburgh to Angostura. which was aground behind the South Pier, got off on the flood without damage and proceeded. SCILLY, OCT. M.—The Betsey, Davies from Gir genti to Liverpool, ran aground in St. Mary's Pool, 25th inst., will proceed. The following has been received at Lloyd's:— " Foreign-office, Nov. 3, 1842. " Sir,—l am directed by the Earl of Aberdeen to transmit to you a translation of a note-from the Sicilian Minister at this Court, forwarding a medal which his Majesty the King of the two Sicilies has been graciously pleased to confer on Captain Amy Bourtillier, of the English brig Teazer, who in the month of October, 1840, saved the lives of seven in dividuals who were shipwrecked in the waters of Stromboli; and I am to request that you will lay the same before the Committee of Lloyd's, and that you will move them to acquaint the Earl of Aberdeen with the present address of the above-mentioned Captain Amy Bourtillier, if they should have the means of ascertaining what that address may now be. (Signed) " H. W. ADDINCTITON. " To the Secretary, Lloyd's." (Copy.) "London, 16, Princes-street, Cavendish-square, Sept. 23, 1842. "The august Sovereign of the Two Sicilies having been informed of the generous action of Captain Amy Bourtillier, of her Majesty's brig Teazer, w h o , i n th e waters of Stromboli, saved the lives of seven ship wrecked individuals, directed that he should be deco rated with the gold medal of Civil Merit. The un dersigned Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary of his Majesty to her Britannic Majesty, has now received the above-mentioned medal, and hastens to inclose it to the Earl of Aberdeen, her Ma jesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Af fairs, for his Lordship to be pleased to convey its through the usual channels, to the hands of the gen tleman concerned, who no doubt will know how to appreciate the honourable recompense bestowed upon his vhilanthropy and courage. Awaiting his Lord ship s kind answer, the undersigned, &c., (Signed) "CASTELCICALA." LVArrilbusE AT FALSTERBO. The following has been received at Lloyd';:— " The Swedish and Norwegian General Consulate, 2, Crosby-square, Nov. 4, 1842. " Sir,—Referring to my communication of the 18th of June, I have now the honour to transmit you the following translation of ' an ordonnance issued at Stockholm on the 4th of October : " The Royal Navy Board hereby makes known, for the guidance and information of mariners, that as the contemplated Lentille Light at Falsterbo . cannot be raised this year, b u t th e re-erection of the Tower is now completed, the former open Coal Light, placed at the same height as hitherto, will be exhibited during the dark season, or, from the commencement of the month of October in the present, until the middle of the month of April in the ensuing year—instead of the Provisional Light, which has been exhibited during the summer; after which the illumination, br means of a large lanthorn, will be maintained, until such time as the Lentille Light can be erected.'—l am, &c., (Signed) " CHARLES TOTTLE s . " William Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's." VESSELS SPOKEN wlTu.—Fortuna, Pernambuco to Hamburgh, sth ult., lat. 26, lon. 35 ; Hermes, Monte Video to Liverpool, 12th, lat. 37, lon. 31 ; Dutch barque, 57,618, lat. 45, lon. 27 ; Visitor, London to Demerara, 30th, 60 miles W. S. from the Lizard, by the Laura Louisa, arrived 0.1 Falmouth, It was rumoured in Westminster Hall on Thursday morning, that in consequence of the appointment of several Learned Sergeants as Commissioners under the New Bankruptcy Bill, Mr. Sergeant Merewether having been appointed Town Clerk of the City of London, and the death of Mr. Sergeant Spankie, that shortly a number of Learned Counsel will be elevated to the dignity of Sergeants at Law. The application made to Lord Stanley by the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Committee, for an inter view in relation to the Trinidad ordinance, has not been successful. His Lordship "is waiting," Mr. Stephen says, " for further explanation on the subject of it from the legal authorities of the colony." In the meanwhile, "the signification of the Queen's pleasure will be deferred ;" but the obnoxious ordinance, never theless, will be in operation.—Anti-Slavery Reporter. On inquiry at tie Royal Mail Steam Packet Com pany's office yesterday, we find that not the slightest credit is attached to the rumour brought by the British Queen that the Solway steam-ship had been lost on one of the Keys, in the Gulf of Mexico, as the report is believed to refer either to the loss of the Medina, part of which ship's crew, it appears, are coming home in the M e d way; or, what is more likely, it may apply to the recent loss of the Spitfire, Admiralty steamer, which was wrecked on one of the Keys off the coast of Honduras. M ONE Y and COMMERCIAL NESS' aft T rn he oo F n ore a l Orr, FRIDAY EYDrill" l " • gli on Ex l c as h : scarcely worth attention. The rate upon Parii was npg:sstWdereannobturtihtee vs last quoted on 'Change 25f. 82c. to 874 - ; Amsterdam, at 12 6-1 ; that on Hamburgh, at 13 111 to 12 ; and that on Antwerp, at 1,2 5. s uce We have not heard that any bills of import were sent back for protest. There was a very large amount of paper presented, this being the 4th of the month. We are happy to remark that there are ne reports of additional difficulties in the com mercial O ar fi ia rni tio i n hl i ss world. The public sales of Colonial and other pro duce were but small this afternoon. unt The high price realised for Consols for Ace() ' that on was not maintained up to the end of business. Sealde sales for Money were made this afternoon at 93 e I,ce. 31 ' 1 for Account the market left off at 931 4. P od Annuities (Three per Cents.) were sold at a fraction Kerr. Exchequer Bills closed at 60s. premiumt few our morning report, there has been but New porta bargains done in the I oreign Stocks. deferred Two; guese offered at 324 4, Colombian at 21, Dut and-a-Half per Cents. at 524, and Mexican at 94. s h o rtly There were several bargains made in Shares, i s „ ins before the market closed. The Edinburgh an'"-th; gow Railway Shares were bought at 34 disdain' ;,The Birmingham and Derby (New) at 5 discount'. man. Great Western New at 114 4 premium ; he ra chester and Birmingham at 19a discount ; the sort 0 and Eastern Scrip at 2 premium ; the Paris a nd R°ll, er at 24 premium; and the South Eastern litici )49% Scrip at 24 discount. f . (From The Sun of Last Night.) The statements in circulation relative to thei . , o one of the West India steamers, though v e t it fused, have excited some attention in the Ci t YrThha is considered that the account must refer either-o°oo Company's vessel ascertained to have been life, l ° ss or time back, without any sacrifice of huma n 1, din otherwise to her Majesty's ship Spitfire, wr ee— Honduras Bay. The Overland express from India has not yet,c,„°lt in, and the news is looked for with the a`",i°re anxiety, as being likely to chronicle some dechlins, actions or important events in Affghanistan and roe The advices received' from the South of Pr-see upon the subject of the oil crop notice the aPP, e . 3 0 , 1 , in of worm in several districts, an d the expeetai i o ther consequence, of a diminished yield, though in „ble. quarters appearances are much more ta l l ai e cteci Generally the market had not been materially by these circumstances. f The Hamburgh mail arrived with account s 1 381 , day last brings the exchange on London At and the price of gold at 43 91 thoug h In the Liverpool Cotton Market there W ere ',- lefo day sales of 3,000 bales, the demand beingberat e prices were steady. In Railway Shares y i. " . l „ v rers, business was done, and prices, on the who a—brann sustained. Eastern Counties brought s 4; 1101 Junction, 174; Brighton, 364 ; Birmingh a Tnetteo , 30; North Midland, Half, 314; Paris an d 224 ; and South Eastern, 17. 0 11 ' Consols for Account have reached 94 th„, 4 „, Con!' ing, owing to a good demand for stock. th missioners for the Savings' Banks, throng' a bou t brokers, have bought again this morning ---sa l ' oar 10,0001. The precise sum is not yet e. SOI rately known. At the present moment Mier o riel sellers of Consols for the Account at wji at of 934. Consols for Money have been 7 all e 934, but are now a shade cheaperboth premium upon Exchequer Bills is up to 59 ' fo r ro itiol . descriptions, and India Bonds are worth 5 2 The Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Centi other dined a fraction, the demand for them anctiltens Stocks bearing thesame rate of interest, beingo.ltu as the conversion of them into Three per ~%-C l ees thought a matter of certainty. Bank Stock u" 7--- firm at 1674 168. t 11 0 ' Austrian Bonds were bought this morning 5 hav e without the dividend. Dutch Five ppr . Co lts eeoo* fallen to par. And the Two•and-afilinif P e i r ;oreig n t are at 524. There is very little doing in t" ,e ft. Stock Market. Spanish, for the Account is,e; 174, and the Three per Cents. at 214. Me l 4 83 9) Account is worth 324, and Brazilian Bonds ( 1 9 0 , boar' 544. These are the only quotations up tot ~ :o-ruing' o - r uing' The Railway Share Market is steady this 'at in The only alterations have been an irnpro r t o f Brightons, in South Westerns, and in the Sc Eastern Counties Shares. , ant This being the 4th of the month, a largt.e r hei a b„ mercantile paper falls due, and more ail the manifested for the result, on account of lib e ra lly failures recently, money is not quite' s",, s lelos" offered as during the last few days, g e ts nominal rates of interest have been aece.l4eu loans at short periods. 00' PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT O' RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. 1,0 1 L looantni London and . a t e n r e as ß no r du i Bright o n tr W est ern . B i r ming ham a . . m . 4 5 41 0 0 1 ... .............. • t tt 1) 1 0 1 to Midland Counties Ditto Shares ...... 16 ...... to to northern and Eastern 45 50 ..... ... 3b ••• . to South Eastern and Dover Ditto Scrip MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 3 • - " ;f i ou t ... has been rather more business done to -day, iv'),;(,tel any alteration in prices generally. The sale s ci- 8.1i; are, Liverpool and Manchester, Half Shar es ' r poel North Midland, 624 ; :Manchester and LiYe,„ter, District Bank, 10 1-16 ; Union Bank of Mac"-511'6 11-16 ; Manchester and Salford Water 16`ork5, CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. - e l Bank Stock .168 India Stock ............ 69 to 3 per Cent. Red. ....,... 93 Ditto Bonds ....... "... 3 per Cent. Con5.... - 34 per Cent. Red 1004 Ditto New A nnuitie;i: e , 6 1 New 34 per Cent 1014 ,Ex. Bills, 1, 0001 ..• 60 P ia New 5 per Cent — Ditto 500/.,.. .. ' Or Long Annuities to expire Ditto Steel' ...... ..." Jan. 1860 ......... 124 Bank Stock for Amt. .., Oct. 1859 Jan. 1160 l2 11-16:Consols for Acct. ...... FOREIGN FUNDS. e t.' ~ Austrian, 5 per cent. ... 1104 'Portuguese, 5 per c -0 - Belgian, S per cent — Ditto, 'New Did ° ... ; .... ... Brazilian Bonds... — Prussian, 5 per cen t. ''' .." Buenos Ayres6 per cent. Russian, 5 pei cent...... .0,, Chilian, 6 per cent. Ditto, Metallie ..... * . .e Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent. ••••• Ditto, 1824 2l Ditto, Deferred.... 4 ..... Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 794 French, 5 per cent. 7 1 ...." Danish, 3 per :ent 834 Exchange .......•••• ... Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — French, 3 per cent' ..f, b. Mexican, 5 per cent ". Dutch, 24 per ce nt. .... .100 Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. SHARES. 1 ...", Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (IMP/ 111 1 Ditto New Shares (174 paid) ......... .. 10 Eastern Counties (23 paid) ... ................. 461 Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...••• ••• ...- Great Western, (65 paid) Ditto New Shires( 50 . paid ...... • ... 6 Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) ...... ...... 36i London and Brighton (50 paid).. ..... ( 1) London and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 4d( 01 London and South Western (4116 s todpd) Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)•••••• 6. 5 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) ...... 1 6 Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) ......•• ..• 514 Northern and Eastern (45 paid) ............ Paris and Rouen (20 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid).••• ... 171 Ditto Scrip (20 paid) ................... COURSE OF EXCHAN GE—(YES OII ... 1 , 1 ,7 ) 6 0 Amsterdam CF. 12 9 Gibraltar ... ••••." ..... 10 Ditto, at sight 31 Rotterdam ..... ....2 U. 12 9i Genoa ............ • Antwerp l2 8 Mil a n ..... . . ........ Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 Venice ..... , 40 Altona 14 lbi Naples ............ •••* .. .. Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 75 Palermo, per es... Y-1 Ditto, 3 months Marseilles Bourdeaux 26 5 11w Janeire ............. 2 2 6 6 5 0 0 Lisbon porto ...................................... .. ... :33 51 Frankfort on Maine 152 Bahia ........ ......... Petersburgh, 3 Us. Berlin Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M. 10 7 Trieste, ditto Madrid ... •Eorei g n6old, lf i rs 17 0 ; 2 . Cadiz Portu - gal Gold . 0 Bilbao 36 New Doubloons ..... 4 I 'd Barcelona "• Seville • 36 ISilver in Dirs..' " It is with sincere sorrow that w' have class amongst our local intelligence the lithniestlF:ict.etera failure, and to an immense amount, of the ill° s 0 01 o m ne er l c v h b a o ?t b3 t r h b a is t o P il l , y a m in o d u o th afr h v as an i d ia e d ne f r;);: b h o s s a e 3-ears prisin g generouslaid hado of acquired aiviersal es - —Plymouth Jou r n al. t Lou . A man named Ellis, a labourer, died a ~,t , in near Retf the 80 h "(I' Nottinghamshire, on Sunda.Y '"'" w ell t year of his ao.e. The deceased was , iie known ricbhimes-ontate "n. `,hose of in the neighbou t ilood from the innuensie ;lad continued to increase for the last 40 years, tint" ia lli almost six times the size of his head.--.2lrottifig i o r. r . cancer on the back of his head, whi,eit was Journal.e p a o lE' wen FROM EATING THE ROOT Or 1 ‘ 1° " 1 1 , held , 0 oor b ro f u, llonsu-RADlstr.---Thur.sday an inquest c bLor ro is: Carter, at the Prince street, Kennington-cross on the body of Mary 1 3 , 7 tha t field, aged forty-eight. It appeared in eviden -eson, the deceased lived at No. 14, Doris-street. On 0 0 day morning last she pulled what she thought Ns' ..evi piece of horse-radish from the bed in which sty Pt in the] garden. Not many minutes after f pa in eaten a thin slice at dinner, she complained with s t - _,,.. internally. The deceased was then seized lctii`e Regent ness, and a surgeon was sent for to relieve her. f ar , r F e evern , ' • die 3 at four o'clock the same day. Air• I - cauti geon, said that the root spoken of w•as nepu lib ~ eves lus, or monk wood. It was a medicinal herb, an r . sometimes Cultivated in gardens. in the al'S re , ance of deceased, and the informatio he ,h a ceo ed ceived, he had • every reason to believe that ue ,i that died from having eaten it. The Coroner that the publicity given to the case Would have the care ftil of making the cultivators of kitchen ens is ea of the plants they reared. Verdict, " Died t fro ing monkwood in mistake for hofse-radisil:' THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 5, 1842.