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On the Ist of November, complete in 1 vol. price 65., revised and corrected by the Author, with New Intro duction and Notes, neatly bound and illustrated, and printed uniformly with the Waverley Novels. THE BORDERERS; Or, The WEPT of WISH-TON-WISH. By the Author of " The Spy," &c. Forming the Thirty-third Volume of the STANnARD NOVELS AND ROMANCES, 1 , ..62;„ta, c nruuctay I, ()fumes by Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Of whom may he had, complete in 1 vol. 65., A new and revised Edition of THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE.DAME. By VICTOR HUGO. Translated expressly for this Series by FREDERIC SHOBERL. r e 3 ~i . - -r- *tot , LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1833. The Paris papers of Monday arrived this morning. They contain no political news of interest. The King and Queen of the BEL GIANS arrived in Paris on Sunday, and M. MIGNET was said to have arrived from Madrid on Monday. There is an order of the das of General HARISPE to the troops forming his division of the Corps of Observation, but there is not the slightest indication in it of an inten tion to enter Spain. There has been a progres sive rise in the French Funds, and some eminent stock-brokers, who had been speculating largely for a fall, have become defaulters. FRENCH FUNDS.—Paais, OCr. 291. Five per Cents., 102 f. 10c. 30c. Three per Cents., 74f. 85c. 75f. 10e. Rank Actions, 1,730 f. Rente de Naples, 91f. Roman Five per Cents., 90U. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 16. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 377 i. Royal Spanish Loan, Ti. , 4 Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 6314. Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 95. Haytian Loan, 25.5 f. Letters have been received from Bayonne to the 24th inst. They state that the communication between Madrid and France by Vittoria was still interrupted, but that EL PASTOR had cleared Guipuscoa of the rebels, and was marching, towards Burgos with a large force. These let ters state that the troops which were sent from Pampeluna against Colonel ERA so, had com pelled him to seek refuge in France, and had then marched against the Carlists at Olitiogavia. They add that RODIL, as well as SAARSFIELD, had declared to the QUEEN REGENT that he would do all in his power to prevent Don CARLOS from entering Spain, and that SAARS FIELD had forwarded the despatches which he had received from CARLos, unopened to the Spanish Government. As RODIL was the only officer of note on whom Don CARLOS placed reliance, his adhesion to the Government is a formidable obstacle to the success of the Pretender. We have no information, in these Papers, of the movements of Don CA RLos, but there is a letter from Lisbon, dated the 20th, and addressed to an official personage here, in which it is stated that he was still linger ing between Abrantes and the Spanish fron tier, waiting for accounts from Spain, which would determine his future proceedings. If this be true, the Pretender will probably remain with MIGuEL until the latter shall be compelled to negotiate for his own safety, when CARLOs will avail himself of the protection of the English to withdraw to Italy, or perhaps to this country, which is the refuge of the destitute o every kind of politics. It appears by letters from Brussels that a strong opposition is expected to the 'Ministry at the opening of the Chamber which is to take place on the 12th of November. The agents ofthe King of HOLLAND have taken care to apprize the leading Members of the Opposition of the extent of the concessions agreed to by M. Van de WEYER without adding that they were all conditional, and as some of them were of a character not to be tolerated by the nation except in exchange for very important advantages, the Opposition Members will not fail to make the most of the information with which the King of HOLLAND has so obligingly supplied them. The visit of King LEOPOLD to the King of the Fr.Excx, is undoubtedly for the purpose ( 2, C consulting Ptpa Beau P?re, as he is st - yild in Brussels, on the speech with which LEOPOLD is to open the Chamber. The Belgian Question is now in a position which will admit of no more dallying, and the King of BELGIUM must either assume the part of an independent Sovereign, and try the mettle of his people—a doubtful experiment , we would admit, if the Belgians were not anxiou s to efface the discredit of their last struggle—or he must at once avow himself the mere puppet of his father-in-law, who will hesitate at no sa crifice of national honour to perpetuate the coute qui coute policy which has made him contempti ble in the eyes of Europe. I Brussels Papers to the 28th inst. and German Papers to the 24th arrived this morning. The Courrier Beige of the 27th states that the Go ment of Louis PHILIP has forbidden the entrance into France of any more Polish Re fugees, and adds that a respectable Polish officer who has been long established in trade at Brussels, wishing to go to France, a few days ago with a passport in good order, was obliged, when he reached Valenciennes, to turn back, having received an intimation that no more Poles were to be admitted into France. If this statement be true, it exceeds, in political atrocity, anything that we have wit n sed in the members of the Holy Alliance. They are open and avowed despots, and the se curity of the system of Government which they hold from their predecessors requires the exclu sion of freemen from their dominions ; but tha t LOUIS PHILIP, a Sovereign who owes his elevation to the declaration of free principles —who sits upon a throne cemented with the blood of the defenders of these principles, should, in a base truckling to the Holy Alliance, exclude from a country which the revolution of July declared to be a land of liberty, the most respectable, but at the same time most unfortunate, disciples of freedom, is so monstrous a fact, that, although in unison with many of his acts, and therefore but too probable, we can hardly give credit to it on the assertion of a single paper. We shall look with some anxiety to the French official pa pers for a notice of this charge. If it be no t at once contradicted, and its falsehood made manifest, we shall set down Louis PHILIP as one of the most despotic, and, at the same time, most degraded Sovereigns of the Conti nent. An article from Berlin, dated the 17th inst., states that the King of PRUSSIA, who appears to be a very prudent man, has turned a deaf ear to the proposals which have been made to him to interfere in the affairs of Spain. The news of the death of the King of SPAIN had produced a general sensation at Berlin, but it was not expected to lead to any political result of consequence. In the Bury and Norwich Post, we find an account of the trial of several men for rioting, which presents several features of interest. It appears, that owing to the working of our Poor Laws, whilst labour is being well remunerated in other parts of the country, it is, in many parishes of Norfolk, so reduced in value as to compel the labourers to dispense with many of the luxuries they have been used to. The law of settlement hems in the labour of each parish, instead of allowing it to find its level with that of the country generally, and the consequence is, that half a dozen men marrying at nineteen or twenty, upon the strength of the parish sup porting their children, not only burdens the parish with their pauper offspring, but reduces the comforts of even the provident labourer, by diminishing the value of the only article he has to sell. It appears that at Ashill, in Norfolk, wages fell a week or two after last harvest to Bs. or 9s. a-week. A number of men resolved not to work for these wages. Undoubtedly, if they chose not to work, but preferred starving or living upon their harvest earnings, they had every right to do so to live, or so to starve; but not content with acting themselves according to their own free will, they determined that no one else should work at the reduced wages, and actually went and drove men from their work; and in one instance, where a man would not leave the barn where he was working, three of them car ried him out by the shoulders and feet. Four of the most conspicuous of the rioters were apprehended and brought to trial at the last County Sessions. It was clearly proved that work was offered every one of the rioters, at wages which, in Ireland, would maintain three families ; but they thought the parish officers were bound to give them, without labour, the money which others had earned with labour. This the parish officers refused to do, and one of the prisoners, in his defence, says that the refusal was accompanied by a recommendation, con veyed in the grossest language, for him to pros titute his wife. If the newspaper report be correct, we cannot but regret that the Magis trates did not ask the overseer whether he had used the language imputed to him, for if he had, reprehension from the bench of the strongest kind was the least it deserved. The man was, no doubt, erring, but he was errin g in conse quence of the artificial and improper state in which he had been brought up, and should have had explained to him the difference between charity and wages. The Chairman, in summing up, very justly observed : " When a person came to the parish officers for relief —and he particularly wished to impress this on the minds of the poor—it was to solicit charity for support; and when an application was made to a Magistrate, it was for him to force money oat of the pockets of others for the support of the applicant, —to take the money from one man which he had secured by his own industry, and for the support of his own family, for the support of those who had spent their money lavishly, or brought incumbrances upo❑ themselves without a prospect of maintaining them, or doing any work at all. Eighteen-pence a day was not high wages, but if that had not been sufficient, it was the du y of the man to have applied to the parish-officers for more, and if they were not successful in that application, to make their complaints known to the Magistrates, who he was sure would always pay a due attention to such applications. Of course it was not forgotten in these cases that harvest was but just over; and from what was paid to men at that season, and what was picked up in the gleaning field, it was hardly likely they should have been without money or food; and if men would spend their money at beer-houses, they ought not, in justice, to be allowed to force others to furnish them with a fresh supply." Unfortunately, these are lessons which have been too long forgotten, and it can hardly be expected that the labourers, who have had their notions of ineunz and tuum deranged by the working of the Poor Laws, should be the first to remember them. We should say, therefore, that the condemnation of the men, three of them to 18 months', and one to 12 months' imprisonment, will be generally thought punishments too severe. In the review of Lieutenant BRETON'S work on the Australian colonies, in The Sun of Thursday, allusion was made to the impolicy of certain parts of the new land regulations. At a time when the attention of the public appears to be every day more and more turning to emigration as a means of escaping the tithes, taxes, and artificial scarcity of food, which bow down the necks of the people of this country, a separate consideration of the terms on which the emigrant may obtain his land in our colonies may not be considered out of place. Till within these few years, our readers are probably aware, land was granted in Australia to all settlers, in proportion to their capital. They were not requ►red to pay for it, but sim ply to show that they had the means of culti vating the quantity they applied for. The grants thus made could not exceed 2,560 acres, unless under special circumstances. At the end of a period of seven years, the set tler was obliged to show that he had laid out a certain amount of capital on his farm, and upon doing so, had the fee simple made over to him on the payment of a quit rent of sixpence per acre. The advantage of this plan to the settler was that it left him free to employ his capital in the mode he thought most advantageous ; but the Crown, finding difficulties in the way of afterwards collecting the quit rents, resolved at once to sell the public lands. This was, in some sort, a breach of faith with those who went out to New South Wales with large families, under the impression that they should be able to provide for them in the old way ; but on the whole, the determination of Govern. ment to sell the crown lands was a just one, and accompanied with proper regulations could not reasonably have been complained of. There are, however, two of the regulations most impolitic, in their nature, and unjust in their operation. It having been provided that applications for land chilli be niadc in a particular fulin, the second regulation says, " That after three months' notice the lands so applied for will be put up to sale by public auction (subject to all risks arising from any inaccuracy in the description), at a price not less than five shillings per acre. If estimated at a higher rate than five shillings, the applicant will be duly apprised previous to the land being advertised." There are several grounds of complaint in this regulation. Lieut. BRETON thus states one : " Let it be supposed that the emigrant has travelled to some distant part of the colony, and that, having dig. covered and selected land suitable for a farm or sheep_ walk, be returns, and applies to have it put up to auction. Of course no person would wilfully purchase indifferent land at a high price; the Government being aware of this, the surveyor is directed to inspect it ; and, perhaps, after the expiration of several weeks, the emigrant receives due notice that the estimated value of the land in question is above five shillings per acre. In despair of findine, with out great delay and manifest inconvenience, another spot equally eligible, he is compelled to pay the sum demmded. But, if from inability, or some other reason, he objects to give beyond five shillings per acre, will he not have to set out in search of another track ?" But this is not the worst consequence of the regulation. The old settlers, who possess large quantities of land, have not so much reason to complain of it, for its effect must clearly be to raise the value of their property ; but has not the public, to say nothing of the new settler, a right to complain of the minimum of price fixed upon ? If all the Crown land in old located districts was announced for sale, in certain por tions, annually, at what it would fetch, although the first year's sale might produce less than had the land been kept for ten or twenty years longer, competition would next year, if it did not the first, make the land fetch its true value ; and although that might be short of five shillings an acre, the public would not lose the interest of the money, and would obtain all the benefit that results from a combination of power. At present, population is absolutely prevented from condensing itself, and all the weaknesses of a widely scattered po pulation, multiplied unnecessarily; for, of course, I men will not pay five shillings for land worth only two shillings, when, by going a hundred miles further, they can procure land which, in spite of its greater distance from the capital, is worth five shillings. In perfectly new districts, perhaps, some nzininzum of price may not be so objectionable ; but it is clear that the impe diment it throws in the way of the growth of the population in the old districts, must occasion an enormous public loss. But the most mischievous provision in the regulations, is that at the close of the fifth, wherein the Crown " reserves to itself all mines of precious metals and coals." The miserable ignorance or thoughtlessnes s with which this pro vision has been made is almost beyond belief. The absurdity about the precious metals is of old standing, and as it does not much interfere with the progress of the country in population, happiness, and civilization, it may be a ll owe d to pass unnoticed ; but that a Government in the nineteenth century should propose to establish a monopoly of coal, is perfectly monstrous. New South Wales has few navi gable rivers ; the water power it can command is trifling and irregular ; steam on its roads, steam in its mills, was looked forward to as a means of supplying the defects of nature. In addition to a soil, in many parts fertile in the extreme, Australia is blessed with abundant supplies of coal ; but the Government stretches forth its hand, and converts the blessing into a curse. This limitation does not, we believe, exist in grants made previous to the last regula tions ; so that there will be one part of the com munity enjoying the privilege of using and selling their own coals, whilst two hundred miles from Sydney, where, perhaps, more wanted, a man will not be permitted to dig them at his own door. Let the Government be aware of how it introduces a spirit of monopoly into its young colonies, for they may one day make us feel its effects as America has done. It is to the ignorance of our ancestors that we are in debted for the tariff of the United States, which has so shackled our commerce. Mr. STANLEY could not render the State a greater service than by cutting up, in its infancy, an abuse which may hereafter have more powerful interests to support it. At present the attempt of the Go vernment to monopolise the supply of coal in Australia is little more than absurd ; but it must, if continued, be hereafter productive of the m ost mischievous consequences. The Batavier steamer arrived this morning from Holland. We learn by her that the Dutch Funds come one per cent. lower than the last accounts. INSOLVENCY COURT.-(THIS DAY. (Before the Chief Commissioner REYNOLDS and Mr. Commissioner BOWEN.) Thomas Froud, late the keeper of a coffee-house in Newgate-street, and a beer-shop at Camberwell, was brought up on his petition to be discharged. The in solvent, who wee unopposed on his examination by the Chief Commissioner, stated that his wife still kept the beer-shop et Camberwell, the furniture in which had been Feized for King's taxes, but had since been redeemed by a friend. The insolvent was ordered to be discharged. Several other unopposed insolvents were ordered to be discharged. NOVEL APPLICATION-A LUNATIC INSOLVENT. Sarah Rowbotham applied to the Court on behalf of her husband, who is a prisoner in Whitecross-street, and unfortunately of unsound mind, for his discharge, she having complied, on his behalf, with the rules adopted by the Court for the relief of insolvent debtors labouring under insanity. Mr. Cooke who originally opposed the discharge of the insolvent, on the case being called on, informed the Commissioners that at the previous hearing he having sub stantiated a case for the further detention of the insolvent, the Court ordered the petition to be dismissed, on the ground that the insolvent bad caused himself to be col lusively arrested. The insolvent shortly afterwards went out of custody, and was again arrested and thrown into prison, where he became insane. The wife had now filed a petition praying for bis release, and on that petition he (Mr. Cooke) was instructed to put a few questions to the petitioner, relative to some property, possessed by the in. solvent. The wife had given the creditors notice of some property which it was expected could be made available for the creditors. Mr. WOODRUFFE, who appeared for the wife in support of the petition, observed, that as the insanity of the in solvent was questioned, it might be as well for him to state that Mr. Barratt, the Governor of Whitecross-street prison, had assured him that no doubt could be enter. tained of his insanity. Mr. Coma: said that he did not mean to question the insanity of the insolvent after the production of the cer tificate of a Magistrate. The petitioner was afterwards questioned by the Learned Counsel respecting some furniture the insolvent was pos sessed of, and her anmwers being deemed satisfactory, the insolvent was ordered to be released from prison. BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY.) John Minter Hart, alias John Moreton, whose name has been much before the public of late, in connection with a system of bill stealing, was brought before Mr. HALLS, upon a bench warrant, by Inspector Adamson, of the A division. The warrant charged him with stealing ten bills of exchange, value 5001. each, from Francis Ducdale Astley, Esq. The prisoner acknowledged to Mr. Adamson that he was the party named in the indictment, and that he had neither been arraigned nor tried upon it. 1-10 was taken by William Lindegreen, police constable, 206 I, this morning in bed, at the Union Coffee house, Park lane, Piccadilly. Mr. Staniland, solicitor, of 9, Bouverie-street, appeared for the prosecutor, and requested that the prisoner might be remanded for a week, as he should then be prepared with other charges of a similar nature. Mr. Isaacs, who appeared for the prisoner, opposed the application. It was the Magistrate's duty to commit at once upon the warrant. Mr. HALLS said that upon the warrant alone he could only commit; but if any person would, upon oath, state that other charges could be substantiated if time was given, he would, in such a case as the present, in which the in terests of the public were so much interested, at once agree to a remand. Mr. Staniland was then sworn, and stated that he had been informed, and believed that the prisoner had stolen two bills, value 3001. each, from a Mr. Vans, of Edinburgh, and that Mr. Vans would come up to town and prosecute if time was given him. He would communicate w i t h hi m by that night's post, and thought a week would be enough. He had no doubt also that many other charges would then be preferred. Mr. HALLS then remanded the prisoner till this day week. MARLBOROUGH-STREET-(THIS DAY. APPLICATION for a IVARRANT of DIS TRESS, AGAINST the EARL of BUR LINGTON, FOR NON-PAYMENT OF POOR RATES. Mr. Wilmer, the solicitor to the Earl of Burlington, appeared upon summonses issued against the Noble Earl, at the instance of the parish-officers of St. James's, to show cause why a warrant of distress should not issue ag o a o i l. nst anhd 001. forisLordsh p rat ip on f r o - rt e h s. e non-payment of between s Mr. Rice, the vestry-clerk, appeared on behalf of tonthe parish feeling officer s. himself aggrieved, stated b t a n d a t a t p h p e e E d e a d r of Bu against n th e poor rates to the local Magistrates (Sir Robert Farquhar and Barber Beaumont, jun. ' ) under the local act of the parish, who he (Mr. Rice) contended, had exceeded their jurisdiction, and by that means the parish had been some what impeded in what would otherwise be the regular course. By the Local Act 2d George 111., all persons aggrieved by the poor rates under certain circumstances, such as poverty, might obtain relief otherwise than by the general law of the land, upon application to two local magistrates, and upon notice to the overseers. By the general law an aggrieved party might appeal to the next general quarter sessions, giving previous notice to the parish-officers, specifying the grounds of appeal. The application of the Earl of Burlington was, however, to two Magistrates, tinder the Local Act, be cause, as he had neglected to appeal under the general law to the next General Quarter Sessions (the rate hav ing been made in April last), he was too late ; he had also given no notice of the grounds of appeal, but merely that be felt himself aggrieved generally ; those two Magis trates had exceeded their jurisdiction, by entirely altering the rate, upon his Lordship assuming that the rate was erroneous in principle. That was one error. Another was, that although the magistrates had assumed a power, and acted upon it —not in their jurisdiction, they had actually omitted to draw out and serve a formal order, although it was Joy t last, e a r n e d d n w n a e sd frommerely 2 e , n 9 t 4 e 3 r t i n n l a 6 b b o ok, that n t h t e h d e e r s a e t i e n g grounds, Mr. Rice contended, that the order was to be treated as a nullity; and, therefore, be had to apply for a warrant of distress against the Noble Earl in the usual way. Mr. CONANT asked, if the order had been drawn up in due form and served, if the same application could have been made to him. Mr. Rice replied in the negative, for in that case they could go to the Court of King's Bench. The dilemma in which the parish was placed was that the order was not so formally made; and therefore it must be treated by them as a nullity. Mr. CONANT said the point with hi m was whether the l o cal Act made it imperative o n t h e part i es to go b efore the Petty Sessions as an interlocutory step to their going before the Quarter Sessions. Mr. RICE said eventhat would not g iv e the M ag i s t ra t es of Petty Sessions a discretionary power to relieve as they pleased, and assign no reason for it. Mr. CONANT thought the point was a new one, and certainlybyln the i f ieat i m n, ag w i s b t i r e a b t es h e h a a d n t u h g e b p t o c w n n e r l d , n i n t t c b o a u v l de been be intended by the Legislature. Mr. Rice also said that the magistrates at Petty Session could not examine parties on oath. In this case they came to a conclusion upon a visit to the premises. Mr. Rice said, even if the Noble Earl had intended to appeal, it could only be after the rate had been paid or distrained for. Mr. Wilmer, the Earl of Burlington's solicitor, said the parish wished to enforce the whole rate, in spite of the proceedings of the Magistrates. Mr. Rice said it should not be put in that form. He disputed the jurisdiction of the two Magistrates, and be was bound to treat their proceedings as a nullity. He wished only to bring the question to an issue. Mr. Wilmer contended, that the Local Act was passed for the government of the parish, and that the proceedings under it were perfectly regular. The 16th section stated, that parties aggrieved might appeal to two Magistrates, and that if they be not satisfied with such decision, then they were at liberty to appeal to the quarter sessions. Lord Burlington finding himself aggrieved had appealed to two Magistrates, and as be was satisfied with their de cision, there was nothing more to be done. That had been the course of proceeding in the parish ever since the local act passed, and was never before objected to. Mr. CONANT said there was no evidence that the Ma gistrates had found fault wirh the principle of the rate. Mr. Rice said the fault bad been wholly with the principle of the rate, and that was what he contended they had no right to do. There had been great dissatisfaction in the parish at the former mode of rating, and a new one had in consequence been adopted. He was proceeding to advert further to that dissatisfaction, when Mr. Wilmer said that had nothing to do with the case. The fact was, he said, the parish wished to have a fight in play, hut they had now got a fight in earnest, and they had already got a scratch. Mr. Wilmer then asked how many cases had been altered by the Magistrates ? Mr. Rice said, only five or six, and the parish had not recognised one of them. They were resolved to try the question on all of them. All the rest of the parish had acquiesced in the rate. Mr. CONANT remarked, that in this case the Magis trates had ordered the Earl of Burlington's rate to be reduced nearly one-half. M. Wilmer said that was because he produced evi dence of value. That evidence was strictly gone into; the parish surveyor was examined, and the magistrates viewed the whole of the mansion and grounds. Mr. CONANT-But the parish deny their jurisdiction. Mr. Rice said he had explained to the Magistrates that the effect of their proceeding would be that their rate would be quashed, and that that would be working an injustice to all the rest of the parish. Mr. CONANT said he had a very great respect for the honour and abilities of the two Magistrates, but as they were nut lawyers they might be mistaken ; if he had sat on the Bench Le should certainly have protested against their decision, for he did not believe that they were empowered by the local Act to alter the priaciple of the rate. Be sides, the Magistrates had is fact made no formal order, and that was irregular. A long discussion then took place relative to the order, when Mr. CONANT advised that a formal application should be made to the Magistrates for the order, the entry in the book not being deemed an order ; after the production of which it would be open to the parish to apply fur a distress warrant as usual. When the case came on again to be heard (which was fixed for Friday next) the worthy Magistrate said be should wish the two Magistrates, Sir R. Farquhar and Mr. B. Beaumont, to attend—their attendance being asked only as a matter of courtesy. It appeared in the course of the investigation that the Earl of Burlington's rate which had not ex ceeded 1,0001. was raised by the new survey of the parish, in April last, to 2,9431., which rate was allowed by the magistrates o❑ the Ist of May. The further hearing of the case was then adjourned to Friday. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Although the arrivals reported are inconsiderable, yet the trade for all descriptions of Corn has been dull to-day at the prices of Monday last. In the Flour trade there is not much doing ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I Flour. English 2,310 qrs. 1,6.50 qrs. 220 qrs. 3,430 sacks Irish Foreign SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY, FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, ()cr. 29.—Light airs from the Eastward.— The Constitution, Stockdale, for Lisbon, got on shore last evening near the South Foreland, and was assisted off without damage. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 29. Wind E.S. E.—Off port the Jack, Duke, from Accra. FALMOUTH, OCT. 28.—Wind E. to S.E.—Arrived the James Watt steamer, bound to Lisbon. DOVER, OCT. 29.—Arrived off port the Mercuriue, Scharnburg, from Cadiz. Cow's, Ocr. 29.—Arrived the Albion, Le Cheminant, from Rio Janeiro. DARTMOUTH, OCT. 28.—Arrived the Argo, Tick, from Bahia. HOLYHEAD, OCT. 28.—Arrived the William, Orfeur, from Liverpool, bound to Alexandria ; and Trogvoi,el, Long, from ditto, bound to Rotterdam. WHITEHAVEN, OCT. 27.—Atrived the Hope, Turner, from Quebec. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 28.—Arrived the Collins, Stuart, from Quebec; and Commerce, Por►, from Gijon. DUBLIN, OCT. 28.—Arrived his Mijesty's steamer, Frerefield, with the Marchioness Wellesley on board. The Eugene, from New Bedford, was carried into the river Coins yesterday, disrnasted and abandoned, having been on shore in the Gunfleet. The Anne Sophia, from Liverpool to Trieste, has put into Kingstown (Dublin), with loss of rudder, having been driven on the East Pier. The Edward Lombe, Freeman, from New Holland to London, respecting which considerable anxiety has been felt for some time past, put into Rio Janeiro on the Bth August. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK. - - The city arrivals this morning are the express from Paris and the Rattle Snake, from Rio Janeiro, with upwards of two millions of dollars. We do not hear that she has brought a mail. A few letters have been received, but as yet they are not made public. Owing to want of arrivals up to the present time, we ere exceedingly dull in the city. By the express from Paris, we are still in the dark re specting the affairs of Spain, which, we suppose, will be of a short duration, as the Queen's troops are on the eve of their operations in Biscay and Navarre. The French Funds have improved to 75f. 20c. Consols, which left off yesterday at 87k, 88, for the Account, opened at 88 to and at present may be quoted 88kto4. The Foreign Funds are also looking up ; Portuguese Stock 503- ; Spanish 22ii ; Dutch 50i. HALF•PAST ONE. We understand by private information from Paris, that the accounts received there from Spain are of a very fa. vourable description. A merchant vessel has arrived from Rio Janeiro, which she left on the 26th of August, at which period all was tranquil. Exchange from 41 to 42 ; Stocks 55. The letters by the Rattlesnake from Rio Janeiro have not as yet been delivered. - Co❑sols are not so good as in the early part of the morning, when they reached 88i, being now done at 88 to it. in the Foreign Market Portuguese Stock, 59i i ; Spaniel), 22i i ; Dutch, 50i i. THREE O'CLOCK Consols for the Account, 88 to i. NEW WORKS OF FICTION BY POPULAR WRITERIL--JUSt published by RICHARD BENTLEY, New Burlington-street ; to be had also of all respectable Book sellers throughout the United Kingdom : The HEADSMAN, by J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq. 3 vols. The HEIRESS. 3 vols. Second Edition, with New Introduction, 3 vols., GODOLPHIN, or The OATH! IV. The PARSON'S DAUGHTER, by THEODORE HOOK, Esq., 3 volt'. V. GRACE CASSIDY, or The REPEALERS. By the Countess of BLESSINGTON. 3 vole. VI. EBEN ERSKINE, or The TRAVELLER, by J. GALT, Esq., 3 vole. And on the 4th November, TREVELYAN, By the Author of "A Marriage in High Life,' 3 vole. THE ANNUALS. NOTRE DAME. 3 VoLs. LoNnolv , 1859 ' 1 1, Another translation of Victor Hugo's ° I known romance, which we reviewed at s t i,l length in The Sun a week or two since. 1/ ably executed, but whether better or O than that by Mr. Sh o b er l, we s h a ll not ven te d it to say, holding with M rs . M a l a p ro p that " e ° e parisons are odorous." The prefatory O ti h ; however, deserves a passing remark. lo a author talks of th e " t o t a l a b sence o f any t". like an expression of philanthropic sentiln el '! l i i any of Sir Walter Scott's works." Now t bls d a very gratuitous piece of impertinenc e ' tei l quite sufficiently refuted by th e unpreed tsi ° , s , popularity; of the Scottish Shakspeare's re , Indeed the great charm o f th ese unr ivalled 1) .i; ductions is the benevolent, philanthropic s P ir o that everywhere pervades them. TheY lo f , written, not by the priggish, pedantic id ° 0 , this coterie, or that coterie, but by ° c ha rt lightened man of the wo r ld, w ith a large " ec i beating in his bosom, and a tear and a sm ile v r , ready for the sorrow s or th e pl easures of n e r" sal humanity. Ag a i n , "i n th e aut h o r of si O d verley," says the translator, «king - worsh i p a,' lord -worship were a part of his h ei l ic i What trash is thi s ! W ou ld the er a sl have Sir Walter Scott pourtraY 0 3 ages (in brazen defiance of truth " o f honesty) in accordance with the spiri t the present ? It is clear that he is not i° t pe slightest degree familiar with the history of Middle Ages—during a large portion of there was no middle class to keep with ill / cr bounds of reason the vulgar idolatry of king s he would not have talked such nonsense. e V Walter sketched the past, not as the pre i es t. 3 age would desire to r ea d o f it i n fi ct ion, "" o c it really was. He neith er ex t enua ted 0 0/ 1 down aught in malice, but gave us " th e Te :' age and body of the time, it s f orm an d press u o Before the translator next p resumes to sn ee t t t il the king-worshipping propensities of the gr ° o f man England has known since the " 1 0 1 Shakespeare, we would advise him to reacb doi i: Shakspeare, who tell us " th ere ' s a divinitY hedge a king ;" secondly, Fletcher, who eg o s, in accordance with the spirit o f hi s d a y, 01) 1 0 " there's not the least limb growing to 3 D oi' but carries thunder in it." When he has ° c al - 0 plished this preliminary part of his duty, he r ;01 1 then refer to " Hall a m' s Hi s t or y o f the 1‘11,,,i Ages"—a work whi c h, th oug h wr itten up Whig, will be quite sufficient to show.„ o , i what sort of b e i ngs Ki ngs were COns , w; co i in the days of which Sir Walter '.) 441 treats. To the tr ans l a t or ' s next e lle ? that the illustrious Ba ronet s h owe d " the .0 1 bulk of mankind only in perspective , lacquey-like spirit," we refer him, by of answer, to the " Heart of Mid Lothivo more especially to that magnificent scen e , io Richmond P ar k b e t ween Queen Car o ! Jeanie Deans, and the Duke of Argyle, vin";, o the ro' a l b ty a back-ground, d rou n i o id h , ii i i n ty dignity may come forward, plead their own c e l lo and make themselves loved and reverenced in IV person of the lowly Scotch peasant girl. Wit",ll , 1 exception of these defects, the preface is a 11 ,; t h o a r r d e er bo th written and well-digested one, and full of tr i be and shrewdness as regards its estimate 0 f,,, e th at mthororawlhwofartrh 01:1/It‘i, literary character of Victor Hugo. By the ! we perceive that nine out of ten of the reTle k% of the day, are striving hard to impress on ' o p minds that this author is a Sir Walter Se ar / This will never do. Victor Hugo is no 131 a Scott than Sheffield plate is silver. NEW YEAR'S GIFT. LONDON, 1854 ' Of A very elegantly embellished work, jus t o sort of present for a mo th er t o ma k e to her c . h to rr at Christmas. M rs . Al ar i c W a t ts i s the ° i a l 1 and has shown h e r usua l t aste i n th e s eleeti e f i to tales and anecdotes in prose and verse, fit te interest the feelings of childhood. TOM CRINGLE'S LOG. f the This is a reprint, in t wo vo lumes, ° t ie delightful articles in Blackwood, bearing above name. In spite of our having pre °l° th e read them, we have not b een a bl e to reO t t her pleasure of again going through them in q ie~ new shape. We neither repent us of " - t ie done so, nor of the praise we have from to° to time bestowed upo n th em . They fur' s ( 0 of the most amusing volumes of adventure a long time published. LITERARY SOUVENIR. LoprpoN, P' o s We have alr ea dy no ti ce d th e ill u strati ° o 6 this elegant An n u a l, w hi c h, as it s Editor a ss a t ye us in his pr e f ace , i s t o b e con d ucte d next The on an entirely new and improved plan* : 111 literary portion of th e p resent Souvenir much merit. Among the contributors vi e 0 1/ft Mr. Crowe, auth or o f th at c l ever ser i e s of e a' " To-Day in Ireland," whose prose ta le ' s piri S titled the " Incendiary," is written with le / and simplicity. The Editor also eont r i t ir some elegant stanzas on a " Si s t er of Ch at o 0 f Of, extracted from his forthcoming " Lyrics O PI O Heart"—a volume which, having been e , four years on the stocks, must by this ti n oc lit:, conceive, be pretty nearly ready to be Mu ij oic'j Mary Howitt's prose and poetic corn°oo o Lions, like everything she writes, will be os O t interesting. Mr. Corn e li us W e bb e 's so% O s % e Innocence," contain som e p re tty id ell the metre is fit only for a nursery rhyrne: suppose it is modelled on Gulliv er 's ode to Glutndalclitch— " When she speaks Thunder breaks, When she snores Earthquake roars." EVERY MAN HIS OWN AT T o ROI s i NEW EDITJON, BY JON4TELAN WOOLlat It s an old saying at the bar, that a m slier: manages his own cause has a fool for We will not pretend to say that it i 8 it °lc versal application, but we certainly think po°' far true that we would advise all 101-104,°4 " Every Man his own Attorney," r atherL recourse to Mr. Wooler himself, 01:0 book, when they want to " COMIT/enCieo defend actions in person " fory c i the common affairs of life, however,' fpUsut and directions given in thi s w ork, Will ue highly useful. It is to be pub!ished ' n ot e ' l ,l seven parts ; of which three now lie t'F ih ef r j They appear to have been revised vi D te e 1 P„ - p care, and Mr. Wooler's name is a guarg n a all possible industry has been best° e them. 'l eek gtoil tt to all oy c euti ()et. cri ed . Doti( abet tot it b a tthi n 4 1 , 4 L 1 .OW Lit leo l lh Nt ta e ,. Of i! ik.m( - 4N t i 't ;41 1 / 4 ' '6! %I tu,./Ida d e , Ito sta 4i,