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Immenso Attraction and Double Spectacle at ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. Re.engagernenr of Mr. Cr ter, the American Lion King. I'HIS EVENING, OCTOBER i 2, Will be performed Lord Byron's Equestri.in and Dramatic Spec. tacle of MAZEPPA, AND THE \NILO HORSE, with all its Original Yffects. STRAND THEATRE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 12, Will be performed MARTIN CHUZZLEWI r. Young Martin t:huzzlewit, Mr. Ranoe; Old Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. Ayliffe ; Jonas Chuzzlewit, Mr Attwood, Montague figg, Mr. Roberts; 'Corn Pinch, Mr. Biddies; Mr. PecksnifF, and Mrs. Sairey Gamp, Mr. li. Hall; Mary Graham, Mrs. Coleman Pope. After woich, THE 6 ER MONT WOOL DEALER, in which Mr. Marble, the celebrated American Comedian, will make his First Appearance in England, supported by Messrs. A yliff'e, Searle, Dean, G. Maynard, Mrs. montgornerie, a :c1 Miss Stephens To conclude with YANKEE LA Ni), in which Mr. Marble will perform. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 12, Will be revived Shak.pelre's Play of CORIOLANUS; or, the Roman Matron. ('oriolanus, Mr. Graham; Cominius, 3lr. Dale; Volumnia, Mrs. W. West; Virgilia, Miss Hamilton. After which, THE SPEC ICRE BRIDEGROOM. Nicodemus, Mr. Dale; Geoigiana, Miss Louisa Lyons. To conclude with THE BATTLE OF kCSTERLITZ. Cha racters uy Messrs. Dale, C. J. Bird, John Herbert, James, Mrs. W. West, Miss Hamilton. Mrs. Garrick, Sec. Private Family Boxes, .£1 Is. Od. and £1•11s. 6d. 13, Great Marlborough-street. MR. COLBURN'S NEW PUBLICATIONS. TO BE HAD OF ALL BOOKSELLERS. I. .NARRATIVE of the VOYAGES and SERVICES of the NEMESIS in CHINA. New and Cheaper Edition. 1 vol. 18s. 2. BURKE'S HISTORY of the LANDED GENTRY. Part 111. 3. REVELATIONS of RUSSIA. 2 vols. 4. CONINGSBY. By B. D'ISRAELI, Esq. M.P. Third Edition. 3 vols. 5. HISTORIC FANCIES. By the Hon. G. S. S3IYTHE, M.P. _ Second Edition. 1 vol. 6. A WINTER in ITALY. By Mrs. ASHTON' YATES. 2 vols. 7. MISS STRICKLAND'S QUEENS of ENGLAND. Vol VII. 8. LETTERS of MARY QUEEN of SCOTS. Second Edition. 2 vols. 9. LADY LONDONDERRY'S NARRATIVE of her VISIT to the COURTS of VIENNA, CONSTANTINOPLE, ATHENS, and NAPLES. 1 vol. 10. MEMOIRS of the BABYLONIAN PRINCESS. 2 vols. Henry ColburE, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. T V HE EDINBURGH REIEW, No. CLXII., will be published on Wednesday next. CONTENTS : I. RECENT DEVELOPEMENTS OF PUSEYISM. 11. SIR FRANCIS DRAKE. 111. NATURAL HISTORY OF REPTILES. IV. THUNDERSTORMS AND PROTECTION FROM LIGHT NING. V. THE LATE SESSION—RESULTS OF TORY RULE. VI. YOUNG ENGLAND. VII. EARLY ADMINISTRATIONS OF GEORGE THE THIRD —THE EARL OF CHATHAM. London : Longman and Co. Edinburgh . : A. and C. Black. MR. AINSWORTH'S NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE CRCIKSHANK. Just ready, in 3 vols., S AINT J A MES'S; out, THE COURT OF QUEEN ANNE. By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq. Also jest commenced, by the same Author, REVELATIONS OF LONDON ; With Illustrations by " Phiz," in " Ainsworth's Magazine." London : John Mortimer, Publisher, Adelaide-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE, EVENING, 0‘_!TOBE11. 12, Will be performed ACTS AVD DALATE A. Acis, Mr. Barker; Damor, Mr. D. W. king; Polyphemus, Mr. Stretton; Galatea, Miss Romer. To be followed by the favourite Drama of CLARI; or, The Maid of Milan. The Duke Vivaldi, Mr. W. West ; Rolamo, Mr. Cooper ; Ciarl, Miss Raintorth ; Vespma, MiQs Romer. After which, the Grand Ballet, entitled THE CORSAIR. 2onrad, M. Albert ; Julien, M. >esplaces; Sanguo, M. Montessu Medora, Miss Clara Webster ; Une Vivandiere, Mdlle. Auguste, Deltas ; Guinar, Mile. kdele Dumilatre. It is respectfully announced that no one can, on any account, be admitted in future, either to the D , ess Circle or Stalls, unless in Evening Costume. The Box, o: 4 ice is oven daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application tr , Mr. John Parsons THEATRE ROYAL, HAYM ARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 12, Will be repeated Vanbrugla's Comedy of THE CONFEDERACY. Adapted to the present Period. The Principal Characters by Messrs. Strickland, W. Farren, Puckstone, and C. 3fathaws, Macrame Vestris, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. E. Yamold, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Stanley, and Mrs. Sloven After which, a New Farce, by Mr. Buckstone, entitled THE H 1 JIBLE RIG. J ,, hn Ginger, Mr Puckstone , Sam Shindy, Mr. Strickland ; Mrs. Ginger, Mrs. W. Clifford. To conclude with THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 12, Will be perf)rmed FOREMN AFFAIRS; or. The Court of Queen Anne. St. Louis, Madame Celeste ; Connell, Mr. Hudson ; Baron, Mr. Wright ; Baroness, Mrs. Yates; Lady Bell, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by a New Comic Operetta, called the FOX AND THE GuOSE. Principal Characters by Messrs. Hudson, Paul Bedford, and Mrs Fitzwilliam. To conclude with DEEDS OF DREADFUL NOTE. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Ar Pitt ; Leader of the Bard, Mr. Mellon.—Box-niiii e open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCE'S'S THEATRE, OXFORD-ST E ET. LESSEE. Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING. OCTOBER 12. Will be repeated a New Drama, called DON C2ESAR DE B A ZAN. Don Cwear, Mr. Wallack • Co ..rles the second, Mr. Walton ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling ; Countess dt Rotondo, Mrs. Fo.broke. To be followed by a new Divertissement, called The SLAVE MARKET, in which M. J. Rouser, Mdlle. Caroline Rousset, Mdlle. Teresina, Mr. Gilbert, and Miss Marshall will appear. After which a New Farce, called TAKING THE PLEDGE. Augustus Larkins, Mr. Oxberry ; Alexander Paps, Mr. Walter Lacy; Emily Gussett, Miss Emma Stanley. To conclude with THE LOST LETTER. . Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, la. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle,2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, fwo Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce nium Boxes, Two Muineas and a-Hill. Doors to be opened at Half past Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-ottice, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingh am. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM LATE ENGLISH. OPERA. HOUSE. Under the Management et Mrs. KEELEY. Last Night of " Martin ('hnzzlewit." THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 12, Willbe repeated a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLE: WIT. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, Craven, Kmery, F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, Stanton, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, and Keeley ; Miss I. ortescue, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Groves, Mrs. Usher, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, a, New Cemic Scene, called OUTGENERALED ; or. a Hint to Bachelors. Charles Stanley, Mr. F. Vining; Mrs. llartley, Miss Walcott. To conclude with an entirely Original, and much better than New, Grand Operatic, Romantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesque Extra vaganza' founded on the celebrated Eastern Tale, in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled ALADDIN AND THE WON DERFUL LAMP; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With very extensive New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal cha racters by Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, Turner, A. Wigan, J. W. Collier, and Keeley ; Mist Fairbrother, Mrs. Weolli tge, Miss Grove, Miss Arden, Miss Turner, MI ,s James, &c., &c. New Scenes of the Circle. To conclude with the French Equestrian Military Spectacle of the LION OF THE DESERT, or, THE FRENCH IN MOROCCO. Abdallah, the Outcast Arab, Mr. Carter. Acting and staire.minager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by Mr. R. Smith. DAVIDOE's ROYAL SURREY THEATRE More successful than ever—Another New Piece, and Novelties beyond conception. THIS EVENING. OCTOBER 12, Will be repeate , a New Military Drama, entitled THE EVE OF BATTLE. Sup-orted by the whole Company, with New Scenery and Splendid Appointments. After witich, a New BALLET LES TROIS FETES DE BOIS, under the direction of Mr. T. Ridgway. To conclude with THE PROTECTOR; or, VIE REBEL'S GAUNTLET. Characters by Messrs. E. F. Saville, H. Hughes, Hicks, Mrs. H. Hughes, Mrs. R. Honner, &c. Places and Private Boxes to he had of Mr. Kerschner, at the 8.,x froa - : Eleven •o Four. TEE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, OCT. 11. MEMOMETER, Lowest, 45; Highest, 62; Noon, 60. BAROmmlut, 29.75.—Wnc0, W.S.W. Norm.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the fr.ezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is tonally placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 37 minutes after I Evening ... 54 minutes after 1. infittrill I (*mt. LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1844. No popular rights derived from ancient, and almost forgotten charters, or from local custom having the force of common law rights, are so liable to produce encroachment, and even to final usurpation, as forest rights and rights of common, in the poorer inhabi tants of various districts in this country—which are still more or legs uninclosed. On this account we have always endeavoured to watch every indica tion bespeaking (under pretexts however colourable or plausible) a design to press an Inclosure Act in respect of such localities as we speak of. We have reason to believe that our efforts in these cases have not been altogether unavailing (in some instances) to arrest, and perhaps to avert, a species of spoliation on the ancient rights of the community, and especially the poor, to which legal chicanery and speculation are too often not only c onsenting, but suirgesting awl abetting parties. By such means it is that in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, and in the su burban vicinity, of all our great towns, by slow, but sure, degrees, the parish green, the village common, the green and pleasant lanes, the old tamiliar grove, with its tall elms or beeches, and its cawing rookery ; the " close," or the " croft," with its trim hedges, and its usually nearest path out of the " people's hive" into the silent but more cheerful country ; the green, destined for the sports, and even the copses and woods, resorted to by the holiday folk for their plea sure and recreation—one by one disappear. They are expunged from the very map of the district. These open spaces, these breathing grounds for the people, are absorbed, the people know not how, into the sudden possessio n of individuals, the people know not whom. Some interloper drops, as if from the clouds, upon the land; and it is as effectually secluded from those who were wont, as their fathers had been before them, to enjoy its healthful amenities, as if clouds enveiled it for evermore. What the demands of increasing trade or extensive manufactures have not laid off in streets and warehouses, and mills and factories, these fortunate " squatters by Act of Parliament," suddenly surround with trenches, which yield, in due time, to the park fencing, or the more substantial brick wall. In districts purely aural, the wondering peasant is first astonished at ob serving some favourite ancient tree falling beneath the axe of a strange woodman, under the authority of the " strange gentleman" who has just come down to occupy the great house hard by, and is taking in his right of common from the waste. In a few days more, more trees are felled, hitherto regarded by the same peasant as objects sacred as the neighbouring church itself from such profanation. The work goes on. It is everybody's business to challenge the autho rity by which it is all done ; and, therefore—nobody challenges. The villagers are hemmed in, cribbed upon here ; shut out there ; curtailed in this hundred ; shifted in that ; till at last neither common nor croft, nor grove, nor green, nor copse remain to them. They are ousted. The fortunate owner of " the large white house" is discovered to be entitled, under some smuggled-through " Private Bill," to the fire hundred acres of waste (that had afforded exer cise, solace, and health, to five hundred of the poorer people, haply for five hundred years before), about the same time that his first drains are cut, and his first gate-posts are set up. This is no exaggerated sketch of the history and results of an Inclosure Act. For many years past there have been, at least, a dozen of such illustra tions supplied by every session of Parliament. But these are not the only modes in which the rights of common and waste, that we desire to protect, are shamefully infringed upon. Let us take, for example, one of the most perfect and noble sylvan remains of which this once forest-covered country can now boast—(and it is within even a walk of the metro polis)—we mean Epping Forest. We have lately witnessed, with indignation as well as regret, the barefaced encroachments that are being daily made, on the common forest land, in the immediate vicinity of the Bald-faced Stag, at the top of the hill above the Woodford- gate ; again, in other parts of the Forest in the neighbourhood of the property of Mr. CONYERS, of Copped Hall ; of Mr. MILLS, near Theydon ; and at other points which we could name. Some of the gentlemen whose estates adjoin the scenes of these encroachments are, if we mistake not, Forest officers themselves, rejoicing in the title of " Verderers." Are they, also, the landlords of the tenements built there ? And if so, under what title do they assume the power to lease the soil, for their own benefit ? If they are cognizant of the en croachments we speak of, especially the felling of timber, do they permit them as landlords or as Verderers ? Who derive the benefit of the timber felled—themselves or the tenants ? Is it the right of either ? Does it, or does it not, belong to the Crown ? Are the Commissioners of Woods and Forests aware of these proceedings ? May we ask, too, what took place last week at the "Forty Days' Court," at which it was understood Mr. COPELAND, M.P. (who has, with a degree of public spirit and disinterestedness highly honourable to him, protested against the inefficient discharge of their duty by these Verderers), intended to compel more explanations on these points, or, failing in that object, to originate a petition to the Crown for the removal of the autho rities in question. The matter involves important public privileges and interests ; and we shall be happy to receive any authentic information about it. We cannot afford to see Epping Forest desecrated by squire jobbing in " waste lands." The French Opposition journals express great in dignation that an entertainment should be given to LOUIS PHILIPPE in the Waterloo Gallery ; but the Queen of ENGLAND cannot help this. It is the only hall in the Castle fit for such a purpose ; and if there is anything offensive in the name, the complainants are the parties to blame. The French Imperialists set us the example. They have their bridge of Jena, and their pillar of Austerlitz ; and why should not England have her Waterloo Gallery, Waterloo bridge, and Trafalgar-square ? They have Dukes of Dalmatia, Rovigo, and Montebello. They have PrincQs, or had, of Ponte Corvo, Moskowa, Eckmahl, and many other nobles with foreign titles, all calculated to humble continental States, while we have not one member in the House of Peers with a title that can recal any painful feeling to Frenchmen. If the writers in these journals had any sense of pro priety, or common fairness, they ought to acknow ledge the fact, and Tender England an act of justice, by saying that she had shown great moderation in all her victories, and that only in two or three instances had she imitated Imperial France. But nothing would satisfy these fire-eaters. Were Queen VICTORIA to turn the " 'Waterloo Gallery" into "Louis Philippe's Gallery," or call it by any other name, however flatter ing to their national pride, they would say the new title was only the offspring of fear, or granted to M. GUIZOT as a bribe for some atrocious sacrifice of the interests of France. These remarks are not addressed to the great body of the French people, whom all who know them must admire for their honesty and bravery ; they are addressed to the most bitter ene mies of France and England. It is not once in a dozen years that the Court Cir cular furnishes us with a hint worthy of a moment's consideration, but yesterday the case was different, ror the following suggestive paragraph appears in it, on which we propose to make a few remarks which though they may not be novel, will at least have the merit of being seasonable :—" The royal and august party after leaving Windsor Castle, went through Staines and Sunbury-common to Twickenham, to the house formerly occupied by the KING of the FRENCH, when residing in this country, and now in the occupation of the Earl of MOR NINGTON." How many stirring recollections—not a few of them of an exquisitely painful character —must hare been awakened in Louis PHILIPPE'S mind, when he once again stood before the house, which many years ago he had occupied during his exile from his native country! Did joy or melan choly predominate in his breast, when looking, first on the well-remembered dwelling, and then on the illus trious group by whom he was accompanied, the contrast between his past and present condition neces sarily forced itself on his attention while busy thought travelled back through a long vista of years to the days of his comparative obscurity—days which for weeks and months together rose and set in gloom, and pro duced scarcely a single auspicious event on which to hang a hope for the future ? In all superior minds there is always a touch of pensiveness bordering on melancholy, and we can readily believe that the first sight of his old house raised in the French KING'S breast emotions rather of sadness than joy, notwith standing the triumphant position which he now occupies as guardian of the peace of Europe. He could not but have thought, with a sigh, of the friends who once sate with the humble exile beneath that roof—of the brothers who shared his confidence, and were to him as a second self—and, more espe cially, of the clever, sanguine Duraoußtuz, under whose auspices he made his first essay in arms, and who—had he succeeded in his schemes—would have raised him to the throne of France. All these have long since passed away ; the winds of many winters have sighed over their graves; and Louts PHILLIPE now finds himself the chief actor in a totally new scene--conspicuous in an age which in some respects is the direct antipodes to that of his youth and man hood—surrounded by new men, and influencing a new generation whose political sympathies are little in accordance with those of its predecessor. It is a striking proof of this great Monarch's worldly sagacity that he has been able, at his 1 1 advanced time of life, to accommodate himself with such flexibility to the altered character of the age. LAFAYETTE, his distinguished contemporary, carried with him to the grave the republican principles which he maintained in youth ; NAPOLEON, even after his crushing defeat at Waterloo, still held in the Cham bers the language of the despotic EMPEROR ; CHARLES the TENTH could risk a throne, but could not, not withstanding the pressing necessity ofthe case, abate one jot of his prerogative ; CARNOT, LAFITTE, and BEN JAMIN CONSTANT, all died as they had lived, steady, inflexible advocates of the revolutionary principle of democracy ; but LOUIS PHILIPPE—Who would almost seam to be incapable of deep-rooted impressions—can change with the change of times ; uphold Republi canism in youth, and in age, task the utmost powers 'of his intellect to crush it throughout France. Truly, he is an extraordinary man, and—notorious as h as b een hi s po liti ca l tergiversation—we c an scarcely f i nd it in our hearts to condemn it, when we remember the benefits it has conferred, and still continues to confer, on Europe. Elad Louts PHILIPPE, like LAFAYETTE, remained true to the Republican convictions of his youth, a war of Propagandism would have commenced in isuo, which would most probably have continued unabated to the present day. Mr. SMYTHE'S late eloquent speech at the Man chester Athenaeum seems to have proved too strong for the delicate digestion of the Morning Post, which made some rather severe strictures upon it on Wed nesday, and renewed the subject on Thursday. The young and ardent member for Canterbury having stated that there " is an old and natural alliance be tween literature and commerce," our perverse Con temporary, whom no one can please ; who, like VOL TAIRE'S Prococurante, looks on everything with an eye of distrust and hopelessness ; and who appears to have reduced to system the Nil-Admirari principle of flouAcm—our wayward Contemporary, we say, im mediately bristles up, and thus replies to Mr. SMYTHE'S statement :—" We deny that there exists any old and natural alliance between literature and commerce. When such an alliance has existed, the terms of that alliance have always been the reverse of honourable to literature. The spirit of commerce never yet conceded to the spirit of genuine philosophy equality of social influence with itself ; far less has the spirit of commerce ever bowed to the supremacy of the highest forms of intellect. The alliance be tween commerce and literature has been, in short, the sort of alliance which connects the master with the slave—the luxurious lord with the parasite." This is an undoubted truth, when applied to the connexion between aristocracy and literature, but when applied to that between commerce and literature, it is as un doubted a falsehood. The aristocratic spirit has never yet conceded to the literary spirit " equality of social influence with itself," but has uniformly kept it at an awful distance—flattering it, it is true, at times, and encouraging it, and making condescending speeches to it, and admitting it to the honour of its presence ; but always insisting on its confessing its marked inferiority, and playing the part of an ob sequious dependent. Look at the Dedications of DRYDEN, YOUNG, and others of our great authors, and see there the sort of conduct that was expected to be pursued by genius towards its lordly patrons ! Look at the compliments of POPE—who well knew the temper of the men he addressed, and won their favourable suffrages in consequence—and see in what terms a poet was expected to address his aristocratic superiors ! On the other hand, mark the fate of JOHNSON, who was left to pine in solitude and neglect for the best years of his life, with scarce sufficient means to provide for the day's meal, merely because he refused, in the manly independence of his nature, to flatter the self-love of the great, and approach them on bended knees, as though he were the slave, and they the master ! " I was never a favourite with Lords," says the philosopher of Bolt-Court, in Boa- WELL'S inimitable life of him—" because they do not like to hear the truth, and I would not tell them falsehoods." Again, in later times, remember the fate of BURNS, who was first petted, and flattered, and lionized by the Scottish aristocracy, and then coolly left to starve, and fret his very soul away in that ex quisite agony which despised and neglected genius only can feel, merely because he was conscious of his own high calling, asserted the dignity of manhood, and refused to bow in abject adoration before the shrine of rank ! The Post's observation, then, we contend, is true, as regards the alliance between aristocracy and literature,- but false as respects , that between commerce and literature. Who were the gene rous, the steady, the unaffected patrons of genius during the palmy days of Venice, but the enlightened merchant-princes of that Magnificent trading city ? Who not only admitted the social equality of TITIAN but even his social superiority, but these same worldly, enterprising spirits ? Who fostered the arts and sciences, and mind, in its most imaginative form, when the greater portion of Europe was comparatively unci vilised, but the leading commercial inhabitants of Genoa, Florence, and the other Italian Republics ? Who drew forth from obscurity and indigence, and were the most assiduous, unassuming patrons of the intellectual spirits of their country, but the merchant princes of the house of MEntcr? It was not Italian aristocracy, but Italian commerce that protected and rewarded, and acknowledged the social equality of genius. The former was too much engrossed with its own ambitious ♦iews—too much addicted to war and bloodshed—to the acquisition of this town or city, and the destruction of the municipal privileges of that— to be able, even supposing it had the inclination, to pay attention to the peaceful claims of intellect. The benefits conferred by aristocracy on literature are soon summed up. The former has always received from the latter much more than it has bestowed, and has ever been too proud to acknowledge the full extent of its obligations. But who shall number up the benefits that commerce in all ages of the world has been the means of conferring on intellect? Had it not been for the gradual extension of commercial enterprise among mankind, the world would still have remained in comparative darkness ; and literature, in .tead of being what it now is, the want of all, would have been a superfluous luxury appreciated only by the few. Mr. SMYTHE, therefore, never uttered a more sterling truth than when he maintained that there was a " natural alliance between commerce and literature." In this great trading community of ours —for what, after all, is England but a nation of shop keepers ? we say this to her credit, though NAPOLEON used the term in an insulting sense—the commercial spirit mast ever he the greatest benefactor to the lite rary spirit. Each acts and reacts advantageously on the other. Trade furnishes the means by which in tellect lives and thrives ; and intellect, in turn, brings its softening, elevating influences to bear on the stern and practical nature of trade. Is it the aristo cracy that are everywhere encouraging the spread of Mechanics' Institutes, book-clubs, and reading-rooms; that founded the Durham and London Universities; and originated the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge ? Far otherwise. These are Institutions with which they have but an imperfect sympathy ; it is the middle classes—and chiefly those who are en gaged in the pursuits of commerce—that have origi nated them, and that are still earnestly engaged in furthering the sacred cause of education among the masses, while the aristocracy are content to look on with a feeble, supercilious, and condescending ex pression of approval. It is commerce that commences the great work of civilisation among nations by bringing them in closer and more harmonious com munion with each other, and literature that com pletes the august task. The one acts as the pioneer to the other. Commerce prepares the rugged soil to receive the seeds which literature sows. Commerce without literature is like SAMPSON shorn of his hair —a giant, it is true, but one from whom the true, manly, invigorating spirit has departed; but the two combined triumphantly bear down all obstacles op posed to their progress by ignorance, prejudice, or self-interest, and tend to uplift Humanity to the highest point of elevation! The Madrid Gazette of the 3d inst. contains a royal decree, appointing a number of Senators. With one exception, they belong to the Government party. In reference to reports of a division in the Cabinet, and the probable resignation of certain members, the Globo says : _ _ " Although the alarming reports circulated by male volence be destitute of foundation, they nevertheless do harm. Those rumours and calumnies, however, will cease after the opening of the Cortes. Then everybody will have an opportunity of defending himself, and con tradicting personally any statement offensive to his cha racter, and all the Ministers may then proclaim to the world that they hold themselves equally accountable for all the acts of the Cabinet." MADRID BOURSE, 3D INST.--Three per Cents., 27i for Account; Five per Cents., 20i for Account ; Floating Debt, 66 for Account. Not one of the Paris papers of Wednesday an nounces the arrival of Lours PHILIPPB in England. As he reached Portsmouth at an early hour on Mon day, the intelligence might easily have been conveyed to Paris in less than forty-eight hours ; but this is only one proof among many of the little aptitude of our neighbours for the dispatch of business. Pass ports and Custom-houses and Octrois obstruct the tra veller at almost every step, and time which might be profitably employed is wasted only in delaying trade and commerce. The journals, however, if they have no news on the event, have abundance of comments on what they take for granted has occurred at Windsor Castle. The Quotidienne, while annoyed at the visit, endeavours to pluck up courage by referring to the victories of the French under the ancient house of BOURBON. " It is unfortunately not possible for us," says the CARLIST organ, " to remake our history. The name of the Duke of WZLLINGITON is connected for us only with mournful reminiscences, and if it recalls any personal event to the courtiers of the Tuileries, it is perhaps the refusal to accord a com mand to the Duke of ORLEANS in 1811, and the de claration made in 1815, to the feeble party which then declared for that Prince, that the Duke of ORLEANS would never accept the crown before the extinction of the reigning family. Marshal SOULT was well received in England, without doubt; but it is not merely because he had taken a glorious part in the wars of Germany and Italy, but because he had been unsuccessful since 1809, in his encounters with the English. Oporto, Albuera, Bayonne, Or thez, were reminiscences which British pride was de lighted to recur to, in beholding the Marshal, and the English showed the more eagerness to fete him, inas much as his military merit gave more relief to their success. Admiral in GRASSE, after the unfortunate combat of Des Saintes, was enthusiastically received in London. He had twice beaten the English before his defeat, and it was precisely because he was brave and able that the English were so happy to have been at least once more able or more fortunate than he. SUFTREN, LA, MOTTE-PIQUET, LA. GALISSONIERE, would not have received in London, after their vic tory, the reception which De GRASSE met with after his reverse. The mind of our neighbours is so con stituted. We are therefore strongly disposed to be lieve that the reception reserved for the travellers to Windsor is less a homage than a proof of the inte rested preferences of the British Government for a dependent and devoted rig,ime. As to us, very diffe rent from those who complain at beholding the grand dignitaries of the Government and the Court of London coming to meet the cortege from France, we, on the contrary, find this proceeding very proper• When, in the ancient monarchy, the Kings of ENG LAND came to pay homage to the King of FRANCE, for the possessions which depended on the Crown, our Sovereigns sent the first Noblemen of the Court to meet them. Since, tha, - iks to the Ministers, the parts are changed between us and England ; it is just that the starting point of the ceremonial should be so also!" M. THEIRS' journal thus adverts to the grand ban quet to be given in the Waterloo Gallery : " The Waterloo Gallery at Windsor, in which the grand entertainment is to be given to the King of the French, is ornamented with a number of portraits, amongst which are seen to figure the Sovereigns and the remarkable men who, in 1815, concurred in the invasion of France, and in the degradation of her influence by treaties. The first in point of consequence is the Em peror Alexander of Russia. next the Emperor of Austria, the Duke of Wellington, and Prince Talleyrand. Louis XVIII. and Charles X. are not forgotten. History has said why ? But what is at least strange is, that through an attention which was intended to be delicate, and which fortunately was not merited, the Duke of Orleans, at present Icing of the French, figures himself amongst the men to whom those painful recollections are attached. The Queen of England would have done well to have chosen another gallery for her banquet. It was sufficient that the King of the French mould have appeared there in effigy." The Siecle charges M. GUIZOT with selling himself to England, but though the Minister is mentioned by name, the imputation is meant for a higher per sonage : We are not animated with a feeling of hatred to wards lingland, but we cannot help recollecting and re senting the repeated insults offered to our country. If the British Government had endeavoured to make us forget by some generous proceeding the odious broach of faith of 1840, we should consider it our duty to acknow ledge it, and congratulate ourselves upon it, for by that means the friendly understanding between the two na tions would_ have been re-establiShed. Unfortunately, we - have no such fact to record, and many others have occurred to excite still more our just irritation. The same feeling, we know, is not shared by the Minister_ (M. Guizot), who appears to have undertaken the mis sion of immolating to the merchants of London the in terests and honour of our country. He has received a favour from England ; after foolishly engaging his word in a treaty, he withdrew it, on the injunction of the Par liamentary majority. This was a serious grievance for the English Government ; its indignation would have been rented against any other Minister, and a reparation demanded. But the Cabinet of London knew its man, and took good care not to injure British interests by in • sisting on his dismissal. The English have a right to be pleased with him and to feast him ; he has paid his debt at the expense of the national interests and of France. Why, then, should we feel flattered or grateful for the interested ovation preparing for their liegeman on the other side of the Channel ? A day will come when England will appreciate the value of French alli ance ; but that alliance, founded on mutual good rela tions, will offer itself spontaneously, and not allow itself to be sold." The National after a brief notice equally compli mentary to the Foreign Minister changes the scene, and denounces his policy in Spain : " Nowhere has the policy of M. Guizot been so flagrantly exposed as in Spain. The Government which oppresses that country is his work—he preponde rates in its councils. Ile encouraged the insurrection ,vhich produced the present Government, and he re ceived the Golden Fleece as a reward. Since the return of Maria Christina, Spain has no longer a constitution. The arbitrary G o vernment of Ordinances has replaced the prescriptions of the law. The intrigues of the palace supersede the deliberations of thd Chambers. The taxes are levied without having been voted by the Chambers. The single fact is s ufficient to characterise this abomin able re-action. Orders were sent to Saragossa to dis cover the pretended authors of the murder of a General who perished during a night of alarm and of civil war. The persons accused were citizens, but they were tried by cour t-mere al, and after an interval of eight years, some were coademned to death, and others to the gallies for the term of their natural lives. . . A general cry of indignation was raised, and the clemency of the youeg Queen was app l e a a c l e ed am to o , n b g u st t h her mother was near er, d the Queen declred that she would grant a pardoann if the sons of the General awohuolrdrocro-nsstreunct.k p T op h u e l e a x ti e o c n ution then took T place liberty of the press is suspended, and property confiscated. Eutire provinces are placed in a state of siege, and even in places where there exists no pretext for such a measure. There is no security for individuals against the good pleasure of the sabre. A denunciation is sufficient to authorise imprisonment, proscription, or death. It is not necessary to recal to the recollection of our readers the seventy-two deputies imprisoned, without cause, the editors of public journals dragged from their beds to be thrown into dungeons with robbers, the massacres en masse which covered with blood the walls of Alicant and of Carthagena, and the permanent spoliations exercised in Catalonia." _ _ The adjudication of the offers for forming the line on the Orleans and Bordeaux Railway took place on Wednesday, before the Minister of Public Works. The biddings wese as follows :---Messrs. MACKENZIE. PATTERSON, and Co., offered to take it for 28 years all but 17 days ; Baron ROTHSCHILD, for 31 years and 9 days; and M. DROUILLAHD for 36 years and 1 day. Messrs. MACKENZIE and Co., being the lowest bidders, were declared the contractors. This raised the shares of the MACKENZIE Company from 60f. to 100 f. premium. The Orleans and Vierzon line was adjudged to the existing Orleans Company for a term of 40 years, the Orleans Company ceding to that headed by Messrs. La CONTE and Co., one-third of the shares. ---- - TIM BOURSE-WEDNEBDAY, OCT. 9. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cuts .. Bank of France......... 118 75 .. 118 80 .. 118 75 .. 118 75 Four-and-a-Half 111 80 .. 11] 80 lll 80 .. 111 80 Three per Cents B2 10 .• 82 20 .. 82 10 .. 82 15 Lai - bite Bank, 1,0001 Sharesllo2 50 ..1102 50 ..1102 50 ..1102 50 Portuguese Five 3070 .. 3070 .. 30G2 50 .. 3062 50 5,0001 Sharessos2 50 ..5052,50 ..5050 .•6050 Belgian Fives,lB4o ....., lO3l .. 1031 Belgian Bank .. 1031 •• 1031 *Aoanish Threes ........ ~ per Cents 49-1 .. 50 • 491 .. 50 Neapolitan . 88 70 .. 98 80 .. 98 78 .• 98 80 . 1 •• 106 .• 106 • 06 .• 106 RAILWAY SHARES. .. 261 25 .. 265 St. Germain. •• Versailles, R.B. 385 .. 385 385 .. 385 Rouen ..•• Rouen to Havre ...... ...... 2 7 :1 5 25 5 ... 2 7 65 i 50 .. 755 .. 757 50 Avignon to Marseilles.. •• .. 765 • • 765 ' 765 '• 765 RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, OCTOBER 15. Versailles, •••• • • • • •... 385 385 •• 385 .. 385 .. 385 L.B. • 261 25 .. 265 • 261 25 .• 265 Rouen • • Rouen to Havre .. 757 50 .. 757 50 . 757 50 .. 757 50 Orleans .........•......... 990 —lOO2 50 .. 990 ••1000 Strasburg to Bale. •.. • • .... 266 25 •• 267 50 .. 265 .• 267 50 Avignon to Marseilles.— 765 .. 767 50 .. 765 .• 767 50 --- ACCIDENT AT TUB NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. —Yesterday morning, about ten, a man named Charles Hunter, thirty years of age, whilst working upon some scaffolding near the Victoria Tower, fell therefrom with his right arm and side upon the teeth of a large stone taw. The poor fellow was immediately conveyed to the WestminAer Ilospitz.l, where he remains, in a dangerous state. THE BIRMINGHAM QUARTERLY MEETING OF THE SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE IRON-MASTER B . — BIRMINCHIM, THURSDAY. —To-day the gentlemen engaged in the abort trade met at the Town-hall, for the transaction of busi ness. The attendance was most numerous and respect able, and included the leading masters in this part of the country. It was very hard to obtain anything like accurate information of the state of the trade; but after many inquiries amongst those upon whom I can rely, I was enabled to arrive at the fact that the prices of the last quarter will be maintained. The masters will meet on Saturday at Dudley, when they will come to a final resolution upon the subject. I consider, however, it is now so far settled that no reduction for the preseit can be anticipated. I have reason to believe a good deal of importance was attac h ed to the meeting of to-day. It was feared that prices could not, however, be maintained. 'they will be found hare,however, been upheld, a n d I h o p e that the result t justify the decision. The accounts from London of the general state of the market had a good effect, and inspired confidence. There was also a tolerably brisk demand for iron, and the meeting on the whole nii4 eatiefaetory, FLANDERS and HAMBURGH MAIL. BRUSSELS, OCT. B.—On the 7th of this month Mr. Thomas G. Cleurson had an audience of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and delivered his credentials as Charge d'Affaires of the United States of America of this Court. A melancholy event has excited a great sensation in the diplomatic body at Rio de Janeiro. M. de Schanz, Consul• General of Sweden at the Court of Brazil, has attempted to commit suicide, in consequence of having been discharged by his Government. The dose of arsenic which he took was not strong enough to produce the intended effect. There are hopes of saving him; but still it is feared that all the care bestowed on him will be unavailing, so determined does he seem to put an end to his life. M. de Schanz, having exhausted all his resources in supporting the dignity of his office, was driven to this act of despair at the moment when ho ex • pected to be appointed Charge d'Affaires. If we are rightly informed some modifications havebeen made in the original draft of the treaty of the Ist of September. These modifications are of little import ance; the object of them all is better to define the arrange ments respecting the navigation in the out-ports. A clause has been inserted in anticipation of the case, that, instead of increasing the duties on foreign corn, the Zollverien should diminish, or even suppress them. This case was wholly omitted in the original draft. It is here that the Prussian Government at first proposed altera tions much more important, but they were all given up the Prussian Government having throughout manifested a desire to do away with everything that might delay the final conclusion of the arrangement. We are informed that the treaty of the Ist of Septem ber has been ratified by all the States interested, includ ing Belgium. It may, therefore, be immediately pub lished and carried into effect. ALTENBURG, SEPT. 26.—Applications have been made here, and from Bavaria, for permission to build a church for the Roman Catholics (thirty-eight persons). The Duke, however, has not granted it. To Bavaria an answer has been sent, courteously attending to the condition of the Protestants in that country. In the answer given at Altenburg, the grounds for rejecting the application are stated at length, and the persons in terested are required, at the same time, to determine what shall be done with the 2,000 florins received from Bavaria. VIENNA, SEPT. 28.—The report of the accession of Bohemia to the Zollverein, has excited a great sensation here, chiefly because the most important Bohemian manufacturers have magazines here. This important affair is generally spoken of, and though there are some who consider so bold a measure as injurious, and even impracticable, general opinion is decidedly in its favour. Bohemia would probably gain considerably by it, and the advantage would doubtless be shared by the whole empire. We remember that the Bohemian manufac turers have officially declared that they are fully able to compete with those of Germany. VIENNA, SEPT. 27.—The news of the accession of Bo hemia to the Zollverein, with which some German news papers amuse their readers, is certainly false. The ac cession of Bohemia, without the other German pro vinces, seems to us to be absolutely impossible, for it cannot be supposed that Austria will ever think of break ing the connection of Bohemia with Vienna, Moravia, and Hungary, and to offer nothing for the separation but a very precarious result. The accession of all the German provinces (that is, without Italy, Hungary, and Galicia) would be difficult, but the accession of Bohemia alone may be pronounced to be wholly impracticable under present circumstances. ST. PETERSEURGII, SEPT. 28.—The Northern Bee states that General Count Alexander Benkindorf, who was returning from Germany on board the Hercules steamer, died on board on the 23d inst. off the island of Dagoe. HAMBURGII, OCT. B.—The Swedish Journals of the Ist give long accounts of thecoronation of their Majesties on the preceding Saturday. The ceremony was per formed according to the programme previously pub lished, and the whole passed off in the most perfect order. The spectators were deeply impressed with the religious character of the ceremony. The city was splendidly illuminated in the evening. On the following day the Ambassadors of Great Britain and Denmark had the honour to present the congratulations of their Sovereigns.—Hamburgh Papers, Oct, 8. BELGIAN FUNPS,Batissims, Oct 8. Actua Debt, 2%, per Cent., ..... ... . ...... Rothsehild's Loan, Five per Cent . 102% Loan-of Thirty Milliona,..Four per Cent ............ - 98h „ . :Three,per --- Thirty-seven ditto (1840) lOB% 1644 ...... •••••• ..... ••••• .......... 10.1! Loan of City, 1843,•F0ur per Cent lO3 Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent — Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent CO% Issue of 1841 —Brussels Papers, Oct. W. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vunors, Om 2 Five per Cents. Metalliques- llO% Four par Cents. lOO Three per Cents. '76 Bank Shares Aligemeine Zeitung, Oct. 1 HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Oct 8. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1640 Anglo-Russian Loan 114% 114% Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate losq 105 Inscription, let series — 1053( Russian h per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series - -- 09 ~eves — e . 4 Ditto in Certificates ..... .....- ......... ...... ....- 99% New 4 per Cent. (1840).. 91% 9' Dutch Act ial Debt, 2 Cent. .. 61 ,, 61 ......cn Actu. !% per , - Ditto 5 per Cent. Angio-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. — Spanish, New 5 per Costs. Polish Bonds New Tickets •••• ....... .... ••• - MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS t CITY, EItIDAY EVENING. The English Stocks closed at steady quotations, Consols being 1001 for Money and Account. The other investments were marked at the same rates as in the morning. No increased animation was perceptible in the Foreign Market. Spanish left off at 23i / for the Five per Cents., and at 34 s lf a. the Three per Cents. Colom bian were 14i Belgian were 104 The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Bristol and Exeter were 8 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 154 ; Churnet Valley, 21 ; Dublin and Cashel, 8 ; Kendal and Windermere, 14 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 4 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 102 to 103 ; Birmingham, 1131 to 113 ; Ditto, Thirds, 34-i to 35 ; South-Western, 32i ; Croydon, 3 ; London and York, 1 • Midland, 91 ; Northern and Eastern, 12+ ; N orw i c h and Brandon, 6 to 51 ; South-astern, 7* ; Trent Val ley, 71 ; Yarmouth and Norwich, 7i ; Central of France, I.+ ; Orleans and Tours, 31 ; Paris and Lyons, ; Paris and Rouen, 19 to * ; and Rouen and Havre, 94 premium. Blackwall have been 10+ to 101 ; and Brigh ton, 3/ discount. The foreign exchanges were steady. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5.000 bales, all to the trade. Prices remained steady, and holders did net press sales. There were 200 Egyptian taken at 50. to 64d. ; 400 Surat at 21d. to 3-Id. ; and the rest American, at 34d. to sd. per lb.—A large business was done in Shares, at the previous rates. Bir mingham and Gloucester, Quarter, 264 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 46 ; Chester and Holyhead, 71 ; Churnet Valley, 3i ; Eastern Counties, 13-i- ; Grand Junction, Quarter, 524; Great Western, One• Fifths, 26 ; Liver pool and Manchester. New. 35; London and Birming ham, 215; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 24*; Midland Counties, 1114; North Union, 120; Shef field and Manchester, Quarter, 13k; South-Eastern, 404; South-Eastern, New, 13 ; York and Selby, 40; Lyons and Avignon, 445. The revenue accounts have been the general subject of conversation in the City, and, as expected, they leave a surplus of income over expenditure, the state of trade having improved lately. The general state of affairs is satisfactory as shown in this official statement, though there are many who think we are slumbering in rather an insecure position, and that although doing a compa ratively good business, and having abundance of capital, the natural effect of a rally after so many years of suffering and depression, we are ex posed at any time to a violent reaction. Some curiosity is felt to learn what Sir Robert Peel will propose with regard to the income-tax, when the term for its continu ance expires. The Commissioners for the Reduction of the Debt will again have a surplus for daily investment, but whether the greater part will be appropriated to the redemption of Exchequer Bills, or of the permanent Se curities, is not yet ascertained. The former, bearing the highest rate of interest, are the greatest burden on the country, but then it is always considered prudent, and we hold it to be more especially so now the desire for railroad speculation is so great, to leave a tolerable amount of Government floating secu rities in circulation. We learn from Bremen that there were never before so large a number of emigrants waiting in that port for embarkation. The fact appears to be that a company formed at Frankfort on the Maine and which has bought extensive tracts of land in the Rio Colerado districts of Texas, is inducing Germans to leave in droves. The Stock Market is more buoyant to-day, business having been resumed in many of the " shut Stocks," which are now marked ex. dividend. Consols are 1004 again for Money, and for Account we should call them 1001 to 4. Bank Stock is marked 2034 to 2061 without the interest ; and India Stock is 288 so 289. The New Three and-se Quarter per Cents. bring 1021 to 103. Exchequer Bills are 755. to 775. prem. The Foreign Securities have been at about previous rates. In Spanish there is not much doing. They are 23f 4 for the Five per t vents., and 344 4 for the Three per Cents. Portuguese Converted Bonds have been 504 to 51. Mexican Stock is quiet at 341; and Colom bian at 144. Brazilian Stock is worth 834 to 864; and Peruvian, 26. Belgian Bonds are 1044. Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents., 624 4. The Railway Shares have been quiet again. The new opposition line to Portsmouth affects South- Western. The French lines are very brisk, e-pecially the Orleans, Tours,-and Bordeaux of -Mackelzie, which haa, fibtained- gittnt ;:Trom",:ttlea Fre4Wl though, we apprehentivupbn terms which aratoo favour. able to the -State, and only, like/ly . -to 'lake 240' it ore exacting. " • •-4-• PRICSE OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities.. ...«....„....».« 10034 2083 4 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 99Y4 100 8 per Cent. Consols. Anne 3 per Cent. Reduced An nu iti est. lO3 10X% Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. ..... 12 1-164 India 5t0ck..................29 288 India 80nd5,1,000,, 94 Ditto under 1,000..».«.«..,.......... •••••••••••••••• Bank Stack for Account •••••••••• 00000 ••••••••« 00000 209 Consol , for Account .......„....1,„•1•„•„.«,«•• 100% Exchequer Bills. 1„ .. 0001. 00 •••••111.0000011••••••1 OUW...•••••••••••...-- INd. 114 d. 75 pm. 75 pm . Ditto Small... •" •••••••• •• •••••••••• 77 pm. Ditto Advertised........, PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent 1043( Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ..................... 85% 8634 85% Columbian Bonds.. .. . . .. * . Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent. Idezioan Bonds, Ism, 5 per Cent.. .«:» • Ditto for' the Account 54 % Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. ..... Ditto Converted ........ ....... 50%% 51 Ditto for the Account. 50%. Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 213 Ditto for the Account 23 Ditto Passive Bonds .......... ..." ..... Ditto Three per Cent. ..».«.«.».».».».».» Ditto for the Account .....».».«.».......».« 3434 Dutch 2j~ per Cents ''''' ''''''' 6•2iZ% Dutch 5 per ''''' . ........... 98 - . PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SNARE. to Bristolßirmingham and Gloucester.... 100 ....... 105 80 .... ..... 44% and Gloucester 5 .... ..... 4% ...... to Caledonian % Chester and Holyhead 255 ....... ........• 1% .. 4 ..... to 1% to 14% _3 Eastern Counties ............... Edinburgh and Glasgow ..» 5O ....... 02% U.... to Great North of England. lOO ........ 125 Great Western ... ..... „ . ............ 75 Ditto % Shares Harwich London and Birmingham. lOO ... . 214 . to -- London and 81ackwa11............. 16% London and South Western ...... 41% London and Croydon London and York.... ....... Midland Counties lOO .......110 ... to Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct 2l ........ 47% ....., to 48 North British 5 .... 5% Norwich and Brandon .....»..... 0 .....».. ... to Ditto New — 2,,.. ..... 3 South Eastern and Dover ......... 325¢ Ditto New ..». ...»....»....„.».. 4 York and Northildiand ......... 50 ........106% Ditto % Shares... ...... . .... ...... 25 Ditto Scarboro' Branch ......... 10 ....„... 33 Ditto Selby Scrip Central of France... ... 2 ........ 4h... Boulogne and Amiens .. 2 ....... 43% Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux , j 1 (d'Anthouard's Company) Paris and Orleans 2O ..... ... 33% JOINT STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster 3O 26% to MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE. OCT. 10.—We have had an extensive business doing, with but little variation in prices.—Birkenhead and Manchester. 2/ premium ; Accringtous, 3 ; Churnets, 4 ; Belfast Junction, 4f ; Huddersfields, 41. 5.16 ; Ormskirk, 2/ ; Leeds, Half Shares, 50 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 51+ ; Man chester and Buxton, 2 1-16 ; Midland, 110 f ; Lincoln shire, 21 ; Sheffields, 96 ; Euxton, 2f ; Dover, 40f +; Paris and Strasbourg, 2 ; Water-Works, 59k. CLOSING PRICES. NM BRITISH FUNDS . Bask Stock .... .......... ....... 20634 Indian Stock.." 288 3 per Cent. Red la) Ditto Bonds ......... ..... 94 pm. 3 per Cent. Cons. .....» lOO% Ditto Old Annuities ... 3% per Cent. Red Ditto New Annuities .., New 33( per Cent. 103% Ex. Bills , 1,0004 134 d ... 77 pm New 5 per Cent. Long Annuities to expire I Ditto Small 77 pm, Jan 1860 l2 1-18% Bank Stock for Acct.... 209 Oct. 1859 lConsols for Act. lOO% Jan. 1860 — India Stock for Acct ... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 par Cent ...... Belgian, 5 per Cent 103% Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent 37 Chllian, f per Cent Colombian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1824 Cuba Bonds, 6 por Cent Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, 1825, 5 per Cent — Mexican, 5 per Cent Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 — Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent ln Portuguese, 5 per Cent — Ditto, New Ditto — Prussian, 5 per Cent — Russian, 5 per Cent Cent Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per Cent Ditto, 3 per Cent 34% Ditto, Deferred — French, 5 per Cent. —t —c. Exchange —f. —c. French, 3 per Cent. —f. —c Dutch, 2% per Cent 62% Ditto, 5 per Cent .... __ _ • . . - --- SHARES. . ' --- Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) 73 Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid Dublin and Cashel, 5 paid Kendal and Windermere, I% paid 4 Lancaster and Carlisle, 5 paid l4 London and Birmingham (Stock) Ditto, New 'Thirds, 2 paid London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) 634 London and Brighton (50 paid) London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) Ditto Eighths (15s. paid) London and Croydon (Trunk) 16% London and York, '24 paid Midland Counties (100 paid) 109% Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid ll% South Eastern and Dover (33 2s -id paid) ..... Trent Valley, . paid 9% Yarmouth and Norwich (IS paid) Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid Paris and Lyons, 2 paid Paris and Rouen. 20 paid .....,.., 39% Rouen and Havre, 10 paid 21% COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY,) Amsterdam CF. 12 6i Gibraltar — Ditto, at sight l2 4 Leghorn 3O 50 Rotterdam 9 U. 12 7 Genoa 25 85 Antwerp 25 90 Milan — flamburgh M.B. 13 14 Venice .. .. 47 Altona l3 14 Naples ........ .......... 39i Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60 Palermo, per oz llB Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon 5.-} Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 23 Frankfort on Maine.. 121 Bahia 23 Petersburgh, 3 Us... 37 Buenos Ayres — Berlin 7 NewYork,2ldys sight Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 952 Philadelphia — ' Trieste ditto Madrid 364 Foreign Gold, bars..£3 17 9 Cadiz Bilbao 36 New Doubloons..... 0 0 0 Barcelona 36 New Dollars 0 4 9; Seville — Silver in ears 0 4 11i TIIE WEATHER.—A delightful change has taken place since Thursday. The temperature is much warmer, the barometer has risen nearly half an inch, and during yesterday we had gentle breezes from the south-west, with bright sunskine. The " Queen's weather," in fact, has returned to the gratification of her Majesty and her Royal visitor. The steamer Antwerpen, Captain Jackson, arrived at the St. Katharine's Wharf, Tower, on Thursday a fter a passage of twenty hours, effected against wind and tide. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Carew, Count Bra now Mr. and Mrs. Chohnley, Mr. Fonblanque, the Rev. Mr. Palmer, &c., were amongst the passengers. This packet got up to Antwerp on Monday morning last at the early hour of seven o'clock, thereby allowing the passengers for Cologne three hours and a half to repose thchnelyss greTiCIUSly to Ntititliag by the railroad, . ,:.t.,.. rte :: :.4f. • , . c.-- N,-: ~ ~ ~,T ett ` ,l4 4‘' '' , * kl- ) "'''' ' ' ‘ ?'o7. - M..''.. , l at e, , -,....._-.... ..... T ~,drilitb 0, (i• ~ . , ..... , .iN . . ~., ...,„, z.-,01*,, ~I , li z ir,,,,,' t ~i 1.... Er 1 ...40 • s';''''.:Ahe , - 110 ' 11l '7*' . - Ai1 ;;... ... ,7 * , A.' - NIIIPt --. TII SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1544. THE QUARTER'S REVENUE. The return of the quarter's r—ranue has one dis tinguishing feature of a 7.L.4 cheering description —an increase in the Castoms, compared with the corre sponding period of 1843, on the year, of 1,723,1651., and on the quarter of 473,3471. This is the true pivot of our national prosperity, and is the more gratifying when the bold reductions are considered which the Minister was encouraged to make when supported by so grand a reserve as the property. tax. Swift's remark, that in the arithmetic of the Customs two and two do not always make four, could not have a more apt and definite appli cation. In this case Sir Robert Peel's subtraction has been turned into addition, and he has proved finance to be his stronghold, whatever errors are to be found in his general system of policy. A trifling decrease in the Excise on the quarter is to be ascribed rather to grow ing habits of temperance in the lower orders than to any diminution of means. It will bear, in fact, no other construction, for activity reigns in almost all the depart ments of trade, and the wages o f labour in the manu facturing districts have probab l y doubled in amount within the past year. It is consolatory also, and another the c d quarter. 82 c , o 00 n T . h o e p t property tax, e p year, ert tax, which shows a n increase of 106,4131. on the y ear, good omen, to find that the Post-offie, the great accu amnudlant o i on l e s o s p t h e a n n n ys, 40,0001. has a onn dy th a and a decrease of 89,193/. on the quarter, may be said to have found its level, and to provoke no remark, except to hope that under circumstances of such promising augury we may soon get rid of it. In the present ac count is to be seen, moreover, the effect of the judicious application of the surplus revenue in paying off defi ciency bills ; only about 2,500,0001. will be wanted to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the quarter just ended. The total increase of the revenue for the year is 1,395.3491., and on the quarter 520,9441. But for the disadvantageous effect of the strange item termed " miscellaneous," which has no proper place in this account, the increase on the year would have been returned at about 2,l6o,oool.—Times. TITE FRENCH RAILWAYS. (FROM A CORRESPONEENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The line from Or leans to Vierzon has been adjudged to the Company known as the Paris and Orleans Company, by an ar rangement between them and the rival company. The reduction is only one month below the maximum term of the lease, viz., forty years. For the Bordeaux line there were three competitors, and the prize was carried off by the company of Lau rent, Luzarche, and Mackenzie. The term is 27 years, 278 days ; to date from the completion of the works throughout the whole line to Bordeaux. The law allows six years at least for such completion and delivery by the Government, so that in point of fact the term of the lease is 34 years nearly—a period amply sufficient for the liquidation of the whole capital by the operation of a very moderate sinking fund, without taking into the account the value of the stock, materials, and stores, to be paid for by valuation, and amounting to at least 10,000,000 f. (say 400,0001.) By good management in the hands of practical men, like those at the head of this Company, the line as far as Tours (seventy miles) will be opened in the autumn of next year, and yield an ample, a large return, for that proportion of the capital expended upon it. THE VOYAGES AND SERVICES OF THE NEMESIS.--- A new, cheaper, and greatly improved edition of this now standard work, is just published, comprised in a single volume, and accompanied with a new map of the Chinese Seas. The volume, while it stands alone as a complete and ample record of perhaps the most important series of events that have occurred in modern times, may at the same time be cited as more pregnant with matter of general interest and curiosity, and consequently more rich in entertainment, than any work of the like extent which has appeared during the last twenty years. The narrative comprises three several departments ; the first being devoted to the eight months' " adventures " of the first iron st eamer th at ever crossed the line ; the second, comprising the most lucid and complete retrospective view extant of the history and causes of the Chinese war up to the date of the Nemesis' arrival on the scene of action; and lastly, the third department presents us with incomparably the most distinct, detailed, and intelligible account of the proceedings following the arrival of the Nemesis till the conclusion of the war, that can any where be found in print.—New Monthly. DIABOLICAL OUTRAGB.—Mr. Thomas Steele has, during the past week, been engaged in endeavouring to bring some miscreants to justice who bored with an augur holes in several merchant-vessels belonging! t o Wales, and lying at the quay of Limerick. The Head Pacificator, with most praiseworthy assiduity, having obtained a clue to the identification of the scoundrels, communicated with the Limerick magistrates, and an investigation was immediately held, and a man earned Linnane placed in custody. The investigation was to have been resumed on Monda y.—Dublin P ac k e t. FROST, WILLIAMS, AND ONES.--A memorial re cently agreed to at a meeting at Gateshead, was trans mitted to the Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment, with a view to obtaining the pardo n o f F rost, Williams, and Jones ; but Mr. Phillips replied, on be half of Sir James Graham, that the Right Hon. Baronet expressed his regret that there was no sufficient ground vo Justify him, consistently with his public duty, in ad &riving her Majesty to comply with its prayer. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND PubUr Optutott. " Who runs may read:. P 414,6 k." The following is an extract from a letter, dated "Co: stantinople Sept. 19" :—`• Dr. Wolff writes fr om BI ". _ • hare, dated ' July 25 •—' The Ameer has retur ned frog ; Kohhan, and presented me with a dress of h onour, horse, and one h un d re d t omauns ; an d I hope to so t out in a few days for Persia." The voyage of the King of the French to England (saY s the Journal du Havre) recals to their country the tra ; yellers of the Contine n t, w h o are ` an xious to be presen at the unus ua l s p ec t ac l e w hi c h i s b e i ng prepared. Pe s c i am sengers for S ou th am pt on are fl oc ki ng into Havre , ar, the steamers are not lae enough to y than Yesterday mor e than two hundred persons crowded a; board the Grand Turk stea mer , and such was the crush, that it was found necessary to give up fulfilling the pel formalities required on l eav i ng F ranc e. 'The U tile Turk left a good number of passengers behind. h ef There was a grand hunt on Monday in the woo ds :c Chantilly, with th e D u k e d e N emours ' hounds. in which a stag was killed. The Duke returned to St. Cloud. h The Gazette de France states, from Froshdorf, 29 1; ult., that on that d a y a mee ti ng o f twenty-five Franc h; men took place there to celebrate the twenty-fourth inn versar y ulwer, aof the Duke de Bordea. Mr. Bccompanied by ux Messrs. Peel and San d ' foi-d, of the Briti s h L igat i on , arr i ve d a t Seville on the 27th ult., on their way to Madrid. Chestnuts are so plentiful this year that they are o sel a in the Cevennes for 3f. 50 c . th e fif ty kilogrammes, f the finest quality. The Magdeburg Gazette contains a letter from Berlin. Oct. 2, which states that a company has been for t ? f , there for carrying on a f o r e i gn t ra d e . The associat i t' it says, is to embrace all the Zollverein, and the expert', ment is to be first tried with a few vessels. The Danish Exhibition of Industry, which opened e l ! the 15th ult., in the' P a l ace o f Charlottemburg. 7 capital, is composed of 3,849 o bj ects , sen t in by 29 exhibitors. Several German journals state that a commissio n Me been appointed by the Prussian Government, under t at direction of the President of th e C our t of ApPeal' :d Posen, for the purpose of pe r f ec ti ng i m p or tant projec t improvements in the admini s t ra ti on o f justice. gith erL ._ , the judges had themselves to m a k e oa t th e bills of COsro 00 in prosecutions, and receive their amounts, and als° ; 0 , superintend the execution of th e i r j u d gme nts bu' ths future they will have no other duti es than to Dear t trials and deliver their jud gmen t s . Thi s amendm e % and that .which makes the Hi g h C our t o f Appeal an e P the e tribunal, must add both confidence and dignity to administration of justice in Prussia. LAW AND POLICD. • A tinman named Da v is brought an action In tb Sheriff's Court, against a gentleman named named Robins on ' he t recover 21. on an I. 0. U. Th e d e f ence was that plaintiff had taken a house of d e f en d an t, an d had litgrel'-ot to deposit 51. on entering upon possession ; that 4 02 being able.to muster th e 51., th e d e f en d ant had givellty; possession on his paying the 21. for which the I. had been given by way of acknowledgment. Thei ury found for defendant. the In the Bankruptcy Court Charles Kerry Nicholls, t he projector of the Westminster Loan and Inve st! ! ;ft. Society, was examined before Sir C. F. Williams. 0 ' 6 , - 0 debts were proved, and Captain Smith, of the Jernose Coffee-house, was chosen assignee. a rried "James Gomme, - an insolvent debtor, who had e— t on business as a carp en t er an d b u ild er , i n Castle-st re s l Oxford -street, and who lost 400/. by fitting up . the 1 1 ) 1 1 ' 9, yacht last year, was remanded to prison for six 1 10 .. .. g n t .. by Mr. Commissio ne r Pollock, for improperly c on' • ing debts. The insolvent had been kite-flying- s e% There was a very num e r ous mee ti ng of Nliddle 00 , magistrates at the Court-house, Clerkenwell - gre ell ,;ipt Thursday, for the purp o se o f renew i ng mus ic and a ln- der licenses, and considering applications for new ones, 1111 6, the provisions of the Act 25th of George IL ' cal). es , The list of applica n t s f o r renewa l s con t a ined 57 I lit ' t ?„ the whole of which were gran t e d wit h ou t any 0 P . 4% -° of , There were also 21 or i g i na l applications. Tit72,r..-ffer the HA Wotan* tlfidugh lie Tore two "o'cloOk, thttliillitnthl- oda* ikeipied Chfrink.the renl=''', A of thgita? f f e w Cities 'of felony, P c i u 7 (which exhibited a feature of any, public interest." At Guildhall, wh en th e ' mag i strate t o o k his seat Ole A. was not a single prisoner in custody for examinat i r r t is s. journeyman shoemaker, in his shirt sleeves, name d w ith Perkins, was, however, soon brought in, cbaxg e l Of stealing a piece of doe s ki n woo ll en c l ot h, of the vai ll s' oe t, 61., from the doorway at M r . Wil son ' s , L u dgate -0 , 00 where it had been exposed f or sa l e . Th e prisoner, _ o f stated that he had stolen the c l o th for the purposv getting transported, was committed for trial his n ee A young man, aged eighteen, w h o refused 'l b w ing or address, was charged at Clerk e nwell, with trades' thrown stones at the windows of Mr. Butcher , a bro ke man, residing at 46, Lamb's Conduit-streets .tiet ccustody plate-glass, value BL, and on being taken I°t this 1 ‘ 11 , (1 he said he did it wilfully. He still persisted fined 8 4 1 refusing to give any account of hi mse lf, he was 111 the amount of da mage d one , an d 1/. f or the default of payment he was committed for a ni nth ' . 111" John Fornard, of 24, Great Peter-street, W e l t ?! Of ster, was convicted at Queen-square, in the pimalv, iia 405., for emptying night soil i n th e • k enne l of the pout h e j street. The prosecution w as i nst i tuted and suPl s° . r. o by the evidence of th e respecta b le neighbours, - complained of the nuisance. Two nien, named Arnold and Threvetian, in the el, • ployment of Mr. Harris, a watch and chronore,eLeo maker, in East Smithfield, were fully committed 1 , 1 " 3 „a Lambeth-street, for stealing and disposing of a cart lob of bricks, .the property of their master. Arnold, it , 5 1 6 . peared, had been placed in a very confidential s" l . t i tion, in superintending and taking care of large Pl e r rio and premi ses in Gl ass h ouse -street, and when Mr. zt e be was told that he had been in the habit of robbing b ' sli 'ro." disbelieVed it until the man who had bought the P perty was brought to him. tab le At Worship -street a middle-aged man, of respec t, 0 0 appearance, wh o gave hi s name William Job Wes Thompson, and stated himself to be a general agent 1 . placed at the bar before Mr. Broug hton, charg ed, 7 0 d jointly with A nn an d Emma Thompson, his Wi fe s i c e daughter, with having fraudulentlyobtained posses roe of a large assortment of miscellaneous articles, the F oi , perty of various tradesmen in Pentonville, and th e t° be Joining neighbourhood. The prisoners were said t 0 per connected pith a numerous gang of unprincipled o_, sons, who for a considerable time past have most ingenious and successful system of swiadling,:or wholesale scale, the ramifications of which ha ve tended over all parts of the metropolis. Four P e ore alleged to be leading members of the confederaek remanded from this Court, upon numerous charges to ferred by different tradesmen at Hammersmith, on ,701 day last. The two elder prisoners were remand" Ott' the girl was discharged, the magistrate observingocr the law would suppose that she had acted under the carried ; • trol of her parents. tab le George Prestige, alias Bracebridge, a resP e . e hafo looking man, recently in the employ of the Birral a joe Railway Company, was fully committed from Hall, for bigamy. th e A man named David Gosling was remanded al o e' same police-court, on a c h arge o f ro bbi n g a le ,b 0 patient in St. Thomas's Hospital. The prisraert eut oo was convalescent, had be e n entruste d b y th e pros! bor a discharged marine, who was too ill to leave tn, e . s ser pital, to receive a small p ens i on d ue to hi m for 01 d of; vices. The prisoner had received the pension , n: o bbeo. his return to the hospital, s t ate d t h at h e ha d been rot be of the money. As it was ascerta i ne d , h oweve r, "..„ / en had changed a sover e i gn , an d as hi s statemen t confused he was given into custody. d seeei Sarah Haggerston e , an i nma t e o f t h e Wah-e • and Clapham Union Workhouse, was fully comin ne sri from Wandsworth, upon a charge of stealing s trieleir brooch, valued at 255., a pi e c e o f l ace , an d o ther ell, tbe the property of Mr. C o lli ng b urn , a pawn b ro ker, i r e High-street, Wandsworth. Th e p r i soner w as ° l3 ; dir days in the service of th e p rosecutor , w h en s he w charged for laziness. Upon her return to the r a the house Mrs. King, the matron, had her searched, en property above described was found upon her. COURT.— PASZIXONII.IIIZits. o t ieer / We are sorry to hear th a t th e h ea lth c r the ' 4 t ivi` Dowager is such as t o p reven t h er en j oy i ng the 1 100 ties at Windsor Castle during the visit of Philippe. a d on The Marchioness of Ormonde was safely delitrpb° Saturday, at Kilkenny C as tl e , o f a sera a nd h e ' r ' takes the title of Earl of Ossory. as oP The Duke of Devonshire has transmitted an i n ''' . to the King of the French to visit Chatsworth. cerl d We regret to state that the Duke of Hamilton ' - e yeg , fined at Bath with cold and inflammation in b i lyitid, which will prevent th e N o bl e D u k e f rom b e ing a f sor to attend as Kright of the Garter, th e chapter" order to be holden at Wind sor C as tl e thi s d a y. eir - The Marquis of Salisbury h as arr i ve d in to lv „itil' pressly to be present at the investiture of the Ding ► Prencli as a knight of the Garter. rtIXSO ilaZialali *IOUS. A subscription for the r e li e f o f th e surviv°,'h- 0/3 e friends of the individ u al s w h o l ost t h e i r li v es ln A plosion at the Haswell C o lli er y h as b een opene". e i rabi; lions parts of the co un ty, an d a l rea d y,a con ha realised. The owners of Haswell Colliery given the munificent sum of 5001., and the sain, e f t - oe. P g men, as proprietors of Shotton Colliery, the au— have sum of 2001. The trustees of the Earl of DurhaT ; tfr given 1001. ; the Marquis of Londonderry, 100 Hetton Coal Company, 100/. ; Lord Ra vel 'nea 100/. ; and proportionate sums have been subscr"" .01 the smaller collieries. Professor Liebeg, of Giessen. the clebrated agi)rorgly tural chemist, had the freedom of the city of Eij i° " it bokg conferred upo n hint, on Tuesday last. cot , There ar© now, throughout the world, 147 •- 9 pre archbishops, 584 bishops, 71 vicars aP ostolical,ool, facts, and 3 a p osto li ea l s. The number of fai tlll.- rese n amount to 200,000,000,000. In the course of the r i hsv A.,- ; century (irorn 1800 to 1842) 40 new episcopa l 9Ce been ereatd A in Meetings have taken place, or linnot ince , - fl're' )/ ! -- t most ev , ry county and town of Scotland, to et e r d P . ; any change in the bank -note cu r 3of Seotl' il— ' the Michaelmas county meetinr r a e t n F c- o ' rfar, c°r ` l3l3l e was unanimously named to watch over and c;Pr rr i e ncl; It. Peel's proposed interference with Scot la C l3 ; - , They vb ere further instructed to concert ruOsu-ottsY ici t,;emottinpnudr7asendwit was ithi ur ITc t o h i e i r r veners everY nd e : pl u e titl i : t i a ° .o : ess,ive( to Se from eery rar . sh i n F orfapskire, deprecating - ;t wouldlr awnlof the o ne - pound unti s from eirculati °n ' , produ ce ru i n and clinnay fr o m Joh n 0 (1 „ t o 1 - 19 e to Berwi c k, On Tuesday morning, about nine o'clock, B yrd Sinsoni !I , clizg chief vticerQf the Vinet Go's \(-)biT`Y.r; li n k • den ti -ere i tb •and" i ' w Poli ce • a4l lOl H erter 111044 1