The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-17 00:00:00

DA VIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 17, Will be repeater a New Military Drama, entitled THE EVE OF BATTLE. Supported by the whole Company, with New Scenery and Splendid Appointments. After which, PORK CHOPS, in which Messrs. G. Wild and Rogers will perform. To conclude with THE I. A LLS OF CLYDE. Places and Private Boxes to be bad of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. oflSce, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 17, Will be performed JULIUS CAESAR. Marc Antony, Mr. James Bennett; Marcus Brutus, Mr. Graham; Caius Cassius, Mr. Dale. After which, BLUE DEVILS, in which Mr. Dale ant Miss Ha milton will perform. To conclude with MIDAS. ApoPo, Miss Louisa Lyons. Private Family Boxes, £1 Is. Od. and £1 lls. 6d. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. Uader the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 17, WI Ibe performed THE SWISS COTTAGE. Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Yarnold, and Keeley, Miss Grove, Miss Arden, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, the Comic Scene, called OUTGENERALED ; or, a Hint to Bachelors. Charles Stanley, Mr. F. Vining; Mrs. tiartley, Miss Walcott. To which will be added THE rosT OF HONOUR, in which Mr. end Mrs. Keeley will perform. To be followed by an entirely Original, and much better than New, Grand Operatic, Romantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesque Extra vaganza, founded on the celebrated Eastern rale, in the Arabi:in 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. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony tioxes„ 41. Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2.5.'; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2.. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the tiaicony Tier (holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (bolding eight persons), One Guinea and a-HalL Private Boxes on the Pit Pies (holding six persons), One Guirea• The Box-office is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 1:: minutes after 51 Evening"... 37 minutes after 5 13, Great Marlborough-street. TRIERS' NEW WOR K. M. Mr. COLBURN begs to announce that he has purchased the right of prior publication In England of M. TRIERS' NEW WORK, " The HISTORY of the CONSULATE and the EMPIRE," which will be Translated and Edited, under the express sanction of the Author, by DUGALD FORBES CAMPBELL, Esq., and that pro spectuses will shortly be issued, comprising full particulars of the form, price, period of publication, &c. Henry Coiburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE RO Y A L, DRURY-LANE. tIRST NIGHT OF THE SYREN. THIS EVENING, OCTOBEtt 17, Will be performed Auber's celebrated Opera THE SYREN. Marco Tenipesta, Mr. W. Harrison; Scipio, Mr. D. W. King; Zerlina (the Syren), Miss Itainforth. To conclude with the Ballet of Action, entitled THE DESERTER 'OF NAPLES. Henry, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Skirmish, Mr. T. Mathews; Simpk In, Mr. Wieland; Louise, Miss Clara Webster; Annette, Madame Giubilei. The Box.ottice is open 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 to Mr. John Parsons THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARLET. Lessee Mr. B. WEBSTER. TfllS EVENING, OCTOBER 17, Will be repeated Vanbrugls's Comedy of THE CONFEDERACY Adapted to the present Period. The Principal Characters by Messrs. Strickland, W. Farren, Puckstone and C. Mathews , Madame Vestris, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. E. Yarnold, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Stanley, and Mrs. Cover. After which. will he produced a New Comic Drama, founded on Don Cesar de Bazan, entitled A MATCH FOR A KING. Charles the Second, Mr. Stuart ; Don Sebastian della Rosa, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mariquita, Miss Julia Bennett. To oonclude with a New Farce, by Mr. Buckstone, entitled THE HI.iBLE RIG. John Ginger, Mr. Buckstone, Sam Shindy, Mr. Strickland ; Mrs. Ginger, Mrs. W. Clifford. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the Even ing), ss. each. First Price—Boxes, 5s ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Second Price at Nine o'Clock—)3 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at Hallpast Six, Performance commence at seven. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer, at the Box-office, flrom Ten till Five e'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. M Under the Direction of adame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 17, Will be performed an entirely New Drama, entitled C/ESAR DE BA ZAN ; or, Love tnd Honour. Charles the Second, Mr. Howe; Caesar de B izan, Mr. Webster ; Maratina, Madame Celeste. After which, a New Eccentric Nythologioal Burlesque, called TELEMACHUS; or, The Island of Calypso. Telemachus, Miss Woolgar ; Calypso, Mr. Wright; Mentor, Mr. P. Bedford; Dinah, Mr. Cowell. To be followed by a New Comic Operetta, called the FOX AND THE GOOSE. Principal Characters by Messrs. Hudson, Paul Bedford, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter kir. Pitt; Leader of the Band, Mdi r. blellon.—Box-e open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE. Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 17, Will be repeated a New Drama, called DON CIESAR DE ZAZAN. Doe Cmsar, Mr. Wallack; Charles the Second, Mr. Walton; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling; Countess di Rotondo, Mrs. Foibroke. To be followed by a new Divertissement, called The SLAVE MAh KET in which M. J. Rouser, Mdlle. Caroline Rousset, Mdlle. Teresina, 4r. Gilbert, and Miss Marshall will appear. To conclude with an Original Burlesque, entitled THE WON DERFUL LAMP, in a New Light. Abanazar, Mr. Walt in ; Aladdin. Mr. Oxberry ; Princess Badroulbadour, Miss E. Stanhi. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 28.; Gallery, Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, !s. 6d. ; Boxes, es. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce niumßoxes, Two Guineas and a-iftlf. Doors to be opened at Halt post Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office. under the direction of Mr. W. Massingharn. Private Boxes and I. ree Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 17, Will be performed Lord Byron's Equestrian and Dramatic Spec tacle of MAZEPPA, AND THE WILD HORSE, with all its Original Efftcts. New Scenes of the Circle. To conclude with THE BLOOD-RED KNIGHT; or, The War riors of Palestine. Acting and stage.mmager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by Mr. R. Smith. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, OCT. 17. THEB.MOXETER, Lowest, 41; Highest, 53 ; Noon, 53 BA.ROMETHEL, N.W. Nara.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes th► freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. , ft 41 .411 ko, . , ...,,,, ato i• ,44,)......•,, . • • ' el . - 1.11, ~ • A, ;'.' Zr.- Ati.ltsl.4.- - I . ' A 1ft...... - ""‘" 41% i 4'i .' ' ., .;:' .; ,: il .. L VC. 1."..5 .F.'• . r 1,41‘ . . . , ~4 .-( ..- \ .•; , :'ttfo 7;:&.. •: 7 , i r MO : ..: ~4 . , ; ~..., ''it 01 .' ' 1.. ' SECOND EDITION: 'Tinning LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1844. The Times of this morning, in an - able article on the subject of the mysticism and indefiniteness which its opponents object to in " Young England," ob serves with considerable truth and force :—" A school of opinions may be very good and sound, and preg nant with great results, without being as perfectly producible as so many pounds, shillings, and pence, in answer to a pecuniary demand. Some projects there have been, and . are now, _which a man can put into your hand at once, without their being neces sarily all the better for it. Socialism and Chartism glory in their explicitness. Religious dogmas, true or false, are of course meant to be clear. But when you come to schools of opinion, they must start with :broad principles or preferences. Time works them into shape, and gives them their actual objects. But no school, no party whatever, will stand the test of a scrntiny pushed as far as hos tility or suspicion may choose to push it. No school can at first say what it will do, or what ,it will be." Yet, " Young England" has already said what it will do—or rather what it will attempt to do—when circumstances and occasion are favourable. It will oppose to the utmost of its power that system of poli tical expediency, which is the - grave of all lofty emo tion and sterling ;patriotism ; which last session was carried out to a most demoralising extent in the House of Commons ; and which scores of cunning Members pleaded in justification of the most flagrant inconsistencies. Indeed, the expediency system—first brought into methodical action by that wily tactician, Sir R. PEEL —seems to have been de vised with no other view than - ,to palliate the sayings and doings of trimmers and downright apostates, and to serve as a cloak] to conceal their deformity Against this debasing principle of action, " Young England" will never cease to:enter its strenuous pro test, fully convinced, as it is, that honesty in the Legislative body, like honesty in individuals, is not only the best policy as regards themselves, but as re gards also the country entrusted to their charge. Again, " Young England" will use all the means at its command—and its means are steadily on the in crease—to foster the growth of a better understanding between the middle and lower classes:; to induce the one to lower its pretensions, and the other to lay aside its distrust, so that both parties may be equal gainers by the change of sentiment. Moreover, " Young England" will never lose sight of the interests of the neglected masses of the community; but will bear constantly in mind the important fact—so long kept in the back-ground both by Whigs and Tories—that the poor man's claims on the favourable consideration of the Legislature are quite as imperative as those of the rich man's. Such will he the course of con duct —at least we infer so from the late speeches at Manchester and Bingley that " Young England will pursue both within and without the walls of Parliament. The party may possibly have other more flighty and extravagant views which it does not at present deem it expedient to put forward ; but with these we have nothing to do; we shall censure or praise them, just as they may appear to ' us to deserve bl ame or commendation • our- businessjust now is solely w i t h the declarations that 46 y o ung England" has already made known to the wor ld ; and of these declarations we unhesitatingly sa y, that they are sound in thought, generous and elevated in feeling, by no means difficult of practice, comprehensive in their application, com bining common sense with enthusiasm in a re- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1844. markable degree, and holding out a I righter promise of general good to the community than any scheme of social and political reform that we have ever read or heard of. Of course the Conservative Herald can not see the matter in this light, and, accordingly, our Contemporary taunts " Young England " with being fantastic and unintelligible in its views. " What the principles of this party are," he observes, " or whence their designation as a body, we are unable to say ; and we doubt very much if they could themselves explain." This taunt comes with exquisite propriety from a journal that advocates Conservatism in the most accommodating and latitudinarian sense of the term. If the principles of "Young England" be enigmatical, will the Herald condescend to inform us what is the character of those maintained by the majority of Members who adorn the back seats of the Treasury bench by their presence —who to-day vote that black is white, and to-morrow that white is black—who defend the harshest provi sions of the New Poor-law on the score of humanity —and propose to ameliorate the social and moral con dition of the labouring classes by continuing their sup port to the Whig system of union workhouses ? It would puzzle our Contemporary, we suspect, to define exactly the principles of these accommodating Members, whose policy he honours with his approbation ; and yet, like Parson THWACKUM, he presumes " to saddle Young England with a judgment," because in the mysterious character of her principles she approximates too closely to his own favourite creed of Conservatism ! People who live in glass-houses should never fling stones ! From our report, published last week, of the pro ceedings at a sessions of the Middlesex Magistrates (assembled for the purpose of determining upon appli cations for licenses under the statutes regulating the grant, renewal, or refusal of the same, to licensedvictual lers and others, the owners or lessees of houses, &c., de dicated to purposes of public amusement), it will be seen that their Worships—some of them, we mean— are actuated, at these hearings, by very extraordinary notions as to the merits, moral or logical, of the cases submitted to them. The general policy of the law, and the express design of the Act of GEORGE 11., obviously are to consult, to the greatest practicable extent, the interests of public morality and order, in investing a particular body of men with powers of control so stringent—not to say invidious—over the property, actions, and fortunes of a large class of the community. The general principle, therefore, which both the theory and the practice of this branch of domestic legislation recognise is—that the grant, the renewal, or the refusal, shall be determined by the certified character of the applicants ; or the proof of their good conduct and deportment during the term of their previous license ; or, the opinion of the Bench, in those instances where the application is made for the first time, or for an original license, as to the tendencies of the amusements sought to be authorised under it, to produce good or evil conse quences in the district. Now, we do not at all pur pose to discuss the soundness of this principle ; or even to inquire into the expediency of confiding its application to the hands which at present administer it. But it is evident that the power of granting, or withholding, or confirming such licenses, is a very im portant one. In all systems of State policy, that is an important element which regards the amusements of the people ; their provision being of primary, their control of secondary—importance. In any scheme of mere municipal regulations, this character of importance is even more tangible and evident. All modern and all ancient history are full of examples that attest this truth. Could the two co lour factions of " Blue" and "Green" which distracted the Byzantine empire have been kept in good humour by timely concessions, to the wishes of one, and the demands of the other, a cabal which, from the original centre of its production—the theatre—diffused its baneful influences to the furthest limits of the Eastern empire, and greatly precipitated its destruction, might have been averted, and the downfal it entailed upon the throne of CONSTANTINE thereby postponed for a long course of years. The recent tumultuous era of the French Revolution was not wanting in instances to show how an explosion of public feeling, awakened by incidents occurring at some theatrical representa tion, may be productive of consequences the most ex tensive and eventful. Is there anything in the density of the population cooped up within the limits of Lon don and Westminster and the metropolitan suburbs, at the present day (in a manner not paralleled within the sphere of European States or civilisation)—is there anything in this case of modern London to take it out of the operation of similar influences, if, by injudi cious management, their bad activity should ever be awakened among us ? This is a question not un worthy of grave consideration. There are few matters, to any arbitrary or vexatious intermeddling with which —men, individually, or in their social rela tions—are more sensitively alive, than their ordinary amusements. It is, indeed, to be regretted that they are so prone to sacrifice interests and objects of a much higher and ordinary character to the cause of those more trivial, but by no means less interesting occupations. Holding these views upon this curious subject, we should like to be instructed upon the real meaning or motives of the course which was taken at the Middlesex Sessions in question, by Mr. GIBBONS, one of the licensing magistrates, under the following circumstances. The landlord of a long-established and remarkably well-conducted house applied to have it licensed, in the usual manner, for private concerts, and, we be lieve, dances. Mr. GIBBONS complimented the appli cant on the excellent reputation of his establishment (always accepted as the strongest possible plea of qualification for such an indulgence). He said that he himself had known the house for sixty years ; that it had been so well managed, and had prospered so well, he could not believe the landlord "needed" any such license, and he, for one, therefore, would re fuse it. With the exception of Mr. FRESIIFIELD, the other magistrates concurred in this view, and the license was refused ! Mr. FBESIIFIELD, contra, argued, with all the sagacity and good sense and feeling which are habitual to him, that the applicant had laid the best possible case for his application, and that the worthy magistrate had supported it by a statement which supplied the strongest argument to confirm and maintain it. But Mr. FRESBFIELD could adduce no higher authority for his opinion than common sense and common law. Mr. Giunoris had a sort of magisterial quasi wisdom, and a species of hereditary prestige as a sessions SoLor; in his favour. The publican was ousted of his appeal. Now, the deductions we arrive at from this decision, though strictly consequential, are remarkable. A long course of good repute in past years, and unimpeachable conduct in its present management, disqualify a house for a license, enjoyed, probably, by the very next inn in the same street. Mr. GIBBONS is not hardy enough to propose to turn back the tide of popular taste, and reclaim the people from the mad ness of " music for the million." He is not quite so Quixotic as to attempt to prescribe the Polka, and de nounce dancing. He merely undertakes to know better than the applicant, himself, for a license to afford these diversions in his house, whether he is, or is not, in such a condition as to need the resort to this mode of supplementing the receipts of his business. Mr. Gin- BONS admits everything in favour of the publican, and, therefore—determines against him ! It follows, that had the man enjoyed the equivocal reputation attaching to some of the "leasehold property" tenants of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, in the Almonry —had his establishment, which enjoys this sixty years' character of respectability, acquired the noto riety of some of the saloons in the vicinity of the Theatres Royal ;—had only a brother magistrate or two of Mr. GIBBONS got up to bear a frowning wit ness against the applicant himself as one of those licentious-licensed victuallers" who had been too frequently reported upon to him by the police of the vicinity ; in any such case the poor man would have obtained his license ! Verily, this may be sessions practice ; but it is neither law nor reason, common equity, nor common propriety. Altogether, the case is one of those which will greatly strengthen the growing demand to have the "Licensing Jurisdic tion" transferred to some more competent tribunal than that which wields it at present. The late adjudications of the lines of railway from Orleans to Bordeaux and Vierzon continue to be dis cussed by the entire French press. For the information of our readers we publish elsewhere some significant extracts from the papers, both Ministerial and Oppo sition. It appears that the boldness of the tender of MAcKENztE's Company for the Bordeaux line has astonished not only the Ciovernment, but the financiers, and even the press itself. Already there are signs of serious opposition, stimulated, no doubt, by its disappointed rivals, to the confirmation of the pro visional adjudication in its favour accorded on the 9th instant. The public here will be surprised to learn that this adjudication is so far purely formal. It must successively pass `through the searching scrutiny of the Council d'Etat before it can receive the confirmation of an ordonnance royale. If we may judge from the tone of the press and the late circular addressed to the agens de change by their syndic, the fate of this Company is already determined. It is not destined to retain the crown it has won with much more boldness, perhaps, than discretion, from the insatiable grasp of an overweening capitalist. The Government papers find in the terms accepted by MACKENZIE'S Company (a rebate of 14 years upon the Government minimum) but a small security for the completion of the contract ; and are afraid, as has frequently happened on other occasions, that the aid of the State will have to be invoked when the financial difficulties of the Com pany will have made manifest the insufficiency of the terms they have accepted. The reclamations of the Company D'ANTIIOUARD before the Council d'Etat so unceremoniously excluded from the competition, will, no doubt, form the ground work for the reversal of the adjudication, so little expected by the Government and the Chambers, so little desired by the capitalists and speculators, and so powerlessly defended by its single supporter amongst the press. Be the result as it may, amidst these uncertain new elements, we think the eager unimformed buyer would act wisely in requiring from the seller a guarantee for the final constitution of the several companies, before pur chasing at a premium, a title which must always be, if disputed, doubtful until after the publication of the ordonnance royale. By the Levant mail, which arrived at Marseilles on the 11th instant, we have accounts from Constanti nople to September 27, Alexandria 26th, Athens 29th, and Malta October 5. The PACHA was still at Cairo, and he had been followed thither by Colonel BAR RETT, M. BONNE, of the London Post-office, M. THURBUM, and others interested in the negotiations now going on with our Government, relative to the speedy transmission of the India mails through Egypt. Accounts from Constantinople of the 27th ult., state that letters had been received from Pr. WooLr, dated Bokhara, July 25, announcing that he had re gained his liberty, and was to set out on his return in a few days. 'We have intelligence from Dr. WOOLF, however, to the Ist of August, when be considered his life in the utmost danger. We have intelligence from Madrid to the 10th of October, on which day the QUEEN prcceeded in state to the Senate-house, and opened the Corbes with a speech from the throne. The docuneent is given in another part of the paper. Our readers, like our selves, will be puzzled what to make of the phrases, " project of constitutional reform," and " endow the nation with organic laws," for no insight whatever is afforded by the speech to the proposed changes. Judging, however, from the character of NARVAEZ and his colleagues, the well-known dispositions of the QUEEN-MOTHER, and the rising influence of the Church, it may be taken for granted that the reforms will all be in the wrong ilirection. But the Constitution of Spain now exciters the least possible interest. The great body of the nation have shown themselves incapable of appreciating the blessings of liberty ; their representatives wasted their time in angry and factious harangues, without any object but party and self-interest ; some of their best statesmen (if we may use the term in reference to such a people) have sunk into oblivion. ESP.I.RTERO, the only Con stitutional ruler that Spain ever, enjoyed, was rejected almost by universal consent, emd is now an exile in the English capital. The other parts of the speech are more intelligible, though they abound only in promises. Economy is to bQ practised, the army is to be diminished, " when the authority of the laws becomes strengthened by nsteans of order in the ad ministration, and the vigour of the civil authority" (a long prospect) ; and every 'exertion is to be made to place the navy on a footin g suitable to the power of the country and the extent, of her colonies. No allu sion is made to the Church or to Church property. The papers of the 9th cotntain no news. On that day the Three per Cents. werei done at 26 15-16 for cash, and 271 at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 20 3-16 cash, and 20f at 60 dazs. The following day was observed as a holiday. The visit of Louis PHILIPPE to England still continues the chief topic of interest in the Paris papers. Certain of tiihe Opposition journals con tinue their rude and. senseless comments on the proceedings of which we have given sufficient spe cimens. One of them,, the Commerce, however, forms an honourable except ion ; and we, therefore, have great pleasure in que.ting the following just remarks respecting the part le hich the Duke of WELLINGTON took in the public ceremonies during the KING'S sojeurn at Windsor.. Before giving the extract, vs e may remark, that - we place no confidence in the statement that the Duke of WELLINGTON wore a sword which had formerly belonged to NAPOLEON. We saw the stateurent only in one paper, and the Duke who, all will admit, possesses some sense of propriety, wouldt be the last man to offend a brave people by such a wanton and unne cessary act of rudeness. " Some journals," says the Commerce, " have appeared to regard the presence of the Duke of WELLINGTON at the fetes given by Quue.n VICTORIA to the KING of the FRENCH as unbecoming. We do not see it in this light. 'When -peace is re-established between two countries, after even the most sanguinary war, the warriors of Vtie two nations may join hands—the more efficiently they have performed their duties the more do they merit the esteem of their former enemies. None should be excepted on either side, save those chiefs who have been guilty of maltreating prisoners of - war, or those who, during an invasion, have encour aged a laxity of discipline in their sol diers, and committed vexations on the inhabitants of the invreled country, which were not rendered necessary by the laws of war, or which those laws condemn under all circumstances. Now, we dto not hesitate to affirm, that the Duke of WELLING robi has no reason to blush for his conduct during his command either in Spain or in France. Perhaps 'his care for the well-being of the French prisoners of war was deficient in generosity : but, personally, he never issued any orders that they should be maltreated or insulted. As to the discip line of 'his troops, we know that he maintained it with the greatest attention, not only as a matter of pru dence in a General, but as being consistent with hi , character as a man. We regard him, therefore, as an honourable enemy ; and whatever rank he may have held in the armies of the coalition, we see no reason on that account to bear him hatred. If w.e do not, however, consider the Duke of WEL LINGTON out of place in the cortege which surrounded Louis PHILIPPE at Portsmouth, and at Windsor, we think that at the reception of the new Knight of the Garter he was guilty of an act of bad taste. Accord ing to the report of the English journals he wore a sword that had once belonged to NAPOLEON. Who can have authorised him to wear this sword ? It is not a trophy gained in battle. That which the great captain wielded for twenty years he carried with him to St. Helena, and he left it a legacy to France. It is to repose upon his tomb It must be then one of those mere dress-swords, of which the EMPEROR might have had hundreds, which the BOURBONS found in the Tuileries, and which in 1814 they might have distributed to their friends. If so, it is not a very glorious trophy, and it was scarcely worth while to wear it during a solemn ceremony in which a King of the French took part." The following article on the same subject, from the Paris Globe, displays the same good taste and sound argument : " Every one is aware with what exquisite tact the Queen of Great Britain bas known how to avoid the slightest occasion to awaken the King's mind, or in that of the officers who accompanied him, any reminiscence that might call to their minds our unfortunate disputes with England. However, far from taking into account this spirit of propriety, which honours the Queen—far from seeking to show to England that the public mind in France is elevated enough to comprehend and appre• ciate such admirable proceedings, our excellent and patriotic journals do not the less continue to pub lish the grossest falsehoods on the humiliating recep tion by Queen Victoria of the Sovereign of France. Yesterday it was the Duke of Wellington who endea voured, according to them, to humilitate us in coming to Portsmouth to present his respectful homage to the King ; to-day, it is the Waterloo Gallery which has been insolently allowed to subsist at Windsor. Truly, to believe these gentlemen of the Opposition, we must have been tolerably daring ourselves when we charged Marshal Soult, one of the rudest adversaries of England during the Empire, to go and represent France at Lon don on a solemn occasion. If the Duke of Wellington, in appearing before our King wounded our national sus ceptibilities, did not we ourselves wound those of Great Britain in presenting on Queen Victoria's coronation Marshal Soult to her people ? As to the Waterloo Gal lery, the name of which calls to mind a day unfortunate to France (where, however, whatever m a y b e sa id, the Queen gave no fete to Louis Philippe), h ave we no t its equivalent at Paris in several monuments commemorat ing our own victories ? And do we not show them to the strangers who visit us, without ever thinking that they should be offended at our endeavouring, after the example of every nation in the world, to engrave on marble and on bronze the pages which flatter most our ju s t national pride ? We may be certain that what we find it proper to do at home we ought to consider good to be done amongst others." The Journal des Debats thus adverts to the ad dress presented to the KING by the Corporation of London :—" The Queen of ENGLAND displayed all the pomp and magnificence of her Court to Lours and she has invested him with those honours most coveted by foreign monarchs. The English people, in their turn, wished to identify themselves in the most expressive manner with the sentiments of their Sovereign ; and the representa tives of the metropolis—the organs of the most en lightened classes, the most intelligent as well as the most powerful of the nation—came to Windsor to offer to the KING of the FRENCH the homage of that universal respect which they pay to the friends of civilisation and of real improvement. The pro ceeding of the Corporation of the City of London is a fact of which the importance cannot be misun derstood. It is without example and without prece dent. It was the first time that the representatives of the metropolis of England left the precincts of their city to present their homage to a foreign potentate. The citizens of London have more than once invited the Kings of Europe to enjoy their princly hospi tality in their Guildhall, but they never rendered to any Prince a similar homage to that which they of fered to the august and venerated representative of our country. France assuredly—liberal, enlightened, and emancipated France—will see with pride the marks of respect bestowed on her SOVEREIGN by, the citizens who enjoy the highest degree of liberty in the world, and she will respond with profound sym pathy to the affectionate and noble sentiments which the Corporation of London has expressed for the French people as well as for their KING." The following story, which first appeared in the Journal du Havre, has been copied into several of the Paris papers : " The Prince de Joinville, who arrived unexpectedly at the Palace of St. Cloud,‘,was saluted by the King with all that effusion of heart, which a father, the chief of a State, can alone feel under such circumstances. 'My son,' said his Majesty, lam fully content with you, and lam quite willing to prove it. What have you to ask of me ?" Sire,' replied the Prince, I have in truth, a request to make to you, and will speak of it to-morrow, if your Majesty will permit me.' Returning to his apart ments, the Prince, at an advanced hour of the night, seated himself at his writing-table, and with his own hand drew up the preamble of the amnesty. It was not for him to choose the names or fix the number. The next morning at breakfast the King addressed the Prince, and said, Well, what is your request ?" Here it is, Sire,' replied the Prince, and presented to the King the paper which he had in his hand. His Majesty looked at it, an.l holding out his hand to the Prince, said, It is well, you have only anticipated my wishes.' On the same day the Council of Ministers did the rest." TIIE BOURSE—'ruEsDA.I, OCT. 15. First Highest Lowest Last Wee. Pike. Price. Price. French Five per Csnts llB 55 118 55 .. 118 40 118 50 Fours 167 .. 107 •-• 107 .• 107 Three per Cents... 82 15 .• 82 25 •• 82 10 .. 82 25 Bank of France....... 3055 ..3055 30.55 ..8055 Garotte Bank, I,ooof. Shareslllo ..1110 .• 1110 —lllO 5,000 f. Sharesso4s ..5045 —5045 •.5015 Selman Bank.••• •• • • 662 50 .. 662 50 ,• • 662 50 • - 662 50 BelglanFlve3.lB3l—. lOll .. 1011 .. 1011 1011 1640 1031 .. 1031 • • 1031 .. 1031 1842 Spanish Passive 5l •• 5 i .. 5 1 .. 51 Active 32 32 • 32 .• 32 Threes.. Portuguese Five per Cents— 50 • • 50 • • 48 • • 491 Neapolitan ...... 70 .. 98 75 70 • • 48 75 Roman . . RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain .............. 920 .. 920 920 .. 920 Versailles, 11.1 i • 395 • • 395 • • 395 .. 395 L. 8.•.•• •••• 273 75 .• 281 25 273 75 .. 281 25 Rouen .. Rouen to Barre—. ...... 765 766 25 .. 765 766 25 Orleans ...• Strasburg to Bale•• •• •• •• 272 50 .• t 77 50 272 50 .. 277 50 Avignon to Marseilles•• •• •• 780 . 780 .. 780 .• 780 RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, OCTOBER 16. Versailles, R. 8..• ... • . • .... 395 .. 395 .. 395 .. 395 L. 8.... ..... 275 .. 282 60 275 .. 282 50 Rouen •••••••••••• •••• 1015 ..1015 ..1007 50 ..1007 50 Rouen to Havre• • • • • • • • •• • • 762 50 765 Orleans . ..... ......_ ......1015 employed beyond the time fixed for the attendance of the water-side officers. The Lords of the Treasury having been pleased, by their warrant, to approve of Hartlepool, at present a aub-port of Stockton, being constituted a separate and independent port, and of Seaham, also within the port of Stockton, being attached to the port of Sunderland, the Commissioners of the Customs have issued directions that the same do take effect from the sth of January next •, and copies of the order have been furnished to the officers at the several departments in London, and transmitted to the collectors and comptrollers at the several outports of the United Kingdom, for their infor mation and government. A splendid Scotch beast, which bids fair, from its pre sent appearace, to carry off one of the principal prizes at the Christmas cattle-show at Smithfield, is now being fattened on the Flemish Farm, in the occupation of his Royal dighness Prince Albert, at Windsor. The beast at the present time weighs 210 stone ; and as two months will elapse before the show takes place, its weight at that time is expected to be enormous. The ship Royal Consort, which has arrived in the St. Katherine's Dock from Batavia, had on board the captain and crew of the Belgian ship Le Charles, with their bag gage, consisting of about 110 packages, their vessel hav ing been attacked and captured by the pirates at sea, in consequence of which they were obliged to seek protec tion, and obtained a passage on board the Royal Con- sort, bound to this port, on their way to their native country. Two candidates have announced their intention of con testing the vacant aldermanic gown for Portsuken-ward, viz Mr. F. G. Moon and Mr. Thomas Bousfield. Mr. Salomons declined again coming forward, as it is his intention to petition against the decision of the Court of Aldermen. Mr. Michael Scales was also solicited to stand, but has declined, expressing his intention to use his interest on behalf of Mr. Moon. The annual meeting and exhibition of the Draycot Parochial Agricultural Society took place last Tuesday. The show of stock and implements was more numerously supplied than in former years, and the whole was con sidered of superior quality. THIS DAY'S NEWS. SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) At a county court held at the Sheriffs' Court, Red Lion-square, this morning, before Messrs. Hunter and Sidney, the lately appointed Sheriffs, Mr. Hemp, the Sheriffs' officer, read a proclamation, outlawing the fol lowing persons :—Thomas Richard Kemp, Trevau nion, George Clark, Thomas Delahay, Thomas K. Chan nell, Wm. Payne, Sarah Gregson, Wm. Francis Ellaby, George Baker, Thomas Hawkes, E. B. Luke, George and John Croke, Sir John Scott Lillie, Win. Learmouth, and Charles Wing. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Sir C. WILLIAMS.) IN THE MATTER OF RICHARD WILSON. The insolvent, who applied by Mr. Hughes for his final order, was opposed by Mr. Dawson, of St. Swithin's lane, on the ground of having fraudulently contracted a debt with him, and being a trader at the time, thus putting the case entirely out of the jurisdiction of that Court. The evidence adduced, which was of a somewhat ex traordinary character, in point of hard swearing on one side or the other, went to show that Mr. Dawson had advanced the insolvent a sum of 2001., under agreement, to be paid within a month, with a further sum of 1001., by way of interest ; the said sum being required by the insolvent to free him from incarceration, on account of some interest on a mortgage to a third party. At the expiration of a month, the borrower and lender went down to Wolverhampton, to receive a sum of 5001., which the insolvent had represented was due to him from an estate there, and out of which the sum ad vanced by Mr. Dawson, with the interest, was to be paid ; when on the morning of the intended settling, the insolvent left without Mr. Dawson's knowledge, that gentleman being informed by the landlady of the inn, in answer to his inquiry if Mr. Wilson was stirring yet ? " Stirring, Sir, Lor' he be gone an hour or more." After some considerable wrangling on both sides, Sir C. WILLIAMS said that he would examine the in solvent a little, and he having been sworn said, that so far from his " le•anting," as stated by Mr. Dawson, that individual had actually walked arm in arm with him to the coach, and had seen him off to London. Mr. Dawson, emphatically—lt's as false as God is true. Sir C. WILLIAMS, after remarking upon the extraordi nary evidence, said he should much like, for his own gratification, and for the exposure that seemed so much wanted somewhere, that he could adjourn the case for the examination of witnesses on this point ; but as the case was out of the jurisdiction of the Court, he could only dismiss the petition. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) An elderly man named Anthony Calloway was brought before Mr. Hall, charged with breaking the lamp over the door at the resuleucc of the Duke of Northumber land, at Charing-cross. The officer stated that he was on duty last night at Charing-cross, when he saw the prisoner deliberately break the lamp in question. He came up to him, and the prisoner said the reason he had broken it was that he was a brother of the Duke of Northumberland. Mr. HALL inquired if any one was present from Northumberland House, to prove whether the lamp was a public or private one —The officer said there was not. The prisoner, in his defence, said that he had often tried to gain admission to this Court to state his case t,o the magistrate, but he had always been refused. Ile had been in great distress for a long time, and could not get any relief. Mr. HALL inquired why he went to the Duke of Northumberland's house? Prisoner—Because there is a relationship between us. The Duke's father was my father. I have lived for thirty years in Limehouse, but having been taken ill, some time ago, I have been in great distress. Mr. HALL—WeII, that is no justification. But, how ever, I am compelled to discharge you, as the evidence is not complete against you. The prisoner was then discharged MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) Frederick Marinagne, a foreigner, of shabby-genteel appearance, was placed at the bar, on a charge of stealing a newspaper from a coffee-shop. Mr. Matthew Snow, the proprietor of a coffee-shop in Sherrard-street, Golden-square, stated that the prisoner entered his rooms last evening, and while taking his coffee, perused the National. On his leaving it was missed. He was followed, taken into custody, and the identical paper was found upon him. Sergeant John Greig, of the C division, stated, that on receiving the prisoner into his custody he proceeded with him to his lodgings in Rupert-street, Haymarket, and there found above a thousand newspapers ; six of them of recent date being identified by the prosecutor. Others were also of recent date ; amongst them were two of the Gazette de France, three of the National, two of the Morning Advertiser, three of the Journal des Debats. Mr. MALTBY said he should remand the prisoner until this day week. UNION-HALL.--(THIS DAY.) Walter Baker was charged with administering aqua fortis to a woman named Siddenham, with intent to kill her. It appeared the parties were acquainted, and that on Sunday night they met, and while they were walking, the prisoner took a phial out of his pocket, and saying the contents were oil, poured some down her throat, and then ran away. The defendant, finding that the liquid burnt her mouth, and some portion falling on her clothes burnt them also, hastened to the hospital, where anti dotes were administered. The prisoner denied the charge, and declared she had taken the phial with the aquafortis from his pocket, and drank some of it, and that in trying to wrest it from her grasp, some of it went on his hands and burnt them. The prisoner was remanded until to-morrow. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Pubitt it ;Anton. " Who runs may read." rostEramr. On Thursday, the 10th instant, the Queen of Spain opened the session of the new Cortes with a speech from the throne. It was her Majesty's birthday, who has now entered her 14th year. A telegraphic dispatch conveyed intelligence to Paris on Tuesday that the King returned to London from Portsmouth on Monday night, and proceeded to Dover to embark for Calais. The belief was general on Tuesday on the Paris Bourse that Government would issue at least one•half (150,000,000 f.) of the loan still on their hands. Never theless, the funds improved on that day. The King, says the Gonstitutionnel, has granted an amnesty to all the political offenders who had received sentence by contumacy, and taken refuge in England. The Moniker publishes the returns of die amount of Customs and Excise received during the nine months ending the 30th of September, 1844,11mo:fining to 573,849,000 f., being an increase over the corresponding period of the year 1843, of 16,756,000 f. A letter from Otaheito, in the Emancipation of Toulouse, gives the following account of the affair of Lieut. Rose :—" The commandant of the guard-ship sent a midshipman to invite the English officer to come on board. At first he refused, but afterwards said he should yield to superior force, and offered his sword to the midshipman, who received it without having any orders, and the officer came as a prisoner. After ex planations, the English officer was sent to his own ship, and the midshipman put under arrest for having ex ceeded his orders. The chief of the staff afterwards went on board the English sloop to make apologies." General - Van Halen, Count do Peracamps, has arrived at Bordeaux with his family. The adjudication of the Amiens to Boulogne branch of the French Northern Railway took place in Paris en Tuesday. Only one party (Messrs. C. Laffitte, Blount, and Co.) appeared to bid for it. Their proposition, which was conformable to the principle laid down by the Chamber of Deputies, but limiting their tenure to 98 years, 11 months, was accepted. A letter from Havre states that the tido of the 13th was one of the highest of the year. The water, driven forward by a strong west wind, reached the level of the quays, and inundated the lower part of the quarter of St. Francois. This circumstance, which from the calcu lations in the almanacs, had been expected, was provided against, and caused no damage. The Cadiz Eco del Comercio states that an attempt has been made at Seville to assassinate General Schelly, the Captain- General of the province. General Schelly was entering his own house, at midnight, when a pistol was fired at him. Fortunately the shot missed both him and the aide-de-camp who accompanied him. The as sassin escaped. LAW AND POLICE. Sir C. F. Williams, in the Bankruptcy Court, refused to allow F. W. N. Bayley further protection, and inde finitely postponed his final order. The bankrupt had been editor of the Illustrated London News, and had ob tained money on orders which he gave as editor after he had been dismissed. Several applications were made for music and dancing licenses at the Surrey Sessions. Among the licenses renewed was the one for Vauxhall Gardens. At the Guildhall, Mrs. Gibson attended before Sir Peter Laurie and Mr. Alderman Kelly to complain of the non-payment of 501. to her, on the death of her father, according to a policy opened with the General Benefit Assurance-office, No. 4, Farringdon-street, an institution that combines the business of a life insurance company and a benefit club, the members of which are exempt from serving the offices of visiting the sick and keeping accounts. The complainant stated her father opened a policy for the payment of 501. at his death. He was unable to keep up the annual payments, and in order that the money paid in might not be lost, complainant herself paid the contributions for 16 years. When her father died she made the claim. The secretary said he had lent her father 441. on the policy. He offered her 6/., and a form of receipt, releasing him from the payment of the 501. She refused to sign it, and asked him if he ought to have advanced the money to her father without consulting her, knowing that she was keeping up the payments ? The person replied he did not know whe ther she ought to have been a party, but so it was. He had the policy, which had been purloined from her drawers three years before she applied. Sir Peter said, it mattered not whether the magistrates had jurisdiction in the case or not—exposure would work thel cure of abuse. The public were attracted by the reputation of e concern, and this benefit institution could not afford to lose its reputation. lie did not mean to prejudge the case, for both sides must be heard. The hearing was then postponed till Saturday. An elderly gentleman, who gave his name as Joshua Wilson, and described himself as a captain in the Royal Navy, was fined 10s. at Clerkenwell, for assaulting Mr. Richard White, pianoforte manufacturer, of Woburn buildings, Woburn-square. Henry William Mullins, a lad about sixteen years of age, potboy to Mr. Edward Smart, landlord of the Pine apple, William-street, Pimlico, charged with having on several occasions plundered his employer, was fully com mitted from Queen-square. At Marylebone John Stevenson, a well-dressed young man, who stated that he was a member of the theatrical rofession, and another man, who gave his name John Smith, were fully committed for stealing an umbrella, the property of Mrs. Garden, a lady on a visit at Mr. Cowie's, Marlborough-road, Regent's-park. John Watkins and William Jones, watermen, ap peared before Mr. Norton, at Lambeth-street, to answer to the charge of police-constable Willoughby, K 236. The case stood adjourned from the preceding day for the attendance of witnesses, the prisoners having solemnly declared their innocence of the charge, and that they had been used in a most scandalous manner by Willoughby, the constable, who was quite drunk at the time he apprehended them. The chargo against them was the usual police:charge of drunk and disorderly conduct, and obstructing the police in the execution of their duty. Their defence was that Willoughby , was drunk, and assaulted them without provocation, and that while on their way to the station-house to complain of him, he sprung his rattle, assaulted them, and gave them into custody. There was a great deal ofeonflicting evidence. Two constables, Pickering, 87, and Simmier, 61 K, and a sergeant, deposed to Willoughby being sober at the time, while Mr. Fletcher, the proprietor of the Wheat sheaf-wharf, Wapping, who from his own house wit nessed the whole transaction, confirmed the account given by Watkins and Williams, and deposed that Wil loughby was drunk. The magistrate discharged Watkins and Williams, who stated they should lodge a complaint against the police with the Commissioners. William Brocksopp, formerly an extensive grocer and tea -dealer in Blackman-street, was brought before Mr. Traill, at Union-hall, charged with stealing a gold pin, a gold ring, and a portfolio, the property of Wm. Brock sopp, his son. The father admitted pledging the pro perty, but stated that his son was a minor, and had pur chased the articles with his (the father's) money. As there were circumstances calculated to throw a doubt on the whole affair, Mr. Traill admitted the accused to bail, in order to give him au opportunity of rebutting the evidence of his son. Several paupers, belonging to the Wandsworth union, were committed by Mr. Paynter for twenty-eight days, for disorderly conduct and refusing to work. 00171M-.-.--WASELIOZEAIIILIS., The Duke of Wellington, accompanied by Lord and Lady C. Wellesley, left Apsley House yesterday at noon, on his return to Weimer Castle. The Noble and Gallant Duke intends to stay there until the day preceding the opening of the new Royal Exchange by her Majesty the Queen, at which interesting ceremony his Grace, as well as Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham, and several of the leading members of the Government, have engaged to be present. Sir Robert Peel is expected to return to Whitehall gardens either on Saturday or Monday next, from Brighton, and will remain some days in town before he rejoins his family at that watering-p!aee. The Duke of Devonshire has left his villa at Chiswick, for Hardwicke Hall, the Noble Duke's stately Elizabethan seat, in Derbyshire, where a select party is about to assemble. The Marchioness of Donegal, accompanied by the Earl of Belfast and the younger members of her family have left London, for Bath, where her Ladyship goes for, the benefit of the waters. The Marquis has remained in Ireland since his father's death. The Marquis of Salisbury, who returned to Arlington street, on Saturday, after attending at Windsor Castle the previous day at the investiture of the King of the French with the Order of the Garter, has returned to Hatfield House, at which noble mansion the Marquis in tends to receive a large party towards the close of the month. The Marquis of Anglesey is entertaining a large and distinguished party with the sports of the field at his seat, Beaudesert, near Lichfield. The Duke of Montrose has joined the party for a few days. The Earl and Countess of Essex. on Friday last, left Brougham Hall, the seat of Lord Brougham, where they had been paying a visit for nearly a fortnight. The Dowager Countess of Pembroke and the Earl and Countess of Clanwilliam, after a tour of several months in Germany, visiting most of the principal watering places in that country, and having extended their journey to Bohemia, have arrived at her Ladyship's residence in Grafton-street. Viscount Templetown, the Hon. F. G. Howard, of Levens Hall, Westmoreland, and the lion. M. Caven dish, during the last three days, hare joined the party now on a visit to H. Howard, Esq., Greystoke Castle, Cumberland. Lord and Lady Brougham are still at Brougham Hall, Westmoreland, but the Noble and Learned Baron is ex pected in Grafton-street, in the course of the ensuing week, on his way to the south of France. Viscount Seaham and some of the officers of the Scotch Fusilier Guards have consented to give an ama teur performance for the benefit of the funds of the Sussex County Hospital, at the Brighton Theatre, on the 21st inst. Lady Beresford left Boulogne for Paris on Tuesday Last. 2IXTSCZZLANNOTTS. An order has been issued by the Customs authorities directing, that in cases of vessels working before and after the legal hours of business, in cases of leakage, when the cargo is in danger of being damaged in consequence, or contract or demurrage, on special application being made by the owners, or by the several dock companies or wharfingers, during the influx of shipping, and conse quent pressure of business, in consequent of contrary winds having prevailed, or other causes, the tidewaiters on board such vessels are to be paid by the party making the application, sixpence for every hour they are kept MARYLEBONE.-(THIS DAY.) Margaret Reed, a young woman, was charged with assaulting the police, and with having a watch in her possession, supposed to have been stolen. Police-constable, 85 D, said between six and seven o'clock this morning he saw the defendant and a young man get into a cab in Lisson-grove. A person told him that he had seen her in a public-house with a watch in her possession, which he thought had been stolen from spine person. Witness stopped the cab. The defendant immediately jumped out of the cab, and the watch fell out of her breast. The young man ran off. She struck the constable repeatedly.—She was remanded until Sa turday. CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) A lad named 'Bryant was charged with stealing a quantity of leather and woollen cloth, value 71., the pro perty of Mr. Hitchin, a. respectable tradesman, residing in Gray's Inn-road.—He was committed for trial. William Osman, and Mary, his wife, were placed in the felons' dock, charged with a, wholesale robbery of ready-furnished lodgings. - - Mrs. Legatt, housekeeper, residing in Brewer-street, Islington, deposed that in the commencement of the kpre sent year the prisoners came to lodge with her. As they seemed decent people, witness did not suspect their integrity. It was, however, discovered, on the previous day, that the prisoners had completely gutted the apartment 'of its contents—furniture, bed-clothes, and even the feather-beds. Not content with rifling their own apartments, they extended their pillaging into the adjoining ones, which they denuded of their most valuable contents. Some idea may be formed of the extent of the plunder, from the fact that eighty-seven duplicates were found on their persons when arrested, which do not comprehend anything like the amount of property disposed of. Police-constable 167 N took them into custody. The prisoners partly acknowledged their guilt. A large portion of the plunder was produced in Court; but Mr. Combe remanded them for further inquiries. LOUIS PHILIPPE'S JOURNEY TO DOVER BY THE DOVER RAILWAY.-It gives us extreme pleasure in being able to state, that his Majesty the King of the French has, through Colonel Wemyss, conveyed to the officers of the Dover Company an expression of his ex treme :approval of the manner in which the arrange ments for his transit had, from first to last, been con ducted. His Majesty expressed much regret at the fire which was raging at New-cross on his arrival, inquired anxiously as to whether the Company were insured, and finding they were, evinced much pleasure. The journey occupiea ;:nd his Majesty bore it, from the known smoothness of the line, with apparently little fatigue.— Times. - 762 SO .. 765 - 1021 25 ..1015 ..1021 25 Strasburg to Bale.. .• 75 .. 276 25 • • 273 75 .. 276 25 Avignon to Marseilles...... 77t 75 740 .. 778 75 .. 780 MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The return for the week ending Saturday, October 12, shows a great increase of deaths, chiefly caused by scarlatina. The total number is 1,018, previous week 932 ; average for the autumn months, 990. In most other cases, with the exception of diarrhoea, there is a diminution. Last week the amount under this head was 19; aver age 10. Deaths caused by diseases of the lungs are considerably below the average, the number being 282, while the amount for each of the five preceding years was 312. There is a decrease in deaths from old age and violence, the carriages. P o i son , 3 cases, of which 1 was murder, and 2 suicide. numbers with the averages being 57, 74 ; 15, 26. 5 cases, of whi c h 1 I The following is an analysis of the list of viol en t deaths by : —Fracture or contusion, rsesn a afall, and 2 by horses Dpwning, 4 cases, stated to be accidental, except one, in which the circumstance is omitted. H ang i ng, 1 case (suicide). Suffocation in bed, 1 case. And manslaughter, 1 case, in which the jury have neglected to state the means employed. Total, 9 males and 6 females. The quantity of rain fallen in inches was 0.08. Next week there will be a very different return. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY. — Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at the Castle to visit the Royal Family. The Royal Duchess afterwards returned to Frogmore Lodge. This forenoon her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken out on a pony in the pleasure grounds of the Castle. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice, accompanied by th e D owager Lady Lyttelton, left the Castle at h a lf- pas t n i ne o'clock, for a carriage drive. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left Frogmore House yesterday morning in a carriage and four, for town, arriving at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, shortly before eleven o'clock. Her Royal Highness went to Gloucester House, to visit the Duchess of Gloucester, and remained to lunch with the Royal Duchess. In the afternoon the Duchess of Kent left Gloucester House in a carriage and four, on her return to Frogmore Lodge. A deputation from the Newport, Nantyglo, and Blaenatbn Railway, consisting of Mr. Reginald J. 131ewitt, M.P., Mr. W. S. Cartwright, Mr. John Fraser, Mr. J. H. Ravensh aw , an d M r . J. F ra ncis, attended by Mr. Secretan and Mr. W. 0. Hunt, soli citors to the Company, and by Messrs. Hodgkinson and Barber, the engineers, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Colonel R. Wright, late Agent and C o nsul-General for the State of Equador, left town yesterday for Southampton, to embark in the Tweed, on his return to Quito. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of Malta. Dis patches were also sent off for the Governor of Gibraltar. Count D. Nesselrode and suite embarked early yesterday morning, from off the Tower, on board the General Steam Navigation Company's mail-packet William Jolliffe, for Ilamburgh. TRADE or DUBLIN.--The quarter ended on the 10th instant gives a customs' receipt in this port of 274,7341. against 263,759/. received in the similar period of 1843 ; showing an excess in favour of the current year of 10,975!. The year ended the 10th of October, 1843, the receipts in Dublin amounted to 938,991/. ; the year ended on last Wednesday gives a receipt of 1,037,7691., being 98,778/. of an increase in favour of this year. The number of documents passed to liberate the various goods, and the necessary labour exercised in the respec tive departments of the customs, have increased much more in proportion to the receipts of the money, as will be seen when the statement for the quarter ended 10th of October pronounces the issue of 6,129 documents-- that of 1844, 6,898, or an increase of one in nine; the year to the 10th of October, 1840, 20,910 ; while the present gives 25,396, or nearly double the number passed in 1830, when the number of hands in the employ of the Board of Custoths at this port were nearly twofold what they are at the present time. The cost of the collection and management of the customs' revenue here amounts to the extravagantly incalculable sum of one five-sixth per cent. on the sum collected —Freeman's Journal. DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT CoiNs.--Yesterday, as Mr. Pope, a farmer, residing at Kilburn, was engaged ploughing a field on his farm at Kilburn, adjoining the London and Birmingham Railroad, several pieces of ancient gold, silver, and copper coins were turned up, including some of the reign of Oliver Cromwell, in excellent preservation. Some centuries ago, on the site of ground stood an extensive convent and burial -ground, and during the period the London and Birmingnam Railroad was being made, the excavators found, in the same field, numerous stone coffins, skeletons, similar ancient coins, and plate, MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NE WS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE* 00 The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 6,0 bales, comprising 1,000 Surat, at 21d. to:318.; 400 Egy t tian, at 6d. to 81d. ; 200 Pernana, at 50., to 54d. ; Maranham at 41d. to 51d. ; 200 Bahia, at 51d. to 5 and the rest American, at 31c1. to 51d. per lb —Shares were not quite so good. Bristol and Crloucester , Chester and Birkenhead, 32 ; Eastern Cou nties, 13i '. Ditto, Perpetual, No. 1, 725. 4d.; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarters, 151 ; Grand Junction, 2051 ; Ditto,Eighf, s ' 118 ; Liverpool and Manchester, New, 50s. 9c1 4 ; L o °l and Birmingham, 212 ; Ditto and York, 3-13. ; sh e ffiel and Lincoln, 2/. 17s. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 51 , ; Midland Counties, 109 ; Newcastle and Berwick, .2 North Union, 124 ; Preston and Wyre, 191; oh is° Central, 51s. 6d ; Sheffield and Manchester, 99i,1 South-Eastern, 401,- • Trent Valley, St ; Par is 1111 Lyons, 2-4- ; Paris and Orleans, 39,1 ; Paris and Bean 39,1• Paris and Strasbourg, 2 6-20 • Orleans, Tours, ell Bordeaux, ; Boulogne and ' Amiens 41 ; ell No A rthern, 535. movement is to be made shortly among the Phi„ agriculturists to get up meetings to petition 17i liament for a repeal of the malt-tax. At a meeting, he. at Alresford, in the county of Southampton, a me raori l s e was adopted, to b 9 presented in a day or t wo to t Commissioners of the Treasury, in which it is s tated--- st "That your memorialists have long seen , with grey concern, the privations of the labouring classes, 00 f sioned by the high duty on malt, which depriv es the° that old English beverage—good wholesome b eer, so oeci cessary to their health, strength, and happiness, en, which, being the production of their native soil, much their birthright as their bread. tar " That your memorialists cannot conceive a he ' -• case than that the honest and industrious labour ers of the country should be compelled to drink water when toiling in the harvest field, under a scorching sun, from morning till night. " That the farmers are prevented from growinganti malting Barley for their labourers, by having to p a the heavy a tax, amounting to nearly 100 per cen t. 00 ,14, Barley so malted, and that the labourer has the raor"„ cation to see the Barley produced by his indu str y sumed by animals, and himself and family compelled c° 7; - drink water. the " That the farmers would be much benefited by a ble greater consumption of Barley, the labourer m ore and willing to perform his work, and all the ind ustrl°o classes made much more happy and comfortable. " That all other taxes have been greatly redu rL during the 29 years of peace, but that the w ar-tee f; been continued on Malt, to the great injury of the flo w and labourer." ireds The Government ought to grant the relief re(1 11 , r , and in many quarters there is a strong opinion eur"oo tamed that Sir Robert Peel wili in the ensuing 5,F65,1„r, concede a reduction, if not a total repeal of the malt- There are no arrivals to-day. l o se of The public securities, which rallied at th e e business yesterday afternoon, have supported re. improvement to-day, and stock is rather .sc s oir g The settlement of the account is gre off tolerably well, as money is not dear. Consols heot. been 100* to 1001 for Money, and 1001 toy for Ace°.lllo, Exchequer Bills have been marked 735. to 765. Pre ini k is and India Bonds 935. to 945. premium. Bank St c ic r e better supported at 205 to 206, but India Stock h,s s „ t i, ceded to 2871. The New Three-and-a - Half per tie" have been 10211 and the Three per Cents. 991 1 . r eti The opening of the Cortes and the speech of Qiitiyi Isabella have made Spanish Stock firm; and an influ,e ll ,,, l , broker has been buying, but it is difficult to 1 17: 30 beyond the fact of tranquillity prevailing, what tli j o is particularly favourable in the Madrid advice& of Five per Cents. are 234 k, and the Three per Cents. 0 14 to 35 ; Portuguese Converted realise 50i, and th,„. n , Bonds 844 to 83i ; Mexican are 34i and Bra New, 82S ;,Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 0 62i to -a. ro le The Railway Shares are firm generally, bhe very little doing, except in the French lines, w ut t hich c tinue to rise, being in active demand. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIC (From the Official List.) Bank Stock ;.06 20 5 , a 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols. Anns New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities « 10230 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 ... ..... India Stock India 80nd5,1,009,.. .. ••••• Ditto under ..... South Sea Stock. Ditto Old Annuities Consol, for Account ..• 100 '" Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%cl. 1 , 0001 . ..... '76 73 pni• ..... 76 75 Pm' Ditto ..... 76 75 pm Date Advertised. — F O B R . E I i G I i a N n FUNDS S per THIS Ce . D t . A . T . . . . A . . . .T . . . ONE —.. .O . . .' C L .m. .. 0C • X Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839. fr2)* Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. .... ...... Wit Ditto for the Account . 1 ... ••••••••••••••••••••••••• 5 " 0 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Converted 50% 4 Ditto for the Account Spanish ; Bonds, Five per Cent 1840............« 2 3js Ditto Passivetonds ••••••••••••••••••• ..... ««•...• 5- 4 Ditto Deferred Ditto Three per Cent. ............«.•••• , ; - „ 1„. Ditto far the Account .......... .... «.... Dutch 2% per Cents ...... ...«........« ....... ....« , , , ,. . 4: Dutch 5 perCent5...........•.....«..«.« ........ Ditto for the Account. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O.CI,O.°CIC. RAILWAYS. PAID. Pap S IB t 0 45 Bristol and Gloucester BO ......... 44 •••••"*•.. to •"" Caledonian ........... ......« ..... Churoet Valley ...... .........« ..... 2 Eistern C0untie 5......,..........• 25 Great Southern and Western] 5 13% OW (Ireland) •• 0 -- Great Western .... .. .............„.-.. 75 Ditto % Shares . ........„....... 50 - Lancaster and Car1i51e ............... 10 ..«.» in' .."" 0 London and Birmingham lOO .... 213 tO ***- London and Brighton .. ...«.».«.. 50 ......... 47% London' and Greenwich ........«.. 12% London. and York ..... ..... ...... ..... 2% 3A......... to Midland Counties lOO ........10x 1 Norwich and Brandon ..... ....... 6 Ditto New South Eastern and Dover Ditto New Trent Valley ... ................. Yarmouth and Norwich 2O 26% ..••• t 0 114 York and North Midland ... ...... 50 109% ....• to o e 44 Ditto 34 Shares Ditto Scarbore' Branch ...•.•••• to •-_- Ditto Selby Scrip ..« ........... ... Central of France... « .......... ...... 2 ... ..... 374 4% . , Boulogne and Amiens 2 ........ 534.... .. •• • to , Orleans. Tours, and Bourdeaux , n „ ...... to ' (d'Anthouard's Company) .. ...... ••• ....,& . to •••" Paris and Lyons - 39 Paris and Orleans 2O to 'V/ Parisand R0uen........................ 20 ..« 39% ..... • 16. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. • sine . have had a steady market, and a fair amount of bu c tioo has been done. Prices close firm. Barnsley Ju n t er o Ess 5 9-16 ; Accringtons, 31 ; Churnets, 4i i ; 0 1 ed 6 • Counties, 14 ; Kendal and Windermere, 5 ; Le d Jr" Dewsbury, 7i • London and York, 4 ; London Of mingham, 321 . Shares, 361 ; Itossendales, 5 be chester and Birmingham, 511 ; Ditto, Quarter S e 191 5 3-16 * ; North British, 51 ; Preston and WY r ,' sti 20 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 21 15-16 ; Southpo r t Buxton, 3* ; Boulogne and Amiens, 4 7-16 I. ~ =•111•1•1••1••1••••••••••1 41 1 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS -1, in -- ti ol LONDON, OCT. 17.—Wind westerly, fresh breezes fine clear weather. ... g ow DEAL, OCT. 16.—Wind A.M. S.E. to N.NW.,.,.,bi‘octot, hard ; 9 P.M. W., moderate.—Arrd. Peter K r c i a tl 4 Sydney ; Bangalore, Smith, China ; Vigilant , • or Singapore. Sld. Westminster, New York; Tyrtan' d O S , ward. It blew very .hard during the night an joe morning from S. to N.N.W. Several vessels bo le anchors. ftom RAMSGATE, OCT. 16.—The Sophia, liunus..., Oporto to Hamburgh, which put in here 13th i e tl a lat ° leaky, has discharged her cargo, and been haul dry dock to repair. ied WEYMOUTH, OCT. 16.—A bottle containing a ige of paper, on which is written " 4th of September' , Laure Gabriel," has washed ashore in the West 13 ,,, tj 'e,. FOWEY, OCT. 15.—Arrd. Royal Adelaide, Clut' s dOe l t . GUERNSEY, OCT. 11.—Put back, Rosa, for Bar' jcs' ILFRACOMBE, OCT. 15.—Arrd. Wellington, DAY' aboe for Bideford. BRISTOL, OCT. 16.—Arrd. Britannia, Barbadee s •ripbt SWANSEA, OCT.l5.—Sid. Cobreo, Ellen Simpson, `" Ass CARDIFF, OCT. 16.—The Maria Lowther, Jtina ° l.o o the Anna, both h ence t o H am b urg h, h ave put bile' Old' v Roads leaky, an d h ave commence d di s charging' 01°' f PLYMOUTH, OCT. 16.—Arrd. Sicily, Pernambn e° ' 110 4 0 Chamois, Cadiz and Monte Video, with a large coasters. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 16.—Wind N.N.W., fresh. " lrene, 11 ) ron, P ernam b uco ; Eli za b e th, John's, New Brunswick. Sid. Chester, Colombia bao Quest, Savannah; Acapulco and Priscilla, Peres°, „of* Walton, Trinidad ; H e l ena , H a lif ax ; Sarah 14 " China. Off, Buenos Ayrian. old * WIIITEHAVEN, OCT. 15.—Sid. Carrick, St. New Brunswick ; Campbell, Newport and Grali r ridees CLYDE, OCT. 14.—Sid. L acon , V a lp a raiso ; r- Pe Demerara ; Citizen, St. Kitt's. 15. James Moran' merara. Ai re : CORK, OCT. 14.—Arrd. Unicorn, Jarzel, Buenos „P KENMARE RIVER, OCT. 13.—Arrd. River SiT h st pss 4 John's, New Brunswick for Cork, leaky, and 031 of cargo thrown overboard. ebee' c o SLIGO, OCT. 11.—Arrd. Elliots, Gascoigne, STRA.NRAER, OCT. 15.—A bale of cotton, int ° oo ll 4 ' the water has penetrated about two inches, lila d Go; ashore yesterday on the wes t s id e of the Mull B a y ' 9 " loway. The Industry, stranded in Chapelrossa n s itic s the 9th instant, has received so much dative es ett there, that she has been abandoned for the P r t o' s The Hectorina, stranded at the same place, wa s 7, rt f - a on the 12th instant, a ft er di sc ha rg i ng the greater'l° to ker cargo. BELFAST, OCT. 15.—The Zampha, Danish brilfthe Liverpool, for St. D om i ngo , struc k on the roek s r hes i li entrance of Strangford Lough, 12th inst., and, aft. ing ovor the ledge, was brought to anchor l ig ot: n e' Quarter Bay, with fi ve f ee t wa t er i n h er hold ; e re o f l u ; and cargo discharging. A vessel, supposed to be . 0 tb d, tons, was totally wrecked at Ballyquinton night of the 12th inst. ; crew supposed to have P e0 0" 0 A boat, marked in the st ern " R. J o h nso n, of Gr,, e 9o be e supposed to have belo nge d t o a s hip of 300 tons , a picked up near Port a f err y. rr qg: ---d PORTSMOUTH,I OCT. 16.-Wind N.W. to ' fo e Singapore, Marshall, Bata v ia, f o r H a mburgh Calm Sld. H.F.M ships Infle x ibl e , B e ll Po u le, Goner' i t ; and Pluton, Cherbourg ; Abby, Baker, B o ston. vo cl , e COWES, OCT. 16.—Arrd. Emma, Cadiz, t° Jul" dismasted, having expe r i en c e d a heavy gal e ; ► Bahia, in 44 days. 1 .1 P i" ° WEYMOUTH, OCT. 16.—Sid. Sir Charles Offt Bombay. n' 6 ' TORBAY, OCT. 16.—Arrd. Chi e ft a in, St. J - Claus, Paddon, Buenos Ayres, for Exeter. ft et ; k UNPARALLELED IN THE WEST.—YeS teru noon, during the storm which arose about el le 0 1 c 131. large flakes of snow fell at intervals. Let it be 'i t3 4 , V e bered that it snowed on the 27th day of Auat ist, be for e a thing . which has never happened in this ei t Y to bete during . the summer months, at least it is unlor n oldest inhabitants . — Cincinnati Times, .Aug. 2v. MA r o -4 EN the s n Peet 1 r ml a.arley Weeks ei th pt• .7: si: ott 28 . • a, a , i c •iz: k ,..wheat FLA Dt