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wines in cask, and two francs per hectolitre for wines in bottle. Moreover, the excise duty Row ex istiag on the same wines will be reduced 25 per cent. The actual import duty existing in Belgium on silk tissues of the Zollverein will be reduced 25 per cent. Pending the present treaty, the customs and excise duties thus reduced cannot be increased ; and it is understood that the wines and silks of any other origin than those of the Zollverein cannot be subject in Belgium to any more favourable duties than those respectively applied to the wines and silks of the Zollverein. Art. 23. The exports from Belgium of bark for tanning, by the custom-houses of Jalhay, Petit Hear, and Francorchamps, will take place at a duty of 6 per cwt. ad valorem. Art. 24. The stuffs of Nuremberg comprised in the - Belgian tariff under the category of haberdashery will be separately classed in this tariff at 5 per cent. ad valorem. The import duties into Belgium upon articles of mode from the Zollverein will be fixed at 10 per cent. ad valorem, as determined by the Belgian tariff before the decree of July 14, 1843. Working iron and steel tools, the products of the Zollverein, shall not on entering Belgium be subjected to higher duties than the present ones. The same regulation applies to cotton stuffs of all kinds from the same States. Mineral water of the Zollverein is exempt from all duties on entering Belgium. " Art. 25. Belgium shall continue to admit, at a duty of 5 centimes per 100 kilos., Westphalian or Brunswick thread, until the quantity of 250,000 kilogrammes has been admitted per year. " Art. 26. The law of June 6, 1839, concerning the commercial relations of Belgium with the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg remains in statu quo. " Art. 27. In order to favour the commercial rela tions of, and the transit operations between, the States of the two high contracting parties, they re ciprocally promise to render the communication by their land frontiers as easy, quick, and economical as possible. Should precautionary measures be judged necessary on either side, to prevent or repress abuses, they shall be combined in such manner that neither the facility nor the cheapness of the transits towards either territory shall be altered for the worse. " Art. 28. The two high contracting parties reserve to themselves the power of determining hereafter, by mutual accord, the measures to be adopted in order to repress the Custom-house frauds upon the frontier which separates Belgium from the Zollverein. The Belgian Government undertakes to put into force immediately proper measures (by virtue of the 178th and following articles of the law of August 26, 1822, and the 13th and following articles of the law of April the 6th, 1843) to suppress the depots men tioned in the above quoted laws. In return, the Prussian Government undertakes to repress as much as possible all frauds which may be practised to the detriment of Belgium on the Belgico-Rhenish frontier. " Art. 29. Every German State in connexion with the Zollverein shall be considered one of the contract ing parties to the present treaty. " Art. 30. The present treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged at Brussels within fifty days, or sooner, if possible. The Belgian Government undertakes, within ten days of the signing of the treaty, to put into force the arrangements of the Ist, 3d, and 22d articles. The treaty will be in force during six years, commencing the 6th of January, 1845. Nevertheless, the two high contracting parties may, by mutual consent, carry it into effect before that period. Should neither of the high contracting parties, within the six months preceding the expira tion of the above six years, declare officially its in tention to dissolve the treaty, it will remain in force beyond that term, and so on, from year to year. In confirmation of which the respective Plenipo tentiaries have signed the present, and sealed it with their arms. (Signed) " Brussels, Sept. 1, 1844." " GOBLET, " ARNIM. FORGERY OF BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES. The discovery of a forger 7 of Bank of England notes has created great excitement among all who are acquainted with it, as there is every probability of the fraud having been carried on to a most alarma ing extent. The notes discovered to be forgeries are all for 1001., and all of them, it seems, are dated the sth of December, 1843, and one marked with the letters " E Y ," although their numbers are different, as if they formed part of a series. The paper on which they are printed distinguishes this from all similar attempts that have been known for some years. In the ordinary forgeries of 5/. notes, the water-mark has been copied on a wooden block, and a mark, snfficiently like the ordinary water-mark to deceive the unpractised eye, has been made on the false note by intense pressure. In these 1001. notes, on the other band, there is areal water-mark, such as could only have been obtained by manufacturing paper expressly for that purpose. The parties who have seen the notes declare that they are such excellent imitations, that none but experienced inspectors of the Bank of England could detect the forgery, and even those only by the meat careful examination. As far as-can be learned at present, it seems that the perpetrators of the fraud selected the foreign Bourses as the places where they should give circu lation to their forgeries. The notes already dis. covered have come from Belgium and Antwerp ; and it is said that a real note, bearing the same date and letters as the forgeries, and now in the possession of the Bank of England, can be proved to have travelled to Paris. The supposition is, that this not e , w hi c h was paid into the Bank of England as far back aS last June, is the original, according to which the for- 1 genies were made as copies. Therefore, it is far front improbable that the paper was made, and the plate engraved, at Paris The whole amount of the notes already discovered is less than 1,0001., but there is no reason to believe that this is the whole extent of the fraud. If the forgeries were copied from the note now in the Bank of England, there has been sufficient time to issue a great number of them, and it is hardly to be expected that so much pains would have been taken for the sake of a limited amount. The foreign Bourses are notorious for the facility with which stolen Bank of England notes are circulated, and considering the absence of immediate check, it is obvious that the facilities for circulating forged notes may be equallY great. Every caution, therefore, should be used by merchants and all whose business requires them to receive remittances from the continent, for it is evi dent that a party has been at work whose acts it requires the greatest vigilance and acuteness to de a tee t.— Times. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 23.—Prior to the departure of her Majesty from Osborne Honse on Monday, we are informed she signified her intention, should the present favourable weather continue, of returning on the 29fh inst., with the royal infants, to remain ten days. -The Firebrand, 8, steam-frigate, Captain A. L. C , zry, with the brigs Daring, 12, Commander Matson ; Mu tine, 12, Commander Crawford; Espiegle, 12, Comman der Thompson ; Osprey, 12, Commander Patten ; Fly ingfish, 12, Commander Harris; Pantaloon, 10, Corn-. wander Wilson; Waterwitch, 10, Commander Birch ;• and Cruiser, 16, Commander Fanshawe; forming the experimental squadron, got under way, and left Spithead at seven o'clock yesterday morning. The weather was, very thick and foggy. The line-of.battle ship St. Vincent, 120, Captain the. Right Hon. the Earl of Hardwicke (who arrived from . London late last night, and embarked at half-past five o'clock this morning, superseding Captain Sir Charles Sullivan, recently appointed to this noble ship); Cale donia, 120, Captain Milne, flag of Rear Admiral W. Bowles, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief of the squadron ; and Queen, 110, Captain Martin, got under way this, morning at six o'clock, and left Spithead with a N.N.E. I wind. The Queen was the first under way. The weather was vc:y thick and foggy, so dense that the splendid sight of the three ships under way was invisible' from the shore. After the line-of-battle ships had sailed some hours, at about half-past ten, dispatches were re ceived from the Admiralty, containing' orders for the Commander-in-Chief, Rear-Admiral W. Bowles, conse-. quently the Comet steamer sloop, Lieut.-Commander' Pretyman, was put in requisition, and started after the squadron, full steam, with the said dispatches. The flag of Admiral Sir C. Rowley (white at the main) was struck last evening at sunset, on board the St. Vin cent, and rehoisted on board the Excellent gunnery ship, Captain Sir T. Hastings. The Menelaus lazaretto arrived yesterday at the Mo therbank, in tow of the Monkey and African steam vessels, from Chatham. The Raven cutter, Lieutenant Stephens, which arrived on Saturday from Sheerness, with supernumeraries, re turned on Sunday evening. The Netley, 8, tender to Admiral Sir David Milne, at Devonport, having disembarked supernumeraries for the squadron, sailed oa her return on Sunday. The General Palmer transport, Lieut. Wooldridge, agent, which arrived on Friday from the West Indies, having on board returned naval stores and military inva lids, has gone round to Chatham to disembark them. The Swiftsure hulk, 74, is still in the mud up the harbour. Captain Sir T.Hastings, of the Excellent, is at Devon port, surveying, with other skilful officers, the most fa vourable sites for the erection of fortifications. Tux MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 24.—The Ori ental Company's steam-ship the Tagus left the docks this day, for Gibraltar, carrying out the Peninsula and Mediterranean mails, also 30 passengers, and full cargo. This will b e t h e first voyage the Tagus has made since her refitment. The brig Dart, Captain Newton, left the docks at two o'clock, on her first outward trip, for Madeira, carrying out a number of ship letters and pas sengers, several of who m arr i ved by railway, leaving London at eleven o'clock —thus in little better than five hours they will hare passed the Needles, and be fairly out to sea. The Dart is an excellent sailing vessel, and fittcd up with every convenience, and is quite new, having only been launched on this day twelvemonths. She will return here with a fruit cargo in about three weeks. The Braganza steamer will leave the docks to- Morrow, with above 350 tons of bale goods, for Con etintiDople, &c., and some excursion passengers. IMPERIAL AUSTRIAN LOAN for the 2d of DECEMBER NEXT.-70,1701. divided into 700 Dividends, the highest amounting to 23,0001., and the lowest to 501. Bonds at 31. each; Fifths, 125., or six Bonds for 151., &c., &c. Payments for tne same can be made by Post-office orders, Bank notes, or Bankers' Drafts. Prospectuses, with full particulars, and Bonds, can be obtained by early application to Messrs. F. E. FULD and CO., Bankers, Receivers, and General Agents, Frankfort-on-the-Main, or at their Office, 32, Villiers-street, Strand, London. 13, Great Marlborough-street. BURKE'S PEERAGE and BARONETAGE. A NEW EDITION of this Work being now In preparation, it is earnestly requested that those who may have any corrections or information to supply, will address them, with thelleast possible delay, to JOHN BURKE, Esq., care of the Publisher, Mr. Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street, London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER. 25, Will be performed a New Grand Opera, in Three Ado, entitled FHE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Mr. Berrani ; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison ; Devilshoof, Mr. Stretton ; Arline, Miss Rainforth ; Queen of the Gipsies Miss Betts. To conclude wi th the Grand Fairy B allet of THE REVOLT OF THE HAREM, in which roldlle. Plunkett, Mdlle Clara Webster, Mdlle. O'Bryan, Mrs. W. H. Payne, and Mad ame Guibilei will al We r. Box.otfice 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, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 25, Will be repeated Vanbrugh's Comedy of THE CONFEDERACY .. . . Adapted to the present Period. The Principal Characters by Messrs. Strickland, W. Farren, Buckstone and C. Mathews, Madame Vestris, Miss P. Horton , Mrs. E. iarnold, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Stanley, and Mrs. Glover. After which. will be produced a New Comic Drama, founded on Don Cesar de Bann entitled A MATCH FOR A KING. Charles the Second, Mr. Stuart; Don Sebastian della Rosa, Mr. C. Mathews ,• Mariquits, Miss Julia Bennett. To conclude with a New Farce, by Mr. Buckatone, entitled THE tihrißLE RIG. John Ginger, Mr. Brickstone , 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, 55.; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 25.; Upper Gallery, Is. Second Price at Nine o'Clock—Boxes, Ss. ; Pit, ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at Half-past 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.otlice, from Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Legitimate Drama—Sir John Vanbrugh's Comedy of THE CON. FEDER A CY every Night, In which Mr. Strickland, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. H. Holl, Mr. C. Mathews, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. E. Yarnold, Miss Julia Bennett, Madame Vestris and Mrs. Glover will perform. With the successful New Comic Drama of A MATCH FOR A KING, by Mr. Stuart, Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. H. Holl, Mr. Strickland, Miss Julia Bennett, Miss Lee, and Mrs. W, Clifford. And the New Farce of THE THIMBLE RIG. Ginger Mr. Buckstone. Private Boxes, &c., to be had of Mr. 1 . I'. Archer, at the Box office, from Ten till Five. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 25, Will be performed an entirely New Drama, entitled C/ESAR DE BAZAN ; or, Love and Honour. Charles the Second, Mr. Howe; Caesar de B izan, Mr. Webster ; Maratina, Madame Celeste. After which, a New Eccentric Mythological 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, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Alellon.—Box-ortice open EY= Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be hail at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELFHL Unprecedented Success—C/ESA a DE BAZAN every Night, in which Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mr. Howe, and Mr. Webster will appear. Vrith the New Grand Burlesque, called TELE MACHUS; or, The Island of Calypso, by Mr. P. Bedford, Mr. Wright, Mr. Cowell, Miss Woolgar, llirss E. Chaplin. And the New Musical Piece of THE FOX AND THE GOOSE, by Mrs. Fitzwil- Ram and Mr. Hudson. ..—..-..-- . The Box-office open daily from Ten till Five, under the direction of Mr. T. Bennett. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 2% Will be perform d THE SIREN. Principal Characters by Messrs. Walton, C. Horn, Jun., Leffler, Allen,.nd Mdlle. Nau. D To conclude with the New rama, called DON C.ESAR DB SAZAN. Don CEesar, Mr. Wallack ; Charles the second, Mr. Walton ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling; Countess di Rotondo, Mrs. Fosbroke. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. ed. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half 3 Prosce nium Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half petit Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-otlice, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL LYCE H UM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA OUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. First Week of the New Grand Tale of Enchantment. THIS EVENIN(f, OCTOBER 25 C Will be repeated THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASS ,ONS With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &e. Principal Characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mr. Gouriet, Mr. Craven, and Mr. Keeley; Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Weollidge, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Mx .3 James, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, Miss Fort scue, and Mrs. Keeley. To which will be added THE TOST OF HONOUR, in which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will perform. To conc:ude with a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLE. WIT. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, Craven, emery, F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, Stanton, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, and Keeley ; Miss k ortescue, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Groves, Mrs. Usher, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes. 41.; Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, es.') Gallery, Bd. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2r. ; Upper Boxes, Is. ed. ; I'it, Is. Private Boxes on the timarAny Tier holding eight persons), Tao Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second liar (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding, six persona), One Guinea' The Box-oilice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc fon of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. %V. BATTY. Open every evehing with its unequalled rotation cf Equestrian and Dramatic Entertainments THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 2', and dining the wee!: at _even o'Clock, The Splendid Spectacle from the Poem of the illustrirus s'.ir Walter Scott, entitled LOCHINVAR; or, The Bridal of Nether,y, and Steed of the Brave. Entire change of the Scenes of the Circle, and nr vel feats of Horse manship, by thee x tensive corps of French and Br tish riders. To concludewith THE BLOOD-RED KratinT; or, The War riors of Palestine. acting Rnd stage-mAnsger, Mr. W. 13 Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding Mr. R. Smith daily. DA VIDOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER '25, Will be performed a New Drama, enti led DON CESAR DE BA ZA N, supported by the entire Company. To conclu• e with a New Military Drama, entitled THE EVE OF BATTLE.. Sup, oiled by the whole Company, with New Scenery and Splendid Appointments. Places and Private Boxes to he had of Mr. Kerschner, at thq Box. ace, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 25, Will be performed DON C/ESAR OE BA Z AN. Principal Cha , tatters 6y Me. srs. sbaidiston, Da e, Hebert, and Miss Vincent. After which, THE IRON CHESF. S r Edward Mortimer, Mr, Graham; N‘ilford, Mr. Seaman; Lndy Ellen, Mrs. W. West. To conclude with THAT RASCAL J ACK. Private tamily Boxes, LI Is. Od. and .£ I Ils. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, OCT. 25. MERMOWTER, Lowest, 43; Highest, 49 ; Noon, 49 BAROMETER, 29.85.—Wrin, N.E. :;677.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the 'r.e3ing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is amorally placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. ►farning 5 minutes after 1 j Evening ... 24 minutes after 1. 4 e t 4 4 x j.„ , ,i.A, \ l:;7;:rt - .:`.; • 4 1 '; A - % , p . Qv / 4- - , sl, s', ~ ,4-41.1mDA : ,rt.... 1, :, - . 1 V5.1 , - ' 4 .:- , , . 4: -. ~ ' lzirge• Il k it.,,, ,, , 4, :50 ~ lei -..,-....,_ i iir E 1. , ii 404 )...., 14.: ~ M 0 - 14,, ,, , e , ~,, ...„4_ , p , 0 rr .- vivr-.. -- ...,,, ,,. • ,^ /ow. , , SECOND EDITION. btniuc LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1844. A meeting of the Conservatives of the county of Durham was held on Wednesday last at Sunderland. A morning Contemporary, who gives a somewhat lengthy account of this meeting, prefaces his report by a sketch of the past and present condition of Con servatism in Durham, from which we gather that it has long been in the most helpless and hopeless state it is possible to conceive, devoid of energy— devoid of tact—devoid of union —devoid, in short, of every qualification that is requisite to make a party respectable or influential. For some years, during the sway of the '\Vhig Administration, it was in a tolerable state of efficiency; it attended to the register, and main tained a spirit of concord and unity that augured well for the cause which it professed to have so much at heart; but soon after the accession of the present Ministers to office, it began to exhibit symptoms of apathy; instead of being watchful over the interests of—what it called —the constitutional cause, it became almost in different to its duties; for a considerable period, not a single anniversary meeting was held ; and the absence of such periodical gatherings had the effect of in creasing the supineness which want of action was naturally engendering in the party. In fact, observes our Contemporary, it was scarcely known whether a Conservative association existed or not in the county of Durham, and questions were even asked as to who were, and who were not, members of the society. The cause of this gradual decline in the power and activity of a once influential party admits, we think, of a very easy explanation. It originated, no doubt, in the dislike with which the Durham Conservatives regarded the proceedings of Sir ROBERT PEEL and his subalterns, shortly after their accession to place. They must have seen that the Ministry w a s by no me ans constant in its adhesion to the principles which it had professed on the hustings, but was ready to tack about and make sail in a Whig direction, the instant opportunity offered. Nothing short of some such conviction on the part of the Northern Conserva tives could have induced them to abandon themselves to apathy. Our Contemporary, indeed, hints that this torpor arose from the simple circumstance of the party reposing confidence in the future from the success of the past ; but this is a very indifferent way of accounting for an awkward fact ; it is not when a party is full of confidence that it is most apt to be lethargic; success but tends to stimulate it to fur ther exertions ; it is when distrust and despondency seize upon political societies, that the principle of vitality within them becomes gradually more feeble and deteriorated ; it is then that they exhibit symp toms of disunion and lassitude which ultimately ter- minate in a complete break-up. And such, we repeat, was the case with the Conservatives of Durham. They were active—energetic--decided of will and perfect in organization, so long as they felt that they had grounds of confidence ; but the moment they found the Ministry of their choice—the Ministry which they had taken such prodigious pains to instal in office—the moment, we say, they found these Downing-street squatters—to borrow a phrase from the back woods vocabulary—evinced symptoms of a disposition to falsify their Conservative pledges, their spirits became depressed, sullen ness and despondency seized upon them ; and as an immediate and inevitable consequence, they sank, as a party, into almost complete insignificence. They are now trying to pluck up a little courage and confidence again, but we doubt much whether they will succeed in regaining a tithe of their lost in fluence in the county. Events are against them. Ministers cannot, even if they would, enforce their principles to the extent they could desire ; they must, in spite of themselves, lean to the side of Liberalism ; and assuredly a conviction of this truth will not tend to infuse new spirit into Durham Conservatism. We are by no means sorry to see the low ebb to which this party is confessedly reduced in one of the most important of our northern counties. It is a shuffling, time-serving party, liberal, so far as mere profession goes, mean and intolerant to a degree in point of practice, repudiating ultra-Toryism, yet never unwilling to act in its spirit whenever oppor tunity offers, and prevented by nothing but its apprehensions—which it calls discretion—from in flicting a world of mischief on the community. It is vain to look to Conservatism for any positive, sub stantial, public good ; and it is only where he dissents from the policy of this party and makes a move to wards Liberalism, that Sir R. PzsL exhibits himself as a sagacious, prescient statesman. A very brief interval has elapsed since we directed the attention of our readers to one of those unseemly controversies between an orthodox congregation with their Puseyite-parson, that the gentle Lord Bishop of LONDON never interposes in, without furnishing us— his constant admirers—with new occasions for mar velling at his meekness, and for commending his ur banity. In the last communication addressed by that lowly-minded Bishop to the Churchwardens of Ware, some may fancy, indeed, that they detect the heredi tary style of schooling which a pedagogue may be supposed to have transmitted to a Prelate. But with out entering into that question, we would willingly, if we could, exonerate the Right Reverend Father from a more grave and unbecoming imputation. It is said—and we believe it—that his Lordship is a favourer of the Tractarian doctrines. We do not mean to say that he upholds the atrocious trumpery which some of the NEwmast-iac divines have lately been re-pub lishing, with the most fulsome of editorial commen dations from " Golden Legends," and " Lives of the Saints." We do not suppose, for a moment, that the sleek diocesan, who moves between the Palace at Fulham and the Palace at St. James's—between St. James's-square and the House of Lords—with all the precise getting up of an elaborate Abbe, a century ago, in the salons of Versailles, or the Luxembourg, has any community of taste with the PALMERS and the PUSEYS, the WARDS and the NEWMANS, who seem to insist that their " English Saints," or their Gerfnan Monks of the twelfth century, must have died in the odour of sanctity in proportion as their persons were disgustingly filthy, and their fusty habits never changed ! But, as we have before remarked, our Right Reverend CHARLES JAMES is, in such controversies, ever an interested par tisan who has a decided leaning to the universal Tractarian doctrine of enlarging the temporal, and multiplying the spiritual, powers of Church men—(ranking above curates)—as well as of the Church. He can away with the mummeries, NOT-- provided they tend, in the words of their rhapsodical advocate (the Rev. W. G. WARD), "to that sus tained and vigorous attack on the principles of the Reformation" (which he, a minister of the Anglican Reformed and Established Church, advocates ! 1); but, provided they tend, as the same Mas ter of Arts elsewhere writes (in his "Ideal of a Christian Church ")—" to the religious carrying out of those great principles which the Reformation, denied—obedience and faith." Who can doubt what the Bishop of LONDON'S notions of "obedience" are, when he moves the clergy of his diocese to stir up their flocks three or four times in a year to subscribe towards building new churches (of which his Lord ship "rather" means to pocket the patronage) ? Who can doubt what the Bishop's version of " faith" is, when he would persuade all the congregations within his extensive diocese, and even his quondam friend, of Bishopsgate Without, that the effectual way te feed the hungry, intense, starving wretchedness of the pauperised districts of Spitalfields, is—to subscribe funds for purchasing and dispensing bread ?—soup ? —clothing ?—lodging ? No ! but—to build new churches for them. We shall not renew here the censure we have so lately ventured to pass upon a course of Episcopal policy that, we repeat, is daily making an enormous sacrifice of high and substantial interest—moral, social, and religious—for vain forms and empty cere• monies. Nor is it necessary to enlarge on the gravity of the offence which a Bishop commits, by upholding it when its results—not as they are to be inferred from theoretical reasoning merely, but as they are practically developed by every day's experience— clearly are the sowing of disunion and heartburnings between pastors and their flocks ; and the en couragement, nay, the artVcial-forcing, as it were, of present dissent from the ritual, and final estrangement from the communion and doctrine of the Established Church. We have asked whether the Bishop is prepared to countenance the extension of Puseyism at the price of the decline of Protestantism ? And the ultra reverence for, and observance of, obso lete directions and formularies—still, indeed, retained in the Rubric, but distinctly as offensive to the opinions and feelings of the Church at large, as they have been foreign to her ritual, rites, and ceremonial for the last century and a half—this overweening passion for reviving "things indifferent," simply be cause some fanciful preference for the mere pantomime of a more ancient ritual, we have taken the liberty to treat as an " idle fooling." We are rejoiced to be so soon in possession of high Episcopal authority for these views. It is gratifying to us to have one of the ablest servants and champions of the Church corro borating and strengthening our own unprofessional impressions on such matters. The late distinguished Principal of Brazenose, one of the lights of Oxford, and now Bishop of CHICHESTER, at his Lordship's primary visitation of his diocese in the cathedral church of that city on Tuesday last, delivered a charge, very remarkable in many particulars—excel lent in all—and in none more distinct or more sensi ble than in that portion which he devoted to the repro bation of this Puseyite tampering with the venerable structure of that Church, which it would unhesitat ingly demolish for the sake of planting upon its ruins a few exploded genuflections, and relighting at the altar table a few extinguished wax candles ; putting on a white gown at one portion of the service, or taking off a black one at another—with other such worthless trifles. The Bishop of CHICHESTER, we observe, addresses his clergy in a tone of brotherly kindness and personal humility, worthy of a pri mitive Churchman, and very little, if at all, marred by that unconscious egotism which in some other Bishops (nearer "London") is so exceedingly offensive. He inculcates with eloquence and ear nestness the duty of consulting and relieving the wants, physical as well as moral, of the poor. To this sub ject he returns more than once, with increasing force and emphasis. He warmly enjoins on his hearers the truly Christian, as well as clerical, duty of aiding, with sincerity and energy, the diffusion of education among the lower classes of society ; and he concludes his animadversions upon the progress of Puseyism in terms to which it would be as vain as presumptious in us to attempt to add one word : " Judging from a review of their progress, as given by one supposed to be of their number (the Rev. W. Palmer), one must arrive at the conclusion that those so long unable to form their own course must be especially unfitted to guide others in the formation of their theo logical opinions. With respect to some usages which are supposed to take their origin from this school, it is much to be desired that more correct notions should prevail, mere especially amongst the laity. Whatever may have been the object or intention of those writers of whom we speak in reviving attention to those matters, the advocates of rubrical observances are more frequently found in the persons of those who have no syMpathy with their doctrines or peculiarities. The laity should be made aware of this fact. At the same time, I must caution the clergy always to bear in mind that the edification of God's people is the object of all their ministrations, and that they will sacrifice the end to the means if they needlessly offend their congre gations in such matters. I will not say that the interests of religion would not be advanced if our r i tua l were brought back to what it formerly was. On the con trary, I believe the reverse would be the fact ; but I certainly am convinced that a minister takes a wrong and entirely inadequate view of his duty if, by a dh er i ng too strictly to the rubrical directions of the Book of Common Prayer, he alienates the affecti on o f hi s con gregation. Let him fully and clearly ex pl a i n i ts nature and uses, and so he will win their minds towards him." Madrid papers of the 17th have been received Some of them give details of the appointments of President of the Deputies, formation of Committees, and other business, which to England, or indeed any other nation, do not possess any interest. In an as sembly so constituted, so determined to go all lengths with the Government, it is a matter of moonshine whether Senor IsTußlz or Senor CASTRO Y Oaozco be President. The Eco del Comercio states that re ports were current that a Carlist revolution was on the point of breaking out at Madrid, and that in several of the provinces the Government seemed to be taking precautions against a general rising. Pro gresistas seem also disposed to have some amusement in their peculiar way. What a hopeless country ! Upon the Madrid 'Change on the 17th inst. the Three per Cents. were done at 26 9-16 at 60 days; and the Five per Cents. at 20i for the same period. The French Opposition papers have, for one day at least, passed over the KING'S visit to England —a great relief to those readers who are compelled to attend to their lucubrations—and directed their atten tion to affairs of another neighbouring country, where scenes of no ordinary kind are about to take place. The Opposition journals of all shades, Re - publican, Legitimatist, and Christino, have articles on the Bill presented to the Cortes for Constitutional reform. The Presse, under the influence of Queen CHRISTINA, has, of course, been made acquainted for some time with the proposed changes, and the National, by some means or other, seems equally well informed. We infer from this journal that the DOWAGER QUEEN has done it all. After referring to the Bill it thus proceeds :—" In two words the programme of the Bill proclaims for the executive power an absolute omnipotence ; it asks an assembly of the Cortes, the produce of corruption and violence, to absolve the acts of usurpation already executed in the past, by permitting them to be continued for the future ; to substitute for public discussion the will of the Cabinet, for the solemnity of the law the caprice of the camarilla, for the action of the three powers the will of a single one. This is the radical destruc tion of the representative Government, and a delibe rative assembly is going to decree absolutism. And what absolutism ? That of NARVAEZ, perhaps. Not even that ; NARVAEZ is an instrument to be broken on the first caprice. Not of the young QUEEN ? She is a sick child, incapable of anything but evil sentiments. It is the absolutism of the wife of Murtoz that is about to be decreed ! Of that MARIA CHRISTINA,WhO, after having received in her bed the son of the tobacconist of Tarancon, gave birth to the first-born of her new amour, when she was still wearing mourning for her husband ! The absolutism of this woman, who has violated all the Spanish laws, in exercising the Re gency and guardianship of her daughter, when she was already married to - the Garde-du-Corps! Of that woman who, notwithstanding the formal text of the Constitution, and all the existing legislation, levied, without having the right, in other words, robbed the treasury of Spain of thirty millions of francs, as the unmarried widow of the late KING, and forty millions taken from the revenues of the Royal appanage and civil list of the QUEEN ! Absolutism with the greatest scandal, the most infamous robbery that can be pointed out in history. But is the abso lute power to rest, at least in these sullied hands ? Who is there who does not know that the wife of MuNoz, ambitious as she is considered, only executes the solemn engagements which she has entered into with the POPE and Don CARLOS ? And see the re forms proposed in the Constitution To suppress first, the principle of the supremacy of the people, to efface the article ordering the annual convocation of the Cortes, and, in fine, to get rid of that which im poses the obligation of consulting the Cortes on the QUEEN'S marriage! The undertaking is bold, but it will not succeed. The Spaniards are neither suffi ciently void of civilisation, nor base enough to allow this interference in their own affairs; and all these con quests, in fact, which they have aimed at in obtain ing since 1812, to be torn from them with impunity." The following are the remarks of the Presse : This dispatch only confirms the news given in all the Spanish journals that arrived yesterday at Paris. tt was known beforehand almost officially that when the Congress was constituted, the President of the Council was to ascend the tribune and read the reform project. We have said that this project would have a double character, political and administrative, and we have shown the principal points to which it was to refer. It remains for us to explain some questions , of detail, which, though less spoken of, are not less important, and which prove that it is unjustly that some friends of the Ministry have accused it of re maining inactive. The Cabinet, presided over by General NARVAEZ, has advanced slowly, but it has advanced. Whilst around it friends and adversaries were loudly discussing, it was working in silence, and Spain is about to have the power of judging, which is worth more—that which speaks or that whic h acts." The Legitimatist Quotidienne which is equally dis satisfied with the National, but takes consolation from , the prospects of another Carlist rising, says : "Our letters from Spain announce that this country' is touching on a new crisis, and probably a graver one than any of those which she has passed through these dozen years. The party placed at the head of affairs by extraordinary circumstances has just obtained a majority, either by the electoral inactivity of the opposite parties, or by the violence and cunning employed against them. But this party, which is without root in the country, only maintains itself by the army, which is not itself proof against a sudden rising on any point of the terri tory ; a serious insurrection would shake its discipline, and would have the effect at least of dividing its forces. The Progessist or revolutionary party, under the diree- . don of secret societies, is organised along the whole' coast from Cadiz to Barcelona ; the insurrectional move ments of these two towns would draw with it all the in termediate localities. This party possesses some com mittees, but very few followers in the interior. If the Carlist party, on the contrary, has but scattered friends and little means of action on the coast, it has masses in its favour in the mountains of Arragon, Navarre, and Biscay, and very numerous parti sans i n t h e provinces of the interior. These two parties have replaced in the last two years a great part of the arms and ammunition which had been taken from them ; they are in a state to act, and determined to act in concert, although for a dif ferent object, well convinced that an isolated action would be fatal to the party which should attempt it, and would compromise that which should have abstained. The Royalists were ready to rise some months back in the mountains of Catalonia, and the Revolutionists only waited for the signal to take up arms at the same time in Barcelona ; a counter-order given to the mountaineers suspended the common action ; but it is only suspended, the Government knows it, and henceforward it despairs of opposing the Revolutionists to the Carlists, and of other." down thes e p ar ti es by opposing _ them to each h The following are said to be the principal changes proposed by the NARVAEZ, or rather CHRISTINA Ministry :—The preamble of the Constitution is to be cancelled, as no mention is made in it of the royal power. The crown is to appoint the members of the Senate for life, as in France. The most important clause, however, is that which enacts that the offences committed by the press shall not he submitted to trial by jury. The article which requires the assem bling the Cortes once a year is suppressed, evidently with a view of suppressing the Cortes altogether. The clause respecting the QUEEN'S marriage is annulled, and the Cortes are therefore deprived of the power granted to them by the Constitution of pre venting a marriage which they might consider dangerous to the country. By another the QUEEN can leave Spain without the consent of the Cortes. This is a good beginning, and when the other changes are accomplished, and ' organic laws made by royal ordinance, France will have no reason for envying Spain her liberal institutions. The most painful reflection on this re trograde movement is, that the inhabitants of Spain richly merit their fate. They had the means, as far as free institutions went, of making their country I great and peaceful, but their statesmen were eternally quarrelling with one another, their representatives made long harangues only from factious or mer- , cenary motives • they, in fine, rebelled agai ns t E SF ARTERO, and welcomed with enthusiasm the woman who has destroyed their liberty. There is no domestic news in the French papers of the slightest interest. TILE BOURSE--WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. Frollo3:r l Ve Per MU llB 25 118 30 • 118 20 118 25 Four-and-a-Half.... 111 70 .• 111 70 .. 111 70 .. 111 70 roars Three per Cents.— 82 20 82 20 .. 82 15 .. 82 15 Bank of France •• 3055 -.3060 .•3055 ..3060 Laffitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesll2o ..1120 ..1120 .. 1120 5,000 f. Sharesso42 50 —5045 —5012 50 ..5045 Belgian Fives, 1840 •••• • • • • 1031 • • 1031 • • 1031 • • 1031 1842 •••• •• 1 10 51 • 105 105 1 .. 165 1 Spanish Passive sf •• 5f •• 5f Active .. Threes • • •••••• .... 351 • . 351 • • 351 •• 351 Old Deferred • • • 61 .. 61 .• 61 .. 61 Neapolitan • 98 75 98 75 .. 98 65 .. 98 65 Boman . • •. 915 .. 915 •• 395 .. 395 .. 278 75 .. 287 50 ••1035 ..1037 50 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Clermrdn. •• • • .. . • • • .. .• 915 .. 915 Versailles, R.B. • • •• • . • • • • .. 395 .. 395 L. 8..... .. ••• • • • 278 75 . 290 Rouen ...... • • • • . • •• • .1035 . 1040 Rouen to Havre. Orleans ......... ••••• • •• • 1027 55 ..1027 50 ..1025 ..1026 25 Strasburg to Bale.. •• —• • Avignon to ?Marseilles 7BO • 780 • • 780 .. 780 RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOIINT, OCTOBER 31. St. Germain ••• • • • 920 .. 920 .. 920 .. 920 Versailles, R.B . L. 8.......•••••• 280 .. 290 .. 260 .. 287 50 Rouen .• •• •• •• —.1037 50 ..1038 75 ..1032 50 —1035 Rotten to Havre•• 770 .. 770 .. 770 .. 770 Orleans ..•... Strasburg to Bale Avignon to Marseilles 782 50 .. 782 50 . 781 25 .. 781 25 THIS DAY'S NEWS. BANKRUPTCY.--(THIS DAY.) (Before Sir C. F. WILLIAMS.) IN RE C. C. FOOTE. In this case the insolvent, an attorney, and sometimes an attorney's clerk, applied for his final order. Mr. STURGEON opposed for creditors to large amounts. In the insolvent's former account he had put down a per son named Harvey as a debtor in 6001., but in his amended schedule he had brought him in a creditor to the amount of 2001., thus making a clear difference of 800/. The creditors prayed time to investigate the matter. Sir C. WILLIAMS would give any time the creditors might require. Such a system was truly disgraceful. He found the debts stated at 6,0001., and he supposed the assets, 1,2501., would not produce so many shillings. The Solicitor to an opposing creditor said the debts are placed in the amended schedule at 13,0001. Sir C. WILLIAMS, after again, in the most strong lan guage, characterising the system adopted in this case as a vile one, deferred the further hearing of the case for a month, in order to give the creditors full time for inves tigation. INSOLVENT COURT-(THIS DAY) Mr. Commissioner HARRIS sat this morning for the purpose of hearing applications for bail. Although the usual hour for the sitting of the Court is ten o'clock, the Learned Commissioner did not take his seat on the Bench until nearly half-past eleven, to the annoyance of those in attendance upon business. IN RE GEORGE WINTER. In this case the insolvent applied on his petition to be discharged upon bail until the day appointed for his final hearing. It appeared from his schedule that the amount of debts exceeded 2,5001., for 8001. of which it was stated that he received no consideration, while the sum for which he was arrested was only 40/. upon an accommo dation bill drawn by a person named Boland, and ac ceepted by the insolvent. A great many other bills had been accepted by him in the way of accommodation, for which he never got any consideration. The Learned CommissioNEli commented strongly upon the insolvent's conduct in accepting accommodation bills when he was so deeply indebted to others. Such a course could be only described as cheating his creditors. Ho should not accept bail in this case. The insolvent was accordingly taken back to the Queen's prison. In the matter of Richard Roberts, the application of the insolvent, who was confined in Dolgelly gaol, to be liberated upon bail, was rejected upon the ground of in sufficiency in the proffered sureties. The application of John Whatford, an insolvent con fined in Northampton gaol, was rejected upon similar grounds. IN RE THOMAS HOWILLS. This insolvent had been before the Court on a former occasion, when the hearing was adjourned, in order that he might file a fresh schedule, and account for a large sum of money which was left him as a legacy. In the schedule which he now produced in Court he accounted for the disposition of this money, by stating that he spent it in " folly, extravagance, and dissipa tion," and being continually drunk, he lodged it in his brother's hands, and used to draw it from him in 51. and 10/. at a time ; but he did not recollect how he sent it. He was remanded for four calendar months from the date of his vesting order. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY, NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Baron ROLFE.) Jane Ha gun, aged 44, was placed at the bar, charged with feloniously wounding Ellen Bryant, with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm. It appeared from the evidence, that the prosecutrix and another woman, named Mann, were very hotly en gaged in trying who had the hardest fists and the softest head, and the prisoner, who, it appeared, had been en gaged in the ne less unfeminine occupation of killing time in the gin -shop all day, came up to where Mrs. Bryant and - Mrs. Mann were having their " set-to." Although she was " very drunk," her sense of delicacy was so acute, that she " was shocked," to use her own phraseology, " at seeing two women like them fighting with each other." Accordingly, in order that the affair might bo brought to a satisfactory termination, and to establish the " cordial understanding," she struck Mrs. Bryant with a bed-key, which she happened to have in her hand, over the left eye. It is true that Mrs. Hague gave a different version of the matter, and represented that Mrs. Bryant was scratched in con sequence o f strik ing her own - head against the key. Under the direction of his LORDSHIP, the jury were of opinion that it was not probable the prosecutrix, be.. sides being engaged with Mrs. Mann, who, it would ap pear, was " man enough" for her, would seek an addi tional adversary in " cold iron," found her guilty of the assault, without intent. His LORDSHIP sqntenced the prisoner to three weeks' imprisonment, she having been already confined seven weeks. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) Samuel Brown was brought up, charged with attempt ing to pass a bad half-crown, under the following cir cumstances :—Mr. Henry Curtis stated that the pri soner, with two others, came into the tap-room of his house, the Royal Oak, last night. He called for a pot of beer, and when the waiter took it in he saw a half-crown lying on the table. The prisoner pointed to it, and said " Take it out of that." The waiter brought the half crown out, and it was found to be a bad one. The prisoner said he did not put down the half-crown, it was another young man. Mr. JARDINE said that under the circumstances ho was fearful no case could be made out against the prisoner. Mr. Curtis said he asked the prisoner three distinct times to point out the young man that had put down the half-crown, but lie refused to do so. Mr. JARDINE said this altered the case. The prisoner had been very artful in his attempt, but he (Mr. Jar dine) should remand him to. Monday, for the solicitor to the Mint to attend.—(This is a new " dodge" on the part of " smashers.") CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY). A little girl aged about thirteen, named Anne Carruthers, was charged with robbing her mother. The mother who cried bitterly whilst giving her evi dence, deposed that during the last two years the pri soner was in the constant habit of stealing everything within her reach. She earned a very small pittiance by brace-making, and the prisoner had gone to her em ployer, Mr. Arrowsmith, of Gutter-lane, Cheapside, last week and taken away her week's earnings, every farthing of which she spent before she returned. Mr. GREENWOOD asked the mother if she wished to send her for trial? The Mother—Oh, pray, Sir, don't send her for trial, don't send her to prison, but myself and my family would feel for ever grateful to you if you could get her into an asylum. . _ _ Mr. Baylis, the second usher, said he had already taken the child to the Refuge for the Destitute in the Hackney-road, but they refused to receive her because her right hand was crippled. The Magistrate, however, interested himself in the matter, and got the child into the House of Refuge in Red Lion-square. BATHS You THE MlLLlON.—Judging from the public meetings, buildings will soon be wanted for the new public baths. We propose Covent-garden Theatre : it is useless, of a capital size, and an overflow in any part of the house would be quite a novelty there. The pit would make a capital bath, and the stage a first-rate springing-board.: The chandelier could be made into the largest shower-bath in the world, and the one-shilling gallery is the very thing for a reservoir. The private boxes will give ready-made dressing-rooms, and the scenery-room, from its height, will at any time dry a million of towels. Shampooing might be performed in the treasury. The scenery from The Danghter of the Danube, or the bath scene from the Revolt of the Harem, could be carried round the stage, and flowers fro spicy Arabia planted in the slips. Q ua d r ill e parties might be given once a week, and polkas be danced every Saturday, Jullien's orchestra being rowed about in a large wh erry , or tugged by a s ma ll s t eamer . In winter the pit could easily be frozen over and turned into a glaciarum. This new bath theatre, we are confident, would answer, espe cially as the depth under the stage, going, as it does, more than half-way towards an Artesian well, would enable the proprietors to get their water merely for the boring.—Punch. PAUPER BURIALS.--One of the guardians of St. Georgo the Martyr yesterday spoke strongly at the board meeting of the disgraceful state of the Lock burial ground, which even the curate had declared emphatically to be " too bad." There was a huge hole in which the coffins of the paupers were placed along with the dis turbed remains of those who had been before buried, heaps of which were thrown up and exposed to public view, within a few feet, too, of houses, while the general distance between the tops of the coffins and the surface of the earth was about 21 inches. The scene was truly disgusting. The shed in which coffins awaited the ar rival of the clergyman was full of the fragments of broken-up coffins, and the gravedigger said he took them home and burnt them ! The trustees promised an inquiry should take place, but the board passed a resolu tion strongly condemnatory of the proceedings. Twelve women and five men, belonging to the sect of Baptists which assembles at Provid ence Chapel, Lower Bristol-road, were baptised on Sunday morning in the Avon, in the presence of a large concourse of specta tora,—.Bath Chronicle. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. There was a brisk demand for Cotton at Liverpool yesterday, but no alteration in prices. Sales about 7,000 bales, including 2,000 bales American, on specula tion, and 500 for export. The sales consisted of 500 Egyptian, at 54d. to 7d., 800 Surat, at 2d. to 38d., 100 Pernam, at 54d., 200 Bahia, at sid. to 50., and the rest American, at 30. to 50.—Shares were rather droop ing. Birmingham and Gloucester, 103 ; Chester and Birkenhead Junction, 74; Churnet Valley, 44- ; Dublin and Drogheda, 70 ; Dublin and Mullingar, 31 ; Lancas ter and Carlisle, 13f ; Ditto and Preston, 42f ; Liver pool and Manchester, Half, 994 ; Ditto and Preston, 495.; London and Birmingham, Quarter, 24k; Ditto and York, 31 ; Ditto and Croydon, 161 ; Midla n d Co un ti es , 105 f Newcastle and Carlisle, 105 ; North Union, 107 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 2 ; South-Eastern, 42f ; Ditto, New, 15i ; Lyons and Avignon, 455. 6d. ; Paris and Lyons, 2i ; Ditto, and Orleans, 39} ; Paris and Rouen, 39i; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 34 ; Central of France, 4. An official notification has been issued this morning and extensively circulated, relative to the regulations to be observed by the police, and other City officers, on the day on which the Queen opens the New Royal Ex change, which has created great conversation, and in deed surprise, among merchants and others having business houses in the line of procession, or offices in the City within the prescribed limits. Surely it cannot for a moment be contemplated stringently to carry the third regulation into effect. It is—" That no person be allowed to pass or remain in the Poultry, Mansion house-street, Cornhill, Bartholomew-lane, or Thread needle-street, after seven o'clock, except inhabitants and others going to the houses in those streets, who will be permitted to pass for that purpose until nine o'clock, after which time no person whatever will be admitted into those streets." Now it is known that there are public places of resort for business purposes within the streets named, and offices almost innumerable. Can it be seriously intended that merchants and brokers are to be deprived of the right they have to go to business, to open and answer letters (of vast importance to them in many instances, and re quiring instant attention)? And let it be remembered that the General Post delivery is rarely commenced in the districts named before nine o'clock, or finished before half-past ten or eleven o'clock. It would be, in the opi nion of the merchants and others, a monstrous proceed. ing to attempt to carry out the regulation we have quoted above. It is hoped that some means will be taken to enable merchants and others in the streets mentioned to reach their places of business without let or hindrance. There are not any colonial arrivals this morning. Much conversation is indulged in in the City on the subject of the rapid extension of the influence of the Zollverein. At the same time it is not to be denied that the movements towards liberalism in commercial affairs, on the continent too, may have a beneficial influence shortly as respects the scales of duties now levied in the ports of this country. There must be an onward move ment in this respect, and the sooner the Premier makes up his mind upon the all-important subject the better for the merchants, the shipowners, and the traders of Great Britain. The time, it is held certain, is now come, when England must move in advance, not follow, combi nations of Governments' or Customs' Leagues, on the continent of Europe. The opportunity, if now lost, will not very soon again occur. The only feature in the Stock Market this morning is that the Commissioners bought about the usual quantity of Consols at 99j. Money is in increased demand, and some transfers have been made at a fall to 991. For the Account par has been the only value given this morn ing. The premium on Exchequer Bills is firm at 71s. to 735. Bank Stock has fallen to 2024, a re-action of about 3 per cent. within a week. The fluctuation in the New Three-and-a-Quarter per cents. is very trifling, scarcely exceeding to 4 per cent. The value of Spanish Stock remains nominally the same as yesterday. Dutch Securities are a trifle lower, and Belgian Five per Cents. were firm in the morning at 1044, but they have since receded to 1031. For Mexicon and Portuguese Bonds the demand was limited to one or two bargains only. The Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Shares have been flat to-day, at Ito 24 . premium. Edinburgh and Glasgow are lower, 10 premium being now the price. The Great Western Shares have been sold as low as 59 prem.; the London and Birmingham have been at 111 to 113 prem. ; Midl an d s a t a f a ll t o 3 p rem i um ; Y or k and North Midland are firm at 58 premium, and the Half Shares at 58 premium. The French lines are rather on the advance. General Steam Navigation Com pany's Shares are worth 13 p.m. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 20:3 20234 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .....».».« 9934 99 3 per Cent. Consols. Anna lOO 99% %% New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuitie...., lOl% 102 101% 102 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860.... ..... 12 1-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. 1214 India Bonds,l,ooo .. Ditto under 91 Consols for Account .........-. . . 100 Exchequer Bills. I%r Nd. 1 0004 ........................ Ditto Ditto Advertise:ll.-- FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent ....................«.»..... 104% 10:74 Mexican Bonds, 1837,5 per Cent...„............. Ditto for the Account Ditto Deferred Stock 15% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. — " Ditto Converted 51% Ditto for the Account Dutch 2 34 per Cents f3 62% Ditto for the Account 62 Dutch 5 per Cents.... ....... ....... 98% PRICES OF SHARES 1 HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester lOO ........101 ..... to 102% Direct Northern . 234 236 Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O ......... 60 Greatt Southern and Western ' 12% to (Ireland) Great North of England. lOO 124 to Great Western 75 135 134 ... to 136 Ditto Fifths ..... ................, 12 ..... 25 .-. to London and Birming ham. lOO .. 21 134 212 to 213 London and Blackwell 16% ...... 6% to London and Brighton 5O ......... ..... to Ditto Loan Notes London and South Western 41% 72 ...... to London and Croydon London and Y0rk.......... ..... 234 ' 3% to Midland Northern and Eastern ..... 45 Ditto 3b Share= 1234 Norwich and Brandon 6 Ditto New South Eastern and Dover ..... 32% Ditto New 4 16% York and North Midland ..-..... 50 .........108 Ditto 34 Shares 25 ..... 53 ..... to Ditto Selby Scrip Central - of France (Masterman's) 2 ....... 4;:... to Ditto - Constituted 2.. 83 4% .. to Boulogne and Amiens 2 ..... 3 g to 4 Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux 1 ..... Paris and Lyons Farisand Rouen .....«.«.«.»....«.. ..... 40 ..... to MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 24.—We have had a quiet market, and but a moderate amount of business has been transacted. Cambridge and Lincoln, 2 5-16 I ; Churnet Valley, 4; Kendal and Winder mere, 6; Leeds and Dewsbury, 7,1 London and York, 34- ; Manchester and Buxton, 2. 2 1-16; Sheffield and Lincoln, 2; Manchester and Leeds, 1-16th Shares, 28 premium; Sheffield and Manchester, 981; Trent Valley, 8i; Union Bank, 10. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ex di v. 202 I Ditto Bonds £l,OOO — pm. 3 per Cent. Red 99 Ditto under £ l ,OOO 9l 3 per Cent. Cons. 3)4 per Cent. Red — Ditto Old Annuities ... New 34 per Cent. lOl% Ditto New Annuities ... New 5 per Cent. — Ex. Bills, 1,0001. I)4d .., 73 pm. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 500/. Jan. 1860 l2 1-16 Ditto 5ma11...... ......... 73 pm. Oct. 1859 ll% Bank Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860 l2 4 Consols for Act. lOO Indian Stock — India Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. Russian, 5 per Cent — Ditto, Metallic ipanish, 5 per Cent., 1849 23% Ditto, 1811 Ditto, 1842 Ditto, 1843. — Ditto, 1841 Ditto, 3 per Cent 34% Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct — French, 5 per Cent.,...... —t - c. Exchange French, 3 per Cent --f. —c. Dutch, 2)4 per Cent .. Ditto,:s per Cent 98% RES. Austrian, 5 per Cent — Belgian, 5 per Cent 103% Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent — Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent Chllian, 6 per Cent Colombian, 6 per Cent Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, IS-5, 5 per Cent Mexican, 5 per Cent ...... Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct — Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent — t'et uvian Bonds, 6 per Ct — Portuguese Bonds, s per Ct SRA__ Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) Caledonian (5 paid) Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) Direct Northern, 2% paid Eastern Counties (25 paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 paid Great Western (75 paid' Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid 63% Hull and Selby, 50 paid Ditto Quarter Shares, 10 paidi 13% London and Brighton 00 paid) London and Greenwich (lt. 15$. 4d. paid) 9N, London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) 73 London and York, 2% paid 3% Northern and Eastern (45 paid) South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) Ditto New Shares, 5 paid Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid) Ditto Vew Shares ( 5 paid) Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid .... ....... ......... Orleans, Tours, and f iourdeaux, 1 paid Aria and Orleans (20 paid) *WO 39% LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS b Y.) LONDON, OCT. 25.—Wind northerly, strong breeze, and cloudy. It blew strong in squalls, with rain last night. DEAL, OCT. 24.—A.M. Wind E. to E.N.E., fresh.—p.m. E.N.E., strong and squally.—Sid. Georgiana, Algoa Bay; Bromleys, Algoa Bay; Thalia, Ichaboe ; Highbury and Fortune, Jamaica ; Charlotte, St. John's, New Brunswick. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 24.—Wind N.E., hazy.—Arrd. her Majesty's ship Apollo, Woolwich. OFF TORBAY, OCT. 23.—George, Comulson, La Guayra, for Hamburgh. OFF THE OwERs, OCT. 23.—Harlington, St. John's New Brunswick. MARYPORT, OCT. 22.—The Juno, M'Kerr, in leaving this port yesterday evening, grounded in the south side of the harbour, but came off to-night without damage, and proceeded. The Experiment, from Belfast, parted her cables in the Solway Frith on the 18th inst, and went ashore near Mowbray, but is expected off. BRIDLINGTON, OCT. 23.—The Isabella, Sampson, hence to Hartlepool, which was ashore here yesterday, got off this morning, and has been brought into the harbour. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 24.—Wind variable and light.— Arrd. Cora, Miller, Bahia ; May, Brown, Bonney, sld. July 16, Fernando Po, Aug. 2 ; Northumberland, Prince Edward's Island ; Compton and Rienzi, Quebec. Sld. 23d, Lydia, Columbia river ; Prince Orange, Ichaboe ; Hermes, Buenos Ayres ; Harriet arid Jessie, Charles ton ; 24th, Adriana, Calcutta ; Doriana and Lurton, Bombay ; Amiens and Tagus, Ichaboe ; Creole and Diamond, Buenos Ayres; Henry, Africa; John Souchay, Berbice ; Devonport and Reliance, :`:;avannali. ; Derr• mark, New York ; Margaret, St. John's New Bruns wick. Off, Denison and Eliza Stewart. CLYDE.—Arrd. Melissa, Bay Chaleur ; Tay, and City of London, Quebec. AYR, OCT. 23.—Arrd. Magog, Shanks, St. John's New Brunswick. MARKET ATE WS.-(THIS DAY. CORN-EXCHANGE -(FRIDAY.? t Since Mc nday a full average quantity of English IV let has been received up to our market ; hence th e star w o were well-filled with samples. In the demand we can( notice no alteration from Monday. The suPPIY bat Foreign Wheat was not large, yet the inquiry for tr article was inactive, at pr ev ious figures. Of D'g 15 0 Barley, very little was. offering • but, 14,0 00 q uarto of Foreign having arrived, caused the. Barley tradeu rule dull, at barely late rates. The best Malt was A 1 3 46 as dear, but in other kinds very little was doing. ' Beans, and Peas supported the prices of Monday. ARRIVALS. Wheat. I Barley. Oar,. ,400 qrs. I 4,721ir5. I 1,900 J 9,360 qrs. 6,250 _ English hish—... Forei.. 8,580 13,800 rate 3,0 0 ...- - - Malt. 2,600 ire. Our market was tolerably well; but not to say bet el P supplied with Beasts, the quality of which was very. IL I ' ferior. The primest Scots found buyers at full pric; but other breeds were a mere drug. There were on Fi, 100 Beasts andl24 Sheep from Rotterdam, in fair 00°1d. don ; while from Scotland 110 Scots came fresh t o ha° The numbers of Sheep were limited, yet the Itu, t % trade, owing to the unfavourable weather, %vas 11 , sluggish state, at about Alonclay's quotations. The st, ply of Calves was good ; while the sale for that des rd tion of stock was very dull, and prices had a downe d , tendency. In Pigs very little was doing. Milch Co sold slowly at from - 16l 108 to 1915 s each. Per Sibs, to sink the offal s. t" 4 s. d. to s. d. 2 0 Inferior Beasts ... . . 2 6 2 8 Second quality ditto.. - s Second quality ditto 210 3 4 Coarse-woolled data- 4 0 Prime large Oxen 3 6 3 8 Southdown Wethers 310 Prime Scots, &c. Large coarse Calves 3 4 310 Large Hogs ............ 3 2 , 1 ' 4 4 2 Prime small ditto 4 0 4 4 Small Porkers ... . 1 20 Suckling Calves, each 18 0 33 0 Quarter oldPigs,eacn , " - 0 0 0 Inferior Sheep 2 8 3 0 Lambs SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I TN 1 Sheep. j Calves. 1 rigs : , 631 4,680 ; 269 22".aViTGATE 1361411 LEAD MNIVI 3,I " .de We had only a moderate supply of Meat, yet th v mend s was heavy, on the following terms: — At per net. by cne Carcase. e. s. d. to a. d., 1 . ii• a i i “); deef, inferior ..... ....... 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior 2 ,' g - middling ..... ".. 2 7 13 210 - ----- middling 2,.. 1 3 : - prime large ...... 3- 0 3 2 ----".„ prime - prime email 3 2 3 4 Pork, large. .............. - g 51 , Veal 9 4 4 4 small .....•• 3 BOUOUGIi UOP ra ARIL ET. (lf Although the show of new Hops is seasonahlf we have to report a very steady demand for the a rtj c ia and the late improvement in the quotations is re! go supported. In old Hops a large busi ne s s is doing 6 ' or treme rates. The following are the prices of new go. lities :—Sussex pockets, 61 10s to 7110 s ; Wealds,6l9/; to 81; Mid Kent, 8/ to 101 10s ; East Kent, 717 s "fro; choice do., 10/ to 121; Faruhams, 101 lOs to 121."" duty is called 130,0001. C0M0N7.12-IE. , bees SUGAR.—The maikeifl British Plantation has - 0 0 steady, though not lively. The'sales of the week to re, night are 1,400 to 1,500 hhds, including 143 hhds 7 , t fo r Barbadoes by auction, which partly sold at 62s 0 fine ellow, and 58s to 58s 6d for ood mid. ,to FlNED.—Standard Lumps have ,q been firm at ‘" 73s 6d per cwt. ti ., g d EAST INDIA.-6,237 bags Bengal only partly -,.°/ for 65s to 676 6d for fine strong Dobah kind; at 5 u, 5 greyish dark • and 38s 6d to 39s 6tl for low. o cl r Khaur was taken in at 455, and - bright yellow at 53s r , 29 cwt. 2,381 bags Mauritius partly found buyers a t „,icl. to 63s 6d for fine yellow, and 56s 6d to 57s for goo P'rj.. 1,000 bags low damp brown _Manilla were taken vately at 14s 9d to 15s per cwt. ha gs FOREIGN.-503 hhds 1 tree 197 boxes and 1 96 ". 61 Cuba offi-red by auction were chiefly taken in at 19 ' to 22s 6d per cwt. # stil l COFFEE.—The market is a little firmer, ont to there is not much disposition to-do business. At 0.6 4 c 7,011 a small quantity of Jamaica sold at 30s to 759 6 " het 80s for triage to fine fine ord and mid. Ceylon ha s 0 free buyers; 1,108 bags at auction realised 63s Woe for fine ord to mid; Plantation, 63s to 72s 6d for to fine ord, and 51s 6d to. 55s for good ord; 307 East India partly sold at 21$ to 47s 6d fern: .0 1104 40 Mysore; 36 bales Mocha at 59s for ord; 14 bags m".„ - y. at 495; and 75 bags St Domingo at 26s to 28s per c ;' for Cocoa.—Grenada has been sold at 45s 6d to 56 w :0, inferior to good bright red, and Trinidad at 42s 'd it Rum.—This article has been steady, Leewardls lan 2s 4/c1 to 2s 5d per gallon, and Jamaica at 3s to 35 both for proof. la c/‘ SPlCES.—Pepper has been quiet, and 2,500 bag s A Dia' only partly sold ; Sumatra at 2id to 2id per lb, an at labar at 3id to 3,-' i d per lb ; Pimento has been 4d to 48d per lb. Cassia Lignea has been dull. „Jo. , ElcE.—Bengal is is request, and lOs 6d to lb" been paid for low to good mid white. TEA.—The market is very quiet, and there is ° moderate quantity taken for actual wants. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. Tallow has rather hea v Y'j to quotation for old is 41s per cwt,and for new 41s - 41s 6d per cwt on the spot. FLANDERS and HAMBURGH NI AjL. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BRUSSELS, OCT. 22.—The average price of wu" week was 19f. 32c., that of rye 10E 58c. per he t° ce p These prices being really the same as for sever al r import past, there is, of course, no alterations in the export duties. o or With the system of publicity which results from ove institutions and our manners, a speech from the ° t oe can very rarely have any new facts to declare to d oer country. What is particularly desired i n s uch o ments is precision and frankness, in short, a 0 01 statement. it 11 1 •_ In some serious and delicate circumstances, su e y te. we have known, it is almost Impossible the , - b i h sr should preserve this character. ' The most desire ,ceery tuation is that in which it is permitted to 0/ of thing to the country without reserve. Such ha s situation become. . . . „, tl In whatever manner we . consider ' the speech fr° ..- to na 1 e throne, we must find it satisfactory ; and if we In permitted for a moment to conjecture what was ;es ti , in the King's heart, we should say that his °i t : o .J ree f when he was delivering it, felt that he had a meat e$ able task to perform ; every result that has been eu` ..,ro' manifested his constant efforts, and his success au r moting the interests of the country.—Courier Beig e ' or tei WARSAW, OCT. 10.—The Polish corps of th e o rclj' has returned to its winter qu a rter s , an d only th.,„ vi ail l nary garrison of the 2d R eg i men t o f Infantry 'idier'' here, and after all the exercises were ended, the s l, f iec e who had served their time were discharged. 0° esf e ; Governor was very much satisfied with the trooP s ' ro fecb cially the artillery. The cavalry too was much sPP, foie The Universal Prussian Gazette states in a let te 'd de! Warsaw, the writer of which has - copied the Jour i voli 9 Debats, the story of the finding five millions e', to W 3 florins in repairing an old chur c h, half of which wa c i itt ioo' devoted to the relief of the suffe r ers by the jou ° i 00 .4 We are sorry to deprive the sufferers of the two 133 1 1 ) ,, t4 O and a-half florins so generously assigned to tho u c o 0: Prussian Gaz e tte, b u t b e i ng l overs o f t ru th we 'o il l " pelled to say that there is no t a s yll a ble of truth whole story from beginning to end. 00 m at •Ae FRANKFORT, OCT. 16.—Goethe's Monu-e rr ew, brought this afternoon at three -- o'clock in a ea i t i t for" adorned with the standards of Bavaria and e at of and garlands of flowers. . 10g ° y VIENNA, OCT. 12.—1 n conseuence of the c oo te the Governor of Miniz, which post is filled alt er , t ao /f1 by an Austrian and a ' Prussian General, it heilefl the turn of Prussia, the Landgrave Philip, ° f wa ive, t Hombourg, hitherto Governor for Austria, ha' ° eg'` • t ie) .. leave of absence for an unlimited time, and it 15 ,,, AJP that he will not remain in the active service of the trian Government. the' BERLIN, OCT. 7.—Accerding to accounts - 6 -. r°/ri o aci e 'l Palace at Fishboek, Prince William, his Majesc r othc was preparing to s e t ou t f or M a i nz , where hi s et' in-law, the Landgrave of Hesse Hombourg, wil l cle i him the government and c om ma nd o f that fortres L % at a We expect in a few days the promulgation el to t h ' convention with two northern Powers, relativ e , 0 e ver part which has be en negotiated with them for tuttbsis6' pleticn and extension of the convention already 6 ing with Prussia, Russia; and Austria. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bavm es, Oar. V' .... Aetna Debt, 2% per Cent., Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cen t . ........... - Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent ..... .....•• .• Three per Cent... .... '' 0 ,----- Thlrty-seven Milli ns, ditto ........... - its .....-_-_~--_. 1844., .......... ...__ ..............•••••••••• 0 Loan of City, 1843, Four per trent. .. . . ................. ...., Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent- 60$ Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent ..... . ........ ...,.." ...- Issue of 1841 ..... . ....... ... . ............ ......••••••"' —.lrussels Papers, O c t. " . . t. 23. HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE ' Oar- a g o nd' B ills. _.. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1635 .-- Anglo-Russian Loan )144 1 0 Russian 5 per Cent., let series, Certificate losg 1 ,54 Inscription, let series -- - Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 9th , --' Series 9o;is ..... 90. Ditto ....- in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (1840) l/1 6 1S Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ......... - €03 4 Ditto 5 per Cent. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. Spanish, New 5 per C e n ts . , ......... 11 .... Polish Bonds ...- New Tickets •-• AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, 041' IS' 0 Five per Cents. Metalhques ... .., Four par Cent 5................... ....................... S .. , Three per Cents. __ 160 0 Bank Shr- ,nares .„.....•.....u• Alkcmcine Zeitung,' Oct. 20. ar PORTRAIT Or M R . M AGNA Y.—We —° understand by a French paper of Tuesday, tilt" - D ort r ;s named Wint er h a l ter w ill b e se l ecte d to take or rxi:iag v of the Lord M ayor w hi c h i s d est i ne d, 11 the command, to occupy an honourable p ace 1 iu of Versailles. p.A h ere WOOLIVICII OCT. 24.—The following owlroveclilP been appointed ' to the Dedaelus frigate, co Woolwich by Captain Peter M‘Quliae, Lieutenonnot P „ ,; Randolph, Lieutenant G. 0. Po plewell, gr. /OP ' W. Clark, Mr. William Barrett, P innster ; Tinhorn, paymaster and purser ; Mr. Alexsucl„ . surgeon ; Mr. John Bernard, assistant - su r g ee e ,,,, one e f P - Th- .11 .- o'mas Price, clerk ; Lieutenant one corporal, two drummers, and twenty private' p lae wich Division of Royal Marines, have b een 'llP l.°' wt 0 under orders Braimer“ -- , et e d ceed to Portsmouth to receive her marine artillericuleati 32-pounder gun on pivot has been ordered to be; ov e e, her armament, to be lead on her deck forw o ' s beiPs Munk's 56-pounder guns on traverking carrioge ve d already placed aft. a ril , The Antwerpen steamer, Captain fitic ks°ll n3' or yi r; having ta t It t ih h ne e ge S ba t er . I 'll el t o h ffu a er r e i to i e l f e d ' e. s iig l n l 7 I t : : o. re, o'clock, ot; : Tower, k th e hours, iat. s gs t s e tl9 l ; gn ci e ::; ts o — i fi l ii re c °ll ; : l , t, e ° l ;a Y , contrary tide. Doctor Phillimore was a tu° _,9 g- nrOc ee sengers. The Hon. Mrs. Kennedy and fain° , r to Antwerp, on Sunday l us t, b y t hi s ship. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1844.