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MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., post Biro., YOUNG LOV E. By MRS. TROLLOPE. Authoress of " The Vicar of WreshW," " The Widow Barnaby," Sco Henry Celburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEMESIS IN CHINA. THE NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION OF THE VOYAGES AND SERVICES OF THE NEMESIS IN CHINA, &c., IS NOW READY, comprised in a single volume, wi!li Maps and Plates, price 18s. bound; containing the only complete account of THE LATE WAR. _ . . Ileir;Coltrurn, Putolslter, 13, Great Marlborough-street. • THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 21, Will be performed Auber's celebrated Opera THE /WREN. Marco Tempesta, Mr. W. Harrison; Scipio, Mr. D. W. King; Zerlina (the Syron), Miss Rainforth. After which, the Grand Ballet, entitled THE CORSA' .t. :..7onr•id, M. Albert ; Julien, M. Desplaces ; Sanguo M. blontessit MeJora, Miss Clara Webster ; Une Vivanditae, kdlle . Auguste, Delbes ; O Mills.inare, Adele Dumilatre. Tno Box-othce 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 14, Will be repeated Vanbrugh's Comedy of THE CONFEDERACY. Adapted to the present Period. The Principal Characters by Messrs. Strickland, W. Farrell, Iluekstone, and C. Mathews Madame Vestrls, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. E. Yarnold, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Stanley, and Mrs. Glover. After which. will be produced a New Comic Dram founded . on Don Cwsar de Bazars , entitled A MATCH FORa, A KING. Charles the Second, Mr. Stuart; Don Sebastian della Rosa, Mr. C. Mathews; Mariquita, Miss Julia Bennett. To conclude with a New Farce, by Mr. Buckatone, entitled THE 4 >iliLE RIG. John Ginger, Mr. Buckstone , Sam Shindy, ildr. Strickland; Mrs. Ginger, Mrs. W. Clifford. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the Even ing), ss. each. First Price—Boxes ,_5O. ; Pit, 35.; Gallery, :'s.; Upper Gallery, is. Second Price at Nine o'Clock —Boxes, Ss. ,• l'it, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Upper Gallery, CA Doors opened at Half past Six, Pet formance commence at term. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each. Tickets and Places to De had of Mr. I. T. Archer, at the 13ex.oitice, from Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 24, Will be performed an entirely New Drama, entitled CIESAR BA ZAN ; or, Lore end Honour. Charles the Second, Mr. Howe; Ciesar ee B inn, Mr. Webster; Maratina, Madame Celeste. Attar which, a New Eccentric I'4 yt hole& al Burlesque, called TELEMACHUS ; or, The Island of Calypso. Telemachus, Mira Wooigar Calypso, Mr. Wright; Mentor, Mr. P. Bedford; Dinah, Mr. Cowell To be followed by a New Comte Operetta, called the FOX AN!) TH E GOOSE. Principal Characters by Messes. Ldud a on, Paul Bedford, and Mrs Fitawilliam. Prompter, Mr. °allot ; Principal Painter, I4r Pitt; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mclion.—Box-oilice 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 24, Will be perforrn.d THE SYREN. Principal Characters by Messrs, Walton. C. lions Jun., Leffler Allen i and Mdlle. Nau. To conclude with the New Drama, called DON CY-SA R DE BA ZAN. Don Ceesar, Mr, Wallack ; Charles the '.:econd, Walton ; Maritana. Mr& Stirling; Countess di Rotondo, Mrs. Fo.hri ke. t.. age Manager, Mr. H. L Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden. Machinist, sir. Edmund Bradwell Dress Circle, sa. ; Boxes, 4s. I Pit 2.5.; Gallery, Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—l)ress Circle, 2s. td. ; Box,s, 2e. ; Fit, le.; Gallery, fid. Private Boxes, Two Guineas 'rid One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce nium Boxes, Two Guineas anal a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half. post Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box. office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingharn. Prorate Boxes and kree Admissions for the Season to be had at tha Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA_ HOUSE. Under the Management os MIS. KEELEY. First Week of the New Grand Tale of Enchantment Tills EVENING. OCTOBER 24, Will be repeated TI I E SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASS.ONS With entirely Ne. Scenery, Machinery, Dresses. &c. Principal Charazters by Mr. Thddear, Mr. J. al. ioilier, Mr. Gouriet, Mr. Craven, and Mr. Keeley; Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Weollidge, A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Ms.. James, Miss Arden, M 156 Grove, Miss Fort scue, and Mrs Keeley. To which will he added THE I OST OF HONOUR, In which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will perform. To cone ude with a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLE. WIT. Principal characters by Messrs, R. Ycunge, Craven, Emery, F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, Stantoi,, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, and Keeley; Miss fortescue, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Groves, Mrs. Usher, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Poxes. 4i.; Upper Boxes, Ss.; Pit, !s.'; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes. x ; Upper Boxes, Is. ; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Itltic•iny Tier (holding eight persons), Tao Guineas. Private Boxes ow the Second Tier (holding eight persons), Ona Guinea and a-Halt Private Poxes on the int Pier (holding six persons), One °Wren' The Box...ace is open from Tcn to Four o'Clock, under the direc tt n of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent -garden Theatre. ASTL P IA'S RO AL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. roprietor Y and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY, Open every evening with aitic ts une n qualled rotation c.f Equestrian and DI am Entertainments TH 8 EVENING, OCTOBER 24, and during the week at seven o'Clock t The Splendid Spectacle from the Poem of the illustrious Sir Walter Scott, entitled LOCHINVARI or, The Bridal of Nethertiy, and Steed of the Brave. Entire change of the Scenes of the Circle, and novel feats of Horse, manship, by thee x tensive corps of French and Br UM riders. To conclude with THE BLOOD.RED KNIGHT; or, The War. riors of Palestine. Acting and stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from F.:1 , 1M till Five. lons in the Art of Riding fey Mr. It. Smith drily. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE THIS EVENING, OC roBER 24, Will be performed a New Drama, enti led DON CIESAR DI. B AZ AN, supported by the entire Company. To conch' , e with a New Military Drama, entitled THE EVE OF BATTLE. Sup, orted by the whole C. tripany, with New Scenery and Splendid Appointments. Placer and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Bcx &Alice, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 24, Will be performed DON CIES AR DE BAZ AN. Principal Cha racier@ by Messrs. t sba!diston,Daie, Herbert, and Miss Vincent. After which, VENICE PRESERVED. Priuli, Mr. Dale; Pierre, Mr Graham; daffier. Mr. Timid Belvidere, Mrs. W. West. To conclule with VENGEANCE; or, Family lends and a Bumping Legacy. Private Family Boxes, £1 'Led. and £1 lls. 6el. ITH WEATELER--firra Omer, OcT. 24. TJFItEtIO.3 I KIT:IZ, Lowest, 44; Highest, 51 ; Noon, 46 BAuoyaranu, 29.7.--WIND, E. Ner:w.—Tho number 32 on tile Thermometer denct2.9 the frsczir.g ?Dint, and 55 temperate. In Baroraetex, fair it usually piaeed opposite 30, and rain at '29. HIGH WATF:R AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. 2 minutes alter 0 j Brcn!ng'... 44 minutes alter O. . • • Z.. Z:4 l •f gi it SECOND EDITION. etrailaw *au j.eNDCII, TIIURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1844. The universal stir among the agriculturists of England, from the Land's End to the Tweed, is a feature of no ordinary occurrence in the history of the country. Formerly the aristocratic landowner followed religiously in the footsteps of his predecessor —left " well alone"—hunted during the day—spent the evening in libations—kept the peasantry as igno rant of any real knowledge as the beasts that perish —mortgaged part of his property as dowries for his daughters—supported the Tory Government, because the Tory Government was bound neck and heels by the landed interest—cried for war, because war pro vilied situations for his sons, and raised his rent-rolls .--opposed with a fury approaching to madness every species of reform—and declared all men traitors to their Goo, their KING, and their country, who dared to touch one pin of that sacred ark —the Constitution in Church and State. What an awakening has been since! It can be likened to nothing so aptly as the scene described by the inspired Prophet, when " there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones camp together, bone to his bone, and they stood up an exceedingly great army." The reformers, which in bygone days were scarcely visible, are now to be met with in every part of the island, and in every depart ment of the State. But even great and unexpected as has been the change, no portion of it is so sur prising, and so pregnant with happy prospects, as the resuscitation of the old, sleepy agriculturists of England. In almost every county and town meetings have been held, for promoting agricultural improve ments. The landlords now tell their tenants they must be up and doing—" the Philistines are upon them." The burden of the speeches is " tile-draining," "guano manure," " subsoil ploughing," " turnip drill," and many other new-fangled systems- imported from thii north, or from the best cultivated plains of the Netherlands And Lombardy. '.The speech of Lord STANLEY, at the - Liverpool. Agricultural Association on Tuesday, is in excellent keeping with the late movement. " In every quarter of the kingdom," said his Lordship, " we find, within the last few years, that societies similar to this have !Ken springing up, and agriculture is partaking of the great movement which has been pervading all the in dustrial branches of this country. Farmers are find ing out that it is necessary for them, with a view to their own interests, to take a very different course from that which was followed by their grandfathers and great grandfathers. In these days no man is allowed to stand still Irnprovermat must go on. And I see throughout the country, in every part of it, gratifying proofs that improvement is going on as actively in the agricultural as in the manu facturing districts and operations of the country. Now we ask his Lordship what has scaused this mov ement, this rattling of dry bones,revivifica tion of a race which, generation after thi s g followed the prece din g race like automatonesn the cry for cheap bread—the universal shout raised by the friends of the poor, and, above all, by an as but a few years old--the National Anti- Corn -law League. If Mr. COBDEN and his sup porters never do another good act in their lives—if they should fail in carrying into full effect their grand object, which we deem impossible, they deserve to be immortalised for rousing into activity a body of men idle and haughty, yet vainly claiming for themselves _ . ~P sha;e enuntrv. and the source of all its wealth. The League—the abo minated League--is the main cause of this extraor dinary commotion. But there are many others en titled to great merit in furthering the good work. The skill, ingenuity, perseverance, and industry, of the manufacturing classes must come in for a large share. Their labour has obtained its reward. Merchant princes have sprung from the lowest of the people—the Cotton Lords are tread ing upon the heels of the titled Lords ; the intelligence of the operatives of Birmingham Manchester, Leeds, and fifty other great hives of industry, stands out in broad relief, when contrasted with the half-fed, the uneducated, the helpless and almost hopeless children of the soil. The speech of Lord STANLEY, and his Canada Corn Bill, are sign of happy omen to men who have struggled so man fully in a noble cause ; well-grounded hopes of vic tory will cheer them on to further exertions, and the day, we trust, is not far distant when the landowner and his best customer, the manufacturer, will view this great question in the same light, and settle it by an amicable arrangement. Whilst we, in London, were deploring, on Mon day last, the lifeless apathy with which that anniver sary of the glorious battle of Trafalgar, and of the almost consecrated death of our Great Admiral, seemed to be regarded in the very Capital whose streets had so often echoed to the thunder of ths guns—and glowed with the festival lights—which celebrated the succession of his brilliant triumphs by , land and by sea, over the enemy, there were other hearts still throbbing to the immortal recollections associated with his name, other hands, performing grateful and reverential homage to his illustrious: memory, within the same stout walls of British oak, from whence be achieved his last and crowning vic tory, and where he encountered his heroic fall with the sublime constancy, and simple grandeur, of a hero ! Often as we have been called upon, in common with all our fellow-subjects, to commend the truly national prepossession which her MAJESTY so pointed] manifests, at all times, for the Naval Service of the country, and the fine manifestations of that dauntless hearing on the waters which so well becomes the QUEEN of the Islands, we have never experienced a feeling of more enthusiastic admiration for het MAJESTY'S personal character and deportment than has been excited in us by the account of her unex pected visit to the Victory, on the 21st instant. 1: seems that, attracted by the unusual decorations of that majestic vessel—(every timber of which, like that of the adventurous " Argo" of old, or of the craft which carried DRAKE in safety on his memorable circuit of the globe, ought to be carefully preserved as an heir-loom to our posterity)—her MAJESTY—in the act of proceeding in the state barge of the Port- Admiral to the Royal Clarence Victualling-office at Portsmouth, where the Lords of the Admiralty were awaiting her arrival—inquired the reason of the Victory's being dressed with lautels ov©r her taffril, decks, sides, round-tops, and figure-head, and of the firing from her guns ? On being apprised by Captaie RowLEY that these honours were paid to the anniver sary of the day of Trafalgar, on board NELSON'S own Victory, her MAJESTY at once exclaimed, " will go on board that ship." The course of the berg( was accordingly altered, and the QUEEN presently stood upon its quarter-deck, animated by emotions which, as none could feel more keenly, so, assuredly, none could give more graceful expression to. The signal devotion, the incalculable services which the early friend of her royal uncle, and predecessor on the throne, ha - I exhibited and performed throughout the whole of his mighty career to the country which idolised him whilst living, and can never, without signal ingratitude, be wanting to his posthumous re nown ; the disinterested and chivalrous intrepidity of his character, and the eventful success, though sealed with his heroic blood, which signalised his last ex hortation to each of his followers "to do his duty —these remembrances and others, awakened by the passing scene and its associations, seem to have arisen vividly to the mind of the young SOVEREIGN. ShY was profoundly affected. She plucked an impressive and apt memorial—a leaf or two from the spray of laurel which garlanded the spot where a brans tablet still records, with touching simplicity, the fact — Hero NELSON fell ;"—and descended, after a brief pause of sympathising regret, to the dark and silent cabin, on whose walls a homely, but still more solemn legend, apprises each patriot pilgrim to the locality that had witnessed the departure of his heroic spirit, that " Here NELSON died." On this hallowed sites the QUEEN dropped a generous tear ; and she lingered :ome minutes, in the indulgence of feelings that may more easily be imagined than described, from the conflict of spirit-stirring recollections with more painful and saddening sympathies. At her departure from the stout old ship, the tars ss ho manned the yards, or were distributed throughout the various shipping and the large flotilla of boats in the harbour, testified by their boisterous, but honest cheering, how highly they appreciated the grateful respect which her MAJESTY had testified for one of the boldest, of the most intelligent, and able, and fortunate com manders, who had ever vindicated, on its ocean home, the glory of her flag, and, with it, the rights of her crown. We are convinced that, had her MAJESTY pur posely devoted the mature deliberations of an entire year's privacy to the determining by what course of action she could best ensure a permanent impression of enthusiastic loyalty and personal attachment to wards her, on the part of her people—and of the Naval Service more especially—she could not have arrived at a happier conclusion than that which was the result of her spontaneous resolution, adopted on an unexpected and accidental communication made in answer to her own casual, inquiries, on the thirty ninth anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar I We cannot discover, in the last files of Australian papers which we have received, any much more sub stantial grounds of encouragement as to the prospects of our various colonial possessions in those distant latitudes, than we detect in the present aspect of our West Indian Islands. Sir GEORGE Gires, indeed, at the opening of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, on the 24th of May last, pressed into the service of the sessional inauguration speech every possible topic on which ho seems to have thought that he could raise a touch of hopeful sympathy in his audience. But these scattered touches of conso lation have no more principle of sustained vivacity about them than the motions of the " Platypus"— the paradoxical otter-duck of the territories he governs—bear to the energetic action of veritable birds, or genuine quadrupeds. His Excellency con gratulates his Council on the commencement of their second session; but the business he cuts out for them supplies little or no matter of congratulation. His admissions, his facts, and his qualifications, both of the one and the other, are in the nature, politically speaking, neither of fish, nor flesh; nor fowl. He owns to the "large number of mechanics and labour ers, out of employ," and then in Sydney, " who have been long in the colony," and yet felicitates the Coun cil on the arrival, during its previous recess, " of an additional two thousand immigrants from the United kingdom." He exults in the fact that these latter have, for the most part, subsequently obtained en gagements in New South Wales; but he forgets that, in the same proportion, and to at least the same amount, must the labour have been displaced by those Sydney idlers, of whose case lie remarks that "he shall be happy to concur with the Council in any measures it may judge expedient for their relief." Another source of his exultation is drawn from the opinion he has arrived at " that there is nothing in the state of the public finances to create alarm." But he acknowledges, on the other hand, "the pecuniary dis tress which has so long prevailed in the colony." For the fact proclaimed by his Excellency, that the " decrease of the revenue of New South Wales had been very large in the second half of the past year," we can hardly accept as a countervailing quantity! his "disposition" to "hope that the ordinary revenue had now passed its lowest point of depression." It is rather a bitter qualification of the positive evil that " the territorial revenue of the Crown (only) is en cumbered with a debt," to be assured of the negative good, " that the ordinary expenditure of the whole year had not exceeded the ordinary revenue." The alchemy eontagiou o s f atmheong theopti mism, Utoianoffieia colonies—can scarce l y extract comfort, from so sombre a t a il-pi ece to a as this : i functionaries of distantis s so we apprehend, address ppreh " Although I am satisfied that there is sufficient vigour in our resources to enable us to overcome the difficulties still affecting all classes of the community, and to lay the foundation of a secure and lasting pros perity, I cannot but deeply lament the reverses which have so grievously, during the last three years, injured the fortunes of individuals and the credit of the colony ; and I shall continue, with your assistance, to give my most anxious consideration to the means by which per manent relief may be afforded. Really this is a chilling portrait of the actual con dition of a magnificent colony, whose advance, hitherto, in agricultural improvement, the develop ment of a native staple, and the commercial rela tions consequent on such advantages, and the inci dents of its geographical position, have been hitherto almost without a parallel in the history of European settlements. It is important to the best interests of civilisation, and to the great cause of colonial policy, that the erroneous principles which, alone, can have worked out so lamentable a conclusion as this from beginnings so auspicious, should be corrected, or re placed by others of a sounder and more beneficial character. To this end, as we argued in a former paper, some weeks ago, the absurd and suicidal dis abilities and amercements proposed to be inflicted on the great flock owners, or squatters—the pioneers of territorial discovery, and the true founders of Aus tralian greatness and opulence—must be at once re pealed, and the notion of reimposing them for ever abandoned. Tho Colonial Government must relax and diminish its tariff of official license fees, and other duties and imposts; and with the other must deal out more sparingly and discreetly the grants, of which the liberality and the extent have hitherto been followed by results so little commensurate. The Dutch mail, which arrived this morning, brings us the Speech of the King of the NETHER LANDS on opening the States-General at the Hague, on the 21st of October. The general state of the country is represented to be flourishing, the only ex ception being the West Indian Colonies. After al luding to the saving effected by the reduction of the interest on the National Debt, and by the Convention with Belgium, the speech announces an intention to make certain alterations in the tariff in the following words :—" The tariff of import, export, and transit duties, already provisionally communi cated to you, will now Iwcome a subject of your de liberation. Holland will not confine itself to bare words, when the successive improvements of our com mercial legislation shall have to be considered." This, and the announcement of the necessity of a reform in the monetary system, are by far the most impor tant portions of the speech, which will be found at length in another column. The following telegraphic dispatch from Madrid was received on Tuesday by the French Govern ment : " MADRID, OCT. 18.—The Bill relative to the re form of the Constitution has been this morning pre sented to the Congress. . " The Ministry have, at the same time, demanded of the Senate permission to decree some organic laws." These two measures—the reform of the Constitu tion:and new organic laws—excite great interest. Every friend of liberty believes there is a deep-laid scheme not to reform, but to overturn the Constitu tion. The result will soon be seen, as the " Reform Bill" was the first to be discussed by the Cortes. In the Senate scarcely any business had been transacted. The following is the speech of the President, Mos- CORO DE ALTAMIRA, on his taking the chair : " Senators,—Upon occupying for dna fifth time this eminent post, it is a pleasure to me to reflect that I owe this honour to the kindness of her Majesty. My posi tion as President will recal without ceasing to my recol lection the imperious duty imposed upon me to protect the rights and liberties of each senator in this meeting, by faithfully observing the regulations of the assembly. The prudence and wisdom of the Senate will probably render my task a light one. I trust that without re nouncing his independence of opinion, each senator will know how to reconcile it with his elevated position and lignity. Such a line of conduct is the only means of in suring this illustrious body the consideration and respect that arc due to it." The inquiry respecting the sinking of the Rayo .appears to exonerate the English officers from blame, is the Spanish vessel was proved to have been within the limits of British water. Madrid Bourse of the 16th.—Three per Cents.,26 for Account ; Five per Cents., 20a for :Account ; bloating Debt, 62} for Account. The trial of the Duke DR MONTMORENCY for the distribution of seditious medals took place on Mon day before the Paris Court of Assize. The Duke (or Prince Du ROBECQ) was defended by M. BERRYER, and was accompanied to Court by the Duke of FITZJAMES, the Marquis DE LA ROCHE JAQUELIN, and several other distinguished members of the Legi timatist party. It is needless to give any details of this trumpery trial. M. BERRY ER asserted that there was nothing political in the affair, and the jury coin cided in his view, for, after consulting only five minutes, they returned a verdict of "Not guilty." The Prince was loudly cheered when ho left the Court. The speech of the Prince is the only inte resting part of the proceedings, and does honour to the ancient and noble House of MONTMORENCY : " Gentlemen," said he, " the charges which have just been brought against me by the Avocat-General will certainly not be deemed by you of a nature to justify the abuse which the Government have made of th• law. What is the question submitted to you ? My devotedness to the Prince to whom (and I do not wish to conceal it) I have sworn fidelity inviolate— some busts made in the court-yard of my house since 1840—busts which have been exhibited to every body, in a house open at all hours—and a sale that never had the secresy just ascribed to it. Did this require that my dwelling should be visited by the police, that my locks should be picked or broken open, that my seals should be torn up, that my family papers should be read, and that a parcel of documents, which was to be opened but' after my death, should be carried away, in order to , iet at these busts ?I. do not think so. If I had been applied to, I should have at once avowed All I had done. These searches have been hut a pretext. What makes me suppose it is that, at the same moment similar searches were made At the dwelling of a Lieutenant-General who broke his sword in 1830, and, also, at the dwelling of a ;rave officer, who has since appeared before a jury Ind been acquitted. That gentleman's only offence was, that he had been a member of a charitable asso ciation, whose objects he had admirably promoted. ['his work of charity has been impugned, and it is mot the first time such an attempt has been made, for they have expressed a determination to crush it. I take this opportunity of appealing to the generous ►nd humane feelings of such as may be disposed to promote this charitable association which I am doing lily best to promote. I hope that our defence will merge victorious from this severe trial. Already have the jury duly disposed of an accusation which, AS I have already observed, was but a mere pretext. What is aimed at and expected is, that you will strike it convictions which all honourable men respect— 'aith in adversity—attachment to glorious past times. ['hey wish to attain all—to venture everything—to lefy public opinion—and to drive us to a despotism the more dangerous as they will cover it with the mantle of legality. For us, they may persecute and brand us, but they never shall accomplish thar ibject." We really thought the Opposition journals had lone with the royal visit, but as they have not yet found another hobby they will probably ride this one to death. The National, so bent on war, of course, is nighty indignant at the KING for presuming to say, before the Knights of England, at the investiture of the Garter, " I swear to abstain from unjust wars." Phis honest men consider a very honourable and hu none vow. Not so this rabid journal, who thus ,ttacks his MAJESTY, while professing to attack M. ;MOT :- " M. Guizot assisted officially, in his quality of Mi nster, at the investiture. We have the right to make :am account for the imprudent words spoken on that ,ecasion. At the moment the Chancellor read the .vords, I swear never to make an ruling or unfair war t gainst the Sovereign of the Order , ' the King interrupted urn by exclaiming, more than once, with the greatest nergy, Never, never. I never will.' "As Louis Philippe is not at an age when men are .arried away by their feelings , all t hat he said was no loubt arranged beforehand with M. Guizot, and we can to more render the King accountable for these words, aid of the warmth with which they were spoken, than we can attribute to him alone the discourse pronounced ')3T him from the throne on the opening of the session. Therefore, we say, the Minister of Foreign Affairs has .hought proper, before the British aristocracy, to allow th ie e ve Ctit r o t n o s ina u k ti e o w na ar l ag Ki a n i g nst to t h t e a k s e o v a e r s e o i l g e n m o n f e ti n l e g a o g r e d m e r e n o f t the Garter. " In order to give another meaning than that of a vain otiquette to this pompous comedy, it was necessary for Louis Philippe to interrupt the Chancellor by a new THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24 9 1844. protestation in favour of peace, which would give to his oath an entirely political character. This, truly, was wanting to crown the visit, and we hope the Debats will to-morrow recommence its lyrical strophes on this forgotten circumstance. Is it not a wondrous spectacle to see the King of the Ftench interrupting a ceremony of the middle ages by declaring that he takes as serious the engagemtzt not to make war against the Queen of England ? Never ! no, never ! It is the Sovereign of the Order of the Garter who re mains naturally the judge who is to decide whether a war is unjust or impious. The new Knight is not to acknoiraedge any rule but his oath, and it is stated that, fit order that he may conform to it to the letter, Louis Philippe demanded an authentic copy. It seems to us, however, that, in replying to the munici palities of Portsmouth and London, M. Guizot had sufficiently testified his zealous desire for peace, in all times and in all parts—it seems to us that the demon strations of the entente cordiale had been already quite ample enough, and that it was quite useless to renew them by taking an oath. We will not attach to these impressions more importance than they deserve. Events are stronger than the wills of men, and the Garter is not a talisman that can arrest the current of facts, of interests, and ideas. But what a pitiable part has the Ministry imposed upon the Monarch Not to hear peace mentioned without raising his eyes to heaven, laying his hand upon his heart, and bursting into trans ports of love and enthusiasm 1 We shall say no more. Is this prudent policy, when we may have to-morrow to defend the rights and honour of our country—is it even dignified? Last year, the King of Prussia was admitted into the order of the Garter, anti certainly he took good care, true friend as he is to peace, not to interrupt the Chancalor by giving any meaning whatever, to that which was a mere form. Is it then being too exigent to regnit the Ministry to impose upon the King of the French that good taste, that feeling of consistency, which was was not wanting in the King of Prussia?" The following just remarks appear in the Paris Globe " The value of the welcome given to the King of the French by the English nation must not be exaggerated any more than dented. To suppose that this reception, sincere as it was, signifies that the English will not de fend Choir interests when competing with ours would be absurd to suppose that in return for this reception France will not defend her interests against those of England would be equally absurd. It is not necessary to be a superior man like M. Guizot—not even a man of common sense—to fancy that a great people are long go verned by systematically sacrificing its interests. It is only for the Opposition journals to believe that. These journals are like worn-out horses turning the wheel of a well—they are fit for their functions only when blind. But, if the question is not to sacrifice the inte rests of either of the two nations, what is the question ? What does the sympathy of the English people signify ? What is it good for ? We will tell. The English people does not feel for the King of the French and France a ro mantic sympathy. It did not flame up for King Louis Philippe simply because it saw him, and because the King replied in good English to the addresses pre sented to him. The person and language of the King have fortified the sentiments of the English people for the French King and people, but they did not give it birth. That dates further back than the visit to Windsor. It is the fashion of the present day, when speaking of the English people, to represent it as exclusively given up to the furtherance of its interests, and as caring but little fur ideas. That is one of those errors which French heedlessness alone could have established. The English are fond of positive matters ; but there is 119 people which makes so many material sacrifices for a political, or philosophical, or religious idea, when it is thought just. For instance, whatever may be tie opinion entertained in an economical point of view of the emancipation of the blacks, it cannot be denied that in England the idea of emancipation has been really a re ligious and philosophical one, and is still so for the ma jority of the English nation. The English Govern ment, which long rejected the emancipation, seized on it when it saw that it was in the heart of the nation ; it used this idea to forward the interests of its policy, and did in that only what all clever Govern ments are in the habit of doing. National ideas and sentiments are forces which the statesman employs to move the political machine. But there are in the Eng lish people two ideas taking root and developing them selves strongly—the idea of liberal propagandism and pacific propagandism. ,England at present reckons almost as many liberal and pactfie philosophers as Christian emancipators. The Revolution of July is in their opi nion a great manifestation of modern liberty ; the King of the French is the venerable personification of Euro pean peace ; they saluted in him the liberal Sovereign and peaceful King. This is so true, that, although the municipality of London contains a good number of Ra dicals, the address to the King of the French was not withstanding adopted unanimously, because it was in tended for the liberal Sovereign. It is this which ex plains the sympathetic movement of the English people towards the King of the French—this sentiment of verse ration which is perceptible in the addresses of the cor porations—a sentiment which the French journals turned into ridicule, because they did not comprehend it." TUE BOURSE-TUESDAY, OCT. 22. First highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French'Fivepor Canta•• •••• 118 50 118 50 .. 118 40 .. 118 40 Four-and-a-Half.... 111 70 •• 111 70 111 70 ••,111 70 Three per Cents.•• 82 15 .. 82 20 •• 82 15 .. 82 20 Bank of France 3055 •-3055 • 3055 ..3055 Lailitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesll2o —ll2O ..1120 • • 1120 5,000 f. Shareaso42 50 ••5042 50 ..5042 50 —5042 50 Belgian Bank..•••••• 660 .. 660 .• G 57 50 657 50 Belgian Five/3,1842 .• •••• •• 1052 .• 1052 .. 1052 .. 1052 Spanish Passive.. • 51 .. 5i • 5 .. Active—. • 32f • • 328 • • 328 • • 322 Threes.•••...•..•• 351 • • 35 • • 35 Neapolitan ...••..•..... Roman •••• RAILWAY SILA.RES, st. Germain 912 50 .. T•l2 50 .• 912 50 .. 912 50 Versailles, WIT. •••••• • • • • • • 395 • • 345 • • 399 .. 395 L.B. ...... • 277 50 . 2SO .. 277 SO .. 280 Rouen .. Rouen to 11avre•• •• • ..... •• 770 •• 770 •• 770 •• 770 Orleans •••• Strasburg to Bale• ••••••• •• 277 50 •• 230 .• 277 50 • 280 Avignon to Marseilles...—. 780 • • 780 .. 780 .. 780 RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, OCTOBER 31. St. tiers in. •••••••••• •• •• 015 •• 915 •• 915 .. 915 Versailles, 273 75 .. 280 .. 278 75 .. 280 Rotten •...... .• •• •• ......1027 50 —lO4O —1027 50 —1037 50 Rouen to Ilavre.• ••• • • •••,• 767 5 0 • • 770 .. 767 50 • • 770 1018 75 —lO2B 25 —lOlB 75 .•1026 25 Orleans • . 278 75 .. 278 75 .. 278 75 .. 278 75 itiasburg to 8a1e......... MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The returns for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 19, shows a decrease of 123 as compared with the preceding week. The number of deaths in the first class is still large, being 226, while the average for the autumn months is only 191. This has been caused chiefly by small• pox, scarlatina, and typhus, which, with the average, are respectively as follows :—Small- pox, 35-17 ; scarlatina, 81-45 ; typhus, 38-29. The number of deaths from pneumonia is small, the average being 107, while last week it was 74. Asthma shows a still greater decrease. The following is an analysis of the list of violent deaths :—Fracture, two cases, of which one was by a fall. Wound, three cases, result of accident, of which two were suicides. Burns, one case. Poison, two cases, of which one was suicide. Drowning, two cases (wheth er th e resu lt o f accident or otherwise, unknown). Hanging, one case (suicide). Suffocation, two cases. Total, nine males and four females (including one case of tetanus). The quantity of rain fallen is great, as might have been anticipated, the amount in inches -being 1.78 the greatest quantity fallen in any week, probably, during the whole year. It is scarcely necessary to remind the public that the holyday given on the occasion of the Queen's visit to the City next Monday has nothing whatever to do with the payment of bills of exchange If these are due on Monday, they must be paid the same as on any other day ; and if a bill becomes due and is dishonoured on Saturday, notice of dishonour must be given by the holder on the Monday as a matter of course. The only excep tions to the general rule are Good Friday, Christmas day, and days appointed by her Majesty's proclamation for solemn fast or thanksgiving. ALLEGED MURDER.—Last evening, Mr. lliggs held an inquest at the Rising Sun, Charles-street, Gros venor-9nare, on the body of Harriet Parker, aged fifty three, wife of John Parker, in the employ of Mr. Thomas Cubitt, and now in custody on remand from Marlbo rough-street Police-court, on a charge of having caused her death by wilful neglect and ill-treatment. It appeared in evidence that deceased lodged with her husband, who, besides being a labourer, was an out-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital, at No. 9, Ranelagh-street, Thames-bank, and that on the 20th ult., he came home drunk, pushed her about, tore her clothes off her back, and kicked her on the legs. He assaulted her next day in a similar man ner, but no one saw him strike her with his fists, though in the evening he threw a board at her, which, striking her on the right cheek, the bone was split in two by the concussion The cheek, though much bruised and puffed, was not cut open by the blow, because it was given by the flat part of the board. After this, she took to her bed, and her husband would get nothing for her, telling her to g.a what she wanted herself, that lin- Muss was notin: , more than laziness, thoug h at the time she was unable to sit up. Subsequently, she was attended by Mr. Davis, of Belgrave-place, but his attend ance was rendered nugatory by the annoyance she received at her husband's hands, who eventually stripped the bed on which she lay of all its covering. Mr. Davis got an order for her admission to the workhouse in Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, whither she was removed on the 12th instant, at her earnest re quest, because she said her husband had received his pension that day, would get drunk in consequence, and kill her before morning. Deceased had been formerly a nurse in St. George's Hospital ; her husband was sixty three years of erre, and they had been married onl y a year. Mr. H. a; e, surgeon, of 38, King-street, Berkeley-square, saw the deceased the evening (12th inst..) she was brought to the workhouse, when she com plained of having been severely beaten by her husband. She had marks of violence on her body, and complained of a pain in the stomach, where, she said, she had been kicked by her husband. She was seized with almost continual nausea, and finally with convulsions, to which she had been subject from her birth, and those diseases increasing, she gradually sank, and died on Sunday morning last. He had since opened the body, and her death was immediately caused by an effusion of serum into the cavities of the brain, and into all the serous ones of the whole system. The ill-treatment did not produce this general effusion, but it might have hastened it. The inquiry having lasted three hours and a half, was adjourned for the evidence of Mrs. Davis, who had attended deceased immediately after the ill-treatment. runup HEALTg.—Mr, Moore, a member of the Town Council of Leicester, has given notice pf a motion for the next meeting, - for the appointment of a Comr mittee "to inquire into and report to the Council as to the best means of establishing a cemetery in the suburbs of Leicester." THIS DAY'S NEWS. DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAILS. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) OPENING OF THE ORDINARY SESSION OF THE STATES-GENERAL FOR_IB44-45. THE HAGUE, OCT. 21.—This ceremony took place to-day, according to the programme which has been published. At one o'clock his Majesty the King left the palace, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Princes, and a brilliant staff. Wherever his Majesty passed he was received with acclamations by the immense crowd which thronged the streets through which the procession passed. On ar riving At the palace of the States-General the King was introduced to the House by the Com mittee appointed for that purpose. His Majesty, standing before the throne, delivered the following speech : " Noble and Mighty Lordi,—l am happy to be able to give you, on resuming your labours, the assurance that the general situation of the country presents, in many respects, a favourable appearance. " Our political relations are satisfactory. " The navy and the army continues to meet my approbation. " A part of our naval force is successfully engaged in the suppression of piracy in the Indian Archi- pelag,o. " The army, though considerably reduced in num ber, is animated with the best spirit, and endeavours to distinguish itself by its good discipline. " The building and completion of new men- of war proceeds regularly. " Necessity commands us to employ all the means in our power to repair and improve the works for the defence of the country. " The communal guard will receive a new orga nisation which, without being too burdensome to the nation, will render its service more effectual in time of danger. "Notwithstanding some partial failures of the crops, our East Indian possessions enjoy tranquillity and prosperity. "I regret that our West Indian colonies continue in a languishing state; however, means have been proposed to me to recover them, the applicability of which must be judged of on the spot. " Some branches of manufacture are improving, while others feel the influence of unfavourable cir cumstances. The Government endeavours, as far as in its power, to give them the best directions possible. " Primary instruction is the constant object of my solicitude. The arts and sciences are cultivated with zeal and success, and it is a pleasing duty to me to second, as far as the means are at my disposal at present, the efforts of those who devote themselves to them. " ThQ communications which will be made to you from me will prove to you the scrupulous fidelity, worthy of the highest praise, with which my beloved subjects, fulfilling the obligations which they have imposed on themselves, with unparalleled alacrity have made sacrifices to meet the wants of the State. " The Almighty has given his blessing to these sacrifices. "In a few months a voluntary reduction of the interest has procured a considerable saving. " An advantageous convention has been also con cluded with respect to the Belgian debt. "The results have considerably exceeded the esti mates which served as the basis of the plans adopted in the last session of the States-General. " The budgets which will be brought before you will prove to you that the Government does not stop in the course of retrenchment. "The tariff of import, export, and transit duties, already provisionally communicated to you, will now become a subject of your deliberation. " Holland will not confine itself to bare words, when the successive improvements of our commercial legation shall have to be considered. "It will be necessary, seriously to attend to the reform of our monetary system. I cherish the hope that it may be effected without an augmentation of the public burdens. "Your High Mightinesses will receive the pro posals on this subject, as well as those the tendency of which is to simplify more and more the administra tion of the finances. " I trust that the projects of law which will be presented to you, by virtue of Art. 6 of the funda mental law, will answer the object in the best manner. "I will not draw your attention to the other pro jects of law which will be presented to you in the course of this session. The Government does not cease to prepare everything which is necessary to answer the zeal with which the States-General attend to the interests of the country. " I implore the blessing of God on the task which we have to fulfil for the welfare of the country—that happy in the enjoyment of order, peace, and prosperity —to develop those virtues which have always charac terised the Dutch people. " I declare the present session of the States-General to be opened." FLUSHING, OCT. 19.—We hear with great pleasure that the Government intend that considerable work shall be commenced in the spring in the harbour of Breskens, near Fort Frederick Henry, which must give employment to many workmen. Three gun-boats have sailed from the Scheldt to Helvoetsluys for sailors to man the Ceres frigate, which is under orders for the East Indies. THE Ilsous, OCT. 21.—His Majesty has appointed M. A. Van Gennep, President of the First Chamber for this session. The Second Chamber will commence its operations to-morrow—first, with examining the validity of the elections of the new members ; second, with choosing three candidates, of whom the King will select one, as President of the Chamber. DUTCH FUNDS.—Amergitnaii, Ocr. 22. Money. Pins. Aetual Debt. 214 per Cent............. 6216 63 Ditto, ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto, ditto, 4 per Cent. Dm(' auto 5 per cert. nmett Syndic, 4g, per cent iB% 995( ditto, 356 per cent Commercial Company, 434 per cent 14734 143 1 3( Loan 1N37, 5 per cent. ..... .......... Exchange on London, Onemonth 12 1234 Two months l2 67 Hamburgh, One month ..... 35 68 Two months, 35 4374 Dutch Papers, Oct. 23. HAAIBURGH BORSENHALLE, OCT 19. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1640 Anglo-Russian Loan 114% Russian 5 Der Cent., Ist series, Certificate lO5 q 105 Inscription, Ist series — 105% Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series .... 9914 Ditto in Certificates .. 90 3 - NCNY 4 per Cent. (1840) 9l %y Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ......... Ditto 5 per Cent. — Anglo-Danish Loan, S per Cent. .......... Spanish, New 5 per Cents. 16% Polish Bonds — New Tickets .. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussets, Oer. 21. Actua Debt, 35(, per Cent., — Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ............ •••••••••• 102 Loan of Thirty M illions, Four per Cent. OB% . Three per Cent. .---. Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ... ......... (1840)....... ........ 104 S -- 1844.. ......... ••••• ••••••••••••••••••••••••• Bit% Loan of City, 1843, Four per Cent .. ". ......... . .... 102% Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per C ent. —' Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent. 60% Issue of 1841.. . ............. •••••••••••• ..... « ....... moo.. —.Brussels Papers, Oct. 22. OUTRAGE IN MADEIRA.—The Sierra San Antonio, a mountain district of Madeira, has recently been given up to pillage under the following circumstances:—On the evening of the 16th of September fourteen police men, some armed and others intoxicated, attempted to seize Nicolao Vieira, a Portuguese, who, about eighteen months ago, had joined the Scottish communion. Their only authority was a warrant, not signed as required by law. Under these circumstances Nicolao refused to follow them until it should be light. his neighbours rallied round him; and, after some altercation, but with out a blow being struck by either side, the police re tired. On the 23d of September, fifty soldiers, com manded by Captain Oliveira, proceeded, under pretence of seizing the offenders, to pillage the district. Some of the houses were gutted, others stripped of their va luables, the live stock was killed, and the inhabitants either taken prisoners or obliged to fly. The houses of two English merchants, Messrs. Burnett and Ellicott, were filled with women flying from the violence of the soldiery. It was not till the pillage had continued three days that those gentlemen obtained, by their urgent IT , monstrance, an order to restrain the soldiers. Twenty two prisoners were brought round in a frigate and lodged in Funchal gaol. The illegal signature of the warrant would have justified any resistance, while the circumstance that no blows wPTP s,trucl:i clearly proves how trifling it actually was. The pillage was Nittiessed by several English . gentlemen who visited the spot, and its effects are still visible to all who go to the Si erra . Ten of the ppisoners belong to the family of Maria Joaquina, who is still in prison under sentence of death. A VAN UPSET IN CHEAPSlDE.—Testerday after noon, about five o'clock, a fearful accident ofepp:red In Cheaps!cle, by the upsettipg a laTge coVered van, Which was run against by a waggon, and overturned across the foot-pavement at a time when it was thronged with pas sengers. Fortunately they contrived to get out of the way before it fell upon them. The van was on the wrong side of the way at the time. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000 bales, at previous rates. Buyers had an abundant choice. Speculators took 200 bales American, and ex porters 200.—Shares were firm, Dovers being in most request. Birmingham and Gloucester, 1044; Bristol and Gloucester, 431 ; Chester and Birkenhead Junction, 74; Ditto and Holyhead, 74 ; Churnet Valley, 41. 6s. 3d. ; Eastern Counties, 134; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 62 ; Glasgow and Ayr, 624 ; Grand Junction, 205 ; Ditto, Half, 102 ; Great Western, Fifths, 171; Liverpool and Manchester, Quarter, 491 ; London and Birmingham, 212 ; Ditto and Brighton, 471 ; Midland Counties, 107 ; North British, 54 ; North Union, 124 ; Preston and Wyre, 191 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 98 ; South-Eastern, 424 ; Ditto, New, 15} ; York and Selby, 454 ; Lyons and Avignon, 465. ; Paris and Lyons, 24 ; Ditto, and Orleans, 39-a. ; Paris and Rouen, 391 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 44 ; Central of France, 34. There are no ship arrivals with late news, from any quarter. In the produce markets a moderate business i.; doing for immediate consumption, but the same healthy absence of speculative excitement is still observable. The public securities have to-day been steady. The opening of the Chambers and States-General of Belgium and Holland has given occasion to the Sovereigns of those countries to make very satisfactory statements re lative to the finances and general position of their Go vernments, and as the Money Market here must feel the influence of a stable state of things abroad, this is so far satisfactory. As a counterpoise, however, there are one or two other States which are said to be on the look-out for loans. Consols for immediate transli-r have realised 994 to 4 per cent. above par, and for Time 100 to 4. Exchequer-bills have realised 735. premium, and India bonds, under I,OOOL, 935. premium. The Commissioners bought at 994 Reduced Three per Cents. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 1024 to 1011. There is the same apathy again exhibited in regard to Spanish Stock, which is almost nominal. The Five per Cent. Bonds have been at 234 to 4, and the Three per Cents. at 34:1 to 4. The Portuguese Converted Stock has been at 51 to 51,1. Mexican brought 344 4 ; Columbian, 144 ; and Brazilian 85. Dutch Two-and-a- Half per .ents. were 624 to 63. The Railway Shares are, on the whole, rather firmer than yesterday, although there is not a great deal doing. The French lines are very firm. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 991 99 3 per Cent. Coniols. Anna New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities.... 109% 101%% Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 1-16 12 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 India Bonds,l,ooo ........ Ditto under 93 Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 130. 136 d 1,0001. ..... 73 pm. Ditto ..... 73 pin. Ditte Advertised......... FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ' Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. .............. ....... .... 85 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. ......... 36 Columbian Bonds. ..... ......"..........-.............. 14 X% Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent. F9 88 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. ,....• 34 Ditto fur the Account ~ ..... .....„.„.„ „.«.. 34 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per ant. ... Ditto Converted 5l Ditto for the Account 51% Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840........„ 23% Ditto Three pax Cent. ..... ••••••••••••••••• Ditto for the Account ..... „,„,„, 3 oq Dutch 2 3 4 per Cent 5.................... ....... Ditto for the Acc0unt.......... ...... Dutch 5 per Cents ......... ................. ....... PRICES OF SHARES I HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. Pea SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester lOO 1(13 Bristol and Exeter ........ .......... 70 Bristol and Gloucester C a l e donian Chester and H01yhead..„.......„.. 5 ..... .... 6!,.4 Churnet Valley Eistern Counties ............„...... 25 ....".. 13N 034% to Ditto Perpetual 5 per eent... H. 13s. 4c1.... 1 Edinburgh and Glasgow ..«.«..... 50 ..... ... 61 Great Western ...................... 75 .... ..... 139 140 Ditto % Shares ..... ............... 50 .. ... 83% Ditto Fifth 5........................ 12 ....... 25 to Hull and Selby London and Birmingham. Ditto New Thirds ......... ......... 2 Ditto % Shares 2 ..... .... 2434 ....... to London and Brighton London and South Western London and Croydon ........ ..... 13% ...... if London and Y0rk.......... .......... 2)4 354,4 to Midland Counties ..... ......... ..... 100 ........106 . to Birmingham and Derby.......... 100 ..... .... 77% to North British Northern and Eastern .....«....«.. 45 56% to South Eastern and Dover . ... ... 32% 42m% ... to 42 Ditto New .... ....... .............. 4 Yarmouth and Norwich 2O ..... .... 24% York and North Midland .....«.. 50 ......... Ditto Selby Scrip Centrar:of France (Masterman's) 2 ........ Ditto Constituted .. 2 Parisand R0uen........................ 20 v••••••• 40M •••••• to Rouen and Havre. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, Ocvr. 22. 3 per Cent. Consols 99% Three and a Quarter Stock„.. Ditto New, 1830 336 per Cent. Debentures 949 Bank Stock Grand Canal Debentures, 6 per Cent. Royal Canal Stock 4 per Ccnt. Ballast Office Debentures 4 per Cent. City Debentures LAST PRICES OF SHARES. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE,. Dublin and K. Railway ........»........ 100 llrogheda Ditt 0... Great Southern and Western a/üblin and Cashel ditto 2 Dublin and Belfast Junction Athlone Railway ... 214 Hibernian Bank 25% 32 q Royal Bank National Insurance 25 34 Patriotic ditto Mining Company of Ireland 7 l4 Wicklow Copper Mines City of Dublin Steam Company 100 l(6 Ditto Ditto 5O S2N Ditto Difto, 1836 British and Irish Steam Company ... 50 Steam Ship Building Company Limerict Extension Railway MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 23.—We have no change of importance to note in our market to-day. Cambridge and Lincoln, 2i i ; Churnet Valley, 4f and 83s. ; Leeds and Dewsbury, 61 ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 5 7-16 ; North British, 54 ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 2 1-16 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 99 ; South-Eastern, 4 2} ; Boulogne and Amiens, 4*. THE BANKING-HOUSES OF THE METROPOLIS. We are glad to learn it is the general wish of the public that the banking-houses of the metropolis should close on Monday next, at twelve o'clock, for the security of the bankers, as well as to enable the gentlemen in the various establishments to participate in the general holiday. This expression of public feeling has been responded to by the general consent of ALL the BANHING•HOUSES a but it would have been well if the Committee of Bankers had regularly advertised the adoption of this resolution, as the Directors of the Bank of England have done. Every street in the line of the procession--from St. James's street, in the west, to Aldgate, in the east, will be bar ricaded. Passage through any of these streets after 11 o'clock on Monday will be physically impossible ; and as the greater number of the metropolitan banking houses are situated either in these thoroughfares, or in streets abutting immediately on them, the adoption of this measure of early closing is almost as much a matter of necessity as of choice. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. LONDON, OCT. 24.—Wind N.E., evith rain. DEAL, OCT. 23.—Wind E. to E. by S.—Arrd. Nuevo Yberia, Havannah for Antwerp ; Agne, Wetherall, New York for Amsterdam. Sld. Indemnity, Cape of Good Hope ; General Hewitt, Sydney ; Alice, Ichaboe ; her Majesty's ship Apollo, and steamer Hecla, westward. The Curl Glistaf, of and for Stockholm; from St. Übes, got on the Goodwin Sands last night, and became a wreck ; . crew and materials saved. RAMSGATE, OCT. 23.—Sld. James Watt, Port Repub. licain ; Mary, St. Thomas's ; Pandora, Antigua. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 23.—Wind N.E. to E.—Arrd. St. James, Lyndon for New York • Vernon, London f or Madeira ; and both proceeded. Sid. her Majesty's ships Queen, Caledonia, aid St. Vincent, on a cruise. Arrd. off, Proteus, New York for Amsterdam. POOLE, OCT. 23.---Arrd. Julia, Wailand, Paraiba, with loss of bulwarks, having experienced a severe squall off the Western Islands. PORTLAND ROADS, OCT. 23.—S1d. all the windbound. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 23.—Wind variable,—Off, Tropic, Quebec. FALMOUTH, OCT. 23.—Wind W.N.W., light.—Off, Viscountess Canning, sierra Leone. SCILLY, OCT. 17.—Arrd. Recovery, Cardiff for Lon don, with loss of topmasts, &c. Sld. all the windbound. MILFORD, OCT. 22.—Sld. Helen, Hardy, Cuba. FALMOUTH, OCT. 23.—The Victoria, from Odessa, lying alongside the pier, discharging, fell over, last night's tide. The Adrustus, from Llanelly to Valparaiso, which put in here 18th inst., leaky, is discharging to repair. LivEttpooi„ OCT. 23.—Wind variable and light.— Sid. Lena and Lord Sandon, Ichaboe ; Heywood, Africa; Mentor, St. Thomas ; Aberdeen, New Orleans. Put back, Brenda, for Montreal, leaky, and with loss of bul warks, and having been struck by a sea in lon. 23, during a heavy gale off Renize. OFF MA R WORT, OCT. 23.—James Redman, Bathurst. CLYDE, OCT. 22.—Arrd. Phoenix, Sangstee, St. John's, New Brunswick. Skl. Glasgow, Madras and Moul mein ; Royal Exchange, Valparaiso ; Brazil packet,. Lavinia ; and Wave, Ichaboe. DUDLIN, OOT. 22.—S1d. Argent and Mariner, Si John's, Now Brunswick, WATERFORD, OCT. 21.—Arrd. Donne', Miramichi. CORK, OCT. 21.—Arrcl. Sphynx, lehaboe • John Wes. ley, St. John's, New Brunswick. Ski. Richard Cobden, for China. Off Charles Hamilton, Bay Chaleur. LEITH, OCT. 22.—Arrd. Molson, Wright, Ichahoe. ULL, Ocr. 22.—Arrd. Boadicea, Morgan, and Llan gothland, Rogers, Ichaboe. WAINFLEET, OCT. 24,—,-The Clio, of Scarborough, drove ashore yesterday on Skegness Main, but is ex rePted otf with trifling damage, crew saved, The George, Eden, from Yarmouth to Leeds, got ashore near Hog thorp, yesterday, and is expected to become a total wreck y part at oavgo (barley) washed out, the remainder saved in a damaged state ; crew saved. HAI:Amu, OCT. 23.—The sloop reported ashore on the Shipwash was not ashore l 1,1 , 4 e,t anchor under the sand. GREF.rwf,3IA, 4'. 22.—The Bellona, the Clyde, fro m 9 0 Iyiontro 111 was in contact, 16th inst., off Tuskar, with the Lyrea, of London, from Liverpool to Hamburgh, which lost bowsprit, cutwater, topmasts, &g, The Berlin Journals announce a great rise in the price of cotton goods in Prussia, and add that the manu factures in that country are in the most prosperous state. SHERIFFS' COURT.--(THIS DAY.) 1 (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff KENNEDY-) OSBORNE V. NUNN. This was an action 'brought by a gentleman named Osbornefigainst the defendant, Alicia Nunn, who is well known in the musical world, to recover the amount of a bill of exchange at three months for 151. A clerk from the office of Messrs. Temple and Burden, solicitors, of Furnival's Inn, appeared for the plaintiff. - The action was undefended,. and it was the only case that stood for trial to-day. Miss Nunn had pleaded that she was married to her present husband, "salt° Clark Pray, formerly the editor and proprietor of the Evening Star newspaper, at the time of drawing the bill of exchange. • Mr. Under-Sheriff KENNEDY—Is the defendant pre' e.mt, or does any one attend in her behalf ? No one having answered; a verdict was entered for the plaintiff for la ss. BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAN•) IN R 1 CHAPMAN AND HALL. Sir C. F. Williams was engaged the whole morning in 1 , Fearing evidence in the above case. CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY . ) OLD COUR T. (Before Mr. Justice MAULE and Mr. Baron ROLFE.) THE CASE OF THE AUGUSTA. Their Lordships took their seats at ten o'clock, im mediately upon which, in consequence of the decision pronounced yesterday, Captain Jennings was placed a t the bar. Mr. PAYNE, who is counsel for the prosecution, then applied for a further postponement of the trial, on the Gold Coast. of the expected arrival of Captain C. Hill, the i Governor of one of the British possessions on the Goa ' Coast. If his application was granted, there would be no objection on the part of the prosecution again to admit the prisoner to bail. Mr. PRENDERGAST, on behalf of the prisoner, opposed the motion. The prisoner had been indicted for carry ing on an illegal traffic in slaves. That charge had been preferred against him as long ago as the conclusion O f list year, and the Court had been so sufficiently satisfied with the explanations which had been given on the part of the prisoner, that since that period it had admi tted him from time to time to bail. At the last sessions the prisoner pleaded autre fois acquit on t he ground that he had been tried at Sierra Leone by a competent tribunal, for the sam e offence, and acquitted, and that therefore he could not be tried again for the same offence. The Court, it was true, had decided yesterday against the validity of the plea, but still Captain Jennings was anxious that his trial should take place as soon as possible. Mr. Baron ROLFE observed that the trial bad bee n postponed from time to time to afford Captain Jennings an opportunity of obtaining a copy of the judgment t i' f the Court in Sierra Leone, in order that he might from 1 make out his defence. He bad put in a certain OA and that had been held by the Learned Judgce wb e heard it to be of no weight. He could not, therefore, s ee fm what ground the application was made. Mr. PRENDERGAST pressed for proceeding with tb e trial. Captain Jenning had been in custody four or times, which he submitted, taken together, formed s log imprisonment. The prosecution had been commence nearly two years ago, and was it to be supposed that the parties who conducted the prosecution were not mo re of the charge they bad made, or the means of sus' taining it. If, however, their Lordships should tili n e l c i that the trial could not, at the present time, be proses" with, he was in hopes that the Court would make peremptory order that it should be taken first at the next sessions. Mr. CLARKSON appeared on the same side, and sub mitted that the case ought to be tried th e first at t he next sessions. Mr. PAYNE said that if the prisoner, Captain Alining * had been tried with Zulueta, the result on that cocoas° would have been different. Upon that occasion, bow.: ever, he was non est inventus, but as soon as Zulueta acquitted, the non est inventus of Captain Jennings w e " lost, and the reality became apparent. The Captain sr peered in Court, he howed a bold front to his aceos e , ll , l . he defied them to prove anything agai ns t him, and "" n e " these circumstances he thought it was no t a sking . Ws' much of the court to postpone the trial to next sew - 0 0- W. CLARKSON observed that the trial of M. Zulue ta took place on the 21st of October last year, and the Pri soner at the bar, Captain Jennings, was in custody e el the 12th. Some further discussion took place, which ended iR Mr. Baron ROLFE directing the trial to stand OTer ot the next session. oil Captain Jennings was then again admitted to ba , ed his former sureties, and i mme di a t e l y afterwejds quit" the Court. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) e d Anne Jennings was placed before. Mr. Hall, ch'", o . with throwing a bason of boiling s ou p over D e nnis pito The complainant stated that he was a waiter 6 , 10 eating-house in Great Earle-street, Seven-dials.. o a prisoner, in a state of half-i n t ox i cat i on , came, In ot called for a bason of soup, and as soon as she baci n ho she threw it into his face, whereby his eyes were very much scalded. The prisoner, when ca ll e d upon f or her defence , laughed, and treated the whole affair as a joke. ticia Mr. HALL said he would p u t a s t op to t h ese prfte jokes. The prisoner must pay a fine of 205., and in " fault of payment, must be committed for twenty-one Jai, On being removed from the bar she intimated OP when she came out of prison she would have her reverig e upon the unfortunate waiter. CLERKEN WELL.—(THIS DAY)' Mary Crawley was brought up on a charge of obstru c lug the footway by hawking a basket of fruit. Police Sergeant 10 N said the prisoner was ha ,' v o r l, the fruit. He had cautioned her rep ea tedly. bi le tp mained in the same spot though he desired be r move on. ts , The girl (crying) said she was e n d eav ouring to se': lice little bit of fruit, and that sh e move d on w hen the P c)- constable told her. The policeman said his only object was to protect th e public, who were greatly annoyed by the nuisance. Mr. COMBE discharged her with a caution. UNION-HALL.—(THIS DAY-) a b Thomas Stelwell was charged b - Abre Mr. TrallZ oi stealing two bushels of oysters, b e l ong i ng to W Smith, a green-grocer at Clerkenwell. , tit to The prisoner was employed by th e complain carry home two bushels of oyst ers . I ns t ea d, hov ie n4 of taking the oysters home th e p r i soner a b scon ded, - was taken into custody the preceding night. e dftg In reply to Mr. MAUL, the prisoner said that 13 hungry he ate the oysters. Mr. TRAILL (with surpris e )—Wh at 1 two bushels jo oysters I Why, you have achieved greater wondelor gluttony than the man Dando, who was notoriou s o f consuming large quantities of the same description shell-fish. Prisoner—lt's a fact, Sir, I ate them all. trisV Mr. num.—Then I shall commit you for Committed accordingly. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DA- Ir ' ) HALT ATABALETS. fr , 1 11)i; SMITTIFIELD.—Coarse,Meadow H a y, 31 105 —4l t o Useful ditto, 4/ 12s to 5/ ; fine Upland ditto, ,il ois to 5/ 8s ; Clover Hay, 4/ 10 8 t o 6/ 6 s ; O a t St ra w, " no lf 1/ lOs ; Wheat Straw, 1/ lOs to 1/ 12 s p er l o ad. P l / 4 " but oderate, an trade rather dull: il 93i CU m MBERLAND.— d Coarse Mead ow Hay, 3/ 12s to; ti; Useful ditto, 4/ 158 to 51 ; fi ne U p l an d ditto, 51 to 51 lOs ; Clover Hay, 4/ 12s to 61; Oat Straw, 118 1 0 7 lOs ; Wheat Straw, 11 lO s t o 11 13 s per load. "'- average supply, and a steady demand. 1 00; WHITECHAPEX.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ lOs tO to Useful ditto, 41 12s to 51; fine Upland ditto, 1 1 80 51 7s ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/10s ; Oat Stralgt p o d. to 11 lOs ; Wheat Straw, 11 12s to 11 135 per Supply good, and trade dull. MEAT rfiA.I7.2EET f Pit SOUTHALL, OCT. 23.—We had a fair supply ‘7 ° 0 stock to-day, yet the d e m an d was stea d y , at "P io 40; prices. Beef, from 2s 6d t o 4 s ; M u tt on , 2s Sa a p er Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 2s 6d to 3 5 70; Blbs. Supply :—Beasts, 60 ; Sheep, 2,020 ; Pigs, 50. were ROMFORD, OCT. .23.—Prime Beasts and She,_ : eP ds of in demand, at somewhat improved rates. In all 40 ; stock, very little was doing. Beef, from 2s ba w rorUi Mutton, 2s Id to 4s ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s ; an d 5 :20 ; 2s 6d to 3s 8d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, _lBs O co wo , W quarter-old Store Pigs, 16 s t o 20 s ; an d el l with their Small Calf, 161 to 18/ each. gotte, A l " LEWES, OCT. 22.—Beef, from 3s to 4s ; 35 2s 10d to 4s ; Ve a l, 3 s 6d t o 4 s ; an d P or k, as '- per 81bs. Supply moderate, and trade steady. COAL mannET. Mi tt° Prices per ton at, the close of the market :-"" Main, 16s 6d; Buddle's West Hartley, 18s; Bells Se,~ 142 6d ; Carr's Hartley, 18s ; Chester Main, 18 56 se l s on; burn Main, 19 s 9d ; Ilolywell Main, 19$ ;, , i , „oftel t " West Hartley, 18s ; O r d' s R e dh eug h, lO s ; Ola 15s 6d ; Old Pontop, 15s ; Original Winson's li a rc lft 16s ; Pontop Wi n d sor , 15s .6d ; Pill's Wes t Tatitie' t 15s 6d ; Raven swor th 'West Hartley, IBs ; . Moor, 18s 9d; Taylor's W es t H a rtley, 1 4 39 ; lAr• Hartley, 18s ; W es t Wyl am , 17 s ; Wylam, s, Ss 6 ` . Bell and Brown, 21 s 6d ; W. E., Cl a rk and Co. , - Il i. 9 W. E., Clennell, 18s 9d ; W. E., Gibson, 2 15 ; "ROI' 2 11 1 c: 1 6 1 z, 2 W Os . R l e V ii E ng ., w i o l r il t d b a , , 2 2 ls l ;64 . ; B W ., g r Ahr ho b r e. : land, 20s Gd ; W. E., Ramsay, Its 64 ; W. cliff% 21s 6(1 ; W. E. Braddyl's Iletton, 245 yob - Ily tton, 20s 6d • W. E., Houghall, 21s 9d; W. } - r z -3 " ton's, 238 9d • ' W. E. Lumley, 21s 94 ; rison, 21s ; W. E., Pemberton, 21s 3d; v"., W."l mond, 21s 9d ; W. E. Russel's Hetton, 21s 9",' ifese; Whilwell, 22s ; E t Caradoc, 23s 3d ; NV- . I ' 4 " l as 6 "'" den, 21s • Sharp's Tai;field, 155 W. 8., Gordon, iv. ; ' W. E., 3:1`1, F ean s Tees, 19s ;W . E., Tees , , - c r eoc, Tees Hetton, 20s ; W. E., West Tees, 205 6 a ;,-, r aig 01* Stone, 22s ; Clackmannan, 16s 6d ; 20s ; Hartley, 18s ; W. E., Elgin, 17s 9d.--A rr Forest yveo,,ss. CORN AVERAGES.. as he 74 „r t. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BS For the Week ended Oct 19. 1814, made up from th l e II et` o 1 1, 1 11. 1Vs te°1 In pcctot. in the different Cities and Town. In Eng-be:ad ill . d per Imperial Quarter. Wheat 4s)l 3d I Oats 2 0 34 od Bd i i jppe:LJ: •• 3 3 5 3:6 ..; 1 :: Barley ... o4# Od R ye AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIY, WEE I C m g ;„ fi'' - Weeks endingdwucer. taaaLcy. own. I *Y& 1 " 1 " .. 6 ......---"' 51 1 --1.. I-- ~..----. 45 11 35 11 20 1 35 9 1, 3 ; 9 4 .1 1 ( 45 335620 5 35 7 .,, q *"" # 4 s - 0: 45 9 34 5 20 5 37 S 1 ~.. '‘A 8 4 1 i ''' 46 1 33 0 20 _6 37 5I •- II ~.En IV : 46 3 33 6 20 6 37 10 , ...0 ,, 9 a. ,46 3 31 4# 20 8 Z 43 0 u° , ft v. O ed, IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF Tag .----...5/6. Pease 0, Wheat 45. Ild. I Oats ......... 20 A . 15d.1 Beans.... 335. Barley.. ...... 34s. 6.1. I Rye ... ...... 37i. 0.1.1 ...'"' 6 j, DITTIES OW FOREIGN coart. 5% 9,1,- Whiat 2es. Odd Oats Barley ..., r .... 45. Od, 1 Rye ~..„,„ 5 ! , 6d.i Pease.." " " f Sept. 'C..... • I • 21 2 8 Oct. Si to ai Clou t , Ti l'erd nowt a ka Piet, Pist o . ant; of / re., (le a re,.