The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-24 00:00:00

MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL. Y NOW ready. at i.ll the Libraries, in 3 vols., post aTO., ouNG L 0 V E. By MM.. TROLLOPZ. Authorise of "TM roar of lfroxhill," " The Widow IlarushY," &c Henry Colbarn. Publisher, 18, Great Marlborough-street. 13, Great 31arlborough-street. THE NEMESIS IN CHINA. TIIE NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION OF THE VOYAGES AND SERVICES OF THE NEMESIS IN CHINA, &c., IS NOW READY, comprised in a single volume, with Maps and Plates, price 18s. bound; containing the only complete account of THE LATE WAR. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROTA L, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 24, WIII be perfbrmed Auber's celebrated Opera THE SYREN. Marco Tempeata, Mr. W. Harrison; Scipio, Mr. D. W. King; Berlina (the Syren), Miss Rainforth. After which, the Grand Ballet, entitled THE CORSAIR. Z.'onrad, M. Albert; Julien, M. Desplaces; Sanguo M. Montessti s Medora, Miss Clara Webster ; Une Vivandiere, 31dlle. Auguste, Delbes ; Ouinarc, Mille. Adele Dumilatre. The Box.ottice is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 24, Will be repeated Vanbrugh's Comedy of THE CONFEDERACY. Adapted to the present Period. The Principal Characters by Messrs. Strickland, W. Farren, Thickstone, and C. Mathews, Madame Vestris, Miss P. Horton, Mn. E. Yarnold, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Stanley, and Mrs. Lover. _ _ After which, will be produced a New Comic Drama., founded on Don Caesar de Bazan, entitled A MATCH FOR A KING. Charles the Second, Mr. Stuart ; Don Sebastian della Rosa, Mr. C. Mathews; Mariquita, Miss Julia Bennett. To conclude with a New Farce, by Mr. Buckstone, entitled THE el I.uBLE RIG. John Ginger, Mr. Buckstone , Sam Shindy, Mr. Strickland ; Mrs. Ginger, Mrs. W. Clifford. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the Even ing), Ss. each. First Price—Boxes ,Se. ; Pit, 3a. ; Gallery, 28. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Second Price at Nine o'Clock—Boxes, Ss ; Pit, ; Gallery, lc ; Upper Gallery, ed. Doors opened at Half•past Six, Pet formance commence at :'even. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer, at the Box-office, from Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Under the Direction of Madarae CELESTE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 24, Will be performed an entirely New Drama entitled CZESAR DE BAZAN ; or, Love And Honour. Charles the Second, Mr. Mows; Caesar de Eisen, Mr. Webster ; Maratina, Madame Celeste. After which, a New Eccentric Mytholegioal 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 Fitzwilllam. Prompter, 51r. Gallot ; Principal Painter Mr Pitt ; Leader of the M Sand, Mr. ellon.—Box—ottire open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre. and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STiirk,T, LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 24, Will be perfbrm.'d THE SY REN. Principal Characters by Messrs. Walton, C. Horn, Jun., Leffler Allenoind Addlle. Nau. To conclude with the New Drama called DON CiESAIt DE BAZAN. Don Caesar, Mr. Wallack ; Cn (ales the Second, Mr. Walton ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling; Countess di Rotondo, Mrs. Fosbroke._ Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. WaHack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 28.; Gallery, Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 24. ed. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, fid. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce. niunt Boxes, Two Guineas and a- Half. Doors to be opened at Half. Mat Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-otlice, under the direction of Mr. W. ktassingham. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre. T HEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. Mader the Management or Mrs. KEELEY. First Week of the New Grand Tale of Enchantment. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 24, Will be repeated THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASSIONS With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, Ac. Principal Characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mr. Gouriet, Mr. Craven, and Mr. Keeley; Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woollidge, Mr& A. Wigan, Miss Turner, MI ,s James, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, Miss Fort - sale, and Mrs. Keeley. To which will be added THE I'OST OF HONOUR, in which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will perform. To conclude with a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLF- V/ IT. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, Craven, Emery, F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, Stanton, J. W. Collier, Fanfold, and Keeley; Miss ortescue, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Groves, Afro. Usher, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes, 41.; Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, 24.'1 Gallery, rd. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2g. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier (holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pit Der (holding six persons), One Guinea' 'The Box-office is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. Open every evening with its unequalled rotation of Equestrian tied Dramatic Entertainments. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 24, and during the week at Seven o'Clock, The Splendid Spectacle from the Poem of the illustrious Sir Walter Scott, entitled LOCHINVAR; or, The Bridal of Netherby, and Steed of the Brave. Entire change of the Scenes of the Circle, and novel feats of Horse. manship, by thee i tensive corps of French and Br fish riders. To conclude with THE BLOOD-RED LNIUHT ; or, The War. riors of Palestine. Acting and stage.manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by Mr. R. Smith daily. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 24, Will be performed a New Drama, entitled DON CESAR DE BA ZAN, supported by the entire Company. To conduce with a New Military Drama, entitled THE EVE OF BATTLE. Supported by the whole Company, with New Scenery and Splendid Appointments. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, d the Box. cake. flvin Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 24, Will be perfbrmed DON CMS AR DE BAZ AN. Principal Cha ratters by Messrs. ( abaldiston, Dale, Herbert, and Miss Vincent. After which, VENICE PRESERVED. Friuli, Mr. Dale ; Pierre, Mr Graham ; Jaffier, Mr. Tindel Belvidera, Mrs. W. West. To conclude with VENGEANCE; or, Family Feuds and a Bumping Legacy. Private Family Boxes, £1 ls. Od. and S 1 lls. 64. THE WEATHER—SuN OincE, OCT. 23. VIEB.IIOI.IETXR, Lowest, 35; Highest, 52; Noon, 45 ittnasrrp.n, 29.95.—W0rn, E. NoTH.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair ii L ally placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 2'2 minutes after 0 I Brenine... 44 minutes after 0. inning Ant LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1844. position on the right hand of the Speaker's chair. From having been the partizan of Monopoly, Govern , ment became all at once an advocate for "free trade in the abstract." It had previously lent a willing ear to the sophistries of Mr. BAN E 5. It now listened with deference to the suggestions of Mr. COBDEN. By such equivocal—such shuffling conduct it succeeded in alienating one large portion of the community—namely, the Monopolists, while it failed in securing the confidence of another numerous body—viz., the Free-traders. Both equally felt that it was making a tool of them — countenancing or discountenancing them, just accord ing as it suited its own interested views ; consequently, both hold it in distrust, and despairing just at present of obtaining a change of administration, have fallen into a state of calm indifference from which we see no immediate prospect of their being roused. The equivocal proceedings of Government are, we contend, the chief cause of the existing apathy of the people, and this apathy bids fair to continue so long as Sir ROBERT PEAL sees fit to legislate on what he calls, the " expediency system." Expediency! We contemn and abhor the phrase. It is in direct antagonism to principle, and is in too many instances the pretext pat forth by knaves to justify their most indefensible practices. from so sombre a tail-piece to a Governor's address as this : " 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 herity, I cannot but deeply lament the reverses which ave 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. The 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. 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 the 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 he 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 pointedly 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 her 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. It 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 laurels over her taffril, decks, sides, round-tops, and figure-head, and of the firing from her guns? On being apprised by Captain RowLEr 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, " I will go on board that ship." The course of the barge 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, had 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. She 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 brass tablet still records, with touching simplicity, the fact— " Here 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 spot the QUEEN dropped a generous tear ; and she lingered some 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 who 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. The Paris journals, for want of a better subject, still keep up the war with each other about the result of Louts Puretpra's visit to England. The Globe thus attacks certain ill-natured comments in Queen CHRISTINA'S journal the Presse, and with some effect These malignant war journals vainly claim the merit of representing the feeling of universal France : " The Loan MATOa of London, in having done to wards the King of the Disown what has never been done for any Sovereign, by going out of the City, and carrying to Windsor the expression of the sympathies of the great capital towards his Majesty of FRATSCH, has, in the opinion of the Presse, done nothing more than an act of com mon politeness, which established no distinction between the ♦isit to Eu and the visit to Windsor ; and exclaims—' Acknowledgments for such a trifle ! Can any one think of it !' But Eight not England have left undone what she has done? If the Loan MATOR, for example, had chosen not to disturb himself; if he had con fined himself within his city, we should have had war pro claimed against all England to teach him his duty. The Debats considers that the shouts of Vire la Reined' Angleterre, uttered by the French squadron, was the faithful expression of the sentiments of France. No I that is false I replies the Presse, and attempts, as follows, to prove it so. At the discussion of the next address, it says, the Ministry will not again talk of the entente cordiale, or if it does the Chamber will modify the paragraph more essentially than last year. 'What other answer can be given to this than that the Ministry will again talk of the entente cordiale , and that the Chamber would not modify the paragraph more essentially than last year. What will the Presse say then ? Why, if that hap pens, as we do not doubt it will, the Prase will say that the manifestation of the Chambers is not the sense of the nation, as it now says of the manifesta tion by the squadron. The Kixo, the Ministry, the officers of our squadron, or the Chambers, neither of them represent, neither of them compre hend the national sentiments. Messrs. DE GI RARDIN and DUJARRIER alone represent and comprehend it. Is not the Presse the representative of the nation, at the rate of 48f. a year a head ?" The reconstruction of the Polytechnic School, which excited considerable interest throughout France, has not yet been finally decided. We may infer, how ever, from the following remarks of the Journal des Debats, that the severity with which the ardent spirits of that establishment was threatened will be greatly mitigated, and perhaps a general amnesty granted. The youths of the Polytechnic had a hand in the days of July, and were the foremost in every attack upon despotism " Several journals have announced that the commission appointed to re-organise the Polytechnic School proposes to exclude a certain number of the pupils sent away in August last, some saying 70, others 20 or 30. We do not believe this news to be exact : we do not think the commission has had any occasion to make a proposition of the kind, and we are of opinion that a partial exclu sion would be but little just, and not handsomely done. The Polytechnic School is not to be decimated : deci mation is not th• custom of our time. The fault, for we acknowledge that some existed, was common to all I the measure of exclusion ought therefore to be general. That that would, in truth, be to punish with a rigour which belongs neither to our epoch nor our Government. It is just to add besides, that except the passing infringement of discipline, of which the pupils were not perhaps the most culpable, the conduct of these young men was ad mirable. We persist, ,therefore, in believing that the school will be re-opened to all. If there are to be any changes to make either in discipline or in the system of studies, let them be made ; that will be good and useful, whereas it would be unjust to make some bear the fault of all, and cruel to punish 300 families and 300 young men full of promise, for a moment's error. If the school needs an amnesty, never will an amnesty have been more happily applied. A journal makes this remark, and we willingly adopt it." In the last number of the Edinburgh Review there is an article entitled "The Results of Tory Rule," which is penned in a moderate and—considering that the writer is a partisan of the Whigs—an impartial spirit, giving all due credit to the Ministry where credit is due, and pointing out their numerous errors frankly and boldly, without, however, indulging in the slightest exaggeration or acrimony. In the course of this article, the Reviewer makes one or two remarks, which, at the present crisis, are worthy of particular attention. "The growing inattention," be observes, " manifested by both Houses to the performance of their functions, is, we know, daily more and more complained of ; and this subject is of infinitely greater moment than it is generally considered to be. The respect and confidence which the public have been ac customed to feel for the deliberations and decisions of Parliament are, indeeel, lamentably diminished. The keen interest which its proceedings formerly ex cited, exists no longer. Even the ambition to obtain a seat in Parliament is lessened ; the difficulty of in ducing well-qualified candidates to come forward is complained of; and the whole relations between the public and both Houses are, we grieve to say, altered for the worse. The tone in which public affairs are discussed, is lowered, and a languid indifference is, by degrees, extending its chilling influence over the representatives of the people and the people themselves." Disheartening as is the tone of these remarks, no one can deny that they have their foundation in truth. The deep interest with which the public used to regard the proceedings of their representatives in Parliament has of late—that is to say, since the accession of the Tory party to office—given place to a sort of phlegmatio indiffer ence, which is one of the most dangerous symptoms that the - popular mind can possibly exhibit. Through out the last session, this indifference on the part of the people was specially marked, sad towards the close, men seemed to think no more of what was doing. in Parliament than if there had been no such institu tion in existence. A slight stir, indeed, was created by Sir ROBERT Pi zL's announcement of his intention to prepare, during the recess, some remedial measures for the benefit of Ireland, for which he was paid in advance by the applause of the • Liberals ; but if we except this momentary excitement, nothing could be more humiliating nothing more decided than the general indifference which existed when the House of Commons closed its labours for the year. There must be some cause for this apathy on the part of the people, and that cause may, we think, be found in the conduct which our Conservative Government has thought fit to pursue since it first established it self in snug quarters in Downing-street. Instead of steering its course by the steady light of principle, it has anow ed its e lf t o b e l e d ou t o f th e r i g ht t rac k by the . se . a futue.: of expediency. It was placed in office by the energetic efforts of the Monopolists, under a firm conviction whi c h those bigoted and weak-minded men entertained, that it -would do their bid ding promptly, cheerf u ll y , and successfully. In stead of this, however, no sooner was it fairly installed in power, than it b egan to lo ok i coolly on ts supporters, and even attempted to kick down the ladder by which it had risen. The principles it professed on the hustings were all for gotten. The measures which it had scouted in oppo sition, were fostered the instant it bad taken up its The Comtitutionnel contains the following biogra phical and political details of the new Austrian Am bassador to the Court of St. James. Whatever sub ject this journal writes upon, England is sure to be mixed up with it in an invidious sense : " Count Maurice Dietrichetein, who has just been ap pointed Ambassador from the Court of Vienna to that of London, belongs to one of the highest families of the Austrian empire. His father, at ono time Minister of Francis 11., was the Governor of the Duke of Reich stadt, and with whom the new Ambassador passed the days of his youth. Count Maurice is still young for the eminent post to which ho is called, being only forty years old at the utmost. He for several years was Chargé d'Affaires at the Court of King Leopold, who re ceived him into his intimacy. His nomination may be taken as a symptom of the decline of the influence of Prince Metternich at the Court of Vienna. The father of Count Maurice is, in fact, on the line of aspirers to the political succession of the Prince Chancellor, with whom he, in a measure, stands in rivalry, since the Prince has refused to give one of his daughters in mar riage to the new Ambassador. For a long time Austria has had no Ambassador at the Court of Queen Victoria. The policy of England, whether the Tories or the Whigs be in power, will always be to give checkmate to Franco, by opposing to her the fasces of the great European powers. Austria is at this time making advances to the British Cabinet, of which it will not fail to take advant age, in spite of all the cordialities of Windsor." 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 ! 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 Gil-es, 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 he 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 he 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 no t exceeded the ordinary revenue. " The alchemy o f the Utopian optimism, itself—which is so cogious am oscnagrctehleyoeffixteriaaletfuenoractfioornta:rvees apprehend of f dints t a colonies—cannta The Siede gives the following statements respecting the new French loan : "It appears the Minister of Finance is determined to dispose immediately of the second series of the loan, and that it is to be made by a creation of Three per Cent. Stock. The sole question to be determined is— whether the amount of the loan is to be 150 or 300 millions. That will depend, probably, on the courage of the contractors. The immediate conclusion of the loan will have the unpleasant consequence of adjourning the conversion of the Five per Cents. for two or three years. We deplore this bitterly. The immediate re mission of 80,000,000 Dutch Rents in Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock is announced. Between French and Dutch Stock the Stock-Exchange is about to have an abundant harvest, which will ne doubt calm the senseless taste which has arisen for new shares, or promises of new shares." The Madrid mail of the 15th, had not reached Paris at the usual hour of post. Some attributed this to bad weather, and others to a rising of the Carlists. Letters from Perpignan state that Generals AMETTLER and SANTA Cauz, together with five Captains of the Progesista party, had been arrested by the French Douaniers just as they were about to enter Spain. BOMISE--MoNDAT, OCT. 21. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. FrenchPrivaperCsate•••••• 118 25 .. 118 40 .. 118 25 .. 118 40 Fours.••• • ...... •• 107 25 .. 187 25 .. 107 25 .. 107 25 Three per Cents,— 82 05 82 15 .. 82 05 .. 82 10 Bank of Fran0e••••. . .3057 5O .4057 50 .•2057 50 ..3057 50 Laititte Bank, how. sharesll2o ..1129 •.1120 .. 1120 s,ooot.Sharesso43 75 ..L043 75 —5042 50 ..5042 50 Bsigian Bank. .•. BeigianFives.lB3l .. 101 1 •-• 1011 •• •• 1011 1840 •••••••• 1031 ".• 1031 1031 1031 1842 •••••••• 105} .. 1051 .. 105 i .. lob& Spanish Passive.••. .. Active •• •• •• •• .• •• 321 •• 821 •• 321 .. 321 Threes• ••••••• •• .. 354 .• 3.51 .. 85} 351 Neapolitan Doman •• •• lO4 lon .. 105} •• 105} RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain .• •• •• 912 5,0 .. 512 50 912 50 .. 912 50 Versailles, R.B. L.B .. 277 'SO . 278 75 .. 277 40 .. 277 50 Rouen .•.. .. Rouen to ilana• • Orleans .......•.•••• •••••1017 60 ..1017 50 ••1016 25 —lOl7 50 Strasburg to Bale.. •• 277 50 .. 278 75 277 50 . 276 75 Avignon to liarseilles.• •••• 781 25 . 782 50 .. 781 25 .. 782 50 RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, OCTOBER 31. Versailles, R. 8.. • 393 .. 395 .. 895 .. 395 L. 8.... ....... 277 50 -. 280 .• 277 50 .. 277 50 Rouen •• .. • • •• ....... 1032 10 ..1032 50 ..1023 75 ..1025 Rouen to llavre 770 .. 770 770 .• 770 Orleans •..... Strasburg to Bale•• .• •• 277 50 278 75 .. 277 60 .• 377 50 Avignon to Mareeigts...... 782 50 Is 782 50 • 750 •• 789 50 THE SUN, LONDON, THTJRSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24, 1844. OPENING OF THE BELGIAN CHAMBERS. SPEECH OF THE KING. On Tuesday his Majesty the King of the Belgians opened the parliamentary session for 1844-45. The Rue Royale and the Rue Ducale were lined with detachments of the civic guards, infantry and ca valry, and with a few troops of the line. The Queen, accompanied by the two young Princes (the Duke of Brabant and the Count of Flanders), arrived at the Palais de la Nation (the Parliament house) about one o'clock, and was shortly after wards followed by the King on horseback, who was dressed in the uniform of an Officer- General of the Civic Guard, and accompanied by Lieutenant-General D'Hane, by the General-in- Chief of the Civic Guard, by the military Governor of Brussels, and by a numerous staff. The escort was composed of half a squadron of the Regiment des Guides, and a squadron of the Civic Guard on horse back. The space near the Parliament-house was occupied by a company of artillery of the Civic Guard. Their Majesties were respectively received with marked respect throughout their passage to the Palais de la Nation. A discharge of artillery an nounced their departure from the royal residence. The following is a translation of the speech delivered by his Majesty: — GENTLEMEN, —I have anticipated the ordinary epoch of your session. I was desirous of enabling you to vote the budgets before the commencement of the year to which they apply, and to complete the exa mination of several Bills which you have already dis cussed. You meet under auspicious circumstances. I con gratulate myself on the sentiments of cordiality and reciprocal confidence which prevail in our relations with the various Powers. In the preceding session you decided on the conclu sions arrived at by the committee for judicial investiga tion (enquete) appointed four years ago. The law which you voted will occupy an important place in our national legislation. The commercial suggestions which you forwarded to the Government have been the object of my most serious attention ; some of them I have realised. The measures which I thought necessary to take will be submitted to you; I doubt not that they will obtain your approbation. By the aid of the commercial policy which you have sanctioned, I have concluded with the German Zollverein (Association Allemande des douanes), a treaty of navigation and commerce, which secures our mutual interests. The examination of this treaty will be the object of your first deliberations. By a recent convention, the postal communications between Belgium and Great Britain have been regu lated on a basis at once more extended and more fa vourable to commerce. The charge on letters has been reduced, and special advantages have been stipu. lated for the transmission of foreign correspondence.— (Expedition des Correspondances Etrangeres.) A broad and liberal entrepot system, combined with new facilities of transit, will be likely to assist in the development of our international relations. A Bill having this object in view will be presented to you. It will also remain for you to consider other measures likely to increase our distant con nexions and exports. The harvest, which caused some momentary alarm, has turned out satisfactory; no exceptional measure appears necessary. The Provincial Councils have con tinued their deliberations on the measures to be adopted for clearing the uncultivated parts of our territory ; it will be soon possible to determine what assistance is to be required from the legislative power. Some improvements have been made in the course of the Meuse, the Government introducing some also with respect to the other rivers of the country. The important works undertaken in the Campine and in the Flanders continue to be actively pursued. The increase of traffic on the railway, and of the receipts, has surpassed expectation. This state of affairs may become even more prosperous by perfect ing the conditions of circulation, which the incomplete state of the lines and of the stations renders difficult and expensive. The re-organisation of modes of carriage, irre spective of the railway, is also an urgent subject for consideration. A law relating to the remuneration of the members of the judicial order has been presented to you. The state of our finances removes all necessity for adjourn ing the discussion of that law, the propriety of which you will acknowledge with me. The government of the prisons has already under gone some useful modificatior.s, and I am desirous that additional measures shall be taken to complete them. The benevolent institutions have not failed to re ceive a portion of my solicitude. My Government is resolved to introduce into them all the ameliorations which humanity claims. Your aid will, on this occasion, be requested in an especial manner towards the reform of the establish ments for the insane. Some propositions will be laid before you to cor rect the vices and to fill up the gaps (lacunes) which experience has brought to light in certain portions of legislation. Thus will the revision of the codes which has been prescribed by the constitution be gra dually effected. The army, that essential element of our national existence, commands all our solicitude. I am delighted to be able to acknowledge that it shows itself deserving of it by its devotedness, its discipline, and the excellent spirit which animates it. It remains for you to decide upon the Bill which has been already laid before you, the details cf which are so important for its organisation (that of the army). Some change in the laws relating to the militia have become necessary ; they will be proposed to you simultaneously with a new law on the organisation of the Civic Guard. Thanks to the consolidation of our credit, the powers accorded by you to my Government have allowed it to effect successfully, and without any shock (secousse) two grand financial operations ; their results have been the reduction of the rent, and of the capital of the public debt. You will join with me in congratulations that the expenditure has been made to balance with the re ceipts ; the beneficial results for the treasury of the last loan, and of the conversion of the rent, the in crease in the receipts of the railway, and of several branches of public revenue, have contributed to facilitate this happy equilibrium. Some efforts, nevertheless, are necessary to corer the new expenses which the public interest may re quire, and by a permanent excess of revenue to arrive successively at the extinction of the floating debt, and the creation of a reserve fund. You will assist me to attain this object, which a prudent foresight renders obligatory on us to pursue. GENTLEMEN,—The country may have confidenee in itself. Its elements of moral activity and material prosperity are freely developing themselves. I doubt not that this favourable situation will be strengthened and completed by the support which the Government will find in your patriotism and loyal concurrence. Shortly after the Speech was delivered, her Ma jesty and the young Princes left the House, and proceeded to the Palace by the Rue Royale. In a few minutes after their arrival they presentedthem selves in the balcony in front of the Palace, and waited there till the King had returned from the Parliament. His Majesty entered the Palace for a few minutes, and shortly afterwards returned on horseback to the open space in front of the Palace, and reviewed the whole of the Civic Guard, who defiled before him. He was saluted repeatedly with cries of Vice le Roi which he frequently acknowledged by lifting off his hat. The Volunteer Regiment, who occupied the posts of honour, displayed their flag, which they bore at the time of the revolution. THE UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, TuzsDA.T. The packet-ship Cambridge, Captain Barstow, arrived in the river this morning, bringing New York papers four days later than those received by the steamer. The threatened crusade for the extermination of the Mormonites had assumed an aspect of immediate danger, pd we find that the anti-Mormon party of Haneoci4ounty, Illinois, had called an armed assem bly, to veil_a that place on the 27th ult. Prompted by this :.; • iAtit, kid in pursuance of his an nounce* 40`4,yernor Ford had ordered out 2,500 of tzheAate.filiMia for the preservation of the public peace i ,pnd'to plive2t the violation of the con stitution laud laws of the State. The result has not reached `vsi !Put it is - highly probai that finding Governor Ford - - sO determined to quell disturbance, the meeting would not proceed to extremities. Great complaints had been made of the delay in bringing the murderers of Joe Smith to justice. The Go vernor had intimated that he was ready to sustain the proper authorities in proceeding with the prosecutions. The unexampled orderliness and freedom from out rage which have on this occasion characterised the preparations for the approaching Presidential election, have at length been disturbed in New York, where a Whig procession was assailed by a Locofoco mob ; and the ill-blood engendered by the collision had produced such a great and immediate excitement, that both parties were threatening to come forth into the public streets on every future occasion fully armed. We extract the following from a series of resolutions adopted at a meeting of the " Buttend 'Coon Hunters," as they elegantly term themselves :-- " Resolved,—That each hunter keeps his flint picked, his powder dry, and when they see the white of the eye—let split!" The naval court-martial at Washington was still engaged with the investigation of the circumstances connected with the burning of the United States steamer Missouri. NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.—The contractors, Messrs. Ross and Mitchell, are getting rapidly forward at Cockburns-patk with this work. They have laid above 1,200 yards of temporary rails, and have above 400 workmen employed. One of the workmen named Ro manis, from Stow, was returning home on Sunday night to his house in Little Dublin, when he lost his way, and fell over Linhead Linn, a height of 60 feet—the first fall being 25, and the second 35 feet. He was sadly injured, and, when found, was carried to Mr. Weatherley's, Lin head, who immediately sent for medical aid, when his wounds were dressed, and he is now in 'the way of re covery. They are getting fast on with erecting planks, &c., for Douglas Dean-bridge, which is to have six arches. It is not yet known when the foundations will be laid, but it will not he for a month to come.—Berwich Advertiser. , Y ' t • AI I ,-.;,_,'). r ot,- ,- - . •-• 4. ......•... , - NT.... FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, OCT. 20.—A letter from Leipsic informs us that on the 7th of this month the first meeting of the German merchants took place, conformably to a resolu tion adopted at the fair at Basher, and that between 150 and 200 persons were present. The assembly resolved unanimously : " That with regard both to quantity and quality, our linen manufacturers can no longer refrain having re course to the spinning of thread by machinery. That this should be encouraged, both by a more extensive and careful cultivation of lax, and then by an import duty on English thread, and a bounty on the exportation of linen. " A proposal was laid before the meeting on the no cessity of improving the condition of the working classes, and of zealously turning their attention to the means of effecting that object." The assembly resolved to offer a prize for the best work on the following question :—" By what measures, the execution of which may be practicable in the pre sent state of things, and which shall promote the interest both of the manufacturers and the workmen, may a du rable improvement in the situation of the latter be ef fected." SELO! AN FUNDS.—Baussats, Oct 20. Aetna Debt, ],', per Cent~ Rothschild's Loan Five per Cent. !Fri Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 26% Three per Cent. —.Thirty-seven Milli: ns, ditto ----- (1840)....... ........ If's% 1844............ ..... .............. ..... ....... 105 5y Loan of City, 1843, Four per Cent lO3 Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent — Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 60% Logue of 1841 —ffrooseels Papers'. Oct. 21. AUSTRIAN FUNDlL—Vicsna, OCT 14 Five per Cents. Mstalliques ... 10s1% Four per Cents. lOO Three per Cents. Bank Shares .... .................... ............. .411genveiss Zeituug, Oct. 16. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT to th© CIT Y. On Tuesday the following proclamation was issued by the Lord Mayor, for the purpose of keeping the straeta clear on Monday next : " MAGNAY, MAYOR. " Mansion-house, Oct. 22, 1844. "Her most gracious Majesty having graciously signified her intention of being present at the opening of tha Royal Exchange on Monday next, the 28th instant, the Lord Mayor hereby directs that no carriages, carts, or other vehicles, nor cattle of any description, will be allowed to pass over Blackfriars-bridge, or through any streets or thorough fares in the line of procession from Temple-bar to the New Exchange, between the hours of ten o'clock in the morning and six o'clock in the afternoon ; and that the police have directions to see that the above orders are complied with. "By order, "S. GOODMAN, Clerk." In pursuance of the above order, and for the purpose of better carrying out his Lordship's direc tions, workmen were yesterday employed in fixing up barriers at the end of all the streets in the City through which the royal procession will pass. Similar measures will be adopted outside the City, under the direction of the Metropolitan police, a considerable number from each division having been ordered to 1 keep the line clear from Buckingham Palace to Temple-bar, assisted by the two Regiments of Horse Guards. At the Royal Exchange there are to be four entrances for the general company, in addition to the principal entrance at the western front. These were completed yesterday, and are situate two in Cornhill, and two in Bartholomew-lane. In the area around St. Paul's, seats capable of con taining from 10,000 to 15,000 persons, and extending from the north-west to the north-east side, are in the course of erection. These are to be covered in, and lined inside with pink and white drapery, with simi lar decorations as those used in 1837. At some of the shops in Cheapside the goods have been removed from the windows, and seats fitted up in lieu of them. In the neighbourhood of the Exchange as much as five guineas is asked for a single seat, whilst throughout the whole line not one is to be obtained under 10s. 6d. 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 (whether the result of 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 118— the greatest quantity fallen in any week, probably, during the whole year. STATISTICS OF THE THBATRES IN GERMANY, COL LECTED BY L. SCHNEIDER, ♦N ACTOR AT BERLIN.— There are altogether 115 German theatres, with 3,175 dramatic performers (1,870 actors and 1,305 actresses), 147 singers (89 male and 58 female), 174 principal dancers, 2,089 orchestral performers. The entire num ber of persons employed on the German theatres is about 12,769. The most numerous orchestra is that of Berlin and Vienna, the former comprising 95, and the latter (the Karthnerthor Theatre) consists of 77 persons. The smallest orchestra is that of Marburg, comprising only 12 persons. By adding the singers and the most of the directors and stage-managers to the above number of the dramatic actors, the whole would properly amount to about 3,600. This calculation is, however, somewhat be low the mark, for amongst the 115 theatres, there are only 21 travelling companies included. It may be pre sumed that there are more than 200 theatres. Amongst 139 prompters are also 39 female prompters. Dresden has the greatest number of leading actors engaged, con sisting of 55 persons; the smallest, comprising only 12 actors, is at Znaim. PAISLBT.—STATE or TRADE.—Although, as might be expected at this season, that branch of industry known as the Paisley trade is undoubtedly fiat, and a good many operati►es are to be seen disengaged about the streets still, the general trade of the country, if we may judge by the extensive orders which we have seen in the hands of our leading manufacturers in several other branches, is so brisk as to afford the prospect of considerable employment. As the Paisley weaver can, in half an hour, convert his loom to common purposes, by tying up his "harness," and introducing a common lay, tartans, checks, &c., and also gauzes, are readily produced, in lieu of the ordinary local fabrics of shawls and borders. We are happy to say that the demand for these descriptions of goods is at present considerable. The making of them has for some time back been gra dually creeping in as a branch of our local business.— Rentrewshire Advertiser. EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES ♦T LITEZPOOL.—O❑ Tues day information was received and circulated that a japanned tin cash-box had been stolen from an office in Liverpool, containing IN. in gold, a 201. Bank of England note, endorsed "J. 11. S. S." and "J. M." a 201. note marked " J. J. S. S." and " J. M.," another 201. and a 51. note, 100 Lyons and Avignon Railway shares (being English Scrip issued to " J. Potts Halbert Aunay,") and also a quantity of receipts and memorandums. The thief is described as a man of dark complexion, thirty-five years of age, and five feet seven inches high, with black hair and whiskers, and black mustachios, lusty in person, and of gentlemanly appearance.—Two days afterwards an office in Brunswick -street, Liverpool, was rubbed of another japanned cash-box, in which were a SL note of the Shrewsbury Old Bank, payable in Loudon, which had been cut in two and the halves pasted together, two 51. Bank of England notes, 331. in gold, 3/. in silver, a policy of insurance of the Liverpool Company, several small bills, and a letter of guarantee, signed by Mr. Callon. The thief in this case is described as a female, seventeen or eighteen years of age, of light complexion, with light brown hair, very low set and stout, with full face and very red cheeks. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Consols closed rather firmly this afternoon, being 100* for Money, and 1001 for Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. were at about 102. India Stock realised 286*. Not a single bargain in Spanish Bonds was quoted in the official list recognised by the Committee of the Stock Exchange up to the termination of business this afternoon ; and the other foreign investments were quite neglected. Colombian were 141 ; Brazilian, 85 to I ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 62-1,-. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Bristol and Exeter were 4 to 2 1 " ; Chester and Holy-head, 2 ; Direct Northern, * ; Great Southern and Western (Ireland), 6 ; Great Western, 61 to 63 ; Ditto, Half, 334 ; Birmingham, 211 ; South-Western, 30* to ; Croydon, Guaranteed, 4 ; London and York, 1 ; Manchester and Leeds, Half, 15 ; South-Eastern, 84 ; Ditto, Scrip, 111 ; York and North Midland, Scar borough Branch, 24 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 2 to * ; Orlean, Tours, and Bordeaux, 2* I ; Paris and Rouen, 20 to 19-1-, ; and Paris and Strasburgh, + premium. Eastern Counties have been 11* to ; Midland and Bir mingham and Derby, 22* ; and West London, First Class Preferred, 14 discount. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was dull, at previous rates. Sales 2,000 bales.—South-Eastern and Dover Shares were supported, but other railways were dull. Bristol and Gloucester, 421 ,• Caledonian, 4* ; Chester and Birkenhead Junction, 71. 18s. 9d. ; Ditto and Holyhead, 7i ; Dublin and Drogheda, 70; Eastern Comities, 13; Grand Junction, Half, 102* ; Kendal and Windorraere, 5k ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 138 ; Liver pool and Anchester, Half, 99k ; Ditto, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2k ; London and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 358 ; Ditto and Bijghton, 47 ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 125 ; Manchester and Leeds, 111 ; North British, 54 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 11. 18s. 6d. ; South-Eastern, 411 ; Ditto, New, 148; York and Selby, 454 ; Lyons and Avignon, 2 6-20 ; Paris and Lyons, 21 ; Paris and Rouen, 394 ; Ditto and Strasburg, 2 1-5 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, ; Bottiogne and Amiens, 4 1-20. Each day's post from most of the principal parts of Scotland brings additional information of mcasures of opposition to any interference with the Scotch n,snking system by the Govern:nent, being in most active pi-O gress. The Premier will have, therefore, no easy task to perform in inducing a majority, such as he would wish to have, to pass any Bill for the suppression of the IL notes, and otherwise interfering with the banking institutions on the other side of the Tweed. No concessions will be received. The reso lutions that have been passed at the meetings of the Chamber of Commerce, by merchants, brokers. and traders, unconditionally assert that any—the least—in terference with the present system. must be fraught wish the greatest injury to all her Majesty's Scottish sub jects. However, on this side of the border, very different opinions are entertained ; the leading hankers and capitalists holding the fate of the small note circulation of Scotia as already sealed. The proceedings in Parliament upon this subject will be vigorously conducted by the Scotch Members, almost to a man, and no doubt by a fear of the English and Irish representatives. It is understood that some weeks before the session is opened the delegates of the Scotch banking interests will reach London, to frame a' mode of proceeding the best calculated to maintain in tact the present system of banking and currency of Scotland. The general result of the recent important public sales of colonial wools and of indigo has been already noticed in the usual market report of The Sun. A word or two of remark is worthy a place under this head. It is with regret that, as winter is fast approaching, we find the employment in the woollen districts of this country is rather falling off than otherwise. To this circum stance may be ascribed the fall that has taken- place in indigo, which amounted all round to full fourpence per lb. ; and of what was really sold, full two thirds of the samples were bought for exportation, the manufacturers on the continent being better em ployed than those of this country. As to the recent sales of colonial wools, the lower qualities fell slightly; the purchases, however, of the finer samples were made with much freedom. As there will not this year be any further public sales of wools from the colonies, ample time will be afforded to work up most of - the present stocks. For the spring trade a good demand is looked for on United States' account. There are accounts from New Yoilt to October 4. The cotton market was dull, and the exchaige on Lon don continued high. The papers are filled chiefly with electioneering proceedings. The amount of business transacted in the Eunas this morning has not been considerable. The price of Con sols for the Account have been at one-eighth and at one fourth per cent. over par. The Commissioners bought 10,0001. Reduced Three per Cents. at 991 The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been again darn at 2 per cent. above par. In most of the public secu rities a good amount of business has been transacted to-day. Old South Sea Annuities have risen to 981 Exchequer Bills are flat, at 71s. premium, and India Bonds at 91s. premium. Bank Stock is rather flat at 203 k. Not a single bargain was quoted in the Spanish Bonds to-day. Portuguese Converted have advanced from 50; to 518 ; Belgian at 104+ ; and the Dutch Two-and-a- Halt per Cents. at 63. Russian Bonds have rallied to 118 i. Mexican may be quoted at 15+1 and Colombian at 14*. Much fluctuation has taken place in the Railway Share Market this morning. The Great Western shares have just receded about 4/. per share, being at 137. The Midland are at 6 to 7 premium, the York and North Midland are at 57 premium. The French lines are scarcely as much in demand as they were yesterday. The Real del Monte Unregistered has been sold at 4*. The Joint-stock Bank Shares are nominally the same as yesterday. PRICSE OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List) Bank 5t0ck............ ....... ........ ...... 203 S per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9915 ‘ 11i Consols. Ann& 99 "NO 3 per Cent. Co New 34 per Cent. Annuities ..... ..... 102% 01%102 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. IMO—. ..... 12 1-11 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. ....... 124 India Stack India 91 Ditto under South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Console for Account Exchequer Bills. I%cl. 114 d Ditto ..... 73 71 pm. - Ditto Advertised. — PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent 1044 Columbian Bonds. ..... ....... ............. Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. ..... ...... Ditto Deferred Stock 154% Portuguese Bonds ' 0 per Cent. Ditto Converted 5l 50% 51% Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent 112%% Dutch 2% per Cents ...... ........... ..... -....... PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK . RAILWAYS PAID. PAIR SNARL Birmingham and Gloucester lOO Ditto New 17% 255 ..... to Bristol anti Gloucester 3O ......... 43 44...... to 43% Caledonian Chester and Holyhead 5 0b.... .6% -- Churnet Valley ... .......... ...... 2 ..... .... 4 Eastern C0untie 5,..................... 25 ......... 13%% ,to Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O ..... ".. 62 Great Western ..............-....„. 75 l4l ......... to 137 Ditto % Shares Ditto Fifths l2 ......... 25%% ••• to London sad Binninghara. lOO .., ..... 212... to 213 London and Greenwich . ..... London and South Western 41% 72 to London and Croydon London and York 2% 3%A...... to Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 .... 5l Midland Counties ..... ...-........... 100 .........107 .. North British ...... 5 .... 5%% ... to Norwich and Brandon ....... ..... 6 .... —_ ........ to Ditto New ........" .... ... ......... .... ..... 1347, ... to South Eastern and Dover ......... 32% 42% to 42 Ditto New „........ .. .. ....... .... 4 Yarmouth and Norwich 2O ..... .... 25. " to York and North Midland 5O ........1011 .. ..... to 107 Ditto Scarbore' Branch Ditto Selby Scrip .....».„....«.. 47 to 46% Central of France .......... ..•••• 2 .•• •••.. 2%5 „to Boulogne and Amiens _ 2 45 _ to 4 Orleaiis. Tours, and Bourdeaux 1 ..... Paris and Orleans ........... •••••••••• 20 Parimand Rouen. .... 20 395% ... to Pads and Stra Bourg ...... 9 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 22.—There is less activity in the market to-day, without much varia tion in prices. Barnsley Junction, 5 1-16 ; Accrington, 31 ; Churnets, 41 ; Windermere, 5f ; Dewsbury, Gi ; London and York, 38 ; Manchester and Bux ton, 2 ; Manchester and Leeds, 110 ; Manchester, One- Sixteenth Shares, 3 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 52 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 2i ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 10 9-16. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bask 5t0ek........... .ex div. 204 1 Indian Stock 28634 3 per Cent. Red ....... ....... . 99% Ditto Bonds ....... 3 per Cent. Cons. ..... ....... 100% Ditto Old Annuities S)4 per Cent. Red +Ditto New Annuities ... New 3% per Cent. lO2 'Ex. Bills, I,OOW. 1)4d... 71 pm. New 5 per Cent.... ..... Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 7l pm. Jan. 1860 l2 1-16 Bank Stock for Acct.... Oct. 1859 ll 15-16 Consols for Act. .... .... 100% Jan. 1860.•.....•• FOREIGN FUNDS. . Austrian, 5 per Cent ...... ... IPortuguese, 5 per Cent — Belgian, 5 per Cent — Ditto, New Ditto... ........ ... Brazilian Bonds .... ....... Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent — IRussian 5 per Cent — Chllian, 6 per Cent ........... 'Ditto, Colombian, 6 per Cent ..... 14% Spanish, 5 per Cent.— ...... „ Ditto, 1824..„....„ ........ ...... Ditto, S per Cent — Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent...—. Ditto, Deferred ..... ..... — Danish, 3 per Cent — French, 5 per Cent....... - -t. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per Cent — Exchange .... ........ ...:—f. —c. Mexican, 5 per Cent Ditto, 6 per Cent., 183 7 — Dutch, 25 per Cent...... 62% Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — ) Ditto, 5 per Cent ....... SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) Direct Northern, 2% paid Eastern Counties (25 paid) .......... 13% Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid KIX Ditto Fifths, 12 paid London and Birmingham (Stock) London arid Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) 6% Londoo and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) London and York, 2% paid ................... Manchester and Leeds (70 paidl Ditto, Half Shares, 30 paid Birmingham and Derby, £lOO paid...... ..... .. South Eastern and Dover (33 25 9d paid) • Ditto New Shares, 4 paid West London, Old Shares, '2O paid .. Ditto let Class Preferred, 10 paid B% York And North Midland (50 paid) Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 paid' s4 Bet t logne and Amiens, 2 pai d .................., Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, I paid Paris and Rouen. 2 0 paid Paris and Strasbourg, 2 paid 2% The Secretary of State has just appointed Mr. Richard Baylis, who has been for many years messenger 'to the magistrates at Clerkenwell Police-court, to the post of second usher there. Baylis is an active, efficient, and obliging officer, aud every way entitled to promo tion. Both magistrates warmly interfered in Baylis's behalf. — Correspondent. BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES FOR THE LABOURING CLAssEs.—Lord Eldon has sent a donation of 2001. to the committee, and several of the London bankers have announced their intention of giving large donations. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vubitt ptnton. " Who runs may read." rolugair. According to a letter from Eu, of the 19th, the recep tions by the King and Queen for the previous two days have been very numerous, and each day there was & large dinner party. To-day, the King, accompanied by the Ministers of Justice and Public Works, Generals Audenarde, de Rumigny, and Friant, and several other. persons, took an airing in the park. Their Majesties had again a large party to dinner. Amongst the guest s were the Prefect of the Department, and the General Commandant of the Divison. The Duke d'Aumale has received, through the Count de Flahaut an invitation to visit the imperial family at Vienna, with his young bride, immediately after their marriage. The Phare de le Manche, of the 17th, says:—" "lu e steamers which formed the royal squadron in the to England, returned to our harbour (Cherbourg) 01 ! Wednesday afternoon. The Elan arrived at two, fh: Gomer and the Caimon at three, and the Pluton at four. The police of Perigueux have discovered that General Amettler and five or six other Spanish officers, to whOp that town had been assigned as a residence, have clao destinely taken their departure. Later accounts state. that they were arrested at the frontiers by French Cue" tom-house officers. Prince Albert of Prussia returned from Toulon to Marseilles on the 14th inst., and, on the following eve n .; ing, .set out for Nice. He is believed to have defers's,' his visit to Algeria. A letter from Constantinople, Oct. 2, in the Augsburf Gazette, says:—" The Porte seems to have serious], come to the resolution to fortify and place in a state of defence the entrance of the Bosphorus on the Sea and the Dardanelles. Several officers of enginee rs have declared that the present fortifications are insufficient to prevent an enemy's fleet from effecting its passage, 95 it could compass its object by landing artillery to de" stroy the Turkish batteries. Artillerymen, to the tow ber of 3,000, will be sent to the Dardanelles, and 2,000 ti; the forts at the entrance of the Bosphorus. Thy Lyons journals of the 18th announce the follow' ing meland:oly accident:—" The Directors of the Found' ling Hospital ai Lyons having called in all the childrea who were out at nurse, in order to place them under more immediate superintendence, twenty-eight of OW were embarked on Monday last at the port of Chanel/ on the Rhone, in an open boat, to be brought to Lyons. The poor young creatures, separated' from their nurses, and frightened at the water, all rushed at parting to 0 side of the boat, and caused it to upset. Lamentab le relate, all of them, together with the two boatm en, were. drowned." a . of It appears, from an official return, ,that at th e en-„ August last, there had been completed in Germany 4'" French leagues of railroads, and that the capital 033 , ployed amounted to 136 millions of florins (about ' millions sterling). The Commission of Statistics of the Scientific Cot . ress of Milan reported to that body that ther e si! seventy savings' banks in Italy, having forty taboo, (1,600,0000. The same Commission declares that WI are 114 houses of refuge for poor children, wher e 13,6° 4 are nourished and educated, at an expense of 19, 0 ,°4 per annum, coDected by voluntary contributions' 3,P, I?apal States are not included in this account , for To. Pontifical Government has hitherto rejected the iott, tution of houses of refuge for children, as tending "" favour the principles of Protestantism. ItailLlP7 AND POLICE. At the Central Criminal Court John George Pre s ; tage, alias John Bracebridge, was convicted of nige." 3 „P and sentenced by the Recorder to one year's insproe"' ment, with hard labour. In the New Court John Murphy, aged 53, was dieted for stealing several lengths of canvass, the pr° - party of Messrs. S. Perrott and Co., his empleY e A ll A , The evidence was so complete that Mr. Payne, w ho "...- fended the prisoner, admitted it would be folly to CO7„, tend against it. The prisoner, who had long been :f the confidential employ of the prosecutors, at a salary of ti 701. per annum, was convicted, and sentenced t o se" years' transportation. The October Adjourned Sessions for Middlesex coma menced at the Guildhall, Westminster. The calena:i contained the names of 41 prisoners, 38 of whom stns, charged with felony, and the remaining three with e l l, demeanour. The Court sat up to a late hour, for 10,,, purpose of going through the whole of the commitinee; Not a single case of interest came before the C° ll during the day. James Murphy, the pretended dealer in contraban teak and tobacco, was convicted at the Surrey Se esi l isf ir o f o btaining 21. from Edward Horne, a grocer, 10 460 pretence Of selling him two packets of tea. He wee er convicted of stealing half a sovereign from another P pr son. He was sentenced to twelve months' hard lab ° s , at Brixton. The Court refused to allow Horne hit e penses. dello On Tuesday, a young wo=man, named Mary Satin . was brought before Alderrnat: Gibbs, at the Mans i ° ll , r . house, by Mr. Owen, proprietor Gt . the Yorkshire Gr . „`. l o , tavern, in Lower Thames-street, as a destitute Per',,a She had been brought up from Hull, by her master au mistress, who decamped with her bundle, and left 1 00 , without money or friends, in the streets of 1 1. 11 ,uQ - She was ordered to be taken care of, and again on Friday. An attempt was made at the Guildhall, U r vr Staridge, of Cornhill, to convict a farmer named of of cruelty, for using the ordinary calf cart. It 71, 0 brought peered, that several experim,en,ts had been tried in " o . construction of calf carts, and that, after all, the old ri? eb thod was the best. Ono of the' " humanity-carts," vit t* hid been adopted on the suggestion of Alderman Gle, haclsmothered so many calves, that the farmers 'o4;:s forced to give it up. In the ordinary cart, the 0 6 ,',, be slept comfortably the greater part of the journey. complaint was dismissed. Three men, named Street, Wyatt, and Long, ' fete d committed frous 13ow-street, for burglary in the h ouse o, Mr. Nicholas Walker, landlord of the Barley -03° Drury-lane. 03 0. At the Thames Polica.court, Herbert Holmes - , 5 14 riner, and late second mate of the Cuba, now lyol or the river, charged with cutting and wounding v 4 61, tarn Matthew Macintosh, the master of the same fe. iiif with intent to murder or do him some grievous he w bo harm ; and John Newman, carpenter of the Cuba, oi e came to give evidence for the other prisoner, 1 10 4 d i o t apprehended late in the afternoon, charged with 0 ' and abetting Holmes in the commission of the offele and also with assaulting Mr. John Bell, the chie f oir'' of the ship, were committed to Newgate for trial. i e r, At Clerkeewell, William Powell, a painter and g lii „ i ght residing in Johnson's -street, St. Pancras, was h, r° ,:i:tea up in the custody of 205 S, charged with having aes - a o his wife, whereby she became chargeable to St. ro in o parish. The prisoner had been locked up from lse o'clock at night until a quarter after three in the A. to ' noon, in consequence of the parish officers neglectilids attend. It appeared moreover that the warrant cower he was detained was not legal, and the Magistrate e tb e tnented on the neglectful conduct of the parish stoo, rities. The prisoner, who cohabits with another l'e';A• was discharged, on agreeing to allow his wife 4s. * 1( 0 00 John Watts, a man in the employment of Mr. fitted Evans, of 20, Lower Sloane-street, baker, was comb' te o' from Queen-square, charged with having robbed ployer to a very considerable extent. At Lambeth-street, John Larkin, a smart-Iv - 0P young fellow, was detained for having in his poS6e.co 0 a new patent powder-flask, of which he could not b" satisfactory account. oie s• j Two women, named Moss, alias Smith, and St!,hil were committed from Union-hall, on a charge 07. " stealing. a There was not a single charge at the Virtint . ` Police-court, not a warrant or a summons to disP °9e , nor even an application to occupy the Magistrate tention for a brief period. 077311r--WAIELION.L.IS3IIIII. We are happy, says the Post, in being able tnor nounce the intention 9f her Majesty to honour the t wit quis and Marchioness of Exeter with a visit at 0 0, 1 princely residence, Burleigh House, near Stansforo,,o,ol early a period as possible subsequent to the c_feeLt,ol the new Royal Exchange. It is probable the Ue'uepoe' leave Windsor for Lincolnshire, about the conot?, ment of the ensuing month. The Noble Mainto p ' OS family have already arrived at Eurleigh House t° fey , ' the necessary preparations for the reception o f Lbe visitors. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and th e borg ditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Idecklelioositi! m Strelitz have accepted an invitation from th e ;i t WI and Marchioness of Ailesbury to honour theta td o rit'e company at Tottenham Park, near MarlboroutMe lead the ensuing week. Their Royal Highnesses 10"-,ii5h Kew for Tottenham on Friday next. A dieting party are invited to meet their Royal Highnesseft.. toles The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort have le" art* to join the family circle at Badminton. Their Gra.eeno 0 .•.e invited to meet the royal and distinguished ill', gal Tottenham Park, the seat of the Marquis S D. chioness of Ailesbury, on Friday next. ford The Duke and Duchess of Somerset remain present at Wimbledon Park. The period Graces departure for Brighton is not ybt del ! 01 - on, and it is feared the Noble Duke's indispos e toe probably have the effect of detaining the family I c ed The Countess of Wilton and family have ar;Withr Grosvenor-square, from Binstead Cottage, Is le eA so f Her Ladyship leaves town on Friday for Melton in hi ° bray. The Earl of Wilt on l e ft Hyd e on MondisAionev,' beautiful yacht, th e X ar if a , on a cru i s e in the T. ' or dsh'r and it will prob a bly b e some d a y s b e fore his • joins the Countess in Leicestershire. lei The Earl Fitzwilliam has been lately The Sti Pi distinguished party at Wentworth House. od, to ' of Norinanby, the Earl and Countess of Harely°,,,uotr Earl and Countess of Zetland, Viscount and Vin t , lirlf; Helmick, Viscount and Viscountess Milton, S e l countess Milton, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord a 13 , A Zar" Howard, and others, have been visiting the Nob c oterie szIeCIMMILAWZOIIea• sio tterb, 0 During the last few weeks most exten.;o et o f tions have been ma ki ng a t th e magn ificent Manele-otios Marquis of Exeter, Burghley Park, for the_Areche A r ° , o l l l her Majesty th e Queen, who has signifi ed A f P pleasure of visiting the head of the noble bo ns " 1510" - in the early part of the ensuing month: It is stated that her Maj e sty and his Tier o f the of Prince Albert, accompanied by some ;Portion doi ne e fent Royal Family, will visit Claremont e e purt"%t two preciously to proceeding to London for to ol eg o of opening the New Royal Exchange. Sat e '', drt is the day spoken of for the departures v O.- • the . ..4 • fOAI Windsor for Claremont House. gaol It is now definitively fixed that a winter g, shall take place, but it is believed thatihe _,. , 811 " 0 51 4 0 . 0' rangements will not be made till the beginu" T tend 11 th e eyei.,