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13, Great Marlborough-street, Nov. 1844 MR. COLBURN WILL PUBLISI DURING THE PRESENT MONTH, THE FOLLOWING NEW WORKS:- THE CRESCENT and the CrIOSS; or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel. By ELIOT B. G. WARBURTON, Esq. 2 vols., small tvo., with numerous illustrations. ADVENTURES of an OFFICER in the Service of Runjeet Sing. By MAJOR LAWRENCE, Bengal Artillery, British Resident at the Court of Nepaul. 2 vols., small fivo. MY ADVENTURES. By COL. MONTGOMERY MAXWELL, K. 11., Commanding the 36th Regiment. 2 vols., small Bvo., with Portraits. LETTERS of a GERMAN ( OriNTESS, written during her Travels in Turkey, Egypt, the Holy La: d, &c., in 1842-14. 3 vols., small Bvo. PERSONAL ADVENTURES and EXCURSIONS in GEORGIA CIRCASSIA, and RUSSIA. By Lieut.-Col. POULETT CAMERON, employed on a Special Service in Persia. 2 vols., small Svc. lIILLINGDON HALL ; or, tho Cockney Squire. A Tale of Country Life. By the Author of , " .. llagdley Cross." &c. 3 vols. LADY CECILIA FARRENCOURT. A Novel. By HENRY MILTON, Esq., Author of " Rivalry." 3 vols. " She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd ; She Is a woman, therefore may be won " VIII. 'L—Shakspc are, THE PALAIS ROYAL, an Historical Romance. By the Auther of " Henri Quatre ; or, the Days of the League." 3 vols. Colburu, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received by all Booksellers. NEW ROMANCE, ltY G. P. R. JAMES, ESQ. Just ready, in 3 vol. post Bvo, INCO U R T A ' AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. By J. P. R. JAMES, Esq. Author of " Darnley," " De L'Orme," " Rose D'Albret," &c Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, Will he performed a New Grand Opera, in Three Act!, entitled I'HE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Mr. Borrani ; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison ; Devilshoof, Mr Stretton ; Arline, Miss Rainforth ; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. After which, the Grand Ballet, entitled THE CORSA! a. Conrad, M. Albert; Julien, M. Desplaces; Sanguo, M. Montessu ; Me,lora, Miss Clara Webster ; Une Vivandiere, Mdlle. Auguste, Delbes ; Guinan, M tile. Adele Dumilatre. The Box.office 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, NOVEMBER 4, Will be performed Sheridan's Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. W. Farrcn ; Charles Surface, Mr Charles Mathews; Lady Teazle, Madame Vcstris. After which will be produced an Original Comic Drama, entitled SAM PATCH. Sam Patch, Mr. Marb e; Mrs. Somerville, Mrs. E. Yarnold ; Mrs. Mouser, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a New Farce, by Mr. Buckstone, entitled THE IHI ...BLE RIG. John Ginger, Mr. Buckstone, Sam Shindy, Mr. Strickland ; Mrs. Ginger, Mrs. W. Clifford. Orchestra Stalls cwhich`my be retained the whole of the Even ing), si. each. First Price—Boxes, - a. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Second Price at N..ie o'Clock—Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2q. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, td. i/oors opened at Half past Six, Pe , fonnance commence at Seien. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One "uinea and a-Half each Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box.office, from Fen till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame .CELESTE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, Will be reTvated a New Dram; entitled THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Cou►_t Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson; Count Vanille, Mr Selby ; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ; Crequet, Mr. Wright; Chechore, Mr. 0. Smith. After which, an entirely New Drama, entitled C/ESAR DE BAZAN ; or, Love ind Honour. Charles the Second, Mr. Howe; Ceesar de B I zan, Mr. Webster ; Maratina, Madame Celeste. To conclude with a New Eccentric Mythological Burlesque, called TELEIIACHUS; or, The Island of Calypso. Telemachus, Miss Woolgar ; Calypso, Mr. Wright; Mentor, Mr. P. Bedford; Dinah, Mr. Cowell. Prompter, Mr. (allot; Principal Painter, Mr Pitt ; Leader of the Rind, Mr. Mellon.—Box-ortite open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at ail the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE. Mr. J. N. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, Will be perforrred THE SY REN. Principal Characters by Messrs Walton, C. Horn, Jun., Leffler, Allerytnd Aldlle. Nau. To conclude with the New Drama, called DON C. .SA R DE BA ZAN. Dan Cxsar, Mr. Wallack ; Charles the t'econt , Mr. Walton ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling; Countess di Rotondo, Mrs. Fo.hreke. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden, Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, .18. ; Pit, es.; Gallery, Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, IL ; Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, - fwo Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce. nium Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Hilf. Doors to be opened at Half_ test Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-otce, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham Private Poxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre, THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. Uader the Management of MTS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 4. Will be performed a New Comcdietta, entitled WATCH AND WARD. Tile characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Kinloch, and A. Wigan ; Mss Fairhrother, and Mrs. A. Wigan. Co be followed by TWICE KILLED. Characters by Messrs Collier, Turner, Craven, and Keeley; Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, a New Farca, called TOIPERSONS ABOUT TO MARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, Turner, sni stoker, Miss Arden. Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. Woolli•Ige. To conclude with THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASSIONS With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal Characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mr. Gouri e t, M r. Craven, and Mr. Keeley ; Mis: Fairbrother, Mrs. Woolli ige, Mrs A. Wigan, Miss Turner, MI .s James, Miss Arden, Miss Wove, Miss Fort ?scue, and Mrs Keeley. PRICES OF ADM 1&S I ON.—Balcon y Boxes. 43. ; Upper Boxes, :35.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Gd. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2.. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, is. Private Boxes on the atte,nly Tier (holding eight persons), Tao Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second 'er (holding eight persons), On/ Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One (}wire., The Box.,llice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. STRAND THEATRE. Le,see. Mr. ROBERTS. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, Will be performed DON CIEZ AR DE BAZAN. Don Cmsar, Mr. Roberts; King Charles 11., Mr. John Howard; Maritana, Mrs. Coleman Pope Mr. Roberts and Mrs. M ntgomerie will dance their celebrated Polka. After which, THE BOOTS AT THE SWAN. Frisky, Mr. Roberts; Jacob, Mr H. Hall; Cecilia, Mrs. MontgomeTle. To conclude with QUITE AT HOME. Principal Characters by Messrs. Howard, Ayliffe, Dean, Mrs. Melville, and Mi s Carter. ASTI. KY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. Open every evening with its unequalled rotation of Equestrian and Dramatic Entertainments THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, The Splendid Spectacle from the Poem of the illustrious Sir Walter , ;ott, entitled LOCHINVAR; or, Tha Bridal of Netheroy, and Steed of the Brave. Entire change of the Scenes of the Circle, and novel feats of Horse. manship, and first time in England the Dressed horse of the Me. nage Toby broke and ridden by Mr. 'l'. Davis. To conclude with THE BLOOD-RED KNIGHT; or, The War. riots of Palestine. Acting and stage.m 'maw, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding liy Mr. R. Smith daily. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Increasing success of Dan Cresar de Basin—First Night of another New Drama. THIS EVENING, NO 'EMBER: 4, Will he performed a New Drama, enti led DON C/ESAR DE B A ZA N, supported by the entire Company. After wtretg, an entirely New Drama, THE SISTERS OF CHA- T! LLON, in which Messrs. Hicks, Neville, R. Shephard, Vale, Johnson, Heals, n:s. R. Homier, Miss Terrey, Mrs. H. Vining, &c., will perform. Ts conclude with MY HUSBAND'S DOUBLE. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, Will he performed OTEIELLO: the Moor of Venice. Othello Mr. Graham; lag,, Mr. Dale; Desde,nona, Miss Vincent; Mrs. W. West. Alter which, THE FAIRY LADY; or, The Cabinet of Bronze, Elise (thy )Fry LatIFI, Miss Louis,. Lyow. To co 'clime with I'HE ARTFUL DODGE, In wh!cl 'Mr. G Wild and Mils Hamilton will appear. Private Yamily Boxes, £1 Is. Od. and .£1 its. Bd. IHE WEATHER.—Suw OFFICE, Nov. 2, TaicamomETEß, Lowest, 38; Highest. 47; Noen, 40 BAROMETER, 29.2.—W0rn, E.S.E. OTE. —The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is u plaqed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ...:9 minutes after 7 I Evening ... 6 minutes after P. 4 -1P • • • aftowv, • 4 % • "' " E 0 • • *eq. illarttinff '')11;1t. LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1844. A eareful perusal of the report of the " Select Committee on Mortmain," appointed last session by the House of Commons, although it has afforded us, in conjunction with the Minutes of Evidence, some entertainment, as well as instruction, has not led us to concur in the pro-repealing views of the Corn na'ace. In this report we have a fair statement, we mist allow, of the origin, objects, and operation of the Atirtmain laws ; but we do not find an adequate case m vie out for their abrogation. Nay, the Select Committee conclude their report by declaring ," that" they do not feel authorised, by the terms of reference, to report in favour of (even) " any specific alterations of these laws." These terms were precise, if they were not ample enough to include the recommendation of any remedial measure which the result of their investigations might have appeared to them really to warrant. They were instructed " to inquire into the operation of the laws of' Mortmain, and of the restrictions which limit the power of making gifts and bequests for charitable and religious uses." But the "finding of this tribunal of inquiry is simply that they feel bound to state, from an at tentive consideration of the evidence submitted to them by witnesses whose means of information and authority must be held to be great, that the operation of the laws is most unsatisfactory ; tends to doubt expense, uncertainty, and litigation ; frequently de ,feats good and pious purposes which the present aspect of the country would induce all men to wish fulfilled; while, from the existing facilities for evasion they cannot be regarded as serving the main pur pose for which they are supposed to be maintai ne d, by se cur i ng th e h e i r from the unexpected alienation of property to which he might reasonably have hoped to succeed." This is all very well — as a one-sided view of the cas e . B u t the - " good ' an d pious purposes," of which, in the present ti=nes, jutththe fre uent defeatese laws is so bas of q y pathetically deprecated were s n repre sen t e d in times gone hy, by th e most exorbitanttlmtie and reckles s alienations of' property w hi c h the iut stition, or the extravagant flotation of a gyuilt super. science worked upon, intimid a t e d , excited, or cajoled by the crafty whisperings of a ghostly father—under the fiercest access of his penitent's malady, whether of mind or body, could extort from him in favour of some ecclesiastical foundation or spiritual destina tion, and to the manifest robbery of the rightful legal heir. For our own parts, although we see, on the list of the Committee, the names of such highly respectable men of all political parties, as Lord JOHN MANNERS, Mr. FREDERICK SHAW, Mr. CHARLES BULLER, the Hon. Mr. SMYTHE, Viscount CLIVE, Sir GEORGE GREY, &C., we are not at all convinced that there is anything in the altered aspect of society and political institutions at this day, which should induce the Legislature to throw down a bar rier which the " wisdom of our ancestors," so long ago as a period even before the PLANTAGENETS existed, and under that heroic line of Princes consolidated, to protect the landed property of the laity against the encroaching and grasping spirit of the churchmen. As to the securities which the Select Committee con ceive to be provided by the present state of society and of the law against similar diversions of pro perty from its legitimate channels of descent, inheritance, or representation, to corporations ecclesiastical, charitable, or municipal, their own admission, as to the " facilities of evasion" afforded by the law of Mortmain under its existing form, should make them more distrustful than they seem to be of the chances of a like evasion of the same law in that altered form to which they would reduce it. " The MORTMAIN LAWS had their origin in a state of society widely different from the present ; and nearly, if not all, the reasons" (the Committee ob serve) which appear to have induced the PLANTA GENET and TUDOR Kings and Parliaments to enact the various laws restricting the alienation of real property, first to religious, and, subsequently, also, to lay corporations, from the time of MAGNA CHARTA down to the Reformation, exist no longer."—(P. III.) We are not so sure of that. We can imagine a case in which, if the piety or remorse of some san guinary Norman Baron has remitted, on his death-bed, part of his ill-gotten lands (the rewards of his brigand violence, or the indications of his Sovereign's favour), to the impoverished but illustrious house of some despoiled Saxon Thane, it is at least possible that such lands would have been applied at that time, or been found at this, appropriated to some more honourable and respectable uses than if they had been surrendered to a spiritual brotherhood. For example, the Almonry at West minster, in the hands of a succession of lay proprie tors, continued through the last eight hundred years, might never have been presented at law, as the nuisance it has been for about a century past, owing to the character and pursuits of the tenantry who have held that close under the ecclesiastical ownership of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. This reminds us that the Bishop of LONDON, a witness examined be fore the Committee, gave some characteristic evidence. His Lordship did not once allude to the Almonry and its housekeepers, but he expressed great indignation at the fact of the late Dean of WESTMINSTER'S bequest of 5,0001. to the Trustees of the Metropolis Churches' Fund having been found to be void owing to the operation of this law of Mortmain, which law had been successfully appealed to by the residuary legatees under Mr. DEAN'S will. Then the Bishop gravely tells the Committee "that there would be no danger of the Protestant clergy using undue in fluence over dying persons in favour of the (Estab lished) Church ; but the doctrines of the Roman Ca tholics would lead to such influence being used." Liberal, this : but we would not have trusted; the Right Reverend CHARLES JAMES, himself, with the late N. M. ROTHSCHILD, if the Bishop's darling scheme of " more churches" had been then afoot, and himself at the great broker's bed-side in his last illness. We are inclined to think that WILLIAM the CONQUEROR, though he might not have been more disinterested than Dr. BLOMFIELD, had more of that sagacity which is slow to deceive itself. From the learned and interesting evidence of Mr. R. 'MAT THEWS, the barrister, we have marked, for the Bishop' especial perusal, the following paragraph : " The alienation of land in Afortmain seems to have been practised to a very considerable extent, at a very early period of English history. Seldon states that a license from the Crown was necessary for that purpose among the Saxons, at least sixty years before the Con quest. There is a curious passage in Speed, 441 b, which may also be found in Tomlins's Law Dictionary, title Alortmain---' William the Conqueror demanding why lie conquered ;he realm by one battle, which the Danei could not do by many, Frederick, Abbot of St. Alban's, answered, that the reason was, because the land, which was for the maintenance of martial men, was given and converted to pious employers, and for the maintenance of holy votaries; to which the Conqueror said, that if the clergy were so strong that the realm was enfeebled of men for war, and subject by it to foreign invasion, he would aid it. Therefore he too many of the revenues of the abbot, and of others also, The Morning Post—whom no one can please, not even " Young England," inasmuch as we have more than once detected our cross-grained Contemporary indirectly sneering at that promising specimen of uvenility—the Post, we say, of this morning takes a writer in Fraser's Magazine to task for having pre sumed to speak favourably of the cotton-lords of Manchester and Leeds, and recommended the land )wners to follow their example, as regards the pea santry on their estates. We noticed the article com plained of, in The Sun of Friday, hut must confess that we found nothing in it to justify our Contem porary's disapprobation. True, it spoke impartially and even kindly of the conduct pursued by the manu facturers towards the workmen in their employ,. and so far sacrificed prejudice to a sense of jus tice ; but it did not breathe a syllable in disparagement of the landowners; indeed it studiously refrained from all censure of the in lifference which they have too long manifested to. wards the labouring classes, and contented itself with simply recommending them "to bestir themselves," and to bear in mind the salutary maxim, that if pro perty has its rights it has also its duties. But even this was too much for the one-sided, uncompromising Post, whose prejudices stick to it like so many burs, and, accordingly, it thus vents its spleen against the unoffending scribe in Fraser :—" These professors of Conservatism cannot get rid of a disposition that haunts them to overlook any merits which their friends may have, and to be ever hunting out the ex cellences of their opponents. They can find that in free-traders which they cannot find elsewhere." The real meaning of this paltry cavil is very evident. The inveterate spirit of ultra-Toryism peeps out at every word. Our Contemporary insists that no true Tory or Conservative has a right to do justice to those who are opposed to him in politics, even though their views on some particular question may be undeniably sound. He is bound to sacrifice his convictions to his party, and though at heart he may be rationally disposed towards free-trade, yet his influence, whether within or without the walls of Parliament, must be thrown into the scale of mono poly. He must not "find that in free-traders which he cannot find elsewhere," but must make a point of insisting that all which his friends do is right, and all which his enemies do is wrong. This we con ceive to be the true meaning of the passage we have just quoted ; and if so, it is scarcely worthy of our Contemporary —scarcely in keeping with the notions he is constantly promulgating. He professes to be actuated by the most enlarged and enlightened views —to soar far above the paltry considerations of party —and to regard nothing but the welfare of the people in general, and the best means of securing that welfare. It is only because he is averse to political partizanship that he leans to the side of "Young England," because he imagines that he can perceive in this zealous band of Reformers a manly spirit of independence calculated to be of the utmost benefit to that somewhat vague and eccentric cause—for we honestly confess that we have never been able to understand the Post's politics—which he professes to have so much at heart. But now we find the cloven hoof of ultra-Toryism peeping out, and our bigoted Contemporary quarrelling—in the true spirit of Lord ELDON-with a brother Tory, merely be cause he finds that the opponents of monopoly —to wit, the manufacturers—are not quite so bad as they have been represented, but have certain redeeming points in their character worthy of the imitation of the landowners. The old adage assures us—and we have considerable faith in the assertion—that the Devil is not so black as he is painted, but on the Post's principle, he must not only he quite as black, but infinitely blacker; and it is the bounden duty of all good Protestants to cherish this conviction as one of the fundamental articles of their creed. We have no patience with our Contemporary's systematic and continuous illiberality towards the manufacturers. Ile is exceedingly fond of expressing lofty sentiments THE SUN, LOND in still loftier language, yet in the passage on which we have been commenting, we find him actuated by the basest and pettiest prejudices, and so wholly car ried away by his party animosities as actually to fall foul of a brother Tory, merely because he will not go the whole hog with him in point of bigotry, but has liberality of sentiment enough to acknowledge that the manufacturers have several redeeming traits in their character. We have received Madrid papers of the 25th. According to these Senor ISTURITZ was seriously in disposed. Ilis complaint was said to be congestion of the brain. The debates on the address were to com mence on the 26th, but it was generally understood they would be delayed for some time, on account of ISTURITZ'S illness. He had given notice of the following amendment : " The Deputies, yOur faithful subjects, gratefully acknowledge the solicitude of your Majesty for the wel fare of the nation in the desire manifested by your Majesty to see the field of political discussions closed as speedily as possible, and the institutions by which the country is to be governed consolidated for the future. " Your Majesty, who, in her wisdom, recognised the gravity of that most essential question, will be pleased to receive with kindness the opinion of Congress, which considers of the utmost utility for the realisation of the important object your Majesty proposes to accomplish the adjournment of the examination of that question to another Legislature, in order that after experiencing the effect of the organic laws, of which the nation stands in immediate need, the Deputies may, in concert with the Government of your Majesty, discuss with perfect know ledge the modifications which ft may be necessary to in trod:fee into the constitution of the state." During the debates in the Senate, NARVAEZ made an attack upon ESPARTERO, denouncing him for at tempting to excite a civil war. Speaking of the good spirit which animated the army and its excel lent state of discipline, he alluded to the recent manifesto of General ESPARTERO, saying that if an ungrateful man were to forget the duty he owed to his country and to his QUEEN so :nuch as to'offer his sword to the cause of revolution, more than ten thousand brave swords would leap from their scab bards to combat the movement, and to defend their constitutional QUEEN and public order. The re marks of the Minister caused a deep sensation in the Chamber. We gave the state of the Spanish Funds on the 25th in The Sun ofFriday. The Paris papers bring no news, and the leading articles in most of them are of the most uninteresting description. In one which appears in the Journal des Debats, we see that journal has at length taken the new Government of Spain entirely under its protec tion, and denounces ESPARTERO as the greatest enemy of the country. After some ambiguous writing about NARVAEZ and Co., it adds—" Whether Spain change her Constitution or not, Heaven pre serve that noble land from falling again under the rule of ESPARTERO. The best Constitution is that which is now being carried into execution. ESPAR TERO would have promulgated a hundred Constitu tions without executing any of them." The Globe contains the following article relative to the new loan :—" If we are well informed, all uncer tainty with respect to the loan will shortly cease, and a loan of 300,000,000 f. in the Three per Cents. will almost immediately be announced for adjudication on the 25th of November next. This is a determination as skilful as it is wise, for in our opinion, a negotiation for the full amount of the loan, is the only mode of giving a spring to public credit, which has been too long compressed. It must have, moreover, the ad vantage of adjourning indefinitely the conversion of the Five pct. Cents., which we have never ceased to regard as a measure both impolitic and unjust, and which becomes every day more impracticable." The French Funds were rather lower on Thursday, the Three per Cents. having closed at 81f. 85c. THE BOURSE--THUR SDAY, OCT. 31. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents llB 60 .. 118 70 .. 118 60 .. 118 70 Fours .. ••• • • ••• • • • 106 95 .. 106 95 •.• 106 95 • • 106 95 Three per Cents... •• 81 80 .. 81 85 .. 81 70 .. 81 85 Bank of France"... •••• .• • 3075 .•3075 .•3072 50 .. 3075 Laftitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharcslo6s —lO7O .. 1065 —lO7O 5,0001. Sharessoo2 50 ..5002 50 ••5002 50 —5002 50 Belgian Bank ........ •••• • • 655 .. 655 .. 655 .. 655 Belgian Fives, 1840 .• ••• • •• 1031 .. 1031 • • 1031 .. 1031 P.Tanish Threes. 344 .. 3 .. 3 .. 341 Portuguese Five per Cents • • 53 •• 53 • • 53 .. 53 Neapolitan ••• • •• ••• • • •• 98 75 98 75 .. 98 75 .. 98 75 Roman RAILWAY SHARES. ••• - Versailles, L.B Rouen ..........•• •• •• •• ••1020 . 1020 ..1020 ..1020 Rouen to llavre...• Orleans .... ..... .... -• •• —lOlO ..1013 75 ..1010 ..1011 25 Strasburg to Bale.— —•• •• 275 .. 275 .. 272 50 . 275 Avignon to Marseilles— —•• 792 50 . 792 50 .. 790 •• 790 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, SETTLING, , OVEMBER 4 Rouen . . lOl5 ..1020 .1015 ..1020 Rouen to Havre 768 75 .. 768 75 .. 766 25 .. 766 25 Orleans •. .. Strasburg to 8a1e..... ..... 273 75 .. 275 .. 270 50 .. 275 —' Avignon to Marseilles— —• . 790 .. 790 .. 787 50 . 787 50 OXFORD, Nov. 1.--The Rev. W. Goodenough Penny, M.A., Student of Christ Church, and Perpe tual Curate of Ashend on ,' B uc k s , has resigned his studentship, on conforming to the Roman Catholic faith. It is also announced, and the intelligence has produced a deep sensation, that the Rev. John Henry Newman has intimated to the Rev. Mr. 'Williams, the late candidate for the Poetry Professorship, the impossibility of his continuing a member of the Anglican Church. SCHOOLS, HY THE QUEEN'S COMMAND, IN WINDSOR PARK.—IIer Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert have long contemplated the erection of schools in a convenient situation on the royal domains, for the education of the park and gamekeepers' children. A spot, admirably adapted for such a purpose, having been selected at the west end of the gardens at Cumberland lodge, about a mile from the statue of George IV., the necessary plans of the intended building, executed under the orders of the Commissioners ,of "Woods and Works, were submitted to, and approved, of : ,by, her Majesty. The building will be in the Elizabethan style of archi tecture, and erected at the cost of about 1,5001., which will be defrayed by her Majesty and the Prince. BRIDGWATER.—We have to record the loss of the schooner John and Mary, of this port, on her passage to this place on Thursday last, with a cargo of coals. This vessel left Newport the day before, and to all appearance was then in perfect condition, but we understand she sprung a leak in the channel, and shortly after went down in twenty feet of water. On discovering the leak the pumps were used, but the water rapidly increased in the hold, and the crew finding their:efforts of no avail immediately took to the ship's boat, and were shortly after picked up by a passing vessel. The cargo and vessel belonged to Captain Hercules Fowels, of this port, and was supposed to be worth about 6001. or 7001. Somerset County Herald. SECOND AND THIRD-CLASS RAILWAY PASSEN GERS.—Mr. Baxendale, the Chairman of the Dover Railway Company, having been asked by Lord Gran ville Somerset, one of the most active and intelligent members of the Select Committee on Railways, whether it had never struck him that " it would be necessary to raise the price of the third-class fares, as a means of prohibition against persons who ought to go into a se cond-class carriage taking a third ?" replied, " No, never ; not from that motive. It was only yesterday that I was speaking on this particular point, and I said that we have no right to judge, because a man wore a good coat and a good hat, that the man's purse was equal to pay a high or a low rate ; there are many th a t h ave sufficient pride to wi s h t o look well in the world, and who have not the wherewithal to pay very liberally."— Railway Record. THE SUICIDE AT KILMARNOCK.--We gave on 'Wed nesday last th e p ar ti cu l ars o f a very singular suicide eommitted near Kilmarnock, by an elderly gentleman and a lady presumed to be his wife, who had drowned them selves in the river Irvine, after having tied their arms together with handkerchiefs. We understand there is every reason to believe that the parties were a Mr. Jo seph Barker, formerly of this town, and his wife. Mr. Barker was one of the firm of John and Joseph Barker, Cromford-court, who were largely engaged in the German trade, and failed somewhere about the year 1814. Mr. John Barker, we believe, died very shortly afterwards ; but Mr. Joseph Barker sub sequently resided in London, and more recently travelled for sometime for a house at Birmingham. This employment he left a few months ago, with a view to a connexion with a house in London, in which, how ever, he did not succeed ; and it is supposed that disap pointment on this score, and probably the exhaustion of his resources, led to the commission of the fatal act.— Manchester Paper. TH E OVERLAND PASSAGE TO INDIA.—The antici pations which were excited by the announcement of Major and Mrs. Darby Griffith's description of their Journey Across the Desert, and the various exciting incident of their Overland Passage from India, have been more than realised by the publication of the work, which turns out to be as entertaining a companion as it was pretty sure to be useful and valuable as a guide. The peculiar facilities and advantages which Major Griffith and his lady seem to have enjoyed, and the unusual stay which they made at the principal points of the journey, have given a value to these volumes which no mere hasty and passing glance at the various features of the work could have afforded. The Journey across the Desert from Suez to Alexandria ; the novel description of our new military colony at Aden ; the account of the passage of the Red Sea, and the voyage on the Nile ; the full and interesting description of Malta ; and the rapid and spirited sketches of Sicily and Italy—all these features of the work give it a value and attraction not belonging to ordinary books of travel. MISS STRICKLAND'S LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND.—It is but due to this accomplished authoress to state that in the article on the Royal Exchange, which appeared in the Times of Monday last, we were indebted to her recent volume, " The Life of Queen Elizabeth," for that portion of it which related to the opening of the .rust Exchange by that illustrious Sove reign.—Tunes. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF GENERAL NARVAEZ AND BARON DE MEER DAY MORNING, NOV_EMBER 1841 MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS (From The Sun of Ssturday Evening.) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool for the week up to yesterday evening were 36,900 bales, the demand having been moderate. Stock, 852,Q00 bales.-Shares were quoted as follows :-Direct' Northern 48s ; Eastern Counties, 131 ; Grand Junction, New Quarter, 14f • Harwich, 11. 7s. 9d. ; Liverpool and Man c h e st er , Half, 991 ; London and Bi rm i ng h am Q uar t er Sh ares , 24# ; London' and York, 31 ; Sheffield and Lin coln, 1/. 19s. 6d, ; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 24; Paris and Lyons, 21. 7s. ; Paris and Strasburg, 21. ss. ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 31 ; Sambre and Meuse, ; ,Boulogne and Amiens, 44. The return of the Bank of England to Oct.. 26 does not show any important fluctuation. The circulation has been reduced to the extent of 186,1801., being now 27,545,7301., and in the banking department there has been a slight increase in the Rest, viz, 3,354/. The public deposits are again less, having been reduced from 3,965,196/. to 3,556,646/ There is an increase in the bullion to the banking department of 629,474/. The letters received from Brussels and Antwerp this morning state that the application for allotments of the New Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents., contracted by the Messrs. Rothschild, very far exceeded the amount that was in the hands of the agents of the contractors for distribution. A strong desire was shown to hold this stock, as it is not by any means improbable that ere long the Govern ment of Leopold will do, as our Finance Minister has done here, reduce the interest on the Five per Cents. It would appear that there is every prospect that some of the more material terms of the contract, as remitted from Rome to Madrid, f..ir the marriage of the Queen of Spain to the son of Don Carlos, will be vetoed by the Chambers=more especially those which would place on the debt an immense amount of expenditure incurred by the Carlist revolution and the value of church property sold. That the marriage will take place, however, there appears no doubt, if the most accurate accounts from the Spanish capital are worthy of full credit. Consols opened rather flatly, to -day, but this has been so broken a week that the attendance in the market is very limited, and, therefore, affords no criterion. The quo tations are 991 to par for Money, and par to 100* for Account. Exchequer hills have been 68s. to 655. pre mium, and India Bonds 90s. premium. B ink Stock is firmer, being 204 to 2041. The New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. have been 102 to 1011 ; and the Three per Cents. 99+ to 98i. Long Annuities are 11 15-16 to 12, The Foreign investments have been quiet, but Spanish are higher, the Five per Cents. being 231 and the Three per Cents. 35* 8. Portuguese Converted Stock has been 53 to 521. Mexican Bonds are 341, and Bra zilian 851. French Three per Cent. Rentes obtain 82f. 50c., the exchange being 25f. 55c. Dutch Five per Cents. are 981 to 99. There is rather a lively market for Railway Shares, and some fluctuation has occurred, The old lines have advanced in some instances, but there are also a few cases of decline. PRICES OF BRITISH I. UNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK, (From the Official List) ......... 20454 204 3 per Cent . - Reduced Annuities 9234334 98% 3 per Cent. Coniols. Annq New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire. sth Jan. 1860 ll 12 Ditto SO Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. 124 India 80nd5,1,000.. 90 Ditto under 88 South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Consol for Account 100 Exchequer Bills. 1344. 14d. 1,0001. •••••••••••••••••••••••• 66 67 pm. - 64 67 pan. Ditto Small. ...... - ..... 70 66 pm. Ditto Advertised: .... - PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto .......... , . Ditto for the Account Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840..„ - Ditto for the Account 2 3X% Ditto Passive Bonds Ditto Three per Cent ....... - Ditto for the Account ....... 35 1 ,4%)4 French Rentes, 3 per Cent Exchange 2sf. 55c. Dutch 234 per Cent 5............... ....... Dutch 5 per 98% 99 PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. Rl= RAILWAIN. PAID. PER SRAMB. Birmingham and Gloucester...... 100 ........105 to - Bristol and Exeter ........ 70 ........ 75 - Bristol and Gloucester. .... ....... 30 Caledonian - Chester and 5 ........ 61 4 to - Chur.iet Valley ...... - E tstem Counties 2 5 ••••••••• 13 56% ••• to - Ditto Perpetual 5 per cent... 21. 13s. 4d.... 1 - Elinburgh and Glasgow .......... 50 - Ely and Bedford - Great Western Ditto 34 Shares 50 86% ....„.to 86 Hull and Selby - Kendal and Windermere - Lancaster and Carlisle. lO - London and Birmingham, ..... 100 .... 215 216 to 21436 Dit o 3t Shares 2 ..... 2434 to - London and Brighton 50 ......... 46% 4i4 to 46% London and Greenwich London and Greenwich (Preference) 18% ...... 22)4.: to - London and South Western 41% ..„..76 .. to 75% London and Croydon ..... 13% - ........ to - Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Cent... 2 2% ..... to - London and Yor k , ~,,,..„,„.„,«.. 234 334 %...... to - Manchester and Leeds. Ditto 36 5hare5......... ........... 30 .. 47 to Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 ..... 49 Midland ..... ....... 100 .........10S Newcastle andVarlingtonJunct. 21 ..... 47)4 - North British 5 - Norwich and Brandon. 6 South Eastern and Dover .... ........ 3234 42%4 ... to 42 Ditto New .4 ..... 1534 Trent Valley - York and North Midland ..... 50 s ..... to 111 36 Ditto 34 Shares .. .. 25 ..... 56 ..... to 55% Ditto Scarbore' iranch 10 39 Ditto Selby Scrip ........ 20 ........ 7; Central of France (Masterman's) ..... 434 1 4 to - Ditto Constituted 2 - Boulogne and Arnie is .. 2 - Orleans. Tours, and Bourdeaux 1 ..... 3%74 to 4 Paris and Orleans .....«....«....».. 20 - Parisand Rouen. .... ...... 20 - IMPORTANT NEWS FROM SPAIN (From the Morning Herald.) We have received by Extraordinary Expresses from Bayonne and Perpignan, the following important in • telligence from Madrid and Barcelona : " MADRID, OCT. 27. _ _ " A fresh conspiracy has been discovered. General Narvaez was to have been assassinated at the entrance of the French embassy, where he dined. "General Prim was arrested this morning. Other arrests were made last night and this morning. " BARCELONA, OCT. 27. " Four hundred or five hundred persons, with the bonnet-rouge, assembled on the Rambla, and sur rounded the Alcalde and his deputy, who were soon rescued by the Mosos of the Foreign Legion. " Other troops arrived, and the rioters were dispersed. The Baron de Meer, on leaving the theatre, proceeded on foot along the Rambla, and a number of persons were arrested, after two officers of the police being stabbed." ANOTIIER LEITER. "BARCELONA, OCT. 27. "At eight o'clock two assassins were arrested, at the moment of their making an attempt on the life of Baron de Meer; but these men were rescued from the guard who were conducting them to the Ataranzanus, by a mob consisting of at least five hundred men. PARIS, FRIDAY, FIVE O'CLOCK. Holiday here to-day. No Bourse; at the passage Rent dull at 81 80. No news whatsoever. (From the Times.) " MADRID, OCT. 27. " A fresh conspiracy has just been discovered, General Narvaez was to have been assassinated al the gate of the French Embassy, where he dined, General Prim was arrested this morning. Other ar rests were made last night and this morning." " BARCELONA, OCT. 27. " At eight o'clock this afternoon two assassins were arrested at the moment they were about to at tack the Baron de Meer, who was alighting from his carriage at the theatre. They were rescued from the guard which was escorting them to the Atarazanas by a mob, consisting of at least 500 armed men." "BARCELONA, OCT. 28. " Four or five hundred persons, wearing red caps on their heads, proceeded to the Rambla, and seized upon the Alcalde and his deputy, who were rescued by the Mosos of the Foreign Legion. Other troops arrived and the rioters were dispersed. The Baron de Meer, on leaving the theatre, proceeded along the Rambla. Forty persons were arrested Two officers and a gendarme were stabbed with knives. " The result of this attempt is not calculated to encourage the disaffected." ORLEANS, TOURS, and BORDEAUX RAILWAY. (From the Railway Record of Saturday.) The royal ordonnance ratifying the lease of the railway to the successful competitors, the Mackenzie Company, was signed by the King on Thursday, the 24th ult., and officially promulgated in the Moniteur of Sunday last, the 27th. Thus vanish all the doubts, fears, and apprehensions of ultimate success entertained by the shareholders and friends of this Company. The Directors have already commenced their " winter campaign" with the intelligence and activity that have characterised all their previous proceedings. We understand that measures are in progress for ob taining immediate possession of the greater portion of the 72 miles between Orleans and Tours, in order to proceed with the ballasting. Whole forests are pur chased to furnish sleepers of the best oak timber, which will be prepared upon the best principle hitherto known for preventing decomposition ; and the necessary preparations are making for getting the carrying stock together so as to insure the open ing of this sectiOn_ of the line in the autumn of next year. The serv'Res.of an English engineer-in -chief, of high character and practical railway experience, will be secured, having for his assistants some of the ablest of the corps of French engineers. And, finally, we have reason to believe that a contract will be made with a well-known firm of first class contractors, for the completion of the works and the stocking and furnishing of the whole line to Bordeaux, and at a figure which will be still considerably under 65,000,000 f., the capital of the Company. This would be a splendid finale to the excellent management of this Company throughout, in the face of 70,000,000 f. of capital, estimated by the Govern ment engineers in the report of the commission on the Bill, and of no less than 75,000,000 f. of capital will b eli be eve is t ue hat d . a yer report ep shortly,ort to th in e demanded by two of the late competing compa n i es ! We have, reason 'to English sharehoWel whiah & Directors will give arif account of their stewardship;- and -such details. , as to the state and prospects of the Company, as cannot fail to be satis factory to the shareholders. Hitherto, all the statistics of traffic of this line have been witheld for obvious reasons. LLOYD' SHIPPING. LONDON, Nov. 2.—Wind this day at noon, E. to S.E., strong breeze with rain. It rained and blew very hard, with heavy squalls, all last night. DEAL, Nov. I.—A.M. Wind S.E. to E S.E., fresh breeze ; Seven P.m., E.S.E., blowing very strong.--Sld. Pearl, Ichaboe ; Ceres, Sierra Leone. FALMOUTH, Nov. I.—Wind S. to S.W., fresh breeze. —Arrd. her Majesty's brig Linnet, Plymouth. Peps Tow, OCT. 31.—Arrd. Flora, Plymouth for Bude, having struck on Dunbar Sands in entering, but was got off next tide. __ ILFRACOMBE, Nov. I.—Arrd. Emmeline, Gibbings, Ichaboe for Gloucester, with loss of mainmast heads, topsails, rigging, &C. It is blowing strong from the eastward. - OCT. 31.—S1d. Mary Imrie, Pernambuco ; Barbara, Madeira and Jamaica. YARMOUTH, 'SEE OF WIGHT ' Nov. I.—The Osprey, Stevens, from Port Talb o t t o London, is ashore in Pen nington Spit. LIVERPOOL, Nov. I.—Wind, S.E., blowing hard.— Sid. Bride of Abydos and Malvina, Ichaboe ; Agnes, La Guayra ; Eleanor, Tampico ; Susan, St. Thomas's; Yorkshire, New York. Off, Mary, Worrall, Valparaiso; Columbus (supposed), Pernambuco. The England, Wanderer, and Ambassador, which were off port, have not been heard of the last two days. CLYDE, OCT. 30.—S1d. Fame, Calcutta ; Mariner, Gleaner, and Coronation, St. John's. Cotttt, OCT. io.—Arrd. Melpomene, Sutherland, Icha boe (9 weeks) ; Indian, Gloster, from Ichaboe— loss of two hands overboard, and jibboom, having encounter e d a heavy gale, 26th instant. LEITH, OCT. 31.—Arrd. Favorite, Allen, Ichaboe. HARWICH, Nov. I.—A large ship, apparently water logged, is making for the harbour. ALDBOROUGH, Nov. I.—The Eliza, of Goole, from Maidstone, drove ashore this morning, and has received much damage, IcitAnot, - Atta 26.—Arrd. Supply of Aberdeen. Sir It. P, el, and Glangariff, of Cork. When the Mel ornene left Ichabw, about nine weeks since, there were 40 sail there—no less than 40 ships artivel in one day . i: ropes FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday, shortly before seven o'clock, th e ti me f or commenc ing the perform a n ce at Cooke's Ci rcus , s i tuate b e hi n d the Grove, Ha c k ney , the wind visibly s h oo k t h e awn i ng , without, ho wever, exciting au a tth l e ar e m d . opposite sides, sntoa p S t phueeddd,ceenanlnyt and e t a p h r o e t l e l h r , u s g a n e p png v m i o ( a r il s t e s i nt of f the gu c a t e n v n a s t a s , t amid the most terrific screa m i ng from all parts, insta nt l y fell to the earth. Th e cen t re pole, twenty in s eth,e, th circumference, struck M r s. Isbiter ; near her was sitt ing Mrs. Laws, a rel a ti ve , w h ose c hild was knocked out of her arms, and conveyed home in a dangerous state. The unfortunate lady was picked up, the blcod streaming copiously from her head, and conveyed to the Whi te Horse. Mr. Thomas, of Dr. Toulmin , s, and Mr. Giles, surgeon, promptly attended, and endeavoured to restore animation, but without effect. The unfortunate woman shortly afterwards ceased to breathe. Her head was literally crushed, and her face altogether presented a most appalling spectacle. As might be expected, the utmost excitement prevailed among the visitors at the Circus, who, after great difficulty, were relieved from deinepgffiri thegod effigy last their novel and somewhat perilous position. Mr. Law's child, on the latest inquiry, remained in a hopeless state. THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.—The influx of visitors fati o hnso n eTmtw iwhi c hrl Friday hheeeyiim enmhpoda vpiatsoayphplwtif indisposition. Dowager deide e oi htrfixhnai edifice et ec e flhb e yowT d ea uri e nhl ndnl Majesty's ereebraisLsjets, accountedhea sfl e doot r ai :efg, :sossnfs v i sit. foraet t oirf h btom e yot 1 the ienupt armour, it i e s x c t he public being Queen Elizabeth, the State chair, and other decorations, as , town with the Countess. JOINT STOCK ➢ANKS. Unioh of London lO 12% ..... to 'iria'nu az, 4.1. - IIESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. I.—We hve had a firmer market, and considerable business has 'bet; `dorie...—Barnsley Junction ' 51 ; Birkenhead and Manchester, 71 f ; Burnley and Accrington, 3k- ; Chur net Valley, 31 ; Great Southern and Western (Exten sion), 4 : 1 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 1 1-16 pre mium; Kendal and Windermere, 64 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 48; Manchester, and Leeds, 112 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 48; Bury and Rossendale, 7 15-16 8 ; Manchester and Buxton, 2 2-1 6 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 2 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 98f ; South-Eastern, 421 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 4i. . CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bask 5t0ck............ex dtv. 201 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO 9O pm. 3 per Cent. Red 99 Ditto under £1,4)00 Fg pm, 3 per Cent. Cons. .....»..... 99% South Sea Stock 354 per Cent. Red — Ditto Old Annuities .., 9734 New 3% per Cent lOl% Ditto New Annuities.., New 5 An nui ties— Bill% 1,0004 I%d ... 67 pm. Long to expire Ditto 500 J ..... ..... 67 pin lan. WO l2 Ditto 5ma11 . ............. eg p u n Crct. `IG) ll% Bank Stock for Acct ... Consols for Act......... IC O Jan. .1et50........ firdlati;' siak - India Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. Russian, 5 per Cent.... ..... Ditto, Metallic ..... ..... ..... ipanish, 5 per Cent., 1849... 21% Ditto, 1841,.,,.».,,,».»,... Ditto, 1842 —.. Ditto, 1843. Ditto, 1841 Ditto, 3 per Cent .....» 3 5 14 Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct — French, 5 per Cent,...... —t ....C. French, 3 per Cent.... 81f 5O . Exchange ..», », .... 25f 60c Dutch, 2% per Cent Dittoo per Cent 99 SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) lO5 Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid Caledonian (5 paid) Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) Churnet Valley, 2 paid Eastern Counties (25 paid) ... ..... .......... Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent.,lil3s4d. paid,No. 1 % Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid g Ely and Bedford, 1 paid ••• • Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid. .... ........... Hull and Selby, 50 paid 67 Kendal and Windermere, 1% paid 614 Lancaster and Carlisle, 10 paid London and Birmingham (Stock) Ditto, Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) Lonion and Brighton (50 paid) London and Greenwich (121. lie. 4d. paid) 8 Diito, Preference or Privilege, £iB 175 2d paid 22% London and South Western (411. 65. 10d. paid) 7 51 London and Croydon Ditto Guaranteed. 5 per Cent., 2 paid 2% London and York, 2% paid 3% Manchester and Leedi (70 paid) Ditto, Half Shares, 30 paid 47 Manchester and Birmingham Midland (100 paid) Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid North British, 5 paid • 5% Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid ll South Devon, 10 paid 12% South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) .....»., 42 Ditto New Shares, 4 paid Trent valley, 2 paid 8 q York and North Midland (50 paid) 11 155 Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 paid Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid 75% Central of France, 2 paid .. ... ..... 4 1 4 Ditto Constituted Boulogne and Ail:liens 2 plid ..... Orleans, Tours, and riourdeaux, 1 paid . 4 Paris and Lyons, 2 paid ..... ... . 3 ?aria and Orleans (20 paid) ..,.. 39% Paris and Rouen, 20 paid ..... . .......... ....“......... 3130' Austrian, 5 per Cent ........ Belgian, 5 per Cent............ Brazilian Bonds .....»...... 8634 Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent Chllian t r per Cent Colombian, 6 per Cent Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, 161e5, 5 per Cent — Mexican,s per Cent Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct — Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent — Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Ct — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ct DEATH OF THE COUNTESS or BERKELEL—We have to announce the demise of Mary, Countess Berkeley, who expired oil Wednesday last, at 'Cranford House. The deceased Countess was In her 77th year. Her Ladyship, who was daughter of W. Cole, married 30th of March, 1785, Frederick Augustus, late Earl Berkeley, but which marriage was decided by the House of Lords, in 1811, after a protracted inquiry, not to be then proved. The Earl was, however, married 16th of May, 1796, to her Ladyship, the legality of which union was not dis puted. By the late Earl the deceased Countess had issue six children, four of whom survive, namely, William Pitaharding, Earl Fitahardinge, the Hon. Captain M. F. I I Berkeley, U.N., married to Lady Charlotte Moreton, sister of the Earl of Dude ; the Hon. Augustus F. Berkeley, married to a daughter of Sir John Dashwood King ; and the Hon. Francis Henry F. Berkeley, M.P. ; and after the marriage of 1796, Thomas Morton, Earl Berkeley, the Hon. George Grantley F. Berkeley, M.P. ; Lady Mary ; Lady Caroline, married to Mr. James Maxse ; the Hon. Craven F. Berkeley, M.P., and Lady Emily, married to Mr. Sydney Capel. SALE OF A SUGAR PLANTATION.—On Friday, at one o'clock, a sale by auction took place at the Auction Mart of five hundred and sixty-three acres of cane plan tations, cane holes, and plant and pasture land, in a high state of cultivation, together with the machinery, build ings, &0., forming the Auchenskesch estate, situated at Sandy Point,Little Rockley Bay, in the island of Tobago. Of the land forty acres were appropriated as garden ground for the negro population employed on the plan tation. The valuation of the whole property was ap praised at 15,762 L, including two copper clarifiers of 600 and 500 gallon respectively, &c., and the crop for 1845 consisted of 32 acres of full plaza. and four acres of land opened, besides rattoons. The first offer was 3,000/. ; and after a smart competition, the property was sold for 5,150 E SUM/0Y OF NEWS AND lOttbitt 14; ptuton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The King, the Queen of the French, and other mem bers of the Royal Family, came to the Tuileries on Wednesday, but returned to St. Cloud to dinner. During his stay his Majesty presided at a Council of Ministers. On Tuesday evening their Majesties received the Eng. lish Ambassador, the Mexican Minister, the Neopolitan Secretary of Embassy, the President of the Chamber of Peers, Generals Sebastiani, Schneider, and Jacque minot, Vice-Admiral Halgan, M. Gauthier, Peer of France, the Count de Bundy, and the Prefect of la Charente-Inferieure. The journals of the south of France continue to publish accounts of inundations from th^ enormous quan. tity of rain that has fallen. The destruction of pro perty, however, is not very great, and it does not appear that any lives have been lost. The Congres Vinicole, which met at Bordeaux, has closed its sittings. It has decided that delegates from the wine-growers shall present to the Chambers a peti tion, stating that, after their third general Congress. they perceive with regret that nothing has been done ti afford a remedy to their distressed condition • that of the two last years the first vintage was generally bad, and the second, though excellent in some places, was un fortunate in others ; that their position is, if anything, aggravated of late, and that they are forced to call on the Government to examine what their position realises, and adopt some measures to relieve them. During the calamity at Cette, on the 22d, says the Mediterranee, a man belonging to the port, being near a boat which had capsized, called out to know if any per sons were under it. lle received for answer that there were six. " Plunge," raid he, "and you shall be saved." They replied that not one of them could swim. " Never mind, plunge," repeated the man. Only one of the six had the courage to do so, and he was saved ; the others found a watery grave. A Brussels journal gives an account of two attempts at suicide, both fortunately prevented, by a girl under ten years of age, at a village in Belgium, from grief at being unable to assist in the support of her mother and some younger children, who had been left almost destitute by the death of the father. We learn from Copenhagen, Oct. 21, that the King of Prussia had announced his intention of visiting that city towards the end of the month s or the beginning of No vember. A Vienna, letter of the 24th ult. informs us that Lord Palmerston had arrived there. Fresh disturbances took place on the 15th amongst the workmen on the Saxon and Silesian Railroad, near Radeberg. The troops were called out, and tranquillity was restored by the arrest of 15 of the principal offenders. The cause of the riot is not stated. SAW AND POLICII. At the Mansion-house Francis Patrick M'Dermot, one of the City policemen, was brought before Sir John Pirie upon the charge of having been the confederate of a thief in robbing a gentleman. There was no moral doubt but that the prisoner had been guilty of the crime laid to his charge ; indeed he admitted himself that it was " all wrong," but as the evidence was scarcely suffi cient to send before a jury, he was committed to Bride well as a rogue for a month, and dismissed the police. George William Moon, clerk to Messrs. Sutton and Co , solicitors, Basinghall-street, was further examined at Guildhall, charged with stealing a letter, containing a 51., and a quantity of jewellery. He was remanded until Tuesday. During the course of the proceedings Sir Chapman Marshall said he was happy to hear there was no imputation whatever on the prisoner's respectable mother. • At Clerkenwell John Clemenson, son of a gentleman of property, who resided in Wormly Park, Hertford shire, for deserting his child, whereby it had become chargeable to Islington parish, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment in the House of Correction. Joseph Whitton, who was charged on his own confes sion with having embezzled a considerable sum of money belonging to Mr. Powell, of Liverpool, was brought up at Marylebone, before Mr. Long, and discharged, a letter having been received from Mr. Powell (in whose establishment he held the situation of clerk and travel ler), stating that it was not his intention to prosecute. A schoolmaster, of Brick-lane, Spitalfields, named William Bear, appeared before Mr. Bingham at Worship street, to answer a charge of having cruelly treated one of his pupils, a little boy, nine years of age, named Wil liam Crowe, the son of a police constable of the H divi sion. He had flogged the boy severely with four canes tied together. The poor boy's ear was cut open, and he was covered with blood. In giving judgment Mr. Bing ham said he was strongly inclined to send the defendant to the sessions to answer the charge, but as the father of the child was in needy circumstances, the justice of the case would, perhaps, best be met by permitting a com promise, and preventing the expense of further proceed ings elsewhere. The defendant accordingly made com pensation. Four paupers, for refusing to pick oakum in St. Sa viour's workhouse, were committed for seven days from Union-hall. Mr. Coulson Douglas, the master of the brig Thomas Baker, a collier, was fined 41. at the Thames-office for evading the new Act for regulsting and registering the coal-whippers in the port of London. COMIT—PASIBION.6,B7.II4, - At Walmer Castle the Duke of Wellington is sur rounded by a select party of friends. The Marquis o s Salisbury, Viscount and Viscountess Mahon, Countes e Poulett, Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, &c., ar Ahem, Earl Ellenborough left by the eleven o'clock train for Dover on, Friday, to join the party. In consequence of the royal visit to Burghley House, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter, his Lordship has directed his splendid mansion to be closed to visitors from this day, until Saturday, the 16th instant. His Lordship's eldest son, Lord Burghley, has just entered St. John's College, Cambridge. The :Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne have been entertaining a succession of visitors at Bowood Park, Wilts. The Earl of Auckland and the Hon. Misses Eden, who have been staying at that hospitable seat, arrived at Eden Lodge, on Thursday. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and the youthful Ladies Hamilton are about to leave Ayeryke Lodge, Inverness-shire for Baron's Court, near Tyrone, for the winter. Earl and Countess Cowper, and Viscount and Vis countess Jocelyn, left Pansanger, Herts, on Thursday, to Ti ! iQaswat Melbourne, at Brocket H a ll, w h ere ;torActiiidJsisauvale are prolonging their sojourn. Viscount Jocelyn shortly proceeds to Ireland, to pass a few days with the Earl and Countess of Roden, at Tollymore Park. The Earl and Countess of Kinnoul have arrived in Paris. The Noble Earl and Countess purpose remaining :the winter on the Continent; their youthful family are at Brighton. The Earl of Lonsdale, Postmaster-General, who is at present resident at Lowther Castle, Westmorland, on Wednesday last paid a visit to the Hon. Mr. Petre and Henry Howard, Esq., at Greystoke Castle, Cumberland. The Hon. Colonel Lowther, M.P., still remains at the castle. The Earl of Yarborough has arrived at Brockleshy 'louse, Lincolnshire, from Appuldurcombe, Isle of Wight. Lord and Lady Worsley, by the last letters, had reached Milan, from thence they intend to repair to Venice. Lord and Lady Dinorben and Lady Gardiner shortly leave Bute House, for Kinmel Park, near St. Asaph, the fine mansion being now complete for their reception. It is situated on the site of the splendid hall destroyed some years ago by fire. Lord and Lady Ashley returned from the manufac turing districts on Tuesday last, and are about to proceed to Windsor Castle, on a visit to the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, by royal invitation. ZE15C233,26.5.1gM01711. The consecration of the new church at Camberwell, which has been erected from the designs of Messrs. Scott and Moffat, of Spring-gardens, on the site of the one destroyed by fire in 1841, is expected to take place on Thursday week, and active preparations are being made for that purpose. The appearance of the sacred edifice, both internally and externally, is worthy the opulent and extensive parish at whose cost it has been erected. A Correspondent suggests the employment of the light obtained from electricity to illuminate mines, instead of lamps and candles, electrical light being produced with out burning, that is, independently of air, and confined in tubes hermetically sealed. On Thursday evening a numerous meeting was held in the New Hall, Leicester, H. F. Coleman, Esq., of Evington Hall, in the chair, when the objects of the British Anti-State Church Association were advocated by Mr. Miall, of London. The meeting was further ad dressed by six Dissenting ministers, and resolutions in favour of the measures sought by the Association were unanimously adopted. Her Majesty's buck-hounds have had three private meets during this week, and on each day at the kennel. An untried deer was turned out on Wednesday at King's Beech, which, after doubling about fur nearly two hours in that immecii3te vicinity, was run into and killed on Old Windsor-common. The public meets during the season will be thrice a week. We hear that the mansion and estate of Longford Hall, Derbyshire, the residence of the late Dowager Countess of Leicester, has been bequeathed to her lady ship's second son, the Hon. Edward Wentworth Keppel Coke, of the Scots Fusilier Guards. Workmen are busily employed in preparing the Guild hall for the Lord Mayor's banquet on Saturday next, the 9th instant. During the last few days a wooden floor ing has been laid down, upon which is painted, in imita tion of a carpet, the arms of the Lord Mayor elect, the Company to which he belongs, and those of the City, the whole surrounded by a neat scroll work. The civic procession will, it is understood, after leaving Guild hall, proceed through King-street, Cheapside, Manion house-street, King William-street, to London-bridge, where the Lord Mayor, &c., will take water, returning by the usual route, up Bridge-street, Blackfriars, Lud gate-hill, St. Paul's, Cheapside , to Guildhall. HERRINGS.—So great was the glut of fresh her rings which were landed at Billingsgate from the smacks throughout Friday that they were selling in Clare-mar ket at 30. per dozen, and were cried throughout the various streets of the metropolis, being perfectly fresh and in full season, at threepence per dozen, whilst fresh pilchards, a fish very rarely seen in thl• London mar kets, were selling at the rate of three halfpence per dozen ; and flounders were offered at the exceeding low Frio of one penny per score. COURT CIRCULAR. I 0 is WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Yesterday the Quee n ; Prince Albert went in the morning in a FeuY, 1 riage to the riding-school for equestrian exercise, tended by Colonels Arbuthnot and Wylde. .„ e His Serene Htghness Prince Ernest of fl Philippstahl arrived at the Castle from town i n afternoon on a visit to the Queen. The unfavourable state of the weather pre , the Royal family from being taken out for their " customed airings. E ar l The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the . Lincoln, Lord and Lady Ashley, and Lord Portil't,' arrived at the Castle yesterday, on a visit t° Majesty. . A portable wind instrument, adapted for signal"`' railways, and also for the use of the police, or keepers, was submitted, through Colonel WY I I the inspection of Prince Albert yesterday,ll' Richard Portesus, one of the band o f the Fusilier Guards. His Royal Highness was p ie ' to express his approbation of the invention. 0 The royal dinner party at the Castle yes evening included her Royal Highness the Dueb e „l Kent, Lady Charlotte I)undas, the Countess 1" law, and Sir George Couper. The band of the Royal Hone Guards attelli:7 during dinner. Her Majesty's_ private baud!' f wards attended in the Castle, and performed V' mainder of the evening. 0 This morning her Majesty and Prince , 1: walked for some time in the Home Park and ple a ' grounds adjacent to the Castle. Oi l ` Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of • i v the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, p ., taken an airing to-day on the Terrace and the gr og around the Castle. an d The Queen and Prince Albert, the Court, on domestic household, attended Divine service in the private chapel of the Castle. The Holy g munion was afterwards administered. The ' and Rev. Charles Leslie Courtenay offi c iated. e His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Phil' 1 , visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of e ll Frogmore House this morning. The Queen and Prince Albert inspected, yest e ll a sketch representing the opening of the Roy al change, which Mr. Louis Haghe, by common the honour of submitting. Her Majesty an i Royal Highness were graciously pleased to OP their approbation. 4 His Royal Highness the Duke of Carnbr ° attended Divine service yesterday morning, Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-street. His it Highness visited the Duchess of Gloucester on , day, at Gloucester House. 111 His Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand of Mecklenburgh Strelitz left Kew on Friday e' ing, for the Continent. iie His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Philippstahl left Fenton's Hotel, St. James' s'' tr i on Saturday afternoon, for Windsor Castle, 0" 8 to her Majesty. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of bridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Men bourg Strelitz arrived in town from Kew on P day. Their Royal Higneses returned to Kew r,'3 evening. 00 1 The Earl of Lincoln left town on Saturday visit to the Queen, at Windsor Castle. Dispatches were received yesterday at the, jo ie " nial-office from the Governors of Malta aad aibr o ir and: the Lord High Commissioner of the Islands. The Rev. Dr. Maddy preached the sermon day in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Ar of Winchester and Lord Parker were among t he bility present. Lord and Lady Ashley left town for Castle on Saturday. Dispatches for the Governor of Hon Ceylon, and Malta, were sent off from the Colo office on Saturday evening. THEIBRAZILIAN TARIFF.—Sir Robert P eelP e' : his coadjutors, instead of removing the restrient'' , ',e the mercantile enterprise of this country, appear t ° (ec light in throwing stumbling blocks in its waY• t too commercial circle has been gradually narrowing' t iri ee foreign influence declining. Not many years ago tit6ro l nish Government was swayed in its proceedings by stIF Britain. Since that period Spain has fallen away , l ' o tte totally independent. Portugal is in precisely the. t b position, and France refuses to have any :reatY W„ l f From the centre of Earope, Prussia and all Gerni,"je'' pear resolved to exclude us, and even pensione d a 9 follows in the track. In order that we tl iti V, shut out from continental America, the Brazilians 1 4 acted on the principle adopted by the United Stat es l ) l ° issued a tariff which has been sent to this country special messenger.—Lancaster Guardian. BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—The or meeting of this society was held on Friday eve n ` r n t ler the Societa 's rooms, 20, Bedford -street, Covent - g ll ' ot e, J. Reynolds, Esq., treasurer, in the chair. Nat' l "? donations to the library and herbarium were ann n tl4 -' Read---" A Notice of the Discovery of Vaillantii,' a new British plant, discovered by Gs S net son, Esq., one of the members of the S o cietP o ,eoi Saffron Walden, Essex, in September last." 'l 3ec t i were presented. The Chairman announced ibthe eighth anniversary meeting of the Society would " e f t bi on Friday, the 29th inst. , being the anniversary ° birth of the celebrated English botanist, John Bei' O THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO NORTHAMPTONIiit 'readers will learn with inexpressible delight that 011 0 10 servedly belovesi and popular' Queen will pass this town on her way to Burghley, on Tuesday, tk e t instant. It is understood that the Lord Lieutec st liV the High Sheriff will meet her Majesty and Prince " ec e 4 at Weedon. The royal visit to Burghley is not OP be t to exceed three days. It 1$ not iinprobaole tblirLeid Majesty, in her way back to Windsor, may pass L b nt' Peterborough, where the preceptor of her youth i 5 b ee! the much honoured and esteemed Bishop. We hav%t,' led to understand that at, or previous to her Mai e r 0' arrival at Kettering, the troop of Yeomanry n" de command of Captain Maunsell, M.P., will proliabL,Y,., t i the honour of becoming her Majesty's escort. . 1 \; ;I el pression used by her Majesty on Monday last, e she declares that the " relief of the indigent, t " e re' vancement of science, and the extension of c‘r 3 , l l 3 , l e er, were objects near to her heart," together with ' as ample of Prince Albert in his encouragemen t, o l ic farmer, of agriculture, show the real blessings peace arid a mild. reign - are producing upon the c ° 0 ,0 4 ' and upon man's affections and feelings. A county 0 ,10; ing, we hear, will be called by the High Sherit l t ro itlY, we shall witness the' first public declaration of 0" with which her Majesty's arrival will be greetey will only repeat the hope we expressed last week' b t e P l this town the example of her • Majesty should oee:, lowed by a " relief of the indigent," so that the P ile (11 family in our streets may have a happy home on 1., wi th when their kind-hearted Qneen honours their OS" of, her presence.—Norihampton Herald. ott,„e SHOCKING OCCURRENCE AT KIRKSTALL , er g , NEAR LEEDS.—A lamentable circumstance te!''Cro r ; at Kirkstall Forge, the iron works of Messrs. v e- r eilt Butler, and Co., on Wednesday morning last, r° of out of a quarrel which took place between 11 and John Atkinson, two of the forgemen that place. The workmen are divided into tWe c it tl‘ic one set working by night and another by day son was a night man, and it seems that a qua 11 11 ' place between him and Fox, in consequence of biote c ; having got the furnace properly ready for the se if! / 0 Wll3 is a day man ; the custom being for th o ce rts' e work during the night to have the furnaces in 5 a rri: s state of preparation for the day men when th e y °'t in the morning. In the course of the quarrel °.,,t • struck by Atkinson two or three times, but didbilogl,' turn the blows, his anger, unfortunately, uwire' P i a self soon after in a much more desperate forin• re t ec tio of iron, five or six feet long, called " staffs,", s d to t he for the purpose of forging, one end being welue,e,e the ball of metal which is to be operated on, and 0" 1 , 1 - , it thus be moved about, in or met of the furnace' d tlie v workmen may require. Both parties had resun:leter thf work, and about five minutes had elapsed, ope re quarrel had apparently subsided, when Fox te o 7 00 ,0 these " staffs" out of the furnace, and raising it his head, and directing the end, which he had u. he to a white or welding heat, at the body of Elkil it o,,t al darted it at him like a lance. It struck the libr i .' t i g ht' r , man on the left side of his person, inflicting n V e 00' 1 10 wound, and he instantly fell with his face 0 0 t o er He had fortunately observed the unusual n 3 s, which Fox held the staff, and by turning P i le td t round, had prevented the heated iron from erite ‘ , ( leg, middle of his body ; otherwise instantaneo"'oee,9; would in all probability have been the c onsee hie e there was no thickness of clothes to prevent t_beer taking full effect, the forgemen, in consequenerietbll.o6 heated atmosphere in which they work, wearing s• but their shirts on the upper part of their'per' he eler o , end of the bar was at such a terrible heat, that t : d ad, or dross is said to have fallen from it in liq u ' s even after the blow was struck. Atkinson w3,oreraeoi diately raised from the ground by his fellow -0 ivedioci, and conducted to the house of a relative, vvit t 'r a d to 6 0,e advice was promptly procure d ; and we a re g . l over y, that then. are some hopes of his ultimate re t ' „ls aP iron having missed the more vital parts. F ° L c a „elt" prehended by Mr. Glover, the constable of o " re r he 11 . 1 ,, and brought down to the prison at Leeds, °l le o , .1-84, 4 e 1 e remains in custody, until the injuries inflicte d son, shall be known. Both the men are Y t) f ezkilV being only about twenty years of age, and Der el about twenty-five. The former, who conies 61 the fel shire, had only been two or three weeks rye s _is eea .Iwe t iiio the latter had been there some rnonths.- 1 APPARENT DEATH FROM DROWNING' eo gfig.,eto o'clock on Thursday evening a lighterietani_ tve s-st7os mooring craft off Smith's wharf, Upper i rtr lic e he do suddenly slipped from the barge upon '''t eace of be t standing, and disappeared beneath the rc water. Another lighterman rushed to t;! o dy wa s jife nearly five minutes had elapsed ere the . o c.hoe se, eort covered. It was then carried into a W il son , s urig o ,o being apparently quite extinct. Mr. Hull bet Of of Farringdon-street, promptly attende _.,filvsonr,ds nearly an hour before he discovered anY4ilotiefect. i is returning animation. He, however, now l o nee t e to efforts, and in the course of twenty min ut e ene i le" . 11, patient recovered consciousness, was se o n freco ver4; c e speak, and last evening was in a fair waY _ er seVe',, e se striking proof of the necessity of u ntiritT i r ha ve in the endeavour to resuscitate bodies NO c; submerged in the water. berry was yesterday gathered in the ge So mild has been the weather that a rd fi en ne 0 3 • tr. Jinkin, Stoke-terrs,ce,—Flrnouth Journal. ~■