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sequence chiefly of the demand created by the Tientzin junks now loading in the river, and prices have advanced somewhat. To the northward there is some inquiry for this metal, at an advance of about half a dollar on Canton rates. LONG CLOTHS.—A good deal of business has been done in these during the by-gone week both at Canton and Hon Canton At Amoy the demand is steady, and likely to continue so if supplied in a reasonable degree. At Chusan, Ningpo, and Shanghae, the transactions reported to ns have been almost all in barter. LONG ELLS.—Little is doing, except in barter, the sea son being unfavourable for the sale of such goods. OPIIIM.—The market continues firm, being supported in some degree by the smallness of the supply. Our latest arrival is the Waterwitch from Calcutta, with dates to the 18th of June, when prices were quoted at Co.'s rs. 1,480 for Patna, and Co.'s rs. 14,000 for Be nares, with a stock of 2,518 chests of the former, and 1,099 ditto of the latter. TIN is in little request. TDT PLATES are firmer than for some time past, the supply being more moderate, and rates having advanced somewhat. WOOLLENS.—We hear of a few sales of Spaniih stripes and habit cloths at lower rates. EXPORTS. ALux.—This article is now bronelt down in large quantities from the coast, and shipped generally for India. CAMPHOR is plentiful, and can be bought from $lB to $25 per pecul. Rll U81R13.-A large quantity of the new crop has ar rived, and will be brought to market as soon al it can be dried. SlLK.—Tsatlee—There is none of, last year's crop now here. The new silk is said to be firmer and more plen tiful than last season's. Canton—The supply is small ; the second and third crop are said to have been de stroyed by the late rains. _ _ _ TEA.—black—Very little is doing in old Tea ; a few chops of new Congous are in Canton, for which most exorbitant rates are asked, and have, in one or two in stances, been given ; we hear of one chop having been bought at taels 39 per pecul, short price. Mout 4,000 chests of Orange Pekoe have found purchasers at taeh 28 to 32 per pecul. Green—Business is entirely con tined to Canton made Teas. EXPORT OF TEAS TO GREAT BRITAIN SINCE OCTOBER 1, 1843 : Congou 36,820,9101b5. Souchong Black Leaf Pekoe Pekoe Orange Pekoe Caper 518,269 Campoi 157,630 Bohea 11,193 Twankay Young llyson Gunpowder Imperial Hyson Hyson Skin 40,560,7541b5. 3,739,837 ' 1,208,781 1,233,004 551,172 1,230,646 541,505 Sorts.. 8,504,9451b5. 79,8111b5. Total.. 49,145,5101b5. FREIGHTS. To LONDON AND LIYERPOOI2— . 3/. per ton of 50 feet. To OUTPORTS.-103. per ton additional. To CALCITTTA AND MADRAS.—Very scarce. To BOMBAY.—Cargoes are scarce, and shippers an willing to submit to the old rates. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PowrsmouTu.—Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker being on leave of absence, his flag has been struck on board the Victory, 104, and the duties of the dockyard are for the present presided over by the chief master at tendant, Mr. W. Pardo ; Captain George Moubray, of the Victory, having charge and command of the ships in ordinary. Admiral Sir C. Rowley's flag is flying on board the gunnery-ship Riceilent, during the absence of the • St. Vincent, 120, on the trial cruise. It is confi dently said that the Neptune, 120, will be the next flag-ship at Portsmouth. This magnificent ship has never yet been at sea, having been at moorings in this harbour for many years. The Apollo troop frigate, Commander Maclean, is ordered to touch at Cork, previously to going to Gib raltar and Malta. She left Spithead on Saturday, having on board royal artillery and other detachments to join their regiments in the Mediterranean. The Queen's steam yacht Victoria and Albert is ordered to be taken into dock for further im- Movements. The promotion consequent on h er Majesty's marine excursion has taken place, and in cludes Commander Hall (who so distingui s h e d himself' in China in the Nemesis steamer), the senior Lieute nant Tringham, who commanded the Nautilus brig tender, and Messrs. the Hon. G. Douglas and L. Pigott, mates. The Eclair steam-ship, Commander Estcourt, is to join Commodore Jones's squadron on the west of Africa. She has been in this harbour several days, completing her machinery, having been hurried away from Chatham to this port, and in attendance on her Majesty. We are still without orders for the commissioning of any large ships. The Hastings, 72, will probably be the first. She is intended as the flag-ship in the West Indies, to relieve the Illustrious, 72 ; but the name of the Admiral has not yet transpired. The steam-ship Heela, Commander Duffill, has left this harbour to rejoin Sir Edward Owen, at Malta, having been dispatched home with the news of the Morocco treaty. —Brighton Gazette. DEATH FROM APOPLEXY PRODUCED BY EXCITE MENT.—The inhabitants of the romantic vicinity of Broms-barrow-hill were greatly alarmed on Sunday, by a report that a poor old man, 82 years of age, named Thomas Baker, had been murdered by his son, who had also attempted to murder his wife, and had after wards cut his own throat. The facts happily turned out to be very different, and much less alarming than the fearful colouring which they had been made to assume. It seems that the son, who is a middle-aged man, is a person of dissipated habits, and of exceed- ingly violent temper when under the influence of liquor. Coming home in that state on Sunday, a quarrel arose between him and his wife, and it is said that he at tempted or threatened to stab her with his knife. His aged father, who had a slight fit in the morning, desired the wife to make her eEcapc, which she did. The old man then rose and walked across the house, it is sup posed for the purpose of expostulating with his son on bis bad conduct, when, owing probably to the excite ment, he was seized with a fatal attack of apoplexy, as was testified by the surgeon, and died instantly. The son, who bad been taken into custody, was consequently released: It is to be hoped that a lesion has been taught him which will induce him to become for the future a steady, sober. and industrious rnan.—Gloucester paper. METHOD PRACTISED IN GERMANY IN PAINTING WALLS AND CEILINGS.—For large paintings it is de sirable that the ground should ba somewhat rough. In Munich it prepared as follows:—A mortar composed of three parts of sand and one of lime is spread on the wall. When this is dune, the whole surface, while moist, is rubbed with a linen cloth ; the result is a granulated ground, like rough paper. For small works, ornaments, &c., the ground requires to be smooth, and in such casts finely-pounded white marble should be mixed with the lime instead of sand ; the mortar so composed being then carefully spread and made even. The encaustic vehicle is prepared as follows :—To one pound of recti fied spirit of turpentine add half a p - )und of Damara resin and a quarter of a pound of wax. The resin should be pounded to powder, and the cut up in small pieces. Both are then to ba put into an earthen ware or copper vessel, and the spirit of turpentine poured on them. Fiala the vessel on a moderate charcoal fire, so that the solution may take place slowly. When the ingredients are dissolved, the vehicle is ready for use, and should be kept in a glass bottle well stopped, to prevent the volatile oil from escaping. Should the mixture be • come too thick in time, spirit of turpentine may be added. The colours are ground in such a quantity ofehis vehicle as is necessary to saturate them. If during the grinding the pigment tends to set (dry), spirit of turpentine should be added. For extensive paintings the colours are kept in glass vessels. For smaller works they may be tied up in bladders, like colours for oil painting. The same colours which are employed in oil may also be used in encaustic-painting.— The Builder. SUICIDE OP A PARISH OFFlCER.—Thursday fore noon Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest on the body of Mr. Robert Fairs, aged 49, at his late residence, No. 3, Charles street, Northampton -square, Clerkenwell. It appearad from the evidence that the deceased held the office of registrar of births, marriages, and deaths, for one -of the districts of Clerkenweu, as also that of a collector, which latter situation he had filled for a num ber of years, and was highly respected by the pa rishioners. On Tuesday morning the deceased got an rather before his usual time, leaving his wife in bed. From thence he proceeded to the servant's room, and told her to get up. Some time after this the servant went down stairs, and on entering the back kitchen she found her master lying on the floor weltering in blood, he having cut his throat in a shocking manner. An alarm was given, and medical aid procured, but life was extinct. The deceased had been very desponding of late in consequence of pecuniary embarrassments, and had only a few days before endeavoured to take poison, but was prevented. The jury ultimately returned a ver dict of " Temporary insanity." On Friday afternoon the Bankruptcy Court was crowded during the examination of Michael Jacob, a Jewi s h hoiolvent. The keen and cautious answers of an . -- ancient Hebrew, named Alexander, li v i ng i n — Sunder land, created ciasiderable amusement, and the order of the Court was now and then disturbed by laughter, as the wily dealer parried the cross-examination to which he was subjected. Among other questions, the Commis sioner inquired what sum the bankrupt had asked of the witness for certain spying-glasses, to which Alexander replied, in the true phraseology of Holywell-street, that he had asked " a good prishe."-7'yne Mercury. STABBING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OY the e:,.l , ibition of the laughing gas, by Professor Elliot son, at Washington Hall last evening, a sailor under the e ff e cts of the exhiliration cut the rope with which he was Confined, rushed amongst the spectators, and seizing another sailor, gave him se vera l severe and dangerous wounds with a jack-knife. The wounded man was taken across the street, and upon examination by physicians it was found that a deep wound was inflicted under the shoulder, and another in the back, near the vertebrm. The sailors were unknown to each other. The wounds are not considered ,iportal.—Boston Post. N, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2 1844, MAJOR AND MRS. G. DARBY GRIFFITH. Just ready, In 2 vols., small Bvo., with 21 Illustrations, price 21s, bound, A JOURNEY ACROSS THE DESERT FROM CEYLON TO MARSEILLES. Comprising SKETCHES of ADEN, the RED SEA, LOWER EGYPT, MALTA, SICILY, and ITALY. By MAJOR and 311t4. GEORGE DARBY GRIFFITH. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW ..NOVEI,. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,' Y OUNG L OVE By MRS. TROLLOPE. Authoress of "The Vicar of Wrexhill," &c. Also, just ready, HILLINGDON HALL ; or, The Cockney Squire. A Tele of Country Life. By the Author of "Handley Cress," "Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities, &c., 3 -ols. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, Will be performed Bellini's Opera LA SONN AM BU A. Count Rodolpho Mr. Stretton; El v i n *, Mr. D. W. King; Arnim, Mies Romer; Liza, Miss Betts. After which, THE BEAUTY OF GHENT. Marquis de San Lucar, M. Albert; Count Malvin°, M. Delfeticr ; Benedict. M. Desplaces; Beatrice, Mdlle. Adele Durnilatre; Agnes, Mdle. Clara Webster; Julia, Mdlle. Auguste Delbes ; Diana, Mdlle. Plunkett. The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Sta:ls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKLT.. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, Will be repeated Vanbrugh's Comedy of THE CONFEDERACY. Adapted to the present Period. The Principal Characters by Messrs. Strickland, W. Farren, Buckstone, and C. Mathews, MaJame Vestris, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. E. Yarnold, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Stanley, and Mrs. Glover. Alter which, will be repeated a New Comic Drama, founded on Don Caesar de Baran, entitled AMA TCH FOR A KING. Charles the Second, Mr. Stuart ; Don Sebastian della Rosa, Mr. C. Mathews; Mariquita, Miss Julia Rennett. To conclude with YANKEE LAND, in which Mr. Marble, the popular delineator of Yankee chacter will perfo. Orchestra Stalls (which may be ra retained the w hole of the Even ing), ss. each. First Price—Boxes, 55.; Pit, 3s. Gallery, 25.; Upper Gallery, Is. Second Price at Nine o'Clock- h 'xes, 3s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Upp er G a ll ery, Ed. Doors opened at Half past Six, Pet formance commence at 'even. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each. Tickets ani Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer, at the Box-office, (coin Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, Will be repeated a New D rama , ent i tled THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Com. t Henry de Beaus')lei!, Mr. Hudson ,• Count Vanilla, Mr Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ; Crequet, Mr. Wright; Chechore, Mr. 0. Smith. After which, an entirely New Drama, entitled CESAR DE BAZAN ; or, Love md Honour. Charles the Second, Mr. Howe; Caesar de B izan, Mr. Webster ; M ara ti na , Madame Ce leste. To conclude with a New Eccentric Mythologies' Purlesque, called TELE MACHUS; or, The Island of Calypso. Telemachus, Miss Woolgar ; Calypso, Mr. Wright; Mentor, Mr. P. B e df or d ; Di na h, Mr. Cowell. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, 'dr Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon. — Boa-office open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the princ;pal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OX FORD-ST E ET. LESSEE, Mr. J. bL MADI)OX. HIS EVENING, 2, Will be performT d THE SYREN. NOVEMBER Principal Characters by Messrs. Walton, C. Horn, Jun., Leffler, Alle”, and Mdlle. Nau. To conclude with the New Drama, called DON CESA R DE BAZAN. Dan Ccesar, Mr. Wallack; Cn tales the Cecont , Mr. Walton ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling; Counter; di Rotondo, Mrs. Foibroke. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 45. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle,2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, (*.I. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce. alum Boxes, Two Guineas and a-HalE Doors to be opened at Half pest Six, and the Performances to commence at ‘even o'clock. The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingh Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the , Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS wovemßea EVENING 2, Will be performed TWICE KILLED. Cli anters by Mes rs Collier, Turner, Craven, and Keeley; Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. ro be followed by a New Comedietta. entitled WATCH AN D WARD. Tne characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Kinloch, and A. Wigan; Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. A. Wigan. After which, the Com c Scene, called OUTGENERALED; or, a Hint to Bachelors. Charles Stanley, Mr. F. Vining ; Mrs. Bartley, Miss Walcott. To conclude with THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASS.ONS With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal Characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mr. Gouriet, Mr. Craven, and Mr. Keeley; Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Weolli Ige, Mrs A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Mr,s James, Miss Arden, Mire Grove, Mae Fort?scue, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF A DISII;;SION.—BaIcouy Boxes. Upper Byes, fis.; Pit, 25. ; Gallery , 6d. S eco nd Price—Balcony B oxes, 2., ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Ft. Private Boxes on the aur,,my Tier holding eight persons). Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Pier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pit Fler (holding six persons), One Guiren. The Box.-.)ftice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc ion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent garden Theatre. STRAND THEATRF. Lessee. Mr. ROBERTS. EVENG, NOVEMBER 2, Willb*performed THlS NI DON C/EZAR 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. The Kantrowita Family will sing several Russi in ant Polish Airs After wh'ch, THE MARRIED RAKE. Mr. Flighty, Mr. RobertsTrictrac. Mrs. C. Po pe; Susan, Mr& Melville. To conclude with HENRI DE ROCHEM A INE Henri, Mr. Roberts; Mademoiselle Bois Robert, Mrs. Montgomerie. ASTL RY'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 2,. The Splendid Spectacl e f rom th e P oem o f t h e illust rious Sir Walter 4 1ott, entitled LOCHINVAR; or, The Bridal of Netheroy, and steed of the Brave. Entire change of the Scenes of the Circle, and novel feats of Horse. manship, by the extensive corps of French and Br tish riders. Po conclude with THE BLOOD-RED KNIGHT; or, The War.. ?ion of Palestine. Acting and stage-mu:lager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-oilice open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding Mr. R. Smith daily. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING NOVEMBER Will be performed THE DEVIL'S BRIDGE. 2, Count Belino, Mr. Brah.m ; Florian, Mr. Binge; Countess Rosa:vina, Miss Pearson ; Lauretta, Miss E Terrey. After which, THE CROWN PRINCE; or, The Buckle of B ri 'Nan ts. In the course of the Evening Mr. Charles Brahmin will sing the Serenade from Doa Pasquale." To conclude with GRACE CLAIRVILLE; , or The Crime at the Symon's Yat. Grace Cl a i rv ill e, M rs. Neville. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. Ake, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, NER Will be performed DON C/ESAR OE OVEMB BAZAN. 2, Principal Cha racters by Messrs. sbaldiston, Dale, Herbert, and Miss Vin cent. fter which, THE WIDOW OF CORNHILL; or, a Woman Never Vex% Foster, Mr. Graham ; A gnes Welsted (the Wiuow of Cornhill), Miss Vincent; Mrs. Foster, Mrs. W. West. To conclude with THE FAIRY LADY; or, The Cabinet of Bronze. Elise (the Fairy Lady), Miss Louisa Lyons. Private Family Boxes, £1 Is. Od. and Al Ils. ert. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " A Ten Years' Subscriber."—He was born in 1828. THE WEATHER.—Strza OFFICE, Nov. 1. TrautmolawrEß, Lowest, 43 ; Highest, 50 ; Noon, 46 Beam:mu, E.S.E. gar x.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the , -.e.T.lng point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is u ally placed opposite 30. and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LOWDONT-BRIDGE THIS DAY. 4 ',ring 41 minutes after 5 J Evening ... 5 minutes after fl. - - s w7 ~,:;1 - • _ - , • 10 - • OIS • '• • 1 , treated ! No mile:die-men stand between them and their employers, except so far as the necessities of business compel; and in all their more rational amuse ments the master manufacturers join them. The iconsequence is a continuous and steady elevation of 1 character everywhere. The landowners must bestir themselves. They, too, have a great part to play in the national revival which' has begun, and if they do not enter upon it at once and vigorously, their good name must suffer." . Who would have dreamed, but two short years since, that a high Tory periodical would have held language like this, and recommended the example of the manufacturers as worthy to be imitated by the landowners. The passage is in every respect a remarkable one, and gives undeniable proof of the power of events and circumstances to flash conviction even on the stubborn mind of Toryism. We now find it admitted by an enemy—a just and conscien tious one we must confess—that the great cotton lords are by no means t h e hard, sel fi sh, mer -1 cenary wretches that self-complacent Monopoly has so long represented them to be ; that they do not stand coldly and haughtily aloof' from the numerous work-people in their employ, or treat them as mere senseless machines, fit only to be used for the purpose of making money ; but, on the con trary, that their conduct is so considerate and kindly —so devoid of all upstart arrogance and assumption— so marked by an unassuming show of courtesy to wards the operatives, and a sincere wish to elevate them in their own esteem—that the land owners cannot possibly do better than adopt the same just and beneficent course of policy towards the peasantry on their estates. We cordially agree with Fraser that the time is at length come when " the landlords must bestir themselves." They have been talking of it long enough, they must now set to work in right earnest. It is not by making showy speeches in Parliament that they will be able to effec any substantial good, but by going personally among the peasantry, acquainting themselves with their little wants and wishes, treating them with a kindness and familiarity that shall have nothing of lofty condescen sion in its tone, and assisting them to the utmost of their power whenever they require and deserve assist ance. The Allotment system is good, so far as it goes, but it is an instalment only—and can be re garded in no other light—of the heavy debt that the 1 indowners have long owed to the peasantry. The very forbearance and exemplary patience which the latter have manifested during their long night of suffering should plead trumpet-tongued in their favour, and quicken every generous emotion in the breast of their superiors. We most fervently hope that the hour is not far distant when they will in some degree be compensated for their terrible privations, and be- come again what they once were, and ought always to have been, " their country's pride," instead of its opprobrium. eighteen and not merely of their labour, sinews, bones, but of their very hopes and aspirations, their intellectual energies and moral impulses—that once, forsooth, having been " farm labourers or hand- loom weavers," they never shall become other—higher—richer abler—better ?—lfsome latent " YOUNG" or " shall have conceivel, from the rude but continuous processes connected with the cultivation of his little allotment, some schemes of general agricultural im- provement, or for ensuring the multiplication of his horticultural produce, or for profitably applying some chemical properties, which he may have silently de- We are glad to perceive that the subject of land allotments to the poor is occupying, at length, a con siderable share of public attention. There are few objects of our social economy or domestic policy of a more vital character. So obvious a principle of natural equity, irrespective of this important con sideration, appears to us to recommend the system of making these grants, that we shall address ourselves to the consideration of the matter in respect of its own merits, and without regard to the political bias or relations of its advocates or its opponents. It seems the more necessary to premise this determina tion, because the question has already been discussed, we regret to observe, with manifest reference to per sonal.considerations which ought never to be allowed to interpose themselves in dealing with a topic of such large and momentous interest. A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle de scribes the controversy on this question - as - beink chiefly sustained between the economists, with the Earl of RADNOR at their head ; the manufacturers and landowners, who are fearful of these allotments interfering with the work which ought to be done for them by those in whose favour these allotments will be made; and a third party, who would that every man should have his little plot of ground to cultivate. The writer in question says "Lord RADNOR boldly declares, and so do the pure econo mists, against gardens for the poor." We wish that the same writer would as "boldly" have declared against the " pure economists" and Lord RADNOR. Instead of doing so, he insists that " the true princi ple of allotment gardens" should be this—that "the allotment is neither to be a farm nor a potato patch." Why not, we beg to ask, if it suit the purposes of the poor holder to make it the one or the other ? Why—" it is not to interfere with the dogma of the economist, nor to create an Ireland." Might he not have just as well have told us that it was NOT to control Sir PETER LAURIE'S exuberant equitation the other day at Temple-bar, on meeting the royal procession, or to challenge the propriety and good taste of setting up "Mr. JONES'S" coat of arms (!) in the same sumptuous edifice which is to enshrine the heraldic blazonry of such houses as the GRESHAMS the TUDORS, the STUARTS, and the GUELPHS Who, in GoD's name, cares one straw whether the " dogma of an economist" be disturbed or not, when the mighty question is, how to tranquillise a noble peasantry ? Who cares to inquire into the proba bilities of so figurative a result as the "creating an Ireland" in England, when the simple practical pro position is to allot to each family of the English la bouring poor a few roods to two or three acres of waste land, whereon to raise some portion of their subsistence ? But the allotment system, it further appears, "is not even to make market gardeners." Why not, we ask, if the process of cultivating these patches creates in the poor cultivator a strong desire to embark in that most useful and not uninteresting calling ? " Mercianus" (from whom we have been quoting) tells us, himself, that the scheme is "to allow of the converting of waste time and little pro ductive land to a profit, NOW lost to the nation and individuals. The waste time of a man and his family (not being hired labour) will make the land more productive, pay the same, OR MORE RENT, should it be basely exacted)," and afford the cultivator cereal crops and culinary vegetables. "The profits above the farming rent and outgoings will be, even to the unskilful, 51. or 6/. on the quarter of an acre, or about one-sixth of a labourer's or hand-loom weaver's wages." Then why, we ask, cripple and clog your allotments with any drawbacks, or restrict their grant to the narrow limitations suggested, when the whole 1,500,000 agricultural labourers of England (for it is of England, including Wales only, that we have to speak) may be thus largely benefited, and the gene ral stock of horticultural production be thus in creased ? If it be true " that even the operatives of manufacturing towns are by little and little gaining land"—" at Nottingham, in particular, owing to the discernment and good feeling of a gentleman who is the Duke of NEWCASTLE'S agent"—why should not so beneficent a system be much more universally adopted ? We are shocked to find the reasons thus stated, and thus justified by our Contemporary's correspondent. He writes of these reasons thus : "I have heard some of them" (i.e., the economists and Lord Itanaroa) say, ".Let the hired labourer— labour ; the hand-loom weaver=weave f and where there is no work for them, go to where there is some." We shall only observe,. that sentiments so disgustingly sordid as these atrannly adapted for the meridian of Braliminical institutions, where the base, servile, and degrading *trines of hereditary serfdom, and impassable caste is still impressed, as it has been for three or four thousand years past, on the most passive and abject bondsmen of the Hindoo races. But the insolent cruelty of any set of men, in this happier country, insisting on the devoted children of po h v i e c r h t y t continuin g a t l o r e d w ok y r s at nk thoseinto the depths o in f physical and moral destitution, so long as there re- The Journal des Debats announces with evident mains any work to be had in their own districts, and satisfaction that on Tuesday, the 29th of October, the then remitting them, unaided, to seek it —to go anniversary of the accession to power of the present in quest of more misery, and to realise anew a like consummation of wretched ness ; — t hi s is, indeed Ministers, all th e M em b ers o f t h e C a bi ne t di ne d w i th , a the KING at St. Cloud. The Ministry, therefore, reach of tyrannous selfishness and obduracy to has entered on the fifth year of its existence—an age which even the social despotism of Oriental which no French Cabinet since the July revolution policy and governments is as yet a stranger. has attained. The occasion furnishes to the Govern- We believe the anticipated return of 51 or 61. on a ment journal a good subject for congratulation, and quarter of an acre to be, in itself, a most exaggerated certainly, when we contrast the excited state of speculation; but it is ominous, in conjunction with i France at the fall of M. TRIERS and its present " Lord RADNOR and the economists," when we have peaceful and prosperous condition, everything is in so lately heard, with una ff ec t e d regre t, of a noble- favour of M. GinzoT's administration. ,The same man, a Liberal in politics, publicly avowing that if he journal then adverts to the state of Spain, which could get 9/. an acre by these a ll o t men ts of them, in does least honour to the policy of the pre roods, or other larger patches, he would be justified sent Cabinet. It was a wanton, underhand inter in taking it ; and that his o wn labourer s could not I ference with a neighbouring people, and may yet lead expect him to deprive himself of such an advantage to the most serious consequences. When that journal for their benefit. Now, a maxim of this kind, largely I seemed disposed to blame MARTINEZ PE LA ROSA ,ected, in these labours of his " after hours," in the disintegration of vegetable substances or earths to the purposes of manure and dressing, he is to he arrested in these audacious flights of discovery and usefulness, that a hand-loom may not stand still for one minute of its accustomed evolutions, or a single flail be deserted by the vigorous hands and arms of its accustomed thresher ! It was calculated, in 1841, that there were abou 3,500,000 acres of the waste lands of England whicl were susceptible of improvement. Might it not be a more than expedient, and to a legitimate extent de . cidedly a „profitable application of such lands by their owners, to . lose no time in parcelling them out, on a fair'and equitably arranged system of conditiozis, acd in convenient allotments for the labouring poor, willing to avail theniselves of so certain and salutary a means of improving their own condition by increasing their supply of food, and raising a sufficient surplus of edible produce to add sensibly to the limited amount of their own incomes ? For our own parts, we should rejoice beyond measure to see them enabled, by such employment, and such success, to advantageously ex change a remove from their present occupations, wherever these are extremely underpaid, prejudicial to their health, or distasteful to their wishes and desires—so far from conditioning, in the first instance, that " the weaver shall be sumptuously kept—to weave on still ; and the labouring hind to his farm labours, without change or promotion." Madrid journals of the 24th ult. have been received. They contain an outline of the speech made by MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, which puts at rest the inventions of a Paris journal about a reconciliation between the royal family and Don CARLOS. He declared with much emphasis that never should Don CARLOS and his family return to the palace of her MAJESTY through any intrigue. This declaration must produce the effect of setting at rest the thousand vague conjectures which have been hazarded as to the bearing of the article of the Reform Bill relative to the marriage of the QUEEN. The Government, he added, were perfectly well aware that the Exaltados and the Carlists were conspiring both within and without the country, but every necessary precaution was taken to prevent the accomplishment of their designs. He added, that the Ministry had thought it their duty not to introduce into the Speech from the Throne any question which was not a sort of programme of their official intentions and the steps which they meant to pursue; they wished thus to place a barrier to discussion. They hoped to con solidate the peace of the country, and to establish those organic laws of which it stood so much in need- The intention of the Government, he said, was to seek for their arms in the arsenal of the laws, and not in that of revolution. The Government had not consi dered it their duty to make any special mention of the See of Rome, although it should not be supposed from that that the Government were indifferent to such a grave subject. Steps had been taken to re establish political relations, and relations of a su perior order, which it was important to make in a firm and stable manner, and beyond the influence of passions and policy, because their character was im mutable. These relations ought to exist between the visible head of the Church and a nation eminently Catholic. The Government would endeavour by every means in its power to effect a sincere and ho nourable reconciliation, for the Government had two fold duties to perform, conciliating at the same time the rights and wants of the nation with the preroga tives of the Crown. He was happy to announce that those relation: were likely to be established. With regard to the remarks of an Honourable Member, that the congratulations on the termination of the affair of Morncco were premature, he would observe, that the Emperor of Morocco had given to Spain all the sa- tisfaction and the indemnities which shehad demanded, Relative to the same subject, the Minister of Grace and Justice, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, said that it was necessary to remove all hope from the, partisans of Don CARLOS until they should have fully submitted themselves to the Government of the nation. The Chamber of Deputies did not sit on the 24th, but in the evening there was a meeting of members opposed to the new Bill, when they could muster only Accounts have been received this day from Madrid of the 25th, but they bring nothing fresh, if we except a rise in the funds. Upon the Madrid Exchange of the 24th the Three per Cents. were at 26k for ready money, and at 26i at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 20, at 60 days. On the 25th the Three per Cents. were done at 271 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 20k, at 60 days; and the Floating Debt of the Treasury at 63i, at 60 days. acted on by the landed gentry and nobility of Eng land—this sort of intimation to reckless pauper can didates for the holding of little plots of land, that, let their eagerness push them to offer what improvident terms it might, the disadvantage and loss to them selves must be their look out, and were no matter for the consideration of landlords ;—such a course of proceeding would, indeed, soon " create an Ireland" in England, with all its squalid potato-ground hold ing, half-naked, and utterly destitute small tenantry. We will do the landed interest of England, with all their faults, the justice of avowing that we have not the remotest fear that so heartless an avowal —so utter a repudiation of the late Mr. Secretary DRUMMOND'S apothegm, "that property has its duties as well as its rights"—will find half a dozen imitators in the same rank or station of society as his who gave it utterance ;—half a dozen followers in the attempt at what " Mercianus" terms " thus basely exact ing" exorbitant rents for inferior land from those least capable of paying it." But we cannot dismiss the subject without touching on the views of that writer himself. After reproving the manufacturers for their fears "that allotments may interfere with the employers' time ;" and the alarms of "the more n'ggardly and timid farmers," that " the man will waste his strength before he comes to work ; the man will keep his grown-up sons at home ; he will steal corn (if he grows it he cannot be dis covered);"—and here let us assure the reader we are accurately quoting these shameful and intolerable assumptions to the discredit of the labourer, with verbal minuteness ; the correspondent of our Contemporary declares that " the object should be to leave him a labourer or a hand-loom weaver, and to give him the means only of producing what he consumes himself." Why should he not raise more —aye, and sell it, too, at a good profit, we ask, if he can ? "He is then," continues the writer, " de pendent on no market, and wastes no time in specu lation." Admirable solicitude ! Excessive sympathy for the laborious improver of his meagre portion of leisure. Do the great employers, then—whether manufacturers or landowners—really look, as they have often been used to do, upon their workmen and servants as beasts of burden—as brute animals, or mere bipe.l locomotive machines, which you may feed, and even keep at rest occasionally, up to a certain point, but no farther ? Have they the fee-simple of these men's bones, sinews, labour— FLANDERS and HAMBURGH MAIL BRUSSELS, OCT. 29.—The average price of Wheat last week was 18f. 84c., and that of Rye 10f. 77c. per iectolitre. The Chamber of Representatives, in its sitting to-day, resumed the debate on the project of law relative to the settlement and relief of the poor. ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 6.—A great Council has been held at Cairo, at which Ibrahim Said Akbar Sherif and Ahmet Paella, with several other persons high in office, were present. Among other matters, it was resolved that, as we hear, that the purchase of lands should be allowed on the payment of a certain tax to the Go►ern ment, and that the villages should be relieved from the debt. A person in the service of the engineer, Galli Bey, was accused of having betrayed to the English the plan of the new fortifications of this city, for which he was arrested,. and afterwards expelled from the country Some say he stole the original plan ; others that he only furnished the English with a copy. The proposals of the English respecting the transit to India were rejected by Mehemet Ali, who said that he would himself provide for a certain fixed tariff, but that the English should be at liberty, if they pleased, to have every convoy accompanied by their own conductor and postilions, but with respect to the rate of charges he could not grant them any advantage above other nations. Mr. Bourne is now engaged in organising the post in the interior. ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 6.—The last steamer from Syria, which arrived on the 3d, brought his Royal Highness Prince Waldermar of Prussia ; he forbid all ceremonies. flaying viewed what is remarkable in this city h e went yesterday by the steamer to Cairo. It is uncertain whether the Prince will be able to proceed on his voyage to Calcutta with the next steamer ; 130 passengers Living already entered their names, so that it is possible there will be no room for the Prince.—A//3emeine Zeitung, Oct. 23. HAMBITRGIT, OCT. 26.—Dr. John Frederick Lorenz Meyr, oue of the oldest German writers (being born in January, 1760), was buried to-day. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bausszts. Ocr. Actua Debt, 13 per Cent., Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent 111 2 1,4 Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent..........., 9B•X Three per Cent. •••.« •••• Thirty-seven Millions, ditto . ...... ..... 78% Itt3 11;44..•••••••••••• 00 11••••••••••••••••••••••••• 104 Loan of City, 1843, Four per Cent— . 102 Society of Commerce, Four and ada per Cent. Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 60% issue of .... .... . .... ....... —Brussels . Papers. Oct. 30: HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE. OCT. 29. _ Bs: Austrian 5 per Cents. l l3 Money. Bank Shares 1640 1630 Anglo_Russian Loan 1143( Russian 5 per Cent. , Ist series, Certificate 1053 105 Inscription, Ist series .... Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series 99% -- Ditto In Certificates New 4 per Cent. (1840) Dutch Actual Debt, 23 per Cent ... ..... 6. % 6134 Ditto 5 per Cont. — Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. Spanish. New 5 per Cents. ..... ..... 16) Polish Bonds — New Tickets .... —. DUTCH FUNDS.—AusTEspear, Oct, 25. Money. 6 2 % Ditto, Ar , tuil Debt, '214 per Cent. 62% 62% Ditto, ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto, ditto, 4 per Cent. D A i z i l t d o , , t u s i y t t n o d itfle.sir cet percent £9% 90% Ditto, ditto, 3Si per cast — Commercial Company, .1.3;, per cent....., 247 14754 Loan 18:17, 5 per ce n t Exchange on Londex, O nemonth Two months l2 G 7 Hamburgh, One msnth Two months 35 43 7-la Dutch Papers, Ott. 27. PRUSSIAN FUNDS....BERLIN. 80% St. Schuld Sch., 34 per cent. 99 X Prussian English Bonds, 1630, 4 per cent. Exchange on London Prussian Slate Gazette, Oct. 20. AUSTRIAN PUNDS.—Visiora, Om 23 . Five per Cents. Metalliques - - - 35 43 7-10 og Four per WK. 100 Three per Cents. '7s Bank Shares . ••••4•••••••. •• •••••• 1004 Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 26. Alderman Gibbs, the Lord Mayor elect, will giv al sumptuous banquet this evening at the London Tavern, in I3ishopsgate-street, to a large party of his friends and adherents. MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—The bleak and high moun tain of Llanhithel, above the Crumlin, was, on the night of Sunday last, the scene of the lonely death of Mr. Wil liams, late a much-respected inhabitant of Llanvrechva. How the unfortunate gentleman met this melancholy fate there is yet no circumstance to indicate; but it is supposed that at night, on the desolate and dreary moun tain, with no human succour nigh, he w as su dd en l y at tacked by an apoplectic or other flt, and expired. The corpse was found next morning, stark and stiff; and the horse—whose rider lay dead on the heath--,ye s quietly standing near at hand. There were no marks of violence on the person of the deceased, and money to a consi derable amount was found in his pockets, by those who had gone in search of the unfortunate gentleman. He was the father of a large and respectable family, who now lament their disastrous lossi ao vats highly ps teemed in his dealings as an intelligent and extensive farmer and dealer in the parish of Llanyrechva, arid other districts in this county.—Monmouthshire Merlin, - ' and NAEVAEZ for remodelling the Constitution, and l MO NTE7 A NT fl CO Wir ER CI A Ir, NE WS especially for abolishing that part of it which ac- -.co knowledged the sovere i gn t y o f t h e people, we attached CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. The Stock Mark e t b e i ng c l ose d, we h ave no quotations not the slightest i m p or t ance t o i ts remarks. It was to give. all for the purp ose o f k eep i ng up a show of impar- There was no alteration in th e ra t., o f exc h ange on tiality till the p ro p er ti me s h ou ld come for recognising Fra n kf ort , Hamburgh, or A n t werp . P ar i s a d vance 1 a the new measure. That time appears to have arrived, little, and Amsterdam and Trieste wiry not quite to and the Ministerial journal, though ostensibly not high. much in love with the new Charter, yet lets the affair 1 (From The Sun of Last Night.) drop away quietly, by saying that " after all, the 1 The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000 Spaniards ought to be the best judges of their own , bales, viz., 800 Egyptian, at 54d. to 6 4 -d. ; 600 Surat, at affairs." It at the same time asserts, that * the pre- 214. to 3d. ; and the rest, mostly American, at 3d. to tended treaty bet ween t h e P OPE and Queen CHRIS- 4 5-Id per lb. Th e mar k et was flat.—Shares had impro ve d , for Grand J unc ti on , Great Western, and the smaller TINA, which we copied f rom th e N at i onal, isa " mere fable." We thou g ht as muc h at the time. Fabri- French lines. Dovers c l ose d h eav il y. B r i stol and GI( u- , tester, 102 ; Ch es t er an d W rexham, 1q ; Direct cated documents may eff ec t th e i r o bj ect i n a despotic Northern, 2Z 9s. ; Dublin an d C as h e l , 9 ; E astern Government, such as th a t o f N APOLEON, where no ! Counties, 131 ; Glasgow and Ayr, 61f ; Ditto and contradictions were allowed. In these days the ' 1 Greenock, 12f ; G ran d J unct i on, 209 ; Ditto, One-half, National will find the e ff ec t very diff erent, and by ! 104 f ; Lancaster and Preston, 424 ; Liverpool and Man-. such mendacious arts only merit a title which all 1 chester, New, 32f ; Ditto, One-half, 99f ; London and honest, and even d:shonest, men abhor. The follow- , Birmingham, 214 ; Ditt o 32L Sh ares, 364 ; Ditto and I ing are the rema r k s i n th e J ourna l des Debats, to York, 32- ; North Union, 128 f ; Sheffield and Man; which we refer:— chester, 98 ; South-Eastern, 42 ; Ditto, New. 15f ; " The Committees in the two Spanish Chambers have York and Selby, 54 ; Lyons and Avignon, 21. 6s. 6d. ; proceedel seriously and quietly to discuss the newly Paris and Rouen, 39f ; Ditto and Strasburg, 24 ; Or propored constitutional reform. Out of doors the same leans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 31. 1 ls. 6d. tranquillity prevails, notwithstanding all the endeavours The accounts received f rom H a lif ax yesterday refer made to disturb it. W e h ave no more admiration to day than we had yesterday of what is passing in Spain ; to the plan proposed to be carried out of a new road be but, after all, the Spaniards ought to be the best judges tween Quebec and Halifax. A saving of about eighty our of their own affairs, and it appears to be certain that the ninety miles in the proposed route would be effected, Bil presented by the Government will be passed by a but still there are many objections raised to it ; one of large majority. We may naturally expect a number of exaggerated reports as to th e s t ate o f t h e pu b lic mind, the most promi nen t i s , t h at i t passes so near the frontier that were w ar to take place again with America, our particularly in the pr ov i nces , t o b e put i n c i rculation ; but hitherto all attempts to excite agitation have com- troops would be placed in disadvantageous posi pletely failed. Projects of reaction are attributed to the dons frequently. The discussion that had been Spanish Government, which, if they had any foundatiou, raised upon the subject, will at least, it is ex would be most insensate, and a French journal goes so petted, have o ne b ene fi c i a l result—that of nec far as to publi s h th e ar ti c l es o f a treaty which it pre • at tends to have been conc l u d e d b etween the present Go- tracting attention t o i mprovements in the pre vernment and Don Carlos, on the occasion of the pre- sent routes, should the Government determine to adhere sumed marriage between Queen Isabella and the Prince to them for a time. of the Asturias. According to our own information, we. msy safely af , The commer c i a l accoun t s rece i ve d th i s morning from firm that there has n o t b een any id ea of India and Chi na are not so sat i sfactory as had been such a union, and, consequent l y , t h at t hi s pretended a treaty is a mere fable. O n th e contrary, i t should seem anticipated. Th e pl e th ora i n t h e stock of g O ods on hand that the Congress Committee has proposed, in accordance hail suffered but little abatement. However, there was with the Government, to add to the Bill an article ex- an increased degree of confidence in the markets of the pressly precluding the Sovereign from contracting mar- Celestial Empire now open to our trade. As money was riage with any person directly excludtd from the sue- becoming rather more plentiful hopes were entertained cession to the Croan. In truth, the Bill is already. strong enough with ou t th e a ddi t i on o f any factitious mat- that in a short ti me th e b us i ness would considerably re ter, and attempting to re n d er i t worse t h an i t i s, will only 'rive. The exportation of teas was previously known to make it appear the better." have been very large, hence the depression which has pre- The National has another furious article against vailed in our market for the leaf. The total, according the new Spani s h C ons tit u ti on , an d t h rows all the to the most auth en ti c accounts o f l eaf shipped off, was 49,250,0001bs.hisbeing a close holiday in the Stock Ex c h ange , as blame on M. GU IZOT . Wh a t a b sur di ty i n t hi s journal to come i n a ft er th e d ea th , w i t h out making T the slightest attempt to v i n di ca t e th e i n d epen d ence usual on the Ist November, we have not any fr es h quo of refugees Shares. from France. Its national vanity, no doubt, was The public are thronging in thousands to view the soothed by seeing Frenchmen exert such influence in New Royal Exchange. This is stated to be the last Spain ; and now it attacks M. GUIZOT, not from any day that it will be open by tickets. Surely the au generous impulse in favour of freedom, for of that it thorities ought to grant more time to the people to is incapable, but solely to annoy a Government view the fittings up, &c.—the more so, as the most that has the honesty and skill to keep it and other perfect regularity and order have hitherto - been ob firebrands under salutary con t ro l. Th ese papers con served by the merchant s w h o h ave passed through the - tain no domestic news. In fact, France is at present new buildin g' perhaps, th e mos t peace f u l an d contented nation in MANCHESTER STOC K E XCHANGE, OCT. 31.—We Eurove nothing new to n o t e t o -d ay. T here is still a wood pe. Lon:s PHILIPPEPIarup an d hi s Cabinet may, wood p doing, and our quotations are :—Barnsley therefore, look back on the last four years with no Junction, 54 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 11 ; Churnet ordinary feelings of j o y an d exu lt at i on. Valley, 34 ; Huddersfield a n d Sheffield, lf and 1 pre- THE BOITESE--WEDNE SDAY , O CT . mium; Leeds and Thirsk, 4k ; L on d on and York, 3 1-16; First 30. * Last Lancaster and Preston, Q uarter Shares, London and Highest Lowest Price. Pric e . P r i ce . Price Birmingham, Q uar t ers , 25 ; Mancheste r , an d L ee d s, French Five per Cmta.... 118 70 .. 118 70 •• 118 70 .. 1 18 70 Halves, 471 ; M anc h ester an d B uxton, 2 1-16; Sheffield Three per Cents..... 82 20 .. 82 20 .. 82 .. 52 05 and Lincoln, 2 ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters, Bank of France .• tO7O ..3070 ..3070 —3070 134 • ; West Yorkshire, 91 ; Union Bank, 10. Datlitte Bank, I,ooof Shares 1 050 1065 ..1050 ..1065 5,000( Sharessooo ..8005 ..5000 ..5005 , COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY . ) Belgian Bank • • 655 655 .. 655 ..65 ;'i Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Gib ra l tar — Belgian Fives, 1840 ........ 1031 .. 1 03 1 .. 1031 .. 10, 1842 .• •••••• 1051 .. 1051 .. 1051 .. 1031 Ditto, _at sight l2 4 Leghorn 3O 50 :Spanish Threes.... —•••• •• 35 .. 35 .. 341 .. 241 Rotterdam 2U.12 6i Genoa 25 85 Portuguese Five per Cents.. 53 .. 53 .• 53 .• 53 Antwerp 25 95 Milan — Neap01itan.........• •• •.•9875..9875.•98 75 .. 98 75 flamburgh M.B. 13 13 Venice .... Roman .. RAILWAY SHARES. Paris, 3 days' sight... 25 65 Palermo, per oz llB St. Germain........• •••• 917 50 •• 917 50 .. 917 50 .. 917 50 Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Lisbon 55 Versailles, R. 8..• .... •••• 400 .• 400 ••• 400 .. 400 Marseilles ... .25 95 Oorto L. 8... •• —•• ••.. 286 25 . 287 50 .. 286 25 .• 286 25 p 55 Bourdeaux 25 95 Rio J ane i ro 23 Rouen •••• Frankf rt Rouen to Havre•• •• Orleans •• •• ,svarnon to Marseill es -- 810 . 810 • • 805 -. 805 Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 953 Philadelphia _ RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, SETTLING, OVEMBEE 4 Trieste, ditto St. Germain ••••••• • • • • • • • 920 .. 520 .• 920 .. 920 Hadrid i Foreign Gold, bars.l.3 17 9 Versailles, R.B•• •• —••• • .. 405 .. 405 • • 397 50 .. 397 50 Cadiz L. 8.•• —— •• •••• 286 25 .. 286 25 .. 286 25 .. 286 25 Rilbao 36 New Doubloons-- 00 0 Rouen .. .. .. Rouen to Havre.. ....... ... 772 50 .. 772 50 .• 770 .• 771 25 Orleans ......... .• •• ....1023 75 ..1023 75 —lOl7 50 ..1017 50 Seville — Silv er i n B ars O4 11 Strasburg to Bale •• •• 277 50 .• 277 50 .. 275 .. 276 25 ......—......... Avignon to Marseilles 805 .. 805 .. 805 • 805 _ _ THE QUEEN'S VISIT to the CITY, The Lord Mayor received the following communi cation from Sir James Graham : " Whitehall, Oct. 30, 1844. " MY LORD ALLYOR,-I have received her Majesty's commands to make known to your Lordship and the Gresham Committee, and to the Civic authorities charged with the arrangements for the reception of her Majesty at the Royal Exchange on Monday last, the gratification which her Majesty and the Prince, her Royal Consort, experienced on that day. " The loyalty of the assembled multitude, the splendid hospitality of the City of London, the order and good feeling which universally prevailed, have left on the minds of her Majesty and of the Prince the most pleas. ing impressions, and I am commanded to convey this assurance to your Lordship in the name of the Queen and of the Prince.--I have the honour to be, my Lord Mayor, your faithful servant, " J. R. G. GRAHAM. " To the Right Hon. Sir William Magnay, Bart., &c., Lord Mayor of London." The Lord Mayor communicated the letter to the Gresham Committee yesterday. We are gratified to learn that Lord Granville Somerset, the Chancellor of the Duchy, has nominated Mr. Horace Twiss Vice-Chancellor of the County Pala tine of Lancaster, in the room of the late Mr. Holt, with ' a seat in her Majesty's council of the Duchy. It is not by his professional brethren alone that any distinction bestowed upon Mr. Twiss will be heard of with pleasure. Politicians of all parties, and literary men of all ranks, will derive satisfaction from the success of a gentlercae, who, in times of the greatest party heats and strife, could firmly and consistently maintain his own principles with out asperity or wilful injustice to opponents ; and who has just crowned a literary life more laborious and more important in its labours than the world is perhaps aware of, by a biographical work, ,which, in point of interest and permanent value, is not surpassed by any of the class to which it belongs.--11forning Chronicle. MARRIAGE (NOT) ALA MODE.--A. very ludicrous scene took place at St. Mary's Church, yesterday, when a well-known character, named Ben Wilson, appeared with his betrothed, in order to enter into that happy state which is experienced by bachelors when they " tie a knot with their hands, which they cannot untie with their teeth." The ceremony having been concluded, there was a subsequent part of the performance to go through, not unimportant to the clergyman or his clerk, and that was the payment of the marriage fees. When the sum was demanded, Ben dived with his fist to the bottom of his pocket, turned the " browns" over and over again, and at length proved " a defaulter." The hippy smiles of the bride were changed to clouds of confusion, and Ben scratched his head (but there was nothing in that), and an I 0 U would have been useless in such a place as a church, espe cially on a wedding day. Ben, who had been just " tied up," was therefore detained a prisoner in the sacred edi fice (to the no small laughter of the gossips assembled) until the clergyman at length forgave him the fees, and released him from his whimsical situation. sen, having thus early experienced the sours of matrimony, departed with his rib to enjoy the sweets of the honeymoon.— Bury Farmer's Journal. RAILWAY "mom WINDSOR TO LONDON.--A meeting of the Provisional Committee of the Windsor Junction Railway Company took place on Thursday morning, at the Windsor Bank, for the purpose of receiving the report of the engineer, Mr. Page, and adopting a resolution thereon, as to the most eligible line to be determined upon, previously to the various details being submitted to her Majesty. Amongst the members of tho-Provi sional Committee present were Colonel Reid (Ist Life Guards), Captain Copeland, R.N., Captain Forbes, Mr. EL Seymour, Mr. R. Ca r t er , M r . J. T. Bedborough Mr. J. Tighe, Mr. Alderman Snowden, &c. The following resolution was unanimously adopted, subject, of course, to its being confirmed at a general meeting of the sub scribers for shares, which is expected to take place on Monday next :—" That the proposed lines of railway shall be from Windsor to the Great Western Railway at Slough, and from Windsor to Staines, thereby connect ing Staines with Windsor and the Great Western." A copy of this resolution was transmitted yesterday after noon to Mr. G. E. Anson, her Majesty's private secre tary, for the purpose of being submitted to the Queen. It is fully expected that the consent of the Crown will not be withheld from the proposed undertaking, from which it is anticipated that the royal town of Windsor will derive great and permanent advantages. Nearly 1,000 shares have already been subscribed for by parties residing within the immediate neighbourhood of Wind sor. We should mention that Mr. Page's report has also been submitted for the inspection of her Majesty, embodying the three lines which have received the sanc tion of the Provisional Committee. The main line is intended to commence in Datchet-lane, within a few stone's throw of Windsor-bridge, proceeding to Datchet, and thence to the metropolis, through Colnbrook, Hounslow, Brentford, and Hammersmith. A branch line is intended to peoce.ed from Datchet to Staines, there to join the Richmond and Staines Junction Rail way. A second branch line is also contemplated from Datchet to join the Great Western Railway somewhere between the Slough and West Drayton statione t The terminus to the main line will be a Millbank, wh ence a railway will bp eopstructecl, according to m the Arrange ents at present contemplated, for the exclusive use of her Majesty and the Court, direct to Rockingh am Palace, thus bringing Windsor cqitlo within 35 minutes' journey of the royal residenoe “t Pimlico. 0 2int LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1844. In the Number, just published, of Fraser's Ala g :iae th, re is an article headed " The Landowners and the Labouring Classes," a subject which of late has attracted public attention in no ordinary degree. This article is remarkable on two accounts. In the fit place, it is singularly just and even liberal in its t me, and divested of anything like party prejudice; and secondly, it ma k es i ts appearance in a periodical which has long been conspicuous, not only by its Toryism and its ardent sympathies with the agricul ta-al Monopolists, but also by the fierce, uncompro mising spirit in which it has on all occasions enforced its opinions on these matters. Now, however, it would seem to have altogether changed its tone, and to have found out at length that the extreme Tory sentiments which it has maintained for so many years, can no longer be upheld with safety. It has now become quite moderate in its notions; can per ceive faults in the landowners where it before saw nothing but excellence, and even goes the length of recommending them to follow—as regards their pea santry—the example set them by the so much vilified manufacturers in their conduct towards the operatives in their employ. This is a great stretch of candour for so decided a party journal as Fraser, and we hail it as :la unequivocal manifestation of the increasing liberal tendencies of Toryism. We quote one or two of the passages that have most struck us by their truth and frankness. "If we have ever been among the number of those," says Fraser, " who held up the landed aristocracy as objects of imitation to the cotton-lords, we are now constrained to reverse the picture, and to recommend to the owners of the soil the adoption, as far as may be, of a course on which the owners of mills and manufactories seem fairly to have entered. Not that we charge the country gentlemen with indifference to their great duties. We have already said that everywhere in the rural districts a general dispo-ition has sprung up to forget class interests and class pre judices in the great work of elevating the national character. But the misfortune is—and perhaps at the outset it could not be otherwise—that all this stir on the part of landlords brings them into more intimate communion only with their tenantry. The poor peasant derives no advantages, either physical or moral, from the improvements that are in progress. More work is not found for him—better wages are not paid to him. No living soul appears to care for Lim, except at those annual gatherings when, with as much ostentatious show ,as - kindness, he is paraded before a company of landowners, land-occupiers, and clergymen, to compete for some paltry prize. Con tract with this the behaviour of the millowners at Leeds and Manchester towards their work-people ! See how considerately the latter are beginning to be SUMMARY OF AND :liinWtt OP tnt t,M4 " Who runs may read.' ponzionr. .6 9 Tuesday bein g th e f ourt h ann i versary o f the "biti sion to power of the present Ministry, all the me n ' of the Cabin e t di ne d w i t h the King at Saint Clou d. 4 , A Toulon l e tt er ment i ons a report that, after the v,„ riage of the Duke d'Aumale, the Prince and Pr itic i;' Joinville will take up their residence for the Win ter the environs of Toulon. The Augsburgh Gazette states from Constant incia ,,o Oct. 9, that Mr. Bourne, the English Post-onlee, had retur ne d t o Al exan d r i a from Cairo, after havbio two interviews with M e h emet Al i , which has ca used r enout.ce all hope o f success i n the object tuts6ion. less' s The Dowager E m p ress o f B raz i l and the D e o e Leuchtenberg arrived at Munich on the 23d fo r winter. The lormer will embark for Brazil iu 1431 i,,e1 Accounts F l om B ayonne state that Colonel PPios:, Mendiconti, f o: m.vly Aide-de-camp to Espartero, I : „i rived there abs ut three wet:l(s before from Lead °l3 ' out on the 25th inst. for Spain. The Marquis of Santa Cruz, a relation of the ietfa E , prtero, arrested at the same time as G eli : t y . Arnettier, at the moment they were about to cr as 'Tlit Srnnish frontier, and brought back to Perpignan' 14 t: Marquis was Pre i id tn t o f t h e I nsurrectional J4l' Cartbagena. The annual meeting of the proprietors of th" fif tl°o and Havr e R a il way too k place on Wednesday, a.` ) ', eo J attended by a grea t num b er of both the Eng lisi' ot French shareholders. M. Charles Laffitte presided. 5 0 report of the progress of the works, and of their P re d* state, was read by th e secretary, M. Thibandeau , gave great satisfaction. , V By a royal or d onnance, d ated the 26th lut" ti custom-house of Boulogne-sur-Nler is added 0 , 0 1 number of tho s e p rev i ous l y i ndicated for the eiPt manufactured articles of gold or silver under the la" 19th Brumaire, year VI. It appears from a recent return that the poploa" :1 0 the Fren c h co l on i es at the last census, in 1842, /0%! follows : —M ar ti n i que, 4 2,403 free, 76,172 slaves ;, ,e.; daloupe and its dep en d enc i es, 37 ,830 free, 92,63961'14„.0' French Guya na , 5,805 f ree, 14,500 slaves ; 15°1/' 39,060 free, 66,064 slaves. f eji According to a s t a ti st i ca l account published 01%0 by order of the Minister of Commerce, it apptar a. ,;d in the ten y ears f rom 1 833 to 1843, the State exPe'tos for the m a i n t enance of 10,933 convicts a sum off 5 1 millions four thousand francs, being an averse dr centimes per day for each, whereas, in several of T th e partments, the salary and emoluments of the teach er ' public schools do not amount to 80 centimes per d ' 4 2 'o A letter from St. Pierre (Martinique) o f the, s of ult., in the M emor i a l B ordelais, states that two hintroi, pamphlet s , p r i nte d un d er the auspices of the Slavery Society, had been seized there on hottr', ~50t Bon-Henri, fro m H avre . I t is added that the hes"oir the slaves had b een prev i onsly turned by similar Pp lications, and that a rising had been feared, b ill prevented by the energy of the authorities. LAW AND POZ4CD. rci o The case of Mr. Renton Nicholson, of the Ga r i n l .,ol' ' Bead, in Bow-street, came on for hearing in ther .: iir vent Court before Mr. Commissoner Polka. 'Th e solvent was ordered to be discharged. „„hicl• Mary Davis, aged 25, was commuted from the u—ti hall to Bridewell, to be kept on bread and g ruel f Ol. days, for breaki ng a pane of glass at the shop of 3 , 'ld in the Old B a il ey , w h o refused to give her some br e ! . j 0 A crossing-sw ee p er i n B e l grave-square, who gage cod name Teddy M`D onnoug h , was charged at the Let by square Court with having attempt e d to pawn a vsltig, gold Geneva watc h, t h e property of Lady Selina D r man, which he had picked up in the street. Th e . P i e d soner, in answer to the charge, said that he bad Peo the watch up, and said he had tried to pawn it beta he he was in g reat di stress. He was discharged, after 5 ceiving a seve re l ecture f rom Mr. Bond, and the " was given up to her Ladyship's butler. e6 s ' William Smith, c h arge d w i th stealing a set 02 harm the property o f Ri c h ar d Cooper, butcher, 54, Grey. Portland-street, was fully committed from Marlboro li g Street. At Marylebon e B en j am i n L a mbourn, who for 4 P e r i. ie 0 of nearly 25 years h as h e ld the situation of wsite ' lbbotson s Hotel, Vere-street, Oxford-street, was 10° `° 1 4 up in custody, an d remanded on a charge of embezz i l money, the property of his employer. 15 Edward Faithf u l, a warehouseman in the 0, hr , ught up for re - examination, at Union-hall, erisij. with viol a ti ng t h e person of Sarah Alice Nott, of t worth. He w as b oun d over himself in 1,0001., an`,;l w sureties in 2501. eac h, to appear at the Central Cr i7 Court to answer the charge. An elderly female, named S o phi a J ones, charged lo ate Mr. Davis, the master of the Hammersmith workhouse of the Kensington Union, with having re mersmitir Police- court. l to work, was committed f or seven day s 7 f ro m the a *coling T — reagriZorf.attior4s. It is rumoured that her Majesty and the Prince Co; sort intend, aft er return i ng from Burleigh House, ;be seat of the M arqu i s o f Exeter, to honour with visits v e noble owners of Goodwood, Arundel, and St ra thfieldssi o Price Paul Li even arr i ved a few days ago from -PAti,,ff and had been so j ourn i ng at Richmond until Thuts".' when he came to town. The Duke of Devonshire, who is still at Ilarawit hall, closes hi s res id ence at that splendid mansion Ile week, and then proceeds to Chatsworth. The Marquis of Salisbury has r e t urne d t o town frf e , Hatfield House, :tat has since gone t o W a l th er Cas t on a visit tz, the Duke of Wellington. . The Duchess o f Vi ctory (Madame Espartero), ace •tour• rfaied by h er e ld est d aug h ter and Colonel Guerra , F ee l ncssed her Majesty's progress in the state p r ocession o , Monday fro m th e h ouse of a silversmith in the You General Espart ero was prevented from j Dining his '5 on account of indisposition. ' The Marquis and M arc hi oness of Ely and 1,4- i 1k e 5 , Loftus leaVe Thomas's Hot 1, at the close of the wee for Bright on , w h ere they intend to reside during be winter. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond will receivese succession of visit ants at G ordon Castle, until the C,' " I t o of the month, when th ey l eave for the south en route Goodwood Park for the winter. Earl Fitzhardinge commences the hunting eamr 3 in the Broad wa y country on the 2d. His Lord6l)fir has arrived at G erman C ottage, his beautiful villa 9 e Cheltenham. I 'The Earl of Ellenborough left town yesterday r.iftern for Walmer Castle, on a visit to the Duke of Welling t i" who is entertai n i ng a se l ect party at that ancient casc e, o The Countess o f J ersey has left town to join nrre Ladies Clementi na an d A dele Villiers at Bri g hton. Earl of Jersey remains in town. WrIcSOMZI,..B.II7ECitrZ. Mr. Horace Twiss, Q.C., has been appointed Vice Chancellor of the County. Palatine of Lancaster. o f A corresponde n t s t ates t h at the leet jury of the m" „ ' ; I t Liberty, on W e d nes d ay, presented four booksellersp - r Holywell-street--three for selling obscene, and one selling blasphemous works ; and levied penalties Y 311" frbin 251. to 501. upOn them. - • Ote The Hebrews it: town havin g re cei ve d more nllureot informati on respecting the extreme destitution 0 1 Tre, - numbers of their brethren and their families at Moga'their Who have li tera ll y b een sacked and, plundered of vbe all, have set on toot a subscription for their relief. list is headed by the firm of R ot h sc hi ld with 500 1 Thursday morn rig, between 5 and 6 o'clock, the P - , mises of Mr. Ben,anain, landlord of the Black Lieu %Ou r vaults, Vinegar-yard, Drury-lane (late in the, oeonP o r tion of th e noted " Money Moses " ), were entered ~ce some thieves, who, it is supposed, effecte.:l an e ntra; , by forcing the trap-door of the cellar, and thenol j ° o ceeded upstairs to the bar, where they succeedeu t he stealing a quantity of copper !vizi silver moneys iron . c t s , till, besides table linen and wearing apparel, with W ill they effected their escape. 1411 Informatio n has beiat given to th e po li ce o f a burg„ d, which was committed on th e p rem i ses of Messrs . %I , s to dington arid Co., Coleman -street, who, on their return be busiress on M on d ay morning last, discovered thrA& W'-rehouse h a d b een entered by some daring robbers, an immense quantity of silks stolen. DR. WOLFF. We have just re ce i ve d, b y express, a letter frog. • ail our correspondent at Constantinople; we subjoin extract:— " CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 17, " 44 ' a " I am happy t o b e ena b led to state, on the het4. thority, that advices have been received of the arri Dr. Wolff at Meru, on his way to Teheran. :lfavi v ° thus crossed the frontier of Bokhara, his per ,onal o fe i t a has been insured, and his return to the rji v ilised will be hailed with general satisfaction.. bard "Instructi ons o f t h e most perer4ptory nature been received from his Governm.ent by Sir Str atj°l :l Canning, to obtain the immernate and unconditiol3 payment of the sum of 2,000: 4 , which the Turkish 6°l it : vernment bad acknowledged to be d ue t o Sir Bald win Walker, b u t w hi c h , on the most frivolous retences, had afterward s re f used to liquidate. There are nrother pecuniary claims o f B r i tish subjects upon the vv :ii to with whi c h t h e E nglish Government would do deal in the same determined spirit."—Post. OLYMPIC THEATRE. (PRONE A CORRESPONDENT.) This favourite place of amusement is now rer.idlY yr : dergoing th e process of thorough repair and ~e-deeer tion, and, we b e li eve, will open for the seas,Al in obeli: --- : week. The legitimate drama, so long a stranger to h l 5 ancient ab o d es , i s lik ely to become nr A t ura lized in ! a temple of the muses . T he spirited experiment tried at Sadler's W e ll s h as proved so eminently suc cessful , t h . little doubt can now reasonably exist it would find milar encouragement elsewhere, under proper reaaar t 'be ment and with adequate tallit. Th e new lessee a-t wise Olyinplo has, th ere f ore, probably chosen the wis, course. Romeo and Juliet will be the opening P la Y' u og heroine will be sustained by Miss Davenport, a Y° for lady who i s re p orte d to possess no ordinary abilities the char ac t er . Mr. Hudson Kirby, the .Atneta tra. ~by, geflian, Mr. R ayner, of rustic celebrity, Mr. B. • and other popular perforruera, are heady engage'