The Sun. — London, England, 1850-10-09 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THE GRAND NATIONAL 'CONCERTS. The Executive Committee, Directors, and Managers of "The Grand National Concerts" have the honour to announce that the FIRST SERIES will commence on TuesDAT, the 15th of October next. The Committee have the utmost pride and satisfaction in an nouncing that, by the gracious permission of his Majesty the King of Prussia, they have been enabled to secure the entire Chorus or the Berlin Chapel Royal, consisting of fifty male voices, under the direc tion of Herr Kapelmeister Nelathardt. The extraordinary perfec tion of this shorn' is well known by reputation to every artiste and ama teur In litukpe . e, bet the epportanky of hearing them in any sown qr oosustoesteeeptatt it 'twit ha. 4 lever hitherto been afforded. twee' shear ellgagelleat. 'eyelid piers, entirely new to this country, and CQIIipS3e4I exotessly fbr the Royal Chapel by Men delsshon, Neldtbardt, &c., will be performed, in addition to selec tions from the choral works of Bach. Handel, and Marcell°, toge ther with the celebrated " Battle Chorus," which has created so extraordinary a sensation in Germany. An extra Chorus for the Serenans and other English music has been selected with the greatest care from the principal lyrical establishments, and will be nnder the direction of Herr Ganz, Chorus Master of her Majesty's Theatre. The Concerts will commence at eight, and terminate usually about eleven. The Theatre has been entirely re-decorated for these entertainments. In addition to the following list, numerous engagements are pend ing with other Vocal and Instrumental Artistes, particulars of which will be announced as soon as possible. VOCALISTS. Mdlle. Angri, Miss Poole, Miss Messent, Mrs. Alexander Newton, yid Madame Biscaccianti (the celebrated prima donna, from Milan, wilto will make her first appearance in England) ; Signor Calzolari, M. Jules Lefort, Y. Jules Stockhausen, Mr. Frank Bodda, and Mr. Sims. Reeves . INSTRUMENTAL SOLO PERFORMERS. Grand Pianoforte—Miss Goddard (Pupil of .31. Thalberg, who will make her first appearance in public), M. Charles Halle (who era perform Beethoven's Concerto in E fiat, with full orchestral accom paniments, on the opening night, and a different Concerto on each evening of his engagement), Master Heinrich Werner (whose per formance at Buckingham Palace before her Most Gracious Majesty and Prince Albert, and at the Professional Matinees, has been the marvel of the whet.: inu.ical world), and M. Thalberg (who will introduce several new Morceaux, written expressly for these Concerts). Violin —MM. 3folique, Henry Blagrove, Henry Cooper, and M. Sainton (Solo Violinist to her Majesty). An engagement is also pending with the renowned Artiste, Signor Sivori, who is on his way to England from the Havannah. Tenor--Mr. Hill. Violoncello —MM. PIAUI, Hausmann, Hancock, and Rousselot. Double Bass—MM. Anglois, Rowland, and Herr Muller (the cele brated Contrabassist from Darmstadt, who will make his first ap pearance in this country). flarp—Mr. Ap Thomas and Mr. Y. J. Trust. Concertina—Mr. R. Blagrove. Flute —MM. lit;ebardson, Uriecialdl, Carte, and Remnant. Oboe—MM. Barret and Nicholson. Clarionet—M. Franc, from the Grand Opera, Brussels, and M. haycock. Bassoon-3f. Baumann. Born-3i. Steglic h. Cornet-I-Pistons—M. Arban. Ophiclelde Prospere. Trombone—Mr. Winterbottom. • ORCHESTRA.. Musical Director, Composer, and Conductor—M. Bette. Conductor of La Mnsique de Dan.e—Signor Mode. First Violins—M. Kolique (Principal), late Kapelmeister at Slut- • pupa ; Browne. Royal 'tallest Opera, Henry Cooper, R. 1.0., Dando, R. 1.0., Dawson, Her Majesty's Theatre, Goffrie, R. 1.0., H. Gees bath, R.T.0., Hartnagl, 1L 1.T., Kr, -ntzer, H.M.T., Oury, PLISI.T., Pay, R. 1.0., Pigott, H.M.T., Shargool, H.M. T., Thirfivall, ICJ 0., Watkins, R. 1.0., Zerbini, R. 1.0. Second Viblins—Willy (Principal), R. 1.0., W. Blagrove, R. 1.0., Barnett. H.31.T., Hall, 11.M.T., Her pen, H.M.T., Jay, R. 1.0., Kelly, R. 1.0.. J. Loder, R. 1.0., Marshall, R. 1.0., Ridgway, H.M.T., Ridgway (two), H.M.T., Schmidt, H.M.T., Tallance, H.M.T., Thirl wall (two), 11.M.T., Villain, H.M T., Watson, R. 1.0. Tenors —R. Hughes (Principal), 11.31 T., R. Blagrove, R. 1.0., Bo en, 11.M.T., f alkin, 11.M.T., Ganz, 11.M.T., Glanville, R. 1.0., Dice, 11. M T.. Trust, R. 1.0., Webb, R. 1.0., Westlake, R. 1.0. Violoncellos—Piatti (Principal), H.M.T., Gardner, 11.M.T., Good ban. R. 1.0., guest, R. 1.0., Hancock, R. 1.0., 11ausinatm, R. 1.0., W. Loder, Lovell Phillipps,R.l.O.,Rousselot, Beethoven Quartet Society, Thorley, T.R. Manchester. Double Basses —A.nglois (Principal), H.M.T., Cesolani, R. 1.0., Castell, R. 1.0., Mount, R. 1.0., Muller, Grand Opera, Darmstadt (his first appetbrance), Percival, H.M.T., Pickhaert, H.M.T., Pratten, 11.1.0., Rowland, R. 1.0,. Russell, H.M.T., Severn, R. 1.0. Harps—Ap Thomas, H.M.T., H. J. Trus - , R. 1.0. Flutes—Richardson (flautist to his Grace the Duke of Devon shire) ; Briccialdl, La Scala, Milan. Plecolo—Remu.sat, Ii M.T. Oboes—Barrett, Nicholson, R. 1.0. Clarienets— —, haycock, 11.M.T. Bassoons—Batbnann, R. 1.0, Larkin, 8.1.0. Items —Steglic Blangini, Cal cott, H.M.T., Caleott, jun., H.M.T. Trumpets--Zelss, Davis, H.M.T. Comet—Arban, Conservatoire, Paris. Trombones—Marin, King, Winterbottom, H.M.T. Opiticleide—Prespere, R. 1.0. Timpani Chipp, Bass Drum and Cymbals—Hinchey, U.M.T. Side Drum—R. , Hughes M.M.T. Triangle—W. Ganz, Principal Composers—M M. Sphor. Balfe, G. Macfarren, Edward Loder, Hector Berlioz, and Howard Glover. Arranger of Operatic Selections, &c.—Signor L. Negri. Chorus Master—Herr Ganz. Deputy Chorus Master—Mr. Frederick Osborne Williams. Organtet—Mr. Willing. The Music of the Screnatas will be published by Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and Co Box Stalls, One Pair.. 4s. Od. ctatls • Ditto, Two Ditto . 3s. 6d. Slip Stalls ........ •• Is. 6d. Half Circle, D.tte • •... 2s. 61. I Gallery .. • • ...... • • •• Is. On. Promenade ........ Is. 6d. Applications for Private Boxes and Stalls to be made at the Box office; or to Messrs. Andrews, .alcroft, Leader, and Cock, ew Bond-street ; ^4ltchell, Hookham. and Ebers. Old Boni-street; Sams, tit. Janfes's-street ; Cramc Beale, and Co., and Bailey, Re gent-street.; Chappell, Ilond-weet ; and Byte and Sou, Strand. N.B. It is respectfully announced that all persons attending the Private Boxes, and the First and Second Tiers of Box Stalls, wilt be required to appear in Evening Oress ; and the Public is most earnestly requested to assist in carrying out this regulation, as far as may oe practicable, in all parts of Her Majesty's Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celerste. Great hit of the new Comic Drama of ; or, the Miller's Wife. THIS KVENING, Vlll 7 be perfortned an entirely new Comic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled cIitA.E.DA,; or, The Miller's Wife. Philip, Mr. Hughes ; Don .Taphet della Trombe, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Don Manual de Bivar, Mr. Boyce ; Gil, Mr. Wright ; th• Grand Duchess, Miss Emma Harding ; Giralda, Miss K. Fltzwilliam. After which, the romantic Drama of RORY O'MORE. Scrubs, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Rory O'More, Mr. Hudson ; ,han Dhu, Mr. O. Smith ; Mary O'More, Miss Collins; Kathleen, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with THE. DOUBLE-BEDDE ROOM. Characters by Mr. Lambert, MiEsS E. Chaplin, Zec. _ROYAL PRINCESS'i TUEA ME, OXFORD-STREET. The Public is raspc.afilly informed that this Theatre is open for She Season, under the Management of Mr. C. Kea* and Mr. Keeley. TILLS EVENING, Will be performed Shakespeare's Tragedy of HAMLET. Hamlet, 'Yr. C. Kean ; Opheila, Mrs C. Kean. To he followel by a new Farce, called PLATONIC ATTACH MENTS, in which Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, and Mrs. Keeley will appear. 'Co conclude with a ne vr BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Mr. k'lexmore, Miss Carlotta Lectercl, and Madlle. Auriol will ap pear. Private Boxes, to be had of all the Booksel'ers, and of Mr. Massingham ; of whom also places may to taken at the Box-office, Oxford-street, from .E!even till Four o'clock. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Continued"success 01 Giralda and the last Three Nights of the Princesses in the •.ver, V Witl be performed (711 ALDA.; or, the Irrt!sible husband, sup ported by 3lessrs. Leigh Murray, O. Cooke, W. Farren, jun., Comp ton ; Meedames. Stirling and Leigh Murray, Macilles. Louise and Adele. After which THE OLDEST INHABITANT, in which Messrs. W. Farren. Compton, Diddear, Norton ; Mesdames Bartlett, Adams, and Ellen Turner will appear. To conclude with the PRINCESSES IN THE TOWER. A.STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under Mu Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor and ,Manager, Mr. W. Batty. In consequence of the c , :owcied iloCiaei to witness the attractive and magnificent Spectacle of Mazeppa, which, with brilliant novelties in the Wonders of the Arena, form the moat varied and attractive Entertainments in the Ketropolig, it will be continued for a few more nights. THIS EVEN SG, Will he produced Lord Byron's gorgeous Spectacle of MAZEPPA aid the WILD HORSE. Mazeppa, Mt. ti. T. Hicks. To be succeeded by an inttnitablo Display, of Batty's Feats of Frquitation - in the Cirque Olympicitie, by the male and female Eques trians of the Establia'rmeat. To conclude with the favourite Farce of THE MARRIED BA CHELOR. l3ox-ofilee open from Eleven till Foar. Stage Manager. Mr. W. West. WWI WATIili Al LONDON ItiLIDGM nag I:lforThAnz 59 rn4n. after 3 I Eveninz 11 rain. after 4 To-MoasoNe— Morning 33 atin. after 4 I Eventas 55 main. atter 4 THE WEATHER.—SuN OrncE, Ocroa 9. TREILMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 57—highest since noon yest4rday. 39—lowest this morning and during the night. 51—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 23-96. Wun. S. VIT.-2/1 - orning fine ; Afternoon dull cloudy weather. ;- 4 11 X 9 ~c oe •!A e : 4O 4 1 ,a pl 6. 111' .NtS..,"rtige' s .v _ , • Qbsidt Lt t( "'uLONDON, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 9, 1850. An intelligent foreigner affords us, in his opinion 1 of ourselves, a foretaste of the estimate of posterity. Hence the comments passed upon our political insti tutions, or upon our social condition, by an observant and unprejudiced traveller from the continent always possesses for us a peculiar value and fascination. Without, of course, the impassiveness belonging only to the member of a remote generation, the citizen of another, country is, at any rate, so far withdrawn from the influence of our habits and predilections as to be enabled to acquire a tolerably correct and un impassioned idea of the merits or demerits appertaining to ui as a population. His views, at the least, are undis torted by the prejudices engendered by a more inti mate participation in our mode of living, in our political broils, our polemical disputes, or our con ventional warfare. His judgment remains unwarped by the heat of partizanship. He retains, in the midst of all the agitations of this age of revolutionary excitement, a certain appreciable serenity —a serenity, in fact, sufficient to qualify him a critic, or at least a scrutineer. . Withdrawn from the influences of our national atmosphere by his own devotion to another order of things elsewhere, he is enabled to regard us with the comprehensive scrutiny of a synthetic specta to* Ilii survey in the abstract reaches farther than ours could by any possibility, for he views us not in part, but as a whole, from the distance of a dissimilar cul ture and the elevation of another order of govern ment. It is true, that with these incontestable ad vantages, a foreigner, when reviewing the position and condition of a country like England, is too apt to mar i the value of his estimate by generalizing upon points where it would have been preferable to have '' v ElirSiliznded to particularities. His survey is liable, ----4 W - VA,ln the majority of instances, to be perfunc 4end of building up his opinions upon facts .. N . " 1 1 . le authenticity, he is frequently (and necessity) Contented to 4,8 tiefy .bigoe.. o : . t,--- --_ . i . ..- , k . , :_•,- _ ,:_ . - . :=" ... ft'' ::71, (, ,V! ' ‘ r • ~1 _ j ..:S?f. AI THE SUN, with conjectures. Nevertheless, in spite of the cir cumstance that his views are thereby rendered occa sionally superficial, the opinions entertained of us by a foreigner, especially when he happens to be gifted with impartiality as well as intelligence, is in variably worthy of our curiosity and consideration. Such a commentator on her social aspect and her political attitude, England has recently found in M. DE LAMARTINE. That illustrious statesman having very recently been called by private transactions to visit this island, has, immediately on his return to France, published his impressions upon the condition of the British community in the pages of his journal, the Conseiller du Peuple. From the fragmentary pas. sages already issued in that periodical, it becomes ma nifest that the great champion of French democracy has been fairly surprised into admiration. Insomuch that, in spite of a certain unconquerable pique against some of our aristocratic institutions, his panegyrics are uttered at once with fervour and spontaneity. Al ready, as he himself observes, he had twice before visited the shores of England. Once in 1822, when our Government was acting a part little nobler than that of " the seide of despotism." Once in 1830, when our energies were palsied by the sufferings of Ireland, then "literally dying of inanition." Upon both occasions he had witnessed only the most ghastly and lugubrious spectacles, tokens of the popular hatred for their administrators, or of the ruinous cessation of employment. In 1822, he had felt " the ground trem bling under the steps of the discontented multitude* who assembled at the slightest appeal or opportunity.* In 2830, he had "seen the armies of workmen without bread dismissed by the manufacturers," he had seen " those black columns, with their mud-coloured jackets, dotting the avenues and streets of London, like columns of insects, whose nests had been upset, and who blackened the soil under their footsteps." He returns to England in the September of 1850, after the rest of the European world has been ravaged by revolutions, and the contrast presented by every thing which meets his observation among ourselves is sufficiently admirable and surprising to extort from him words of the most eulogistic amazement. He finds no longer amongst us a wide-spread discon tent, a calamitous insufficiency of occupation, a loathing for our rulers, or a predisposition for insurrection— "sinister symptoms" which twice before, namely, in the years already mentioned, 1822 and 1830, had in duced him to "prognosticate the approaching decline and fall of this great and mysterious country." In lieu of all these sombre and melancholy portents ofdisaster, M, DE LAMARTINE discovers England in 1850 to be thriving throughout. He confesses that he finds it impossible not to be dazzled by the immense progress made in these islands during the last twenty years in almost everything that at all ad mitted of development. He finds the population strangely multiplied, the general wealth marvellously increased, industry protected, navigation improved, railroads threading the whole land in a complicated iron network, our principal cities and our metropolis adorned with costly edifices and with a variety of splendid embellishments. What, however, especially arrests his observation is the astonishing increase in the number of our fraternal associations and charitable establishments. In all this he recognizes the evidences of common sense and of egotism, but through this egotism and common sense he re cognizes also virtue. " Old England," he says in solution of the change, " Old England, the veritable patrician republic, under her frontispiece of mo narchy, feels, without doubt, that the stones of her feodal edifice are becoming disjoined, and might tumble under the blast of the age, if she did not bind them together every day by the cement of her institutions in favour of her people." Her prudence in acting thus bene ficently he designates by a magnificent phrase, " the Machiavelism of Virtue To say that such a genial and flattering estimate of our condition is in no respect exhilarating, would be to talk in a manner altogether nonsensical—what though a familiarity with the many unsatisfied wants of the epoch pre vents us, while recognizing the veracity of the picture, from acknowledging its completeness. flaying celebrated the astonishing increase in all di rections of. the English capital, " that city of two millions six hundred thousand inhabitants," having scanned its improvement in its centre and in its extremities, in the City itself, which he terms " the furnace, at the same time blackened and infect, of this human ebullition," or in Hamp stead, which he christens the St. Cloud of Lon don—M. DE LIMARTINS observes generally, of the surrounding country, " Everything, is being built ; and everything is smoking, hurrying on, so perfectly alive is this soil ; one feels that the people are eager to seize o❑ the new sense of circula tion which PROVIDENCE has bestowed on man." Such is the ♦ivid and encouraging picture, drawn by a master- hand, of the aspect at the present period pre sented to the eye of a stranger by Great Britain. It is a noble tribute of regard paid to this " patrician republic " by a great Democrat, the homage offered to England by LAMARTINE. " What shall we do? whither shall we turn ? what course shall we now pursue ?" are the questions by which the discomfited Protectionists now address each other throughout the length and breadth of the land ! " Deprived of the formidable weapon by which we have hitherto assailed the Legislature, what hope remains of the re-imposition of a tax on food, the restoration of that dearly loved and highly prized monopoly for which we have struggled with such desperate energy, such unflinching courage ?" Alas ! we are not ruined ; there is still room for agricultural improvement. Farmers may expend their capital on the proper cultivation of the soil. They may apply their labour to its per • manent amelioration, with a reasonable hope of re ceiving a fair remuneration for their outlay. They are actually encouraged to drain it—to manure it— to level fences—in fact, to proceed as in days of yore, when the corn-laws prevented the possibility of fo reign competition ; and where there is " a tenant of capital, skill, and industry," let him receive " the ample and full security of a lease," provided always that " he be a man able to make use of the advantage of his lease, that as he obtains security for his outlay, he shall be able and willing to make profit of that outlay-- that he shall be willing to improve his land, if he has the s ecurity that he shall not be deprived of the ad vantages he may expect from his expenditure." These are startling recommendations proceeding from the acknowledged leader of the Protectionists, from the modern Roland, on whose .indomitable prowess the agriculturists relied for the retrieval of past defeats, and the restoration of those palmy days when the entire community paid tribute to the farmer. It was no reckless Free-trader, no doubtful politician who acknowledged that there is yet " room for the profitable investment of capital in wheat cultivation," and who exhorted the tenant farmers to "go on boldly, notwithstanding the dis couraging position of agricultural affairs generally, and improve the land." No, it was the noble heir of , Derby—the future Prime Minister, who is to preside over the Cabinet—whose voice will be paramount in Downing -street and in the Ministerial Councils when the Whigs shall be ejected from office, and place and power be in the hands of the reactionaries. The long. continued silence of DISRAELI was sufficiently ominous, and conveyed impressions of sinister import to the bucolic heart. But what was even that quiescence to the well-considered and deliberate pro clamation of the recognised chief, the startling ac tivity of STANLEY ? Some other topic must now be agitated, a new champ de battaille must be selected, on - which they can enter with a reasonable prospect of success, if they are not willing to surrender their arms and march out from the captured citadel without the ho.. noura of war, to relinquish their former trophies, and henceforward to spend their days in inglorious ease, and to convert their political swords and shields into ploughshares and reaping -hooks. But what i 3 that topic which affords a chance of retrieving their former fortunes, and obtaining the support of the industrious population of the British empire ? That is the question. Only indicate the direction, and they will fearlessly pursue the path. We will inform them. Our coun - eels shall be honest and straightforward, involving no departure from principle on their part, no fighting under new banners. Let them take up the great and all-important question cf the currency, which, al though it has long remained in abeyance, has never been formally abandoned—which has been sup ported_ by STANLEY, by DISRAELI, by 1161 - _ LONDON, WEDNESDAY RIBS, and by the lamented Letd GEORGE BEN TINCIE, who led the minority in the Committee of the Commons on commercial distress, and was the uncompromising opponent of the unjust and impolitic measure of 1844, and we believe of the equally inequitable and injudicious Act of 1819. Then, indeed, they will be sustained by the voice of public opinion, and have the popular force arrayed under their _standard. Then they will assume a vantage-ground which will afford a certain triumph, which must secure a glorious victory. Their efforts will not be for the benefit of a single class, and the injury of all others, but they will struggle on behalf of the entire people, and their success will be hailed with all but universal ac clamations. They will obtain the best species of " protection for British industry i" for the industry of the manufacturer of calico as well as the manufac turer of corn—of woollens as of fat cattle—of the artisan and operative, as well as of the agricultural labourer. Let them direct their attention to this subject, and the result, although it may fur a time be deferred, is certain. They may not be willing to follow our ad vice, erroneously conceiving that we have been among their most uncompromising opponents i but even were it as true as it is really false and unfounded, we would remind them, fas est ab hoste doceri. If our counsel be judicious, let it not be disregarded on account of the quarter whence it proceeds. Let them ask their aged friends, those on the accuracy of whose information they can implicitly rely, what was the state of agriculture, the condition of the farmer in the beginning of the century during the protracted war, the expenditure of which puzzled the ingenuity of the first financialists. Notwithstanding the enormous burdens to which they were subjected by the daily visits of the tax-gatherer they enjoyed unparalleled prosperity, and could boast of all the comforts and many of the luxuries of life. Was that owing to the war—to the profuse expenditure of blood and trea sure ? No I It was to the possession of a circulating medium adequate to the wants and exigencies of the country, with which every branch of industry flou rished, and the national capabilities_ of every description, agricultural and manufacturing, could be fully deve loped. We desire the restoration of those happy times, without the heavy drawback with which the prospe rity was then attended ; and, in so doing, we boldly claim for ourselves the title of " the farmer's friend," to which we are far better entitled than those who would lead them from their legitimate path to pursue the fleeting phantasms of Protection. SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. 512,--I read with some surprise in your last night's paper Mr. Krone's letter respecting the breaking down of the engine of the excursion train on the South-Western Railway on Sunday last, especially as it came from a quarter where I should least have expected it. In my opinion, Mr. Krone has done himself an injury. His proposition respecting the guards carrying in their breaks an instrument is a good one; but I think he might have resorted to other means of bringing it forward than to ex pose the South-Western Railway Company in almost all the papers. Why could he not have: spoken to Mr. Godson and the Electric Toolegraph Company privately upon the subject ? That would have been his best course. He says, if it had not been for him the train would have been delayed three hours later than it actuzlly was ; but I beg to differ with him a little in that respect, for it was all by chance that the clerk at Southampton was in the Telegraph office, and if he had not been there Mr. Krone might have called from night till morn ing with no success ; so I consider the clerk at Southampton had as much to do in forwarding the train as he had. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, ONE WHO HAS A LITTLE TO DO WITH THE S. W. H. Oct. 9, 1850. THE PACKET STATION COMMISSION. Mr. O'Flaherty, M.P., at a late meeting of the Galway Harbour Commissioners, gave the names of the Commissioners who are to inquire into the subject of the Packet Station. They are Lord Grenville, Sir John Burgoyne, Sir J. Gordon, the Hon. William I Cooper, and Captain Ellerby. It is remarkable that I the list does not contain the name (f one Irishman, although the Board of Works includes men of the highest ability, and familiar with similar investiga tions. Captain Ellerby is an officer of the Trinity I Board, and the people of Galway derive hope from the fact that he was lately at that place about the lights on the Arran Islands. On the other hand, Sir John Burgoyne was a member of the Railway Commission, which, after a comparison of the various contending ports, recommended that Cork should be selected for a packet-station, at a time when the question excited very little attention, and even that a railway should be made from Dublin for the purpose. He is, more over, unquestionably the most competent and influ• ential of the five persons appointed. We hope he still retains the same preference for our port. At all events, a vigilant eye ought to be kept by the country generally to the conduct of the inquiry, lest it should prove a delusion, intended merely to evade the demand of Ireland altogether, and rival localities should be treated with impartial disappointment.— Cork Ex aminer, —[We hope the best station will be selected, wholly irrespective of rival localities. Cork, from its established trade is, we are happy to say, independent of the advantages derivable from a packet station 1- so is Galway ; but if a new station, having natural faci lities, were selected, such as Valentia, it would diffuse immense bepefits around a large space, and thereby stimulate industry and trade, where little or none exist at present.—En. Sun.] VIEW OF THE BUILDING IN HYDE-PARK FOR THE GREAT EXHIBITION, 1851, AS FINALLY APPROVED BY HER AIAJETT'S COM MISSIONERS. —A n interesting and authentic sketch of this remarkable building has just been engraved on steel and issued by Mr.- Berger, the publisher. As affording an excellent idea of the probable appearance of the structure, when conspleted, we doubt not the engraving will begladly and eagerly welcomed by the community. The follow. ing particulars appended to the plate will be perused with interest :—" The building is de signed by Mr. Paxton. Its length is 1,848 feet, width 408 feet, height 66 feet. The transept is 108 feet high ; excepting the timbers for floors and joists, it consists entirely •,of glass and iron. There will be 3,230 iron columns, 2,244 iron girders, 1,128 iron bearers, and 358 iron roof supporters, 34 miles of gutters, 202 miles of sash bars, and 900,000 feet of glass. The gallery will be 24 feet wide. The site covers 18 acres. The exhibiting space is about 21 acres, which can be greatly increased by additional galleries. The contract with Messrs. Fox and Henderson, is for 79,8001, or 150,0001. if the build ing is permanently retained." HIGHLAND FESTIVITIES.—The annual gathering given at the shooting quarters of Henry Esdaile, Esq., on the island of Ellarishona, Inverness-shire, on Wednesday and Thursday last, was attended by all the gentry of the sur rounding country and islands, and between 300 and 400 of the Highland peasantry. Among the company present were Mrs. Colonel Macdonell, Mr. Macdonell, and the Misses Macdonell, of Morar ; Mr. M'Donell and the Misses APDonell, of Lochshiel ; Mr. Macdonald, of Glenaladale ; Mr. Robertson, of Kinlock, Mordart ; the Messrs. Robertson and Hay, of Morton; Mr., Mrs, and Miss Staples, &c. Am. The ball-room was beautifully and tastefully decorated with evergreens, flowers, shields, claymors, b anners , & c . Th e initials of her Majesty and those of Prince Albert, with a crown and emblematical devices, composed of dahlias and other flowers, adorned each end of the room, and were greatly admired. At ten o'clock 200 of the peasantry, who had been dancing with great spi rit to a band of pipers, sa t down to a substantial old English supper of roast beef and plum pudding, and were well supplied by the gillies with mountain dew. At two o'clock the company left the ball for the supper room, where an elegant repast awaited them. The following night Mr. Esdaile and his friends entertained the elderly people of the country around with tea sad supper, which was followed by dancing ; the old people did their best to enjoy this pastinie of their former days, and before sepa rating they drank with much enthusiasm the health of their kind entertainer, wishing him a speedy return:to Ellarishona, the island of the waves. RISE IN THE PRICE OF COTTON AT PERNAMBUCO. —The American steamer Vulcan put into Pernambuco on August 28, and owing to the information she furnished of the state of the cotton crop in the States, that article immediately rose from 3id. per lb. to 7id. She received fuel, and proceeded next day for Bahia, Rio Janeiro, and California. COFFEE AT RIO JANEIRO.--By. a private vessel from Rio Jan eiro , w i th dates to August 14, we are informed that the price of coffee had materially risen since the sailing of the Seagull packet, and that at its enhanced value a great demand had existed; and that freights as a result had much improved. The exchange has, as a consequence, been acted on—quotations being at 280. OTTER HUNT. —A huge otter was lately killed at Roxborough, county Galway, by a party of men with dogs, after a desperate fight, during which the otter drowned two of the dogs, and so severely wounded three others, that they :.urvived but a short time; several of the men were also bitten. The formidable animal was ultimately shot. lie measured 4 feet 4 inches in length, 22 inches round, and weighed 481bs. Ile was well known to the country people, who called him " The devil's water-dog." The body was sent to Dublin, and having been stuffed, may now be seen Ai Dir. Cox's Union Tavern, Portobello barracks. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Ara/jot/ea/ says —" The Commission of Perma nence held yesterday (;,londay) an extraordinary sitting to hear the explanations of the Minister of War on the subject of the seditious cries and mani festations which followed the manoeuvres executed on the plain of Satory. The discussion was, we are in formed, very animated, and lasted upwards of two hours. From what has transpired with regard to this discussion, there is reason to think that the scenes which have so agitated public opinion will not be renewed at the review announced for Thursday." The meeting of the Commission was considered of such importance that M. DUPIN came to Paris for the sole purpose of presiding at it, and M. MOLE came from Champlatreaux to be present. General LAMORICIERE was also present. General D'HAUTPOUL was questioned on the subject of the proceedings at the late reviews, and baying protested against the right of the Commission to question him, but declined to take advantage of his protest, he proceeded to state that the accounts of what had passed at the reviews had been grossly exaggerated, and that nothing un constitutional had passed. The Commission having heard this explanation, came to a resolution by which it declared that "although the circumstances do not appear of sufficient gravity to induce the Committee immediately to convoke the Assembly, yet that the tendency of recent events is sufficiently characterised in th• eyes of the Committee to justify it in express ing its full and unqualified disapprobation of them. In consequence, the Committee considers it a duty to warn the Government that, if it continues these manifestations, it will incur a grave responsibility in the eyes of the Assembly at the period of its meeting." At the conclusion of the proceedings M. DUPIN, the President, addressed the Minister of War as follows :—" General D'HauTrour, I am desired by the Committee to apprise you that, in case General CIIANGARNIER be removed from his command, or that any, other steps be taken against him, we are de termined to convoke forthwith the Legislative As sembly." in the = e w o h f o e h o a n d ve a r :s e e t m io h n le w d it i h n tshee vertil.Dnv of t u h r er , ep Salle des pas perdues, declared that he considered the conduct of the Executive as exceedingly blameable, and• added thal the agitation was confined to the summit, and that it would obtain no support from the country. The Commission adjourned to Friday, the day after the next review. The article in the Constautionnel, which we quoted yesterday, on the prolongation of the PRESIDENT'S powers, is the subject of comment in all the journals. Even the Univers, the organ of the Jesuits and the Parti-pretre, to obtain whose support the PRESI DENT has sacrificed so much, is as merciless in its attack upon this article as the reddest of the Repub licans, whilst the Ordre, the grave and solemn organ of the Orleanists, thus comments on the manifesto of Dr. VaRON " It is difficult to know exactly the forces and plans of the Napoleonean party which has taken the field against the Constitution, as it to parody the movements of the Grand Imperial army. It does not, up to this time, ap pear that these forces have been well numbered, or that the plans of the generals have arrived at any unity. The watchword is far from being uniform; it varies accord ing to the chiefs, or according to the corps, and we may be allowed to suppose that the mot d'ordre given loudly, is not absolutely the same as is exchanged in private confidences. We, moreover, see every day trotting by the side, or at the tail, of the Decembrist legions, a number of volunteers, or captains, who imagine that they carry the true standard; that they wear the true feathers, and each of whom cry with more or less high sounding voice:—' Here is fortune! here is victory! fellow me!' Amongst all these champions of Napoleonean tight, there is one of modest demeanour, of seductive manners, and of flittering words—it is Dr. Louis Veron. Whilst around him cries are uttered and agitation is carried on, and threathening, if necessary, to take the Constitution by storm, he, more simple and more meek, like that simple ,squire who wisely recommended mo deration to his master, and contented himself with the government o f a small island, setting aside, tor the pre sent at least, the Empire, with its prestiges and its de ceptions, does not wish that they should go and sleep at the Tuileries; he confines himself to demanding a pro longation of the power of the President for fen years, and he will even be contented with less if the Assembly is not struck with the profound sense of his proverbs and his amphorisms. This proposition is very seductive, par ticularly when it comes from a man who, according to his own avowal, is so deep in the confidence of the Prince; but, besides that M. Louis Veron takes care to warn us that these are his personal ideas—that they pledge no one but himself —we have our reasons for thinking that Dr. Veron, if he has a sure diagnostic and straightforward intentions, has, uaurtunately, a bad memory. Thus we took, the other day, to the letter his profession of faith on the good humour and on the serene dispositions with which gay men support contradiction, but we have not been long in discovering that we laboured under a mis take respecting this point. Since we have allowed our selves td smile a little at the manifestoes of the Consti tutionnel. to use the receipt of Dr. Veron, and put our selves in unison with his humour without in any way wounding the legitimate susceptibility of sea galant laname, a title which he has given himself' without meeting with any contradictors—since that time we say, by a severe law, and without any previous warning, we have been deprived happily, not of the reading, but of the direct receipt of the Constitutionnel. In order to support this ill fortiune with gaiety we have called to mind the philosophical maxims of Dr. Veron. But this is not the point in question. What disturbs the confidence which we should be disposed to place in him when he offers us his solutions, is that ho changes his remedy more fre quently than good practitioners usually do in identical cases. I t ma y be remembered what there was myste rious in the first oracles of the Constittationnel. When the explanation came we were first told of ten years of power voted by the Assembly, which would prorogue itself indefinitely. That plan not having been well re ceived, we were told during the journeys, We do not require to have recourse to the Assembly ; we thought of it in the first place, but it was insensate. What could it do ? Nothing, either solid or durable. It is the people who will constitute on a large basis the powers of the nephew of the Emperor : that will go of it se lf.' We thought that this aas the last word. Nut at all. M. Veron again addresses himself to the Assembly, and says to it, Vote ten years, that will be well; vote less than ten years that will be less well, but we shall nevertheless be satisfied.' In this embarrassing situation is it not pro bable that the Assembly, calling to mind the Constitution which is too frequently forgotten, will adopt the plan of abstaining altogether from the special question of the prolongation of the powers ? Dr. Louis Veron, never theless, as if to give a pledg e of his moderation, ex claims at the end of his article, Let not the President quit the humble residence of the Elyalls. Let not im prudent friends attempt to re-open for him the doors of the old residence ef our ki ngs , People too often become mad the re. Alas! perhaps Dr. Veron speaks truly. It is well if people never become mad iu any other place than the Tuileries." ----- --- - - AL LEOPOLD DURAS, in one of the smartest articles ever penned, thus takes note in the National of the admiisions made by Dr. VE RoN :____ " We are entitled to sea in the article of the Consti tut; annel the programme of a certain party. Bas not the Com titutionnel itself avowed that it had been initiated into the policy to which it gives its support? It is tune that for form sake we are told that the solution offered emanates from an individual in his own name. This is a hacknied formula. The Egeria of our Numa now plays the part of Galatea in the Eclogue. She flies in a mar vellous manner, but in doing so she contrives to let us o:si is it better t io t catch a glimpse o f th e skirt of his robe. The Co beset by the appre hen sion lest schemes, so often disavowed, should , neverthel ess, be attempted. As no n nerneiinfroertmurne return s on the tothe Tuileries, as if subject his fears must be well founded. Let the President, be says, not quit his modest res idence. Let no imprudent friends attempt to drew open to himthe doors of t hi s ant i que dwelling of our Kings. So, then, the Pre s id ent h its f r i en d s who counsel him to attemp t a veritable usurpation. It seeing that the C ons tit u ti onne l i s not without f ea rs might so happen after all t hat t he President would leave his mode s t res id e nce, on the subject. We h o p e th at t hi s journal wi ll compre hend that the actual nature of its re lations w i th the execu tive prohibits its confining itself to i nsinuations. The public is authorised to believe tha t it knows more than it bays , a nd that it ou g ht to say all L ONDON STOO S I that it kn ows. " Ocr. B.—Latest Prices—Fi ve PARIS Bo uggE per Cents 9of , • Th re e per Cents., 561. 85c. ; Bank A c ti ons, 2,275 f. BUSI NESS DONE IN FO REIGN RAILWAYS AT THE and Amiens, wit —Dutch Rhenish, 3X—Lux embonrg, 1 k,'XCHANGE, Ocr. 8. Boulogn e /83/—Namur and Liege, 8. STADT. BRA ZILS. EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1850. the taxes from the Ist of September to the end of December. The first trial of the electric telegraph between Verona and Vienna took place on the 26th ult. The line between Verona and Vienna has been open for some days, and that between Verona and Milan will take place this week. In the course of six months the telegraphic lines in the Lombardo- Venetian kingdom and in Southern Tyrol, as far as B azen, will extend to a length of 240 Italian miles. The wires are encased in gotta perche, to preserve them from damp and injury. They run under ground, partly through brickwork. Verona will be in a two fold communication with Vienna, as the lines will be extended to Mantua, and also between Trieste and Venice. The widow of Count Louis BArnrAm has arrived in Hungary for the purpose of demanding her mar riage portion of 7,000,000 of guilders, which is bound up in the confiscated estates of her husband. Prince METTERNICH has been elected one of the members of the Bohemian Diet. BELGIUM. The Independance of Brussels of Monday says— ,6 We learn with grief that our last news from Ostend on the Queen's state of health is unfortunately confirmed. The following communication has been'addressed to the Moniteur " • The state of the Queen has not improved since yesterday. Public opinion justly feeling a good deal of anxiety with respect to her precious health, a bulletin of the state of her Majesty will henceforth be given. " Bulletin—The great weakness which the Queen has felt for some time past became complicated during last night with an increase of fever. Towards the morn ing, however, there was a slight diminution. " Ostend, Oct. 5, nine o'clock in the morning. " ROBERT CARSWELL, M.D. " F. JANSSENS, M.D." "Our private information states that the King, in his solicitude, has caused Dr. Chomel to be again called in, and he was to have arrived yesterday evening at Ostend. We are informed that the King writes himself every day to Queen Amelie, to give her intelligence of her august daughter." The same journal has the following from Ostend, dated Saturday evening:— " Our town is greatly affected by the more alarming symptoms which during the last two days have displayed themselves in the state of our beloved Queen. Such strong hopes had been entertained of seeing continued the amelioration which took place last week in her Ma jesty's health, that every one feels it as a blow to him self. The King appears profoundly affected. His fea tures reveal a disquietude which is certainly very natu ral. His Majesty goes out scarcely at all, and passes the greater part of the day by the Queen's side." Another letter from Ostend,.written on Monday morn ing, announces, " that in consrquenco of the unfavour able change in the Queen's health, Queen Amelie, the Duke d'Aumale, th e P r i nce d e Jo i nville, and the Princess Clementine arrived from England the previous night between twelve and one o'clock, and proceeded to the Hotel Fontaine, where apartments had been pre pared for them. The Duchess d'Orleans and the Duke do Nemours were expected on Monday (this day). Dr. Chomel has arrived, and proceeded at once to the palace." BRUSSELS, OCT. 7. The following bulleting appears in the Moniteur : " The great weakness of the Queen still continues. Her Majesty has passed a quiet night, but no improve ment in the general condition of the august patient has taken place. _ _ " W. B. CARSWELL, M.D. " F. JANSIIENS, M.D. " Ostend, Oct. 9, Nine o'clock A.M." Dr. CROMEL quitted Ostend yesterday evening al six o'clock. On leaving he expressed some hopes of the condition of her MAJESTY. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES DEFEAT OF THE SCHLESWIG-FIOL STEINERS-ATTACK ON FRIEDRICH- The bombardment of Friedrichstadt continued dur ing the whole of the 4th. In the afternoon the Schles wig-Holsteiners made an assault on the city, but were repulsed by the Danes, and compelled to retire. The following is an extract from the report of General WILLISEN to the Staathalternchafc, made im mediately after the repulse. Having described the previous operations before the town, which are already known, he states— ' Notwithstanding the difficulties of the ground, it was thought that the preparations were so far completed that the storming of the place might be attempted. This at. tack was therefore made this evening, and was executed by the troops with such distinguished bravery that under any moderately favourable circumstances it must certainly have succeeded. But the troops in advancing were im peded by ditches that had to be bridged over under the enemy's fire, and got among field works that had not been wholly destroyed, both on their flank and rear, so that notwithstanding the most brilliant courage, it was impossible to get the place into their power. "The enemy conducted his defence with coolness and determination. " Unhappily it was impossible to avoid setting fire to the place, and a great part of the unfortunate town is destroyed. The result will have no decisive effect on the opera. ions of the war. " I estimate our loss at from 200 to 300 men killed and wounded, and will give a more accurate account of it at another opportunity. In this action too the loss of officers is proportionately great; the 6th battalion left all its commissioned officers dead or wounded on the place. The event has in no degree operated prejudicially on the spirit of the army, and I hopo it will do as little on the spirit of the country. " The General in command, " VON WILLIBEN. "Head-quarters, Suderstapel, Oct. 4." The unofficial accounts give a much higher esti mate of the loss; they bring it up to 400, and from the number of men engaged, the character of the terrain, and the determination of the defence, mili tary authorities state that it may be safely rated at from 600 to 700 men during the whole operations. Congols ... Ditto Account ITALY. The following is a list of the Cardinals created by :he POPE, on the 30th September :- 1. Cardinal Wiseman, Archbishop of Westminster. 2. Cardinal Geissel, Archbishop of Cologne. 8. Cardinal Piepenbrock, Prince Bishop of Breslau. 4. Cardinal Bondy, Archbishop of Toledo. 5. Cardinal Romo, Archbishop of Seville. 6. Cardinal Fornari, Apostolical Nuncio at Paris. 7. Cardinal Gouset, Archbishop of Rheims. 8. Cardinal D'Astros, Archbishop of Toulouse. 9. Cardinal Mattieu, Archbishop of Besanton. 10. Cardinal Figueiredo, Primate Archbishop of Brags. [l. Cardinal Cosenz 4, Bishop of Andria. 12. Cardinal Pecci, Bishop of Gubbio. 13. Cardinal Roberti, Uditore della Camera. 14. Cardinal Gof, Baron de Sumeraubeckh, Archbishop of Olmutz. This list contains a greater number of foreign Cardinals than any list that has been published for the last 300 years. FALMOUTH, OCT. 7.—The bark Irene, of Liver pool, John Holliday master, arrived here this morn ing after a short passage of 42 days from Rio Janeiro, having left that city on the 26th of August, at which time exchange was firm at 281, and the amount negotiated on London at that rate was 420,000/ Six per Cent. steck was steady at 87d., until the 17th of August, when a decline took place, and business has since been reported at 86i to 86k. The following are the quotations of freights : Channel, 505. ; London, 355. to 40s. ; Liverpool, 405. ; Antwerp, 375. 6d. to 455.; Hamburgh, 40s. to 455.; Havre, 50f. ; Mediterranean, 455. to 555.; and the United States, 70c. In the article of coffee the sales amounted to about 25,000 bags, from the 10th to the 22d of August. The supplies were free, and a brisk demand prevailed for the United States. The following were the prices :—Wasbed, 4,000 reis to 4,300 reis ; superior, 3,650 reis to 3,700 reis ; first good, 3,5C0 reis to 3,550 reis; first ordinary, 3.300 reis to 3,350 reis; second good, 3,100 reis to 3,200 reis ; second ordinary, 2,900 reis to 3,000 reis. For sugars, Campos white, second, 2,200 to 2,300 reis ; brow n , 1,600 re i s to 1,700 re i s per arro b a. Hides per lb., heavy, 175 reis to 180 reis; light, 195 reis to 200 reis. Her Majesty's ship South ampton, Rear -Admiral Reynolds, returned to Rio Janeiro on the 20th of August after a cruise of twelve days. Her Majesty's steamer Harpy had cap tured an empty schooner slaver of about 120 tons. She has b een sent to S t. H e l ena f or adjudication. Her Majesty's packet Penguin, with mails from Fal mouth, had arrived at Rio. WESTMINSTER AND CHARING- , CROSS HosrxrALs.— Yesterday meetings of the govenors of the Westminster and Charing•cross Hospitals were held in the board-rooms of their respective institutions for general business. The an• nual statements of operations during the past year were, in the former establishment, 1,746 in, and 14,009 out-patients, making together 15,755, and a grand total of 380,000 poor sick who have been relieved since 1719. In the latter hospital there had been placed on the books 18,500 indigent sick, who had been relieved at a cost of 2,4581. Ea. 6d. ; of that number 1,116 were in patients, and 17,384 out patients. These, with the cases reported in former annual statements, make a total of 167,758 since the commencement of the in stitution in 1818. Propriety, modesty, and delicacy guard men from the conceits of the weak, the intemperance of the extra vagant, and the brutality of the vulgar.— Eliza Cook's Journal. The beautiful villa and grounds of Priorbank, Melrose, were purchased last week by Mr. W. Tait, late publisher of Tait's Magazine, for the sum of four thousand guineas. We believe that it is intended to feu part of the ground for building. The property was purchased by Ge neral Hugh Gowdie, Commander of the Forces in India, about forty years ago.—No:th British Mail. FLAX MANUFACTURE..--It is with much pleasure that we make the announcement of the establishment of a flax mill, and the introduction of the manufacture of linen into the neighbouring town of Ilallymahon by its spirited proprietor and truly patriotic gentleman, John Shouldham, Esq., high sheriff' of the county of Longford. Mr. Should ham, we understand, is also proprietor of the flourishing town of Ballymena, in the North, in which the manufacture of linen has for a series of years been mot successfully carried CI L— Westmeath Independent. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at from 4,000 to 5,000 bales, all to the trade. The market closed firmly. The sales comprised 150 Egyptiaa at 84d to 10d, 300 Surat at sid to 5:0, and the remainder nearly all American.---In Railway Shares a good business was done at previous prices. The Sugar marker opens very briskly this week, and prices are 6,1 to Is higher. The Indigo sales have commenced, and comprise 17,100 chests, including 5,557 chests of old goods bought in at, or withdrawn from, former sales, and 3,408 chests in second hands. The qualities of the Bengal are about one-half good and fine, and one-half middling and ordinary; the Madras one-third good and fine, and two thirds middling and ordinary; the Kurpah two-thirds good and fine, and one-third middling and ordinary; the Oudes chiefly ordinary. The sale room presented a full attendance of both foreign and home buyers. After the announcement of 729 chests being withdrawn, the sale opened with a parcel of fine Bengal, which sold at an advance of fully is per lb above July rates; during the sale a further quantity was withdrawn, making a total of 2,547 chests; there was but little animation in the biddings; the chief proportion sold was on specula tive account, and strong support was given throughout by the importers. Oude Indigo sold at an advance of about 8d to 9d per lb, and Madras and Kurpah from 9d to is per lb above last sale's rates., 2,028 chests have passed to-day, out of which 1,116 were withdrawn, 326 bought in, and 952 sold. The number of British vessels which cleared at Boston for the:British provinces during the month of July was 36. Their cargoes consisted principally of the following named artielest—Flour, corn, meal, molasses, bricks, bay, pork, coffee, candles, household furniture, &c. Of the flour and meal exported during the month there was 350 barrels. The trade of Lake Champlain appears to be rapidly increasing, as is shown by the amount of duties collected at Plattsburg and Burlington for the last four years, annexed:— 1846 67,534 $13,743 1847 13,080 15,148 1848 16,402 34,116 1849 51,029 47,376 The increase during the last year has been very marked. At Plattsburg during the last quarter there has been an increase over the corresponding quarter of last session of property passing in bond free of duty. Value of exports for quarter ending June 30, 1850 5211,292 00 Value of imports paying duty Value of bonded 53,620 00 The above statement does not include American pro ducts in transit from western American ports. At Bur lington the value of imports bearing duty, for the quarter ending June 30, 1850, was 51,169,494 88. Value of exports for the quarter ending June 30 $143,160 00 Duties collected for quarter ending June 30 34,005 97 The increase of trade between the United States and Canada, in consequence of increased railway facilities, is very marked, and the opening of the northern roads will operate to make the increase very much greater in the coming four years. The question between Messrs. Schneider and the Mexican Government was not arranged when the last advices were sent from the other side, and the bond holders have good reason to congratulate themselves that they are relieved from the injurious effects of fur ther disputes, whether of account or management. Agencies are altogether abolished, and the creditors will receive their money punctually when it dees leave the hands of the Mexican collectors. We must say that the proceedings of several English mercantile houses towards the foreign Governments for whom they have acted have been far from creditable; but in the present insntace there may be something to be said on both bides. No one can doubt but that M. Falconnet, when he ar rives our, will be enabled to settle this and all other difficulties, and it is fully anticipated that his mission will terminate much sooner than was at first hoped. The following communication will show the state of affairs, as ascertained from the committee of bond holders:— "Committee of Mexican Bondholders, 61, Moorgate-street, Oct. 8, 1850. "Besides the remittances on accouat of the Mexican dividends announced in the City article yesterday, Colonel Facio has received 6,000 dollars from Tampico on the same accouut. "On the subject of the distribution of the funds now in the Bank of England Iv the payment of dividends., the Mexican Minister of Finance writes as follows: " Though the Government should wish to comply with the wish of the bondholders, there are difficulties in the way of doing so which it appears impossible to overcome while Messrs. Schneider and Co. decline to give up the books and papers in their hands belonging to the Republic, and although it is quite true that the differences existing between the said house and this Go vernment do not concern the bondholders, y e t, a s con fusion and mistakes might arise from the present agency of the Republic in London not having the r equ i re d docu ments to refer to when distributing the funds, whereby the bondholders might surer prejudice, the Government is bound to avoid this, and for that reason finds itself, with regret, unable to order the distribution of the money in the Bank of England at present.' " In the Amsterdam market, on the 7th inst., Dutch Stock was rather lower, the Two-and-a-Half per Cents being 56 9-16, and Foreign Stocks also were drooping. At Frankfort, on the sth inst., Austrian Bonds were 791 and Spanish Three per Cents 34 5-16 to 9-16. Tere are various arrivals from Rio de Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope, kc., but they do not generally bring later dates. The English Stock Market is firm this morning, although the transactions bare been limited.. Ex chequer-bills have been also well supported at 645. to 675. premium. Consols are now 94 I. The advices from Denmark are of the old character, and the fighting policy was still kept up. Consols for November have been 94 to 97. In Foreign Securities the transactions have been very restricted. Spanish Five per Cents. have been done at 18k, and the Three per Cents. 3111. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been quoted 32} to 33f. Mexican Bonds have been at 311 to f, and Brazil New at 89. Danish Three per Cent. Stock is at 76. Dutch Four per Cents., ex. div., are 88g. Railway Shares are rather weaker. QUARTER TO THREE. ... 96f 1... ... 96 ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES. 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities... 96 % 3 /4 96% India Stock — 265% Inds Bonds, 1,0004 B6 p 86 p Ditto under 1,0001... ...... Consols for Account 96 % 3 /4 96 3 / 4 Exchequer Bills. 1 1 ,4 d. ts 2d 1,0001. June 64 67 p 67 p 5001. June Small. June 64 67 P 67 p NE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRI CLOSING CES. Brazilian Bonds Ditto, New, 1843 .. 89 89 Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent ..... ...... Ditto, 3 per Cent....... 61 Danish 61 Danish 80nd5,1825,3 per Cent .. 76 76 Ditto 5 Der Cent. Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, 1% per Cent —1 8 1 A Ditto, Deferred rdnxican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto, Account? 3114 % I 31% Portuguese 5 per Cents. .. Ditto. Account 87 ..... 87 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Spanish 5 per Cont. 1840 Ditto, Account ... 181,4 18% Ditto; Ditto. C per Cent is Wyk ends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. Ditto. 4 Dor Cent. Certificates BB% x d 88% x:d PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLosINL, RAILWAY SPARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE: Aberdeen Do. Preference Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction Sq..— ...... ....... Nyrshire and Galloway.. 7% — Belfast & County Down 32 Berks & Hants Patens. (Gt.Wesf, Per. 5 per ct.) 6 ...... Birmingham and Ox ford Junct, cells duly paid, or with a guareu. 20 Do, N%,ithoutgu:trantee 20 Birming. Wolvert:ton, and r udley, calls ch:ly pd, or with guaranteo 15 Do. without gas vs.stee 15 — Birwing.,Wolvern'pton, and Stour Valley 13/. 10 ... —. Birkenhead, Laneash; re, and Cheshire June.— ?6 - ......... ...... Bristol and Exeter 100 bnekinghairshire .., .. 17% ..... ••• ••• Caledonian Do. New 10/. Pref..... 10 •••••• Di t to,Clydesdale Jonc 50 ...... Chester aryl Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference ls Clarence Direct London & Ports- - 8% moath Dublin and Belrast June. 45 Dundalk& Enniskillen 30 ...... ••••• ••••••••• " East Anglian, 254, L. & E. and L. and D... 25 ..... . VA 1 41 Do., 31. 10s., 2 Do. 181., E. & 1 : 1....,.. 18 ••• Do., (51.) 7 per Ct. Preference. Pref...... 3% ...... 1 sit . Ditto (71. 175.) 7 per Cent., Preference... 2 Eastern Conatiefs... D i tto,F.xtensi on, 5 per Cent., No.l ~ O. 138.4 d.... p..... ...... ... E:tto ditto, No. 2... C/. 13s. 4d... p Do., New Prei.rence, Do. North. & Eastern , 6 per Cent.....—.... 10 ...... 6 per Cent. 5O ...... Ditto. 5 per Cent—. 50 Do. New 43 — Eastern Union, Cass A (late E. U : . Shares) 25 - ... .. Ditto, Glass A, ditto... 6 Do., Class B& C 25 Do. Scrip (6per cent.) 20 Fast LaneasYra 45 • ••••.• Ditto, New Quarters.. 614...... .. Do., 6 per Cent. l're ference Qu Anon ... 614...... East Lincolnshire, guar. _ _ 6 - P P 6 Iva Cent. Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... Edin.,Perth, &Dundee 25 Ditto. Newport Exeter.Yeovil, ts Dosch. 2'9 4 — , — Exotu alad Exmouth... 21s. SPA IN. OLBA C , en O ts CT. 13k money. Madrid journals o f the 3d ha ve arrived. Th eir contents are unimporta nt. MAD 3.—Three per Cents., 34 F Rl iv D e B per 9.16 ; Exchange on London, 50 30 money. A telegraphic dispatch has GERMAN Y• been received from disarm them, wh en Cassel, of the sth, which is to the following effect : dissolved, but the latter refused to give up their arms. " Henkel, a barrister, p ri fl e ' t e i r il g General Ilaynau had declared the Burgher Guard General flaynau then ordered tho troops of the line to orders. II ' martial, but was 0 attempted to call a court , . courts, h h a i s m a t tlr r e e s s s ig ed n h a is le p t c t )s e t r , Gen eral n to nci himself accused of exceeding his powers. A deputation r in efu on sei e l o t f o th o e be u y pp h e i r s was sent to the Elector at Williclmsbad, representing the facts. The city remains perfectly quiet. treating elected SCIIODER President, y ant President. warning him of the responsibility which attaches to his lawleb3 proceedings. The troops are gloomy and dispirited." t on the Assembly to manifest its sy Hay eau, en- The Wittemburg Assembl met on the 4th, and On the sth, the Deputy 1 RODINGER Vice - SUSSIIIIND called oral Hesse, and toprotest ainst the intervention of against i the Diet of Frankfort. ' - 'don was declared mpathy for Elec • urgent, and will be considered at the next sitting. The Finance Minister then brought forward his bud -1 he proposition set) and demanded authority to continue to collect Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle B/. 6s. Bd. PI. • ..m.. ••••••••••••••• ... Glasgow,Kilmar., & Ayr 59 ...... Do.Preferonce Consol. Gloucester & Dean Forest 16 'treat Northern Do., . 1 , 2 A Deferred Do., %B 6 per Cont 124 9 % , 42 944 Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 12 1 h...... 11% %% x.i lll4' xi. i. reat South. and West- (Ireland) ... — 50 ...... Ditto, Eighths ...u, - 3reat.Northof Eng i and 100 ...... Ditto, New, 401 4O - Ditto, New, 301 3O - ......... •••••• - Ditto, New ,15/ l5 ..... - -„ Great Western 100 - '7l Ditto, New 171........ 15 ... -,,i,...... ..... ,/, Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 - -.- Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 - Do. Quarter Shares... 12% - ...... ..."' 1 Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 - ..... . ..- Ditto, Thirds Lancaehire& Yorkshire.loo - Do. Quarters .. ..... 2ii4 - ... ...- Do. Fifths... Do. Thirds ... .......... 18 - ... ......... Do. New, Gua.6 per et. 10 - Ditto (fluthleislleld and Sbeil.).. SO Hiding Union) 11!A - ...... .. ..... "'" t sods and . l iradford Leeds and Thirsk ..„.. 50 Do., Prefer., 6 per CL 6 - •• ..- Do., do. No. 2 17 - dis .... ai l ' Do., do. No. 3 5 -1... -- ... ........ .. Do., Prof. Quar , 1813 • 9 - ••• .... Liverpool, Crosby and Southport . London &Black wa11...11/. 6 s . 3d 6 % 14 ...... ...... London, Brighton, and south Coast- .....100 Do.Guarant. 5 pert;„. 9 - ••...„. ...- Do. Prefer. 5 For cent. 50 - ..... .... Ditto ditto-- 1852 50 .. ••• - Do., New, guaranteed 6 per Cent . -100 - ••, ..... .... •• ...- Londonand Greenwich 1211554 d - .... ....- Ditto, Preference.- 20 - London and N. W..•tern 100 115 % 1,4 l l5 9 Ditto, New Quarters 17 -.. 191 3 Ditto, Finn. Do. 101. London & 8. .(111 W catern .) ... & BC. 100 1 ...... - - Do, New 501. . .... ...... .. 42% - ... 69 11 Do. New 401. ... ... ....... , 34 - ....... ........ Do., New Preference.. 5 - Londonderry &Coleraine 25 - Do. ih Shares •..... . 5 - ........ ....... ..... Londonderry and Ennis killen 25 - Do. % Shares - Lowestoft guar. 4 per ct 20 ...... - Ditto (6 per ct.) - Id anchm•ter,.l3uxton,c-nd datlock 5 14 - DI snchg.ter, Shetield, ' . and Lincolnshire...100 Do. Quarters (No. 1) 25 ... Ditto, New lel. Pref... 10 Do. Manchester and Lincoln UnioE ...... 41. 2s - dis -. di", 40 Milland .... Do. Consolidated Pref.loo ...... - ..... V1,D0., 50/. Shares Do., Birm. and Derby lt 0 - •••..• ......... Do. Consolid. Bristol & 4 12 4 Binning., 6 per ct.... 100 12 4 14 Ditto,Brist. & Glocstr. 46 ...... - ..... ....~. Ditto ditto - Do.,Erewash • Val.,Pref. 5U - Ditto, Leieesi.& Swan nington, 8 per ct. guar.loo - Midland Great Western Irish 47% -. ••••••••••••..• aliddlesbro' an d R e d car, 6 per cent. guar. 5O - Newcastle and Carlisle.loo ..... - ...• Do. Quarters - Newmarket - ..... Do. Exten.:don - Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford 6 .•...• - Newry and Enniskill en 7 - ...... ••• ,s'4:ewry, Warrenpoint, ... and Rostrevor 2O - Norfolk .. .. ........ ... •••• . ............ ...100 • - .... Do. New 201. - . l5 - Do. Extensi on . .... ... 20 - ....- 'Y Do. Guaranteed 5 1 A pc. 5 ...." - x.i ' Do. do. W avenay V al. 2 ...... - Northern Counti es U n i on 4 .. 0 , ... - ....... ••••••• North ! Bri..i.th •••••... ••• 26 .••••• - ..- .• ...... • • / A % Ditto Preference 5 - x. d . 0 North Staff°. ishire,.. 17% .... ..... 1" North - Western ..... 17 - ..........•... ell cz'.ud, Worcester, and Wolverhenipt an Preston & Wyre 25 ... - - • ~.... /. Do. % Share s (A) 1054...... - ..• leading, Guildford, .nd ti Rei g a te lB ..... 18% 1 4 x.d .1814 iv doyston end Hitchi n ... 614. ..• - ... 2 4 ,4 Do. Shepreth E xten . I%VA, Scottish Central b ......... 25 ...... 12% 8 ........ Scottish Midland 00, Ditto, New ............ 22 1 4..._. - ..- ... All St-IN% spir.y and Bine.- 13 1 ,4.... - di5..... ....... •"-- dil Ditto ditto,lolass B. 9% - die .•• Ditto,NewG.atranteed 8 - ..• Shrewsbury and lierefd. 6 .....• - •• ..• Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves •• • Ditto Oswestry ... ....•... 20 - .... Ditto Now .. ......... 1 - .. ... . Do. 8 pe r C ent. P ref. 10 ••••• •• Shropshire Union ...... 6% -x i .... • Suat.a Devon su .....• 10 '34 -• .. ...... ••• 1 01 Do. Preference South Staffordshire B% ..... 4% ....... ... .... ~ * 4 south Easter, Do., Registered No. 410 ~.... - ...... ....... •-' South W ales South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole Sheffield, Rotherham, re Goole (N. Div.) Uua rauteed 5 per cent. ... 18% - .. . 0 . ...... ... Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 6 Swans. & Loughor & .0' Ca moron's Stm. Coal. ... 10 - ••• .. ......... 1 . 41 4 / Vale Eitension ... P ig . -. ... .. ..... ... .0 , Thames Haven Dock and Railway ..... ... 17% Waterford and Kilkenny 20 . - ... WiL ..ertord and Limeri c k 47% W aterld, Wxfrd,W i c k lw. and Dublin ..... - ..... 3 - Wear Valley 6 pe r C ent. ..- Guaranteed ... ..... 50 - .. %Do. do. do. ... 25 ...... - x.d ..- OP ,e Do. do. dog ... 17 %x..... ..... .....i.• 1 tsL Cornwall ...... . 7e%... .. -- ..0 V hitehaven & Furne ss . . 0 20 Windsor, Staines, and South Western ...« ... 14 ...... -•..., ....... W ilts, z Dmerset,ot W ey • m outh - York, Newcastle, and 8erwick........ ..... ~1 6 3 25 .1 1 Do. Newcastl e E aten , 20 Do. G.N.E. P re f erence 9 ... -4% 00 Do. do. - ...... 17 ..... - Do. do. . ..... 5 - uo. Hartlepo o l Dock and Railway lOO ...... - York and Norte Midianu 50 Dr,: r; el - bream+ ...... 10 „ 8 73 , 8 ..... ..... FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Angl i Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian). ... 6% - ••• doutogne and Amiens... 6%...... 81 /4A (.'antral of Fran ce (Or leans and Viorzon)... 20 - Demerara ..... ......... ... 17 1 - Dutch Rhenish ......... 8 ... .. - East, Indian ...... - •.. .. Ditto ... ..... - .. ••••• Great Indian Peninsular 5 - . Do. D 0.... ..... 1:1 / 4 - Louvain I. la Sambre ... 7% ..- - LuxembouT . ......... ili 8 ...... " Ditto ..... - ............ 10 0.... Madrid and Val en ti a... 2 ...•«- 13.,Namur and Liegu ...... 20 ... .. 8 ...... ...... Northern of France.,,,,, 16 •141 1% ..... Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 ..... 2% ...... Paris and Orleans ...... 20 ..... - ... ... ...... - .............. IS Paris and Strasbourg Rouen and Ilawe ...... 20 - Sambre and Meuse 2O ••• ...... 3 Strasbourg and Basle Tours and Nentes . 14 ...... - Tourney, Jurbise, Lan dau, and Hasselt ...... 20 - West Flanders ..... .. ..... 834.. , _. 7)0 MINES. ... Anglo-Mexican ........,100 Asturian ..... ......... ........ . 15 ..... Au5tra1ian................. 4 ...... —....— .... Barossa Range ... ... 33e. .. .. .... Blaenarvon Iron & Coal 50 Bolonos Scrip ...... ..... ... .. British Iron ..... .......... 13% — Brazilian Imperial ...... '24 BrazilianCocaes&C u i a b a 30 Do. St. John D e l R ey 15 ...... 13%%%......... lei Cobre Copper ..... ... 40 - General Real Del Monte, Unreg. Do. Black Debentures — Do. Red Ditto ... ..... Santiago de Cuba........ 10 .... United ulexican , ... ....- 6 14 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Union of Australia 25 ...... Ditto, New 2 1A..... Union of London 10 • ...... ..... Union of Madrid 4O ...... ... 04 .... THE MURDER OF THE TOLL-EAR KEEFER ' 1 ! HEBDAN - BluDoß.—The inq ues t on t h e b o d y of James Smit h ' the toll-tsar keeper of lieLden-bridge, near Todmorcl e „.l Yorkshire, who was mur d ered in the toll-house on the nig h; of Fm iday week, was concluded on Tuesday. The verdict I %'" " Wilful Murder against some person or peroons unknol o ' A person named Green is in custody on suspicion of bei concerned in the murder. PIRATES.—SUNDERLAND, OCT. 7.—A. letter; d a t e , Barcelona, Sept. 22, has been received by Messrs. N. Sini r ; and Son, of this port, owners of the b r i g C orsyra , f r om t , ", master of that vessel. During the passage ou t they haiL continuance of heavy weather, and had lost both topfflasr All the crew had been disabled in the hands and arms hauling the new ropes. which were so full of tar that Tl. blocks would not work, and the sheeves h a d f req uently "" be scraped. Sept. 9, during 'a calm, when about 70 above Gibraltar rock, and about 40 miles from the land, tl 6 vessel was boarded by a large boat's crew, consisting of 1 0 pirates. She being coal laden, there was no thi n g of t 5 cargo which she could plunder. They took part of the shiP„ provisions and water, so that the cre w h a d t o b e put on,: short allowance of wate r . i n f orma ti on was g i ven of LI vessel being boarded, b u t th e Sp an i s h cus t oms wou ld 12 . , ° 0 report it; and, the w r i ter a dd s , " t h e consu l i s as bau,.'„, which is the concludin g sen t ence o f t h e l e tt er ." —Ship " Gazette, Ric nara a , partly COI Our Ellglie sold e buyer, at ba. Whc a 4,210 and . pr Lions i offeric Makin distilli which tionr. prices. wiande English Scotch. Irish . Foreign Pric ateadil deman to 38 as 1:1; Alt} the de Duty ' house, dent. bers, his, nt fendat that h to do down tern. Mr, Rol the it Mr. drew Mr, dict o of the Mi Hei friars, the pi Was 13 Mr, Wont Mr that led th nexio be re( InaE tha: to E Nol Wil Ci& Boni aril s Mai eon, F. lich i Hall Mou ' M.