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NEW NOVEL BY MISS KAVANAGEI. Just ready, In 3 vi ols, post STO., NATHALIE. A. TALE. ry JULIA KAVANAGH. Author of " Madeline," " Woman in France," &c. Henry Ccaburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough , street. Orders received at all the Libraries. MRS. CROWE'S NEW WORK. 2Cow ready at all the Libraries. In 3 vols.. LIGHT and DARKNESS. Or, MYSTERIES OF LIFE. By Mrs. CROWE. Author of " The Night Side of Nature," "Lilly Dawson." Etc. " This book is full of interest."—Examiner. " A work of rare ahility."—Observer. " A very remarkable wort. It posseses a terrible fascination."— Dispatch. " As a gfritn!November book, bolding fast the awe-stricken reader, Mrs. Crowe's Mysteries of Life can have very few, if any competi tors. Its author has a way with her nearly as impressiVe as that of the Ancient Mariner."—Athenaeum. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS, The Executive Committee, Directors, and Managers of "The Grand National Concerts" have the honour to announce the NINTH CONCIiRT of the FIRST SERIES, THIS EYENLNG. PROGRAMME. PART I. Grand Symphonic In C •• . _ _ . Song, Mrs. Alexander Newton, " Lo ! here the gen tle lark," Flute Obligato, Nit. Richardson • Concert Is G minor, Grand Pianoforte, M. C. Halle (his last appearance but one during his present engagement) • • ••• • - • . • • Rondo, Madame Biseaccianti, "Ah non giunge," (her fifth appearance) Sonnambula • • • • Bellini. New Vain, Herbst Blumen (third time of perform ance) • • .. • . • • Cavatina, Mdlle. .. Beethoven. Sir H. Bishop. Mendelssohn .. Labitzky. " Una voce, poco fa," 11 Barbiere .. •• •• .. .. Fantasia, Violoncello, S'gnor Platti Grand Introductory Overture, M.S. (composed ex pressly for these Concerts—fourth time of perform- Roiegni. Patti. Balla. PART 11. Grand Selection from Donizetti's Opera, " La Figlia del Reggimento," with Solos for Violin, Bassoon; and Cornet-a-Pistons, performed by Herr Me- Nue, MM. Baumann, and Arban, arranged ex pressly for these Concerts, by .. .. L. Negri. New Valse, " Berlma" (third time of performance) Labitzky. Song, Madame Biscaccianti, "La Neapolitaine" .. A. Lee. Grand Duo on airs from " Lucrezia Borgia," Piano forte and Viloncello, M. Charles Halle and Signor Piatti .. • • • • • • • Overture, " Oberon" • . • • • • • Bond°, Mdllo. Angri, " Non piu mesta," Ceneren- .. Wolff & Batta, .. Weber. tole .. Rossini. .. .. .. • •• New Valse, "La Douce Pensee," (second time of _ . performance) . • • Carter. Solo, Trombone, Mr. Winterbottom Winterbottom. Galop, Californian (Mint time of performance) • • Labitzky , First appearance of Mr. Sims Iteeves—This eminent tenor will make his first appearance on Saturday next, Oct. 26. The Doors open at Half-past Seven, and the Concerts will corn-, mence at Eight, and terminate about Eleven. THEATRE ROYAL, BAY3fAHKET. Mr. •B. Webster. Sole Lessen and Manager. Old Brnmpton. The Public Is respectfully intbrmed that this Theatre is OPEN for the Season. TIIIS EVENING, Will be performed an entirely new Comedy called THE. HUS BAND OF MY HEART. The Viscount de Belletulippe, Mr. C, Selby ; Brioche, Mr. Buckstone ; Eugenie, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. After which MY FRIEND TN" THE STRAPS. To conclude with SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES. Billy Lack aday, Mr. H. Bedford ; Laura, Miss P. Horton. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celesta. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years Ago, in which Messrs. Wright, Paul Bedford, 0. Smith, Cullenford ; Miss E. Chaplin, Miss Woclgar, and Madame Celeste will appear. After which an entirely new Comic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled GIRALDA ; or, The Miller's Wife. Philip, Mr. Hughes ; Don Japhet della Tromba, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Don Manual de Bivar, Mr. Boyce ; Gil, Mr. Wright ; the Grand Duchess, Miss Emma Harding ; Giralda, Miss K. Fitzwilliam. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. The Public is respectfully informed that this Theatre is open for the Season, under the Management of Mr. C. Keaa and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE STRANGER. After which SENT TO THE TOWER, To be thllowed by a new Farce, called PLATONIC ATTACH MENTS, in which Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, and Mrs. Keeley will appear. To conclude with a Ballet Divertissement called THE CALIPH'S CHOICE. Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and •f Mr. 2dassingham ; of whom also places may t e tlken at the Box-office, Oxford-street. ftout Eleven till Four o'clock. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Great success of the New Comedy.— Last sights of Giralda. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Comedy, entitled MY WIFE'S DAUGHTER, in which Messrs. H. Farren, W. Farren, Compton, W. Farren, jun., Mesdames Stirling, L. Murray, Louisa Howard, and Ellen Turnerwill appear. To be followed by GIRALDA ; or, the Invisible Husband, sup ported by Messrs. Leigh Murray, G. Cooke, W. Farren, jun., Comp tbn ; Mesdames. Stirling and Leigh Murray, Madlles. Louise and Adele. To conclude with a new Ballet, called THE SULTAN'S DREAM, in which Madlle. Lonise, and Madlles. Adele and Lees will appear. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. tinder the Management of Malame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. The Public is respectfully Informed that this Theatre is OPEN for the Season THIS EVENING, Will be performed SE i.:VI: lIINI RIGIIi% Af.er which MY IIEaRrS IDOL ; or, A Desperate Remedy. in which Messrs. C. Mathews, G. Vining, Beliinghain ; Madame Yes iris; Miss Kenworthy, and Miss I. Imkenson will appear. To conclude with the Extravaganza or OLYMPIC DEVILS ; or, Orpheus and Eurylice, in %, hich Miss Rosina Wright and Mr. H. Horncastle will appear. -kSI'LEY's ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor and _Manager, Mr. W. Batty. , - In consequence of the croward Houses to witness the attractive and magnificent Soeetacie of Mazeppa, which, with brilliant novelties in the Wonders of the Arena, lonia the most varied and attractive Entertainments in the Ntetropai, it will be continued for a few more nights. TUTS VVFNYNG Will he produced Lord Ityron's gorgeous Spectscle of MAZEPPA A-1.1 the WILD DORSAL. Mazeppa, Mr. N. T. Lucks. To he succeeded by an Display of liatty's resits of wnifitation In the Cirone Olympique, by the male and female Eques trians of the EstabliS:auent, and grand ragcaUt of The Festival of Flowers. To con,lnde with the lash able Farce of NEW LIGHTS ; or, The Irish Pedagogue. Box-office open fro:n Eleven till Four. Stage A:minor, Mr. T. TtrrnpAon. TO COWIESPQNDE A Constant Reader" is informed that tho price of Annui ties for :10 years, ending 1860, is about 7 9-15 to %. I Elt Al LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts DAT Morning 35 min. after 3 t Evening 53 [dn. after 3 To-Moasow— Morning 12 min. after 4 I Evening 31 mm. cuter 4 THE WEATHER.—SCAT OFFICE, OcroßEz. 24. THERHOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 44—highest since noon yesterday. 38—lowest this morning and during the night. 39—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29'29. WIND S.S.E. to E muggy rainy weather. 4-fit 1.1 4 ". e-Al7 t it 4 ., 4 :-,' „ . a , 4 ,,,,,,,i .. i m 4 , Ne. : I ..i.(l - -1.1 r-, ks-11 . T • x co % s _Lilo 1-1,.6.4 u ~~ ~.z;► 6;~~~- elygnibut LONDON, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1850. It is generally admitted that " desperate cases re quire desperate remedies ;" that measures may he adopted in pressing emergencies which would not for a moment be contemplated under ordinary circum stances. These measures may sometimes prove suc cessful, the results may surprise the parties by whom they were suggested; but they are at best but dan gerous expedients, that should: rarely be resorted to, never until every milder course had been tested and found ineffectual, and it was clear not only that no alternative remained, but that there was no danger of any ill consequences flowing from the fancied care, which would not certainly occur if it were rejected. In public matters, affecting the welfare of the community, perchance the liberty of the sub ject, even greater caution is essential. Experimental enactments are especially to be deprecated. Legis lative proceedings should be calm and deliberative, not rash and hasty. Before new restrictive or penal laws can be sanctioned, it must be distinctly shown that those already in operation are wholly inadequate, and that the deficiency lies in the law itself, and nut in the mode of its administration. The numerous burglaries and robberies that have recently been perpetrated, the outrages which deprived Mr. HOLLEST of his life and to which Mr. INIAItSTON nearly fell a v.ctiin, have excited a panic in the public mind, and loud demands are made for the adoption of more effectual measures of prevention. It is indeed desirable that every reasonable precaution should be taken to afford protection to person and property,' and to break up the organized bands of ruffians—tbe predatory hordes whose hands are against the entire community, who live in open and undisguised hostility to the law of the land, and make a trade of thieving, following it, as others do " tailor ing" or bastck-m4king," fur a su b s i stence. B ut in attempting to achieve this great object care must be taken not to treipass on the limits which the law has wisely assigned f.r the security of the innocent, of those who are entleivvouriog t ot arn their ( - laity bread' by their honest industry. Let habitual plunderers be dealt with on conviction as severely as the law permits-- send those who are found to ba incorrigible out of the country, as suggested by Mr. RiGBY WASON, or keep them in prolonged seclusion, compelling them to work harder within the prison walls than they would be required to do to earn an honest livelihood without, as proposed by the Rev. JOHN DAVIS, the excellent ordinary of Newgate—lo everything practicable to prevent youths from swelling the ranks of the criminal population, or to reclaim them so long as the slightest hope can be entertained of their reformation ; but do not substitute suspicion for proof, abrogate that which his long been considered the palladium of British liberty, or establish a police and magisterial despotism on the ruins of the Con stitu.t.ton even for objects so desirable as to diminish THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVE'NING, OCTOBER, 24, 1850. the amount of crime, and afford additional security to property. Mr. HILL, to whose excellent intentions and ex• emplary motives we bear willing testimony, is him self fully aware of the danger of legislating to meet a pressing emergency. "I have no confidence," said the Learned Gentleman, "in the wisdom of laws which are prompted by exigencies. I have ever found that the eyes of the legislator, and of those who call upon him to get, are fixed at such junctures exclusively on the particular mis chief against which he is urged to provide; and that he and they are prone to neglect the danger of letting in unconsidered evils, in their ardour to keep out the one which by the force of circumstances has obtained a great and undue hold over their minds." So far as Mr. HILL is concerned this peril will not be encountered, for he declares that "the question is one which for years has engaged no small portion of hia thoughts ;" but with the public generally, with even the representatives of the people, the matter is otherwise. Few, indeed, had until recently taken the subject into consideration ; and any decision at the present moment would necessarily be influenced by " the excitement and anxiety created by the difficul ties into which we are so unexpectedly plunged," and should, therefore, be carefully weighed, and even distrusted, before it could be acted on with any degree of safety. Mr. HILL declares, and unfortunately his state ment is too well founded to admit of contradiction, that " it is notorious to all the world that a numer ous class exists among us, known individually to the officers of justice, as persons who followed crime as a calling, and who have no other means of subsistence than the remuneration which belongs to their nefari ous course of life. Fora time, not unfrequently, ex tending over several years, they follow this calling with impunity, because no opportunity has been found to bring home to them any particular act of crime." It is known that they must necessarily commit almost daily offences, that they must plunder in order that they may live. The Learned Recorder speaks of this un toward state of affairs with the indignation it, so justly merits :—" That bands of enemies, to whom even the laws of war are unknown, or by whom they are disregarded, should be permitted to wander from town to town, making no secret of their contempt for justice and its guardians, braving the opprobrium of their calling, and only refraining from the most ap palling violence when they can secure their plunder without its aid, and while such bands are indivi dually as well known to the police as to each other, is a state of things which would disgrace an age of barbarism, and which nothing but long familiarity could enable us to contemplate without horror and astonishment !" These are sentiments in which all right-minded persons must concur. But what re medy can be adopted for the acknowledged evil which may not be even worse than the disease it is at tempted to cure ? That is the question—the im portant problem—the judicious solution of which is to be anxiously looked for. • In order to meet the rapidly increasing evil, Mr. HILL proposes that " when, by the evidence of two or more credible witnesses, a jury has been satisfied that there is good ground for believing, and that the wit nesses do actually believe, that the accused party is ad dicted to robbery or theft, so as to deserve the,appellation of thief, he should be called upon in defence to prove himself in the pcssessicn of means of subsistence lawfully obtained, either from his property, his la bour, or the assistance of his friends. On the failure of such proof, let him be adjudged a reputed thief, and put under high recognizances to be of good con duct for some limited period, or, default of responsible bail, let him suffer imprisonment for the same term ; ana until the experiment had been tried and found successful he would confine the operation of the law to persons who had already been convicted of felony, or of such a misdemeanor as necessarily implies dis honesty in the guilty party, as fur instance obtaining money or goods under false pretences." The adoption of such a law would undoubtedly in flict a heavy blow and great discouragement upon the criminal population. The police could easily get rid of obnoxious individuals ; but it would do more—it would prevent the possibility of reformation by any who had once unfortunately fallen. The first con- victionld seal their doom. They would infallibly be folldWd with a keen and persevering animcsity that vvou!d banish hope and drive them into renewed crime. They would practically be outlAwF, ai.d far better that they should he sent into perpetual banishment for the first offence thin that the sword should be p-rpetually suspended over their heads. On this point, Mr. DAvis, in his admirable report to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen on the state of Newgate, says—';l have known some very cruel cases, where information has been given that has thrown persons out of their honest livelihoods' and plunged them into fresh trials, which some have successfully resisted, and others have, by the over cfficiousness of officers, been driven into their old courses by despair of ever doing well, and transporta tion has been the consequence." An attractive and anecdotal paper on "The Last Days of Louts PHILIPPE" lends a peculiar interest to the current number of the Quarterly. Not-the least surprising among the changes effected by recent occurrences is the circumstance that we should peruse in the English organ of Conservatism a memorial no tice of his late Majesty the ex-King of the Barricades couchei in language su singularly generous and beneficent. It would be a violation of all sincerity to deny that we have reed this tribute of admiration to the memory of Louis PHILIPPE with a very pro found gratification. The heinous guilt of the departed as a Sovereign, the many criminal acts of his political life, the execrable policy which led first to the estrangement of the French multitude, and ultimately to the annihilation of his go vernment, have never blinded us at any period of his career to those extraordinary qualities which illustra'ed the brighter phases of his character, and imparted a beautiful fascination to the marvels of his vicissitudes. His domestic merits, throughout the whole of his long and chequered history, were ever conspicuous. His munificent patronage of genius and virtue was only surpassed in modern times by that of the Emperor NAPOLEON. His simplicity of habits, even during the days of his greatest pomp, when seated on the throne of Louis the Magnificent, in vested his presence with a dignity beyond that of any ordinary potentate. His ripened scholarship, his eclectic tastes, above all the wonderful and yet unos tentatious versatility of his accomplishments, added tl-e loftier charms of intellect to the animated mannerisms of his conversation. At all times, durirg the latter portion of his existence, upon all occasions without distinction, under every possible variety of circumstances, whether he received his visitors in the galleries of the Tuileries or in the saloons of Claremont, in the drawing-rooms of St. Cloud or in a bed-chamber of the Star and Garter at Richmond, Louts PHILIPPE displayed those qualities, sometimes brithent, sometimes serene, which are the characteristics of a certain order of greatness. Men, however prejudiced, never failed to admire that Prince of an ancient and decaying race, who as far as his individual powers were concerned had drawn the gold of experience, thrice purified, out of the fires of misfortune, and who, in spite of all the mutation s of a revolutionary epoch, had, nevertheless, found leisure to cultivate to the very highest point of development those large and various talents with which his nature had been unquestionably invested. ,Estimating thus impartially the merits as well as the "t , Liemerits of the deceased Monarch, it has been only a s,,urce of pleasure to ourselves to find "his many great qualities, his varied talents, his vast public ser vices, and the unblemished virtues of his private life' , the subject of commemoration in the pages of the Tory Quarterly. Perhaps no Sovereign since the days of his proto type Thy isss was ever afforded such repeated and in e)tunable opp ortun i ties of learning wisdom by his wanderings, or of deriving the loftiest truths from the depth and singularity of his vicissitudes. LOUIS PHILIPPE, while yet a stripling, had tasted the sweets of knowledge from the tuition of Madame DE GENUS, and the bitterness of glory under the banners of DUMOUBIEZ. lie had,:as it were, wit nessed the decapitation of an infamous parent by the blede of that avenging guillotine to which he had de dicated the purest and the best o' Kings, out of a miserable truckling to Democracy. Driven from his native country by these events, he bad found the , r wholoof his vast patrimonial estwes confiscated to that Liberty which, in rising from its long attitude of prostration, had shakers down the pomps and the in • stitutions the weight of whose very gorgeousness had hitherto kept it in a state of abasement. Exiled from France, and beggared in his fortunes, the young Prince acquired for an interval a mean but honour able subsistence, by performing the duties of a school. master in one of the mathematical academies of Switzerland. It cannot be forgotten that but very recently, on the occasion of his demise in his second banishment, we traced in these columns the line of his protracted peregrinations. We followed him from country to country, from continent to con tinent, from the rivers of Germany to the forests of Canada, from the Arctic regions, already trodden by the foot of his countryman, CuATEAUBRIAND, to that palatial residence in Italy, where he claimed the hand of the Neapolitan Princess. Almost every one of the principal countries of Europe were traversed in this manner by the man whose ambition was destined to affect the interests of the world in 1830, to reign over the French kingdom for upwards of seventeen years, and ultimately, in 1848, to be crushed by an over whelming retribution. During his travels it: is not surpri,ing to find that the Due D'ORLEANS acquired a multiplicity of accomplishments—speak ing with the fluency of a native, besides his mother tongue, the German, English, Spanish, and Italian languages. Insomuch was the ex-King remark able for this skill as a linguist, that the Quar terly Reviewer observes, as it were in illustra tive corroboration, " We have heard that last year, at a private concert, he (LOUIS PHILIPPE) surprised Mademoiselle JENN Y LIND, by making her a compliment in very good Swedish" (p. 567). While thus sedulous in developing his intellectual faculties during the period of his wanderings, Louis PHILIPPE was careful in like manner to use those fa culties in one respect, at any rate, to the advantage of France during the period of his seventeen years sovereignty. We allude to his adornment of that country with superb monuments and national edifices, the most splendid fruits of a glorious and prolonged tranquillity. In as far as he completed many of the sumptuous public works began either by King Louis XIV. or by the Emperor NAPOLEON, the departed Monarch has conferred inestimable advantages on France by the judicious employment of his regal and cultivated magnificence. The palace of Versailles alone would be a sufficient attestation of this, were no other proof in existence —that gorgeous palace, which may be called the un written history of France, or a history written only, so to speak, by the brush and the chisel. The eulogiums pronounced over the tomb of Louis PHILIPPE by the English Quarterly have no reference, however, to this, being restricted principally to those more domestic excellences which reflected honour upon the deceased as a man. His equanimity under the pressure of misfortune is especially parti cularised, and is described as having been con spicuous during the days immediately following his expulsion from France in February. In illus tration of this admirable amenity of temperamen says the reviewer— "We have heard a curious anecdote which was brought to light by a gentleman's jocularly calling him Mr. William Smith, in allusion to his having made his escape from France in that character which his know ledge of English enabled him to support so well. Oh!' said the King, gaily, have another and earlier English name; I am also Mr. George White, at your service.' How so, Sir?' ' Why, after the Hundred Days I drew up a relation of my own share in the transactions of that time, and I wished to have it printed for a very limited and confiden tial circulation to a few friends. So I had a press set up in my house at Twickenham, and hired a couple of journeymen printers, who worked it under lock and key ; but after all these precautions, I was taken quite aback by being told that if any single copy should get, either by treachery or negligence, into strange hands, the voitivae might be reprinted and published with im punity; and that the only remedy for this was to enter the bo)k at Stationers' Hall. So I lost no time in hastening to Stationers' Hall, where for, I think, the fee of two shillings, I entered my work as the property of George White, of Twickenham." The anecdote is interesting, for inasmuch as it be tokens an agreeable suavity of disposition and a homely regard for the practices of English life. The whole paper, from which this account of the incident is extracted, will be found equally pleasant in perusal, and we can direct the attention of our readers the more readily and the more earnestly to its perusal from our appreciation of its pervading magnanimity. Both for its generous feeling and its ability the article is honourable to the Quarterly. I We direct attention to a communication in another part of The Sun respecting an Irish racket Station for the arrival and departure of packet-vessels to the West and East Indies, America, Spain, Portugal, the Mediterranean, &c. &c. Let Government throw all local and party considerations overboard in selecting the most eligible situation, and if they have the courage and the honesty to do so, we think they will fix on Berehaven, in the noble bay of Bantry, on the western coast of Ireland, as the very best for safety as well as the nearest for distance. ['HE FRENCH REPUBLIC We have received the French journals of yesterday, but at a very late hour. The Moniteur announces the appointment of Gene ral D'HAUTPOUL to the Government of Algeria, and of General SCHRAMM to the War Ministry. It remains to be seen whether the new Minister-at-War will be more yielding to the exigencies of General CHANGAR mut than his predecessor has been. The Bourse was agitated in consequence of these Ministerial changes, and the price of Government Securities declined. The cholera has disappeared from Marseilles. PARIS BOURSE, OCT. 23.—Latest Prices.—Five per Cents., 92f. 00c. ; Three per Cents , 57f. 50c. ; Bank Actions, 2,300 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXOHANGE, Ocr. 23. Boulogne and Amiens, B%—East Indian, 9A —Namur and Liege, 7%—Paris and Roues, 24LA—Paris and Stras bourg, 7fi —Sambre and Meuse, 3 ITALY. THE PAPAL BULL. APOSTOLIC LETTER OF HIS HOLIN E. SS POPE PIUS Ix., ESTABLISHING AN EPISCOPAL HIERARCHY IN ENG LAND. "AD I'ERPETUAM AEI MEMORIAM. " The power of governing the universal church en trusted by our Lord Jesus Christ to the Roman Pon tiff, in the person of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, has maintained for centuries in the apostolic see the admirable solicitude with which it watches over the welfare of the Catholic religion in ell the earth, and provides with zeal for its progress. Thus has been accomplished the design of its Divine Founder, who, by establishing a chief, has in his profound wisdom en sured the safety of the church unto the uttermost time. The effect of this solicitude has been felt in most na tions, and amongst these is the noble kingdom of Eng land. History proves that since the first ages of the church, the Christian religion was carried into Great Britain, where it flourished until towards the middle of the fifth century. After the invasion of the Angles and Saxons in that island, government as well as religion fell into a most deplorable state. At once our most holy predecessor Gre gory the Great sent the monk Augustine and his fol lowers ; then he created a great number of bishops, joined to them a multitude of monks and priests, brought the Anglo-Saxons to religion, and succeeded by his influence in re establishing and extending the Catholic faith in all that country, which then began to assume the name of England. But to recall more recent facts, nothing seems more evident to us in the history of the Anglican schism of the sixteenth cen tury than the solicitude with which the Roman pon tiffs, our predecessors, succoured and supported, by all the means in their power, the Catholic religion, then exposed in that kingdom to the greatest dangers and reduced to the last extremities. It is with this object, apart from other means, that so many efforts have been made by the Sovereign Pontiffs, either by their orders or with their approbation, to keep in England men ready and devoted to the support of Catholicism; and in order that young Catholics en dowed by npture might be enabled to come on to the continent, there to receive an education, and be formed with care in the study of ecclesiastical science, especially in order that, being in sacred orders, they may on their return to their country be able to sup port their countrymen by the ministry of their word and by the sacraments, and that they may defend and propagate true faith. But the zeal of our predecessors will perhaps be more clearly admitted as regards what they have done to give the Catholics of England pastors clothed in an episcopal character at a time when a furious and im placable tempest had deprived them of the presence of bishops and their pastoral care. First, the apostolic letter of Gregory XV., commencing with these words, "Ecclesia Romana," and dated the 233 of March, 1623, shows that the Sovereign Pontiff as soon as possible deputed to the Government of English and Scotch Catholic bishops, William Bishop, consecrated Bishop of Chalcis, with ample faculties and powers. After the death of Bishop, Urban VIII. renewed this mission in his apostolic letter, dated January 4, 1625, addressed to Richard Smith, and conferring on him the bishopric of Chalcis, and all the powers previe ously resting on Bishop. It seems subsequently, at the commencement of the reign of James 11., that more favourable days were about to dawn upon the Catholic religion. Innocent XI. profited at once by the circumstance, and in 1685, he deputed Juhn Ley burn, Bishop of Adrumede, as vicar apostolic for all the kingdom of England. Subsequently, by another apostolic letter, dated the 30th of January, 1688, and commencing as follows " Super cathedram," he joined with Leyburn three other vicars apostolic, bishops in partibus, so that all England, by the care of the apostolic nuncio in this country, Ferdinand, Archbishop of Amosia, was divided by that Pontiff into four districts; that of London, the west, the centre, and the north, which at first were governed by apostolic vicars, fur nished with proper faculties and powers. In the ac complishment of so grave a charge they received rules and succour either by the decisions of Benoit XIV., in his Constitution of May 30, 1753, which commences with the words " Apostolicum minis terium," or by those of other Pontiffs, our predeces sors and our congregation for the propagation of the faith. This division of all England into four apos tolic vicarages lasted till the time of Gregory XVI., who, in his apostolic letter, " Aluneris apostolici," dated July 3, 1840, considering the increase of the Catholic religion in'England, and making a new ec clesiastical division of the country, doubled the num ber of vicarages, and confided the spiriturl govern ment of England to the vicars apostolic in London, of the west, the east, the centre, of Lancaster, York, and the north. The little we have just said proves clearly that our predecessors applied themselves strongly to use all the means their authority gave them to console the Church of England for its immense disgraces, and to work for its resurrection. Having before its eyes, therefore, the good ex ample of our predecessors, and desirous, by imitating them, of fulfilling the duties of the supreme apostolate ; pressed, besides, to follow the movements of our heart for that portion of the Lord's vineyard, we proposed to ourselves, from the commencement of our pontifi cate, to pursue a work that was so well begun, and to apply ourselves in the most serious manner to favour every day the development of the church in this king dom. For this reason, considering as a whole the state of Catholicism in England, reflecting on the considerable number of Catholics which keep still in creasing, remarking that every thy the obstacles are falling off which stood in the way of the extension of the Catholic religion, we have thought that the time was come when the form of ecclesiastical government should be resumed in England, such as it exists, freely exists, in other nations, where no particular cause ne cessitates the ministry of vicars-apostolic. IVe have thought that by the progress of time and things it was no longer necessary to have the English Catholics governed by vicars-apostolic, but, on the contrary, that the changes which had already been made neces sitated the ordinary form of episcopal government. We have been confirmed in these thoughts by the desires expressed to us by the vicars-apostolic in England, as well as by numbers of the clergy and laity distinguished by virtue and rank, and by the wishes of the great majority of English Catholics. In maturing this design we have not failed to implore the aid of the Almighty and Most Gracious God, and that he would grant us grace in this weighty affair to resolve upon that which should be most suit able to augment the prosperity of the Church. We have further besought the assistance of the blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, and of the saints, whose virtues have made England illustricus, that they would deign to obtain by their intercession with God the happy success of this enterprise. We have since commended the whole business to the grave and serious consideration of our venerable brothers the Cardinals of the holy Roman Church forming our congregation for propagating the faith. These senti ments having been found completely conformable to our own, we have resolved to sanction them, and carry them into execution. It is for this reason, after hav• ing weighed the whole matter most scrupulously, that of our own proper motion, in our certain knowledge, and in the plenitude of our apostolic power, we have resolved and do hereby decree the re-establishment in the kingdom of England, and according to the com mon laws of the Church, of a hi erarchy of bi shops deriving their titles from their own sees, which we constitute by the present letter i n t h e various aposto lie districts. To commence with the district of Lon don, it will form two sees—to wit, that of Westminster, which we hereby elevate to the metropolitan of archi episcopal dignity, and that of Southvvark, which we assign to it as suffragan, together with those which we proceed to indicate. The diocese of Westminster will include that portion of the aforesaid district which extends to the banks of the Thames, and com prehends the counties of Middlesex, Essex, and Hert fordshire ; that of Southwark, on the south of the Thames, will include the counties of Beds, South ampton, Surrey, Sussex, and Kent, with the Isles of Wight, Jersey, Guernsey, and others adjacent. In the northern district there will be but one episcopal see, which will take its name from the town of Hag glestown, and have for its circumscription that of the existing district. The district of York will also be a diocese whose capital will be the town of Beverley. In the district of Lancashire there will be two bishops, of whom one, the Bishop of Liverpool, will have for his diocese the Isle of Mona, the districts of Lone- dale, Amouuderness, and West Derby; and the other, the Bishop of Salford, will extend his jurisdiction over Salford, Blackburn, and Leyland. The county of Chester, though belonging to this district, win be united to another diocese. In the district of Wales two episcopal sees will be established, that of Salop and that of Merioneth and Newport united. The diocese of Salop will contain the coun ties of Anglesea, Carnarvon, Denbigh, Flint, Merio neth, and Montgomery, to which we join the county of Chester, detached from the district of Lancaster, and that of Salop from the centre. To the diocesp of the Bishop of Merioneth and Newport are assigned the counties of Brecknock, Glamorgan, Carmarthen, Pem l / 4 roke, and Radnor, also the English counties of Hereford and Monmouth. In the western district we create two sees, Clifton and Plymouth ; the first com prehending the counties of Gloucester, Somerset, and Wilts ; the second those of Devon, Dorset, and Corn wall. The central district, from which we have de tached the county of Salop, will have two episcopal sees, Nottingham and Birmingham ; to the first we assign the counties of Notts, Derby, Leicester, Lin coln, and Rutland ; to the second the counties of Stafford, Bucks, Oxford, and Warwick. In the eastern district there will be one see, which will take its name from the town of Northampton, and retain the present circumspection of the district, except the counties of Lincoln and Rutland, which we have as signed to the diocese of Nottingham. Thus, in the very flourishing kingdom of England there will be on e s i ng l e ecc l es i ast i ca l prov i nce , with i one archbishop and twelve suffragans, whose zeal and pastoral labours will, we hope, by the grace of God, bring new and daily increase to the power of Catho licism. For this reason we reserve to ourselves and successors the right to divide this province into seve ral, and to increase the number of its bishoprics as new ones may be required, and in general to settle their boundaries as it may appear meet before the Lord. Meanwhile, we enjoin the archbishop and bishops to furnish at sated seasons reports of the state of their churches to our congregation of the Propaganda, and not to omit informing us on all points concerning the spiritual good of their flocks. We shall continue to avail ourselves of the aid of the congregation of the Propaganda in all that concerns the affairs of the Church in England. But in the sacred government of the clergy and people, end all which concerns the pastoral office, the archbishop and bishops of England will enjoy all the rights and faculties which bishops and archbishops can use, according to the disposition of the sacred canons and the apostolic constitutions, and they will likewise be squally bound by all the obligations to which other bishops and archbishops are held by the ccmmon discipline of the Catholic Church. Their rights and duties will not be in any case im paired by anything that is at present in vigour, whether originating in the former form of the Eng lish Church, or in the subsequent missions instituted in virtue of special constitutions, privileges or customs, now that the same state of things no longer exists. And in order that no doubt may remain, we suppress, in the plenitude of our apostolic power, and entirely abrogate all the obligatory and juridical force of the said spe cial constitutions, privileges, and customs, however ancient their date. The archbishop and bishops of England will thus have the integral power to re gulate all that belongs to the execution of the com mon law, or which are left to the authority of the bishops by the general discipline of the Church. As for us, most assuredly they shall never have to com plain that we do not sustain them by our apostolical authority, and we shall always be happy to second their demands in all which appears calculated to pro mote the glory of God and the good of souls. In decreeing this restoration of the ordinary hierarchy of bishops in England, and the enjoyment of the common law of the Church, we have had principally in view the prosperity and increase of the Catholic religion in the kingdom of England but we have also desired to gratify the desires of so many of our reverend brethren governing in England, under the style of vicars-apostolic, and also of a great number of our dear children of the Catholic clergy and people. Many of their ancestors presented the same prayer to our predecessors, who had begun to send vicars apostolic to England, where no Catholic bishop could exercise the common ecclesiastical law in his own church, and who afterwards multiplied the num ber of vicars-apostolic, and of districts, not because religion was submitted in this country to one excep , tional rule, but rather because they would prepare the foundation for the future rebuilding of the ordi nary hierarchy. This is why we, to whom it has been given by the grace of God to accomplish this great work, declare here that it is not in any manner in our thoughts or in tentions that the bishops of England, provided with the name and rights of ordinary bishops, should be destitute of any advantages, of whatever nature they may be, which they formerly enjoyed under the title of vicars-apostolic. It would be contrary to reason to allow any acts of ours performed at the earnest prayer of the English C a th o li cs , an d f or th e b ene fit of reli gion, to turn to their damage. Rather we cherish the firm hope that our dear children in Christ, whose alms and largesses have never been wanting to sustain in England religion, and the prelates who govern there as vicars, will exercise a still larger liberality to the bishops who are now attached by permanent bonds to the English Church, in order that they may not be deprived of temporal aid, which they will require to ornament their temples and adorn the Divine service, to support the clergy and the poor, and for other ecclesiastical services. Finally, lifting the eyes to the Almighty and Gracious God, from whom comes our help, we supplicate him with all instance, obsecra tion, and action of grace, to confirm by Divine grace all that we have decreed for the good of the Church, and to give of his grace to those whose it is to execute these decrees, that they may feed the flock of God committed to their care, and that their zeal may be applied to spread the glory of his name. And, in order to obtain the most abundant succovr of celestial grace, we finally invoke, as inter cessors with God, the holy Mother of God, the blessed apostles St. Peter and St. Paul, with the blessed pa•rons of England, and especially St. Gre gory the Great, in order that the solicitude we have displayed, notwithstanding the insufficiency of our merit, to restore the episcopal sees of England, which he founded in his days with so much advantage to the Church, may likewise redound to the good of the Catholic Church. We decree that this apostolic letter shall never be taxed with subreptice or obrep tice, nor be protested for default either of intention or any defect whatever, but always be valid and firm, and hold good to all intents and purposes, notwith standing the general apostolic edicts which have ema nated from synodal provincial or universal councils, the special sanctions, as well as the rights of former sees in England, missions apostolic, vicarages consti tuted in the progress of time, notwithstanding, in one word, all things contrary whatsoever. We likewise decree that all which may be done to the contrary by any one, whoever he may be, knowing or ignorant, in the name of any authority whatever, shall be with out force. We decree that copies of this letter, signed by a notary public, and sealed with the seal of an ecclesiastic, shall be everywhere received at the expression of our will. Given at St. Peter's, at Rome, under the seal of he fisherman, the 24th of September, 1850, and in ;he fifth year of our pontificate. _ A. CARDINAL LAMBRUSCRINL AMERICAN NEWS. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING. By the American mail steamer Atlantic, Captain West, we have advices from New York to the l2th instant. The Europa had arrived out. Exchange was quoted at 109 f. Cotton holders were very firm, in consequence of unfavourable advices from the South. Breadstuffs—Flour market dull and heavy, corn meal inactive. Indian Corn in demand at lower prices. Freights—To Liverpool inactive, to London it regular. ADDiscomnt.--The Governorship of the East India Company's Military College at Addiscombe, near Croydcn, - has become vacant by the decease of Major- General Sir Ephraim Stannus, C.B. The appointment which is one of considerable value, is in the gift of the chairman and directors of the company. Sir Ephraim Statutes was a most efficient Governor, and his death is deeply lamented by the whole body of gentlemen cadets and other students. Tun NEw STAMP ACT.—It has been already stated that great activity has prevailed at the office of Stamps and Taxes, at Somerset-house, for the last month, in preparing to meet the demands that were expected from the alteration under the new Stamp Act for deeds, leases, transfers, agree ments, and other stamps, reduced under the new scheme of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which has given so great an impetus to legal business throughout the United King dom. The demands for stamps under the new Act have been so great for the country districts that the Commissioners are still obliged to keep the employes in full work from nine A.m. till nine r as. in what is called the " dry department," in stamping the numerous parchments sent in. It will be at least another month before the quantity required to be com pleted can be transmitted to the parties. In London there have been upwards of 1,000,003 stamps already delivered to the different solicitors, law agents, &c. The average num ber of postage stamps sent to the Post-office is 12,0001. per week, besides those for the country. THE FREEHOLD LAND MOVEMENT.—MEETING AT NORWICH. —On Tuesday evening last the Norwich Reform Committee commenced their operations for the coming year, by a public meeting in St. Andrew's Hall, at which Wm. Scholefield, Eeq., M.P., for Birmingham, and Mr. James Taylor, the secretary of the Freeholders' Union, were invited to attend, for the purpose of explaining the principles of the freehold movement. James Coleman, Esq., the sheriff, pre sided. The following resolution was put to the meeting, and unanimously passed :—" That the meeting has heard with the utmost interest of the great success which has attended the efforts to extend the freehold franchise in the northern, midland, and metropolitan counties, and believes that by the adoption of the same system in this district of the kingdom, a not less triumphant instance might be furnished to the country of its adaptation to advance the popular cause; and that it be referred to the executive committee to take im mediate measures for giving effect to this resolution." The meeting then seperated. Two PIGEONS ARRIVED FROM SIR JOHN Ross.—. We have learned from a private source, that on Friday last, two of the carrier pigeons taken with him when he left the Port of Ayr, and some of which were to be dispatched home in the event of his either finding Sir John Franklin or being frozen in, arrived at Ayr, finding their way at once to the dove-cot which they occupied previous to their being taken away. The birds, we understand, arrived within a short time of each other, but neither of them, we regret to be in formed, conveyed anything in the shape of letter or note of any. kind. One of them, indeed, had had some document attached, and was found to be considerably mutilated —it .having apparently been shot away. The time they were liberated by Sir John Ross is, of course, uncertain, but taking into consideration the well-known powers of flight possessed by the carrier pigeon, it cannot have been very long s'nce they left our gallant countryman. The arrival of authentic news from the Arctic regions will be looked forward to with additional anxiety, from the probability which has now arisen that some tidings may have been heard of Sir John Franklin. Independca, however, of the interest which otherwise attaches to the extraordinary flight of the pigeons, it will be regarded by naturalists as a most remarkable inci dent. We do not recollect cf any parallel to it. The dis tance the creatures must have traversed cannot be far short of 2,000 miles, and as they travel by sight, and no by scent, the fact is the more extraordinary. Sir John Ross, we be lieve, took five pigeons with him, which, it may be remem bered, were stated, in the last accounts received of him, to have been at that time all alive, so that there are still three to be accounted for.—North British Mail. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. The CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. lifi t o3 of Cotton at L'velpool yesterday were estimated av 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were taken on i.peculaion. The market closed firm at a shade higher for American sorts. The sales com prised 5,000 American, 300 Penam and Maranhao) at lid to Bid; 150 Bahia at 8/(1 to &id; 400. Surat at sfd to kid; and 80 Sea bland at is lid to is 10d per lb. —ln Railway Shares a fair business was done, but prices had a downward tendency. The stock of sugar in the principal ports of Great Britain, Hamburgh, Holland, and Antwerp was on the Ist inst. about 132,054 tons, - ,of which 115,054 tons were here. At the corresponding date of 1849 the total stock was 167,956 tons; and of 1848, 162,176, tons. Of coffee the stock on the Ist inst. in the same places was, 35.880 tons, against - 39,232 tons at the like date of 1849, and 58,814 tons in October 1848. In the instances of both these important staples, therefore, the decline is important. The steamer Atlantic is telegraphed, but her letters will not be received here until to-morrow. The heavy weather has again occasioned a delay in the arrival of the mails, and there is consequently not much commercial information from abroad. At Amsterdam on the 22d inst., Dutch Stock was rather better, the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. being 56g. A fair business was done. Spanish Bonds were higher, and Mexican were in request. The rate of exchange on London for bills at short date was 11 90. Gold in bars of 1,442 f. GO per Netherlands pound was at 12 to 13 per cent., a•id silver was at 104 to 104 60. English sovereigns were 11 93 to 12. At Frankfort on:the 21st inst. Austrian Metallics were 78-4, and Spanish Three per Cents. 33 15-16 to 34 3-16. The Honourable East India Company has drawn bills upon its possessions, during the sixteen days ending the 23d inst., to ,the following amount, the rate of ex change being 2s. on Bengal and Madras, and 2s. Old. on Bombay :—Bengal 383,928/. ; Madras 17,6864 and Bombay 4,1401. According :to official returns the note circulation of England during the month ending the sth instant was 25,345,3611., a decrease compared with the previous month, of 330,8231. ; and the total for the United Kingdom was 33,082,4152, an increase of 78,6061. Compared with 1849 there is an increase 0(1,954,932/. The English Funds have been depressed, an article in the Times representing that France and Russia proposed to act aggressively against Prussia, having led to specu lative sales. There is really no particular apprehension felt, however, that the interference or connivance of Prussia in:the Holstein war, in violation of its late treaty, will be kept up contrary to the energetic remonstrance of t,the :allied powers; but such a piece of informa tion coming upon the heels of money sales, opens a field for the Bears, and is " good" with them fur or 1 per cent. The public have probably bought for the present as much as they intend to take, or will be checked by this reaction; but should any material decline occur, without sufficient cause, investments fur money would doubtless be re-commenced. Consols have been 97 to 978 for Transfer, and 97* to for Account, being now only 97 to *. Bank Stock has risen to 211 and 212. Exchequer-bills ,are 66s to 675, and India Bonds 86s premium. The New Three-and-a• Quarter per Cents have been 984 to Foreign Stocks arc affected by the decline in Consols. Sf anish Five per Cents. have. been 18it, *, and the Three per Cents, are nominally. .381 to 2. Portuguese Four per Cents, are about 334 to 344. Peruvian Stock has been quoted 802 to 814 for the Four-and-a-Half per Cents., and the Deferred Bonds have receded to 368 and 36. Chilian Six per Cents. have been 1024. Danish Five per Cents. have been 992 to 101, and Russia❑ 109 to 1092, being a shade lower. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have realised 578 to ZB. Greek Bonds have been done at 4 without the coupons. Railway Shares are flatter, and lower quotations have been accepted for North-Western, Midland, York, and North Midland, Eastern Counties, Great Western, South-Western, and Brighton. Caledonian and Aber deen have been firm. The Foreign lines are a little weaker. Mining Shares are steady, and Joint Stock Banks end upwards. The last week's railway receipt•, ascertained up to day, are in round figures as under:-- 1850. 1849 Great Western £18,293 .. £17,313 North-Western South-Western 11,423 ... 10,471 Brighton Midland South-Eastern North Staflord Caledonian QU4RTER TO THREE. ... 971 ... 97i Consols ... Ditto Account BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ( From the Official List.) Bank Stock 212 211 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities.... 96% 3 per Cent. Consols Anns New 316 per Cent. Anna. 5 8 % 14 Long Annuities. Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 7 9-16 11-16 India Bonds under 1,0001 B6 p consols for Account Exchequer Bills. I%d. za. March. June. 1,00n1... — 67 66 p 5001 1 1 Small — 70 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent ...... -. .. 102% Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent.... Ditto, 5 per Cent Greek Bonds, 1824 and 1825 — Ditto Ex Over-due Coupons 4 Mexican 80ni5,1846,5 per Cent., coupons Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto for the Account Peruvian Bonds, 4 1 / 2 per Cent Bl 81% 80 3 / Ditto Deferred Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent lO9 109% Ditto 41 ,4 per Cent ii7l4 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. ...... Ditto Account ... .. l B l,a Ditto Passive Bonds 334 Dividends on the above payable in London Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificates BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHAWL berdsen Ditto, Preference Bi . l l/ chs.... to 1 / 2 . tuber., Notting., Boston, &c. 8 1 ,E — kyrshire and Gallaway 9gifast and County Down .. 32 .. .. --, 3erks and Hants Extension tGt. West. Perpet.s per ct.) 6 iirmingham & On.-fordJ unct., calls duly pd, or with guar. 20 - Do., withouta guarantee... 20 Birmingham,Wol.,& Dudley, calls duly pd, or wit h guar. 15 ..... Do., without a guarantee... 15 3irroing., Wol., & Stour Val. 131.14 e — irhenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction 26 iristol and Exeter lOO ...... ...... to iiickinghamshire aledonian - 5 O 5O ..... 8%%... to Ditto, New 10/. Preference 10 ...... Ditto. Clydesdale Junction 50 - hester and Holyhead.... 5O ..... 10% to 1 Ditto, Preference larence ... _ 78i ..... )irect London & Portsmouth 6 1 ,..i — )ablin andlle , stJunction.. 45 Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 30 East Anglia, 251. L..& E., and L. & Ditto, 181., E. & H lB ... .. Do, 31. 135.,6 p. Ct. Pref.... 3% — ..... to Do., do. (51.) 7 per Cent. Preference ... Do, 71. 175., 7 per Ct. Pref &astern Counties Do. Exten., 5 per ct. No. 1,61.13 e. 4d — p to Do.. do N0.2,61. 138.4 d.. li g p x.d. to Do. New Pref., 6 pQr Cent.. 10 Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 to Do., 5 per cont. 5O , — Ditto, New . «43 . .••• 56 ....••• to 'astern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) ...... ... .. 25 - •••••• to ....11 Ditto, ditto, Class A, ditto 6 . -- Ditto, ditto, B & C .. ...• • 25 Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per ct.) 20 . 2O ... to east Lancashire ... . Do., New Quarters Do., 6 per Cent. Preference Quarter Shares mast Lincolnshire, guar. 6 per __ . _ Cent. ... . .. .:.. 25 Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 2 5 1 /2 ...... to 26 Edinburgh, Perth, & Dundee 25 Ditto, New port.. ... ..... .. 15 - ...... to Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — ...... t o Exeter and Exmouth... 2ls — ... .. to Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle-8/. 63.8 d — .. -. to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 — to Do. Preference Consolidated ...... to -- Gloucester and Dean Forest.. 16 Grreat Northern . Do./ A Deferred ...- Do. 1 / 2 B 6 per Cent....... 12 1 / 2 lO to Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. ...... 12 1 / 2 l2 111 to 12 Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 50 - ..." to Ditto, Eighths 2 l /2 to -- Great North of England 100 - Ditto s New 40/..... ..... .. .. 40 ...... Ditto, New 301. BO ... .. - Ditto, New 151...... ... ...... 15 --- Great Western ........ .. - — lo° - Do. New 17/ ........ 15 .. ... - Hull and Selby Ditto, Half Shares .. ...... 25 Ditto,Quarter Shares ... 12% 22 ...... to -- Lancaster and Car1i51e........ 50 Do., Thirds Lancashire and Yorkshire ...100 Ditto Quarters 23%...... ...... to Ditto Fifths Ditto. Thirds lB ...... Do., New Guar. 6 per cent. 10 Do. (Rudders. and Sheff.) 50 Do.. West Riding Union... 11 1 4. • •••••• te -- Leeds and Bradford Leeds and Thirsk 5O — -.• • to -- Do. , do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 6 . — ..... .to -.. Ditto, ditto... - Ditto, ditto ..... ... No. 3 5 Do. Pref. Quarters. 1848... 9 Liverpool, Crosby, and South port.. London & 81ackwa11......11/. 6s. 3d 7%%% to London, Bright on ,Sz S. Coastloo Do. Guarnteed 5 per Cent. 9 ...... De., Prefeential, 5 per Ct., 50 ....., ..... . to „- Ditto, dito 1852 50 ..... ...... t o Do., New, gua. 6pr Ct.... 100 .....137 ...... to London and Greenwich... 12!. 15s. 4d... ...... to Ditto Preference London & North Westem.....loo llB Do. New Quarters.. Dv. Fifths 12 •••- ' to ...-• GERMANY. Advices from Cassel to the 20th state that no change has taken place in the affairs of Electoral Hesse. The Prussian Parliament is to be convoked on the 12th November. The Ministerial crisis in Hanover has for the present passed over. An understanding has taken place between the KING and his Ministers respectin g the questions of internal policy. The KING has been induced to sanction the laws of organization as voted by the Estates. But no understanding has been come to in questions of foreign policy, and another crisis is likely to come of it in the course of next month. The Emperor of AUSTRIA is to leave Vienna on the 24th, for Warsaw, where he will meet the Emperor of RUSSIA. The report of a note from Prince ScuwenTzEN BERG to the Berlin Cabinet, demanding the recall of the Prussian troops from Liamburgh, is contradicted on good authority. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The Weser &dung has letters from Altona of the 20th inst., stating that the Schleswig-Holstein outposts have again advanced to the turnpike be tween Seeth and Friederichstadt. The Gefion frigate bas been towed into the inner harbour of Eckenforde, and Denmark has consented to the re moval of that vessel. We learn from the Copen hagen papers that the Danish army is preparing for a winter campaign. General IVinnisEN has published an official list of the loss of the Schleswig-Holstein army before Friederichstadt. From this account it appears that there have been killed-12 officers, 10 non-commis sioned officers, and 51 privates ; wounded -23 officers, 43 non-commissioned officers, and 406 privates; missing-3 officers, 9 non-commissioned officers, and 141 privates. The 6th and 11th battalions suffered the most, and their loss is respectively named at 211, and 149 killed, wounded, and missing. The Ist Jager Corps lost 77, and the 15th battalion of infantry 64 in all. The slightly wounded, who remained with their regiments, are not mentioned among the list of casualties. In addition to the number of officers two surgeons are mentioned. Toe result has been that 700 officers and men have been placed hors du cGmbat. THE LIVERrOuL PLATE ROUDEBIES.—ADMISSION oF' SIERELL TO BAlL—This morning the prisoner Thomas Sirrell was brought up from Liverptlol, and taken before Mr, Justice Talfourd, at the Learned Judge's private residence, where, having entered into the recognizances required by Lord Chief Justice Jervis for his surrender at the Liverpool Winter Assizes, he was discharged from custody. DESTRUCTION OF A COTTON FACTORY.—OH Tues dayarid B ef r t , e 3t r h n e o r o , n a t t h N e v c a o r t r t i o n n g t f o a D e o wa c s f h co t s p s l r e s t . e y A 1 l d e e n s t i r i o a 3 u . e g d l t b o y n fire. The fire burst out shortly after one o'clock, in the second story, after the hands had left for dinner, and in less than an hour the factory, which was six stories high, was in ruins. It is said that several lives were lost. Do. 10/.... IC and B. (C.) 1 to •••• ... London and S. We5tem.......100 Ditto, New 50/....... ....... 42% ..... :::. .. t t o o ...-•' Ditto, New 401. 34 Do., New Preference ~ -- Londonderry and C o l era i ne... 25 -' • ' ...t0 Do. Half Shares . ..... ..... 5.. — Londonderry an d Enniskillen 25 ... ~. ". to --' _ ... Do., Half Shares 7%,..... ••••• ••••" to , o ..- Lfwestoff, guar. 4 p er c t . Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 13 4 anch Buxton, & Matlock 5 1 4 """t e ' 111 in ch r, Sheffield, and Linc.loo Ditto 1 4 Shares (No. 1) ... 25 ....._ , Do., New 101. Preference.. 10 ••'''' - d '' Ditto. Man. & Lin. Union 41.2 s • . ' .... t. 42% Mid1and,....... ICO - Ditto Ditto, Conso. freteren ce ...100 2i%.....`t. -- , 501. Shares ..... ...... ' 35 .... Nfidland,l3irm., and Derby... 100 Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham, 6 per cent.... 100 124%..•••• to tn .... Midland, Bristol and Glo uc . 46 .0 ' Ditto ditto 29/. 165. 6d .. Ditto,ErewashVal., Pref... 50 Midland, Leices. and Swan- "" • nington (8 per ct.gua.)....100 - 61 idld. Great Western(lrish) 47 1 , Middlesbro' and Redcar. 6 0 ...... , . . 0, per cent. guar. Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ...... •••••• tO or Ditto Quarter Shares . 25 ..... -- "1 " . to *** N ewmarket - _W -1) ••• -01. - .. .. . . .., , Newport Aborgy., and Heret. 6 - ...•••• t tO o , Newry and Enniskillt.a ...... 7 - •••"" ... Newry, Warrenpoint, and to ' Rostrevor ..... ............. 20 , ..... ••• " . . t o .... Norfolk ... ..... 100 ...... ••• ••0...- Ditto New 20/. l5 . 7 ....‘•• to ..• - ...... v- , Do. Extension . .. ... 20 Do. Guar. 5% per cent... 5 - ••••" Do. do. Waveney V a ll ey.. „ 2 - ....••• to - Northern Counties Unio n ... 4 te - North British .. .. ....„ .... 25 „.... --, .... : w ...• • Ditto, Preference ......,., ... 5 North Staffordshire... ....... 17% 7A4••• ...• • North Western l7 - ••••• . tO Oxford, Worcester, and Wol to verhampton - Preston and Wyre - .... •. W ns. Do. Half Shares-- (A) 10% -' .••••• fo ...• Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 18 to e. Royston and Hitchin - ••••• to ..• Do. Shepreth Extension... 1% ..... - •••••• to ••• Scottish. Central - •••••• ..•. Scottish Midland .... • Ditt0,New.......... ........... 22% .. - ...... to .• Shrewsbury and Birmingk am 131 4 - C 5.... - ... Ditto. ditto. Class B. 9% - di5.... , „. Ditto, New Guarant ee d 8 . to Shrewsbury and Hereford .. 5 .... 0 - •• Shrewsbury and Cheater (Nor. W. Min.) - ....... 1 e ... to Ditto Halves, Ditto lO ... .. - •••••• ••• . ...... ..... to Ditto, Oswestry 2O - to Ditto (New)... - ••• ..... ... Ditto is per Cent. Pref....". 10 . -.1314 ...... !..., Shropshire Uni0n........ ....... 6%.... - „.••• w, youth Devon Ditto, Preference ...... .. to South Staffordshire B% ...... - - ....... ~, ...• , South Eastern ... ... 30 .. 20001 -. to Ditto, 4% per Cent........ 10 - south Wales South Yorkshi re , D oncaster .... „ .« . • •••• • ... and Goole 1.5 V? . Sheffield, Roth er h am, and w .. Gook (N. 1)) Gua. 5 per ct. IS% - ..• •• .."- .0 Do. do. (South Di v .) 6 ._ ...••• "" Swans. and Loughor and toCa meron's Stm. C0 a 1.., .... . 10 - ...... "0 Paw Vale Extension ...... .. 9% 1%..•••• to flames Haven Dock and . Railway ..• 17%...... --..... te to ... Vale of Neath '.. 13 - •• t 0.... .. Waterford and Kilk enny 2O ...... - • ••••• w . Waterford and Lim er i c k 47%..... - ...... - Waterford,Wexford,Wieklw, . *" and Dublin .. 3 - t 0..„. Wear Valley, 6 par Cent. to '.. Guaranteed ...... ..... 5O - ...... , . to Do. do. do. to Do. do. do. - ••••••• to ...• West Cornwall % - ...... Vhitehaven and Furness 2ll «. .. - •••'' to Windsor, Staines, and South ..• Western...... - .... .. 7 Wilts, Somerset,&Weymoutl a 50 - ••• ~to - " York, Newcastle, an d B erw i c k 25 - Do. and Newcastl e E xten. 20 - Do. G. N. E. Pur. or P re f .. 9 u..• 14 ta , .to De. do. - ....• do. to -**" .1 - -- . r°....., De•Plartlepeol Irk. k. & Ely 100 - .... • ~ . .. York and North Midland,-b0 Ditto, Praureficsa • - FOREIGN RAILWATS. Anglo Italian (late Italian .... and Austrian) 6% - to ...... $ Boulogne and Amien s ... 20 .. ... 8 % ..... .t 0 Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon) ...... .. ..... 20 - ..... . t 0.... Demerara. ... 17 1 4. .... - ..... 0 ---' Dutch Rhenish ........ . ....... 8 East Indian Ditto ..... ... 9 - 14 8. .tO '''' ... 2O - ••••• „ ...- Great Indian Peninsular..... b ...." - ...... .... Do. Do . t• % ..... ..... , Louvain ala sinibre •......... 71 - /2 _ ...... to ..., Luxembourg 8 - - ..... t. ••.... Ditto .... Madrid •" 10 • ... - .....• to and Valentia ....... .. 2 ..... - - .te Namur and Liege-. ...... . 20 ..... 7%% 5 4 f p ! ..."- Northern of Francs , 16 ...... 14 , 4 ..--; :.„ ..-- Orieam. and Bordeaux -.-......, Paris and Orleans .-........... 20 ..... •t ° . - -......- Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg ......... 14 - . .... to Ronan stud Llavre 2O ...... - z.d .. to '-- Sambre and Meuse - ...... to Strasburg and bale ..... - . .... to io ". ..'" fours & Nantos ... . .. 14 ... ... rournay, Jurbke, Landen, ... and Hasfelt .. ... .. 21 ...... - ---• t° W ••West Flanders B% - ••••••• MINES. Anglo !lexican lOO ...... -- ..... to •"' ''Asturian ........ ..... .. l5 ...... •••'' to Australian... Barrossa Range 33 s. — . Blaenarvon Iron a a d C oa l ...:" t t° , ........ .. Bolanos Scrio „. to .... British Iron - IS% to "" I ........ Brazilian Imperial ..... .. NI _ .... t° ... ... A .. Ditto Cocaes and C u i a b a... 30 Ditto St. John Del Rey ...15 . 14104." !: Cobra Copper ......... ..... General ....:.. 20 _ ...... to Real del Monte. Unregistered ....... ....- !: ..... Do. Black Debentures ... - .•••• " .... Do. Red Debentures .... ...... Santiago de Cuba.........,,,„ . 10 _. ...... r; -... Tin Crcft.. ........ ... 7 - United Mexican ....... ...... ..... 28% --. JOINT STOCK ?BANKS. Australasia British North American Colonial ..... Commercial of Londo n .. to ' ...... 20 .„, London Joint Stock ~... lO ..''' 18%... to ..• t° - London and Westminster... 20 National Provincial of Engld. 85 Ditto, IN ew ...•• --. .... National of Ireland ....... ..... 221,4 .. — ..... " ..,. Provincial of Ireland ...... ... 25 Ditto, New 10 .• ... -- ..... to .... to Union of Australia 25 ...... .......... ......• Ditto, New .. to 2% ....• Union of Londo n ........ ...... 10 Union of Madrid ............... 40 LLOYD'S 81-11PPING.—(THISDIV:;110 LONDON, O CT . 24, 1 2 A.3L— wind S.BI 111°- breeze, and dull hazy weather, with rain. Dab'' WHITEHAYEN, OCT. 21.—The Mary, henc e 143 e j 1 01 lin, has Izq.en got o ff s h ore with rem-post very leaky. SHIELDS, OC T . 22.—Th e U ran i a, from Here'Here'troF the bar in entering, and came off with st vere ANTWERP, OCT. 22.—The San Antonio (Span lB ° ; t ater Palma to Toulon, was a b andoned in a s i n king 14th October. frO_ g l PARIS, OCT. 23.—Th e Princessan Joseph,l3"o Skien, has arrived at . Calais with damage, and P-6 cargo thrown overboard. r rd. WATERFORD, OCT. 22.—Wind N. to NS- Ann Patterson, Meriam, Pictou. got QUEENSTOWN, OCT. 22. Niagara , "Atlfie Callao. Off port, Emulous, Bowl, Y 9 Barbaaces; Haviland, Williams, Gonaives. , u pirs BELFAST, OCT. 22.—Wi n d S.E.—A rr d. Soul' Gregg, Quebec. DEAL, OCT. 23.—Wi n d S . W . to S.S. W . , fq" , Put back, Mary Montague, amaica. ff' r DART2IIOUTH, OCT. 23.— J Wind o Anemone, Bull, St. John's,.. a New Brunswick. l itift JERSEY, OCT. 26.—Wind E.—Arrd. Floret '— Labrador. PILL, OCT. 23.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Dauntless, badoes. d * bat ; 7, 1 LIVERPOOL, OCT. 23.—Wind ton, Hackataff, N ew Y ork; Mary Ray, Ellwood. 040 I'. B. Wales, C roc k er, N ew Orleans; Europe, r`—aitta Philadelphia; I. Z. Zerage, New York; Arctic,. d ittos Vanguard, Steele, ditto; Philadelphia, Stotesbali d ittos Richard Alsop, Smith, ditto; Equator, Emu: 4 ,ole; ' Andrew Foster, Howes, ditto ; J ames M o ran, Da 7b006 Sid. Ann and John, Halif ax; Hardin% DIV 13 ' r oot Hope, &c. ; Th em i s , N ew Orleans; Anglo Ain„o43-„orts Boston; Blan c h, St. John's, New Brunswick. off r st. Siddons, and Albert Gelatin. The St. Pe ter i s sell Petersburgh to thi s p ort, which put into Brew e , r .„ s ate• previous to th e 20 t h O ct., was leak and had loeir_ to RAMSGATE, OCT. 23.—The Snowdrop , Rot teroeuf V.verpool, struck the pier on entering this wervylnerl lost bowsprit, stove larboard bow, and bec3llv, leaky. It blew a ga l e t hi s afternoon from S. byoff, WIIITBY ' OCT. 23.—The Dili ge nce, of this /10 sank yesterday near Rockcliff after being i n co . 00 , with the Argo, whi c h a l so received some damage' the Falkener (?), of this port, from London, got 011 4 its Rock yest er d a y, b ut was assisted off an d brag° here. r; PLYMOUTH, OCT. 23.—Wind -na ta . 11 f 3 ,. Arrd. her Majesty's ship Rattlesnake, Sydeq , . for South Wale s; K on i g Willi am 11 ., K reger , Bstay'l* Middlesborough; Spermaceti, Moor, Quebec. 6 1 squally.—A rr d. J ames, Freeman, Rio Janeiro, OO ff FALMOUTH, OCT. 23.—Wind N.N.W., strong AU. for Hamburgh; Ignicita, Zorale, Havanneo• port, Ace of Trumps, Ledstone, Xavia. hOlin eb TOIcBRIDGE.—On Sunday morning last -n—rdell and shawl were found on the bank of the canal near P a 'd e pt bridge. Information was given to Goddard, superinten eo f constable, who proceeded to the spot. The assis ti l c the several men having been obtained, and a boat procur.-06 canal was for some time dragged with grab liN k tp pe body of a female was at length discovered. Her 114 7',05 understand, is Eaton, and her age about 20. The b°",„i n es'i taken in the boat to the Castle Inn, to await the 0 7,t0 c in a q u n se es o t f . th l s Ve ra r s e h fr a a c in t, a fr s om the n p ot a i r c t i i n c l ar th i e w rf a or c rL a i s e g w at. tho'inquest..— Naidstoxe Journal. roc Ito fro 6d Wit 64 1 hit the ati y hti c Seal Nn( , Mt dffey RAt ed Th 'Pam Fr. Pla ce , finn y child Or 11 " .• t ype h er , th, J th,e