The Sun. — London, England, 1851-10-20 00:00:00

---- OTICE.—Mr. BATTY, perceiving in the dif ferent Sunday papers that his Company and Stud are adver tised,to perform at the Maryleboae Theatre, suck not being the case, Mr. Ratty considers it his duty to infarm the public that the above Company and Stud will not perform at any other Theatre than Astley's every evening this week. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. raw: the direction of Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the celebrated comic Opera, entitled GOOD NIGHT, SIGNOR PANTALON. Doctor Tititofolo, Mr. Paul Redford ; Signor Pantalon, Mr. Honey ; Lebo, Miss Woolgar; Co lumbine, Miss Kathleen Fitzwilliam. Afrer which, the laughable comic Drama, entitled THE FOREST ROSE! and the YANKEE PLOUGHBOY. Jonathan Ploughboy, Mr. J. Silsbee; Bellamy, Mr. Worrell; Harriet Miller, Miss Col ; , Sally Forest, Miss E. Chaplin. To be followed by a new and laughable Piece de Circonstance, entitled BLOOMERIAM ; or, The Follies of a Day. Mr. Agricola Green, Mr. Hoitey ; Mr. Flighty Bounce, Mr. Paul Bedford ; John Airey, Mr. 0. Smith; Mr. Weakly, Mr. Worrell; Mrs. Portia Lu crezia Green, Miss Woolgar. ro conclude with the Farce of FORTUNE'S FROLICS. Ellen Roughhead, Mr. Emery ; Rattle, Mr. Worrell; Dolly, Miss Ellen Chaplin. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Ferran. Tremendous success of Azael, and Caught in his Own Trap. THIS EVENING, Will be performed GIRALDA. Characters by M es srs. Compton, 11. Farren, G. Cooke, W. Farren, jun., Mesdames L. Howard, and Fielding. With, CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAP, in which Mr. Farren wit appear. 'Do conclude with AZAEL ; or, the Prodigal in London, supported by Messrs. Compton, Shalders, -Norton. Rinloch, Clifton; Mesdames A. Pfmlips, Fielding, Ellen Turner, and Lees. PUNCH'S PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND TFIEATRE. Lessee, Mr. W. R. COPELAND, Liverpool. The original Bloomer Costume received nightly with Shouts of laughter—the Hit of the Day. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE ARTIST'S WIFE. Characters by 3f essrs. Belton, Hudspeth, Moreland, Misses Saunders and Marshall. After wnich a new petite Comedy, entitled THE HOPELESS PASSION, by Messrs. Tilbury, Davis, Morton; Mrs. Copeland, and Miss Maskell. To be followed by a new Farce, called A FIGURE OF FUN ; or, the'Bloomer Costume, in which Messrs. Rogers, Attwood, Hudspeth, and Miss Marshall will appear. Witn THE UNFINISHED GENTLEMAN. Characters by Messrs. J. Reeve, Rogers, and Miss Saunders. In 4 prices of admission are arranged as follow :—Orchestra stalls, 4s; Acmes (first circle), 35.; (second circle), 2s. ; Pit, is. Doors to be opened at lialf-past Six, and the performances to commence at Seven precisely. A second price will be taken to the Boxes only at Nine o'clock —Mat circle, 25.; second circle, Is. Private Boxes One Guinea and a Half each. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPEIITIIEATRE. ruder the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Pro - zietor and Manaszer, Mr. W. Mat' , The most successful and popular Theatre in London. Another Week of Glorious Triumph. The most attractive Spectacle ever produced—crowded to the . . • ceiling nightly. Last Week of Mazeppa. The Hippodrome having closed after a most successful Season, and Mr. Batty, ever anxious to produce all the novelty it is possible to be got, has arranged with Mons. Sollier and the whole of his troupe to perform at Astley's every evening during this week, previous to the:r provincial tour, in conjunction with the numerous equestrian artists of the establishment. The usual Afterpiace will be dis pensed with. THIS EVENING, - yin be performed the grand Spectacle, entitle:l MAZEPPA ; or the Wild Rule of Tartary, which has Been continued, in come irpnce of numerous applilations from Persons of all Nations to wit ness . the magnificent Spectacle. With Batty's Grand Scenes of the Arena, embracing the largest Equestrian Company in Europe, represented by Foreign and British Male and Female Artists of superior talent. Tickets; to be had at the Box-office from Eleven till Four daily. Stage Manager, Mr. T. 'Thompson. HIGH vvATEkt AT LONDON BRIDGY, Tale DAY —Morning 25 min. after 9 !Evening 10 min after 10 To-Moaaow—Moroing 53 rain. atter 10 'Evening 26 min after 11 THE WEATHER. —SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 20. TiIERMOMETER„ llkr THE SHAM 60 —highest since noon yesterday. sf--lowest this morning and daring the night. 60—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 30.16. WIND W.—dull. cloudy weather. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following piacaa at Nine o'clock on Saturday morning.—The stations are arranged in order of latitude. Plme.ourvi—Wind W., gentle breeze—overcast. BmGri - roza—\Vind S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. Llas-miGs—Wind W., fresh breeze—partially cloudy. Sou'rzAscrroN—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. FOLKESTONE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. Tulia RIDGE —W in d N.E., gentle breeze—foggy. BAsmagrolus—Wind S., gentle breeze—scud, rain. GREENWICH—Wind S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. BwittcDox—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. LEIGIITON—Wind S.W., gentle breesc—overcast. COLCHrSTER—Wind N. W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. CA2II3RIDGIL—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. Biinusautam—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. FETEREOROUGH—Wind S.W., gentle breeze overcast. Yke.mouva—Wind S., gentle breeze—cloudless. HoLyaFAD—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—cloudy. Lr,THElrooL—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. LANcasTzie—Wind W., calm—heavy rain. Waaray—Wind S.W., strong breeze—overcast. DARLE(GTON—Wind S. by W., gentle breeze—overcast. Sgxe—Wind S.W., strong breeze—rain. BEA:mom—Wind W., gentle breeze—rain. Ti)ie returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Friday morning at nine o'clock :- 14$ .ixirrx—Wind S.W.. calm—partially cloudy. LLINGAR—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. Poor—Wind N., gentle breeze—cloudless. Suer--Wind W., calm—partially cloudy. TO CORRESPONDENTS No communication can be attended to unless anthan ticated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. gAt-ex - de, • 01 5 at, ,14 ‘4 l / 4 4 .) tr 4;e4,-lzy eYl fri nln -j, LONDON, MONDAY, OCrOBER 20, 1851. Everything betokens in Paris a rapid and impor tant change in the political situation. By the dis missal of his Ministry, the Prince Louis NAPOLEON has virtually proclaimed his adhesion to the cause which is identical with that of the maintenance of the democratic institutions. An occurrence of this extraordinary character should not be regarded lightly ; neither should it be imputed at once to the paltry motives of administrative intrigue, or to a con temptible solicitude for personal aggrandisement. Hitherto the course pursued by the Chief Magis trate of the Republic has been one singularly open and above-board. From the December of 1 5 348 to the October of 1851, he has manifested upon all avail able occasions his resolve to remain truthful in his allegiance to the interests of Republicanism. Aware that to those interests! he was originally indebted for his supreme position at the bead of the French Go vernment, he has explicitly, and in one or two memor able instances spontaneously, declared his determination to act in every way in accordance with the oaths taken by him on his first election to the Presidency. Those so l emn engagements b e h as no t y e t foregone. _ has broken faith in no one particular with the six millions of electors who invested him with the g l ory out:heir. suffrages. I m p u t a ti ons are , o f course, thrown n an ami l i i against him, to the effect that he still cherishes on to gr asp the baubles of imperial autho rity But those imputations are based t upon no authentic proof s o f such a hankering saving the after th e diadem and the sceptre, strubourg and testimonies n afforded beg since at. Boulogne—the f u lly of those adventeiree- h;. e. evr-ealready been expiitad by his six years incarceration in the dun the prol ongat i on of his subse gecn of liam, and by quen t banishment. Guilty as he was of that " glorious fault" before the 10th of December, since then he has repeatedly evidenced his readiness to bow to the will of his countrymen, and to accept from their hands whatever responsibilities they may deem it advisable to impose upon him—to exercise for four years the power appertaining to rt Repub lican Preside n t, and on the exp iration of his tenure of offic e to retire again into t he p rivac y from which he waa summoned, by the almost unanimous voice of the population. Such, at least, he has pledged him-elf to do in language admitting of no "ble misappr ehension. 'Whoever questions ; possible so _.e sincerity of his promises, does uPon idle t assuredly conjectures —no _ . be cause of any indication the course of Louis /1' of double dealing visible in It is objected, however,pm:eweepportuo 's administration. magnificent anopportunity no one ever had so popularity as the elect of itlle of securing to himself might hav e invested 10 th of D ecem b er . It is argued that h e himself with a panoply of national enthusiasm elleh as must have availing rendered him invulnerable to h ) biinself of that same inestirnaableeneouliesby installation and adopted a certain, distinct- prom y - h ef il t a er ibtis impossible ation in the pt Pl)° d rti l°itY, and is popular policy immediate w l Palace of the Elysee. gainsay the fact that Louis Neroeees possessed an opportunity of this remarkable character, it must as assuredly be admitted that the opportunity itself was surrounded on all hands by a multiplicity of enor inoua • difficulties—difficulties, indeed, so gigantic innumerable that their avoidance was scarcely practicable without aid from an almost preternatural amount of forethought. The First President of the Republic in the winter of 1848-49—no matter who he might have been —was in this situation, that he had THE SUN, to avoid giving dissatisfaction to a thousand different paries and factions, while at the same time he adontsd a plain and resolute line of policy. Had an archangel descended from heaven to assume the government of France under these most embarrassing circumstances, he could scarcely have hoped to elude the attacks of those who were pre-determined to behold in the con duct of the First President only serious cause for reprehension, and for the most violent and virulent animadversion. Conscious of his very d e licate and even perilous position, LOUIS NAPOLEON: appears from the first to have acted with a sagacity befitting him as the chief magistrate of one of the greatest nations of Christendom. H e li s t e ned attentively to the advice of all parti es , w ithout exception, he weighed their arguments in the balance of his judgment, and in addition to all this appears, moreover, to have submitted the result, upon all occa sions, to the test of his conscience. It is in this man ner that we must, in justice, regard every one of the more important acts of his administration. He evinced no precipitancy, no passion, no petulance, but, at the head of his council of Ministers, directed the affairs of the State with an air of impassible sobriety and studious deliberation. One who has analysed his temperament very impartially, and sub jected it to a scrutiny more thaa usually profound — we mean M. GUERRONINRE—has attested as much through the columns of the journal conducted by M. DE LAMAIPTINE. Speaking of the various peculiarities observable in the PEBsiDENT, that eminently publicist has av owed his implicit cre dence in the honesty of LOUIS NAPOLEON. He has observed, moreover, that in LOUIS NAPOLEON'S cha racter are discernible the qualities of all the most requi site in an administrator, those of perpetual self-pos session, of ever -vigilant prudence, and in addition to these of dauntless and indomitable resolution. En dowed with those capacities and actuated by accor dant principles o f truthfulness, LOUIS NAPOLEON has continued to preside over the administrative councils of the French Republic in a manner such as entitles him at the very least to the respect, if not the confidence, of the population. It is indisputable, no doubt, that he committed an error in consenting to any interference whatsoever with the working of the system of universal suffrage—he not only committed an error in that instance, he even went to the length of committing an act of ingrati tude. For he should not have forgotten that to universal suffrage he was indebted for the six millions of votes which raised him to the supreme post of the Presi dency. Yet it must likewise be acknowledged, that his fault in that particular was traceable in the first place to the invidious advice of such men as M. THIERS, the real enemies not only of Louis NAPOLEON himself, but of the very institutions of the French Republic. Added to which, the PRESIDENT appears almost from the outset to have recognized his error, and the latest act of his au thority, the dismissal of his Ministers, is nothing less than the preliminary step taken by him with a view to its ulterior rectification. It was a blunder again, and one which cannot be so ;readily forgiven or so easily expiated, the refusal of a passage through France to th© illustrious KOSSUTH and his compa triots. But, with these exceptions, the policy of LOUIS NAPOLEON as chief magistrate of the French Republic, has been conspicuous throughout for its combination of candour and consistency. These things will not be forgotten by the future annalists of democracy, neither should they he overlooked by the contemporary historians of civilization. The truth of the aphorism propounded by the Duke of IVELLINGTON.—" A great country can never make a little war," is now in the course of practical de monstration at the Cape of Good llope. The accounts brought by the Birkenhead from the seat of the war in Kafaria are most disastrous. Our forces have, on several occasions, been repulsed by the Kafirs, who, in one action, withstood several desperate charges made on them by British troops, thus proving that they have been drilled and disciplined to an extent of which the British had not previously any idea. Who are the persons who have so drilled and disciplined them ? This is a question that must be seriously investi gated. Again, we find it stated in a Government Notice, dated King William's Town, September 1, that the Commissioners appointed to hold a Court of Inquiry in Graham's Town, to investigate the causes that have led to the recent desertion of certain soldiers of the Cape Corps, have reported " that such deser tions have been caused by rumours having been spread amongst the men that they are to be disarmed and given over to the Fingoes and settlers ;" the Notice concludes by declaring " that such rumours are groundless, and if traced to their authors will subject them to condign punishment." This is scarcely suffi cient ; the notice should have gone on to state that measures had been at once adopted to discover and arrest the authors of these rumours ; and we cannot altogether acquit the Commissioners themselves of the charge of having ex hibited great laxity (to make use of the mildest expression) in having contented themselves with reporting that such desertions had been caused ,by these rumours, without at the same time taking steps to ascertain who were the miscreants who originated them. It is clear that the originators of these rumours could not have been mere semi-civilised barbarians, they must have been men not unus!d to intrigue, men who understand the art— " Spargere votes in vulgns Ambiguas," men also who have an interest in promoting the pur poses of the rebels, and in fanning the flames of dis cord between the Hottentots composing the Cape Corps and the white settlers. The colonists them selves do not hesitate to accuse certain parties of a desire to destroy the white settlers, in order to establish a sort of theocracy of which they themselves shall be ministers. It surely can be no difficult matter to discover from the soldiers of the Cape Corps themselves who are the traitors who spread these false reports, and when discovered they should at once be brought before a court-martial, and if found guilty, no matter what may be their station, speedy execution should follow the sentence, let the sentence be what it may. The Boers, too, we are informed are not inclined to exert themselves very effectively in support of the British rule. At this we are not surprised. The Boers have been shamefully ill-used by successive Colonial Secretaries, from Lord GLENELG downwards, who have managed to raise feelings of active hatred in the minds of a race naturally the most phlegmatic and most obedient in the world. The origin of all the Kafir wars which have happened since Lord GLE NELG held the seals of the. Colonial-office may be traced to the unfortunate refusal of that nobleman to ratify the treaty entered into by Sir B. URBAN with the Kaki's, which would have secured to us a military frontier, and have rendered future Kafir wars impossible. The Noble Lord, however, chose rather to be guided by the mistaken views of certain very well-meaning but weak-minded persons at home, who could not have any practical knowledge of the subject, than by the representation of the Governor of the C a p e C o l on y, a n d the lives of some of our bravest devotd troops, the loyalty of some of our subjects,most p wex d st of f e property five m i ui millions o f Brit i sh thousands of mcolo nists, and upwards have bee n sacrificed, because natepertinacity Lord of Earl GREY GLENELG chose to indulge i n a crotch in refusing to gi ve to the crotchet instead of being guided by com mon sense. Th e 'Asti Cape colonist s th e en ti re management of their own affairs has also tended ma- Le among the colonists, and has tended indirectly to terially to produce discont ent p ved the present war. Had the colonists been permitted to xri a a v n e age their ow n affairs they would long since h driven t he Kafirs into the interior, and have rear tiered any future barbarian eruption impossible. As it is, however , it is a bounden duty of the mother country, having, by the mismanagement of successive Colonial Secretaries produced the present state of affairs, to take effectual measures to remedy it; and having driven the Kafirs out of the colony, to hand it over to the government of the colonists themselves, leaving them to deal hereafter with the Kafirs as to them may seem most fitting. Sir Elea " SMITH demands 10,000 men. We hope that, i a sufficient forre..e, drivingou etvbeercoßnatry, and tow war r t b o y n w e i e ll send hi m of 10,000, the Govern mentat least 15,000 men, as tha y t l w in ithout reference to numbers, warn Earl GRIM i t will across the frontier. We put an end to the send out any more j ee will be worse than useless to ELLS""Ovon told ..Mrnissioners. The Earl of 1144 Bo in Ma y lay Pt, when he LONDON, advised him to send out two regiments instead of two c9Thrnis9ionp.r4, it Would havn b.^en well th 9 colony and well for the country had the Culunial Secretary condescended to profit by that advice. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of Saturday and of yesterday. The PRESIDENT of the Republic sent on Friday for M. BILLAULT and asked him to undertake the office of forming a Ministry. M. BILLAULT replied that he would with pleasure present s Bill to the Assem bly for the repeal of the law of the 31st of May, but he laid down as an absolute condition of his accep tance of office that LOUIS NAPOLEON should abandon the idea of starting as an unconstitutional candidate in 1852. This brought the negotiations to a sudden termination, and M. BILLAULT returned on Satur day to Nantes. The Bulletin de Paris states that M. CARLIER, the Prefect of Police, had a long conference with the PRESIDENT of the Republic at St. Cloud on Thursday. The Gazette de France says :—" A curious fact in the present state of affairs has presented itself. M. CARLIER, it is known, will no longer remain at the Prefecture of Police. The PRESIDENT was, there fore, compelled to fill up this vacancy, and he cast his eyes on M. DE MAUPAS, who has arrived in Paris for that purpose. It has so happened that M. FAUCHER, fearing that his interim may be prolonged, has re fused to countersign the nomination of M. DE MaurAs, not wishing, he says, to have the responsi bility of a prefect of police who is not of his choosing." The Siir 7 ,e has the following on the subject of the Ministerial crisis :—" The fallen Ministers loudly testify their discontent ; M. LEON FAUCHER in par ticular vents the most bitter complaints. Our readers may remember the expression which he let fall after the Council held on Saturday last at St, Cloud. The PRESIDENT reiflechira et flechira: We have re ceived the following interesting details of that sitting. The Ministry at the meeting on Saturday had hoped to remove the obstacle by consenting to vague modi fications of the law of May 31, although that law was perfect in its eyes. But if Paris was formerly well worth a mass, a portfolio is well worth something else. In doing a little violence to their conscience, the Ministers went so far as to consent to indetermi nate modifications. I will reflect on it,' said M. Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, with his usual cool ness, on dismissing the Council, and begging the Ministers to come and breakfast at St. Cloud at eleven o'clock on the following Tuesday. They were punc tual in their attendance. The breakfast was served at the hour fixed ; it is even said that it was excellent, and that the party remained at table until noon. The Amphitryon was grave and smilibg. M. LEON Kul- CLIEIt was quasi -amiable, M. BAROCHE was excited, end M. FOULD had that little air of raillery which so well becomes him. Not a word of politics was spoken. After breakfast the doors of the Council-chamber opened, and the party took their seats round the Go• yernmental green cloth, and there the PRESIDENT of the Republic announced with that rare coolness of expression which forms one of his strong points, that he was firmly decided to propose the complete and absolute repeal of the law of May 31, and that in consequence the resignations of the Ministers were ac cepted, and that while waiting for the choice of their successors they would be relied on to transact the current affairs of the country. After saying this much, the PRESIDENT rose, and after courteously saluting hie guests, retired to the saloon, leaving them in a state of stupefaction. Such a dismissal was, we must allow, suf ficient to justify the ill-humour and even the anger which has shown for the last few days. And now who will be the successors of these vanquished heroes? Can it be believed, as the Constitutionnel affirms, that the PRESIDENT, exclusively engaged with drawing up his message, does not even think of the reconstitu tion of the new Cabinet ? We have, however, the assurance given us that M. BILLAULT has received on this subject a written overture, to which he re plied that he would only accept office on one condition : that the excellent measure of the abro gration of the law of May 31 should not be spoiled by any personal arriire pensie, and that the question of the revision should be set aside. M. BILLAULT will doubtless persist in this wise resolution. On the other hand Generals ins BOURIOLLY and SAINT ARNAUD, the two possible aspirants for the portfolio of war, are said to have declared that their devotedness to the person and the fortune of M. Louis NAPOLBON BONA• PARTE would never exceed the bounds of legality. If these reports are true it may be conceived that the Ministerial crisis may be prolonged for some time, and that the Elysee may be embarrassed to put an end to it. The PRESIDENT of the Republic has taken a first step. Let him persevere in it. The enemies of the Republic had loudly declared that the law of May 31 was their standard, their instrument, and their buckler. What has been taken from them with one hand must not be restored to them with the other. It is now a question of honour." BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Ocr. 18. Luxembourg, 23/4—Rouen and Havre, 84 a ex div.. Sambre and Zdense, 3—Tours and Nantes, 6%. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 14th have arrived. Their contents are unimportant. MADRID Boma, OCT. 14.—Three per Cents. 36 ; Five per Cents. 16i. Exchange on London, 50 75. GERMAN Y. The Postampt Gazelle of Frankfort, of the 15th, states that the Legislative body of Frankfort had that day, by a majority of 55 to 34, rejected the proposed Constitution. The Frankfort journals mention a rumour that M. DE THUN, President of the Germanic Diet, has pro posed that henceforth two-thirds of the votes, in stead of unanimity, shall only be required to decide on the admission of new members to the Coufede ration. The German journals state that though the Aus trian Minister i❑ London is not to demand his pass ports on the arrival of KOSSUTH, he has been ordered by his Government to take " a pleasure trip" out of England for as long as KOSSUTH may stay. TURKEY. By the Levant mail we have received Constanti nople journals to the 4tb, but their contents are without political importance. A few days before the SULTAN had attended the launch of the frigate the Nizunie, which had undergone a complete restora tion. The Sultana VALIDE, and the Princesses of the Court, went by sea to the Admiralty, to witness the ceremony. Two elegant tents were prepared for the SULTAN, and several others for the Ministers and high functionaries. The SULTAN was received, amidst the firing of cannon, by the GRAND VIZIER, and CAPSTAN PAC lie, the troops presenting arms. After examining the vessel, the SULTAN gave the signal for the launch, and after a while the frigate glided into the water amidst flourishes of trumpets. At this moment, by the SULTAN'S order, an Ulema recited a prayer for the protection of the vessel and the glory of the SUL TAN'S arms. ITALY. The Italia e Popolo of Turin says that a change of Ministry is contemplated in that city, and gives the following list as very probable :—CAvona, President of the Council and Minister of Finance ; Foreign Affairs ; SAN MARTIN°, Interior; SCLOPIN Public Instruction ; DR FORUSTA, Justice ; Auco- NATI, Navy and Commerce; PALBOCAPA, Public Works ; LA MARMORA, War. The Lord Chief Justice of England is now at Rome, and on the 7th inst. had an audience of his Holiness the POPE, at the Vatican. DIED.—On Sunday, the 19th inst., at Sussex. terrace, Hyde-park, Flora, the youngest daughter of T. Lamie Murray, Esq., aged 16 months. DEPARTURE OF THE LORD BISHOP OF BOMBAY. —On Saturday his Lordship left his residence at St. Andrew's hill, Doctor's-commons, accompanied by his lady, for his newly-appointed station as Lord Bishop of Bombay. REPRESENTATION OF NRWCASTLE.—We are au thorised to state that, having been applied to by same of his friends, John Burgoyne Blackett, Esq., of Wylam, has given them to understand that whilst he can on no ac count appear in opposition to either of the sitting Members, he is perfectly ready to come forward as a candidate for the repre sentation of IN ewcastle on the occurrence of a vacancy, if he can then be satisfied that such a step on his part will be acceptable to the groat body of the liberal electors of this town.—Newcastle Chronicle. THE NEW NOVEL, "THE LIVINGSTONES."—Stories of Scottish life have again come into vogue since the great success of " Margaret Maitland." It is said that one of a very romantic character, under the title of " The Living stones," proceeds from the pen of a lady of a distinguished Scottish name. Among the characters whose adventures give interest to her narrative figure prominently the Army taps, the Herons, as well as the family of Grace Living stone, the heroine. As the werk is announced as a story of real life, we are at liberty to infer that there is reality in the persons whose adventures are described in its pages.—Eveniag Paper. NAltitow ESCAPE.—Mrs. Fanny Kemble, whilst riding on the Grand-parade, Brighton, on Thursday last, was thrown from her horse with great violence, and had a nar row escape of a very serious injury. She was conveyed to her hotel, but after a few hours Mrs. Kemble quite rallied, and gave " The Reading" which was announced for that evening at the Newburgh Rooms, where she met with a hearty reception from a crowded audience, several of whom evinced great anxiety as to her safety. DISCOVERING THE BODIES Or THE DROWNED.— The discovery of drowned bodies by loading a loaf with mer cury and putting it afloat on a stream, or by casting into the ricer, as the Indians do, a chip of ce d ar wood, " which will stop and turn round over the exact spot," is referrable to na. deep tel er api pools and e d simplecauses.dies, e A s there in w h which he drownedin all runningbociie bodies streamsw oulwould and retained, any li g h t substance t ceatre 9f the aly-hcle,...N otes t he and fchgrie-h tbberolwikneliyntotothbeecuerargegnht would eonsequently be d rawn to that part of the surface (Per MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1851. THE SHARE MARKETS. ..~_ .. _ ~li7►~i.Wlale Railways. Aberdeen.. .. • • • • Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, & E. Junction Belfast and County Down firming., Wolverliamp., and Stour Valley • • Blrkenh., Lan., & Chesh June., late 331.65. 84.. Do. Chest. & Bittenlad., 50/. &251. Consolidated Do., do., SO/. • . •• Bristol and Exeter.. .. Caledonian • • • • • • Chester and Holyhead .. Dublin and Belfast Junct. Dublin and Kingstown.. Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee, Perth, itnd Aber leen Junction .. • • Do., New .. .. • • East Anglian (251. L. & E. and L. & D.) .. •• Do. (181. E. & H.) • • Eastern Counties .. • • Eastern Union, class A, late E. IT. shares • • Do. do. do. .. Do. do., B & C shares East Lancashire • • • • Do. New quarters •• East & West India Docks and P.irm, _Tune. • • East & West York. June. Edinburgh and Glasgow Edin., Perth, and Dundee Glasgow and South-West, De. do. G. D. & C. stock Great Northern • • • • Do. halves, A, deferred Do. halves, 13, 6 per et. Great Southern and Western, Ireland • • Great Western .. • • Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do. thirds • • .. • • Lancaster and Preston .. Lancashire and orkshlre Do. quarter sl Ares .. Do. fifths .. • • • Do. West Riding Union Leeds Northern • . • • Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .. .. • • London and Blackwali • • Do., Tilbury Est. Scrip London, Brighton, and South Coast .. • - London and N.-Westernl Do. do. quarters • • Do. fifths Do. 101. sh., M. & B (c) Loudon and H.-Western Do. new 501. Do. new 401. .. • • Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock • - Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire •• • • Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union • • Midland .. .. • . Do. 50/. shares .. • • Do. Binning & Derby Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) Newcastle and C arlisle • • Do. quarter shares .. Newmarket • • .. Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford .• Newry and Enniskillen • • Newry, W arrenpoint, & ReStrevor • • .. • • Norfolk .. vo. New 201. shares .• Northern Counties Union North British.. North Devon .. North Staffordshire North-Western .. • • North & Sth.-West.Jane. Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. .. Scottish Central .. Scottish Midland .. Do. now .. Shrews. & Birm., Class A Do. Class 8.. .. • • Shrews. & Hereford., Old Do., do., New .. Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. MM.) .. De. Liaises Do. 03WeStry Do. New.. .. Shropshire Union .. 1)o., A, B, C, & I), fully paid up at per cent Small Devon .. South-Eastern South South Yorksh. and River dheff., Roth. and °sole, South DiVIIiOPI Stockton and Hartlepool Swansea & Loughor, &c. l l Taff Vale .. Taw Vale Extension .. Thames Haven Desk and Railway .. Vale ut Neath .. 1 Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick, Waterford, Vex., Wick. and Dublin .. West Cornwall Whitehaven and Farness York, Newc., & Berwick Ditto and Newcastle Extension .. Ditto G.N.E. prrehase York and North Midland i I Business done to-day. Nominal Prices, 9 to 9% 4 -4% - 10 13 —II d. 78 —6O 11 1 4 11% 15 —l7 53 —2l d. 2% -2% IX - 2 '6 67i, -6% t .-- 434 2% -3% 11 -14% 4) -51 2L -98 i .:- 4% 14 ID •• • % ••• 15% 4% 1174 - 1214 8334 -34% 8034 76 -78 714 •dap• 53% —ll , l .. .. 65i —5% d. 11 —l2 . • • ••• • 6% -6% 93% -94% ii3q -I)3N 2 -234 p. 134 -2 p. 1% - I%p. 81 -82 9}‘ 83,4 dis. 13% 73 Ms. Y -2% X 47 3 1 4 —2% dia. 46% —473 i 23 —25 .. ••• • • . • . .... • 7% - 8M .. —.. dis. .. —• • dis. L 7 —l9 1414 13 1 4 Ms. a iii dia. h% 5X - 13% —8% dig. par —3! P 13% 14 13 —l4 tt 9 6% —7% 5% N 4 434 5% 4% dis. 14 —l6 7 * 10% —ll% % % dill. 3% —3%d. 13 -14 I@% - 18% 27 .... 97% 4 - 3 IL 11 —l3 x.d I • •• 160 - 163 .. no •• dis. 16 —l5 dig. • , •-• •• 4. .. •••• •• .. .. ... .: • • —.. Ws. 17% la 7% — 7 1 i 8% —3% d. tsl 11% S% 1 IS% % 27 34 • Asturian .• ...• .• •• • • 15 .. •• Australian ..... • 4 1% —2% ilaroasa Range .. • • 1 13 0 3% Blaenarvon Iron and Coal all .. • Bolanos Scrip ........ • • • • —.• British Iron.. ••.. • 13 5 .. Brazilian Imp. (is. fa. p.) 24% .. Do. Cocaes and Cuiaba all.. Do. St. John del Rey • • 15 20% It Cobre Copper • ...• . 40 35 —34% Copitpo .• • .... • l4 6% 7% General . • •• . • • all 13% 14 Mexican& S. American 9 3i4 44 Real Del Monte, Unreg. % Do. Black Debentures. .• Do. Red Debentures •• —•• • Santiago do Cuba lO 4 Tin Croft .... • ..... • • 7 6% 8 United Mexican—. 28 28% 3 —2 TOINT STOCK BANKS . Avoralasia all 37 38% x.d Brit.sh North America 50 45 4t; Colonial ........ .. Commercial of Landoll 2O 25 -- 26 1 4 London Joint Stock London and Westminster 20 28 29% 29% National Provincial Eng. 35 Do. New National of Ireland .. 22% 18% 17% Oriental Bank Corporal. all 2G 26% Provincial of Ireland.. 25 42 —44 Do. New •• •• Union of Australia ..• all 35 36% Do. New • 3 —3% Union of London llnion of Madrid.. .. all •• •• MISCELLANEOUS. Canada •• •• • • 32% 48 49% Ben. Steam Navigation . 14 26% —2B x.d 27 Penin. & Oriental Steam. all 65 —67 Ditto ditto 10 14% 15% Royal Mail Steam 6O 80 83% Ditto ditto Royal Mail Steam .. • • ..1 Settling days la the nac tered shares, 16th any two cannot be answers onth of id 311 h. able for tt intereste, Oet•bar. Ticket days for regis- Account clays, 17th and 31st. he errors of the Official Lists, and ;d correspondents.] will not be influenced by MONE Y and COMMERCIAL NE WS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were estimated at from 4,000 to 5,000 bales, with a heavy market, but withont change in prices. Exporters have taken 500 American, and the sales consist of about 150 Pernam and Maranham, at 52c1. to 611-100 Egyptian at 54d. to Sd., and 300 Surat at 24d. to 31d. per lb. In Railway Shares prices had declined, and the market closed heavily. The Corn Market is heavy to-day.l The results of the Exhibition traffic from May 1 to October have been summed up by the secretary of the Railway department of the Stock Exchange, and we take the comparative results, premising that from the total increase 6,1941. has to be deducted for a reduction on the Eastern Counties and Blackwell ;goods' traffic, and that several of the lines have added to their mileage this year:— 1851. 1850. Increase inlBsl. --.-- ....—... Eastern Counties ..... £384,572 £367,692 £25,055 Great Northern 305,236 111,887 193,349 Great Western Blackwell Brighton 328,455 297,320 31,135 North-Western South-Western South-Eastern -- .£3,886,131 .£3,036,5161 £855,809 smrTHrimLn. During the week ending on Saturday, the total im ports of foreign Stock into London amounted to 6,941 head. In the corresponding , period in 1850 wo received 7,800; in 1849, 4,603; in 1848, 5,056; and, in 1847, 3,471 head. The Jutland Beasts and Dutch Sheep aro arriving in greatly improved condition. IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN TIDE PAST WICHIC. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Piga. Amsterdam I 763 - ••• 57 '" 4 Tonningen 432 ••• ''• ilamburgh 33 ••• Rotterdam 412 ... 1,582 ... ... 273 ... 101 45 Antwerp Dunkirk Yarelseil 117 ... 3 Dordt Ilarlingen Nieu Diep 48 ... 1,119 ••• e••• Ostend Total 1,240 .. 4,790 402 509 The yearly comparison of the weekly imports is as under Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1850 1,334 ... 8,540 ••• --- ••• 369 ••• 567 1849 1 , 479 2,870 19 0 ... 69 1848... 8 55 ••. 4, 046 ... ... 150 5 1847... 6 61 2,579 ••• 185 .. 46 To-day's market was again somewhat extensively sup plied with foreign Beasts; but the arrivals of that de scription of stock from our own g razin g districts exhi bited a decided falling off in number. Their general qua lity, however, was good. As Newgate and Leaden hall were well cleared of their late country supplies, the Beef trade ruled steady, at, in most instances, an advance in the currencies of Monday last of 24 per 81h. The primest Scots realized 3s Bd, and a good clearance was readily effected. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, from ot h er parts of Epupgllieasneda,m7opOtolhluenrriefforrodms and Northamp tonshire we received 2,400 Shorthorns; ear supply o f Sh eep A Dev fa o i n r s, a & v c e . ra N g o e. f t r i e m sh e was on. Scotland' Runts, sa le, both as respects number and quality. All kinds commanded a steady, though by no means brisk inquiry, at fully lest week's quotations. The primest old Duvvus readily produced 4s per 81bs. The number of Calvt s wan very moderate, but quite equal to the wants of the trade. In prices we have no change to notice. We had rather more doing in Pigs, the quotations of which ad vanced quite 2d per Sibs. Per 81ba. to slnkthe °Md. S. & to e. d Ulterior Beasts.— • 2 4 2 Second quality •• •• 2 8 210 Prime large Oxen.. 3 0 3 2 Prime Scots •• ••.. 3 4 3 8 Large coarse Calves 2 6 3 4 Primesmall ditto 3 6 3 8 Suckliaz Calves ..18 0 20 Lambe 0 0 0 Q 2 . ( 1 . to s. d (nforior Sheep •• °• 2 8 210 Second qual. Sheep 3 0 3 4 (;)arse-woolled ditto 3 6 3 8 Scuthdown Wether 310 4 0 Ditto out of tho wool 0 0 0 0 Large H0g5......2•• 10 3 6 Small Porkers •• • • 3 8 3 10 QuBrtvr 0(1 rim • - 16 0 19 0 AT MINES LEAS'. 'ALI. Leasininess Railways. Companges. Paid. Nominal Prises. do ßus ne to-day. i Bir. and Oxford Junc.,callsduly paid, or with a guarantee .. Gt. Western all 2834 293 Do., without a guarantee .. De .. • • all 28 —29 Birm., Wol., & • Dud.,calls duly paid, or witk a guarantee •• Do ;,-; 1 5 z•- 10 p Do., without a guarantee • . Do.. .. 15 7 9 p Buckingharnsh. Lon. & N.W. all 17% 17% Clydesdale June Caledonian all 44 -- 46 E. Lin., Guar. 6 per Cent. •• G. Northern all 3234 82% x.d GlOacestor and Dean Forest Gt. Western 20 134 —23 y HarticplDock Yrk, Newl all • • and Railway t an Ber. Hull aed Selby Yk. &N. M. all 100 102 Do. % Shares Do all 50 51 Do. % Shares Do .. .. all 28 —l4 Leeds and Brad. Midland .. all 98 100 99 Lon. and Green. 3. Eastern .. all 1136 —l2 Do., Fret. .. Do all 2334 24 34 Lowestoft, Gd. 4 per Cent. • • Norfolk • • all 13 —l4 Do., 6 per cent De .. all .. -, • • Middleebro' and Redcar, 6p. ct Steckt.Bs Dar all ~. r N. & East, 6 per Cent. •• E. Counties . all • Do., 5 per cent. Do, all 54 —56 5434 Do. New .. Do •• 43 4 6 p Preston and SL.&N. W . all 43 —45 Wyre t & La.& Y. D 0.% SharesA Do 11 834 934 p. Read., Guild., and Reigate .. S. Eastern ~ all 21% 2134 Roy. & Ilitchin G. northern all 8 —8% ?ihep. Ex.. Do 1% 2 p. Sher., Roth. and Goole, 5 per ct. Lane. & Yerk 18 11 6 .. .• South Staffords. Mr. M'Clean IN 334 —2% die. Wear Val. 6 per Cent. qua. Stock.& Dar. al— • • Do. do. •• Do •• 25 26 • 27 Do, do. •• Do • • .. 51$ • • Wilts &Somers, Gt. Western 160 90 —9l REPE, BRAZES, Railways. I Paid. I Nominal Prins. 'Rosiness dose to-day. " In connexion with excursion trains and cheap fares' it would have been desirable to analyse the proportion between third-class travellers and those of a superior kind. In one case only, the South-Eastern, has such comparison been practicable, and proportions (for 1851) stand thus:—First class, 593,166; second class, 1,190,847; and third class, 2,124,961; total, 3,908,974 passengers. The money received from all passengers having been as above, 365,338/., the average per pas senger is only ls. 101 d., a result from which each reader is free to deduce his own conclusions." The letters concerning monetary and mercantile affairs on the other side of the Atlantic aro more favour able than was anticipated. The large arrival of gold from California and the lessened demand for specie to export to Europe imparted greater ease. The failure of Messrs. Snuder, Simington, and Robinson, of Broad street, New York, in the oil, cotton, and grain trade, is denounced. Respecting California we are informed from America that "The accounts continue good. Nearly two mil lions of dollars, in gold dust, are on their way here, via Panama. This will probably remain in the country, and the banks soon show a great increase in their supply of precious metals. The effect of this cannot be otherwise than most favourable. Tho Prometheus, from San Juan, brings twenty days later news from Cali fornia. From all parts of the mining section, the ac counts are encouraging, and as the attention of miners has recently been turned almost entirely to machinery, the probability is that the product will largely increase, instead of diminish. The construction of machinery for crushing the rock by water power, will enable miners to work in sections, which have hitherto been neglected. There is no doubt but that onr estimate of an average shipment from San Francisco of five millions of dollars per month, from the Ist of Sept., will be fully realized. A few months would at this rate, nearly double the amount of specie held by our banks; but as a large amount of gold dust destined for England comes to this port, we cannot calculate upon such a rapid increase in our stock of bullion. There is, however, no doubt but that within the next four or five months our receipts will be many millions more than the exports. It is, there fore, our impression that from the Ist of November to the Ist of May next we shall have better times than after that. In that six months there may be an active movement in the stock market, and prices considerably higher than those which have ruled for sometime past may be realised. Stocks have been so pressed down by the scarcity and value of mosey that the slightest let up will give a great impetus to speculation, and for a time excitement would run high. _ . The reverses experienced in Kafraria, as communi cated in the advices received to-day, are the general topic of conversation here, but there is no fear of the issue. The great evil is the expense to which the mother country is put. The revenue of Holland for the first nine months of this year is stated at 41,281,905 florins, being an in crease, as compared with the like date of 1850, of 10,068,552 florins. Every principal branch has risen, including customs and navigation, excise, stamps, and postage. The Stock Market at Amsterdam on the 18th instant was very firm, but not much was done in Dutch Bonds. Spanish Five per Cents. were animated. The numerous arrivals to-day have not in the least affected the Stock Market. Consols being 97 to for Transfer, and the same for Account. The present quo tations are 97i The abundance of money arid the continued arrivals neutralise political news. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 97! to 98, and the Three per Cents. 96i to 1. Banff Stock has been quoted 213, and India Stock 261, the former being steady, but the latter depressed. Exchequer-bills have bean firm at 51 to 54, and India Bonds have realised 56 to 59 premium. Foreign Securities have been rather heavy, but there is no prominent change. Mexican Stock is worth 26 j to Spanish Five per Cents. have been quoted 20t to 3, and the Three per Cents. about 38 to 1. Portuguese Four per Cents, have realised 32, Buenos Ayres 43, and Brazilian 86. Venezuela Stock has been quoted Dutch Two-and-a-tlalf par Cents. are 58 to and the Four per Cents. 891 to 90. Railway Shares opened flat, but are looking better again now, and have been done at improved prices. QUARTER TO THREE. Comoln 97 1 Ditto Amount, Nov. 12 ... ... 97 BRITIgIi FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 er Cent. Reduced A nauities 9611 A ill per Cent. Console Anna. 97 1,4 New 3'4 per Cent. Anne. 9 7 34 98 Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 --' 1)0.30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 6 34, India Stock 261 Do. Bonds, 10001 59 p Ditto under 1.0001 Consols for Account 9 71 97 I A E Kell ~ , on er Bills. 11,4 d. 1,0001. 5001. ......... ... Small — 51 51 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent....... 8 6 Buenos Ayres Bonds 6er Cent. ... 43 ,„, Mexican Bonds, 1846, ex Jan. Coupons 26 1'1.113 Ditto Account ... ... .............. 26 3 / 4 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ...... 85 Ditto 4 tier Cent. .................. 32 Spanish Rends, 3 per Cent,lB4o ... 20 1 7 / 4 % Venezuela Bonds ..................... % 31 Ditto Deferred .................. :.. 11 Dividends on the above payabl.t in London. Dutch 214 par Cent. , 12 G uild ... 58 1 Ditto 4 per Cent. Cerificatea ... BDiAI LLOYD'S SHIPYIN (x.— T( HIS DAY.) LONDON, ( JCT. 20.—WiIld at noon S.W., light breeze and cloudy. CARDIFF, OCT. 18.--Wind W.N.W.—SId. Nouvelle Amelie, Sierra Leone; Caroline, Demerara; Regina, Smyrna; Agatha, Alicante. SWANSEA, OCT. 18.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Lady Prudhoe, Charlton, Cuba. DUBLIN, Ocr. 18.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Cowslip, Reid, Taganrog. WEXFORD, OCT. 17.—Wind W.—Arrd. Falcon, Lam bert, Norfolk brig. Sld. Wexford, Savannah. WATERFORD, OCT. N. W, to W.N.W.— Arrd. Katica, Ibrail; Ainericano ' Galatz. SW. Velocity, New York; Margaret, Trinidad ; E. M. Dodd, St. John's, Newfoundland. LONDONDERRY, OCT. 16.—Arrd. Eitneralda and El lena, Ibraila; Creole, Philadelphia. BELFAST, OCT. 18.—Wind S. W.—Arrd. RAla, Porto Rico; PersEferADCO, Odessa. DROGHEDA, OCT. 18.—Wind W. Arrd. Diana, Galatz. SHIELDS, OCT. 18.—The Jason brigantine, of Whitby, late Forster, was brought in here yesterday by the mate and two men of the Exertion, of this port, having been picked up abando ne d, w ith five feet water in her hold, about fifty miles N.E. of the Fern Islands. DEnr, OCT. 18.—Wind W.S.W., fresh; 19, W.S.W., moderate.—Arrd. Caroline, Andrews, South Seas; Alecto and M'Donnell, Callao; Racehorse and "Zfe, Patras; Providence, Popham, Calcutta; Canada, Macdo nald,Colombo; Calphurnia, Calcutta; Chieftain, Madras and Coringa; Maria Somes and Arabian, Mauritius; For titude, Mitchell, Cape of Good Hope; Diana, Callao; Halcyon, Panama; Captain Melvin, Alexandria, from River Marmora; Kelly, for New Zealand; Stratford, Forrest, Mauritius; Protector, Damerara; Adelaide, Simmons, Terceira; Rea*kii% stoma, CQuototinoplei Helen, Conway, New Orleans; American, Chadwick, New Yo-i: ; A ler,:ftn,3!•ia. Pot beet, Charlotte, Ap,leilicoia. n - d. floLa the IZiver and shl., Protec:or, Madeira and Demerara. OFF SOUTH FORELAND, OCT. 18.—Juno, UMla. SAN FRANCISCO, SEPT. I.—The Johannes, Larkies, from Valparaiso to this port, was stranded on the night of the 21st August, about eight miles south of the en trance to this bay; part of her cargo (gunpowder) has boen landed, but the veasel will prove a total loss; the crew have deserted. LITERPOOL, OCT. 19.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Ad mittance, Mazatlan; Broad Oak, Pernambuco( Fatima, Paraiba; Lovely Mary, Newfoundland; Sir Henry Pot• finger, Calcutta; Greenwich, Mazatlan; Sapphire, Callao; Acadian, ditto; Dundroda, ditto, Pemauee, Coquimbo; Henrietta,Valparaiso; lanthe, Buenos Ayres; Marmion, New York; Favourite, Quebec; Montreal, Montreal; King Alfred, Denia; Moselle, Africa; Repley, Valparaiso; James Titcombe, New Orleans; Africa steamer, New York, on freight 500,000 dolls.; Jenny Lind, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sid. Atalanta, Calcutta; Dundonald, Bombay; Fayaway, Bahia; Ida, Hayti; William Jarvis, New Orleans; Scotland, Mobile; Tam O'Shanter, ditto; Mahattan, New York; Art Union, Baltimore; James Wright, ditto; Henry Clay, ditto; Marathon, ditto; William Rathbone, ditto; Bemicia, Curacoa; Joseph Porter, Apalachicola; Europa, Boston; Unicorn, St. John's, New Brunswick; Refuge, Now Orleans; Thorn hill, ditto;) John and Lucy, New York; Queenstown, Boston. Off port, Charlotte, Moulmein. CowEs, OCT. 19.—Wind W.— Arrd. Brage, Callao. YARMOUTH, OCT. 18.—Wind B.W.—Sld. Agnes, Ja maica. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 19.—Arrd. 11. M. S. Birkenhead, Cap.. of Good Hope, left 12t,1i September, Cape do Verds 7th October, and proceeded for Portsmouth. FOIVEY, OCT. 18.—Wind S.W.—Sid. Union, Monte Video; Pearl, Cuba. QUEENSTOWN, OCT. 17.—Wind S.W.; IS, W.S.W.— Arrd. Rebel, Porte Rico; Penman and Willian Bryan, Callao; Prennisch a Adler, Valparaiso; Emily, llavan nah; Clio, Buenos Ayres; Evangelistica, Constantinople. Sld. Charles, Coquimbo; New Hampshire, New York. OFF HAsutics.—Lady Margaret, Grant, Sydney, New South Wales. FALMOUTff, OCT. 18 AND 19.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd Mongo, Havannah ; Gymer, Alexandria; Gipsy Queen Calloa; Sarah Maria, Patras. Off port. Indian Chief , Ceylon; Secret, Moulmein; Theodore Korner, Guaya quil; Anversors, Havannah; David, Quebec; Glaphyra, St. Kitt's ; Giovanni Leopold, Alexandria; Catherine, Buenos Ayres. tiBRISTOL, OCT. 18.—Wind W.—Arrd. bland Lady, Nevis; Montezuma, Quebec. Sld. Tally-ho, St. Michael's. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCH AN GE-(MONDAY.) Most of the country markets held on Saturday were again somewhat extensively supplied with English Wheat, in which only a limited business was transacted, at barely stationary prices. In foreign Wheats next to nothing was doing. Most kinds of Barley were in im proved request, but Malt met a dull inquiry. Oats, Beans, ann Indian Corn were heavy. Peas and Flour commanded quite as much money, although the supplies were on the increase. The latest advices from New York are to the effect that the demand for Flour was heavy, at barely previous rates. Most of the French markets have ruled dull, hut no further decline has taken place in prices, Those up the Baltic and Black Sea have been devoid of animation. Up to our markets last week, coastwise, the arrivals of English Grain were very moderate. The foreign im ports were 6,735 qtiarters of Wheat, 2,470 Barley, 5,610 Oats, 740 Beans, 3,002 Linseed, 2,262 Rapeseed, 1,642 sundry Seeds, 2,461 sacks. and 1,306 barrels of Flour. Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of English Wheat coastwise from Essex were much smaller than these reported on Monday last. From Kent and Suffolk the receipts were tolerably good, and in excellent condi tion. By railway seseral somewhat large parcels cams to hand from Norfolk and the Midland districts; but a.; at least two-thirds of them had been disposed of prior to arrival the show of samples of both red and white was comparatively small. Owing, iu some measure, to the dull accounts from the large country markets, and to the pressure of French and American Flour, the demand for all kinds of Wheat of home produce was in a very inactive state, at prices barely equal to those of last week. Towards the close of business a few cotchels changed hands on rather easier terms, to save de murrage. Numerous offers came to hand from various quarters to forward New English Wheats at the late advance. The amount of business doing WAS trifling. We were scantily supplied with first-rate Foreign Wheat; but tho show of samples, ex granery, was toler ably large. Really fine qualities sold slowly, at about stationary prices. In the middle and inferior kinds, scarcely anything was doing for home consumption; 300 (patters changed hands for shipment to the continent. Off, , rs were received from some of the Baltic ports to ship Wheats on lower terms. The total supply of Barley was very moderate. Se lected qualities moved off steadily, at full prices. In the middli❑g descriptions very few sales took place. Malt, the supply of which was small, was held at full quotations. Good sound Oats were steady, and quite as dear. Low and damp parcels commanded very little attention. In Beans exceedingly little was doing at late rates. We had a fair inquiry for Peas, the value of which was well supported. Indian Corn afloat was selling at 163 per quarter for Galatz, and Polish Odessa Wheat 303 6d per quarter, including all charges. The Flour trade was steady, and a good business was doing at our quotations. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Whoat—EB3ex & Kent, 'Malt—Chevalier— • 53s to 568 Red ••••.. • • 338 to 42s jOats— Yorkshire and Ditto,White, New 358 45s Lincolush., Feed. 17s 20s Norfolk and Lin- Potato coin, 333 405 Youghal and Cork, Ditto, White-- 343 42s Black .••• • •. 16s 19s Irish, Red • —s —is Cork, White ... • • 17s 215 Ditto,Wlaite ••• • • • —8 —s Scotch, Feed..• 190 24s Rye—Old .•• • • • ...... 23s 25s Beans—Tick 241 285 New. •• • • 24s 26s Pigeons Barley—Grinding . .... 20s 24e Peas—Grey.......... 25s 27s Malting . ........ 233 27s Maple . .......... 253 27s Chevalier • . ••• 288 31s White.... ......• 273 30s Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ........ 26s 29$ folk.. •• • • ...... 43s 48s Flour—Town-made..• 32s 37$ Brown . ..........408 425 Suffolk .......... 293 32e Kingston and Ware 47s 525 Stocktn & Norfolk 27s 3 2 SEEDS. Our market continues to be extensively supplied ritb new Seeds, in which only a limited business is doing. Tares and Canary are the turn lower. Cakes command very little attention. Turnip,White, per bush. 7s to lOs Red and Green.. • - Os 11 s Mustard, Brown • ..• •• 75 8s White, new .... —Gs ea 7s 0d Cares,Winter ..3s 6d 4s Od Old . Od 05 Od Canary, per quarter • . 36s 40s Rye grass • • • • • • ... 245 305 Clover, Rea Eng (cwt.) 30s 40s White • • • • ...... 34s 4•ls Foreign Red • • .• 32s 40s White— •• 34s 42, Trefoil ISs 22s Duty was paid on the full , Clover Seed up to the 11th i Carraway ............ 31s 335 Coriander .... •••••' • • 9ii lis liempseed, per qua rter 32s 335 Linseed, Eng.s;ow ila g .. 603 655 .. C rus hi n g ........ 465 52s Baltic .. •• ••• ••• 424 424 46, Odessa •••••• • • • • 448 50s Linseed Cake,pr. ton — English •• •• .71 Os 7115, Foreign, per ton 6/ Os 61 15& Rape Cakes, pr ton 410 s 4/ in: Itapeseed,New,prlst 22/ Os 2110 s ' owing quantities of foreign Lnst.:- 1851. 1850. London ............ 89,191 Liverpool ......... 8, 186 Hull ............... 39,8 12 3303w'OZTGEL .111 VD SPXTALPIELDS. By land carriage, very extensive suppli es of potatoes have reached us during the past week, in excellent con dition. The reports have been confined to ten baskets from Rotterdam, and forty-six sacks from Antwerp. Picked samples still continue in steady request at full prices. In other kinds only a moderate business i s doing. Essex and Kent Regents, 60s to 755; ditto Shaws, 50i to 68s; ditto inferior qualities, 253 to 403; F ore i g n, 353 to 403. sOZOITGIEE ROP Drart.zscr. A steady, but by no means extensive business doing in all new Hops at our quotations. The supplies offering are large. Yearlings command very little attention. I)uty, 115,0001. New Mid and East Kent pockets, 71 2s to 11/ 6s; New Weald of Kent ditto, 616 s to 71 7s; New Sussex ditto, 51 los to G/ 6s; Yearlings, 41 158 to 51 lOs per cwt. TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. FICI. / 84enP• f Calve! , 5= ...o0 267 , B as - AR. Sheep. Calves. I 76 t I I 1,529 4,780 198 prick 01 A Statement and Comarison of the S u pplies and ar ket. Fat Stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Oct. on Monday, Oct. 21, 1850, and this day, P" lldsl ' 20, 1851. Rc+.3sta. ~ .., Per Blbs., to sink the offals. 01 851 ' Oct. 21, 1850. Oct. 2 s d. s. 3 ' d ' 2 6 Coarse and inferior Beasts .. 2: 4t0 962 4 t° '2 11) Second quality ditto • 2 8 g 3 Prime large Oxen *** ° 2 3 6 ') ", 3 " Prime Scots, c. • *** • ° 10 3 7 210 Coarse and inferiOr - Sh . e . ep ••• 39 10 8 ' 3 0 2 8 3 4 Second quality ditto ...- •::. 3 - 2 3 4 : 3 , 3 Prime coarse-woolied ditto .. 3 6 3 6 4 Prime Southdown ditto 310 4 03 iv ° Lambs... *** 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 Large coarse Calves 2 8 3 4 2 2 3 ! Prime small ditto 3 6 3 S 3 10 35 v , Large Hogs •• 3 6 •2 Small Porkers 3 3 8 0 4 2 3 4, 61° Beasts ... • • 5,40 0 1 67 Sheep and Lambs 26,12 0 Calves ... •• 213 , OCT ' 22, 1849. Beasts, 5,0; Pigs •" ••• *** 600 SUPPLIES ON SALE •• ••• ••• • • •• Sh o sep , ancl Lambs, 29,260 ; Calves, 120; Pigs , 3.21 .1. 24, 0; ci. 23, 1848.—Beasts, 4,35 9 • Sheep and Lain u'i Calves, 183; Pigs, 395. .17WG.ELTE AND zattrezacriVlTA T4' , For the time of year, the arriva ls of coun'%derste Meat up to these markets have been on a verY rri c ci t , the scale. Tho supplies on offer to-day, slaug h°re 510 °11 metropolis, are by no means extensive. rrinr n rice /i and Pork commanded a ready sale , at very I?" lioisP In other kinds of Meat, a steady bust co 1, 0/l air About 2,200 carcasses of Foreign Meat have "" posed of since our last report. , to , a to At per stone by the Carcase. s. • 4 4 e. d. to v. d. Beef, inferior 2 2 2 0 2 2 2 4 la__utton,treaficirailoinri.: 3 1 9 10 6 primelargo 6 -- prime small 3 0 3 4 , Pork,iarge........ 3 6 2 6 381 -- 5ma11......•• 3 00 WOOL. Last week's imports of Wool into London wet e 'rb,, bales from Hamburgh, and 1,200 from SYdrilipP private contract market is li.d vvith ,Ist e wel. supp -- • av Wool, in which a full average business i s doll 3 torerates. As the stocks of Colonial in the inanuititftion districts are now much reduced, a bris k comp looked for at the approaching public sales. 6 03 0 TAL LO W Owing to the largo stock on hand, 38,38 7 e t 9, 40,0 the prospect of heavy arrivals, there being 110- r ket casks on passage from St. Petershurgb, our, o fi " ol vver• fo r se; a very inactive state, and prices are again P.Y.C. on the spot is selling at 373 94 to and 37s Od to 37s 3d for old. Town Tallow, A v - v er 8 a "/ to 37s 64 per cwt net cash. Rough Fat .3 0 r "''' Last week the imports were 2,413,- the deliverie6." casks. Last week the imports were 2,413, tai. -- I. casks. , is isso. 1..... ii 1847. 1848. 184 9 . ___,.....---' 31,r _ _____, ---, ~ c 0 ili sj o ,l 3t4ck this day ...... 25,238 30,931 41,48 8 3 "' ‘ ,:ci tO, "idi 4 I 44e 6d 45s Od 375 Oil 3 8 s v o a 1.01.31 , Price of Y. C. --L to 45s 01 to oOdtoOs Od 0'2,21 4194 Delivery last week .. 2,897 ' 2,8 49 3 2 1 6' - 0 ' :„ 4 , 1 1 Ditto from June 1.... 33,030 37,738 31,75 3 . ,', 1 31 3,5,' Arrivals last week - . 1,838 6,150 7 7.! 4 ) 5 7-92 , no o4 Ditto from June 1 ... 59,2,9 62,138 47, 71 ' 'nd '" Price of Town ...... 488 Od 473 6d) 395 6d 418 - OP' , ~,0,513 ~ STATEMENT OF TALLOW SHIPPING AT ST. rE' , lfrj 18 45 ' 1../ .' ,,i, 1851. 1850. 1849. O,, Tallow dispatched from Cronstadtto - -----' ,-,,, 4 10. Casks. Casks. CaskS• ''.- 95, I n li s g h h i e sl s o . a . d . i . ng . and Sept... 3 4, 0.5.,.. 73 380 79 , 383 88,15 v - ' 6 e 1 , Tr, Loaded t a a d l e l d o a a d rt e e d r ;:f .a f . , r 2 d. . C s t . .. 1 .11 11, 591 17,416 17,193 13, 424 _......-' 4C I. li ' _-- - - - --- - --- -- 5 0 0 Sept., O.S T o t t h a e l n a a t v t i l g i e at i c . 0 1 o n s . e . (:) . 4' is 15 4 90_ 7 ,796 96,576 110 1 1 6 , ,58 __, _., i o 22,670 , ......,.......--' 1 112 , ---- . 504 _.-, L0nd0n.......... 1.19,246 118,132 12 7, _,,,....- O, 4k9 ---. ------ .----06 Bristol oti,erl Liverpool ........ 7,1-I.glish..p.o.rts 5 9 ' ,.18 9 i 5 ; 1348'517.201 33,3!t 151 5115: : 4e 3 31 1 9 ;:1:, '' 1,437 3'542 3,255 4„-m; Z6lO ,n 9 10,v - , Toil 2772 5,2 ' 88 10, ,, ,, 4,17) b, 0 Ireland •• ••••-• •. 631 3,573 4,26; 6, 47 4 1 1, 1 „i Scotland ........ 412 2,520 4,17 , 6, 076 6, 7 2 Germany ......... 1,917 8,3 31 9,602 991 France ......... • - 3,138 6, 975 __,...----' 0,1" - 73, -, ,50 .- 75,38; - ---------- 88, 15° 99 ' 159 -....--- _,.. MIDDLESEX SESSI-'• a 0 • (THIS DAY.) oce The October adjourned sessions were coM O2 morning at Clerkenwell-gree - n. There arfll e Ed ` names of prisoners in the calendar. f t ile 0 1 James Barker , a cooper, in the service foroof ' and West India Dock Company, wa s indict(l3 os el ing two gallons of rum, the property of t h of sib pany, his masters. th e o 0 The case for the prosecution was, that ° tl e a 0,0% October inst., at dinner-hour, a labourer 0 3113 ttes 3, l 4 Wright saw the prisoner in one of the cellars s e col li e to get the bung out of a rum uncheon wit h fi lled' ue iron," as a particular kind of cooper's tool lef t by P A prisoner seemed to the witness unable to eu e ec a iers P d pose and went away, but in about an hour ''''i r ote " t o' the cellar with an adze, in place of the cuttieg tbofve accompanied by another man. They shifil ii " Op; cheon in a slanting position over a two•Plcheii which they had brought in from the quar ee eoef' was filled quite up they lifted it into a .. „ . '"e 0 0 " per , Fodder, one of the foremen of the coopers , blee n i bio, servants of the company, one of them a e0'",,.. f1 a reo", informed by Wright of what occurred, bu t . ", - 0 04 13 "0 1 ' the cellar they found the prisoner alone, hi eriO bt e having escaped, and also being unknow n to the tiO The prisoner said ha went to the cellar to loolt and observing the puncheon wet about the htl h g e st, l° o o suspected a leakage, and turned the puncheol b ee p certain if the fact were so. This would have , l' e co scS, l l , l ll course of his duty, nut the witnesses for the P; iti` e f stated that he could not expect to find tnee',"bie , o f place, and that there was no appearance to leau 00 suspicion of leakage. The puncheon on gstig i 'p e4 p found to be deficient eight, gallons, six havilacff abstracted previous to the two found in the c W The prisoner bore a good character in the J° several years. i i itS The jury found him guilty, but recommend°, 111 LAI mercy on account cf good GE character. tyr The ASSISTANT-JUD, h o wever, told theta 00,, c ould not allow the character to affect the 1/e t te' l '' The prisoner was then sentenced to twelve re° ll ci aiw" prisonment in the House of Correction with 1 15 r f e MO ' SURREY SESSIONS—J. I -11S The adjourned Quarter Sessions for the Surrey commenced this morning, at the Collri;. Newington-cau se way, before Thomas rile„,l%;; j ( u c r h y ai h rui av a i n n ) g, , and a full bench of magistrates. a iite r James Burbgeeesns, sworn, ls, an d t heChairmanThomas addre ss ary, 23 e :erii r o o tot : } dieted for stealing a handkerchief from t h e , Charles Selling. Burgess pleaded guilty', a" - a o p) prisoner was eonvicted. „ vest ° The CHAIRMAN transported Cheery for lee , sentenced Burgess to six months at PriZtOD. lr)d BOW-STREBT.—(THIS Jer Frederick Flower was brought before Al l% under the following circumstances:— of l el Mr. Mornington, silversmith and Y3' ol l, l lo ° ,l ll ' l High Holborn, stated that on WednesdsY his family retired to rest about twelve o'cloo., 5 t fs' o e whole of his premises were quite safe. Th ° h e e o tioefett% ing, a few minutes after seven o'clock, the 003 efrol came to his bedroom and told him there w55,,,,5043/005, wrong down stairs. He discovered that in rai° hack part of his premises had been brokeri e ' n ' e Pereell once examined the drawers and cases of tu c e " eSW O D" found that watches, jewellery, and plate, to tP h ,„tioe about 2001., were missing. Re wont - to th ° , s „ l- pr, s° ,;" j gave information, when it transpired that t t u e;i o 6 1° 11 wee seen sleeping in the collar of a new u v next dour to his shop, between three and four i ° tio tilip t eo T wh hu en rsd h ay e m wa o g rni f n e g a . eteildeowuneighbOtirP- Cbr Old Rookery. co to Mr. JARDINE asked if id el3 Ibe there was any ey nett the lad with the robbery? , The lS to in n t o h t found untilhoodo, The inspector repliedj iu the negative• oeiok been several times in custody, and he was ' fl i ehic P d; the associate of thieves ; but the inquiries bogi,en been set on foot failed to implicate him 1 0 t b , e he re, D ,to, Mr. Merningten said he suspected that 'rod ' 1 ;10 .0 was committed by boys, for a boy's cap was 1 , (3 ,,d `,/ parlour. The thieves must have been distal' le0" operations, as they left their housebreaking ihlr b m eh oxtr it r ld .. them. JARD INE_ , iv, kr 110 w did the thieves ge' t eo,vol nington replied that they broke °P e ., ° ,0 61 0 0 9 kitchen window. A gang of young thier3o/5000 neighbourhood of New Oxford-street, anti 0 01 of them w ere concerne d i n t hi s ro bbery'. . e ol alar i e tl sl i° The inspect o r sa id th ere was nothing iipo - o g,' lad being i n th e ce ll ar on th e Thursday eaor ed had repeatedly been seen there before. Of n v efi cit 'ap Mr. JARDINE sa id i n the absence a-, te implicate the lad he had no authority to detain The boy was accordingly discharged. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOLITII-C° b 1 1/ RAILWAY. _ e i 85. 10 1 $ , Trallic —Week ending Oct. 18,1851 I ••• ';i'7 l) 10 frailic—Week ending Oct. 19, 1850 „,"";'I7S Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... Total of the half-year, to this date, 1810 ••• Passengers ... „„ 5 " Goods „.. `2, o "' Total ... £11,8 57 6 10 Total miles open, 1851, 173 1 e f ; ditto, 18 00 t London Terminus, Oct. 20, 1851. co at, , 0 0, DEAT rr OF MAJOR-GENERAL ID° 7 : . CoLP,4 Major-General Herbert Bowen, of the East 1 1 lu'' seg l ipoi l l , service, and Colonel of the 19th Ben died on the IGth inst., aged 70 years. lie 133 „ i d t At t ij ,: l , / years of active service in India, and vvas Pf" e 51i g. 46 1. meeived the jai , ' ; turn of Java, in 1811, for which hel l a iii medal. In 1838, Major-General Bowen W c C° /I Companion of the Bath. .. c . .. I iii: i. ,' / CAB REFORM,—.A. correspondent a• - •; ;‘ , 5 e . 004er• r reform is at last to be carried out. A P ab '' - ely " 11 4 3 r enter an .. co o e gal Infantfiseo op forming for that purpose, on a principle from the present system, and completely puttliotli jif all extortion and imposition, now so loudly an% 0/ 16 ,j 1.1 ' 0 comPVetfa c plained of. The fare will be reduced to 4d. P e i ;,,,,, ai l jil ,3 ries are intended to be supplied by the driver will bs under as strict regulations as to io / Police force." ill 116 4 11 t i The stay of the Court at Windsor :at ' l O, about a month, when her Majesty will PaY la - A tbe..ao, l Osborne house, after which the Queen 8 , 11- „, rfi l ' i : , family will return for the Christmas to Wil lus a ' n l / 35 ' Yi usual holiday entertainments will take plac e, ""nes o ' 41 4 jesty will receive a successitat of distinguished g - a 5 0 ,, ,,, ,4 1 / REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH NORTI;t, t l37s ' —lt is generally expected that w. B. Bea eat t I° Bywell, will come forward on the liberal interes- v i sin Qf N9rtlall/11/4/1411cl.wiracCOStiC OrtilliCie. 1 Aberdeen •• •• Aberdeen, No. 2, 7 pr. ct. Caledonian IOL • • • • Chester and Holyhead .. Dund. Per. & Aber. June. East Anglian (31. 10s.) 6 per cent. • • Eastern Counties Eaten., 5 per cent. No. 1 .. Do. No. 2 Do. Wew 6 p. cent. Stock Eastern Union, Scrip guaran. 6 par cent. Do. 101. Daben. Shares . East Lancashire. 6 per cent. quarter shares .. H. &W. York. June. sths Edln. Per. &Dun. 51 p. et. Glasgow & S.-W. Coml. Gt. Northern, 5 per cent. De., 5 p. c. Redeem. Scrip Great South. & Western (Ireland) eighths Gt. western ( Ssrks and Hants ) x., 5 per Cent.) Lancashire and York shire, F. 201... Do. 6 per ct. Stock .. Leeds Northern, 6 per cent., No. 1.• • • Do. quarters, 1848 .. London, Brighton, and P. Coast, guar. 5 per et. De. pref.,!s p et. 5k,1851 , Do. new guar.. 6 per et. Lon. & N. West. (Coy. & Nuneat.) 5 per cent. .. London &S.-W., new •• 1 Manch., Sheffield, and Line., guar. shrs., No. 1 Do. new, 101. Do., 61. • • .. Midland Con. 6 p. c. stock Do. (;ousel. Bristol & Binning., 6 per cent... Do. Bristol & Glouces. Do., Leic. & Swanning., 8 per cent. guar. ~ Nortodt Extension .• Do. gaar. 5% per cent. l l North British .. .. Oxf.Wor. 24%, 01. 151.6 p.c Shrewsbury and Birm. New Guaranteed .. Shrews. and Ches. (Nor. W. Min.) 8 per cent. South Devon &nth-Eastern, p. et. York, Newc., and Bern., Gt. N. of E. Par. .. York and North Midland H. and 8. Purch. Boulogne and Amiens Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) •• Dutch Rhenish .. East Indian Do. do. do. .. Great Indian Peninsula .• Ditto ditto .. .. Louvain ala Sambre .. Luxembourg . • .. .. Ditty, II al( Shares .. Ditto, Quarter Shares Madrid and Valenti* .. Maria Antonia Ditto, New .. Namur and Liege .. Northern of France .. Orleans and Bordeaux .. Paris and Orleans .. Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Rouen and Havre .. Sambre and Meuse .. ?ours and Nantes .. Tonrnay, Jurbise, Lin den, and Thuiselt K. Woirtftwuders. tri 6% —1% 15 —IN 14 14 a 1)4 —1% 4 —34 P % dis. par x.d 141% 11 9% - 10% • • NNE • • 1M - N till. • • OM .. 13% la% Xi .- 1% P, %- 1 P. 129 - 131 •• "" 94 P •• •• p • • 00 •i 2M stli p. 10% -11% 11% - 12 % - 36 P 147 - 129 •• ... •• 16 . 16 4 —4% 4% 5 % dis — par 9%-10% 15% - 16 12 -14 lb% 16% 3% —4% FOREIGN. 10 - 103( . - •• t2}4 .. 2% 1% —1% dia. 16% 12% 5% b 55 die. 2% 2 n P. % - % P. % - % P. 7 -8 i% — 3 34 x 6y6-7 la% —144 5 —4% d. 83 —35 iiii —22% 6% —6% die. 8 U —8% 2% —3% 10 93( Ms. " atm 174, 1 . % TaG 515 i 74 % lli % 15% 16 17 6L% NO 8 6 It 15% % 4% 33% 34 40% 1 4 81 53%%% 54% 9334 113% 111 3( 24 13% 2% 81 ii 46%1(% 47% 1 13 4 47 1 4 100 8M P 4 1 0 104 13 12% 16 2-3 all 126 1 % 12),‘ s ls% % 10 2 2716 s 13t1 1 o}4 Paid. 17% 100 100 12)4 101 all all Cl 1 6)4 100 all al i 6 all 8 3i, 9 9 6) %