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To be had of all Booksellers, T HE REV. R. COBBOLD'S WORKS, PUBLISHED BY MR. COLBUZN. A SECOND EDITION of ZE N ON. An Historical Narrativa. 3 vols., 21s. bound. TT A SECOND EDITION of the HISTORY of ANNE WILLING TON. 1 vol., with Plates, 10s. I. bound. _ A FIFTH EDITION of the HISTORY of MARGARET CATCH. POLE. 1 vol., with Plates, 10s. tid. bound. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. TITS law WORK, EDITED BY JAMES MORIER, ESQ. In Three Toll., post Bvo., S T. It 0 C H E, A Romance, from the German, Edited by JAMES MORIER, Esq., Author of " Hajji Baba," "Zohrab," Stc., Is Published This Day, And may be had at every Library. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY CHARS AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends Mid the Public for their continued support and patronage, and announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., ake place every WimitzsuAr. at One o'clock, (instead of Tuesday and Priday, at hitherto), at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfally requested to be addressed. AR Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day preview; to their being offered ; and advises of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds imme diately disposed of according to instructions. N.B. Sales and purchases of all descriptions of stook and shares s *fisted by private wntract, every day, as usual. Oaceii. Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. M. JU'LLININ'S ANNUAL SERIES OF CONCKRTS. For Oite Month only. Last Week of Miss Dolby. PIiOGRAMME FOR THIS E*ENTIT. G. Psz7L—Overtnre, Fra Diavolo, Auber —Quadrille, the Chinese gpadrille, Inllien—Solo, Violoncello, Signor Pistil, Piatti—Valse, the Witches in Macbeth, itospel , —Xew Ballad " Smile, Mary, ray dar ling," sang by Miss Dolby, Baker—New Quadrille, The Swiss Qinadrills, Jiglllen. Part IL—Opera, "Robert le Diable, grand selection, with Solos for Bassoon, Oboe, and Cleronet, performed by M. Banmaa, M. Barret, ant Mr. Lawns, Mayerbeer—Polka, Carriol, Kcenig—Grand selec tion from Rossini' celebrated &abet Mater, with Solos by M. Pros pers and Barr Koenig, Rossini—National Song, " The Swiss Girl," sang by Miss Dolby, Linley—Valse, the Redowa, Jn.llion--Solo, Molls, M. Balaton, SaLuton—Napolltaine, or Terentella des Salons, Jullien. _ The Consort sommencea at Eight, and terminates before Eleven. Promenade and Boxes, Is. ; Dress Circle, Se. 64. ; Private Boxes, Ns. 6d., 215., and 325. 64. BAL MASQUE. H. Jnnines Grand Annual Bal Masque will take place on Monday, Nov. 22. and terminate the Season. THEATRE }LOYAL. ILLYMAItILET. Under the Management if Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE LADY OF LYONS. Claude Iteinotte, Mr. Creewick ; Pauline Deschappelles, Miss Helen Faucit. After :which a New and Original Farce, called WHO'S MY 11158 BAND ? Doctor Mall, Mr. Tilbury; Daniel Tootles, Mr. Keeley; Mrs. Smith Thompson, Mrs, W. Clifford ; Sophonisba Mull, Mrs. L. g. Buckingham ; Sally Starch, Mrs. Hunaby. To conclude with HIS LAS r LEGS. O'Callaghan, Mr. Hudson, Rivers, Mr. Tilbury; Charles Rivers, Mr. H. Vandeahoff ; Mrs. Siontague, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Jana Banks, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham. *lnge Monger, Mr. Farrell; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Web aer. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Rezes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Deers open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be performed the celebrated Drama, called VIE GREEN BITSHES ; or, A Himdred Years Ago. Mnrtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Denis, Mr. Callenford ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Grinuidge, Mr. Weight ; Captain Dartois, Mr. Worrell ; Madame St. Aubert, Madame Celeste ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates; Nelly O'Neil, Miss Wool gar To conclude with the Burlesque, entitled TAMING A TARTAR. Count Cracoviesdnskl, Mr. Worrell ; Kickerwhiski, Mr. Paul Bed ford ; Mazourki, Mr. Wright ; Ivan, Mr. Mimpuxl; Monsieur Con p6e, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Strelenski, Mr. Cullenford ; Countess Oraco vieninskl, Miss Woolgar ; Mazourka, Madame Celeste. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doers open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the entitled THE PRIDE OF THE MARKET. Principal characters by Messrs. Buckstone, Leigh Murray, Granby, and Porselle ; Miss H. Gilbert, Mrs. C. Jones, and Madame Vestris. After which, a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. Principal characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. liuckstone, and Mrs. Mac gizmo. To conclude with USED UP. The Interior of the House has boon entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Braderell of the Colosseum. Dress Boxes, se. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No half-prise to any part of the house. The Xew Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Puirlie erery day, from Ten to S. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, En:age:meat of Mr. MACKEADY_and MISS CUSHMAN. TIIIS EVENING Writ be performed Shakspeare's Play of KING lIENRT VIII King Henry Eighth, Mr. Cooper; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. Macready Queen Katherine, Miss Cushman ; Anne Boleyn, Miss Susan Cush man; Lady Denny, Mrs. Selby ; Patience Miss A. Romer. After which, a new Farce entitled A TRIP TO HAMPTON, Principal characters by Messrs. S. Cowell, Nerille, Howard, Harris, Mrs. Selby, and Miss Villars. After which, the Farce of THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM. Dress Circle, Is.: Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. .ttiYAL SURREY TILEATRE, Lessee. Mn. F. Daridge, arvidge-terrAce,Kensingten-read. _ Surrey. THIS TIVENLGIr, the performances wM eommcnce with the celebrated Opera of THE ENCHANTRESS Doke D'Aquilla. Mr. H. Hornoastle ! Don SsPria, Mr. W. Harri son; Raniir, Mr. Borrani . Stella, Miss Romer. To eonelnde with a new and original Drama, entitled THE TRA.- TELLER'S P.OO H. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Vining, 11. Hagises, T. Fredericks, Lewis, Omberry, and Mrs. W. West. A distiact entrance to the private boxes has been made (which have been re-fitted). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the erinelpal Librarians ; and at the Box-office It the Theatre, which is open gaily fro= Ten until Four. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, tStl. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be presented a new Drama, entitled TILE 31EliCHA.NT'S CLERK. A Love Story. After which, a new Drama entitled THE BOTTLE, from Oruik shmtsit's celebrated Work of the same name. To colleted. with the Ballet of THE FA.RIIER'S MAN. Boxes, ie. ; Halt-price, 6.1.; tit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. Deere open at Six, to commence at Half-past Six. ASTLEY'S ROYAL A.NEriIITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager, Mr. William Batty. Last Week of the Cataract of the Ganges. THIS EVENING The Grand Spectacle or THE CATARACT OF THE GANGES. Built,lv acw SC011(9 In the Arena, by the talented Artistes of the erstatntekment, in thc carious modes et equestration. To ceoetnatt with the Ballet, NORM!, THE PRIOR OF XIL DARR. Bea-office *pea frOra 11 till 5. Aedin; and stage Manager, Mr. W West, 21:E WEATLiEIt.—SuN OFFICE, Nov. 5. THERM )EATER, Lowest, 43; Highest. 46 ; Noon, 44, BAROMETER, 30.05.—W1ND S.E.; fine. n 14411 WATER AT LONDON-111tIDGE THIS DAY. Morning.. 4 minutes after 12. 1 Evening .. 26 :minute's after 12, A. eek• i ; ,•:-. 1 fa'vl, 4ite, V ~..t„‘ v" i4l4vi ~ imr,:.', , „,, .... c m ‘,. lop, _ z,.., 1 ' li . io A .141Abi. 14 -111,1114ANiku;P:i - :,,i,. ~,..; ,07-404-tri,-.A. ,, :, a ..,,,,,' • 0,. 1, , , ,, .. ,- ---• ~-. icialmc,.-I'tx;i_.:". • .ce- , ~. , ‘(* Wax_ ! LONDON, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 5, 1847. We would willingly coincide with the Chairman of the East India Company, in regarding yesterday evening as a most auspicious evening for the Supreme Government of llindostan. The congratulatory banquet which W 33 then given at the London Tavern to the Eight llon. the Earl of DALHOUSIE, the newly-appointed Governor-General of India, and the cordial enlogiums uttered upon the persona] character and administrative talents of that nobleman, not merely by the mercantile potentates of Leaden hall-street, but by the most distinguished members of the present Administration, constitute more than a merely complimentary inauguration of his govern ment in the Asiatic peninsula. The illustrious Peer has been initiated into his new dignity by more than the mere table-talk of men coaxed into good humour by the raciness of tokay or the lusciousness of turtle. In the applause bestowed upon the successor of Lord HMI.. DINeE we recognise more than idle palaver. Earnest as were the encomiums with which his name was associated, they were tempered by the mention of the profound and onerous responsibilities of the splendid charge re signed to the protection and direction of his intelli gence. With sufficient pomp to dazzle his imagination and sufficient authority to unsettle his judgment, the Carl of DALHOUSIB hears at the moment of his ele vation a warning voice as solemn as that which pene trated the ears of the Macedonian PHILIP. While the Chairman of the East Indian Directors reminds bun that he has been summoned to rule over " the most magnificent al empire that has ever been ac quired by • thew isd o o u rn r of the soldier, or " re tained by the recals to his reco ll ection of the statesman, he t namerous and stupendous Chltleethe same time the h• him simultaneously w ith that e w xa lch devolve upon The fact is brought to his rememb er appointment. Governor-Gene ralship of India neoesa ran ita ranee, that the administration otthe affairs of a territor y tesa vigilant containing very many millions of the human race, "diversified ' their character, professing different religions , in distinct in their habits, in their feelings, in their moral an d p h r i g alcharacteristics." He is told in an authoritati ve manner that his task is one requiring extraordinary capacities, both of command and conciliation—that a system of legislation is expected from his hands, at once vigorous and temperate—that he must be a sa gacious financ ier, and an active administrator —that be must be familiar with all judicial intricacies and ca pable of directing the commer cial enter p rize of a vast and diversified population. Beyond all this he is re rainded that he will have to pass through the ordeal of a comparison with those distinguished statesmen who have preceded him in the direction of the Anglovernment, and that that ordeal will be 11 0 ( 4 4:74etraried by the curiosity of his contem -1 " ---tVtieji'martiality of future historians. "' ere arvteetivioafes *tow, in all conscience, that the - Panegyriits of th e Earl of DALHOUSIE did not degenerat, luta *m. lien are reasons enow, in all conscience, why that noble man should enter upon his administration with sentiments of awe and modesty rather than those of a vain-glorious confidence. Looking, as he himself acknowledges, to the memorable statesman who had already trodden the ground upon which he was about to adventure, he might readily feel solici tous as to the comparison. Remembering the mili tary genius of CLIVE, the immense and versatile ca pacities of HASTINGS, the vigorous intelligence of Wm...LEsixr, the ardour of MOIRA, the assiduity of BENTINCK, and the patriotic devotion of HARDINGE, it is not surprising that Lord DALHOUSIE should mani fest no inconsiderable anxiety as to the future estimate of his career, when contrasted with that of his re nowned predecessors. That these considerations are fully appreciated by the new Governor-General is ob vious from the whole tenour of his address yesterday evening, and we trust the same sense of his responsi bilities will be manifest from the tenour of his entire Administration. Following as he does in the footsteps of Lord HAIIDINGB, Lord DALHOUSIE will find an opportunity, we take it, for the better demonstration of his regard for equity, peace, and prudential improvement. The brilliant achievements of a military character, which have imparted a lustre to his immediate forerunner, will render the quies cence of his own rule as Governor-General more possible, and the gradual consolidation into one homogeneous empire of so many and such heterogene • ous principalities, will facilitate in a remarkable manner the introduction amongst the Asiatic race of the more solid benefits of civilization. It was avowed yesterday evening, by the Earl of DALHOUSIE, that his loftiest ambition, as Governor-General of India will be the promotion of the immediate com fort of the people entrusted to his charge, and the development of such sources of prosperity and wealth as must tend to their permanent social and moral improvement. It is a noble ambition—an ambition preferable to that of territorial aggrandizement, and more remunerative than the least perilous and most costly spoliation. Should the new Governor-General, for example, be instrumental during his continuance in authority, in effecting the establishment of ex tensive railroad communication in India, he will have thereby entitled himself to the gratitude of the mother country, as well as of British India, of posterity as well as of the present generation. For upon that extraordinary facilitation of transit throughout the fertile provinces of Hindos tan! England will no longer remain dependent upon the cotton-growers of the United States. A con tinual and abundant supply of the raw material pulled from the pods of the cotton plants grown by the Asiatics will be thereby brought into direct competition with what has been hitherto almost en tirely imported from the American plantations. A want of more rapid and less expensive transit has heretofore crippled the cotton trade of Hindostan, the laying down of railways would at once open speedy and reasonable lines of communication, and the open ing of those lines of communication would render Great Britain more independent, and India more capable of affording profitable employment to its many millions of inhabitants. Keeping such practical considerations as these in view, and animated through out by those patriotic and conscientious principles which he expressed yesterday evening in the presence of her MAJESTY'S Ministers and of the Directors of the East India Company, Lord DA.LHOUSIE need feel no trepidation as to his labours being regarded as dis entitled to the national gratitude, when contrasted with the brilliant services of Lord Hammon, or the memorable deeds of those renowned statesmen who have at different periods held their Court and orga nized their Government in the palace of Calcutta. The deputation from Birmingham, appointed at the meeting held in that,town on the 22d ult., had an interview yesterday with Lord JOHN RUSSELL. As we predicted, some plain and wholesome truths were spoken in homely but vigorous language. The baneful operation of the present monetary system was clearly pointed out, and forcibly commented on. The total inadequacy of the recent Government measure for the relief of the existing distress, and the utter impossibility of merchants or manufacturers borrow ing money for the purpose of investing it in their trades, when the minimum rate of the Bank of England was 8 per cent. on the most unexceptionable securities, was explained. That rate might possibly be submitted to for a short period, and loans might be taken ; but as Mr. MusTz truly stated, if such was the case, "it would only be to meet engagements already entered into and pressing upon them, but in no case to embark it in any new undertaking." It must be obvious to any one pos sessing the slightest knowledge of trade, that no business could continue in a prosperous or even solvent state if such a rate of interest was to be paid or the capital with which it was carried on. If a stoppage was to take place, and the affairs of the concern were brought before the Court of Bank ruptcy, the Commissioner would seize on the mere fact of the payment of such a rate of interest as a sufficient reason for the suspension of the certificate, and would announce that it was an undoubted proof of the want of solvency of the parties, their consenting to pay a price for money accommodation which no fair profits could justify. It might be said, that parties should not embark in trade on borrowed capital, or speculate upon funds belonging to other parties, but no man will embark his own money in trade or commerce, and encounter all the risk of loss, the fatigue and personal exertion incidental thereto, unless he has a reasonable pros pect of realising profits far more considerable than those which he could obtain by lending his money to other parties. The trouble and casualties attendant on business will not be undertaken without some power ful motives to influence the parties thereto. It can not either be said, that the merchant's or manufac • turer's gains are in proportion to the valuelsf money, or that he will obtain better prices for his goods, in consequence of the increased cost of their production, but, on the contrary, it is quite the reverse, and produce of every description is depreciated as the rate of interest is enhanced, sales are forced, goods are disposed of for whatever they may bring, in order that the manufacturer or importer may escape from the hands of the money-lender. The continuance of such exorbitant rates of interest for any prolonged period must act as a total prohibition to our manu factures—must effect the cessation of employment of every description. We shall not now speculate on the fearful consequences that would inevitably follow such a state of things. We shall not permit ourselves even to conjecture the extremity of suffering to which the people might be reduced, or the lengths to which they might go, in their resistance thereto, or in their opposition to a Government by which it was sanctioned. We do not believe that the present Ministry can remain insensible to the misery of the great bulk of the people, or to the causes to which those evils may fairly be ascribed. Of the three great parties into which the Legislature is divided, and from which alone a Cabinet could be selected, the Whigs hare ever, shown themselves most alive to the grievances by which the public have been afflicted, and the most ready to afford remedies there for. It is to their exertions that we are indebted for all the great reforms that have been introduced to the Legislature, and by which the popular liberties have been advanced. If they were not in power when the boons have been granted, the concessions were chiefly owing to the indignant eloquence with which they denounced the evils, and the determined energy with which they demanded the alteration and revision of the erroneous laws. To them, therefore, do we turn with the greatest hope ; it is at their hands that we may look for relief. But they must not be contented to remain stationary. They must not be satisfied to interpose objections to every sug gestion that is offered for the regeneration of their country and the amelioration of the condition of the people. They must exhibit vigour and energy to rescue the nation from the daners by which it is en v T ir h o e ned. question is one essential) great bulk of th e y relating t o th e class. Others will undoubtedly peopl e , t o the ent-ire, of the wor ki ng affected by the result, b u t i t will i of e the more or les s be e m v ost vital , , importance—a matter of lif e and death —to y depending on his daily labou r f or hi s dailyer l)rme amid. There is no possible mode of accounting for the general distress that is unhappily to be found in every part of the country, but by ascribing it to the fatalhive y other o e l e r r ationof er the e m le o m n e e n y t law of s. pArotsptheisritmy7 n me r nt weee weeks have not elapsed since there was a national thanksgiving for the bounteous and abundant harvest with which the ALMIGHTY has been pleased to favour us. There is no lack of a demand for the productions of our skill and industry—foreign orders have been more nume rous than heretofore ; there is no want of the raw material for our manufactures, nor are the prices thereof by any means unreasonable ; and there are no large stocks on hand which must be disposed of before the people can be employed in producing more ; and yet, with all these fair prospects, we are enduring almost unparalleled distress. Our operatives are cast out of employment, our merchants and traders involved in ruin, and there is a general stagnation of our manufactures. The cup of prosperity that is within our reach is snatched from our very lips by the ruthless laws which theorists have forced upon us in opposition to the repeated remonstrances of our prac tical men. The system is radically defective, the foundation is rotten, and must be altogether abandoned. There must be a total alteration. The question should not be what can be done consistently with a gold standard or a silver standard. A still more comprehensive view must be taken, and the in quiry must be, what is best suited to the wants of the people, by what means can the greatest amount of national prosperity be obtained, and how can it be permanently retained. We are not without lights to guide and direct us, we may refer to the history of former years, and we shall find that general prosperity, a happy, contented, and fully employed people, were ever to be found when there was an abundant circulation, and that when that circulation was diminished and became scanty, the most painful results were apparent. There is an abundant foundation on which a statesman may work, with credit to himself and advantage to the country—on which we trust the Whig Ministers may raise a durable erection, that will conduce to their own fame, and remain to future ages a "monu , menton acre perennius." The Federal Gazette of Switzerland, of the 31st ult., announces that, in consequence of the present state of things, it. will provisionally discontinue its publication in a regular way, but will publish a bul letin of events, without comments. A meeting of the Swiss Diet was held on the evening of the 30th ult. to take into consideration the report of the Committee charged to present proposi tions relative to the difficulties made by Neufchatel with respect to the calling out of its contingent. The Committee proposed that the Diet should decide that Neufchatel should be summoned to call out its contin gent immediately, and to place it at the disposition of the Federal Commandant, making it responsible for the consequences of its refusal or delay, with a reserve to the Diet to take further measures. After the Com- mittee's report was read, the deputy of Thurgau, who drew it up, contended that Neufchatel could not be permitted to take a neutral position, as it pre tended itself entitled to do. A letter was next read from the deputy of .Neufchatel to the President of the Diet, protesting against troops being sent to that canton. The deputy of Neufchatel then argued that his state could not and ought not to be called on to co-operate with a military force in carrying into effect a decree against confederates whose convictions it shares. The deputies of Zurica, Glaris, Soleure, Schaffhausen, Appenaell Exterior, Saint Gall, Argau, Thurgau, Tessino, Vaud, Geneva, and Berne, main tained that Neufchatel was bound to obey the orders of the Diet ; and the deputies of AppenzeU Exterior, and Bale Ville, spoke in favour of Neuf chatel. In the course of his speech the deputy of Berne stated that the Envoy of the King of Pius SIA had waited on him on the previous day, and had expreesed in his Majesty's name the desire that the troops should not be called out, to whom he replied that he would communicate that desire to the competent authorities. The Deputy of Neufchatel demanded that his protest against the military occu pation of that canton should be inserted in.the pro tocol. A decision was then come to, when the proposition of the Committee was adopted by the twelve states and two half states of the majority. The Diet subsequently decided, on the proposition of the Federal Council of War, that the cantons which do not make part of the Sunderbund shall be required to hold their reserve or landwehr in readiness, in order that the Federal military authority may be able to dispose of it. A letter from Berne of the SOth says— " The incident of the abrupt retreat of the Depu ties of the League, after the result of the vote on their sretended conciliatory propositions had been made known, was a scene concerted beforehand; what proves this most clearly is, that half an hour had not passed before they had all quitted Berne. Their de parture caused a sensation only in this sense, that it put an end to negotiations, the inutility of which was known beforehand. At present the preparations for the struggle are redoubled; couriers and aides-de camp are being dispatched in all directions ; troops, waggons filled with ammunition, and baggage-carts are continually passing, and Switzerland may be said to be one vast camp. The city of Berne scarcely con tains a man between 20 and 30 years of age, all having repaired to the cantonments of the troops to which they belong. M.l3lanchenay, President of the Coun - cif of State of the canton of Vaud, arrived yesterday evening at Berne, charged with a mission from his Government. The troops of his canton, he says, to the number of 32,000, had learned with the deepest disappointment that there was some idea of nego. tiating with an arrogant minority; they would be well pleased to hear that the moment had come to measure themselves with adversaries who affected contempt for Vaudese troops. The zeal of these troops exceeds all expression, without their discipline suffer ing in the slightest degree. Letters from Zug an nounce that a large number of clear sighted Conser vatives are joining the Liberals to bring about the withdrawal of that canton• from the Sonderbund. The foreign Ministers only wait for the decree of execution, which the Diet is to render, to quit the Swiss terrltorv. En attendant, the envDy RoSsia, Vrussia:„ and Bavaria have been here for several days. The 'Minister of Prussia, M. de Sydow, yesterda3 paid a visit to M. Ochsenbein, to declare that he was charged to support the demand of Neufchatel not to furnish any military contingent to the army that is to proceed against the Sonderbund. This question, however, is to be decided to. day, for the Diet is con voyed for this evening to discuss the grave incident raised by the refusal of the Government of the canton principality. The last accounts from the canton of Vaud announce that nearly the whole of the troops of the Valais are concentrated on the extreme frontier of the Vaudese territory, which leads to the idea that an invasion of that territory is intended in order to be able to render assistance to the people of Friburg, who will probably have to support the first attack. Colonel Ruliet, who commands the western division, has already directed his attention to this point, and has placed there a sufficient cordon of troops with plenty of artillery. I learn this moment that four divisions (of Ruliet, Bourckhardt, Donatz, and Ziegler), have already received orders to march, and that several reserved battalions were to-day called out to reinforce the other troops." Madrid papers of the 29th ult. have arrived. The Gaceta announces the appointment of the Marquis of MTRAFLORES as Governor of the Palace, and of the Duke of BAYLEN (CAsTaxos), as Captain- General of the Royal Halberdiers. The rumour that EiPARTERO had accepted the English Embassy appeared to gain credence in Madrid. The notorious General MAROTO died recently at Santiago, in Chili. Rumours of the accession of blox and PIDAL to the Cabinet, continue to prevail. MADRID BOLSA, OCT. 29.—The Three per Cents. were done at 26k, at fifty days ; the Five per Cents. at 16k, at forty-nine days ; the Debt without Inte rest, si, for paper; and the Coupons at 12i. We h ve received the Paris papers of Wednesday. They all comment on the affairs of Switzerland, and reflect with deserved severity on the course which the French Government is pursuing with re gard to Swiss affairs. The Constitutionnel takes a view of the fallacious offers of the Sonderbund nearly similar to that which we presented to our readers yesterday. It says— " To temporise, to negotiate, to wait until the snow should have rendered the roads impracticable to maintain temporalily the status quo, and to strike with non-execution the decisions of the Diet, was probably the project of the States of the Sonderbund. This is what they imagined; they proposed to the majority to submit to the arbitration of the Pope the two getpiouaweznte:igsontegnoirouwisietihs§acteeeoi:fiiitsthdt.e Jesuists and of the convents of Argau. This was to demand from the Diet a complete abdi gwheael:del:eaelgiar4Del;yiddleytin:ipsicitnregiotunatocLdenpbtoctyeiuintgh:egwtcatti:ianmutslp_ttduaetchhtgiaeuvtsoee. declared implicty that the federal majority was no isilE SUN, LO N ON, FRIDAY EVEN NOVEMBER 5, 1847. solute and unlimited sovereignty of these little states was a right and a fact, and that foreign powers alone or force could decide their differences. As if to carry their doctrinesto absolute absurdity, the seven cantons de sired to have the question of the convents of Argau, pre viously decided by the Diet and by the canton inte rested in the matter, should be again transported before a foreign Sovereign ! If the Diet had acceded to such a proposition, it destroyed for ever all federal power in Switzerland, and substituted for the com pact pure anarchy. The same was the case for the final proposition of the Sonderbund, that both parties should disarm in order to negotiate. As negotiations can be pursued perfectly well without laying down arms, there was nothing there but a means of delay, and of course it was not admitted. At the bottom, in all these diplomatic acts of the last few days, not a single step was made towards conciliation. It must even be declared that men's minds roused on both sides, after mutual challenges and long preparations for war, could with difficulty be calmed down to the coolness and patience necessary for negotiations. Conciliation was, however, not the less the easiest thing in the world. It depended particularly at the last moment, on seven individuals—seven priests—to cause arms to fall to the ground on both sides, and establish peace. Ah ! if in place of this manifesto, drawn up in the style of Escobar, and which argues longly that there is no such thing as Switzerland ; that there exist only twenty-two states, as independent of each other as England or France, and united only , fur defence and, the confirmation of that absolute in dependence ; if, in the place of that manifesto, that cold, diffuse, and subtle piece of special pleading, the Journal des Debuts had published a simple and dig nified letter from the seven Jesuits of Lucerne, an nouncing that they withdrew in order to avoid the effusion of blood, what a difference there would be in the results, and what applause throughout the whole world." The National concludes a most eloquent philippic against the Government in these words : " Assuredly if it were permitted to the Minitfty to abandon neutrality, it ought not to be for the advan tage of the Sonderbund. Let our Government not alarm itself at the chances of a possible war, when a threatened nationality has to be defended; let it in tervene for Poland or for Italy, and the country will willingly follow it in that generous path. Is it not for the honour and also for the interest of France to come in aid to oppressed nations ? and do we not represent the ideas of emancipation and of liberty in the world ? For this noble cause, destroy the treaties of Vienna, the shameful witness of our defeats, and we will applaud your courage, we will praise your initiative without disquieting ourselves with the dis content of Europe. But you who have permitted Austria to shed the blood of Gallicia, Russia to de stroy Poland—you who yesterday crushed the Por tuguese insurrection, and who to-day leave trembling Italy to struggle under the burden of the yoke—you have lost the right to erect yourselves into protectors of the cause of minorities put down by a tyrannical Government." We find the following in the Courrier Francais— " We learn; by a recent letter from Constantinople that an Envoy Extraordinary from the Pope had arrived in that city, for the purpose of treating with the Porte upon the question of the Lebanon. Our Ambassador assumed that the protection of the Ca tholic population belonged exclusively to France, and insisted that it was for him alone to open conferences with the Divan for the protection of the Maronites. At the date of this last piece of news the couflict arising out of this question was not settled." M. PARMENTIF,R, who was convicted of corruption with General CUBIERES and M. TESTS, died a few days since at Lure. The KING held a Cabinet Council at St. Cloud on Monday to consider the question of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of MoeTreetssert to Spain, and it was determined that it would not be expedient thatlikey should visit Spain at present. Probably the Duchess is not yet sufficiently denationalised to serve the pur poses of the Afrancesados. It is said that Louis PHILIPPE has remonstrated warmly with the POPE on the subject of the alleged intention of his Holiness to grant a divorce to QUEEN ISABELLA, and that the Pore has, in consequence, determined not to grant it. Lord BROUGHAM has arrived at Cannes. The Moniteur publishes the following on the sub ject of the transit of corn by the Rhine:— Towards the end of last year difficulties arose between some of the powers on the banks of the Rhine relative to the free circulation of corn on that river. The Governments of Wurtemberg, Nassau, liesse-Darmstadr, and Bavaria, having subjected the exportation of grain to a Customs' duty of 25 per cent., the Bavarian Administration believed itself en titled to levy this tax on the freights forwarded before the establishment of the export duty, from different points situated out of its territory, ascending towards France, and which reached Hamburgh at the moment of the promulgation of this duty. This pretension reposed on an error. In fact the export duties must be levied at the very moment of exportation, and by the states from which it is made. Subsequently, in course of conveyance, the expedition enters into the category of transit operations to which the Conven tion of Mayence, of May 31, 1831, on th e nav i gat i on s a complet e lib er t y . Thi s i s hsumGe'overnment maintained, in con owfhathtethßehiln,er,enacs junction with that of Prussia. Our representations in this sense produced no effect, an d su b sequent l y the question of principle laid down by us relative to the system of grain having been examined, it has been decided by the powers on the banks of the river that for the future the conveyance of corn on the Rhine shall take place, both in ascending and de scending, without obstacles, and free from all tax." The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Wednesday at 76f. 40c. ; the Five per Cents., 115 f. 85e. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,178 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 9121. 50c.; Tiavre, 515 f. ; Great Nor thern, 5421.50 e. ; Avignon, 5 321.50 c. ; Vierzon, 545 f.; Bordeaux, i 5 : Dieppe, Boulo gne , 3501. ; T royes and 3 ppe, 2451. ; Bask, 150 f. ; P a ri s onter e a t , 4 2 6 3 7 0 1 f. and Strasburg, 412 f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes, 391 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 4021. 50c.; Lyons and Avignon, 472 f. 50c. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 28g. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NOVEMBEX 4. Boulogne and Amiens? 14 —Dutch Rhenish, 24—Orleans and Bordeaux, 43,' i —Paris and Lyons, 6!g—Paris and Stras bourg, 4—Rouen and Havre, 20—Sambre and Meuse, 4 3 / 4 —Tours and Nantes, COWES;ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NOVEMBER 4. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. SAILED—The Ariel schooner, of 118 tons, Almon Hill, EA., for the Alec:lterranean ; the Fairy schooner, of 143 ton, Sir Hyde Parker, Bart., has proceeded for the same destination. Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart. (the Vice. Commodore of the Squadron), leaves Cowes to-morrow, with his family, for the season. His yacht is in a very forward state, and is expected to be re a dy t o t a k e L a d y G ra h am up the Mediterranean in January next. The Secretary has sold Lord Seaham's yacht the Wave, Mr. Miles's Flower of Yarrow, and Mr. Bower's Falcon yacht, Sir Edward Paget and family have removed from Egypt House to Oakfield Lodge, in East Cowes Park. J. Campbell Dickers, Esq., has taken Egypt House for the winter, and is expected with his family on Sa turday. TdE BRILLIANT.—This splendid brig, which was re ported to be building for the Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron, is, it now appPara, intended for a Madeira packet. She is 380 tons, has her masts in, and is to be rigged and coppered on the stocks. More than a handred men aro employed on her, and she is to be launched on Tuesday next. The Brilliant is considered one of the finest vessels that Messrs. White have built, a regular clipper, and has had more eyes on her than even the Water Witch. AN UNFORTUNATE SI:MT.—Mr. Selby, of Harnstead Farm, in shooting at a hare yesterday, shot a man. tahnedtr General heCalutbhiedreesc,lindeieddrlaarsitdlwy,eek at Lure. tion of mind, and he never rallied. We have to announce the retirement of Viscount Enfield from the Secretaryship of the Board of Control. His Lordship is succeeded by George Cornewall Lewis, Esq., M.P. for Herefordshire. A circular has been issued to the Members of the Conservative party convening a meeting at the house of Lord Stanley on the morning of the 18th instant, pre paratory to the opening of Parliament. VOLUNTARY GAME REFORM.—The Duke of Marl borough (says the Mark lane Express) has caused an official circular to be addressed to his tenantry, giving them permission to destroy hares and rabbits on their farms by all means in their power, except by the use of guns ; and suggests that the object should be attained, if possible, by the use of greyhounds only. For this concession he expects that they will preserve the winged game, and that he will hereafter have no claims made upon him for injury done to the crops by game. His Grace reserves the uninterrupted right of himself and his keepers to enter upon the lands and kill game. Lord and Lady Holland left town on Wednesday evening for Paris, where they will remain for a week. On return they will enter on the occupation of a man sion in Piccadilly, and there continue until the altera tions at Holland House are completed. STEAM COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NEW YORK AND BREMEN.—We have it on good authority that a state ment which appeared in two of our contemporaries on the Ist inst., to the effect that the line of steamers be tween New York and Bremen will in all probability be discontinued, is entirely without foundation. The railroad train running from Orleans to Tours on Monday evening had a narrow escape from a serious accident. When, at half-past eight o'clock, it had ar rived near Tours, it struck against a large stone fixed with stakes, but fortunately the obstacle was shivered to pieces, and the carriages puled on Without receiving any , MONE;V" and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE, Thti Plies of Cotton at Liverpool yesterdayl7ere 2,500 to 3,01 30 bales, including 1,000 bales American for export. Business was dull, but there was a bett e r feeling. f the inter v i ew b e t ween L or d J o h n R usse l l and the depu, # ation from Birmingham, with reference to epo E r t a . ri'way shares al s o i m p rove d a li tt l e. A r the financial at id commercial difficulties of the country has, of couisef been a matter of g enera l conversat i on i n the leading c h,cles of the City this morn i ng . Th ere ap pears however to - he but little o f nove l ty i n t h e general discussions. Mr. Sa: t, one of th e d eputat i on, spoke out rather strongly, it is th.. l ught as he co m pl a i ne d o f th e extreme ignorance of ters in thei r l eg i s l a ti ng on questions of such vast importa.?co without inquiry, but directly refusing to inquire. It is said his Lord ship was somewhat nettled at this. Certainly is' is not the opinion here that his Lord ship is right that on affording further relief there would be tenfold suffering hereafter. That his Lordship is wavering in his views is absolutely cer tain, for what other construction can be placed to his deliberate reply to an express question from Mr. Salt, whether his Lordship was prepared to grant, at present efficient relief and full inquiry into the effects of the ex isting monetary legislation. The reply is, "I do not say that I will or I will not." It is pretty evident that his Lordship is desirous of going no further without the authority of Parliament. There is a report just now current that an agency house at Plymouth has been placed in difficulties. It is understood that although the firm is on the spot de signated as a banker, yet it has no London banker as its agent here. The principal sufferers will be those locally situated, and probably many connected with the navy have claims upon it. There are not any arrivals In the City this morning from the colonies. Usually the sth of November is a day of fun in the Stock markets with fireworks, &c., but this has been a real business day. Consols for the Account have fluc tuated from 83k to 831, but have since receded to 83. Money Stock has been in ♦ery good demand. The premium on Exchequer-bills has relied to 12s. discount, while the small are at 3s. premium. Consols for immediate Transfer from 83i have just fallen to 83. Bank Stock is 184 to 186 ; East India Stock at 2281 ; India Bonds at 265. discount ; and the New Three-and-a Quarter per Cents. have been at 83i, and at 83 and 83k. The Foreign Funds have been little influenced by the rapid changes in Consols. Brazilian have been at 76k; the New Bonds at 75 ; Danish at 791 ; Portuguese Five per Cent. at 74} ; Spanish Passive at 51 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 53* to 53k. In the Railway Share Market there is more spirit dis played today. Great Western's old aro up about Si. per share, the Midlands are also in request, as well as the York and North Midland. A few of the foreign lines were creeping up a trifle. • ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns B2 82 1 ,4, 81% 81% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities.... 83% IA % 83 83 New 34 per Cent. Anns 8 3% 83 83 1 4 83 Long Anns. to expire Jan. 1860 ... 8 5-16 1 4 _ 8 1 / 4 Ditto, Oct. 10, 1859 ..... ...... 8 1-10 _ - - India Stock 22 8 1/ India Bonda, 1,0004 Ditto under 1,0301... Consols for Account 8 3% '4 % 83 Exchequer Bills. 3d. 1,600/. 500/ .............. ......... l2 17 dis 17 dis Small 011 E CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES Brazilian Bonds Ditto, Small 79 Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 75 75 Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent 79% 79 3 A Equador Bonds Portuguese 5 per Cents. 74% 74% Ditto, 4 per Cent — Ditto, Account — 21% Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Passive Venezuela Bonds, 2 1 / .i per Cent — Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch, 2 1 / 2 per Cent., 12 Guild 53 % 14 /2 53% Ditto. 4 Der Cent. Certificates 81 1 / 2 81 1 / 2 I•RICE6 OF PAM. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING R,...ILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, andEasternJunction 2%..•... Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2 1 A - — Belfast & County Down 10 Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley 10 ... .. 13 IA Birming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Va11ey..... 8 ...... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.— 7 3 / . Boston, Starnfd, & Birm. 5 Bi istol and Exeter 75 Ditto, Thirds Buckinghamshire 101. 4s. — .. •-••— Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares..... 3 3 4 Ditto, Clydesdale June 50 ...... ClPster and Holyhead... 37 1 ,4 21%... ........ ... Ditto, Preference..... 8 •••••• Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Dublin and BelfastJunc 2O Dundalk & Enniskillen 15 East Anglia, 251., L. & E. and L. and D. ...... 25 ...... Do., 181., E. & H.... 18 Do., 31.101,E. &H. 1 Eastern Counties Ditto, Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....... 6/. 13s. 4d... dis. Ditto ditto, No. 2... 61. 135.4 d... 1 / .' 2 dis Do., York Extension.. 10 8 7% Do., North. & Eastern 50 ...... ••• Do., Quarters Do., New 23 Eastern Union Ditto, Quarter Shares 121 Thirds ........13s. 4d Do., (guar. 6 percent) East Lancashire Ditto, New Ditto, New Quartere... 3N tast Lincolnsl;ire 12%..... 11% Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 49 48% 49 Ditto Half Shares ... 15 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% Edii.:2 - )urgh & Northern.. 20 Ditto, New Ditto, Newport ..... ... 7 ...... Ditto, ditto, New . .... Il i i Edinburgh and Perth... 2 Ditto, Extension Ex eter, Yeovil, & Dorch. 2% Ditto, New . . 2% —.- Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle 81.65. 8d Glasgow, K ilmar.o&Ayr 50 Ditto, New .. 40 Do. Preference Consol. 12 1 / z Great Northern 8 Do., London and York 24..... Great South. and West. (Ireland) Great North of England-100 — Ditto, New 401 Ditto, New 30/. 30 Ditto, New 15/. ...... ... 1 1 / l 6 l /2 ............ ti 161 /2 Great Western Ditto, % Shares ... 50 Ditto, , L 4 Shares ...... 15 Ditto, Fifths 2O Ditto, New 17/ Huddersfield & Mooches. 22 ...... Ditto, Thirds .... 7 - Hull and Selby 5O .. ... 98 . Ditto, Half Shares.... 25 - Ditto, v, Shares....... 12% — ... - Ipswich& Bury St. Edm. 15 Do., do., and Norwich 15 Do., do., Extens.Scrip (late Comb. & Ely)... 2% — Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds ..10 -• Lancashire & Yorkshire 82 Ditto I A.. Shares . ... 38 ...... 34 ... ......... Do. Quarter Shares... 14% Do. Fifths Do. Sixteenths ...... .. 6 1 4 Do. Thirds (Reg.)....101. 4s. ... 6% dis 6% dis. Do. Liverp. and Bury 34 Ditto 14 (late Hud dersfield and Sher.) 33 Do.( Wakefield, Ponte fract. & Goole Do. (W. Ridi ng U n ion) 4/ . 2 s 2% dis 2% dis. Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 — Do. % Shares (A) 9 Ditto ditto (B) ... 1% Leeds and Bradford Leicester and Bedford... 16s. — Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 37% — ••••••"-'**** Do., Branch 1 / 2 Shares 12 1 / Do. New Branch(blue) 2% — •••••• Do• Extension (green) 2 1 h- ... Do.NewExt en . (pi n k) 2% Leeds and Thirsk 36 •••••• 17 % Ditto, New 17% 3% .•..... ...... Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3%. ••• Liverpool, Crosby and Southport .............. 2 Liverp., Mnchstr& New • castle Junction 2% London and Blackwall..l6/. 1:35. 4d — ... Do. New, No. 1 Do. New, No. 2 .. 3/ l3s. 4d.... Do. Extension London, Brighton, and 50 South Coast 20 Do. Consol. Eighths.. 30 8%. ..... .. ..... Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. _9 17 1 ,4 31,i 20 41% 8% 45 81,1 Do. Pref. Con.s per ct. 50 ..... . ... ..... , London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d... 8 Ditto, Preference ... 18/1:s 2d... London and N. Western 100 152 150 l5O Do., Quarters L. & B. 17 Do., do., New 8 1 4 Ditto Fifths .........2 ...... --... .. 84 Do. 1 4 Shares (G. J.) 25 _l2 Do 40/.Shares(L.M.) 15 Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40 Do. 101. (M & B.) A. VA Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 7 % ll DO. 101. it. & B.) C. 1 o Lond. & S.Western 411. 6s. 8d 5 5 1/ 54 1 ,E:... .. Do. New ConsoL Btlis 40 Do. New 50/. ... 0000 . 32 1 ,1 .. Do. New 40/. 26 ... . Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50 Ditto ditto ... Ditto, Thirds 61.135. 4d.... 3i dis 34 clis. London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ..... .... ........ 1 1 ,1...... Londonderry &Coleraine, 27%. — —.... Londonderry and Ennis killen 23%...... ............. Manchester,Buxton,and Matlock 3 Manchester, Sheffield, end Lincolnshire ...100 Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 7% Ditto and Grimsby.... 25 Ditto ditto . ......... 7 Ditto ditto ... 4% Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 7l/ Hand; est. & Southampt. VA...—. ••• . Mildand lOO lOB 109 ....• 109 Do. Consolidated Pref.100 Do. 401. Shares Do. 501. Shares lO Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Midland Consol.Brkit. & Binning., 6 per ceot.100 Miclind, Brist. &Glocstr. 34 ...... Ditto, ditto 7l9s — ..... .... — Midlnd, Leicest. & Swan nington, 8 per ct.guar. 50 Midland Great Western Irish Newcastle and Carlisle...100 Do. Quarters Newmrket&Chesterford 13% Do. Extension .........21..125.... Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford 4 ...... Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor Norfolk .......... ........ —.lOO Do. New 20/. - ..... ..••.. • Do. Extension Do. &kip, 1847, North of Norfolk Do, do. Waveney Val. 2 Northern Coui2 ties Union 4 — North British ... ... 25 ...... 25 1 4 1 4 Do. Half Shares 1 2 14...... 114 ... Do. Quarters 4% — . Do. Extension Ditto Thirds 1 ...... % North Staffordshire 7 l / 2..»- 7143% 1/ North Wales North Western • 6 Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton 35 ... .. Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Royston and Ilitchin 1% — ........ Scottish Central Scottish Midland 17% — ...» Ditto, New Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole Shrewsbury and Birm... 6 Ditto ditto, Class B. 3 ...... Shrewsbury & Chester ( Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 Ditto Oswestry .. 12 Ditto New Shrewsbury and Herefd 2 ...... Shropshire Union Soutn Devon... Do. Preference South Staffordshire 2/. 125.... South Eastern & Dover 33% 2B 27% Do., No. 1 2O Do., .Nc 2. Do,, .No. 3 Do., No. 4 South Wales l5 South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Uoole 2 Swans. ic Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. C0a1.... 4 .....••.• .. Taw Vale Extension ... 4 Thames Haven Dock and Railway ........... Vale of Neath 4 Waterford and Kilkenny 13 1 k., — Waterford and Limenck 33 — Waterfd, and Dubhn West Cornwall Whitehaven & Furness 8 Windsor, Staines, and South Western........ 425. Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth ........ 25 York, Newcastle, and Berwick. Do. Original New and Berwick ... 25 ..••• Do. North Shields Pur. 25 Do. Extensioa No. 1. 10 Do. do. No. 2......... 10 Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 York and North Midland 50 Ditto, Preference :do. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian.... 4 Barbadoes 1 Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) ... 14 Central of Spain ... .... 2 Ceylon Demerara 2 IA — Dendre Valley .. .. 4 Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish 7 East Indian ... ..... .... ss. Great Indian Peninsular 5s Great Southern of Madras ss. Great Western Bengal... ss. Great Western Canada... 31 ...... Italian and Austrian. ... 4 ... .. Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 ... Luxembourg...... ..... .. 6 Lyons and Avignon 5 — Madras ... 1 Madras. Nellore, and Arcot % Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... — Namur and Liege Northern cf France-- Orleans and Bordeaux 6 Over Yssel 4l3s 4d Paris and Lyons .. 10 ...... Paris and Orleans 2O - Paris and Rouen .0.... Paris and Strasbourg 8 Rouen and Havre - ••• •••• 00000000 Sambre and Meuse ...... 16 .... 4% 5.. .... ... Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 Lours and Nantes ...... 8 Tourney, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt....... 12 - Trinidad West Flanders ...... .... 8 JOINT STOCK BANKS. _ __. - - - - ----. Australasia London Joint Stock British North American 50 Colonial 25 Commercial of London 20 — Pro uncial of Ireland ... 25 Ditto, New - ............ ••• London & Westminster Ditto New........ ..... 13 ............... Ditto, Now lO National of Ireland 2 2 12 — ... ........ ... Union of Australia ..... 25 Ditto,New• •• ........ . 2% ...... Union of L0nd0n..„.... 10 — Union of Madrid MINES. Anglo Mexican lOO Galvanized Iron Real Del Monte, Unreg. • ••• LLOYD'S SHIPPLN G—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Nov. s.—Wind S.E., light airs and dull hazy weather. DEAL, Nov. 4.—Wind E. to S.E., light.—Sld. Ca therine Elizabeth, Tobago ; Portland, Mobile ; Kings ton, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Orion, St. John's, New Brunswick. Arrd. from the River and sld., Dale Park, Sierra Leone ; Electra, Grenada. F IoPORTSMOUTH, Nov. 4.—Wind S.E.—Sld. L a dy Flora, Cape of Good Hope and Madras. Off port, Mediator, Stark, Now York. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 4.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. North Briton, Quebec. Off port, Kate, Taylor, Sourabaya ; Caesarea, Pritchard, Rio Janeiro for Antwerp • Glcn lyon, Muirhead, Quebec •Mary Seaton, Quebec ' Southampton ; Sophie (of Liverpool). Honduras. FALMOUTH, Nov. 4.—Wind S.—Off port, longe Tango, Batavia for Rotterdam. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 4.—Wind S S.W.—Arrd. Nautilus, Smith, Callao ; Esther Ann, Hunter, Pernambuco. Sld. Laura, Newfoundland ; Priscilla, Pernambuco ; Iris, Maraicabo ; Pursuit, Nw Orleans; Acac.ia (steamer), Boston ; St. Petersburgh, Boston ; Concord, Boston ; Ashland, New York; Niantic, New York; New York, Cropper, New York; California, St. John's, New Bruns wick. Off port, Magellan. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY. CORN EXCHANGE—FRIDAY. We have again to report the arrival of a very limited supply of English Wheat for our market since Monday. To-day the show of samples of that grain was unusually small, owing to which, and the increased attendance of buyers, the demand was firm, at, in some instances, an advance in the quotations of quite Is per quarter. With foreign Wheat we were fairly supplied ; nevertheless the trade was steady, at is per quarter more money for selected qualities, the value of other kinds being well supported. The sale for Barley and Malt, the supplies of which were small, was heavy at barely late rates There was an improved demand for Oats, at very full prices. All other articles of Grain, as well as Flour, were quite as dear. ARRIVALS. Whaat. I Barley. 2,930 qrs. 1,810 qrs. English •••• Irish... Foreign Oats. 1 Floqr. 960 qrs. 1 1,540 sky. 2,800 I mid 1,840 I 4,0201)18. 2,920 Malt, 970 ars: 51VEITEPIELD. The supply of Beasts on offer in to day's market was considerably less than that exhibited on Friday last, and of very inferior quality. Although the Beef trade was in a sluggish state, a fair clearance was effected at Monday's quotations. The numbers of foreign stock comprised 140 Oxen and Cows, 1,110 Sheep and Lambs, 41 Calves, and 5 pigs, chiefly from Holland. With a' , k - %i I`, cver , scalay supplied, yet the Mutton trade was liciavy, at barely the late reduction in value. The supply of Calves being small, tho Veal trade was firm, at an improvement in the currencies of quite 2d per Sibs. rigs were iu moderate request at unaltered 26 dis 25 dis 83% --.4 35 4 , 32% 13 1 ,4 20% ,-... 11h 14, dis dis 11 1 / 2 11% 1% 21% - 7211 1 34 6 12% 10% 1111.1 very dull, at from 151. to 181' ;alf. figures. _Much Cows were each, including their small Per Blbs. to s s. d. to 8. d. Inferior Beset 3 0 3 6 Second quality ••• • 3 8 :3 10 Prime large Oxen 4 0 4 4 ['rime Scots Large coarse Calves 310 4 6 Prime small ditto Suckling Calves • 2O 0 30 0 Inferior Sheep •• sink the offal. s. (1. to s. d. Second quality ditto 4 0 4 2 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 4 4 8 Southdown Wether 410 5 0 Ditto Gut of the wool '— Large Hogs ......4 0 4 5 Small I'orkers . 4 8 5 2 Quarter old Pigs ..19 0 24 0 Lambs . ..... 0 0 0 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. 935 4,550 202 NEIVTGATE AND MEADENHALL. We had a very dull trade here this morning, at barely stationary prices. I Pi". 425 At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to a. d. I s. (Log- 41 ; Beef, inferlor.• •• .. 2 6 2 2 Mutton, inferior .. 3 6 3 - - middling .. •• 210 3 2 middling.. 310 4 ! - primelarge .• 3 2 3 4 prime . ... 4 4 4 0. - prime small .. 3 6 3 8 Pork, 1arge........ 4 0 4 a Veal.• ••••••• • •• • • 3 8 4 8 - 5ma11........ 410 3 g Lamb. Os Od is Os Od. BOROUGH HOP rizartzET. Although the demand for the best New Hops in pockets may be considered tolerably steady, no improve ment can be noticed in their quotations which are now lower than for a series of years past. The middling and interior qualities are a very slow sale, at barely stationary prices. In Yearling and old Hops, which are ,oVering at unusually low figures, so little is doing that prices are almost nominal. The duty is called 24350 4 Now Hops, per cwt. :—Sussex Pockets, 2116 s to 3165; Weald of Kent, ditto, 31 to 31 10s ; Mid. end East Kent, ditto, 31 3s to 5155. COZONIAL. 25 1114 CocoA.—Trinidad has been taken in at 411 to 445, and in some cases 38i per cent. SPlCED.—Singapore Pepper has been taken in at 2id to lid per lb; White Callicherry h as b een so ld at to 7V; and Black has been taken in at 21d. nalen t° has realised 6d per lb. RlCE.—Bengal good white has been sold at I Is 6d to 12s for rather broken, at 14s 6d to 15s 6d for tine, an d mid at lOs 6d to I Is. Ceylon fine bright clews yellow 9s 6d to 10s 6d, and Madras good white lOs 6.1 to 116 ' Madras, 12s. SALTPETRE.—CaIcutta 4, per cent. refraction go od strong has been sold at 28s 6d to 29s per cwt., a nd some 34 per cent. at 28s 6d to 29s 6d per cwt. 1 - Wm.—Jamaica has been sold at full rates,, fair to fine 3s 6d to 4 6d, and Leeward proof, is 8d per- .gallOn• TEA.—The market has been steady. TALLow.—P.Y.C. is 446 9d to 45s 3d per OW% 411 the spot. TOBACCO.—The market for American has be en e:lee h ! neglected last month, and sales have been limited, n°' having exceeded 700 hhds. Manufacturers h a re pure chased, with few exceptions, almost as in reed, and have not been induced to increase their stocks from any apprehension of higher prices. I a the small business done i m p or t ers h ave ma i n tained last month's quotations, which is a feature, deserving attention, when taken in connexion with the groat sacrifices made in various descriptions of produce' There has been an improved inquiry for export, and vre look forward with confidence to a fair extent of business being done as the season advances. Imports, 2, 34 * hhds ; deliveries, 926 hhds, against 1,405 hhds a t the same time last year. 1% 20 1/2 27 IA 144 QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DA Y.) (Sittings in Banco.) THE SWORD WORN BY LORD NELSON AT TRAYAI." It. EVANS 'V. LAWSON. This was an action tried last term to recover O m , - pensation in damages for an all ege d lib e l, p u blis bed %s i n the Times newspaper on the 4th of December. plaintiff is a curiosity-dealer in Maddox-street, and the defendant the well-known printer and publi seiu of the Times. It app eare d th a t th e p l a i n tiff had i a sword to Lord Saye a n d S e l e f or on e hunt ir e " guineas, for the purpose of being presented to Gre e 1 1" wich Hospital, but it appeared that that national .In stitution had refused to accept ;,the present fr( i ii doubts which its authorities entertained respecting i authenticity. Sir Harris Nicolas was the author C a the letter in question, which stated simply that thgat manufacture of Nelsonian relics, such as coats,. swords, and buckles, seemed so profitable, and the. folly of the persons imposed upon so culpable, that it was the duty of every one to set the public on its guard ; but when it was attempted to foist upon a national institution such an article as this sword, it was the duty of every Englishman to step forward and to prevent such an imposition. The writer then went on to say that it was necessary to make a bold-- attempt to palm off the sword as the one actually worn by Nelson, and that a letter which had appearect in the Times some time before, saying that the wri ter ! . a Mrs. Smith, had r ece i ve d Nelson's coat (which ha d. been purchased by Prin ce Alb er t, an d presented to; the Hospital), the s wor d i n question, ands several other articles fr om L a dy . Hamilto n * was a forgery, Mrs. Smith having sub s e; quently written to the Times, stating she ht never written, or ordered to be written, a letter tg any newspaper in her life, and that, therefore, W; letter in question was no t wr i t t en b y h er . Sir Nicolas proceeded in his epistle to say, that it W 0 well known that Nels o n did no t wear a sword 3t Trafalgar, and that he supposed Mr. Evans meant w urge that it was the swo rd th e h e r o wou ld bac" a worn had he felt the use of such a weapon nece ssall' besides it was not th e swor d o f an E ng li s h Admira l of the period ; and the whole evidence on which a u : thenticity was claimed for the article, was a forget , ' The verdict was for the defendants. Sir FREDE R I CK T HESIGER now move d for a nevi' trial on the ground of misdirection on the part ofd Learned Jud ge , an d on th e accoun t o f the ver l to being against the evidence. He called two witnessesthe prove that the letter applied to the sword d u for plaintiff, (which h e h a d b oug ht f rom M rs . Sati" tha t V.) ; and their Lord s hip s cou ld no t f a il to see the document conveyed a serious imputation b o g s the character of the plaintiff as a tradesman, being very existence depended up on hi s cus t o mers bef h ; able to put implicit faith on his assurances that iv articles of vertu he disposed of w er e g enuine. k",. 0 , the 21st of January the plai n tiff' s so li c itor wrote Mr. Lawson, calling for a contradiction or apology' or to place in his hands the m e ans of enabling „ Evans to proceed against Sir Harris Nicolas Yo h ' the same facility as against himself. On the 2 5t Mr. Dobie, the solicitor to the Times, required P l c ; days to come to a determination on the in ts. a.t. ter; but the plaintiff commenced the action within the thee required. Now he (Sir Frederfd Thesiger) contended that there could be no pr",. that Mrs. Smith had written such a letter to tn- Times, because the only plea placed upon the 'Tee!! was not guilty. Hi s L or d s hi p put t h e cas e to te: jury in this way, " Did the plaintiff sell a sword, knowing it was not th e one in question ? so, th e y would find for the plaintiff; but if they thought he had sold a sword which had been purchased him as the veritable sword of Nelson, and believed. it to be so, then they would give him a verdict." , t Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said it did not appear 4 1 " the plaintiff had. Sir F. TrisslGEß said this was stated in the latter part of the letter. llis Lordship (Lord Denmael remarked to the jury, that considerable delay 113 , 1 taken place between the publication of the letter ar the application to the defendant, and added, that the delay did not look as if the plaintiff wi s h e d to clear his character, but as if the attorney was pleased 0 proceed with the action. Su c h a sta t ement, he sub' mated, was likely to influence the minds of the jury Lord DENMAN said, wa iti ng t ill t h e 21st, and 10°1: ceeding on the 26th, l oo k e d premature; b ut he Ile"' laid this down as a rule. Sir F. TIIESIGER said the action was not ofr t menced until five days after the first intimation, anu seemed to him that Sir Harris Nicolas ough t at have been in a position to meet every explanation might be required of him. ,/ was Lord DENMAN said the doubt upon his palm.- he whether the letter, looking at those published on t Bth and 11th of December, imlied any acts of.sv: improper and fraudulent kind as p set forth in the de. claration. He asked the jury if they collected tyr e from the letter it could not fail to be injurious, te,_ t a plaintiff in his business. The Learned Counsel as" e him to give his opinion on the libel to the jury, b u ! he declined to do so, and left the whole question w_ them. He considered the brin g in g of the actio!! premature. It appeared that th e a tt orne y took P er matter which had appeared in a newspaper—a l'e a . ly which appeared to him a ma tt er o f controversy, fair ly raised in this case ; an d th ey mus t g i ve s ome ere a to persons who took part in such controversies, an who brought some knowledge to bear upon the eem ject. The C our t wou ld , h owever, l oo k a t the d ration. 28% 10% 74A 26 114 5 5% - 4 I/2" --- 1% 22% CHARTER V. GRAHAM AND ANOTHER. , n y , This was an ac ti on brought by the plaintiff, I` lBll- 1 3 Charter, to recover compensation in damages for imprison men t. Th e case was tr i e d a t th e last Yef k ~ assizes, and the jury, under the direction o f the Learned Judge, found a verdict for the defendan ts e , The , who are magistrates in the West Riding. „ plaintiff and her husband were tenants of Sir l'i m e r ap •r y Boynton, an d h a d b een so f or man y years- e received n o ti ce t o qu i t on th e 6th o f April, but befor_ acceded to it the plaintiff cut down som e fr ? " trees which had been planted many years before by either herself or her husband, after having been W successful in obtaining compensation for thou SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation Sugar , `has been firm, an d goo d sa l es are made privately, auction Barbadoes has realised 43s to 46s for fine yellowy and 38s for low. REFlNED.—Standard lumps have been 52s 64 to 535 per cwt. East Inda. 6,309 bags 336 casks. Mauritius sold at former rates ; very dark brown 26s to 26s 6d, low yellow, 33s 6d to 34s 6d, and fine 39s 6d to 42s per cwt. Bengal realised 41$ 6d for good rather grainy. Madras has been sold at full prices. FOREIGN.—The demand has been moderate s . and the holders are firm. CoirEE.—There has been rather more doing ; Ja maica, good ord, 35s per cwt. Ceylon has been sold at high rates for Plantation descriptions, mid colory 52s 6d to 53s 6d, [and low ord 34s 6d to 35s 6d. Native has advanced 6d per cwt.; good ord 32s Gd to 3.3 s per cwt. Costa Rica, 7,908 bags, sold is to 3s lower, se' cording to quality, ord .26s to 275., and low it lid 48s per cwt. _ 281,4 - 314