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Just ready, in small ikro., THE ADVENTU HA R RLES COZENS. ES of a GUARDS TAN, By C Richard Bentley, New Burlington•street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. TILEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANE. . JITS;LIBNII ANNUAL SERIES OF CONCERT," p. THE LAST WEEK BUT ONE. D[, Jollier' begs leave respectfully to state that the Cone er , is must positively close on Saturday, Nov. 20, the Theatre being re qte :red for the production of the Grand Opera. PROGRAMME FOB THIS EVENING. PAirt Earyanthe, Weber—Quadrille, The ( 'hinese, Jullien Violoncello, Mr. Hancock, Sebastian Lee—lit so, The Swedish Nightingale, Jullien Duo, the Misses Williams --- New descrip'dve Quadrille, The Swiss Quadrille, Jullien. Part.. ll.—Opera, Lucrezia Borgia (second time), grand se ection, with Solos by Mr. Lazarus, Signor Cioffl, and Herr Kcenig, D o nizetti —New Comic Polka, founded on the well-known round of the ' • Three blind Mice" (first time), C. Coote —Symphony, the Allegret to in A, Beethoven—Duo, the Misses Williams—VaLse, Miranda. llce nig— Solo, Flute, Mr. Richardson, Richardson—Comic Polka,the Am% rican Polka, Jallien. Bal Masque--M. Jullien's Grand Annual Bal Masque will take plate en Monday, Nov. 22, and terminate the season. The Concert commences at Eight, and terminates before Eleve n. Promenade and Boxes, Is. ; Dress Circle, 2s. 64. ; Private Be •xes, 10s. 6d., 215., and 325. 6d. BAL MASQUE. M. Jullien's Grand Annual Bal Masque will take place on _lions lay, Nev. 22, and terminate the Season. - THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. 11. Webster, sole Lessee. TIIIS EVENING Wlll be produced, Shakapere's Comedy of THE TAMING OF 'THE HREW. Baptista, Mr. Gough; Vincentio, Mr. Tilbury; Luc r ntio r. H. Vandenhoff ; Petrucio, Mr. Webster ; Grurnio, Mr. K( *ley ; Katharine. Mrs. Nisbett ; Bianca, Mrs. Seymour. After which, a New and Original Farce, called WHO'S, MT HUSBAND ? Doctor Mull, Mr. Tilbury; Daniel Tootles, Mr. 1,1( M ley ; Mrs. Smith Thompson, Mrs, W. Clifford ; Sophonisba Mull, 31 11,. L. S. Buckingham ; Sally Starch, Mrs. Plurnby. To conclude with the Drama of THE ROMANTIC WIDOW'. Stage Manager, Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Web:ger. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Sexes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance te eminence at l des,-en. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELI'HT. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING __ Will be perfbrmed the celebrated Drama, called THE GF.TTEN 3USHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Murtogh, Mr. 0. R with Dennis, Mr. Cullenfbrd ; Jask Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Grir, nudge, Xr. Wright ; Captain Dartols, Mr. Worrell ; Madame St. Ji abbert, Madame Celeste ; Geraldine, Mrs. Tates ; Nelly O'Neil, Miss Wool - gar After which, a New Farce, entitled THIS HOUSE TO BE ?}OLD (the property of the late William Shakspeare), Inquire Within. Cha racters by Messrs. Wright, Cullenford, Worrell, 0. Smith, Paul Med- Ibrd, Mrs. Laws, &c., &c. To conclude with the original farce, called HOW TO SE TTLB tCCOUNTS WITH TOUR LAUNDRESS. Whittington Wi dgetts, gr. Wright ; Jack Brown, Mr. Manyard ; Squibb, Mr. Re dm and 'Van ; Mary White, Miss Woolgar ; Mdlle. Cherry Bounce,„ - Miss Emma Harding. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. Anon open at Nalf-past Six, Performance to commence at Strren. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Wader the Managemeat of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the Comte Drama, entitled THE PRIDE OF THE MARKET. Principal characters by Messrs. Buckatone, Leigh Murray, Granby, and Parselle ; Miss H. Gilbert, Mrs. C. Jenes, and Madame Verstris. After which a new Collie Drama, called A ROUGH DIAMOND. To be followed by a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. Principal characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. Buckstone, and Mrs. Mac nasnara. To conclude with A SOVEREIGN REMEDY. The Interior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bradwell of the Colosseum. Dress Boxes, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. No half-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Public every day, from Ten to Six. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Engagement of Mr. TIIIS MACREVEENING.ADY and MISS CUSHMAN. Will be presented the Play of THE STRANGER. The Stranger, Mr. Cooper; Mrs. Haller, Miss Cushman. To be followed by A CONCERT, by the celebrated Singers of the Pneneee. After which THE VIOLET. To conclude with the new Farce entitled A TRIP TO HAMPTON. Principal characters by 3lessrs. S. Cowell, Neville, Rowel d, Parris, Mrs. Selby, and Miss Villars. To conclude with a Piece, called A ROMANCE OF THE MILNE. Characters by Messrs. James Pining, Palmer, Neville, Compton, Miss Emma Stanley, and Miss Pillars. Dress Circle, 5*.: Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE Lessee. Mrs. F. D&'ridge, No.), DAridge•terrace,Kensington-read, Surrey. TITIS EVENING, the performances will commence with the celebrated Opera o 1 THE ENCHANTRESS Duke D'Aqullla, Mr. IL Horneastle ! Don Selvia, Mr. IT. Harri ion; Ram!r, Mr. Borrani . Stella, Miss Romer. To conclude with a new and original Drama, entitled THE TRA VELLER'S ROOM. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Vining, 11. Hughes, T. Fredericks, Lewis, Oxberry, and Mrs. W. West. A distinct entrance to the private boxes has been made (which have been re-fitted). Private boxes may he had nightly of all the Principal Librarians ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which Is open daily front Ten until Four. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, fid. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. TIIIS EVENING Will be presented a new Drama, entitled THE INUNDATION OF THE LOIRE ; or, the Miser of the Hill Fort. After which, a new Drama entitled TUB BOTTLE, from Cruik shank's celebrated Wofk of the same name. Te conclude with the Ballet of VOL AU VENT. Boxes, is. ; Half-price, 6th ; Fit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. Doom open at Six, to commence at Half-past Six. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPRITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager, Mr. William Batty. Last Week of the Cataract of the Ganges. THIS EVENING The Grand Spectacle of THE CAMP OF SILESIA. Entirely new Scenes in the Arena, by the talented Artistes ol Itstablishment, in the cartons modes of egstestration. To conclude with the Ballet, Till MYSTIC BRANCH. Itex-ofilce open from 11 till 5. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W West. THL WEATHER.--Sux Orsicz, Nov. 11. THERMoMMTER, Lowest, 42; Highest, 51:; Noon, 5 RAM:METER, 30.28.—W1ND S.S.W. ; hazy. ,I; WATER Ai EAVIDON-FIRIIIGE THIS DAT. Meriting— 58 minutes after 2. j Evening .. 14 minntcs user 3. ~ • ' 0. ." -- ' r - s-,, 40 . V 4,-X 2 L a st_ 1.1 -' rior 4.) .. 4 , p. 't .4% 4. ' . . ',. - 4: '''.''' a : f,:i : ,' ' ' 'l' ~ r -.2', ~.. •-_, . , l i - atfw ~ 1_,7 , 1 ,, A';! , ‘, , , •.' '-‘‘' ' , . -, _..,„ - ..- 4 :"'"" • " ---- nenii :tfl LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1847. Apart from legislative activity, sanitary precau tions are being forced upon us by the naked and exigent principle of self-preservation. Dirt and care lessness have acquired such an ascendancy over the population that fatal diseases are almost regarded as indigenous. Year after year hundreds are destroyed by scrofula and consumption, by inflammation of the lungs, by intermittent and typhus fevers, and by all the other varieties of zymotic affections. The victims of a systematic ignorance are viewed by the autho rities as the persons necessarily enumerated in the annual registers of mortality. The thought never appears to have recurred to the Government, or to the different municipalities, that hundreds of lives might be preserved by the most simple and economic arrangements, or that men, women, and children might be extricated from the mortal seizure of disease as literally as from the perils of drowning or burning. Wherever such precautionary treatment has been pointed out as obviously requisite, and the warninghas been nevertheless wilfully disregarded, the individuals upon whom the responsibility devolved of taking the matter into consideration are (morally) as culpable as though they had assisted at an auto-da-fe. The movement already visible in the provinces from the rapid approach of the Asiatic Cholera, shows in a striking manner the extravagant consequences of this social indifferentism. A case of Cholera aboard a vessel just arrived from the Black Sea, occurs off Falmouth, and the ship is, of course instantly placed under quarantine. The rumour ' however, is sufficient. A panic supplies the activity which should have originated from the dictates ( f common sense, and hurried eff its are made in all directions to stay, if possible, the progress or miti gate the virulence of the dreaded visitation. An ex traordinary meeting of the town council of Wor cester is convened, and propositions are laid before the councillors, for the purpose of rousing them to some movement calculated to be beneficial to their fellow-citizens. A resolution is submitted to their judgment, and unanimously adopted. That reso is to the following effect : " That a committee be appointed with a view to consult! the me di ca l gen tl emen o f t hi s c i ty as to the 'propriety of forming a board of health, to adopt such precautionary measures as may be deemed ne cessary, in e on the Asiatic Cho s l e e quence of the threat ene d approac h o f Similar comenirtate:: at Gloucester s were sh or tl y a f terwards nomi natedannd j l lsewh ere . The utmost in dolence is evinced u pestilence such as th e ac y reha Cholera ha s actuall asts Britain ; and forthwith thereed the co of Great paerrefeteetrrl or, amazement, y obvi ous t h at and precipitation. I t is cannot • arrangements mad e t h us hastily motcst possibility b e effectual. To by the re all trite metaphors, it is shutting the by tritest of steed is stolen ; for it is preposterous to rexwhcn the fortunate results from a few straggling prepceacutrany adopted at the eleventh hour, in the midst ornas' accumulation of corrupt agencies vitiated atmon sphere, stagnant cesspools, deficiency of light and water, and want of ventilation. What we would especially insist upon is the ab surd disproportion of the precautionary measures adventured upon under different circumstances. The bare report of the , advance of Asiatic Cholera acts upon the sluggishness of town-councillors like a shock of galvanism. They are prepared, and even solicitous to do their possible fur the amelioration of the multitude. 'Whereas, while hundreds are perpetually being carried off by consumption or typhus fever, they remain obstinate and indolent spectators of the calamity. It is certain — statistically and notoriously certain — that excepting that it is more sudden, the Cholera \\ ' , _,----. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1847. presents no feature which renders it so formidable as • several other diseases to which the community are more accustomed. The numbers destroyed in the United Kingdom by influenza, immediately after the abatement of the Asiatic Cholera, in 1831-32, were superior to those carried away by the pestilence. The victims of pulmonary decline, of bilious or gas tric fevers, and of scrofulous affections, are numeri cally greater than the victims of Cholera, even when that plague proves the most destructive, and yet with influenza, with consumption, with fever, and with scrofula continually around us, no efforts whatever are made towards their diminution. The mere enumeration of the most notorious of physiological facts should be enough to arouse the municipalities from their torpor and the Government from its indecision. When it is remembered that every human being requires for the maintenance of life no less than ten cubic feet of air (namely, double the bulk of the human body) per minute, and when this truth is coupled with the recollec tion that the same atmosphere cannot be twice inhaled without prejudice to the animal economy, it becomes manifest that proper ventilation, proper sewerage and drainage, and a proper supervision of manufactories and graveyards, is absolutely essential for the bodily (not to say the moral) preservation of the community. And how much more forcible does not this consideration become, when we reflect that in London there are 2,000,000 of persons, each of whom requires, every successive minute, ten cubic feet of atmospheric air ! To exercise a beneficial influence upon the body, that air should be composed of 21 parts oxygen to 79 parts azote, or nitrogen, mixed with an inconsiderable quantity of carbonic acid gas. How far these proportions are discoverable in the atmosphere of the metropolis and the larger towns may be imagined by those who bear in mind the numberless causes of its vitiation—the am monias, the sulphuretted hydrogen, and the volumes of carbonic acid reeking from a thou sand different sources of contamination, and from the tons of coal and diluted animal matter impregnating the air in the form of smoke and va pour. Such are the grievances which must be re moved before there can be any reasonable prospect of the abatement of diseases more fell than the Asiatic Cholera, because more frequent and prevalent in their recurrence. The adjourned meeting of the Assembly convened by the Irish Council was occupied the whole of Tuesday in the discussion of the resolution respect ing the alterations to be effected in the law of land lord and tenant, for the purpose of securing to the tenant the property in all improvements made during his tenancy by the expenditure of his labour and capital, and the. amendment thereon in favour of the Ulster tenant right, together with a statement defin ing what that tenant right really consisted of. Not withstanding the important nature of the question under discussion, the attendance was wretchedly thin, and the great interest that was at first excited had manifestly abated. It is strange, indeed, that any con troversy should exist as to the real character and extent of the tenant right, which has existed and been fully recognised for so many years in the northern dis tricts ; yet so it is, and to this moment considerable doubts are entertained by very many of the Irish landlords as to what it really is ; a considerable number supposing that its general adoption would completely deprive the present proprietors of all con trol over their estates, and make the occupiers the real masters of the land. They regard it therefore as something to be resisted to the last extremity, which would, if sanctioned by law, effect their abso lute ruin. A moment's reflection might satisfy these timid men that there is nothing really so injurious to the proprietors in the system. They should regard the position of those of their brethren whose estates have been placed under its operation, and if it shall appear that in consequence thereof the land yields a smaller return to its owner in proportion to its extent and fertility, that the rents are paid in a less satisfactory manner, or that if the estate be sent into the market for sale it must be disposed of at a lower price, there would be fair and reasonable grounds for these ap prehensions. But, in point of fact, it is altogether the reverse. The Ulster landlord will obtain fully as high a rent for any portion of his land that he may desire to let as will be offered by a solvent tenant in any part of the country. Of course we do not compare it with the reckless biddings that may be made by starving wretches, and which it is morally impossible can ever be satisfactorily paid, the only object of the tenant being to get into possession, and trust to chance and the agrarian disturbances by which the country may be disturbed for maintaining that possession ; but a person really desirous of per forming his part of the contract, and punctually dis charging the liabilities he thereby assumes, will undertake to pay a better rent, because he is well aware that under the custom he may improve the lands to the greatest extent, and that himself or his family will receive the benefits of such improvements. It is scarcely necessary to show the difference in the manner of satisfying the rent, or how greatly that is in favour of the northern landlord. It is, unhappily, too notorious that in three of the Irish provinces there are large ar rears of rent constantly hanging over the tenantry, which are wholly lost to the landlords, but which act as a total prohibition to every species of improvement; indeed, it would greatly conduce to the real interests of the proprietors if these arrears were wholly blotted out, and the tenant suffered to commence de novo. A man who is out of debt wil struggle with great energy to continue so ; but if once he is unable to continue in a solvent position, if he gets heavily involved beyond the possibility of payment, he cares little how deeply he may get into debt ; he relaxes his exertions, because he himself cannot reap the fruits thereof; the produce of all his extra labour will go into the landlord's pocket. If he cannot pay the rent when unincumbered by debt, it will be utterly hopeless for him to think of doing so, together with heavy arrears, when clogged and impeded by a heavy burden. At length the forbearance of the owner is exhausted— distresses and ejectments are resorted to, the tenant is driven from his holding, and the arrears are totally lost The lands when obtained are found to be suite ex hausted and worn out, and a considerable loss is thereby sustained by the owner, in addition to that of his rent left unpaid, and the heavy law costs for ob- taining the possession of his land, while the peace and tranquillity of the entire district is disturbed, and riots and outrages are of frequent occurrence. In the north matters are quite different ; the landlord is certain of obtaining his rent, if not from the imme diate occupier, at least from his successor, as it is an invariable rule that all arrears are liquidated, in the first instance, out of the purchase-money for the goodwill. hence the landlord is not compelled for his own security to resort to seizures or distresses, and the tenant, even if through unavoidable misfor tunes he should get into arrear, does not therefore relax his exertions, because he is aware that if he does so he will obtain a smaller sum for his goodwill when he desires to dispose thereof. In the north, therefore, the landlords, with scarcely an exception, receive the full amount of their rent-rolls, while every person at all acquainted with other parts of the country must know to what heavy deductions the proprietors must submit for bad debts, losses by tenants, deterioration of the land, and law costs. It would follow as a natural consequence, that properties in Ulster, when offered for sale, will bring higher prices in proportion than those in the other provinces. This is so to the extent of at least three or four years' purchase. whloNF.reetienttehreestl:an w d e l o r e r d t s o , b e t h c e o r n e s fl u o l e tc , a t i h n e enac tments that - sh ou ld take place, it would be in the th o e nl l y egi p sl a a r t t i i v e e s highest degree advantageous to them that the Ulster tenant right should be extended throughout the entire island, but there are other class also t o b e regaried es whos e i n t erests are , and to whom th e question is of still more vital importance to peace, tranquillity, and the prosperity of the entire country would be thereby promoted. In the north of Ireland, at least in those y Parts where the custom is recognised, agrarian o u t_ are wholly unknown, and every writer on Ireland has borne his testimony to the re markable comparative prosperity that exist s in the districts in which it is in force. We o o f n L th o i r s d po p in E t, N h o a :sr ve repeatedly quoted othmemoispsiinoinoenrss which yield the strongest additional corroboration to our views. What then can be alleged against the extension of this blessing ? Nothing, save that the landlords might not be enabled to retain the same power of coercing their tenants' consciences, and driving them to the hustings to record their votes in favour of the parties recommended by their masters. We trust that in a Reformed Parliamentlthis will not be held a sufficient reason for the maintenance of the present objectionable system. The Swiss journals publish in extenso the manifesto of the Diet, which is an ably drawn up document, and which places the question as between the Diet and the Sonderbund on its true basis. In speaking of the conduct of the Sonderbund, it says— " At last the mask fell on July 20, 1847, and it was publicly declared that the Sonderbund was decided to resist all the decrees of the Diet, which it did not recognise to be lawful. In the interval, the order of Jesuists did not blush to make its entrance into the Vorort of Lucerne by walking over the dead bodies of those who had fallen in the struggle, and although it had the prospect of exposing the country to the dan gers of the most decided schism. Public opinion always pronounced more and more energetically against this order, and two Swiss Governments were obliged to give way under the impulse which was thus imparted. Long before the Diet met this year, the Sonderbund urged on with the greatest ardour its military preparations ; it called out its council of war, nominated a general staff, purchased arms and ammunition in the interior of Switzerland and in foreign countries, and assumed an armed position with respect to the Confederation, which abstained from any measures of that description." With regard to the measures adopted to prevent the necessity of war, the manifesto says— " The Diet imposes on itself the duty of making known to you, faithful and dear confederates, that it has endeavoured faithfully to fulfil this task, the deputies of the Sonderbund having caused to be in serted in the minutes on their departure the auda cious declaration that they had held out the hand in sign of peace, but that it had been rejected, and that the sword had been drawn against them. " The Diet knew that the people in the cantons of the Sonderbund were deceived by the gravest accu sations, and the most audacious calumnies ; that they were made to believe that the majority of the states had no other object than to annihilate their religion, their liberty, their indepen dence, and their cantonal existence, and to esta blish a military republic on their ruins. "History will judge the functionaries who, in their official acts, have given themselves up to this dangerous game. That is why the Diet drew up a proclamation, addressed to the authorities and the people of the seven cantons. In this proclamation it developed its intentions in the language which was fitting to confederates united by friendship; it gave explanations and tranquillised people's minds. Federal representatives were charged to circulate the said proclamation widely in the respective cantons, and to support it before the cantonal authorities; but the kind language of the Confederation and the superior federal authority had no longer the right of making itself heard by the population of these cantons—everywhere, with the exception of Zug, the circulation of the proclamation was forbidden ; at Lucerne it was even ordered that any individual circulating it should be seized and delivered up to the public executioner; and even the representatives were not admitted to the Govern ments to which they were deputed. It is thus, people of Switzerland, that your representatives were treated—thus that your voice was listened to ! " There yet, however, remained a hope of a pacific solution, that is to say, the negotiations in the con ferences at Berne. We had so much the better reason to expect success, from the fact that the federal representatives in each of the seven cantons had been told that they had to address themselves to the envoys at Berne, who were furnished with full necessary powers. But it was soon seen that we were grievously deceived, for these envoys had no full powers for negotiations relative to an arrangement, and they thus declared it. The deputies, on the con trary, who represented the majority of the Diet, made veritable propositions of arrangement ; they offered to allow the question of the Jesuits to drop, if Lucerne would send them away, in consideration of its position as directing canton. One envoy pro posed that the question of the Jesuits should be sub mitted to the decision of the Pope, if the Sonderbund would dissolve itself; another declared himself ready to consider the discussion as resolved, provided the Sonderbund would dissolve itself, and that three states designated by it should undertake to adopt proceedings to induce the Pope to remove the Jesuits. But all these propositions, the last two of which perhaps the Confederation will not learn without astonishment—all were refused with disdain. A very feeble hope was held out of the possibility of an arrangement, under the condition that the ques tion of the Jesuits and that of the convents of Argau, resolved long ago, should be submitted to the judg ment of the Pope ; and that before all the troops should be dismissed. That was too much for the honour and tranquillity of the country. To gain a temporary peace it was impossible to re-light the brand of discord which had only been extinguished after painful struggles ; it was impossible to re-open wounds which had been cicatrised by a wise mediation, and by time, which heals everything. " On this point also the Diet appeals solemnly to the Swiss nation. Decide, dear and faithful confe derates, if the Diet has not done all that duty and honour commanded to terminate the quarrel in a pacific manner ; decide if it has refused on light grounds a reconciliation which was offered it ; decide if it is it which first declared war. Whatever may be the fate which Providence reserves us at this se rious time, your representatives, dear and faithful confederates, can await the future with the conviction that they have endeavoured to promote the honour and peace of the country as much as was in their power. "The combat which the Confederation must engage in with confederated members he not a combat of twelve cantons against seven—it is not an oppression of the minority by the majority--:it is not a war against peaceable confederated brethren. No ; it is a war of the Confederation and of its legal authori ties against the party which founded the Sonderbund, has elevated it, and placed it as a viper in the midst of the Confederation to tear its bosom. It is not peace able populations which have done that, but it is the same party which, under democratic forms, has culti vated their ignorance, and which, under the appear ance of religion, turns them to account for its private designs ; the same party which, in 1813, opened the door to foreign armies; which refused the gua rantee to the constitutions of 1831 ; which are liberal; but nowise in opposition to the Confederation; which by indefatigable proceedings labours for re-action which agitated Jura and other parts of Switzerland, produced an Ultromontane revolution in Argau, and called the Jesuits to the cantons of the Valais, Friburg, Schwitz, and of Lucerne, of which it is the ally and the instrument. Such is the character of the Sonderbund ; if it be allowed to act as it will, or to conquer, the afflicted country will lose, little by little, all the institutions which are the con dition of its veritable liberty, of its intellectual pro gress, of its strength, and of its honour." . The communications between Berne, and Lucerne, and Friburg, are completely interrupted. Hostilities, it is said, are to commence on the Bth. The Cologne Gazette of the Bth instant publishes the following letter, dated Lake of Constance, ad instant : " The Austrian troops have assembled in such numbers on the frontiers of Switzerland that there are three battalions in the small town of Bregentz alone. These troops are, it is said, provided with all means of transport required for crossing rivers. It is believed, from these facts, that Austria will in terfere, should circumstances demand the presence of those troops." The Zurich Gazette of the 6th instant announces that on the 4th the troops of the canton of Uri had penetrated into the canton of Tessino, and that, in a skirmish of advanced posts near Airolo, two officers of Uri were killed. Madrid journals of the 4th have arrived. The Gageta publishes two royal decrees, accepting the resignations of General Ros DE OLANO, as Mi nister of Public Instruction and Commerce, and of General CORDOVA, as Minister of War, with whose devotedness and zeal the QUEEN declared herself satisfied. By a third decree, Senor SARTORIUS, Mi nister of the Interior, was to direct, ad interim, the Ministry of Public Instruction and Commerce; and a fourth decree appointed the Duke DE VALENCIA, President of the Council, Minister of War. General JOSE DE LA CONCHA had been superseded in the general direction of the cavalry, and General AN SELNIO BLASER in that of the infantry; the former by General RicAnDo SHELLY, and the other by General FRANCISCO DE PAULA FIGUERAS. By an other decree, General LAUREANO SANZ had been named Director-General of the Staff. __— General ALAIX is banished to Valencia, and General MANUEL DE LA CONCHA, who had, by his judicious and mild measures, nearly succeeded in pacifying Catalonia, is superseded in the command of that province by the brutal and sanguinary PAvIA. The cause of these changes is the discovery, by NARvac7„ of an intrigue on the part of Ros DE (OLANO and CORDOVA, to break up the existing Mi nuitry, and brin g in a new one, with A LAIX, a moderate erat little e Progres , sis.t a as Presid ent of the Council The is do but that the intrigue s for th e . übt destruction of the NARVAEZ Cabinet will be re newed, as it is notorious that NARVAEZ does not possess the confidence of the SOVEREIGN, cud it is also now pretty clear that he has quarrelled with CHRISTINA. The portfolio of Public Instruction has been offered to PIDAL, who, however, has refused to join the Narvaez Cabinet. He, no doutt, imagines that ere' long MoN, his brother-in-law, the all but avowed agent of LOUIS PHILIPPE, and the pet jobber of Queen CHRISTINA, will trip up NARVAEZ, as bra did on a former occasion. The Eco del Comercio states that the Council orf Ministers has deciied that the Duke and Duchess DA: MONTPENSIER Aid be called to Spain. The Beraldo, the semi-official organ, states that the reason alleged by General ESTANTERO for refusing the London embassy, which it: admits was actually conferred or him, was that his means did not permit him to sus— tain it in a becoming manner, and that, besides, he; felt it right to remain separated from public affairs for the present. Be added, that he did not refuse the embassy because it was offered by the present Minis try, for he should have also refused it had it been offered by a Cabinet composed of his old political friends. As to an ' order having been given to himr, to remain abroad, the Herald° says it has not heard that instructions f)r such an order had been for warded to Senor Isruarrz. MADRID BOMA, Nov. 4.—The Three per Cents. were done at 26a, at fifty days; the Five per Cents. at 154 for paper; :he Debt without Interest, at 5 ; and the Coupons at 11. We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday, The Journal des Debats announces the suicide of Count BRESSION in the following terms :—"Count BRESSON, Ambassador from the Court of France to the King of the Two SICILIES, has died at Naples. He was found. in his bed at six o'clock in the morn ing of the 2d: instant, b3thed in his blood, with a large wound in, his throat, supposed to have been in flicted with a razor. This awful news was brought to France by tie Ocean steam-boat, which has arrived at illarseils. We have no other details." Disappointed ambition appears to have been the cause of this deplorable event. Count BRESSON had, it is said, b(tert promised either the London or the Petersburgh Embassy, as a reward for the tact with which he conducted the intrigues in Spain by which the Montpensier marriage was brought about. On his return to Paris he asked for one cf these em bassies (he particularly desired to have the Embassy to London), but the KING and M. GUIZOT positively refused to appoint him to either, and, as if to make the insult snore marked, ap pointed him Ambassador to Naples, an embassy inferior in rank to the one to Madrid, which he had before filled. It would appear as if he contemplated suicide from that moment. He made his will and arranged all his affairs before taking his departure from Paris. He was in low spirits, but quite calm and collected during his journey to Naples, and at Turin he transacted business of importance with the Sardinian Government. On the 31st ult. he had his formal audience of the King of NAPLES, and presented his credentials. He appeared much pleased with his re ception in the evening. Next day he paid a number of visits, and in the evening went to the Opera, without evincing throughout the day or evening the slightest symptom of insanity or exciter nent. On reaching home, however, he was olpserved to be agitated. His excite ment increased, and he continued walking .about his apartmont until four o'clock, when, all at once, the fall of a. heavy body was heard. The Countess BRESSON rein into his room, and found him lying in a pool of blo ad, which flowed from a frightful wound in the throat, effected by a razor, which was found close to him. instant alarm was given, and almost imme diately the surgeon of the British Legation arrived, but the Count was already dead. Other professional persons came in rapid succession, but nothing could be done. Thus perished the clever intriguer who nego ciated the Spanish marriages —a victim to the trust which, regardless of the warning of scripture, he put "in princes." In the same journal we find the following additional details of the unfortunate case of Count MORTIER Count Mortier, Ambassador from the Govern ment of France to the Court of Turin, has," says the Debate, " been struck with insanity. It was found necessary to place him in a lunatic asylum on Sunday last. For some time past Count Mother showed some symptoms of that dreadful malady, and with out any apparent motive committed several acts of violence. On Sunday morning last, after having shut himself up with his two children in a room of the apartment he occupied in the Hotel Chatham, he wrote two letters, couched in similar terms, one ad dressed to his wife and the oth er t o a f riend, in which he apprised them that in a few minutes he and his two children would have ceased to live. The prefect of police was informed of the fact. Ile hastened to the hotel, where he was shortly afterwards joined by the Chancellor, who attended in consequence of Count Mortier being a member of th e Ch am b er of Peers. The Count had barricaded himself in his chamber, armed with a razor, which he brandished over the heads of his children. A t intervals he th rea t ened his own life, and in his delirium vociferated the most horrible menaces. It then became necessary to adopt some resolution. The Chancellor spoke to him in a f r i endly tone of voice. The Count replied by incoherent speeches of death and blood, and then, addressing his son, whom he held on his kness, told the child t h at h e must die. The unhappy child, wh o i s 11 years of age, exclaimed that he did not wi s h to die, and struggled, e weeping all the while. Th en, addressing himself to h yeareof age, the C oun t of 8 follow him and die with hi m ? that she w ou ld di e w i t h h er askedi Thes poor ahuegrl child f e s , h a r e d child would f father, and it is added that the f a th er prepare d to execute his horrible design. The persons who heard outside the door what was passing within were para lysed with terror. A word or a m ovemen t m i g h t precipitate the arm which was directed by insanity. This scene lasted nearly t h ree hours. The Countess Mortier, the Chancellor Pasquier, and M. Delessert, the Prefect of Police, remained standing at the door in a state of inexpres sible terror. At length, after these long and cruel hours of entreaties, silence, expectation, and negotiation, access was obt a i ned into the apartment by a door which had been some t i me c l osed, and which was opened without no i se. Th e Chancellor and the Prefect of Police entered, and succeeded in extricating the trembling children fro m th e i r agony, and restored them to their mother. Count Mortier still, however, held the raz or i n his hand, and nothing could induce him to surrender it. He had from time to time made a gesture as if he was 'about to cut his throat: this scene lasted th ree - quarters of an hour longer. He complained angrily of the persecution of which he said he W as t h e object, accusing the Prefect of Police of v i o l a ti ng hi s d o micile, and the Chancellor of infringing on his liberty, and declared that he would complain to the Keeper of the Seals. M. Delessert suggested to him to write a letter t o th e K eeper of the Seals, which he undertook to d e li ver to him, with the intention of inducing him t o l ay as i de his razor, and whichit would have been! dangerous to; endeavour to take by force. The Count consented to write the letter, but on con e dition th a t th e Prefect of Police shoul d remain at a distance at the f ur th er en d o f th e chamber. The Keeper of th e S eals, who had been appr ised of what was going forward, replied instantly to Count Mor tier, and re queste d t h at h e wou ld go to his house and explain the matters of which he had to complain. The Cou n t t h en consented to go out . On . the stair case he cl ose d th e razor an d p l ace d it in his pocket, and in th e court-yard of t h e h o t e l he was seized in presence o f t h e Chancel l or, an d immediately lodged in a lunatic asylum." Marshal SEBASTIAN' has returned to Paris, and has taken up his abode at the Hotel Sebastiani, the scene of thePraslin tragedy. The Reform dinners continue. There was one - a Lille on the 7th, at which M. ODILON BARROT was to have been present, but, on the refusal of the com mittee to add to the toast "to electoral and Parlia- mentary reform " the words "to the truth and sincerity of the institutions of July, 1830," M, ODILON BARROT and some of his friends Withdrew. M. BENTE POLLET took the chair, and the toast, without the addition, was drunk with the greatest enthusiasm. These dinners are causing great anxiety to the Government, who arc secretly arming the de tached forts round Paris, and have 1,8.50 pieces of artillery stored at Vincennes and Alfort. The Courrier Francais states that a solemn service was celebrated on Sunday last, in the church of Notre Dame des Victoires, Paris, by the Abbe DESGENETTES, to invoke Divine protection on the cause of the Son- derbund. The ceremony was attended by a l arge congregation. There was no sermon preached on the occasion. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Tuesday at 77f. 40c. ; the Fire per Cents., 116 f. . , 50c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,196 f. 25c. ; Rouen, 921 f. .25c. ; Havre, 520 f. ; Great Northern, -555 f.; Avignon, 562 f. 50c. ; Viorzon, 552 f. 50c. ; .Bordeaux, 497 f. 50c. ; Dieppe, 257 f 50c. ; Bask, 155 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 423 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 410 f.; Paris and Lyons, 412 f. :50c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 475 f. ; Belgian Two•and-a-llalf per Cents., 51k. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NOVEMBER 10. Boulogne and Amiens, 14 1 / B —Dutch Rhenish, 2 4—Naraur and Liege,s—Northern of France, 11', 7 —Orleans and Bor deaux, 5 1 A 4 —Paris and Lyons, 6A—Rouen and llavre, 20 12 —Sambre and Meuse, 5 11 A—West Flanders 1%. EXPRESS FROM PARIS We have received the following intelligence by Extraordinary Express : " PARIS, Nov. 10. "This being the day fixed for the adjudication of the New French Loan, M. de Rothschild was the only party who bid for it, at 75f. 25e. The Minister of Finance announced that the bidding having reached the minimum fixed by himself in a sealed paper he held in his hand, declared the tender of M. de Rothschild accepted. This announcement was received expression of surprise by the audi tory, tcho'hald calculated on a much higher price."— Herald. LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND THE BIIOIINGHAM DEPUTATION, 2'O:01E EDITOR OF THE SUN. Snr,—The-'l3ese manner in which the Times be haves to every one who will not truckle to it, obliges me to request that you will insert the inclosed letter, which I addressed to that paper the day after the interview between Lord John Russell, and the Bir mingham Deputation, but which is refused insertion. Yours respectfully, G. F. MUNTZ, Ley Hall, near Birmingham, Oct. 10, 1647. ( Co py . ) TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—l am never much surprised at your state ments, for you usually assume anything that suits your purpose, but your leading article of to-day is more than usually untrue, and has scarcely one word of fact in it. How you obtained your information I know not, and care not, but it is totally incorrect, as I shall represent to the meeting at Birmingham this evening. This gratuitous misrepresentation is all the worse, because one of your reporters requested me to give him, as a favour, last evening, the heads of what passed between the Deputation and Lord John Russell, and I stated them to him correctly. Yours faithfully, London, Nov. 5, 1847. G. F. MUNTZ, IMP L, PA aLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. Parliament was prorogued again to-day to this day week, when it mill meet, according to her Majesty's proclamation, for the dispatch of business. The hour appointed for the prorogation was two o'clock, but long before that hour the Opposition benches of the House, of Lords were crowded with ladies. Shortly after two o'clock the Lord Chancellor, attended by his officers, entered the House, and took his seat on the Woolsack, when the Commons were summoned to attend by Mr. Pulman, the Deputy-Usher of the Black Rod. In a few minutes Mr. Ley, the Deputy Cleric-Assistant, attended by several officers of the House of Commons, appeared at the bar, when The LORD CHANCELLOR said that her Ma jesty had been pleased to cause a writ to be issued under the Great Seal for proroguing Parliament to Thursday, the 18th of November. The Clerk at, the table having read the writ pro roguing Parliament to the 18th instant, and which declared that it was to be then holden for the dispatch of divers important affairs, the ceremony, which did not last many minutes, terminated, and the Lord Chancellor retired from the House. The only Peers present were Lord Campbell and Lord Langdale. The frescos appear progressing rapidly to 'comple tion, especially Mr. IVlaclise's Chivalry, but it is quite evident none of those now on hand can be ac complished before the meeting of Parliament. It is rumoured that immediately after the election of Speaker, the House will proceed with public busi ness up to Christmas, and that there will then be a very short recess of eight or ten days prior to the resump tion of the consideration of the business of the country. It is said the present monetary crisis will be the first subject brought before the Legislature by her Majesty's Ministers. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) NAY M.A.XIOETS. SMITHFIELD. Meadow Hay, 21 103 to 31 124; Clover ditto, 31 12s to 4/ 15s ; an d S traw , 11 4 s to I / 8s per load. upply moderately good, and trade very dull. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2/ I2s to 31 14s ; Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 41 12s ; and Straw, 1/ 5s to 11 9s per load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 103 to 3/ 12s ; Clover ditto, 3/ 12s to 4/ 163; and Straw, 1/ 4s to 11 8s per load. Both Hay and Straw were very dull, at the above quotations. rininvGATE AND XaiIItIDENELEOLL. Prime Beef and Veal sold steadily at full prices. Otherwise the demand was in a very sluggish state. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 10d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 3s 10d to 5s 2d per Slbs by the carcase. 111EliT IVIARICETS. SOUTIIALL, Nov. 10.—Prime stock was in fair request at fully last week's quotations. In other kinds com• paratively little business was transacted, at barely late rates. Beef, from 3s 63 to 43 8d; Mutton, 3s 6d to ss; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d; and Pork, 4s 4d to 4s 8d per 81133, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, Noy. 10.—We had a fair general demand to-day, on the following terms:—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 83; Mutton, 3s 6d to ss; Veal, 4s to 4s Gd; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per 81bs; Suckling Calves, 20s to 295 ; Quarter-old sm S a t l o l c re al, Pigs,flsl to 20s 18 t i o e 2 a 4 ch s ! and Milch Cow s , with Heu.suAsr, Nov. 10.—Our market was but mode rately supplied with stock, to-day, and which sold steadily, at full prices. Beef, from 3s 8d to 58 ; Mut ton, 4s to 5s 2d; Veal, 43 to 4s 6d ; and Pork 48 to 4s 6d per Sibs. A R UNDEL, Nov. 9.—Beef from 3s 6d to 4s 83; Mut ton, 4s to Ss 2d ; Veal, 4s 2d to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 63 per Sibs. A moderate supply and a lirm demand. CHICHESTER, Nov. 10.—Prime stock was in good request, and prices were pretty generally supported. Beef, from 3s 63 to 4s 10d; Mutton, 43 to 5s 2d; Veal, 4s to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 6d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 20s to 28s ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 20s to 245; and Milch Cows, with their Small Calf, 151 to 131 each. COAL MARK ET. —YESTERDAY. Adair's Main Buddle's W. Hartley I9s 6d Wylam ........... . ...... 16s Gel Clavering's Tanfield .. 16s 6d Wall's End, &c. Hasting's Hartley l9s 6d Hetton ............... 21s Od Holywell Main ........ 18s 6dißlaengwaur South Peareth d Tanfield Moor ..... West Wylam MONEY and COMMERCIAL INEVPS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was firm, the sales being 4,000 bales. American sorts were steady. There was no change in prices. —Railway Shares were not quite so good. Prices generally were rather lower. The sale of Railway Shares yesterday, by Messrs. ',almond and Co., was well attended, and a good business done at advanced prices. Tho following are a few of the quotations:— Madrid and Valencia Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston.— 0 14 0 Great Northern ....... ...,..., .............. 2 0 0 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 6 15 0 Royston and Hitehin North Staffordshire Great Luxembourg North British, Thirds South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 .. 3 11 6 Manchester and Southampton 0 8 6 Paris and Lyons Caledonian, Halves Eastern Counties ..........•... Eastern Counties, York Extension 7 19 0 Sambre and Meuse Buckinghamshire Without being too sanguine as to the future prospects of commercial credit and of confidence, there is certainly some reasons for stating that to all appearance the worst has passed ; yet, that additional disasters may, and will, occur is pretty certain. These are con sidered and talked of in the circles in which mer chants and others are principally interested. The public of late have been satiated with reports of anticipated disasters. No additional on dits of this sort shall we refer to, though one's ears are almost hourly bored by would-be newsmongers, anxious to give the earliest information of what has occurred, and what may happen in a day or two. One plain fact is worth a dozen such offhand and very injurious inuendoes. Let scme of our contemporaries say what they please to the contrary, :there is an easement in the Money Market at head-quarters. It may take, it is true, some time before the beneficial influence will be extended to what may be considered the second and the third classes of mercantile paper. By an arrival from New York by a merchant ship, we have three or four days' later information from that and other parts of the United States. The papers are singularly barren of information, nor is there any later news from Mexico. The Exchanges at New York remain without variation. There are not any failures announced in the City this morning. The Stock Market has been rather more steady to day, the extreme fluctation in Consols for the Account having amounted to but per cent. The present price is 841. In money stock several purchases have been made, and per cent. higher than for time ;at present 84i is, perhaps, the nearest value. Bank Stock has been called as high as 188. Tho value of Exchequer bills has again touched par, having opened at 4s. dis count. The Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been quoted at 844 and 844. The French loan has been taken at Paris at 75f. 25c. ; but only a slight effort has been produced upon the quotations of /Trench Stock here, which has been sold at 115 f. 50c. for the Five per Cents. There is no price for the Three per Cents. Spanish Three per Cents. have realised just now 271, and the Five per Cents., 161. Chilian Bonds have realised 661, and Russian, 105. Venezuelan Bonds are 34 to 35, and the Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. have fallen from 531 to 534. The list of the Railway Share market contains very many quotations, but the alterations are limited. The Bank meeting has just broken up, but no an nouncement has been made of any alteration in the rate of interest of money advanced on approved securities orsE cLoSUNG PR.IcES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES Bank Stock lB 7 l/ 188 , 188 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns B3 IA 823 83% 83 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities.. .. 84%M % 84% New 3v, per • Cent. Anns .• 84 14 Vi 'li 81% Long Anus. to expire Ja n . 1860 ... 8 1 - / 7-16 BN, India Stock 929% 23 2 232 India Bonds, 1,000/. ..... .. 25 dis 25 dis Ditto under 1,0001.. ... 20 dis 20 dis Bank Stock for Account .. ... 3301/ Consols for Account B 4 l / 2 1 /4 1 /, 81 1 /, Exchequer Bills. 3d. 1,000/. 5001 Small ONE CLOSINO O'CLOCK PRICE s RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Brazilian Bonds ..., Do., New, 1843 Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.... Ditto, 3 per Cent ... 49 Equador Bonds Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 — Ditto, AcCount — Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent — Ditto, Account Russian Bonds Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, 3 per Cent ...... 27 1 / 2 Ditto, Account Venezuela Bonds, 2% per Cent 34 35 Ditto, Deferred lO .. Dividends on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 5 per Cent....... 115 f. 50c. 115 f. 50c, Exchange 2sf. 80c. 25f. 80c. Dutch, 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 53 t/ 2 3 / 1 v 53% PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING It lILW.A.Y SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%.. ... Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2% Belfast & County Down 10 ...... .• Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley 10 ... .. 13% 1:: Birming., Wolverlepton, and Stour Va11ey..... 8 ...... - Birkenhead, Lancashire, ' and Cheshire June.— 7% • Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 5 Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, Thirds Buckinghamshire 101. 4s. 3 dis _•...... Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares..... 3% % 1 Ditto, Clydesdale June 50 Chester and Holyhead-. 37% 21% 21 ...... ... Ditto, Preference 8 Clarence 78% — ............... Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. lO ..... -- . .............. Dublin and BelfastJunc. 20 - Dundalk & Enniskillen 15 ...... East Anglia, 251., L. & E. and L. and D....... 25 ...... 15 .. Do., 181., E. & H.... 18 ...... 9 ... . ... ..- Do., 3/.105., E. &11. 1 ...... Eastern Counties 2O ..... 16% 16 Ditto, Perpetual, 5 per Cent, .No. 1....... 6/. 13s. 4d... % dis 1 4 dis Ditto ditto, N 0.2... 61. 13s. 4d... % % dis % dis Do., York Extension.. 10 ...... Do., North. & Eastern 50 ..... . Do., Quarters ... ...... 12 1 / 2 — •• •• -- Do., New ............... 23 Eastern Union 5O "' ... ....... . Ditto, Quarter Shares 122 Ditto, Thirds ... l3s. 4d - Do., (guar. 6 percent) - P . !st Lancashire Ditto, New - ... 7% Ditto, New Quarter5... 33/4 cast Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... Ditto Half Shares ... 15 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% Edinburgh & Northern.. 20 Ditto, New Ditto, Newport ..... ... 7 Ditto, ditto, New . .... 1% — Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorch. 2% — Ditto, New Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Glasgbw,Kilmar.,& Ayr 50 ...... Ditto, New Do. Preference Consol. 12% — Cr !at Northern 8 Do., London and York 2 %.. ... Great South. and West (Ireland) Great Northof England..loo ......220 Ditto, New 401. Ditto, New 30/. 3O Ditto, New 151 ... 1% (;reat Westein Ditto, % Shares.. 5O Ditto, 1 Shares Ditto, Fifths 2O Ditto, New 17/ 7 Huddersfield & Mulches. 22 Ditto, Thirds .. . 7 - Hull and Selby 5O .. ... . ...... ..... Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, 14 Shares 12% Ipswich& Bury St. Edm. 15 Do., do., and Norwich 15 Do., do., Extens.Scrip (late Camb. & Ely) 2% Lancaster and Carlisle— 50 Ditto, Thirds .. 10 Lancashire & York hire 93 Ditto, ditto Ditto 1,.; Shares . Do. Quarter Shares , 14% ...... .. Do. Fifths 6 %... ... 6 Do. Sixteenths ...... .. 6% — - Do. Thirds (Reg. )....10/. 4s. ... Do. Liverp. and Bury 34 Ditto % (late Hud dersfield and Shelf.) 33 . Do.( Wakefield, Ponte fract. & Goole Do. (W. Riding Union) 41.2 s 2% dis 2% dis. Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. IL4 Shares (A) 9 — Ditto ditto (B) ... 1% Leeds and Bradford SO Leicester and Bedford... 165....... • ...• Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 37% Do., Branch 1 / 2 Shares 12 %.• ... ......•••••• .. Do. New Branch(blue) 2% — •••.•• Do. Extension (green) 2%.. Do. NewExten. (pink) 2 1 / 2 — ••• Leeds and Thirsk Ditto, New - ... ..... ...... . Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3%. Liverpool, Crosby and Southport .... .... ...... 2 . 76 1 / 2 86 49 2 15- 4 21 - 1 / 2 2034 105 16 11.% 44 _ 17zi 97 59 16% 23;,2 _ 47% 87% 17 arrivals—l 6 sold. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Nov. 11, 1847, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. I HAELET.I OATS. I RTE. BEANS. I PEAS. PRICE .• s2s 4d 32s 8d 23s Od 34s Odl 46s 6d 493 4d The Duties on Foreign Grain are now suspended. THE LATE FOG.—A BODY FOUND THIS DAY.— This forenoon, on the receding of the tide fro m th e timbers near Waterloo-bridge, on the Surrey side, the body of a man was discovered on the mud. A shell having been procured, the deceased was removed to St. John's vault. It was ascertained that his name was John Rogers, a lighterman, who was drowned off his barge on the night of the late dense fog, the 2d instant, and for the recovery of whose body a reward of 1/. was effered. The deceased has left a wife and five children totally unprovided for. WARRINGTON ELECTION.—It is talked of in this borough, by persons who are likoly to know the truth of the matter, that it is the intention of William Alcard, L'sq., who contested this borough at the late election on the Liberal interest, to petition against the return of his opponent, Gilbert Greenall, Esq., on the ground 9f gross bribery having been resorted to in the forwarding the interest of Mr. Greenall.—Manchester . Guardian. TEE LATE COLONEL ALLEN.—This officer, whose demise we recently announced, was for many years con nected with , the 10th Regiment of Foot. lie entered the army in 1808, and was placed on the.half-pay list i n 1835. With the regiment already mentioned he served at Waleberen, in 1809. He subsequently took p ar t i n the campaign of Sicily, under . Sir J. Stew ar t ; an d at Naples, under Lord W. Bentinck. While under Sir William Clinton, he was engaged on the coast of Spain. He was also present at the taking of the Island of Ponza. USEFUL IN VENTIONS.--A working engine e r a t Preston has i nvented an apparatus for f o ldi ng news papers, as they are received from the printing machines. Do. Quarters Newmrk et & Chesterford 13% — Do. Extension .........21. 125.... Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford ... ..-- Newry and Enniskillen 7 New ry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor lO - Norfolk 101) - Do. New 20/. Do. Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, North of Norfolk... 2 - Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 Northern Counties Union 4 — North British ...•.... ... 25 ...... 25t..... Do. Half Shares -- Do. Quarters 4 , k3 4 ... Do. Extension Ditto Thirds 1 North Staffordshire 712 ...... 7 1 / 4 7 'A North Wales North Western Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...,.. 35 ... Reading, Guildford, and Reigate - Royston and Hitchin ... 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.) l6 Ditto Halves ... ditto S Ditto Oswestry ...... 12 Ditto New Shrewsbury and Ilerefd 2 Shropshire Union South Devon... 4O ...... Do. Preference South Staffordshire 4 -outh Eastern & Dover. 33 1 4 2B Do., No. 1 20 Do., Nc, 2. Do., No. 3 .. ..... ...... :5 D0., No. 4 South Wales zioutti Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stet. C0a1.... 4 Taw Vale Extension ... 4 - •.• •••• ..... ••• Thames Haven Dock and Railway l 7 l/2...... Vale of Death ... .. Waterford and Kilkenny 13 1 / 2 .. Waterford and Limerick ai Waterfil,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin - West Cornwall - 4 ... •-• Whitehaven & Furness 11 - Windsor, Staines, and South Western ..... ... 525....... W ilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth l'ork, Newcastle, and Berwick. . .. .. Do. Original New and Berwick .. ... 25 Do. North Shields P ar . 25 •• • •••• ••• .• .. 1 3 Do. Extension No. 1. 10 Do. do. No. 2, ........ 10 1)0. G.N.E.Preter ence 8 ...... 8 5 4% 3 / 4 ..... ... 74 iark and North Midla n d 50 15% Ditto, Preference ...... 10 Do. East and Westßid ing Extension ...... - 27 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo- Belgian 4 — Barbadoes ....- 1 Boulogne amt Amiens... 20 1 4 1A% ...... ..... 141/5 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) ... 14 Central of Spain ... .... 2 Cey10n............ . .. ..- s s• Demerara 2% Dendre Valley 4 Direct Bombay and Madras r-- Dutch Rhenish •••... ......... ...... East Indian ... ..... •••• ss. ~.... Great Indian Peninsular ss. ...... Great Southern of Madrasss. Great Western Bengal... ss. Great Western Canada... 3;/ ...... Italian and Austrian.... 4 ... .. Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 Louvain it la Sambre ... 6 ••• • •••••• ........ Luxembourg 6 Lyons and. Avignon Al ad ras ...... Madras. Nellore, and Arcot Madrid and Valentin 2 ... .. Namur and Liege Northern of France.— .. 10 Orleans and Bordeaux 6 Paris and Lyons lO ...... 6% ............... Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen if Paris and Strasbourg 8 20 1 4 Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse ...... 16 .. ........... --........, Strasbourg ...- and Bale ... 14 ....• Pours and Nantes ...... 8 Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt....... 12 Trinidad West Flanders ...... .... 8 MINES. ' .... i!4 Anglo Mexican lOO Galvanized Iron Real Del Monte, Unrea. - Ai LLOYD'S SHIPYIN G--(THIS DA- 1r ) LONDON, Nov. 11.—Wind this day at noon S.S.W r 's moderate breeze and hazy. DEAL, Nov. 10.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W.--Arrd. Ganges, Saguenay. Arrd. from the River Prince Raged for Hobart Town. OFF HASTINGS, Nov. 10.—Indep en d enc e, New V u ric ; OFF ST. ALBAN'S IIEAD, Nov. 9.—C e l e b e s, .1 3 Y 1 t tavia, for Rotterdam. BRIDPORT, Nov. B.—Arrd. H anna h , Bartlett, Q uebec . PLYMOUTH, Nov. 10.—Wind B.—Sid. Lady r e " Port Philip.. A red. c" LIVERrcoL, Nov. 10.—Wi n d S . W ., fresh.- --1- 1 ,; Tepie, Walker, Mazattan ; - Surinam, Gum, Mirarn•i" leaky, and part of cargo thrown overboard ; Wilson, Calcutta ; Elora, Turnbull, Bombay ; S a 'fr." -i d e ; Bainbridge, Callao:; Enchantress, Cormack, ditto ; Worsley, Q ua yl e , B onny, sa i led 29th July , and from ss. , Fernando I'o sth August ; D um f r i es , f or Shangbae; ,„ u belle, De merara . P ut b ac k , Henry Ew b an k, for . 13 ° 8— ' leaky. OFF BEAUMARIS, Nov. 9.—Hindoo, Hughes, Q uebe° for Cameroon. SWANSEA, NOV. 10. Wind S. A rr ived Ti lton ' Richards, Prince Edward's Island. gayer .FIARTLEPOOL, Nov. 9.—Th e Cl eme nce, from laden/ has put in here with damage, from contact with a to vessel, which lost masts, &c. Th e Willi a m, Loudon ,11 Leith, has put in here very l ea k y , repor t e d to have b e ' on shore. SHIELDS, Nov. 9.—Sid. Rite, Madras; Atlas, 13 2 n1 „,; bay; Montezuma, New Y or k. Th e Ch o i c e, arrived from London, was in contact with, and carried solar the bowsprit of a loaded schooner off Cromer Yeste r efi, WHITBY, Nov. 10.—Th e P a l emon , Windan to Pin k came into the Reads last night very leaky , sigi u t ton four extra hands. The John and Mary from ter grounded on a rock near th e Bridges, and broke her keel. DEAL, Nov. 10.—Th e b ottom of a large shilh, 9 sl l l; parently some tim e i n t h e water , was passed on the ,: t he ult., in l a t. 47, N., lon. 41 W., by the Gaug e ' s, m" Downs. has New Orleans, AOlrelearnt:,nivi' Smi th, LIVERPOOL, LIVERPOOL, NOV. l h e wage, having been in contact this morning with ers Queen Vict o ri a (s), hence to Dublin, twenty Peels" Was of which jumbed on board the ship. The s teame r _ lost sight of immediately after the collisio n. Brothock, from Limerick to London, vary leaky, w _ d fallen in with on the Bth instant to the southward au eastward of Cork, by the Fatima, Wilson, arrived h• The Brothock bore up for the English Channel. 1 1 b 7. casks, supposed to contain palm oil, was passed 43 " A Ist instant in lat. 47. lon. 18, by the Lady Woral_ from Bonny, and nine casks on the 4th, in the sam e titude and longitude, by the Fatima, from COMO* Liverp., Mnchstr& New castle Junction 2 l/0. ..... ..... _ London and Blackwall..l6/. 13s. 4d. ..... . Do. New, Nc. 1 Do. New, No. 2 .. '3l. 13s. 41... Do. Extension l5 London, Bright:in, and South Coast .. 50 Do. Consol. Eighths.. 30 Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9 Do. Pref. Con. 5 per ct. 50 London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d — Ditto, Preference ... 18/17s 2d — London and N. Western 100 153 154 153...... 15215 Do., Quarters L. &B. 17 Do., do., New Ditto Fifths Do. 1 4 Shares (G. J.) 25 - Do 40/.Shares(L.M.) 15 - Do. 401. (M. & B.) ... 40 Do. 10/. (M , & B.) A. 7% — Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 7% --- Do. 10/. M. & B.) C. 1 Loud. & S.Western 41!. 6s. 8d 55% 55 Do. New ConsoL Bths 40 Do. New 50/. ... ..... 32%.. Do. New 401. 26 ... . Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50 - Ditto ditto ............ 40 - Ditto, Thirds 61. 13s. 4d.... 1 dis 1 die. London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ..... .. ........ 1%...... Londonderry &Coleraine 27% - Londonderry and Ennis killen Mancliester,Buxton,and Maticy.k 3 - Manchester, Sheffield, and 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 Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 7% Manchest. & Southampt. 21/ _ blildand lOO A 108 1 4 107% 109 109 Do. Consolidated Pref.loo Do. 40/. Shares Do. 50/. Shares Do. llinn., and Derbyloo Midland Consol. Brist. ci; Binning., 6 per cent.loo . — --, Midlnd, Brist. & Glocstr. 34 ..... - Ditto, ditto 71.9s — •.• ...• •• ..... -- Midlnd,:tnest.& Swan nington, 8 per ct.guar.loo Midland Great Western Irish - Newcastleand Carlisle...loo - par 2 dis 7p 27% 27 1 4 33 3:.% 60 3 es 411' 209 i 8% 1 9 !4 6% - i ' I S .... 28 14 10 -- 35/i 3E4 29% 3')i 12 1 4