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Immediately, in 3 vols., post Bvo., MRS. TROLL 0 PE'S NEW NOVEL, " TOWN AND COUNTRY." " No scandal about Queen Dizabetia, I hope." Henry Colburn, pubilisher,'f3. Greet Marlborough-street. WAGIIORN and CO. beg to announce that their Firms in England, India, &c., will CEASE on the 24th December next, the Peninsular and Oriental Company having super seded their Overland Parcel business. Mr. Waghorn makes this an nouncement to the Public with the deepest regret, after having opened the Overland Route, and after twenty years' service for their ad vantage. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. M. JULLIEN'S ANNUAL SERIES OF CONCERTS. THE LAST WEEK. 31, Jullien begs leave respectfully to state that the Concerts must - • Dositlvely close on Saturday, Nov. 20, the Theatre being required for Use production of the Grand Opera. PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENDTG. Part I,—Overture, Leonora, Beethoven—Symphony, the Allegretto Pram Symphony in F, Beethoven—Solo. Violin, M. Sainton, II Tre molo, Beethoven— Sonata, Grand Sonata in F, for full Orchestra, 11. Nadaud, Beethoven —Valse, " Le Desir," with variations for the first and second Violins, Tenors, Violoncellos, and Contra Basses, • Beethoven--Qnatuor in C., Opera 59, executed by the whole of the stringed instruments, Beethoven—Symphony, the Grand Sym phony in C Minor, Beethoven. Part IL—Opera, Lucia de Lammermoor, grand selection, with Solos by Mr. Lazarus, Signor Cioffl, and Herr Koenig, Donizetti— New descriptive Quadrille, The Swiss Quadrille, Jullien—Selo, Cia rionet, Mr. Lazarus, I Puritan!, Bellini—Waltz, the Bird of Paradise, 3Ccentg—New Comic Polka, founded on the well-known round 01 the " Three Blind Mice" Coote. :• The Concert commences at Eight, and terminates before Eleven. Promenade and Boxes, Is. ; Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes, Ws. 6d. 215., and 325. 6d. M. Jullien's Annual Benetlt will take place to-morrow Evening. BAL MASQUE, M. Jullien's Grand Annual Bal Masque will take place on Monday, .324ry. 22, and terminate the Season. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMAItKET. ainder the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Witt be presented a new Comic Drama, called THE ROUSED LION. Characters by Messrs. Webster, Howe, Wigan, H. Vanden hoff; "Mrs. Keeley, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Seymour, and Mrs. Stanley. After which the laughable Comedy, called MY WIFE ! WHAT wit.t ? Captain Hector Tempest, R.N., sen., Mr. Farren ; Captain Hector Tempest, R.N., jun., Mr. Henry Farren ; Symon Ppm, Mr. Keeler; Lady Longpurse, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Louisa, Mes. Seymour. Anus which, the Farce entitled CONFOUNDED FOREIGNERS. To conclude with a new and original Farce, called WHO'S MY HUSBAND ? Doctor Mull, Mr. Tilbury; Daniel Tootles, Mr. Keeley ; Mrs. Smith 'Thompson, Mrs, W. Clifford ; Sophonisba Mull, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham ; Sally Starch, Mrs. liumby. • Stage Malnkger, Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Rox-bock keeper. • Ilexes, 55.; pit, ss. ; Gallery, 2s. ; - Upper Clialery, Is. Doors 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 THE GREEN ; er, A Hundred Years Ago. Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Dennis, Mr; Ctillenford ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Grinnidge, Mr. Wright; Captain Dartois, Mr. Worrell; Madame St. Auberl, Madame Celeste ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates; Nelly O'Neil, Miss Wool gar To eenclude with the Burlesque, entitled TAMING A TARTAR. Count Craco - vieninski, Mr. Worrell ; Kickerwhiski, Mr. Paul Bed ford ; mazinrgi, Mr. Wright ; Ivan, Mr. Manyard ; Monsieur Con pee, Mr. C. J.- Braith ; Strelenski, Mr. Cullenford ; Countess Craco ♦ieninski, Miss Woolgar ; Mazourka, Madame Celeste. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Tattler the Management sf Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Matliews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed PATTER versus CLATTER. To be follow-3d by the Comic Drama, entitled THE PRIDE OF THE MARKET.. Principal characters by Messrs. Buckstone, Leigh Murray, Gralitry - „ and Porselle ; Miss IL-Gilbert, Mrs. C. Jones, and Madame Testri... After which a new Co4lllle Drama, called A ROUGH DIAMOND. To conclude wiith a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. Principal char alters by Mr. Harley, Mr. Buekstone, and Mrs. Mac namers. The Interior" of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bradwell of tb a Colosseum. Dress Boxt a, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No ball-priee to at ty part of the house. The New B ox-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Public every du y, from Ten to Six. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Eng,ageniez t t'sf Mr. MACREADY and MISS CUSHMAN. THIS EVENING Will be presen led Shakspearea Tragedy of MACBETH. Macbeth, Mr. Maeready ; Macduff, Mr. Cooper ; Duncan, Mr. Gilbert ; 'Mal colm, Mr. Conway ; Banquo, Mr. C. Fisher ; Hecate, Mr. Hod. a Lady Macbeth, :Mb:a Cushman. To be followed by A CONCERT, by the celebrated Singers of the Pyrenees.. _ . , To conclude with the Farce entitled A TRIP TO HAMPTON. Principal char:tete - es by .3lCssrs. S. Cowell, Neville, Howaid, Harris, Mrs. Selby, ant Atiss Dress as.: Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE, Lessee, Mrs. I'. Davidge, No.), Davidge-terrace,Kensington-read, Surrey. THIS ETE:Is CENG, the performances will commence with the celebrated Opera of LA SONNAMBULA, in which Mr. W. "Harrison, Mr. Boman!, 3liss R. Isaacs, and Miss Romer will tipper re. To be followed by a new Divertissement called UNE KER3IES. To conclude wi th the Farce of DEAF AS A POST. Characters by Messrs. Vinin g. 11. Horncastle, Attwood, H. Lewis ; Miss Collett, Mrs. W. Daly, an el bliss R. Isaacs. A distinct entra ace to the private boxes has been made (which Lays been re-itteo 1). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the •riacipal Librarlar is ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily cross Ten until Four. .Braes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, Gd. AST. LEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Propriet. n* and Manager, Mr. William Batty. 31:r. Batty's peribrming Elephants. THIS EVENING The Grand Sped ace of THE CAMP OF SILESIA. Entirety new Se, Ines in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of the Establishment, In the serious modes of equestration. To conclude with t he Farce of TIIE L TTERY TICKET. ZS o x -office open from 11 till 5. Acting sod Stage Manager, Mr. W West. THE WEIS MICER.—Sin; Orricx, Nov. 14. TIUMMOXETER, .Le west, 45; Highest. 49 ; Noon, 54 . BABOMETE 30.33.—W1ND S.W. ; fine. NOVEMBER 15. THERMOMETER, nowest, 51 ; Highest, 51 ; Noon, 55, BAROMETE2 i 30.23.—W1ND W.S.W.; fine. tituli WATER .4.T LONDON-BRIDGE TELI DAY. Morning;.. 16 minutes after 6. Evening .. 37 mtnntls after 8. IT toning ilt,AtIA". LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1847. Advices from America to the 25th ultimo have been received by the French line of packet steam ship Missouri. 'he previously received accounts of the capture of Mex:ico by the American troops have been fully corrobovated. The loss to the victorious army, in killed, wo tended, and missing, amounted to no . less tha n I , 623 men. 23 8 were kill e d and 47 missing, the, greater number of whom, it is to be feared, have been cut off, the great exasperation of the Mexicans, ax ed their determination to carry on a guerilla warfare, and the measures said to have been taken for the r asassinatien of the hostile soldiers, leaving little hope t hat mercy would be extended to any of the enemy who fell into their hands. General WORTH'S brigade suffered much more severely than any of the others, nearly three-fifths of the total loss having been sustained by htat division. General QUITMAN, of Mississippi, had been appointed the Ar ne•rican Governor of the city, and had in that capacity occupied the palace of the late President. He had also levied a contribution of 150,000 dollars on t he inhabitants. We regret to say that the intelligence of the execu tion of the deserters from the American army has also been confirmed. D lore than fifty were butchered in cold blood, after tie battle of Churubusco, ten, it appears, had their sentences commuted to receiving "fifty lashes with a r aw hide whip well laid on the bare brick of each ;" each of them was also to be " branded on a cheek: with the letter D, to be kept a close 'prisoner as long as the army should remain in Mexico, and then to be drummed out of the service?' In these instances this mercy was extended because the parties had left the Ainerican service before the war had 'commenced, indeed, while the United States were at peace with the entire world. Other circumstances of mitigation existed in the other cases, the particulars of which have not been stated, with the exception of one whose life was spared because he had a son in the same company who had remained faithful to his colou rs . The whole proceedings of America with r ospect to Mexico h ave no t crea t e d ver y f avou rable Impressions amongst other nations. These feelings will not b e improved by the legalized murder of fifty prisoners, ver itizens. A. gy reinatanyli of whom were not American period Nvb wholesalae_ngm has taken place since the teassacres could be justified under any• 'pretexts. prevails to the saml:ela extent spirit no longer the Amer icans may be certain t th as at the ruthless and an and barbarous severity of which they have beenilty will exciter a gene ra l feeling of disgust anion st al civilized tations. g gul It rem. sin s yet to be seen whether the posse ss i on of the enemy 's capital will obtain for the conq ue rors the desired • concessions. They may seize by brut e e force the dc ainions of the sister republic, th ey may occupy thei .r chief towns, and establish garrisons in strongholds , ' throughout the country, but their own expenses a; id losses have been enormous, and a heavy taxation w ill teach those who have hitherto escaped comparatively scatheless from the demands of the tax collectors, f that wars and victories, however much they may pamp' r the national v a nit y , are at best expensive luxuries, a xzd that unprovoked aggressions on other nations, I iowever successful, generally bring many evils along; -with them—that with nations as with in dividuals ":Honesty is the best policy." The Mexi cans are nos exasperated to the hig hest pitch, means th e • most sanguinary and atrocious are stated , by Generral Se. OTT to have been resorted to. The Ameri can Co nimander-in-Chief, in a general order, says "- that a a extensive conspiracy is on foot to sur prise, by meg ns of an insurrection, our guards and quarters, and to murder our officers and soldiers," and again, "until ready for the• insurrection the dis guised villains hope to do us much harm in detail. Their plan is to assassinate stragglers, particularly drunken men ; to entice individuals or small par ties into shops to drink, and to stab ...them. when in their cups, to entice our gallant Roman Catholic soldiers, who have done so much honour t.. 2 our colours, to desert, under a promise of land in California, which our arms have already conquered and which for ever will remain part of the United States." Is this a state of affairs from which either honour or profit can be derived, and which is to be protracted to an indefinite period to gratify the feel ings of avarice or of territorial aggrandisement? Will it be received with approbation by high-minded and honourable citizens ? It will be perceived that the flimsy disguise of negotiation is cast aside. Califor nia is no longer to be acquired by treaty or pur chase. According to General SCOTT, it has already been conquered and will for ever remain part of the United States. The pretexts that have been hereto fore made are now cast aside, and the real object of the war, " the acquisition of California by conquest" is plainly avowed.. Indeed it is asserted, that still more extensive schemes are now projected—that some of the Cabinet are for the retension of the whole of the Mexican territories, while the more moderate are as yet contented with a large portion thereof. The commercial intelligence is of considerable im portance, and affords an additional illustration of the impolicy and inexpediency of our monetary laws, which attempt to bring back a portion of useless gold, that it may lie idle and unproductive in the Bank cellars at the cost of a general depreciation of every description of property, and the ruin of hundreds of our most eminent Mercantile firms. We have long foreseen that the effect of the Act of 1844 may be wholly different from that which was contemplated. On the 21st ultimo, a few days before the present accounts were received from New York, we used the following language :—" The object of this Act was to enforce the retention of gold in the country, or to bring it back if it should by any means be exported ; but this may likewise operate in a manner wholly "different from the intention of its originators. The widespread alarm that it has occasioned has cast dis credit on the. British, name ; the honour and the solvency of British merehants cannot now be relied on as in former days. _The value of bills on England are consequently depreciated, from the fear that they may be returned dishonoured, and payments in other lands - can therefore be more profitably made in specie than by bills, and, ao a natural result, the bullion will still leave the country, - no matter how anxiously our rulers may endeavour to retain it. Either that I must be the case, or there must be a total cessation of our commercial pursuits, and all classes must be exposed to the greatest misery and pri vations." Unfortunately these predictions have turned out to be but too well founded. The natural consequences of the depreciation of our credit are taking place. We are told, "We do not anticipate that much specie will be sent to you. Such as goes now is transmitted chiefly by parties who are afraid of all bills, and who do not mind losing the difference. We understand that some of the principal London houses urge their agents to send gold ;" and again, in speaking of the probable supply of bread stuff, the following language is used :—" If many breadstuffs are wanted on your side this winter, we think, under the' present shattered state of credit, gold must be sent out to buy them. There is a desire to ship flour and grain if advances could be got ; but houses feel the necessity of being very guarded." The probable consequences of a continuance in our unwise policy is pointed out in the transference of our manufactures to other lands. They say, " We have heretofore found the best mar kets for our most important staple productions in Great Britain, and whatever tends to cramp or cripple that demand is, of course, for the time, a great evil. Our cotton has been the most important raw material one country ever furnished another. The industry cf England has depended upon it, and . her wealth has been increased enormously by.-tha, addition of that industry to the first cost. It has given employment and subsistence to millions of her people, and afforded an important item of transportation to the commercial marine of that country. England has been such an important_ customer for this staple that all others have been made subservient, and we have been, in a measure,'controlled in prices by:the will ofher manufacturers. It therefore appears plain that what- • ever affects the demand for this staple in England affects prices in this country; and if the manufac turers of England curtail their operations we must reduce the supply of the raw material. It does not, however, follow that the consumption of cotton is reduced in proportion to the reduction in the demands from the manufacturers of Great Britain. A demand for the raw material springs up in other sections, and the markets of the world are supplied from other sources. If the manufacturers of Great Britain work short time, and consume one third less cotton than usual, the supply of manufactured goods from that source becomes reduced, and the consumption must be supplied from other sources, or reduced to a corresponding extent. Notwithstanding the deficiency in the harvests of Eu rope generally, the masses have been in a very prospe rous condition, and have been in a position to consume these fabrics as largely as usual, and the demand in the aggregate has doubtless been as large as usual. It is, therefore, a very important question with those coun tries which have hitherto imported so largely of British cotton manufactures, what increase there has been in their domestic supply, and what progress they have made in the establishment of manufactories within their own limits ? The United States have progressed wonderfully in this element, and anything tending to depress the manufacturing industry 'of England gives a great impetus to it in this country. We have no return showing the actual increase in this branch, but we have no doubt it has been a very large per cent A few years will suffice, at the rate we have advanced within the past few years, to place us independent of Great Britain, not only for supplies of manufactured goods, but for markets for the raw material." How long will our legislators be blind to the signs of the times, and, in the face of such events, persevere in the maintenance of an abstract theory, the adoption of which has exposed their country to the greatest calamities, and threatens eventually to occasion her total ruin ? On Saturday evening we referred, in a particular manner, to the measures adopted for the conservation of our colonial interests in the West Indian Archi pelago; this evening we would epitomize the en deavours recently made for the tranquillisation of affairs in New Zealand. It were but a one-sided and short-sighted policy which would tend to the depreciation of the difficulties existing in our colonies merely to enhance the appreciation of our internal embarrassments. Were the Government of the country to concentrate its energies upon a single point of administration—no matter how vital its exigency, no matter if it implied the maintenance of national credit or the prevention of foreign invasion —the affairs of Great Britain would very speedily fall into such involvements as would evince the in capacity of its statesmen, and demonstrate the neces sity for a more prudential course of legislation. It is this which justifies the complication of the adminis trative authority ; it is this which not merely justifies its complication, but proclaims the corn summate wisdom of those councils in which that complication originated. Without arrogating to itself the char ac t er i s ti cs o f omn i po t ence or omni science, the law requires for its proper enforcement such a var i ety of channels, in the persons of its offi cial rep resentatives, as would be incompatible with any less simple arrangement than that which is pe culiar to the constitution of the r United Kingdom . . enabled to penetrate to all part o s of Hence it is that the vigilan ce the our L eu e o g r i m sla o t u u s r d e o ! vast b than those of imperial Inßionmioenas—nditnnt neinennsritnchnerde ztbcaommercial enterprise republicanof the Macedon ian , snt ore t o. h r a n for thansuffi cient those for th ofn ambition philosophic investigation of the so remote the philosophic Had ALEXANDER been doubly successful as he could never have rktuired territories and gigantic as those which own the sovereignty of VICTORIA —stretching to the antarctic circle from the forests of Canada, and to the torrid zone from the shores of Hindostan. Had ARISTOTLE bro ug h t to the science of legislation all the craft of at , s ___ . I:,s i4 , 1.,44 )„ „ q , !, ,-;-,. ail!. NA, . J. 0 i. A l ri -. - i 'o4 Z, - ' liar , • 1‘ . .: . , ,, .. '"I ":74.0. 1 16 I ' , ;;- ,to , - Vili . "t•,/ , *? ), I, 4,4,,, ~ - .s . ..<..,,..- ... , xorr .., tnu tte , - I` - - ••,4... THE SUN, LONDON, his capacious intellect, he could not by possibility have devised a state machinery more wonderfully adapted to the government of an empire than that which radiates in influence and operation from the seclusion of Downing-street to the extremities of the two hemispheres. It is by the perpetual balance of this machinery that so many and such different in terests are simultaneously preserved ; and that the manifold operations of the Executive can be performed together without clash or disarrangement—from the stamping of a letter at the Post-office to the signing of an international treaty, from the appointment of the guardian of an old tenement in Stratford-upon- Avon to the nomination of a viceroy over the vast but thinly populated tracks of Australia. By this distribution of authority among the various members of the Cabinet the affairs of our colonial possessions are preserved in recollection through all the troubles of a monetary panic and all the anxieties of a conti nental estrangement. _ _ _ Notwithstanding the impression which is preva lent to the contrary, it is certain that New Zealand has been entirely, if not permanently tranquillized, and the majesty of the law vindicated by the decision of the British forces. The insurgent disposition lat terly manifested by the natives has, moreover, been principally quelled by the stringent measures of justice adopted by Captain LATE, of the 58th Regiment. It would appear, from the intelligence recently received by the Castor, that the circumstance which immedi ately aroused the insubordination of the aborigines, was the accidental death of a native, caused by a pistol-shot discharged by a midshipman of 11. M. S Calliope. That the bullet was fired unintentionally through the brain of the native is rendered more than probable from the fact of the shot being regarded as a casualty by Governor GREY himself—his Excellency being scarcely the man to put a garbled construction upon any occurrence. The New Zealanders were, nevertheless, incapable of distinguishing the causes of a catastrophe which resulted in the destruction of one of themselves ; and the consequence was that, by way of revenging the victim of the reefer, six of the na tives assaulted a farmhouse situated in a secluded part of Wanganui, wounded the proprietor, Mr. GILTIL LAN, and afterwards murdered his wife and her three children. The manner in which this atrocious out rage was perpetrated upon an unoffending civilian is another of the diabolical tokens of the brutality of an uncivilized race. It would seem that on the 18th of April Mr. GILFILLAN had just returned from the adjacent town of Petre (distant about five miles from his residence), and was giving directions in his stock-yard, when he observed six natives de scending a neighbouring acclivity. Without suspect ing their intentions, this gentleman fell into conversa tion with the natives, and was gossipping and " jesting" with them while they walked together, to and fro, in front of the farmhouse. While talking in Otis unsuspicious manner Mr. GILFILLAN received a terrible blow on the back of his neck, and although bewildered by the suddenness of the attack, the seve rity of the wound, and the number of his assailants, he managed to escape into his dwelling and to barri cade the doorway. Besides himself, there were at this moment in his residence his wife, five children, a waiting woman, and an infant. Yielding to the soli citations of his wife, and convinced that his own destruction was alone desired by the marauders, the unfortunate man lowered himself from a window and crawled, with considerable difficulty, through his garden and among the long fern by which it was surrounded. On the following morning a police man proceeded to the farmhouse, when he discovered three of the children and their mother murdered. An inquest was immediately held upon the bodies ; four of the assassins were identified, were examined before a court-martial (martial law having been already proclaimed throughout Wanganui), and before the evening of the 24th of the same April the murderers were executed. Such are the particulars of this dia bolical crime ; and such was the summary punishment inflicted upon the natives by the judicious severity of Captain LATE, of the 58th Regiment. By way of re taliating upon this officer for the execution of their companions, the natives attempted, by a combined as sault, to annihilate the troops stationed under his command, but were driven back in all directions, and were ultimately compelled to disperse on the arrival of additional assistance under Captain GREY. As a conclusive testimony of the pacification of the country since these disturbances, we may mention the condi tional release from confinement of the once formidable TE RAUPERAIIA. Instead of endangering the quie tude of the country, he is now residing in the nor thern quarter of the island in a state of peaceful obscurity. Throughout the occurrences we have here described are manifested the advisability of promptitude and decision in the scenes of such extravagant turbulence as have hitherto been witnessed in New Zealand. Without the promptitude and decision of Captain LATE, that colony might have been still ravaged by intestine dissensions, and the hands of the aborigines still imbrued, with impunity, in the heart's blood of the unoffending colonists. Through the instrumen tality of that officer, however, the rigorous justice of the Government has been proclaimed, and tranquillity restored to the insensate population. A letter from Trieste of the 30th ult. states that, according to accounts received from the south of Russia up to October 20, the cholera did not appear to be making any progress. In the north-west, in the direction of Odessa, it had stopped at Kre mentschuk on the Dnieper, and at Perekop, at the entrance of the Crimea, where the mortality had not been great. At Taganrog it was believed to have entirely ceased, and a Te Deum was sung; but it 'revived, though with less intensity. Odessa and its environs were perfectly healthy. The Turkish Government hadgestablithed a quarantine of 10 days for all arrivals from such ports of the Black Sea as were attacked by the cholera. The principalities of the Danube were in a healthy state, except that the epidemic disease in cattle still prevailed in Walachia, and is spreading—so as to induce the Government of Moldavia to establish a sanitary cordon along the Pruth. The disease disappeared from Moldavia nine months ago. The letters from Saint Petersburgh expressed apprehensions of the cholera, as it had already made its appearance in the government of Novogorod. Intelligence from Eastern Caucasus up to the Ist October has reached us, by way of Constantinople. At the beginning of September Prince WORONZOFF, desirous of repairing the check which he sustained before Ghuerguebil, invested Salty, a village of two hundred houses, situated in a formidable natural posi tion, and defended by numerous works constructed by the mountaineers. The village was defended by the bravest Murides, who were specially chosen by CHAMYL. They acted with the most heroic bravery, notwithstanding they suffered cruelly from scarcity of food and water; but after forty days' bombard ment, the Russians succeeded in obtaining pos. session of a high tower which commanded the place. Seven times was this tower captured and re-cap tured; and an eighth attempt was likely to ter minate in favour of the mountaineers, when a battery of artillery opened suddenly on them, and caused great ravages in their ranks. Ne vertheless, they rushed on the guns and stabbed the gunners. They were even nearly possessing themselves of the cannon, when several battalions of Grenadiers drove them way. On the 26th of Sep tember another important position was captured by the Russians. The intrepid soldiers of CHAMYL made a sortie, in which they inflicted heavy loss on their as sailants ; but, seeing they could not maintain their position, with walls dismantled in all parts, they escaped in the night among the rocks by passages known to them alone. The next day the Russians took possession of the village, which presented only a heap of ruins and dead bodies. The capture of Salty cost them two thousand men, and a great number of officers of all ranks killed or wounded. Among the severely wounded was Prince ARGOUTNISKI DOLGO ROUKI, who commanded in chief, in the absence of Prince WORONZOFF, confined to his tent by sickness. The loss of the mountaineers was considerable, though less in proportion to their numbers. A. letter from Burne of the Bth says— "To support the invitations contained in the pro clamation, addressed by the Military Council of the League to the canton of Tesino, more than words were necessary ; and accordingly a division cf the troops of - Uri, 400 or 500 strong, and having four pieces of cannon, possessed themselves on the 3d of the heights of Saint Grothard. The battery of artil lery was directed against the hospital, which had MONDAY been converted into barracks. A patrol of fifteen or t 'eventy soldiers, to which three officers of artillery o :ned themselves, then ventured to make a recon nais.-tancme meta athpeatsrooulthoterTnessiie,deeofwthitehnwaohuienhtaiit imme diatelyn, where it. ongaged in a combat of advanced posts. This attempt vas fatal to it ; the b a ll s o f th e T es i nese r oore lucky than tho se o f th e i r a d versar i es, of the officers of ar till ery an d woun d e d cs se tar v ru e bc r ikn ts al eo soldiers. The news of this first check fell like a thunderbolt on the canton of Uri, causing general consternation. The tocsin was rung everywhere ; 300 men of the landwehr immediately started for the scene of hostilities, and were followed by a battalion of the Valais, which had entered the canton of Uri by La Furka some days previously, and which was ready to embark at Flueten to proceed to Lucerne, to join the army of the League; so that Tesino has at present to be prepared to meet at the same time the battalion of 'Uri, which occupied the hospital of St. Gothard on the 3d, reinforced by three piecess of artillery ; the three companies of landwehr, which hastily left Altorp on the 4th ; and the battalion of the Valais, whose destination was changed. It will not, therefore, be very astonishing if, with these forces, the militia of the Sonderbund may have been able to arrive on the 4th at Airolo, and perhaps as far as Faido ; but there assuredly murderous engage ments will take place ; for the commander-in-chief of the Tesenese troops, the brave Colonel Luvini, who reached Lugano on the 4th, immediately caused 2,000 men to start for Bellinzone, situated at six leagues more to the north and seven leagues from Faido. Such is the succinct resume of the news which have this morning reached both the Vorort and the Tesi nese deputation. The federal Colonel Lackicea of the Grisons, a superior officer of engineers of the greatest merit, is fortunately at Bellinzone, where his presence may be of the greatest utility in case the army of in vasion should arrive at that place. Mr. Peel was present at the great military review which took place yesterday before the General-in -Chief, and he spoke highly of the pleasure which he felt to see the fine appearance of our troops and their skill in manoeuvres. We have again to-clay a continual passing of troops. Some companies of chasseurs of Bide Campagne have solicited as a favour to be placed in the advanced guard of the corps d'armee, which is to operate against Fri burg. This demand, we are assured, has been com plied with. It will not be forgotten that in the expe dition of the corps francs, the volunteers of Bale Cam pagne conducted themselves with bravery which would have had another result than defeat, if it had been imitated by the volunteers of the other cantons. The canton of Zug is now occupied by four bat talions of the army of the League, which conduct themselves, as I am assured by eye-witnesses, as if they were in an enemy's country. The Schwitzese Hediger battalion particularly distinguishes itself by its brutality. The federal Colonel Muller, of Zug, who would not serve in the army of the Sonder bund, has left his canton to offer his services to the federal army, which thankfully accepted them. Seve ral other citizens of Zug belonging to the liberal camp, and among them men of the highest social position, have left their canton to proceed either to Zurich or Berne. In addition to the arrest of M. Stettler, the police of Berne has thrown into prison Count Krusinski, a Pole, who, under the name of Klein, has managed, for several years, a bookselling establishment at Berne." The Bale Gazette, of the 10th, mentions a report from Berne that the Federal Government had just received from Frankfort 500,000 francs, lent to it at 7 per cent. interest. The same journal adds, that the arrest of Count KRUSINSKL at Berne, is attri buted to his having sent to the Journal des Debats articles against the Federal Government. The Aini de la Constitution, of Berne, contradicts the report of Mr. PEEL having offered the mediation of England in the dispute of the Swiss cantons, and of its having been rejected by the Federal Go vernment. The Piedinontese Gazette of the Bth contains the following important declaration, dated the 3d inst. : " His Holiness the Supreme Pontiff Pius IX., his Majesty the King of Sardinia, and his Imperial ,and Royal Highness the Grand Dake of Tuscany, Duke of Lucca, constantly animated by the desire of contri buting by their reciprocal union to the increase of the dignity and prosperity of Italy; convinced that the true and substantial basis of an Italian union is the fusion of the material interests of the populations forming their states ; convinced also that the said union will be most efficacious in extending in the course of time national industry and trade, and strengthened in this belief by the hope of the adhe sion of the other sovereigns of Italy, are come to the determination to form • Customs League between their respective dominions. To this effect the , under signed, in virtue• of the authorisation conferred upon each of them by their respective sovereigns, declare as follows : " Art. I.—A Customs League is agreed on in prin ciple between the States of the Holy See, Sardinia, Tuscany, and Lucca, to be effected by the nomination of commissioners specially designed by the high con tracting powers for the formation of a common cus toms tariff, and for the choice of a just distributive principle with respect to common produce. " Art. ll.—ln the original formation of the tariff, mentioned in the precedi ng art i c l e, and in the suc cessive revisions to be ma d e per i od i cal l y w i thin epochs determined, d, the nearest app roac h compa tibl e with the respectiveinterests will be made towards free trade. 4, Art. lll.—The time and place of the assembling of the said commissaries will be determined as soon as the definitive intention s of his Majesty the King of the two Sicilies, and of his Royal Highness the Duke of Modena shall be known respecting their adhesion to the Customs League. (Signed) " GIOVANNI CORBOLI BUSSI; E DI SAN MARZANO ; G. MARTINI." We draw the attention of our readers to the re markable omission of the Duchy of Parma in the last article. The Piedmontese Gazette also contains the letters patent of the King of Sardinia for the establishment of a bank of discount, under the title of the Bank of Turin. The Diario di Roma, of the 4th inst., quotes a let ter from Naples of the 29th ult., stating that, tran quillity being completely restored in Calabria and Sicily, the Royal troops had re-entered their canton ments, and the extraordinary powers given by the KING to General LAND', and other military com manders, had been withdrawn. The Bilancia men tions that England had demanded the dismissal of General LAND', who had opened the dispatches of the British Consul at Messina. A brigade of 2,000 arrived in the Abruzzi, wher e some agitation pre - va infantry, ed. T7hoeo Courier aovuarlirey, and 14 pieces of artil!ery, had r, of Leghorn announces that the King of NAPLES had comm u t e d th e ca pit a l sentences pronounced against a number of revolters, and miti gated the penalties of others. Lord MINTo had ar rived at Rome. We have received the following letter from our Lisbon Correspondent : LISBON, Nov. 9, , 1847. Since my last advises Ministers have tendered their resignation s , w hi c h were acce pted by her MA JESTY. The e x -Mi n i ster o f St a t e , Councillor of the Treasury, GoNzA-AzEvrpo wa s sent for to form a new Admini s t rat i on, b ut on th e 6th instant he de posited th e t rust i nto the h an d s o f her MAJESTY, de claring the impossibility of framing it. On the 7th, the Councillor of State FONSECA MAGALHAES was sent for, and up to this day the result of his measures is not known. I anticipate he will meet with great difficulties under existing circumstances, as it is quite evident that the armed force under the control of Calmar, will oppose any Ministry which is not selected from the Cabralist ranks. Yet these very men are those who speak most loudly against the Opposition, which they accused of threatening to curtail the royal prerogative as regards the free choice of the advisers of the Crown ! Such a contra diction of principle is indeed unaccountable, and places the throne in jeopardy, as it is beyond doubt that a revolution, either Cabralist or Progressist, is at h an d—C a b ra li s t, if the Ministry is chosen amongst the p o liti ca l shades of the Opposition, how ever moderate they may be—and Progressist, if, unfortunately, the CABRALS are again called to power. This is, indeed, a sad state of things, and the result of a timid and dubious policy. llad the protocol been enforced with energy, and without shuffling, things would not have been carried so far, and parties would not have been emboldened and encouraged to dictate the law. All eyes are now turned towards England, to see how she will act in the present crisis. Several assaults have been committed during the week by individuals of the volunteer battalions upon officers that hare served the Oporto Junta, Such disgraceful scenes in a capital like Lisbon are most disreputable to the authorities, and especially to the Marquis DE FRONTEIRA, who is Civil Governor, and to his brother Don CARLOS, the commander of the Municipal Guard, to which is entrusted the tranquil- lity of the town. There is no doubt that if these authorities did not countenance such cowardly acts, no such shameful events would occur. Indeed both EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1847. these two rank Cabralists are responsible for these occurrences, it being a fact that in more than one instance the police, or municipal soldiers, have been seen amongst the assailants. On Thursday last, the 4th instant, her MAJESTY was safely delivered of a Prince. Of the royal issue there are now seven children, five Princes and two Princesses, and the Braganza dynasty is pretty well secured as far as succession goes. During her con finement the KING CONSORT signs all the royal diplomas. The organs of the Cabrals, the E.standarte (Stan dard) and the Matraca (Battle) continue lavishing abuse upon England and the English. Of course Sir G. li. SEYMOUR is not spared, and French policy gets the lead in the columns of such papers, which do not conceal their plans, calling loudly for rebellion, in order to put down English interference. A grand meeting of the Progressist party for the ensuing elections was to be convened on Sunday, the 7th instant ; it was, however, postponed for next Sun day, the 14th, under the presidency of the Marquis DE LOULE. The central committee has addressed the following circular to the electors of the provinces : "Citizen Electors,-----The Electoral Committee of the national party summons you to the poll. Let the supreme right of a free people be exercised in the act of polling. Frauds, threats, violences, should never prevent you from performing this duty, for where ever the elections may not be crowned with success, your meetings of themselves will be a protest in favour of the liberties of the country, and against the faction that oppresses it. Recently emerging from a glorious struggle, the country is now about to en counter another that will not be less so; and the liberty which you defended with arms with so much patriotism is now to be defended by the peaceable means which the law of the country has placed at your disposal. Citizen Electors,—To the poll—to the poll i " The Diaro, the official organ of the Government, has published a declaration to contradict the assertion which appeared in the English newspapers, about Admiral NAPIER having received part of his arrears as a pensioner of the Portuguese Treasury. The statement is incorrect, as the fact is that Sir CHARLES NAPIER has been placed on the same footing as other pensioners of the State, and thus he cannot be ac cused of having improperly used his influence as a British Admiral to obtain such payment. The de claration in the Diaro is as follows : " We are authorised to declare as false and calum nious the assertion that has appeared in several papers, that Admiral Napier has addressed any kind of claim to the Government in relation to his private and personal interests or affairs. It is also with equal certainty that we declare that Admiral Napier has not received one farthing of his pension or allowance due to him from the Portuguese Government, beyond the period of the month of February of the present year, and that in this respect he is in an exactly similar and no other position than the rest of the individuals of his rank, having equal claims and similarly situated." In addition to the perplexities arising from the state of the country, the poverty of the Treasury increases daily, and to pay half a month of October last to the employes it was necessary to sweep the public coffers of their last farthing in order to make up the amount. The eight months in arrear belong ing to the present year will be very likely left behind for general measures, as happened last year with the months from February up to May. It is, indeed, wonderful to see how the machine of Government can be kept going without resources. From the provinces no taxes can be collected, whilst the autho rities are selected amongst the exaltados of the Cabralist faction. To obtain the payment of taxes in the rural districts, it is necessary that the people at large should place confidence in the local authorities, who in general are mere petty despots. Trade continues still very dull, and money is scarce. The discount on bank notes has been in creasing to 2,020 reis, or 42 per cent. Madrid papers of the 7th have arrived. The Gaceia publishes a decree appointing the Mar quis of MIRAFLORES President, and the Duke DE Gos and the Prince D'AGLONA Vice-Presidents of the Senate. General Ros DR OLANO is nominated Ambassador to Lisbon, and General CORDOVA has had conferred on him the Grand Cross of the Royal and Noble Order of CHARLES M. According to the Clamor Publico, these two gentlemen, on their dismissal from the Ministry, entered into a very angry correspondence with General NARYAEZ, and in the course of it Ros DE OLANO threatened to publish "a full, true, and particular account " of what had occurred just previously to the General's accession to power. In the hope of preventing the scandal of such a publication, NARVAEZ, says the Clamor, conferred on them the dignities to which they have just been gazetted, and caused the Herald() to speak well of them. He, moreover, allowed Ros DE OLANO 10,000 reels for his journey to Lisbon, and 20,000 for his first establishment; but the Clamor asserts that tlfe two ex-Ministers are not yet satisfied, and that they still threaten to publish an account of the circumstances attending the recent change of Ministry. The Eco del Comercio publishes the following correspondence between ESPARTERO and NAR VAEZ "Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "Excellent Sir—The Queen our Lady, under date of the Ist of the present month, has deigned to sign the following decree Taking into consideration the eminent- qualities which distinguish Don Bal domero Espartero, Duke de la Victoria, and desiring to give him a public testimonial of my royal esteem, and of the confidence which I have in his capacity, not less than his affection to my person, I nominate him my Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten tiary to her Majesty the Queen of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland. transmit this copy of the royal order to your Excellency for your knowledge and satisfaction. God protect your Ma jesty for many years. (Signed) "DUKE DE VALENCIA. "Madrid, 6th Oct.': ESPARTERO'S reply was as follows " Excellent Sir,—l have received the royal order by which the Queen our Lady has deigned to name me her Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten tiary to ber Majesty the Queen of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland. I shall always be grateful for this new proof of the royal esteem with which her Majesty has honoured me ; but I suppli cate her Majesty, in her goodness, to exempt me from such an elevated charge; it being necessary for me to live for some time separated from public affairs, in order to attend to my private affairs, which have been neglected for so many years. I pray your Ex cellency to make this known to her Majesty, at the same time assuring her of the purity and sincerity of my sentiments, and that I shall always remain her most devoted servant and faithful subject. God pro tect your Excellency for many years. London, 24th October. (Signed) " THE DUKE DE LA VICTORIA." The removal of CONCHA and the appointment of PAVIA to the command of Catalonia had excited a great sensation at Barcelona. SALAMANCA has re cently had a private audience of the QUEEN, which lasted three hours. The Carlist Generals ELIo and ALAAZ have entered Spain. We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. In the Commerce of Friday we find the following, on the subject of the speeches of the Duc DE BROGLIE and Lord JouN RUSSELL at the Lord Mayor's dinner : " The union of these two nations, which have so long made war on each other, and which are called by national sympathy to preside together over the pacific labours of the new civilization is a grand spectacle offered to the world. The Lord Mayor worthily in terpreted the sentiments of his country with respect to France. Our Ambassador did not fail in the task imposed on him by our dispositions with respect to England. On the one part and the other the union of the two nations was warmly manifested in terms in conformity with the superior interests which demand this union. 'Why does not the conduct of the two Governments respond to the sentiments which have just been expressed in London in the name of the nations themselves ? Assuredly we do not pretend to make any one responsible for the rivalries which in different places divide France and England. In the life of great states there are necessary con flicts respecting which we must not suffer illusions, even in the interest of the maintenance of peace, for which it is important to measure ou r e ff or t s b y th e dangers which threaten it. But to render lasting the union of two nations, which meet on all occasions in the midst of the enterprises of their activity and their ambition, it is indispensable to assign to these two nations a common object towards which they may direct themselves without thwarting each other. This common object, which cannot be peace itself, must be what makes peace real and fecund—power devoted to the active protection in the world of the conditions of order, labour, and liberty. The union of France and England is a falsehood with which hypocritical or dreaming statesmen arm themselves, it it does not signify the association of the two nations for the guarantee of right in Europe. W e d o not see that s uc an association has been shown by the suppression of Poland, consummated with impu nity by the assassinations of Gallicia, by the inter vention in Portugal, by the policy which keeps Italy under the threats of Austria, and which delivers Switzerland to the horrors of civil war." The formation of the Italian Customs Union is the subject of comment in all the French journals of Saturday. The Debats says— " For the moment the most striking feature in this treaty is its political bearing. It is to augment, by regular means, the force and independence of the Ita lian Governments, and to cement th e i r un i on , th a t a ll the efforts of all the enlightened friends of Italy ought to be turned—efforts to which we have never ceased to lend our aid." The Constitutionnel is brief but clear in the expres sion of its sentiments. It says— "lt is not necessary frr us to dwell on the impor tance of this treaty, which is a great guarantee of independence for Italy. It is a confederation of com merce and industry between the Italian states, the first foundation of a sort of political confederation." The National thus concludes an ably written ar ticle on the same subject : " We highly commend the sovereigns of Sardinia, Rome, and Tuscany, for having so usefully obeyed the impulsion given by public opinion. They pro mote at the same time the interests of their country and their own grandeur. They cease to be the vassals of Austria, and perhaps will soon count in the number of European powers. An Italian political confedera tion will emanate from a Customs'.: Union.' But the other princes remain to be conquered to the ideas which have inspired the three parties to the Conven tion of Turin. The King of the Two Sicilies, the Duke of Modena, and the Duchess of Parma, have not joined the League. Already have overtures been made to two of them, and the last words of the preli minary treaty of the Bth November cause the possi bility of an arrangement to be foreseen. We accept the augury without disguising from ourselves that Austria will make prodigious efforts to prevent the accession of Naples and of Modena to the League. They do not deceive themselves at Vienna; the Customs' Union is the most terrible blow which can be given to Austrian influence in Italy. M. de Met ternich kept under the Lombardian provinces as much by the influence which he exercised around them as by interior oppression. Venice and Milan would in vain have attempted to shake off the yoke ; a point of sup port was nowhere to be found, and moreover they felt themselves surrounded by hostile Governments. Will it be thus now ? The Customs' Union, if it be realised, as we hope it will, will open a new era to Italy, an era of interior prosperity, of exterior de velopment.' The Council General of Paris adopted, on Friday, the following resolution, by a majority of twenty-five to ten : " Whereas an experience of sixteen years has dis closed serious imperfections in the electoral law of the 19th of April, 1831, and demonstrated the ne cessity and urgency of modifying several of its enact ments, the Council expresses a wish that the Go vernment and the Chambers should attend with solicitude to the revision of that law at the next legislative session." The Constitutionnel publishes the following sketch of the diplomatic career of the late Count BRESSON— " Under the Restoration Count Bresson was sent to the United States as attache, and he there married his first wife. The different proofs of aptitude which he had the opportunity of giving on several occasions procured for him a mission in South America, in which he was engaged when the re vo l u ti on o f July broke out. He did not delay his return to France, and M. de Larochefoucauld, our representative at Berlin, having been obliged to absent him self from that residence, M. Bresson was charged to replace him. It was at Berlin that M. Bresson really commenced his diplomatic fortune; he was, it is true, assisted by some fortu nate circumstances. At that period the question of Belgium and Holland divided Europe and threatened the future. The French Ministry hesitated to under take the expedition against Antwerp. M. Bresson, who at Berlin stood well with the Court, was able to give the French Government the assurance that the attack on the citadel of Antwerp would not be consi dered a case of war by the European Powers. In consequence of the consideration which he enjoyed in the capital of Prussia, he had the title of ' Minister of France to the Government of Berlin' conferred on him. In this new position he was not useless to the dynasty which had divined in him one of its ablest servants. It was M. Bresson who was charged by two successive Ministries to negotiate and conclude the marriage of the Duke of Orleans. M. Bresson seemed predestined to this sort of intimate and fa mily affairs, for the two great points of his diplomatic career are two princely marriages. Count Bresson has left at Berlin the most affec tionate souvenirs. The late King, Frederick Wil liam 111., it is said, considered him as a friend, and treated him with so much familiarity as to go to visit him at the hotel of the Embassy, where he sometimes passed whole evenings in playing at whist. Our readers will not have forgotten the brilliant reception which the French Princes obtained at Berlin on their journey to Prussia. This reception was attributed in great part to the influence which M. Bresson en joyed. From Berlin M. Bresson went to Madrid as Ambassador. We have no need to call to mind the recent events which have signalised the conduct of our diplomacy in Spain. Our readers, besides, are well acquainted with our opinion on the Spanish marriages. Yesterday, in making known some of the circumstances which signalised the stay of M. Bresson in France, we omitted one, which is not without importance. On the last changes in the Cabinet of the 29th of October, overtures were made to M. Bresson to induce him to consent to accept the portfolio of the Marine. M. Bresson refused, found ing his refusal on the few chances of duration which the Ministerial replastering up presented. The re fusal, and still mere the terms in which it was couched, pleased very little, as will be imagined, those who had taken it to heart to prop up the wavering fortunes of the Cabinet. The Cabinet, obliged to recruit itself as it could, called M. de Montebello from Naples, who resigned himself to the succession of M. de Mackau. As to M. Bresson, he had to go to Naples to replace the same M. de Montebell) who had just accepted the refused portfolio. It was not without feeling bitter mortification that M. Bresson decided on going to occupy at Naples an inferior post to that which he had already filled. We may consider this circumstance;and the grief which it caused, as having occasioned the fatal event which has prematurely ter minated his career. We have been informed of an affecting fact respecting M. Bresson, which deserves to be stated here. By his first wife he had a son, whose infirmities prevent him from leading an active life, and whose means of subsistence it was conse• quently particularly necessary to secure. Some time before his departure from Paris, M. Bresson at length succeeded in settling some affairs of interest which the death of his first wife had left him, and which bad remained in suspense till then. Before leaving for Naples, he caused a sum of about 125,000 f. to be placed out for that son. Never,' said he to one of his friends, never have I been happier than I am to-day, for the fortune of my poor son is secured !' Whatever may be our opinion of the last diplomatic acts of M. Bresson, it is not less true that his death leaves a void in the personnel of our embassies which it will be difficult to fill up. In the midst of the difficult circumstances in which Italy is placed, the experience and moderation of M. Bresson might have exercised a happy influence on the determinations of the Court of Naples, especially if he had not had to struggle against the system adopted by M. Guizot." On Friday the adjudication of the contracts for supplying the mail-packets with coal took place at one o'clock, at the General Post-office. The first lot of 1,200,000 kilogrammes, for Calais, was adjudged to M. PAYON at 3f. 39c. 9-10 per 100 kilogrammes. The second lot of 600,000 kilos., for Bastia and Ajac cio, was adjudged to M. JULES TALABOT at 4f. 30c. The third lot of 9,000,000 kilos., for the port of Marseilles, for which there were four offers, was awarded to M. VINCENT, of Marseilles, at af. 74c. The fourth lot of 3,000,000 kilos., also for Marseilles, to M. JULES TALABOT, at 4f. 92 milliemes. The fifth lot of 24,400,000 kilos., for Malta, Athens, Constantinople, and Alexandrfa, for which there were five offers, was adjudged to Mr. JACKSON, of London, at 3f. 79c. All these adjudications are subject to the approbation of the Minister of Finance. Advices are said to have been received at Paris at a late hour on Saturday, by extraordinary courier, to the intent that a bloody battle had taken place between the two belligerent parties in Switzerland, under the walls of Friburg. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Saturday at 77f. 20c. ; the New Loan, 77f. 20c.; the FiN e per Cents., 1161. 65c. ; the Orleans Rail. road Shares, 1,212 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 930 f. ; Havre, 5201.; Great Northern, 572 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 5711. 25c. ; Vierzon, 566 f. 25c. ; Bordeaux, 4951.; Troyes and Montereau, 2501.; Dieppe, 260 ; Bask, 162 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4251. ; Tours and Nantes, 4031. 75c.; Paris and Lyons, 415 f. ; Lyons and Avignon, 473 f. 75 f. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 284. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE, NOVEMBER 13, Boulogne and Amiens, 15—Northern of Fraice, 13—Or leans and Bordeaux, s%—Paris and Lyons, 6%—Paris and Strasbourg, 4%—Sambre and bieliSe ) 0 %--TOUTS and Nantes, 4—Wot klanders 1%. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUAI:TER TO THREE• The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, on Saturday, were 5,000 bales, of which 1,500 were American for export. The market closed with some animation, and the prices of American and Surat were a point against the buyers. The sales included 3,500 bales of American, at sd. to 60. per lb.—Railway Shares were steady. There was a gradual but steady improvement in this market. A considerable degree of sensation was produced among the merchants and others interested in the United States trade in consequence of the news of the loss of a packet-ship, Stephen Whitney, commanded by Captain Popham. The loss of the captain is, indeed, much regretted by a large circle of friends. It is to be hoped that the accounts as yet received are much exag -421„ gerate. There are not any arrivals from the Colonies to-day. It would appear that the West India interests in the provinces are bestirring themselves to force upon Go vernment some measure of relief for them. A strong deputation waited upon Lord John Russell and Lord Grey on Saturday, which included representatives of all the principal ports of the kingdom where the West India trade is carried on to any extent. It is reported this morning that a failure of some 0 011 sequence has occurred at Leeds. Our inquiries have not led to the receipt of any information affirming or contradicting the statement at present. The letters received from the iron districts this morn' ing are not by any means of a satisfactory character' Business is represented as being in a languishing condition. The impression appears to be t hat prices will fall. There is not a doubt expressed but that abandonment in part, or in whole, of railway extensions have given an unfavourable turn to the market. There is a report current just now of a house of some magnitude not being able to meet its engagement; as yet' however, all drafts presented have been paid. The rumours just noticed had an immediate effect on lb. market for the public securities, and a fall of / per cen t ' in Consols has taken place—the price for the Acco unt having opened at 84j, touched 85, and in an instant I C receded to 841; for Money the quotations went back from 85 to 841. Exchequer bills fell from 2s. premi um to ls. discount. India Bonds were at 20s. and 135. CU P count. The Reduced Three per Cents. and the Thre e. ' and-a-Quarter per Cents. have fallen to per cent. In the Foreign market, the value of Austrian has b ee f quoted at 101; of Brazilian at 78; of Mexican 15i the Portuguese Four per Cents. have ranged from ~ 2 14 to 201; Venzuela is at 35k; and the Two-and-a - A' Dutch are at 54,i. • The Railway Share market is heavy just now. THREE O'CLOCK.' POSTSCRIPT.—It is with very considerable coaceril that we have to announce the fact that that yell large firm of Messrs. Trueman and Cook have this d a l been compelled to suspend payment s . From the immense connexions of the house as broltef * &c., the firm bad immense annual dealing:" with the mercantile interests connected with the sis t. and West Indies, the Mauritius, and indeed with almost all the principal colonies, and with foreign countries. •x: is said that the liabilities are very large-300, 000L lea' t, but it is known that they have immense smolt ° of produce and other assets tc ease off the balance. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOC K (From the Official List) Bank Stock lB7 189 .1 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities B3 % l i Vii 1,0 3 per Cent. Consols Anns 847 4 3 /4 B _ s ~At, New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anns. 85 84 85 Ys " • Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 8 7-16 India Bonds 1,0001 Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 3d. I p 1,0001. 5001. Small „, 4 7 3 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOC".• Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent lOl Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent ls%)it Ire Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cents 2 I IA 2034 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 Ditto Passive Bonds 3%% Venezuela Bonds Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2 1 / 2 per Cent.,l2 Guild 5 4 1,4% Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CROCIC RAILWAYS. PAID. no. SILL"' Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% 3% to -- Ayrshire and Galloway - Belfast and County Down .. 10 Birmingham & Oxford June... 15 - Birmingham, Wol., & Dudley 10 ... . 13% 8 3 / 4 to 14 Birming., WoL, & Stour Val. 8 - Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction.. Boston, Stamf., & Birming... 5 Bristol and Exeter - • Do., Thirds - Buckinghamshire lO/. 48 Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50 Chester and Holyhead... 3 7 1/ ..... ...... to Ditto, Preference 8 Cl arence 7 8 11, to -- Do., let Class, 6 per Cent... 10 • •••• • Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 ...... to --- Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 20 f Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 15 East Anglia, 25/., L. & E. asd L. &D. ' Ditto, 181., E. & H lB ...... ...... to Ditto, 3/. 10s., E. & H 1 3% . ..... i s Eastern Counties 2O --- Do.Perpet.,s per ct. No. 1,6/. 13 s . 4d —1614 .. .. .. . ... . to to to Do., do N 0.2,61. 13 s . 4d... 14 dis. .. , Do., York Extension Do., Northern & Eastern 5O - Do., Quarters .... .. ..... ... 12 1 4 ...... to . to Do., New to Eastern Union 5O Ditto, Quarter Shares Thirds .. ........ ..13s. 4d — ....... to ...„ Ditto guar. 6 per cent.)... East Lancashire - . to Ditto, New - Do., New Quarters ..... to East Lincolnshire 12% l l 3 /4 ...... to --- Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 4414 ...... to Ditto, Half Shares - Ditto, Quarter Shares 1 2 14 ll ...... ...... Edinburgh and Northern ... 20 to Ditt N .... 21 Jab), .N ew..... ... -/2 — Ditto, New port.. 1 7 v. ___ :::: to to Ditto, ditto, New Edinburgh and Perth Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — ...... to .."-- Ditto, New Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..Bl . 63.8 d ..... to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 — ...... to •-"" Ditto, New D 0 . 14 Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 12 1 / 4 ..... .. Great Northern.... ............. 8 Do. London & York Exten. 2 1 / 4 —.. ...... to Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 35 G -.t North of England 100 ...... ,reci, --- Ditto, New 40/ 5 Ditto, New 30/ ... 30 ... ,„ 64%...., to Ditto, New 15b......... 1%......t0 ij o Great Western Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 1 0i4. 23 Ditto, Fifths du p d o de N rs e ti w eld l7 a i nd Manchester 2 7 2 .. .. .... Ditte, Thirds.. - 7 -- ..... to 98 Hull and Selby Ditto, Half Shares 25 ...... 48 •••••• .... . to Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 15 --; Do. do. and Norwich Do., do., Extension Scrip to (late (Carob. and Ely) 21,E — ...... to Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 Do., Thirds.. to - . Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 ..... • ..... to 7 2 * Ditto, ditto .• to --- Ditto Half Shares • :::: to --- Ditto Quarters Ditto Fifths - 1 0/. 6 4 1/ s 4 . . . ro Ditto Do. STilxiitredesn(tßtiseg...)......... 1 64 %1% ...... ..... ............ to ..... Do. Liverpool and Bury Do. (Rudders. and Slieff.) 33 -•••• Do., Wakefield, Pontefract, to ".. and Goole 471, — ..... to Do., West Riding Union —4/. 2s — ..... to Do., Preston and gyre ... 25 ,„.„ „35 .. ••• to --- Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9 - Ditto ditto ..............(B) 50 11,4 Leeds and Bradford Leicester and Bedford l6s. - "*" .. to Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manches. 37% — ..... to "*".' Do., Branch % Shares '12% ....•• ..... to ""` Ditto, New Branch (blue) 2 1,4 — ...... to •"*". Ditto, Extension (green)... 2% ..... to Do., New Exten. (pink)... 2% — ' .... to Leeds and Thirsk 36 -' . to '_., Ditto, New . - ....... ... 17%. .... ....... to - Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%. ...s •"" .... Liverpool, Crosby, and Sout h- •to , port. - ...... Liverpool, Manchester, and to -.... Newcastle Junction 2l - ".. .. to London kk Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d — ...... to -**- Ditto New, No. I, . Ditto New, No. 2 3/. 13s. 4d.... • .... to "--- Do. Extension ...... - Gond., Bright., & South Coast 50 Do. Consolidated Eighths... 30 ..- — .... to --- Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 - ....... to Do. Prof. Cony. 5 per Ce n t. 50 - ..... to ...... London and Greenwich... 121.155. 4d — ...... to ''.. Ditto Preference lBl 17s 2d... •"*.: to London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 1% — "" to Londonderry and Coleraine... 27% Undo,aderry and Enniskillen 23% London and North Western..loo 153 L . , - ,to --- Do. Quarter .....L. and B. 17 Do. do. New ...... .... ...... 2 ~ to Do. do. Fifths ,„., 12 h•••• to ••••" Do. Quarters ...... ... G. J 25 ...... --- .. .. ... .. to •-"' Do. 401. Shares.....L. & M l5 .....• ... te ''' Do. 40/. Shares...M. and B 40 ...•• ....... to •'"'_ Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 7 1 / 4 • •••• ..... to "--_ Do. 10/. .. M. and B. (B.) 7 1 / 4 ...... -- ....... to ", I L Do. 10/. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 ...... ---.• rA sz to 0 .0 7 7 ' London and S. Western.... 41/. 6s 84... 55.1 4 ....... to ..... , Do. New Consolidated Bths. 40 ...... -- .... to Ditto New 501. Ditto New 404 .... ..... .g. •• 2Q .......w ..... ' 1