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VAGHORN 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 Publ'c with the deepest regret, after having opened the Overland Routh, and after twenty years' service for their ad v.intage. THEATRE ROYAL, DRUR Y-LANE. M. JULLIEN'S ANNTJAL SERIES OF CONCERTS. For One Month only. PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING. PART L—Overture,Fideho, Beethoven—Symphony, the Allegretto in F, Beethoven—bolo, Violin, M. Salaton, Beethoven —The Grand Sonata in F, for full Orche tra, Beethoven —Symphony, Andante from the Pastoral Symphony, Beethoven —Valse, " Le Desir," with variations for the first and second Violins, Tenors, Violoncellos, and Contra Basses, Beethoven—The Grand Symphony is C Minor, El eethoven. Part IL—Opera, Robert le Diable, grand selection, with Solos, Meyerbeer—New descriptive Quadrille, The Swiss Quadrille, JaWen—Duo, " 3lld waving Trees," sung by Misses Williams, Benedict —Sacred Music, the Stabut Mater, Rossini—lialse, the Swedish Nightingale, Jullien—Solo, flute, Mr. Richardson, Richard suu—Comic Polka, The American Polka, Jullien. The Concert commences at Bight, and terminates before Eleven. Promenade and Boxes, Is. ; Drees Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes, 10s. tid., 21a., and 325. 6d. To-morrow the Concert will be fur the benefit of Herr Kcenig BAL MASQUE. M. Jalllen's Grand Annual Ital Masque will take place on Monday, Nev. 22, and terminate the Season. THEATRE ItOTAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EYEXING Win ►e predated, Shakspere's Comedy of THE TAMING OF TUE S HBIiW. Baptista, Mr. Gough; Vincentio, Mr. Tilbury; Lueentio Mr. if. Vandenhod ; Petnicio, Mr. Webster; Grande, Mr. Keeley ; Katherina. Mrs. Nisbett ; itianca, Mrs. Seymour. Atter which, the Operatic Comedy, called THE RENCONTRE. Principal characters by Messrs. Farren, H. Farren, Tilbury. Caul- Add. and Webster ; Mrs. Seymour and Miss Reynolds. 'Le conclude with a New and Original Farce, called WHO'S MY tISBA.ND 9 Doctor Mall, Mr. Tilbury; Daniel Tootles, Mr. Keeley ; Mrs. Smith Thompson, Mrs, W. Clifford ; nophonisba Mall, Mrs. L. Rackingitam ; Sally Starch, Mrs. Newby. Stage Manager, Mr. Farms; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Rex-book keeper. Sexes, be. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; upper Gallery, Is. Doors *pen at Half-past Six, Performance to imminence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING WM be performed the celebrated Drama, called THU GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Denies, Mr. Cullenford ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Grinnidge, lir. Wright ; Captain Dartois, Mr. Worrell ; Madame St. Aubert, Madame Celeste ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Nelly O'Neil, Miss Wool. gar To conclude with the Burlesque, entitled TIMING A TARTAR. Count Craeovieninski, Mr. Worrell ; Klekerwhiski, Mr. Paul Bed ford ; Mazourki, Mr. Wright ; Ivan, Mr. Manyard ; Monsieur Cou pee, Mr. C. d. imith ; Strelenski, Mr. Cullenford ; Countess Craw vituinskl, Miss Woolgar ; Mazourko, Maclaine Celeste. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. Ilnors •pen at Ralf-past Six, ierfoimance to commence at Seyei ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management sf 3ladame Testris, Cole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, WW be peribrmed, MATHEWS AND CO. After whisk a new Cosiic Drama, called A ROIX/II DIAMOND. :To Do !allowed Sy the Comic Drama, entitled THE PRIDE OF TIN MARKET. Prisclpal characters by Messrs. Buckstone, Leigh Murray, Qrauby, and Parselle ; Miss H. (Albert, Mrs. C. Jones, and Matson Testes. To conclude witk a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. triseipal characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. Eackstone, and Mrs. Mac &.lar/O. Tbo labarior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W ft radwoll of the Colosseum. Dregs Boxes, is. ; Upper Boxes, 4g. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Ns balf-prics to any part of the house. TY* Yew Bex-office, No. 2, Wellington street, is epee is the Public every day, from Ten to Six. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. angagesaelat of Mr. MACREADT and MISS CUSHMAN. TIIIS EVENING Will be presented Ahakspeare's Tragedy of MACBETH. Macbeth Mr. Ma wady ; Maodutl, Mr. Cooper ; Duncan, Mr. Gilbert ; Mal. colas, Mr. Conway ; Banquo, Mr. C. Fisher ; llecate, Mr. Bod. a Lady Macbeth. Miss Cushman. '1`;) be followed by A CONCERT, by the celebrated Singers of the Pyrenees. I IT* cesclude with the Farce entitled A TRIP TO HAMPTON. Principal characters by Messrs. S. Cowell, Neville, Howard, Harris, Mrs. Selby, and Miss V illars. Dress Circle, Is.: Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ROYAL SURREY TMEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. F. Davidge, Ns. 1, azyidge-terrace,Kenaington-read, surrey. TES BYECING, the perforatanoes will eon:melee with the celebrate! Opera et THR ENCHANTRESS Dake D'Aqullla, Mr. U. Herncaztle ! Don Salvia, Mr. W. Harri. sea; Sarah, Mr. Berranl Stella, Miss Romer. T. eonclude with a new and original Drama, entitled TIIE TRA.- YELL - SA . 6 ROOM. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Yining, H. liaghos, T. Fredericks, Lewis, Oxberry, and Mrs. W. West. A distinct entrance to tko private boxes has been made (which have been re-itted). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the prinelpal Librarians ; and at the lilok-elize et the Theatre, which Is op ea daily front Ten until Four. Boxes, Es. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be presented a new Drama, entitled THE INUNDATION. After which. a new Drama entitled TILE BOTTLE, from Crnik. shank's celebrated Work of the same name. To mislaide with the Ballet of VOL AU VENT. Boxes , te . ; gait-price, 6d.; Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 24. Doors open at Six, to eminence at Half-past Gix. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, 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 of Ike Establishment, in the cartons modes et equestration. To conelade with the Ballet, Till MYSTIC BRANCH. lex-once open front 11 till 6. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W West. i LIE WEATHER.--S wit Oraxas, Nov. 8. Tawas istaTza, Lowest, 49; Higkest. 58 ; Nooa, 57 - • BAnounan, 29.6.—* nu) S.S.E. ; fine. 1 41,,a4 WATER AT LONDON-HM.II4IE THIS DAT. Moralag.. 54 ma:Tintas after 1. I 7Lventng .. 11 aainaftes after 2. -- c . -, . , ..- i ti. ? -i) v q - i,'-' -7 "mti' ,Is 6-,1; 1 „, ' .14....i , ,) ---- a_T!i r i " , :t - , ObTlxing but. LONDON, MONDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1847. Until some practical improvements of a sanitary character are adventured ',upon by the Government we shall not cease to agitate for their immediate and comprehensive adoption. The moral and physical necessities of the population alike demand the inter ference of the State, whether in the agricultural or manufacturing districts, in the homestead or the workshop. Something must be attempted for the amelioration of the miseries of the industrial classes, and that something must be done forthwith, for the mortality is on an increase proportionately greater than the annual increase of the community. For that superfluous amount of destruction the Legislature is directly responsible, so long as it remains inactive and so long as it is notorious that a legislative inter. position would necessarily diminish the likelihood of contagion and abate the ravages of the more virulent diseases. Granted that the abuses which have to be destroyed are enormous, both in their individual intensity and in their collective magnitude ; granted that a sufficiency of time is requisite for the effectual extirpation of the different causes of the most prevalent maladies; granted that a vast amount of obstinacy has to be overcome before the regulations of cleanliness can be insinuated upon the municipal and parochial autho rities. Granted all this, and we still persist in crying aloud for the commencement, at least, of this compli cated and essential species of social reformation. So much has to be accomplished that we are scarcely amazed at the hesitation of the Cabinet—a hesitation arising manifestly from a natural degree of incertitude as to the priority which should be most judiciously granted to the various measures of innovation. The dwellings of the poorer portion of the inhabitants of larger towns are altogether so inadequate for the proper conservation of health, that the most philanthropic Administration must tarry upon the first inquiry, without being able to decide at once upon the most advisable course which should be pursued through evils so tremendous and innumerable. Benevolence is paralysed into inactivity " at the first blush" of such gigantic and inconceivable misfortunes. As to the character of the privations endured by the labouring part of the population, there can be now no hesitation whatever. The mists of the malaria by which their tenements are enveloped have been penetrated no t mere l y b y nove l wr i ters suc h as D Lams, and ballad mongers such as HOOD, but by that matter-of-fact class of inspectors w h ose fi gu r es of spe ec h are nume r als, g s and whose lit e r ar y o ff spr i ngs are the bl ue ganged the `We have wretchedne ss o f the verydestitute. We know to an acme h e the the dimen sions of their woe, profundity o f their abasement. The cloud has bee n dissipated— the wounds have been probed—the evidences suf fering have been analysed w ith a precision whiocfhap- ap parently proceeded from c a ll ousness, but which a nly the prelude to an active an d resolute enter w'as prse in behalf of a permanent social reorganizati on . Out of this fulness of information as to the necessity for the vigilance and forethought of the Administration has sprung a singular variety of schemes, such as would, even taken separately, prove of infinite benefit to the operatives and destitute, but which, coupled together, would inevitably tend to the preservation o f life and the diffusion of happiness. Ragged er Industrial Schools would relieve the streets from a swarm of miserable and degraded cbil ilren. Model lodging-houses would secure to the impoverished a cheap and wholesome shelter. Public baths would promote habits of personal cleanliness, and diminish the liability to cutaneous affections. Public washhouses would introduce purity into the homes of the very poor—homes which, in spite of the venerable adage that " Home is home, be it ever so homely," have been hitherto. scarcely entitled to the appellation, from their perpetual squalor and discomfort. The erection of abattoirs, the enlarge ment of the more contracted thoroughfares, the con struction of proper cabinets d'aissance, the extension of the system of drainage, the building of oval instead of angular channels in the scheme of sewerage, the abatement of the smoke nuisance exhaling from every species of manufactory, the prevention of intermurai interment, and the ventilation of all kinds of habita tions whatsoever, would most effectually conduce to the diminution of the mortality of the United King doms. It would, by a variety of such economical arrangements, introduce robustness where there was previously decrepitude, joy were there was dejection, life where there was death. For it would affect the multitude of sufferers through the most sensitive of their bodily organs—the organ of respiration. It would restore salubrity to the air which had been heretofore vitiated by pestilential vapours and pernicious particles of diseased matter. How far the purification of that atmosphere is conducive to the proper sustentation of health we have already re peatedly explained. But that the removal from it of all foreign gases is absolutely essential for existence is demonstrated by the physiological facts—that while man can do without the nourishment of the stomach for a very considerable period, he cannot preserve his vitality for fifty seconds if deprived of the nourish ment of the lungs—that man, when in a healthy con dition, breathes, on the average, about 20 times in a minute, or 1,200 times in an hour—that in the course of a minute he inhales and exhales 600 cubic inches, or three gallons of air ; in an hour 48,000 cubic inches, or 180 gallons ; in a day, 1,152,000 cubic inches, or 4,000 gallons. It is manifest, there fore, that purity of atmosphere is one of the principal requisites for the maintenance of health in the animal kingdom; and if a locality with an atmosphere thus fitted for consumption be not altogether armed against the incursions of epidemics, it is obvious that those epidemics will be less difficult to render inde structive with the assistance of the Pharmacopoeia. As the Registrar-General has remarked in his return of the mortality for the September quarter—" A salubrious city in an epidemic like a city built of stone in a conflagration —is ex posed to danger and injury, but not to the same extent as the present cities of Eu rope, which are left without any adequate regulations for the health and security of their inhabitants." And how, we may ask, is it possible that London can be rendered comparatively salubrious while the foul air of the city, according to the account of the same authority, hangs like a disease-mist over the metro polis ?—" Lying dimly over Eltham, Dulwich, Nor wood, Clapham, Battersea, Hampstead, and Hackney; growing thicker round Newington, Lambeth, Mary lebone, Pancras, Stepney; dark over Westminster, Rotherhithe, Bermondsey, Southwark ; black over Whitechapel and the City of London without the walls; and, over the district of St. Giles's, hanging like a dark spot in the midst of surrounding dis tricts ?" With this disease-mist depending over Lon don, what will not be the ravages of the Asiatic Cholera when it has arrived amongst us? And that it is hastening towards our shores with irresistible and indomitable swiftness is shown by an intelligent paper transcribed in another column, from our dis tinguished contemporary the Lancet. Still out of evil arises good ; and it appears to us by no means improbable that as the Legislative acceptance of free trade was hastened by the destruction of the potato crop, so the adoption of a good and comprehensive measure of sanitary improvement may be forced upon Parliament and the Cabinet by the terrors of the Cholera. The meeting called by the Irish Council, to which we alluded on Saturday, has been further adjourned until to-morrow. There was considerable discussion on the second day on each of the resolutions proposed by the committee, the Young Ireland party having attended in considerable force, and brought forward amendments to each proposition. It has ever been the misfortune of Ireland that when anything has been suggested for the national amelioration, parties have stepped forward and attempted to intro duce their own peculiar views, so that the general co- operation of persons of all varieties of creeds and of political opinions (by which alone the desired ob ject could be attained), has been prevented, and the differences and dissension which it was hoped would have been suspended for even a brief period, have broke forth with increased virulence. Last year the opponents of an efficient poor-law for Ireland com pletely neutralised the advantages that might other wise have been obtained from the exertions of the Irish party, and at present the Confederates, as the advocates of physical force delight to call themselves, bid fair to destroy the benefits that would result from an attentive consideration of the really valuable and moderate suggestions of the Irish Council. We will, however, hope that anything really useful, and calculated to improve the condition of the Irish people, may be acted on by the Irish Government — no matter from what quarter it may proceed. We are convinced that the present Ministry are actuated by the purest and most beneficent intentions with respect to the sister kingdom—we believe that there is no reasonable assistance that they would not willingly afford to her children, when once they had set themselves zealously and ener getically to work on their own behalf, and they would do so with the cordial concurrence of the whole or at least the overwhelming majority of the British people. But the Irish must set their own shoulders to the wheels, and. indulge in no extrava gant or overweening expectations. Measures which would prove most valuable auxiliaries, if moderately acted on in the spirit in which they were con ceded, would become not only inefficient but posi tively injurious if pressed too far, and made to sustain the entire burden. Such was the fate of the Labour-rate Act of last year, which was intended to give employment to the superabundant labour in the overpeopled districts, to be used in aid of private enterprise, but the moment it received the legislative sanction it became the signal for the cessation of all private employment and for the discharge of the labourers, who were thus driven to the public works, and the proper cultivation of the soil was neglected. The Ministry will have to guard against a similar abuse of any means that may be adopted for the relief of the destitute in the more distressed districts. lire believe that it is now generally admitted, that in many localities the entire produce of the lands, and all the resources of the proprietors are inade • quate for the support of the people. It, therefore, becomes the imperative duty of the Government to adopt such means as may prevent the possibility of any of our follow-creatures perishing from want of the common necessaries of life. This grave responsi bility can neither be evaded nor procrastinated. Something must be done with respect thereto be fore the Parliament shall be adjourned for the Christ mas recess. The property in the land itself is mani festly the first fund to be resorted to for that purpose, but when that is palpably insufficient, new resources must be opened up, and had recourse to. The Irish Council invite the Legislature to pro pose a tax on Ireland, which it is suggested should be either an income or a property-tax. To the principle of an income-tax we are con scientiously opposed. It is not just or reasonable that the burdens which should be borne by the accumu lated property of a nation should be imposed on the labours of those who are compelled to work for their own livelihood, and who should lay by a considerable portion of their earnings, in order to make a provi sion for their families. An income-tax, therefore, under almost any circumstances is objectionable, at all events it should only be resorted to as the dernier resort, but there can be no such reasons urged against the imposition of a property -tax, which is at once the most equitable, and the most easily collected of the public enacted chargeable L Let on such a every property-tax description rea lised b property-in Ireland, and from the proceeds thereof let all the expenses of the extraordinary measures that may be be necessaryd to provide te e fr r a ia y ote e d aid T of f i s local for the Iri s h people y in the iredinepdr.eviously should only b e resorted ha taxation, and n o t un til a heavy b e hdis been levied on the p ro p erty trict, otherwise the inducem en t that should out to the proprietors of the s o il to affordsusefludl employment, and so far as possible to unpauperise the population on their respective estates, would be with drawn. This is the most urgent of the Irish questions, an d that which must be disposed of immediately on the TILE SUN, LONDON, meeting of Parliament. The questions of tenant right or tenant compensation, and many others re lating to the ,due development of the industrial re sources of Ireland, although of the deepest interest and of the most vital importance to the permanent welfare of the Irish people and the permanent tran quillity cf their country, may be postponed until the ordinary period of the assembling of Parliament, but the means of feeding the people throughout the winter admits of no delay. In common with the monetary laws, thathave occasioned such fearful calamities in our own country, it demands instant attention and imme diate legislation. The Irish themselves will participate as fully as the British people in the benefits to be derived from the abolition of the fatal enactments that have led to such repeated fluctuations during the last twenty eight years ; they suffer, perhaps, more severely than we do from a restricted currency, inadequate to the exigencies and the wants of the empire. An enlarged and adequate circulation will carry prosperity even to the most remote districts in Ireland. It will en able the enormous mass of labour in the country to be put in motion and directed to useful objects. The suggestion of the Irish Council, that the Government should issue at least 2,000,0001. in Treasury deben tures receivable in payment of taxes is a valuable one, but there is no reason why the advantages thereof should be restricted to Ireland, or why Eng land and Scotland should not share the boon. The present fearful depression, the depreciation in the value of every description of property, the impossibility of procuring funds for any speculation, however promising, is owing, as we hare repeatedly pointed out—not to any want of real capital, but to a deficiency of repre sentatives of that capital. When that radical defect is remedied—and until it is so, there can be no per manent or real prosperity for the nation—there will be no want of funds for effecting internal improve ments. Let the Irish representatives then co-operate with their English brethren in giving the death-blow to the Acts of 1819 and 1844. Let them not be satisfied with any half measures, or any propping up of the condemned principle, but demand a new financial code, giving free trade in gold as well as in everything else, and they may be assured that in so doing they will effect more for their native land than by the triumphant success of any measure exclusively relating to Ireland. A letter from Ancona in the Augsburg Gazette states, on the authority of accounts from Athens, that the French party has lost ground considerab'y since the death of M. COLETTI, and that the English Am. bassador now exercises great influence. The Prussian Universal Gazette of the ad has a long and not very mild notice of the different articles of ,the Journal des Debuts, recommending the union of the minor states of Germany, with a view to counterpoise the influence of the Great Powers. The Gazette says—" To divide and corrupt, if not by money at least by honeyed words, and to excite the small against the large states, is the manoeuvre of the Debuts." The inhabitants of Fivizzano positively refuse to be transferred from Tuscany to Modena, and have shut the gates of their city against the Modenese troops. Letters from Pontremoli say that the inhabitants of that place have seized the citadel, and have armed the city guard with the muskets found there. It is stated in a letter from Rome that a criminal prosecution of the Prince DE CANINO (LucIEN Bo- NAPARTE) is to take place, for his conduct in the events of the 7th and Bth September. It is said that the POPE has received a petition from the Catholic College of the Grisons, praying him to order the Jesuits to withdraw from Lucerne, and it is added, that the POPE is about to assemble a con clave, to which he will submit a proposition for the abolition of the society of the Jesuits. The writer of a letter from Berne, dated Nov. 1, in allusion to the reports which have appeared, of a collision between the troops of the Vaud and those of Valais at St. Maurice, says— " I have just read the last official dispatches, and am able to tell you that up to yesterday nothing of the kind has taken place, although the contact of the two armies, and the extreme irritation which prevails on both sides. may easily bring on acts of hostility much more quickly than could be wished. To-morrow, or the day after, at the latest, the Diet will issue the decree for carrying its resolutions against the Sonder bund into execution ; and it is probable that on Wednesday or Thursday hostilities will commence at all points. In the meanwhile troops are continually passing through this town. To-day four batteries of i3ernese artillery, making a ♦ery fine appearance, filled our principal street from one end to the other. We are expecting immediately the troops of the Vaud, who, according to the testimony of eye-wit nesses, cannot be equalled in zeal and enthusiasm. The municipality of Berne, where the Conservative elements predominate almost exclusively, and which has never been upon a good understanding with the Government, having pretended that it was not bound to provide a building for the offices of the federal war commissariat, has been compelled by military force to appropriate a part of the Hotel d'Erlach, which was the residence of the French Ambassadors under the empire and the restoration." A Lucerne journal announces that the triple landrath of Zug has decided, by a majority of 114 to 31, to adhere faithfully to its allies of the league against the Federal Government. As soon as this decision was known, says another account, Schwytz sent two companies of troops to occupy the town of Zug. The canton of Lucrne has been placed in a state of siege by a decree of the 30th ult. The Bale Gazette, of the 4th, states that it has been decided to establish two councils of war, one at Berne, and the other at Zurich. The Government of the Grisons, which has met with great difficulties in assembling its contingent, has, it is said, sent three Deputies to Lucerne and Berne, instructed to use language of conciliation. It appears that the Friburgers have resolved to cut off the two magnificent suspension bridges leading t( their capital, which, it is well known, are thrown from one mountain to another over ravines many hundred feet deep and nearly as many wide. It appears that the division of the Federal army under the command of M. OCHSENBEIN, the President of the Diet' has occupied the canton of Neufchatel without firing a shot. This occupation has the double object of forcing Neufchatel to fulfil its federal obli gations by furnishing its contingent against the can tons of the Sonderbund, and to intercept the commu nications between Friburg, Lucerne, and the exterior. Bale- Ville is said to have decided on sending .. its con tingent to the federal army. The Swiss Federal Gazette, of the 3d, has the fol lowing from Rheinach, in the canton of Argau, dated the 2d :-- " This evening five soldiers of a battalion of Land sturm, of Lucerne, took refuge in the territory of Argau. They state that on the first opportunity there will be numerous desertions from their bat talions." The Federal Government of Switzerland has ad dressed the following proclamation to the army : " Citizen Soldiers—The Swiss Confederation, our common country, has called us to arms. You have responded to the summons with a promptness worthy of mea of courage, ready to shed their blood in the accomplishment of the most holy of duties, the safety of the country. You are now going to march against the separated alliance, called the Sonderbund. This time again you will confound the calculations of those who have done you the injustice to reckon on your defec t don. The enemies of the country are endeavouring to make it believed that it is in order to destroy the cantonal sovereignty of the states of the separate alli ance that you are summoned to march ; that it is to destroy their political and religious liberty—to subject them to the yoke of tyrannical majorities— to overturn the federal institutions—to constitute a unitary government on their ruins, and to sap the bases of social order. Th ese are dious calumnies. You have to make the compact, which is the Federal Constitution of Switzerland, respected—to re-estab• lish order, tranquillity, and the security of the country—to put down revolt—to preserve Switzer land from anarchy, and to bring back to obledience to the laws and to the federal authorities populations led away by those who turn their credulity to ac count. You will have to deliver Switzerland from those evil-minded persons, who for more than half a century have been fomenting troubles, with a view to put down and falsify the principles of liberty, of equality before the law, and of justice, which our forefathers established and set down in the constitu tions of the confederated states. That party, under lying pretexts , has in co li n gno cluded the separate alliance, known by the nam e of the Sonderbund, the real' object of which is ournatrei de mocracy to its un de r mine our order . to render it subservient r to bend principles, to keep the yoke, T. to odious designs. This impious league is a poison IVI. 0 N I) A Y ' which Switzerland ought to fling away from her bosom. Thus, in order to preserve the confederation from such a cause of dissolution, Art. 6 of the federal compacts declares expressly that the cantons cannot form unions prejudicial to the confederation or to the rights of the other Swiss states.' But the Sonder bund is one of the unions prohibited by the compact. A private political alliance, forming a confederation within a confederation, is destructive of the common , alliance; it is a germ of destruction and death that must be extirpated, concluded as it is to resist by force of arms the decisions of the Diet, which are all founded on the provisions of the compact; the sepa rate alliance is an act of rebellion by a factious minority against decrees passed by the competent authority. It is in consequence of that clear and express declaration that the Diet, on July 20, 1847, passed a decree asserting that—' 1, The separate alliance of the seven states of Lucerne, Uri, Schwitz, Underwalden, Zug, Friburg, and Valais, is declared incompatible with the provisions of the federal com pact, and consequently dissolved. 2, These cantons are responsible for the observance of the present decree, and the Diet reserves to itself the right to adopt, if circumstances demand it, ulterior mea sures to cause it to be respected.' In place of submitting to this decision, the Sonderbund protested against it, addressed to the people incen diary proclamations, caused arms and ammunition to be brought from foreign countries, erected fortifica tions, collected together and armed troops. However, before having recourse to arms, the Diet attempted all that was in its power to prevent the effusion of blood. It addressed to the cantonal authorities and to the people of the seven states a proclamation full of kindness and respect for the sovereignty and rights, the liberty and religion of these cantons. It delegated to them federal representatives. But in vain. Except at Zug, the federal representatives were not admitted to speak to the Government, still less to the people. It was forbidden to publish the proclamation of the federal assembly ; the Lucernese Government even went the length of menacing with imprisonment and criminal prosecution such citizens as should distri bute it. Other attempts at conciliation have pro duced no result. The Deputies of the Sonderbund, by making unacceptable propositions, by, above all, demanding a general laying down of arms, have shown clearly enough that they desired to paralyse the execution of the law, to give themselves the appearance of being anxious for peace, and to create a pretext to quit the Diet, crying out injustice and tyranny. They have, in fact, withdrawn from the fede ral assembly, and quitted the Vorort, on Oct. 29, after handing in a declaration and a manifesto already printed. Such is the manner in which the Sonder bund has raised the mask, and thrown down the gauntlet to the Swiss Confederation. Soldiers, you will know how to take it up ! In presence of that declaration of war, and after having exhausted all pacific means, the Diet considered it its duty, in virtue of articles 1,6, and 8 of the Federal Compact, to have recourse to arms to enforce obedience, to ob tain a complete reparation, and reduce the abettors of rebellion and disturbance to a state of impuissance to injure Switzerland. The Governments of the Son derbund have acted contrary to their duty towards the Swiss Confederation in breaking with it, and in taking up arms. Thus, such citizens of the separate alliance as shall openly declare for the Confederation, shall enjoy full protection. Soldiers of all arms and grades, Switzerland and the world have their eyes fixed on you. The nation places unlimited confidence in your courage, devotedness, and discipline. To the fanaticism of your adversaries, you will oppose that well-considered firmness, that calm energy, that self possessed valour, that serenity of enthusiasm, which the sentiment of a good cause and the en lightened conscience of duty impart. You will prove to your contemporaries and to posterity that you have not degenerated from your valiant ancestors, and by your conduct in battle you will add a fresh wreath to that crown which encircles the brow of our country; and you will inspire foreign powers with a salutary respect for Switzerland and her army. You will conquer those who would resist you, arms in hand, or who may have the boldness to attack you. But, whilst obeying the inexorable laws of war, you will know how to unite magnanimity to the necessi ties of combat ; you will never forget that your op ponents are for the most part misled men, confede rates, and brothers, whom you have to cause to return to their duty. Your flag is that of the authority of the confederation, of the integrity of a common coun try which shelters the cantons and their sovereignty, of Swiss nationality, in a word, with liberty, order, and security. It is to put down the standard of sepa ration, that you have hastened to range yourselves under the red and white banner of Switzerland with its federal cross—a banner which is the symbol of faith and of bravery; it is to extinguish the incen diary torches of discord and to save Switzerland from anarchy, that you have risen en masse; it is to insure to twenty-two cantons a durable peace that you have taken up arms. A grateful country will recompense your services, and will take care of the widows, children, and parents of such of you as shall have shed their blood for it. May the God of armies watch over you, fortify your hearts, enlighten your minds, strengthen your bodies, and support you in the fight ! May God protect Switzerland and bless our cause I" The minor Council of Bale has received peremp tory orders from General DUFOUR to place its con tingent at his disposal. Its battery of artillery is to be immediately marched to Liestall and thence towards Soleure. The battalion of infantry is to remain for the present stationary in the city, but from the pre sent moment is to consider itself as attached to the federal army, and wear the red and white brassards on their arms. The forces of the federal army, consisting of the contingents of the cantons of Zurich, Berne, Glaris, Soleure, Bale-Campagne, Schaffhausen, Saint Gall Grisons, Argau, Thurgau, Tessino, Vaud, and Ge neva, are seven companies of sappers, twenty4our batteries de campagne, seven batteries de position, twenty-one companies of cavalry, twenty.eight companies of carabineers, and fifty-eight battalions of infantry. The forces of Bale-Ville and Neuchatel, the neutral cantons, are two batteries de eampagne, two batteries de position, two companies of cara bineers, and three battalions of infantry. Those of the Sonderbund, consisting of the contingents be longing to the cantons of Uri, Schwytz, Uuterwald, Lucerne, Zug, Friburg, and Valais, are three batte ries de campagne, one battery de position, 2i com panies of cavalry, twelve companies of carabineers, and fourteen battalions of infantry. Madrid papers of the Ist instant have arrived. The Clamor Public° states that there is a split be tween NARVAEZ and CHRISTINA, and that MoN, PIDAL, and GONZALES BRAVO are plotting the over throw of the Cabinet. The Eco del Conzercio announces the departure of General CONCHA from Barcelona on an expedition against the Carlists. The same paper contains some exposures of abuses on the subject of the capitalisation of the QuBEN-MoTirsa's pension, and the payment of arrears by the intendencia militar—the steamer contract, and the accounts of the house of ARDOUIN and Co. with the Government. With respect to the last, it says—" Is it true that the house of ARDOUIN and Co., whose accounts with our Government are unliquidated, has offered the Government 600,000,000 of Spanish Five per Cents., with 15 coupons attached, which form part of the immense security which re mained in their hands since the conclusion of their agency, provided they receive four millions and odd reels, with the confirmation of their remaining secu rities? Is it true that Don CESARE° MARIA SAEZ went to P ar i s w i t h a spec i a l comm ission to settle this business, an d t h at the deman d s o f A R DOUIN and Co. were grant e d on S ep t em b er 27 ? Finally, is it true that AR DOUIN an d Co., instead of being creditors, are debto rs t o t h e S pan i s h G overn ment. General COHHIN, charged with a secret mission from the Tuileries, arrived at Madrid on the night of the 28th ult. It is said that various new arrangements of offices in the palace had been effected, in consequence of the establishment of the post of governor. The Political Chief of the Canary Islands has or dered that all articles coming from the island called Great Canary shall be subjected to a quarantine of five days, in consequence of an epidemic disease having broken out. Measures have also been taken at Cadiz to prevent the disease from entering Spain, and a medical commission has been sent to examine into it. Earnest hopes are expressed that it may not turn out to be the yellow fever. ,M The Bank o f S an F e rnando has arranged with the of Fi nance t o pay the dividend on th e Three per Cents. due on the Ist of January, 1848. It being the Feast of All Saints, the Bourse re mained closed. We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. The hebats of Saturday states that there is reason to believe that the Caisse des Depots et Consignations has decided not to take any part in the new loan. The National of Friday propounds the three follow ing objections against the proposed biddin g on the part of the Bank of France for the loan—first, such bidding is illegal, inasmuch, as by the Bank charter, the directors are forbidden to immobilise the capital EVEN ING, NOVEMBER 8, 181 . of the Bank, by locking up any portion of it in vested securities ; second, that one of the consequences of so locking up a large amount of their floating capital may possibly be to render them unable to pay their notes on demand, which they are bound to do ; and thirdly, it will tend to raise the rate of discount. The article concludes with the following description of the state of the traders of the French capital : "If we have not experienced a catrastrophe, we are nevertheless in a state of absolute distress. The real producers are strangled by the holders of capital. Several manufacturers, who might under ordinary circumstances realise profits, are obliged to sell at first cost. There are others who maintain themselves solely by living on their previous gains. It is only by innumerable sacrifices that manufacturers, mer chants, and labourers of every degree have resisted the crisis to the present moment. And it is in pre sence of such a situation—in presence of a country supporting with such great courage the distress which has pressed so heavily on it during a year—that the Bank of France refuses to come to the assistance of national interests. To do so it would be necessary to reduce the rate of interest. The Bank directors ought, as they can, do so; but they had rather in crease their dividends." The suicidal policy which the French Government is adopting in Switzerland is the subject of comment in all the Opposition papers. The motives by which M. GUIZOT is probably actuated are well explained in the following extract from the Constitutionnel : "It is not easy to explain the conduct and lan guage of our Government in ,the affairs of Switzer land. Its principal organ again directs the most violent invectives, the most calumnious accusations, against the Helvetic Government, the Federal Assem bly, and three-fourths of the people. Never did the enraged journals of Europe load our first revolution with greater opprobrium ; never did the ultras of the restoration invent more outrageous apostrophes against our vanquished armies, qualifying their sol diers as brigands. The Ministerial journal, beyond all, when the Jesuits in Switzerland are in question, becomes—we hope it will pardon the comparison—a second 211oniteur de Gand, in the service of the fathers of Lucerne and Friburg. We are very willing to believe that it is not of its own accord that the Journal des Debuts gives utterance to these declama tions in favour of the Society of Jesus. There is perhaps, in the tone and violence of its language, as much of discontent with itself and those who make it speak thus, as of ill-humour against the Helvetic republic. But it is the organ of a peculiar passion, the nature of which we will point out. These passions are so vehement that they are incessantly calling its ardour indifference, and its rage moderation. Must there not, in fact, be in the feelings of our Ministera to wards Switzerland, something unusual, something extraordinary, which makes them forget to such an extent every consideration, every regard for the rights of nations, every measure of good sense to wards an independent and neighbourly nation. This is the first time, in truth, that we have ever seen a Government insult another, and yet keep up an intercourse by ambassadors : excite civil war while talking peace ; interfere in favour of one party, and not give his passports to the diplomatic envoy of the other party; send arms surreptitiously to an insur gent population, and yet keep up official relations with the Government against which the insurrection is armed. Such conduct resembles insanity. Our Government is not only a party in France—that of re-action—but a party in Europe—that of counter revolution ; and it is further a party, or let us rather sey a coterie, with regard to Switzerland. We have at this moment a small knot of men in possession of the direction of our affairs who are at bottom nothing more than Genevese Conservatives. M. Guizot is as much from Geneva as from the south of France, half gascon, half Calvinist preacher, and a volunteer mystificator of the serious cast. He every moment discloses in his policy deceitful appearances and a dogmatic emphasis ; the double origin of his ideas, the double education of his mind. Besides, he scarcely ever speaks on his own account ; he has always some personal govern ment behind him. Now, in the Swiss question, his inspirations come from passions against which other half-Genevese cannot defend themselves, though in other respects very honourable men who hold em bassies, banking-houses, and a considerable part in the Government. When a man's recollections and passions are at Coppet—when he has among his friends Conservatives whom the revolution in Swit zerland has dispossessed—when he has exercised, as an influential man, as a banker, as a professor, a certain authority in the Helvetic aristo cracy, it is very difficult for him not to decry the Liberals of Switzerland, not to infuse into the breast of one and the other, from Rome or from 1 London, at Paris, those feelings of indignation which are experienced on seeing the in ternal agitations of that formerly Conservative country. The policy of a petty town and of an emi grant is set up from a high source, and from thence when there is power in hand it is easy to pass into action, and thus it is that our Government has en gaged itself as a party in the affairs of Switzerland —thus it is that it has descended to contraband of war, and even gone so far as to make its journal assume the language and attitude of one of the local papers of the Sonderbund. Add M. de Metternich, who must be satisfied, and you will begin to compre hend the incomprehensibility of the conduct of our Cabinet." The Constitutionnel is going somewhat too far, perhaps, in this last assertion. M. DE METTERNICH will not, and cannot, be satisfied with anything that M. GUIZOT can do. How was the treason of Ghent repaid by those in whose behalf it was committed ? With fifteen years of persecution. The Absolutists will use him, and when he has served their purposes cast him aside, as they have done before. As a proof of the spirit in which the reactionary party of Europe are disposed to meet the advances of this double betrayer of the cause of liberalism, we give the following from the Union Monarehique :—" What comedy is this ?" asks the Union, when commenting on the impertinence of M. GuizoT in daring to attempt to get rid of his parvenu taint, by allying himself with the Sonderbund ; " what comedy is this ? Without attempting to show forth any fur ther the contradiction of this extraordinary conduct, we may at least be permitted to signalise it as a striking homage to our doctrines. What a dis avowal of their proper policy ! what a protest against 1830 ! what reaction against themselves ? M. GUIZOT, the man of physical fact, is obliged, in order to give himself monarchical airs in the eyes of Europe, to lay aside all his principles and all his rules of policy. Violator of liberty in France, he appeals to liberty in Switzer land. Centraliser beyond measure against the pro vinces, against family, against commerce, against the Church, against all that has life, he abuses unitarism, which does nothing else than apply his regime to the republic. Be, then, consistent, sophists of the re volution ! Is right various ? Is truth not one ? If unitary tyranny is lawful at Paris, why is it not so at Berno ? Has M. FAZY had any need to change his theory since he aided you here to exterminate our ancient Government ? What is he doing in Switzerland ? He is continuing your work, and at least he has the courage of being logical. Let us beware of mistakes ! There are being played at Paris certain pretences of monarchy which may deceive some minds. But truth and sincerity will triumph over that trick. The materialist revolution will not change its character—oppression is its thought and intention ; and whether it is called M. GUIZOT or M. FAZT, it is now known to all nations. It is for us to prevent it disguising itself under the mask of liberty !" M. GUIZOT will probably find that Lucerne will be the Ghent of his old age. The Duchess of VALENCIA, wife of General NAIL VAEZ, left Paris on Friday, for Madrid. The Prince DE JoINYILLE returned to La Spezia on the 2Gth ult., from Leghorn. The reform banquets still continue. There is to be one at Bernay next week, under the presidency of M. D UPONT d e l'E ure . B ez i ers t oo w ill h a ve its banquet; and at Amiens MM. DE LAMARTINE, ODILON BARROT, DUVERGIER de Hauranne, VI VIER, BERVILLE, QUINETTE, CHAMBOLLE, PIERRON DELESPAUL, and 14 - ESTIBOUDOIS, together with the four Opposition Deputies of the Somme, have pro mised to attend. Reform banquets are to be held at Lille on the 7th, at Avesnes on the 9th, at Valen ciennes on the 11th, and at Bethune on the 14th. The following appears in the Moniteur of Satur day : " The steamer Finisterre landed a few days ago, at Alorlaix, 38 Scotch women, who are to be em ployed in the spinning mill of Landernau, which is to commence operations at the close of the month. The Morlaisien is to convey a similar number at her next trip. These women, who are intended to form the nucleus of the Flax-spinning Company of Finis terre, will be lodged and fed together in a building constructed for that special purpose. Most of them are young, very neatly dressed, and all wear bonnets after the English fashion. These women, who have worked in factories since their infancy, obey the voice, and even gesture, with a precision which would do honour to the best drilled battalion. On landing from the steamer they drew up on the quay to await their marching orders. Although allowed two or three hours to walk about befcre their departure, none of them had the curiosity to visit Morlaix, and all took their places in the coaches which were to carry them to Landernau with the carelessness and silence of a machine that obeys the impulses of a propeller. They were, nevertheless, anything but sad, for their countenances exhibited the satisfaction they experienced at having arrived in a country where they were certain to find employment and means of existence." These women will probably earn good wages, but they will have to work night and day—there is no ten hours law in France. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Saturday at 76f. 95c. ; the Five per Cents.; 116 f. 20c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,186 f. 25e. ; Rouen, 910 f.; Havre, 517 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 557 f. 50c.; Avignon, 538 f. 75c. ; Viarzon, 546 f. 25c.; Bordeaux, 480 f.; Troyes and Montereau, 235 f ; Basle, 150 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 418 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 4011.25 c.; Paris and Lyons, 408 f. 75c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 472 f. 60c. MARSEILLES, Nov. 2.—Marseilles and Avignon, 523 f. 75c.; Northern, 635 f. LYONS, Nov. 3.—Paris and Rouen, 910 f.; Avig non and Marseilles, 535 f.; Vierzon, 541 f. 25c.; Northern, 540 f.; Paris and Lyons, 400 f.; Orleans, 1,177 f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NOVEMBER 6. Boulogne and Amiens, 14—Dutch Rhenish, 2%—North ern of France, 11 1 / 2 —Orleans and Bordeaux,4 3 4—Paris and Lyons, 6 1 4—Paris and Strasbourg, 4 3 4—Sambre and Meuse, b l 4—Tours and Nantes, 2:A. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) NEWTON AND OTHERS V. LIDDIT. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, the well known advertising agents, to recover from the defendant, a member of the provisional committee of the Oxford and Salisbury direct Railway, the sum of 4,2881. 6s. 4d. for advertising the project in the va rious newspapers whose columns at the time of the mania teemed with advertisements, and found it ne• cessarily repeatedly to publish supplements to con tain them. The case was tried at Guildhall before Mr. Justice Erle ; and the jury, after a prolonged investigation, found that the plaintiff was liable from the 15th of October, 1845, and the Learned Judge, guided by the finding in another cause, entered a verdict for the plaintiffs for 800/. odd. Mr. M. CHAMBERS, Q.C., with whom was Mr. D. D. Keane, now moved for a rule nisi, to show cause why the verdicts should not be set aside, on the ground of misdirection, the misdirection consisting in the Learned Judge addressing the jury thus : " Gentlemen, you must recollect that this took place in 1845, when the rights and legal liabilities of pro visional committeemen were not clearly understood, and therefore you must take into account the uncer tainty of the law at that time, and the inaccurate ideas that provisional committeemen and others had of the extent of their liabilities; and you must couple that with that which was done in 1846, and that which was done after the company kept up a hope less existence, and the defendant and others did not pay their deposits." Now, he apprehended that this came under the definition of a misdirection. The defendant—to use a vulgar expression—could not blow both hot and cold in the same breath ; he could not contract obligations, and deny them in the same breath. His was an unequivocal act. What the jury should have been told, he apprehended, was this— that the defendant was in the same position as if he were a partner in a firm, and had acknowledged a debt on the part of the firm. It was true his Lordship stated that the ordinary law of partnership would not apply to this case, but surely it could not be said that the defendant was not responsible morally and in equity. The COURT took time to consider the application. THAMES.—(THIS DAY.) Christat Kernard, a German portrait painter, was charged with having stolen three pillow cases, and articles of wearing apparel, the property of Hannah Parker, No. 14, Grove-street, St. George's-in-the- East. About three weeks since the prisoner rented a front parlour of Mrs. Parker, and made an arrange ment with her to board and lodge him for three weeks, at the expiration of which time he said he would pay her from the proceeds of a bill which he said he had received from his father in Germany, but which was not payable till that time. On Friday week the pri soner told Mrs. Parker's husband if he would ac• company him to town the next morning he should get the money, and would then pay what he ow e d. On the Saturday morning he got up much earlier than usual and went out. Mr. Parker waited for him some time, but as he did not come back they searched his room, when they found he had decamped, taking not only his own things but articles belonging to Mrs. Parker. Yesterday evening he was seen in Brick-lane, Whitechapel, and apprehended by police constable H 157. The prisoner, who seemed much affected at his position, and cried bitterly, acknowledged having taken two tablecloths, but denied having abstracted the other things. He said want had driven him to it. His whole money was expended, and even his stock of paints was exhausted. Police-constable H 157, said he only apprehended the prisoner at half-past eight o'clock last night, and had not yet had time to trace the articles. Mr. YARDLEY observed that it would be desirable, if 'possible, for the property to be traced and iden tified, and he should therefore remand the prisoner till Wednesday. [ln the case of Charles Nicholson, charged with forging a cheque, which appeared in The Sun of Saturday, it was stated that the cheque had been stolen from Mr. West. Such was not the case; it had been paid away by that gentleman, and it was from Mr. Crittenden, a publican, that it was stolen.] WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) Marian Lindsay was charged with robbing her master, Mr. Slater, silk mercer and draper, No. 17, North-place, Kingsland-road. Mr. Slater stated that he discovered he was being robbed for some weeks past, in consequence of lengths of silks and other articles having been left cut in a fashion contrary to that of the trade. No suspicion, however, was attached to the prisoner, and who was a domestic servant, until yesterday morning, after she had gone to church, when, on passing a back parlour in which she slept, he observed a band-box, with the lid open, belonging to her, and in it were several short lengths of ribbon. Witness lost no time in proceeding to the Robert-street station and pro curing assistance. On the arrival of the girl home she at first denied all knowledge of or participation in the robbery. On being given into custody, however she handed over the keys of her boxes to the officer, who, on opening them, found them crammed with mercers goods. Zinzay, the officer, corroborated the latter part of the prosecutor's statement, and added that, among other things belonging to the prisoner, he had found several lettors from persons in the country, the writers of which complained of not receiving certain goods as they had been advised. The prosecutor said the prisoner had been in his sevice only six weeks. She was from the country, and he had received with her a written character. A female, whom she stated to be her mother, had been in the frequent habit of visiting her with a band-box. The prisoner, who does not appear to be more than twenty years of age, said that the whole of the articles produced were her own. They were purchased by her at the prosocutor's shop before she entered his service, out of money which had been left her by a deceased relative. Mr. HammlLL said he should remand the prisoner for a week, in order to give time for further in quiries. SWEARING IN of the NEW LORD _____ MAYOR.—(THIS DAY.) This day the Lord Mayor elect, Mr. Alderman Hooper, the Sheriffs, and several of the Aldermen, assembled at the Mansion-house, where they were entertained• by the present Lord Mayor to a sump tuous breakfast, from whence they proceeded in state to Guildhall. The Lord Mayor and Aldermen pro ceeded to the New Council Chamber, and afterwards to the Hall, where the new Lord May or , h av i ng taken his seat in the chair of state, into which he had been inducted by his predecessor, Sir George Carroll, and surrounded by the liveries of his and the Sheriffs' companies, the several oaths of the City of London were administered by the Town-Clerk. The Lord Mayor then subscribed the r o ll, w h en th e var i ous Civic authorities presented to his Lordship the various insignia of their respective offices, all of which were returned to them. The Lord Mayor and Aldermen then returned to the Council Chamber, after which his Lordship proceeded to the Mansion-house, in which he takes up his official residence during his year of office. ACCIDENT ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.—A shock ing accident happened on Friday night on Westminster bridge, which has resulted in the death of a very valuable horse. The animal was one of a pair drawing a lady's carriage, and as they were crossing Westminster-bridge from some cause they took fright, and the consequence was that one of them ran against the shaft of a gentle man's cab, which penetrated into his chest, and he died soon after from the loss of blood. LIEUT. LORD'S CHART OF THE APPROACHES TO LITERPOOL.—A correct chart of the approaches to the port of Liverpool has long been a desideratum. It is at length supplied by the magnificent work of Lieut. Lord, which is just published. Lieut. Lord undertook the survey by the direction of the t rust ees of the Liverpool Docks, and he has produced a work which must neces sarily find a place in the chart. of every ship, whether i n the naval or the merchant serv ice. MONEY and COMMERCIAL r EWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool on Saturday was rather firm. Sales 4,000 bales. In Railway Shares there was not much doing, and prices had given way again. The private letters received through especial channels this morning, by the West India mail, are filled with the most gloomy forebodings as to the future. It is positively asserted that if large supplies of capital were not sent from the firms here connected with many of the plantations, that the cultivation must inevi tably be suspended. What will be sad when it is ascertained that a very considerable proportion of the bills sent home for honour by the last two packets have gone back under protest. A miserable plight, indeed, the colonies are in if the representations to Government made by the acting committee of the West India planter., and merchants, and the exceedinglY unfavourable tenour of the accounts received from Jamaica and other of the colonies, be correct. _ The report of the committee appointed to consider the affairs of the Royal Bank at Liverpool, made at a meeting held on Saturday last at Liverpool, was with much interest by our merc h an t s i n th e American trade especially, and others al s o. It i s cons id er ed Co be satisfactory, and very str ong h o p es are en t er t a ined that the proposal for the resuscit a tio n o f th e opera ti on s of the Bank will be carried ou t. read We do not hear of any failures this morning, or of ru mours of further disasters. Things are looking brighter , and it will be observed below that the value of the Public Securities has been again enhanced. The fluctuation in Consols for Account to-day ha s been from 83 1 1 to 841. It is stated that some considerable speculative purchases were made early in the day, and thus the rise is stated to be accounted for. At present Consols for Account are at 83j. For Money Stock the value at one time was 84k, since which a fall to 831 has taken place. Bank Stock has gone back from 1 to 13- per cent. Exchequer-bills are decidedly looking up, as purchases have been just made at Bs. discount. The price is now called 12s. Indus Bonds are also on the rise, having realised 255. dia . count. India Stock is heavy at 2271. The aspect of th e market is scarcely as good now as it was at noea. Not half-a• dozen bargains have been reported in the Foreign Funds to-day. Mexican was at 154, the Da" nish at 794, the Portuguese Four per Cents. for accoun t at 21f, and Spanish Three per Cents. for account 6C 27k f. In the Railway Shares only one line has been mark ed at a premium—the Great Western. In six lines toe' sactions have been made at discounts. The Sh all Market, certainly, does not participate in the buoyancy of Consols. rxo ONE cLOS-- PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Pale ° Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 82 3 / 4 % 83 82% 82 83 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities.. .. 83% d/ 4 84% 83 3 % New 3 1 % per Cent. Anns ...... 83% 84 1 4 83% 7 83 16 Long Anna. to expire Jan. 1860 ... 8 716 8 - India Stock 22 7 1% 2274 5 d ig India Bonds, 1,0001. 834 Consols for Account... 83% 84 1 4 83% Exchequer Bills. 3d. i 9 diS 1,0001. - dis • 5001 Small ONE t RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent... 79% Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 — Ditto, Account l5 Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent — Ditto, Account 2 l l/4 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, 3 per Cent Ditto, Account 27 lA' s 1 4 Venezuela Bonds, 2 1 / 4 per Cent — Dividends on the above payable in London. ci 1111 cs; -2E2:1 El 59355: : 3 / 4 1:411 53'i s Dutch, 2% per Cent., 12 Guild — ~,,0- 8 10 PRICES OF BUS/NESS DONE ,-- rett, RAILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'C L OCK. riaa- Aberdeen - Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2% 3 A% Ayrshire and Galloway.. 214 Belfast & County Down 10 Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley 10 ... .. 13 1 4% Birmin g., Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley,- .. 8 ...... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 7 3 / 4 . 13 1 / 4 ..o• ... . . ' ,0 Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 5 Bristol and Exeter Ditto, Thirds Buckinghamshire 101. 4s — ...........».. ..... l Caledonian 35 3 % 35,! . .. Ditto, Half Shares..... _3 3 / 4 Ditto, Clydesdale June 50 Chester and Holyhead... 37% — ..... Ditto, Preference 8 Clarence 784 ..... Du. let Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Dublin and BelfastJunc. 20 ...... ~., ...... •••••111 Dundalk & Enniskillen 15 East Anglia, 25/., L. & 16 E. and L. and D....... 25 Do., 18/., E. & H.... 18 Do., 3/.105., E. &H. 1 Eastern Counties Ditto, Perpetual, 5 per di! Cent, No. 1....... 6/.135. 4d Ditto ditto, No. 2... 6/. 13s. 4d... % die. Do., York Extension.. 10 ...... 49 Do., North. & East ern 50 49 ......... Do., Quarters Do., New . 23 ..... .0. .... •••• ***** •• ••• - 41... Eastern Union 5O .. Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 ,4 — ... Ditto, Thirds ... ..... 13s. 4d — ..... Do., (guar. 6 percent) — • .. ..- East Lancashire Ditto, New ~..• 13 Ditto, New Quarters - ~ •• Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 '•""47 48 .• Ditto Half Shares ... 15 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ...... 12 1 4 Edinburgh & Northern.. 20 ...- Ditto, New ...• Ditto, Newport ..... 7 ...... ...• Ditto, ditto, New . .... 1% — ....• Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorch. 2% - ... Ditto, New .. Glasgow, Dumfries, arid ...• Carlisle B/. 6s. 8d ...- Glasgow, Kilmar., & Ayr 50 ....• Ditto, New .. 40 . ...- Do. Preference Consol. 12 1 / 2 Great Northern 8 Do., London and York 2 % Great South. and West. 22 (Ireland) Great North of England..loo 220 21 7 .......... •• 33 1 ,4 Ditto, New 404 5 — r Ditto, New 30/. 30 Ditt0,.....- New 151 ... 1% — •• 101 Great Western B5 lOl •••• ii Ditto, 4 Shares 5O — Ditto, 1 4 Shares Ditto, Fifths Ditto, New 17/.......... 7 ...... 8 . ...... Huddersfield & Manches. 22 ...... ......... ... .. rDitto, Thirds ...... .............. ..... Hull and Selby 5O .. ... ............. 4 8 Ditto, Half Shar es Ditto, IA Shares-- .. 12% — ••• ........... .....- Ipswich & Bury St. Ed m. 15 ...- Do., do., and Norwich 15 Do., do., Exten s .S cr i p ......... (late Camb. & Ely)... 2% ._............... 5 0N Lancaster and C ar li s l e... 50 Ditto, Thirds .. 10 - 74 Lancashire & Yorkshire 82 ..... Ditto % Shares . ... 38 - Do. Quarter Sh ares.- 14% 6-- 4 Do. Fifths 61%. ... 6% 1 4 ..... Do. Sixteenths 6 IA Do. Thirds (Reg.)....10445. Do. Liverp. and Bury 34 Ditto 1 4 (late Hud dersfield and Shelf.) 33 Do.( Wakefield, Ponte fract. & Goole Do. (W. Riding Union) 41. 2s — Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. 14 Shares (A) 9 . Ditto ditto (B) ... 114 ..... Leicester and Bedford... 16s. ...... Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 37% _ Do., Branch % Shares 12%.• ... Do. New Branch( blue) 2', Do. Extension (green) 2 1 / 2 .. ... Do.NewExten. (pink) 2 1 / 2 — .... .......... , ..., Leeds and Thi r sk 36 ...... ............... Ditto, New Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct 3%. ... • ..... •• .... Liverpool, Crosby and .. Southport .... Liverp., Mnchstr& New • castle Junction 21,4,..... ••.....• ... ... London and 81ackwa11..164138. 4d. ... ....... ... , Do. New, No. 1 Do. New, No. 2 .. 31 13s. 4d.... --- ............... Do. Extension l5 ...... ..............• London, Brighton, and South Coast Do. Consol. Eighths.. 30 — .... ........... Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9 . ..... •• ••••• Do. Pref. Con. 5 per ct. 50 ••• ... ..• .. London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d B% ............... Ditto, Preference ... 1 8 / 1 ;s 2d — ............... London and N. West ern 10 0 152 153 ..... .. ..... Do., Quarters L. &B. 17 - ••• • ......... Do., do., New Ditto Fifths Do. 1 4 Shares (G. J.) 25 Do 404 Shares(L.M.) 15 ............... Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40 Do. 10/. (M- & B.) A. 71 Do. 104 (M. & B.) B. 7% — .............. Do. 10/. M. & B.) C. 1 Land. & S.W es t ern 4 1/ . 6 s. 8d 54% 55 % 56 Do. New Consol. Bths 40 Do. New 50/. ... ..... 32%.. Do. New 404 • 26 ••• • ............... Do. Tenths (Consol ) 50 Ditto ditto ............40 Ditto, Thirds 61. 1.35. 4d.... .............» London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ..... u ,. ........ 1%...... .............. • Londonderry&Coleraine 27% •»••»•••••••. Londonderry and Ennis killen ... 2 3 34 Manchester,Buxton,and Pilaticock tit ... 3 .. ON 1...1 ...... .1 ...... 5.4 , ' ; l 4 .... ... 41% 00000 •• ****** IX 15 4 -;% ;% OYi 5 55 ;il/4