The Sun. — London, England, 1847-10-23 00:00:00

LATELY PUBLISHED, L"liS OF THE QUEENS. VOL. X. BY AGNES STRICKLAND. `• We take this opportunity of expressing our thanks to Miss Agnes Strickland for the tenth volume of her Lives of the Queens of Eng land, and especially for her memoir of Mary of Modena. Miss Strick land has made a very judicious use of many authentic MS. authori ties not previously collected, and the result is a most interesting ad dition to our biographical library."—Quarterly Review. .` There is certainly no lady of our day who has devoted her pen to so beneficial a purpose as Miss Strickland. Miss Strickland is, to our mind, the first literary lady of the age."—Morning Chronicle. Henry Colbusn, Publisher, 15, Groat Marlboroait-street. This Day is publinhed, T'n One Volume, square crown Bvo., with Twenty-nine Ornamental Borders, composed of Flowers and In sects, engraved en Wood, price 30s. boards, or 455. bound in mo rocco, by Bayday, THE POETS PLEASAITNCE ; or, Garden of all sorts of Pleasant Flowers, which our Pleasant Poets have, in Past Time, for Pastime, planted. By EDEN WARWICK. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. %TAGHORN 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 Pubic with the deepest regret, after having opened the Overland Route, and after twenty years' service for their ad vantage, THEATRE ROYAL, DRITRY-LANE. M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. For One Month only. Programme for THIS EVENING (SATURDAY), October 23. Past. I.—Overture, Euryanthe, Weber—Quadrille, the Minuet, Jullien—Solo, Violin, M. Sainton, Sainton—Valse, the Bridal, Jullien —Recitative and Aria, sung by Miss Dolby, Mozart—Quadrille, new descriptive Quadrille, the Swiss Quadrille, Jullien. Part ll.—Opera, Norma, grand selection, with Solos, for Mr. Lazarus, Mr. Richardson, Mr. Davis and Herr Kcenig, Bellini—New Polka Carriol, Kcenig —Symphony, the Andante, from the Surprise Symphony, Haydn—National Song, tho Swiss Girl, sung by Miss Dolby—Valse, Le Deser, Beethoven—Sob, Trombone, Signor Cioffe, Cioffe—Comic Polka, the American Polka, Jullien. The Concert commences at Eight. Promenade and Boxes, Is. ; Dress Circle, 2s. W. THEATRE ROYAL, ILtY3fARKET. Under the Management of Mr. R. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING _ _ _ -----. Will be performed the Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. Farren ; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Tilbury ; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. A. Wigan; Joseph Surface, Mr. Creswick ; Charles Surface, Mr. Henry Farren ; Careless, Mr. H. Vandenhoff ; Rowley, Mr. Gough ; Moses, Mr. Webster ; Snake, Mr. Braid ; Sir Harry, Mr. Caulfield ; Crabtree, Mr. Rogers ; Trip, Mr. Brindal. Lady Teazle, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Candour. Mrs. Glover; Lady Sneer well. Mrs. W. Clifford ; Maria, Miss E. Messent. After which, a New and Original Farce, called WHO'S MY HUS BAND ? Doctor Mull, Mr. Tilbury ; Daniel 'Tootles, Mr. Keeley; Mrs. Smith Thompson, Mrs, W. Clifford ; Sophonisba. Mull, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham ; Sally Starch, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with the Farce, called TILE IRISH LION. Mr. Squabbs, Mr. Tilbury ; Captaiu Dixon, Mr. Briudal ; Tim Moore, Mr. Hudson ;Mrs. Cerulea Fitzgig, Miss P. Horton , Mrs. Crummy, Mrs. Stanley ; Miss Echo, Mrs. L. S. Rockingham. Stage Manager, Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boxes, Ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to sommenee at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be perfo:mcd the celebrated Drama, called THE GREEN USPIES; or, A Hundred Years Age. Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Dennis, Mr. Cullenford ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Captain Dartois, Mr. Worrell ; Madame St. Aubert, Madame Celeste ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates; welly O'Neil, Miss Wool gar. To cenchule with the Burlesque, entitled TAMING A TARTAR. Count Cracuvieninski, Mr. Worrell ; Kickerwhiski; Mr. Paul Bed ford Mazourki, Mr. Wright ; Ivan, Mr. Munyard ; Monsieur Cou pee, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Strelenski, Mr. Cullenford ; Countess Craco vienineki, Miss Woolgar ; Mazourks, Madame Celeste. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, ls. Doors open At Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lesseealr. Charles Mathews. TIM EVENING, Will be pr asented a new Farce, called LIGHT DRAGOON. Lord Alfred Martingale, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Albany Lovelorn, Mr. It. Roxby ; Dr. Rhatany, Mr. Frank Matthews ; Mrs. Crowsfoot, Mrs. C. Jones; Matilda, Miss Howard. After which, a new Comic Drama, entitled THE PRIDE OF THE MARKET. Principal characters by Messrs. Buckstone, Leigh Murray, Granby, and Porsche; Miss 11. Gilbert, Mrs. C. Jones, and Madame Vestris. To conclude with a Farce, entitled BROTHER BEN. Principal characters by Messrs. Harley, C. Mathews, and F. Matthews ; Mrs. Leigh Murray, Miss Lee, &IA Mrs. Macnamara. To conclude with THE TWO QUEENS. The Interior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bradwell of the Colosseum. Dress Boxes, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No half-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Public every day, from Ten to Six. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Engagement of Mr. MACREADY and MISS CUSHMAN. THIS EVENING Will be presented the Comedy of TIIE HONEYMOON. Duke Aranza, Mr. Cooper; Could Montalban, Mr. C. Fisher; Rolando, Mr. J. Vining ; Jacques, Mr. Compton; Juliana, Miss Cushman ; Volante, Miss Susan Cushman. Atter which, a new Piece, called A ROMANCE OF THE RHINE. Characters by Messrs. James 'rating, Palmer, Neville, Compton, Miss Emma Stanley, and Miss Villars. To conclude with the Farce of HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS. Characters by Messrs. Compton, Courtney, J. Vining, S. Cowell, C. Fisher, Wynn, Palmer, Stacey ; M 153 Emma Stanley, Miss Villars, Mrs. Fosbroke, Miss Somers, and Miss Taylor. Dress Circle, 55.: Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE, Lessee, Mrs. F. Day'Lige, tio. 1, D.tvidge-terrace,Kenslngton-road, Surrey. THIS EVENING, October 23, 1847, the performancee will commence with the celebrated Opera o: THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. The music by Mr. Balfe, the libretto by Mr. Bunn. The whole of the scenery by Mr. Grieve. The properties by Mr. Blamire. The mechanism by Mr. B. Sloman. An enlarged chorus and increased orchestra, on a greater scale than any hitherto introduced on these boards, will be directed and conducted by Mr. J. H. Tully. Dramatis Personae—Count (Ts helm (Governor of Presburg), Mr. Borrani ; Count Florestein (Ts nephew), Mr. Rafter ; Thaddeus (a proscribed Pole), Mr. W. Harrison; Devilshoof (leader of a gang of Gipsies), Mr. H. Horneastle; Captain of the Guard, Mr. Constantine; First Officer, Mr. Sanger ; First Peasant, Mr. Priorson; First Gipsy, Summers ; Servant, Mr. Richards ; Arline (the Bohemian Girl), Miss Romer ; Budda (her attendant), Mrs. W. 11. Payne ; Ulrica (Queen of the Gipsies), Miss Rebecca Isaacs. Nobles — Messrs. Tyler, Lovericlge, Jones, Fraser, Massoni, &c. Ladies— Mesdames Turner, Gardiner, Rooke, Foster, Levite. &c. Pages:—, Desborough, lees, Seaman, llarris, &c. Hunters :—Messrs -J. Field, Richardson, Platt, Cook, Godfrey, Thirlwall, Jonas, and Wyatt. Retainers:—Messrs. J. Sanger, Kitchener, Cooper, Mos sop, Gladstaines, Mawby, Royce, Woolf, Johnson. Peasants : Les Sceurs St. Louin, Misses Fenton, Maurice, Sophie, Clifford, Mars, Beaafort, Ives, Desborough, I. Laws, Smithson, Angeline, Rosa Taylor, &c. Gipsies :-3fessrs. C. Constantine, Sum mers, Miller, Dobson, Foster, Weston, Roberts, Rowland, I. Price, Pendygras, Jones, Henri, Galli, Lawler, Santry, Beale, Sharpe, Stirling, Sze. Mesdames R. llughes, Somerville, Maynard, Anderson, Rabino. Deither, Mapleson, Tully, Connelly, Miller, Williamson, &c. Law Officers :—Messrs. Peters, Drifileld, Robins, 3. Boulanger, &c. Soldiers, Citizens, Attendants, Banner Bearers, Heralds, Servants, &c. Mr. Grieve has prepared the following New Scenery :—Gronnds sod Chateau of Count Arnhem, Presburg by Moonlight, View in the Vicinity of Presburg, Public Place in Presburg for the celebra tion of the Fair, in which takes place a Pas de Deux, by Les Sceurs St. Louin, and a Dance by the whole Corps de Ballet. Precession et the City Trades• the Banner of the Butcher's Company ; the Banner of the Goldsmiths' Company, the Banner of the Drapers' company, the Banner of the Annourers' Company, the Banner of the Bakers' Company, the Banner of the Wax-Chandlers' Company, the Banner of the Shoemakers' Company, the Banner of the Fish tnongers' Company, the Banner of the Bookbinders' Company, &c. The Hall of Justice, Saloon in the Count's Chatean.—The Opera of The Bohemian Girl is published by W. S. Johnson, Nassau Steam !'rots, 60, St. Martin's-lane ; and may be had in the Theatre, and of all Booksellers, price Is. After which, the Second Act of the Ballet Pantomime of THE DEVIL TO PAT. To conclude with Mr. Bunn's Farce of MY NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE. Mr. Somerton, Mr. F. Vining; Mr. Smith, Mr. Oxberry ; Mr. Brown, Mr. Attwood (his first appearance) ; Mrs. Somerton, Mrs. H. Hughes (her first appearance these five years) ; Mrs. Smith, Miss Itebecea Isaacs ; Mrs. Brown, Mrs. R. Hughes.—Stage Director, Mr. S. Ellis. A distinct entrance to the private boxes has been made (which have been re-fitted). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the principal Librarians ; and at the Box-offize of the Theatre, which is open daily from Ten until Four. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. TIIIS EVENING Will be presented a new Drama, entitled THE - MERCHANT'S CLERK. A Love Story. Atter which, an entirely new Drama entitled TIIE BOTTLE, from Cruikshank's celebrated Work of the same name. To conclude with the comic Ballet, entitled PUNCH ; or, the Ylsherman of Naples. Boxes, 13. ; Halt-price, Gd.; Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. Doors •pen at Six, to commence at Half-past Six. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMFIIITHEA.TRE, Proprietor and Manager, Mr. William Batty. THIS EVENING The Grand Spectacle of THE CATARACT OF THE GANGES, I n whichlle. Valentine, from Paris, will introduce her beautiful and highly-trained leaping horses. Entirely new Scenes in the Arena, in which Professor Candler and brother, lately returned from the Continent, will make their appear ance, supported by the talented ArtEtcs of the Establishment, in the various modes of equestration. To conclude with the Farce of THE RENDEZVOCC. Bibs -office open from I 1 till 5. Aet and stage Manager, Mr. W West. I um, TY 1 t1.11.11.--SIIN OFFICE, OCT. 23. THERM 'METER, Lowest, 48 ; Highest, 55 ; Noon, 55. BAROMETER, 29.7.—W1ND S.S.W.; showery. Jou WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning.. 43 minates after 12. J Evening G minutes After 1. oz Vint= 21111'4 LONDON, SATURDAY, - bl7j......4a.uenointed OCTOBER 23, 1847. Very startli ng contradictory intelligence has just arrived from th e States. The latest, con veyed hither by the Sarah San . ds, is compr i se d i n New York journals of th e 6th inst., and recounts several extraordinary movements at the seat o f war in Mexico. From the perverse and dissenti en t de scriptions of the different narrators and Mexican, it is scarc e ly possible,bot however, American arrive at anything like an accurate estimate evreLtot occu rrences. According to one account, theo f orces of the United States have received a terrible and dis astrous reception at the capital, and have been com pelled to retreat in confusion upon Tacubaya, with a very considerable loss in killed and wounded, in cluding several of their most distin g ui shed officers. According to another, the invading arm , / ha s by its predominant prowess and irresistible au dacity forced an entrance into the metropolis, and is already " revelling" in the balls of the Montezumas. From the intolerable discrepancies and irrelevancies of the numerous informants we are left entangled in a maze of conjectures ; but at the same time a recollection of the vain-glorious charac ter of the citizens of the Model Republic affords us a clue to those facts which may be regarded as indis putable. Even the biographer of WALLENSTEIN wouldin of not have the effrontery to assert that the bulle- NAPOLEON were more remarkable for evidenc ing brilliancy of imagination than the accounts of any military movement under the American banners, as published in the newspapers of the United States. In this instance the force of exaggera tion can no further go. Their constitutional inventiveness is taxed to enhance the glory of any achievement, however contemptible may be its consequences. Their natural predilection for hyper boles is gratified by a profusion of those figures of rhetoric. Viewed through the convex lens of their national egotism, a skirmish expands into a pitched battle, the projection of two or three dozen bombs over the walls of a city inhabited by unarmed civilians, women, and children, rises to the dignity of an heroic bombardment. We do not presume to question for a moment the innate courage of the American soldiery ; their forefathers proved the toughness of their thews, and the intensity of their valour beyond all denial, upon more localities than Bunker's Hill. What we persist in depre cating is that spirit of braggadocio which induces the unwarlike citizens of the United States —men who are more accustomed to the fumes of tobacco than to the smell of gunpowder, and who would immeasurably rather finger a grocer's ba lance than brandish a spontoon—to magnify some comparatively trivial and merely partial success into a deed not unworthy ofa legion of demi-gods. A bitter lesson has just been afforded to these commentators upon the invasion of Mexico by the information received from the metropolis of the assailed republic, and which information, if only true to the extent of one-sixteenth, betrays how premature have been those paeans of victory chaunted but the other day in the printing-offices of Boston and Philadelphia. It would appear that the negotiations conducted by the American Plenipotentiary, Mr. TRIST, during the continuance of the armistice before the capital, were . on the eve of reaching an amicable issue, when another exorbitant and avaricious demand on the part of the emissary from Washington suddenly termi nated the conference, and led to the renewal of hosti • lities. Besides demanding, in the name of his Go vernment, the establishment of two American factories in Upper California, and ultimately the possession of that portion of the Mexican federation for a sum averaging from 15,000,000 dolls. to 20,000,000 dolls., Mr TRIST required that the Texan boundary line should henceforth be regarded as running along the Rio Grande, from the left side to the right side of the Rio Gila." This last extortionate requirement was, of course, met by a direct and positive refusal, the Mexicans being resolved to yield, on no consideration whatever, a single furlong of ground beyond the Nueces. The consequence of this bold and decisive refusal was the abrupt termination of the armistice, and the resump tion of arms, immediately after SANTA ANNA and WIN.. FIELD SCOTT hadrecriminated upon each other for what they severally declared to be flagrant violations of the armistice. On the Bth of September a hostile move ment was made by the Americans—General SCOTT with his forces attacking the Mill Del Rey, in the neighbourhood of Chapultepec. Here the disaster occurred, which proves that the soldiers of the United States are not as invincible as their vain-glorious countrymen would lead us to imagine. Mier fight ing, according to the expression of their own apolo gists, "like devils," the Americans were repulsed by the Mexicans, and compelled to fall back upon Tacubaya, after losing, on a moderate calculation, be tween 400 and 500 in killed, and between 600 and 700 in wounded. During the retrograde movement from Chapultepec a terrible explosion occurred, by which a considerable portion of the American troops are said to have been destroyed, and General Wowrn himself to have been blown into the air. A letter, dated from Jalapa, attributes this disaster to a bomb discharged from Chapultepec falling among the re treating ammunition waggons. The organs of the United States, on the contrary, speak of it as the intentional destruction of the house of Mate, though the circumstance of their leaving several waggons behind them, some without wheels and others without horses, would appear like a cor roboration of the preceding assurance. Among the Mexican officers who had fallen in the engagement were General LEON, Colonel BALDERAS, Colonel HUERLA, Colonel GELEATT, and Captain MATEAS— heroes who fought to the death in the defence of their fatherland. President SANTA ANNA himself, the Dictator of Mexico and Commander-in-Chief of the National Army, was seriously wounded in the arm during the encounter. How far this patriotic captain was prepared to serve his country is shown in this simple and significant sentmce published in one of the journals inimical to his interests :—" The traitor SANTA ANNA commanded in person the column which forced the Americans to retreat." Eternal honour, say we, to all such traitors ! Further intelligence received from Orizaba declares that the United States army, under General SCOTT, had entered the capital, and were established in the gorgeous galleries of the Montezumas, while the Dic tator of Mexico, wounded but unconquered, had been compelled to retire to GuadalOupe. How far this dee claration is worthy, of credit time will /Speedily" testify ; but, in any event, we are convinced that there is reason in the remark made in the Diario del Gobierno, that the capital mutt, in any event, prove the sepulchre of the Americans. With the priesthood inciting the population to arms; with General HERRERA., the Governor of Mexico, recommending the citizens to shower stones from the roof-tops upon their enemies ; with President SANTA ANNA at bay in Guadeloupe ; and with General PAREDES at the head of a formidable body of gue rillas upon the road leading to Vera Cruz, the im poverished and exhausted army of the Americans seems to be doomed to destruction. The Mexicans may yet avenge themselves by the slow and desultory warfare peculiar to their country. The splendour which has lured the Americans to the halls of the Montezumas may prove to be on their entrance only the glittering brand of a Nemesis. It has long been the fashion with those who seem to consider that the paramount duty of the nation should be to " maintain the security of the standard," and that every other consideration—the welfare and prosperity of the people, their happiness and comfort —are all of secondary importance, when compared with the advantage of keeping gold at a fixed and invariable price of 3/. 17s. 10Id. per ounce, when every other commodity must be subjected to the greatest fluctuations in value—to sneer at the "Bir mingham school of currency." It appears to be con sidered a sufficient answer to any argument opposed to the views of the bullionists to call it an emanation from the Birmingham school, as if its being in accord ance with the opinions of the great majority of the inhabitants of that great town, the capital of a highly important branch of our national manufac tures, should in itself be considered an adequate reason for its rejection. The people of Birmingham have, however, already rendered good service to the nation. To their energy and decision, to the enthusiasm with which they advocated a full and fair representation of the people, we are chiefly in debted for the early success of the Reform Bill and the abolition of the rotten boroughs, by which the constitutional principle, that a people could only be lawfully taxed by and with the consent of their representatives, was practically set aside. The inhabitants of the town are not only hard-working and industrious, but also shrewd and intelligent. They enjoy greater comforts than persons of the same classes in other localities, because they labour harder, and there is a greater degree of enlightenment amongst them. As their excellent representative, Mr. 2.llus.Tz states, in an admirable letter which will be found in ancther part of The Sun, " Birmingham is more highly favoured than most of our other manufacturing towns, by havi ng i ts population employed in a great variety of tootertaides, so th a t it rare l y h appens al l are depressed ideas, and ter. erhehreefovariety h o f m etradesi c p h r e o l dp helps duce c t e o v e a n r l e g t h y t e o n f his neighbour." It is by no means surprising, there tore, that such p art i es should direct acloser attention to, and be enabled to arrive at sounder conclusions, on questions of general policy, more particularly those which are ca l cu l ated to affect m the welfare of the industri ous c l asses, than othateerially independence and comfort, th e rewards of i rs rndeusht TlCi e3ir mainly depend on our trade and c ommerce. It WOU then, indeed, Le strange if they did not take a deep in terest in anything by which that trade and commerce may be reduced from a healthy and flourishing condition to a state of weakness and decrepi tude, by which diArust and panic is sub stituted for that general credit and confidence so essential to the prosperity of a commercial country, and by which the entire kingdom is subjected to pe riodical depressions—to constant alternations by which thousands are, at every time of pressure, reduced from independence and comfort to poverty and privation. They have seen that such are the effects of the mo netary laws now in force. Having satisfied themselves by the exercise of their reason that these banking enactments would, under certain circumstances, be likely to produce such results, and finding that the prophecies of the opponents of the system have been too fatally verified, it is by no means wonderful that they should demand a revision of these laws with a view to their total abolition, and the substitution of a currency on a sound basis, one that would afford ample security to every noteholder, and at the same tit ne provide a sufficient circulation for the wants and exigencies of the country. There is another reason why the people of Bir r3ingham are well qualified to form a correct opinion o n the question. They are not exclusively interested in'. any particular branch of trade. It is not for any particular market that the products of their industry are required. They export largely, but they also manufacture a great deal for home consumption ; they are as deeply interested that the internal demand should be brisk and active, as that the foreign trade should be greatly extended, azid they are too painfully aware that by the present sy stem the home market is too frequently unduly depreciated, by the attempt to regulate the foreign, and to alter the character of the exchanges, when they are unfavourable. If there is a balance of trade against us, and gold is leaving the country in order to pay for the excess of our imports over our exports, the screw is put en, the facilities usually afforded to manufacturers is withheld, and those who are wholly occupied in producing for our own internal con sumption are involved in ruin, because there may possibly be overtrading with some foreign country. This is neither just or reasonable ; it is making the innocent suffer for the guilty, and there is no sufficient reason why it should be continued. What is wanting for general circulation is a currency that will be universally acceptable, that cannot by a pos sibility become valueless, no matter of what material it may be made. If it was the most worthless rag, provided it is receivable in discharge of the taxation to which every subject must contribute, and if it is guaranteed and secured on all the resources of the country, like the national debt, it will always be 'willingly received, and its value maintained. It is not the inherent value of a coin that induces a trades man to take it in exchange for his wares, but the confidence he entertains that he will be enabled in like manner to pass it to another when it suits him to do so. The amount of the issue should of course be watched with peculiar care, and regulated by com missioners appointed by and responsible to Parlia ment, as suggested by Mr. MUNTZ in his letter. It could never be seriously, if at all depreciated, if issued in proportion to the sum annually payable in the shape of taxation. Those who had not the paper should pay their taxes in gold or silver, if they had not the national note with which to satisfy the demand. Every person, therefore, who had a larger supply of these notes than he required could readily get gold for them, at a very small premium indeed, if any. By this means, and having them made for sums sufficiently small, say 11., 21., and 3/. notes, in addition to the denominations at pre sent in use, the 50,000,000/. sterling of gold coin, now in common daily use as the circulating medium of the country, would be made applicable to our foreign trade, while the great majority of our internal transactions would take place in the national currency. This would immediately give a fund of such magnitude as would be more than sufficient for all purposes Whenever there was over-trading and a great demand for gold to send out of the country, it would be as fully checked by an increased price of gold, an additional premium thereon, as it now is by depreciating the entire produce and the entire property of the country, and involving all classes in a general ruin, "that the integrity of the standard may be preserved." England is the only country in the world where it is attempted to keep bullion at a fixed and invariable price ; and why should we continue a singularity that has led to such calami tous results ? If that convertibility which the framers of the law desired, but which, as Mr. MUNTZ has shown, is merely nominal, were really obtained, it would not be worth the tenth part of the sacrifices which we are compelled to make for that which is only practicable when there is a general con fidence, and few desire to exchange their notes for specie. If a general demand for conversion should take place, its impracticability would speedily be made manifest, but not before the whole nation was involved in wretchedness, misery, and ruin. We heartily commend Mr. MUNTZ'S letter to the attentive consi deration of our readers: _ - . It is with feelings of- shame and of regret that we read the advertisement which appears in this day's Sun, announcing the fact of the forced retirement of Lieutenant WAGHORN, from the overland carrying business to India. Shame, shame !on the ungrateful country which thus rewards twenty years of per severing toil with ruin. Had Lieutenant WAGRoBsi built a house, or manufactured a yard of cloth, he would have had an absolute property in the fruits of his labour. Had he discovered a new method of buttoning shirts, or tying shoes, he might have protected himself by patent against those who would fain reap where they have not sown; but, as he merely discovered (for to all intents and purposes it was a discovery) the overland route to India, and was at all the expense, and all the toil, and all the anxiety of demonstrating its practicability, he is to be rewarded with mere empty praise, while those who had neither the genius to discover the ex istence of the route, nor the perseverance to overcome the difficulties of practically demonstrating its feasa bility, are to be permitted to derive all the profit and to drive from the ground the man but for whose labours they themselves would have had, as a com pany, no existence. Never again let us dare to re proach Spain with her treatment of COLUMBUS, lest she retort upon England her treatment of WAGHORN. Deeply do we sympathise with Lieutenant Wa.ouoßN, and sure we are that he possesses the heartfelt sym pathy and the best wishes of the great ma jority of his countrymen. Sympathy, however,is but a poor compensation for twenty years of unre mitted toil. The nation has profited largely by his services, and the nation should reward him. Even in a pecuniary point of view the nation and the East India Company are largely his debtors. Let us con sider what would have been the enormous expense to which we should have been subjected to repair our disasters in Affghanistan if we had been dependent solely upon the old route by the Cape of Good Hope. Nay, could those disasters have been repaired at all had not the overland route afforded us speedy means of becoming acquainted with their extent, and of com municating with the Indian authorities ? Is it not probable that on that occasion but for the existence of the overland route we might have lost India? Again, on the recent invasion of our territory by the Seikhs, of what vital consequence was it to us to possess the means of that speedy communication with India which was afforded to us by the overland route. Under the old system, immediately on the receipt of the news of the Seikh invasion, it would have been necessary to have dispatched immense reinforcements, viii the Cape of Good Hope, as a necessary measure of precaution. Thanks to Lieutenant WAGHORN, we received intel- ligence of the victory of Sobraon within one month of the day on which it was gained, and thus the nation was spared the expense of dispatching useless reinforcements. Let the Proprietors of the East India Company recollect these things, and call upon the directors to make a handsome grant to the man to whose genius they are so deeply indebteo ; and let every merchant in the kingdom, whose dealings have been facilitated by the opening of this quick com munication with India, let every individual in Eng land and in India who has enjoyed, thanks to Lieut. IVAGnoax, the solace of more frequent and more rapid communications ‘vith dear friends and relation!, Lieutenantnoen r n i lndia, and manne r . 1 o o i i n o N ‘ n t : hyl ,. et b h 3 w ; memorialise the Government to mark its sense of the debt of gratitude which is due from the nation to rewardingi m o or world. a. great If .L nation—the au tat Lieut. n i \ g —v n A a t Gh l ou a ßn n paralleled services which he has conferred on England, be suffered now to sink ; sham e , disgra ce , an d dis honour will be our portion as a people, and England •-; ♦ • ) 0 ,1 • V I • MA, , AA • * • ' 4.71)11‘ • • 41 , ELF j'it° 'r!.' filE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING-, OCTOBER 23, 1847. will be justly denounced as the most wealthy, in deed, but at the same time the meanest and most ungrateful of the nations of the earth. We learn from Berne that all the troops stationed along the frontiers of the States of the Sonderbund marched on the 17th to their several destinations. The Government issued and posted up the following notice, dated the 17th : " The Government of Argau has communicated to that of Berne that, in consequence of information which 4ad reached them, the Catholic districts of the Freiant, seconded by Lucerne, are meditating an attack on the canton of Argau, which has taken all necessary measures of defence. At the same time it has called upon Berne and Zurich to lend it their federal surveillance, by making such ulterior disposi tions as are demanded by the gravity of circum stances. Upon this communication the Executive Council has ordained the following measures :—The troops now under arms for the purpose of being drilled shall not be dismissed. Three battalions of elite shall be immediately formed. As soon as they are under arms, battalions of reserve of the same number now on duty for inspection shall be dis missed, unless circumstances shall become aggravated. The command in chief of these troops is provisionally entrusted to Colonel Ochsenbein. The board of mi• litary directors is authorised to make such changes as it shall see fit in the cantonal staff These disposi tions are made known to the public by this present bulletin." The first sitting of the Diet took place on the 18th. M. FURRER, the deputy for Zurich, proposed to the assembly to send two Federal representatives to each of the cantons of the League, to address a proclama tion to the people of those cantons, and to direct the committee appointed last session to give instructions to the Federal representatives. The deputies of the majority were extremely chary of words, confining themselves to the proposition, and observing that it was urgently necessary to adopt measures to restore the confederacy. The deputies of the League, finding no respite for their respective cantons but in dilatory measure, demanded that the proposition of Zurich be printed and communicated to the depu tations of the cantons whom it particularly inte rested. This motion encountered opposition ; and the member for Argau, M. FREI HEROSE, observed that the delay granted by the adjournment of the Dist had been employed by Lucerne, and the other states of the Sonderbund, in making new arma ments, and in circulating incendiary proclamations through the country, and that the same thing would occur if a new delay were accorded. The deputy of Basle city endeavoured again to perform the part of a mediator, by moving the appointment of a com mittee to confer with the deputies of the Sonder bund and hear their grievances. This motion, how ever, was only supported by two members. The proposition of Zurich was then carried by Berne, Zurich, Glaris, Soleure, Schaffhausen, St. Gall , Grisons, Argau, Th urgau, Ti c i no, V au d, G eneva, Basle country, and Appenzel exterior—that is, by the ordinary majority of twelve states and two half-states. The assembly next proceeded to elect the Federal representatives ; but the deputies of the Sonderbund and Neufchatel took no part in the discussion, which gave the follow ing result :—Federal representatives to Lucerne, the Landammann IST:EFF, of St. Gall, and the Landammann BRUNN ER, of Soleure; to Uri, the Councillor of State JENNI, of Glaris, and the Cantonal Councillor liorraiasi, of St. Gall ; to Schwyz, President KERN, of Thurgau, and the former Landammann PEQUIGNOT, of Berne; to Unter walden, the Landammann MUNZINGER, of Soleure, and the Councillor of State BOSCIIENSTEIN, of Schaff hausen ; to Zug, the Burgomaster FURRER, of Zurich, and the former Landammann SIDLER, of Zug ; to Friburg, the Councillor of State STOCKMAR, of Berne, and the second deputy of Berne, MERIAN ; to Valais, M. JAMES FAZY, President of the Council of State of Geneva, and the Federal Colonel Boca- WALDER. All those deputies, with the exception of one, who is a Radical, are moderate Liberals. On the 19th the Diet was to discuss the draught of a proclamation, and nominate the superior officers of the Federeal staff. The military measures adopted by Berne had rendered the League more circumspect, and the last accounts from Freiant, the Catholic dis trict of Argau, stated that the attempts made by the emissaries of Lucerne to induce its inhabitants to side with the League had completely failed. The Madrid mail had not arrived in Paris when the post left, but the Fomento of Barcelona states that the Governor of Seu d'Urgel had written to the Captain• General of Catalonia, announcing that a band of 400 Carlists bad entered that district, and that he was taking active measures to pursue them. The Carlist insurrection seems rapidly extending, in spite of the active measures of General CONCHA. A battalion of the QUEEN'S troops, and a detachment of gendarmes attacked, on the 10th, near Monseny, a band of 130 Carlists, commanded by BOQUICA, GAR BOFA, ZOBANY, and TORRES DE ARDUCIAS, whom they repulsed, with the loss of two killed and six or seven wounded. The Cabecilla POCARODA was, on the Bth, at Granera, with eighty men ; and MARSAL and ATIMIRATS in the mountains of Bruquetas, with 200 infantry and twenty horsemen. Another Cabe cilla, named JUAN, commanding a band of 100 men, entered, on the morning of the 9th, the village of Gariga, and seized on the Deputy Alcalde, whom he carried off, tied to a horse, in the direction of Mon seny. On the same day, ESTALLADO surprised, with about Copone, near Igua lada, seventy a n d brought men, o ff theprisoner village of Alcalde, M. ROQ UE the FERRER. General CoNenA. was at Vich ; on the 11th all the wealthy families deserted their country seats, and sought refuge in the fortified towns. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. The Constitutionnel, in the course of a long article on the commercial crisis, thus replies to the arguments recently propounded by the Journal des Debats in support of Peel's Bill of 1 844 : specie in th e ce ll ars o f th e Ban ' 1 I ! 8,408,750/. sterling, be compared with its liabilities, w hi c h are reckoned up atr,36,631,9 8 1/. sterlin g , comprising, of the E am ng o l u a n n t d, of which h is st a t e d a t be sides the amounts of its notes in circulation, its accounts current with the Treasury and private in viduals, it will be found that its relative proportion is less than one-fourth. It is this small proportion that the Debats availed itself of recently, in defending the Bill of 1844 ; for the Debats takes upon itself to give a lesson to the whole of the English press, which is unanimous in contending against the restrictive operation of this Bill, and in accusing it of aggravat ing the crisis by fettering the circulation of notes. All the arguments of the DUats turn upon the pre tended comparison between the Bank of England and the Bank of France, without paying attention to the point that the conditions relative to the circulation of money in specie and in bills are entirely different in the two countries ; that the Bank of England is es sentially a hank &circulation, and the Bank of France a discount bank ; that the first has this difference from the second, in having its credit founded on the credit of the State, and that its notes form a legal currency ; in fine, that the Bank of Prance could not go on if it were submitted to the same restrictions as the Bank of England. The Debats argues upon bank affairs as a matter of free exchange, that is to say, by book and theory, forgetti ng that the rules of economical science have nothing of rigour in them, and must bend to the financial or commercial condition of each country. ------ The Jour na l d es D eb ats - publishes the following letter from Trebisond, describing the progress of the cholera in that city : "The cholera broke out in this town about twelve days ego. After having raged intensely during eight days, it declined for a time ; but since the day before yesterday it appears to rage anew with violence. The weather is magnificent, and the heat suffocating. We hope that the equinox which will soon make itself felt will free us from this pestilence. On its first al)• pearance the Russian Consul, with all the members of the Consulate, and a great number of the Geor gians, retired to the country. This sudden departure, which was imitated by most of the employes of the Pachalick, has caused terror among the population. Nearly twenty thousand persons have filed to the neighbouring country places. Ismael Pacha, instead of trying to calm the terror of the people, has fas terad himself up in his palace, without disquieting himself as to what passes in the city. All the bakers' shops have been closed, so that for some time we found ourselves threatened with scarcity. However, thanks to the energetic intervention of the French Consul, M. Clairambault, the bakers have received orders to open their shops, as have also the chemists, druggists, and grocers. In the course of the first eight days, 300 persons were attacked by the cholera, and 103 died. The disease, generally speaking, has not pre sented such terrible symptoms as during its visit in 1830, and it has been almost always possible to check it by administering remedies at the commencement. Most of the persons who died had no recourse to medicine, or would not consent to employ the reme dies which were indicated." The Nouvelliste of Marseilles publishes intelli- gence of a much later date than the preceding—viz., up to the 4th inst., and which is even of a more serious character. It is to the effect that all the po pulation was emigrating, and that out of 60,000 in habitants, not 10,000 remained in the city. The Consuls had struck their flags, and the members of the Consulates who had not been able to obtain coun try houses had established themselves in tents, in en• trenched positions, protected by a little river. All the country houses, farms, and villages, in the neigh bourhood of the city, had been transformed into cita dels and fortresses, in the hope of keeping off the disease. The extraordinary abundance of fruits, which form the principal food of the poorer classes, had, it was said, caused the disease to spread. The mortality had exceeded that of the most fatal days of pestilential visitations. Isolation was no protection against the malady, for it frequently broke out sud denly in the midst of a family, which had had no communication with any one diseased, and carried off three or four persons, and sometimes the whole house hold. It is said that the Bank of France has intimated its intention to subscribe 25,000,000 f. to the new loan. The Archbishop of LYONS has ordered prayers to be offered up throughout his diocese for the success of the reforms of Pius IX. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thursday at 75f. 55c. ; the Fire per Cents., 115 f. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,158 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 9031. 75c.; Havre, 512 f. 50c. ; Great Nor thern, 5261. 25c. ; Avignon, 5261. 25c. ; Vierzon, 5351. ; Bordeaux, 455 f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 2401. ; Dieppe, 2451. ; Basle, 1481. 75c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 388 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 3701.; l'aris and Lyons, 3831. 75c.; Lyons and Avignon, 4751. ; Sianish Three per Cents. 28. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Oc-rontsa 22. Boulogne and Amiens, 13'4—Dutch Rhenish, 2 1 4—Paris and Rouen, 33 3 / 4 —West Flanders, 1%. MARYLEBONE VESTRY. (THIS DAY.) NEGOTIATION WITH SIR CLAUDE SCOTT AND CO.'S BANKING-HOUSE. The vestrymen were this morning engaged for several hours in the consideration of the best means to procure advances from Sir Claude Scott and Co., bankers, of Cavendish-square, or any other banking house, on certain terms. As our readers may re member, a motion was made last Saturday, by Mr. George Paniells, that an application should be made to Sir Claude Scott and Co. for a further loan of 10,0001. for three months, at five per cent., the parish being already 5,0001. indebted, and 2,0001. over drawn in their banking account. A communication was of course made to the firm of Sir Claude Scott and Co., and that company refused to grant the ad vance upon the terir.s specified. A further commu nication was made, not only with the house of Sir Claude Scott and Co., but with the London and West minster and other banks, and the principal business before the vestry this day was to hear and consider the answers of these banks. The minutes of last day having been read, Mr. SANDFORD moved, that in consideration of that minute which had reference to the ad vances from the Bank it be postponed till after twelve o'clock, and that in the meantime a deputation should wait upon Sir Claude Scott and Co., to enter, if possible, upon some arrangement which might prevent the disconnexion of the parish with their recognised bankers. After some discussion, this course was agreed to. The letters from Sir Claude Scott and Co., and the London and Westminster Bank, were then read. The firmer company refused to make the required ad vances unless the vestry gave bonds for the amount, with bonds also for the 5,0001. already advanced, and 2,0001. overdrawn. The London and Westminster said that they were willing to advance the 10,0001., provided the parish allowed 5,0001. to remain in the bank. The reading of these letters gave rise to another and rather virulent discussion, which ended in a de putation being sent to Sir Claude Scott and Co.'s, for the purpose of entering into some arrangement, and upon their return, at a quarter to one o'clock, it was announced that Sir Claude Scott and Co., had in the handsomest manner offered to advance the sum of 14,0001, at 5 per cent., secured upon parish bonds, provided that 6,0001., now bearing interest at 4 per cent., as well as a balance overdue of 2,0001., be liquidated out of the present loan.--(Cheers) The terms were acceeded to amidst acclamation. Sir JAMES HAMILTON said that he rose with great pleasure to perform a duty, which the courtesy and the ready wish of Sir Claude Scott to meet the wishes of the Vestry rendered imperative. He moved " That the thanks of the board be tendered to Sir Claude Scott and Co., for the courtesy and liberality they had evinezd in the advance of 14,0001. to the parish of Maryiebone to meet its existing temporary exi gencies." Air. GEORGE DA/gums secondedthe motion, which was carried amidst loud cheering. 'RIM PAUPERS. Mr. SANDFORD gave notice of a motion for next Saturday, calling the attention of the board of guardians and directors to the great increase in the influx of Irish paupers into the country, and the ne cessity of their adopting some measure to prevent them quartering themselves upon the poor-rates of that parish. Several reports were brought up, and The Board then broke up. CITY OF LONDON SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before the RECORDER, Aldermen GIBBS, CHALLIS, HUNTER, and HuGuEs.) Anthony Lazam, a master chimney-sweeper, was charged with an assault upon Mr. Marshall, of No. 22, Seething lane. It appeared, that on the morning of the 7th of August last, a person named Jane M`Donald, the daughter-in-law of the prisoner, was shaking mats near the premises of the prosecutor, and he remon strated with her. The prisoner shortly afterwards went into the prosecutor's shop, and, after abusing him, attempted to drag him from the house, and upon the prosecutor attempting to eject him, he struck him a violent blow upon his face. The prosecutor's evidence having been corro borated, Mr. PRENTICE addressed the jury for the defence, and called Jane M`Donald, who stated the prosecutor struck her, and gave such a version of the affair that it would appear the prosecutor was the aggressor. Some further evidence was called on behalf of the prisoner. The RECORDER summed up, and The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, with a re commendation to mercy. The prisoner was then sentenced to pay a fine of 403., and to enter into his own recognizances for 401. to keep the peace for one year. RAILWAY RETURNS TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Rec e i p t s of Rail A ga ys for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year:— 4 Week Last gr i ,,,,, ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. .t..z .-- A' x x Oct, 17 Amiens and Boulogne .--•••• • • • • • • 664 - 16 Arbroath and Forfar .••••••• • • • • • • • 170 255 15 Chester and Birkenhead .•. .. 14 Dublin and Drogheda• ••• • • ••••• • • • • 806 754 19 Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • • • • • 863 893 - Dundee; Perth, and Aberdeen -• • .... - 305 16 Edinburgh and Glasgow .••••• • • • • • • 4,040 4,278 17 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 12,748 10,099 16 East Lancashire -• • ........ •• . • .... 006 818 10 Eastern Union ••..•••••••• .• • • • • • • • • 1,163 - 16 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr •••••• 2,703 2,306 16 Glasgow and Greenock •• • ...... •• • . 1,002 988 16 Great Southern and Western • • .... • • 2,150 1,081 17 Great Western, &c .... •••.••• • .• • • • • 20,909 20,056 16 Lancashire and Yorkshire •• .. 9,931 9,567 15 Lancaster and Carlisle . ..... ........ 1,406 - 17 London and North Western, &c. 43,504 42,060 17 London and Illackwall- • ..• •• • ...... 932 846 16 London and Brighton .•.•. • . • . • ... - 9,555 8,328 17 London and South Western. •• • ..... 8,678 6,813 - Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc.. - - 16 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 2,342 1,812 16 Maryport and Carlisle ••••••• • • • • • • • 665 473 16 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... 22,862 19,067 . , 1 1 0 7 11 0r 1idti e G . r . e . a . t . 1 . V . e . 5 . t . e . r . n . ( . 1 . r . i5 . 1 . 1 . ) .. ........... 15 11 8 - 16 Newcastle and Carlisle • ..• ••• • • ..... 2,181 2,013 - Newcastle, Berwick, and North Shields - - 17 Norfolk ............................ 22:408931 1,2081,553 16 North British .. •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 122 16 Paris and Rouen . .................. 7,613 7, - Preston and Wyre ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • ~ - -8 31 . 1 - * 16 Rouen and Havre .. •••••••• • • • • • • • • ' 630 - 15 ShreWsbury and Chester •••••• • • • • • • 10,980 9,460 16' _South:Eastern and Branches •• • • • • -• 1,663 851 15 - .South Revon.. ••••...•••• • • • • • • ' • • • 1,A15 1,303 .17: - . tei,. - •••••••••••• •••••••••• ..... ' 'fidspniie4l Jun t c , t 4 i i o e n .......... .... .... : .... .... 11,5 1 6 8 9 4 5 - ,9 " 49 4 4 . lid '.N?orth-Midland .••••• • • • • • ~ t tz, 9,, 42 7,069 " 9.- ' ' ''''' 4 ; ..I'l -....----..........--., ,--..- ,;,, 7 : -,, fir CRISTALL - Joshua Cristall, P- ' 4ol ' S" RIR- J. 'of Pam't • W t ont.Othe'criginators of the Society QolotiTs i /tad:many years president of that institution, di e ch*tho:,l,o,h instant, cat his residence in St. John's waid:,it y sh , o „ t oth year of his age. He was a constant eithihiii*ae.the old water col our exhibition, and had de diimi4-ratiarof bis time to the higher branches of his art, though w ith not more success than Mr. Howard, who died the other day, achieved in oils, Ile will be remem bered with Girtin and Barrett, and the e ar li er painters, whose labours assisted in obtaining for our school of water colours the European reputation which it now enjoys. The Jews of Aix, in gratitude to Pius IX., for what be has done for persons of their faith at Home, have put up prayers in their synagogue for his Holiness. • MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE, The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was rather firmer. Sales, 3,000 bales, making 15,160 for the week. Shares were heavy again. There has been a meeting of Messrs. Gower's credi tors to-day, and the estate shows assets that will give about 53. in the pound, entirely independent of the Mauritius properties. The total liabilities are 450,8321. The American accounts are satisfactory, and have imparted a better feeling to-day. The details appear in another column. The state of the Bank of England accounts is such as might have been expected upon the eve of the dividend payments, and the necessary contraction of loans to meet them. It is apparent in the weekly retuln to Saturday last, that the amount of other securities, upon which re payments have been demanded, was insufficient to pro vide the funds for the dividends, and the reserve of new notes had to be diminish: dby 691,5851. The active cir culation was extended. The Government securities were diminished on account, probably, of the disinclination of the Bank to prolong loans upon stock. The " rest" has been trenched upon by the dividend on Bank stock. The following arc the features in the return: — Notes issued now £21,989,600 Increase Rest, now Decrease 592,120 Public deposits now 5,496,883 Decrease 3,917,830 Other deposits now Increase 960,688 Seven day and other bills now 903,519 Increase Government Securities now 11,086,877 337,463 Decrease . Other Securities now 18,963,326 Decroase 2,474,117 Notes now .... Decrease . . • 691,585 Bullion now 8,430,700 Increase Active circulation now 719,600 Increase The Funds are more buoyant, and have risen about per cent. Consols for transfer have realised 794 to 804 ; and for account 801 to sq. The New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 791. to 80k. Bank Stock has been at 103. Exchequer-bills still rule as low as 275. to 365. discount. The Foreign Bonds are very flat. Portuguese Four per Cents. 20i ; Spanish Three per Cents, about 27 to 272 ; and Mexican 17 to 17i. Railway Shares have been quieter. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock lB3 183 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 79 78 1 4% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities BO 79% 80 1 4 New 34 per Cent. Anns .... 80 80 8 79% 80 Long Antis. to expire J an. 1860 ... 8 3-16 1-16 India Bonds, 1,0001. Ditto under 1,0001... South Sea Stock 79 79% 80 1 A 8 1-16 Ditto New Annuities ... 7 6 34 Consols for Account 80 % 1 4 34 Exchequer Bills. 3d. 1,0001. 500/ 26 20 27 22 30 dis 30 dis Small ONE CLOSING RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 17% 17 1 % Ditto, Account ...... ......... ..... 174 Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto, 4 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4% per Cent. B9 Dutch, 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 53 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 81 PRIDES OF PAID. BUS/NESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2% Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2 1. / eeltast & County Down 10 Birmingham and Os.- ford Junction ..... _ ___ _ Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley 10 ..... Birming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley... .. 8 ...... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.— 6 1 ,4 , — ....... Boston, Stamid, & Birm. 5 Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, Thirds Buckinghamshire B/. 4s — Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares..... 3 3 / 4 Ditto, Clydesdale June 40 ...... Chester and Holyhead... 37% — Ditto, Preference Cheltenham and Oxford 2 ...... . Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent . Dublin and BelfastJunc 2O Dundalk & Enniskillen 15 East Anglia, 25/., L. & E. and L. and D....... 25 Do., 181., E. & 11.... 18 Do., 31. 10s., E. & 11. 1 Eastern Counties 2O ...... Ditto, Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 61. 13s. 4d... ;V 3 % dis Ditto ditto, No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... Do., York Extension.. 10 Do., North. & Eastern 50 ...... •• Do., Quarters Do., New 23 Eastern Union 5O .. ...... Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — , Dit.o Third* ... l3s. 4d 15% V dis z ..... 7:N Cast Lancashire Ditto. New Do., do., Exten. Scrip 1 1 4 Cast Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 47 Ditto Half Shares ... 15 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% Edinburgh & Northern.. 20 Ditto, New Ditto, Newport ..... Ditto, ditto, New . .... 1 1 / 2 Edinburgh and Perth... 2 — ' Ditto E x t en sion Exeter,Yeovil,& Dorch. 2% — ,-, Ditto, New ••• Glasgow Dumfries, and . Carlisle 81.65. 8d Glasgow, Kilmar., & Ayr 50 . • Ditto, New .. 35 _ , Do. Preference Consol. 12 1 / 2 — Great Northern 8 Do., London and York 2%..... ... .......... Great South. and West (Ireland) Great North of England..loo 212 Ditto, New 401. Ditto, New 30/. 3O Ditto, New 15/ 1% l5l/2 ......... •••.. isy, Great Westein. BS 95 Ditto, % Shares Ditto, I / 4 Shares - - Ditto, Fifths 2O Ditto, New 17/ 7 Huddersfield & Mooches. 22 Ditto, Thirds Hull and Selby 5O .. ... atto, Half Shares.... 25 Ditto, 1 1 1 Shares....... 12% [ph & Bury St. Edm. 15 M., do., and Norwich 15 De., do., Extens.Scrip (late Camb. & Ely)... 2%...... Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds ..10. Lancashire & Yorkeskire 82 Ditto % Shares . ... 38 Do. Quarter Shares... 14% — Do. Fifths 6 % 2..... Do. Sixteenths 6 LA — Do. Thirds (Reg.)....101. 4s. Do. Liverp. and Bury 34 Ditto 1 / 2 (late Hud dersfield and Sheff.) 33 Do.( Wakefield, Ponte fract. & Goole Do. (W. Riding Union) 4/.2s — Do. (Preston L l / 4 Wyre) 25 Do. % Shares (A) 9 Ditto ditto (B) ... 1% rd..— 'SO Leeds and Bradford 5. Leicester and Bedbra l6s. ...... Leeds, Dewsbury, &c 37% — 7% 21 _ 714 77 331,4 51,4 jBsl l ' , Do., Branch Shares 12 1 Do. New Branch( blue) 2 1 ,i — •• Do. Extension (green) Do. NewExten. (pink) DA Leeds and Thirsk Ditto, New Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3%. Liverpool, Crosby and Southport .... .......... 2 Liverp., Mnchstr& New castle Junction 2 l / 2- . .i. London and Blackwall..l6/. ids. 4d. 474... „,..•.... ---47,_ Do. New, No. 1 - ...... ....... ._... 8 Do. New, No. 2.. 31 l3s. 4d.7... 21% dis l% dis. Do. Extension l5 L o ndon, Brighton, and South Coast 50 Do. Consol. Eighths.. 20 9 1 Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9 ...... 6 ...... Do. Pref. Con. 5 perct. 50 ••• •• •••••• ... .. London and Greenwich 121 15s 4d Ditto, Preference ... 18/17s 2d... Lendon and N. Western 100 146 145 147 14' 1 / 14 , a ,1 , a 2 Do., Quarters L. & B. 17 Do., no., New . Ditto Fifths .........2 Do. 1 4 Shares (G. J.) 2.5 Do 40/.Shares(L.lll.) 15 Do. 404 (M. & B.) ... 40 Do. 10/. CM & B.) A. 5 Do. 101. (111. & B.)13. 5 ...... 8 Do. 10/. M. & B.) C. 1 London, Oxford, and Cheltenham ... Lond. & S.Western ...411. 6s. 8d Do. Now ConsoL Bths 40 Do. New 50/. ... ..... 32 1 / 2 .. Do. New 40/ 26 ... • Do. Tenths (Consol ) 50 Ditto ditto ............ 40 Ditto, Thirds 6/. 13s. 4d.... London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ..... .... ........ li•••••• Londonderry&Cvleraine 27%,..... «.:« - 27% 7. 50 dis LonJonderry and Ennis killen - ........ ... 23% — Marelester • Buston,und Matlo k••• Manchester, Sheffield, land Lincolnshire ..100 - Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 7 1 / 2 Ditto and Grimsby.— 25 Ditto ditto . .......• 7 .. .. . . - - Ditto ditto ....... 4% Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 7l/ Stanchest. &. Southampt. 24...... Midland Do. Consolidated Pref.100 Do. 401. Shares Do. 501. Shares Do. 'Sinn., and Derbyloo Midland Consul. Brist. & Birming., 6 per cent.loo ......118 Slidloci, brist. & Glocstr. 34 Ditto, ditto 71.9s —. Midlnd, Leicest. & Swan nington, 8 per ct.guar. 50 Midland Cireat Western Irish - Newcastle and Carlisle...loo Do. Quarters 5O Newmrliet&Chesterford 13% __ _ Do. Extension .........21..125.... . Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevcr Norfolk .. Do. New 201. .. . 5 Do. Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, N orth of Norfolk-. DJ. do. Waveney Val. 2 Northern Counties Union 4 — North British ... ..... ... 25 Do. Half Shares 121...... 10 1 / 5 Do. Quarters 4' Do. Extension Ditto Thirds 1 ... . % North Staffordshire-- 7 1 / 2 ...... 6% % %... North Wales North We6tern 6 Oxford, IVercestor, and Wolverhampton ...... 27 1 / 2 ... .. 181 4 I / Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Royston and llitchin ... 1N ••. ........ •• Scottish Central Scottish Midland l7 4 —.-- Ditto, New......... ..... 10 - ....... • ••• • • Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole Shrewsbury and I3irm... 6 Ditto ditto, Class B. 3 Shrewsbury & Chester ( Nor. W. Min.) l6 __ . 76 3 4 80% 20 th Ditto Halves ditto 8 ........ , Ditto 06westry 12 Ditto New . Shrewsbury and Herefd. 2 Shropshire Union South Devon.. Do. Preference South Staffordshire 21. 125.... south Eastcrn & Dover 33% 26 26 27 Do., No. 1 Do., Nc, 2. Do., No. 3 Do., No. 4 South Wales ... 15 ...... : South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Boole Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Still. Coal. ... 4 Taw Vale Extension ... 4 - ••• ••• ..... •• • Thames Haven Dock and Railway ........... 17% Vale of Neath ...... 4 Waterford and Kilkenny 13 l a . Waterford and Limerick ai Watertd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublia West Cornwall Whitehaven & Furness 8 Windsor, Staines, and South Western ..... 425....... . Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth York, Newcastle, and Berwick..... . Do. Original New and Berwick Do.. North Shields Pur. 25 Do. Extension No. 1. 10 Do. do. No. 2......... 10 Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 York and North Al idland 50 Ditto, Preference Do. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAIL WA 1 S. Anglo. Belgian 4 — Bar badoes ... 1 Boutog - ne and Amiens... 20 ...... 13 % .... ........ Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Constituted )... 4 .. ... Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) ... 14 Central of Spain ... .... 2 Ceylon Demerara 2 l /2 — Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish East Indian ... ..... .... ss. Great Indian Peninsular 5s Great Southern of Madras 53. Great Western Bengal... 5s Great Western Canada... 3 1 A Italian and Austrian.... 4 ..• Jamaica S.Mid. J unction 1 Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 ... Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon 5 Madras 1 Madras. Nellore, and Arcot % Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... Namur and Liege Northern of France. ... .. 10 .. Orleans and Bordeaux 6 Over Yssel 4l3s 4d Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans; 2O Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg 8 Rouen and Ilavre Sambre and M euse l6 .••. ........ 00000 Strasbourg and Bale fours and Nantes ...... 8 Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and 11a55e1t....... 12 Trinidad W 'est Flanders ...... ••• JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia London Joint Stock British North American 50 Colonial 25 Commercial of London 20 Provincial of Ireland ... 25 London & Westminster. 20 Ditto New... ..... ...... 13 National Prov. England. 35 _ Ditto,New. ...... .. ..... 10 National of Ireland 2 2 1/ l9 ... ......... ... Ditto, New Union of Australia Ditto,New... 2% , Union of London... lO Union of Madrid 40 MINES. Anglo Mexican lOO Galvanized Iron Real Del Monte, Unreg. 21, 1 h 101 A .8 1 A 63A, .7 , 4 13 1 4: 29% 11 % 111 4 671,4 13'4 10N 4% 3-34 0.... al, LLOYD'S SIIIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, OCT. 23.—Wind S.S.W., fresh gale and scpally, with heavy passing clouds. DEAL, OCT. 22.—Wind W. to W.S.W.—Acrd. ?Jo rayshire, Barclay, New South Wales; Matnield, Valiant, Callao ; Rothsay, ditto ; James Bird, Miller, Cube ; James Reid, ditto; Toronto, New York; Juliet, Quebec; St. Andrew, Lorby, ditto. Arrived from the River, Isa bella, Blyth, Mauritius; Albert, Honduras. FALMOUTH, OCT. 22.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Unica Mkt, Astiquia, Havannah; Flora, Allez, Labrador. PORT TALBOT, OCT. 21.—Wind S.E.—Acrd. Finch, Sheridan, Pugwash. SWANSEA, ()CT. 21.—Wind W.—Arrd. Juana, Wil son, Valparaiso; Sion Coleman, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, OCT.22.—Wind W.S.W—Arrd. Orient al ' M'Lachlan, Calcutta • Urgent, Maraham ; Sandbach• Bellis, Demerara; Sir J. Beresford, Threadgold, St. Do mingo; Matilda, Cienfuegos ; Susan E. Hamel!, Bailey, New Orleans; Abbot Lord, Nason, ditto ; Jane H. Gli" delen, Childs, Virginia; Wyoming, Marcken, Philadel phia; Oxford, Goodmanson, New York; Sheridan, Cor nish, ditto; Harmony, Jameson, St. John's, N ew Brunie. wick; British Empire, ditto; Jane Hammond, Vaughan, ditto; Speed, Grindall, St. John's, New Brunswick; Free Trader, Thompson, Quebec; Coria, Findlay, ditto; Importer, M'Laren, ditto ; Agenora, Griffin, ditto; Oregon, Heron, ditto; Kestrel, Farmer, ditto; Countes s of Loudon, Boyd, ditto ; Symmetry, Tourville, Nev." foundland. Sld. Calder, Ceylon; Ann Lockesley. Cape of Good Hope; Devonport, Savannah; Powhattan, Bal timore; Milton, Boston; Liberty, New York. Off port , Washington Irving, Boston; Sarah Sands steamer, Be W York; Gesypuitn, Quebec. The galliot Maria, hence to Ostend, a as f a ll en i n w i t h 20t h i nst. off the Smalls , with six feet water in her hold; crew taken off by the A bbeylands, arrived here. SHIELDS, OCT. 21.—The Venus, from London, ar rived here, was in contact off Flamborough Head with the Chance, of Dover ; the latter lost bowsprit, and 5 111 " tained other damage. WELLS, OCT. 22.—The sloop Delight, of London. is on shore to the east of the harbour, and abandoned. The Ann, of Newcastle, got off shore 20th inst, with little damage, and has proceeded. BELFAST, OCT. 21.—The Lord Wenlock, of Liver.. pool, dismasted and abandoned, was boarded on the 61}1 inst. in lat. 47, N., lon. 19.30, by the Rosalinda, arrived here from Quebec. DROGHEDA, OCT. 21.—The Richard, from Wick to Bristol, on shore in the river 11th inst., remaine d aground for one tide, and did not receive any damage , she proceeded on the 17th. NORTH SUNDERLAND, OC'r. 21.—The Faith, 0- and - for Hull, from Gla-gow, struck on a rock near the Fern I s land s this morning, and is likely to become a wreck ; crew and materials saved. YARMOUTH, OCT. 22.—The English Rose, of Shore ham, has been towed in here today with loss of bole sprit, fore mast, main topmast, &c., during heavy weather, 21st instant, off Flambro' Reef. LOWESTOIFE, OCT. 22.—1 t blew very strong . Yester.. day, with heavy squalls ; several vessels lost their spars' and one or two passed to the north, with loss of tor masts. -- • . Mr. William C arswe ll, l a t e o f th e Ch am berlam 0 office, Guildhall, was yesterday elected clerk and col lector l lector of Farringdon Market, IA the T 90121 Of 31 . 1.3 " Freeman, deceased. ret Pal sot Pr( inc shi Per