The Sun. — London, England, 1847-10-27 00:00:00

_ 2 5 .77i, it follows that gold is 1.18 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4371 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. lipid. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.114 ; and, the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.131, it follows that gold is 1.02 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The course of exchange at New York on London is 1091 per cent., and the par of exchange between gn g land and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.08 per cent. against Mngland; but, the quoted exchange at New York "being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be -deducted from the above difference. There has been much fluctuation to-day in the English Funds, but the rise of yesterday has be en i maintained. Consols for money, which were t 'noted yesterday after business hours at 82/ to 83, pened this morning at 83 to 4. Many purchases on the part of the public then took place, and the price v ent to 841. After this, however, a rumour, which 1v as utterly destitute of foundation, to the effect that the Bank had charged 12 per cent. for loans upon s !;ock, caused a sudden reaction to 83i, at which the narket closed. For the account Consols opened at 133 f to /, advanced to 841, and closed at 831 to 8. In the Stock Exchange to-day the rate of interest a vas from 6to 8 per cent. There was no excessive mand at the Bank for money under the new regu at ions. 'There was a better feeling to-day on 'Change in reg . ard to the negotiation of foreign bills, which, ge net ally speaking, went off fairly. ''.,Che rates for Hamburgh and Paris were lower than last post, but no material alteration occurred for other places. Arrivals of gold took place at the Bank to-day frora Hamburgh, St. Petersburgh, and other parts of the Continent, to the amount of about 130,0001. or 140,0001. By advices received this morning the rate of dis count at Amsterdam is quoted at 4 per cent., the rate for loans on deposit being sto 5i per cent. At Hamburgh money is easier and the rate of discount is 54t06. Letters from Hamburgh, dated the 22d of October, mention the receipt of accounts from St. Petersburgh,l to the effect that " the Emperor of Russia had given orders to .the Bank to assist every mercbant that might be able to prove his solvency by his books — amongst others, the house of Thomas, Son, and Le fevre." In consequence of this it was generally an ticipated that the London correspondents of the above firm would forthwith resume business. Direct letters received from St. Petersburgh, dated the 15th of October, mention business as very dull in that city, owing chiefly to the discredit caused by the failures here. The exchange was 38-id. to 38d., which would favour the exportation of gold. Flax showed a tendency to fall, and corn was without buyers, and the prices nominal. From Riga also, under date the 16th of October, a general tendency to a decline in prices is reported, hemp being the only exception. From N ewcastle this morning the accounts are perfectly favourable, no allusion being made to any con tinuance of the panic. The Union Bank is about to publish a statement of its affairs. A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. James and William Morley, whose failure took place on the 14th inst., was held to-day. Mr. Ainsworth, on behalf of certain Manchester creditors to the amount of 40,0001., took the chair, and the following statement was read. It will he observed that again in the present instance speculations in railway shares constitute a prominent feature, the result in this case being different from that in Messrs. Gower's, where the public, and not the firm, were the sufferers : JAXES AND 'WILLIAM MORLEY. DEBTOR. X. 8. d. To trade creditors ... 62,749 13 4 To cash creditors ... 30,558 18 11 To bills accepted for Messrs. J. and W. Morley's accommo dation ••• ••• To bills accepted by J. and W. Morley for the accommodation of other parties, which will be claimed on this estate ... ••• To bills receivable, dis counted, drawn upon parties who have failed ••• ••• Deduct cash and securi ties held by bill holders ... ..• To liability upon bills receivable,considered good ... ... 17,061 7 4 2,298 10 11 55,542 8 11 CREDITOR. By stock in trade at cost... By book debts, good ... ••• Doubtful and bad 3,4211. 10s. 9d. ; estimated at ... ... ... ••• Bycash in house ... ••• ••• ••• By bills of exchange in house ... ..• By value of railway shares By policies on customers' lives By improved rental of a house in Fri- X. s. d 93,308 12 3 day:street By bills of exchange • • amounting to 20,4741. 2s. 2d., deposited as collateral security for cash advances of 13,843 L 7s. 10d., supposed will realise to the estate above the advances ... ••• By leases of premises in Carey-lane, valued at ...£9,500 0 0 Mortgaged for ... ...£B,OOO 0 0 9,196 By furniture, fixtures, &c. ... ... By freehold and leasehold property, mortgaged to cre ditors, and deducted from their debts ... ....£3,300 0 0 2,463 14,762 £119,731 y: ~ 1~ MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUAITER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was firmer, the sales being 2,000 bales, with a good feeling. Railway shares were also better. From Liverpool the mercantile advices are of a favourable character, and the idle reports current for some time past respecting the position of dif ferent houses have been lulled in the assurance that no solvent firm is now likely to be placed in difficulties. The bankers are much more liberal, and it is said that the applications for advances made to the Bank of Eng• land have not been very numerous. The check given to foreign loans and excessive railway expenditure is likely to be very decidedly felt, as the " calls" for the present month are only about a million and a half, and probably these will be greatly in arrears. It may be as well to note that the exchanges are not likely to be quite so well supported, but that bullion is still coming in quietly from the Continent. The Stock Market has been very fluctuating, and there is a difference of nearly one per cent. between the highest and lowest quotations. Consols have ranged from 834t0 S 2 for Transfer, and from 831-to 82i for Time. Exchequer-bills have been 20s. to 15s. discount. The New Three-and a• Quarter per cents. have been 834 to 82k. Bank Stock has ranged from 183 to 187. The foreign securities are quite neglected. Mexican are 17 to 17i. Chilian are 85 to 86i. Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. are at 53. Railway Shares have gone back again, the natural result of a re action after the decided improvement of 'esterday. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock lB3 187 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities B2 81 1 4 3 per Cent. Consols Anns.. ...83 1 A 823 83 1 4 821 New 3 1 A per Cent. Anus 83 % 82% 83% 82 Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860... 8 7-16 Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859... 8 3-16 1 A Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860.. 8% [udia Stock 225 228 India Bonds 1,000/ ......... ..... ....... — Ditto under 1.0001 Consols for Account . Exchequer Bills. 3d. 1,000/. 5001. Small .• . 4 p 2 dis PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ON E O'CLOCK. Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent „. 86% 85 Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent. 17% 17 Venezuela Bonds, 24 per Cent ... Ditto Deferred Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent.,l2 Guild 53 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PEA SHARE. Aberdeen - Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% — ...... to Ayrshire and Galloway ...... 2% — to -- Belfast and County Down .. 10 •... - Birmingham & Oxford Junc... 15 - Birmingham, \Vol., & Dudley 10 ... . 14'jg to 13 1 ,E Birming., Vol., & Stour Val. 8 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction 6% ...... to -- Boston, Stamf , & Birming... 5 - Bristol and Exeter - Do., Thirds Buckinghamshire 8/. 4s — ..... to Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 40 Chester and Holyhead 3 7 1 /2 - Ditto, Preference 4 - Cheltenham and Oxford - Clarence. - Do., let Class, 6 per Cent... 10 . ... to -- Do. 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 - JO., - ~ _ Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent 10 - Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 20 - Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 15 East Anglia, 251., L. & E. amd L. &D. - Ditto, 181., E. & H lB ..... - Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & H... 1 Eastern Counties...... Do. Perpet.,s per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d IA dis.... to -- Do., do N 0.2,61. 133. 4d...` - Do., York Extension ...... 10 ...... 8 Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 Do., Quarters .... .. ........ 12 %... .. -- Do., New - -,V., .L. , G v• Eastern Union •••••• .. 50 - Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... 121,1 — Ditto., Thirds l3s. 4 d — - East Lancashire - Ditto, New ... .......... .... . 13 - Do., do., Extension Scrip... 1 1 4 — - East Lincolnshire 9 - - Edinburgh and Glasgow - Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% 11%...... to -- Edinburgh and Northern ... 20 Ditto, New 2% to -- Ditto, New port.. . . 7 - 1% — ...... to --- Ditto, ditto, New Edinburgh and Perth .... --"' Ditto, Extension ... 10 s. - Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — ...... to Ditto, New Glasg., Dumfries, Zr Carlisl e- 81. 65.8 d... ..... to to Gl asgow , Kilmarnock, Zr Ayr 50 .•.... Ditto, New D 0 . 14 Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 12% Great Northern.... .......... ... 8 - Do. London & York Exten. 2 1 ,4 -- ...... to --- Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 35 - . Great North of England 100 2lB ...... to -- Ditto, New 40/ 5 - Ditto, New 301 ... 30 ... .. 64 .. ... to 65 Ditto, New 151.... 114...... . ... to -- Great Western Ditto, Half Shares ...... 5 0 Ditto, Quarter Shares - Ditto, Fifths Do. New 171 Huddersfield and Manchester 22 .. Dittc, Thirds 7 - [lull and Selby - Ditto, Half 'Sh are s - ' Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — ...... to -- Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 15 -...... to --' Do. do. and-Norwich - Do., do., Extension Scrip (late (Camb. and Ely) 21% l% to Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 - Do., Thirds lO - Lancashire and Yorkshire (M. and L.) ... 82 - Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarters Ditto Fifths Ditto Sixteenths ........... 6q...... to Ditto Thirds (Reg.) ... 101.4 s — Do. Liverpool and Bury... 34 - Do. (Rudders. and Sheff.) 33 Do., Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole 4 7 1, — ...... to --• Do., West Riding Union ...4/. 2s 2%% dis. to -- Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9 - Ditto ditto ........ ......(B) 1!,4 Leeds and Bradford . 50 ..... 8 - 5% ••. ... : .. too --- Leicester and Bedford - Leeds, Dewsbury, & blanches. 37% — ...... to --- Do., Branch % Shares 12% ...... ...... to --- Ditto, New Branch (blue) 2% 012•••• to ..."' Ditto, Extension (green)... 21,E — ...... to --* ---• , Do., New Exten. (pink)... 2% — ...... to --- -- Leeds and Thirsk Ditto, New Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3 %. .... 2 ..»•• to •-• Liverpool. Crosby, and South port. Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction. ...... ... 2% :- ............ t t o o ----,,,, London 8,; Blackwell...lU 13s. 4d 5 ...... to 0 7 9 Ditto New, No. 1.. - Ditto New, No. 2 3/. 13s. 4d.... ...... to --- Do. Extension - Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50 Do. Consolidated Eighth5... 20 Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 - Do. Pref. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 - London and Greenwich... 12/. 1 ss. 4d — Ditto Preference lB/ 17s 2d... ... to London and North Mr estern..loo ...155 153 154 to 15 0 Do. Quarter .....L. and B. 17 Do. do. New ...... .... ...... 2...9 8% 9% 7% to 8 /11 Do. do. Fifths - --* Do. Quarters ... t Do. 401. Shares.....L. &M. 15 - Do. 40/. Shares...M. and B. 40 - Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 5 . Do. 10/. .. M. and B. (B.) 5 - Do. 101.... M. and B. (C.) 1 - London, Oxford, and Cheltm. 2 - London and S. Western.... 41/. 658 d 56% to ..... Do. New Consolidated B ths. 40 to -- Ditto New 501. __ - 32%......29% 28% to 294 Ditto New 40/. ......- - .. 26 Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 ...., to Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 Ditto, Thirds 6/. 13s. 4d... 1 dis.... to 34 - London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 1 1 ,4 — ...... to --' Londonderry and Coleraine... 27% — - Londonderry and Enniskillen 23% to --- Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 3 Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.loo - Ditto 1 4 Shares (No. 1) ... 13 Ditto, ditto (No. 2) Ditto, % Shares (No. 3)... 7%...•.• ...... to --* I)itto .... Grimsby - . Ditto, ditto. Ditto, ditto ... 4% — •••' to to --- Ditto, Sheffield, and Line. 7% — . ..... ,t 4 ..' ,„ ..... Manchester and Southampton 2 1 1 — •• --- 1 " 1 09 Midland .. 109 110% 110 to Ditto, Consul. Preference 100 - .....• 4 _ Ditto, 40/. Shares Ditto, 50/. 5hare5........... 10 Midland, Birm., and Derby... 100 Midland, Consol. Bristol and o Birmingham 6 per ceit.... 100 ll9 Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 4 . 4 95.... Ditto ditto Midland, Leices. and Swan- to --- n ington (8 per ct. gua.) 6O .... . ...... 7. .. .. .. .. . i ..... t t oo . . . .. . . .. . - - * Midld. Great Western (Irish) 30 - .... 4 .... Newcastle and Carlisle l OO ...... ...... ''') Ditto Quarter Shares ... .. _ to --* to Newmarket ,and Chesterford 13% — '"•.. Ditto Extension - t ., Newport Abergy., and Heref. 4 ...... • .... t° -- Norfolk lOO ...... ...... . n Ditto New 20/. 5 •••••• ... ..., -- Ditto Extension - to Do. Scrip, 1847,N. of Norflk 2 - ...... to -- Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 -••• " to .... Newry and Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint, and N, l ,r l ;l s ., tr . e o v ( ° : r (2l . n:ti . e, 1:0i,,,, ... 10 ........... --- 7: • :: tts:')3 E . Sortl, Britith - .. to ''..,, !... -.' ' • ' • to 1 °% 4 Ditto Halt' ;51 - . ar-s ...,,irt,.. - , Ditto Thirds 4 ;5/4'74 ................. -- -4 / 43 7' .3 : 4 : ::: :- t ti 9t : 7: Do. Q . • Ditto, Extension ..., Less rent, salaries, taxes, &c. ... By value (above the mortgage) of pre mises No. 3, Nassau-place, Com mercial-road ... ... ••• ••• By debt due from the estate of W. Mor ley, sen. (amount not stated). £89,217 5 10 With reference to the above it was m entioned, that a large debt due from Mr. W. Morley, sen., and which, it appears, amounts to nearly 29,0001., is not likely to contribute a single shilling in the shape of assets; while, also, to his excessive drawings, coupled with the dealing of the partners in accommodation bills, is chiefly attributed the deficiency in the ac counts. At the period in 1842 when the new Co. partnery was formed the whole of the proceedings were alleged to have been conducted in the most loose and irregular manner, inasmuch as, although the entering partners assumed, in consideration of a transfer of assets, all the debts and obligations of the old establishment, no proper investig ation of ac counts was attempted, no stock was taken, neither did the Messrs. Morley ever attach their signatures to the draft deed drawn out upon 'the occasion. In June last the house, according to the books, pos sessed a balance of 8,0001., but this amount on investigation proved to be fallacious, as it was com posed of assets taken at an improper valuation. One item alone was represented by railway shares esti mated at 5,500/., which in truth were only worth 4,6001., since reduced, by the management of these transactions being placed in the hands of Mr. W. Morley, sen., to the 601. exhibited in the balance sheet. The actual trading of the firm showed a profit, but in no way commensurate with the de mands made upon it. The result of the discussion, which did not con clude without angry comments escaping from some of the creditors, elicited from Messrs. Morley a pro posal for the arrangement of their affairs, and it was intimated on their behalf that, allowing for deduc• tijna to the extent of nearly 19,0001. on the collection of debts, realisation of stock, &c., grounded on their meeting gave that the statement laid before the . gave much too favourable a view of their es tate,t ey thought they h the pound, could offer eleven shillings in date, loan creditorse to three, six, and nine months' consented to enter intoothe extent of 21,500/. having was acceded to, and a bond not to receive payment till all other clai ms were satisfied. After a little consideration this prop o sitio n resolutions were passed for confirmation. It is stated that this estate includes four hundred creditors. The name of Mr. Grant, of th e firm of Messrs. Bell and Grant, having appeared on Friday as one of liquidationa the inspectors appointed to conduct the the affairs of Gower and Co., we have bteent post requested t o t o mention that he does not occupy h cre ditor, but simply from a private request having as a b ee n made to him. At the present time it is awoli of some difficulty to induce an y pa r ties to act as in spectors of suspended firms, not merely on accountof the trouble it involves, but from the damage likely to be sustained by appearing to have suffered from a heavy loss. It is well, therefore, that it should be understood that in a large number of cases the parties who take the chair at the meetings of these firms, [and who are afterwards induced to act as inspectors, are applied to, as in the case of Mr. Grant, solely from n t at t ey un the respect in which they are held, ad h h dertake the duty with no other feeling than that of a desire to render service. POST.—From what has taken place at the Bank of England to dav, the opinion expresse,(!. by us in our last C,t,' e , 1. tlt ih ppLui to of the late measure u GruverLift ,,, t be pretty fully confirmed. There can be no doubt that, taken as a whole, the announcemen t of yesterpy I ` l4st be looked won principally a 8 A demonstration. N, WEDNES DA_Y EVEN tO, OCTOBER 27, '647. The rate of interest exacted on the deposit of Consols was as high as 12 per cent., while for the discount of bills that of 10, if not of 12, per cent. also was de manded. Such being the case, the disposition which had been manifested to embark once more somewhat riotously and recklessly in stock and share specula tions has been materially checked. The proposi tion of Government, to the effect that the Exche quer shall participate in the extra gains of the Bank, tends to the same result, since such a proviso must necessarily cause a disinclination on the part of the directors to run risks by which their position may be rendered materially more difficult than it has been. It is evident that they mean to be as sparing in their accommodation as circumstances will at all admit of. The private bankers have, as we had foreseen, become more liberal towards their customers. In the rates lately payable in Lombard-street, however, we do not hear of any essential alteration. The minimum has, per haps, so far, fallen little below seven per cent. per annum. According to the prevailing rumour on 'Change, the house of Messrs. Scott, Bell, and Co., the sus , pension of which took place on Saturday, has re sumed payment. It is agreeable to hear this, and it may be hoped that one or two more of the solvent firms which have been obliged to stop, owing to the impossibility of procuring discounts, will be enabled to follow their example. Letters from Copenhagen of the 15th instant, in serted in the continental prints, state that the Bank of Denmark had raised its rate of discount for domestic bills to 5 per cent., and for foreign bills of exchange to 6i- and 7 per cent. HERALD.—The principle upon which the relax ation of the Bank Charter Act was conceded by Mi nisters yesterday, and its probable consequences, have been the subjects of natural discussion in all circles in the City throughout the day. The bankers in the City have in practice generally adopted the minimum rate of discount fixed by the Bank of England, so that there is no abatement of the terms upon m hich accommodation is afforded to the commercial classes. Every person, therefore, acquainted with the state of the country for years past is perfectly aware that such a rate of interest for money cannot be paid for bor rowed capital employed on the average in production and interchange ; and it is obvious that it cannot be maintained for any length of time. The certainty, however, of obtaining money on valid securities will enable all persons so situated to avoid making sacri fices of property for temporary purposes, and as con fidence is restored matters will resume their ordinary course. The propriety of extending the indulgence to Government Securities, Exchequer-bills, &c., is still strongly doubted in consequence of its presumed ten dency to induce speculation on the Stock Exchange. The objectors, however, have omitted to notice,one very strong reason for adopting this course—viz., that Sir Charles Wood considers a rise and fall of Consols for the account the only correct criterion of the condition of the country. The observation which we threw out last night, that the rate of interest on loans would not only operate as a check on the pur chase of Stock for speculative purposes, but would rather induce reflecting persons to sell for the purpose of employing their capital more beneficially, will, we apprehend, be found in practice correct. 'We have lan evidence of this to-day in the fact of Exchequer bills having been sold at 20s. discount, which clearly shows that the holders consider the loss of 1 per cent. the least of two evils, compared with borrowing upon them at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum. There was indeed a vague" report circulated around 'Change that the Bank had asked at the rate of 12 per cent. per annum for some stock offered to-day on deposit, but we could trace it to no authority that could be relied on, and therefore it is not entitled to credit. It will be some days before the positive effect of the measure can be properly ascertained, and the manner in which it is received in the provinces made known. ADVERTISER.—The effect of the Government measure has been felt in a sensible degree, and yet not in the slightest manner so as to give an impulse to speculation. The private bankers, following the cue presumed to have been given by the Bank of England notice of yesterday, have been more liberal with their customers. It must not be supposed, how ever, that they are inclined to ta ke in bills not founded upon the most legitimate business transac tions. The effect of the measure will be simply this. Parties who are really entitled to support will have it; but, inasmuch as every prudent man must be aware that, in taking the bills of houses which have traded beyond their capital, he is jeopardising his own money, we should imagine that no one in these times would be so indiscreet as to run a risk. We feel satisfied, from what we have heard, that the feel ing in the Bank of England parlour is such as will not be likely to infringe seriously upon the substantial principle—good or bad, it is not now our object to inquire—of Sir Robert Peel's Currency Bill. If, however, the public mind is tranquillised, and the capitalist, no longer in anxiety himself, will freely assist others, all that it is at present desirable to accomplish will be effected. We are aware that many parties were surprised at the high rate of interest recommended, because the Bank of England had previously been taking in bills at a lower rate. Perhaps it would have been more judicious to have made a distinction between advances upon bills of exchange, and those upon stock. These, however, are not times for " nice" differences, and we shall probably find that speculation is in no way fostered by the wholesome removal of the trammels imposed upon the Bank. Had the latter exhibited more consistency in the re gulation of the current rate of interest, it is probable that we should have found the Government more willing at the present juncture to leave the rate of interest at the discretion of the Bank. It will be an important question, however, as to how long it may be expedient to maintain this rate. The improvement experienced to-day has been felt in the produce markets, and there is an advance to be noted in the value of several articles. Without desiring that any undue rise should take place, we may remark that produce has of late ruled so ex ceedingly low, and entails such serious loss upon the importer, that much relief would be afforded even by a temporary and partial rally. On the other hand, the period has arrived when the cultivation of produce in the colonies must be carried on at a lower cost, and more in proportion to the general scale of Euro pean prices. 7 10 6 5 5 5 X. s. d. ... 35,94 S 7 4 ... 44,856 0 2 562 17 0 367 17 4 644 18 6 60 0 0 447 17 9 200 0 0 2,723 12 9 1,500 0 0 1,689 3 0 89,000 13 10 983 8 0 1,200 0 0 COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR TuEsDAY .— The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning, early, in the Slopes and Home Park. The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, the Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Peel, and Air. Brooke, took their departure from the Castle to-day. A deputation from the City of London, consisting of Mr. R. L. Jones, Mr. Deputy Harrison, Mr. John Dixon, Mr. T. H. Hall, Mr. Condor, and the City Remembrancer, had an interview with the Commis sioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests yesterday, at their office in Whitehall-place. Mr. M‘Gregor, M.P., and a deputation from Glas gow, had an interview with Lord John Russell yes terday, at his official residence in Downing - street. Mr. Pope, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Prince Edward's Island, and Mr. Edward Palmer, M.P.P.—a deputation from that colony—had an in terview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial- office. Messrs..dward Palmer, J. Askew, William Grif fiths, J. Sterry, Edward Collinson, Richard Moser, A. J. Biscocks (architect), W. R. Glasier, and George Corner—a deputation from St. George the Martyr, Southwark—had an interview yesterday with her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, on the necessity of taking immediate steps for the com mencement of forming a new street through that unhealthy and depraved district, the Mint. The Metropolitan Sanitary Commission held a meeting at Gwydyr House yesterday. A deputation from the operative cotton spinners of Lancashire, consisting of George Johnson, Henry Turner (Bolton), and James Kellsale (Ashton), ac companied by Mr. C. Hindley, M.P., had an inter view yesterday with Lord John Russell. A deputation from the Windsor, Staines, and South-Western Railway Company, consisting of Mr. Chaplin, M.P., the Hon. F. Scott, M.P., the Mayor of Windsor, Mr. Reid, Mr. Chadwick, Mr. Campbell (Secretary to the South-Western Railway), Mr. Drake, and Dlr. Horn, had an interview yesterday with the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests.' Mr. Guthrie had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey. Mr. C. K. Murray had an interview yesterday with Lord John Russell. Mr. Sowerby and Mr. Campbell had also interviews with his Lordship yes terday. A deputation from the Junior United Service Club, consisting of Major Pole, Captain Clarke, Mr. Mac laurin, Captain B aron , an d Mr. Delmar, had an inter view with Forestswdp e i a t pt h ue httahe deputation of C on of ommissioners of her Majesty's Woods off yesterday evening fru yesterday. Dispatches Governor g overnom the of Gibraltar were sent s Quadrant Improvement Colonial t .offi Mr. iNcieo ss s Asso ciation, icoannsdistminrg. Newton Mr.ton (e inter view with the Commissioners oq etary), had an and Forests yesterday. her Maj es t y ' s Woods THE QUEEN DOWAGER AT MADEIRA.--Retty.Ad I ,11:1.1, rI.;,::riNsK.U.B., Cotnrutoiri e r-in-(Th.iei of the ChannA fleet, hs.s hen ordered to 'send oillier a steamer or sailing vessel once a month to Madeira, for the conveyance of letters to and from the Queen Dowager. 13, Great Marlborough-street. N OTICE.-LIVES OF THE QU EENS OF ENGLAND. By AGNES STRICKLAND. The ELEVENTH VOLUME will be published with the Magazines on the Ist of November, and those who desire to obtain copies are requested to send their orders without delay to their r espectrive booksellers. Henry Colburn, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. M. JULLIEN'S ANNUAL SERIES OF CONCERTS. For One Month only. Ninth Night of the new Swiss Quadrille. Third Night of "La Figlia del Reggimento." PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING. Pear I.—Overture. " Oberon," Weber—Quadrille, " 'I he Minuet," Jullien—Solo, Clarionet, Mr. Lazarus—Valse, "Le Desir," with variations for the whole of the first and second Violins, Tenors, Violoncellos, and Contra Basses, Beethoven—Recitative and Aria, sung by Miss Dolby, Mozart—New Quadrille, New descriptive Quadrille, The Swiss Quadrille, Jullien. Part I I.—Opera, " La Figlia dcl Reggimento," grand selectio n, with Solos for Cornet-i-pistons, Oboe, Clarionet, and Bassoon, performed by Herr Koenig, Mr. Barret, Mr. Lazarus, ani M. Bauman, Donizetti (third time). "La Figlia dcl Reggimento" is considered Donlzetti's chef d'oeuvre du genre, and is the Opera in which Mdlle. Jenny Lind created the great sensation, during the last season, at her majesty's Theatre—New Polka, " Carriole," Kcenig—Symphony, "Jupiter," The Andante, Minuet, and Finale. Mozart—National Song, " The Swiss Girl," suns by Miss Dolby—Valse, " The Bridal," Jullien—Solo, Violin, M. Balaton, &Linton —Quadrille, "The Standard Bearer," Jullien. The Concert commences at Eight. Promenade and Boxes, is. ; Dress Circle, 2s. 6a. nished. Their example was universally followed, until there was not a sufficient circulation to supply the wants of the country, and commerce, trade, and in dustry were paralysed from the want of adequate representatives of value. During the past month there has been an abundant supply of specie, more than 8,000,000/. in gold being locked up in unprofitable idleness ; but the directors were com pelled to adopt the same suicidal policy, from the absurd law by which they were controlled and de prived of the slightest power or discretion. Lord Asu- BURTON, in relating the history of the former period says—" The credit of the Bank, for all domestic purposes, was perfect. There was no man in the country who was not ready to take its paper as a means of circulation, and to give even his gold for it the moment he was assured that his neighbour would take it from him again. The gold was not wanting to send abroad, the state of the foreign ex changes. forbade it; there was, thetefore, no fear of depreciation of paper. The necessity and pressure was purely domestic. What was wanted was some thing which everybody was disposed to trust as a substitu.te for what everybody distrusted, and the paper of the Bank of England answered, in such a state of things, the purpose as well as gold. It may be said to have done so even better, as being more transmissible and reaching more readily and rapidly the points where it was wanted." It would scarcely be possible for any one t o have drawn a more accurate picture of the recent state of the country. During the entire panic there has not been the slightest imputation on the solvency or stability of the Bank ; "its credit for all domestic purposes was perfect," "the state of the foreign exchanges forbade the exportation of gold, and what w:ss wanting was something that everybody was disposed to trust," viz., a sufficient issue of Bank paper of the smaller denominations, or, better still, national notes receivable in payment of taxes, and secured upon all the resources of the country. Much instruction may be derived from the succeeding paragraph of his Lordship's statement. lie says, "In this state of things the remedy for the difficulty was obvious, and immediately agreed to by us. Although the Bank had no specie left, a large additional issue of notes was made, and about 1,500,0001. of notes of 11., which were accidentally found to be in existence, were circulated ; the relief was immediate, the country received a circulating currency in which everybody had entire confidence, and the useless geld was returned to the Bank." And such would now be the case if U. notes were sent out to take the place of sove reigns. Notes for 51. are too large to be used in the ordinary and everyday transactions of life, and consequently gold is essential ; but in Scotland and Ireland, where small notes are tolerated, they are readily received, and there is even a general desire to exchange gold for the notes of the banks in which confidence is reposed. Why, then, should 11. and 2/. notes not be sanctioned; and why should not silver—the standard of value in all the continental states—be made a legal tender ? Is the ri diculous statement of Lord LIVERPOOL, "that as England was the richest country in the world it should use the richest standard," to be considered a sufficient reason why we should submit to its con tinued rejection, why merchants, with a large supply of silver, should be unable to find a pur chaser therefor, without exporting it from our shores ? The public now entertain sounder views on these matters, and they will no longer sub mit to all their interests being sacrificed to the main tenance of an absurd theory. The Parliament must speedily be assembled together, and we doubt not that the result of the legislative enactments of the ensuing session will be to liberate our trade and commerce from the fetters in which it has so long been enchained, to carry out to the fullest extent the glorious doctrine of free trade, and to effect the abolition of every species of mono poly. But the people must be active and energetic ; they must not rest satisfied with the victory that has already been attained; but their present success should only stimulate them to increased exertion. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of . 11*. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be presented a new and original Play, called THE HEART tND THE WORLD. Sir George Hallerton, hart., Mr. Brindal ; Osborne, Mr. A. Wigan ; Thornton, Mr. Howe ; Vivian Temple Mr. Creswick ; Walter Ashbrook, Mr. 11. Vandenhoff ; Transit, Mr. Gough; Laura Hallerton, Miss Julia Bennett Mrs. Delmar, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Florence Delmar, Miss Helen Fancit ; Lady Parabout, Mrs. Stanley ; Miss Parabout, Miss E. Messent Aster which, the Drama of THE ROMANTIC WIDOW. To conclude with a New and Original Farce, called WHO'S MY HUSBAND ? Doctor Mull, Mr. Tilbury ; Daniel Tootles, Mr. Keeley L. Mrs. Smith Thompson, Mrs, W. Clifford ; Sophonisba Mull, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham ; Sally Starch, Mrs. Humby. Stage Manager, Mr. Farren; Actg Manage, Mr. F. Webster. Boxes, Archer, Box in -book keepe r r. Boxes, Is. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2e. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to sommence at Seven. • THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. TIIIS EVENING Will be performed the celebrated Drama, called THE GREEN BUSHES ; 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; Nelly O'Neil, Miss Wool • gar To conclude with the Burlesque, entitled TAMING A TARTAR. Count CracTvieninski, Mr. Worrell ; Kickerwhiskl, Mr. Paul Bed ford ; Mrzourki, Mr. Wright ; Ivan, Mr. Munyard ; Monsieur Cott pee, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Strelenski, Mr. Cullenford ; Coentess Craco vieninski, Miss Woolgar ; Mazourka, Madame Celeste. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past his, Performance to commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVE SING, Will be presented a new Farce, called LIGHT DRAGOONS. 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 Comte Drama, entitled THE PRIDE OF THE MARKET. Principal characters by Messrs. Buchstne, Leigh Murray, Granby, and Parselle ; Miss H. Gilbert, Mrs. C. Jones, and Madame Vestris. To conclude with THE TWO QUEENS. The Interior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bradwell of the Colosseum. Mess Boxes, Is. ; Upper Boxe s, 4e. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. No half-p'ice to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Public every day, from Ten to PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Engagement of Mr. MACRE ADY and MISS CUSHMAN. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakspeare's Play of KING HENRY VIII. King Henry Eighth, Mr. Cooper; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. MacreadY ; Queen Katherine, Miss Cushman ; Anne Boleyn, Miss Susan Cush man; Lady Denny, Mrs. Selby; Patience .Miss A. Romer. After which Shakspeare's Comedy of KATHERINE AND FE TRURIIIO. Petruchio, Mr. Cooper; Katherine, Miss Emmeline Montague. To conclude with the comic DramaLADIES, , BEWARE r Dress Circle, s. Boxes, 4s • Pit, 2s. • Gallery , ls. , ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. F. Davidge, No. 1, Davidge-terrace,Kensington-road, Surrey. THIS EVENING, October 25, 1847, the performances will commence with the celebrated Opera ot THE ENCHANTRESS Duke D'Aquilla, Mr. 11. Horncastle ! Don Sslvia, Mr. W. Harri son ; Ramir, Mr. 13orrani . Stella, Miss Romer. To conclude with Mr. Bunn's Farce of MY NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE. Mr. Somerton, Mr. F. Fining; Mr. Smith, Mr. Oaberry ; Mr. Brown, Mr. Attsvood (his first appearance) ; Mrs. Somerton, Mrs. 11. Hughes (her first appearance these live years) ; Mrs. Smith, Miss ebecca, Isaacs ; Mrs. Brown, Mrs. R. Hughes. —Stage Director, Mr. 3. Ellis. A distinct entrance t o the private boxes has been made (which have been re-fi tte d). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the principal Librarians ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is spen daily from Ten until Four. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. TH Will be presented a new Drama, entitled THE MERCHANT'S CLERK. A Love Story. After which, an entirely new Drama entitled THE BOTTLE, from Eruikshank's celdrated Work of the same name. To conclude with the Ballet of THE FARMER'S MAN. Boxes, is. ; Halt-price, 641.; Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. Doors open at Six, to commence at Half-past Six. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and SI Manager, lir. William Batty. TH EVENING The Grand Spectacle of THE CATARACT OF THE GANGES. Entirely new Scencs in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of the Establishment, in UK: various modes of equestration. To conclude with the Ballet, NORAII, THE PRIDE OF KIL DARE. Bex-office open from 11 till 5. Actin; and Stage Manager, Mr. W West. 11E WEATHER.—Sum OFFICE, OCT. 27. TELEB,MaXETER, Lowest, 45; Highest- 50 ; Noon, 50. BAROXETER, 30.4. WIND S.S.W.; morning, rain; afternoon, cloudy. Pal WATER AT LONDON-DRIDGF. THIS DAY. Morning.. 15 minutes after 2. j Evening .. 39 minutia afer 2. . . His Royal Highness the Duc D'A.UMALE has evidently taken the Earl of ELLENBOROUGI' as his model as a rhetorician. The first Proclamation ad dressed to the Arabs and Kabyles by this illustrious and experienced warrior since his appointment to the Governor-Generalship of Algeria, is redolent of the sweets of oriental oratory. Brief as it is, we might readily cull from it masterpieces of hyperbole, and passages evincing in the youthful Prince the most poetic fruitfulness of imagination. Its introductory sentence announces with a grandiloquent flourish the appointment of his Royal Highness to the Govern. ment of the Franco-African dominions, extending from the frontiers of Tunis to the boundaries of Morocco. The Due D'AUMALE immediately after wards becomes sententious and reminiscent, casting a very pretty paragraph before his foreign lieges, a paragraph which, figuratively speaking, must prove a nut rather difficult to crack even bet w een the jaws of an A of a Kabyle. Accord ing to theab o nsrpethteeth aspect in in which this vice•regal nut may be regard ed, it will a ppear on examinat ion The concession of the Gover nment to the g eneral either a s a bullet or as a sugarplum. Thus speaks demand made by persons of every class, for a relaxa- the oracular Governor-General of Algeria : tion of the extreme stringency of the Act of 1844, " You have learned by experience, 0 Mussulmans ! has awakened the liveliest joy in all parts of the how powerful and formidable is the arm of France, country. Every one feels as if some grievous burden and how just and clement is her Government." had been removed, and that at length he might rea- Certes it is the aesthetic sage in " Rassel "as cl . 'scours sonably hope that his exertions would be crowned ing to the immaculate but very gullable prisoners in with success. Already the manifestations of return- the valley of Abyssinia! "By experience," 0 ing confidence are apparent, the gloom and depression Mussulmans ! you have acquired this exquisite cepa are rapidly passing away. The stoppage of many bility of appreciating the justice and clemency of the houses of acknowledged solvency, but which were French Government, as well as the power and the placed in jeopardy from the impossibility of obtaining terror of its armed legionaries. By experience ! discounts upon any terms, however exorbitant, has Witness it the desolated homes of the Mahometans, been averted. In the general rejoicing, the the ravaged territories of Kabylia, the bombardment of limited character of the indulgence and the Morocco, the assassination by slow fires in the cavern, high rate of interest which is thereby rendered the cannon. balls of DE JOINVILLE, the fusillades of necessary, appear to be forgotten. The great B UGEAUD, and the blazing faggots of LaasoßreieuE! facts, that the restrictions on a sufficient circulation Witness it those terrible crimes of military depravity have been suspended, and that, as the most talented and civic spoliation which have dyed the blue and supporter of the present, or we should rather say the white of the tri-colour with blood, and likened the late, system has admitted, " a fatal blow has been standard of France in Algeria to the red banner of given to PEEL'S Bill!" have, for the present at least, the desolators of Borneo! Justice and clemency forsooth ! contented the people, and removed the objections that it is the justice of RADAMA.NTHHS and the clemency would otherwise have been offered to the stipulations of VALENTINO. Having indulgedin this delicate fan contained in the letter announcing the intentions and f arronade, his Royal highness endeavours to clothe wishes of the Government. It would certainly have himself with the remembered lustre of his predes been more graceful, and in every respect more cessor. Still addressing the unbelievers—" You have desirable, if a full discretion had been af- made your submission," he says, "to the Marshal, forded to the Bank Directors as to the and you hare had proofs of the kindness of his go nature and extent of their operations. They vernment : you must bear in recollection that he ho would, of course, have been in daily communi- noured the great, protected the feeble, and was cation with the Government as to the manner in which equitable to all !" So voluble is this panegyric upon they might act under the new state of affairs, and the Duc D'IsLY that we could almost attribute it to a would have yielded a ready assent to any reasonable sincere conviction of the integrity of the French po suggestions of the Ministry. They might even at licy in Northern Africa, arising out of an incompre first have adopted the high rate of eight per cent. as hensible perversion of judgment did we not remember the minimum at which they would have discounted the parentage of the Due is'Aualisms ! All this hy mercantile paper, or made advances upon any de• pothetical benignity on the part of Mareschal scription of security, public or private ; but the fixing B„„„ i 3 attributed, with filial partiality, to the an invariable rate of interest, which, under any cir- reigningSovmsmx. Is the Governor. General described cumstances, is not to be departed from, appears too greatness and as great and generous after v ictory ? His like an attempt still to maintain a self-acting regulation, generosity spring from the bosom of the KING ! Is to meet with much favour. The desire, too, that the BUGEAUD depicted as the respecter of the property and entire profit of the extra issue should belong religion of those who wore the turban and marched to the public, while the Bank had to encoun- under the glittering symbol of the crescent ? Both ter all the labour and all the risk, was hardly worthy preservation to the property and religion owe their of the rulers of a mighty nation. In such a crisis, KING I Is the conqueror of Isly said to have evinced the better course would have been simply to have throughout his administration an inexhaustible good suspended the Act of 1844, so far as it related to the ness ? That goodness is declared to have been issue of Bank of England notes. The course merely the indirect effusion of the goodness of the that proved so effectual in 1825 should have been KING! Thrice does the proclamation pronounce this followed as closely as possible. An issue of one- loyal asseveration—" It is the KING," C'est le Roi ! pound notes then preserved the national credit, and Yet clemency, generosity, and justice are the attri why should not a similar course have been sanctioned butes of the Sovereignty , and the Sovereignty of the at the present period ? If there was to be any de- Constitution of July was diffused by the revo parture from the law, if an Act of Indemnity was lution among the ranks of the people, and rendered necessary, why might not full powers have not concentrated, according to the primal been at once granted ? axiom of feudality, in the p erson of the Mo- There was a striking similarity between the state NAECII! These evidences of beneficence are attri of affairs in December, 1825, as described by Lord butable, therefore, immediately to the nation, and ASHBURTON in his able pamphlet—" The Financial not mediately to the SOVERE I GN. And yet Louis and Commercial Crisis Conside red " —and those of PHILIPPE, throu g h the proclamation o f hi s son, arro the present period. The causes that led thereto were gates these national Mtn of rtes to himself individually; not alike, but the results were singu larl y so. On like the travestied copy of a greater Loins, he seems to the former occasion there was really a dearth of specie babble to the ragged Kabyles and Arabic tatterde -the gold was nearly drained from t he Bank coffers. ma lions that adage . of irresponsible authority—"L'esas, But 1,027,000/. alone remained in its cellars on e es t nzo i !,, Saturday, the 17th day of December. Previously While his 'li oval 'highness the Governor-General thereto the directors had by every means in their ; of Al ,, eria is strivitiz to pccrkre. for himself a spurious power attempted to restrict the circulation, arid to ! ~1 1.,.t ' ley ~ , -rlilicati.)2l of the-,, grandiloquult e ir y !ii, 1 .-L hoard all their resources ; but the panic increased under —the Deputy of Macon— hat harangues, a simple deputy t treatment, and their bullion was rapidly dimi- lis striking a blow at the dynasty of the anointed ORLEANS! The blow is levelled through a provincial newspaper, and is conceived in the daring heart of a poet, a dreamer, and an historian—ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE! The ultimatum of the illustrious De puty of Macon, originally printed in the Bien Public of that town, and copied yesterday into our own columns, is the compression, into a few brief but emphatic requisitions, of that spirit of disaffection towards the degenerate policy of LOUIS PHILIPPE, which has been long fermenting in the mind of every liberal Frenchman, and which has latterly betrayed its existence, its earnestness, and its audacity in a succession of Reform banquets, convened not merely in the capital itself, but in the principal cities of the more important departments. M. DE LAM ARTINE has sympathised in the dissatisfaction of his fellow-countrymen, and his voice has at last re sponded to their enthusiasm. After weaving an historic crown for the memories of ROUGET DE LISLE, of TuEorniLE FERNIG, and of his heroic sister, TELICITE FERNlG—the bard and the amazons of the " Great Revolution"—ALruoNsE DE LAMAR TIT:4I; evinces a solicitude to struggle himself for the realisation of those seductive visions of freedom which evoked the immortal strain of the Marseillaise, and the memorable valour of those young and beau tiful girls, who courted death amidht the murderous volleys of Jernappes. Time can alone show whether FELICITE and TIIEOPHILE fought in vain in the ranks of France, or whether the aspirations of ROUGET DE LISLE were to remain unrealised, until explicitly enumerated and explained by a kindred bard—the poetical historian of the Girondists. political importance, and nations again look up to the Roman Sea for assistance, when all other tails. If the cantons of the League would attend to our advice, we would tell them Anticipate the action of the chief of your Church ; adopt him as judge of your scruples, your fears, and your apprehen sions, with regard to the encroachments on your reli gious freedom, which you, right or wrong, attribute to your brethren, and abide like faithful Christians by his pious decision." The Journal des Debate publishes a letter from Berne of the 23d, which contains the following : " Yesterday evening, as Mr. Peel was returning on foot from a party in the suburbs of Berne, he was rudely stopped by a sentinel. Mr. Peel asked him if he understood French. The man replied in that lan guage that he did so perfectly ; but in German desired the Minister to follow him to the guard-house, and there lodged him without any regard to his station. Mr. Peel in vain exhibited his permit of residence, and was detained several hours, subjected to the insult of rude and gross language. He was not released until an officer of the police came in and recognised him. Mr. Peel laid a complaint before the governor of Berne, but it w as, it is said, treated very lightly by M. Ochsenbcin, and it is expected that the repre sentative of England intends to demand a more suit able satisfaction. If it be true, but which we con tinue to doubt, that the Government of the Free Corps has found some sympathy in the representative of Great Britain, it must he confessed that it answers to this very badly ; and this simple fact is quite enough to give the measure of respect in which our Liberals hold personal liberty." The above, if not a positive fabrication, is no doubt a gross exaggeration. The Berne correspondence of the Journal des Debuts is for the most par written at the Foreign-office in Paris, and the scribe employed by M. GUIZOT to manufacture Swiss news sometimes gives too free a rein to his imagination. The Union Monarchique repeats, with details, the report of 'the intention of the Bank of France to subscribe for a portion of the new loan. This journal says " The council of the Bank of France has decided that the Bank should take part in the new loan to the extent of 25 millions. This decision was preceded by a very warm discussion. Several members main tained that it would not be very proper or dignified for the Bank of France to take an interest, in a degree subsidiary to a private banking-horse, in a loan the conditions of which it had neither discussed nor regulated. Notwithstanding these observations, the majority pronounced in favour of a subscription fur the tenth part of the loan, at whatever rate it might be taken by M. de Rothschild, who thus re mains sole master of the conditions. What is re markable is, that this decision was come to on the report of N. Hottinguer, whose name was the only one at first pronounced at the Bourse as likely to be at the head of a company of French bankers to send in a tender in opposition to M. de Rothschild." The Constitutinonel confirms this report. It says " The Bank of France seems to have resolved to take an interest of 25,000,000 f. in the new loan. It is said that the Ministry has some weight in this deci sion. In fact, it appears, that the applications to the receivers-general and the stockbrokers for shares in it come in very slowly, and the Ministry conceives that the news of the co-operation of the Bank will bring the loan more into favour with the capitalists. A morning journal has said that there is reason to believe that this resolution of the Bank will be followed by a petition to the Government for its authorisation to increase the Batik capital to the amount of 90,000,000 t. ; but we have reason to believe that, at present at least, nothing of the kind is in contempla tion; and, in fact, it is not when it is purchasing Rentes that the Bank can have any need for enlarging its capital. Without entering into a premature dis cussion, we shall content ourselves with observing that the Bank, by taking at this moment an interest in the loin, exposes itself to have reflections cast upon it. People will ask why and how it happens to be able to buy stock, when it has not cash enough in hand to lower its discount to its primitive rate ? Now, it will be feared that this reduction in the rate of discount, so much desired by commerce, will become still more remote by the sinking of the disposable capital of this great establishment. These are the points which the Bank ought to reflect upon before it comes to an irre vocable decision." Accounts have been received from Algiers to the 20th. The Akbar publishes a proclamation ad dressed by the Duc D'AumAnE to the Kabyles, an nouncing his appointment as Governor-General of the colony. The Illoniteur Algerien states that two razzias took place on the 13th and 14th on the territory of the Ahtnyanes Gharabas, to the south of Sebdon, who abandoned 15,000 sheep, 240 camels, a number of horses, and a considerable booty, to the hands of the French and their native auxiliaries. The utmost tranquillity continued to prevail in the provinces of Algiers and Oran, and hostilities had ceased in the neighbourhood of Gigelly since the attack of the 3d. A nominal rise of prices occurred on the Paris Bourse on Monday. Scarcely any business had been transacted. The Three per Cents. closed at 75f. 50c. ; the Five per Cents., 114 f. 80c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,161 f. 25e. ; Rouen, 902 f. 50c. ; Havre, 512 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 526 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 520 f. ; Vierzon, 533 f. 75c.; Bordeaux, 453 f. 75c. ; Troyes and Montereau, 230 f. ; Dieppe, 245 f. ; Bask, 148 f. 75c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 390 f.; Tours and Nantes, 370 f.; Paris and Lyons, 382 f. 50c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 473 f. 75c. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 51. MARSEILLES, OCT. 21.-Marseilles and Avignon, 520 f.; Northern, 523 f. 75c. LYONS, OCT. 23.-Paris and Rouen, 898 f. 75c.; Avignon and Marseilles, 521 f. 25c. ; Northern, 525 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 380 f. ; Orleans, 1,157 f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OcTocEa 26. Boulogne and Amiens, 13i -Namur and Liege, .5- Northern of France, 11%-Sambre and Meuse, 6-West Flanders, 13/1. A letter from Bologna, of the 16th, says— " Letters from Ferrara state that, instead of eve cuating the city, the Austrians have doubled the posts, and have fired on the people. This event is related as follows :—A young man having passed be fore an Austrian sentinel with a cigar in his mouth, the soldier gave him a blow with his bayonet. A struggle then took place between the young man and the sentinel ; and the soldiers of the post fell on the young man, and struck him with their swords. A priest having taken his defence was also ill-treated. The people of the city became irritated, and assembled around the guard-house, whereupon the Austrians seized their arms and fired on them. The population desired to sound the tocsin, and to avenge themselves for the excesses committed by the Imperial troops, but Cardinal Ciacchi calmed the people, and at the same time caused the young man, who had been ar rested, and who was grievously wounded, to be given up to the Pontifical authorities. Numerous patrols ' of Austrians on foot and horseback traversed the city of Ferrara during the whole of yesterday." A letter from Rome of the 12th says— " The Prince de Canino is still under arrest in his palace. It appears that proceedings are being insti tuted against him ; it is not astonishing, that it certain dynastic circumstances be remembered, this personage should inspire the Government with apprehension It is said that M. Ferriero, who was Chargé d'Affaires at the Hague, is to be sent to Constantinople to pre sent to the Grand Seignior the compliments of his Holiness, and,that he is to proceed thence to Washing ton on an extraordinary mission. The congregation of revision, composed of a cardinal as head, four pre lates as councillors, and of an equal number of lay councillors, is about to be suppressed; the council of deputies will have its attributions. Prince de Roviano has been charged with the task of drawing up a code of regulations for the navy. Count Car lesshi has been placed at the head of the Customs. Father de Sanctis, one of the most able men of the time, who at first was a warm advocate of the cause of Italian reform, and who afterwards embraced the opposite views, being dreadfully annoyed by the fact of his not being able to obtain a bishopric, has aban• cloned the Catholic religion and turned Protestant. We have now here at Rome M. Granier de Cassagnac, formerly editor of the Globe, and afterwards con nected with the Epoque. It is stated that he is charged by M. Guizot to found a French journal here, the columns of which are to be open to all the inspirations and views of that Minister. The new journal, which is to be the organ at Rome of the pre sent French Ministry, is to bear the title of the Courrier de Rome." This M. GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC, the chosen of M. GUIZOT, was the intimate associate of the con victed perjurers BEAUVALLON and D'ECQUIVILLY. He was the man who lent BEAUVALLON the pistols with which he shot DUJARRIER, and at the trial of D'ECQUIVILLY attempted to suppress evidence by threatening to call out one of the witnesses, for which he was severely reprimanded by the Court. M. GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC was the agent through whom was negotiated with the Government the sale of the permission to open the third lyric theatre, and he was accused of having offered to procure the pass ing of .a Bill through the Chambers, " for a consi deration," for compensating the post-masters of France This is the gentleman whom M. GUIZOT has dis patched to Rome to be his representative. The POPE has, it is said, refused permission to this moral and incorruptible friend of the moral and incorruptible M. GvizoT to establish his journal in Rome. It is rumoured in Rome that Lord MINTo is charged to deliver to the King of NAPLES the ultimatum of England against any intervention in the affairs of Italy by Austria, even if demanded by the Neapolitan Government.. The Alba .of Florence, of the 18th inst., relates that a de-putetiorieof:Pontremolese, and of inhabitants of Fivizapo: and..-Bagnone, the districts destined to be anni , ieCtof:kcidena, had presented to the Grand Duke utititsV4kvott the door of the church of San Mar tirtOitiketeit; a petition couched in the most moving tertne, 'fraying that he would negotiate for their being ifridek his gevernment. It is added that the Grand Duke shed tears on receiving this unexpected petition. All the' journals of Tuscany have warmly espoused the cause of the above towns. A letter from Florence, of the 19th, says— " The protests of the inhabitants of Fivizano and Pontremoli, against the arrangement with the Duke of Lucca, which transfers the former to the Duke of Modena, and the latter to Parma, occasion great anxiety. The people appear resolved to oppose all attempts at possession by the troops of Modena and Parma, and have already de stro y ed the bridges and parts f the roads, to prevent the arrival of artillery. As the Duke of Modena has only an army of 800 men, he cannot venture upon an attempt to subdue a popu lation of 45,000 persons resolved upon a vigorous resistance, and relying upon support from Pisa, Lucca, and Leghorn, where the people have be en excited in their favour by popular orators. Austria will thus find a pretext for intervention, and a casus belli may arise notwithstanding the efforts of diplomacy to effect a friendly arrangement. The Grand Duke of Tuscany has offered to purchase the territory of Fi v i z ano, but it is not supposed that Austria will permit such a transfer, as Fivizano is in the defiles of the mountains, and is of great importance in a strategic point of view. You have probably heard of the insult offered at Leghorn to the Neapolitan Consul. This affair was considered of sufficient im portance to induce the Count de la Rochefoucault, the French Minister at the Court of Tuscany, to set out in great haste for Leghorn." Accounts have been received from Berne of the 22d. As was expected, the Government of Lucerne has refused to receive the delegates from the Diet. Mr. JAMES FAZY has not accepted the mission of Federal Representative in the Valais, as the internal affairs of his own canton require his presence at Geneva. In consequence of reports from Lucerne, additional troops have been called out, and one party of them has marched in the direction of Lucerne, and the other in that of Friburg. The Madrid mail had not arrived in Paris when the post left. _ HAYMARKET THEATRE The Taming of the Shrew, as originally written by Shakspere, and acted at the Globe Theatre, before the art of scene-painting was known, and when a change of scene was indicated by a placard inscribed with the name of the place intended to be represented, was revived at this theatre last evening. On its re vival in this fashion three years since, Webster was the Petruchio and Mrs. Nisbet the Katharine, and last evening they resumed their old character.i. The Katharine of Mrs. Nisbet is the best on the stage, and Webster throws a heartiness into the character of Petruchio which " tells" exceedingly. The Grutnio of Keeley, who sustained the character last evening, is a vast improvement on that of his prede• cessor. Keeley is a true Shaksperean actor—rich, racy, unctions, and droll, without any overacting or butlbonery. Ills Grumio is worthy to rank with his Verges, both being perfect. Mrs. Nisbet, Webster, and Keeley were all called before the curtain at the conclusion. We have received the Paris papers of Monday. If the following intelligence, which we extract from the Commerce, be correct, there is still room to hope that Switzerland may be spared the horrors of civil war. The PorE, it is hoped, will offer to mediate between the Sonderbund and the Diet. " Switzerland," says the Commerce — "May still reckon on a beneficial intervention, which will be better appreciated than the interference of which France has reaped the disgrace. The Pope is said to entertain a project, which would be perfectly in harmony with the high mission of peace, liberty, and charity the chief of Catholicism pursues in Italy, amidst the applause of the entire world. Pius IX. proposes to interfere in the Swiss question by wise counsel, by the authority of his word and his virtues. It is even said that the Severeign Pontiff will profit by that solemn opportunity to introduce various re forms into the internal government of certain reli gious corporations. We consider that the solution of the deplorable intestine dissensions of a generous nation, em anating from Rom e, would be the best, the most fficacious, and rational of all ; for it would in future divest a question exclusively political of the api,e,rances .cf LI religious strn.;,,:lle, which rouses the N sgions, bewilders the conrieienees, and implants in the heart of Switzerland inextinguish:Alle elements of discord. Papacy has suddenly reurned, under the auspices of an enlightened Pontiff, its former gejak, 1 1,1 T: 0 2 4, ‘ • c 4 , - etil :"-)1,11t, LOND')N, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 27, 1847 PRINCESS'S THEATRE Miss Cushman appeared here last evening in the character of Meg Merrilies, in the opera of Guy Man nering. She is far and away the best Meg Merrilies who has ever appeared, and she never acted the character better than last evening. The Dominie Sampson of Compton was exceedingly rich ; it was the nearest approach we have ever yet seen to Liston. The comedy of The Wonder concluded the evening's entertainment, with Miss Emmeline Montague as Donna Violante. She acted the character beautifully. The house was well attended. --- ROME, OCT. 16.—0 n the 13th his Holiness the Pope received to pri vate audience with great benignity his Serene Highness the Prince of Gonzaga-Mantua. The Prince wore the magnificent uniform of Grand Master of the Order of the Redemption, founded m any y ea rs since by the Duke s of Mantua.—Roman Advert i ser. INSITUTION FOR THE ADULT DEAF AND DUMB, R ED LION-SQU A RE.—Yes terday a meet i ng of the Com mittee of the above valuable charity was held at the Board Room, 26, Red Lion-square, Bloomsbury. Mr. J. G. Simpson, the secretary, stated that numerous ap plications had been made by clergymen in the provinces soliciting admission for deaf and dumb youths, to be taught some trade, by the knowledge of which they would be enabled to support themselves by their own i n d us try ; but, owing to the seriously depressed state of the funds, and the number already upon the institution, the committee were compelled to defer many very inte resting and deserv ing cases. A building fund, as pro posed at the annivertary meeting, presided o ver by th e Duke of Cambridge, was in progress, and had received support from several members of the Roy a l family, but at the present time the general fund was of much greater importance, the funds in hand being greatly inadequate to the current expenses of the charity. The secretary concluded by earnestly hoping that the charitable and benevolent would step forward and enable the institu tion to mitigate the distress and misery which was so greatly prevalent amongst the that and dumb of this country. The report of last year, among other inte resting statistical matters, states that the income for the year amounted to 1,5021. Os. 2d., and the expenditure to a similar sum, including the payment of debts exceed ing 3804 During the same period temporary relief was granted in upwards of 350 cases. MR. CORDEN.—We learn, with very great pleasure, that Mr. Cobden has recently been able to pur chase . the naternal property of his family in Sussex, wh i ch is siderable, and which had passed into other !Janus. This is a remarkable circumstance in the life of any man; for it will 1,, understood that a cou.bination of favour able influences alone could a ccom p lish such an object.— , Bolton Free Press. 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