The Sun. — London, England, 1847-11-15 00:00:00

Immediately, in 3 'vols., post Svo., MRS. TROLLOP E'S NEW NOVEL, " TOWN AND COUNTRY." No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope." litnry Colburn, publisher, 13. Great Marlborough-street. WAGHORN and CO. beg to announce that their Firms in England, India, &c., will C EASE on the 24th December next, the Peninsular and Oriental Company having super seded their Overland Parcel business. Mr. Waghorn makes this an nouncement tq,the Public with the deepest regret, after having opened the Overland Route, and after twenty years' service for their ad vantage. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. M. JITLLIEN'S ANIMAL SERIES OF CONCIERTS. THE LAST WEEK. M, Jullien begs leave respectfully to state that the Concerts must yositively close on Saturday, Nov. 20, the Theatre being required for the production of the Grand Opera. PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING. Part I.—Overture, Leonora, Beethoven —Symphony, the Allegretto from Symphony in F, Beethoven—Solo. Violin, M. Sainton, Il Tre molo, Beethoven— Sonata, Grand Sonata in F, for full Orche ttra, M. Nadaud, Beethoven —Valse, " Le Desir," with variations for the first and second Violins, Tenors, Violoncellos, and Contra Basses, Beethoven—Quatuor in C., Opera 59, executed by the whole of the stringed instruments, Beethoven —Symphony, the Grand Sym phony in C Minor, Beethoven. Part IL—Opera, Lucia de Lammermoor, grand selection, with Solos by Mr. Lazarus, Signor Cioffl, and Herr Koanig, Donizetti — New descriptive Quadrille, The Swiss Quadrille, Jullien—Solo, Cla- Monet, Mr. Lazarus, I Puritan!, Bellini—Waltz, the Bird of Paradise, Komig—New Comic Polka, founded on the well-known round *1 the " Three Blind Mice" Coote. The Concert commences at Eight, and terminates before Eleven. Promenade and Boxes, Is. ; Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes, 109. 6d. 215., and 325. 6d. M. Jt;llien's Annual Benefit will take place to-morrow Evening. BAL MASQUk. M. Jullien's Grand Annual Bal Masque will take place on Monday, ov. 22, and terminate the Season. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under Le Management ef THIS Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. EVENING Will be presented a new Comic Drama, called THE ROUSED LION. Characters by Messrs. Webster, Howe, Wigan, Mrs. !toff ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Seymour, and Stanley. After which the laughable Comedy, called MY WIFE 1 WHAT WIFE ? Captain Hector Tempest, R.N., sen., Mr. Farren • Captain Hector Tempest, R.N., Jun., Mr. Henry Farren ; Symon iym, Mr. Keeley; Lady Longpurse, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Louisa, Mrs. Seymour. After which, the Farce entitled CONFOUNDED FOREIGNERS. To conclude with a new and original Farce, called WHO'S MY HUSBAND ? Doctor Mull, Mr. Tilbury; Daniel Tootles, Mr. Keeley ; Mrs. Smith Thompson, Mrs, W. Clifford ; Sophonisba Mull, Mrs. L. 8. Buckingham ; Sally Starch, Mrs. flumby. Stage Manager, Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Web ;ter. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Ilexes, Ss. • Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2 s. ; 'Upper Ciallery, Is. Doors *petit at Ralf--past Six, Performance to sommence at Seven. THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. Vidor the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS, EVENING 1 0 1111 Ist" nettocined 'the cel6brated Mama,' eaMbd Tirg GRRILINT IIISHES 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 Cracoyfeninski, Mr. Worrell ; Kickerwhiskl, Mr. Paul Bed ford ; Mazeurkl, Mr. Wright ; Ivan, Mr. Manyard ; Monsieur Cou pee, Mr. C., J. Strelenski, Mr. Cullenford ; Countess Craco vieninski, Miss Woolgar ; Mazottrks, Madame Celeste. - - Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. , Gallery, Is. llnart opeetot Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. • ROICAL.,LTCEUM THEATRE. :tinder the Management ef Madame Vestri& fiele 'Lessee, Mr. Charles 'Mathews. • • THIS EVENING, • • • Will be _performed PATTER versus. CLATTER. To be followed by the'Comie Drama, entitled THE PRIDE OF TAB MARKET.' Pttncipaltharacters by Measse. Boaster*, Lergh: Merray,,Grimbyould Parselle; Miss H. Gilbert, Mrs. (. JeneS, and Madams Tils.. After *ht ch a dew Covie Dratna, called A ROLTTIII DLIOIGND. To conclude with. , •a Rornaore'sf Zeal Life, called BOX. and COX. Principal char Inters by Mr. i gnrley, Mr. Backstene, and Mrs. Mac samara. The Interior etthe - Honse has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. BradwelLottholeoloaseunt., rt Dress Boxes; sp, Upper Boxes , 4a . ; Pit, 23. ; Gallery, Is. No half-prieo to.any patter the house. ' The NeW:BOxioftlce; -No. Z.Weßington-street, is open to the Public eYerT day, from Ten to. Six, _ . -PRINCESS'S THEATRE. • Engsgeraeat of Mr. MACREADT and MISS CIISIIM.A.N. THIS EVENING Will be presented Shakspeare's Tragedy of MACBETH. 'Macbeth, r Maaready; 3faedull,. Mr. Cooper ; Dinican, Mr. Gilbert elm. Mr.,Conway ; Eanqub, Mr. C. Fisher ; Hecate, Mr. Bod a ady Machettr,'ltiss Cushman: To be followed by A- CONCERT, by the celebrated Singers of the Pyrenees. To conclude with the Farce entitled A TRIP TO HAMPTON. Principal characters by Messrs. S. Cowell, Neville, Howard, flarris, Mrs. Selby, and Miss Villars. Dress Circle, 35.: Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. • KoYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs., F. Davidge. No. 1, HAvidge-tcrrace,liensingtou-road, Surrey. TPIIS EVENING, the performances will commence with the celebrated Opera of LA SONNAMBULA, In which Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. Borrani, Miss R. Isaacs, and Miss Romer will appear. To be followed by a new Divertissement called USE KERMES. To conclude with the Farce of DEAF AS A POST. Characters by Messrs. Vining, H. Horncastle, Attwood, H. Lewis ; Miss Collett, Mrs. W. Daly, and Miss R. Isaacs. A distinct entrance to the private boxes has been made (which have been re-ittod). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the principal Librarians ; and at the Box-sflice of the Theatre, which is span daily from Ten until Four. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, &I. • A6TLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager, Sir. William Batty. Mr. Batty's performing Elephants. THIS EVENING The Grand Spectacle of THE CAMP OF SILESIA. Entirely new Scenes in the Arena, by the talented Artistes 01 the Kstablithment, in the various modes et equestration. To conclude with the Farce of THE L •TTERY TICKET. • Bex-office open from 11 till IS. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W West. TITh WEATIIEB.—Stm Orricz, Nov. 14. THERMAIBTER, Lowest, 45; Highest. 49 ; Noon, 54, BAROUTER, 30.33.—W1ND S.W.; fine. NOTEXBEIL 15. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 51 ; Highest, 51 ; Noon, 55. BAROMETER, 30.28.—W1ND W.S.W.; fine. • I ATEIt AT LONDON-BItIDGI Tain DAY. Itornlng.. 10 minutes after 6. 1 Evening .. 37 asiunt4s sae , 6. 211 do - A. • {mow 2 - i1a 4 40 10 0 4 9111, ok ' • it - 4 • i :-. 10 4 RU•e —7-- titrting PATIt LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1847. Advices from America to the 25th ultimo have been received by the French line of packet steam ship Missouri. The previously received accounts of the capture of Mexico by the American troops have been fully corroborated. The loss to the victorious army, in killed, wounded, and missing, amounted to no less than 1,623 men. 238 were killed and 47 missing, the greater number of whom, it is to be feared, bare been cut off, the great exasperation of the Mexicans, and their determination to carry on a guerilla warfare, and the measures said to have been taken for the assassination of the hostile soldiers, leaving little hope that mercy would he extended to any of the enemy who fell into their hands. General WoaTtes brigade suffered much more severely than any of the others, nearly three•fifths of the total loss having been sustained by htat division. General QUITMAN, of Mississippi, had been appointed the American Governor of the city, and had in that capacity occupied the palace of the late President. He had also levied a contribution of 150,000 dollars on the inhabitants. We regret to say that the intelligence of the execu tion of the deserters from the American army has also been confirmed. More than fifty were butchered in cold blood, after the battle of Churubusco, ten, it appears, had their sentences commuted to receiving "fifty lashes with a raw hide whip well laid on the bare back of each ;" each of them was also to be " branded on a cheek with the letter D, to be kep close prisoner as long as the army should remain in Mexico, and then to he drummed out of the service.'' In these instances this mercy was extended because the parties had left the American service before the war had commenced, indeed, while the United States were at peace with the entire world. Other circumstances of mitigation existed in the other cases, the particulars of which have not been stated, with the exception of one whose life was spared because he had a son in the same company who had remained faithful to his colours. The whole proceedings of America with respect to Mexico have not created very favourable impressions amongst other nations. These feelings will not be improved by the legalized murder of fifty prisoners, very many of whom were citiz ens . not American A. great change has taken place since the period when wholesale massacres could be justified under a ny pretexts' prevails to the The san g uinary s pirit no l on ger same extent as formerly, and the American s may becertain th a t th e rut hl ess an d which barbarous se ver i ty of th ey have been guilty will excite a general feeling of disgust amongst all civilized nations. It remains yet to b e seen whether of the enemy's capital w ill o b tain for the possessio n the conquerors by the desired concessions. They may seize brute force the dominions of the sister republic, t hey may, occ upy their chief towns, and establish garrisons in s trongholds throughout the country, but their o wn expenses and lo sses have been enormous, and a heavy . n t axa tion will teach those who have hither to escaped comparatively sca theless from tho demands of the t ax collectors, that wars and victories, however much they may pamper the national vanity, are at best expensive l uxur ies, and that un prov)ked aggressions on other nations, however successful, generally bring many evils along with them—that with nations as with in dividuals "Honesty is the best policy." The 31exi cans are now exasperated to the highest pitch, means the most sanguinary and atrocious are stated by General' SCOTT to have been resorted to. The American Commander-in-Chief, in a general order, says **that an extensive conspiracy is, on foot to sur prise, by means of an insurrection, our guards and quarters, and to murder our officers and soldiers," and again, " until ready for the insurrection the dis guised villains hope to do us much harm in detail. Their plan is to assassinate stragglers, particularly drunken men ; to entice individuals or small par ties into shops to drink, and to stab them. when in their cups, to entice our gallant Roman Catholic soldiers, who have done so much honour to our colours, to desert, under a promise of land in California, which our arms have already conquered and which for ever will remain part of the United States." Is this a state of affairs from which either honour or profit can be derived, and which is to be protracted to an indefinite period to gratify the feel ings of avarice or of territorial aggrandisement? Will it be received with approbation by high-minded and honourable citizens ? It will be perceived that the flimsy disguise of negotiation is cast aside. Califor nia is no longer to be acquired by treaty or pur chase. According to General SCOTT, it has already been conquered and will for ever remain part of the United States. The pretexts that have been hereto fore made are now castasiie, and the real object of the war, " the acquisition of California by conquest" is plainly avowed. Indeed it is asserted, that still more extensive schemes are now projected—that some of the Cabinet are for the retension of the whole of the Mexican territories, while the more moderate are, as yet contented with a large portion thereof. The commercial intelligence is of considerable im portance, and affords an additional illustration of the impolicy and inexpediency of our monetary laws, which attempt to bring back a portion of useless gold, that it may lie idle and unproductive in the Bank cellars at the cost of a general depreciation of every description of property, and the ruin of hundreds of our most eminent mercantile firms. We have long foreseen that the effect of the Act of 1844 may be wholly different from. that which was. contemplated. On the 21st ultirao,;a:few days,hefore_ the present amounts were received from New 'York, we used the following language :—" The object of this Act was to enforce the retention of gold in the country, or to bring it back if it should by any means be exported ; but this may likewise. operate in a manner wholly different from the intention of its originators. The wide- spread alarm that it has occasioned has cast dis credit on the British name ; the honour and the solvency of British merehants cannot now: be relied on as in former days. The value of bills on England are consequently depreciaied4,from . the fear that'they may be returned' dishonotired,, and payments- in other lands can'therefore be More profitably made in specie than hill - Ills; !MI, as a natural resnit,, the bullion will still leave'the country, ho matteihowanxiously our rulers -may endeavour. .to retain it, Either that must be the case, or there must be a total- cessation of our commercial 'pursuits, and all classes must be exposed to the greatest misery and pri vations." • Unfortunately these predictions have turned out to, be but too well' fOunded. The natural consequences of the depreciation of our credit are taking place. We are told, %We„tio not anticipate that much specie will - be sent to you. ,Such as goes now is transmitted chiejiq by parties who are afraid of all bills, and who do not mind losing the difference. We understand that some of the principal London houses urge their agents to. send gold ;" and again, in speaking of the probable - supply of bread stuff, the following language is used :—" If many breadstuff' are wanted on your side thisvv - inter, we think, under the present shattered state- of credit, gold must be sent out to buy them. • There is a desire to ship flour and grain if advances could be got ; but houses feel the necessity of being very guarded." The probable consequences of a continuance in our unwise policy is pointed out in the transference of our manufactures to other lands. They say, " We have heretofore found the best mar kets for our most important staple productions in Great Britain, and whatever tends to cramp or cripple that demand is, of course, for the time, a great evil. Our cotton has been the most important raw material one country ever furnished another. The industry c.f England has depended upon it, and her wealth has been increased enormously by the addition of that industry to the first cost. It has given employment and subsistence to millions of her people, and afforded an important item of transportation to the commercial marine of that country. England has been such an important_ customer for this staple that all others have been made subservient, and we have been, 111 a measure, controlled in prices by,the will ofher manufacturers. It therefore appears plain that what ever affects the demand for this staple in England affects prices in this country; and if the manufac turers of England curtail their operations we must reduce the supply of the raw material. It does not, however, follow that the consumption of cotton is reduced in proportion to the reduction in the demands from the manufacturers of Great Britain. A demand for the raw material springs up in other sections, and the markets of the world are supplied from other sources. If the manufacturers of Great Britain work short time, and consume one third less cotton than usual, the supply of manufactured goods from that source becomes reduced, and the consumption must be supplied from other sources, or reduced to a corresponding extent. Notwithstanding the deficiency in the harvests of Eu rope generally, the masses have been in a very prospe rous condition, and have been in a position to consume these fabrics as largely as usual, and the demand in the aggregate has doubtless been as large as usual. It is, therefore, a very important question with those coun tries which have hitherto imported so largely of British cotton manufactures, what increase there has been in their domestic supply, and what progress they have made in the establishment of manufactories within their own limits ? The United States have progressed wonderfully in this element, and anything tending to depress the manufacturing industry of England gives a great impetus to it in this country. We have no return showing the actual increase in this branch, but we have no doubt it has been a very large per cent A. few years will suffice, at the rate we have advanced within the past few years, to place us independent of Great Britain, not only for supplies of manufactured goods, but for markets for the raw material." ' How long will our legislators be blind to the signs of the times, and, in the face of such events, persevere in the maintenance of an abstract theory, the adoption of which has exposed their country to the greatest calamities, and threatens eventually to occasion her total ruin ? a On Saturday evening we referred, in a particular manner, to the measures adopted for the conservation of our colonial interests in the West Indian Archi pelago ; this evening we would epitomize the en deavours recently made for the tranquillisation of affairs in New Zealand. It were but a one-sided and short-sighted policy which would tend to the depreciation of the difficulties existing in our colonies merely to enhance the appreciation of our internal embarrassments. Were the Government of the country to concentrate its energies upon a single point of administration--no matter how vital its exigency, no matter if it implied the maintenance of national credit or the prevention of foreign invasion —the affairs of Great Britain would very speedily fall into such involvements as would evince the in capacity of its statesmen, and demonstrate the neces sity for a more prudential course of legislation. It is this which justifies the complication of the adminis trative authority ; it is this which not merely justifies its complication, but proclaims the corn summate wisdom of those councils in which that complication originated. IVithout arrogating to itself the characteristics of omnipotence or omni science, the law requires for its proper enforcement such a variety of channels, in the persons of its offi cial representatives, as would be incompatible with any less simple arrangement than that which is pe culiar to the c ons tit ut i on o f th e U n it e d Ki ng d om . henc e it is that the vigilance of the Legislature is imntio;binil,e an —d more e l y p a a s l t ts th of an ou th r o e s n e o o r f m im ou per sd i o a - 1 ol more enriched by commercial enterprise than those of republican Carthage --more than suffi cient for th e ambition of the f Macedoni an , or f or t h e philosophic. investigati on of ALXANDER been doubly successfulthe ' a he could never have acquired territories Qr : conqueror, ' and gigantic as those whi c h own sovereigntytheies VlCTORlA—stretching to th e antarctic ayrite. Had a so remote i circle efo of theforeats of Canada, and to the t orr id zone rill from the shores of Ilindostan. Had ARISTOTLE brought to , the science of legislation an the craft of THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1847. his capacious intellect, he could not by possibility , have devised a state machinery more wonderfully adapted to the government of an empire than that which radiates in influence and operation from the seclusion of Downing-street to the extremities of the two hemispheres. It is by the perpetual balance of this machinery that so many and such different in terests are simultaneously preserved ; and that the manifold operations of the Executive can be performed together without clash or disarrangement—from the stamping of a letter at the Post-office to the signing of an international treaty, from the appointment of the guardian of an old tenement in Stratford-upon- Avon to the nomination of a viceroy over the vast but thinly populated tracks of Australia. By this distribution of authority among the various members of the Cabinet the affairs of our colonial possessions are preserved in recollection through all the troubles of a monetary panic and all the anxieties of a conti- nental estrangement. Notwithstanding the impression which i 4 preva lent to the contrary, it is certain that New Zealand has been entirely, if not permanently tranquillized, and the majesty of the law vindicated by the decision of the British forces. The insurgent disposition lat terly manifested by the natives has, moreover, been principally quelled by the stringent measures of justice adopted by Captain LATE, of the 58th Regiment. It would appear, from the intelligence recently received by the Castor, that the circumstance which immedi ately aroused the insubordination of the aborigines, was the accidental death of a native, caused by a pistol-shot discharged by a midshipman of H. M. S Calliope. That the bullet was fired unintentionally through the brain of the native is rendered more than probable from the fact of the shot being regarded as a casualty by Governor GREY himself—his Excellency being scarcely the man to put a garbled construction upon any occurrence. The New Zealanders were, nevertheless, incapable of distinguishing the causes of a catastrophe which resulted in- the destruction of one of Chemselvei; and the consequence was that, by way of revenging the victim of the reefer, six of the na tives assaulted a farmhouse situated in a secluded part of Wanganui, wounded the proprietor, Mr. GitriL LAN, and afterwards murdered" his wife and her three children. The manner in which this atrocious out rage was perpetrated upon an unoffending civilian is another of the diabolical tokens of the brutality of an .uncivitized . race. . It, would seem that on the 18th of April Mr. GILFILLAN had just returned from! the adjacent town of Petre (distant about five miles from his residence), arid was giving directions in his stock-yard, when he .observed six natives de scending a neighbouring acclivity. Without suspect ing their intentions, this gentleman fell into conversa tion with the natives, and was gossipping and " jesting" with them while they walked together, to and fro, in front of the farmhouse. While talking in this unsuspicious manner Mr. GILTILLAN received a terrible blow on the back of his neck, and although bewildered by the suddenness of the attack; the seve rity of the ironed, and the number of his assailants, he managed tia_escapt into his dwelling and to barri cade the doorway. Besides himself, there were at this moment in his residence his wife, five children, a waiting woman, and an infant. Yielding to the soli citations of his wife, and convinced that his own destruction was alone desired by the marauders, the unfortunate man lowered himself from a window and crawled, with considerable difficulty, through his garden and among the long fern by which it was surrounded. On the following morning a police man proceeded to the farmhouse, when he discovered three of the children and their mother murdered. An inquest was immediately held upon the bodies ; four of the assassins were identified, were examined before a court-martial (martial law having been already proclaimed throughout Wanganui), and before the evening of the 24th of the same April the murderers were executed. Such are the particulars of this dia bolical crime ; and such was the summary punishment inflicted upon the natives by the judicious severity of Captain LATE, of the 58th Regiment. By way of re taliating upon this officer for the execution of their companions, the natives attempted, by a combined as.- sault, to annihilate the troops stationed under his command, but were driven back in all directions, and were ultimately compelled to disperse on the arrival of additional assistance under Captain GREY. As a conclusive testimony of the pacification of the country since these disturbances, we may mention the condi tional release from confinement of the once formidable TE RAUPERAIIA. Instead of endangering the quie tude of the country, he is now residing in the nor thern quarter of the island in a state of peaceful obscurity. Throughout the occurrences we have here described are manifested the advisability of promptitude and decision in the scenes of such extravagant turbulence as have hitherto been witnessed in New Zealand. Without the promptitude and decision of Captain LATE, that colony might have been still ravaged by intestine dissensions, and the hands of the aborigines still imbrued, with impunity, in the heart's blood of the unoffending colonists. Through the instrumen tality of that officer, however, the rigorous justice of the Government has been proclaimed, and tranquillity restored to the insensate population. A letter from Trieste of the 80th ult. states that, according to accounts received from the south of Russia up to October 20, the cholera did not appear to be making any progress. In the north-west, in the direction of Odessa, it had stopped at Kre mentschuk on the Dnieper, and at Perekop, at the entrance of the Crimea, where the mortality had not been great. At Taganrog it was believed to have entirely ceased, and a Te Deum was sung; but it revived, though with less intensity. Odessa and its environs were perfectly healthy. The Turkish Government had.established a quarantine of 10 days for all arrivals from such ports of the Black Sea as were attacked by the cholera. The principalities of the Danube were in a healthy state, except that the epidemic disease in cattle still prevailed in Walachia, and is spreading—so as to induce the Government of Moldavia to establish a sanitary cordon along the Pruth. The disease disappeared from Moldavia nine months ago. The letters from Saint Petersburgh expressed apprehensions of the cholera, as it had already made its appearance in the go vernment of Novogorod. Intelligence from Eastern Caucasus up to the Ist October has reached us, by way of Constantinople. At the beginning of September Prince WoaoNzory, desirous of repairing the check which he sustained before Ghuerguebil, invested Salty, a village of two hundred houses, situated in a formidable natural posi tion, and defended by numerous works constructed by the mountaineers. The village was defended by the bravest Murides, who were specially chosen by CHAMYL. They acted with the most heroic bravery, notwithstanding they suffered cruelly from scarcity of food and water; but after forty days' bombard ment, the Russians succeeded in obtaining pos session of a high tower which commanded the place. Seven times was this tower captured and re-cap tured ; and an eighth attempt was likely to ter minate in favour of the mountaineers, when a battery of artillery opened suddenly on them, and caused great ravages in their ranks. Ne vertheless, they rushed on the guns and stabbed the gunners. They were even nearly possessing themselves of the cannon, when several battalions of Grenadiers drove them way. On the 26th of Sep tember another important position was captured by the Russians. The intrepid soldiers of CiLtain, made a sortie, in which they inflicted heavy loss on their as sailants ; but, seeing they could not maintain their position, with walls dismantled in all parts, they escaped in the night among the rocks by passages known to them alone. The next day the Russians took possession of the village, which presented only a heap of ruins and dead bodies. The capture of Salty cost them two thousand men, and a great number of officers of all ranks killed or wounded. Among the severely wounded was Prince ARGOUTNISKI DOLGO ROUKI, who commanded in chief, in the absence of Prince WoxioNzorr, confined to his tent by sickness. The loss of the mountaineers was considerable, though less in proportion to their numbers. A letter from Berne of the Bth says— " To support the invitations contained in the pro clamation, addressed by the Military Council of the League to the canton of Tesino, more than words were necessary ; and accordingly a division cf the troop s of piecestithat rt wof f heightseUii cannon, possessed s r gc rsaeoisstnshOieaOtar h.themselves ,r h , ea batteryn d having four hospital, on w h t oc e fh 3 a r d ht itt o i d.f been converted into barracks. A patrol of fifteen or twenty soldiers, to which three officers of artillery joined themselves, then ventured to make a recon naissance on the southern side of the mountain, where - it soon met a patrol of Tesino, with which it imme diately engaged in a combat of advanced posts. This attempt was fatal to it ; the balls of the Tesinese carbines, more lucky than those of their adversaries, struck two of the officers of artillery and wounded several soldiers. The news of this first check fell like a thunderbolt on the canton of Uri, causing general consternation. The tocsin was rung everywhere ; 300 men of the landwehr immediately started for the scene of hostilities, and were followed by a battalion of the Valais, which had entered the canton of Uri by La Furka some days previously, and which was ready to embark at Flueten to proceed to Lucerne, to join the army of the League ; so that Tesino has at present to be prepared to meet at the same time the battalion of Uri, which occupied the hospital of St. Gothard on the 3d, reinforced by three piecess of artillery ; the three companies of landwehr, which hastily left Altorp on the 4th; and the battalion of the Valais, whose destination was changed. It will not, therefore be very astonishing if; with these forces, the militia of the Sonderbund may have been able to arrive on the 4th at Airolo, and perhaps as far as Faido; but there assuredly murderous engage ments will take place ; for the commander-in-chief of the Tesenese troops, the brave Colonel Luvini, who reached Lugano on the 4th, immediately caused 2,000 men to start for Bellinzone, situated at six leagues more to the north and seven leagues from Faido. Such is the succinct resume of the news which ,have this morning reached both the Vorort and the Tesi nese deputation. The federal Colonel Lackicca of the Grisons, a superior officer of engineers of the greatest merit, is fortunately at Bellinzone, where his presence may he of the greatest utility in case the army of in vasion should arrive at that place. Mr. Peel was present at the great military review which took place yesterday before the General-in-Chief, and be spoke highly of the pleasure which he felt to see the fine appearance of our troops and their skill in manoeuvres. We have again to-day a continual passing of troops. Son+ companies of chasseurs of Bale Campagne have solicited as a favour to be placed in the advanced guard of the corps (Formes, which is to operate against Fri burg. This demand, we are assured, has been com plied with. It will not he forgotten that in the expe dition of the corps francs, the volunteers of Bale Cam pagne conducted themselves with bravery which would have had another result than defeat, if it had been- imitated by the volunteers of the other cantons. The i canton of Zug is now occupied by four bat talions of the army of the League, which conduct themselves, as I am assured by eye-witnesses, as if they ; were in an enemy's country. The Schwitzese Hediger battalion,particularly distinguishes itself by its brutality. The federal Colonel Muller, of Zug, who t would. not serve,. in the army of . the Sonder bund, has left his canton to offer his services to the federal army, which thankfully accepted them. Seve ral other citizens of, Zug belonging to the liberal camp, and. among them men of the highest social position,' have left their canton to proceed either to Zurich or Berne. In addition to the arrest of M. Stettler, the police of Berne has thrown into prison Count Krusinski, a Pole, who under the: name of Klein, has managed, for several years, a bookselling establishment at Berne." The Bale Gazette; of the 10th, mentions a report from Berne that the Federal Government had just received from Frankfort' 500,000 francs, lent to it at 7 per cent. interest . : The same journal adds, that the arrest of Count KRUSINSKI % at Wine, is attri buted to his having sent to the Journal des D) bats articles against the Federal Government. The Ami de la Constitution, of Berne, contradicts the report of Mr. PEEL having offered the mediation of England in the dispute of the Swiss cantons, and of its having been rejected by the Federal Go vernment. The Piedmontese Gazette of the Bth contains the following important declaration, dated the 3d inst.:— " His Holiness the Supreme Pontiff Pius IX., his Majesty the King of Sardinia, and his Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Duke of Lucca, constantly animated by the desire of contri buting by their reciprocal union to the increase of the dignity and prosperity of Italy ; convinced that the true and substantial basis of an Italian union is the fusion of the material interests of the populations forming their states • convinced also that the said union will be most efficacious in extending in the course of time national industry and trade, and strengthened in this belief by the hope of the adhe sion of the other sovereigns of Italy, are come to the determination to form s Customs League between their respective dominions. To this effect the under signed, in virtue of the authorisation conferred upon each of them by their respective sovereigns, declare as follows :- 44 Art. I.—A Customs League isagreed on in prin ciple between the States of the Holy See, Sardinia, Tuscany, and Lucca, to be effected by the nomination of commissioners specially designed by the high con tracting powers for the formation of a common cus toms tariff, and for the choice of a just distributive principle with respect to common produce. " Art. IL—ln the original formation of the tariff, mentioned in the preceding article, and in the suc cessive revisions to be made periodically within epochs determined, the nearest approach compatible with the respective interests will be made towards free trade. " Art. lll.—The time and place of the assembling of the said commissaries will be determined as soon as the definitive intentions of his Majesty the King of the two Sicilies, and of his Royal Highness the Duke of Modena shall be known respecting their adhesion to the Customs League. (Signed) " GIOVANNI CORBOLI BUSSI; " E DI SAN AIARZANO ; G. MARTINI." We draw the attention of our readers to the re. markable omis-ion of the Duchy of Parma in the las article. The Piedmontese Gazette also contains the letters patent of the King of Sardinia for the establishment of a bank of discount, under the title of the Bank of Turin. The Diario di Roma, of the 4th inst., quotes a let ter from Naples of the 29th ult., stating that, tran quillity being completely restored in Calabria and S had re-entered their canton ments, extraordinary powers given by the KiNG t p A s Nm, and other military cora ici Sicily, the h ande General Royalthe L o manders, had been withdrawn. The Bilancia men tions that England had demanded the dismissal of General LANDI, who had opened the dispatches of the British Consul at Messina. A brigade of 2,000 arrived in the Abruzzi 14 pieces of artillery, had ,where some agitation pre - infantry, vaited .The e 0 c c a o v u a r l i r e y , and , r of Leghorn announces that the Killg of NAFLJs had commuted the capital sentences protiounced against a number of revolters, and miti gatfd the penalties of others. Lord MINTo had ar rived at Rome. VVe have received the following letter from our Lisbon Cur respondent : LISBON, Nov. 9„ 1847. Since my last advices Ministers have tendered their resignations, which were accepted by her MA JESTY. The ex-Minister of State, Councillor of the Treasury, GoNzA-Az'veno, was sent for to form a new Administration, but on the 6th instant he de posited the trust into the hands of her MAJESTY, de claring the impossibility of framing it. On the 7th, the Councillor of State FONSECA. MAGALIIAES was sent for, and up to this day the result of his measures is not known. I anticipate he will meet with great difficulties under existing circumstances , a s it is q uite evident th a t th e armed force under the control of CABRA L will oppose any Ministry which is not selected from the Cabralist ranks. Yet these very men are those who speak most loudly against the Opposition, which they accused of threatening to curtail the royal prerogative as regards the free choice of the advisers of the Crown ! Such a contra diction of principle is indeed u naccountable, and places the throne in jeopardy, as it is beyond doubt that a revolution, either Cabralist or Progressist, is at hand—Cabralist, if the Ministry. is chosen amongst the political shades of the Opposition, how ever moderate they may be—and Progressist, if, unfortunately,the CAnnaLs are again called to power. This is, indeed, a sad state of things, and the result of a timid and dubious policy. Ilad the protocol been enforced with energy, and without shuffling, things would not have been carried so far, and parties would not have been emboldened and encouraged to dictate the law. All eyes are now turned towards England, to see how she will act in the present crisis. Several assaults have been committed during the week by individuals of the volunteer battalions upon officers that have served the Oporto Junta, Such disgraceful scenes in a capital like Lisbon are most disreputable to the authorities, and especially to the Marquis DE FRONTEIRA, who is Civil Governor, and to his brother Don CARLOS, the commander of the Municipal Guard, to which is entrusted the tranquil lity of the town. There is no doubt that if these authorities did not countenance such cowardly acts, no such shameful events would occur. Indeed both these two rank Cabralists are responsible for these occurrences, it being a fact that in more than one instance the police, or municipal soldiers, have been seen amongst the assailants. On Thursday last, the 4th instant, her MAJESTY was safely delivered of a Prince. Of the royal issue there are now seven children, five Princes and two Princesses, and the Braganza dynasty is pretty well secured as far as succession goes. During her con finement the KING CONSORT signs all the royal diplomas. The organs of the Cabrals, the Estandarte (Stan dard) and the Matraca (Battle) continue lavishing abuse upon England and the English. Of course Sir G. 11. SEYMOUR is not spared, and French policy gets the lead in the columns of such papers, which do not conceal their plans, calling loudly for rebellion, in order to put down English interference. A grand meeting of the Progressist party for the ensuing elections was to be convened on Sunday, the 7th instant; it was, however, postponed for next Sun day, the 14th, under the presidency of the Marquis rn Lours. The central committee has addressed the following circular to the electors of the provinces : The Constitutionncl is brief but clear in the expres sion of its sentiments. It says— "lt is not necessary frr us to dwell on the impor tance of this treaty, which is a great guarantee of independence for Italy. It is a confederation of com merce and industry between the Italian states, the first foundation of a sort of political confederation." The National thus concludes an ably written ar ticle on the same subject We highly commend the sovereigns of Sardinia, Rome, and Tuscany, for having so usefully obeyed the impulsion given by public opinion. They pro mote at the same time the interests of their country and their own grandeur. They cease to be the vassals of Austria, and perhaps will soon count in the number of European powers. An Italian political confedera tion will emanate from a Customs': Union. But the other princes remain to be conquered to the ideas which have inspired the three parties to the Conven tion of Turin. The King of the Two Sicilies, the Duke of Modena, and the Duchess of Parma, have not joined the League. Already have overtures been made to two of them, and the last words of the preli minary treaty of the Bth November cause the possi bility of an arrangement to be foreseen. We accept the augury without disguising from ourselves that Austria will make prodigious efforts to prevent the accession of Naples and of Modena to the League. They do not deceive themselves at Vienna; the Customs' Union is the most terrible blow which can be given to Austrian influence in Italy. M. de Met ternich kept under the Lombardian provinces as much by the influence which he exercised around them as by interior oppression. Venice and Milan would in vain have attempted to shake off the yoke ; a point of sup port was nowhere to be found, and moreover they felt themselves" surrounded by hostile Governments. Will it be thus now ? The Customs' Union, if it be realised, as we hope it will, will open a new era to Italy, an era of interior prosperity, of exterior ,de velop Tent: The. Council General of Paris adopted, on Friday, the iollowing resolution, by a majority of twenty-five, to ten:— " Whereas an experience of sixteen years has dis closed serious imperfections in the electoral law of the ,19th of April, 1831, and demonstrated the ne cessity and urgency of modifying several of its enact ments, the Council expresses a wish that the Go vernment and the Chambers should attend with solicitude tg the revision of that law at the next legislative session." The Cons4itutwunel publishes the following sketch of the diplomatic, career of the late Count BRESSON— " Under the Restoration Count Bresson was sent to the United States as attache, and he there married his first wife. The different proofs of aptitude which he had the opportunity of giving on several occasions procured for him a mission in South America, in which he was engaged when the revolution of uly broke out. He did not delay his return to France, and M. de Larochefoucauld, our representative at Berlin, having been obliged to absent him self from that residence, M. Bresson was charged to replace him. It was at Berlin that M. Bresson really commenced his diplomatic fortune ; he was, it is true, assisted by some fortu nate circumstances. At that period the question of Belgium and Holland divided Europe and threatened the future. The French Ministry hesitated to under take the expedition against Antwerp. M. Bresson, who at Berlin stood well with the Court, was able to give the French Government the assurance that the attack on the citadel of Antwerp would not be consi dered a case of war by the European Powers. In consequence of the consideration which he enjoyed in the capital of Prussia, he had the title of Minister )f F to the G -t --X Berlin' conferred " Citizen Electors,—The Electoral Committee of the national party summons you to the poll. Let the supreme right of a free people be exercised in the act of polling. Frauds, threats, violences, should never prevent you from performing this duty, for where ever the elections may not be crowned with success, your meetings of themselves will be a protest in favour of the liberties of the country, and against the faction that oppresses it. Recently emerging from a glorious struggle, the country is now about to en counter another that will not be less so; and the liberty which you defended with arms with so much patriotism is now to be defended by the peaceable means which the law of the country has placed at your disposal. Citizen Electors,—To the poll—to the poll! ' The Diaro, the official organ of the Government, has published a declaration to contradict the assertion which appeared in the English .newspapers, about Admiral NAPIER having received part of his arrears as a pensioner of the Portuguese Treasury. The statement is incorrect, as the fact is that Sir CHARLES NAPIER has been placed on the same footing as other pensioners of the State, and thus he cannot be ac cused of having improperly used his influence as a British Admiral to obtain such payment. The de• claration in the Diaro i 3 as follows : " We are authorised to declare as false and calum nious the assertion that has-appeared-in several papers, that Admiral Napier has addressed any kind of claim to the Government in relation to his private and personal interests or affairs, It is also with equal certainty that we declare that Admiral _Napier has not received one farthing of his pension or allowance due to him from the Portuguese Government, beyond the period of the month of February of the present year, and that in this respect he is in an exactly similar and no other position than the rest of the individuals of his rank, Navin_; equal Claims and similarly situated." In addition to the perplexities arising from the state of the country, the poverty of the Treasury increases daily, and to pay half a month of October last to the - employes it was necessary to sweep the public coffers of their last farthing in order to Make up the amount. The eight months in arreatt belt:the:- hag to the present year will be very likely left behind for general measures, as happened last year with the months from February up to May. It is, indeed, wonderful to see how the machine of Government can be kept going without resources. From the provinces no taxes can be collected, whilst the autho rities are selected amongst the exaltados of the Cabralist faction. To obtain the payment of 'taxes in the rural districts, it is necessary that the people at large should place confidence in the local authorities, who in general are mere petty despots. Trade continues still very dull, and money is scarce. The discount on bank notes bas been in creasing to 2,020 reis, or 42 per cent. Madrid papers of the 7th have arrived. The Gaceta publishes a decree appointing the Mar quis of MIRAFLORES President, and the Duke DE GOR and the Prince D'AGLONA Vice-Presidents of the Senate. General Ros DE OLANO is nominated Ambassador to Lisbon, and General CORDOVA has had conferred on him the Grand Cross of the Royal and Noble Order of CHARLES HI. According to the Clamor Publico, these two gentlemen, on their dismissal from the Ministry, entered into a very angry correspondence with General NARVAEZ, and in the course of it Ros DE OLANO threatened to publish "a full, true, and particular account" of what had occurred just previously to the General's accession to power. In the hope of preventing the scandal of such a publication, NARVAEZ, says the Clamor, conferred on them the dignities to which they have just been gazetted, and caused the Herald() _ ranee to ,overnmen. on him. In this new position he was not useless tk the dynasty which had divined in him one of its ablest servants. It was M. Bresson who was charged by two successive Ministries to negotiate and conclude the marriage of the Duke of Orleans. M. Bresson seemed predestined to this sort of intimate and fa mily affairs, for the two great points of hip diplomatic career are two princely marriages. Count Bresson has left at Berlin the most affec tionate souvenirs. The late King, Frederick Wil liam 111., it is said, considered him as a friend, and treated him with so much familiarity as to go to visit him at the hotel of the Embassy, where he sometimes passed whole evenings in playing at whist. Our readers will not have forgotten the brilliant reception which the French Princes obtained at Berlin on their journey to Prussia. This reception was attributed in great part to the influence which M. Bresson en joyed. From Berlin M. Bresson went to Madrid as Ambassador. We have no need to call to mind the recent events which have signalised the conduct of our diplomacy in Spain. Our readers, besides, are well acquainted with our opinion on the Spanish marriages. Yesterday, in making known some of the circumstances which signalised the stay of M. Bresson in France, we omitted one, which is not without importance. On the last hanges in the Cabinet of the 29th of October, overtures were made to M. Bresson to induce him to consent to accept the portfolio of the Marine. M. Bresson refused, found ing his refusal on the few chances of duration which the Ministerial replastering up presented. The re fusal, and still mere the terms in which it was couched, pleased very little, as will be imagined, those who had taken it to heart to prop up the wavering fortunes of the Cabinet. The Cabinet, obliged to recruit itself as it could, called M. de Montebello from Naples, who resigned himself to the succession of M. de Mackau. As to M. Bresson, he had to go to Naples to replace the same M. de lontebell) who had just accepted the refused portfolio. It was not without feeling bitter mortification that M. Bresson decided on going to occupy at Naples an inferior post to that which he had already filled. We may consider this circumstance, and the grief which it caused, as having occasioned the fatal event which has prematurely ter minated his career. We have been informed of an affecting fact respecting M. Bresson, which deserves to be stated here. By his first wife he had a son, whose infirmities prevent him from leading an active life, and whose means of subsistence it was conse quently particularly necessary to secure. Some time before his departure from Paris, M. Bresson at length succeeded in settling some affairs of interest which the death of his first wife had left him, and which bad remained in suspense till then. Before leaving for Naples, he caused a sum of about 125,000 f. to be placed out for that son. Never,' said he to one of his friends, never have I been happier than I am to-day, for the fortune of my poor son is secured I' Whatever may be our opinion of the last diplomatic acts of M. Bresson, it is not less true that his death leaves a void in the personnel of our embassies which it will be difficult to fill up. In the midst of the difficult circumstances in which Italy is placed, the experience and moderation of M. Bresson might have exercised a happy influence on the determinations of the Court of Naples, especially if he had not had to struggle against the system adopted by M. Guizot." On Friday the adjudication of the contracts for supplying the mail-packets with coal took place at one o'clock, at the General Post-office. The first lot of 1,200,000 kilogrammes, for Calais, was adjudged to M. PAYON at 3f. 39c. 9-10 per 100 kilogrammes. The second lot of 600,000 kilos., for Bastia and Ajac cio, was adjudged to M. JULES TALABOT at 4f. 30c. The third lot of 9,000,000 kilos., for the port of Marseilles, for which there were four offers, was awarded to M. VINCENT, of Marseilles, at 3f. 74c. The fourth lot of 3,000,000 kilos., also for Marseilles, to M. JULES TALABOT, at 4f. 92 milliemes. The fifth lot of 24,400,000 kilos., for Malta, Athens, Constantinople, and Alexandrfa, for which there were five offers, was adjudged to Mr. JACKSON, of London, at 3f. 79c. All these adjudications are subject to the approbation of the Minister of Finance. Advices are said to have been received at Paris at a late hour on Saturday, by extraordinary courier, to the intent that a bloody battle had taken place between the two belligerent parties in Switzerland, under the walls of Friburg. The Three Per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse -d. N • Loan, 77f. 20c, to speak well of them. He, moreover, allowed Ros DE OLANO 10,000 reals for his journey to Lisbon, and 20,000 for his first establishment; but the Clamor asserts that the two ex-Ministers are not yet satisfied, and that they still threaten to publish an account of the circumstances attending the recent change of 111 inistry. The Eco del Comercio publishes the following correspondence between ESPARTERO and NAR- VAEZ :- "Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "Excellent Sir—The Queen our Lady, under date of the Ist of the present month, has deigned to sign the following decree Taking into consideration the eminent qualities which distinguish Don Bal dornero Espartero, Duke de la Victoria, and desiring to give him a public testimonial of my royal esteem, and of the confidence which I have in his capacity, not less than his affection - to my person, I nominate him my Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten tiary to her Majesty the Queen of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland. transmit this copy of the royal order to your Excellency for your knowledge and satisfaction. God protect your Ma jesty for many years. (Signed) "Madrid, 6th Oct." " DUKE DE VALENCIA, ESPARTERO'S reply was as follows : " Excellent Sir,—l have received the royal order by which the Queen our Lady has deigned to name me her Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten tiary to her Majesty the Queen of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland. I shall always be grateful for this new proof of the royal esteem with which her Majesty has honoured me ; but I suppli cate her Majesty, in her goodness, to exempt me from such an elevated charge; it being necessary for me to live for some time separated from public affairs, in order to attend to my private affairs, which have been neglected for so many years. I pray your Ex cellency to make this known to her Majesty, at the ame time assuring her of the purity and sincerity of my sentiments, and that I shall always remain her most devoted servant and faithful subject. God pro tect your Excellency for many years. London, 24th October. (Signed) " THE DUKE DE LA VICTORIA." The removal of CONCHA and the appointment of PAVIA to the command of Catalonia had excited a great sensation at Barcelona. SALAMANCA has re cently had a private audience of the QUEEN, which lasted three hours. The Carlist Generals Erao and ALAAZ have entered Spain. We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. In the Commerce of Friday we find the following, on the subject of the speeches of the Duc DE BROGLIE and Lord Jour RUSSELL at the Lord Mayor's dinner : " The union of these two nations, which have so long made war on each other, and which are called by national sympathy to preside together over the pacific labours of the new civilization is a grand spectacle offered to the world. The Lord Mayor worthily in terpreted the sentiments of his country with respect to France. Our Ambassador did not fail in the task imposed on him by our dispositions with respect to England. On the one part and the other the union of the two nations was warmly manifested in terms in conformity with the superior interests which demand this union. Why does not the conduct of the two Governments respond to the sentiments which have just been expressed in London in the name of the nations themselves ? Assuredly we do not pretend to make any one responsible for the rivalries which in different places divide France and England. In the life of great states there are necessary con flicts respecting which we must not suffer illusions, even in the interest of 'the maintenance of peace, for which it is important to measure our efforts by the dangers which threaten it. But to tender lasting the union of two nations, which meet on all occasions in the midst of the enterprises of their activity and their ambition, it is indispensable to assign to these two nations a common object towards which they may direct themselves without thwarting each other. This common object, which cannot be peace itself, must be what makes peace real and fecund—power deyoted to the active protection in the world of the conditions of order, labour, and liberty. The union on Saturday at 77f. 20c. ; the ew Joan, the Five per Cents., 116 f. 65c. ; the Orleans Rai , road Shares, 1,212 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 930 f. ; Havre, 520 n; Great Northern, 5721. 50c. • Avignon, 571 f. 25c.; Vierzon, 5661. 25c. ; Bordeaux, 495 f.; Trbyes and Montereau, 250 f.; Dieppe, 260 ; Basle, 162 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 425 f. ; Tours and Nintes 403 f. 75c.; Paris and Lyons, 415 f.; Lyons an Avignon, 473 f. 75f. ; Spanish Three per Cehts., BLISINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NOVEMBER 13. Boulogne and Arniens,ls—Northern of France, Ip-Or leaps and gorde4ux,s%,-Paris and Lyon.% 6 5 i--Paris and St;abourg, 4a/—Sambre and Meu6e, VA—Tours and IsT tas;4—West Flanders of France and England is a falsehood with which LONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS hypocritical or dreaming statesmen arm themselves, I - . CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. if it does not signify the association of the two { The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, on Saturday , were nations for the guarantee of right in Europe. We do' 5,000 bales, of which 1,500 were American for export. not see that such an association has been shown by the suppression of Poland, consummated with impu- The market closed with some animation, and the prices nity by the assassinations of Gallicia, by the i n t e r- of American and Surat were a point against the buyers. vention in Portugal, by the policy which keeps Italy The sales included 3,500 bales of American, at sd. to under the threats of Austria, and which delivers Gad. per lb.—Railway Shares were steady. There was Switzerland to the horrors of civil war." a grEkdual but steady improvement in this market. The formation of the Italian Customs Union is the A considerable degree of sensation was produced subject of comment in all the French journals of among the merchants and others interested in the Saturday. United States trade in consequence of the news of the The Debals says— loss of a packet-ship, Stephen Whitney, commanded by " For the moment the most striking feature in this Captain Popham. The loss of the captain is, indeed, treaty is its political bearing. It is to augment, by much regretted by a large circle of friends. It is to be regular means, the force and independence of the lta- hoped that the accounts as yet received are much exag lian Governments, and to cement their union, that all aerated. the efforts of all the enlightened friends of Italy There are not any arrivals from the Colonies today. ought to be turned—efforts to which we have never It would appear that the West India interests in the ceased to lend our aid." provinces aro bestirring themselves to force upon Go- vernment some measure of relief for them. A strong deputation waited upon Lord John Russell and Lord Grey on Saturday, which included representatives of all the principal ports of the kingdom where the West India trade is carried on to any extent. It is reported this morning that a failure of some con sequence has occurred at Leeds. Our inquiries have not led to the receipt of any information affirming or contradicting the statement at present. The letters received from the iron districts this morn ing are not by any means of a satisfactory character. Business is represented as being in a languishing condition. The impression appears to be that prices will fall. -- There is not a doubt expressed but that abandonment in part, or in whole, of railway extensions have given an unfavourable turn to the market. There is a report current just now of a house of some magnitude not being able to meet its engagement; as yet • however, all drafts presented have been paid. The rumours just noticed had an immediate effect on the market for the public securities, and a fall of per cent. . in Consols has taken place—the price for the Account having opened at 84.1, touched 85, and in an instant it receded to 844; for Money ' the quotations went back from 85 to 844. Exchequer-bills fell from 2s. premium to ls. discount. India Bonds were at 20s. and 133. dis count. The Reduced Three per Cents. and the Three-. and-a-Quarter per Cents. have fallen I to 4 per cent. In the Foreign market, the value of Austrian has been quoted at 101; of Brazilian at 78;' of Mexican 154 3 4 ;. the Portuguese Four per Cents. have ranged from 211 to 20'; Venzuela is .at 354; and the Two-and-a-llalf lluteh are at 544. • The Railway Share market is heavy just now. • THREE O'CLOCK. rrTSCRIPT.- - It is with very considerable coacern. that! we have to, announce the fact that that veil large firm of Messrs. Trueman and Cook have this day., been 'Compelled to suspend payments. From immense connexions of the -house brokers.: &c.,: the firm had immense annual tiviliPlig; with the mercantile interests connected with the Eget and West Indiei, the Mauritius, and indeed With almost , all the principal colonies, and with foreign countries. It is said that the liabilities are very large— 300,000 L at lea , t, but it is knowp that they have immense amottnts, of produce and other assets tc ease .-off the balance. 0 _ ONE CiOSING RICES. OE lIRITISII FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES datAk Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns.. 8 3 % 144 83 84 - Al 3 peg Cent. Consols Annuities.. 84 , 1 4 3 /4 85 84% 84% • New 3 1 4, per Cent. Antis -85 8438 85% 84% 837 LongAnns. to expire Jan.lB6o ... 8 7- 16 8 -1 6 India Bonds, 1,0001. Ditto under 1,0001.. ........ 14 20 13 dis 134 5 , Consols for Account 85%3/4 85 841 A 83% Exchequer Bills. 3d. 1,000/. -par 2 p 1 dis 1 p p 3 p 5001 6 p S ma ll ONE CLOSINO, RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK riticE s Austrian, 5 per Cent ........ 101 101 Brazilian Bonds Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 15% %1 /ti * 77 Portuguese 5 per Cents. 2 0 30 Ditto, 4 per Cent 21 14 2 03 / 4 16 4 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Passive 304 Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 35 35% Dividends on the above payable in London. E , Dutch, 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 5 4 1 .06 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 83 % PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CL05 1 , 14 2 RAILWAY SHARES PAID ' AT ONE. O'CLOCK. FRIC'D• 24 Aberdeen ... Imbe'r. , Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2% 3 /4 ............... % — ............ ••- _ Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2 Belfast & County Down 10 Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley 10 ... .. 13704 14 Birming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley ... .. 8 ...... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 7 3 / 4 — Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 5 firistol and Exeter 75 - ......... .• ... Ditto. Thirds Buckinghamshire 101. 4s. — •• ......... ••• Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares..... 3 3 / 4 Ditto, Clydesdale Junc 50 Chester and Holyhead... 37% Diliko, Preference .. 8 Clarence 7814..... ............... Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. lO ..... .. - ..... Dublin and BelfastJunc. 20 Dundalk & Enniskillen 15 East Anglia, 25/., L. & E. and L. and D. ...... 25 Do., 18/., E. & H.... 18 Do., 31.105., E. &H. 1 Eastern Counties Ditto, Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....... 6/.135. 4d — ... ............ Ditto ditto, No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d l /2 dis. ............ Do., York Extension.. 10 Do., North. & Eastern 50 Do., Quarters Do~ New ... Eastern Union 5O .. Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 / 2 — ............... Ditto, Thirds ... .....13s. 4d — ............... Do., (guar. 6 percent) mast Lancashire Ditto, New Ditto, New Quarters East Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Glasgow 5 0 ...... 44% ............ •• Ditto Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 / 2 . 11 .............•• Edinburgh & Northern.. 20 Ditto, New Ditto, Newport ..... Ditto, ditto, New . Ex eter:Yeovil, & Dorch. 2 Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle B/. 6s. 8d ..... ;lasgow, Kilinar.,& Ayr 50 ...... ... Ditto, New ......... .. 40 • ..... Do. Preference Consol. 12% ...... Great Northern ............ 8 Great South. naradWYesortk. 2 % .. .” ...... Lon London G re at North of Englan d - 100 (Ireland) ............... 35 Ditto, New 401.......••• 5 Ditto, New 30/. Ditto, New 15/ ll4 .... Great Western B5 9B 100 ............ Ditto, % Shares Ditto, % Share 5:...... 15 Ditto, Fifths Ditto, New 17/ 7 Huddersfield & Manche& 22 Ditto, Thirds .. . Hull and Selby 5O .. ... 98 1 / 2 98 .. •••••• Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, 14 Shares 1 2 1,1 — ... .......... Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 15 , Do., do., and Norwich 15 Do., do., Extens.Scrip (late Camb. & Ely) 2%...•.• .......... .... . Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds .. 10 Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 Ditto, ditto Ditto IA Shares . Do. Quarter Shares... 14 1 ,¢ — ... ..... .• ..... Do. Fifths 6 l / 2.. ... ...........••• Do. Sixteenths 6% — ..... .. ........ Do. Thirds (Reg. )....101. 48. Do. Liverp. and Bury 34 Ditto % (late Hud- dersfield and Sheff.) 33 Do.(Wakefield,Ponte- .-- fract. & Goole Do. (W. Riding Union) 4/. 2 s — ... ........... 307 Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. % Shares (A) 9 4 Ditto ditto (B) ... 1% Leeds and Bradford Leicester and Bedford... 16 s — ..... ......... „. Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 37}4 — •••••••••••••'' ••••• Do., Branch I ,‘ Shares 12 1 / 2 — ............ .. Do. New Branch( blue) 2 1 ,2 Do. Ex tension (green) 2 1 / 2 .. .. . Do. NewExten. (pink) 2% — .... .......... Leeds and Thirsk 36 ........... •••" Ditto, New 17% — ... ..... • Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3%. Liverpool, Crosby and S ou thport .... .......... 2 liverp., Mnchstr & New . castle Junction 2 l /2 . ••••• . ...... " .. London and Blackwall..l6/. 13s. 4d. ........... • Do. NV N 1 6 - 18 10 3 dill 35% ci - cu s 48% •'.: •••• 00000 . ••• , 31 . 4 3, 11,f 44 . * 12% ,• ..... • 00000 •••• ••• IA Jo. New, No. •••••. Do. New, No. 2 .. 3/. 138.4 d.... •—....... ' ..... f r a de C f f esr. r r n e ewr . e n s n ce l i s l e t c ':°:l)DDlD D Dloddl o ioootil. . °:t , tnnPlGC : h:ara Coast nuPz u ennaß a tsre r a tniLnegsrtihs:tnL Eighths.. , per c B L B. 35° 1 90 7 ............ 42913%1/4..1.... .. ............ Do., do., New ....... t . 1 , 2 , 815001101 2 1:2.'; :. 1. ... :: ..... ************************************************************************ Ditto Fifths Do. q Shares (G. J.) 25 ...... .. •. ...... 4... .. reirc 15 ...... ...1:- «.................... .................. Do 40/.Shares(L.M.) 15 . ..... -- .............. . L Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40 ...... •—• ... • ...... ' . t , , . 10 1 5q 4 16i 25 7 ; , 72% ~- 494 15 29 . 4 5 12*/ ~ :r ~: