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LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 11.

THE state of the revenue, as made up to Saturday
night last, is significant for the future, albeit involv-
ing for the present no serious discomfort to the I
minister. Our CesioNts receipts, swollen as they
were through the course of the last two years with
the amount of duties received on corn imported, or on
sugar, which has been, to a great extent, used as a
surrogate for corn, could not be taken as a correct
index of our commercial prosperity, which they
are in lees troubled times. Bat if the high
figure of these receipts had awakened mis-
trust, this sudden decline cannot be viewed without
apprehension. The decrease on this item is 374,1911.,
that on the Excise being 641,9861. Owing, in
part. to the influences we have stated, the CESTO3Is
receipts show an increase on the year of 267,2241.,
which we fear must be expected to vanish with the
December quarter. The Excise already shows a
deficiency, as compared with the year ending Oct.
1846, of 139,9141. There is also a deficiency under
STAMPS of 66,419/. on the quarter, or 152,249/. on
the year. Notwithstanding the necessary dimi-
nution in the use of the transfer stamps from
the state of the money market, yet we ven-
ture to assert that a great portion of this
might have been made up, if the use of seven days'
bills, as supplementary to bankers' notes, had not, by
an over-scrupulous interpretation of the act of 1844,
been interdicted. The balance for the year, after de-
ducting 968,503/. China money, 6,8351. imprest and
other monies, and 378,6941. returned advances,
_ _ _

making, together, 1,354,032/., shows an increase of
311,764/. The deficiency on the quarter, on the
other hand, after deducting the outran under the
bead of China and impreet monies, together 240,0401.,
is no less than 1,267,1901.
Such returns painfully show the check given to'
trade to have been the inevitable consequence of the
failure of our harvest, before the means, granted to us
only in 1815, to avert the consequences of such an
affliction,could be brought into play. But,at the same
time, we are warned to let no more time slip unprofit-
ably in strengthening those means by a further ap-
plication of the principles of free trade. What the
state of the country now would be had not the prospect
of an open trade is corn in some degree prepared
foreign growers for a large demand, it would be vain
to speculate.
In considering the means at our disposal for repair-
ing the effects of the blow we have just experienced
in common with a great portion of Europe, the moat
important and effectual would certainly be those
which should liberate the credit and currency of the
country. In doing this, there is no very old entrench-
ment to be overleaped, no very antiquated prejudice
overcome. No tradition older than 1814 has to be in-
validated, and that is loaded with private and national
losses sufficient to make the act that shall consign it
to oblivion one most popular. No personal reputation
is at stake, excepting that of a solitary minister, an
equally isolated journal, and at the most two mem-
bers of the political economy club, to all of whom
the special privilege may safely be bequeathed
of abusing those who have wrought the
change. Let them take advantage of it as they
list; in the language of bland hesitation to which we
are accustomed in certain speeches, or in the dull, if
euphonous, periods, which decorate certain leading
articles, or even in the not unaccustomed envelope of
thick octavo volumes, let their plaints or taunts take any
shape they please—impariduni fcrient ruiner—the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER may remain unmoved
by them, if, by refusing to countenance a system which
be did not originate, he improve the state of his
balance-sheet. Free currency against the present
stagnation of trade, and we stake our reputation on
the result, even in the ensuing quarter.

It is a strange sign of the times when the Standard
considers catholicism capable of any reform which
should stop short of an entire conformity to English or
Scotch protestantism. After pointing out with some
acuteness the difficulties in which the Pope is in-
volved by the various relations in which the Jesuits
stand to the government. of the different countries in
which the order is established, the organ of evan-
gelicalism recommends, as the only method of re-
moving the supposed inconsistency of the Pope's
spiritual despotism with his constitutional proceedings
as a temporal prince, that his spiritual authority
" should be constitutionalised." " Roman Catholics
would wish," says the Standard, "to be free,
and we should wish to see our neighbours
free"—an assertion so startling, when made
by the chief advocate, and most persever-
ing mourner for, the penal laws, that it is a
relief to the mind to discover, on reflection, that it is
not from oppression or political exclusion, that the
protestant journal wishes to relieve its " neighbours,'
but simply from Roman catholicism itself.
It seems that the spiritual authority is to be consti-
tutionalised by a recurrence to the ancient practice of
the Church, under which general councils were
periodically called, for the reform of abuses and the
revision of doctrine. All Europe, we are told,
" Roman catholic as well as protestant," would
anxiously desire this measure. We were not aware
that protestants had taken so obliging an interest in
the prosperity of the Romish church, as to devise this
scheme for its benefit; but if they have, we greatly
doubt whether their interference will conduce to its

adoption.
The council of Constance, says the Standard, de-
creed, in 1415, the a council should be held every ten
years, a provision which has been so
tfieresractically
neglected, that three centuries have ela since the
last council sat at Trent. Whether e conduct of
the council of Constance in burning Jon Hess, or
the authoritative and formal recognition by the coun-
cil of Trent of all the doctrines of Romanian which

are: most especially odious to protestants, forms the
chief recommendation of those synods to the favour of
our contemporary, we cannot may. Whatever may
have been the advantages of the practice in former
times, the age of councilaisgoneby. Fortwo centuries
before the time of LUTHER, the degeneracy and cor-
ruption of Rome, the extravagant interference of the
Pope with the rights of princes, especially with
those of the German emperors ; above all, perhaps, the
schism of Avignon, had caused a recurrence to the
ancient practice of the church, in summoning
a council, to be adopted as the general wish of
Christendom. The partial failure of the attempts
which had been made to realise this desire in no way
satisfied the world that it was useless to renew them,
till after the reformation and the second Council of
Trent. The first adherents to the reformation among
the German princes, and the more moderate among
those who adhered to the ancient faith, agreed in
believing in the efficacy of the old panacea. It was
still the universal belief that there was the one and only
true church, which might be discovered within the
existing organisation by removing the spurious addi-
tions and excrescences which concealed its original
form. Even as late as our own wars, the

presbyter's= themselves were fully persuaded
that they alone possessed the genuine and
orthodox form of church government established by
the founders of Christianity.. Much more plausibly
might reformers and sincere cathelics agree in the
middle of the sixteenth century, that an assembly of
divines, congregated according to the ancient custom
of the church, would be able to dispose of all the
difficulties which ~.ere then dividing Europe into two
hostile camps.
In later times the case has been different. Protcs-

tenth= is too positively established to compromise
itself by sly material concessions for the sake of
union; and catholicism itself, in being forced into
the position of a separate and exclusive body with
recognised opponents, has against its will taken
the character of a great sect, though it still
nominally claims to be the universal faith.
A council which should include the two greet
divisions of Western Christendom, is obviously
absurd and impossible ; and yet the whole
character of a general council would be lost when
protestant. were excluded from it. The only effect of
a catholic council would be, either, as is most probable,
to confirm the existing dogmas and practice of the
church, or, if it attempt any material change—as, for
instance, by interfering with the supremacy of the
Pope, or the celibacy of the clergy—to produce a new
schism as incurable as the division of the reformation.
A catholic in 1500 might naturally and consistently
wish to see almost all the practices of the church which
are obnoxious to protestants done away with by proper
authority, exercised within known ecclesiastical limits.
In the 19th century, to be a catholic, implies not
merely a general conformity to the church, but a dis-
tinct recognition of all the tenets and dogmas which
the reformation and the council of Trent have made
the conscious and distinct shibboleths of the Romish
faith.

We really cannot see why,as Protestants, we should
wish to see the constitutional remedy of the Standard
applied to papal despotism. General councils, after
all, were never intended for a standing constitutional
check on the authority of the Pope. They rather re-
sembled the conventions of American states, which
may, under certain circumstances, be convened
for the purpose of remodelling the constitu-
tion. If we suppose for a moment that each
a council was collected at Rome, or at Milan, for
such a purpose, what reasonable probability is there
that its decrees would bring catholic practice in any
way nearer to protestantism ? Archbishop WHALE
would scarcely move a resolution for suppressing the
power of bishops over their flocks ; the diocese of
Trey" fresh from the worship of the holy coat,
would not be too active in denouncing the absurdities
of relicmongery. All that can be known of the
matter is, that a judicious, temperate, and sensible
Pope is on the throne, and that a convocation of his
spiritual aristocracy would be much more likely to
deprive him of power for good, than to loosen any of
the fastenings of the fabric of bigotry.
Bat we are sally wasting time in arguing against
this chimera which our ingenious contemporary has
produced. Catholics who are not familiar with the
shades and subdivisions of Anglican views on church
government, and not unfrequently confound the
ultra-protestant body represented by the Standard
with the high church; which, in fact, leans more to
catholicism, may be puzzled by a declaration against
ecclesiastical monarchy by the defenders of the Eng-
lish church. As far as the clergy are concerned, our
own form of ecclesiastical government is wholly mo•
narchical. The bishops form a body of little spiri-
tual kings, an aggregate and not a confederacy, for
they are subject to no control even from their own
colleagues, and pay considerably less deference to their
nominal metropolitan than that which the electors of
the old empire displayed to their elected chief. Their
power is only limited by the want of means to en-
force
it, and by the occasional resistance of their sub-
jects,
obstacles which, as the history of Europe
has proved, are by no means among the least
efficient checks to despotism. As for provincial or
diocesan councils, the bishops would be singularly
astonished at their interference. Laymen of the less
enthusiastic sort see, not without complacency, the
comparative absence of doctrinal discussions and of
ecclesiastical interference, for which the English
church, under the dominion of its spiritual reguli, is
distinguished from other protestant denominations.
The squabbles of ultra-protestants and Puseyites,
loud as they were, would have been much more deaf-
ening if they had occurred under any but the unsym-
pathising dynasty of King LOG. The Scottish kirk,
at the same time, was rent in sander by differences
which, to the uninitiated, sound much less vital than
those which appear, under English episcopacy,
nearly to have bawled themselves to sleep. As
long, however, as we enjoy these negative advantages
of monarchical government, we cannot consistently '
call upon our catholic neighbours to adopt a constitu-
tion and a charter. They, in addition to their local
chiefs, recognise an imperial power at Rome. We
prefer the sovereignty of our own bishops, who have
not the smallest intention of sharing their power with
the spiritual " estates" of their dioceses.
Those who consider energy and activity the first
requisites of a church will perhaps be inclined to
apply our views to their own objects, and to think
that something of a constitution in which both clergy
and laity were admitted to a share in ecclesiastical
authority would be a useful modification of the
wading episcopal monarchies. It is quite certain
that patronage could hardly be worse ad-
ministered than at present, though it does
not follow that under a more popular government it
would be better disposed of. The chief danger, as
well as the evil,of a new system would consist in its in-
creased power of interference. The American branch
of the Anglican church already enjoys such a consti-
tution; and which, we believe, is considered to have
been a highly successful experiment. It is, however,
independent of the state. In England, a government
would probably find that ecclesiastical councils were
much more difficult to deal with than individual
bishops. We are not aware that any party at present
contemplates such an innovation ; but we will under-
take to prophesy that it will be carried into effect be-
fore the date of the next general council of catholic
christendom.

THE Queens both of SPAIN and PORTUGAL are per-
plexed at the present moment, and driven here and
there by the tides and influence of contending parties,
partly from the necessity, under which both their
Majesties are placed, of what we call going to the
country," and having a new election for the Cortes.
Donna MARIA has promised it. ISABELLA is
forced to it by the circumstance, that no party,
in the present Cortes or out of it, can com-
mand a majority. Similar counsels, from similarly
placed and antagonistic parties, are poured into
the royal ears. Fling yourself upon public opinion,
and into the arms of the liberals, who represent it, is
one species of advice, which England is considered to
approve. Beware of the revolutionary party, whis-
pers another voice, uttered or seconded by France;
liberal interests and views are opposed to those of
royalty. Queen MARIA of Portugal cordially sym-
pathises with the latter view of the question. Queen
IssaeLLA has not the same horror of liberals,
and she loves popularity. But it is, moreover,
whispered into her ear, do not fling your-
self into the party of the exaltados, for in that
case we, the moderados, will conspire. We command
the army, and are supported by France ; both ete-
mice, madam, and would shake you from your throne,
and dismiss those whom you love into shame and exile.
Issanua of SPAIN seems a woman capable of defy-
ing such threats. But she is embarrassed by a husband
whomight prove a formidable instrument of annoyance
in the hands of her foes. This husband she must either
pacify or divorce. She would much prefer the latter.
And we have little doubt that her Majesty frankly asked
of the liberal party, and of England, to undertake and
carry through the measure of divorce. England, no
doubt, held back from any such engagement, nor
would the liberal party undertake to carry it boldly
and successfully.. Upon this Queen ISABELLA bowed
graciously to the liberal party, but declared that she
would not be contented with cautious real or half
devotion ; and that since they would not deliver her
from her husband, she must turn to France and the
moderados, and ask them at least to pacify, and pro-
tect her from, that ogre, her husband.
We have little doubt that such is the true cause of
the installation of NARVAEZ. But whether this has
been done in despite, or from serious calculation;
whether it is but play lag with the pretensions of an
ambitious man ; or whether power is permanently
entrusted to him ; remains to be seen. If the Queen
has really and definitively given herself up to a
NARVAEZ ministry, she must have given him, at
the same time, a power to dissolve the cortex.
For with the present cortex he cannot stand.
If he have the power to dissolve, he will manage the
elections at the point of the bayonet, just indeed as
they were managed before. The circumstance of
NARVAEZ being so empowered and employed will
tempt DONNA MARIA of Portugal to do the same,
such being her avowed predilection ; and if so, we
r shall have once more in the two constitutional king-
doms of the peninsula two Cortes chosen under
mili-
tary influence, and assembled chiefly for the purpose
of perpetuating and raising funds for military
domination.

It Is premature, however, to suppose that the

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY

Queen has gitun NARVAI2 power of life and death
over the existing Cortes. He may have bete coal-
mistimed merely to try and form an alliance with
sone one of the constitutional parties, or a reconcilia-
tion with Mos. Bat this requires time, as well as
power ; Lid NARVAEZ may have been permitted to
form a temporary ministry for this purpose. His
cabinet, indeed, looks like an interim one ; his home
minister the ex editor of the Herald° ; his finance
minister nobody ; his other ministers stop-gaps. Ros
DE OLAND'S case is curious. This gentleman, as one of
the colleagues of Salamanca, had just issued an ordon-
nance, and a most important one, for superseding the
military governors ofprovinces, and appointing civilians
to be governors parr pasta with the captains general.
The ink was not dry on the decree when its promul-
gator became the colleague of NsnvArz, the up•
holder of military supremacy, and one who will make
as light of Ros DE OLANo's eedant arena toga as of
a cobweb. . .

It is with more than regret one sees, that whilst
the French King has so successfully plotted against
Queen ISABELLA'S happiness, French writers, even
those opposed to that King, are as merciless towards
her Majesty's reputation. Thus the Prone and Na-
tional both join in attributing the recent changes at
Madrid to causes which hare never existed at a court
save at that of CATHARINE the SECOND. The jealousy
entertained by General SERRANO of a certain Co.I
GANDERA is said to be the great cause of ministerial
revolution. There is not a peg of truth or probability
on which to hang this scandalous calumny. But it
completes the work of Louis PHILIPPE, in destroying
a princess whose sole substantial support must he in
her character and in popular respect.

IT is supererogatory to urge that the punishment of
death should be inflicted with all decorum, and with
the least aggravation of the feelings of the sufferer, or
to insist that this should be observed more carefully
at one time than another. But if more care could be
displayed, it should be shown at a time, when there is
fermenting a kind of moral insurrection on the partof a
heat of humane people against the punishment of death
at all. If that dread penalty ►e necessary for the deter-
ring from great crimes, and for the protection of the
public at large, those who are convinced of this
should take care that circumstances should not arise
in the fulfilment of the sentence, which awaken sym-
pathy for the culprit, and swell objections to the
law into execration of it.
We are sorry to say, that the execution of HUTCH-
ISGA, at Maidstone, had this untoward effect : he was
convicted upon evidence, by no means overwhelming,
and under circumstances that awakened the sympathy
of many in his behalf. Domestic treason, the poison-
ing of wife or husband, is certainly a crime difficult of
detection, too heinous for mitigated penalty, and of a
nature to render all authorities anxious that the guilty
should not escape. The bare possibility of innocence is,
however, in the present age, enough to rouse active
and humane interference. Such was the case in the
affair of HUTCHINGS. A most generous and philanthropic
person felt prompted to make inquiry, and he found
certain circumstances bearing on the case of Horco-
INGS, and telling in his favour, which had not come
out on the trial. His discovery was late. He could
but hurry to town on the day fixed for execu-
tion. Referred to the Home-office, he found
there one of the authorities, but not the
authority, with whom rests the considering, weighing,
and deciding cases of this nature. This personage
had not reached the office. Until he came, his bro-
ther official most humanely consented to stay the
execution by the sole means by which it could be
stayed—the electric telegraph. It was a legitimate use
of that new invention of man. It was employing
the ' wings of lightning' in the cause of mercy.
When, however, the Secretary, peculiarly charged
withthe dread responsibility of life and death, did reach
his office, and hear the new circumstances and pleas
alleged in behalf of the condemned, he saw no sufficient
reason for averting or suspending the arm of the law.
And then recourse was had to the electric telegraph
to order the execution of the original warrant. We
must say that this seems too light and unauthentic a
way of transmitting so dread an order. The impropriety
was felt at once, both at the railroad station and at
the Home-office. But in any other way the end of
the law, the verdict of the jury, and the determina-
tion of the crown officer, would have been defeated.
We cannot then affix blame anywhere. Humane mo-
tives influenced one official; right, though stern duty,
influenced the other. There was no vacillation, none
of the neglect which has been a subject of complaint.
But we cannot but regret an execution which excited
such sympathy for the condemned—sympathy ren-
dered more painfully intense by the unfortunate cir-
cumstance of the suspension of the fatal order, followed
by its final enforcement.

The only subject of domestic interest which en-
gages the attention of the French public at present is
the reform agitation, which gathers strength as it
progresses, and gives undiasembled uneasiness to the
government. Our Paris letters of Saturday mention
several approaching demonstrations on this subject in
the provinces. In the eastern departments reform
banquets are announced at Besaneon and Dole, and
in the northern at Cambrai, Dunkerque, Aveanes, and
Lille. In all instances the numbers assembled have
been considerable, and remarkable also for the high
position and influential character of the leading mem-
bers. The legitimists, who until lately abstained
from participating in this movement, have now joined
it. It is sufficiently apparent that preparations are
in progress in the chateau to gauge public opinion,
with the view of ascertaining the minimum amount
of concession—the smallest possible reformation of the
system—that will appease the country, and give the
government a temporary respite from this exigency.
The opening of the next session will disclose the
amount of this estimate.
The Moniteur has the following :
France until very lately has only had a very indirect and
insignificant trade with Persia, carried on exclusively by
the inhabitants of the eastern nations, who repaired to Con-
stantinople, and even to the fairs of Germany, to purchase
our products, which they imported by the way of Erzeroum
and Teuria, and in exchange for which goods of Persian
origin were sent to us by way of Smyrna. This gate of
things has for the last few years been improving. The
abandonment of the ancient means of communication has
already favoured, in a sensible proportion, the relations of
Europe with Persia, relations which cannot fail to be mate-
rially increased by the establishment of the lines of steam-
boats which traverse the Mediterranean, lied which now ex.
tend their ramifications as far as the port of Trebizoed, which
is become the principal entrepot of the trade with Persia.
In the presence of such a state of things it was important to
secure for ourselves guarantees for the future, and for this
object to seek to convert the friendly assurances which our
minion to Persia had at different times received from the
cabinet at Teheran into positive and formal stipulations. The
government, therefore, charged the; Count de Sartigua to
propose to the Pereun cabinet to sign a treaty of commerce
and navigation, which should secure for us in Persia the
treatment of the mast favoured nation, and which wenl4,
moreover, give to the French government the power of ap-
pointing consoler agents at those points where the commer-
cial interests of the two countries might require it. After •
negotiation, in the course of which our envoy at Teheran
received the most positive testimonies of the desire
which animated the Persian government, and parties
laxly from the first minister of the Shah Hadji-Mizze-
Agassi, to preserve the most friendly relations with France,
the treaty in question was signed by the respective plenipo-
tentiaries on the 24th July last. It is composed of six arid-
, cies, which are the development of the principle founded on
the treaties of the most favoured nations, and the tenor of
which completely responds to the dignity of the King's go-
vernment, to the interests of French commerce in Persia,
and to the protection of French subjects. Art. 1 secures to
the French the right of travelling, carrying on business, !r-
-aiding and establishing mannfactones of any kind on the
Persian territory, and to be there treated in every respect as
subjects of the most favoured nation, that is to asy, as Rus-
sian subjects whose privileges were stipulated for in the
treaty of commerce signed at Turkmen Tehas, February
10, 1828. According to the treaties concluded with Persia by
Runia and Great Britain merchandise imported into Persia
by the. subjects of these powers pay 5 per cent. entrance duty
into the kingdom, and goods exported the name duty of 5
per rent. Such will be, in this respect, our treatment in
Persia, according to the terms of Art. 2, which is drawn up
in such a way, that if any reduction of the above duty should
be made in favour of another power, we shall be allowed to
participate in that advantage. Articles 3,4, and 5 have
for object to invest the agents of the King's government with
an entire jurisdiction over French residents; to guarantee
the rights of heirs of Frenchmen who might die in Per-
sia; and to grant reciprocally the power of establishment
of consuls on points where their presence might be of
respective utility, viz . for France, at Teheran, the seat of the
Persian government sad the centre of the political interests ;
at Tauris, the grand entrepot of the trade of the provinces of
Aderbaidjan, Irak, Hamadan, and Kurdistan; and at Bender
Bouellin, the port for imports from India and Europe, and
with which our colony of Bourbon is prepared to enter into
advantageous relations. On her side, 1 ranee will receive
Persian agents at Paris, Marseilles, and Bourbon, if the Shah
shsula think proper to acered.t. them. In giving, by royal
ratification, • definitive sanction to this treaty, the King's
I government hopes that the stipulations it contains, at the
same time that they attest the friendly dispositions with
which the Pasian government is animated, are of a nature

;WING, OCTOB2R 11, 1847.

to assure to Prance a «end and suitable position in those
distant countries, and to there «tend our commercial rola-
does. The persevering skill which Count de Sortie'
has evinced during hie resident* at Teheran has tended to
proggce tete admatageons result, conErmed by the sending
of an ambassador to Rea, the importance of which has
escaped no one in the Eat The chief of this mission, Moham-
med Ali Khan, was moreover, by the elevation of his mind
and his knowledge of European affairs, the personage best
calculated to attaus the objects proposed by the Persian go-
verment.
The Duke d'Aumale sailed on the Srd from Toulon
for Algiers, accompanied by his suite.
The Prince Jerome Bonaparte, ex-King of Wur-
temberg, has arrived in Paris, after an exile of thirty-
two years.
M. Alexandre Brogniart, the well-known mine-
ralogist, died at Paris on Friday, is his 78th year.
He was director of the royal porcelain manufactory of
Sevres, at which he resided.
Marshal Soult, whose return to Paris was prema-
turely announced some days ago, arrived in that city
on Thursday evening.

The details of the ministerial crisis in Madrid, the
result of which was already communicated by tele-
graph, have arrived by the regular mail of the 4th.
It appears that the event was totally unexpected.
The decrees appeared in the Gazette of the 4th. They
are as follows : .

Considering the reasons which have been exposed to me
by Don Florenclo Garcia Goyena, I have accepted the resig-
nation which he has made of the charges of President of the
Council of Ministers, and Minister of Grace and Justice, re-
maining highly aatia&ed with the :cal and loyalty with
which he has executed them. Given at she palace, the 4th
October, 1847. Signed by the royal hand, and countersigned
Antonio Roe de Olano, Minister of Public Instruction, Com-
merce, and Public Works. Considering the circumstances
which unite in the person of Don Ramon Maria Name:,
Duke of Valencia, and Captain-General in the army, I no-
minate him President of the Council of Ministers. Consider-
ing the particular circumstances which unite in the person of
the Captain-General of the army Don Ramon Maresca,
Duke of Valencia, senator of the kingdom, and my mhos-
' seder to my august uncle the King of the French, and exer-
cising the prerogative which is conferred on me by article
45 of the constitution, I nominate him Minister of State
(Foreign Affairs).
These two decrees are countersigned by M. Roe de
Olano. The decrees accepting the resignation of M.
Cortazar, Miniater of Foreign Affairs, M. Salamanca,
Minister of Finance, M. de la Escosura, Minister of
the Interior, and M. Sotelo, Minister of Marine, are
countersigned " Duke of Valencia, President of the
Council of Ministers," and are couched in the same
terms as that relative to the resignation of M. Go-
yena. Another decree declares that M. de Ccrdova,
Minister of War, and M. Ros de Olano, Minister of
Public Instruction, lave offered their resignations,
but that they have not been accepted. This decree is
also countersigned by the Duke de Valencia, as are
also those which appoint M. Lorenzo Arrazola, de-
puty, and fiscal of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice,
Minister of Justice ; M. Francisco de Paula Or-
lando, Count of Romer's, Senator of the
Kingdom and General Military Intendant, Minister
of Finance; M. Luis Jose Sartorius, Vice-President
of the Chamber of Deputies, and minister plenipoten-
tiary, minister of the interior. No decree appears
filling up the vacancy in the ministry of marine.
The Clamor Public°, writing, before the change
was known, states that it was reported that
decrees would appear the next morning in the
Gazette, nominating the Duke de la Victoria (Es-
partero) Spanish minister in London, and General
ro captain-general of New Castille. The Faro,
however, announcesthat the latter was to be appointed
to the captaincy-general of Madrid.
We give below the letter of our own correspondent.
Other private letters profess to give a report more or
less circumstantial of the events which preceded
and produced the crisis. According to these (which,
however, come from a partisan of the moderados),
MM. Salamanca and Escosura, urged by the counsels
of Mr. Bulwer, had been labouring for some time to
neutralise certain " high influences," and the object
to which their efforts were directed was to induce the
Queen to favour a modification of the cabinet in the
sense of the progresistas. "In a word," say these
letters, " to substitute one influence for another influ-
ence." These proceedings were betrayed to the Nar-
vaez party by what fell from the Queen herself, and
by a favourable disposition evinced by her to listen to
other counsels. Narvaez, apprised of this, took steps in
accordance with it, the result of which was, that the
ministry was offered to him unconditionally. Before
7 o'clock on the evening of the 3d he was appointed
president of the council. The cabinet were in session
at the Hotel of Foreign Affairs at two o'clock on the
morning of the 4th, when General Norveca presented
himself en grande tenue, accompanied by M. Has de
Olano, when he delivered himself thus : " Gentlemen,
her Majesty has deigned to appoint me president of
the council. M 7 loyalty and devotion to her Majesty
have rendered it my duty to obey her commands in
accepting that office. My wish would have been to
have presided over the present cabinet, but that is not
possible, since it has not a majority in the cartes. I
have, therefore, taken upon me to compose a new
cabinet. I have informed her Majesty of this, and
her Majesty has ordered me to demand your collective
resignation."
This address was listened to in profound silence,
and the resignation of the ministers was immediately
drawn out and signed in due form.
It was said that the first act of the new ministry
would be to annul all the late decrees published by
M. Salamanca.

The advice' from Catalonia report the Carlist bands
to be augmented in numbers, and greatly strength-
ened II
by discipline and organisation. Their commu-
nications are sufficiently perfect to enable the separate
bands to co-operate with effect in a common object.
Thus Boquica, Marsas, Castel!, and other chiefs, by a
combined movement, surprised and took by assault
and escalade, on the 30th ult., the important post of
Bergs. They occupied the town for six hours, seized
the funds in the public cheats, and withdrew, taking
with them three of the wealthiest inhabitants, who
would only be set at liberty on a high ransom.

Letters from Switzerland report the proceedings of
the Lendsgemeindes of the cantons of the Sonderbund.
Those of Zug and Uri assembled on the morning of
the 3rd. The former, consisting of 4,000, voted unani-
mously to maintain, by force of arms, what they con-
sidered the cantonal rights. The latter, consisting of
3,500, voted, by a majority of 300 to 500, to thank
the cantonal government for its conduct in respect to
the Sonderbund. Tue Landsgemeindes of Unter-
walden were to have assembled on Sunday (yester-
day). No doubt was entertained of the adhesion of
them to the lft:e. A report was current that an
attempt bad been made to assassinate M. Sails
Soglio, the commander-in-chief of the army of the
Sonderbund.

The same cloud bangs over the intelligence from
Naples. We have letters arriving simultaneously by
different routes and with different dates—the 23rd and
27th ult., and the let inst. Their contents are con-
fused and unsatisfactory, but altogether at variance
with the reports given in the official journal of the
Neapolitan governmet.t, which indeed are utterly
unworthy of credit. The city of Naples is represented
by a letter dated there on the 27th, as being, in fact,
in a state of siege. Night and day the streets are
patrolled by the gendarmerie. Agents of the police
swarm in all quarters, often disguised. The posts are
all doubled, including those of the palace. The can-
nons planted before the royal residence are kept con-
stantly loaded with grape, and the artillery even have
the matches always lighted. The gendarmes have
orders to fire on the people if any movement be ob-
served or cry of liberty uttered. The same letters re-
affirm the death of General Nunziante.
The Augsburg Gaulle, under the date of Naples, the
23rd ult., says that alarming news had then arrived
from the seat of insurrection in Calabria, in conse-
quence of which strong reinforcements were sent
there. Guerilla bands were formed in the mountains
behind lteggio. Disbanded soldiers, retired officers
wealthy landholders, and various private persons had
joined the insurrection. A landed proprietor, having
an annual income of 11,000 ducats, had been taken
and shot. The insurgents are represented as well
disciplined, and amply provided with money. Their
cry is " Long live the King, but down with the
government ! This staggers the troops employed
against them, who say, " If that be all that is asked
the King may easily tranquillise the country without
bloodshed."
The losses sustained by the royal troops were indi-
cated by the quantity of uniforms of soldiers killed
which were brought to Naples. Seven of the Romeo
family were among the leaders. No one seemed to
doubt that the insurgents received supplies from
Malta. •
The government were lavishing money, and hone-
vary decorations on let October on all those who bad
signalised themselves by basely betraying the eonfi-
s deuce reposed in them by the insurgents. Informers

and spice received money and the order of Francis I.
General Lamle, the author of the infamous proclama-
tion issued at Messina, exhorting the ;opie to become
spies and informers, was rewarded being named
commander of the order of St. Ferdinand. All in-
formation from Sicily is stopped, nor was anything
known at Naples of the condition of that island,
except by the government. All correspondence with
the island was rigorously intercepted by the govern-
ment. The day alter the official journal of the
government announced that the insurrection in Cala-
bria was suppressed strong re-inforeements were
sent there, and arrests were continued to a frightful
extent.

A letter of Oct. 1 says, that " the Queen-Mother
(who is understood to be opposed to the system of
terror) was dangerously ill, and required to see all
her children, and among the rest the Count of Syra-
cuse, banished by the King on account of his liberal
principles, and the Prince of Capua. This consolation
was rigidly refused to the dying parent"
Advises from Rome say that the surrender of the
guard-houses of Ferrara to the Papal authorities
would be formally made on the 3rd inst., or according
to others on the Bth. Letters from Naples quoted by
the Roman journals confirm in substance the above
reports.

MADRID, Ocr. 4.
Boa de Olano and Cordova have at last consum-
mated their design, which I announced to you some
days after the formation of the Goyena-Salamanca
cabinet, of ousting their colleagues and bringing in
Narvaez. The marvellous Gazettes of the last week
have been crowned to day by one which, for the start-
ling nature of its announcements, leaves all the rest
far behind.

First, we have the record of the resignation of
Goyena of the Presidency of the Council and the Mi-
nistry of Orace and Justice. The next decree is the
appointment of Narvaez as President of the Council.
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The resignations of Cortazar, Salamanca, &COMM,
and Sotelo, follow. Cordova and Res de Olano re-
main in their places. The rest of the new ministry
are D. Lorenzo Arrazola, Minister of Grace and Jus-
tice; D. Francisco Orlando, Minister of Finance;
and 1). Jose Sartorius, Minister of the Interior. The
Minister of Marine is yet to be named.
Thus another of Spain's ephemeral cabinets has
fallen, and, as usual, without any better assignable
reason than the mere caprice of the " master of the
situation," to use a cant phrase of the Madrid press.
Symptoms of crisis first broke out on Saturday
evening. It is a singular and suspicious circumstance '
that Salamanca and I3uschenthal should have chosen
this moment for going into the country. Salamanca,
after leaving the Principe Theatre,drove to Aranjuez,
and when he returned yesterday evening the whole
affair had been settled. Ros de Olano brought
Narvaez with him to Serrano's house yesterday after-
noon, and late at night D. Ramon Maria left the palace
with his premiership in his pocket. The council of
ministers was sitting when he entered at three this
morning, and announced the mission with which he
had been just charged by the Queen. It has been said
that Salamanca at first indignantly refused to resign ;
but this, I understand from the best authority, is not
true. The only person who expressed himself with
any warmth was Goyena, who inveighed in bitter
terms against the treachery and intrigue that had
been employed to supplant the ministry. So closely
and rapidly has this revolution (for you may call it
that) been effected, that yesterday morning few of
the ministers had the least notion of what was going
on. Escosura was found playing with his children
by the person who brought him the news, which he
received like a thunder-clap—as well be might: all
his great civil reform is now swept into limbo. The
eleven grand governors who were sworn in on Satur-
day, and were just setting out for their principalities,
will have now to ungown and unring. and bid adieu
to 120,000 reels annual. And Salamanca's five de-
crees, what will become of them?—his pulleys for
hoisting the threes. Limbo, that gulps all abortions,
is their doom; and the name of Don 1054:' will have
been written in water.

However respectable the authorities from whom I
hear that Salamanca has accepted a large sum of
money, and however suspicious his absence at such a
critical juncture may appear, those who know the
character of the man suspect that he has played the
part rather of dupe than traitor upon the present oc-
casion. There is some talk about Serrano having
conceived that he was plotting against him ; and that
the famous paragraph in the Faro had some founda-
tion in fact. The pelt which tierrano use played in
this business appears. at present most odious, and
unless it can be explained must cover him with igno-
miny. It is said that his mind has been influenced
much by the fact of Gurrea, Espartero's secretary,
having abstained from paying him any visit. It has
I been represented to him that this neglect, which must
have arisen from positive instructions of Espartero to
his secretary, is a sufficient token that the Duke of
Victory would work his downfall were he to return
to Madrid. At the same time seeing that he has
sacrificed his own popularity to his ambition, and, on
the other hand, that "no faith is to be put in priacee,"
he has determined, perhaps, to shelter himself against
all sinister eventualities, under the sword of a power-
, ful friend.

Of course, the funds have given a jump. But Nar-
vaez, of old, was noted for his skill in wielding this
engine of opinion.

FRANCE.—PARTS, OCT. O.—TRIAL OF M. DE
BEAVVALLON.—The charge of perjury against M. de Beau-
'anon came on on the Bth inst. before the Paris Court of
Arise. All the circumstances of the cue out of which this
prosecution arose have been so fully before the public that
it is necessary only to mention now the leading points. It
will be remembered that when M. d'Ecquevilley, one of the
emends in the duel between M. de Beauvallon and M.
Dislarrier, was tried not long ago on a charge of perjury, M.
de Beauvallon appeared as a witness, and deposed to certain
facts, which the jury by their verdict against hi. d'Ecquevil-
ley declared to be false. M. de Beauvallon, being contra-
dicted by other evidence, was ordered into custody, and, after
an inquiry by the Chambre des Misren Accusation, a war-
rant was made out for his trial before the Court of Anise,
The chief point in the evidence of M. de Beauvallon, on be
half of M. crEcquivilley, was as to the pistols which were
used. Beauvallon strenuously denied that they had been
tried by him in the garden of d'Ecquevilley, at Chaillot,
whereas other witnesses deposed that they had. Yesterday,
after the usual interrogatories as to the age, profession, &c., of
the prisoner, M. de Beauvallon was asked by the president
whether it was not one of the conditions of the duel that the
pistols should be unknown to either of the principals in the
duel, to which he replied, that he was not aware of this until
after the duel. Being next questioned ea to the trial of
the pistols in the garden of hi. d Ecquevilley, he denied that
any had taken place, or that he had made an appointment
with M. de Meynard to go there with him for that purpose.
He stated that he was afraid M. d'Ecquevilley would
not be up sufficiently early for the duel, and had re-
solved to go to his house to rouse him, and, as M. de Mey.
nard had promised to accompany him, an appointment was
made to that effect. The prisoner also denied the truth of
I the evidence of Madame Valori, who swore, on the trial of
D'llequevilley, that he (Beauvallon) had called on her, and
WY bar he was going to try the pistols. He was next
:aided of the evidence of M. de Bertrand, who swore
dog, as the ground, be put his finger into one of, the pistol-
-1 beesoband withdrew it blackened, thus showing that it had
been mostly used, and of the corroborative testimony of Dr.
Gain. He declared that he was utterly ignorant of this cir-
cumstance. The President having reminded him of the de-
scriPtioa given by N. de Meynard of the locality where the
pistols were tried, the prisoner said nothing of what M. de
Meynard had stated as to what took place was true, and
that he had gone to the garden to study the locality and in-
vent the fable which he had recited in court. He was next
asked why he had concealed that the pistols which were
used at the duel were theproperty of his brother-iu-law,M.
Granier de Camagnac. He said that he had not concealed it,
but had mentioned the fact to several persons. In contu-
sion, he admitted that be had sworn, on the trial of M. &Ea
quevilley, that the pistols had not been tried by him (M.
Beauvallon), and persisted in the assertion. The first
witness called was M. de Meynard, who repeated the evi-
dence which he had given in the former CAM as to the trial
of the pistols, &c., by M. de Besvallou, hi. do Meynard de-
clared that he had no animosity against the prisoner, and
had given his evidence only from a sense of public duty.
The prisoner said he believed that M. de Meynard had an
animosity against him. It would be for his counsel, at the
proper time, to state the cause. The President said the time
had arrived, but the prisoner persisted in remaining silent,
observing, however, that the cause of animosity was of a
nature.to strike the court and the jury when it should be
made known. At
length, being pressed by the President,
he said with some hesitation that it was jealousy about a
female. M. de Meynard, he said, bad at one time paid his
court to a female, and, thinking be had been supplanted by
him, had resolved to be revenged. There was not, he added,
a word of truth in what M. de Meynard had sworn against
him. hl. de Meynard, with greatenergy,denied Olathe had
ever entertained the feeling ascribed to him by the prisoner,
and again declared that he had sworn truly, and from no
other motive than a sense of what was clue to justice. The
prisoner produced some letters from a female, from which it
would appear that M. de Meynard was much irritated
against M. de Beauvallon, end had pursued her with his as•
nullities after wounding her husband in • duel. M. de Mey-
nerd protested that there never was any ground for this state-
ment. He admitted that he had fought a deed with the
husband ; but asserted that he had always professed the
most profound respect for the wife. He was not in Paris
at the time when he was ststsd ,in the letters to hare paid

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the visit, there spoiken of. Several other witnesees, who had
been heard at the former trial, then repeated their testim
and the court adjourned to Battirday. ony,
ITALY.—CrausGi OF ROME.—The census was
made during the first fort tight of April, Easter tide, the
result of which is, that the p2polation, exclusive of the Jew.
ink community of the Ghetto, AS 17.5,883. In 1846 the num.
bee of persons in Rome was 170,199 ; the births are to the
entire population as 1 to 9 ; the de.sths as 1 to 30; the daily
births about I 5; monthly, 458; the deaths about 16 per
diem ; 489 monthly.
HOLLAND. THE RAOUL, OCT. 9. prince
Alexander continues to improve in his health, although bat
slowly„
AUSTRIA.—GALLICIA.—LEMBEIG, SEEL 27.--
The report that the cholera has broken out in Odessa ha. been
confirmed. Preparations are being made here, and pre.
ventionary measures taken by the erection of hospitals, &e.
THE PRESENT STATE OF THE ARMY OF AUSTELt•
—The Austrian army is composed of 58 regiments of infantry
of the hoe (43 of Gerriana, Galician, and Italians, and 15
Hungarians); these regiments are divided in 194 battalions
of the line, and 20 battalions of grenadiers, forming a total
of 233,461 men. To these regiments are joined the MU&
lions of the Ist Landwehr of the 35 German regiments of the
hereditary states. Each battalion counts 4 companies, and the
total of the battalion' amounts to 31.000 men. The infantry,
called the frontier infantry, comprises 36 battalions, and one
battalion of Getikiates (in all, 49,981 men); the regime=
of Tyrolean shooters, and 12 other battalions of shooters.
The Tyrolean are divided into 4 battalion* and 24 com-
panies, counting 5,459 men. The other battalions count
15,336 men. The battalions at the garrison form a total
of 6,716 men. Thus, in a state of peace, the whole
infantry of the empire is composed of 289 battalions
' and 1,568 companies, presenting en effictive forte
of 341,963 men. In forming divisions of merve
and the second battalions of Laisdivehr, the number
reaches in time of war 490,000 men. The Austrian cavalry
is divided into 8 regiments of cuiramiers, 7 regiments of
dragoons, 7 regiments of light horse, 12 of hussars. and 4
regiments of lancer", forming 268 squadrons in time of
pease, and 305 in time of war. The total of the cavalry in
time of peace is 48,812 men, having 44,909 horses; in time
of war, 64,560 men ; and 62,122 horses for the service of the
state. The Austrian artillery is composed, besides the fire
regiments of campaign artillery, of the corps of boatbarden
and artificers, and of the artillery of the garrison and arsenal;
total, 24,251 men, without counting the artillery train. In
time of war the five regiments of artillery supply men to
serve 200 batteries and 1,200 cannons. The special corm, the
staff of the quartermaster-general, the pioneers, the engi.
neon, give, on an average, a force of 1,030 men ; thus, the
total forces of Austria, including the imperial navy of 7,539
men, present, in time of peace, an effective firm of 441,065
men. There are now but six field marshals, among whom
is the l)uke of Wellington. In 1816 there were 25 generals
of artillery and cavalry, 96 lieutenant-field.minhals, and
123 majors general in active service.—Gazelle d'AlythoUry,
Oct. 3.

AUSTRIAN FINANCE.—The Austrian Obserrer, a
semi-official organ of the cabinet of Vienna, had, on the lst
inst., the following :—ln consequence of a resolution of the
18th Nov., 18.16, a bank of credit, public and extraordinary,
was created, in order to obtain, by the pecuniary means
which are especially placed at its climatal, shares of public
railway companies, at prices conformable to their true value.
The elm of this bank was to come to the assistance of those
persons who, being holders of shares of this kind, might be
in want of money, and thus reanimate the movements of
the Bourse, and bring back order and tranquillity in the cir-
culation of cash. This aim was attained, notwithstanding
the great quantity of cash which was requisite ; but in con-
sequence of the bad harvest during the two last years, and
of the sums, beyond all proportion, which hare been era
!sloped in railway speculations, and the disasten which this
bag created in all the principal m irkets of Europe, another
crisis has occurred still worse than the former. For this reason
government has judged proper to come to the assistance of
the railway shareholder. To attain this end the most
considerable means have been employed, and now that more
than the half of railway shares has been bought in, and that
the Bourse has value sufhAent in hind, it is perhaps time to
put a stop to the assistance granted to public credit. After
due consideration his Majesty has resolved, that from the
29th of Sept. last the operations of the extraordinary bank
of credit be definitively stopped.

AMERICA.—The value of the sugar crop of
Louisiana stands next to cotton, and it is the second most
important item in the table of receipts at New Orleans. The
l'rice Current of that thy, in a review of the sugar crop,
Min :
In our last annual report we took occasion to remark, in reference to
the mop then maturing, that notwithstanding a material is in
the cultivation, so unpropitious had been the season, that a material
curtailment of the production, as compared with the two previous
years, penned highly probable, if not inevitable. The result, so far as
It can be entertained, has proved the deaciency to he even greater
than the mast gloomy anticipations at the date to which we refer.
The crop doe, not vatted 10,060 hhcb., which, with the contented
stock an hand on the Ist of September 1846, would make a supply of
142,500 bade. The first receipt of the new crop was 011 the .th of
October, when 18 Ithder. came to hand, two of which being well drained
and of prime quality brought tie., and the other sweet 6c. per lb.
round. The next sale was 16 hhda. at Slc., and subsequently 9 hhda.
a*.. Sic. to filc. per lb. The few • canoeing pork arriving met
with ready sale, and at well curtained prices, the clock
of old crop bring exhausted, and by the last of October the market
may be said to have fairly opened, as buyers fr.,m the north
came forward and took several hundred blab. at a range of Sic. to
Gle. per lb. From this time up to near the clone of the Winos
serum the market in the city woo generally active, and prices very
full, without any remarkable fluctuations. Indeed the rates weremnie.
tanned with great steadiness, aotwithrtanding increming supplies;
and from the Ist November to the latter part of February fair sugars
on the levee remained within a range of Sic. to hie, the extreme
range durtog the same period being 410. for very inferior to tic. foe
strictly prime. Since Febriony the market has generally been less
animated than previously. Vet y few purchases hare been made for
the northern markets, but prices have been sustained at a high
range, our clo ing quotations being 51c. to lje. per lb. fur common
to choice, of which latter the market h:s been nearly bare for
, some time pet. The first eale of any eon...emit rice on planta-
tion was la the early part of November, when a crop of 304 Mute,
represented to be fully fair, was disposed of at Sic. per lb. Sub.*.
quakily there were some gales at Sic. to Gr., but as the grinding of
Inc cane gm:needed, the yield was se meagre, that the impression
gained ground that the crop must be very materially short of last
year, and also considerably lees than the estimates earlier in the we.
we, sad planters consequently were very firm, many refusing to
name a price for their crops until the probable occult was more fully
develimed. During January and February a good many crops
were disposed of, the greater portion on terms that were not
allowed to transpire, though we obtained particulars of • num.
her at go. to Gic. per lb., and in April revered crops were
taken at Bic. to 7c. per lb., which was the highest point of
the season. At this time most of the remaining stock had paned Into
second hands, and the high prices conweed for by holders competed
northern buyers to withdraw, while western dealers diverted a large
portion of their purchases to the Cube supra, which have here un-
usually abundant in our market, and latterly have been afforded at
about L cent per lb. Ina than a secular quality of Louitiana produc-
tion. Consequently our market far mate months past has teen ex.
eredingly heavy, and closes with a 'tackle the state estimated at shout
4,000 Mak. *lth regard to the crop now in prawns, it affords us
pleasure to state that all accounts from the interior concur in repre-
senting it an affording meet flattering promise. And ahmild the
weather continue favourable and the cane escape the blighting effects
of an early front there Is gad reason to export that the product of
thin Important staple dour state will exceed that of any previous year
since the Introduction of its cultivation.

THE WASHINGTON.—SOUTIIAMETON, OCT. 10.—
The reading rooms here were crowded last evening to read
the important commercial intelligence brought by the Ame-
rican Ocean steamer Washington, which apreared exclu-
sively in the Daily Neal and the Express. The Washing.
ton came up to Southampton to coal yesterday, and left for
Bremen at da, break this morning. Her cargo consisted of
600 tons of cotton.

fry the Scourge, steam-sloop, Commander Coffin, to lAshors,
where the Queen Dowager will land and make a short skit
to the Queen of Portugal, then re-embark on board the
Rowe and sail for Madain, the Scourge continuing in tom-
paoy with the Howe. The Vixen steamer, Commander
Eyder, it is said, will follow, and join the royal cortege at
Lisbon, and will thee be despatched onward to announce that
her Majesty the Queen Dowager is on her passage to the
island from Madeira. It is arranged that the Scourge shall
communicate frequently with the island of Madeira. The
royal cortege on board the Howe consists of 4:1 personages.
'The Scourge has her Majesty's horses and carriages on board.
Pour additional lieutenants have been appointed to the Howe
for this voyage only, as two will be in each watch during the
whole time of Queen Adelaide's sojourn afloat.
MINISTERtaL MOVEMENTS.—The Marquis of Lans-
downe (the Lord President of the Council) to expected to
arrive at Lansdowne House, from Bowood Park, IVelts, this
evening or to-morrow morning, to preside at the cabinet
council to-morrew.—The Earl Grey LI to leave Howick hall,
Northumberlaed, to-day, for Hatchet, near Windeer,whenco
his lordship comes to town to morrow.—The Marquis of
Clanricarde came to town yesterday, accompanied by the
Marchioness and Lady Emily de Burgh, from 'Will], the
Earl and Countess Cowper, at P sash anger, Herts.—The Right
Hon. Sir J. Cam Hohhouse returns to London to-day from
Erlitoke Park, Wilts, in order to be present at the
meeting of the cabinet.—The Right Hen. T. B. Macaulay
has arrived in town.—The Lord Chancellor is to arrive
in Park-lane to-morrow, from Copee.bill.—Viscount and
Viscountess Palmerston leave Broadlands, Hants, this morn-
ing, for London, and proceed to Windsor Castle an a visit to
her Majesty, the noble Viscount intending to return from,
Windsor to-morrow forenoon with Lord John Russell, who,
with her ladyship, arrived on a visit to her Majesty at the
castle on Saturday last —The Right lion. Sir Cl. Grey, the
Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of
Auckland, Viscount Morpeth, and the Right Hon. 11. La-
houchere, ere already arrived in town.
Tut EAra. orMINTo.—The subjoined is an ex-
tract from a private letter, dated Turin, the 2nd instant :
The Earl of Minto snd Lad Elizabeth Elliot arrived at the
residence of his excellency the Hon. Ralph and Lady Mary
Abercromby, from Switzerland, after a brief sojourn at
Berne. The Countess and Lady Charlotte Elliot had pre-
viously arrived from a tour of the German Spas. The
Earl of Minto had an audience of the King of Sardinia
and was received by that sovereign with the greatest dis-
tinction. It is understood that the noble earl, who will be
accompanied by the Countess of Minns and daughters, will
not go to Rome until he reeadves further despatches from
England.
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BANQUET AT THE MANSION - HOUSE TO
THE DUK E OF CAMBRIDGE.
On Saturday a grand entertainment was given in
the Egyptian Hall by the Lord Mayor and the Lady
Mayoress to the Duke of Cambridge and a number of dis-
tinguished and fashionable guests. Upwards of 260, of
whom a great number were ladies, sat down to dinner.
Besides his royal hiehness the Duke of Cambridge, there
were present Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, M.P., the Lord
Mayor, the American Minister, the three Polish princes,
Saiiietra, Ladislau, Czartowske, and Adam Sapietra ; the
Lord Chief Baron, his eleellency W. Brooke, her Majesty's
Commissioner for Borneo; Count Zamoyski, Mr. Master.
man, H.P., Mr. Walter, M.P., Mr. Archibald Hardie,
M.P., Mr. Waddington, M.P., Mr. Cubitt, M.P., Sir Peter
Laurie, Alderman Farebrother, Alderman Kelly, Alderman
Humphery, M.P. ,Sir W. Mammy, Bart.. Alderman John
eon, the Hon. C. B. Law, AI.P., the sheriffi, &c.
After the usual loyal toasts, the Lout, MAYOR proposed
the health of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
and the rest of the royal family. The continuance of the
esteem and affection which the royal duke always entertained
for the City of London was proved by his royal highness's
appearance that day at the board of its chief mutistrate. Ile
trusted that his royal highness would long continue in the
full enjoyment of health to honour the citizens with the
patronage from which they derived so much credit arid
advantage.
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE returned thank, for the very
flattering manner in which kis health had been drunk, in
connexion with the health of the rest of the illustrious family
to which he belonged. He assured the Lord Mayor that be
could not adequately express the satisfaction he felt upon the
present occas on. Upon many occasions he had attended in
that hall, before many of those by whom he was surrounded
were born, but at all times, and under all circumstances,
whatever the politica of the chief magistrate might be, he
found the royal family receive the warmest support. He
therefore felt the warmest gratification in coming to the
Maneion.house to visit the chief magistrate of the greatest
metropolis in the world.
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE proposed the City of London
and the trade thereof, which he trusted would continue to
prosper for ages.
The LORD Alavoit next proposed the health of the Ame-
rican Minister, who represented the thriving empire whose
trade was diffused through the whole globe. The toast was
of the greatest importance, because it was the interest of
England to cherish and uphold the good understanding
which existed between the two countries.
The AMERICAN MIN NT ER said that although not long •
resident in this great countzy, he had already become ac-
quainted not only with ismighty resources, but its bound-
less hospitality. lie expressed the high gratification which
he felt at the reception which he met at the dinner given
by the sheriff a few days ago, and declared that it was
the wish of his government, and his own wish, that his resi-
dence in England might not be a mere holiday residence,
but that it might be distinguished by drawing closer the ties
of friendship and amity between the two countries. He
wished, in conclusion, that the prosperity of London might
last as long as time half.
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE then proposed the health of the
Lord Mayor, whom he had the happiness of knowing for a
considerable time, and f. r whose excellent qualities he had
the highest esteem and respect.
The LORD MAYOR returned thanks.
The LORD MAYOR then proposed the health of the Lord
Mayor elect, who be was convinced would distinguish him-
self in his year of office by the able performance of his duties.
The LORD MAYOR proposed the health of Mr. Brooke,
her Majesty's Commissioner for Borneo The company
were well acquainted with the merits of this distinguished
gentleman, who not only wan remarkable for valour in war,
but showed himself capable of the most successful exertions
in the great art of civilisation. (Cheers.) His lordship par-
ticularly alluded to the labours of Mr. Brooke in reforming
the Malays, who, when be went amongst them, were in the
most lamentable state of ignorance and immorality, but were
left by him industrious, moral, and religious.
Mr. 13aooeit said he could not adequately express his
sense of the honour conferred upon him ; but he considered
it an epoch in his life to go into so august a company and to
be received as a guest at the table of the chief magistrate of
their great city. If any efforts he had made in distant lands
were deserving of approbation, he was more than repaid by
the tout which bad been just drunk, and the praises of his
own countrymen. He begged to be allowed to state that his
opinion of the Malays was different from that expressed
by those who were opposed to them. He did not consider
them treacherous. He considered them capable of being
raised is the wale of civilisation. and becoming as polished,
industrious, and respecta:de as there who reereminted them
as abounding with bad qualities. He was sure he was ruled
by good intentions in all that he had undertaken and per-
formed and by the same steady principle he was convinced
he should continue to be guided.
The LORD MAYOR proposed the health of the three young
Polish Princes, with whose company he was honoured.
Lord DUDLEY Course STVART returned thanks for his
noble friends, who felt it a high compliment to he so distin-
guished by the chief magistrate of the City to which their
unfortunate country was so muds indebted.
The Lorin MAYOR roes with infinite pleasure to propose
the health of Mr. Walter, member for Nottingham, the son
of his lamented friend. With that toast he would couple
the press of the country, to which the community owed such
• vest debt of gratitude for the support which it invariably
gave to the weak against the strong—to the oppressed against
the oppressor.
Mr. WALTER said if anything had been wanting in the
City to complete the strong expression of public feeling of
respect to the memory of his father, it was supplied at the
present meeting, by being uttered in the presence of royalty
itself. For himself, he could not express the deep MIAMI:
Lion he felt at having his name associated in such a manner
with the press ; he trusted that the name of his father
would not suffer in the course which he should pursue in
following such an example.
The party broke up before 12 o'clock.