The Express.
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gcod prim were obtained. Some prime claims selling as
high as 70a., and the best sorts geoerally averaged from 665.
to 68s. per cwt. Middling dairies fetched from 645. to 66a.,
and poorer sort from 655. to 60s. At the close of the day a
large quantity was left unsold, the market being overstocked
with new cheese, which had an unfavourable effect upon the
prices of the better qualities. The price of cheese at the fair
was not much short of 103. per cwt. higher than at the cor-
responding fair of last year.

CATTLE, &e.
SMITHFIELD, Two o'clock.—Wo have to-day a very
large increase in the supply of Beasts, many, however, of
inferior quality. Prices are lower for all descriptions; the
very choicest Scots, &c., barely make 4a. 4d., and the beet
Short Horns nothing quotable over 4s. A clearance cannot
be effected of the middling qualities, although considerable
reduction in price is submitted to. From Holland, Germisly,
and Sweden, we have 673 ; Scotland, 40; Lincolnshire, 5.50;
Leicestershire, 2,000 ; and about 1,060 from the neighbour.
hood of London. The very enhanced rate at which Sheep
have lately been selling has caused a slight increase in sup-
ply, but so slight, that our remarks respecting deficiency of
this description of stock in the country are fully confirmed.
There has been a great effort on the part of buyers to reduce
prices; in a very small degree have they succeeded; the
difference is scarcelyquotable. The beat Downs still readily
make ss. 4d., sad the most selling Longwoola, ss. Second-
rate qualities may be said to be the turn lower. We have
2,040 from Holland and Germany, which, not being very
good, met with a dull sale. Calves arc not so plentiful, and
we have a more brisk trade; the best qualities are fully 2d.
per 81bs. dearer. Trade for Pigs is hardly so good, the num-
bers being large, and the weather mild.

Beet Scots, Herefords, &c. (per st. of 818 ) Is 0 to 4e 1
Best Short Horns 3 8 4 0
Second quality Besets 2 I* 3 4
Calves 4 0— 4 8
Figs 8 5 0
Best Downs and Half-heeds 3 5 0 5 4
Best Long-wools 4 8 5 0
Ewes and second quality
Besse, at market, 4.321: Sheep and Lambs, 23,200; Oahe* 127 ;
Pigs, 450.—t1, West Smithfield.
ANDOVER, OCT. 17.—A great many Pip in market
to-day ,• and such was the glut, that little business was done
here, though Pigs were offered at be. per head under last
week's similar quality. There were but few sold. Prime
Store Pigs sold at from 96.7,6 d. to 10s. per score pounds.
Small Piga for porkers at prioea varying at from 10s up to
25a. each.

Caller= Rim—At this fair there mu =mo-
rons show of all kinds of cattle. The demand for aood
Beef was extensive, and sold from 61d. to 61. per lb. There
were more Pigs in the market than we ever saw on any pre-
view occasion. Fat Pigs found plenty of buyers at old. per
lb ; but store Pigs fell almost a per cent. on the prices of
the last few weeks, caused mainly by the high price of all
kinds of provender. Of Sheep there was a tolerable number
in the market, and prime Mutton realized nearly 71 per lb.
In the Horse fair there were many buyers for good animals,
and sales were effected at a high figure.

WINCHESTER, OCT. 17.—1 n Pigs business WWI
slack, though there were a considerable number offered at a
downward tendency. There were some brought to market
killed and burnt, which sold whole at from 10s, 6d. to
11s. 6d. per score pounds, prices varying according to quality
and size.

YORK FORTNIGHT FAIR, OCT. 15.—This week the
show of fat beasts was not so large ac the last fair, but prices
were a shade higher, ruling from 6s. to 6s. 9d. per stone.
Lean Beads were more plentiful, and prices as before. The
demand was great, and both kinds met a ready sale. The
quantity of Sheep for present use was not great, hut were
bought most readily, at from Gd. to 60. per lb. Lean Sheep
were abundant, and they brought the most extraordinary
, prices. Buyers were numerous, and few were the instances
in which sales were not effected.
MAIDSTONE FAIR, OCT. 17.—This great stock fair
commenced, and from the numerous ".Michaelmas cattle
fairs " now being held in all counties, the price of stock was
rather lower than has been hitherto obtained. Many large
droves of Welsh Beasts were offered for sale ; some of the
Beasts (Bullocks) made 141. and 161. a head, and the general
averaging prices were 111. Large Bullocks and good Oxen
ranged in price from 181. to 21/. a head ; Milch Cow 4, with
a small Calf, fetched from 16 to 18 guineas, and Heifers and
Cows down calving sold well. Prime wether Sheep sold at
425. to 48s. a head, and well-bred young Ewes fetched from
30s. to 365. each ; stock Lambs were bought at 20s. to 245.
each. Good Cart-Horses sold at 2,3 to 28 guineas. Pigs for
storing up fetched 30s. ; small Porkers sold at 4s. sd. per
stone, and large Hogs at 3.. 6d. A good sprinkle of business
was done among Hops, and the prices obtained were good.

EARLSTOUN FAIR.-At this fair there was a large
show of young Beasts, both for the straw-yard and for tur-
nips. A great number of buyers from a distance, as well as
from the neighbourhood, being present, buhincss proceeded
with much briskness, and at the combiners of the market
the whole were disposed of. High year olds ranged from 71.
to 81. 81. 10s., and those forward in condition brought from
91. to 101. Two-year-olds varied from 11/. to 131. 10s., and
such as were suitable for wintering sold from 14/. P. 171. a
head. The few fat beasts shown realised from Gs. to 71. a
' stone. Milch Cows were in request, and thew tit for the
Eslinburgh market brought from 12/. to 171. In the horse
market there was about the usual number of horses shown,
and good useful animals readily obtained purchasers.
CLONROAD.-At our fair the buyers were numerous,
but the prices were not at all commensurate. They might
be classified as follows :-Milch Co.. a from 101. to 1.,1.; Fat
Cows about two guineas per cwt.; two-year-old ditto, 81.
Bullocks down from the late fairs, two-year-old, 81. to 9/. ;
yearlings, 61. ; weanling heifer Calves from 4/. to .51.; Bul-
locks ditto, 21. 10s. For store heifers there was little demand.
The number of Sheep at the fair was immense, but by far
the greater portion remained unsold, and Pigs were con-
sidered on the look down.
NENAGIL-Our October fair is generally a dull one.
This was decidedly the worst ever known. It was very• well
stocked, prices bad-sales dull, and but few purchasers.
Beef rated from 40s. to 455. per cwt. ; milch cows, 9/. to 121. ;
heifers, three years old, 71. to 91. ; ditto, 2 years old, (11. to
6/. ; yearlings, from 31. to 41. 10s. ; a fine lot of (14) 2 years
old bullecks, the property of J. J. Poe, Esq., sold at 10 gui
neas each, Wedders, 3• to 455. Ewes, to4ss. Hog-
gets, 30s. to 40s. Lambs, 20s. to 26e. Pigs, per cwt., 40s.
to 445. ; good stores, 308. to 40s. each.
BLAIRGOWRIE.-The turn-out of stock was con-
siderably above the average, so far as numbers went. Mer-
chants were plenty, and sales very brisk. The prices
obtained were rather high, although not .remunerating to
the disposes's, :all kinds of stock having been bought in for
grass at very dear rates. The prices obtained were nearly
as follows , yearlings from 41 to 61; two-years-olds,
from 71 to 91; fat from 111 to 131. each.
CHARLESTOWN OF ABOYNE.-The Sheep market
was well supplied with Ewes of the fair average quality of
the district. Dealing was brisk ; and prices were 2s. or
3s. higher than last year. Best Ewes, off the hill. brought
14s. to 16s. ; middling. 10s. to 12s. ; and inferior, Bs. to 10s.
Three-year-old black.faced Wedders maintained a similar
advance the best lot in the marketbelonged to Mr. Stewart,
Ballatriech, and were held at 24a. The Morven Wedders
were sold at fully 20s. Lambs ranged from ss. to 7s. 6d.
The cattle market was brisk; and the most of the beasts
shown exchanged hands at full prices. Two-year-old Stota
may be quoted from 71. to 91., and year-olds, 31. 10s. to 61.
The favourable report of the Falkirk market having reached
in course of the day, had an influence on prices.

SHIPPING.
MAILS ARILITED.-6 Dublin; 4 Waterford; 2 Dublin;
2 Guernsey and Jersey; 2 French ; 1 Flanders ; 1 Holland ;
1 Hamburg ; 1 Lisbon ; 1 West Indies.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.—FIag Signals at the Island of St.
Michaels.—A despatch hes been received at Lloyd's from the
Admiralty, enclosing a copy of a Notice to Mariners, respect-
ing Flag-signals at the Island of St. Michaels, but which had
already been transmitted from the Foreign-office and pub-
lished on Saturday.
Lorocrx, Oct 17. Wind this day at noon, S.; light
breeze, and fine clear weather.
DEAL, Oct. 17.—S.W , fresh.-18th, E.S.E. to W.S.W.,
fresh.—Arrived, 17th, Kingsdown, South Seas ; arrived from
the River for Sultana, Pernambuco. 18th, Arabian, Hobart
Town ; Thames, Jamaica ; Herds, Boston. Sailed, 17th, a
three-masted steam-schooner, westward ; London, Madras ;
Spheriod, for St. Vincent's, with the rest of the outward
bound; the Henrietta Wilhelmine, for Coast of Africa.
STILLNOFOILD, Oct. 16.—A vessel sunk near the Cannon
Rock last night, and the mast was seen above water this
morning, crew supposed to be saved.
Porassfourn, Oct. 17.—N.N.W. to S.S.W. : 18, N.N.W.
to W.N.W.—Sailed, 17: Lady Flora, Cape and Madras;
Floeinda, Ceylon • Cleopatra, Demerara ; Durham, Ber-
muda; Emily, Hilifax. 18, Clifton, New Orleans.
CLYDE, Oct. 16.—S.—Arrived, 15: Susan, New York.
Sailed, 16 : Quinton Leitch, Bombay ; Gauntlet, Tobago ;
Rolla, Antigua and Emu, N.P. ; Russell Glover, New
Orleans ; Ann Harley, New York.
DUBLIN, Oet. I7.—N.E. to E.N.E.—Sailed, 16: Allen
Brown, St. John's, N.B.
WATERFORD, Oct. 17.—N.W. to W.N.W.—Arrived :
15th, Wanderer, Richibucto.
CORK, Oct, 15.—N., fresh breeze.—Arrived: Barbara.
Lima; B.ooe, Honduras. Sailed: British Queen,. Bermuda.
SHIEDeI, OCT. 16.—The Medora, from Quebec, in entering
this morning, grounded on the island,but is expected off next
tide without damage. 17, E.N.E. —Sailed , Adeline, Sierra
Leone. The Earl of Fife, from Stettin to Antwerp, arrived
here 16th, is leaky and strained, and has cargo shifted.
Haawren, Oct. 15.—Arrived: Mary Ann, Northwest for
London, leaky.
JERSEY, Oct. 15.—Arthed : St. Peter's, Labrador.
HULL, Oct. 18.—Arrived, 17th ; Douglas St. John's, N. 8.;
Intrepid, Richibucto.
Baurroz, Oct. 17.—Arrived: Achilles, Quebec.
Mrion.le, Oct. 18.—N. At rived: Cape Breton, Val-
paraiso.
HaarrirooL, Oct. 17.—The Hope, of Montrose, on shore
on Seaton Beach on the 12th, has been got off much strained
and very leaky, and brought in here.
Orr. Durum:teas, Oct. 14.—Active, St. Croix, for Cope's-
hirtifllzmrroN,_ Oct. 17.—Arrived: Severn (a.) West
Indies. Bailed : Dee (s.) do.
Poler Lawn, Oct. 18.—Ligonia, New York.
ILINOSBAIDOIL—Toronto, New York.
SALCOMBE, Oct. 17.—Off, Heim, Rio Jaaeiro.
FALMOUTH, Oct. 17.-8. to S. E. light. 18th, N. E. do.
—Arrived : Menalto, Rio Grande. Sailed : 17th P ."••; , .--
Caps ; Eleanor, Barbadoes. 18th, Birkby, Sierra --', 7- . ''' "I
FOBTAVAGES, HITLICUBBIN, COUNTY DOWN, OCT. . ~
A three-masted vessel, supposed to be a bark, was seen, ' Z, •., ' r •-•
last., lying in ten fathoms water, between North Rock t .-) : 7-....- 1-:',
South Light, three or four miles from this. The tops ''.,:i""'",` ''''` 'I..
eo
masts are visible for a few feet—crew supposed .•• 12.14:, .14
drowned. s=
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NEW WORK by G. A. a BECKETT & JOHN LEECH.

reservoirs are so far below the brim. There may be
little to flow io, but in God's name let all there is be
admitted. Prussia may have little to offer, but tempt
her to sell before her prices rise to famine mark.
Open your ports, if it be but for the sweepings
of Odessa warehouses, and the stealthy abstrac-
tions from the jealousy of a starving con-
tinent. Let all come that will, be it much
or little. When a mysterious decree has
shortened the supplies of the world, let not Eng-
land aggravate the chastisement of a higher power by
artificial limitations of human law.
As to the remedy of subscription for Ireland, sug-
gested to our contemporaries and ourselves by count-
less correspondents, we cannot see its justice or wis-
dom at present. Let Irish property and Irish soil do
their best, before we proceed to wring its hard earn-
ings from English foresight, and tax Saxon benevo-
lence for Irish destitution. We have wrongs to re-
pair to Ireland; but they are not to be repaired thus.
Let the present measures of relief be tried, and tried
to the utmost, before we step in with the beggar's boon.
Itis not till labour fails that charity should interfere. It
is mischievous to him that gives and him that takes.
It inflates the former with a contemptuous and unjust
pity, and degrades the latter with the consciousness
of pauperism. Money given with no equivalent in
work done, should be the last resource of those who
receive, and the last tried remedy of those who offer
it. It cannot be said that if proffered and accepted
now, it would be either of these in the case of Ireland.
The relief works have not come into operation in
very many cases ; but in most they are on the point
of commencing. They have been least delayed when
most intelligently and carefully proposed. It is hard
that the peasantry should suffer for the indis-
criminate precipitation of the landed proprietors. But
this inevitable tardiness in the arrival of work and
wages does not justify WI in offering the dole without
work. If it is to be offered, it is from Irish local
benevolence : knowing the mischief, chargeable with
the causes of it, responsible for the distribution, and
more likely to distribute their doles wisely when the
money comes from their own resources.
Let Government increase the meal stores ; let them
turn traders where they now shrink from so doing ;
let them treble the executive of the Board of Works,
and employ tenfold their present number of sur-
veyors and engineers. All this may be done
to quicken the approach of employment to-
wards destitute industry. No effort can be too
determined ; no disregard of economical principle, in
deference to exceptional conditions, too bold ; no in-
crease of expenses too great for the crisis. But
alms-giving, private or public, is a direful thing,
when it is the industry of a nation that turns pauper.
Only starvation can justify it. Hard as the struggle
with hunger may be in Ireland, the means of avert-
ing it have not yet got into operation. Till they
have been tried and found unequal to the demands
upon them, the most fatal kindness that England could
confer on Ireland would be a contribution by way of
alms ; every penny of it, perhaps, subtracted from a
useful porpoise, to supply a remedy which must be
short-lived, and may be fatal to the patient

Now published, riot Om Nisei. 140. IV.Sof
ME
COMIC HISTORY of ENGLAND.
BY OILBERT ABBOTT 1 ozar.m.
WITH • COLOMED ETCHING ON Rrux. ASS
NVINZIOVII ILINVNIA-
-1100,1 NT JOIC4 LEECH.

Plie*PiCTOS
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of any other sok ow Sit It follow servilely ia the Spotty=
hidortan. The welber does not nopur to walk to theighlenteSees
of
Hume, the easy *pegs of Smollett, the gokabea of OsidultlM erase
pumps of PSsoi. In literature the shoes of 111106111. MO to
to
pr, • lotis to the piety attempting to seeko We may lo a dimeure
for which he was sew lined. The Cowie Slam et MOM will,
therefore, be en sale* arigluel wwwieltls tha otaledels for which
well he derived trove
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eideNeos. wham eseureey will be tested by direst whom to the
set Menthol authorities.
gide of this preliminary anaomltement is to seed
the pokile say mismeeptioe of the intseded character of the
mark as came of he title. A narrative may, it is hoped, he correct
as wells says ; tor, as truth Is IMunW. than Action,' history is
menedmas mudt more ludicrous than the Taxies of the humorist.
The es of the work being explained. It remains only to
announce- ie
the gum of publuution. It will appear in Moothly Parte,
price One Wiling tech, hand.omely printed in evo., and copiously
illustrated by Jona Lisen, with One large Etching and from tile
to Twelve Wood Engravings.
The COMIC lIIATORY of ENGLAND will coroprle from Twelve
to Twenty Parts, and will appear regularly with the monthly maga-
zines until its completion.

Published at the Punch Office, U, Pleet-etreet.

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111011 WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE.
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LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 19.
NOTHING can be more painful than the task of the
public writer who has to deal with the subject of
Ireland, in her present emergency.
He sets about his task appalled at the magnitude of
the calamity, bewildered at the multiplicity of re-
medies suggested. With the laudable desire of qua-
lifying himself for the suggestion of real alleviations,
he faces that sad record of past misdeeds, mistakes,
misconceptions, and misadventures, called Irish his-
tory. He toils through the painful intelligence which
every day accumulates, of starving multitudes gather-
ed for food or labour, and of gentry exhorting them
to patience, and voting recklessly sums which they can
never repay, for works which hold out no prospect of
utility. The evils on which he has to expatiate
are obvious, present, monstrous ; the immediate
causes almost as apparent as the disastrous effects.
A step further, and he plunges into that quagmire of
economical nostrums and social and territorial re-
forms, through which he must struggle in the search
for helpful or valuable suggestion, though such growth
be as rare on the delusive soil as buckwheat on an
Irish bog.
The misery of Ireland increases weekly, daily,
hourly. Apprehension grows to reality. Distress
deepens into despair. The hunger that threatened
this district, has laid its gaunt gripe upon its victims;
the famine of another has begun to bear its fruits of
rifled bread-carts, and ripped-up meal-bags. Reme-
dies, unhappily, are not so rapid as diseases.
Public works have been presented, so extensively
and so indiscriminately, that the Board of Works is
puzzled, and its labour of selection rendered doubly
onerous. Much of the delay complained of on the
part of the public functionaries, is rendered necessary
by the break-neck, dare-devil style, in which the pro-
prietors have gone to work in proposing schemes of
employment.
The change sanctioned by the LORD LIEUTENANT
in admitting drainage and such work on land to the
operation of the Labour Rate Act, will probably have
the effect of diminishing this recklessness ; and of in-
ducing the reflection, that as the advance is to be a
charge on the estate, it is as well to be careful that
the application of it is a profitable one. Selfishness
may transform the desperate presenter of 14,0001. for
a road, which the barony must pay for, into the sober
applicant for a loan of one-third the amount, to change
his sodden and spongy potato plots into smiling corn-
fields. It may be a misfortune that the land-
lord is to receive the greatest of the ultimate
benefits to flow from such an employment of treasury
loans. He may not have deserved it at our hands,
as compared with the peasant—the victim of causes he
has not created. We may fall into error on this
point. It is the curse of such chronic evil influences
as those of Ireland, that they corrupt the whole body
politic, head, hands, and heart. The carelessness,
improvidence, party blindness, and obstinate ad-
herence to meaningless watchwords and outworn poli-
tical symbols, which mark the landlord, find their
reflection in the abject contentment, the insouciance,
faction fights, and ribbonism of the cottier peasant.
The system must bear the weight of originating the
men who perpetuate it, both high and low. For
every deserved word of blame for the Irish landlord,
there is a complemental charge against the Irish
tenant.

ONE can scarcely imagine a Government which
dates from the Revolution of July, 1830, and which
assumed power and sovereignty on the condition of fol-
lowing up and establishing the principles of that greater
Revolution which preceded it—one can scarcely ima-
gine such a Government and its organs upholding, in
every country where it has influence, the most retro-
grade and despotic principles. Yet whereverthe French
Government has authority, wherever its organs have
a voice, both are exerted to crush popular freedom,
to put down liberal parties, to stifle the press, to make
a farm of representative government, and to proscribe
even the vestiges of municipal rights. We see flagrant
proofs of this in Spain, where the marriage of a
French Prince is accompanied by the same events
which marked the restoratiou of FERDINAND THE
SEVENTH.
These preferences of the French Louis-Philippists
for a despotic and military party in Spain, and in
Greece, might possibly be explained by the fact, that
all the great civilian parties in those countries are
opposed to the views of France, and that, in sober
truth, a few officers and start.; are the only govern-
ment on whose servility and attachment, in either
country, the French could rely.
But there is no such shadow of excuse with respect to
Switzerland. There the liberal and progressive party
are naturally attached to France, at least to France such
as the Revolution of July rendered it; whilst the re-
trogrades of Switzerland look to Austria, to Prussia,
and to Russia, as their guides and allies. But such are
the despotic and anti-liberal tendencies of the French
Court and Government, that all their sympathies have
been given to this retrograde Austrian party.
The Journal des Mats, in an article recounting
the struggles in Switzerland, justly dates the com-
mencement of their present serious aspect from the
convents of Argovia having been suppressed. This
the French court journal stigmatises as an infamy, a
monstrosity, an outrage on the part of the Liberals,
which has warranted all the retrograde and libertine
sets, by which the illiberal party of Swiss have
met it. Now, what was the case ? By the pro-
gress of public opinion, and by the exercise of
a free vote, the Great Council, the government and
legislature of Argovia, became liberal and popular.
The monks and convents of the canton plotted and
rebelled to overturn it. The cantonal government
turned out the monks in consequence, and confiscated
the property of the convents ; just as any government
might confiscate the property of one of its subjects
who had taken up arms against it. Besides, how can
convents, established after the old feudal fashion, en-
dowed with great wealth, numerous retainers, inalien-
able rights, how can such things be made to har-
monise with a modern representative system ? The'
Swims routed and drove away the aristocracy many
centuries ago. Austria and Burgundy tried succes-
sively to crush their ultra-liberalism, and the Swiss
successfully beat the Emperor of Austala and the
Princes of BURGUNDY. The Swiss would now get rid
of their princely abbots, and of monks who conspire
against their republic ; and not only Austria, but
France, revolutionary France, which proscribed her
own clergy, and but the other day passed a law
against monastic institutions, would uphold monkery
in Switzerland. This is quite as monstrous as this
same French Government dissolving the national
guard, and abrogating the municipal rights of the

Hence it is we fear lest the settlement of a free-
holding small cottier population on reclaimed bog and
waste lands, if attempted with such rapidity as to
meet the present crisis might fail for the want
of that influence and example which has raised
Lord GEORGE HILL'S tenants at Gweedore from
starving and half-savage wrecker-fishermen to
orderly, well-to-do, contented and instructed cot-
tagers ; and has worked analogous effects among
the tenantry of LordHEADLEY. Without guidance and
control, no permanent good can, we seriously believe,be
effected for Ireland. The redemption of encumbrances
by the State, with a surrender of their properties by
such proprietors as were willing, to the Government,
would be an equally ineffective plan. It would sub-
stitute one large public creditor for many small pri-
vate ones. What plan of instruction and improvement
could Government, as Irish proprietors, put into opera-
tion, which it could not work more effectually through
the willing or compulsory agency of existing owners.
Increased facilities for disposing of real property
are no doubt desirable ; but in themselves, taking
even their remotest effects into account, utterly inade-
quate to effect much that must be done to secure the
regeneration of Ireland.
With regard to the present and moat mining
point, the existing starvation, the axiom urged
at first must be repeated as often as the subject
is broached. The people must be fed. Bad as
the interference with trade may be, depots must be
established in places where, as is often the case in
Ireland, the ordinary machinery of trade does not
exist. The supply of food must be increased at all
hazards. Not only Ireland, but England and Scot-
land, have craving stomachs and hungry eyes, watch-
ing with dismay the rise in the boll or quarters. We
may soon have on our shoulders the starvation, not of
a province, but a kingdom. In this state of things
it is monstrous to common sense that any arti-
ficial restrictions should be suffered to continue. It
looks like a parody on legislative action to be stopping
a single channel of supply, when the contents of our

SPanard's•
Driven from Argovia, the monastic party took
refuge in Lucerne, overthrew the liberal Catholic
government there,called on the Jesuits to take charge
of public education, suspended every vestige of free-
dom, and obliged all the old liberals to fly in
order to escape a prison. This filled the surrounding
cantons with the exiles of Lucerne, just as France
and En land have been overrun with Poles and
S Bat these exiles of course planned
and plotted a forcible return ; and they met with
friends and sympathisers, who formed bands, and
subscribed and marched to effect a restoration. It
is precisely what took place in France and Eng-
land. The ultra Catholics of Switzerland first
resorted to violence, and they are answered by vio-
lence. The consequence has been a civil war.
In the prosecution of this war, and in the dif-
ferent phases of it, neither party observe nor affect
much respect for the federal constitution. Nor have the
influential persons and authorities of this federal
constitution conducted themselves so as to com-
mand respect. They have tried to observe a
kind of juste milieu, a species of indifference to
liberalism or anti-liberalism, Protestant or Catholic.
This indifference, possible to educated men, is
everywhere to the distaste of the_ people, who con-
sequently rise, as at Geneva, and eject from office a
Government whom they consider traitorous, though
it has been merely lukewarm, pusillanimous, and
imbecile.
When the American Governor of Illinois was applied

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1846.

to, the other day, to interfere in Abe deitilty strife
between Mormon and anli-Mormork, he coolly replied,
" Let tbeii tight it out ;" itnd it has ended by the
ejecticit of, the anti-social sect. We do notreite this
in approbation of political Lynch-law. But really
we see no hope of any other mode of deciding the
question between the free Swiss, and those Mormons
at Lueerne who have established a genuine inquisition
for blindness and cruelty, both in politics and in

THE storm which so severely tried the seaworthi-
ness of the Great Western, appears to have extended
over a wide tract of the Atlantic. The same day be-
gan the gale at St. John's, New Brunswick, of which
we published an account on Friday, though we are
not in possession of specific information as to the hour.
The gale began with the Great Western we learn
from its log-book about 10 p.m., but not before mid-
night did the storm burst in all its fury. At noon the
Great Western was about 1 deg. to the northward,
and upwards of 20 deg. to the eastward of St. John's.
From the shipping intelligence of the New York
Courier and Enquirer, we gather that the ships
Waterloo and II udson from Liverpool, and the
ship Oneida from Havre, experienced a severe gale on
the same day (Saturday, 19th) between 42 deg.
30 min. and 43 deg. 20 min. of N. lat., and between
60 deg. and 62 deg. of W. long. In the report
of the Waterloo's misadventures, it is stated that
the storm began about 3 p.m. The position of these
vessels is from 4 to 5 degrees south of St. John's, and
from 7 to 9 degrees to the westward. In the case of
the Great Western, the wind was observed to veer
during the continuance of the gale from S.E. to
N.N.W.; in the case of the sailing vessels, from S.E.
to N.N.E.; of its direction at St. John's we are still
ignorant.
Additional information will soon be received, and
the observations on this terrific storm will doubtless
throw light on the workings of similar atmospheric
phenomena. Our present object, however, in dwell-
ing upon these details, is to impress upon the minds
of our readers the great extent of ocean over which
the influence of this storm was felt; a storm which
all the admirable sailing qualities of the Great ,
Western no more than enabled it to brave, and
which, on the terra firma of Newfoundland, laid
prostrate before it substantial brick (,buildings,
and wrenched church towers from their original
bearings. The portion of the Atlantic over which
the storm is already known to have burst in its full
force (from the 40th to the 49th degree'of north lati-
tude, and from the 34th to 62nd degree of west
longitude) is no inconsiderable part of the tract over
which British emigrants to the United States or to
our own North American provinces, must of necessity
sail. The Hudson had 69 steerage passengers on
board ; doubtless most of them emigrants. In 1845,
upwards of 58,500 emigrants sailed from this country
for the United States, and 31,800 for the British colo-
nies of North America.

Is adequate care taken by government for the
safety of this interesting portion of the community?
The bulk of our emigrants are among the most honest
and energetic of oar fellow-citizens. They are of those
who disdain to eat the pauper's dole so long as they
can labour, and who seek in remote countries not a life
of indolence, not wealth, but leave to work hard for a
subsistence. A few young and untamed spirits' may
be carried away by the spirit of adventure, but the
mass of a population never change their seats unless
driven by stern necessity. Of late years there has
been much talk at times of so directing the spon-
taneous stream of emigration as to render it safe and
easy for the emigrants themselves, and conducive to
the advantage of the whole community. It has
been shown by universal experience, that new settle-
ments, after the first difficulties have been sur-
mounted, are tlx most favourable fields for honest in-
dustry ; those in which independence may be most
easily acquired, by men of persevering energy. It
has been shown in the case of South Australia
(wretchedly mismanaged by Government though
that colony has been, from first to last), that by acting
malt systematic plan the severe hardships encountered
by the first founders of most colonies may be evaded.
Nevertheless, Government has experimented in sys-
tematic colonisation with a rash timidity ; an inter-
mitting fever of alternate neglect and overmeddling,
which in the new colonies (such as,South;Australia and
New Zealand) has alternately placed the young corn-
munities on the verge of bankruptcy and a war of
races ; and in the older settlements (as for example
New South Wales),has disturbed the steady progress
of natural prosperity by awakening a gambling
spirit and its necessary concomitants, over-sanguine
speculation and bankruptcy.
Waiving this consideration for the present, how-
ever, we desire to see adequate precautions taken to
ensure the greatest possible degree of safety of passage
to the emigrants compelled by necessity to tear them-
selves from the scenes and society to which, from in-
fancy, they have been accustomed, in search of honest
independence. The last and least boon the country
can bestow upon these unfortunates is, to care for
their safe passage. But even this, there is too much
reason to fear, is withheld. The task of superintending
and directing the embarkation of emigrants, trans-
ferred from the Agent General for Emigration to the
Commissioners of Colonial Lands and Emigrations,
appears to be performed in the most negligent and
unsatisfactory manner. The Elizabeth and Sarah,
on board of which so many deaths occurred
on her last voyage, was built, we are in-
formed, in 1762, and is consequently now 84 years
old. What resistance could this venerable hull have
opposed to the hurricane which that rare sea-boat, the
Great Western, had so much ado to weather ? How
could the vessel have been worked during the gale, I
crowded and hampered by her luckless passengers,
exceeding the legal quantum in the ratio of 241 to
133? How, supposing her to have been dismasted
and left to hull on the sea after the storm blew over,
would the passengers and crew have fared, the bread-
stuffs directed by law not having been shipped, and
the stock of water being 2,382 gallons deficient?
There is something beautiful and elevating about the
narrative of the Great Western's dangers. The pious
resignation of the passengers, and the gallant exertions
of the captain and crew, are alike beyond praise.
The idea of expressing gratitude for their unlooked-
for preservation, by contributing to the formation of
a fund for the relief of families whose heads and
supporters have been lost at sea, is equally admirable
in the eye of sentiment and reason. Still it is better
to avert danger than to alleviate the suffering it pro-
duces. May the impressive incidents of the late
awful storm move the hearts of all who were exposed
to its fury, and all to whom they are dear, to urge
upon Government the adoption of more efficient and
energetic measures to ensure the safety of our
emigrant&

Oppesitinn imeigined that the Chamber wets everything ; sad
the mu, of the game put played has proved it nothing.
Speakers, writers, deputies, and eleetors—ia short, all tke
nomigal functionaries of the constitution, have n sr learned,
that the only nal practical flanctionaries are the Cabinet
managers. The business of parliament is to discuss mea-
sures which have been already taken : and the conqueron
of Charles Z., who wanted a king to reignsnd none govern,
have now nothing to do but to follow the vessel of the
state, and speculate on the causes which have brought it
among the shoals. We repeat it, all the constitutional
parties, from the right to the left, are overpowered
by the influence of the monarch. Enfeebled as that power
is, it is greater than that of the institutions. Hercules has
awakened from his slumber, broken the chains put upon
him, and carried off the dwarfs who would have controlled
him, in spite of their cries of distress ! In such a crisis what
are parties to do ? Evidently to convoke the national cham-
ber, and resign to the country the pretended :parliamentary
sovereignty, which lays upon them a responsibility without
giving them either power of direction or resistance. Let
them appeal to the nation. Let them cease to represent
200,000 payers of 200 francs of taxes. Let them present M.
Guirot to a true representation of the nation, and they will
soon see whether the minister will not possess means of
superior resistance and controul, and whether any individual
shall have the power of bringing the vessel of the state
among the breakers, and sacrificing the interest, the safety,
and the prospects of a great people by useless alliances.
The reform of the electoral law is, then, indispensable to
the preservation of the representative system. To promote
it is equally the interest of the Conservatives and of the
dynastic Left—in a word, dell who do not desire to be mere
slaves."
Such is the language of the Legitimist party.
The revenue returns for the first nine months of
the present year have been published. The total
amount is 601 millions of francs. This, compared
with the corresponding months of 1844, gives an in-
crease of 27 millions. Compared with 1845, the
increase is 13 millions. Thus there would appear a
regular annual increase amounting to a little above
two per cent. of the gross annual revenue. Of the 13
millions increase of the present year upon the last, 3;
millions are upon the customs and 3; millions on the
duty raised on the manufacture of beet-root sugar in
France, and another 34 millions on the manufacture
of tobacco, which is a government monopoly. Of
these augmentations, that upon home-manufactured
sugar has been produced, not by increased con-
sumption of the article, but by an augmented
rate of duty imposed on it. The increase of 3i
millions on the customs is owing to the insuf-
ficient harvests rendering necessary the importa-
tion of food. This is manifested by the fact that
the amount of the import duties on grain in the first
three months of the present year amounted to ten
millions, whereas in the corresponding quarter of
last year its amount was only two millions. On the
whole, notwithstanding the augmentation of the gross
revenue, the financial and commercial situation of the
country is not considered satisfactory. The heaviness
of the market for the public securities and shares indi-
cates this. _

There is no further intelligence of importance from
Switzerland. All is tranquil at Geneva, and the
victorions party show every proper disposition to-
wards moderation and justice. It is said that a pro-
position of a joint intervention on the part of the
cabinets of Vienna, Berlin, and the Tuillenes was pro-
, posed ; but no credit is attached to the report. The
advantages of general peace are too universally felt to
render it probable that any measures will be taken
which might tend to develop international differences
in Europe.
The agitation of the free-trade question progresses
in France. Pamphlets multiply in favour of the
measure, especially in the seaports. We shall soon
have re-enacted in France the drama of the League.
Advices from Rome say that the new Pope pursues
his enlightened measures of reform steadily in spite
of the discountenance of Austria. The spite of
Prince Metternich is said to betray itself even in the
circulation of epigrams and pasquinades. Since the
advent of Pius IX. the statues of Pasquin and
Marforio, against which it is usual to attach placards,
have been covered with the praises of the Pontiff.
Recently two affiches, said to be of Austrian manufac-
ture, appeared on them as follows :—Marforio : They
say that Pius IX. is going to abolish the celibacy of
the clergy, and that ho will practise what he preaches.
Might he not marry Queen Isabella P—Pasquin : Xay,
Her Catholic Majesty will not marry a heretic.
The Esperanza says that the Infanta Louisa cannot
speak French, nor the Duke of Montpensier Spanish.
They can only converse by an interpreter!
On Thurn&y the Minister of Foreign Affairs gave
a grand dinner to Lord Normanby. Amongst the
guests were Prince de Wallenstein, Minister of Bava-
ria; the Ministers of War, Marine, Commerce, and
Public Works ; Duke Pasquier, the Duke de Broglie,
Count and Countess de St. Aulaire, Count de Rambu-
tcau, M. and Mme. G. Delessert, Baron J. de Roths-
child, Count Rossi, &c.
The Bey of Tunis is expected daily. at Marseilles,
and his visit is in consequence of an invitation from
the King of the French.
The Marquis of Durourc, the nominee of Marshal
Sebastian', has been elected deputy at Bastia
(Corsica), in the room of the Marshal, who, elected
for Bastin and Ajaccio, has made choice of the latter.
The Infant Don Enrique has just arrived at Spa.
In spite of the strict surveillance kept by the agents
of the French government over the Spanish refugees,
Lieutenant-General de Uranga contrived to make his
escape from Metz on the Bth instant.
Poujade, who has managed the French Con-
sulate at Beyrout for two years, is appointed Consul
at Malta. _

The price of bread in Paris remains the same for
the second fortnight in October as it was during the
first half of the month.

We have received by our ordinary express the
Paris letters and journals of Friday.
Electoral reform begins to claim the attention of
the press and the public. A petition on that subject
is in course of signature in Paris. All parties, even
the Carlists, unite in desiring some such measure,
however they may differ as to its extent and character.
It is incoatestible that the Spanish marriages have
disconcerted all parties, and that even the ministerial
party itself has been dragged into the measure against
its will, by the irresistible influence exercised by
Louis Philippe. With that personage at the head
of the council board, nothing is left to the minister
save responsibility. Guizot hardly ventures to
raise his voice. lace him by M. Thiers, and the
case will be nearly e same. There is much truth
in the following observations of the Gazette de
France on the marriages :
" The Conservatives, who believed themselves to be the
leaders in this affair, have found themselves dragged against
their feeling and interest where they desired to hinder the
government from going. The dynastic Left is also put out
of its way. It intended to play a parliamentary game, with
office as the stake, and it finds itself seated at a game of pure
monarchy, at which all the international relations are sub-
vertsd, and the policy of government changed, without
consulting the Chambers. In fine, the other sections of the

The despatches of our Paris correspondent, toge-
ther with the French journals of Saturday, have
reached us by the usual express.
The intelligence made known the preceding day of
the change of ministry at Lisbon was exciting much
attention in Paris. This intelligence in flict was re-
ceived by government on Thursday, but was not
communicated to the public even by the ministerial
papers until the announcement in the Massager at a
late hour on Friday night. The Spanish journals
received at the same time announce that General
Villalonga has been ordered to concentrate his forces
on the frontier of Estramadura, and to hold them ready
to advance at a moment's notice. Parties in Pans
connected with the radical opposition refuse to receive
the Lisbon news as any conclusive indication of
re-action. The National scouts the idea that Marshal
Saldanha would lend himself to any counter-revolu-

tionary projects.
The observations on the Spanish marriages in the
leading columns of the Daily News arc quoted at
length by the Paris journals of various parties—La
Presse, La France, L'Esprit Public, &v.' with
comments according to their political bias. La Preue
infers that the marriage question is regarded more
dispassionately by the public in England than the
French people are led to think from the general tone
of the London press on the subject.
The Government are allowing the diplomatic notes
of M. Gnizot and Lord Palmerston to become public,
but in a very unsatisfactory and garbled manner. The
Revue des deux Mantles and Revue Nouvelle, both of
which are understood to receive their information
directly from the Foreign-office, have just appeared,
and have each given an abridged s3-nopsis of the note
of Lord Palmerston to Lord Normanby, of 22nd
September' which was laid by the latter
before M. Guizot on the 25th September,
and also of the answers of M. Guizot of the sth
October. The Paris Opposition pappecrrs observe va-
rious contradictions and incompatibilities between the
note of M. Guizot as reported and the semi-official
statements which have appeared in the London press
on the same subject, and declare that they attach no
importance to these publications, and will await the
official publication of the documents, and their dis-
cussion in parliament and in the chamber. " One
thing, however," says the Constitutionnel, "appears
very evident, even under the construction most
favourable to the French cabinet, which is, that at
this moment England and France are divided by a
grave cause of dissent"
The Constitutionne/ of Saturday devotes its leading
column to an article on the Spanish question, of
which the following is the essence :
To what does the dispute tend ? In two words to this, by
the confession of the organs of the cabinet itself :—The Queen
of Spain will either have children or not. If she have heirs,
than the entente cordiale, so highly prized, has been broken
merely to accelerate by a year or so the marriage of the
Duke of hantpensier and the Infanta. If she have no
children, then arises a permanent cause of misunder-
standing, division, of war, perhaps, in Europe. In any
event, the entente cordiale is sacrificed, not for reciprocal
independence, but to be replaced by national ill-will and
secret hostility.
All continues tranquil at Geneva, from which letters
and journals have been received to the 14th. Several
of the cantonal governments have transmitted to the
provisional government the liveliest assurances of
sympathy and support. The complete re-establish-

c

ment of order has suspendetl the necessity of other
cantons sending oommissionen: to Geneva as had been
intended. The Vaudois bra:Ti which bad advanced
to the Geneveso frontier have also returned to

The members of the fallen

government are at Mornay, a Payayard village.
The Gazette de Berne, a Conservative journal, looks
forward to a movement at Bile similar to that of
Geneva. Bile, like Geneva, is a reformed canton.
It is ander the influence of a monied aristocracy,
opposed to progress, and giving secret countenance to
the Jesuits. The council of Bile ought, according to
the Gazette, to take warning from the fate of that of
Geneva, and detach itself in time from the Jesuits.
It is a remarkable fact, indicating the state of the
public mind in Europe, that the two cities which
have been notable for religious wars should be simul-
taneously the theatres of great movements. The
Rome of Protestantism is the scene of a revolution, in
which the people enforce their claims, deposing the
established authorities. Catholic Rome is the theatre
of the most extensive system of social and political
reform which Italy has witnessed for centuries,
not emanating from the people, or extorted
by physical force, but proceeding from the
spontaneous will,—from the mere motion of
the Sovereign Pontiff himself. The people, instead
of rising in arms to claim and enforce their
rights, are showering benedictions on the head of the
successor of St. Peter. Instead of raising barricades,
they are erecting arches of triumph. Instead of dis-
charging destructive missiles from the windows and
roofs, they are decorating them with garlands and
singing hymns of gratulation and triumph. This is
no fancy picture ; it is the literal report of impartial
Protestant eye witnesses to the progresses of his
Holiness.

To such excess has popular enthusiasm been carried,
that the authorities of Rome hare issued an order to
discourage the continuance of such popular demon-
strations, as interfering with the regular industry of
the people, and imposing injurious expenses upon
them.

Notwithstanding the extent to which the public
attention has been engrossed by the Spanish question,
and other topics of more immediate urgency, the free
trade agitation is spreading with unexpected ra-
pidity. The tacit countenance, or rather toleration,
which the ministry has given to the advocates of that
doctrine, and the direct support it has received in the
most prominent of the official organs of the govern-
ment, have alarmed the protectionists—or prohibi-
' tionists, as they are called—in France. They fear
that M. Guizot contemplates playing them the same
trick that Sir Robert Peel played the agricultural
party. "It would be singular enough," says one of
the party, " if French industry should perish by a
manoeuvre, or, to speak more plainly, by a treachery
similar exactly to that which has been so successful
against industry in England." These suspicions are
gradually gaining strength. A central protectionist
committee is established in Paris, and local
committees will soon be established in the
chief seats of manufacture. The meetings and
banquets can scarcely, it is thought, be pro-
hibited, so long as those of the free traders are tole-
rated. On the other hand, at the chief seaports, such
as Havre and Bordeaux, the free trade party are
making manifestations. M. Bastiat, who seems to
aspire after the fame of a French Cobden, has been
putting in circulation some excellent articles in the
Journal du Harre, which have attracted much atten-
tion. Nor have the partisans of either question
limited their efforts to speakin and writing. Sub-
scriptions on both sides have been opened, and money
is flowing in. Lille, the manufacturing capital of the
North, presents itself as one of the strong-holds of
protectionism. A provisional committee has been
organised there by the Chamber of Commerce, of
which M. Roll Bernard has been named the reporter,
who addressed a meeting of 300 on Tuesday last at
the Hotel de Ville.

The price of bread in Paris for the last fortnight of
October, is for the best quality 13 centimes per kilo-
gramme, and for second quality 3(1 centimes. The
first quality is about the same as the common house-
hold bread of London. The price of this quality is
equivalent to about na. per lb., which would be 81d.
for the 41b. loaf.

Captain Lavand of the nary, appointed Governor-
General of the French Establishments in Oceania, left
Paris on Friday for Brest, whence he is to embark
for Otaiti.

A petition has been presented to the Minister of the
Inter►or to authorise a society for the defence of the
workman's interests in the free-trade question.

The Madrid journals of the 11th inst. have reached
us. Her Majesty has invested the Due dc Montpen-
sier with the order of the Golden Fleece, and as a
grateful return to the Count de Bresson for his active
and successful mediation, the Queen intends to confer
on him, and his heirs for ever, the distinction of
Grandee of Spain of the first Class, and the title of
Duke of Santa Isabel. The Infant Don Francisco is
made Captain-General of the army. It was reported
that Villalonga had ordered all the disposable forces
in Galicia to advance to the frontier of Portugal. A
letter from Oporto states, that Cabrera had landed
there.

A letter dated Gripe (province of Saragossa), 7th
inst., states, that placards in favour of the Count de
Montemolin had been found affixed to the doors of the
Cathedral.

The following is the account of the ceremony that
took place on the 11th in the morning:
" In the church of Atocha the mass of the velariones was
performed. The cortege to the church, on that day, was
magnificent, and the whole garrison was under arms; the
church of Atocha decked out for the occasion. Two major
domos were at the door to receive the invited persons, and
four major demos conducted each person to his place. The
patriarch, seated before the high altar in his pontifical robes,
the mitre on his head and crosier in hand, and surrounded
by a large body of ecclesiastics, awaited the royal brides. On
their entering the churoh, the ceremony of the rt lociones
began by the blessing the offerings (las arras) consisting in
thirteen pieces of money, which the husband offers to his
wife, and she in her turn offers to the church. The
Artjutoriuns nostrum, then struck up, after which
the patriarch recited a prayer, composed for the occasion.
The nuptial rings were then brought to the patriarch on a
richly embossed salver, which were blessed according to
the rights of the Roman church. Ile then sprinkled holy
water on them and on the bridal pair, and blessed all present.
The exchange of rings then took place with the usual forms.
`Whilst the patriarch resumed
,the mitre and crosier, the
newly-married couple, holding each other by the right hand,
followed the prelate towards the altar, to the place where
high mass was to be celebrated, the hymn " place
manes
qui Lenient Dominum qui ambulant in ilia ejus " being
chaunted the while. On the last step of the altar the bridal
pair knelt, and received again the nuptial blessing; after
which the patriarch put on his robes of high-priest to hold
the mass which, according to the Roman rites, is celebrated
without chaunting. (" Missam qua• sine canto ab episcopo
celebrator.") During the epistle two lighted wax tapers were
given to the kneeling couple, which they offered to the
Virgin at the moment of the offerearium, after having kissed
the cross presented to them by the patriarch. A white veil
was then thrown over the heads of the bride and bridegroom,
and when the patriarch had recited the prayer " Libera nos,
quTsumus Domine," he invoked the heavenly blessing upon
them ; and having given them the pa: (pis) to kiss, he con-
tinued the mass until " Its, missa eats" Ile then resumed
the mitre and crosier, and having pronounced a parting ex-
hortation to each, the ceremony terminated.

We learn from La Gaceta of Madrid, of the 12th
instant, that Queen Isabella had, by the advice of her
ministers, created her husband Don Francisco "King
and Majesty."
The royal "baise-mains" had been very brilliant on
the 12th. In the evening the royal couples were to go
to the Theatre San Cruz.

A letter dated Catalonia, 10th instant, in the Phare
de Bayonne, states that " a band of ten men have
attempted an attack near Tordera. They were com-
manded by a man who has a certain influence in the
vicinity. It was quickly repulsed."

By the arrival of the mail steamer Queen, we have
intelligence of importance from Lisbon up to the 10th
inst, A sudden change of ministry had taken place
in the night of the 6th. The Queen, having called
together her ministers, had notified to them the reso-
lution she had come to to form a new ministry, and, on
their refusal, locked them all in together till they
signed their several resignations. Her views were
forwarded in a great measure by her Consort, who
gained over the army, at the same time that she was
performing her portion of the plan, by judiciously
promoting the most influential persons of that profes-
sion to higher grades. In addition to these measures,
several persons were promoted to rank among the
nobility, that they might help to carry the measures
of the Queen.

The Queen charged Marshal Sa'denim with the
formation of a Cabinet on the 7th inst., and the Mar-
shal had selected for his colleagues Farinho, Minister
of Orace and Justice; Manuel Portugal de Castro,