The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-13 00:00:00

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lwants folly. The nail of last week have been well main-
Ward In the few Intopeetions that have taken *am. W.
git.oßlack Si., 4k to 465. 6d. ; fine head Petersburg.
395. for brlrloe; Atehmagel, 40s. to 41e. • Rigs, 411.
L. ; Memel sad Itaaissbser, saddling quility, 40s. to
38s. ; inferior, 87s. to Xs. per qr. Rapeseed lame as last
week. Nitrate of Sods examen!, Iga. per ewe Linreed
`Cakes There has been - demud for the best quali-

a steady Os. —__ __ ..,st
whiht inferior we not much inquired for at
Anil-made, 111. 61. to 111. 7s. 6d. per ton ; foreign. 1r1e".
.iis.,
down to 91. per ton, awarding the quality. Rape Cakes cam-
tines aca-ee, and comaTti 91. per ton. Bones offer spar.
ingly, and are firm in price. Onano same as last week.—
Foreign imports into Hull during this week : Rapeseed, 429
qrs.; Wheat 899 ; Barley, 530; Oats, 736 ; Beans 2,878 ;
Peas, 278; Twee, 366; Rye Meal, 1,240 bags; Bones, 132
tons ; Oil Seed Cakes, 413.
MAIDSTONE, Nov. 11.—We had a very large wooly of a 1
grain to-day, and much ever the demand. Red Wheat we
quote at 46e. to 601., and a slow sale. Oats are plentiful, and
la. cheaper. Beans the same as last week. Barley
cheaper.

Ltiecotw, Nov. 12.—A Rood show of Wheat t.-day, and
2a. lower. Barley was also in full supply, and sold slowly at
• decline of from le. to 2s. Beans somewhat seam, and
easier to purchase. Oats about as before. Wheat, red, Ws.
to 665. • white, 68s. Barley, 311. to Ws. Beans, 44,. to
48s. Oats, 20s. to 28s.

LivaisrooL, Nov. 12.—With the exception of a few par-
cels of Oats, we are almost without arrivals coastwise and
from Ireland since the commencement of this we( k, whilst
. . .

the bulk of our foreign supplies is comprised in about 9,000
barrels of Canadian and States Flour, and 2,680 quarters of
Indian Corn. Owing, in some measure, to the moderate
quantity of produce on offer, the trade during the past two
days has ruled rather quiet ; but, with no urgency on the
part of holders to effect gala, the general currency noted in
our last appeared to undergo little variation. In consequence
et the limited stack of line foreign Wheat remaining
here, and having ven. little English or Irish at
' hand, few country millen attended our Corn Exchange
o-day; in any description of this grain, therefore, the omen.
ties' were only moderate, but without any quotable awe
Mom the rates of Tuesday. States and Canadian Flour INF
*Med to meet a fair demand, good brands, which are ho-
esmisi .rep, fully maintaining their previous nine ; awl
swim el Leib maw commanding 46e. to 475. pee mak
al llemeigtlem,, sod Melt, were =leak an taw
Deese and Peso, though net In lively to-
que*, ettproted late prices. Oats, upon a limited show of
' good meahng qualities, generally maintained our last quota.
Lions; and Oatmeal, being taken more freely by consumers,
advanced 6.1. to 9d. per 2401b5. Indian Corn and Corn
Meal, being still the most attractive articles in the trade,
continued to move off readily on both English aad
Irish account, the former obtaining ls. per 480 lbs.
and the latter 6d. per barrel over the current rates
of Tuesday. Present prices British: Wheat, per 701b5.,
English, red, new, 75. 9d. to Bs. 3d. • old, Bs. 3d. to Be. 6d. ;
white, new, 10d. to Bs. Bd. ; old, Be. 6d. to 8.. 10d.;
Irish, red, new, 7s. lit, to Bs. Id.; old, 7s. 4d. to 7s. 10d.;
white, new, 7s. Bd. to Be. 4d. Barley, per qr., English, new,
345. to 363. ; Chevalier, 375. to 38s. ; Scotch and Irish, per 601 b.,
old, 3s. 9d. to 4s. Malt, English, per qr., pale, old, 613. to &ie.
Oats, English and Scotch, per 4.51 b., old, 33. Gil. to 3s. Bd. ;
Welsh, old, 3s. Gd. to 3e. 7d.; Irish, fine sorts, new, 3s. 3d. to
3.. sd. ; old, 33. 6d. to 34. Bd.; general, new, 2.. 11d. to 3.. Id.;
old, 3.. 4d. to 3s. 6d. Beans, per qr., English, old, 50s. to
545. ; Scotch and Irish, per 480 lb., new, 42.. to 455. ; old,
455. to 475. Peas, English, per quarter, white, new, 465.
to 60s. ; ditto and Irish, grey, 365. to 38s. Flour, par
280 lb., English and Irish, fine, 38s. to 393.; superfine,
41s. to 435.; extra, 443. to 455. Oatmeal, per load of
240 lb., Irish, new, 275. to 28s. ; old, 245. to 255. ; Ca-
nadian, old, 233. to 245. Bran, per 24 lb., le. 2d to 1,. 4d.
Foreign : Wheat, per 701 b., Canadian, red, 7s. 2d. to
7a. 6d.; white, 7e. Bd. to Bs.; United State*, red,
7.. &I. to 7s. 10d. ; white, Bs. 3d. to 8.. 9d. ; Dantuic, mixed
and red, 7.. 6d. to 83. ; high mixed, Bs. 6d. to Os. ;
Lower Baltic and Hamburg, red, 7e. 6d. to Bs.; white,
7s. 168. to Bs. 3d. ; Riga and Petersburg, red, 7e. 2d. to
7s. 4d.; Archangel, Gs. Bd. to 7s. ; Odessa, common, red,
6s. 10d. to 7s. 2d.; Polish, 7a. 6d. to 7s. 9d. ; French, Spanish,
and Italian, red, 73.2 d. to 7s. 4d. ; white, 7.. 6d. to 7a. Bd. ;
Bonnet and Mari.utopoli, red, 7s. 3d. to 7s. Gd. •, Egyptian,
le. to 4.. 3d.; Mediterranean, &c., hard, red, 6s. 3d. to as. 91.
Rye, per qr., Baltic, &c., 335. to 3Gs. Barley, per 601 b.,
4s. to 4s. 3d. Oats, per 451 b., 3s. fid. to 3s. 7d. ; Russian,
2.. 10d. to 2.. lid. Beans, per quarter, European, 48s. to
525. ; Egyptian, per 4801 b., 335. to 345. Peas, per qr., Baltic,
&c., white, 455. to 485.; Canadian, 365. to 40s. Indian
Corn, par 48011., 34.. to 37..; Indian Meal, per barrel
of 1961 b., 16s. to 16e. Flour, per barrel of 1961 b., Cana-
dian, sweet,27s. 6d. to 305. ; United States, sweet, 28s. to 30s.
United States and Canadian, sour, 20s. to 7/e. Arrivals into
Liverpool and Runcorn from the 9th Nov. to the 11th Nov.,
inclusive : Wheat, 335 on. ; Barley, 6 ; Malt, 3 ; Oats,
1,324; Beane 1,315; Indian Corn, 2,680; Indian Cons
Meal, 238 barrels ; Oatmeal, 86.5 sacks ; Flour, 30 sacks,
9,109 barrels.
Sowrinsteroar, Nov. 12.-There was a good attendance
at our market this day, and more business transacted, at last
week's prices. Wheat, Beans, and Oats fully as dear.
Barley, malting, about Is, cheaper. Flour, 41s. to 425. per
sack.

WAIEFIZLD, NOT. 12.-Our arrivals of grain increase.
There is a good show of Wheat, and prices are Is. to 2s. par
qr. lower, but the sale is pretty free. Pine Barley has receded
Jolly ls. per qr., and secondary sorts 21. per qr. Oats and
Shelling each quite as dear. Beans se before. No alteration
in other articles. Current prices Wheat, per quarter,
.11b. to the bushel, Suffolk, Ewer, and Kent, red,
arms 44 4.66 a.; erehm, 66e. ; white, 651. M 535.; extra, Ws.
Norfolk and Haste, red, 63.. to 54t; extra, 551. • white, 624.
to 65s ; extra, 565. ; Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire, red,
51s. to 53a. ; extra, 545. ; white, 51s. to 535. ; extra, 551.;
Yorkshire, red, 52e. to 635.; extra, 665.; white, 63a.
to 545. ; extra, 565. ; Dantric and Konigsberg, white, 52e. to
545.; extra, 68e.; Lower Baltic and Hamburg, red, 50s.
to 62a. ; extra, 545. ; Mediterranean, red, 40s. to
445. ; extra, 503. Old, red, 465. to 525. ,• extra, 545. ;
Barley, per quarter imp., Norfolk and Suffolk, 335. to 3.53. ;
extra, Ma.; Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, 321. to 345.;
extra, 365. ; grinding, 265. to 234. ; foreign 30s. to 32a. ;
Beane, per quarter, 63 lbs. to the bushel, small, fine, uew,
455. to 471. ; old, 555. ; Ticks, new, 435. to 445. ; old, 535.;
foreign, new, 425. to 435. ; old, 52a. Oats, per stone, meal-
ins, 11d. to 13d.; new, 134 d. ; feeding, 11d. to 12d. ; extra,
13d.; foreign, Ild. to 12d.; extra, 120. Shelling, per load of
2611 M., 295. to 30s. ; extra, 311. Malt, per load of 6
bushels, 40s. to 423. •, extra, 44.1. Peas, per imp. qr., blue
and white boilers, 40s. to 42a. • extra, 445. ; Fey and feed,
365. to 40s, ; extra, 425. Rapeeeed, per last imp., English,
271. to 291. ; foreign, 271. to 291. Linseed, per imp. cp.,
465. to 545. Imports during the week Wheat, 12,065 qes.;
Barley, 5,541; Oats, 1,035; Beans, 1,741; Peas, 49; Shell-
ing, 462 loads; Malt, 52 loads.
WATERFORD, Nov. 10.-Our supplies of farmers' Wheat
since Saturday have been liberal ; but of Oats and Barley
only moderate. Sales of all kinds of grain and Flour are
dull, at the prices of last week.

HOPS. BOROUGH MARKET, Two o'C?od..
Mean% Patteaden and Smith, Hop factors, report that the
market is much the same.
Now Mid k E. Reato C. oto SI, 12 j Yearling Reotto. cwt. 21.10 to 33.10
New Weald of Moto 210t04 0 4I Yearling Sums 2bto 3 3
New Soon
Farnham .

WOOL.-LonnoN.--The colonial sales have con-
cluded. The quantity offered consisted of 13,000 bales Aus-
tralian. 1,200 Van Diemen's Land, 6,000 Port Philip, 200
Swan River, 200 South Australian, 5,000 Cape, 600 Buenos
Ayres, Odessa, &e., &c., making atotal of about 26,000 bales.
About one-half of this quantity was withdrawn, and the
quantity actually sold went irregularly, but certainly at a
decline of 2d. to 3d. per lb. The following are the leading
quotations ..-Sydney, superior bales, 2s. 2d. to 24. sd. ;
superior flocks, ls. Id. to la. 111 d. ; good, Is. 3d. to Is. Bd.;
average, 11d, ls. 2d. ; inferior and bad condition, Bd. to
Ild.; hand-washed, is. 3d. to 2s. • lambs, average, Is. 2d. to
Is. 51d. ; do. inferior, 10d. to Is. 14. ; akin, 716. to le. 446. ;
piece and locks, 4d. to is. 14. • grease, 31d. to 816.; Van
iemen's Land, average to good, Ild. to le. lid. ; inferior
and bad condition, Bd. to 10d. ; hand-washed, Is. 3d. to
ls. 9d. ; lambs, average, le. 3d. to Is. 7d. ; ditto, inferior,
1041. to is. 26. ; skin, 7d. to Iod. ; pieces and locks, 6d. to
9d. ; grease, sd. to 7d. Port Philip and Portland Bay, su-
perior, ls. 6d. to Is. 94d. ; average to good, Is. to Is. 6d. ;
inferior and bad condition, Bd. to Ild. ; hand-washed, Is. 3d.
'to Is. 9d. • lambs's, fair, Is. 3d. to le. 7d.; lamb, average to
inferior, lOd. to Is. 2d. ; akin, Bd. to le. ;. pieces and locks, sd.
to ls.; grease, 4d. to 7d. South Australian, average to good,
10d. to Ts. ; inferior and bad condition, 7d. to 10d. ' • lambs,lod.
tole. 2d.; skin, 7d. to 9d. ; pieces and locks, 4d. to 6d. ; grease,
3d. to 6d. Swan River, scoured, Ild. to Is. 51d. ; fleece,
6d. tots, New Zealand, fleece, Bd. to Ild. ; grease, 74d.
Cape, superior, ls. 3d. to ls. Old.; average to good, 9d. to
ls. Id. ; inferior and bad conditioned, bd. to 9d. ; hand-
washed, Ocl. to Is. 214. ; skin, Gd. to Bd. • pieces and locks,
3d. to 6d. ; grease, 3d. to 64d. East India, white, good, 7d.
to 84d. ; fair, 6d. to 7d. • yellow, 41d. to 64d.; grey and low,
2d. to sd. Russian Neils, Bd. to ls. lid. Buenos Ayres,
entire Rios, sd. to 71.; /amities, 31d. to 444. ; common,
2d. to 3d.

HAY.—SMITHIMILD, Tent Clock.—Mesere. Cooper
and Davis, Hay and Straw salesmen, report the trade very
dull.
Primo Meadow 05e. to 76“. Rowan— —o to —o. Straw.. Lit to 30..
Interior ...... Ms. to cluo I Clover Ms to 900

CATTLE, &c.—ILsEY (BEAKS) LARGE SHEEP
FAIR, Nov. 12.—The number of Sheep was nearly 6,000
above the quantity at this fair lut year, the quantity gene-
rally very superior, consisting of first•rate Downs, superior
Cotswolds. and half-breds. Nearly all sold early. First-
rate Ewes made 345. to 365. each; middling, 30s. to 3'2s. ;
inferior, 265. to 28s. Some extraordinary Lambs reached
40s. ; very good, 30s. to 328. • fair, 265. to 28e. ; small, 224. ;
inferior, 18$. to 20s. Half-bred Sheep were 2s. to es. above
some of the above-named prices. Wethers for stock were at
prices varying between 268. and 455. each. Of fat Sheep
some fine four and six tooth Downs sad half-breds made full
ss. per stone, or 7yd. per lb. ; a few choice, up to Bd. ; some
large Cotswold, U. Bd. per stone; moderate Sheep, with fat
barren Ewes, 4s. 4d. ; a few inferior not reaching above es.

COVENT GARDEN.—This Morning.—Fruit and
vegetables are plentiful. Pine-apples are abundant and good.
Grapes are sufficient for the demand. Plums are scarce.
Pears and Apples are good and plentiful. Of the former,
good specimens of Glout Morceau and Beane Diel may
be purchased at from 2s. to 4s. per dozen, and the
Guernsey Chaumontel from 2s. to 41. per dozen. Oranges
begin to make their appearance. Nuts are sufficient for the
demand. Filberts fetch 6d. per pound. Walnuts are abund-
sat, and Chestnuts are becoming more plentiful. Lemons
are sudlcient for the demand. Pomegranates are ticketed at
4d. each. Of Vegetables, Cauldlowors and Broccoli are
pod and plentiful. Carrots are good; and Turnips are
better in quality. Potatoes realise better prices. Lettuces
and other 'abiding are sufficient fir the demand. Mush-
rooms fetch good prices. Cut Flowers consist of Heaths, Pe-

largontums, Gordenias, Cite
Res, Moss, sad Mau Roses.

P11:71T8.

FuthMae, Camel-

TINS Apple, per lb. Is to Is
omits, beam., per lb .is tots Almonds, per k, do
Poetobst, per lb.. Is
..... 'tweet Al , per lb ,I.to Ss
Meloos,epostss per ...tr.. !Sot /IV Wallow. pa book.. Hs to Hs
Plus, per eke.. Is la to Ss Be. Sortie.. per Mkt steer, Si ,o to
Dakotas, per dere, SG is ?tots, PareelGas, the MOIL, Ws NON
Apples, seven, per busk., So to I. Falbena.pe• 1111 b• . les to tOs
spebrp.pet butt .1.41.1 to Ss N 0.1 llelbs, 01. to Its
Peen, per ball Nev.. le 44 So Is . per bark., It. to lit
Corsage., per dos., Is 611 to Ps Clespast, So 1. ?a pro peck.
Limos., per 41.1.. Is to Ss
1/1111f ST • UT WO

Apparorsa, pat 100, bU 72
lave" per Om, It to le id
Gabbro., ire doe, 44 to la
M per Poe, le Pr Po
10earna, per Poe beach , la 14 to Ss
o.dllll. . per doe., la tele
Broteoll, por DooaM, Id to 14
Womb groats, per b. eve le to fa
Sorrel, p..10.40,1..44 111
Potatoes, per too, lOU to 1104
etot,llto7a
berbel. 3e to Jo ft
"M Perri! Poe , Id WY
Taralpt, perld to IsOa
Bee Peet, per eter,O to laid
Rene itodish, per b0a414,3.1 le 4a
Carambere, each, Miele
Leeks, par dor. IS. ./3 1. 44
Orrery. per boodle, id to load
Carrots, per SapAsaree, fa to 41
*plop, per both., la 44 to aa
11artesal: Por lee, 14 44 44
pktllsg, per .L1..141000 So

!llPaget., per lb.
..4d te Id

Garlic, Per lb/ Id II"
Splesedt, per elotwo, ed to le
Ipt Leo.. Isis Se
Jersetlettad /....evo, la toe.
T0na1...411p e6eee, le 6d te
Lotroce. 019..
so
e, 44 to NI
cm, per some, 94 lo le
Bolide, per score, 94 to le 44
Ertlobes, per dos. bowls. 34 to le
li
Parole, per iles 1914.9t1 to Is
Mainsonii. per pont., Is to lea
' per bush . 6s to 7.
Small 41.6. per pelmet, to Si
!owed, per Donee, to,

171avory. per bomb, U 44
Thyme, par beach, U
Watercress, per It ma ►oa, ld to M
Parsley. per ►alf-eieee, It to It 411
Room. per Inmate, Is to laid
Mint„ tern, per bunch, Id to NI
Marjoram, per hooch, ad N fd

for Yeabovieft's Atarims w.

SHIPPING.

Mann Atoorato.—EMblia,4 Waterford, 3; Denaghadox
1 ; French, 1 ; Flanders, 1.
LONDON. Nov. 13.—Wind this day at noon, W., light
breeze, and fine clear weather.
OFF TIRE NORTH FORELAND, Nov. 11.—Prince, Quebec.
ORAL, Nov. 12.—N.W. to W.N.W.—Arrived : Lancaster,
and Elizabeth (of Belfast), Bahia; Belle, Rio Janeiro; Ca-
ledonia. St. Lucia; Superior, Demerara; Susan, St. John's,
N.B. ; Ann, Pugwash ; Sister', Alexander, Aurora, and Anne,
. Belley, Algot Bay ; Vanguard, St. Ilelena ;
rttedea Luckie, Demerara. Arrived from the river and
=Bed Rajahstan, Bombay ; Mary Bibby, Barbadoes ; Ben-
=ion.ene, St. Kitte ; Alice, and Jane, Jamaica; Courier,
zas ; Rockall, New Orleans; St. James, New York.
Arrived from the river Thetis, Madras ; Regina, St. Lucia;
Corosation, New Orleans.
Poarszoirrn, Nov. 12.—N.W.—Sailed : Ruby, Madura
and Tobago.
Cowes, Nov. 12.—W.N.W.—Arrived Bcnhorn, Porto
Rico.
Ptratorrit, Nov. 12.—The brig Eiirabeth foundered, lat.
49, long. 10; crew picked up by the Peter and John, which
has put back here.
DARTMOUTH, Nov. 12. N.W. Arrived : Visiter,
Labrador.

FALMOVTII, Nev. 12.—N.N.W.—Sailed: Martiniquise,
Martinique.
Hum., Nov. 12.—N.—Arrived: Humber, Miramichi.
BIDEFORD, Nov. 12.—Arrived : Civility, Prince Edward's
Island.

Pansrow, Nov. 11.—The Broehock, Limerick to London,
has put in here leaky, &c.
BELMVI.LET, Nov. 10.—The Eliza, of and for Youghal,
went on shore in Westport Bay, Bth inst., and remains in a
dangerous position.
CORK, Nov. 10.—The weather continues very boisterous.
The Little Pet, Ibraila to Cork, has put in, having Lem on
her beam-ends on the Bth inst., and cut away her masts. The
Brigantine, of St. John's, N. 8., timber-laden, was fallen in
with on the 4th inst., lat. 46, long. 8 30, water-logged and
abandoned, and apparently stripped.
SLIGO, Nov. 11.—The Dewdrop and the Crescent have
been got along side the quay, without any apparent damage.
OFF THE WIGHT, Nor. 10.—Creole, and Queen, of Jer-
sey, Rio Janeiro. 11th, Conrad, Trinidad, for Bremen.
PLYKOUTH, Nov. 12. N.W.— Arrived : Lady Peel,
Quebec. Sailed : Hyderabad, Sydney, N.S.W. ; Warrior,
Bombay ; Catherine Elizabeth, Tohago.
BRISTOL CILLNNEL. - Arrived : Briton, of Kirkaldy,
Port Adelaide.
SAtiNDEREFOOT, NOT. 3.—Lady Phillips, Picton.
Taoote, Nov. 10.—Arrived: Warrior, Dalhousie.
DUBLIN BAT, Nov. 10.—Arrived : Kingston, Demerara.
KILHUSH, Nov. 9.—lt blew a heavy gale at S.W. yester-
day, ►nd last night The Caipe, for London, broke adrift,
and has started her side and decks.
BRISTOL, Nov. 12.—A schooner, of and from Scilly, for
Limerick, eliminated, was passed on the 9th inst. in lat. 51,
long. 8, by the Orinoco, arrived here.
LONDON, Nov. 13.—The Haddon, of and for London, from
Faro, foundered on the Bth Mat, 10 miles W. of Milford,
during a gale ; muter and one man saved.

ght ''-' rpreoo.

MAILS,

The mails foe Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar
will be made up on the morning of the 17th November.
The West ladies Mails, excluding Bermuda, Nassau, Harch
Honduras, New Orleans, Vera Crum Tampico, mut Porto Rioo, and
iacluding those for Mond, Carthagena. Bans Martha, Chcliveilii
Panama, Wed Coast of South America, and St. Juan.de-Nicaragna,
will be made up on the morning e( the 17th inst.
The mails or BIM& Nara Amietea, Bermuda, and the United
States, will be made ip en the riteder of the 113th November.
The ormbind mean 011inilter. Idislta,Greece, the loman Islands,
Crept, Adm,Ogyhie. bsillia,Hrem-Kong, and Mina, ens Southampton.
will be nob qq ails mining of the 20th November.
The dime malls, can Marseilles, to the Mediterranean.
Miletrirlia• Meng Borg, ere., will he made up as the
tis ler New South Wales, Van Dienseo's Land, and New
UMW will be me de upon the evening of the 30th November.
The mails for the Brazils, ths Rim Plate, Mont* Video, Perms.
bizmßahia, Madeira, and Bunco Ayres, will be made op en the
et the 4th December.

TO CORTESPOR DEITT.
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o 00.00, liwuredwoest. y ITT meelath ow t. ay ajmtalltatise

HIGH RATES AT LONDON• 111111361.
TAts 1546—Yer•kag, 10 al. but 4 Afterame. 10 W. pave A
ToAlesso•—ilerflag. Tl mit poi 5 , AbsnAsm. 53 WA. pan 6.

LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 13.

COUNT BRESSON was one of the marshals of the
Napoleon of Peace. This potentate has planned with
as much care and as profound calculation his cam-
paigns of policy and intrigue, as the warlikeNseoteon
did his great military movements. And the schemes of
him of Peace for subjugating Spain have shown per-
haps more address than the military plans of the great
NAPOLEON for the same object. Both campaigns were
marked by trying. struggles, fierce engagements; and
the Spanish marriages, achieved by Count BRESSON,
were as hard fought and ruthlessly pressed, as any
other Spanish defeat achieved by a French general.
These marriages were the Austerlitz of the Napoleon
of Peace. And Count BnessoN won his marshal's
bdton on that field.
There is a difference, however, between military
and diplomatic achievements. In the one, glory covers
over and hallows each act of unscrupulousness and
even cruelty. The most brilliant success in diplo-
macy has no magic of the kind. Marshal LANNES is
said to have stripped the Archbishop of TOLEDO'S
person of his crosses and jewelled orders. The
glorious death of LANNES on the field of bat-
tle has caused all such acts to be forgotten.
Muaxr's sweeping the streets of Madrid with grape-
shot may be veiled by the laurels of King JOACHIM.
Count BRESSON'S victorious onslaught on the palace
of Madrid and the young Queen, whom he forced to
consent to a disgusting marriage by threats and
violence, is an exploit, which no result could gild
or could redeem. The crime has surely drawn down
the punishment after it..
Far from the circumstances and vile concomitants
of these marria,ges having been exaggerated, the whole
troth has, we believe, still to be revealed to the world.
Not the least amusing and surprising fact is, that it
was not, after all, France or the French court, which
furnished the amount of money requisite to carry on
and out this great manceuvre ; the poor Spaniards
themselves were forced to furnish the millions re-
quired to be expended for the betrayal of their Queen
and the utter destruction of their constitutional
monarchy. It is perfectly well known in Madrid
that five millions sterling, more than was ever
set down in the Spanish budget, were raised
by the Spanish finance department. Of these,
two millions sterling were paid to the King of the
FRENCH in specie, as the dowry of the Duchess de
MONTPENSIER. As the King insisted on having them
in specie, and not in tell-tale bills, Madrid was
drained of all its gold and silver coin at the
moment. In addition to these two millions sterling,
three millions more were spent upon ands vid.ed
amongst the perpetrators of that dreadful rriage
tragedy. Senor SALAMANCA had not only all
these facts to reveal, but all the proofs and vouchers
ready. And it was his threat to do so, that neces-
sitated the counter move from Paris in the person of
NARVAEZ, and compelled every effort to be made to
prevent SALAMANCA from meeting the Cortes, or
laying his budget before them. SALAMANCA, like
SERRANO, allowed himself to be intimidated and
duped ; and now, because in disgrace and ruin
he threatens disclosures, he is menaced with exile
and with death, if he dares to reveal the truth.
In Count BRESSON'S case, we said, the crime en-
tailed the punishment. The count, like all French
diplomatists sprang from the humble ranks of their
profession, desired above all things to take rank with
that European aristocracy which, in London or
Vienna, form what diplomatists and statesmen eon-
, eider their world. The tastes of Count BRESSON
were peculiarly
English. His style of bearing
' and of living denoted it. To have been received
his
into high English circles, or to have fired
way into them, with success s4t7 •
to Marshal SEBASTIANI'B, would haw
ambition. But the adventure of the royal
Madrid stood as a bar. And thus in
filling the great embassies, Count BnlieseSt
his very success reduced to secondazy. rank in
. fession. The proof was his appointment
•

sinecure of Naples. To close with the same meta-
phor with which we commenced, Count BRERSON
found that, instead of becoming the SOULT or the
MACDONALD of the NAPOLEON of Peter, he had
merely made himself the SAVARY—in other words,
the instrument, not the honour or support. From
such a consciousness the proud spirit revolted, sad the
melancholy result has been seen.

WE dossed know that any more forcible rebuke could
be administered to the presumptuous expounders of
the extreme currency doctrines than is contained ha
the official returns of the Bank of England, which
will be found in oar Money Market article, from the
Gazette of last evening. There is not a single item
of the return which does not bring most signal discom-
fiture to the forebodings and vapourings of the anti-
oredit school. And so remarkable is this fresh illus-
tration of the facility with which enthusiasm for a
theory can lead men into the grossest extremes of
absurdity, that it is worth while to pursue the inves-
tigation into some detail.
The items of the return which first arrest the atten-
tion, are those which indicate an augmented banking
reserve, an augmented aggregate amount of bullion,
and a diminution of circulation and of securities. Ex-
pressed in language free from technical nomenclature,
the return conveys the broad and gratifying intima-
tion that the crisis of the pressure has been most
thoroughly surmounted, that confidence in the ordi-
nary methods and courtesies of business is again
restored, and that money has become sufficiently easy
of access out of doors to reduce the rate of interest so
palpably below the Bank rate, as to not only
assuage most effectually the pressure at the
Discount-office, but to render it profitable for
borrowers from the Bank to resort elsewhere for
the accommodation they require. The very marked
fall (the exact figures are 440,0001. less than last
week) in the amount of the outstanding circulation,
affords the most satisfactory evidence of the rapid
diaappearance of that distrustful temper which, pre-
vious to the appearance of the government letter,
was becoming. so mischievously infectious, and was
rapidly disseminating a disposition to hoard coin and
bank notes, as the safest security against the casual-
ties of, at that time, a most dismal future. And,
bearing in mind that this important decline takes
place at a moment when, by the supercilious
scruples of the Act of 1844, the maxi-
mum limit placed upon the country notes compels
provincial banks to meet the enlarged demand for cir-
culation, always incident to this period of the year,
by the employment of the metropolitan currency, the
satisfactory inference to which we have alluded re-
ceives still further confirmation. The diminution in
the mercantile securities is also considerable—more
than half a million. Between this contraction of
advances on the one hand, and a small increase of
deposits on the other, the banking reserve exhibits the
very large increase of 730,0001., viz., from about one
and a half to two and a quarter millions. The total
amount of bullion is also more by the very respectable
sum of 300,0001. than on the last occasion.
What, then, in a brief compass, are the cardinal
facts presented by this official document? The answer
is as easy as it is conclusive.
In the space of twelve days from the date of the
suspension of the Bank Act there has been an influx
of bullion, which has set in with so full and steady a
tide, as to add to the total reserve in the vaults of the
Bank the sum of half a million, notwithstanding a
large concurrent demand for internal purposes.
During the same brief period there has been a com-
plete removal of those exacerbated symptoms of
crisis, which were previously a source of so much
suffering and peril. There has been also a revival of
the most sound and salutary kind in the great staple
trades and the great manufacturing markets of the
country. There has been so sensible a fall in
the rate of interest, that bills which, in
the midst of the excitement, could only be
negotiated at 12 and 14 per cent., are now readily
accepted at 6 and 7. And all these things—this
influx of treasure—this reassurance of the public

mind—this relief of a prostrate industry—this .Whole-
some extension of the facilities of the money market
—have been accomplished without the aid, in any'
shape or degree, of any one of the desperate expe-
dients so dogmatically predicted and so pompously
denounced by the easily-inflated oracles of the ex-
ploded hypothesis. The circulation has not been
extended ; we have not been carried off our feet by a
deluge of cheap paper; the relief of Manchester
has not been accomplished by the prodigality of Bir-
mingham. The precise contrary is the fact ; and the
proof of this fact is palpable to all the world,
in the official statistics to which we are at
this moment directing attention. Still less has
the deficiency of paper been supplied by the artifices
of banking, for the securities have oscillated in a
direction which no ingenuity of dialectics can bring
into harmony with the anticipated formula.
We have not stated a single circumstance in the re-
capitulation which can be set down, with any degree
of truth, as an invention or as an exaggeration. The
facts are as notorious and as certain as the setting of
yesterday's sun, or the collection of the quarter's
taxes. We ask them—and we have a right to ask—
where is the truth or decency of the loud and repeated
proclamations of national insolvency which, for so long
a time, found so ready an assent with those who had
the power of paramount interference ? We have satis-
fied ourselves by actual experiment that the moral in-
fluence alone of a simple act of permission has been
sufficient to deliver us from a slough of despond as
dark and full of peril as ever placed the interest of
the country in jeopardy. Why, then, was the relief
so long withheld—why were the events of April and
of August permitted to have so small an influence—
why was the concession granted to the lust, instead of
to the first, of the series of deputations who carried
up the cries and supplications of our afflicted people
to the responsible functionaries of the state ? These
are not idle questions. They are questions which
parliament must and will insist upon asking, and
asking, too, with a full determination to extract an
answer.

There is also another question, to which it may
be difficult to give a reasonable reply. Upon
what intelligible motive wee it thought n
to hamper the abrogation of a pernicious statue: 8:g
the exaction of an official rate of interest, devoid of
precedent, authority, or justice ? The alarm and distrust
which the imposition of 8 per cent. indicated on the
part of the government threatened to interfere with a
cordial and complete restoration of a healthy state of
things. Men felt and mid, " The government have
interfered, it is true ; but bow have they interfered ?
Their information has so frightened them that they
dare only part with the key upon the rigid condition
that it shall be hung beyond the reach of those who
most require the assistance it unlocks." In
spite of this reasonable apprehension the country
has recovered ; but then, why should the country be
required to recover, in despite of any such absurdity ?
The Bank may retain its rate unaltered (we do not
expect that it will attempt to alter it until after the
parliamentary indemnity is obtained) ; but now that
the real condition of the country is becoming so plainly
apparent we do not think that any class of persons
will have so much reason to complain of this exorbi-
tant rate as the proprietors of Bank Stock. No man will
give the Bank 8 per cent. when he can obtain money
elsewhere at 6 or 7. The directors, therefore, may
calculate with tolerable safety on a still farther dimi-
nution of their securities, and a still further elevation
of their banking reserve. Were the Bank, however,
shackled by no legislative punctilios at the pre-
sent moment, although we should desire to see
a more reasonable conformity between the
rates of interest in and out of that establish-
ment, we should deprecate in the strongest man-
ner any repetition of that emphatically mis-
chievous competition with the London bankers which
for the last two years has been so great a curse to the
commerce of the country. The business of the Bank
should be to act as seldom as possible upon the rate of
interest by its own formal example, and it will best
accomplish this end by always keeping its published
terms something in advance of the general course of
the market.

THE poeition of the Edinburgh Professor of He-
brew is as puzzling to a Southrou as Hebrew itself
is to an immense majority of the ministers of the
Kirk. The patrons of the university have elected a
professor; the presbytery have applied to the Court
of Session for an interdict against his induction; the
Lord Ordinary (Lord ROBERTSON) has refused the
interdict; and the Senates Academicus have de-
murred to receive their new colleague. Foar equal,
foroes are pressing at right angles to each other on
the same point, and rendering movement in any
direction impossible. There is no prospect for the
future but interminable litigation.

The learned (and poetical) Lord Ordinary has 1
thrown little light upon the matter. His interlo-
cutory judgment is, indeed, both sound and
Bible. The town council have appointed a member
of the free kirk to the vacant professorial chair. A
statute requires that every inchoate professor in a
Scotch university shall appear before the presbytery
of the bounds and sign the confession of faith. The
presbytery of Edinburgh maintain that a member of
the free kirk will not acknowledge the
,jurisdiction of
a court of the established church to this extent, and
on this assumption rpply to the civil court to declare
the appointment null. The judge of the civil court
dismisses the application as premature. It will be
time enough to take up the question when the nomi-
nee has refused or failed to comply with the injunc-
tions of the statute.
This decision is, as we have already remarked, sound
and intelligible. As much cannot be said of the magna
et serbasa "note" which the learnei judge has seen fit
to append to it. This explanation fills two mortal
columns of very small type in the North British Mail,
and explains nothing—not even itself. We may say,
after Mr. Puf, in " The Critic," that Lord ROBERT-
SON, the interpreter, is more difficult to understand
than the Lord ROBERTSON who penned the text in-
terpreted. One might almost fancy that the learned
judge had carried to the bench that talent for speak-
ing on "the general question" which in days of old
he displayed to the delight of so many a festive board.
All that we have gathered from repeated perusals of
this unparalleled document is a more lively recollec-
tion of the doctrine gravely enounced by ERSKINE
(the Scotch BLACKSTONE), that "the interest of the
soul is not an interest known or recognised in the ele-
mentary treatises or in the practice of the law of
Scotland."
If the judges of the "Inner Honee," to whom this
knotty controversy is, it is understood, to be referred,
do not succeed in making the matter somewhat clearer
than their Ordinary in the " Outer House," the intel-
lect of the Scotch public is in serious danger of being
sorely perplexed by their dicta. Possibly the legisla-
ture might save that luckless country, already suffi-
ciently vexed with ecclesiastical squabbles, the effu-
sion of much nonsense, and the engendering of much
bile, were it by a declaratory enactment to take the
discussion out of the hands of the lawyers.
The present contest between the patrons of the
University of Edinburgh and the church courts is
only one of many which have long rendered legible-
lion respecting the qualifications of Scotch professors
desirable. By an act of the Scotch parliament passed
in 1600' and by the Act of Security passed in
1707, all parties appointed to professorships in Scotch
universities are ordered to present themselves to
" the presbytery of the bounds," to " profess" that he
will " practise and conform to the worship presently
in use in this church, and submit himself to the go-
vernment and discipline thereof," and, in proof of hie
sincerity, to sign the confession of faith. Now this
law has notoriously proved unavailing to keep out of
university chairs men belonging to the episcopal com-
munion, and men who were generally understood to
disbelieve in revelation, while,on the other hand,ithas
been the means of excluding men who were sincere
Christians, and noways disposed to assail or under-
mine the kirk of Scotland. How much the Scotch
universities have lost by competent aspirants to pro-
fessorshipa waiving their claims because they could not
comply with the requisitions of the statutes above re-
ferred to it, would be difficult to say ; but, had they
been always strictly enforced, or had some Scotch
professors failed to reconcile themselves to compliance
with their injunctions, on the plea that they were
mere empty form, the Scotch universities would
neither now nor formerly have enjoyed or deserved
the reputation they have so well won. On these
grounds has the repeal of this test long been desired
by the majority of intelligent and sincerely pious
Scotchmen. _ _ . .

The equity and expediency of this repeal are obvious,
in so far as the legal and medical faculties and the
faculty of arts are concerned. The theological faculty
is an exceptional case. There is an established
church in Scotland, and to the state church
all religious endowments by the state naturally and
necessarily appertain. It seems no more than just
that the established kirk should exercise supervision
and control over the theological faculties established
and supported in the Scotch universities by the state.
Whether it would not be expedient to allow the other
churches existing in Scotland to maintain from their
own resources theological faculties under their super-
vision and control, in connexion with the universities,
is a question upon which we need not now enter.
Bat the concession we have now made is not decisive
as to the case of the Hebrew chair. The question re-
mains to be settled whether that chair belongs of
right to the theological faculty, or to the faculty
of arts. To all whom the routine of a Scotch univer-
sity has not blinded, it must be obvious that the
Hebrew chair, like the Greek and Latin chairs, is a
literary chair, and, as such, necessarily belongs to the
faculty of arta, not to the theological. On this
ground any act repealing the test now exacted from
secular professors in Scotland ought to include the
Hebrew chair among the professorships exempted
from subjection to that test. This removal of the
Hebrew professorship to its proper class would be
productive of a two-fold benefit. In secularising the
chair the field of its occupant's labours might be
extended to embrace Oriental languages in general.
This widening of his sphere of activity would on
the one hand render the chair more an object
of ambition to men of talent, for our intimate rela-
tions with the East would ensure him the attendance
of many pupils destined to a secular career, in addi-
tion to his divinity students; and on the other it
would encourage to the study of Hebrew in a larger
and more comprehensive spirit—in connexion with
kindred l and dialects. The second benefit
is be expected from the innovation proposed would
be, that the professor would feel himself at liberty to
study and teach the language as free from sectarian
bias as Greek or Latin. At present he dare not
adopt any view of it, however obvious that may ap-
pear, at variance with the received versions of his
church. He must teach Hebrew not as it is, but as
the interests of calvinistic presbyterianism would
have it believed. Perhaps independent secular pro-
fessors of Oriental languages might create a few
Hebrew scholars in Scotland. This is more than the
whole succession of clerical professors have ever ac-
complishoL

The loan adjudicated to Meows. Rothschild at the
Hotel de Finance the previous day, formed the
almost exclusive subject of conversation in Paris on
Thursday. The journals, of course, are filled with it.
We select from the numerous leading articles upon it,
the following, from the Constitutionnel and the
National. The Constitution/set says.
The loaning adjudged nearer, attaionft of M. 25e. This is, it is
troy 70c. below tbe gacraileaa ea day balm taking off the coupon
et U, bee., but
lo Made Mats hot fortnight. The profit
r foe wligmll Is Eiger If er tea the eh% or X 70c.,
fan We dig the prarele. Thus, the rate at which
Ism s las aralrad awl" eke head as the more or lees
appestailles monde at So iltlgagg So which the minister
ban rand atehassleset the merry. This is so true,
that the Amoral ass Da" • In ago Irak, mead the ratan
made by aim apeekten r vele the graham., hag rave
wararap era smartertrinie • ale malt It, regaled se
petentere to the meant sera at Wray. 73f. 25c., elm the
pending lam bed am sileeipl awe Mt, that Is to my, • gal
lOL In the meat at the asks—wok IN the tea& ma
lathe earealui eirrast el Odra by the a them letrat
OW Masa vow/ le hem. We mid the day teem yee•
tally that the Male mad set Wile W ha at awry dem rate
—on malltias wad brat ay meldhat • raw beak.
How, Irk raid it be elherwlae ! promemert wee literrar-
tag la ae altwevellie deemsteemeAC:
web he brava
pat,, peemi, rad le arae arras( with weft earreord
ea awry paha et the leallera, Ida • debt of NO mil-
Nada tale leirared Sr WO emirs sea yew. It praseated itself re
as mow ineditylislittled itself exhausted, by eroding an en.
wale: haelaheadlaa= lasi.° of And tea I:up'''. at; ttt'its weld
het a e the eepramede a the tradary; that it would be se-
aura Mem Mg la rated& kw haw aderaera in the budget., new
Mpg= if graft awls Sr; and Welarigually, it would be again
=la seat period to
the aratd-hrre. It te all this Mt-
bra eblett explains the Ilspiorabie rate at which the loan
bete Not eratiodod. It preemie la all Its clearness the precarious
eureka d the treat of the state, sad it will bare, perhape, at least
this rank tint In showing forth an the extent and all the gravity of
the eel% It vil peels at the same time the necessity of reforming a
political and Mammal system, which prepares for us a still more me-
lancholy future.
We read in the National

To wedeln the real price of the loan, we most cakulatc the value,
on the 22nd of November, 1647, of a sum of 75f. 25e. payable by 25
unequal insaalments, in conformity with the stipulated condition, of
the ordonnanoe of the 29th October lea. On applying this common
rule of payment we shall 11nd tkat the entire payment will
be made In • taper of 10 montho and 6 days, reckoning from the
22nd of November, 1847 ; and consequently, counting each month at
36 days, extending to the 26th September, 1648. During this time,
the subscribers will receive interest upon mosey which they bane not
paid : my, for every 75f. 25c., a sum of 26. 43r., which brings the real
price of the loan down to 721.60 c. This In not aIL For every 72(.80c.
received, the state acknowledges itself to be • debtor for 1001;
therefore, In addition to the bonus of 21. 45c. above mentioned, it
pays • pramium to its mbecribers of 270.20 e. ; or, in other terms,
on receiving 250,000.000 f. it acknowledges Itself to be indebted to the
amount of 343,400,000 and same odd francs. But the eventual profits
of the operation are not confined to this. Between thin time and the
end of two year,, the period for the payment of tke last instalment, the
3 per Cents. will have reached the price they were worth twenty-fivc
month backa, or, no full) we recollect, 851 Suppose at that moment
the price be 801. only, It In steer that the subecribers will gain upon
every 72180 e. paid up, a awn of 71 We.; or upon the total of the loan,
14,862,000 f. The bankers and their myna will exclaim against this,

sad psernt caw estaattlow; bet the above la the trete ow. ibis
silsorty to an !pi. if the real bet be not lost in • labyrinth
Of k IMO. U, Intend of making loans of &Mimi@
anlid. lbw ww• wake of zeal capital; if, instead of imeribing
▪ worimmois refit Af rentee for en unknown capital, the
slab Mire be ww—We have need of 250,000,000 f. What rate
lima do pa wain Ow advancing it I—tbe dealir.g would be
..dmissi bra sio we** ; the Anst Coma would learn that the
stabs begenased wry slat 4,6, or 6 per KW., ail it might be, and
*gees veal b• w annelon to have revort to painful efforts to arrive
1421redalli/Be tibia always fail in preeision But this is ezactly
lit 111101111. nor prefer coefounding the (location, by eur.
=1.4 bilit *bib be order to claim the right of disputing the
sitars was a ideavour to throw light into thin obscurity.
We haw swisawnrall b defeat three Meech ; but. whatever may 6e
tbe rank stew eksaktiows, it remains established that, at • moment
V** Fault rash* are being negotiated at more than 77f., the gs.
weasesat los awaseted it. loan at 721. 60e. All the morality of the
pseant astiaticatica hes in comparing them two figures. They dia.
paw with the necessity for our dwelling any longer upon a fact of
Idea IL ftumon must beer the responsibility.
The King left l'aris on Wednesday for Fontain-
blew, where he will make a short visit, to inspect the
works in progress there. His Majesty was expected
to return to ht. Cloud on Thursday evening.
The Princess Naphis, daughter of the last Hey of
Algiers, left the lazaretto at Marseilles on the 6th
with her family and a numerous suite. She intends
to reside in that city for some months.

The Nfadrid mails of the Gth have arrived, but their
contents are unimportant. General Hos de Olano and
Cordova are consoled for their recent unceremonious

dismissal from the ministry, the former by the em-
busy at Lisbon, and the latter by a seat in the senate.
A grand concert was given at the palace, attended by
nearly 2,000 persons; but neither the Queen nor King
were present.
General Alga has written to the Queen to demand
to be informed of the charges made against him, in
consequence of which he has been sent to Palencia,
and demanding also to take his seat in the senate. El
Clamor Publico says that Signores Salamanca and
Escosura are to be sent out of the kingdom.

Little of importance is added to the intelligence
we gave yesterday by the despatches from Berne of
Sunday and from Bale of Monday last, which have
arrived. The seven cantons have formed an indepen-
dent confederacy in fact and in name. The moat
ample powers to act for the whole are delegated to a
council of war, consisting of deputies from each of the
seven cantons, and having for its president M.
Siegwart Muller. This body assamee the title of
" orort of the Seven Catholic Cantons." Thus there I
are two federal governments existing de facto in the
Swiss confederatioa at present.
Persons carrying secret communications from
Lucerne to Friburg, and passing for that purpose
through the Bernese territory, were detected and ar-
rested. The despatches found upon them had com-
promised certain parties in Berne. The Avocet Stettler,
a member of the Grand Council of Berne and a par-
tisan of the Sonderbund, had been arrested.
The French, Spanish, and Irish students at the
seminary of Friburg, had been conducted in safety
to Berne. The markets of Zurich and Argau have
been closed against the inhabitants of the cantons of
the League. As the latter depend on these chiefly
for their subsistence, it was expected that the impe-
rious necessity for food would reduce some of them
to submission, even before any other hostile measures
should be resorted to. The troops of Zurich had
marched on Sunday into the city of Zug. A division
of the federal army had occupied on Sunday evening
all the villages situated on the line of the Reuss and
the Emme.

The Sentinelle de la Suisse primitire announces
that an association of ladies has been formed at
Lucerne, the object of which is declared by its
founders to be " to denounce to the police all words or
insinuations offensive to the clergy or the authorities."
This fact, if established, throws a curious light on
the morals of the Sonderbund. . . . .

The report of two Berrese citizens having been
hanged on the confines of Friburg by the inhabitants
of that canton proves to be unfounded.
The Siecle affirms that the French government re-
ceived despatches, on Wednesday evening, announc-
ing the commencement of hostilities. The federal
troops had moved on Friburg. The army of the
Sonderbund had made a diversion, by an attack on
St. Gall.

The Piedmontese Gazette says that the question
respecting Pontremoli has been settled. It is to re-
main a part of Tuscany, and Parma is to receive an
indemnity for it of 4,000,000 f.
Notwithstanding the previous positive announce-
ments of the retirement of Cardinal Ferretti from office
we have again assurances that there are still hopes of
his being induced to continue at the head of affairs for
some time longer. A correspondent of the Semaphore,
writing from Rome on the 2nd instant, says that
nothing has been decided upon as to the re-
signation by Cardinal Ferretti of the office
of Secretary of State. All good men are
exerting themselves to induce the cardinal to retract
his determination. It is said this morning that

he has been prevailed upon to remain in office until
after the installation of the deputies and the munici-
pality. It is also rumoured that the people of Rome
are about to solicit his eminence not to retire at this
moment. Cardinal Ferretti has too much patriotism
not to yield to this appeal, notwithstanding his die-
taste for business, and his desire of repose. All hope
of retaining him is not yet lost, and his resignation is
not formally accepted. In all other respects Itome is
perfectly tranquil. It is expected that changes will
shortly be mule in the officers of the court of Rome.
M. Morichini, pro-treasurer, is to go to Paris as nuncio,
and be replaced as Minister of Finances by Mgr.
Rasconi, who will be succeeded as Maggiordomo by
Mgr. Corboli Bose.

BELLINZONA, Nov. 3.
I awoke this morning to the consciousness that,
though on the Italian side of the Alp ridge, I was
still in the thick of the civil war in Switzerland,
drums, trumpets, and shouting in the public square
being as prevalent as in the northern cantons. I
looked out on two bataillons of Tessin() warriors,
whose aspect was far more prepossessing than that of
the rude mountaineers on the other side, whose
accoutrements and weapons were far superior, and
whose look was more intelligent and civilized.
Great excitement I found in the various circles,
about the rumour which had been circulated at
Lucerne, as well as here, that the Valaisan forces
had effected a junction with the Sonderbund by
the Flues pun It was • point of honour with
this canton, which owns the southern part of St.
Gothard, to prevent anv each unlooked-for con-
tingency ; and hence their rage and rancour at
the thought of being too late. But the fact
is, that such rumour was • pure fiction and
pions fraud of the men who manage the rebel
forces at headquarters, and was intended to Five
energy and enthusiasm to the regiments of Un on
their arrival, described by me the let inst. I left
Lucerne before daybreak, with the mail, on the 2nd,
and crossed the lake, with the view of getting ocular
demonstration of this fact, highly influential on the
result of the coming war. At Altorf there were no
troops, no trace of Valaisans—mere talk of their
arrival. I was at noon far up the mountains, in the
direction of the Reim stream and Furca entrance,
but, though expected, and known to have penetrated
as far as the fountain-head of the Rhone, they had
not shown on the Gothard junction, at the point of
Hospital. This was plain, by a glance at the virgin
surface of the snow on the valley, undisturbed by the
feet of marching troops.
"An opotlesa lay th' =trodden now,
And •thundering, foaming, deep below
R. the Kenos torrent rapidly."
But though this rumour may have served its pur-
pose in animating the smaller cantons, it has had an
effect not calculated on by its contrivers in this im-
portant republic of Tessino. It has given intense im-
petuosity to the measures which had been steadily and
vigorously progressing for the sustainment of the
Diet's authority; and the general cry is now for the
immediate seizure of the St. Gothard and the Furca,
and military occupation of the Uri canton. The men of
Uri were rather in too great a hurry to seek the fron-
tier of Berne. They have not left an available force
of 20 men to garrison the mountain, and 200 could not
do it. An expression of one of their Folksraths to
the effect that women and old men were enough to
guard their district from the prowess of Tessin, has
raised quite a ferment on this side.
On the evening of the let November, after I had
closed my letter, the rumoured arrival of the Valais-
ans at Lucerne received apparent confirmation from
the rising on the horizon of the lake of a dark mass of
boats. Very soon the large steamer Lucerne-stadt
hove in sight, lit up with a dense mass of bayonets,
and dragging along half-a-dozen lengthy barges,
similarly glittering in the setting sun. Crowds
flocked to the quays to welcome the unexpected ally,
when soon the well-known flag of Unterwali stream-
ing in the wind gave notice that the new comerswere
the sharpshooters, clad in green, and part of the land-

storm of that friendly republic. When within hail
there arose on the waters a shout so shrill and a war-
whoop so wild that the echoes of the lake have not
heard for many a century. The throats of these
mountaineers, from their holding familiar converse
with cattle on the hills, have acquired a mixed conic'
alto and baryton, of which the effect is ear-
splitting.
In describing the arrival of the men of Uri on the
previous morning, and their immediate march for the
frontier of Berne under their characteristic banner, a
black bull's head (short horn), I should have stated what
I heard remarked generally by those Locernese who
condemn the whole proceeding of the popular majority,
and look on these frantic doings with melancholy
emotion, that none of their priests went with them to
share in the danger to which sacerdotal eloquence
had sent them forth ; and that, after stirring them up
to rebellion for the last six months, at the moment of
death and bloodshed, the instigators kept cautiously
aloof from contact with the forces of the diet.
Neither were priests to be seen in the ranks of the
men from Unterwald. But the men themselves
seemed a superior set to the Lucerne soldiers, and
looked as if they could do battle in an honest cause.
In traversing the city just now, I met numerous
groups. who were being harangued, generally by a
priest, in support of the diet. A dignitary, who was
at least an archdeacon from his costume, was very
earnest in deprecating the coarse taken by his brethren
in the smaller cantons. On every door, gate, or
available space, I read, scrawled with more or less
attention to orthography, Vira Pio None e Cuilklmo
Tell!
In praise of Swiss industry I mast take note of the
fact of my having met on the top of St. Gothard
several waggons, whose cargo consisted of raw cotton
bales, probably from Egypt, 'frieste, going to be
spun in the primitive cantons for home consumption.
What a lesson for the Irish, who can procure cotton
from the United States at a much lees cost of carriage !
P.S. The last symptom of an approaching convulsion
which I witnessed on my way to the frontier of the
land I have just left was the rapid conveyance along
the beautiful lake of Lugano of two brass field pieces,
ti-pounders, with ammunition carte full of grape-shot,
whose destination, I learn, is the passes of the St. Go-
thard and Furea. News of a collision on the summit
between Tessino and Valais, had reached by esta-
fettes. They ran along much like the fire-engines
through,' our London streets, but with somewhat dif-
ferent purpose.

PItUSSIA.—BERLIN, Nov. 9.—Nl ENDELSSOIN.—
At a quarter to six in the evening the solemn service for Felix
Mendelsaohn-Bartholdy was concluded. His mortal remains
were then placed upon • special train, and conveyed to
Berlin, where they were interred at six o'clock on the morn-
ing of the Bth. The body was laid in the family vault, by
the side of Fanny Hensel, the beloved sister of the deceased.
Although the funeral took place at so early an hour, many
distinguished persons attended. His early death is considered
at Hahn as a real calamity. His loss (mays a German paper)
will be felt by no one more deeply than our beloved King,
who no later than the 3rd of this month listened to the
inspired tones of the " Elijah." Well may Berlin be proud
to rank the illustrious deceased among the number of its
citizens. Mendebaohn has left none—literally none—who
can at all compare with him. He has left • widow and
several children. . .

AUSTRIA.—VIENNA, Nov. 3.—The Duke Strozzi,
comptroller of the household of the Grand Duke of Tuscany,
was sent here by his sovereign on a secret mission. It is as-
serted that it had reference to the Cession of Fivizzano and
Pontremoli on the part of Tuscany, against which the inha-
bitants protested. The Duke Strozzi, however, returned to
Florence, without executing his commission. Since then,
intelligence has reached us of renewed disturbances in Flo•
tense, which has caus.'d a gloomy impression here, and will '
probably have considerable influence upon the future posi-
tion of our legislation in Florence ; so much is certain, that
M. von Neumann, our ambassador at the court of Tuscany
will, for the present, retire to Mo,lena, and will leave only •
secretary at Florence. It is added that Count Litt:ow, our
ambassador at Rome, has orders to follow this example in a
given case. The Archduchess Maria Louisa, regent of Parma,
commenced her journey on the 3rd; on the some day
Archduke Stephen set out for Freeburg, where the Emperor
will open the Diet in person on the 13th.
Noy. S.—The Colaune Gazette says: " We receive
this very instant a very agreeable piece of news. It is said
that government has taken into cousideration the demand of
the states of Bohemia, and has acknowledged their rights
and privileges. The measures relative to the levy of taxes
have been withdrawn.

CRACOW Nov. s.—ln the evening of the 4th, at half-
past 8, the Councillor Zaiaezkowski, president of the tribunal
of political crimes, was killed by a pistol abet on his return
from the tribunal. He was accompanied by a servant
bearing a lanthorn before him. The man let the lanthorn
fell, and it went out ; but however, he perceived, notwith-
standing the olncurity, two men wrapped up in their cloaks,
who immediately took to Hight. The wreaths has not yet
been taken into custody, but measures are taken to prevent
his escape.

DENNIARR.—COTENIIAGEN, Nov. 6.—The cho-
lera is so generally prevalent here that nearly ell the per-
formers at our theatres are laid up with it.
BRAZILS AND LA PLATA. H.M.'s brig
Racer, Commander A. Reed, arrived at Spithead en the
Ilth of November, from Rio Janeiro, in forty-nine days.
She left Monte Video on the Gth of September. Commo-
dore Sir Thomas Herbert was off the town, with the Raleigh,
:SO, Firebrand steam-frigate, Comus, Lizard, and Harpy.
The blockade of the river by the French squadron was still
continued. The Racer has not any freight beyond 1,2001.
worth of diamonds. On going down the River Plato the
Racer got ashore on what is called the English Bank it
was during the middle watch, and blowing hard. Her
rudder being partially shaken, she returned to the Commo-
dore, and was inspected, pet in order, and then came away.
The Brazilian chambers were closed on the 18th of Sep-
tember, when the Emperor in person made a speech from
the throne, which is not of importance enough to warrant
insertion here. A decree was shortly expected to make its
appearance, establishing, by way of reprisal, differential
duties on the ships and merchandise of those countries which
imposed similar duties on the produce and shipping of
Brazil, to take place from Jan. 1, 1848. The following are
given as the particulars of the expected decree :—One third
duties on all foreign vessels, as well u one-third extra on ail
goods, wares, and merchandise imported in them and entered
for home consumption. But as these extra duties are, as
stated above, intended to be purely " defensive," the govern-
ment are authorised to adopt the " reciprocity" principle in
favour of thine countries which, by existing treaties,
or even without any express stipulation, place Bra-
:Man ships and merchandise on the same footing
as their own. It is further and confidently stated
in private letters received by the Racer, that the Brazilian
government were about to resent, in the only way it was
possible to do so, the alleged injury and injustice committed
by a recent act above referred to, by charging differential
duties on English shipping and merchandise, equal to one-
third of the duties now collected, particularly on cotton
manufactures, in order to encourage the manufactories of
that article now being erected in the empire, to one of which
the Treasury has been authorised by the legislature to ad-
vance 100,000 milreis, to be secured on the premises and
machinery. At Monte Video affairs were almost in Mary
quo. Rosu's threat of closing all the Argentine ports had
not yet been put into execution. This, of course, bad kept
all the merchants in suspense: they were doubtful which
course would be the wisest—to hold back their goods or
continue the regular traffic. The exchange at Rio Janeiro
was still steady at 27k, and the Six per Conte. 85.

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