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DRURT-LANE THEATRE.
1.6 Cveuing, TUESDAY, October 31, will he performed (int time; •
new Comic Opera, called
THE TWO HOUSES OP GRENADA-
-IteprtncipilCharactersby 31r. Brabatn, Mr. Vonton. Mr. Harley,
a:-.1 iri.. Horn. Ilisa Orarklon. Ml.. I. ram and Mrs. W. Geeslny.
To canticle with the Farce of
MONSIEUR TONSON.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.
This ironing. TV E3DAY, Oett.ber 31. will be performed
a new Orem, called
PEVEHIL OF THE PEAK.
The prtneral Characters by Mewsrs.Serle. Fitrhsrds, Raker, F3H.
( ft': Sapto, Warde, Meadows, Evans. Blanchard. Crumplon. 'Finney,
J Noses, rid Henry ; Master Barker; Mrs. Pencil, Mrs. Slornan, 311tse%
P. 1.40 11.114 31. Glover. Mrs. Gibbs, and Mimi Henry.
After which 'first time; a new Face. called
" NULLED '"
11. r pr:scipal Charac!er, by Mr. Chapman, Mr. W. Perrin. Mr Fger.
t ,•., Mr. 4erle. Mr. Mead -re Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Poser. and Mr.
Berne: • Mrs. Weston, and Mira Henry.

PnEss commented pub/isbing ycsterday
msroinx at five o'clock.

LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER SI, 1846.

Ls:t nicht we ryceived Gomm Pullers, from which we
snake the following extracts:—

Tn►rsrr., OCT. 14.

Tits art vstore of to-day contains the extract of a letter from
I,..:hern, of the Pith of October. to the following effect :—" On the
d. in the evening, the Tuscan brigantine David, Capt, Emanuel
Anuldi, arrived here in fifty.ais dart fmm Reirout, in Syria; on
Zth ieptembcr, it was attacked between Landis and the coast of
Barbary by a pirate brig aright guns and fifty men; the robbers
threatened to murder the crew of the Tuscan brig if they did not
stow them where the mosti was to be found. At first they seemed
disrsed to carry the liTig into Napoli di Romanis, but changed
their mind and abandoned it, after they had seized the greatest part
ut the cargo, all the money co board, and the effects of the captain
and his crew."

• Lettersfrom !-zyra,of the Idth September, mention other robberies
'te: she time kind committed upon French and Sardinian merchant-
.c• en near CAndia and oft Capo Dora, in the Archipelago. An
Il••%Ilett trailing brig was said to be near sufrering the Same fate
.I.iween Tino and Miconi, some Greek pirates being just ready to
a.ia,k it, when a French armed brig appeared and delivimed it
the piretee.

The Ossetvatore has an article from Zea, stating that an English
I.l6ste had appeared off that island, and landed 100 men to search
stolen English goods in all the houses and warehouses. Corn.
saudore IlamPton met between Zea and Andro a Greek martingsna,
4ich had on board the notorious Visits Braicovich, who had ob.
.t..ned lease of abseree for 30 days to sisit his family. As the
I:37ets of this vessel were not in regular order, it was detained, and
ti'ten to yea, where Vests and his effects were landed ; but the
p taken away by Csmmodore Ilamiton, who had burnt several
A.:eat nullities on these seas.

1 eters Also from Zurich, 4th October, in the OSICTIV/Ore
:Trott that the Acropolis of Attic:s had surrendered to the
:~ •rtiststex.

ODESSA, OCT. 9.

• It is fully confirmed that the Turkish Commissioners at Aker-
• von delivered, on the 6th of this month, in the evening, and con-
ey:truly before the expiration of the tern fixed, the answer to the
ptuposals laid before them in the month of August. Though
nothing has been made public respecting it, it is the more generally
,believed lobe satisfactory, as no movement has since taken place
among the troops. was immediately de.pa'ehed to the Emperor
Mcsccw, and it is supposed that the notice of the acceptance of
I.te terms by the Porte will be published at Moscow. or perhaps
Ist St. Petersburgh. The Porte, thetefore, has for the present
*baba:need to circumstances, though its Ministers at Constantinople.
during tile course of the negotiations, vehemently protested agai:st
the manner of them. Time will show what impression the course
it
afr..its thus far will make in the East. M. Minziacky, accord.
ir;t to the ',stela accounts from Constantinople, hall received an
eras! re answe• and in consequence made preparations for his
dr;:arture. I firmly believed here that he too must have ye,
on the a copy of the answer given at A kermann.
FROM THE FRONTIERS OF 31OLDAYIA, OCT. 10.
• TLough the time for the acceptance of the Russian ultimsturn is
pawl, sod it may therefore be presumed that Turkish CCO:11111.
semen have subscribed to the additional convention to the last
t eat, of Bucharest, which was laud before them, many persons in.
•:, from the Silence that has hitherto been observed, that the R us.
n Commissioners have thought fit to olitcin first the ratification
i. their Sovereign•.. At least this is generally believed here on the ,
t rootlet's.

VICXXA, OCT. 19.
r.letolliques, 20;', ; Bulk Share!, 10132i.—.4.7ennrine Zcia s,
lkt. 24.

• The French Journalists are loud and unanimous in their 1
celogiums on the conduct of Mr. CA N NI NG, while in Paris ;
but little has been gathered by them respecing the results
',Welt are to be anticipated from his residence thcre.
;i'hougla his journey may have been a mere private trip
of his own, some fruits of a public nature will no doubt
b, reaped from it. This is rendered probable by the
character of the Right Honourable Gentleman; but it is.
;.tics more likely, from the various tliplematic meetings
which have recently taken place in diff,:rent parts of
Europe. There is not a single purpose of a Congress which
susy not have been aceotnplislictl in the different conferences
%hien have taken place at St. Petrrshurgh, at Johannisberg,
and at Paris. Although it might be more eligible to
have all the parties collected on the spot, when any
point of general interest has to be discussed, such assetn-
Wies are attended with so much eclat, and give at the some
titne so obnoxious a character to the decisions which are
rrade in them,' that a less forms! method of conducting
Puropcan business is undoubtedly desirable. Such a me-
thod has probably been adopted for arranging the affairs
which have lately become subjects of discussion among
European nations—not that Mr. CANNING'S journey to
Paris has had any thing to do with mere discussions oil the I
politics of Europe; for all the main points of European
OtaliVes certainly have been arranged long ego; but there
oartain points of form, certain colours to be givers
to transactions, certain. .ipinute arrangements suitable
to the particular circtlinstancca of the gererkl• design,

which it is necessary to settle with the itarties We' I
rested, in a manner which could not be done without per-
sonal intercourse. In a case of this sort it is impossible to
avoid speaking in general terms, because it is impossible to
know—and, if it were possible to know, it would be highly
improper to divulge—the particular arrangements which
have in all probability been adopted for the furtherance of
designs long before concerted. Our opinion concerning the
system by which Europe is governed has been long since
explained at length; and to that explanation we must now
refer, requesting our metiers to make such modifications in
it as must be made in every scheme of human contrivance,
according to the particular developements of the general
facts. The scheme by which we bzlieve Europe to be now
governed is that which vas projected by KAUNITZ, in
the reign of the Empress Queen Maas• THERESA,
the object of which was, by the union of the great Powers,
to render the inferior States entirely and immediately,
though not nominally, dependent upon them, and connected
with these by a sort of actual vassalage, though in apparent
independence. This result all the efforts of this country
cannot prevent ; and it is the duty of our Government,
theiefore, to adhere to it, in order to partake of its advan-
tages. T. tell the truth, we were ourselves the first to show
foreign nations this new method of holding countries in
subjection without reducing them to the state of provinces.
it is true we proceeded on a more philanthropic scheme than
that of military occupation. We endeavoured to make it
the interest of Portugal, for instance, to adhere to us by the
reciprocal advantages of trade. We may safely reckon
Sweden as an ally acquired by U 3 of late years on the
same principles, not only by the recent treaty of com-
merce, but by the attention we have paid to her in-
terests, in the very peculiar situation in which she is
placed with respect to Russia. Nothing can be more
favourable to our foreign relations than treaties of com-
merce, which render it the interest of other countries to
keep on good terms with us. They enable us, in case of
necessity, to lay a tax upon the inhabitants, by stopping
their trade with us. Mr. CANNING, while at Paris, has
no doubt added something to the details of his plan,
though its grand features were long since traced, and fully
impressed on the minds of his diplomatic rivals.

CITY. MONDAY EVENING.

The transactions in the British Stock Market have not
been upon any extended scale to-day. At the commence-
ment of business Consols were done at 82, and advanced
from that quotation to 82; : from this point, however, they
gradually declined, leaving off at 811 s. There was a total
absence of everything like information, and the fall can
therefore be alone attributed to the operation of the specu-
lators in time bargains. It is impossible to suppose but
that the Funds will advance rather than recede (provided
there is an absence of political causes to produce deprecia-
tion), from the immtnse quantity of money that there is,in
the market, and the easy rate at which it can be obtained
on stock security.
Exchequer Bills are tolerably abundant, and therefore
appear something lower in price, being 24 to '23 premium.
India Bonds are as last, from 40 to 42.

To-morrow being settling-day on the Foreign Stock
Exchange, the gentlemen of that ettablialiment have been
principally engaged to-day in making up their accounts.
All descriptions of transatlantic securities are rather better,
but, from the cause stated, there was little doing. Mexican
Bonds are at 61, and Colombian at 39;. The arrival of
Micitut ii 3 by SPITS anxiously looked for, on the
supposition that be is the bearer of some financial commu-
nication from the Colombian Government. It must, how-
ever, be borne in mind that, when the news of the failure
of Mews. Gozosen min r was received at Bogota, the
Congress had just concluded its sittings; but as the Mem-
bers had not left the city, they reassembled, in order to
ascertain the situation of the affairs of the Republic, as af-
fected by the circumstance in question. They sat fur three
days, and the result was the imposition of a sort of pro-
perty tax on each and every individual, according to the ex-
tent of his means, from one dollar to 1,000, including the
clergy as well as laity, and exacting the one-third portion of
the salary from every person holding civil offices under the
Republic. This was the last special act of the Congress, and
not one word was said about anew loan. Indeed they must
have known that, under the circumstances in which they
were then placed, it would have been impossible to obtain
one. It is therefore clear M. Atte/If:LENA is not empowered
to raise a loan, and it remains to be seen if he has any other
proposition to make. It is quite clear the Government ex-
pected, at the date of the last accounts, that the impost in
question would be available next month, from the circum-
stance of its basing contemplated the remittance of the
dividend. It was reported on 'Change that M. Ilea T ADO
had received a BM of Exchange oil one of the Alining
Companies for 40,000 dollars; at any rate, should such be
the case, or not, it could not be expected to affect the Bonds.
Even Chi:jail are rather better to-day at 311. In Greek
and Spanish there is no alteration.
The Share Market is rather flat; Montes have
countermarched, being at So to 100; Brazil, 11 to le; and
Tlalpuxahua 45 premium. Anglo-Mexican are 45 to
49 ; and United ditto, at 11:1 to 1d discount.

The Corn Market has been rather heavy, considering it
to be Monday ; the obstinacy as to prices is, however, sue-
ecvsfully sustained. Oats arc full Is. and prime wheats
es. dearer than last Friday. Barley and Malt are also on
the advance. Indeed there is not an article in the market
but bears a higher quotation than last week. From the
advanced period of the season it is not probable that prices
will now give way.

Lord Melville was installed Chancellor of the Uni-
versity of St. Andrew's on the 20th instant.

We tinders:end that the Magistrates of Cimar Fife have
conferred the freedom of tho burgh upon Lord Viscount
and tho burgess ticket
.has been forwarded to
him at Melville Castle.

Ca Er.% PIHACII:4.—The 14,110Wi112 is an extract from
the list of the agent to Lioyirs, at Marseilles, dated flat
instant:—'' (ht the loth Sept. six roil, a distant from Can-
dia, the La Divine Providence, A. Beaussier, commander,
was hoarded by two Greek mistics, having each 50 men.
who sent their boats on board, examined the papers and
cir;;o, and took the vessel into the Island of Christ ; the
Greeks beat and struck them on the way with sabres and
ropes, to oblige them to declare whether there was any
more money on board, the Captain having already given a
group and GO pieces of five francs. The i;I treatment did
not cease until the Greeks were convinced there was no
more inency on board. Oa their arrival at Christina the
mimics took away 131 bales of cotton, s2;l pigs of conger,
and some other articles of the cargo, the provisions and
cloth.'a of the crew, two guns, muskets and sabres, and also
a goad many rails, and at last having supped on hoard the
brig they permitted her to go away. Ott the 25.1 d Sept. ids.)
the Le Paris, P. Demere, master, 25 milts distant front
Cardin, met a Greek brig of war, and being boarded by her
the Greeks took away two groups of money, for which a
receipt was given to the :Mister of the Paris; also some pre-
visions ; they opened all the letters he had, and kept all
those written in Greek, Arabic, and Turkish."

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MOVEMENTS.
The Duke and Duchess of Richmond have arrived at their seat,
Goodwood, Sussex, (rota Newmarket.
. . .

The Mattis an Mar;frior;ss of Clawicarde have arrived at
their house St. James's-square, from Paris.
Lord and Lady Petre have arrived in town from their seat,
Thoendon Hall, Essex.
Lady Halford arrived yesterday at her house in Curran-street,Mayfair, from her seat, Weatow Hall, Leicestershire.
Lord Robert Manners has arrived at Belvoir Castle, from a tour.
Lord Althorpe has arrived at his father's (Earl Spencer) seat in
Northamptonshire, from Mr. Coke's, in Norfolk.
Charles Upltby, Esq. arrived yesterday at the Duke of St. Al-
ban's, In St. James's.squaze, from Warwick.
Mr. and Mrs. George Loftus have arrived at Irarren's Hotel,
Regent-street, from a tour.
Mr., Mrs., and the Misses Mitchell, have arrived at their house
in Charles-street. Berkeley-square. from Paris.
Henry Gooch, Esq. arrived yesterday at Fenton's New Hotel,
St. Jamees.street, from Norfolk.
Departures from Jordan's Hotel, St. James's-street :—Colonel
Legh, the Rev. P. Legh, and the Misses Legit, for Bastrop ; Mr.,
Mrs., and Miss Hurt, for their seat in Derbyshire.
Departures from the Pulteney Howl, Albemarle-street :—Capt.
and Mrs. Milner, for Cheltenham ; WM. O'Neill, Esq. for Ire.
land.

Arrivals st the Brunswick Hotel (late Blake's), Jermyn-street
The Hon. F. St. John, from the Continent Shenley,
from Scotland.

Arrival' at the St. Getwge's Hotel, Albemarle-street:—Mrs.
Wise from Weymouth ; 'Mrs, Preston Ilulton, front Norfolk ;
Mrs. Herbert, front Linton.
T. Alicklewaite, Esq. arrived yesterday at Oould's Ilotel, Jer-
myn-street, from Norfolk.
Departures front the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington and
Cork streets :—Sir Robert and Lady Wilmot and family, for Kent.
Arrivals at the Royal Hotel, St. James's.street :—Captain John.
son, from Brighton; W. Stewart, Esq., from Oxford; Sir R. and
Lady Liston, from Seothmtl; Mr. and Mrs. Ames, from Park;
Hon. T. Fiennes, from Belvidere. Departure" from ditto:-11'ttt.
Stewart, Esq., for Scotland; W. Cole, Esq., for Oxford.

DEPARTURE OF MR.CANNI NG FROM PARIS,
AND THE RESULTS OF HIS JOURNEY.

I From the Coterrier Frawertis of Thursday.]

Mr. Canning had the honour of being received, yester-
day, in a private audience, by the King, and to take leave
of his Majesty. The interview, as on a former occasion,
lasted upwards of an hour.
On the preceding day Mr. Canning paid his farewell
visits to our Ministers, and to the members of the diplo-
matic corps, He found time to give a long kitting to our
celebrated painter Gerard, for the finishing of a portrait
intended for his friend Lord Granville.

The last diplomatic dinner at which he was present took
place at the residence of M. Pozzo di Borgo, the Russian
Ambassador: he , hal once before dined with the French
and Foreign Ministere, but no ladies were present. On
this occasion Mrs. Canning was invited, with her daughter,
the Marchioness of Clanricarde, and about thirty other
persons, all foreigners. Not one of our Ministers was pre-
sent, nor any of their ladies.
M. de Villele permitted, among his colleagues, only the
Baron de Dames to invite the illustrious traveller. On
this day, only, and in consequence of that privilege, M. de
Damas might have imagined that he would have been in-
trusted with our Foreign Affairs.
Mr. Canning is the fourth individual who, not belong-
ing to any Royal Family, hiss dined at the Tuileries since
the Restoration. The three others were, the Duke of
Wellington, Prince Metternich, and the Marquis of Hast-
ings, formerly Governor General of India.
This honour, granted to a homme nouveau, as it would
have been called at Rome formerly, and to Me man of a
new system, perplexed certain notions of etiquette so much,
that the fact was hardly believed when we first announced
it ; and it was not till the expiration of three days that our
ministerial papers were authorized to repeat it, though
they publish the Court news every morning.
Mr. Canning sets out on his journey to-morrow (Thurs-
day), with his family, for London. lie will not arrive
there till the 30th of the month. He does.not manifest
6-reatur ansioy to return than he did to come. IVe an-
nounce this departure, to relieve foreign Cabinets from the
load of uneasy thoughts which have pressed upon them
during the month which Mr. Canning has quietly passed
in l'aris. We regret that it is not in our power, with
more certainty than can be done by their Ministers, whom
they keep here at a great expanse, to gratify their eager
curiosity as to the real motives of this journey.
But we adhere to our first conjectures, participates' in by
the greater part of the Correspondents and of the Journals
of London, where they are more accustomed than we Arc to
see Ministers relinquish for a time their functions, without
any extraordinary reasons for so doing ; but merely to seek
recreation, and personal relaxation, whether by travelling
at home or on the Continent. No agitation here ; no suc-
cessive and regular meetings; no marked eagerness on
either one side or the other ; none of those external signs
which indicate the embarrassment of animated discussions;
none of those continued and accredited rumours which
precede or follow grave discussions; no symptom of cold-
ness or unexpected approximations have occurred to shake
out.conjectures. _ _

IVhen Mr. Canning arrived, the peace of Europe seemed
certain, because, conformably to the interests of all Cabi-
nets, peace was the want of England, and the necessity of
other Courts. We only hesitated for a moment with re-
spect to the equivocal dispositions of Russia. But this
Power has found, on one side, an outlet towards Persia,
fur the plethora of her army ; and, on the other, in con-
cert even with the I'owers who are determined to save
Turkey, the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh consents to receive,
by the negotiations which it has commenced, what, with
arms in its hands, it would have enforced, if her demands
had been seriously contested.
The charms of a general peace appear to us to be still
further multiplied, or at least strengthened, by the con-
cessions obtained at Akretnann, as well as by those that
might have been urged at Paris.
If the political physiognomy of the Continent is scknow.
hedged to be the same, at the two periods of the arrival at,
and at the •'.cparture of Mr. Canning from, Paris, why
should we gratuitously infer that important negotiations
between him and M. de Ville lefilled up this short interval?
Convinced that nothing has been changed by their more
or less frequent interviews, we shall dispense with the task
of counting the number of those conferences, respecting
which so much difference of opinion has prevailed.
We by no means doubt that, on sundry occasions, the
questions of South America, of Russia, of Tut key, of
Greece, and. above all, of Spain and Portugal, were ad-
verted to. How could it possibly be otherwise, on the part
of two Ministt rs ',laced at the bead of affairs of two great
empires ? Individuals the least initiated in diplomatic
secrets could hardly meet without conversing upon subjects
which fix the attention of the world. But they who know
the ordinary circumspection of statesmen in difficult and
complicated positions of affairs, must feel how wide the dif-
ference is between conversations where the parties pretend
to understand each other, and direct methodical diacus-
siona upon a common plan, and formal negotiations, hav-
ing for their object a combined result, explicitly conceived
beforehand. •

It is upon these grounds that we are inclined to think
very few matters have been either retarded or accelerated
by the journey oflllr. Canning to Paris; that both he and
M. Vlbele have respectively maintained a proper rest rye—
the English Minister, as regarded his fixed and unchang-
ing system—the French Minister, as regarded his variable
policy, which shifts end changes with every caprice of the
party who direct him, while he boasts of directing them.
►l'e believe they had very, few concessions to make on
either side, so as to maintain the appearance of a perfectly
good understanding with each other ; for the wishes and
the language of peaco were on their tongues, and both re-
mained, in reality, upon the ground they had chosen be-
fore they met, and were personally known to each other.
Mt. Canning w ill continue powerfully to influence events,
by approximating them, as much as he can, to the new
policy which England has adopted. hI . 1)e %Tide will
confine himself, as usual, to follow in their tines, and
leave others to profit by them, when he is unable to arrest
their progress by a few notes, or by intrigues confided to
unskilful hands.
M. D: Villele, the most presumptuous and the most

improvident of Ministers, calculates probably upon having
deceived Mr. Canning, by means of trickery and plausible
language.
Mr. Canning will have heard much—spoken little—and
believed still less. He will hare penetrated the objects of
those by whom it was endeavoured to surround him, to
catechise him, but from whose hands he has more than
once escaped. He will have attentively read France, as she
really is, with his own eyes, in spite of the mists interposed
by a Ministry essentially anti-national, and whose com-
plete disunion from public opinion must strike even its
most devoted partisans.
It is even to be feared he may have concluded, that while
such a Ministry continues, and labours incessantly to make
us retrograde to a period which it is impossible we should
ever have again, any thing may be attempted, without our
concurrence, estimating as nothing our Government, in the
political balance of the two worlds.
It is in this point of view we can understand that the
journey of Mr. Canning has probably had no determinate
object; and that it has been unattended by any positive
result; beyond those which the inevitable course of ante-
cedent events indicated.

We shall add, that he 1123 not, while here, committed
any of those faults of which the public are enlightened and
severe judges—that in a capital where the tart of conversa-
tion is so fine and delicate, and where criticism is so vigi-
lant with regard to every stranger who bears a distinguish..
ed name, Air. Canning has succeeded, by the appropriate
character of his language, by his apparent impartiality
between conflicting opinions, by the kindness of his senti-
ments, by the cautious declaration of his known principles
in favour of liberty, and by his demeanour, at all times
simple and unobtrusive, to conciliate and attract every sen-
timent which can be an object of envy.

ARRIVAL OF MR. CANNING.
DovEa, OCT. 29.
Yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock, the Britannia
steam-vessel, Captain Bushell, arrived here from Boulogne,
bringing the Right Hon. George Canning, Mrs. Canning,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, Lord Win.
Harvey, Fcc. &e., in all about eighteen. They were ac-
companied by Mr. Planta, the King's Messenger, who was
' despatched, on their arrival, to London. The Right II m.
Geudenian was received very heartily, and went to the
Ship Hotel, where, after taking refreshments, be set off on
a visit to the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, at Walmer
Castle.

It is generally thought, on the other side of the water,
that the London steam-vessel the Talbot has received so
much injury in getting ashore in the gale of wind on Wed-
nesday, off Boulogne, that she will be tit for little or no-
thing again.

THE (COUNTY FIRE OFFICE AND THE COMMISSION-
ERS OF REVENUE INQUIRY.—As soon as the evidence
was printed, which is referred to in the Report which has
made so free with the County Fire Office, the Directors of
that establishment assembled, and, among other legal
measures deemed necessary for the punishment of their
maligners, ordered an indictment for perjury to be pre-
ferred at the Middlesex Sessions now eliding, against the
informer. In this it was found necessary to set forth the
exact form of oath which the Commissioners had admini-
stered to him, and the names of the Commissioners present,
but this the Commissioners have refused to disclose, and
consequently have prevented the bill of indictment from
being preferred this Sessions. The Directors are in no
small degree incensed at the impediment thus thrown in
their way ; but they will take measures to prevent the
ends of justice from being defeated, although they may be
delayed.
Hunt, after his ridiculous Manorial Court on Wednes-
day, had a dinner at the White Hart Inn, at which he
abused, in his usual style, his late electioneering oppo-
nents. In the course of the day he read a letter which he
had written to Mr. Messner, admitting that he " wss im-
posed upon and misinformed as to the balance of 15,000 L
of the county money remaining in the hands of the trea-
surer unaccounted for during the years 1814, 1815, 1816,
1817, and 1818!" and that he had founded the calumnies
he had so extensively circulated on a letter which he had
received, the writer of which he now hopes will be dis-
covered!

Couxsv or Ross.—At the General Meeting of the
Freeholders of Ross-shire, held at Tain, on the 11th inst.,
at which Mr. Mackenzie of Seaford) was chairman, a letter
was produced by Mr. Mackenzie of Scotsburn, one of the
county Conveners. from the Chairman of the Edinburgh
Committee for the relief of the unemployed manufacturers,
urgently pressing for a contribution from that opulent
county, in aid of the Committee's funds. And upon the
motion of Mr. Mackenzie of Muirtown. a circular letter
was directed to be addressed to each hetitor and cler-
gyman of the county, stating the receipt of that com-
munication, reminding them that the county of Ross
had already recommended such a subscription, and re-
questing them to use their influence in procuring con-
tributions in their respective parishes. IVe have seen a
copy of the circular thus ordered, in which it is forcibly
pointed out, that the necessities of the distressed manufac-
turers are accumulating, and are becoming more urgent as
the funds for their relief decrease ; and the laudable pur-
pose of the resolution is strongly enforced, by a representa-
tion of the destitution to which the unemployed manufac-
turers must be exposed in the approaching winter months,
if nothing is done for their support. This call cannot be
too earnestly pressed on the attention of the parties to whom
it is addressed, for it must be long ere the usual channels
of industry and occupation be restored, so as to render the
manufacturing districts independent of foreign and extraor-
dinary aid. Theeounty of Inverness has done nothing in
this matter yet. But perhaps something handsome is in-
tended, although we know nothing about it.
CATHOLIC AFFATIM—(From the Dublin Morning
Pest.)—On Saturday last we published the letter of a cor-
respondent at Paris, in which one of the chief causes of
Mr. Canning's visit to Paris, and of his lengthened stay in
that capital, is stated to be the arrangement of a Concordat
for the Irish Catholics with the Government. similar to
that now in progress between the Protestant King of the,
Netherlands and his Roman Catholic subjects. We have
since learned some circumstances which would seem to
confirm the statement of our correspondent. Whilst Mr.
Canning was at Paris, Mr. Crokcr has been on a tour in
the Netherlands ; and we should suspect that the Secre-
tary to the Admiralty would be as little likely to take this
voyage into !Miami for mere recreation, as that the same
motive should have carried Mr. C. to Paris. Another
fact which might, by possibility, have some h. lation to this
subject, is, that the Commissiosers of Education are at
this present time engage:l in examining closely the system
of education and course of study pursued at the College at
Maynooth. This examination is of more importance than
at first sight may appear. The repeated charges made
against Catholic doctrine on the other side of the Channel,
and echoed by the enemies of the Catholics. or, perhaps,
to speak less offensively, by the alarmists on our own side—
the imputed doctrines of passive obedience—of keeping no
faith with heretics—of the deposing power of the Pope—
seem to scare the imagination of some good people in Eng-
land; but when the source is found, as it will be found,
pure, the stream cannot be infected.
CUTTING A SWEI I.—A curious scene took place on
Tuesday night last, near the Guildhall Tavern. Just
at the moment when one of the night coaches was
starting, two corporals belonging to the depot now
stationed in this city, began abusing a private soldier,
who was seated on the box with the coachman: the
man, in reply, equalled his abusers in scurrility, until
one of them threatened to pull him instantly from the
coach, unless he gave up his jacket. This demand
be resisted a considerable time, until the threat was
about bring put into execution, when he instantly
stripped himself of his plumage. It appeared that the
soldier passenger had not long enlisted into the regi-
ment, and having obtained leave of absence, resolved to ap-
pear among his friends a swell, and accordingly had at-
taches! three stripes, indicative of a serjeant, on his arm.
The corporals determined the important situation of serjeant
should not be disgraced, no sooner obtained possession of
the jacket, than, with a knife they ripped off the forbidden
emblems, and returned it to the owner, who, when the
oach departed, evidently felt the rnortilicatioo his own
C oaplitity had owasioncd.-.Calkroury Paper.