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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER -23, 1852.

wisdom of the house, and as this passage in the Address
was couched in a similar strain, it was not satis-
factory either to him or the country. (Loud cheers.)
Parliament was dissolved for the purpose of bring-
ing a particular matter to a distinct issue, and
Parliament was assembled for the purpose of receiving
the answer of the country to the issue. I am, therefore,
at a loss to understand how hon. gentlemen opposite
could have, for an instant, supposed that this passage
in the Speech could have heen at all satisfactory to the
great majority of this house ; and, certainly, I am some-
, what surprised to hear, from what has transferred in
another place, that it was expected to be satisfactory,
and that any body who disputed the master would be
considered factious. (Hear, hear.) Yes, any body who
is dissatisfied with the allusion in the Speech to the
question we are called upon to decide, is to be considered
as a party opposed to those measures which Government
contemplate introducing for the benefit of the country.
(Hear, hear.) Sir, it is on this account that I consider
it most important that this house should at once come
to some distinct and positive declaration upon the great
question at issue. (Cheers.) It is, sir, because I con-
sider that this house has been put in a position anything
but satisfactory to the country, that I now call upon it
to pronounce an opinion upon this matter. (Cheers.)
I have been called upon by the right hon. gentleman the
Chancellor of the Exchequer to postpone my resolutions
until he had had an opportunity of propounding his own
measures ; but, sir, I am at a loss to understand the
logic of such a proposal, for the house has been
summoned to pronounce its opinion upon a par-
ticular matter, upon which it is supposed the coun-
try has decided, and the house can therefore have
nothing whatever to do, in the first instance, with the
plans of the Government. (Cheers.) Parliament was
dissolved to enable the country to decide what our
commercial policy shall be ; the country has answered
that question, and it is now for the house to ascertain to
what side of the question that answer is favourable.
We are now assembled to consider an important subject,
having been dissolved because the first Minister of the
Crown could not make up his mind upon it, and wished
to take the opinion of the country as to whether he was
right or wrong. (Hear, hear.) He had consented, to
use his own expression, to be tried by the country. Well,
he had been tried, and he was found to be wanting. Is
it an answer to the verdict returned by such a jury, to
say—" if this policy won't do, you shall get something
else—certainly you differ from us on this matter,
but I have got a Colleague of astonishing re-
sources and standard ability, who will give you
something which will delight you beyond any
thing else, if you will only allow him to propose his
measures." (Laughter.) Now, I don't deny there may
be a genius of that kind, who, like certain individuals
that vend medicines for the cure of all maladies, may be
able to propound a measure which will be universally
palatable ; but in the meantime, we must confine our-
selves to the business which we have come here to
determine. (Hear, hear.) I am perfectly astonished
that a motion so obvious, so reasonable, and so
strictly in accordance with the purpose for
which we are assembled, should be considered
factious, and to be framed with the object of upsetting
the Government. I don't exactly know why lam to
trust this Government more than another. Are their de-
clarations so explicit, and their consistency so satisfac-
factory, that I am to have blind faith in their policy.
(Laughter.) Though I have read the papers, and tried
to collect as much information as possible, I have yet a
difficulty in ascertaining what their measures are really
to be. A noble marquis goes into an agricultural dis-
trict, and being in the confidence of the Government, says
that he is convinced that they will endeavour to advance
the interests of the agricultural interest, though he de:
chnes to specify the particular measures ; and another
member, holding an important post in the Government,
goes to Lincolnshire, and declares that Lord Derby is
still a Protestant at heart. Let the hon. gentlemen op-
posite frankly state they are honest converts, and ar-
inclined to adopt our views, and they shall receive every
forbearanee they can expect from this side. (Cheers.)
If any man were to look at the two propositions together,
he would declare that mine was the amendment, and the
right hon. gentleman's the original. I cannot, there-
fore, withdraw it, seeing what it has done already, and
because I will not despair before the close of this evening
or of this week, of seeing the right hon. gentleman adopt
it, and perhaps vote for it ; and we shall only have
one division upon it, or perhaps none at all.
It is a most valuable admission to make, that
one act of recent legislation has cheapened the price of
food, and thereby greatly improved the condition of the
working classes. I entirely agree with the right hon.
gentleman ; and, in alluding to that act, I have called
it by name the act of 1846. I have denominated it a
wise act in consequence of what the right hon. gentle-
man has said. If the right hon. gentleman wishes to per-
suade me to withdraw that part of my motion, he must
show me how an act, which he says has been attended
with such beneficial effects should not be called a wise
act. (Cheers.) If a foreigner had been present at the
former discussions on his subject, and heard argu-
ments used then, when hon. gentlemen opposed fo the
corn laws used to say, " Show tus that this is a labour-
er's question, and we will fie into the lobby with you—
when it seemed as if all the benevolence were on one side,
and all the harshness and grinding tyranny on the other,
and if such a stranger were to be present now, and found
that after acknowledging that the act of 1846 had been
beneficial to the working-classes, hon. gentlemen still
refused to recognise that act as a wise act, I think he
would be somewhat inclined to doubt the sincerity of the
sympathy with the poor which was formerly talked of. 41
might give a word of advice to hon. gentlemen, I might say
that this is a very little thing to ask, and they can
do nothing less, because, if there ever was a law to
raise the price of provisions it was one of the most
execrable laws that was ever enacted, and I can-
not understand why a law which repeals such an enact-
ment and has produced the effects produced by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer should not be called wise.
I cannot conceive a more guilty act than that which
tampers with the food of the people. It affects the con-
dition of the whole population—those millions of people
who earn their daily bread. Whether men shall be de-
graded animals or civilised and social beings depends
upon the means of their obtaining not only sufficient
to obtain their daily bread, but that excess
which must supply their other wants. (Hear, hear.)
The right hon. gentleman went on to remark, that he
could scarcely conceive it possible that the report he ob-
served in one quarter could be correct, to the effect that the
right hon. gentleman the Secretary for the Home Depart-
ment had declared his conviction that the recently inaugu-
rated commercial policy had led to a considerable increase
of crime throughout the country. (" No," from Mr.
Walpole.) He readily and eagerly accepted the con-
tribution of the right hon. gentleman, so sincere was his
respect for his character. He must confess that he re-
garded this contradiction as a declaration on his (the
Home Secretary's) part of a totally opposite conviction.
He (Mr. Villiers) had been told on entering the house,
that in the event of a division adverse to the Cabinet,
the present Government would forthwith resign. He
did not wish this in bringing forward his motion. He
was only anxious to have the free-trade principles for-
mally acknowledged in the face of the country, by
the Lower House of Parliament. Yet—supposing the
threatened resignation to prove inevitable—he should still
cherish a hope that this great country might possibly sur-
vive the calamity. He did not expect that the nation
could be destroyed or brought to ruin by the downfall of
this or any other administration. For his part he would
not regard the maintenance of any ministry as a
matter of such supreme importance to the people of the
United Kingdom. He had witnessed during the time
he himself had been a member of the House of Com-
mons some five or six different Cabinets, and he must
acknowledge that he could not fail to recognise
amongst them all a strong family likeness. (Hear.)
Entering later on into a variety of interesting
statistics, showing the difference of the working of the
free trade system and protection, he insisted from a
multiplicity of facts, that it was proved beyond further
contradiction how advisable it is to cheapen first the
common necessaries of life, and afterwards of articles of
consumption of a secondary character. He argued that
the justification of his present motion was discoverable
in the first speech on the first night of the first Minister
of the Crown.

(Left Speaking.)

THE

LONDON GAZETTE.
(THIS EVENING.)
WHITEHALL,
pleased;c.
Napopvo.in2tot.he Right Hon
The Queen has been
Sir John Romilly, Knt., Master of the Rolls, the Right.
Hon. Sir George James Turner, Knt., a ' Vice-Chancel-
lor, Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, Knt., a Vice-Chan-
cellor, the Right Hon. Sir John Dodson,”Knt , Dean of
the Arches' Court, the Right Hon. Stephen Li; shington
Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, Sir Charles'
Crompton, Knt., one of the Justices of the Court
of Queen's Bench, the Right Honourable Sir James
Robert George Graham, Bart., the Right Honourable
Joseph Warner Henley, Sir John Dorney Harding, Knt.,
Advocate-General, Sir William Page Wood, Knt.
Richard Bethel!, Esq., one of her Majesty's Counsel,,
John Rolt, Esq., one of - her Majesty's Counsel, and
William Milbourne James, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, to
be her Majesty's Commissioners for continuing the
Chancery Enquiry, and for inquiring into the law and
jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical and other Courts, in re-
lation to matters testamentary.

WHITEHALL, Nov. 22.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of
a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Irnland, unto Sir Samuel George Bonham, K.C.B. Go-
vernor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the island
of Hong Kong and its Fdependencies, and her Majesty's
Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British
Trade in China, and to the heirs male of his body law-
fully begotten.

FOREIGN OFFICE, Nov. 23.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the
Honourable Richard Bingham, late Secretary to her
Majesty's Legation at Naples, to be Her Majesty's

Charge d'Affaires and Consul-General in the Republic
of Venezuela. _ _ _

The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
William R. Holmes, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at
Batoom, to be Her Majesty's Consul at Diarbekir.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Robert Campbell, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at
Venice, to be her Majesty's Consul at Dunkirk.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Daniel Brooke Robertson, Esq. now British Vice-Consul
at Shanghai, to be her Majesty's Consul at Amoy.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
John George Cope Lewis Newnham, Esq. to be her
Majesty's Consul in the Republic of Liberia.
WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 23.

Ist Dragoon Guards—Ensign Richard G. Bomford
Bolton, from the 48th Foot, to be Cornet, by purchase,
Nov. 23.

7th Dragoon Guards—Archibald Clevland, Gent., to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Maclean, appointed to the
13th Light Dragoons, Nov. 23.
10th Light Dragoons—James Alston Clark, Gent. to
be Cornet by purchase, vice Cass, promoted. Nov. 23.
16th Light Dragoons—Honourable Hugh Rowley, to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Leader, promoted. Nov.
23.

Ist Regiment of Foot—George Roe Fenwick, Gent.,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Scroope, pro-
moted, Nov. 23.

3d Foot,—Lieutenant Richard George Amherst
Luard to be Captain, by purchase, vice Blair, who re-
tires—Ensign Leonard Sidebottom to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Luard—William Ross Turner, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchare, vice Neville, appointed to the
86th foot, Nov. 23.
Bth Foot—William Cole Hamilton, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Grierson, promoted, Nov. 23.
13th Foot—John Angerstein Rowley, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Montgomery, promoted, Nov.
23.

14th Foot—Thomas Prittie Cosby, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Helyar, promoted, Nov. 23 ; Walter
Frederick Blunt, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Coote, promoted, Nov. 24.
16th Foot, William Henry Rainsford, Gent-, to be
Ensign, -without purchase, vice Quin, promoted in the
73d Foot. Nov. 23, _ .

18th Foot, Robert Hoey-Jex Bloke, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Gibbons, promoted.
Nov. 23.

I 21st Foot, Lieutenant John Watson to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Albouy, deceased, Nov. 6 ;
Second Lieutenant Crofton Peddie to be First Lieut.
without purchase, vice Watson. November 23.
Gentleman Cadet John George Image, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Peddie • Assistant Staff Surgeon Arthur Jackson Greer,
to be Assistant-Burgeon, vice Edge, who retires, Nov.
23.

22d Foot—Lawrence Nicholas Dyre Hammond,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Cairncross,
promoted, Nov. 23. .
23d Foot—Joseph Henry Butler, Gent., to be Second
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice John, promoted, Nov. 23.
25th Foot—James Moorhead, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Harvey, promoted, Nov. 23.
27th Foot—William Stackhouse Church Pinwill,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, Nov. 23.
30th Foot—Gentleman Cadet James Cavendish Hohbs,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice La Touche, deceased, Nov. 23.
35th Foot—Edward Tedlie, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Hardinge, who retires, Nov. 23.
37th Foot—Frederick John Nash Ind, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, Tice Baker, promoted, Nov. 23.
49. th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Thomas Hamilton to
be Captain, without purchase, Tice Brevet Major Stokes,
who retires upon full pay ; Ensign Thomas Carpen-
dale Baird to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Hamilton ; Gentleman Cadet Arthur James Phillips
Wadman, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Baird ; Gentleman Cadet Charles
Burch Phillipps, from the Royal Military College, to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice De Carteret, Ldeceased,
Nov. 23.
40th Foot—Robert Richardson Ellis, Gent., to be

Ensign, by purchase, vice, Messenger, promoted,
Nov. 23.

42d Foot—William George Everard Webber, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Robertson, promoted,
Nov. 23 ; Francis Cunningham Scott, Gent. to be En-
sign by purchase, vice Montgomery, promoted, Nov. 24.
43d Faot.—Captain Peregrine Charles Baillie Hamil-
ton, from half-pay Rifle Brigade to be Captain, vice Dick,
who exchanges ; Lieutenant Charles Carew de Morel, to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Hamilton, who retires ;
Ensign Fiennes Middleton Colville, to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice De Morel ; Lord Richard Howe Browne,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Colville ; Nov.' 23.
44th Foot.—William Stewart Richardson, Gent., to
be Ensign, without purchase, vice Gregory, appointed
Adjutant, Nov. 23.
45th Foot.—Edward Gambier Eliot Atherley, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Rowland, promoted,
Nov. 23. - _ _ .

46th Foot—Nicholas Dunscombe, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Greer, promoted, Nov. 23.
47th Foot—Grainville Waddilove, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Maxwell, promoted, Nov. 22.
51st Foot—Gentleman Cadet Charles Goddard, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Sargent, promoted, . Nov. 23.
52d Foot—Lord Walter Charles Montagu Douglas
Scott to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Crosse, promoted,
Nov. 23.

57th Foot—Joshua Cunliffe Ingham, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Copland, promoted, Nov. 23.
62nd Foot— Lieutenant John O'Callaghan, to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Stanley, who retires ;
Ensign Henry CJohn Adeane to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice O'Callaghan, Nov. 23.
63rd Foot—John Charles Hay, Gent. to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Mackesey, promoted, Nov. 23.
65th Foot—Ernest Christian Wilford, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Still, promoted, Nov. 23.
68th Foot—Ensign Harry Edmond Smyth, from the
84th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Nicol, promoted, Nov. 23.
74th Foot—Norman Scalpa M'Crnmmen, Gent. to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Lawson, promoted,
Nov. 23.

79th Foot—George Alexander Harrisson, Gent. to be
Ensign by purchase, vice Boothby, who retires, Nov. 23.
80th'F.00t—Ensign William Whitehead to be Lieu-
tenanto without purchase, -vice Hunt, deceased, Aug.
17.; Gettlethen Cadet Horatio Pettus Batchelor, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Whitehead, Nov. 23 ; William Picton Mor-
timer, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Wilkinson, promoted, Nov. 24.
81st Foot—Thomas Pattison Wood, Oent. to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Ferreday, who retires,
Nov. 23.
84th Foot—Edward Crawfurd Antrobus, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Smyth, appointed to the 68th
Foot ; Harry Edmond Smyth, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Browne, promoted, Nov. 23.
90th Foot—Alfred Goodlad Daubeny, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Butler, promoted. Nov. 23.
91st Foot Lionel Smith Warren, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Olivey, promoted ;
Lieutenant William Barron Stanton to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Lloyd, who retires ; Ensign Francis
Gordon Hibbert to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Stanton, Nov. 23.
93rd Foot—James Menzies Clayhills, Gent to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Sprot promoted, Nov. 23.
94th Foot—Arthur Charles Elliot Gent. to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Sladen, promoted; Celestine George
Durant, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Sexton,
who retires, Nov. 24.
95th Foot—Christopher More Molyneux, Gent., to
be Ensign by purchase, vice Smyth, promoted, Nov. 23.
99th Foot—Charles Knight Pearson, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Nunn, promoted, Nov. 23.
Rifle Brigade—William Frederick Thynne, Gent., to
be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Buller, pro-
moted, Nov. 23.
3d West India Regiment—Ensign Hafed Lamont to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bacon, who retires;
Thomas John Barlow Connell, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice De Carteret, promoted, Nov. 23.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Acting Assistant-Surgeon Samuel
Gibson, M. 8., to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces,
vice Greer, appointed to the 21st Foot. Nov. 23.
Memorandum—The removal of Ensign Henry John
Yonge, from the 74th to the 61st Regiment, has been
cancelled.

FRANCE.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Moniteur contains 37 telegraphic dispatches
from east, west, north, and south, all to the same
effect, that the people are voting with enthusiasm
for the Empire. The dispatches in question em-
brace the towns of Valence, Dijon, Metz, Bar-le-
Due, Rouen, Tours, Poictiers, Besangon Nevers,
Nantes, Lyons, Macon, Bourges, Cha‘auroux,
Calais, Chartres, Amiens, Orleans, Strasbourg,
Colmar, Chalons, St. Etienne, Lisle, Montbrison,
Nancy, Bordeaux, and Angouleme.
In Paris, on Sunday, 105,000, or more than
one-half of the electors, voted. In the Banlieue,
whole communes marched to the poll in a sort of
military order with flags, and voted en masse for
the Empire.
_ _

The votes of the army of Paris, as received by
the Minister of War, gave the following result :
Yes - ' 20,077
.
No 353

The telegraphic dispatches cannot of course give
numerical details, but the'terms in which they are
conveyed leave no doubt as to the result. At Val-
ence, despite heavy rain, the people were voting in
crowds. The country people about Dijon entered
the town, following banners, and crying " Vive
l'Empereur." At Metz, a larger majority was ex-
pected than had appeared on the 20th of December.
The same was said of Rouen, Besancon, of Stras-
burg, of St. Etienne, of Lisle, and of Chalons.
The Echo of Valenciennes, of Saturday, contains
the following :
"We understand that the Duke de 3assano, the
French ambassador in Belgium, not wishing to lose his
electoral right, will avail himself of the facility afforded
by the railway to come to this place to-morrow to vote.
He will be accompanied by all tYie persons connected
with the embassy, and will return with them to Brussels
in the evening."

The Prefect of the Herault, agreeably to instruc-
tions from the Government, has announced that
extensive measures of clemency will be adopted to-
wards those parties who have been condemned by
the mixed commissions, who, by a formal decla-
ration, shall renounce their former bad conduct,
and promise peace and submission for the future.

The Constitutionnel remarks as follows on the
elections :

"According to the information
,which has reached
us from a number of the electoral sections of Paris, the
number of voters on the first day exceeded the half of
the number inscribed. The most perfect order reigned
throughout. There was never any very 'extraordinary
crowd of voters, but the electors succeeded each other in
such a manner that the voting went on uninterruptedly.
It was remarked that a number of electors who, from
their great age, have usually kept aloOf from the ballots,
gave their votes on this decisive occasion, One magis-
trate in the retired list, 98 years of age, came to give his
vote in favour of the nephew of the man who had re-
established the reign of the laws in France."
The Pays says that the number ,of votes in-
scribed in the twelve arrondissements amounts to
212,824, out of whom 108,221 voted on the first
day.
A considerable number of Deputies have already
arrived in Paris. The Chamber, as our readers
are aware, meets on the 25th.
A committee of tradesmen has just 'been formed
with a view of presenting to Louis Napoleon a
sword of honour, and a diadem enriched with
diamonds. The committee met on Saturday in
the saloons of a restaurateur in the Palais Royal,
The Journal des _Mats has the following para-
graph :
" Some English journals again repeat that the Duke
of Wellington was a Marshal of France ,and Duke de
Brunnoy in France. That is an error which was long
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BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAIIWAYS IN
THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE—Nov. 22.
Dijon and Besancon, 101—Dutch Rhenilsh, 63--Grand
Junction of France, 74—Luxembourg Railway, s—Madras,
7i—Namur and Liege (with interest), 8--Northern of
France, 35j—Ditto, 201. 3 p. c. Bonds (filly. B. & Amiens
Shares), 15—Paris and Lyons, 261--Paris ai:d Strasbourg,
33i—Quebec and Richmond, 34—Rouen and Havre, 204
Sambre and Meuse, 10 —Upper India Scrip, p.—West
Flanders, sh—Western of France, 19.

THE CONTINENT.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA.

Shortly before 12 o'clock yesterday forenoon the
British and North American Royal Mail steam-
ship Niagara, Capt. Stone, arrived in the Mersey
from Boston and Halifax, the former of which ports
she left on the 10th and the latter on the 12th inst.
The. Niagara brought 38 passengers and 15,000
dollars in specie.
The Niagara experienced very strong easterly
winds during the greater part of her passage,
which occupie 11 days 18 hours mean time.
The Royal Mail steam-ships Africa and Canada,
hence with the mails, had arrived—the former at
New York on the 4th, and the latter at Halifax on
the 11th inst.

The intelligence by this arrival is three days
later that brought by the Washington.
We learn from Nassau, N.P., that the cholera
still lingers upon the island. The mortality has
been very great.
According to the New York Herald, an attempt
has been made to murder its editor, James Gordon
Bennett, d la Napoleon, by means of an infernal
machine.

Advices from California had arrived per the Star
of the West to the 16th October, two months later
than the Georgia's advices. The intelligence is in-
teresting. Great excitement existed among the
bankers and merchants of California, in consequence
of the adoption of the Treasury order refusing the
receipt of assay ingots in payment of the public
dues—a measure which is calculated to operate inju-
riously upon the interests of the mercantile classes.
The prospects at the mines point to favourable re-
sults from the labours of the winter. Not much
progress is making just at this time, in consequence
of the active preparations for the approaching
season. The shipments of specie have accordingly
fallen off in some degree. The crops in California
have fallen somewhat short of expectation, probably
attributable to the light rains. The miscellaneous
news is of no importance.
Interesting intelligence is received from Mexico
to the middle of October. The city of Mexico was
in a ferment. The extra session of Congress had
convened; and. the Cabinet Ministers were on the
point of impeachment. Opposition presses have
multiplied, which ply the Government with re-
proaches and bitter attacks, and the condition of
the country is more unfortunate than ever.
The Government has authorised the arrest of all
military personages who are destitute of passports.
The state of Vera Cruz has sent two commissioners
to confer with the Supreme Government in relation
to the recent insurrections, and a bill granting an
amnesty to the Vera Cruz insurgents had been in-
troduced into Congress. General Cardenas has
assumed the government of the state of Tamaulipas.
Some excitement existed at Vera Cruz, in conse-
quence of the reported approach of a French squa-
dron to support the claims of the French Minister
for the payment of creditors of the Republic. A
Spanish vessel was also looked for, to enforce the
payment of Spanish claims. The news from all
parts of the country is prophetic of evil tidings.
The New York stock market was • buoyant, with
large sales in investment as well as speculative
stocks. Prices for all the leading securities had
advanced. The money-market was without altera-
tion. Exchange firmer. Bills on London, 110 f
to 110 i ; Paris, 5 15 to 5 131; Hamburg, 36 to
361; Bremen, 79i- to 741; Amsterdam, 41 to 41h.
Cotton had advanced a quarter cent per pound,
with large sales ; the stock at New York was nearly
exhausted, and, there being several large foreign
orders to execute, it was expected that there would
be a further advance. The flour market was very
firm, with a good home demand ; for export not
much inquiry. For wheat the demand was not
quite so active, the advance reported last steamer
having in a great measure checked operations. All
descriptions of provisions were in good demand at
very firm prices. Freights to London very firm, at
the following rates :—Tobacco, 30s. per hhd.; flour,
2s. 6d. per barrel ; turpentine, 3s. per barrel ; and
beef,
ss. 6d. to 6s. per tierce. The iron market
was depressed; 150 tons Scotch pig were reported
at 31 dollars six months.

THE ARMY.

The following general orders have been issued to all
Ole regiments in her Majesty's service:—

" GENERAL ORDER.
"Horse Guards, Nov. 18, 1852.

"Her Majesty does not require that the officers of
the army shall continue to wear the mourning prescribed
in the general order of the 22d of September for Field-
Marshal the late Duke of Wellington, except that they
shall wear black crape round the left arm until Monday
next, the 22d inst., when the mourning is to cease.
" By command of the Right Hon. General Lord
Viscount Hardinge, Commanding-in-Chief.
"G. BROWN, Adjutatt-General."

i‘ GENERAL ORDER.
" Horse Guards, Nov. 19, 1852.
" The General Commanding-in-Chief desires to express
to Major-General his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, his entire approval of the very judicious and suc-
cessful manner in which the military arrangements for
the funeral were yesterday carried into execution.
" The conduct of the officers and men on this melan-
choly occasion, in co-operation with the police, was most
praiseworthy.
" The detachments from every regiment, in the service
brought up to London, by the express command of her
Majesty, to represent the army will take back to their
comrades the deep feeling of admiration
,and sorrow
which universally prevailed among all classes of the
people on the solemn occasion of carrying the immortal
hero to his grave.
"The presence of the troops was most welcome
throughout the procession and at the various posts at
which they were posted, not only as assisting the civil
authorities in preserving order and preventing accidents,
but as being that class of their fellow-countrymen who,
trained under their illustrious Commander, will, on all
occasions, endeavour to follow his perfect example of
preferring the • strict performance of his duty to every
other consideration.

" By command of the Right Hon. General Viscoun
Hardinge, Commanding-in-Chief.
" G. BROWN, Adjutant-General."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

WOOLWICH, MONDAY.

The Royal Albert, 120, has had an additional num-
ber of men placed at work upon her, and there are now
about 150 hands employed, besides two gangs of con-
victs, one to remove the timbers, and the other to bring
the large iron kneejoints from the blacksmiths' shop to
be fitted on board.

The Driver steam-sloop left Woolwich at half-past 6
o'clock a.m. to-day, in charge of Lieutenant Robertson,
of the steam reserve, for Sheerness, where she is to re-
main as an advanced war-steamer, with all her ammuni-
tion, shot, and shells on board, ready for instant service
when she may be required.
Since the death of the chief-engineer who brought
home the Dover iron steam-vessel from the coast ofAfrica,
the vessel has been placed in charge of Acting Second
Master Sallenger, of the Monkey steam-vessel. The
Kroomen on board are all Christians, although natives
of Africa, and they are remarkably attentive to the re-
ligious duties of members of the Church of England.
They attend the dockyard chapel in the forenoon, from
11 to 1 o'clock, and in the schoolroom at the west gate
in the evening, from half-past 6to 8 o'clock, to hear the
services of the Church of England.
Commander G. P. T. Hornby (1850) is appointed to
study steam at the factory at Woolwich dockyard.
APPOINTMENTS.

Mate—Charles F. Ryder, to the Dido, 18, Devonport ;
H. W. Fox, to the Encounter, screw-corvette.
Midshipmen—G. W. Strong and W. M. Wright, to
the Hogue ; Hunter Kent, to the Waterloo, 120, flag-
ship, at Sheerness ; John L. Gilby, to the Agamemnon,
90, screw-ship, Sheerness.
Naval Cadets—R. G. S. Pasley, to the Dido ; Hon.
M. R. Wingfield and Alfred Markham, to the Aga-
memnon.
Master—Joshua Whiting, to the Dido, 18, Devonport.

PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY EVENING.
The Nidcross, Norwegian steam-corvette, sailed from
Spithead, this morning, for the Mediterranean.
Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G., commander-
in-chief, went to Spithead, this morning, with his flag
flying in the Fire Queen, and inspected the ship's com-
pany of the Scourge, Commander Lord F. Kerr, and
returned at noon. The Scourge afterwards discharged
her powder and shells, and came into harbour to prepare
for paying off.
The Simoom, 18, steam-transport, Captain Kingcome,
sailed from Spithead, this afternoon. Report says she is
gone to Scotland, to bring machinery for the Duke of
Wellington.
The Encounter, 14, steam-frigate, Captain°'Callaghan,
has been paid wages in advance, at Spithead, to-day.
The Pallas, Russian 50-gun frigate, Captain Unkow-
ska, hauled down alongside the jetty to-day, and will be
taken into No. 2 dock of the fitting basin on Tuesday,
for repairs.
The Victory, 101, Captain Martin, flag of Admiral
Sir T. Briggs, will be paid wages up to dne month, on
Wednesday next.
The Friry and Elfin, Royal steam-yachts, have been
out of harbour to-day, to try the working of their en-
gines, ready for the reception of her Majesty, on the
24th inst., when the Court is expected to return to
Osborne.

SUPPOSED SUICIDES BY DROWNlNG.—Yesterday Mr.
Baker, the coroner, received information of the following
supposed cases of suicide of persons who ware found
drowned in the New River and the Regent's Canal. On
Sunday morning the body of J. Cherington, a butcher,
carrying on business at Ball's-pond, ndir the turnpike,
was picked up in the New River, near the Green-lanes,
Stoke Newington. In the forenoon of the same day
(Sunday) the body of a female, named CarolineWilhams,
was found floating in the Regent's Canal, near the
Rosemary Branch, and was taken to Shoreditch Work-
house. _On the same morning the body of a youth of the
name of William Trattell was observed in thelegent s
Canal, adjoining Twig Folly.

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