The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-11 00:00:00

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WELLINGTON AND SOULT,
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WRITINGS.
A PORTRAIT OF
TILE DUKE OF WELLINGTON

TOGETHER WITH
THE MOST

SPLENDID LIKENESS OF SOIJLT

EVER TAKEN,
BY WYON,

FOR WHICH TIIE MARSHAL SAT SIX TIMES,

IS THIS DAY PUBLISHED,
AT THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND,

PRICE SIXPENCE.
Sun Office, Oct. 11, 1852.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
DA:r —Morning 5S tarn. after 11 I Evening 23 min. site 121
To-Moaaovr—Morning 45 min. after 12 Evening 8 min. after

THE WEATHEIL—Surg OFFICE, OCTOBER 10
TRBILMOKETER, IN THE SHADE.
45—highest since noon yestoroay.
37-10'f/est this mcrning and during the night.
50—:his day, at noon.

BA.aOMI7TER, 30.02.
WlNDJ.jV.—light breeze. Morning, foggy; Afternoon,
sunshine.

MONDAY, OCT. 11.
TIEKR3IO;%2ITIiIi, iN TB ►SHADS.
60—highest since neon yesterday.
42—lowest this morning and daring the night.
52 —this day, at neon.

BAROMIC73 r., 139 16.
W W.N W.—fine breeze and cloddy, Sunshiny weather,

DAILY WEATHER. TABLE.
Sato of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock on Saturday morning.—The stations
.1, arranged in order of

LtYmrticx—Wind N.E., calm—cloudless.
Mumarair.—Wind E., calm—partially cloudy.
ZlATrrsou—Wind N.E., fresh breeze—cloudless.
So7THAParros—Wind N. W., strong breeze—cloudless.
FoLicrsToru.—Wind N., gentle breeze—cloudless.
TIINBRIDGE—Wind N.W., gentle breeze —cloudless.
GREEN W ICH—Wind N., gentle breeze— cloudless.
Sraoon —Wind N. W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
cnemizmit—vvind N.W., strong breeze—cloudless.
CAAnnifx4E—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
YARMOUTH—. Wind N.Y., hard wind—partially cloudy.

Me returns from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Friday morning at nine

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LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBEit 11, 1852.

THE QUARTER'S REVENUE

Another quarter's day hes passed, and the Revenue
returns—A hich will be found in another part of cur
impression—contliian to afford the most conclusive
evidence of the satisfactory results of the fiscal policy
entered into under the auspices of the late t-ir RonenT
PEEL. It is true that policy has not been fully de-
veloped, that the country is still far from enjoying
the blessings of free and unrestricted trade ; but every
fact and circumstance combine to prove that we hart,
been proceeding in the right direction, and to
encourage us to increase our speed in order to arrive
at the goal. Many important reductions have been
made in imposts that materially affected the comforts
and prosperity of the people, but there has been no
corresponding loss to the Exchequer. The almost
miraculous elasticity of our national resources is thus
established, and likewise the accuracy of the asser-
tion, that in fiscal ntattero, as two and two will not
always make four, so two deducted from four will
leave a greater balance than two. Relief may thus
be given to the subjeet, without any serious deficiency
being thereby occasioned to the public purse.
During thri past year the iniquitous tax on
light and air was abolished, and although a house
tax wax was substituted in its place, the latter was
only estimated to produce one-third of the former
inn Est, so that under that head alone a loss of
1,200,C00/. might have been anticipated, and this in
addition to the reductions of duty on coffee, sugar,
timber, &c., wllich came into operation during the
past year, and :fet the entire deficiency for the year
amounts to only 437,399/., or little more than one-
fourth of the amount of actual loss under these heads.
But this is not all. It must be borne in mind that the
comparison is instituted with no ordinary period.
The financial year ending the 10th October, 1851,
obtained all the benefit of the increased consumption
derived from the concourse of strangers drawn to-
gether by the varied attractions of the Crystal Palace,
and the desire to witness the extraordinary competi-
tion of the world's industry. Without any diminu-
tion of our burdens, we might, have anticipated a
more formidable deficiency than that above referred
to ; but when we consider that practically there has
been an augmentaticn rather than a deficiency, we have
indeed cause to congratulate ourselves on the result. So
much for the annual comparison, that for the quarter
is even more surprising and gratifying.. There is
actually an improvement of 28,9291.,a1theugh the
corresponding period conbtituted the three months
immediately preceding the 113
eloS. g of the Crystal
Palace.

Looking now to the separate items, we find that in
the Customs thereis a deficiency on the
year and
quarter, OD the former of 84,7521., on the latter of
298,2641. It is, howcver, unckr this head that the
effects produced by our numerous visitors last year
would be
most perceptible. The reductions on sugar,
coffee, and timber also carne into operation, so that
on the wbola we msy be well contented that it has
been no worse.

The only other item of the ordinary revenue, in
which there is a &crease for the year, is that of

" Taxes ;" one v'h'

y be remarked is less in

temporary circurnatannE9.
iluencelf 'arm nuy ,; .Le: by
Oa that the tatlinz cif for the yen,. is 1,157;2017.—
for the quarter oaly 5,8101. We have, however,
already o-xplained that it was estimated that the sub-
stitution of the hons 9 tax for the window tax would
lead to a decrease in the receipts of 1,200,0001. There
is, therefore, no reason for regret at this defi-
ciency.

We now turn tc. the bright side of the picture.
The Excise has always bee, considered as the best
index of the comfort and prosperity of the working
climes. When it proves more than ordinarily pro-

i dactive we may be well assured that there is content
and happiness in the cottages and apartments of la-
bouring men—that those dependent on their daily
toil for their daily bread are in the enjoyment of
those humble luxuries which may almost be regarded
in the light of necessaries, and which should ever be
within the reach of every person able and willing to
work. Under that head we find an improvement
of 114,1851. on the year, and 163,9011. on the
quarter. Under " Stamps," again, which in some
degree affords an indication of commercial activity,
there is an improvement of 133,9321. on the year, and
of 96,8571. on the quarter. The " Property tax," as
it is facetiously termed, where casual income is
charged as heavily as accumulated and realised
wealth, likewise exhibits auspicious prospects. The
increase on the year is 53,658/., that on the quarter
45,4451. As this tax is:to the middle classes what
the Excise is to the less wealthy—the index to their
condition—this amelioration may be regarded with
peculiar pleasure.
Tbanki to the judicious management of ROWLAND
}TILL, the " Post Office" exhibits en increase of
26,0001 on the year, and that although the extraor-
dinary correspondence occasioned by the Great Ex-
hibition swelled the receipts of 1851. There is a
falling off on the quarter of 45,0001., which may rea-
sonably be ascribed to a desire to increase the postal
facilities and expedite the communications throughout
the entire kingdom. In " Crown Lands" there is an im-
provement on the year of 50,0001., while the quarter
is exactly the same. The receipts for the last year
amount in the whole to 220,0001. A few years since
before Lord DUNCAN instituted his searching inquiries
into the gross mismanagement of that important de-
partment, the average was not more than 100,000/,
Muck more may, however, be accomplished. The
zealous and indefatigable Member for Glasgow esti-
mates that under judicious control this department
would produce a clear revenue of half a million of
pounds sterling. When we consider the hosts of
locusts battening on the public funds, and the
stoppages in transitu before the money received in the
department finds its way to the Exchequer,
for perpetual pensions, annual stipends, parks, 6-c.,
amount to no less than 286,6461. 155., we may be
thankful that so much has been rescued from the
greedy herd.

In " Miscellaneous" there is an improvement 01

130,237/. on the year, but a falling off of 10,6531.
on the quarter. Under the head of Imprest and
Other Moneys the decrease is on the year 49,4411.,
while the increase on the quarter is 13,6661. The
Repayments of Advances shows greater punctuality on
tila part of public debtors, the increase on the year
being 345,9851, an improvement of more than 60 per
cent. The increase on the quarter is 68,7871. It
will thus be seen that our assertions as to the gratify-
ing character of the financial returns have been fully
sustained, and that the greatest encouragement is
afforded to more rapid progress in the eligible path on
which we have entered.

Another " Commissioner" has given us his repor
on Ireland. We have had the report of a costly Go.
vernment Commission ; we have had the letters of

newspaper commissioners ; and even of able German
Berichter also ; this year Mr. JOHN BRIGHT, Member
of the British House of Commons and of the Society
of Friends, has given us the results of his voluntary
mission to the land of perplexity ;—the statesman's
puzzle and the philanthropist's lamentation. Await-
ing the meeting of Parliament, Mr. DISRAELI shuts
himself up in his country mansion, to study problems
of finance ; my Lord of DERBY gives becoming per-
sonal attendance to her MAJESTY, and JOHN BRIGHT,
M.P., spends his time in verifying for himself what
he has heard and read of Ireland. Well, a better, an
honester commissioner we could not have had. Half

the public, or more, who are interested in Ireland,
would have gladly chosen him. A man of
his well known energy, business habits, im-
partiality, and powers bath of observation
and of telling so well what he observes
(and all these exercised to increased advantage, by
the peculiar non-antagooiam of his sect to the con-
tending sects of the country), is just the man whose
recort we should be glad to listen to. He might be
able to tell us little new ; indeed, that were scarcely
possible. He might be able to propound no addi-

remedies which the factions in Ireland or in
England would allow to be adopted. Yet we feel the
more assured in believing what a witness so diverse
from preceding cri2s tills us, and that the remedies he
points tc, if o.zly by implication, are amongst the most
likely to succeed.

M. BRIGHT is entertained by a large and highly
respectable meeting at Belfast, the emporium of Irish
manufacturing industry; and, like all other Irish
visitors, he can dwell in terms of the highest eulogy
on the busy to 7C n itself; and the well cultivated dis-
trict en each side of it and, like all others, he sees
Chet " the great bulk of Ireland is in a condition
which offers a mournful contrast" to that of Belfast,
the personal appearance of the inhabitants being al-
most unworthy of human beings, and their hovels, as
in the time of the Devon Commission, " a scandal to
find human beings living in." He finds throughout
the country an almost total absence of any stimulus
to industry, a monotonous squalid idleness.
Yet Mr. BRIGHT has ample evidence that these
ragged idlers are not willingly idle; he meets with
men who rdurned from harvest in England, and
walked home across Ireland, and who rejoiced in
having earned from 4/. to 8/. each. He learned from
Mr. DARGAN, the great Irish railway contractor,
who systematically employed the men living in the
districts where his works were situated, " that the
people of Ireland want only the discipline of steady
industry, and they will give as good a return in labour
for the wages paid them as any people in the world."
The experience of the Board or Works was the same,
that "Irish workmen unable at first to earn more than
3d. or 4d. a day, at piece work, were soon able to
earn two shillings a day or more. We have all wit-
nessed the industry of Irishmen in England—we
may not have adequately realised to ourselves the
fact that they can be as industrious at home, when
the inducement is regular and adequate. But why
then are such a people found in such a state ? Why
are they clothed in rags and perishing on potatoes,
when there is abundance of land to be cultivated, and
an ample market for their produce close at hand ?
Mr. BRIGHT answers, that, chiefly he seems to think,
on account of repeated confiscations in times past,
the land is not in the possession of the people. We
understand him as meaning that it is deeply mort-
gaged; for the land of England is but little of it in
the possession of the middle classes. Mr. BRIGHT,
indeed, substantiates his view by the fact that so
many of the estates through which ho passed were
either in the Encumbered Estates Court or soon to
be there. Mr. BRIGHT anticipates more good to
Ireland from the appointment of this court than from
any modern enactment, and certainly not
without reason. The Bishop of OXFORD
told the English landed magnates, in his
speech on the corn-laws, that many of them had the
name only of landlords, and ought to surrender their
estates to their real proprietors ; and that he bad
every where observed that the estates of the nominal
landlords were half cultivated and unimproved. But
in Ireland incumbrance is the rule, and a clear estate
the exception. The larger part of the land is pos-
sessed, or farmed by those who have no sufficient in-
terest in its improvement, by landlords who care not
to make a fence, hang a gate, build a house and farm-
ing premises, much less to attempt efficient drainage,
or indeed any drainage at all. This must have
been hitherto one main cause why Ireland allows us
to bring over from the Mississippi the grain with
which she could so largely supply us.

' Mr. BRIGHT appears W be not disinclined to sup-
Port a Tenant Right Bill, one which should give the
outgoing tenant a claim for improvements. Now we
must confess that it would be only in consideration of
the pupil•state of Irish fa: ruing tit present, that we
could stiPPort such a Bill. Possibly iOr such a state
sornqhing artificial nay he needed, nod possibly such
a Bill might be the proper remedy. We think,
however, that such compensations are properly sub-
jects of argreoment between landlord and tenant only.
The law ought of course to protect the agreement,
' but not to prescribe of what kind it shall be. Four-
teen or twenty-one year leases are the proper reme-
dies for tenant-right demands. It appears to us easy
to show that with short leases and legalised tenant-
right there must be endless disputes as to what im-
provements were really needed, and landlords might
be moss grievously annoyed. Real landlords) and

I long leases will, as in the better districts of England
and Scotland, be quite sufficient.
The larger portion of Mr. BRIGHT'S long speech
was occupied with the ecclesiastical evils of the
country. Here, cf course, he found a fertile field ;
yet no one will deny that the member of the Society
of Friends spoke in a tone of friendship of all the de-
nominations, especially the largest one, which all save
Exeter-hall bigots must admire. " I have attended,'
says he, " several congregations, some of the Estab-
lished Church, some of the Catholic Church, and I must
say that the Catholic chapels, as far as I have seen
them, are well filled, that the people are re-
markably attentive, that a devout and serious
expression of countenance is to be seen among
them, and judging from the conduct of the Irish—
putting aside for a moment the question of the agra•
rian outrages—l say that in all points of obedience to
moral law, as far as I can observe, and as regards the
absence of crime or immorality, they will bear com-
parison, at least, with any portion of the population
of the United Kingdom." Intemperate bigots of
sects which certainly approximate much more
closely to Rome than that of the honest
Quaker will do well to ponder whose spirit
and language are most likely to conciliate the
regard of the Catholics, indeed most likely to convert
them to Protestantism. From his independent stand-
point, Mr. BRIGHT tells his audience plainly that he
finds more religious bitterness in Ireland than he has
been accustomed to meet elsewhere, and that the ec.•
clesiastical endowments present every objectionable
feature. First, that one church is a church vainly
endeavoured to be imposed upon the people by con-

quest, and most disproportionately endowed. The
established minority enjoys an endowment of at least
500,0001. a-year, worth, if capitalised, 10,000,0001.
sterling; the Presbyterians an annual grant of
40,000/., worth about 1,000,0001. sterling ; the Catho•
lies 26,0001. a-year, worth about 600,0001. in round
number. ! Yet the latter are an overwhelming
majority compared even with both the other
denominations. Then the absurdity of the
arrangement ! 500,0001. a-year is given to
uphold the Irish Church as " the bulwark of Pro-
testantism," and the agency " for converting Ireland
to the Protestant faith ;" and 26,0001. a year to send
forth 100 priests annually to reclaim them back again
to Catholicism ! What with the conquering origin,
and the disproportionate emoluments of the English
Church in Ireland, it is not to be wondered at that
Ireland should be the head-quarters of religious bit-
terness and strife. Mr. BRIGHT'S real opinion as to
what ought to be done in this case is not the less
weighty for his silence. Aware that on this point
uncandid hearers might attribute his views as a legis-
lator to denominational bias, he leaves the facts to
speak for themselves.

Mr. BRIGHT'S testimony to the general consistency
of the Irish Members ought to be very consolatory
to Mr. HUM E. Mr. BRIGHT bad not found them quite
so shifty a set as the Hon. Member for Montrose
deems them. On Catholic questions, no doubt, the
position of their Church has made seal for its inte-
rests a patriotism as well as a religious duty. But
on all questions affecting the people, whether of Great
Britain or Ireland, Mr. BRIGHT "had never found the
Catholic and Liberal Members
_of Ireland adverse to

liberty and to progress. Upon the Reform Bill,
Slave Emancipation, the Municipal Corporations
Bill, and Free Trade, we always had a majority of the
Irish representatives of Ireland upon our side ; and
be, in my opinion, is an enemy to both countries who
endeavours to make it appear that there are no ob-
jects which we and Irish Liberals can work in com-
mon." He is assured of their co-operation on Free-
trade questions ; assured that they will join the
Ecglish Liberals on the Ballot ; he regards it,
we are glad to see, as impossible that any Liberal Go-
vernment can come into office, or remain in office,
unless prepared to bring forward a Bill for the esta-
blishment of the Ballot. The signs of the times
assure us that Mr. BRIGHT is not far from the truth
here. The sneers of those who have no better argu-
ment, and the selfishness of those who would retain
tyrannical influence over their dependents, must
yield to the stern necessity of official banishment or of
concession. Mr. BRIGHT'S visit to Ireland will, we
are persuaded, have one happy effect—an effect
most appropriate to the respected sect to
which he belongs. It will enable him to
be a peacemaker speaking with authority. He
will silence, by the testimony of personal knowledge,
many a false witness against misrepresented Ireland.
Ile will conciliate her Members, and dissuade the
more excitable of them from crotchetty isolations by
his sincere good will, even to their reprobated Church.
The oratorical declaimers will lock very small under
the pracival rebukes of Mr. BRIGHT'S straightfor-
ward, but often pungent, eloquence. On Irish clues-
'ions, in future sessions of Parliament, the Hon.
Member fur Manchester will be not only one of the
most instructive, but one of the most useful men of
the House. He will aid towards rendering such sub-
jects manageable at all.

Is it not true that Poverty crawls the streets in its
most abject forms, offering for sale the snowdrops
and the first violets of spring ? Is it not sad that the
most mournful should face you with sunken face and
,hrivelled hands, with the most beautiful emblems of
innocence ? In passing through the country, the
hard lot and trials of the poorer classes may be seen
to perfection. In the town it is with us ; we have
grown so familiar to its face that we are quite inured,
and elect guardians, and have commissions, to
manage this sorrowful, sad goddess—Poverty.
Still we ought to be right thankful that pauperism
is most materially diminished under a happier state
of things, and that meat and drink for bodily exist-
ence is placed more within the reach of the care-
worn, toiling thousands. But the population of Lon-
don alone is weekly increasing on an average four
hundred over the number of deaths, and although
trade and commerce is being more and more deve-
loped, yet our labour market, in consequence of this
weekly increase, will become more than sufficiently
supplied. An outlet must be found, and to us it
seems that emigration of the poorer classes, on a
noble, human-hearted foundation, is what is abso•
lutely necessary ; not a system, as at present, of red
tapery and highly-pjd aristocratic officials, but one
of sympathy and manly assistance. It is matter for
rejoicing and hope that a few noble, sincere men are
labouring hard in this cause, on behalf of the hard-
working, struggling classes, and we trust ere long to
see many more of our public men join i❑ a move-
ment which will tend to the ultimate happiness of
thousands, and the prosperity of Old England and
her colonial possessions.

If our Poor-law Board, that sits in statistical state
at Somerset House, endeavouring to manage and re-
gulate this Hydra, were at all alive to the deep inte-
rests of the nation, pauperism would almost entirely
disappear.

Let the several parishes in this metropolis pay
down the cost of six months' or even a year's support
of a pauper, and the human being whose energies are
being wasted, whose character and manly indepen-
dence is being annihilated under a system injurious
both to the poor themselves and the ratepayers, would
gladly go to our colonies, where the labourer is at a
premium, and where men may make even a compe-
tency. Our Government, instead of keeping up a
vast pauper-hatching machine, under expensive ma-
nagement, should be made to turn its attention to the
annihilation, not the regulation, of this social disease.
We believe that more money is spent on aristocratic
secretaries, commissions, &c., and more money is
squandered on parochial dinners and squabbles, than
would relieve the country of one of its greatest bur-
dens, and that burden b 3 made to be a blessing for
future ages.

thisT slleaEsonCh.taßstit;teEenT.—a johinetedfirsfotr
}C,raidbaiynet Cnextu,utreo
mfthr
inst. Lord Derby arrives in town to attend the meeting, on
Wednesday or Thursday next, from his seat, Knowsley Hall,
Lancashire. Lord Malinesbury is expected from his seat in
Scotland (Fort William), to be present at the assembling of
his colleagues. Mr. Secretary Walpole will return to town
from attending her Majesty. The Lord Chancellor, Lord
Salisbury, Lord Hardwicke, and Mr. Herries, are expected
to arrive in London in the early part of the week. The Duke
of Northumberland, Lord Lonsdale, Sir John Pakington
Lord John Manners, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
Mr. Henley, have already arrived in town.
DEPARTURE OF THE EUROPA.—On Saturday after-
noon, at four o'clock, the British and North American Royal
Mail steam-ship Europa, Captain Ryrie, left Liverpool for
New York direct, with upwards of eighty passengers, a fair
cargo, and the usual mails for the -United States and British
America.

Meyerbeer, the musical composer, is at Spa (Ger-
many), in such bad health that he cannot even make use
of the batkg-

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
Governimnt has received the following telegraphic
dispatches:—

" Bordeaux, 9th, Bh. 50m. A.M.
" The review was very brilliant. A crowd eager to
behold the Prince pressed on his passage and saluted
him with the warmest acclamations. In the afternoon
his Highness visited different manufacturing establish-
ments. The magnificence of the ball at the Grand
Theatre exceeded all expectation. On his entrance, at
every pause in a cantata composed in honour of him, and
on his leaving his Highness was hailed with the loudest
enthusiasm. The sojourn of the Prince at Bordeaux is
an uninterrupted suite of ovations. One cry alone is
heard—' Vive l'Empereur.'"
" Twenty-five minutes to Seven P.M.
" The weather has been dreadful since the morning.
His Highness was obligrd to remain in the palace the
whole morning, and did not go out until one o'clock to
visit the great hospital of St. Andre. At half•past two
the Prince proceeded to the building-yard of M. Armand,
to be present at the launch of a merchant vessel, the
Louis Napoleon, of 2.200 tons, built by M. Monter
ship-owner, end deputy for the Gironde. The Car-
dlnal Archbishop gave his blessing to the ship, and she
was lsunched with perfect success. The Prince returned
to the palace at a quarter to four. In spite of constantly
heavy rai❑ the crowd was immense, and the Prince along
hi, passage was saluted with the cry of Vivo l'Empo-
reur !' Every face expressed satisfaction and joy."
Prince JERO➢ME BONAPARTE, president of the Se-
nate, arrived at Bordeaux on the 6tb, from Paris. M.
DE PERSIGNY, Minister of the Interior, has also ar-
rived there.

General DE LAWCESTINE has published an order of
the day, announcing that the National Guards of the
Seine are to be called out to receive the PRINCE
PRESIDENT, on his return to the capital.
The Journal du Havre states that the Minister of
the Oriental Itvpublic at Paris, is about to conclude a
loan of thirty million francs with a company of
French, English, and other capitalists.
The Nouvelliste of Marseilles publishes a second
list of pardons or commutations of punishments
granted by the PRINCE PRESIDENT to thirty-two
political prisoners belonging to the department of the
Basses Alpes, who had been condemned by the mixed
commissions.

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Bishop
of Clonfert, Bishop of Down and Connor, Bishop of
Cloyne, and Bishop of Ross, left Paris on Thursday
evening, for Ireland. They have expressed their
complete satisfaction at the manner in which the Irish
college at Paris it directed, and have left the direc-
tion of it in the hinds of the Rev. Mr. MILEY.
The leading pagers copy, with very becoming ex-
pressions of satisfiction, an article from the Belgian
Independance, protesting against the accusations of
the French press ;bat the Belgian papers had ex-
pressed satisfactior at the plans of the Marseilles con-
spirators, and of the symptoms revealed of designs
against the life of the PRINCE PRESIDENT, of which
they encouraged tie renewal. The Independance de-
clares, that although objectionable sentiments had
been expressed by one journal, the Nation, yet that
to that one print had they been confined—a fact
which ought to hale been stated, and the whole re-
spectable journals of the country not confounded in a
sweeping denunciation.
M. HENRI DE BIOUCKERE had nearly settled the
personnel of his Cabinet; but there was some fear
lest he might, owing to the strength of the Opposi-
tion, obliged to acvised the KING to dissolve the
Chambers.

It is rumoured that the object of the King of HA-
NOVER'S visit to the King of WURTEMBURG was for
sake of effecting a renewal of friendly negotiations
with Prussia on the subject of the Zollverein.
The directors of the different railway companies
in Paris assembled a few days since in order to ap •
point the members of the Syndical Commission which,
according to the terms of the decree for the establish-
ment of the railway rcund Paris, will be charged
with the surveillance and working of that line. The
five companies interested in this connecting line
appointed, the following members :—MM. Hottinguer
and Seilliere for the Paris and Lyons line ; MM.
Roux and Blaigneres, for the Strasburg ; MM. de
Richemond and Marc, for the Orleans and the Centre ;
MM. de l'Espee and Blount for the Rouen ; and
MM. Delebecque and Emile Pereire, for the Northern.
M. de l'Espee has been chosen President of the Syn-
clinal Commission.

The Duguesclin line-of-battle ship, en flute, hqs
arrived at Brest from Cayenne, after a passage of 30
days. She left the colony of Guayana, as well as
the Penitentiary establishment, in a very satisfactory
state.

The Nouvelliste of Marseilles, of the sth, gives the
following details of the infernal machine:—
" This machine, which has been submitted to the exa-
mination of the most competent men, is not composed, as
described by the Moniker, of 250 gun. barrels, and 4
blunderbuss-barrels, but of two tubes in thick sheet iron
about 3 inches in diameter and about 11 inches in length.
To these two barrels are attached 120 cases, made of
thick cardboard, of the form and length of the Roman
candles used in fireworks. Each of the large barrels was
charged with hoods of nails and pieces of iron and lead,
and rach case contained a ball. A second machine, si-
milar to the former, was in course of construction, of
which the police have also obtained p
above explanation,
ossession.
The
2.lrouvelliste, after giving the
adds :__

these details we do not mean to lessen
2i t givinga. eh ( d to the homicidal idea which led to
but because it appeared to us inrii.pen-
sable to tranquillise the .
public mind by showing that the
either for the purposes of civil war or of
ritithese:::Bogniosigut:umuuerest,iodnis'arneed since the 2d December, by the
foresight of the authorities, have not, thank God, at
'any resoUrcis such as would have been
the description given in the Ministerial
supposedaa theirsrsarticle."
c l 8
eid.
fl,
from
Or:onam:
M. ALEXANDER CORTE is appointed manager of
the Italian Opera.
The. Government has received the following tele.
graphic dispatch relative to the inundations in Nor
mandy :

' t Caen, Oct. 9, Half-past Three AX.
‘c The heavy rains hate ceased, and the inundation is
everywhere subsiding."
There was not a very large amount of business
transacted on Sunday, but the price remained
firm at the closing quotations of the Parquet on Satur-
day,3
vB—Dutch Rhenish, 7—Great In-
viz. 79f. 25c. tor the Threes, and 105 f. 70c. for
the Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
rand Junction of. France, 53/—Lux-
embourg,BUSIINESS DONE IN fOithluN RAILWAYS Al' THE
LONDON STOCK. EXCHANGE, Oar. 9,
73/—Namur and
)Lie.ge (with inter2e4st%), _Paris—
-9,7',37-1 ans and Lyons,
4—Western of France, 131/i.
d i In-
dian ij
andlonen i ns u 1a , Besancon,7 ~i- - -IGO2
Fans, Caen, and Cherbourg, 61,i—
-saNnaondrl tbShr eterr Strasbourg,
nbodoru rFigra,an3nsOc:se France,