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to which he had devoted
comparison with this, personal feeli.
weighed by any loyal and high-min,
had cause enough. Those who for y
up to him as their political leader -- _
tive, were now taught to regard him with suspieio n
and dislike. He has been grossly naisunderstooa
and hence, no doubt, habitually misrepresente d.
When France the other day was called to elect
representatives, he was an unsuccessful cand.;dato
for the situation which seems as much his ow.a of
right, as that of O'Connell to be the representative
of Catholic Ireland, and it is impossible to
doubt that somewhere or other the clergy cc tad
have secured his return, To all these causes of (.`e-
pression must be added that which made him so
in his arrival at the Congress of Malines, and 80'
early in his.departure, a tormenting-chronic malady.
Moreover, Montalembert cannot look nrward with
any certainty to a political change, such as France
has so often seen during the last century, end which,
would restore him to his. ust station in
political life.
Although not old, his head is already crowned with
gwrheeyo(Land i
crownrithoe glory,"pfaths o
iussatyicse,, Holy) Searyli tu
even: i
.
He m
anticipate the restoration of Parliamentary Govern-
meat in France, without expecting
that he will to ho
a part in it. Ha has exactly reached the period of
life at which our unhappy countryman Gibbon, b-istw
lancing the advantage and the evils of increasing.-
years, felt compelled against his will to record that-
" two circumstances, the abbreviation of time, and
P,
the failure of hope, could not but tinge with a
browner shade the evening of life."

PRICE". • .
STAXPED ....sd.

firm. Provisions dull. Coffee advancing. Sugar
very firm. Molasses quiet.

(By Telegraph to Cape Race.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.

General Meade ofl3ially reports that on the 14th
the enemy attacked his rear-guard, consisting of the
second corps, while menacing hire on the flank.
After a spirited contest the enemy were repulsed,
losing a battery, 5 guns, 2 colours', and 450 pri-
soners. Th's engagement was stated in the de-
spatch of the 15th, evening, as occurring at Bris-
tow's Station.

Oa the evening of the 14th Lee attempted to
flank Meade by way of Chantilly, and got in his
rear through Fairfax Court-house. Lee's attempt
was frustrated by General Meade ;falling back to
Fairfax.

The objects of Lee's advance and the reason for
Meade's refusal to accept battle form the subject of
much conjecture.

Charleston harbour is reported to be effectually
closed against the entrance of the ironclads.

The steamer Spaulding has been captured.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

How deep a shade of melancholy the political
changes of their country have thrown over many of
those who were once the most prominent among the
politicians of the Parliamentary period, may be
imagined. It strongly reminds us of the expres-
sions of Cicero, when he found himself excluded
from public life by the success of Cmiar in drawing
into his own hands all the power of the FtAte.
High minded men who, in 1848, freely risked
their lives in the cause of " law and order,"
may be heard to profess that if civil strife again
broke out they would sit by their fireside with-
out looking out of the window, that the men of
our day aro not worthy of liberty, being " sales,
hetes et tnechants," such is the natural effect of poli-
tical disappointment upon men who are conversant
only with the natural order.
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Money easy. Gold, 537 i per cent. premium.
Exchanges on London—bankers' bills, 168.
.Stocks steady. New York. Central, 1351 ;
1251; Erie, 1081 ; Six per Cent. United States
Bonds, 1074.
Cotton steady—middling upland, 92c.
Oct. 17, Morning.
No general engagement is reported from Virginia.
Both armies are still confronting each other.
Hill's corps moved yesterday from Meade's front
in the direction of Leesburg. A Federal reconnais-
sance was sent to that quarter.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Money eaay. Goad, 51 per cent. premium.
The Saxonia and City
.of London take on'
660,000 dole.

Bearing this in mind, let us turn to the conclud-
ing columns of Montalembert's address, and see how
the hope of a Christian not merely "reconciles man
to his lot," but fills him in the darkest times with a
hope which relates not to himself alone but to his
country.