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LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1854,

EXETER-HALL.—Band of the French Impe-
rial Regiment of Guides.—To-morrow, THURSDAY EVEN-
ING, November 2.—Mr. 'MITCHELL has the honour to announce
that the BAND of the FRENCH IMPERIAL REGIMENT of
GUIDES having been permitted to delay their departure, for the
express purpose of a PUBLIC PERFORMANCE on behalf of the
French Charitable Association, a Grand Military Instrumental
performance will take place to-morrow, Thursday evening, at Exeter
Hall, etnder the special auspices of the French Ambassador and the
Countess Walewski), being positively their oily public perform-
ance in London previously to their departure on Friday evening.—
Reserved SeAs, ss, ; West Gallery, 3s. ; Area, 25.; Orchestra, Is.
The North ind South Galleries, and a small portion of the Area will
be numbered and reserved, where seats may be previously secured.
—Doors open at 8'• to commence at half-past 8. Tickets and places
may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street,
and at the principal Libraries and Music sellers; and at the Office of
the Sacred Harmonic Society, Exeter Hall.

from various regiments, will be embarked on Friday
next.—LiverpoeeMercury.
DuBLIN, Tuesday.—The Evening Post contains the
following announcement of mire troops to the East :
"The following drafts have received orders for imme-
diate embarkation at Queenstown, per Cleopatra, for the
East :-21st Regiment, 122 men ; 80th, 52 men ; 33d,
62 men ; 47th, 61 men ; 50th, 108 men ; 55th, 133
men ; and 68th, 41 men. They are to proceed from the
depot battalions at Birr, Templemore, and Fermoy re-
spectively."
Cogs, Oct. SO.—The second draft of the Somerset-
shire Militia (2d), under the command of Major Lord
Cavan, in all five companies, numbering over 500 men,
arrived in Passage yesterday from Bristol by the Sabrina
steamer. The soldiers were conveyed from thence to
Cork by train.

following the collision he was in constant attendance
upon every one, and partkularly on my child. It was
through his efforts that many of the ladies were supplied
with life-preservers ; and when, at last, the ship was
rapidly sinking, he ran to me and asked me if I had a
life-preserver. I said I had not. Upon giving him the
answer, he insisted that I should take the one he had. I
told him that he would need it—that he had better keep
it himself."

The passengers who were saved in the two boats
under the command of Mr. Baaham, have presented that
officer with 350 dols., as a slight evidence of their high
estimatio❑ of him as a seaman, an officer, and a gentle-
man. A. like amount was also given to him to divide
among the seamen by whose exertions the passengers
had been enabled to reach the land.

An order has been received by the Earl of Clare for
the enrolment of the County of Limerick Militia.
The following are the numbers and the names of the
officers, who embarked at Queenstown on board the Jura
for the Crimea :-sth Dragoon Guards—Captain. R.
Thompson, 1 private soldier, 3 horses. Bth Hussars—
Captain Lord Killeen, 1 private soldier, 3 horses. 30th
Foot—Ensign S. Gubbins. 2 sergeants, 100 rank and
file. 33d Foot—Ensign J.
Rogers, 2 sergeants, 100
rank and file. 41st Foot—Ensigns J. A. Hamilton, G.
Peddie, F. Kingscote, C. V. Fitzßoy, R. S. Hill, and
E, L. B. Lowry ; 2 sergeants, 100 rank and file. 47th
Foot—Ensign 1. H. White, 1 sergeant, 100 rank and
Ce. 49th Foot—Ensigns C. Fitzgerald, G. K. Chatfield,
and W. Young, 3 sergeants, 130 rank and file. 50th
Foot— Ensigns W. W. Bond, F. L. Barwell, and R.
H. P. Doraa ; 2 sergeants, 100 rank and3le. 55th
Foot—Ensigns W. B. Johnson and J. W. "Trevor, 2
sergeants, 160 rank and file. 57th Foot—Captains
Jason, Hassard, and F. P. Lea, Lieutenant A. L.
Cpel
F. A. Slade ; Assistant-Surgeon J. S. Phelps, 4 Ben
o vtd..Ensigns G. Mitchell. Vr.
jeants, 240 rank and file. 63d Foot—Captain G. W.
,
Macquarie, Ensign G. P. Beamish, 1 serjeant, 70 rank
and file. 68th Foot—Ensigns E. R. F. Vickers and E.
Deshon, 1 serjeant, 70 rank and file. In all about 1,200
serjeants, drummers, rank and file, exelusive of officers.
The undernamed medical officers have also proceeded
in the Jura, viz. :—Assistant-Surgeons C. J. White, 3d
D. Guards ; T. Teevan. 3d Foot ; J. C. Ovens, 9th
Foot ; W. Hanbury, 13th Foot ; W. Renwick, 14th
Foot ' • S. M. Webb, M.D., 36th Foot ; G. Young, 60th
Rifles; C. C. Rutherford, 620. Foet ; G. Hyde, M.D.,
69th Foot. and Acting Assistant-Surgeon E. C. Ryall,
of the staff. Captain Macquarie, of the 63i Regiment,
being the senior officer, is in command of the troops on
board the Jura.

[PRICE SD.

can treasures were about to inundate the world, and to
change once again the relations established between the
value of things. It was in 1848 that gold was discovered
in the sands of Sacramento. In 1849 and 1850 the little
that was obtained only served to re-establish the equi-
librium destroyed by the events of 1848 ; but in 1851
gold was also discovered in Australia, and ever since two
rivers •f gold have as it were poured immense metallic
wealth on Europe. More than any other cause, it is
possible to imagine this irruption of gold caused a re-
sumption of commercial activity, an industrial move-
ment, which exceeded everything previously seen.
Everybody began working, manufacturing, producing,
conveying, and exchanging; everywhere men found occu-
pation, salaries rose, and consumption increased. A
new class of consumers found themselves called on to
enjoy more comfort ; and bade adieu to chestnuts,
barley, buck-wheat, and oats, and began to eat
wheaten bread. It is easy to account for the
causes of the existing dearness, by reasoning on an
hypothesis which would represent things on a
smaller scale. Suppose a province in which there
are fifteen thousand inhabitants, amongst whom oily ten
thousand find in the reserve formed by their savings, or
in the produce of their daily labour, the means of pur- •
chasing thirty thousand hectolitres of wheat supplied by
the country. If you suddenly open a source of labour
in such a province ; if you produce abundance there ;1
if out iof the 5,000 pariahs who cannot pretend, on ac-
count of their misery, to any part of the 30,000 hecto-
litres, you give a greater degree of comfort to 2,000 or
more, is it not evident that a greater number of pur-
chasers will oome into the market, that the relation be-4
tween the demands and the offers will be changed, and
that a rise will take place ? This is what has taken place
not only ii France but throughout all Europe:;. con-'
sumptien has.increased, and agricultural production,
—which &Om - its-natUreralviajeltiteine woke slowly, has
sot been able to increase so rapidly. Hence relative
scarcity and dearness. Now, it is evident that this;
dearness will continue, for, with some very rare and
insignificant exceptions, the markets have been hitherto
well supplied. The producers do not properly take;
into account the causes of the rise, and, thinking it
transient, have been anxious to profit by it, and have;
crowded to market to sell the produce of their harvest.
One example will suffice to show how eager the holders;
have been to sell. We know not whether it is possible
to ascertain exactly the quantity of corn brought to and'
sold in the different markets in France, but in Englandan
account is taken of all the wheat that changes hands in
the public markets. During the first fortnight of the pre-
sent month there were sold in England and Wales 880,655
hectolitres of wheat ; the quantity sold in the corres-,
ponding period last year was only 575,725 hectolitres ;
and yet, notwithstanding this extraordinary supply,
there has been a rise of about 4 fr. 35c. per hecto-,
litre. It is, therefore, evident that it is not corn
that is deficient ; it is consumers who present themselves
in greater numbers; the demand increases and sellers be-
come more exacting. We have said that the high price
will continue. The only effectual means of putting an
end to it would be to apply to foreign entrepots, and our
application to them last year has only left insignificant
stocks in them. It. would appear that the reserves are
exhausted in the old as well as in the new world. At'
the end of September, 1853, the warehouses at New York
contained 1,736,103 barrels of flour, and 4,385,891
bushels of wheat ; the quantity at the end of September
last was only 696,221 barrels of flour, and 2,577,799
bushels of wheat. The only measures to be adopted are,
in our opinion, that which the most enlightened econo-
mists have always demanded. Allow, the trade to
supply itself ; the less you seek to influence prices either
for a rise or a fall, the greater the supply will be, for
sellers will be always certain of finding in your markets
the real price of their merchandise."