The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1847.

presents no feature which renders it so formidable as
• several other diseases to which the community are
more accustomed. The numbers destroyed in the
United Kingdom by influenza, immediately after the
abatement of the Asiatic Cholera, in 1831-32, were
superior to those carried away by the pestilence.
The victims of pulmonary decline, of bilious or gas-
tric fevers, and of scrofulous affections, are numeri-
cally greater than the victims of Cholera, even
when that plague proves the most destructive,
and yet with influenza, with consumption, with
fever, and with scrofula continually around us, no
efforts whatever are made towards their diminution.
The mere enumeration of the most notorious of
physiological facts should be enough to arouse the
municipalities from their torpor and the Government
from its indecision. When it is remembered that
every human being requires for the maintenance of
life no less than ten cubic feet of air (namely, double
the bulk of the human body) per minute, and
when this truth is coupled with the recollec-
tion that the same atmosphere cannot be twice
inhaled without prejudice to the animal economy,
it becomes manifest that proper ventilation, proper
sewerage and drainage, and a proper supervision of
manufactories and graveyards, is absolutely essential
for the bodily (not to say the moral) preservation of
the community. And how much more forcible does
not this consideration become, when we reflect that in
London there are 2,000,000 of persons, each of whom
requires, every successive minute, ten cubic feet of
atmospheric air ! To exercise a beneficial influence
upon the body, that air should be composed of 21
parts oxygen to 79 parts azote, or nitrogen, mixed
with an inconsiderable quantity of carbonic acid gas.
How far these proportions are discoverable in the
atmosphere of the metropolis and the larger towns
may be imagined by those who bear in mind
the numberless causes of its vitiation—the am-
monias, the sulphuretted hydrogen, and the
volumes of carbonic acid reeking from a thou-
sand different sources of contamination, and
from the tons of coal and diluted animal matter
impregnating the air in the form of smoke and va-
pour. Such are the grievances which must be re-
moved before there can be any reasonable prospect of
the abatement of diseases more fell than the Asiatic
Cholera, because more frequent and prevalent in their
recurrence.

The adjourned meeting of the Assembly convened
by the Irish Council was occupied the whole of
Tuesday in the discussion of the resolution respect-
ing the alterations to be effected in the law of land-
lord and tenant, for the purpose of securing to the
tenant the property in all improvements made during
his tenancy by the expenditure of his labour and
capital, and the. amendment thereon in favour of the
Ulster tenant right, together with a statement defin-
ing what that tenant right really consisted of. Not-
withstanding the important nature of the question
under discussion, the attendance was wretchedly thin,
and the great interest that was at first excited had
manifestly abated. It is strange, indeed, that any con-
troversy should exist as to the real character and extent
of the tenant right, which has existed and been fully
recognised for so many years in the northern dis-
tricts ; yet so it is, and to this moment considerable
doubts are entertained by very many of the Irish
landlords as to what it really is ; a considerable
number supposing that its general adoption would
completely deprive the present proprietors of all con-
trol over their estates, and make the occupiers the
real masters of the land. They regard it therefore
as something to be resisted to the last extremity,
which would, if sanctioned by law, effect their abso-
lute ruin. A moment's reflection might satisfy these
timid men that there is nothing really so injurious to
the proprietors in the system. They should
regard the position of those of their brethren
whose estates have been placed under
its operation, and if it shall appear
that in consequence thereof the land yields a smaller
return to its owner in proportion to its extent and
fertility, that the rents are paid in a less satisfactory
manner, or that if the estate be sent into the market
for sale it must be disposed of at a lower price, there
would be fair and reasonable grounds for these ap-
prehensions.
But, in point of fact, it is altogether the reverse.
The Ulster landlord will obtain fully as high a
rent for any portion of his land that he may desire
to let as will be offered by a solvent tenant in any
part of the country. Of course we do not compare
it with the reckless biddings that may be made by
starving wretches, and which it is morally
impossible can ever be satisfactorily paid, the
only object of the tenant being to get into possession,
and trust to chance and the agrarian disturbances by
which the country may be disturbed for maintaining
that possession ; but a person really desirous of per-
forming his part of the contract, and punctually dis-
charging the liabilities he thereby assumes, will
undertake to pay a better rent, because he is well
aware that under the custom he may improve the
lands to the greatest extent, and that himself or his
family will receive the benefits of such improvements.
It is scarcely necessary to show the difference in the
manner of satisfying the rent, or how greatly that is
in favour of the northern landlord.
It is, unhappily, too notorious that in three
of the Irish provinces there are large ar-
rears of rent constantly hanging over the tenantry,
which are wholly lost to the landlords, but
which act as a total prohibition to every species
of improvement; indeed, it would greatly conduce
to the real interests of the proprietors if these arrears
were wholly blotted out, and the tenant suffered to

commence de novo. A man who is out of debt wil

struggle with great energy to continue so ; but if
once he is unable to continue in a solvent position, if
he gets heavily involved beyond the possibility of
payment, he cares little how deeply he may get into
debt ; he relaxes his exertions, because he himself
cannot reap the fruits thereof; the produce of all his
extra labour will go into the landlord's pocket. If
he cannot pay the rent when unincumbered by
debt, it will be utterly hopeless for him to think
of doing so, together with heavy arrears,
when clogged and impeded by a heavy burden. At
length the forbearance of the owner is exhausted—

distresses and ejectments are resorted to, the tenant is

driven from his holding, and the arrears are totally lost

The lands when obtained are found to be suite ex-
hausted and worn out, and a considerable loss is

thereby sustained by the owner, in addition to that of

his rent left unpaid, and the heavy law costs for ob-

taining the possession of his land, while the peace
and tranquillity of the entire district is disturbed, and
riots and outrages are of frequent occurrence. In
the north matters are quite different ; the landlord is
certain of obtaining his rent, if not from the imme-
diate occupier, at least from his successor, as it is
an invariable rule that all arrears are liquidated,
in the first instance, out of the purchase-money for
the goodwill. hence the landlord is not compelled
for his own security to resort to seizures or distresses,
and the tenant, even if through unavoidable misfor-
tunes he should get into arrear, does not therefore
relax his exertions, because he is aware that if he
does so he will obtain a smaller sum for his goodwill
when he desires to dispose thereof. In the north,
therefore, the landlords, with scarcely an exception,
receive the full amount of their rent-rolls, while
every person at all acquainted with other parts of the
country must know to what heavy deductions the
proprietors must submit for bad debts, losses by
tenants, deterioration of the land, and law costs. It
would follow as a natural consequence, that properties
in Ulster, when offered for sale, will bring higher
prices in proportion than those in the other provinces.
This is so to the extent of at least three or four
years' purchase.

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highest degree advantageous to them that the Ulster
tenant right should be extended throughout the entire
island, but there are other class also to be regaried es whose interests are
, and to whom the question is of still
more vital importance to
peace, tranquillity, and
the prosperity of the entire country would be thereby
promoted. In the north of Ireland, at least in thosey
Parts where the custom is recognised, agrarian out_
are wholly unknown, and every writer on
Ireland has borne his testimony to the re-
markable comparative prosperity that exists in
the districts in which it is in force. We
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which yield the strongest additional corroboration to
our views. What then can be alleged against the
extension of this blessing ? Nothing, save that the
landlords might not be enabled to retain the same
power of coercing their tenants' consciences, and
driving them to the hustings to record their votes in
favour of the parties recommended by their masters.
We trust that in a Reformed Parliamentlthis will not
be held a sufficient reason for the maintenance of the
present objectionable system.

The Swiss journals publish in extenso the manifesto
of the Diet, which is an ably drawn up document, and
which places the question as between the Diet and
the Sonderbund on its true basis. In speaking of the
conduct of the Sonderbund, it says—
" At last the mask fell on July 20, 1847, and it was
publicly declared that the Sonderbund was decided to
resist all the decrees of the Diet, which it did not
recognise to be lawful. In the interval, the order of
Jesuists did not blush to make its entrance into the
Vorort of Lucerne by walking over the dead bodies of
those who had fallen in the struggle, and although it
had the prospect of exposing the country to the dan-
gers of the most decided schism. Public opinion
always pronounced more and more energetically
against this order, and two Swiss Governments were
obliged to give way under the impulse which was
thus imparted. Long before the Diet met this year,
the Sonderbund urged on with the greatest ardour
its military preparations ; it called out its council of
war, nominated a general staff, purchased arms and
ammunition in the interior of Switzerland and in
foreign countries, and assumed an armed position with
respect to the Confederation, which abstained from
any measures of that description."
With regard to the measures adopted to prevent
the necessity of war, the manifesto says—
" The Diet imposes on itself the duty of making
known to you, faithful and dear confederates, that it
has endeavoured faithfully to fulfil this task, the
deputies of the Sonderbund having caused to be in-
serted in the minutes on their departure the auda-
cious declaration that they had held out the hand in
sign of peace, but that it had been rejected, and that
the sword had been drawn against them.
" The Diet knew that the people in the cantons of
the Sonderbund were deceived by the gravest accu-
sations, and the most audacious calumnies ; that
they were made to believe that the majority of
the states had no other object than to annihilate
their religion, their liberty, their indepen-
dence, and their cantonal existence, and to esta-
blish a military republic on their ruins. "History will
judge the functionaries who, in their official acts, have
given themselves up to this dangerous game. That is
why the Diet drew up a proclamation, addressed to
the authorities and the people of the seven cantons.
In this proclamation it developed its intentions in
the language which was fitting to confederates united
by friendship; it gave explanations and tranquillised
people's minds. Federal representatives were
charged to circulate the said proclamation widely in
the respective cantons, and to support it before the
cantonal authorities; but the kind language of the
Confederation and the superior federal authority had
no longer the right of making itself heard by the
population of these cantons—everywhere, with the
exception of Zug, the circulation of the proclamation
was forbidden ; at Lucerne it was even ordered that
any individual circulating it should be seized and
delivered up to the public executioner; and even the
representatives were not admitted to the Govern-
ments to which they were deputed. It is thus,
people of Switzerland, that your representatives were
treated—thus that your voice was listened to !
" There yet, however, remained a hope of a pacific
solution, that is to say, the negotiations in the con-
ferences at Berne. We had so much the better reason
to expect success, from the fact that the federal
representatives in each of the seven cantons had
been told that they had to address themselves
to the envoys at Berne, who were furnished with
full necessary powers. But it was soon seen that we
were grievously deceived, for these envoys had no full
powers for negotiations relative to an arrangement,
and they thus declared it. The deputies, on the con-
trary, who represented the majority of the Diet,
made veritable propositions of arrangement ; they
offered to allow the question of the Jesuits to drop,
if Lucerne would send them away, in consideration
of its position as directing canton. One envoy pro-
posed that the question of the Jesuits should be sub-
mitted to the decision of the Pope, if the Sonderbund
would dissolve itself; another declared himself ready
to consider the discussion as resolved, provided the
Sonderbund would dissolve itself, and that three
states designated by it should undertake to adopt
proceedings to induce the Pope to remove the Jesuits.
But all these propositions, the last two of which
perhaps the Confederation will not learn without
astonishment—all were refused with disdain. A
very feeble hope was held out of the possibility of
an arrangement, under the condition that the ques-
tion of the Jesuits and that of the convents of Argau,
resolved long ago, should be submitted to the judg
ment of the Pope ; and that before all the troops
should be dismissed. That was too much for the
honour and tranquillity of the country. To gain a
temporary peace it was impossible to re-light the
brand of discord which had only been extinguished
after painful struggles ; it was impossible to re-open
wounds which had been cicatrised by a wise mediation,
and by time, which heals everything.
" On this point also the Diet appeals solemnly to
the Swiss nation. Decide, dear and faithful confe-
derates, if the Diet has not done all that duty and
honour commanded to terminate the quarrel in a
pacific manner ; decide if it has refused on light
grounds a reconciliation which was offered it ; decide
if it is it which first declared war. Whatever may
be the fate which Providence reserves us at this se-
rious time, your representatives, dear and faithful
confederates, can await the future with the conviction
that they have endeavoured to promote the honour and
peace of the country as much as was in their power.
"The combat which the Confederation must engage
in with confederated members he not a combat of
twelve cantons against seven—it is not an oppression
of the minority by the majority--:it is not a war
against peaceable confederated brethren. No ; it is
a war of the Confederation and of its legal authori-
ties against the party which founded the Sonderbund,
has elevated it, and placed it as a viper in the midst of
the Confederation to tear its bosom. It is not peace-
able populations which have done that, but it is the
same party which, under democratic forms, has culti-
vated their ignorance, and which, under the appear-
ance of religion, turns them to account for its private
designs ; the same party which, in 1813, opened the
door to foreign armies; which refused the gua-
rantee to the constitutions of 1831 ; which are liberal;
but nowise in opposition to the Confederation; which
by indefatigable proceedings labours for re-action
which agitated Jura and other parts of Switzerland,
produced an Ultromontane revolution in Argau, and
called the Jesuits to the cantons of the Valais,
Friburg, Schwitz, and of Lucerne, of which it is
the ally and the instrument. Such is the character
of the Sonderbund ; if it be allowed to act as it
will, or to conquer, the afflicted country will lose,
little by little, all the institutions which are the con-
dition of its veritable liberty, of its intellectual pro-
gress, of its strength, and of its honour.".
The communications between Berne, and Lucerne,
and Friburg, are completely interrupted. Hostilities,
it is said, are to commence on the Bth.

The Cologne Gazette of the Bth instant publishes
the following letter, dated Lake of Constance, ad
instant :

" The Austrian troops have assembled in such
numbers on the frontiers of Switzerland that there
are three battalions in the small town of Bregentz
alone. These troops are, it is said, provided with all
means of transport required for crossing rivers. It
is believed, from these facts, that Austria will in-
terfere, should circumstances demand the presence of
those troops."
The Zurich Gazette of the 6th instant announces

that on the 4th the troops of the canton of Uri had
penetrated into the canton of Tessino, and that, in a
skirmish of advanced posts near Airolo, two officers
of Uri were killed.

Madrid journals of the 4th have arrived.
The Gageta publishes two royal decrees, accepting
the resignations of General Ros DE OLANO, as Mi-
nister of Public Instruction and Commerce, and of
General CORDOVA, as Minister of War, with whose
devotedness and zeal the QUEEN declared herself
satisfied. By a third decree, Senor SARTORIUS, Mi-
nister of the Interior, was to direct, ad interim, the
Ministry of Public Instruction and Commerce; and
a fourth decree appointed the Duke DE VALENCIA,
President of the Council, Minister of War. General
JOSE DE LA CONCHA had been superseded in the
general direction of the cavalry, and General AN-
SELNIO BLASER in that of the infantry; the former
by General RicAnDo SHELLY, and the other by
General FRANCISCO DE PAULA FIGUERAS. By an-
other decree, General LAUREANO SANZ had been
named Director-General of the Staff.

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General ALAIX is banished to Valencia, and
General MANUEL DE LA CONCHA, who had, by
his judicious and mild measures, nearly succeeded in
pacifying Catalonia, is superseded in the command of
that province by the brutal and sanguinary PAvIA.
The cause of these changes is the discovery, by
NARvac7„ of an intrigue on the part of Ros DE
(OLANO and CORDOVA, to break up the existing Mi-
nuitry, and bring in a new one, with ALAIX, a
moderate
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destruction of the NARVAEZ Cabinet will be re-
newed, as it is notorious that NARVAEZ does not
possess the confidence of the SOVEREIGN, cud it is
also now pretty clear that he has quarrelled with
CHRISTINA. The portfolio of Public Instruction has
been offered to PIDAL, who, however, has refused to
join the Narvaez Cabinet. He, no doutt, imagines
that ere' long MoN, his brother-in-law, the all but
avowed agent of LOUIS PHILIPPE, and the pet jobber
of Queen CHRISTINA, will trip up NARVAEZ, as bra
did on a former occasion.

The Eco del Comercio states that the Council orf
Ministers has deciied that the Duke and Duchess DA:
MONTPENSIER Aid be called to Spain. The Beraldo,
the semi-official organ, states that the reason alleged
by General ESTANTERO for refusing the London
embassy, which it: admits was actually conferred or
him, was that his means did not permit him to sus—
tain it in a becoming manner, and that, besides, he;
felt it right to remain separated from public affairs
for the present. Be added, that he did not refuse the
embassy because it was offered by the present Minis-
try, for he should have also refused it had it been
offered by a Cabinet composed of his old political
friends. As to an ' order having been given to himr,
to remain abroad, the Herald° says it has not heard
that instructions f)r such an order had been for-
warded to Senor Isruarrz.

MADRID BOMA, Nov. 4.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 26a, at fifty days; the Five per Cents.
at 154 for paper; :he Debt without Interest, at 5 ;
and the Coupons at 11.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday,
The Journal des Debats announces the suicide of
Count BRESSION in the following terms :—"Count
BRESSON, Ambassador from the Court of France to
the King of the Two SICILIES, has died at Naples.
He was found. in his bed at six o'clock in the morn-
ing of the 2d: instant, b3thed in his blood, with a
large wound in, his throat, supposed to have been in-
flicted with a razor. This awful news was brought
to France by tie Ocean steam-boat, which has
arrived at illarseils. We have no other details."
Disappointed ambition appears to have been the
cause of this deplorable event. Count BRESSON had,
it is said, b(tert promised either the London or the
Petersburgh Embassy, as a reward for the tact with
which he conducted the intrigues in Spain by which
the Montpensier marriage was brought about. On
his return to Paris he asked for one cf these em-
bassies (he particularly desired to have the Embassy
to London), but the KING and M. GUIZOT
positively refused to appoint him to either,
and, as if to make the insult snore marked, ap-
pointed him Ambassador to Naples, an embassy inferior
in rank to the one to Madrid, which he had before
filled. It would appear as if he contemplated suicide
from that moment. He made his will and arranged
all his affairs before taking his departure from Paris.
He was in low spirits, but quite calm and collected
during his journey to Naples, and at Turin he
transacted business of importance with the Sardinian
Government. On the 31st ult. he had his formal
audience of the King of NAPLES, and presented his
credentials. He appeared much pleased with his re-
ception in the evening. Next day he paid a number
of visits, and in the evening went to the
Opera, without evincing throughout the day
or evening the slightest symptom of insanity
or exciter nent. On reaching home, however,
he was olpserved to be agitated. His excite-
ment increased, and he continued walking
.about
his apartmont until four o'clock, when, all at once,
the fall of a. heavy body was heard. The Countess
BRESSON rein into his room, and found him lying in a
pool of blo ad, which flowed from a frightful wound in
the throat, effected by a razor, which was found close
to him. instant alarm was given, and almost imme-
diately the surgeon of the British Legation arrived,
but the Count was already dead. Other professional
persons came in rapid succession, but nothing could
be done.

Thus perished the clever intriguer who nego-
ciated the Spanish marriages—a victim to the trust
which, regardless of the warning of scripture, he
put "in princes." In the same journal we find the
following additional details of the unfortunate case
of Count MORTIER
Count Mortier, Ambassador from the Govern-
ment of France to the Court of Turin, has," says the
Debate, " been struck with insanity. It was found
necessary to place him in a lunatic asylum on Sunday
last. For some time past Count Mother showed
some symptoms of that dreadful malady, and with-
out any apparent motive committed several acts of
violence. On Sunday morning last, after having
shut himself up with his two children in a room of the
apartment he occupied in the Hotel Chatham, he
wrote two letters, couched in similar terms, one ad-
dressed to his wife and the other to a friend, in which
he apprised them that in a few minutes he and his
two children would have ceased to live. The prefect
of police was informed of the fact. Ile hastened to
the hotel, where he was shortly afterwards joined by
the Chancellor, who attended in consequence of Count
Mortier being a member of the Chamber of Peers. The
Count had barricaded himself in his chamber, armed
with a razor, which he brandished over the heads of his
children. A t intervals he threatened his own life, and
in his delirium vociferated the most horrible menaces.
It then became necessary to adopt some resolution.
The Chancellor spoke to him in a friendly tone of
voice. The Count replied by incoherent speeches of
death and blood, and then, addressing his son, whom
he held on his kness, told the child that he must
die. The unhappy child, who is 11 years of age,
exclaimed that he did not wish to die, and struggled,
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father, and it is added that the father prepared to
execute his horrible design. The persons who heard
outside the door what was passing within were para-
lysed with terror. A word or a movement might
precipitate the arm which was directed by insanity.
This scene lasted nearly three hours. The
Countess Mortier, the Chancellor Pasquier, and
M. Delessert, the Prefect of Police, remained
standing at the door in a state of inexpres-
sible terror. At length, after these long and
cruel hours of entreaties, silence, expectation, and
negotiation, access was obtained into the apartment
by a door which had been some time closed, and
which was opened without noise. The Chancellor
and the Prefect of Police entered, and succeeded in
extricating the trembling children from their agony,
and restored them to their mother. Count Mortier
still, however, held the razor in his hand, and nothing
could induce him to surrender it. He had from time
to time made a gesture as if he was 'about to cut his
throat: this scene lasted three-quarters of an hour
longer. He complained angrily of the persecution
of which he said he Was the object, accusing
the Prefect of Police of violating his domicile,
and the Chancellor of infringing on his liberty,
and declared that he would complain to the Keeper
of the Seals. M. Delessert suggested to him
to write a letter to the Keeper of the Seals, which
he undertook to deliver to him, with the intention of
inducing him to lay aside his razor, and whichit would
have been! dangerous to; endeavour to take by force.
The Count consented to write the letter, but on con-
e dition that the Prefect of Police should remain at a
distance at the further end of the chamber. The
Keeper of the Seals, who had been apprised of what
was going forward, replied instantly to Count Mor-
tier, and requested that he would go to his house and
explain the matters of which he had to complain.
The Count then consented to go out.
On
.the stair-
case he closed the razor and placed it in his pocket,
and in the court-yard of the hotel he was seized in
presence of the Chancellor, and immediately lodged
in a lunatic asylum."
Marshal SEBASTIAN' has returned to Paris, and
has taken up his abode at the Hotel Sebastiani, the

scene of thePraslin tragedy.
The Reform dinners continue. There was one-a
Lille on the 7th, at which M. ODILON BARROT was
to have been present, but, on the refusal of the com-
mittee to add to the toast "to electoral and Parlia-

mentary reform " the words "to the truth and

sincerity of the institutions of July, 1830," M,
ODILON BARROT and some of his friends Withdrew.

M. BENTE POLLET took the chair, and the toast,
without the addition, was drunk with the greatest
enthusiasm. These dinners are causing great anxiety
to the Government, who arc secretly arming the de-
tached forts round Paris, and have 1,8.50 pieces of

artillery stored at Vincennes and Alfort.
The Courrier Francais states that a solemn service
was celebrated on Sunday last, in the church of Notre

Dame des Victoires, Paris, by the Abbe DESGENETTES,
to invoke Divine protection on the cause of the Son-

derbund. The ceremony was attended by a large
congregation. There was no sermon preached on

the occasion.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse
on Tuesday at 77f. 40c. ; the Fire per Cents., 116 f.

. ,
50c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,196 f. 25c. ;
Rouen, 921 f.
.25c. ; Havre, 520 f. ; Great Northern,

-555 f.; Avignon, 562 f. 50c. ; Viorzon, 552 f. 50c. ;
.Bordeaux, 497 f. 50c. ; Dieppe, 257 f 50c. ; Bask,
155 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 423 f. 75c.; Tours and
Nantes, 410 f.; Paris and Lyons, 412 f. :50c. ; Lyons
and Avignon, 475 f. ; Belgian Two•and-a-llalf per
Cents., 51k.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NOVEMBER 10.
Boulogne and Amiens, 141/B—Dutch Rhenish, 2 4—Naraur
and Liege,s—Northern of France, 11',7 —Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 51A4—Paris and Lyons, 6A—Rouen and llavre, 20
12
—Sambre and Meuse, 511 A—West Flanders 1%.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS

We have received the following intelligence by
Extraordinary Express :

" PARIS, Nov. 10.
"This being the day fixed for the adjudication of
the New French Loan, M. de Rothschild was the
only party who bid for it, at 75f. 25e. The Minister
of Finance announced that the bidding having
reached the minimum fixed by himself in a sealed
paper he held in his hand, declared the tender of
M. de Rothschild accepted. This announcement was
received expression of surprise by the audi-
tory, tcho'hald calculated on a much higher price."—
Herald.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND THE
BIIOIINGHAM DEPUTATION,
2'O:01E EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Snr,—The-'l3ese manner in which the Times be-
haves to every one who will not truckle to it, obliges
me to request that you will insert the inclosed letter,
which I addressed to that paper the day after the
interview between Lord John Russell, and the Bir-
mingham Deputation, but which is refused insertion.
Yours respectfully,

G. F. MUNTZ,
Ley Hall, near Birmingham, Oct. 10, 1647.

(Copy.)
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—l am never much surprised at your state-
ments, for you usually assume anything that suits
your purpose, but your leading article of to-day is
more than usually untrue, and has scarcely one word
of fact in it. How you obtained your information I
know not, and care not, but it is totally incorrect, as
I shall represent to the meeting at Birmingham this
evening. This gratuitous misrepresentation is all the
worse, because one of your reporters requested me to
give him, as a favour, last evening, the heads of what
passed between the Deputation and Lord John
Russell, and I stated them to him correctly.
Yours faithfully,
London, Nov. 5, 1847.

G. F. MUNTZ,

IMP L, PA aLIAMENT.
(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.
Parliament was prorogued again to-day to this
day week, when it mill meet, according to her
Majesty's proclamation, for the dispatch of business.
The hour appointed for the prorogation was two
o'clock, but long before that hour the Opposition
benches of the House, of Lords were crowded with
ladies.

Shortly after two o'clock the Lord Chancellor,
attended by his officers, entered the House, and
took his seat on the Woolsack, when the Commons
were summoned to attend by Mr. Pulman, the
Deputy-Usher of the Black Rod. In a few minutes
Mr. Ley, the Deputy Cleric-Assistant, attended by
several officers of the House of Commons, appeared
at the bar, when

The LORD CHANCELLOR said that her Ma-
jesty had been pleased to cause a writ to be issued
under the Great Seal for proroguing Parliament to
Thursday, the 18th of November.
The Clerk at, the table having read the writ pro-
roguing Parliament to the 18th instant, and which
declared that it was to be then holden for the dispatch
of divers important affairs, the ceremony, which did
not last many minutes, terminated, and the Lord
Chancellor retired from the House.

The only Peers present were Lord Campbell and
Lord Langdale.
The frescos appear progressing rapidly to 'comple-
tion, especially Mr. IVlaclise's Chivalry, but it is
quite evident none of those now on hand can be ac-
complished before the meeting of Parliament.
It is rumoured that immediately after the election
of Speaker, the House will proceed with public busi-
ness up to Christmas, and that there will then be a very
short recess of eight or ten days prior to the resump-
tion of the consideration of the business of the
country. It is said the present monetary crisis will
be the first subject brought before the Legislature by
her Majesty's Ministers.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
NAY M.A.XIOETS.
SMITHFIELD. Meadow Hay, 21 103 to 31 124;
Clover ditto, 31 12s to 4/ 15s; and Straw, 11 4s to I/ 8s
per load. upply moderately good, and trade very dull.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2/ I2s to 31 14s ; Clover
ditto, 31 lOs to 41 12s ; and Straw, 1/ 5s to 11 9s per
load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 103 to 3/ 12s ;
Clover ditto, 3/ 12s to 4/ 163; and Straw, 1/ 4s to 11 8s
per load. Both Hay and Straw were very dull, at the
above quotations.
rininvGATE AND XaiIItIDENELEOLL.
Prime Beef and Veal sold steadily at full prices.
Otherwise the demand was in a very sluggish state.
Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 10d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ;
Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 3s 10d to 5s 2d per
Slbs by the carcase.

111EliT IVIARICETS.
SOUTIIALL, Nov. 10.—Prime stock was in fair request
at fully last week's quotations. In other kinds com•
paratively little business was transacted, at barely late
rates. Beef, from 3s 63 to 43 8d; Mutton, 3s 6d to
ss; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d; and Pork, 4s 4d to 4s 8d per
81133, to sink the offal.
ROMFORD, Noy. 10.—We had a fair general demand
to-day, on the following terms:—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s
83; Mutton, 3s 6d to ss; Veal, 4s to 4s Gd; and Pork,
4s to 4s 8d per 81bs; Suckling Calves, 20s to 295;
Quarter-old
smSatlol creal, Pigs,flsl to 20s18tioe2a4chs! and Milch Cows,
with

Heu.suAsr, Nov. 10.—Our market was but mode-
rately supplied with stock, to-day, and which sold
steadily, at full prices. Beef, from 3s 8d to 58 ; Mut-
ton, 4s to 5s 2d; Veal, 43 to 4s 6d ; and Pork
48 to 4s 6d per Sibs.

ARUNDEL, Nov. 9.—Beef from 3s 6d to 4s 83; Mut-
ton, 4s to Ss 2d ; Veal, 4s 2d to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 4s
to 4s 63 per Sibs. A moderate supply and a lirm
demand.
CHICHESTER, Nov. 10.—Prime stock was in good
request, and prices were pretty generally supported.
Beef, from 3s 63 to 4s 10d; Mutton, 43 to 5s 2d;
Veal, 4s to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 6d per 81bs.
Suckling Calves, 20s to 28s ; Quarter-old Store Pigs,
20s to 245; and Milch Cows, with their Small Calf, 151
to 131 each.

COAL MARK ET. —YESTERDAY.
Adair's Main
Buddle's W. Hartley I9s 6d Wylam ........... . ...... 16s Gel Clavering's Tanfield .. 16s 6d Wall's End, &c.
Hasting's Hartley l9s 6d Hetton ............... 21s Od
Holywell Main ........ 18s 6dißlaengwaur
South Peareth
d Tanfield Moor .....
West Wylam

MONEY and COMMERCIAL INEVPS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was
firm, the sales being 4,000 bales. American sorts were
steady. There was no change in prices.—Railway
Shares were not quite so good. Prices generally were
rather lower.
The sale of Railway Shares yesterday, by Messrs.
',almond and Co., was well attended, and a good business
done at advanced prices. Tho following are a few of
the quotations:—
Madrid and Valencia
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston.— 0 14 0
Great Northern ....... ...,..., .............. 2 0 0
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 6 15 0
Royston and Hitehin
North Staffordshire
Great Luxembourg
North British, Thirds
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 .. 3 11 6
Manchester and Southampton 0 8 6
Paris and Lyons
Caledonian, Halves
Eastern Counties ..........•...
Eastern Counties, York Extension 7 19 0
Sambre and Meuse
Buckinghamshire
Without being too sanguine as to the future prospects
of commercial credit and of confidence, there is
certainly some reasons for stating that to all appearance
the worst has passed ; yet, that additional disasters
may, and will, occur is pretty certain. These are con-
sidered and talked of in the circles in which mer-
chants and others are principally interested. The
public of late have been satiated with reports of
anticipated disasters. No additional on dits of this sort
shall we refer to, though one's ears are almost hourly
bored by would-be newsmongers, anxious to give the
earliest information of what has occurred, and what may
happen in a day or two. One plain fact is worth a
dozen such offhand and very injurious inuendoes.
Let scme of our contemporaries say what they
please to the contrary, :there is an easement in the
Money Market at head-quarters. It may take, it is
true, some time before the beneficial influence will be
extended to what may be considered the second and the
third classes of mercantile paper.
By an arrival from New York by a merchant ship,
we have three or four days' later information from
that and other parts of the United States. The papers
are singularly barren of information, nor is there any
later news from Mexico. The Exchanges at New York
remain without variation.
There are not any failures announced in the City this
morning.
The Stock Market has been rather more steady to-
day, the extreme fluctation in Consols for the Account
having amounted to but per cent. The present price
is 841. In money stock several purchases have been
made, and per cent. higher than for time ;at present
84i is, perhaps, the nearest value. Bank Stock has
been called as high as 188. Tho value of Exchequer-
bills has again touched par, having opened at 4s. dis-
count. The Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been
quoted at 844 and 844.
The French loan has been taken at Paris at 75f. 25c. ;
but only a slight effort has been produced upon the
quotations of /Trench Stock here, which has been sold
at 115 f. 50c. for the Five per Cents. There is no price
for the Three per Cents. Spanish Three per Cents.
have realised just now 271, and the Five per Cents., 161.
Chilian Bonds have realised 661, and Russian, 105.
Venezuelan Bonds are 34 to 35, and the Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents. have fallen from 531 to 534.
The list of the Railway Share market contains very
many quotations, but the alterations are limited.
The Bank meeting has just broken up, but no an-
nouncement has been made of any alteration in the rate
of interest of money advanced on approved securities

orsE cLoSUNG
PR.IcES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES
Bank Stock lB7l/ 188 , 188
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns B3 IA 823 83% 83
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities.. .. 84%M % 84%
New 3v, per •Cent. Anns .• 8414 Vi 'li 81%
Long Anus. to expire Jan. 1860 ... 81-/ 7-16 BN,
India Stock 929% 232 232
India Bonds, 1,000/. ..... .. 25 dis 25 dis
Ditto under 1,0001.. ... 20 dis 20 dis
Bank Stock for Account .. ... 3301/
Consols for Account B4l/21/4 1/, 811/,
Exchequer Bills. 3d.
1,000/.
5001
Small
ONE CLOSINO
O'CLOCK PRICE s

RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds ...,
Do., New, 1843
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent....
Ditto, 3 per Cent ... 49
Equador Bonds
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 —
Ditto, AcCount —
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent —
Ditto, Account
Russian Bonds
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, 3 per Cent ...... 271/2
Ditto, Account
Venezuela Bonds, 2% per Cent 34 35
Ditto, Deferred lO
..
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 5 per Cent....... 115 f. 50c. 115 f. 50c,
Exchange 2sf. 80c. 25f. 80c.
Dutch, 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 53 t/23/1 v 53%
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
It lILW.A.Y SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
Aberdeen
Amber., Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%.. ...
Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2%
Belfast & County Down 10 ......
.•
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley 10 ... .. 13% 1::
Birming., Wolverlepton,
and Stour Va11ey..... 8 ...... -
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
' and Cheshire June.— 7% •
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 5
Bristol and Exeter 75
Ditto, Thirds
Buckinghamshire 101. 4s. 3 dis _•......
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares..... 3% % 1
Ditto, Clydesdale June 50
Chester and Holyhead-. 37% 21% 21 ...... ...
Ditto, Preference 8
Clarence 78% — ...............
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent. lO ..... -- . ..............
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 20 -
Dundalk & Enniskillen 15 ......
East Anglia, 251., L. &
E. and L. and D....... 25 ...... 15 ..
Do., 181., E. & H.... 18
...... 9 ....
...
..-
Do., 3/.105., E. &11. 1 ......
Eastern Counties 2O ..... 16% 16
Ditto, Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, .No. 1....... 6/. 13s. 4d... % dis
14 dis
Ditto ditto, N 0.2... 61. 13s. 4d... % % dis % dis
Do., York Extension.. 10 ......
Do., North. & Eastern 50 ..... .
Do., Quarters ... ...... 121/2 —
•• •• --
Do., New ............... 23
Eastern Union 5O "'
... ....... .
Ditto, Quarter Shares 122
Ditto, Thirds ... l3s. 4d -
Do., (guar. 6 percent) -
P.!st Lancashire
Ditto, New - ... 7%
Ditto, New Quarter5... 33/4
cast Lincolnshire
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ......
Ditto Half Shares ... 15
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%
Edinburgh & Northern.. 20
Ditto, New
Ditto, Newport ..... ... 7
Ditto, ditto, New . .... 1% —
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorch. 2% —
Ditto, New
Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle
Glasgbw,Kilmar.,& Ayr 50 ......
Ditto, New
Do. Preference Consol. 12% —
Cr !at Northern 8
Do., London and York 2 %.. ...
Great South. and West
(Ireland)
Great Northof England..loo ......220
Ditto, New 401.
Ditto, New 30/. 3O
Ditto, New 151 ... 1%
(;reat Westein
Ditto, % Shares.. 5O
Ditto, 1 Shares
Ditto, Fifths 2O
Ditto, New 17/ 7
Huddersfield & Mulches. 22
Ditto, Thirds .. . 7 -
Hull and Selby 5O .. ... . ...... .....
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, 14 Shares 12%
Ipswich& Bury St. Edm. 15
Do., do., and Norwich 15
Do., do., Extens.Scrip
(late Camb. & Ely) 2%
Lancaster and Carlisle— 50
Ditto, Thirds .. 10
Lancashire & York hire 93
Ditto, ditto
Ditto 1,.; Shares .
Do. Quarter Shares , 14% ...... ..
Do. Fifths 6 %... ... 6
Do. Sixteenths ...... .. 6% — -
Do. Thirds (Reg. )....10/. 4s. ...
Do. Liverp. and Bury 34
Ditto % (late Hud-
dersfield and Shelf.) 33 .
Do.( Wakefield, Ponte-
fract. & Goole
Do. (W. Riding Union) 41.2 s 2% dis 2% dis.
Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25
Do. IL4 Shares (A) 9 —
Ditto ditto (B) ... 1%
Leeds and Bradford SO
Leicester and Bedford... 165....... • ...•
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 37%
Do., Branch 1/2 Shares 12 %.• ... ......•••••• ..
Do. New Branch(blue) 2% — •••.••
Do. Extension (green) 2%..
Do. NewExten. (pink) 21/2 — •••
Leeds and Thirsk
Ditto, New - ... ..... ...... .
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3%.
Liverpool, Crosby and
Southport .... .... ...... 2 .

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