The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-29 00:00:00

THIS EVENING, OCT. 29,

Will be performedan interesting- Domestic Drama, called
SIMON LEE; OR, THE MURDER OF THE FIVE
FIELDS COPSE. Simon Lee, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Walter
Hatherleigh, Mr. Dale; Japhet Jones, Mr. Gardner; Dicky
Ding, Mr. Paul; Grace, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged
Heroine of Domestie. Drama.

After which, a New Domestic Drama, entitled K ATTY
O'SHIEL, the FOLLOWER of the FAMILY. O'Dwyfr.
Mr. Dale ; Augustus, Mr. Seaman ; Guyton Gray, Air.
James; and Katty O'Shirt, Miss Vincent.
To concluile with THE FLOATING BEACON ; or, the
NORWEGIAN WRECKERS. Jack Junk, Mr. E. F. Se-
; Marriette, Mrs. Lee ; Christine, Mrs. Howard.
Boxes, 2s.—Pit, I s.—tiallery, td. Halt-price to the Boxes
*Mr, at Half-past Eight.
To. morrow, Simon Lee, with Katty O'Shiei, and the Float-
ing Beacon.

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time they use tile power which they possess to
make the evils of the law known, and to procure
its destruction.

If it be not just or right in those who make and
uphold these laws, at least it is politic to take a
different course, and inculcate obedience as a great
virtue, the practice of which is necessary for the
public welfare. Thus the Morning Post yester-
day contained a violent article against the Oppo-
sition press for encouraging hostility to these
laws and their authors, for not recommending
contentrtient under suffering, and patience to all
the grievances which the aristocracy inflict on
the starving and industrious population. It
we were to follow its recommendation, what
hope could we entertain of relief? For two
hundred years, according to the Rev. C. NEVILE
—and, according to better authorities, from the
beginning of history—the aristocracy has acted
on the principle of enriching itself at the
expense of others. At no time has it ever
thought of the people, or been driven from plun-
dering them but by their sturdy resistance.
Ever organised and ever watchful, sitting like a
spider in the centre of the community, with all
the filaments and meshes of the laws under its
control, with inexhaustible materials for spinning
more, it re-connects its nets for circumventing
the community, and seizes its prey whenever
they are broken, and perpetually strengthens
and extends them. For us to preach indiscrimi-
nate obedience to such a watchful and organised
oppressor of the democracy, is to encourage the
aristocracy in the commission of misdeeds.
The Corn-laws are obviously a part of that
great system of oppression which the aristocracy
has woven round the democracy. Under the
pretence of preserving what it calls social order,
it has continually laboured to coerce the demo-
cracy into submission, and has sentenced the
people, in spite of their noble and natural desire
to improve their condition, and their strenuous
exertions, to perpetual degradation. To succeed
against such an undying and watchful corpora-
tion, the strictest rectitude and utmost wariness
are necessary. Above all, justice must be fol-
lowed. It is, therefore, especially desirable for
the democracy to distinguish between such laws
as, from their own nature, deserve to be obeyed,
and such as ought to be resisted. To assert that
men are not to exercise their judgment on this
point is to hand them over, bound like a
victim to the stake, for the lawmaker to
torment at his pleasure. Indiscriminate and
blind obedience is not even required of a sol-
dier. Ifta sergeant command a private to
shoot his glonel, the soldier would not be
justified in obeying; and, therefore, the soldier
cannot be deprived of the power of judging
whether he will obey or not." The blind
obedience which is not required of soldiers,
cannot be demanded of civilians, and conse-
quently before men can be reasonably asked to
obey laws, they must be convinced that the laws
are such as ought to be obeyed.

We at least shall always feel it our duty, in
spite of the objurgations of the Tory Journals,
to tell our readers that laws to enrich one class
at the expense of another—laws to restrict honest
industry, which political society is constituted to
protect—laws which are cruel or unjust—laws
which unwarrantably interfere with individual
liberty, to secure which ought to be the object of
all law—we shall always avow the doctrine that
laws which, like the Corn-laws, plunder the
many for the sake of the few, are a violation of
the first principles of political society, and ought
not to be obeyed. Force may compel obedience,
but when the society lends itself to that work it
takes the responsibility on itself, and incurs, as
at present, those manifold evils which are ob-
viously a punishment inflicted by nature, and an
admonition for society to alter its course. Far
from adopting the convenient doctrine for its
masters taught by the Post, we wholly repudiate
the assertion that men are bound to obey all the
laws, and limit the duty of obedience to those
laws which we know or believe to be honest
and just.

From the remarks of our Contemporary, and
from the controversy they will engender, it is
plain that this question cif the duty of obedience
to law is no longer a mere school question, but
one of practical every-day life. Day after day,
both in metropolitan and provincial Journals, it
is undergoing and will undergo discussion.
People will not be stopped short of any conclu-
sion to which reasoning fairly leads them, by
the vehement assertions of the landlords, whom
they hate as oppressors, or of the priests, whom
they mistrust as deceivers. Interested men will
no more be allowed to settle questions of po-
litics, on an assumption of authority, than ques-
tions of religion ; and if the aristocracy and the
Church cannot defend their position and power
by argument, they will not be suffered long to
enjoy them. We have told them long ago, and
repeatedly, that they are provoking a searching
inquiry into the very foundations of political
power and political society. That event has
come to pass, and already men have gone to the
very corner-stone of all their power, and.discuss
the right and duty of obedience.

We are glad to see the Times taking up the
cause of Reform in any shape, though we cannot
admit that the great civil reforms effected by
the Whigs were not of more importance than
the reforms in the Army proposed by our Con-
temporary. Desiring, too, quite as much as the
Times, a sweeping Reform in the Court of Chan-
cery, we cannot assent to its doctrines, that a
reform in that Court, which deals in general
only with the property of the opulent, is of infi-
nite importance compared to the abolition of
Church-rates, which interest the conscience of
millions and the peace of half the parishes in
England. We agree with the Times in consider-
ing a reform of the army to be very important,
and we rejoice to see it, on that point, taking the
field against Conservatism. Our Contemporary
said yesterday,—
With some exceptions, so rare as to have no effect
upon the argument, our officers rise in their profession,
not according to their professional merits, but either
upon death vacancies, which are few, or according to
their pecuniary means. The monied man succeeds, as
of course, to each commission, as disposed of by the last
possessor, provided there he no disqualification in point
of character. Without money or a chance vacancy by
sudden death or dismissal, all the science extant would
not give its possessor a step. " The profession," says
Colonel Mitchell, " holds out no inducement therefore to
the acquisition of professional knowledge ; the minds of
military men remain dormant on military affairs." Add
to this, that they generally enter the army at a very
early age, and with much less of education than is be-
stowed on most men in civil professions, and thus, from
the very beginning, they fall into a track very little
likely to induce in them a desire of improving their fa-
cultivation
etudes or their knowledge. In this total absence both
predisposing cause., and of direct motives to mental
regular , we cannot wonder that military science is
of them employ
not more assiduously cultivated by the officers of the
The presengtood
arm 7, hut rather should marvel that so many
yes in intellectual pursuits at all.
The opinion of society, system,o_ undoubtedly, produces a
great many
and
dantdhe estimable gentlemen.
the service
the virtues which are the tendency
itself, have a strongto encourage many of
me most. essential in a soldier ;
but still, so longas
of
seleeretinpug ivhe shall be the chief
passport, thepower
best men is excluded.
For the highest commands, iset
se-
lection is retained ; but the highestrue, the power of
c.ommands are not
the only important ones. It is a
which we assume in placin a body OeorfloFs responsibility
Bred of our fellow-men under the eora
sixe odr eight hurt-
of a Lieu-
tenant-Colonel—or even leaving a companymn
or troop of
one-tenth of that number at the orders of a Captain or
Lieutenant—where such Lieutenant-Colonel, Captain,
or Lieutenant is a person of a violent or vexatious-ten:km:
pee, or of a dull, or perverse, or uncultivated under-
standing, though perhaps a strict disciplinarian and a
studious observer of those minor points which make a
regiment look well on parade.
It is too much that a country like ours should leave it
wholly fortuitous whether the persons who ought to
possess the qualities necessary for officers do actually
pos, • -s them or not. It is too much that the lives of
possess
our soldiers in war, and their regulation and happiness
in peace, should be left the sport of accident—should
depend upon the vague chance whether the party who
has laid out his moneymilitary in
a step, be a man of
sense, education, and temper, or a headstrong dunce.
After thus adverting to the evil, and pointing
out the expense of buying out those who have
bought in, the Times further says,--
Might it not be possible, then, to accomplish the
change gradually, by buying up a certain number of
commissions yearly, and appropriating them, together
with those which fall 41 b) death or dismissal, as a loan-

et:on for a system of which a regular military educa-
tion should be an ingredient, and in which purchase
should be superseded by selection ? If the change be
one which it is worth our while to make, we should
make it in time of peace, that its good effects may be
ripened against the time of war.

We do not think the expense would be so for-
midable that it alone ought to preclude a reform
in the mode of Army promotion. It would not
be necessary to shelve all the present race of
officers. The Army might be weeded, and those
who have bought commissions, which they are
unfit to hold, might receive back the purchase-
money, or an annuity corresponding to it. No
injustice would be done to those who are retained,
if they were given the option of retiring, receiv-
ing their purchase-money, or of remaining,
being secured in the annuity or pay of the rank
they have purchased, but being deprived of the
power of sale. The weeding would make room
for those who were worthy to be kept, and a
more rapid promotion would more than compen-
sate for the loss of the privilege of selling their
commissions.

We fear, however, that after the country
had incurred this expense, we should find
no fit and proper hands, under our present
corrupt political system, in which to place
the patronage of the Army. If promotion
were to proceed by Ogiority, energy would be
destroyed; men would never arrive at a chief
command till their faculties were impaired, and
disorder would ensue from the most vigorous
talent being in subordinate capacities. If pro-
motion were to be determined by the Com-
mander-in-Chief, or an Army Board, it would
'be prostituted, as promotion in the Navy ever
has been, to political and baser purposes, and a
Tory half-pay list would show the scions of
the aristocracy quartered as annuitants on the
country under the assumed guise of having been
its defenders. We should have the Army as
profligately jobbed as the Navy is at present, and
the only result of buying up the commissions
would be to fix on the national purse another set
of leeches who might, or might not, as chance
dictated, be efficient officers.
The testimony of the Times to the impro-
priety of the present system is valuable, for it
testifies against the Conservatives; but we do
not see how it is to be effectually remedied with-
out a greater infusion of the democratic prin-
ciple both into the Army and into the Govern-
ment. To give the soldiers a share in the elec-
tion of their officers, and to make the Govern-
ment equall - r onsi 'le to the whole people,
ia;d7of .1 AI et /.• • tr rnent of the aris-
toicidatT, g , aps, secu e good officers and
justice to all. Without so e changes of that
kind, all other contrivances will be mere pallia-
tives, and the monied and landed aristocracy, in
spite of them, will continue, as at present, to
make the Army subserve their convenience rather
than be the defence of the country.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday have been duly
received. They bring some interesting news
from the Spanish frontier, confirming the sup-
pression of the insurrection, and the arrival in
France of most of CHRISTINA Muxoz's parti-
zans. In addition to the correspondence be-
tween the ex-Regent and the Spanish Minister,
published in our columns of yesterday, the 3.la-
nitezer Parisien has a concluding letter from the
Minister to the ex-Regent's Secretary, from
which we make the following extract:—
All that is said in your Lordship's communication on
the events of Barcelona and Valencia, on the origin of
the actual government of Spain, on the legality of its
measures, on the accomplishment of the Treaty of
Bergara, and other similar things which I have no need
to repeat, seems to me to constitute a new manifesto on
the part of her Majesty. If it is such, I do not know
whether it ought to be made by the medium of a private
secretary ; but what I do know is that if, after the Spa-
nish people and army have just demonstrated their
loyalty and devotedness, this manifesto needed any
answer, it is not to me that the honour of making one
would belong. The Government, the Cortes, the Spa-
nish nation in fact, will settle what is best suited to
their interest and dignity.
One of the French Journals states that on
Monday M. OLOZAG A went to St. Cloud to de-
mand from the KING the removal of Madame
MuNoz from Paris.

The Sentinelle de r Armee explains the rumour that
an army is about to be stationed on the Pyrenean fron-
tier, by stating that General Harispe's division, on the
western palit of the line, is to be increased to 16,000 men,
and that of the General de Castelane's, on the eastern
part, to 14,000, making a total force of 30,000 men.
Extract of a letter from Bayonne:—" The Sub-Prefect
of this place set out on the 22d inst. for Sare, where
the refugees are arrived. Lieutenant-General Lahitte,
Inspector-General of Artillery, arrived on the 19th
at Bayonne, to review the troops of the garrison and
the artillery. The 25th of the line is expected here from
Perigueux. A squadron of chasseurs has arrived here
from Pau, and another squadron has gone to St. Jean
Pied de Port. M. Bart, Prefect of the Hautes Pyrenees,
has arrived at Pau.

The Phare, of Bayonne, of the 22d inst., gives the fol-
lowing supplement :—" Several Generals, many officers
and soldiers, or peasantry, who had taken part in the
movement of which O'Donnell gave the signal, have come
into France for refuge, entering by Sure. At the
departure of the person who brought us this news
300 refugees of all classes had already arrived, and
were every moment being succeeded by more. The names
of the emigrant Generals are Urbistondo, Claveria, and
Lardizabal, and of the Brigadiers Larrocha, Gabarre,
and Hidalgo de Cisneros. On being informed of what
had taken place at Vittoria, O'Donnell gave orders for
his troops to evacuate the Citadel of Pampeluna; and,
consequently, Lieut.-Col. Izquierdo, O'l)onnell's Aide-
de-Camp, and Ribed, the banker, followed by 200 men,
set out for France, and entered by the Aldiides. The of-
ficers and soldiers have all been sent by the authorities to
Mauleon. O'Donnell was himself expected at the Al-
dudes last night. General Firmin Iriarte, Commandant
of the National Guard of Bilbao, and two merchants of
that town, landed this morning at the Socoa."
The Memorial of Pau says :—" While Espartero's
secretary, Gurrea, was conducting Brigadier Norzagary
to prison at Madrid, the latter formed the idea of shoot-
in.. the Secretary and making his escape, but Gurrea
observing' that the prisoner kept his bands in his pockets,
and hearing the noise of the lock of a pistol, immediately
presented his own at the throat of the Brigadier, and
kept him in awe until he was searched. This was soon
done, and a pair of loaded pistols taken from him."
We have received the Barcelona Journals to the 20th
inst. The Constitutional states that on the arrival of
Don Francisco de Paulo at Bedons, on the 11th, where
he stopped only for an instant, he was received by a
cavalcade of young men, who escorted him to Urdos,
where the Alcalde and the notables of Canfranc, the fron-
tier town of Spain, were waiting for him. Immediately on
passing the frontier to enter Spain, Don Francisco found
an escort of 30 soldiers of the line and 20 National Guards,
whom, in acknowledgement of his reception, he invited
to a repast in the open air. The Constitutional says
that an officer of rank had been arrested for attempt-
ing to seduce some, of the soldiery of Barcelona, and
calls upon the Junta to be vigilant, adding that conspi-
rators are at work in Catalonia to bring about a coun-
ter-revolution. In the number of this journal of the
20th we find an article against the French Go-
vernment, the furious temper of which may be
judged of by the following extract : " The French
Government," says the Constitucional, " constantly
moves on towards despotism. Italy sprinkled
with tears Poland covered with tombs, and
Spain, which is reeking with blood, behold
with grief liberty expiring in the hands of France, of
that nation the most generous, the most liberal of the
universe. But liberty is more powerful than those who
attempt to stifle it."—The Constitutional mentions a re-
port that General Pavia was on board the French brig
of war the Surprise, and was going to seek refuge in
France. According to this journal a magnificent tablet,
with the names of the Halberdiers who defended the
Palace at Madrid in the night of the 7th inst., is to be
put up in the hall of the political Governor of the pro-.
vince at Barcelona.

The pompous impudence of some political writers is
amusing. For example, a writer in the Post yesterday
says :—" There are four different ways of settling the
Government of Spain:-Ist. A soi-disant republic com-
bined with a dictator. 2c113 , A marriage betwixt the
young Queen and the son of Don Carlos. 3dly, An
union betwixt a son of Don Francisco and his Royal
cousin. 4thly, A marriage between the same young
Princess and a Prince of the house of Cobourg." To sup-
pose that a Government can be settled by marrying a
young girl to either one of three youths, implies that
the people are to go for nothing. The Government of
Srain—a country, like our own, in a state of rapid transi-
tion, with a prodigious mass of ecclesiastical and civil
grievances to redress, with ages of usurpation to over-
throw—cannot be settled by any such means, nor in a
.short time. In all the transactions which may take
place henceforth, the people and the press of Spain, will
have much to say, and it is the very essence of political
9uidnuncism to talk of settling the Government by marry-
ing a girl to a boy.

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MESSRS. HOEHOUSE AND CO.'S BANK-
RUPTCY.—Another meeting took place yesterday (Wed-
nesday), before the Commissioners, Messrs. Gunning
Batchellor, and Dowding, when the room was again
filled with creditors, mostly from the country. About
130 additional proofs were added to the list, for debts
amounting to 6,640 L, making the total sum proved,
184,8201. 14s. 4d. The Commissioners signed an order
to the Assignees for the investment of 10,0001. in Exche-
quer Bills, and the meeting was adjourned to Friday, the
29th inst.—Bath Chronicle of October 28.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1841.

of these, 1,289 were pauper patients, confined in four
houses, three of which are of great magnitude; the other,
1,209 were private patients, distributed among licensed
asylums.
LAW AND FbLZCE.
At Hatton-garden on Wednesday a young man of the
name of Wilcox, said to be a student at Trinity College,
Cambridge, was committed to take his trial for stealing
books from the British Museum.

John Robinson, a valet in the service of Mr. Smart,
of Park-place, Chelsea, was fully committed to Nawgate,
by the sitting Magistrate at Queen-square, for making
two desperate efforts to stab a fellow-servant with a
table-knife.

SPORTING.
An osprey was shot a few days ago in the neighbour-
hood of Clun by a gamekeeper of the Earl of Powis.
A superior specimen of the preregine falcon, a rare and
valuable bird to the fowler, was also netted on Monday
last at Acton.
c tirr—raSHION.A.BLE.
Lord Monteagle had a long interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer on Wednesday morning in Down-
ing-street.
Lord Stanley, we are happy to hear, is nearly re-
covered, and has resumed his official duties.
The Duke of Norfolk has arrived in town from Farn-
ham Hall, Suffolk.
The Duchess of Hamilton arrived on Saturday at Bath,
on a visit to Mr. Beckford.

Lord Palmerston and his Lady arrived in Sligo at eight
o'clock on Wednesday night.

MISCELLASTEOUI3.

The aurora borealis, as seen from Wick on Saturday
last, was extremely brilliant.
A mountain flood carried away several houses in the
neighbourhood of Doonbeg, County Clare, on Sunday
last, with the loss of two lives.

DARLEY MOORS.—There was a heavy fall of snow on
Darley Moors, near Matlock, on Thursday morning last,
with ice of a considerable thickness ; it had a singular
appearance among the sheaves of corn set up in the fields
of that neighbourhood.
A letter from Milan mentions the death of the Duke
of Cannizaro, well known in the London fashionable
circles. He died almost suddenly, in consequence of
taking three pills.—From the fatal effects of these pills,
one would almost be tempted to suppose that they had
been prescribed by the Tamworth quack-doctor.
A cannon, cast in the foundry of M. Poucet, at Liege,
measuring eight feet in length, and weighing 2,486 Eng-
lish pounds, was lately proved with 61 discharges, at the
last of which it burst. No cast-iron cannon at Liege
ever sustained more than 59 discharges. The grain of
the metal was very fine and close.
We understand there is no truth in the rumour that
an eminent M.P. (late of the Surrey theatre), whose
name, from motives of delicacy, we refrain from men-
tioning, has been engaged by Macready to play Othello
at Drury-lane, during the Christmas holidays.
A Morning Contemporary, speaking of the late Ban-
bury Conservative dinner, says, that it is a proof that the
Conservatives of that borough have at length roused
themselves from their "lethargic stupor."—lf a good
' dinner will not rouse a Tory from his " lethargic stupor,"
we know not what will, especially when we learn that,
in the present instance, " the viands were excellent and
the wines splendid." In these few words we have the
whole secret of the Banbury Tories' activity. The pros-
pect of a good dinner stimulated them to unwonted action.
Alexander M'Leod, whose trial at Utica excites so
much public interest, is a native of Forfarshire, Scotland.
In a street leading from the Whitechapel-road are to
be found eight shopkeepers who rejoice in the following
names : Slaughter, Death, Angel, Demon, Black,
White, Green, and Gray.
Mr. Catlin, in his- entertaining work on the American
Indians, observes, " The son of a chief, a youth only
eighteen years old, distinguished himself in a singular
manner the day before our steamer reached the village,
by taking to himself four wives in one day !"—This is as
bad as taking four doses of physic in one day, when one
would have been more than sufficient. Had the rash
youth been living in England, his friends would instantly
have issued a commission De Lunatico Inquirendo
against him !
One of the Brighton railway trains, on Monday, con-
veyed 160 passengers, a proof of the confidence of the
public in the safety of the line.
Mr. Forester, the experimental chemist of William-
street, Islington, who has been committed to take his trial
for shooting at a policeman, according to the evidence of
Dr. Munro laboured for some time past under strange
delusions. He fancied that his head was turned round,
his face behind, and the hind part of his head was in
front.

The gross sum received from visitors to the armoury
in the Tower during the year ending February 1, 1841,
was 2,2971., and the receipts of the Jewel House, from
the Ist of February to the 31st December, 1840, amounted
to 1,5471.

The Dublin Orangemen must indeed be reduced to a
low ebb in the Corporation, when they boast that, though
not able to return one of their own party, they have suc-
ceeded in some instances in securing the return of the
least objectionable Radicals.
The strike of the journeymen paper-stainers of Paris
has now continued since the Ist instant, and prosecutions
for a coalition have been instituted against them by
several of the masters of the Faubuurg Saint- Antoine
and the guarder de Popincourt. " The number who
have thus thrown themselves out of employ," says the
Droit," is said to be 845, and they demand an additional
pay of 50 centimes a-day, stating that, since they are
obliged to take for assistants young men 16 or 18 years
of age, instead of children as they did formerly, they
would not be better paid at this rate than when the re-
ceived only 4f. a-day. '

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.

Considerable uneasiness prevailed in the City this
afternoon in consequence of the total suspension of
business in Exchequer Bills, and the anxiety manifested
upon the report that forged documents in imitation of
these Government Securities were in circulation, and that
the holders of them would not be likely to obtain their
redemption from the Government. The Funds declined
in consequence of this state of things, and money is likely
to become tighter. Consols for Money fell from 881 to
881 and 87i, at which they closed, and for Account they
dropped to 88* and 88. Exchequer Bills were done at
9s. to 12s. premium, and India Bonds at 2s. premium.
Bank Stock was higher, viz., 164, and India Stock im-
proved to 244. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
brought 98 to 981 • and the Three per Cents. 871 to 87.
There was no feature in the Foreign Market worth
notice. Spanish Active Bonds were done at 201 to 201;
Portuguese New Five per Cents. were heavy at 291
to 1 ; Brazil Stock was not so firm, having fluctuated
from 561 to 58; Mexican Bonds were at 241 to *, and
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 511 to .
Shares were generally dull, but the Brighton were
brought to market rather extensively at a decline of
about 21. per share, as all further running on this Rail-
way will be suspended till it is thoroughly repaired. They
were done at 131 to 161 discount. Great Western
Shares were at 101 to 11, the New at 51, Birmingham
Thirds at 191, South Western at 124, and York and
North Midland at 28} premium. Blackwall Shares were
19, Midland Counties 18, Manchester and Birmingham
12, and North Midland 34 discount. London and West-
minster Bank Shares were 1 to 11 discount.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCT. 27.—The busi-
ness done in the Cotton Market to-day is to a moderate
extent, the sales amounting to 2,500 bales, all of which
are taken by the trade. The market closes in favour of
the buyer.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, OCT. 27.—The fol-
lowing are the transactions at the close of the Stock Ex-
change :—Eastern Counties Debentures, 71 ; Glasgow,
Paisley, and Greenock, 23k; Great Western, 201. Shares,
7i; London and Birmingham New Shares, 23/; Midland
Counties, 304.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, :OCT. 27. Our
market to-day presents no new feature, very little busi-
ness has been transacted. The sales are London and
South Western, 51f ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter
Shares, 21 ; Northern and Central Bank, 41. Bs. 9d.;
Manchester Assurance, 91.
By the arrival of H.M. schooner Spider papers from
Rio de Janeiro to the Ist of April have been received.
On the 27th of August the Minister of Finarce nresented
his estimates to the Chambers. According to the various
tables presented by his Excellency, the total deficit
amounts to 8,817,693,191 reels (1,100,000 sterling). Of
this sum 3,425,713,517 reels is for expenses not contem-
plated, incurred and to be incurred in 1840-1841 and
1841-1842, and for which sum a supplementary credit
is asked, and 5,391,976,674 reels is the estimated excess
of expenditure over the revenue in 1840, 1841, and 1842.
His Excellency, after submitting his estimate, left to
the judgment of the Chambers to determine the manner
in which the deficit is to be provided, and we sincerely
trust that the decision will be such as will support the
honour and reputation of the country.
Exchange upon England on the 31st August, was
30f 1 ; and the 6 per Cent. Local Stock, 701.
By the same arrival papers from Buenos Ayres to the
14th August have been received, but they do not con-
tain any news of importance.
Exchange upon England, 21d.
The tota number of vessels in port on the 6th was 107.
The English Stock Market closed very firm last night.
Consols were last quoted at 88+ for Money, and 88i 1
for the Account ; and opened this morning at the same
quotations. No quotation for Exchequer Bills at present.
In the Foreign, Spanish Active Stock, 201 1 ; Portu-
guese Five per Cents. 294 i; Ditto Threes, 17* 18+ ;
Brazil Bonds, 56 58.

Very little doing at present.
The business doing in the Stock Exchange up to the
present time has been but limited. The English Stock
Market is not so firm as at the opening, Consols having
receded to 88i for Money, and 881 for the Account ;
Three per Cents. Reduced 'are now 87e ; ditto, Three-
and-a-Half, 961 ; Bank StOck, 164 ; India Stock, 2434
244 ; Exchequer Bills 9s. 12s. prem.
Spanish Active Stock has improved a little; the quota-
tion is now 20i a ; Deferred, 101. Portuguese Fives,
291/2 ; Brazilian Bonds, 57 ; Danish, 784 ; Mexican,
24i ; Dutch Five per Cents., 99i 1 ; ditto Two-and-a-
Half, 51+.
The principal business doing in the Share Market has
been in Brighton Shares. The line throughout is
closed for to-day in consequence of some defect. The
following are the prices during the morning-361i 35:111
34114 34; London and Croydon, lli; North Midland, 65.
The Dutch Mail has just arrived. The Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. came 51 1-16 it, and the Fives 99 9-16.
Consols, Money, 884; Account, 8134 Mexican, 244 *;
Spanish, 20} 4. -
The termination of the insurrection ,Spain has
now been secured most fully. by the retirement of.
O'Donnell and the other insurgents across the
frontier into France. In the opinion of rang
well informed Spaniards the. Duke of Vittoria
will now push detachments of troops to the
French frontier, and thereby effect with ease the Cus-
toms cordon, which, had the late insurrection not oc-

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