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tunitiei for promotion the Government was literally
endeavouring to stunt the laudable ambition of its
defenders ; by preventing the extension of the
branches they were distorting the development of
the stein; by extracting the very sap of the profes-

sions they were actually diminishing the chances of
a healthy and prolific fruitage. The energies of our

commanders,

whether naval or military, were

being cramped and denuded by a pernicious and almost
unprecedented parsimony. By the magnificent
brevet, however, announced in the Gazette, and already
published in The Sun, a multitude of preventives to
emulation have been removed, many deserving offi-
cers have received the guerdons which they have
won by their superior intelligence or their distin-
guished valour, by their inestimable sagacity in
the council chamber or their brilliant achievements

,n the hattle-field, with the decisions recorded by

their pens, or at the point of their good swords. The
evil of such lamentable continuance will be forgotten
now that our veterans are remunerated for its in-

fliction.

land it is, from her pressing and accumulative
sorrows, and in preference to any of the above enume-
rated objects of national concern, that the eye of the
reflective patriot is intently fixed, satisfied that, so
long as that great artery of British power continues
its present irregular action, the lustre of our fame
will be tarnished, and our integral peace and pros-
perity incessantly endangered.
The latest news from Dublin is, upon the whole, of
an inspiriting character. Some occasional outrages
have been committed; the officers of the Government
have here and there been roughly handled, and the
transmission of corn, meal, and flour, has not, in every
case, been successfully or peaceably accomplished.
Still, we perceive with gladness that the
principle of voluntary relief is being acted upon in a
very improved spirit, with signal benefit, in various
parts. In Wexford the landed proprietors have taken
Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S valuable hint, by purchasing
and dispensing provisions to appointed vendors, who
are permitted to realise a small profit. By this plan
the people will not find the blessi.ig of food to be
beyond their reach. In the barony of Kinalea the
system of task work, and the amount of wages earned
by it, is now appreciated by the labourers, who have
become zealous in their employment, and contented in
their minds. At a county meeting in Longford,
amongst other resolutions, the chairmen of several
relief committees passed the following :
" That we consider that the hitherto peaceable and
exemplary conduct of the people of this country is de-
serving of the highest praise, and entitles them to all the
consideration which the Government may find it possible
to grant them."
This gratifying tribute to the temperate demeanour
of the people, under their trying afflictions, will, we
are convinced, be cheerfully recognised by the Go-
vernment, as it constitutes the strongest recommends-
.on for their co-operative aid.

A cursory survey of this promotion will illustrate
its importance, and afford some adequate conception
of how much it was required. In the army brevet
alone there are no less four hundred and
ninety individual cases of advancement ; while
in the navy brevet (we regret to observe
the extraordinary disparity of numbers
between the promotions connected with the Horse
Guards and the Admiralty), we recognise two hundre•l
and forty-three instances of advancement. In the
Royal Artillery are enumerated sixty-three; in the
Royal Engineers, thirty-one ; in the Royal Marines,
twenty-five. Three individuals have been honoured
with an elevation to the loftiest dignity afforded by the

military profession, and in each particular have, most
eminently entitled themselves to the distinction. The
number of Field-31arshals of Great Britain is con-
sequently increased from six to nine, by the promo-
tion to that supreme dignity of the Alarqu:s of AN-
GLESEY, Of Sir GEORGE NUGENT, 7.ncl of General
THOMAS GROSVENOR. The services of the Master•
General of the Ordnance require for their recog-

The proceedings at the Repeal Association on
Monday were neither lengthy nor very impor-
tant. Mr. O'CONNELL made a short speech. Ile

fairly enough covered the " Young Ireland" party
with his powerful ridicule. Their announcement that
the Nation newspaper was to be the sole pivot of
their organisation naturally led the Liberator to lie
somewhat facetious :

nition none of the lustre of panegyric ; they are
intimately associated with those of our second MARL-
BOROUGH, the Duke of WELLINGTON, they are in-
scribed upon those pages of history which have been
written in characters of glory now almost half a
century bygone.-, In reference to the claims of Field-
Marshal Sir GEORGE NUGENT we can only e xpress
our sorrow that such claims were not more readily
confessed, and that a veteran who has been unre-
mittingly employed during so considerable a portion
of the seventy-three years which have elapsed since
the July of 1773, should only be rewarded thus at
the venerable age of ninety. It is sufficiently re-
markable to be henceforth remembered that an emi-
nent soldier, engaged in the first American war,
namely from 1777 until its conclusion in 1783, should
have been nominated Field-Marshal in 1846. The re-
maining officer in this triumvirate is Field-Marshal
THOMAS GROSVENOR, Colonel of the 65th Foot, who,
by a career of industry, courage, perseverance, and
enterprise, from his first entrance into the profession
in 1779, has nobly won his baton. We could gladly
enter into an elaborate analysis of the catalogue of
this splendid brevet, did not its very copiousness pre •
elude us from the endeavour. It will, however, be
re:narked with exultation by all who are patriotically
interested in the recognition of valour and self-
forgetfulness, evidenced in upholding the national
cause, that the hero of Aliwal, Sir HARRY
SMITH, has been created a Mejor-General ;
that the hero of Acre and the Tagus, Sir
CHARLES NAPIER, has been created a Rear-A diniral ;
that the hero of Navarino, Sir EDWARD CODRING-
TON, has been created Admiral of the lied. Such
nominations are essentially worthy of this auspicious
occasion : without the names of those illustrious
public servants, the brevet would have been a gigantic
blunder, amounting to an absulute defiance of the
national will. It would be sorry, if not actually
impossible, to deny the inadequate boon of rank to a
NAPIER, a SMITH, and a CODRINGTON.
Nevertheless, while we congratulate the naval and
military services upon this substantial acknowledg-
ment of the merits of some amongst their most dis-
tinguished and deserving officers, we cannot but
lament the peculiar exclusiveness of these inter-
mittent brevets. We cannot but lament that while
the wearers of the epaulet and aiguilette receive the
recompense of their exertions for the national welfare
and preservation, the wielders of the bayonet and the
hanger should remain unrewarded for their equally ar-
duous labours for the promotion of the same object.
While emulation is excited in the mess-room, it should
not be, as it is wholly denied to the barrack-yard.
While the interests of the superior officer are sedulously
cherished, those of the non-commissioned officer, of
the private, and of the common sailor, should not be
entirely forgotten. There is something intensely
injudicious in this pertinacious retention of stimulants
and rewards from the bulk of our soldiers and seamen.
Such frequent niggardliness is among the most
egregious blemishes of our system ; it warps the in-
tellect, it fritters away the energy, it quells the am-
bition, it confirms the evil passions and withers the
noblest aspirations of our gallant men. We are
desirous of some extensive and decisive reform
in these particulars, not so much with the
expectation of turning a sailor "before the mast"
into a boatswain, and subsequently into a NELSON
or a PELLEW ; not so much with an anxiety to
behold a drummer metamorphosed into a sergeant,
and afterwards into a NAPOLEON or a FREDERICK,
as to elevate the general character of our
defenders, to instil into their hearts a persuasion
that their country will not prove ungrateful
to those who uphold her glory or maintain
her integrity, however humble they may be in posi-
tion : that industry, and prowess, and activity,
and honesty, and sagacity, and perseverance, will
enable any one, without the adventitious aids of interest
or blood, to attain the very loftiest rank : that a
Government endeavours to follow the divine example
of OMNIPOTENCE by caring for the little as well as
the great ; that, as in the regard of the latter a
sparrow and an emperor demand their full pro-
portion of attention, so with the former the colonel
and the drummer, the admiral and the ship-boy, will
receive a proportionate amount of regard. With this
reformation in the services, the naval and military
professions would be materially elevated, and the
brevets would be just as well as generous.

" What valiant and gallant heroes they were, that,
refusing to be led by such a coward as O'Connell, who •
would not fight the horse, foot, and artillery of England,
will txpen,l all their bravery in the eolumni of a news-
paper ?—(Laughter.) What a phalanx, to be sure !
(Continued laughter.) He wondered who w'es the
brigadier. general. But it was to be a literary phalanx
after all. They were to use quills instead of pikes, and
pencils instead of bayonets.—(lloars of laughter.)"
Mr. O'CONNELL took occasion to warn the people
against the lamentable consequences that would re-
sult if they did not refrain from impeding the transit
of provisions to their several destination,, and like-
wise from molesting the officers of the Board of
Works. Everything will turn for better or for worse,
according to the adoption or neglect on the part of
the people of this important advice. We hope and
believe it will be generally complied with. Mr.
O'CoNxELL was about to attend a meeting of the
Royal Agricultural Society, with the view of inducing
them to concur in a more liberal policy. This in-
directly smacks of an approval of Lord J. RUSSELL'S
counsel, embodied in the recent letter to the Duke of
LEINSTEE, which we noticed at length a few days
We trust Mr. O'CONNELL will succeed in his
object.

since.

A circular prepared by a committee of tenant-
farmers in the county of Antrim, addressed to the
landlords of that county, has been widely distributed.
Both in style and matter it is far beyond what could
be looked for from the class of persons from whom it
has emanated. It presents a fair and temperate view
of their condition, and states the indulgence they hope
for from those whose estates they cultivate ; their
demands appear to be reasonable, and many land
owners have already made voluntary reductions full
equivalent to the expectations of their tenantry.
Generally speaking, the relationship between land-
lord and tenant in Ulster is placed on a sounder and
better footing than in any other part of Ireland. The
proprietors of the soil are less encumbered by debts
or charges affecting their properties, a much
larger proportion of the rental of the county
remains in their pockets, and is applicable to their
own purposes than in the southern or western
counties. The gentry are more provident, and look
forward with greater prudence to the future ; they
are not compelled, from their own necessities, to
extort the utmost farthing that can be wrung from
the occupiers, leaving barely sufficient to those by
whose labour the land is cultivated to support a pre-
carious existence. They are well aware that the real
interest of the landlord is closely connected with, and
cannot be separated from, that of the tenant, and that
by letting their lands at a fair and reasonable rate,
and holding out encouragement to the improving
tenant, although their nominal rent-roll may be
lower, they obtain a larger amount of payment from
the same quantity of land than others who act on a
different and more objectionable principle. Above all,
they concede what is called " the tenant right," the
effects of which have proved most beneficial wherever
it has been brought into operation. In speaking of
this right the report of Lord DEVON'S Commission
says :—" Under the influence of this custom the
tenant claims, and generally exercises, a right to dis-
pose of his holding for a valuable consideration,
although he may himself be a tenant-at-will, and
although he may have expended nothing in permanent
improvements; that sums equal to ten, twelve, or
fifteen years' purchase upon the rents are commonly
given for the tenant right, and this not only where
the rent is considered low, hut where it is fully equal
to the value." And when alluding to its effects, the
Commissioners add :—"Anomalous as this custom is, if
considered with reference to all ordinary notions of
property, it must be admitted that the district in
which it prevails has thriven and improved in compa-
rison with other parts of the country." This valuable
testimony establishes a fact that will little surprise
any one accustomed to think profoundly, or to rea-
son correctly. A feeling of proprietorship has arisen
in the minds of the tenants ; they know that they
will not be driven from their tenements so long as
they perform their parts of their contract with the
proprietors ; that any improvements they may effect
by their own industry will not have the effect of de-
priving them o►f the possession, or of enhancing the
rent of their farms ; that if they should desire
to leave the locality, they will obtain, in
the shape of a higher price for " the good
will," full compensation for their expendi-
ture of labour or capital. Hence a motive for exer-
tion and industry is supplied : they know that they
will receive a fair return either in the length and cer-
tainty of their tenure, or in an equivalent payment
on quitting their farms. Agrarian outrages—the
most fertile source of riot and disturbance—are un-
known in those favoured districts, and the landlord
is, except under extraordinary circumstances, certain
to receive the full amount the tenant has contracted
to pay ; and the occupier, whose own rights are fully
recognised, learns to respect those of the owner.
The document to which we have adverted acknow-
ledges the duty of the tenant, as a plain matter of
justice between man and man, to pay the
full amount of his contract, and that the
landlord is entitled to enforce the same, but
they intimate that as their present position is not
only deeply distressing, but altogether new, they
require to be treated with on a principle of indulgent
liberality corresponding with their novel and perilous
position. They state that their potatoes are gone,
their oats have fallen short of their expectations, and
that, while some of their number may have a small sur-
plus of agricultural produce to dispose of, many must
purchase largely in a dear market for the support of their
families, in addition to consuming the entire produce
of their holdings ; that linen, the chief article of their
manufacture, is in a most depressed state, and that,
although pork and butter sell freely at remu-
nerative prices, they cannot realise the advan-
tages, the food for swine being wholly lost, and
the change of diet rendered necessary by the
potato failure obliging them to appropriate
a larger portion of the produce of their dairies to
household purposes than heretofore, they feelingly,
ask whether, under such circumstances, their land-
lords will compel them to sell their cows, or part with
the only portion of bread that remains for the sup-
port of their families, in order to satisfy their rents.
Justice, they know, would sanction it, but mercy in-
terposes and forbids the cruelty; they implore that
there shall be no act of severity exhibited towards
them during the arduous trials they are called on to

LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1846,

Sanguine as all those individuals were who formed
any expectations respecting the military and naval
brevet in honour of the fifth anniversary of the birth
of his Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, their
anticipations have been fully realised. Throughout
both the distinguished services the promotions have
been distributed with munificence and discrimination.
Many of our most illustrious veterans have at length
received the recompense to which they have been so
long entitled either by extraordinary exhibitions of
personal prowess, by adroit diplomacy, or by con-
tinual and active employment. The protracted re-
servation of this recompense has for a considerable
period been matter of astonishment, and has origi-
nated numerous heartburnings. Tardy, however, as
this compensation noquesti n ly is, the oversight is
now virtually acknowledged,
and the ingratitude of
such intolerable duration is obliterated by a generous
and extensive advancement. In
consequence
postponement of' this proceeding the
of the
different ranks,
but especially those of the
highest
become liable to the indonveniencee fer,
em-
bracing an unnecessary number of officers.
So enormous was this obstacle to advancement in
;
either profession, that hope became extinguished
even in the most sanguine temperaments, that emu-
lation was almost entirely destroyed, and that senti-
ments of apathy, and in some instances, of absolute
disgust, began to interfere with the incitements to
naval and military enterprise. Such were the natural
but grievous consequences of this impolitic apathy in
the Legislature. By denying the reasonable oppor-

Never had any Government more arduous or more
serious duties to attend to than the present. Were Ire-
land the only portion of territoryto which their functions
were limited, in the place of being, as they ire, ex-
tended over immense tracts of earth, peopled with
millions upon millions, where British dominion pre-
vails in every, quarter of the globe, none could deny
that the state of Ireland is sufficient to tax the ener-
gies of the Executive to the uttermost, or the
grave responsibility inseparable from their Minis-
terial position. Lord Livintroon once said
no one could easily conceive the perpetual anxiety
incidental to the Premiership of England, or with
what feelings the chief servant of the Crown contem-
plated the delivery of each day's post, by which the
actual position of her great and vast dependencies in
either hemisphere was to be ascertained and consi-
dered. Neither is it facile to depict the serious sen-
timents with which Lord JOHN RUSSELL must await
in these days the receipt of each morning's intelli-
gence from the other side of St. George's Channel.
Threatened as Ireland has been to be scourged in
every part with destitution, disease, pestilence, and
famine, aware that these frightful evils are still immi-
nent, that victims of starvation have already swelled
the tables of mortality, and that a patient and endur-
ing people have already, in some instances, from
actual despair, been tempted to burst the bonds of
social order, the mind of our Prime Minister must be
precluded from the enjoyment of repose. The events
which are passing on the great Transatlantic conti-
nent, where a reckless spirit of territorial aggrandise-
ment pervades the councils and governs the operations
of a grasping republic—the hasty, unbecoming, and
unscrupulous diplomacy recently suffered to creep in
and predominate in the Cabinet of Madrid, subversive
of an international cordiality between England and
Prance, the maintenance of which has been hitherto
regarded as the best guarantee for the preservation of
peace in Europe—the state of Portugal, where the
throne is shaken, and revolution is pursuing her
almost ephemeral, yet ominous gambols,—these, and
the like, must, in turns, be diurnally demanding the
vigilant attention of our statesmen. Yet upon Ire-

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER l2, 1816,

encounter, anti faithfully promise that on their part
there shall be no combination against landlords—no
conspiracies in opposition to the payment of rent.
They state that they are destitute of means but
possess willing minds, and on that ground alone do
they crave a liberal indulgence ; and they earnestly
pray that in good faith, mutual attachment,
and undiminished confidence, their landlords may
affectionately meet them in a spirit of generous
and liberal compromise. They propose to make a
prompt effort to pay one-half the gale of rent now
due, and ask that the landlords shall freely forgive
the remainder, and they state that they ask the re-
mainder to be forgiven, for they are justly averse to
the accumulation of a debt in the shape of arrears,
which, while they live, they have no prospect of pay-
ing ; it is only calculated to cramp their energies and
to sink them into utter despondency.

Such an appeal cannot be disregarded ; it carries
with it a conviction of its justice and expediency.
We trust that the landlords of Antrim may respond
to it in a similar spirit, and that mutual concessions
will more closely cement the ties between them, and
increase the feelings of mutual regard and respect
that should exist between landlords and tenants.

Letters from St. Petersburgh state that the long-
talked-of project of forming a railroad from that
capital to i3allisbport, on the Baltic, is about to be
carried into execution by a company formed at St.
Petersburgh. The Government guarantees to the
company 41 per cent. on the capital actually expended
in its completion. The same company has also ob•
tained an authorisation to lay a railroad between
Cronstarit and St. Petersburgb, with a branch to
Moscow.

ment, which transiently deprives the Royal Family of an
ugent ho has often proved useful in their communica-
tions with foreign Powers, may be of some importance.
It shows, at least, how little family alliances can be de-
pended upon. King Leopold had, for fifteen years, been
wholly devoted to his wife's family ; the failue of a mar-
riage for one of his nephews, and the disappointment it
has caused, have sufficed to make disaffection and bit-
terness succeed to kind feelings, and to make him view
with regret the good luck that has befallen his brother-
in law."- . _

The sale of gun-cotton in Bavaria has been pro
hibited by the Government, on the ground that as it
cannot by its appearance be distinguished from ordi-
nary cotton its sale may give rise to accidents.
According to the Post AmptGazette of Frankfort,
it is intended to form a general Italian Customs
Union.

A grand banquet was given on the 30th t,) the
celebrated RONGE at Brunswick, at which 180 guests
were present. Many toasts were given, and among
them one to Pope Pius IX., proposed by Pastor
13EsTE, an orthodox Protestant. In the evening
RoNGE was present at the burgher assembly, where
he delivered a discourse in which he traced the deve-
lopment of German Catholicism in Silesia. He was
loudly applauded. The galleries were filled with
ladies.
• dew
Madrid papers of the 4th have arrived. _ _ _

" Several Spaniards," says the Constitutionnel,
" resident in Paris, joined with the suite of their Am-
bassador in congratulating the Duke and Duchess of
MONTPENSIER. They saluted the Prince in the
usual manner, but to the Princess they kneeled, and
kissed her hand, as presumptive heiress to the
throDe."

It is said that the Duke and Duchess of MONT-
PRISSIER will reside at Vincennes, the former resi-
dence of the Duke, where apartments have been fitted
up for the Duchess, and where they are to have their
reg ular fours de reception.
According to the Courrier Francais, the Chambers
will be convoked for the 15th December, instead of
the 12th January, the day originally fixed by the
royal ordonnance.
The Journal des Debats confirms the announce-
ment of the approaching marriage of the Duke of
BORDEAUX with a Princess of Modena. It says—

" It appears certain that the Augsburgh Gazelle's news
of the Duke de Bordeaux's marriage with a sister of the
reigning Duke of Modena is true. The marriage was
to have been solemnized on the sth inst. The Princess's
father was the only Sovereign in Europe who would not
acknowledge the revolution of:;1830. Her fortune is
estimated at 100.000,000 of francs, or four millions ster-
ling. The Princess is four scars older than the Duke,
who is in his twenty-sixth year."
On the evening of the 2d inst.. seventy Carlist
refugees passed through Narbonne on their way to
Spain. Seventeen of their number, including a
Lieutenant-Colonel, a Commandant, and some in-
ferior officers, were ea-Jfured by the French authori-
ties.. Forty-seven more Cariist refugees have been

No authentic intelligence had been received fi cm
Portugal, ;Although there were many alarming rumours
on the subject of Portuguese atrairs current in
Madrid. It is again confidently affirmed that one of
the first measures proposed to the new Cortes will be
a revision of the tariff. This w ill be done, it is
for the purpoec of endeavouring to conciliate England
after _ the affront put upon her by the Montpens:er
marriage. It cannot be denied but that a relaxation
of the protective and prohibitory system of tariffs
adopted in Spain would be of advantage both to Spain
and to England.
It was reported that the KING of the FRENCH
was about to create MuNoz a French Duke
at the request of Queen CIIRISTINA. It is im-
possible, however, to attach any credit to a rumour so
absurd.

MADRID BOMA, Nov. 4 —Business has been very inac-
tive, Three per Cents., 3.1% money, 3-1;' paper; Four per
Cents., Fire per Cents., 219 with the current coupon. DeLt
without Interest, 6% paper.

at Passas, who were likewise about to cross
the frontier. They were dragged back to Perpignan,
which town they passed through shouting " Viva
CARLOS V.I. !"

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.

Filly-four vessels, laden with 184,000 hntolitres
of wheat from the Black Sea, Turkey, Egypt, and
Italy, have entered the port of Marseilles. Only ten
of these vessels are French, and they have come from

Italy. The lieforme says—
" The arrival of the above wheat has not produced
even a transient fall in the southern markets. The rise
continues in evtry part of France without any exception.
In the radius of supply of Paris, the movement was,
yesterday and the day before, more sudden and rapid
titan cou!d have bet n expectecl, and the trade themselves
have 1);:en alf:rmcd at it. Since the harvest so decided
an increase had not been witnessed. It amounts, every-
wlyre, to between one and two francs per hectolitre.
Hitherto the rise had been constant, hut its progress was
marked by increases of only 50 to 60 centimes. The
rnest a!arming symptom is the extreme eagerness evinced
by all parties at this moment ; and, after the sowing
has taken place, to buy grain, notwithstanding such
high price. This eagerness, especially on the part of
the trac., proves that no decline of prices is anticipated.
Scarcely do the markets last half an hour, so active the
purchasers are. On some points all that has been
offered has been bought up in less than ten minutes"
It was reported on the Bourse on Monday that the
Government had received unpleasant news from
Portugal.
Detachments of the sth, 16th, and 56th Regiments
of the line, and from the 12th Light Infantry, are on
the point of being embarked at Port Vendres for
Africa ; and detachments from the 2d and 7th Regi-
ments of Artillery are on their march for the same

The absence of the Marquis of NORMANEY is tbe
subject of comment in almost all of them eccept the
Journal des Debuts, the organ of the Ministry.
The Presse, the organ of the Court, says—

" Some of the journals have commented on the ab-
sence of Lord Noriminhy from the reception of the di-
plomatic body at the Tuileries. It appears to us that
this absence might have been foreseen, and that it adds
nothing to the manifestations of displeasure and bad
feeling which the affair of the marriage has furnished
England an occasion to display. We say, in addition,
that if this absence of the English Ambassador must ab-
solutely be considered as a new protest of the Govern-
ment which he represents, it must be admitted, on the
other hand, that the presence of the Ambassadors of all
the other powers is a very significant adhesion, which
ought to remove the doubts that acme persons are
trying to disseminate as to the sentiments manifested
on this occasion by the continental powers. All were
represented at this reception by their Ministers now
present at Paris, or by their Councillors or Secretaries
of Embassy. The Commerce was wrong yesterday in an-
nouncing that the Belgian Ambassador had imitated
the English one—the Prince de Live was present at the
reception.
This last assertion of the Presse is untrue, and
considering the source from which the article ema-
nates, those who directed it to be penned must have
been perfectly aware that it was untrue at the time.
" The Prince DE LIGNE," says Galignani's Messenger,
" is absent from his post en cove, and the KING of
the BELGIANS is at this moment represented here by
Count RoGIER, as chargé d'affaires. M. RoGIER also
was absent from the public reception on Saturday
but we hear that he is to have a private reception."
This little incident will give some idea of the reck-
less disregard for truth which has characterised the
organs of the Tuileries throughout the whole of the
controversy on the subject of the Montpensier marriage.
As another instance, we may mention the direct con-
tradiction given by the Portefeuille, the organ of the
Foreign Minister, to the malicious assertion of the
Presse, that the Marquis of NORMANDY had insisted
on having both sides of M. GutzoT's folding-doors
opened to him when he recently waited on that
Minister. The organs of the Château seem to adopt
in its entirety the maxim of RICHELIEU, that there
should be no hesitation in asserting that which is
false, although
take
dpilsaccoev,
theery falsehoodof the falsehood d
hmustave
take place within twenty-four hours, provided before
such discovery k
produced the effect desired. The Siecle has the fol-
lowing observations on the absence of the Marquis of
NORMANDY

"It appears to us that an excessive importance ought
not to be attached to incidents of this nature. England
is no more resolved on an open rupture than the
northern powers on an intimate alliance with France.
Orleans
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treaty of Utrecht, all other questions remaining reserved,
and particularly that of ascertaining whether or not the
pragmatic sanction of 1713, which changes the order of
succession to the crown, does not form part with the
treaty recognising the right of Philip V. and his
descendants. The absence of the Britannic Ambassador
has a double signification—it means, first of all, that
England understands the treaty of -Utrecht differently
from France; and, secondly, that the marriage of the
Duke de Montpensier with the Infanta has been contrary
to verbal conventions passed at the Château d'Eu. On
the first point there are two decisive answers to the
arguments of England. Austria, Prussia, and Holland
do not attach to the reciprocal renunciations of 1713 the
same interpretation as the English Foreign-office. Russia
ranges itself with the opinion of these powers. Here,
then, is England alone against all the Governments that
signed the treaty or adhered to it. It is true that the
Northern :powers refer to the pragmatic sanction of
Philip V., and pretend that the crown of Spain cannot
counapeentolstahbeelfleam,
hasale line until after the males in all the
branches are extinct. But England, in recognising
g
recognised the
Infanta Luisa. There is, therefore,nothtihnge rightss serious of
butus
the arguments drawn from the conventions of the Châ-
teau d'Eu; and this is only a question of procedure be
tween the two Courts and the two Cabinets, the dignity
of the two nations remaining perfectly intact and foreign
to this discussion, more dynastic and personal than po-
litical. As to the absence of the Belgian Ambassador,
it proves that King Leopold does not take part against
his own family, which has been wounded in its interests
and self-love. But it must not be inferred that the King
of the Belgians renounces the part of mediator attributed
to him by the letters of the English correspondents.
We think, on the contrary, that if the son-in-law of
King Louis Philippe places himself apart at present, it
is because his remaining away can alone offer a pledge
of impartiality to the two Cabinets. When any one de-
sires to act as arbitrator or conciliator the way
to begin is not to offer an opinion in one sense or the
other.

If, however, the statement which appears in La
Semaine, a Sunday paper, can be relied on, King
LEOPOLD, far from consenting to act as mediator be-
tweensthe French and English Governments, does not
dissemble his own strong disapprobation of the
Montpensier marriage. A few
days ago, at St.
Cloud, and in his father-in-law's very drawing-room,
he maintained, before several political men, that the
marriage was manifestly contrary to the spirit and
text of the treaty of Utrecht. After detailing his
arguments, the Semaine sa3s—
" We record Leopold's opinion and conversfttien, for
the authenticity of which we can vouch, sully because
it reveals all the disagreement the Duke de Montpen-
slur's marriage has produced between the King of the
Belgians and the King of the French. This disagree-

destination. •
The Three per Cents. closed at 82f. 10c. ; the Five per
Cents., 117 f. 20c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,200 f. ;
Rouen, 8801. ; Ilavre,l 67011; Great Northern, 635 f. ;
Avignon, 860 f. ; Vierzon, 562 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 5351. ;
Boulogne, 447 f. 50c. ; Bask, 217 f. ; Fampoux, 405 f ; Dieppe,
3531. 75c. ; Paris and Strasburg, ,176 f. 25c. ; Tours and Nantes,
4851. ; Paris and Lyons, 495 f. ; Lyons and Avignon, 4851. ;
Bordeaux and Cette, 470 E ; Spanish Actives, 331/5 ; Spanish
Three per Cents., 38; Spanish Domestic Debt, 32 iil.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NOVEMBER 10.
Boulogne and Amiens, W.,—Central of Spain, %4—Dutch
Rhenish, PA—East Indian, :A—Great Western, Bengal,
—Louvain a la Sambre, 04—Luxembourg, %--Namur and
Liege, 31/2—Northern of France Constituted, 10%4—Orleans
and Bordeaux, 7%—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 4%-Paris
and Strasbourg Constituted, 3%—Rouen and Havre, 26 t/2—
Sambre and Meuse, 4A.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From Tie Sun of Last Night.)
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was quiet,
but the quotations of all descriptions remained without
alteration. Sales 3,603 bales, including 500 American
for exportation, 00 Egyptian realized 7d. to 7 d., 350
Surat 4d. to 4id., and 2,500 American at sd. told. per lb.
Shares and Scrip, in general, appear to have been steadily
maintained, and with a moderate business doing.
The merchants of Antwerp, according to advices re-
ceived thence, are more anxious than ever to establish a
line of packet ships between their flourishing pnrt and
New York, but have been rather thrown in the back
ground by the prior movement of the Bremen traders, ,
who seem to have obtained some special privileges. If
Antwerp can support am independent line of sailing
vessels, undoubtedly there would be great faci-
lities afforded, not only to her own, but like-
wise to the German manufacturers, in making
shipments across the Atlantic, and an extension
of the American trade would be the result, though
we have no fear of mere rivalry in the matter of navi-
gation, the London and Liverpool liners surpassing in
speed and general capability any merchant vessels that
ever ploughed the deep, and to a good extent owned by
British merchants.
The English funds are to-day again firm, but with the
same characteristic feature—an entire ab.;.ence of specu-
lation. The general money business has been rather less
active than yesterday, but still the public exhibit more
confidence than the dealers. Consols have been 94i
for present transfer, and are nominally the same fur
time. Exchequer-bills remain at lls. to 14s. premium.
Bank Stock is worth 2051, and India Stock has been
2551 to 257. The New Three-and-a-quarter per Cet:ts.
are 951 1.
The Foreign house is very dull. Mexican Bonds have
been 22k, and Brazilian 84i to 844. Spanish and Portu-
guese Stock have not been dealt in. The former are
about 37i for the Three per Cents., and the latter 38 for
the Four per Cents. Dutch Two-and-a. Half per Cents.
have realised 591 to it.
For Railway Shares the market is quieter, and upon
the whole less buoyant. Manchester and Leeds, how-
ever, have improved a little, Midland have touched 134,
but are now down to 1321, North Stafford hits° been at
3 to 3/1 premium, Northern of France Shares have been
as low as 10 or 5 premium.

ONP; CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
dank Stock 905% 204%
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 93%%% 93%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 94%% 94%
New 31/4 per Cent. Annuities 95% 95%
Long.Annuitiestoexpira Jan.lB6o 9% 15-16 9 15-16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 lO 1-16 3-16 10 3-16
Endia Stock 257 255% 255%
India Bonds, 1,0001 —
Ditto under 1,0001.
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities
Consols for Account — 94%
Exchequer Bills, 1000/. I%d. ... 11 14 —— p 14 p
Ditto, 500/
Ditto, Small
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES
Brazilian Bonds
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent 86% 861/
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846
Ditto, Account . 221,E
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent
Ditto, Account • •••
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch, 2% par Cent .
, Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 921/8 92

591/4
92

• PRICES Ol' PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
AAILWAY SHARES -- AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Amber.. Nott,, Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%..... 23476 2%
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portnish l%
Belfast & County Down 43/ —
Birmingham and Dudley 42% ...
Birmin. and Gleucester..100
Ditto New 17% 32
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction '
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire Junc.... 23/4 , — -
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. —
Bristol and Exeter 75
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester 3O ..„.. ..•
Bristol and Liver. June.. 2%......
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian
Ditto Half Shares...... 21/i 2M.....•••• .....
Cambrian & Grand Junc 428
Chester and Holyhead... 27 %
Churnet and Blythe
Chester and Manchester 425.
Cheltenham and Oxford 2 — . ...
Clydesdale Junctio- ... 20
Cork, Blackrock, and
Passages ... 22s.
Cork and Killarney ... 2%
Cork and Waterford ... 1% —
Cornwall
Ditto, Half Shares ... 21/2••••••
Cornwall& Cant'l Devon 2% — ...
Derby and Crewe 2%. —
Direct Lincoln,East Ret-
ford, and Sheffd. J enc. 2% —
Direct Northern
, b
Direct Norwich 1
Dublin and Belfast June. 12% —
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Galway..... 4
Dundalk & Enniskillen 10
Eastern Counties 14/. 16s. 221/21/4
Ditto New l2l. 16s 7% lit p
Ditto Perpetual, 5 par
Cent, No. 1. 61.135. 4d...
Ditto ditto. No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... ......
Do., York Extension.. 2 ...... 3%
EastDereh'm andNor'ch 1
Eastern Union .. ..
Ditto. Quarter Shares 834 •
Do. Exten.(Harwich) 1% —
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2% —
East Lancashire
Ditto. New
Do., do. .(late Preston
and Ormskirk)... .. 21%( ..... ..
East Lincolnshire - 1%
East & West of England 1%......
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ......
Ditto Half Shares ... 10
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121/2 ......
Edinburgh & Northern.. 12% ... •••
Edinburgh and Perth... 3 ......
Ely and Huntingdon ... 121/2
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% —
Exeter,Yeovil,& Dorset 51/4 ...... 31/8
Glasgow, Kilmar., & Ayr 50 ......
Ditto, New ......... .. 15 , —
Do., 1/4 Shares (5 per
cent. guar.) ... ...... 12 %.., ...
Gloue.,Abei ystwith, and
Central of Wa1e5...... 1%....„ _
1/4 Ni Vs dis dis.
Goole, Doncaster, &c. .. 425.
%
Grand Union (Notting-
and Lynn ... ............ 1% —.. _
Great Eastern & Western 2%
GreatGrimsby and Shef-
field ..................... 10
Great South. and West.
(Ireland) .........
Great Munster ......... ... 21 A ......
Great North of Scotland 2% ......
Great North of England-100
Ditto New ............... 5 -
15
Ditto, New .
Ditto,New ............ 114 —
Great Western 137
............ 85 137
Ditto Shares ...... .. 50
IA
Ditto 1/4 5hare5......... 10
..... 79
Ditto Fifths ............20
311
Ditto, New 2
„ 14% 7 4
Huddersfield Manches. 13 .... _ ..
......... . • ._7
Ditto, Extension 3 _
1
Hull and Selby SO
Ditto 1
•••
4 Shares
Do. Half Shares 25
Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 11%
. . _ .

7% . P.

Do., do., and Norwich 2% 2
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
Do. New
Larne, Belfast, and Bal-
lymena
Leeds and Bradford
Leeds and Carlisle
Leicester & Birmingham 225. - ... ....... -..
Leicester and L'edbrd 22s
.
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 224 —
Do., Branch (Blue) ... 2%
Do.Extension(Green) 2%..
Leeds and Thirsk 17% —
Ditto, New
Lpool., Ainchstr & New-

castle Junction
Liverpool and Bury ... 14 ..
London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d. 9
Do. New
Ditto Extension 7 ••
London, Brighton, and
South Coast
Ditto, Fifths
L)ndon and Croydon
Gi.zaan.s per cent ••• •• •• •• •••
oadonandGreenwich 12/ 15s 4d...
Do. Preference ...18117s 2d —
London, Hounslow, and

. _
Western - ..... . . •..
lA, ndon and N. Westernloo 197
Do. Quarters ..
Do., do., New Shares.. 2 ...... 15% 16
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12% ......
Do., Net. 14 Shares
(. J.)
Do 40/.Shares(L. M.) 8
Load. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 6B
Do. New Consul. Bclis 40
Do. NeW
Do. New
London and York ...... ••• 2% — ..... ......... _
Do. % Shares ......... 2% — .
London and Windsor . 1 H... . ••••• ... •
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ..... -.......— 2%••••••
Londonderry &Coleraine 15
lAndonderry and Ennis-
killen ..15
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereharn ' 15
Manchester and Leeds... 82 105% lO5l/2
Ditto lA_ Shares
Do. Quarters
Do. Fifths 3 . .... 814 BIX4
Do. Sixteenths ... 6% 8
Do. Extension 42s.
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Do. Quarters (A)
Do. Quarters (B)
Do. Quarters (C). 1
Mauchester•Baxton,and
Matlock
Manchester firm.. and

1!g p
76
5%

?3.....a. p
P

,1011.10 jll.Wii‘.ti .. ... ..". ..„.. ....
MancheLit. & .:,,11;.11..:,iii1,.. 2 ..... II ' 1 1,,i
...
Midland
Do. fifths 2
Do. New
Ditto, New