The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

THIS EVENING

Will he performed the popular Drama of THE STEED OF SY-
RACUSE ; or, Damon's Flight. Damon, air. J. Harwood ; Pythias,
Mr. J. Dale ;. Calanthe, Mrs. M. Brooks. Assisted by the nn-
zn.t.rous Company, double Stud, &c.
After which, popular SCENES of the CIRCLE, and &her No-
velties. Being for the BENEFIT of a CHARITABLE INSTI-
TUTION.
Mr. BATTY has much pleasure in announcing that he has formed
arrangements with several continental artistes :—Messrs. Joseph
Paul Cone, Lorentz Walff, Rmallue lValff. Polaski, Amidio Neuport,
and the popular vaulters, Messrs. Henderson and T. Lee, who will
appear during the winter season, which commences on Monday,
October 12, for the first time, with a variety of novel productions.
Likewise In active preparation, a new Equestrian Spectacle, of un-
equalled effects, performing in Paris with great success, arranged
and produced by Mr. W. Broadfoot.
11(A-office open trom eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six
and commence at seven o'clock.

ROYAL VICTORIA TEI
THIS EVENING

Will be performed a new grand, legendary, romantic Drama, en-
titled THE SPECTRE SKIFF ; or, The Phantom of the Sea. Mabel
Allerton, Miss Vincent ; Tabitha Tod, Miss L. Pearce ; Dame Plain-
body, Mrs. Cooke; Luke Allerton, Mr. Archer; Diedrich Jansein,
Mr. Searle ; Peter Plainbody, Mr. Forman ; Ben Rullock, Mr. C.
J. Bird.

After which, the Burlesque of FAYRE ROSAMONDE. Fayre
Rosamonde, Mr. Forman.

To conclude with THE MYSTERIES OF LONDON; or, The
Brothers' Career. Supported by the entire strength of the company.

111 E WEATHER.—Sax OFFICE, OCTOBER 5.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 44; Highest. 64 ; Noon, 62,
BAROMETER, 29.48.—W1ND S.W., cloudy.

111(111 WATER AT LONDON-I:RIDGE Tidy DAY.
Morning .. 20 minutes after 2. I Evening .. 42 minutes after 2.

tained by the complacency of the military representa-
tives of the directors in Leadenhall-street, and
solely preserved from destruction by the temporary
guardianship of our bayonets, we cannot be
amazed at the prospective insubordination of
the populace. Immediately upon the retire-
ment of the English forces from the vicinity
of Lahore, there is scarcely any question that the
QUEEN-MOTHIx and her hateful paramour, the
Wuzeer, will be hurled ignominiously from authority,
and possibly offered up as victims to the fanatical
vengeance of the Khalsees. Is this condition of
affairs surprising ? We appeal to the judgment of
those who are sticklers for the sobriety and unim-
peachable majesty of a Legislature if there be no
reason for these lawless and desperate resolutions, if
the indignation of the Seikhs be not a most natural
consequence of a most unnatural villany, if the de-
pravities of the RANIM and the RAJA do not almost
imperatively require a signal and authoritative inter-
position, and if any interposition (whether from
foreign culverins or native brands) would not be
preferable to such a precarious and perni-
cious domination, providing that that interposi-
tion conduced to the permanent establish-
ment and re-organisation of the government of those
districts? We ask the homeliest intellect to decide
whether even the annexation of such territories to a
stronger empire would not be preferable to the con-
tinuance of such a degenerating, brutalizing, and
sanguinary policy, especially if that annexation
ensured not merely the domestic tranquillity of a
state hitherto devoted to interminable and bloody
commotions, hut brought civilisation to barbarians,
and developed the commercial capabilities of a ne-
glected land, by all the appliances of artistic contriv-
ance and scientific ingenuity ?
From our hearts we abhor that national selfish-
ness which would permit the seizure of one
principality for the aggrandisement of another. We
regard such proceedings, indeed, as altogether de-
structive to the fundamental principles of morality,
and as detrimental not merely to the interests of the
conquered, but ultimately to the interests of the con-
queror. In this instance, however, as in several others
which might be adduced from history, the question is
not simply as to the aggrandisement of the greater,
but as to the preservation and improvement of the
lesser territory. A novel cause of misery both to
themselves and to surrounding provinces is developed
in the territories of which Lahore is the metropolis.
A strange description of political leprosy has infected
the Government of those territories : for the clearing
away of that leprosy some equally novel remedy
must he discovered and administered.
" Et quoniam variant morbi, variabimus artes ;
Mille mali species, mille salutis erunt."
Otherwise these maladies would inevitably and inva-
riably gain the mastery of all correctives. The rulers of
this incendiary population are most detestable in their
characters. The heartless criminality of the RANEE,
the systematic vice of her paramour, and the arch-
hypocrisy of GuooLAB SINGH are equally matters
of notoriety, and are equally calculated to arouse our
detestation. No native materials for legis-
lation are discoverable ; those which are at
present employed are merely endured during
the presence of their British defenders ; immediately
upon the departure of the latter the former will be
overwhelmed by the puissant abhorrence of their
subjects. Having vanquished the rulers imposed
upon them, or rather aided by the swards of
the English, the Seikhs will nurse their
self-confidence into audacity; the recollec-
tion of Sobraon and Ferozeshah will be obli-
terated by the triumph of overthrowing an obnoxious
administration ; and these daring and predatory
warriors, elated by success, and instigated by re-
venge, may once more endeavour to cross those fron-
tiers which have already been the scene of their discom.
fiture, and to renew the bloodshed which has been
so destructive to themselves, and so deplorable even
in our victorious ranks. We are not arranging
some mournful hypothesis, we are deducing a series
of glaring probabilities from certain significant and
indisputable facts. All these considerations will
of course present themselves to the presiding coun-
cils of British India, and upon the resolutions
formed therefrom will depend the barbarism or civili-
sation, the death or life, the anguish or joy of many
thousands. Until the position of affairs at Lahore
had been corroborated by a succession of similar
dispatches, we abstained from speaking thus definitely
upon a matter of such remarkable difficulty and de-
licacy. Now, however, we are compelled to acknow-
ledge that the imposition of benefits upon another is
preferable to the quiescent reception of grievous
and unceasing injuries.

There can be little doubt, from the manner in
which the Livery of London have taken up the cause,
that Alderman Woon is the person whom they would
desire to occupy the civic chair during the ensuing
year. But the very fact that the Court of Aldermen
have it in their power to put a veto on the free choice
of the Livery is sufficient to create an apathy in the
public mind. " What is the use," may every Livery-
man ask, "of going into Guildhall, and there giving
my vote in favour of Alderman WooD, when I know
—from the fatal experience of past years—that the
Court of Aldermen, a wholly irresponsible body, can
nullify the expression of the popular will and reject
the object of the popular choice ?"
Were the votes in Guildhall to settle the question,
whether it were or were not the desire of the citizens
that Alderman WooD should be "Mayor of London
and Lord of the Manor of Finsbury," we should have
the election carried on in a manner very different
from that exhibited since last Tuesday. Where
hundreds have voted, thousands would have has-
tened to vote, under different circa stances.
There may be an apparent apathy in the
public mind, during the present contest, but
there is none in reality. The matter which acts
as the wet blanket is simply this—vote how they may,
the Livery must feel, and do feel, that their utmost
exertions may be in vain, if the obstinacy, the caprice,
or the injustice of the Court of Aldermen pleases to
declare that Mr. WooD shall not be Lord Mayor. It
is precisely as if a popular and necessary measure—
such as reform or free trade—having been triumph-
antly passed in the House of Commons, by the re-
sponsible representatives of the people, should
be rejected by the House of Lords, a body
wholly irresponsible. We are convinced that, if it
rested with the Livery, Alderman WOOD would be
borne into the civic chair by an immense majority.
But when they feel that their votes may go for no-
thing, the Livery lose that strong interest in the
election which they would otherwise take, and thus
the marvel is not that the total number of votes is
comparatively small—not more than a third of the
electors having voted—but that so many have come
to the poll. The large number who have voted
for Alderman WOOD may be taken as proofs of the
personal gooiwill of the Livery. If there were not
that modern "Star Chamber," the Court of Alder-
men, with power to undo what the Livery had
done, double the number of votes would have been
given long ago, and the contest would have been
virtually ended on the second day.
We have ventured to compare the irresponsible
power of the Court of Aldermen to that exercised by
the House of Lords. To carry out the parallel, it
should be added, that as the House of Lords have
not presumed to persevere in their resistance to the
public will, so the Court of Aldermen may find it
worth while to consider the consequences of their
continued opposition to the voice of the Livery, so
often and so loudly raised in favour of Alderman
WooD. " The pressure from vk ithout" has more
than once significantly given a lesson to the Peers,
and the same " pressure" may whisper a word or two
into Aldermanic ears. Already has the question
been mooted, whether the Aldermen may be ren-
dered responsible to the Livery of London—by being
subjected to septennial or even triennial election.
This would efficiently check them without so much
controlling them as to limit their power of free
action for good purposes.
Mr. BENNOCII, himself a member of the Common
Council, did not hesitate to touch on this subject, in
an eloquent and energetic speech, which he made in
Guildhall, at the conclusion of the proceedings on
Saturday. He argued that the continued opposition
of the Court of Aldermen to the wish of the citizens
(as in this case of Alderman Wool)) must have the
effect of compelling the public to consider whether an
organic change—in other words, a wholesale reform—.
might not, and must not, be made in the constitution

of the Court of Aldermen. He urged that, if it were
seen that an irresponsible body pertinaciously acted,
for a aeries of years, against the will of the public, un-
equivocally expressed, there was nothing for it but to
change the system, and, by instituting periodical re-
election, make each member of that body responsible to
the Livery. There is so much truth in this, that we
firmly believe if municipal reform take place in the
city of London, the ostensible cause for it will pro-
bably be supplied by the Court of Aldermen itself.

We would fain hope that the Aldermen will peace-
fully yield in the present case, and, by confirming the
return of Alderman Wool), put an end to the excite-
ment which now prevails. An act of justice, how-
ever tvrdy, will be received with kindly and even
with grateful feelings, and in this instance we are
confident that it would also create an act of oblivion.
Alderman WOOD and his friends, throughout this
trying contest, have carefully abstained from all per-
sonality, have avoided all temptations to annoy those
opposed to them. Considering it as not a mere per-
sonal contest, but a battle for the privileges of the
Livery, jeopardized by the resistance, from " the
powers that be," to the Alderman's claims to the
civic chair—for rotation and for popular election
—they have been superior to the use of harsh lan-
guage, angry epithets, or attempts at recrimination.
The contest ended, and the Alderman elected, there
can be no reason why the angry feelings which have
ruffled the popular mind should not subside.

" It is ill-speaking between a feu man and a fast-
ing." This adage, used by our Scottish neighbours,
conveys an impressive lesson as to the manner in

which Irish affairs must be dealt with during the
present crisis. The man half-starved, oppressed with
the pangs of hunger, and seeing those dearer to him
than life itself—the partner of his cares and toils, the
helpless infants, the pledges of their mutual love—
crying for food, which he is unable to supply, and
gradually sinking, their strength failing, and all the
consequences of inanition becoming daily more ap-
parent, will scarcely be disposed to argue quietly, to
listen with submission to the reasons urged on him
why he should patiently bear his afflictions, and wait

until his necessities can be relieved in due course.

The stomach is an unruly member, it requires
nourishment of some kind, and that must be obtained
legally, if possible, but, if not legally, in any manner
whatsoever, per fas et nefas.
We have continually urged the imperative necessity
of taking instant measures for setting to work the
destitute labourers. That is the first duty, whether
the work be useful or otherwise, whether it be likely
to yield a profitable return or be merely an
ornamental construction. The people must be
maintained, and if that maintenance be given to
them without any return in the shape of labour, its
results will be most injurious and demoralising to the
many. " Idleness is the mother of mischief," and
that fertile cause of evil must be avoided. A subsis-
tence must be secured for the people, but it should be
in return for their honest industry. They must get
either land, on which they may live, or work and
wages, whereby they can live. If this is not afforded
to them according to law, it will most undoubtedly
be seized contrary to law, and much more will be de-
stroyed, damaged, or taken away, than would have
preserved the public peace and tranquillity, if applied
in the first instance. The people must not be driven
to insurrection or outrage ; true it is that
such disturbances may be suppressed by the
strong arm, but it will be at a fearful
loss of human life, a fearful amount of
human suffering. The rioters may perish by the
bullet, the steel, perchance by the hands of the exe-
cutioner, but much will be suffered by other parties
also; and it would eventually be found that it would
cost as little to send provisions as soldiers into the
country; food is as cheap as armed men, and if the
contest is once commenced, it will undoubtedly be
tedious and perilous. The battle, on the part of the
people, will be one for existance, and the victory will
not be easy. There is yet time to avoid this horrible
alternative, but it is a brief and flitting moment.
" There is a light cloud on the moon,
'Tis passing, and will pass full soon."
And if advantage be not taken at the instant,
if the golden opportunity is lost, it may be im-
possible to regain the vantage ground we now
occupy. To a reasoning mind it would be un-
necessary to dilate on the advantages of immediate
action. Every riot, similar to those that have so re-
cently taken place at Youghal and Dungarvan, will lead
to further disturbance. If the people succeed, if they
find that their violence obtains for them betterterms than
those formerly offered, if benefits are the return for

outrages, they will readily be induced to listen to the
suggestions of wicked and turbulent spirits—and,
unfortunately, there are many such abroad—and
formidable outbreaks may originate in trivial and in-
sufficient causes. But should it be otherwise, should
they be dispersed by the strong arm of power, and
some of the rioters deprived of life, or seriously hurt,
a bitter and revengeful feeling will arise, and too
many opportunities may occur for giving effect and
expression thereto. All this must be avoided, and it
is barely possible to do so ; the relief and the em-
ployment have been too long withheld. Steps have
been taken in many localities of the most beneficial
character, large sums have been voted, and present-
ments passel The landowners in some baronies
have imposed upon themselves weighty charges for
the purpose of averting the disasters from
their vicinities, but such isolated exertions,
great and meritorious as they undoubtedly
are, and valuable as they will prove
in preserving the tranquillity of the several districts
in which they have taken place, will not alone be
sufficient. A general effort must be made throughout
the entire kingdom ; zealous and active men should be
appointed in every neighbourhood to co-operate with
the authorities, to ascertain the extent of the distress,
and the amount of 'relief that will be necessary. A
list should, if possible, be drawn out of all the per-
sons dependent on their daily labour for their daily
bread. By this means the exact amount of expendi.
ture that will be necessary may be ascertained, and
no superfluous undertaking need be attempted.
The second point to be considered is, the means by
which that labour which must be employed may be
made most useful. It should be directed into proper
channels, and made productive. The opening of new
roads into districts hitherto inadequately provided
therewith may be useful in some parts, but, generally
speaking, such a source would be quite insufficient for
the advantageous employment of the people. The soil
of the country, however, affords ample opportunities
therefor—there are few acres on which this labour
might not be applied so as to yield a return of at
least ten per cent. for the expenditure. Why then is
such an opportunity neglected ? Difficulties un-
doubtedly there are in distributing this labour to be
paid for by the public, or rather, we should say, by a
rate levied on the different lands equitably, so as to
give no individual owner or occupier advantages that
would not be equally participated in by all similarly
circumstanced, but these difficulties are not insuper-
able ; where there is a will there is a way, and we
have no doubt that means could be adopted so as to
overcome every existing impediment. . The laws,
however, are inadequate for the emergency, there is no
way by which, under any Act at present in force, this
great object could be attained. Then new enact-
ments should be passed without delay ; the Legis-
lature should be immediately assembled to take into
their consideration the measures proposed for that
purpose.

It is certainly an unusual period of the year, and
the individual Members are entitled to some relaxa-
tion after their prolonged labours during the last
session, and the many and important subjects with
which they had to grapple while it continued; but
we are much mistaken if a single Member would he-
sitate, on account of the personal inconvenience to
which he would thereby be subjected ; and we are
also well assured that no undue advantage would be
taken of the meeting to embarrass the Ministry, or to
introduce other and less pressing matters to the public
notice. There is a great and serious responsibility
on the Government at the present moment. If pos-
sible, they should share that responsibility with the
Parliament ; but, if they cannot do so, they should
act themselves, and trust to an indemnity on the next
meeting for any irregular step they may have autho-
rised or directed—an indemnity which would
unanimously granted.

The Scientific Congress, at present sitting at
Genoa, has been recently engaged in the discussion
of this question...." Is or is not the plague contagi-

ous ?" They have core to the conclusion that it is
contagious, and the report of the section declares that
the plague may be transmitted from a considerable
distance. We should much like to read the evidence
upon which these conclusions are founded.

Count DE REVENTLOW, who, on the publication of
the Letters Patent of the King of DENMARK, re-
signed the office which Ee held of Danish Ambassador
at the Court of Berlin, has had conferred on him by
the King of PRUSSIA the order of the Red Eagle of the
First Class.

The Grand Duchess MARY of Russia, daughter of
the Grand Duke MICHAEL, is alarmingly ill at
Vienna.

Madrid papers of the 27th and 28th ult. have arrived.
The Heraldo of the 28th announces that the mar-
riages will be solemnised on the 4th, that the QUEEN
and INFANTA with their Consorts will proceed imme-
diately afterwards to Aranjuez, and will return to
Madrid on the 10th, when the fetes will begin. Mr.
BuLwER had a conference with Senor ISTURITZ on
the 26th. Everything was, it is said, conducted in the
most courteous way, but S -!nor ISTURITZ concluded by
declaring that the Cortes having expressed their opi-
nion on the royal marriages, he regretted that he could
not answer any more communications he might re-
ceive on the subject.
The Bill authorising the levy of 25,000 recruits
has passed the Chamber of Deputies. The Senate
were engaged in discussing the Bill authorising the
Ministry to levy taxes, which was opposed by General
SERRANO, on account of the numerous illegal acts
the Ministry had been guilty of. General NARVAEZ,
Senor ISTURITZ, and the Marquis MIRAFLORES de -
fended the conduct of the Ministry, which was at-
tacked by Senor LuzuNAeA, who was left speaking
when the post left.
" Yesterday," says the Eco del Comercio, " the
French Ambassador gave a dinner to the Ministers,
General NARVAEZ and other partisans or defenders of
the foreign marriage. It has always been our opi-
nion that those who applaud ought to cot, and
those who eat are ungrateful if they do not ap-
plaud."

The Ministerial journals represent the country as
tranquil; but from the precautions adopted in Catalo-
nia, Arragon, and the Basque Provinces, it is evi-
dent that an outbreak is apprehended. The
French police are every vigilant. They ar-
rested at Sare the Carlist Colonel GARCIA,
as he was about to enter Spain. A Spaniard has been
apprehended on the vague charge of entertaining evil
designs against the Due MONTPENSIER, and a
strong escort has been appointed for the guard of the
Duke. A telegraphic dispatch has announced the
arrival of the Dukes DE MONTPIINSIER and D'AIIMALE
at Tolosa, on the 3d of October, where a magnificent

fête was offered them. They were to leave in the
morning for Vittoria.
MADRID BOLSA, SEPT. 28.—The Three per Cents.
I were done at 344, for paper ; the Four per Cents., at
214 ; the Five per Cents., at 22, for cash ; the Debt
without interest, at 64 ; and the Coupons, at 201.

We have received the Paris papers of Friday and
Saturday.

The " bread riots " in the Faubourg St. Antoine
were renewed on Thursday night. The following is
the account of them given in Galignani :
"Yesterday evening the assemblage in the Quartier
Saint Antoine became again so numerous along the
whole of the Rue de Faubourg and the adjacent streets,
that the magistrates were obliged to take strong mea-
sures. Troops of the line, horse and foot municipal
guards, sergeants de vile, and police-officers in plain
clothes, marched simultaneously into the Place du TrOne
and the Place de la Bastille. On their way they were
hooted, and in some instances pelted. They were at length
compelled to charge. Many of the mob, who were
almost all in blouses, took refuge in the house No. 45,
which was immediately surrounded by the armed force,
and several of the rioters, all young persons, were ar-
rested. By ten o'clock the disturbers were entirely dis-
persed, and all remained quiet through the night. We
should remark that at least a moiety of the crowd
assembled last night went to the spot as spectators,
among whom were many English, proverbially partial
to a row. These amateurs (among whom, truth compels
us to add, there were not a few of the softer sex')
were evidently disappointed at the quiet manner in
which the affair went off, pronouncing it to be alto-
gether inferior to an Irish kick up' in St. Giles's."
It would appear, from other accounts, that during
the course of the riots various seditious cries were
uttered. An attempt was made to renew the dis-
turbances on Friday evening, but the rioters were
prevented from assembling in consequence of the pre-
cautions adopted by the authorities, who caused
several of them to be arrested. The Montpensier
marriage still continues to occupy the almost un-
divided attention of the journalists. The presence of
the British fleet on the coast of Spain appears to have
excited some alarm in Paris. On this subject the
Constitutionnel justly remarks :
" It is certain that the English fleet will not quit the
coast of Spain, and a steam-frigate has been sent to
Malta for the provisions necessary for a long anchorage.
We do not know whether the English fleet is to be rein-
forced, and we think there are not in the Mediterranean
eight ships of the line for that purpose. Admiral Parker,
therefore, can only receive serious reinforcements from
England. The English squadron, which a few weeks
ago consisted of nine ships of the line, besides seve-
ral steam-frigates, has now only five ships of the
line; the other four have left on their return to England.
This order given to the English fleet to maintain its
post of observation on the coasts of Spain is certainly
a grave event, but notwithstanding the menacing cha-
racter given to it in Madrid and Paris, we are anxious
that the importance of it should not be exaggerated.
We hope that war will not arise out of the faults com-
mitted by our Government ; but see to what they have
already brought us ! Not only does the entenie cordiale
no longer exist, but from coolness the affair has pro-
ceeded to hostile demonstrations. What is the real cause
of a change so marked, and of a nature to cause serious
uneasiness to the public ? It cannot be said that it is
the marriage itself, for it bad been accepted by Lord
Aberdeen, on conditions which had been agreed to by
ou Government.rwasnot
only pThosissiubenli7 but easily realisable, if the
, agreeable to the two fami-
lies,negotiations had been conducted with the prudence and
considerations which were proper. This is what has
not been done, and it is, in a manner, for a question of
time and form that the Government has compromised
the result which it wished to obtain. Instead of re-
maining faithful to anterior conventions, instead of
waiting for the birth of an heir to the throne of Spain,
or obtaining from the English Cabinet its consent
to the immediate marriage of the Infanta, our Go-
vernment thought it more commodious to break its
word than to keep it, and to carry by surprise, and at the
same time deeply offending its allies, what it might
have obtained by prudent and honourable conduct.
England complains bitterly—the alliance is broken off;
indirect provocations have been interchanged on both
sides of the Channel, and now hostile demonstrations
announce the cessation of the good relations which
had existed, and create alarm in both countries. Whose
fault is this? That of the Ministers, who have at-
tempted to carry off an Infanta, with the same fore-
sight, the same wisdom, the same skill, as they dis-
played in the conquest of the Marquesas. The state
of things, however, is more grave than it was at the
time of the negotiation relative to Mr. Pritchard. The

two Governments are more seriously involved, the rup-
ture is more profound. The interest which has been fol-
lowed up is not very great for France, if it can even be
said that France finds in this marriage that any interest
whatever is satisfied; but who can say what may be the
importance of the consequences of the conduct that has
been pursued?"

The Debats says, speaking of the manner in which
the Montpensier marriage has been viewed by various
parties—
" The marriage of a French Prince with the Infanta
of Spain is neither so little nor so great as it has been
represented to be. It cbanges nothing, it maintains
what exists. It consolidates by a bond the more the
old alliance of France and Spain ; it renews and
strengthens it. It draws tighter the chain of those in.
terests of ages, the importance of which did not escape
observation a short time back. All Europe was
aware of M. Guizot's declaration, and no one, that we
know of, took alarm at it then; it was considered quite
natural that France, in this question of marrying the
Spanish Princesses, should defend its old policy; and
what is that which is taking place at present but M.
Guizot's declaration put in action ? Spain will not be
less independent after the marriage of the Duke tie
Montpensier than she was antecedently, and that noble
country may be trusted to reject all that can wound her
rights and her honour. Only a foreign family will not
take its place on the throne of the descendants of Philip
V. Such is the dowry of the Infanta, and it is apparently
this dowry which France is envied !"

The Prince DE JOINVILLE has arrived at Toulon,
and is expected in Paris on the 29th.

The provinces are in the greatest distress on ac-
count of the scarcity of food.
" We have unfortunately to record," says the Con-
stitutionnel, "a new rise in the price of grain. The
general average price, which was in August 23f. 95c.
per hectolitre, was iu September 25f. le., showing an
increase of If. 6c. Last month we had already noticed
an augmentation of If. 22c. The rise extends to every
market of France, with the exception of those of Brit-
tany, where it has not materially varied. It was most
remarkable on the Upper and Lower Rhine, where it
exceeds 2if., the hectolitre costing upwards of 30f. Its
price in the western departments was only 20f. 72c."
" A decided fatality," observes the Breton of Nantes,
" appears at present to fall upon the people, and we
tremble when we reflect on the dreary prospect before
us. As if the sterility of the soil did not produce suffi-
cient distress, the fishery our coast has b:en Conn-

pletely null this year, and our fishermen want bread at a
season when they are generally making their provision
for the winter. At Etel, at Croix, at Belle-Isle, at Port

Louis, and at Conquet, the entire population of fisher-
men must perish unless the Government provide them
with employment."
Several eminent Carlists have been arrested at
their residences in various French towns. Among

others General ÜBAGO, who has been placed in soli-
tary confinement at La Reole, and Senor ARTALrgo,
formerly Intendant of the Carlist army of Arragon

who has been imprisoned at Nantes.

Nothing has yet been heard of the Count DE Mori-
TEMOLIN. _

The Esprit Public declares that " down to the
!7th of August last the Cabinet of the Tuileries was

negotiating with the Count DE MONTEMbLIN, to
whom it offered its assistance to place him on the
throne of Spain, as the husband, provided he recog-

nised the rights of Queen ISABELLA, and that he
consented to the marriage of the INFANTA, her sister,
with the Duke DE MONTPENSIER. Count DE MON-

TEMOLIN rejected those propositions." It is said that

Lord PALMERSTON is in the possession of evidence
which will prove this to have been the case.
The Epoque announces that a treaty of commerce
has been concluded with Russia for the removal of

the restrictions imposed on French commerce by the
ukase of June, 1845.
The Minister of Marine is continuing his tour of
inspection. The Vigie of St. Maloes says :
" It appears certain that important works of fortifi-
cation are about to be erected along the coast of the
Channel and the Atlantic. At all events, the realisa-
tion of those projects must be slow, and our maritime
population is not a little alarmed at seeing the existing
fortifications left without a single piece of cannon. Our
ct,ast is in so defenceless a state, that the English may,
whenever they please, burn all our Channel harbours
in a few hours."
We doubt much whether the ports of France are
in such a defenceless condition as the Vigie
would lead us to believe. We are afraid that
the Vigie's description would be found to apply
more accurately to the English than to the French
cnannet ports.
There has been something like an emeute among
the military at St. Omer, in consequence of the
Ministerial order that the national guards of the town
and environs should come without arms to the
ceremony of the inauguration of the statue of the
Duke of ORLEANS, although the interdiction is in
strict conformity with the law. At a meeting held
on Wednesday the grenadiers and voltigeurs, the ar-
tillery and cavalry of the National Guard of Lille,
decided that they should not go to St. Omer, as they
were not allowed to carry arms. The artillerymen
of St. Omer even have refused to appear
at the file. An altercation of much warmth
is said to have taken place on the subject be-
tween the mayor and sub-prefect of the town ; the
first insisting upon either a revocation of the order,
or a suspension of the ceremony ; the second en-
trenching himself behind the military authority,
and insisting that the inauguration should . take
place on the day originally fixed, on the ground
that the march of the troops already given
out could not be countermanded. The mayor
then declared that the whole of the National
Guard of St. Omer would refuse to attend, and that
the town would not grant the necessary funds for
the expenses of the day. In consequence of this de-
plorable discussion the mayor and his deputies, and
';he committee appointed to regulate the preparations
'or the fete, have resigned their functions.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Saturday at 82f. 90c.; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 90c.;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,275 E ; Rouen, 956 f. 25c. ;
Havre, 722 E 50c. ; Great Northern, 726 f. 25c. ; Avignon,
927 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 625 f. ; Bordeaux, 568 f. 75c.;
Boulogne, 480 f. ' • Basle, 232 f. 50c. ; Dieppe, 380 f. ; Paris
and Strasburg, 501 E 25c. ; Tours and Nantes, 508 E 75c. ;
Paris and Lyons, 527 f. 50c. • Lyons and Avignon, 492 f. 50e. ;
Bordeaux and Cette, 485 i. ; Belgian Two-and-a• Half per
Cents., 56M.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 3.
_

Boulogne and Amiens, 14% —Direct Bombay and Madras, %
Dutch Rhenish, 4N —Great Western Bengal, % .—West Flanders, 3 lA

RIVER PLATE-SUSPENSION OF

HOSTILITIES.
The following is a translation of a dispatch from
Senor Arana to General Mansilla, commanding the bat-
teries at San Lorenzo on the Parana:—

" His Excellency the Governor, in reference to your
note has ordered the undersigned to state to your Ex-
cellency in reply, that Thomas S. Hood, Esq., hap in
fact arrived in this city, accredited confidentially by the
Government of her Britannic Majesty to that of the Ar-
genuine Confederation, on a special mission for the ar-
rangement of the pending differences in the River Plate.
The dignified and honourable course which the Govern-
ments of England and France have adopted, the import-
ant friendly explanations which their envoy has trans-
mitted to this Government, and the satisfactory guaran-
tees which the Governor attributes to the said Mr. Hood,
on account of his former dignified conduct in the repub-
lics, call for a corresponding course on the part of the
Confederation, and that its Government should testify
to its specific views, and to the sincere friendship with
which it is animated towards those high Powers.
" Under such circumstances his Excellency the Go-
vernor orders that your Excellency, with the forces
under your command will not take any hostile step
against the merchant vessels which remain at Corientes,
and may be returning, nor against the Anglo-French
vessels of war which which may go up or down the
river Parana, but permit them to pass without molesta-
tion until otherwise ordered, and only in case of their
attacking, your Excellency will defend yourself with the
same spirit as hitherto. _

" His Excellency will modify these instructions ac-
cording to circumstances, and should such become neces-
sary, revert to the previous orders communicated to your
Excellency. In the mean time a prudent vigilance OD
the part of your Excellency is recommended, in order to
avert any untoward consequences resulting from a mis-
placed confidence.
" Buenos Ayres, July 15, 1846."

DEPARTURE OP THE EAST AND

WEST INDIA MAILS.
SouTHAjitrroti, SATURDAY, OCT. 3.—The Orienta,
Company's steam ship Tagus, Captain Evans, left the
docks this day, at three P.M. for Constantinople, Trebi-
zond, &c., calling at Malta. She takes the East India
mails and thirty-seven passengers, leaving them at
Malta to be forwarded by the Iberia. The Tagus will
not call at Smyrna outwards. She has a full cargo of
bale goods. _

The Royal West India steam-packet Teviot, Captain
Boxer, left this port on Friday with the West India
and Gulf mails, a good general cargo, 1,200 bottles of
quicksilver, and company's stores; also ninety-four pas-
sengers.

The Achilles, Captain Wilson, is expected from Alex•
andria and Malta on the Bth or 9th inst., with the Easi
India and Chinese mails.

The Madrid, Captain Bingham, from Gibraltar, may
be looked for to-morrow. She will bring the Peninsula
and Mediterranean mails.
The Royal West India mail packet, the Medway,
Captain Adams, with homeward mails, is due on the 7th,
but more than likely will arrive here to-morrow.
The Dee, Captain Allan, is preparing for sea, and will
take out the West India mails of the 17th inst.
The Severn, West India boat, will be due on the 22d.
The South-Western Steam Navigation Company have
brought up the South of England Company's boats, and
the company is now called the New South-Western
Steam Navigation Company. Thus ceases all competi-
tion between this port and Havre, Guernsey, and Jersey,
to the cost of the travelling public, who will have no
alternative but to submit to this moaopoly.

THE GREAT BRITAIN.—We have received intelli-
gence from our correspondent at Dundrum Bay, that,
on Saturday morning, the first effort was made to get
the Great Britain afloat, but it was entirely unsuccess-
ful. Two steam-tugs were made fast to her, but they
could not move her. It is to be hoped that suceeeding
efforts, with higher tides, will be more successful.—
;verpool Albion.
NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " OLIVER
CROMWELL."—A literary phenomenon of rare occur-
rence in these days, has just made its appearance—a
work of fiction for which we cannot find a more appro-
priate designation than that of a classical novel. " The
Roman Traitor"—such is its title—bids fair to be not
less attractive to the scholar than to lady readers. The
author (Mr. Herbert, the writer of the popular romance
of " Oliver Cromwell") has brought to his task a power-
ful mind, a fertile imagination, erudition, great command
of language, and much industry ; and with these qualifi-
cations he has succeeded in producing a picture of those
palmy days of the Roman Commonwealth, when ambi-
tion hud begun to prompt daring designs for its over-
throw, but before the public mind had become generally
depraved by the luxurious indulgences introduced by the
imperial CTsars. The hero of the work is the arch-trai-
tor Catiline, whose catastrophe is represented with such
scrupulous attention to habits, manners, localities, and
historical circumstances, that the reader almost feels
himself an inhabitant of the eternal city, as it appeared
two thousand years ago.
LYCEUM THEATRE.—Their Royal Highnesses the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,and the Hereditary Grand
Duke and Duchess of Meeklenburgh Strelitz, honoured
the above favourite theatre with their presence last
evening, to witness the new grand burlesque of the
Magic Horn, and To Parents and Guardians.
DARING STREET ROBBERY.—OR Saturday after-
-0011 Mr. Lalla, of 9, Castle•streq, Long-ncre, was pass-
ing through Argyle-street, Regent-street, when he was
robbed of his pocket-book, containing an I 0 U for 51.,
a bill on Alexander Brunswick for 3001., and other valu-
able papers. The robbery is alleged to have been com-
mitted by a young man whom Mr. Lalla immediately
afterwards seized, but the delinquent was rescued from
him, and escaped.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)

There was a fair amount of business done in Cotton on
Saturday at Liverpool. Sales 7,000 bales, including
2,000 American on speculation. The market is steady,

without alteration in prices.
The grain markets are stationary this morning at
Mark-lane. The arrivals of wheat from Kent are very

large.
Later accounts have come to hand from the Cape of
Good Hope to-day. The details will be found in another
column of The Sun.

The quarterly general meeting of the iron masters is
appointed to be held at Wolverhampton at noon to-
morrow. The state of the iron trade is one of consider-
able peculiarity. Aris' Birmingham Gazette thus re-
marks upon the subject:—
"For some time a want of confidence, unanimity, and
firmness has prevailed among those gentlemen who are
accustomed to attend these meetings of the trade, arising
from various causes, one of which is the very un-
scrupulous use made of the resolutions agreed
to on such occasions by those who do not
attend. In many instances it has been the practice of
some parties to make use of the list of prices then made
out, as a sort of beacon to which they must not aspire,
but only approach within a respectful distance, accord-
ing to their influence and standing in the market. Thus
one will fix his price at 10s., another at 205., and some
even occasionally at 30s to 40s. less—offering, as an ex-
cess, their inability to obtain customers at the same
figure as Mr. Foster, Mr. Williams, or other houses of
high standing; and as the grand tide of the march of
intellect in the present day has set in so strongly to uni-
versal cheapness, no doubt, in times when the make of
iron exceeds the demand, a serious interference with the
customers of those who wish to uphold the prospects of
the trade will be experienced. We are not on this oc-
casion about to investigate the other causes that operate
so injuriously upon the interests of the Staffordshire
ironmasters. That this is an evil, and a serious evil,
none will deny, and it exerts a very considerable ten-
dency to counteract the benefits that accrue from the
quarterly meetings. But we are happy to have an op-
portunity at the present moment of stating that the
nuisance is on the decline, and that in very many in-
stances this dishonourable practice is altogether
abandoned. This is the result of the ex-
isting and prospective relation between the de-
mand and supply, and we believe a greater simi-
larity has prevailed during the last month in the quota-
tions at which iron has been offered (if, indeed, that
term may be used with propriety when the orders of
regular customers can only be accepted) than has been
known in Staffordshire for several years. The decision
of the meeting at Dudley will have a tee, deny to in-
crease the unanimity and good feeling of all, parties, and
we cannot but congratulate the trade in genera it that such
was the determination arrived at, more pati;cularly as
any advance which may appear eligible can 1.4 so much
more easily effected at quarter-day.
The new Stock and Share Market was °pied this
morning. It is in the rear of the Hall of Comnerce.
Not much business, however, appeared to be in prdk ress.
Money is said to be increasing in value in the City
circles.
The value of Wheat has not been raised higher is k•
day than on Friday last.
It appears from the contents of almost all the letters
received from the continent this morning, that the prices
of bread and provisions are upon the advance.
The Funds have been flat this morning, with scarcely
any business doing of interest. Consols for the Account
have been quoted 954 4, and precisely the same for
Money. The premium upon Exchequer-bills is 15s.
In the Foreigh Stocks the principal operations of the
day have been in Brazilian, at 864 ; in the New ditto,
at 854; in Mexican, at 25; in Spanish, at 26k; in the
Three per Cents., at 374 4; and in Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents., at 59* 4.
There is not any alteration of importance in the
Railway Share Market to-day. Business is slack, and
prices heavy.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 95%1/2 95%
India Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto under 1,000/. .. ......
Consols for Account... 95%1, 951/2
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 11/2d.
Ditto 5001.

Ditto Small ... 15 18 pm. 18
oNE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Small
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846
Ditto. Account ..... ...
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 2614 26%
Ditto, Passive
Ditto. 3 per Cent —
Ditto, Account 37 %% 37%
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent — MOM.
Ditto, Deferred l3 13
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch, 2% per Cent 594% 591 s
PRICES OP PAID BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
BAILWAY SHARES 'AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Amber., Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%......
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l%
Aylesbury and Theme.. 1%
Belfast & County Down 43/4
Birrain. and Gloucester. 100 129
Ditto New 17% .... .... .....
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 23/4 —
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 22s
Bristol and Exeter. 75
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... .......
Bristol and Liver. June . 2%...... -
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian
Ditto Half Shares...... 2%
Ditto Extension ...... 21/z — ...
Cambrian & Grand Jane 42s
Cambridge and Oxford.. 1%.,....
Central Kent
Chester and Holyhead... 27% 23%
Chumet and Blythe 2
Chester and Manchester 425.
Cheltenham and Oxford 2 ......
Clydesdale Junction 2O —
Cork, Blackrock, and
Passages
Cork and Killarney ... 2% — ....
Cork and Waterford ... 1% — ...... ..••••••••
Cornwall
Ditto, Half Shares ... 2% ......
•
Cornwall & Cent'lDevon 2% ••• '*
I 'erby and Crewe 2%
Direct Lincoln, East Ret-
ford, and Shetld. June. 2% ......
Direct Manchester
(Remington's)
Ditto (Rastrick's) SA •••••• ••»......••
Direct Northern
1 ji
Direct Norwich
Dublin and Belfast Junc. 10
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Galway..... 4
Dundalk & Enniskillen 71, _
Eastern Counties 14/. 16s .. 21%1/2
Ditto New l2l. 16s
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1.......6!.135. 4d....
Ditto ditto. No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... % p
Do., York Extension.. 105....... 2
EastDereh'm andNoech 1
Eastern Union 35
~. ..• ............ ..
Ditto, Quarter Shares 8% — ...............
Do. Exten.(Harwich) 1143 —
.........
.....
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2% —
East Lancashire

CLOSING
PRICES
861 h.
85
856

___ - .........
Dittct, New
East Lincolnshire
East & West of England 1%...... _ .............
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... ...
...... .
Ditto Half Shares
.............
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%
Edinburgh & Northern.. 10
•••
Edinburgh and Perth... 3 ...... .
• H - -

Ily and Huntingdon ... ?1A... --
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 21/Q — .....
Exeter,Yeovil,& Dorset 514 — ...........
Glasgow, Kilmar., & Ayr 50
...............
Ditto, New
Do., 14 Shares (5 per ....
cent. guar.)
Glouc.,Abeiystwith, and
Central of Wales 1%...... --
Goole, Doncaster, &c 42s. —
Grand Union (Notting-
and Lynn l% ..
Great Ea.stern &Western 2% — ........ ... ..
GreatGrimsby and Shef-
field
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Great Munster ... 2% — .... ...........
Great North of Scotland 2% — .........
Great North of England..loo
Ditto New
Ditto, New .
Ditto, New
Great Western
Ditto % Shares
...............
Ditto 4 Shares lO
.............
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Fare'm,Ports 5 .....
.. ........
. ..
Harwich and Eastern ....... "
...

211/s
114

23%
1%

/'ti.
^~

213/4
6% p

--,
%
13
11

7
4

69
51%
191/2

5p

Counties Junction ... 2 ......
!lull and Selby 5O
Ditto 14 Shares
Do. Half Shares
...... 25 ......
Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 111,4
Do., do., and Norwich 2
Killarney Junctions ..... . I -
Kendal and Windermere 11,
Lancaster and Carlisle... 45
Do. New ............... 5
Larne, Belfast, and Bal-
lymena
Leeds and Bradford 3O
Leeds and Carlisle
...
Leicester & Birmingham 225.
Leicester and Bedf.wd... 225......• %1/&
Leeds and Dewsbury ... 221/2 —
11Inchstr & New _

_ .
castle Junction
Liverpool and Bury
London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d. 9%
Do. Ne-,v - ...... .... .:.
Ditto Extension ~ 7%...... .
London and BriLlaton 5O .. ... 58%3Z, IA
Ditto, Fifths
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d 21%
Do. Gr.a.ran. 5 per cent. 9 - ••• •• •• .. •••
London and Greenwich 12/ 15s4d —
Do. Preference ...18/ 17s 2d —
London, Hounslow, and
Western
London and N. Westernloo I:8!:2 198 luz,
Do. Quarters
Do., do., New Shares.. 2
Ditto Fifths

9%

58111

21 1/:2

Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 121/2
Do , New ill Shares
(G. J.)
Do ,tO/. S hares (L. M.) 8 —
Lond. & z.,,,,Wes,tern 411 64 10d 69% 681/
1)0. Now Consol. Bths 40
Do. N''''''
Do. N: -"V
Loildon am... -17()rk 2%... . 13/4%
Do. % Share.`2% — .........
Lsor . 19(4... . --A....
.
Salisbury, And
YeoN -il ..... .......... •,. 2% ..„„ It/8
LL.:)arcido,)nn,and Win,'
Londonth'rY
'
~ and Ennis-
&Coleraine 12%. _...
Londonden
killen ...... . - l2l/2
1.%
Lynn and Ely .. ••••• ..... 1
i,
11.1% ...... •••
Lynn and Derehai..l ..... L,'
Manchester and Leet..4.- "
• 38
Ditto % Shares
Do. Quarters
Do. Fifths . ' • ••• 8% 9
. , 8
Do. Sixteenths ~.. 61/4
Do. Extension 4'25.... ••• 14 P
Manchester and Birmin. 40 .

684,
53
303/4
lys

Do. Quarters (A)
Do. Quarters (B)
Do. Quarters (C) 1
Manehester,Buxton,and
Matlock 42s. ...... 3%,1,
Manchester, Birm., and

i% 1,

Mould Junction .. ...
Manchest. & Southampt. 2 ...... 1
Midland lOO .....135
Do. Fifths 2
Do. New
Do. Birm., and Derbyloo — •••
Midlnd& East. Counties 2%......
Midland Great Western
Irish
Newcastle aNd Berwick 15 ...... 25% .. ...... ......
Do. North Shields
Newcastle and Carlisle...loo
Newmrket BaChesterfrd 2/.12s —
Newport & Abergavenny 2%..„ —
Newry and Enniskillen 4-% — , , .....
Newark, Sheffield, and
Boston ... ..,.. ......... 1%..... ... ........ ..
Norfolk .. ..... ...100 133 ... ... ........
Do. Half Shares ..... 7
Do. Extension
North British ... ..... ... 25 ...... 323/4 IA 33
Do. Half Shares ll ...... 1434%
Do. Fifths 5
Do. Carlisle Extens. 11A 31% 1/2
North of Norfolk
Northern and Eastern... 50
Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45
Do. Quarter Shares... 121%
Do. New
North Staffordshire 42s. ...... 214 ,(1,4 p......
North Wales
Northern and Southern
I
..._

9
8
11A p

8%
P

1
134 W
.3-4

25%

3
13
t

I

33
14%
3%

P

Northampton, Banbury,
and Cheltenham 2 —
Nottingham & Mansfld. — .. .. . .....
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton
Oxford, Witney, and
Cheltenham....
Portsmouth Direct 33/
Preston and Wyre
Do. % Shares
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate
Richmond
~,ti.ligby, Le,amington,and
.-A, Warwick 42,4
N p ....».......
t
-sow 'tish Central
Sco ish Midland 12% lO%
she, ,Id & Manchester 100
Do. I,,)uarter Share5... 8
lib). L.l icolnshire June. 114
Do. & tk'reat Grimsby. 10
Do. cfk Extension 425. .... ..... ..... ....
Shrewsbury *nd Birm... 3 ..., , ... ....
......
Shropshire Ira, ion
Shrews., wa , 'rhamp.,
JURC. 21A
& S. Staffordth~
Sligo and Shannon
South Devon... -,,.
South & Midlands A, 'ne,- 425• •• •••
South StaffordshireJn:c. 21e1 —
South Eastern & Doves', • 33 A 3734
De., No. 1 ~k, 26
Do., No. 2. .l 2 —
Do., No. 3 A , 16%
Do~ Ne. 4
St.Alban's, Hatfield, and '7,,
Hertford Junction ... 425.'4",.. •••
Staines and Richmond... 1 .."-;4., • •

--.
Staffordsh. & Shropshire 34 ...c. „1.
.`:•outh Wales ..... ...... ... 5 l, 41,4
Swans. & Loughor & Ca- -‘
-,
meron's Stm. C0a 1.... 2
Taw Vale Extension ... 2
Tring, Reading, and i
Basingsteke 514 i.
Vale of Neath 2 - .1. • • ..... •• •

Wakefield, Pontefract, &
Goole
Warwickshire & London 425.
Warwick and Worcester 425. •
Waterford and Kilkenny 14 .....
Waterford and Limerick 221
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin
W aterford, Wexford, and
V alentia
Waveney Valley 2
Welsh Midland

West Riding Union ...... 425.
West Cornwall
West London,Old Shares 20
Wexford and Carlow . -
.. 21A ...... --
Wilts, Somerset, & Way
mouth
Worcester, Warwick, and
Rugby
York and Carlisle 23/4 -- .•• ••••• •• •••
York and Newcastle...... 25 ...
Ditto New ~.•-• 1
York and North Midland 50 —

Ditto 1/2 Shares 25
. ..
Do. Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do. Selby 4O —
Do. Extension 2O 37
Do. East and West Rid-
ing Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

Anglo-Belgian 4 —
Barbadoes 1 •••••• --
Boulogne and Amiens l4 ...... ... .. .........
Bordeaux & Mediterran 2
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 .. ...
Do. (Espelete's)
Calais, Dunkrk, and West

6%

p

% dii

3744':
22%

...,-
Flanders
Calcutta and Diamond
Harbour • •.. ••• ..... ... 75.......
Callao, Lima, and Pacific
Coast 1 .. .•• -- ••• .. 00000000
Central of Spain ...
Ceylon
.. .... ss.
Demerara
Dendre Valley -
Direct Bombay and
Madras
••• 00000 ..• •...
... .....
Dutch Rhenish
East Indian ... .... .... ss,
f.astern Belgian Junctn. 21,4
Fa,:upoux & Hazebrouk 4
Grea: Indian Peninsular ss. —
Great western Bengal... ss.
Great We,stern Canada—. 314 ......
Italian arid. Austrian... 3
Jamaica S.blii,l• Junction 1
Jersey ...... . ....... 1
Louvain ala Sainb:e ••• 5 ••• •
Luxembourg. ..... ••••• •• 4
Lyons and Avignon,,",,,. 2
Mad ras ...... 1
Madras, Nellore, and
Arcot ye
Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... ••
Mauritius .. ..
Namur and Liege
Nn of France Constituted 5 ...... 13%
North Jamaica... ...... ... 1
Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 .....•
Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ...... ..
Over Yssel 4l3s 4d —
Paris &Lyons Constituted 5
'Paris and Orleans 2O
Pans and Rouen - ...... .• •....
Paris and Strasbourg
Constituted -
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse ...... 8 ....
Strasbourg and
•Bale ... 14
St. Laurence & 'Atlantic -- —
Tours and Nantes °Con-
stituted ........ ..... 5
.... ••••• .......
Tournay, Jurbise, Lin-
den, and Hasselt.......' 18
Trinidad ................... 21 —
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THE DOOMED KING.—The king was not, as
man, venal and despicable. It should not be said that
he fell through his worthlessness or personal crimes.
It should be for his political offences that he was na-
tionally adjudged. And never was there prince in whoa;
the ancient assertion, " He whom God means to destroy.
he first drives mad," seemed more fully realised.
Amiable and religious in his natural disposition, he bad
been educated in such principles of duplicity, and such
ideas of kingly prerogative, that he exhibited the
strangest mixture of directness of purpose and disregard
of all truth that ever met in the same human being. He
was truly the martyr of royalty ; God seemed to have
blinded his eyes, and to have hardened his heart, like that
of Pharaoh, to deliver him up as the great victim of arbi'
trary principles. Re had the air of a sacrifice from his
youth; and when Vandyke painted his portrait to sail"
to B.rnini in Rome for the execution of his bust, that
artist started at the view of it, and declared the posses"
sor of that face born to destruction. In Vandyke's four
celebrated paintings of him, we see him riding, as it
were, on the path of his gloomy destiny. A melancholy,
deep and fixed as death, reigns in his whole form and to
every feature; and on that path he went, not with
wild impetuosity, but with a solemn, desperate, and
downcast hardihood, blind to all the signs in heaven and
on earth, the most wretched and incorrigible of men.
Hainpden's History of the En9likh Aristocracy.
Tint GREAT BRITAIN. LIVERPOOL, SATUNDO
EVENlNG.—Letters from Dundrum Bay, dated rote!:
d ty, have been received to-day. The weathereontinue.°
favourable. The two steam-tugs dispatched from tbls
port had arrived. Fresh anchors had been run Out
order to heave the vessel off shore. The Belfast steamer,
Sea Nymph, was expected in the bay On Sunday (to-
morrow) to render assistance.

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