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London, England, 1846-09-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORN IN 0, SEPTEMPER 16, t 846.

penned by the Liberal party to ISA BELLA " For a
century and a half," it exclaims; " an invading tor-
rent has been pouring down upon us from the crest
of the Pyrenees, and on all sides destroying our na-
tionality. Our customs are French ; our language
would not be understood by the LEONS, the HER..
BMUS, the CERVANTES, or the SOLIS. Our
fathers could not recognise our costume. Our
Government is French, our Administration is
French ; our laws are framed on a French model."
These are the truths which have long impressed
themselves with a miserable forcefulness upon the
hearts of those Spaniards who have retained an af-
fection for the genius of patriotism ; these are the
impressions which have rankled amongst the popula-
tion during several years, and which the recent pro-
position for an intermarriage between the youngest
son of King Louis PHILIPPE and the only sister of
ISABELLA has carried to such an excess as to render
a general turmoil infinitely more than probable.
" Nations, Senora," say the Liberalists in
their supplication to her MAJESTY, " nations
have their prejudices as well as individuals ;" and
they might have subjoined with equal veracity that
the antipathies of nations are so much the more irre-
sistible than the antipathies of individuals, as is an
unit inferior in numerical importance to many mil-
lions. The individual antipathy, like the solitary
stick mentioned by IESOP, may be subdued or broken,
while the antipathies of an entire community, like
the bundle of sticks in the same fable, would resist
all efforts at their destruction. But the document
to which we have already referred is not satisfied with
these significant and forcible declarations; it cries out
as plainly as language can express it, " There is danger
in the proposed alliance with Prince ANTOINE MARIE
PHILIPPE Louis D'ORLEANS, Duc de Montpensier !"
It adjures the Sovereign to prevent an union so ob-
noxious to her subjects generally ; and even utters
these emphatic and earnest words—" Could your
Majesty go amongst the masses of your people, and
hear their voice—the voice of the high, the middling,
and the low—one cry you might hear, one cry
only, and that is, Put no trust in France !' "

I When we consider the excitement requisite for the
production of such passionate supplications from such
a people as the modern Spanish to such a
Sovereign as ISABELLA, we cannot but confess to
ourselves that there must be an under-current
of awful and impetuous force already at work.
What will be the course pursued by the political ad-
visers of the Queen of SPAIN ? What will be con-
ceded or required by the KING of the FRENCH ?
They behold the intense repugnance with which the
subjects of the former hear of the marriage
of her sister with the son of the latter ; one
of them is the recipient of various urgent and
eloquent appeals for. the rejection of the French
suitor ; the treaty of Utrecht is quoted as a proof of
the impossibility of such an alliance; such violent
articles are written in the Madrid journals, that the
Clamor, the Espectador, and the Eco del Comercio, are
seized by police agents. The latter print actually
maintains that though one hundred thousand
French bayonets came to uphold the claims of the
Duo DE MONTPENSIER, the protest of Mr. BULWER
would still remain "to wrap them up in, and Spanish
howls to break them r Notwithstanding all
these indications of the violent animosities
excited by this matrimonial alliance with the IN-
FANTA, the Gazette officially announces that it has
been " stipulated and agreed to by his Excellency
Don FRANCISCO JAVIER ISTURITZ;" the day of the
Duc DE MoNTPENSIER'S departure for the Penin-
sula is decided upon ; the trousseau of the
INFANTA is said to be in _preparation in the workshop
of a Parisian jeweller, and the very morning of the
marriage is pre-ar7anged. The ultimate consequence
of such a clashing between the interests of the go-
vernors and the governed is manifest.

Amongst the many remedies recently put forward
on behalf of the landlords of Ireland, and for the
mitigation of the existing distress, is one suggested
by Mr. HORACE ROCEFORT, a gentleman of con-
siderable landed property, a magistrate, and deputy-
lieutenant. He proposes that the State should
become the creditor of the vast majority of the land-
owners ; that the Government should lend money at
three-and-a-half per cent. to all landed proprietors
who possess encumbered estates, to pay off their ex-
;efinne vtarf crPsYm ITivey-frign..thire." .
the difference of interest between three-and-a-half
and five or six per cent. annually on their estates in
permanent improvements, these improvements to be
carried out by the landlords themselves and their
tenants, under the immediate supervision and control
of the Board of Works, assisted by a staff of com•
petent officers. lie rather innocently assures us
that the landlords would probably have no objection
to have the State for a creditor instead of an indi-
vidual, and that the paying off of so many mortgages
would have the effect of unlocking so much more
capital for investment in land and its improvement.
Most assuredly modesty is not the prevailing fault
of Mr. ROCHFORT. Often before has the principle
been mooted, aye and acted on, that the country
should lend money on sufficient security for the pur-
pose of being expended on permanent and lasting
improvements ; but it is the first time that the State
has been called on to minister to the extravagance,
the improvidence of one particular class, by lending
money for the purpose of paying off their debts, and
enabling them to improve their, estates at the expense
of the nation. We do not know what the landlords
would say i( a measure should be brought forward
providing that the manufacturers and millowners (a
really industrious and useful class, employing a vast
quantity of human labour, and of the greatest benefit
to the nation at large) should be permitted to increase
their capital to any extent they pleased by borrowing
from the State, and applying to their own use the
profit to be made thereon over three-and-a-half per
cer.t.,.and letting the nation take the risk and respon-
sibility of loss, the entire expense of the staff of
officers who should be employed for the purpose of
ascertaining that the work was duly executed, the
quantity of employment afforded. According to the
terms of the contract, we venture to say that such a
proposition would be received with one universal
shout of ridicule throughout the length and breadth
of the land. It would truly be said to be a most im-
proper and unjustifiable interference with private
speculation ; that the nation should not become money-
lenders, and take upon itself the business of capitalists,
who are always prepared to advance money on
adequate security at a fair and reasonable rate of
interest. And what is there in the present times to
induce Mr. ROCIIFORT to believe that a proposition
fully as objectionable, one productive of far less be-
nefit in the way of affording full employment, should
be adopted, for the sole benefit of the landlords ?
Most assuredly he must fancy that.the good old days
when the corn-laws were enacted had returned, and
that a legislature could again be found who would tax
the food of the hard-working and laborious artizan,
fetter our commerce, and impose extraordinary re-
strictions on our trade, for the purpose of increasing
the incomes and maintaining in idleness a favoured
class. We shall suppose for a moment that such a
step was practicable ; that the 150 millions of pounds
sterling, which would at the very least be required
for the purpose of liquidating the charges affecting
land in Ireland, could be procured ; that there is so

arge an amount of surplus capital in the country,
which could be obtained by the nation at three-and-
a-half per cent. interest, in addition to tho amount
already required for the completion of the railways
that are in course of construction, or liAve received
the Parliamentary sanction, and for ti-,e other public
•
works throughout the country, and the ordinary re
quirements of trade and commere a; that the monetary
disarrangement consequent upon a transaction of
such enormous magnitude could be got over, and that
the other classes woulii submit to the monstrous in-
justice of being taxed for the exclusive benefit of the
landowners—a supposition that the history and pro-
gress of the Anti-Corn-law League renders not very
probable. Let us inquire where would be the public
benefit commensurate with so great a risk, so large
an expenditure. It would prolong the evil un.:ier
which Ireland has been so long suffering, one ci the
chief causes of her impoverished and wretchr...d state,
viz,, a landed proprietary, who, from their encum-
brances and embarrassments, are una ole to discharge
the duties incidental to their property
the unfortunate peasantry the hi gaes 1 *who exact from
t; rack-rent that
can possibly be obtained.*- It would. put an effectual
stop to all improvement save f-,l4pAp effected at-the

public expense. Very little, if any, additional la-
bour would be thereby employed ; the same labourers
now occupied would be paid a portion of their wages
therewith ; practically the entire difference of inte-
rest would go into the pcckets of the landlords--
they, and they only, would be benefited. A more
simple and proper way of escaping the difficulty
offers itself. Why should those persons who are
placed in such difficulties retain the lands in their
own hands ? There is ample capital throughout the
country for the purchase of any lands that may be
offered for sale. -Why should those persons who are
unable to improve their lands—who.cannot give em-
ployment—still retain them ? Why do they not
dispose of them to those who both could and would
develop their capabilities to the fullest extent? I

there must be an interference by the State, it may be
to compel the sale of any estate or property the
amount of encumbrances affecting which exceed a
given proportion of the estimated value. This, in
Ireland, can be immediately ascertained by simple
searches; and, objectionable as such interference cn
the part of the State with private property must ever
be, circumstances may arise as to render it not
merely expedient, but absolutely necessary.

Count SOLAR DE LA MARGARITA, the Sardinian
Mini.ter of Foreign Affairs, arrived at Rome on the
3d instant. The Count, who is a great partisan of
the Jesuits, but who is opposed to the Austrian domi-
nation in Italy, comes on a private mission from Bing
CARLO ALBERTO tO the POPE.

Madrid papers to the Bth have been received.
With the exception of the Heraldo, they all con-
tinue to protest most vehemently against the MONT-
PENSIER marriage. In commenting on the observa-
tions of the Heraldo on the correspondence which
has taken place between Mr. BULWER and Senor
ISTURITZ, the Tiempo says :
" Nothing can be more ridiculous than the late asser-
t tions of M. Isturitz, in his reply to the note of ➢ir.
flulwer, as reported by the Heraldo. Is the opinion of
England to be consulted on the question of the marriage
of our Queen ? Why not ? Is that of France, also ?
Who can doubt it ? The difficulty, the evil, is not to
hear those opinions, but to obey them blindly a 3 the
slave obeys his master. To dare to say to England that
she has not a deliberative voice on the question ! Might
it be said that the wane has been done towards France,
and that the Spanish Government has e!osed its ears to
her advice and to her orders ? Such, nevertheless, are
our statesmen !"

The Eco del Comercio publishes the petition ad-
dressed to the Constitutional QUEEN against the mar-
riage. It commences by congratulating her MA-
JESTY on the choice she has made of her husband in
Don FRANCISCO D'ASSIS, one of the candidates
pointed out by public opinion, but it deplores that the
satisfaction caused to the nation by that happy news
should be marred by the announcement of the mar-
riage of the immediate heir to the Crown with a
French Prince. It then goes on to show that the
Duke DE MONTPENSIFR is incapable of aspiring to the
hand of the Infanta of SPAIN, and argues in favour
of that opinion on the treaty of Utrecht, and the re-
nunciation of PHILIP V., for himself and his de-

scendants, of any right to the succession to the
throne of France, and of a similar renunciation of
all the branches of the Royal Family of France to
the throne of Spain. The actual political consti-
tution of Spain also forbids the KING and his imme-
diate successor from contracting any marriage with
a person excluded by the law, and, consequently,
that the union of the Duke DE MONTPENSIER
with the INFANTA cannot take place without a
violation of a law of the kingdom, and of an
article of the constitution. After setting forth
these considerations, founded on the ancient
laws, and on the actual constitution of Spain,
the Eco adds that the feeling of the nation re-
jects the Duke DE MONTPENSIER. It deplore the
state of humiliation into which has fallen that
Spain so powerful a century and a half ago, which
discovered America, took possession of Africa,
invaded Asia, and was respected by all the nations
of the earth. The manners, the customs, the
government, the laws, and even the language of
Spain have, it says, submitted to the influence of
France ; in the eyes of some bad Spaniards nothing
is good but what comes from the banks of the Seine,
and they only aspire to make of Spain a satellite to
the French planet. It is time' that a vigorous hand
should oppose itself to this torrent which threatens to
the inofives which edge the aversion which good
Spaniards bear towards France, by noticing the war
of French invasion, and the persecutions to which
Spanish Liberals have been subjected by the new
Government of France. The Eco concludes by call-
ing on all good Spaniards to affix their signatures to
the petition, pointing out the places where they may
do so. This petition has already received 15,000 sig-
natures in Madrid, and the Liberals of Seville have
signified their adhesion to its principles.
The Heraldo contains a reply to the arguments
against the marriage based on the treaty of Utrecht,
and replies that England herself was the first to
annul the treaty by refusing to receive Spanish
sugars. We may, therefore, thank the avarice of our
protectionists, the absurd Quixotism of some of " Les
amis des Noirs," and the pliancy of Lord ABERDEEN
in giving way to the union of folly with hypocrisy
and covetousness for these complications, from the
whole of which we should have escaped if the prin-
ciples of common sense" had been in the ascendant
in the years 1844 and 1845.

TheEspectador, the Clamor Publico, and the Eco
del Comercio of the Bth were all seized cn account
of their observations on Mr. BULWERIS note.
The Bolsa was closed on the Bth, as it was the fete
of the nativity of the Virgin.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The following appears in the Moniteur :
" The journals had announced last year the depar-
ture of M. KLEIN on a mission from the French and
English Company of the Isthmus of Panama, to the
effect of presenting to the Government of New
Grenada the draught of a treaty for the concession
and opening of a communication between the two
oceans. M. KLEIN has returned from his mission, and
arrived at Bogota with a copy of the treaty, and of
the conditions of the contract for the execution of a
railroad across the Isthmus of Panama, debated
between him and a commissioner appointed ad hoc
by the President of the Republic. This project,
duly signed by the commissioner of the Government,
has been officially communicated to the company.
The latter and the Republic have now only to re-
gulate certain points, which, from their good under-
standing and consideration of mutual interest, they
will speedily arrange.

The MONTPENSIEN marriage appears to be quite as
unpopular with the Liberal party in France as it is
with that in Spain. The following from the Na-
tional will give our readers an idea of the light in
which this union is viewed by the French Republi-
cans

" We have received several letters from Madrid dated
the 7th instant. The irritation caused by the projected
' marriage of the Duke de Montpensier becomes every
day greater. The famous Count Trapani was never
more unpopular than is now the Ring of the French.
A great freedom of conversation reigns in all the places
of public resort, and public opinion is very openly and
loudly manifested. Numerous groups assembled on
the evening of the 6th, which openly railed against M.
Bresson, the French Ministers, and the project which
has caused such strong reprobation. A petition hay-
ing for its object to demand of the Queen not to accom-
plish the inarriage, was put into circulation, and in less
than five hours received 15,000 signatures. This is a
eery rare fact in that country, and may be considered
as of a very expressive signification. The Progressista
party at Seville has held a meeting and has sent to
Madrid an energetic adhesion to the protest which ap-
peared in the journals of the capital some days since.
All the letters agree in stating that the opposition in the
approaching meeting of the Cortes will declare itself
strongly against the marriage of the Infanta. Deputiest
of the Moderado party are spoken of as having pledged
themselves to oppose the project with all their energy ;
and there is little doubt but that the presence of
Narvaez will still more increase the public anger.
The Ministers appear to have foreseen this, for they
have appointed M. Miraflores President of the Senate, a
post said to have been reserved for the butcher of Va-
lencia. The great hopes of parties rest on the future
conduct of England. On this subject a letter which we
have before us contains the following news, which ap-
pears to us very curious, and the writer is likely to be well
informed :--‘ Queen Christina paid a visit without cere-
mony and incognito to Mr. Bulwer, at Carabanchel.
Whatever may have been said, and whatever she may
have said to France, the marriage of her daughter to
Don Francisco does not please her, and she would
readily abandon the second marriage if a means could
be found to prevent the first. After thi. interview Mr.
Bulwer addressed a fresh note to M. Isturita, and after-
wards sent oft a courier to London. Last night a courier
arrived at the French embassy from. Paris, bearing an
orderfr om Louis Philippe to demand officially the hand

of the Infants. We wait with impatience for the reply
of the British Cabinet, but it can scarcely be here before
the 10th or 12th. We live on burning coals.' Such
are the principal facts contained in our voluminous
correspondence; we have suppressed all the rellEctions,
the complaints, and the violent accusations which it
contains. We believe that the marriage of the Duke
de Montpensier will take place ; but we are convinced
that it will infallibly lead to fresh civil wars in Spain,
and to the most perilous complications for France."
The Prince and Princess of SALERNO have left
Paris for Brussels, as the Palace of the Elysee Bour-
bon, which they have occupied for some months past,
is destined for the future residence of the Due DE
MONTPENSIER. The Prince was said said to have
said, on parting (in allusion to the attempt of the
regicide LECOMTE, from which he, too, was placed in
danger), " IVel ! at Brussels we shall, at least, have
no parties of pleasure."

A letter from Oran, dated August 28, published
in the Toulonnais of the 10th, states, that a large
French force was being concentrated on the Moorish
frontiers, as if in anticipation of an immediate attack
on that side, or an invasion of Morocco meditated.
At Djemma Ghazaouat, General POURAILLY had un-
der his orders a division of six battalions of infantry
and eight squadrons of cavalry, and General CAVAIO
NAC commanded a still greater force at Lalla Magh-
rina.

111An5itimacs, SEPT. 9.—Marseilles and Avignon, 912 f.
50c. ; Northern, 725 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 532 f. 50c.
BUSINESS DONE
sIN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPTEMBER 14.
Boulogne and Amiens, l3%—Dutch Rhenish, 4 —East Indian,
34—Italian and Austrian, l%—Louvain ala Sambre, —Luxem-
bourg, 1 —Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, 14 —Namur and Liege, 2
—Northern of France Constituted, 1314—Orleans and Bordeaux,
8% —Paris and Lyons Constituted, 6—Faris and Rouen, 37;4—Paris
and Strasbourg Constituted, 4%.

MANCHESTERandSOUTHAMPTON
RAILWAY.

A public meeting of the scripholders in this Company
was held yesterday at the King's Arms Hotel,
Palace-Yard,Westminster, to take into consideration the
position of the Company, and to adopt measures for their
future guidance.
Sir John Barker Mill took the chair.
The Secretary having read the advertisement calling
the meeting,
Mr. J. WALKIXSHAW, deputy-chairman, then said
he wished to inform the meeting that they had on the
table memorials from Cheltenham, Cirencester, Crick
lade, Swindon, Marlborough, Andover, Stockbridge,
Romsey, and Southampton, praying that the directors
would proceed with the line. Letters also had been re
ceived from Earl Bruce and Viscount Duncannon to the
same effect, and he stated that other noblemen
and influential landholders on the line had signed
one or other of the numerous memorials
which had ben got up with a view to urging the di-
rectors to continue their application to Parliament for
their Act authorising the construction of the line. He
further deprecated any expression on that occasion of ir-
ritable feelings which were so apt to be occasioned
by temporary failure in railway matters ; he was
sure that any such expressions would only tend to im-
pede their future progress. He assured the meeting
that for himself and the directors it was not their inten-
tion on that occasion to use any means which would
influence the vote of the scripholders, that the result
might be purely their own.
The Secretary then read the report.
Sir JOHN BARKER MILL rose to move " That the re-
port now read be received and printed for distribution
amongst the shareholders." He said he did not feel
himself called upon to enter at any length into the de-
tills after the ample report which had been read.
Contrary to his expectation, he regretted to
say that they had been disappointed of stecess
before Parliament. He joined with the deputy-chairmen
in deprecating any expression of angry feeling on that
occasion, and he was happy to allude to the numerous
and spontaneous meetings which from one end of the
land to the other had been held to urge them to persist
in their application to Parliament, and he
hoped one day, as their chairman, to be able
to congratulate them on receiving their Bill.
The object of their meeting then was to say whether
they would persist in going again to Parliament, or whe-
ther they would at once give up their Bill. He would
venture to suggest one thing—that he hoped the share-
holders would continue to support the directors, who
were yet prepared to continue their exertions, and to
undertake any responsibility in going to Parliament.
Mr. Row, High Bailiff of Cheltenham, seconded the
motion.
The Rev. FRANCIS CLOSE, said that he appeared
on that occasion representing the people of his
parish. He was called up from his seat by
the word used by the Chairman, in describing the meet-
ings as spontaneous. He had never seen a more spon-
taneous and more unanimous meeting of his parish.
ioners. They were all most forward for the suc•
cess of this line, and nothing seemed to give
them more concern than tke announcement
that the Company had failed of success, or to excite more
their indignation than the conduct of those opponents
through whom they had met with that failure. Their
approach to the town of Cheltenham had not been such
as to meet with the entire approbation of the town, but
rather than throw any obstacle in the way of
the Comrginsz'sa.esseeseses
After a few words from EDWARD TOOTAL, Esq., from
Manchester,
JAMES HosarNs, Esq., Mayor of Portsmouth, said he
would urge them to continue their exertions for the line,
first because it was a good line. It was a good line,
because, connecting the great manufacturing towns
of tle north with the great seaport towns of
the south, it opened a track of country unsupplied with
railway communication. He urged them to do so,
secondly, because they had the most ample and over-
whelming evidence to show that it was a good line, con-
gdom except five ; and thirdly,
vincing to all in the kin
because all the inhabitants on the route of the line were
unanimously in favour of it.
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously
with great applause.
Mr. WALKINGSHAW in moving the second resolution
said, he would but repeat what he had already said, that
he, or his brother directors would do or say nothing
which would in one iota sway in any way the opinion
of the shareholders on the subject. He moved:—
" That this meeting declares its deliberate opinion to be
that the line advocated by the Company is called for by
the public interests, and ought to be made, and that
nothing occurred in the course of the Parliamentary
proceedings which at all affects the confidence of the
shareholders in the soundness of the undertaking, as a
valuable investment."
Lord ERNEST BRUCE, in supporting the resolution,
said he appeared as the representative of the town of
Marlborough, and stated the very great necessity which
that town and Andover both had for that communica-
tion proffered by the line, and impressed upon the meet-
ing the desirableness of proceeding with it.
As no other person felt inclined to speak on the re-
solution, it was put and carried with acclamation.
Mr. G. FARQUHAR said he supported the line entirely
on public grounds, for he was sure that once made it
would becoine one of the most important main
trunk lines in the kingdom; and, in common with
others, felt strongly inclined to urge the meeting
to vote for prosecuting the line. He moved:—
" That, therefore,a renewed application be made to Par-
liament in the ensuing session for an Act to authorise
the construction of the railway, with such changes and
modifications, if any, as to the directors may seem meet ;
and that the directors be, and they are hereby autho-
rised to take such steps, based upon the suggestions con-
tained in their report, as they may think fit, with a view
to give effect to this resolution ; and that they be
further authorised to allow dissentient shareholders to
withdraw, and the scrip be re-issued in such manner and
upon such terms as they shall think expedient."
Mr. WILLIAM LANKESTER, from Southampton, said
it was the strong desire of the people of that town to
get a connexion with :the north-west by way of Chel-
tenham into Wales, the west of Scotland, and also with
the coast of Ireland. It was of no avail` to have
given them the line by Oxford, for they could not
be convinced that the longest way round was
he nearest way home. C tnsidering it was the main
port for the mail packet from Asia, and an arsenal of the
kingdom, it was no wonder that the people were united
in their determination and their purpose to have this line.
They felt strongly on the subject, and not a little indig-
nant, if they might be allowed to express it, at the Bill
having been thrown out, and they pledged themselves
not to rest till they had obtained it.
The resolution was carried.
Mr. GEORGE, of Romsey, moved—" That the thanks
of this meeting be presented to the directors for the
energy and ability with which they have devoted them-
selves to the interests of this Company, and for the ten-
der of continued service, which their report of this day
contains."

It was seconded by Dir. SAINSBURY, and carried
unanimously.
The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN, at the request of the Hon.
Baronet in the chair, acknowledged the honour which the
meeting had done them. He begged now to state what
he reserved before, that the directors were now doubly
confident of success, from the evidence which had come
out in favour of the line. He said, also, that within

the last few days more than twenty thousand scrip
had been sent in ursolicited to the office, with

urgent requests to proceed. He then referred to the
opinion of Mr. Robert Stephenson, their engineer, that
no line of railway could be laid down at a cheaper rate,
and to the admission of Mr. Brunel, the engineer of the

opposing line, that ho would not interfere with the Great
Western, though made, and that line along the route
must one day yet be made. They had retained their old
friends, they had he
new ones ; they had gained the
co-operation of the South-Western, and he might say,
now that they had determined to proceed, that they
would further have the co-operation of the greatest lines
in the country, although he could not enter more into
particulars then.
Lord Ernest Bruce having been voted into the chair,
a unanimous vote of thanks to Sir John Barker Mill
was passed by the meeting, which then broke up.

CLERGY.—Now
RAILWAY LABOURERS.—MEETING OF THE
that the construction of railroads is
becoming general in the neighbourhood, a committee of
clergymen has been formed for the purpose of providing
spiritual superintendence and instruction to the labourers
on the several lines, and they have called a general
meeting of all taking an interest in the subject to report
their proceedings, with a view of promoting the object
for which they were originally appointed.
The Emancipation of Brussels announces that the
King and Queen of the Belgians will come to Paris with
their chilken early in October.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

(nom The Sun of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton in the Liverpol market yesterday
were 20,000 kilt's, iccluding 10,000 American; 1,500
Egyptian ; and 1,500 Surat on speculaticn. The ad-
vance in the price of American sorts under sd. per lb.
was about -id. per lb., and in those above 5d., Fl. per lb.;
Egyptian and Surat were also gd, per lb. higher.
Holders met freely the extensive demand. Shares were
fiat.

Messra. Lamond and Co.'s sale of Railway Shares
yesterday was well attended, and a fair business done, but
rather quiet. The fear exists that the market is again
about to decline seriously. East Indians very flat; Dutch
Rhenish have improved from q- to 4 dis. Some prices
in Belgian lines very low. The following are a few of
the principal sales:—
East Indian
Direct Northern 1 14 6
Grand Union 0 12 6
Louvain hla Sambre
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 ...... 3 1 0
London and Blackwell, New ......... 4 3 0
London and York ... 2 0 6
Dutch Rhenish
Manchester and Southampton 1 2 6
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham . 0 11 6
Taw Vale Extension and Dock ...... 0 12 6
Reading and Rein-'ate
Shrewsbury and Birmingham ..... 215 0
Eastern Counties, York Extension 2 2 0
Churnet and Blythe
Manchester and Leeds, Quarters 6 10 0
Cornwall and Devon Central
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield 0 15 0
Leicester and Bedford
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston
Over Yssel

There are late accounts from the Brazils to-day. The
most recent date is to the 16th of July. Freights more
scarce. The military operations against Rio Graude
were in active progress.
The following from New York is worth quoting:—
" The commerce of the north and west is developing
itself with a rapidity greater than even the expe-
rience of recent years has warranted us to expect. Lt
1833, there were on the Lakes eleven steamers, which
cost 360,000 dollars, and which conveyed to and from
the lake ports 61,485 passengers. In 1834, there
were eighteen steam-boats in the trade, which cost
600,000 dollars. 1845, the following vessels navigated
the Lakes, above the Falls of Niagara. Steamboats
52, 29,500 tons; propellers 8, 2,500 tons; brigs 59,
11,000 tons; schooners 270, 42,000 tons. Total 380,
76,000 tons. The cost of the construction of these
vessels was 4,600,000 dollars. In 1845, not less than
1,500,000 barrels of flour passed over the Lakes, and
250,000 passengers. At the present time, the com-
merce of the Lakes may be fairly estimated at
100,000,000 dollars per annum. This is an evidence
of what will he hereafter. As an illustration of the
character and extent of this commerce, we have
carefully compiled a concise statement of the ex-
ports of Buffalo eastwards, vid the Erie Canal, for
the week ending Thursday, August 27th, of five leading
articles. The amounts are of flour and wheat, reduced
to barrels of flour 33,065, corn 24,287, wool 188,0001b5.,
lumber 2,000,000 square feet. The amount of tolls paid
to the State on these and other exports of produce east-
ward was 14,885 dolls. It must be borne in mind that
the third week in August is about the dullest period of
the whole season of navigation, the past year's stocks
being then nearly exhausted, and the new supplies hav-
ing yet hardly commenced to come forward."
There are no late arrivals announced from the British
colonies to-day.
Consols for Money are at and for the Account
at 96k. Exchequer-bills are flat at Bs, 1 ls. premium.
South Sea Stock is at 1051.
In the Foreign Market the principal variations have
been a rise in the Spanish Five per Cents. to 27 I, in
the Three per Cents. to 8, and in Mexican a re-
action to 25k.
In the Railway Shares and Scrips the changes have
been slight this morning.

ON'E CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. FRICES.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 95:Y4% 951%
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726
India Stock -
India Bonds, 1,0001..
South Sea Stock lO5l/
Consols for Account.... .... . .... 96%
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 1
Ditto 5001.
:Ditto Small . l2 8 11 pm.
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES
Ecuador Bonds
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 25% 25'/
Ditto. Account......
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 27% 27%

Ditto,Passive

Ditto, Deferred
Ditto, 3 per Cent 384%
Ditto, Account 3B t, (2
Dividends on the above payablein London.
Dutch, 2%2 per Cent., 12 Guild 59%%76
Ditto, Account .
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 95 94%

L 05 tA
96

171%
3814
38%
60
593/4
945.

At
PRICES OP ?AID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
BAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Amber., Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%..... 1%
Armagh, Coleraine, and

Portnish .. .. 1% —
Aylesbury and Thame.. 1%
Belfast & County Down 2%
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100
-
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 23/4
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. —
Bristol and Exeter 75
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester 3O
Bristol and Liver. June
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian
Ditto Half Shares...... 21,4 1%.....••......
Ditto Extension 2% — . ......
Cambrian & Grand June 42s ......
Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% l%
Central Kent 2%
Chester and Holyhead... 27% 25 %.• ...... .•
Churnet and Blyth,.
Chester and Manchester 425.
•••
Cheltenham and Oxford 2 ...... . ...
Clydesdale Junction l5
Cork, Blackrock, and
Passages
Cork and Killarney ...
Cork and Waterford ... 1% —
Cornwall
Ditto, Half Shares
Cornwall & Cent'iDevon 2%
lerby and Crewe ... 2%
Direct Lincoln, East Ret-
ford, and Sheffd. June. 2% —
Direct Manchester

dis
157;i

1%
25

(Remington's)
Ditto (Rastrick's)
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 10
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Galway..... 4
Dundalk & Enniskillen 7%
Eastern Counties 14/. 16s 22
Ditto New lOl. 16s. —
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1.......6/. 13s. 4d.... 74 p
Ditto ditto. No. 2... 6/. 135. 4d... d/4 p
Do., York Extension.. 10s. ...... 2% 2 214
EastDereh'm andNor'ch 1
Eastern Union 35 .. ...
Ditto, Quarter Shares 8% —
Do. Exten.(Harwich) 1% —
•••
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2%......
East Lancashire
East Lincolnshire
East & West of England IN__
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto Half Shares ... 10
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%
Ditto, New ... 12% —
Edinburgh & Northern.. 12% — ... ........ „,„„
Edinburgh and Perth... 3
Ely and Huntingdon ... 7%.•.•..
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% —
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
Great Eastern &Western 2% — ........ .....
GreatGrimsby and Shef.
field :10
Great South. and West.
rx'(lreland)
Great Munster 2% ......
Great North of Scotland 2%......
Great Northof England..loo
Ditto New 5 — -
Ditto, New ::.
Ditto, New
Great Western
Ditto 1/ Shares 5O —
Ditto 1,-4 Shares lO
Ditto Fifths 2O
Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 5
Harwich and Eastern
Counties Junction ... 2 ••••••
Hull and Selby SO
Ditto 14 Shares
Do. Half Shares 25 —
Inverness and Elgin 2 .....
Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 9
Do., do , and Norwich 214.
Irish North Midland ... 1% —
Killarney Junctions ll4
Kendal and Windermere 11,6 —
L incaster and Carlisle... 45
Do. New
••
Larne, Belfast, and Bal-
lymena
....
Leeds and Bradford
. ...... .
Leeds and Carlisle
Leicester & Birmingham 225. - ••• • ......... •
Leicester and Bedfstrd... 225.
Leeds and Dewsbury ... 17%
Leiccster and Tam w., ate. 425. —
Lpool., Mnchstr, & New-
castle Junction
Liverpool and Bury ... 14 ... .. —
London and Blackwall. 16/. 135.4 d.
Do. New "'
--
Ditto Extension .... 5 ....., —
London and Brighton... 50
Ditto, Fifths -
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d.. ....
Do. Guaran. 5 per cent. 9
...... 10 ••• •.
London and Greenwich 12/ 1534 d... 9%
Do. Preference —.lB/178 2d —
.••
London, Hounslow, and
Western
London and N. Westernloo 198% 199
Do. Quarters

7ys p
7i P
3/4 P
24

233/i

303/4

105%

7 0 3/1

10
9%

Do., do., New Shares..
Ditto Fifths ..; .. 2
Ditto, Ei4l:ths (O. J.) 121/2
Do., New 4 Shales
(G. J.)
Do. 40/. Sh ares (L. M.) 6
Lond. & S. Western 41/ 6s 10d 7l 701/2
Do. New Consol. Bths 40 53
Do. New
Do. New
London and York 214
Do. % Shares
London and Windsor . I,t ...
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil •. .... .. 2%...
Londonderry& Coleraine, 121/2-- ... ..
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen l2l/ 3%
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dercham l5 — • ...
Manchester and Leeds .. 82 109% 1101 Ax d
Ditto to Shares
Do. Quartirs 2
Do. Fifths 3 . .... 91/2:4 xd ...
Do. Sixteenths ... 6ii, —
Do. Extension 42s. — p.
Manchester and Birrnin 4O —
Do Quarters (A) 5 ...... -- ... ..... ..
Do. Quarters (B)
Do. Quarters (C) 1
Manchester,Buston,and
Matlock 425. ...... 1.1/2 p ~
Manchester, Birm., and
Mould Junction .....
Manchest. & Sout hampt. 2 ...... 1%
Midland
Do. Fifths. 2
Do. New
Do. Birin., and Derby-100
Midlnd& East. Counties 2% — , ,
Midland Great Western
Irish. 12%
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 25 ......
Do. New
Newc tstle and Berwick 15
Do North Shields ... 25
Neweastiv and Carlisle...loo
Newport &Abergavenny 2% —
Newry and Enniskillen 41/2

Newark, Sheffield, and
Boston .....
Norfolk .
Do. Half Shares
Do. Tenths
Do. Extension
North British ..... 25

Do. Half Sharts
Do. Fifths
Do. Carlisle Extens.
North of Norfolk
Northern and Eastern
Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45
Do. Quarter Shares... 12% —
Do. New ......... 1
N. Kent & Direct Dover 2%
North Staffordshire 42s. 3%% p..
North Wales
Northern and Southern
Connecting
Northampton, Banbury,
and Cheltenham
Nottingham & Mansfid.
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton
Oxford, Witney, and
Cheltenham....
Pilbrow Atmospheric ... 1
Portsmouth Direct 3%
Preston and Wyre
Do. 1,4 Shares
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate
Richmond
Rugby, Leamington,and
Warwick
Scottish Central
Do. New 2l/2—
Scottish Midland lO
Do. Extension -
Sheffield, Buxton, Leek
Potteries, andCrewe l%
& Manchester 100
Do. Quarter Shares... 8
Do. Lincolnshire Junc. 1% —
Do. & Great Grimsby. 10
Do. do. Extension 425. ......
Shrewsbury and Birm... . ........
Shropshire Union
Shrews., Wolverhamp ,
&S. Staffordsli. janc. 2% —
Sligo and Shannon
s

Smith Devon 35
South Midland 42s.
South & Midlands Junc. 42s —
South Staffordshire June. 214 —
South Eastern & Dover 33113
Do., No. 1 26
Do., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
Do.. No. 4
St. Al ban's,' Hatfield, and
Hertford Junction ... 425.
Staines and Richmond... 1
Staffordsh: & Shropshire 23/4

_
South Wales ..... ... 5
Swans. & Loughor & Ca-
meron's Stm. C0a1....
Taw Vale Extension ...
Tring, Reading, and
Basing-stoke
Vale of Neath
W aketield, Pontefract, &
Goole 221/4......
Warwickshire & London 425.
Warwick and Worcester 425.
W aterford and Kilkenny 8
mild Limerick 221/9 11 atermt, ww icaiw,
and Dublin
Wexford, 1V aterford, anol
Valentia
Wavcney Valley 2
Welsh Midland
West Riding Union 42s. 2% p...
West Cornwall ...... 2 ...
West London,Old Shares 20
ffexford and Carlow ...
Wisbeach and St. h-es... 2
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
Worcester,Hereford,Ross,
and Gloucester 42s. ...
Worcester, Tenbury, and
Ludlow ...... ........
Worcester, Warwick, and
Rugby
York and Carlisle 23/ ..• • •••
York and Newcastle...... 25 ...
Ditto New 1
York and North Midland 50
Ditto % Shares . . 25
Do. Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do. Selby 3O
Do. Extension 2O . 38 .
Do. East and West Rid-
ing Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

2 - ••• • *****
2

51% -
2 - •• •• ••••.

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
Flanders
Calcutta and Diamond
Harbour .... 7s.
Callao, Lima, and Pacific
Coast 1
Central of Spain ...
Ceylon
Demerara
Dendre Valley
Direct Bombay and
Madras
Dutch Rhenish
East Indian ... .... ss.
Eastern Belgian Junctn.
Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4
Great Indian Peninsular ss.
Great Western Bengal... ss.
Great Western Canada... 314

.... 5

IA

Italian and Austrian 6-
Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1
Jersey
Louvain ala Sambre ... 5
Luxembourg 4
Lyons and Avignon 2
Madras
Madras, Nellore, and
Arcot t/8
Madrid and Valentia
blz,ritius
NrAiur and Liege
N of France Constituted 5
North Jamaica 1
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bordeaux 6
Over Yssel 4l3s 4d
Paris &Lyons Constituted 5
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg
Constituted
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse
Strasbourg and Bale
St. Laurence & Atlantic
Tours and Nantes Con-

3/
• /4

- 2 1%
... 13 ►/

-8%

-
3A

stituted 5
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt 8
Trinidad
West Flanders .. 6

1 A
131/2

8%

... 5% x lot. ..... 6 x Int

Real del Monte Unregd.
COURSE OF EXCIIA
Amsterdam .. C.F. 12 8
Ditto, at sight ....., 12 5%'
Rotterdam .... • • 2U. 12 8%
Antwerp.....,
Ilamburgh .... • M.B. 13 14%
Paris, 3 days' sight .... 25 80
Ditto, 3 months 26 10
Marseilles • . ••• . • • 26 15
Bourdeaux. • 2G 15
Frankfort on Maine.... 122
Petersburgh, 3 U 5......
Berlin
Vienna, effec.flo— • • 10 11
Trieste, ditto.... •• • . 10 11
Madrid .. ...... . • 35%
Cadiz .. •.. : .... • ... 3614
Bilbao.. ...... .
Barcelona .....
Seville..

,34 4 3%

,•• 5 ...•••.. 000000

3%

- 5

......
'ES.

8%

33% .......... .
NGE.-(YESTERDAY.)
Gibra1tar..............
Leghorn ......... ..... 30 65
Genoa ..•• • ..... 26 15 •

..••• •••••
Venice.. ••.. .....
Naples • • ..... 39%
l'alerino, per os ........ 119!4
Liston • ...... . 52%
Oporto .......... ••.. • • 52%
Rio Janeiro ........ • • 25
Bahia

Buenos Ayres
New York, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia .....
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold in bars ...£3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars .. .. •• • • 0 4 9
Silver in bars ...... •. 0 4 11

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE OXFORD RAILWAY
STATION.—A dreadful accident happened at the Oxford
station of the Great Western Railway on the evening of
Saturday, about seven o'clock, whereby two imn of the
names of Bates and Gardiner, employed as porters at
the station, lost their lives. It appears that the two
poor fellows, with several others, were employed in re-
moving large blocks of deals from a boat in the Isis to a
truck, for the purpose of conveyance by rail, when sud-
denly the crane (from the great weight attached to it)
broke, and falling on the two unfortunate men killed
them both instantaneously. The head of Bates was
completely smashed, and the other poor fellow had his
neck and arm broken, The rest of the menescaped un-
injured.