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approval, a censure which was'most strongly repeated
by Mr. O'CoNsfELL in his speech, and also in the letter
which he wrote from Kilkenny on the following day
to the Repeal Association. The emergency is un-
doubtedly most urgent, and not a moinentls time
should be lost in setting the people into active occu-
pation wherever useful and valuable works have been
presented for. Some allowance, however, must be
made for the extraordinary weight of the business
thrown on that body, increased, as it has been in many
instances, by the refusal 'of the people to employ
themselves at task work, and the organized opposition
they have offered to the mode of employment and the
amount of remuneration offered, and in others by the
conduct of some of the presentment sessions, who, as
at Macroom, indiscriminately sanctioned every pro-
position made without discussion or investigation,
leaving it to the board to select the good from the
bad, and to refuse their approbation to the jobs which
have too often been brought forward. Another
reason also might possibly have occasioned the ap-
parent inaction of the board—the great majority of
the presentments had been passed before the letter (~f
his Excellency announced the determination he had
arrived at of sanctioning works of a reproductive
character, and it might fairly be presumed that the
magistrates and ratepayers might desire to reconsider
the manner in which the great expenditure decided on,
amounting on an average to one year's poor-law
valuation of the several lands in the districts, should
be applied.

These considerations offer some apology for the
board; but we sincerely hope that the stimulant
thus administered may not be thrown away, but that
in every case some of the most desirable works may
immediately be commenced in each of the baronies,
so that the people may obtain instant occupation, and
the means of purchasing the food so essentially neces-
sary for their destitute families. If the staff of the
board is insufficient for the amount of labour cast upon
them, it should forthwith be increased to the requisite
strength.

That part of the Treasury Minute which directs
that the pay of labourers should in every instance be
2d. per day under the ordinary rate of wages in the
district, was most properly condemned. The re-
muneration for labour should be sufficient to enable
the poor man to obtain the necessaries of life—a
sufficiency of plain food for himself and family; this,
at the present prices of provisions, it is impossible for
him to procure, and the wages should undoubtedly
be raised to an adequate amount. We had hoped
from what fell from the Premier and the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, at the audience which they gave to
the Mallow deputation, that the objectionable clause
would long since have been modified; in fact, the
present state of affairs imperatively demands a
change in this respect. We are unable to discuss
from want of space, the several resolutions adopted.
A deputation, consisting of one or more members
from each relief committee, was appointed to join Mr.
O'CONNELL in presenting a memorial, founded on the
resolutions, to his Excellency, and to day has
been fixed for a conference with the Lord-Lieutenant
upon the subject of the meeting, as well as upon the
general state of the country. We hope that the
gentlemen thus selected may not separate and dissolve
themselves after the interview;. they would form an
admirable foundation for the National Committee.
How could such a body be more usefully constituted
than by representatives deputed by each of the relief
committees throughout the entire country ? Every
locality would be adequately represented, and there
would be persons competent to state to the general
body its peculiar wants. The first step is all that is
necessary, and if the gentlemen, now appointed,
continue their meetings in Dublin, their ranks will be
inereas.d by numerous adherents, and a National
Committee will be formed to devote their time and
their energies to the amelioration of the people, and
the means of escaping from the impending difficulties.

Accounts from Switzerland are to the 22d. The
elections at Geneva passed off without the slightest
disturbance. The result has been, that out of ninety-
three Members of which the Grand Cjuncil is com-
posed, sixty are firm supporters of the present
Liberal Government.
At Bale, too, the Liberals have mustered in such
force that the Government resigned their functions to
the Liberal opponents voluntarily, and the change,
which leaves the Liberals in undisputed possession of
power, was accomplished without the peace being at
any time disturbed.

The Jesuit party in the canton of Valais, who, al-
though they possess the Government, and command
the armed force of the canton, are yet in a
minority as compared with the Liberal party, are
getting alarmed for their supremacy, and are adopt-
ing their old tactics of endeavouring t.) rouse the
ignorant and fanatical peasantry to massacre their
opponents, and are, as they did two years since, in-
citing and practising secret assassination. The
lowing is an extract of a letter from St. Maurice, the
frontier town of the canton, situated on the Rhone,
where it divides Valais from Vaud
" The revolution of Geneva has alarmed the Govern-
ment of this canton, menaced with an approaching.
clownfal by the victory of the Liberal party. The
Council of State, in these circumstances, has put under
arms some of the citizens, but their number is insuffi-
cient, and it fears to entrust arms to others whose de
votedness to the Government is very doubtful. Attempts
are made to excite tht fanaticism of one part of the po-
pulation against the other, and the tables of the cabarets
are covered with proclamations drawn up in the
name of religion. A public functionary has even been
seen declaiming from the balcony of his re-
sidence, and endeavouring to instigate the people
against the Radicals, and preaching a little St. Bartholo-
mew against those whom he calls the impious. In En-
tremont and Upper Valais secret meetings are held
every night, and the report is current throughout the
who live
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Madrid papers of the 20th have been received.
It was said that the Queen of PORTUGAL had
applied to Spain for assistance, and that at the re-
commendation of the French Ambassador, an armed
intervention in the affairs of Portugal had been de-
termined on. Orders had been dispatched to the
captains•general of Andalusia, Salamanca, and Ga.
licia, to march troops to the Portuguese frontier.
The Diario of Lisbon, of the 14th, states that
Viscount D'OLIVEIEA, Minister of Finance, having
given in his resignation, M. DE SOUZA•AZEVEDO has
been appointed in his place. The Diario announces
that the news received by the Government from Cas-
tello Branco, Abrantes, Serpa, Deja, and Estremaa
is satisfactory. The population and the troops, it
Was said, had everywhere submitted without resist-
ance to the QUEEN'S orders. "It is to be believed,"
adds the Diarie, " that her MAJESTY'S
orders will
have equally been observed in the northern pro-
vinces, intelligence from which is every moment ex-
pected."

h The belief thus confidently expressed by the Diario
is,owever,
tween Lisbon and Oporto and Coimbra have been cut
, unfounded, for all communications be-
off for some days, in consequence of the destruction
done at 211,4 ; the Five per Cents at 213/4 ;
of the telegraph by the insurgents.
MADRID BOLSA, OCT. 20 —The Three per Cents. fell on
the 20th to 341/e for cash • 'and the Four per Cents. 7ere
out Interest, 6%; the Vale 83/ : and the Coupons, 01._
On the 21st the Three pers ' Cents. again declined to 341/1
for cash, and ni3
---/Ei for paper. The other stocks experienced
no change. the Debt with-

We have received the Paris papers
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They are filled with accounts of the devastations
will suffer much during the ensuing
committed by the floods in the south and west of
Prance,
of Tuesday.
and great fears are entertained that France
winter from
scarcity and disease. A great quantity of produce
must have been destroyed by these inundations, and it
has been clearly ascertained by the French Govern-
ment that the late harvest was much
thaw the most unfAvourable accounts bad represented
it to be. less productive

the Minister of
The Moniteur publishes an ordonnance, by which
Public Works is authorised to apply
an extraordinary credit of 2,000,000 f. to repair tho
injury caused by the inundations to the public roads,
canals, and embankments of rivers. Another extraor:
dinary credit of 500,000 f. is granted as a "subvention
to the proprietors of the suspension bridges, which
had been either destroyed or damaged by the floods.
A second ordonnance places 1,000,000 f. at the disposal
of the Minister of Commerce, to be distributed among
the sufferers by the overflow of the Loire, the Rhone,

and their tributaries, and allocates 400,000 f. in aid
of the hospitals and charitable institutions of the
inundated districts. A. third ordonnance directed the
attention of the Minister of Public Works to the
necessity for creating employment for the labouring
classes during the winter season, and empowers him
to dispose for that object of a sum of 1,500,000 f.
In consequence of the disasters occasioned by these
inundations the KING has given up the idea of having
any files at Versailles in honour of the marriage
of the Due DE MONTPENSIER. The Journal des
Debats says—

" We announced that a grand theatrical representa-
tion was to take place at Versailles on the occasion of
the marriage of the Due de Montpensier; but the King,
deeply touched with the disasters which have fallen on
several of the departments, has countermanded all kinds
of rejoicing. There is no family fête for our princes
when a public disaster has scattered misery and mourn-
ing amongst so many cottages. The royal generosity
will be vouchsafed to the great number of unfortunate
persons who have no other resource but the sympathy
which they inipire--it will be the most noble manner
of feting the marriage of the Duo de Montpensier.
The ICING of the BELGIANS arrived in Paris on
Surday, and proceeded at once to the palace of St.
Cloud, on a visit to King LOUIS PHILIPPE.
The Duc D'AUMALE arrived in Paris on Monday.
It was reported on the Bourse on Tuesday that a
telegraphic dispatch had been received from Madrid
announcing that the Queen of PORTUGAL had been
deposed, and that NARVAEZ, at the head of 30,000
Spanish troops, was' about to invade Portugal to
restore Donna MARIA to the throne.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Tuesday at 82f. 95c. ; the Five per Cents., 118 f. 10c.;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,257 f. 50e.; Rouen, 922 f. 50c.;
Havre, 707 E 50c.; Great Northern, 692 f. 50e. ' • Avignon,
8921. 50c.; Vierzon, 587 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 5171. 50c.; Bou-
logne, 475 f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 3501.; Basle, 222 f.
50c.; Fampoux, 5401.; Dieppe, 360 f.; Paris and Strasburg-,
4951.; Tours and Nantes, 5051.; Paris and Lyons, 521 f.
25c.; Lyons and Avignon, 492 f. 50c.; Bordeaux and Cette,
480 f.; Spanish Domestic Debt, 333/t.
The following are the quotations for the new lines:-
MARSEILLES, Oc-r. 21.-Marseilles and Avignon, 885 f.;
Northern, 685 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 23.
hatch Rhenish, 51,E—East Indian, %—Lonvain a la Sambre, 1%
—Luxembourg, DA—Namur and Liege, 3%—Northern of France
Constituted, 12—Orleans and Vierzon, 13 -- Orleans and Bordeaux,
7%—Paris and Lyons Constituted, s%—West Flanders, 2%.

CO URT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—The Queen will hold a Privy
Council to-morrow (Friday) afternoon, at half past two
o'clock, at the Castle.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert took their accustomed
walk this morning.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took
pony exercise on the terraces and grounds around the
Castle. Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena was
also taken an airing,
Prince Calimaki, the Turkish Ambassador, is expected
to arrive at the Castle to•day on a visit to the Queen.
The Lord Chancellor, and the Hon. Ralph and Lady
Mary Abercromby, are also expected to arrive to-day on
a visit to her Majesty.
The royal dinner party at the Castle this morning is
expected to include her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester,
his Excellency Prince Calimaki, the Lady in Waiting of
the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting of the
Duchess of Gloucester, Baroness de Speth, the Lord
Chancellor, Viscount Palmerston, Lord and Lady
Howard de Walden, Viscountess Forbes and Mr.
Vaughan, Hon. Ralph and Lady Mary Abercromby,
Colonel the Hon. 11. F. Cavendish, and Colonel Wylde.
The band of the Ist Life Guards will attend during
dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attend
in the Castle.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Hesse, attended
by Baroness Scheel, and the Earl of Denbigh, arrived at
the Euston-square terminus of the London and North-
Western Railway soon after ten o'clock yesterday morn-
ing, from Cashiobury Park, Herts, the residence of her
Majesty the Queen Dowager. The Princess was re-
ceived by the Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Minister,
and Baron Meysenbuch. Her Royal Highness and suite
visited and inspected the British Museum, St. Paul's
Cathedral, the Temple Church, and the Chinese :Exhibi-
tion.

The Princess proceeded to the residence of the Prus-
sian Legation, on Carlton House-terrace, and honoured
his Excellency, the Chevalier Bunsen, with her company
at a dejine. Her Royal Highness visited the Reform
Club, and afterwards went to the Euston-square termi-
nus, leaving town, attended by the Baroness Scheel, the
Prussian Minisrer, and the Earl of Denbigh, on her re-
turn to Cashiobury Park.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Lord
John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Vis-
count Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse,
Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the Earl of Claren-
don, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, the Marquis of
Clanricarde, and the Right Hon. 11. Labouchere.
Viscount Palmerston arrived in town from Windsor
Castle, to attend the meeting.
The Council sat two hours and a half.
The Lord Chancellor left town afterwards for Windsor
Castle, on a visit to the Queen.
Prince Castelcicala, the Neapolitan Minister, arrived
in town yesterday, from Windsor Castle. His Excel-
lency left town in the afternoon for a tour in Sussex.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Monday next, at
a quarter before eleven o'clock in the forenoon, at his
house in Park-lane, to signify her Majesty's approbation
of the Lord Mayor elect.
His Lordship will also on that day, it being the first
day of Michaelmas Term, receive the Judges, Queen's
Counsel, &c., at his residence.

A special general meeting of the Ecclesiastical Com-
missioners for England was held yesterday. The Com-
missioners present were the Archbishop of Canterbury,
the Bishop of London, the First Lord of the Treasury,
the Secretary of State (Sir George Grey). the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, and the Right Hon. Henry
Goalburn.

LE VERNIER'S PLANET.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—As in acc.)rdance with the usage of naming the
planetary bodies after the deities of ancient mythology,
the orb first descried by Herschel, in 1781, has received
the appellation of Uranus, so it is certain that astrono-
mers will apply some classic term 'to the recent wonder-
ful discovery of Le Verrier. Uranns; the father of
Saturn, was the offspring of Chaos and Nox, but the
name of neither :of these can be fitly given to
an orga-
nised member of the universe, I venture, therefore, to
suggest, that our lately found comrade be called Hype-
rion, from the circumstance of his describing the outer
orbit of the solar system. This word, it is true, has
been used by poets as an epithet of the Sun, in the sense
of " high careering," but has not been so strictly appro-
priated to our great luminary as to forbid its adoption
in what I conceive to be a legitimate and singularly ap-
propriate application.
October 27.

W. G.

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FINE WRITING ON FOUL WEATIIER.—The following
sample of fine writing on a very common-place subject is
taken from the Baltinasloe Star of Thursday :—" We
have had a constant succession of gales and torrents of
rain during the past week. On Wednesday, particu-
larly, the weather was terrific--one continued deluge
poured the live-long day, accompanied by a perfect hur-
ricane, which uprooted several of the largest trees, and
committed other ravages in the country. Even while
we write, the' Stern Eagle of the far Nor-west' is hover-
ing about our te.Wll and neighbourhood—swooping now
here now there, in his headlong flight, and mingling his
wild storm-song as he soars along with the wilder music
of his rushing pinions. The callow meadows present
one broad sheet of white-foamed waters—the rivers
scorning the narrow bounds of their accustomed chan-
nels are running riot over the flooded fields—and, were
it not for a green hillock here and there, one might
almost fancy that another fairy well' had overflowed, to
work a second miracle like the far -famed one of Blue
Lough Neagh.'"
HOTEL AND TAVERN-KEEPERS PROVIDENT IN-
STITUTIoN.—The annual dinner of this benevolent as•
sociation, founded for the relief of aged and necessitous
members,. was held on Tuesday at the Freemasons'
Tavern, the Right lion. the Lord Mayor in the chair.
About .120 members and friends of the institution sat
down—among whom were Alderman Hooper, Mr. C.
Bleaden,- Mr. J. Gresham, of Dublin, and most of the
leading hotel and tavern-keepers of the metropolis. The
occasion was one of peculiar interest to the society, the
Lord Mayor having consented to preside for the second
time during his mayoralty, on the understanding that
extra efforts would be used to raise the amount required
to complete the sum of 5,0001, so as to enable the
society to commence operations at once, by giving tempo-
rary assistance to deserving and necessitous members and
others. The Lord Mayor had undertaken to raise 501.
amonghis friends towards making up the requisite sum, but
his Lordship's list on being read by the honorary secre-
tary (Mr. Tapster) was found to amount to 1631. The
health of the Lord Mayor was proposed by Mr. Alder-
man Hooper, who intimated that he understood it was
his Lordship's intention to signalise the close of his year
of office by a series of the same splendid entertainments
that have characterised his mayoralty, an announcement
which was received with rapturous cheering. Lists of
subscriptions were delivered in from Messrs.
Bacon, Bleaden, Tapster, &c., and at an advanced
in the evening it was announced, amid great apple:suer,
that the sum of 5.000/. had been completed. Alderman
Hooper having complied with the request to preside a:lt
the next anniversary, the Lord Mayor left the chair,
stating that a general meeting would shortly be held
o t carry the benevolent objects of the society into
eff eL
The dinner and wines fully upheld the high character' of
Mr. Bacon's establishment. Mr. Harker officiated as
toast-master with great success, and the musical ar-
rangements left little to be desired.
BRUTAL MURDER.—A widow womm named Dal-
weal brutal lyliving in a Line house near Villiers-sur-I3onnii!res,
murdered a few nights back by two men
who had concealed themselves in a cart-house during
her absence. Toey strangled her with apieei.e of cord,
which was foun I next morning on the spot,
took away all her money, only 51-1, which they divided.
The body beingfund the next morning, the police were
set to work, and they in the course of the day wrested
two youths, who confessed their crime. One is a young
man of 22, named Boucher, formerly attached to the
hospice of Beauvais, and the other a lad, aged 17, be.
longing to a respectable family of Archy,

C T f 3 rt 3O, 1846.