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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1846

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like insincerity in other particulars. The Council of 1
Monte Video are still disunited in opinion ; an insurrec-
tion was reported to have broken out in Corrientes and
Entreitios ; and it was rumoured that these two pro-
vinces, together with Paraguay, evinced a disposition
to declare their independence, and, by so doing, to
commence the dismemberment of the Argentine States.
Every species of rumour, indeed, appeared to be
afloat at the departure of the dispatches ; everything
indicated the dubious nature of the pending arrange-
ments.

Whether Mr. Hoot, be actually successful in his

endeavours, or whether the murderous and desultory

warfare of past campaigns be revived and emulated
to an indefinite, period, it will be equally manifest that
that bloodshed was commenced in error, and has been
continued with impolicy. As far as the present
Government is concerned, an attempt to force civilisa-
tion upon a country like this portion of the South
American continent is a positive calamity to the reci-
pient, and an indefensible cruelty on the part of the
donor. Peace and enlightenment are benignant
spirits, requiring no such devillish enforcement as
that of the bayonet or the congreve rocket. Slavery
is scarcely to be eradicated by the charge of
battle. The generous principles of free trade are not.
to be promulgated by the sound of a cavalry bugle.
And yet such are literally the notions which have
originated this crusade against the cities of La Plata•
While British prowess is being baffled month after
month under the batteries of those Spanish- Ameri-
cans, and while the military vassals of Rosas are pur-
suing their desolate and bloody course, the unoffend •
ing merchants of the eastern hemisphere continue to
be most seriously affected. The only positive advan-
tages of this warfare are, advantages to such freeboot-
ing captains as Rosas. The interminable miseries of
the provinces tend to the consolidation of the power
of these callous dictators• Like the authority
of the great Emir ABD-EL. RADER, the authority of
Rosas has strengthened and extended on the ignorant
fanaticism of his followers. The only means of re-
generating such a people, and of inoculating such a
Government with the wholesome and beneficent
principles of civilisation, are very different from those at
r•resent adopted. Example, and that example
enforced by continual intercourse, would be efficacious
where all the broadsides of all the men-of-war in the
British fleet would prove ineffectual. The tutorship
of mercantile transactions would effect everything
where the tutorship of our bellicose implements
has effected nothing. It is for these reasons
that we are most solicitous for the cor-
roboration of the above-mentioned intelligence, and
for the triumph of Mr. HOOD'S negotiations.
Were we to aspire with sincerity after the improve-
merit of our commercial relations with South
America, and after the social and political
advancement of other nations, our present
policy towards the population of the territories ad-
jacent to the River Plate would be immediately for-
saken, a more enlightened one adopted, a fruitful
field would be re-epened to European commerce, and
a debased population would be extricated from an
abyss of ignorance.

While almost everything European assumes a
gloomy and portentous aspect, while the friendly
understanding between Great Britain and France
appears to be destroyed, it is gratifying to receive
pacific intelligence from any territory however dis-
tant, and from any Government however insignifi-
cant. The accounts received of the Ministerial
jealousies occasioned by the ungenerous collusion of
certain diplomatists from the Escurial and the
Tuileries; the bloodless but unconstitutional revo-
lution at Lisbon ; and the illiberal interference of
the French soldiery in the political affairs of Switzer-
land, must unquestionably afford matter for sincere
disappointment to every lover of international cor-
diality. Hence it is with a satisfaction altogether
disproportioned to its bearing upon the happiness of
mankind, that we receive accounts so singularly
favourable from the River Plate. The warfare has
been so versatile, and yet so sanguinary ; so inter-
mittent, and yet so protracted ; so peculiarly local, and
yet so generally calamitous in the ccuntries surround-
ing that portion of the South American continent,
that our gratification at the statements which have
just arrived are enhanced the more we meditate upon
the history of the Argentine States. Sincerely, how-
ever, as we are rejoiced at this information, we have
become so habituated to the revival of hostilities in
that unfortunate republic, that we must perforce con-
tinue somewhat incredulous until the intelligence
brought by the last packet be explicitly corroborated.
Supposing our infiirmant to be authoritative, the
peaceful mission of Mr. llooD has been eminently
successful. His negotiations have been graciously
met, almost without a solitary exception. With
General ORIBE and the Government of Buenos
Ayres he is reported to have come to a satisfactory
understanding. Tile necessary preliminaries have
also been concluded between ti e British Plenipoten-
tiary and General Ros As. Within three months a '
new President is to be nominated by a genEral elec-
tion. When the correspondence, froni which this gra-
tifying intelligence is gleaned;r:s dispatched, hostilities
were suspended, the forces
squa-
dron under Admiral INGE:EI-ILL:lnto the g
were all disem-
barked, the blockade of Buenos Ayres was
nominally sustained, matters were all in such an
intermediate position that both parties would be pre-
pared for any emergency, that the declaration of

In our columns of yesterday we inserted a letter
from Mr. JAMES STEWART entitled "A Few Words
to the MemberF, of Agricultural Societies and others
interested in Land." Mr. STEWART, is a conveyancer
and equity draughtsman, and of 1on; standing in his
profession. As a legal author, he has for some time
ken la.veurably kno%s n to forensic students, and in
the nature of real prcp,rty, its incidents and intri
cate subtleties, has hog been intimately versed.
The style and the matter of his letter are equally
deserving of commendation. At this moment there
is perhaps no subject of deeper import to the public
than that to which the attention of the landed interest
has been revived by Mr. STEWART, and certainly
there is no class of meta who, in consequence of their
past follies, stand more in need of advice than the
proprietors of the soil at large. Let them take heed
in time. The drift of Mr. STEWART'S recommenda-
tions is, that as "we are to have free trade in the
produce of the land, let us also have free trade
in the land itself." The suggestion is at
once wholesome and seasonable. Two things, how-
ever, stand in the way of this desirable reform—the
ridiculously entangled state of our law, and generally
ijutydidpr.fludices of the owners of the land. We may
of common sense on the part of the agricultural gen-
try, as evinced by them in all matters where their
own interests are peculiarly and largely concerned,
and also the indisposition which, from a narrow-
minded spirit, lawyers of experience, ability, and
eminence have almost universally manifested towards
undertakings to remove the glaring evils engendered
by bad laws, through the prevalence of which they
themselves have acquired enormous wealth and ulti-
mate distinction. Lawyers proverbially make bad
statesmen. There have been exceptions, brilliant,
though rare. The legal reforms effected within
the last twenty years, it is not to be
denied, have been great ; but the reflec-
tion of how much remains to be done, in ac-
cordance with the enlightenment of the present
age, and •-specially in reference to real property, the
vast hubstr at u m of all wealth, is felt to be disgraceful
to us as a civilised country. But, even with respect
to the saluNry changes we have already secured, for
how much, if not almost to the whole of them, are
we not indebted to one living man Lord
BRouGnam ? To his celebrated speech in the Com-
mons of seven hours' duration, and its legitimate
fruits, must we look back as the immediate source
of the luminous changes we have wrought, as well
in the administration of-the law as in the law itself.
The opposition, hov.ever, which was offered to these
different measures was notoriously violent, and ema-
nated chiefly from the members of the legal profes-
The same interested opposition we must
expect to have to encounter whilst endeavouring to
earry further legal measures of unquestioned im-
portance to the Hell-being of the State. It is an
unfortunate circumstance that the different legal
institutions in this country can concentrate their
forces with considerable influence to thwart any well-
devised scheme for purifying the law of many of
its objectionable features, and have frequently
in this way stayed the march of legal
reform. Lord BROUGHAM has certainly well
repaid the nation for the honours and
affluence he has acquired by the spirited
manner in which he has purged our statutes
of numerous cruel anomalies, Lord CAMPBELL, too,
since he has joined the Upper House, has made
laudable efforts to mark his gratitude to his country
in the same way. But how many eminent judicial
statesmen have passed away without even attempting
to do the like gcod, and in matters where they were
most fitted to take the lead ; and are there not a few
still living from whom the country has a right to
look for the initiation of measures for sweeping off
the crudities of feudalism which infest our laws re-
lating to land ? It is not too late for them to act in
a becoming and patriotic spirit, and the present is a
fitting opportunity. The manufacturing, commercial,
and every other interest has rapidly advanced, whilst
the landed interest has remained almost stationary.
One of the chief reasons for this is, that the former
have always been able to push their interests by
having readily-available securities at command, whilst
the latter have been debarred, in a great measure,
from doing the same, owing to the cumbrous
machinery incidental to the sale, purchase, mort•
gaging, or transmission of land. No other country
in Europe suffers as we do in this respect. It behoves
us to assimilate our laws to theirs, which are simple
and efficacious.

sion.

Mr. STEWART conceives that we should endea-
vour to retnuly the evils on which he felicitously
expatiates, by obtaining—
" 1.. Simplicity and uniformity of tenure
" 2. Easy, cheap, and expeditious modes of transf,r.
" 3. Shorter and more simple deeds.
" 4. A greater certamty as to tivae in completing the
s :le and mortgage of land.
" 5. S;Ane mode of shortening inquiry as to title."

With the view of czmpassing these objects, he
proposes—

" 1. A general map of the country should be made.
This exi,t, in every civilised lard. and greatly factlt-
tates and simplifies all dealings with lard. Several re-
cent investigations, a.; the tithe commutation, the en-
elnsure of commons, and in Ireland tue ordnance survey,
will be found serviceable as to this. A state map would
assist other changes, but it would be exceedingly useful
as a measure by itself.

peace or the resumption of hostilities would take

neither by surprise. Flattering, however, as this in-
g§#itiegifis superficially, we can discern something

" 2. A general ngistry of titles should be established.
This will, when once it comes into effectual operati,,u,
shorten both deeds and title. This t►lso exists in every

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other civilised country, and even in an imperfect form in Neufchatel and the Vaud, comitY.; to purchaso all their , 9271. si-e. : Konen and 11 avre, 692 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 887 f. 50c.;
Scatiand sind Ireland. I provisions at our markets ; and ''S the most material Cierzon,:.:9of. ; Strasburg and Bale, 225 f.; Northern, GS5r. ;
"3. Proper consideration should be given to ti e while i articles became eeirer, general murrours arose, althon,h t i3ordeaux, 55i f. 25c. ; rdw:tel.,-an, 360 f. ; Parnpoux, 4001. ;
~Iris and l',-(r.2s, 511:!an', e.f, 5011. 2ac. ; Dieppe, Gsf.
. 25c. ; ?aris and Strastearz, 495 E ;
snkject by competent and unprejudiced persons em- they were s ti,l abundant, and tt prices lower than in theployed by Government." neighbouring countries. Latterly, at a general inect- N 3
RusINESS I;ONT.l 1 FOREIGN RAILWAY:4 AT TIP'
We hope these valuable suggestions will not be ing of the working king mcn, an address was vk.tud to the Issls.; DoN s'is s 'IS EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 22
Government, desiring that measures should b,‘ token to Tlouloome and Aunens 14.!,'., —Direct Bombay and Madras, g/,
lost sight -of; particularly hy the Government. We
prevent' fore;talling of provisions, and pr' ovi(ling ;hat no Dutch Rhenish, 5 ./, —East Indian, i 4 —Great Western llergl. 34,
L, :vain a la Sambre, 1 !,Y —Luxembourg, 1 li—Nortliern eics.'',„';,,,,—,,
purchases in the market itself should be allowed before a
foresee that much of selfish and purblind resistance
will be given to any endeavour to remodel our pre- certain hour. The Council, conceiving
that this rest ric- ccosinissttiita tea, is si --
Constituted,
Orleans and Bordeaux, 13!,4 —Paris and Lyons
uted, 5%-1 arts and Rouen, 3614 Sambre and Meuse, 471,.
sent vicious system ; but our former success in such lion would be unconstitutional, and would probably have
an effect quite opposite to that which the petitioners Px-
matters should inspirit our legislators to brace them- pected from it, decided upon a non•Compliacce. At the
selve3 to the task, and we are quite certain that if same time the Government took such other measures as it
they will but prosecute it with ardour, every diffi- deemed likely to prevent an exorbitant increase in the
ices,.of corn and other provisions, end to find employ-
culty will be vanquished, and a lasting boon conferred
meat
tor tne poorer classes. The decision of the G- un-
upon the country. cii being made known, a crowd assemblod about ten Cis
this morning in the market-place, in consequence of a
woman who went to purchase her ordinary supply of
potatoes finding that a dealer had bought them all up.
The police magistrates interposed, and endeavoured to
calm the rage this fact excited. They mere not listened
to, and finding that coercion was becoming necessary,
some 20 men of the militia were brought forward with
fixed bayonets. These, however, were insufficient to
awe the crowd, which increased every minute, and the
armed force was pelted, and driven out of the market-
place. The rioters then began to plunder two carts
laden with potatoes. One of the ringleaders was taken to
the guard house, but he was soon afterwards released by
his comrades, and carried off in triumph. The rioters then
invaded several bakers' shops,breaking their windows, but
their depredations were not otherwise of anygreat conse-
ouence. A. fringe and lacemaker, named Jecker, in the
karket-street, and who was supposed to be a partisan
of the Jesuits, was in great danger of being sacrificed,
but was saved by the timely intervention of some
courageous neighbours and a troop of students, after a
short battle with fists and staves. The greatest damage
was done in the grape-market, where all the boxes and
baskets were emptied and crushed, and the grapes
trampled under foot. At four o'clock another meeting
of the working men was held at Sehuzenmatter, outside
the Arberg Gate, and a demand sent to the Council that
it should rescind its resolution of the preceding day. Bu'
this step produced no result, and the assemblage we,:
dispersed by the urban guard and the students armed
corps. It is expected that the rioters will re-assemble
to-morrow morning at ten o'clock, hut measures are
taken to prevent any further disorder."

The example first set by the Earl of EaNg, in
making reductions of the rent payable by certain
classes of his tenantry, according to a graduated scale,
and thus participating in the loss occasioned by the
general calamity, has, we are happy to say, been
followed by many noblemen and gentlemen, the
owners of land in Ireland. As yet, however, these
reductions have chiefly taken place in the north of
Ireland, and on estates where the occupiers were more
comfortably circumstanced, and better enabled to
meet the deficiency than in other and less favoured
parts of the country ; indeed, when we consider the
enormous weight of the charges and encumbrances
affecting the larger proportion of the property
throughout the kingdom, the interest on which may
fairly be calculated to absorb half the entire rental, it
will be manifest that we cannot look for a general
voluntary reduction being made by the proprietors of
the soil ; the great majority will be unable, while
some few, who have already attained an unenviable
notoriety, from the harsh manner in which they have
acted towards their people, and their adoption of the
heartless and cruel "clearing system," will be un-
willing so to do. On such persons the force of public
opin.on will have little effect; they view everything
through a distorted medium, and cannot understand
how their conduct, " in doing as they will with their
own," has merited the censure and the odium so
universally felt towards them. We believe, however,
that such persons form the exception to the general
rule. In the vast majority of cases it is the poverty
and not the will of the landlords that compels them
to the oppressive proceedings, which are alike in-
jurious to their own characters and to the welfare and
prosperity, the peace and tranquillity of the districts
in which their properties are situated. Whatever
may be the exciting cause, whether proceeding from
evil dispositions or the pressure of poverty, the effects
are the same: the duties incidental to their pro-
perties are neglected, and the population thereof
may suffer all the miseries of famine and destitution,
unless the State interferes in their behalf and secures
them that to which they are undoubtedly entitled—a
provision out of the lands on which they are located.
The loss on agricultural produce during the
present year, by reason of the potato disease, has
generally been calculated at ten millions of pounds
sterling, nearly five-sixths of the entire rental of
Ireland. The distress thereby occasioned is greatly
aggravated by the fact that it is the food of the
poorer and more impoverished part of the people that
has been destroyed, and that it will take a still larger
amount of money to provide them with provisions of
a different and more expensive description than that
they have lost. Any isolated exertions, however
great and meritorious they might be, must be quite
' insufficient to meet the emergency, and, accordingly,
the Labour-rate Act was passed, which provided fur
the employment of the people on public works, to be
ere's, rated for in the (Hit-rent baronies, and fairly
' chargeable on all the lands therein.
Two great defects, however, existed in this measure.
It could scarcely be supposed that it would be perfect

in its details, brought in as it was at the fag end of
the sessbn by a Ministry just installed in office and
overwhelmed with the weight of business cast upon
them. It cannot be doubted that their intentions

were good, and that they were actuated by the most
sincere desire to relieve the existing distress in the
least objectionable manner. The wisdom and decision
of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, sanctioned as it
must have been by the Ministry of this country,
removed the first and principal objection. His Ex-
cellency found that in many of the baronies, indeed,
the greater proportion, it would be impossible to find
public works on which it would be expedient or be-
neficial to expend money sufficient to afford adequate
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himself ready to sanction such works of a repro-
ductive character as might be presented for at sessions
and approved of by the Board of Works.
The second great defect in the Act was, that it fell
with equal weight on the proprietor who fully dis-
charged his duty and gave employment sufficient for
the people belonging to his lands, as on the man who
totally neglected that which he ought to have done.
The liberal landlord was taxed for the faults of his
less worthy neighbour, and was burdened with the
support of those who ought exclusively to be pro-
vided for by the other. This was clearly inequitable
and unjust. If all were bound to pay alike, it be-
came the interest of every man to send his labourers
to the public works to which he was bound to con-
tribute, when no allowance was made for his own
expenditure. A step in the right direction was taken
by his Excellency when he directed that useful "and
profitable works to be executed in each electoral
diyision might be presented for to the
amount of its proportion of the assess-
ment;" the principle was thereby recognised,
but it was not, as we conceive, carried sufficiently
far. We think that every owner of land, if willing
to give employment to the quantity of labour fairly
chargeable thereon, should be entitled to select for
liiinselt the manner of that employment. The State
has a right to impose on the land the duty of pro-
viding a certain quantity of work, but it should in-
terfere with the rights of property only so far as ne-
cessity and the welfare of the nation required. As we
have repeatedly urged, a labour rate should be im-
posed on all landed property sufficient for the remu-
neration of the pecple requiring employment, and a

drawback should be allowed for the actual amount
paid for labour by the person chargeable. If he pro-
vides the entire amount actually and bona fide, he
should have nothing to pay—if a portion, he should
be required only to pay the balance between that
payable and the sum he has so expended.
Ihe principle appears just and easy of
application. It is now nearly six weeks
since we have impressed it on our readers, and we
are rejoiced to find that it is gaining support
throughout the country. Captain ROBINSON, a de-
puty-lieutenant and justice of the peace for the
county of Westmeath, in m hich he is the owner of
large estates, has recently written a most excellent
and sensible letter to the Chief Secretary of Ireland
on the subject, in which he urges its adoption with
sound good sense and much ability. It is fortunate
when gentlemen of his station and character de-
vote themselves to the consideration of such subjects,
and it is because we conceive that a National Com-
mittee of Irish landowners meeting in Dublin would

tend to bring forward such suggestions that
we have heartily advocated its formation.
We commend Captain ROBINSON'S letter to the
consideration of the Executive and the public gene-
rally, and we are sure that it will carry conviction
wherever it is attentively read and maturely consi-
dered.

There have been some food riots at Berne, origi-
nating in the prejudices of the working men of that
canton against forestallers. These ignorant persons,
like too many in other parts of the world, cannot be
made to understand that the forestaller is in fact the
preserver from famine, and that if he is prevented
from buying up and storing provisions at the com-
mencement of the season, the consequence will be
that instead of a scarcity and dearness of provisions
extending over the whole season, we shall have, for a
month or two perhaps, comparative plenty and
eipnes--, but ;.flerwar(l.; absolute famine and starva-
tion. We do not imagine these riots likely to lead to
serious consequences. The Militia and Urban Guard
have been hitherto successful in their attempts to pre-
serve the public peace, and they are assisted by the
student-, a most important body in every continental
university, and a body to which in general the in-
surgents would look fur leaders. As they are against
the rioters, no doubt order will speedily be restored.
The following is an extract from a letter, dated Berne,
Oct. 17:—

"We have to-day had a species of riot which is with-
out example in this city. For a long time the lower
classes of the people have seen with a jealous eye the
inhabitants of the adjoining Cantons, and particularly of

COURT CIRCULAR.

tier Royal Highness the Princess of Hesse, attended
by Baroness Scheel, Sir Andrew Barnard, and Baron
Meysenbuch, left Cashiobury-park, Herts, the residence
of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, yesterd,y afternoon,
and travelled to town by the London and North• Western
Railway. The Princess was visited at Marlborough
House, Pall-mall, by his Royal Highness the Mika of
Cambridge, and his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of
Hesse.

Her Royal Highness went to the National Gallery,
and was conducted throuch the different rooms. Her
Royal Highness, attended by her suite, also visited and
inspected Westminster Hall.
In the evening the Princess of Hesse, attended by
Baroness Scheel and Baron Meysenbuch, honoured the
performance at the Haymarket Theatre with her
pt esence. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz (attended
by-Baron Knesebeck), and his Serene Highness Prince
Frederick of Hesse, al o honoured the Haymarket
Theatre with their presence ves'erday evening,
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, left her residence, Clarence
House, St. James's, at three o'clock on Thuarday after-
noon, on her return to Frogmore House, Windsor.

Madrid papers of the 16th have arrived.
The Eco del Comercio has been compelled to suc-
cumb beneath the heavy fines imposed upon
it by the Government. It had not appeared for three
days. The amnesty had not yet appeared. Great dis-
satisfaction is expressed at this delay.
The policy of M. GuizoT in Spain is already
producing its natural effect. So intense is the
hatred of the Spaniards for their Afrancesado
rulers, that in order to give vent to it, they
have proposed to raise a subscription to erect
a monument to commemorate the victory of
Baylen. The intention, as announced in the pro-
gpectus, is "to erect a monument on the very spot
where General DUPONT, with more than 20,000
French, delivered up their arms to Gen. CASTANOS."
Senor SALAMANCA, the rich banker, is the treasurer,
and in the list of subscribers appear the names of
General Serrano, Cotoner, Portello, Manuel Concha,
Jose Concha, Cordova, Carninero, Ros de Olano,
Domingues y Guevara, and Tello ; Conde de Zsldi-
vor, nephew of the Duke of San Lorenzo : Colon( 1
Ampudia, of the Carbineers, among military men;
and among civilians the names of Senors Fahey,
Serafin Calderon, Pastor Diaz, and Zaragona, depu-
ties (three of the above generals are also deputies, and
two senators), Senors Seviliano, Pablo Collado, San-
tamarca, Bertram de Li., Salvador Lopcz, managing
director of the Bank of Isabel H., and many other
bankers 2nd capatalists. How will the DIIC DE MONT-
PENSIER act ? As the husband of the Infanta of
SPAIN, he ought to subscribe largely to the fund ;
as a Prince of France, he must feel such
a subscription, proposed at such a time, as an in-
sult, and an insult too which it is impossible
to resent, but for which he may thank the excessive
cleverness of M. BRESSON and M. GurzoT.

The Clamor Publico contains accounts from Por-
tugal to a later date than those we have hitherto re-
ceived. The QUEEN'S authority, and that of the new
Ministry scarcely extended beyond the walls of Lis-
bon. Everywhere in the northern provinces the
people were assembling to prevent by force of arms
the return of the Cabrals. Felvos and Campomayor
have already pronounced against the new Govern-
ment, and it is expected that every town in the north
of Portugal will follow their example.

The Madrid Bolsa was closed on the 16th.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday
From the following extract from the Nation?, which
has shown itself particularly well informed on every

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO
HATFIELD HOUSE.
HATFIELD, THURSDAY NIGHT —The anticipated visit
Of her Majesty and the Prince Consort to Hatfield House,
there to honour the Marquis of Salisbury by their august
presence for two days, gave occasion to a most loyal dis-
play at the small town of Hatfield. At an early hour
the town was rife with a busy population, anxiously de-
corating the exterior of their houses in various fashions,
to publicly testify the devotion and loyal regard they
entertained towards their Sovereign.
The same busy preparations was going forward within
the mansion of the Marquis of Salisbury, hundre ls of
persons being actively employed in the completion of the
arrangements for the due reception of her Majesty. The
short notice the Noble Marquis had of the proros-d
honour to be conferred on him was, in a great measure,
the cause of the backwardness everything presented, and
the utmost exertions were requisite to afford anything
like a suitable welcome to the Queen.
The Duke of Wellington arrived from town before
eleven o'clock ; Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, Mr.
A. B. and Lady Mildred Hope, and Mr J. M. and Lady
Blanche Balfour had previously arrived.
The Duke of Rutland, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Exeter, the Earl and Countess Brownlow, the Earl
and Countess Spencer, Lord John Russell, Lord and
Lady Cowley, Lord and Lady Braybrooke. and Wm
Miss Neville, Lord Sandy, and Lo'd Marcus Hill
arrived in the course of the day, and formed the circle
staying at the house, as guests of the Noble Marquis, on
this occasion.
As the day advanced crowds of people from all parts
of the county, both near and remote, congregated in the
town, and by three o'clock some thousands of expectant
spectators collected along the road and line of route of
the royal cortege, manifesting the greatest patience to
obtain a sight of the cavalcade.
The Marquis of Salisbury, accompanied by the Duke
of Wellington, Lord Charles 'Wellesley, Lord Robert
Cecil, and Mr. James M. Balfour passed through Hat.
field about three o'clock, on horseback, on his way to
meet the Qucen in the St. Alhan's-road. and to escort
the cortege to his Lordship's house. We must here
slightly digress to explain the route of her Majesty.
At three o'clock yesterday afternoon the Queen and
his Royal Highness Prince Albert closed their visit to
Queen Adelaide at Cashiobury Park, and after taking an
affectionate farewell of the Dowager Queen and the
Princess of Hesse, her Majesty departed for Hatfield

seen that Russia joins England in her protest against
the succession of the children of the Duke and
Duchess of MONTPENSIER to the throne of Spain :
" We are informed that the Charge d'Affaires of
Russia has communicated to M. Guizot a note from his
Government, the tenor of which is very disagreeable to
the Ministry. We are assured that the Cabinet of St.
l'etersburgh declares that it Las always regarded as
illegitimate and contrary to all treaties the changes
which have deprived Don Carlos and his children of the
throne of Spain. It cannot, therefore, enter into a dis-
cussion limited to what has passed on the subject of the
marriage ef the Queen and her sister. The Cabinet of
St. Petersburgh, however, having received the commu-
nication of a diplomatic dispatch from England, in
which are reservations against all aggrandise-
ment of the junior branch of the Bourbons
of Fiance (the note here gives an extract of
this dispatch), Russia thinks it right to join
her own reservations to those of England, and the case
occurring (le cas echeant) she will feel herself bound to
maintain according to ancient treaties the equilibrium of
the European powers. On the other hand, it is known
that Austria has not given its assent to the conduct o'
M. Guizot ; that Government and the Prussian have
preserved up to the present time a complete neutrality,
at least as regards diplomatic relations. This situation,
which becomes more and more complicated, now causes
great embarrassment, and the means of getting out of it
are sought for. It has been attempted to ovt rturn the
IVhigs, but it is now known that this solution is impos•
sidle ; the French Government has received from the
most influential Tories the most positive assurances of
their being perfectly agreed with Lord Palmerston in
this affair. Now, as the Whig Ministry pill last, M.
Guizot must be sacrificed to it. Conferences between
England and M. Mole have been opened ; it is hoped
that an understanding will be, come to ; all that is in
question is a few new concessions, base a:id unworthy of
France, and fatal to her interests."
It is evident that the Carlists are meditating some
coup in the northern provinces of Spain. The Journa,'
des Pyrenees Orientalcs of the 17th, gives the follow-
ing account of a hostile collision between a party of
Spanish refugees and a French military force—
" On the 15th, the authorities of Perpignan, h
received notice of the presence of about thirty Spanish
refugees on a farm about three leagues off, Captain
Faye proceeded to the spot with six gendarmes, fifteen
chasseurs, and twenty infantry. Tho brigade of Seises
had already come up, and surprised the refugees at the
moment. when they were abut to commence their march,
and called upon them to surrender, but the refugees,
seven times more numerous than the gendarmes, instead
of obeying, assumed the offensive and, armed with
knives, sticks, and stones, surrounded the brigade,
exclaiming in Spanish, We will rather die than
:,urre rider."fhe gendarmes thus attacked, at first made
use only of their swords, but the corporal who com-
manded thorn, finding himself hard pre d, at length
ordered thetn to fire. One of the refugees was shot
dead, another received a hall in the breast, and two re-
ceived sabre wounds. It was at this moment that the
detachment of Captain Faye arrived. The Spaniards:,
who had perceived his opproach, had, to the number of
seventeen, already surrendered, Eight others were clis.
covered in the ravines, and arrested. The two who had
received sabre wounds fled, but afterwards surrendered.
In the evening they were all brought to Perpignan, and
put into prisen. The two wLo received sword cuts are
slightly injured, and the man who was shot in the breast
is expected to recover. The person killed was a sub,
lieutenant, named Puichagude.';
Accounts from Martinique state that Admiral DE
LA PLACE had concentrated the w hole of the squadron
under his command off the coast of Mexico. The
squadron consists of five ships of the line, three
frigates,.and two brigs.
The Constitutionnel has a long article commenting
on the treaty of commerce between France and
approvesßussia.lt%%itiiga re ofe the treaty itself, but con-
demns the Ministry for not having carried on the ne-
gotiationstractivity, and fi,r having
omitted to place the relations of the French ports in
the Mediterranean with the Russian ports of the
Black Sea,
on the same footing as the relations be-
tween the ocean ports of the two countries. In the
same paper we find the following :
" Vice-Admiral Dupetit Thomas Las been called to
Peri:, by telegraphic
upon
‘‘
ster
graphic dispatch was immediately sent off to Brest with
positive instructions to be forwarch d to the Governor of
l ho
inegh
a t e o
withconfer-
ence
the French estahlishmeets in Oceania. It is known that
several transports filled with troops and ammunition have
set sail for Oceania."
PARIS BOURSE Ocr. 2
a shade higher than ' andl
yesterday, Threes having been last
called at 82f. 70c and Fives at 1 i7l. 75c. The market
,
c:osed as follows Three per Cents. for Cash, 82f. 70c. ; for
.—T
clhoLsi,toc‘k,iti marketiniuci i hasfirm bneesesn,
rather animated
Account, 82f. 70c.; Five
Account, 117 f, 75e. ; Batle;:f Cie'nis.cteoSr 131,7•18C08t0. ; N 80c
;for
ea-
politan, 102 f.; Spanish, net quoted.
RAILWAYS.--The Share Market has, on the contrary, been
For Cash—Paris and Orlea
rather depressed, and many of the lines are quoted lower.
1.,250f.;
Paris and Rouen,

House.
The route was by St. Alban's, where the Marquis of
Salisbury's own horses formed the relay for the Queen's
carriage, and thence to Hatfield, and through the town to
the park entrance on the London road.
Long prior to the Queen reaching St. Alban's, the
Marquis of Salisbury's troop of the South Herts Yeo-
manry Cavalry,who were in wait.ng to escort her Majesty
to Hatfield, mustered at the Town-hall, where the royal
carriages changed horses.
The royal party arrived at St. Alban's shortly before
four o'clock, and after a brief delay resumed the jour-
ney. At about four miles from Hatfield the Marquis of
Salisbury and the Duke of Wellington met the royal
cortege, when hir Majesty's carriage was stopped, and
the noble and gallant Duke advanced to congratulate
the Queen, and the Marquis to offer his attend( nu.
At a quarter past four the royal cortege arrived at the
bottom of the High-street; and by the triumphal arch
erected there a band was stationed, when the National
Anthem was played as the royal carriages passed.
On reaching the market-place the royal standard was
hoisted on the tower of the ancient parish church. and
the bells rang a lively peal. The royal cortege having
gone through the town, proceeded by the London-road
to the south entrance to the park.
The Marquis of Salisbury having conducted the
Queen to the park gates, preceded the cavalcade, and
ie. mansion in .efficient time to personally
receive his august visitors.
The troops of the South llerts Yeomanry Cavalry,
and the band of that regiment, were drawn up in squad-
rons on each side of the gateway to the court-yard.
The cavalcade passed along the avenue, and entered
the court amidst the cheering of a highly respectable
assemblage, and the royal carriage immediately drove up
to the grand porch in the south frcnt.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, on alighting from the
royal carriage, were received by the Noble Marquis and
his daughters, the Lady Mildred Hope, and Lady
Blanche Balfour. The Queen having saluted their
Ladyships. was conducted by the Marquis of Salisbury
to King James's room, where the distinguished person-
ages honoured by invitations to meet her Majesty were
introduced.
The Duke of Wellington was loudly cheered by the
people wherever he appeared. His Grace looked re-
markably well, and to all appearances was highly grati-
fied at the reception given to the Queen.
Immediately after her Majesty had entered the man-
sion, the Yeomanry Cavalry retired from the park. A
troop is stationed on duty at the mansion during the
royal visit.
Viscount Melbourne and Lord and Lady Beau/ale
came ever from Brocket Hall, to have the honour of
joining the dinner circle.
The banquet was served up in the great hall in a
princely style of splendour.
The dinner circle was as follows, in addition to the
Noble Marquis and his august visitors:—The Duke of
Wellington, the Duke of Rutland, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Exeter, the Earl and Countess Brown-
low, the Earl and Countess Spencer, Lord and Lady
Cowley, Lord Sandys, Lord and Lady Brav brooks and
Honourable Miss Neville, Lord John Russell, Viscount
Melbourne, Lord and Lady Beauvale, Lord and Lady
Charles Wellesley, Lord Marcus Hill, Mr. Alexander B.
and Lady Mildred Hope, Mr. James M. and Lady
Blanche Balfour, and the Earl of Morton, Lord in Wah-
ine. ; the Countess of Gainsborough, Lady in Waiting •,
tO. Honourable Miss Dawson, Maid of Honour ; and
Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting to her Majesty ;
and Mr. George E. Anson, Private Secretary, and Col.
Seymour, Equerry in attendance on the Prince Cousort,
&c. Covers were laid for forty guests.

THE RIPON STEAM-SHIP.
-TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com•
pany, 51, St. Mary-axe, Oct. 22, 1846.
am desired to request that you will have the
goodness to give immediate insertion in your journal to
the enclosed circular, which has been addressed, as far
as their addresses are known, to the friends of the pas-
sengers by the Rirn.
I am, Sir, your obedient cervant,
JAMES ALLAN, Secretary.
" Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com-
pany, 51, St. Mary-axe, Oct. 22, 1846.
" Sir,—l am desired by. the managing directors, with
a view to rtlieve any anxiety which may be felt by the
friends of the passengers on board of the company's
steamer Ripon, to inform you, that in consequince of an
accident to her rudder, which happened in th • late:gale,
that vessel has put into Torbay, where she is in safety,
ind the coirpan's steam-ship Oriental will proceed to-
morrow (Friday) to Torbay, to embark the passengers
and mails, and convey them to Alexandria.
" I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
JAMES ALLAN, Secretary.
" P.S. Mr. Lane, the purser of the Ripon, who brought
up the intelligence, returns to Torbay, by special train,
to night, to announce the above-mentioned arrangement
to the passengers."

• MEN OF CAPITAL.—The characters in this new
novel of Mrs. Gore, as might naturally be expected,
are not.confined to Railway. Kings and Capitalists. A
noted Captain of Guar.ls figures on the scene, which
exhibits also some lively sketches of Literary, or rather
Blue Society. Yie milk, indeed, is not so much a
show•up of what Mrs. Gore has been pleased to deno-
minate the Rothschildoeraey of mod ru times, but ra-
ther an able exemplification of the influence exercied
over society at large by the worship of the nv)l:en calf.
DETENTION OF THE EDINBURGH MAIL.—The Lon-
don mail (conveyed by the North British Railway) is
very irregular in its arrival. It did not arrive on Satur-
dey evening till eleven o'clock, three hours, and on
Sunday forenoon it was almost four hours beyond its'
usual time. The causa of the detention of the train, we
have learned, was owing to the engine on the York and
Newcastle Railway having run off the line at York—for-
tunat,?ly without the occurrence of any casualty. The
mail was delayed yesterday forenoon a couple of' hours,
from the heavy rains which have fallen.—.Edinburgh
Witness, Oct. 21.

INCENDIARISM.—An extensive fire broke out be 7
tween seven and eight o'clock on Tuesday night at Bat's
green farm, in the parish of Hurley, Barks, on the road
from Henley to Maid.•nhad, The fire, which was to be
seen many wiles round for r..everal hours after the out-
break, was observed at Road:ng, a di lance of ten milts,
from the Q:ninence of the spot. Owing to a gentle breeze
at the time of the conflagration, and the want of engines
at hand, it was a long time bvfore it cou'd be subdued.
Considerable proosrty was destroyed, end the fire is
go! erally suppi. sed to have be( n the :.et of Ut incA, mliary.
We have not heard whoiher the txtiperty was in,•red.
The utmost alarm waa err attd in many parts where the
fire was viewed.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS,
(From The Sun of Last Night.,
The sales of Cotton in the Uverpool market yester-
d,y were 7,000 bales, 3,500 being Ameri,tan, on specu-
letion. The market was firna.—ln blares there was not
much doing.
At the sale of railway shares to day, at Messrs.
Lomond and Co.'s, prices were firm. The following are
a few of the principal sales:—
Great Indian Peninsular ..
East Indian
Madrid and Valencia
Paris and Lyons...
Eastern Counties, York Extension 3 5 6
Paris and Rouen
Yorkshire and Glasgow Union
Cornwall and Devon Central
Manchester and Southampton
Shropshire Union and Canal
Caledonian, New 1 6 6
West Riding Union
Leicester and Bedford
Cornwall 0 16 6
East and West India Dock and London
and Birmingham Junction
Manchester. Buxton, and Matlock 2 16 0
London and Brighton, Eighths
Churnet and 131ythe
South Wales
We have advices today to the 25th August from
the Cope of Good Hope, that is, the eastern
portion of it. The skirmishes between the British troops
and the aboriginals continued as active as ever, but
there was not quite so much success in the foraging
expedi, ions by the latter, and despite the circumstance
of our dragoons-having found their operations greatly
impeded by the badness of the ground, there was reason
to hope that as the troops were better supplied with
provisions they would be enabled soon to obtain more
signal successes.
The trade of Port Elizabeth in the quarter ending the
sth July had employed 46 vessels of 8,615 tons, and the
total value of the exports was 104,3091.
The controversy upon the subject of the late conver-
sion of Mexican Stock seems to be losing none of its
animation or interest, end there is a decided apprehen-
sion that Santa Anna feeling his power, and
being so accustomed to exercise it to the fullest extent;
witl utterly disregard any mere qualms of conscience,
and upset the late conversion. The system with nearly
every Government that has ruled the destinies of ill-
fated Mexico, has been to profit by her misfortunes—
according to the good old Spanish model—whenever
its financial embarrassments became so urgent as to ne-
cessitate further tinkering to extort from the
crer:itors renewed sacrifices, and from the Republic a
handsome sum for the private purposes of those in
power. The late conversion afforded no such opportu-
nity to Santa Anna and his minions, and so the conduct
of Mr. Murphy, the Mexican envoy, who has in every
re=pec!. acted up to the spirit, and as regards the letter
also of his instructions, is now impugned, that a new
conversion job may be perpetrated, that will fleece a little
more thio bandied creditors, and yield something to state
paupers besides.
There is an unpleasant rumour in circulation respect-
in,g the credit of a house of some standing in the City.
Although we should feel it our duty to exercise the
usual circumspection in this matter, and to make every
possible inquiry before entering more specifically into
it, we find the unfortunate affair too well known to
admit of doubt, and may, therefore, state at once that
we allude to the firm of Jeremiah Harman.
The value of the Public Securities is still rather droop-
ing, but u e have not to notice any particular alteration
in prices since yesterday. Consols have been 944 for
present transfer, and 948 to 95 for time. The premium
n Exchequer-bills is 16s. The New Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents. have been quoted 951
There is very little speculative business doing in
the Foreign House, and the quotations have exhibited no
buoyancy. Spanish Bonds are nominal. Portuguese
Four per Cents. are 411 to 42k. Mexican Stock is much
the carne, being 224 to 23, and Grenada is 234. Bra-
zilian Five per Ceats. are worth 86 ; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. are 584 to 59*.
Railway Shares are quiet, but steady. Birmingham and
Oxford have been in favour during the last day or two,
on account of a reported favourable arrangement with
the North- Western. They have touched 68 to-day.
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. FRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced Anna........ 9334% 93%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 943/4% 95
New 314 per Cent. Annuities 9594% ' 953%
Long Annuities to expire J an. 1860 9 E-16 15-16 9 15-16
6outh Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities ... 94%
Consols fur Nov. 26... ......
Exchequer Bills, 1,0004 I%d l6 —— pm. 13
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small • — pm. 13
CLOSING
PRICES

oXE
rRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK
Brazilian Bonds
Ecuador Bonds
Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent. 203/4
Ditto, Deferred ' 3%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 —
Ditto. Account 22/4 23
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent ..
D tto Account
Russian Bonds .. ..,. 11114
Spanish 5 per Ceut. 1840
• Ditto, Account —
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, 3 per Cent —
Ditto, Account. ..... .........
V enezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 4l
Ditto Deferred
Dividends on the above payable in London.

Belgian 41/ per Cent 97
t'uteli, 2% per Cent
Ditto. 4 per Gent. uerunt.et 911,4

3%
20%
3%

411,4
111

261 A
261/2

SN;
37.4
37%
41
12%

58%
92

ruicEis or
PAID. BUSINESS DONE cLoSLNG
RAILWAY SHARES AT O.NL O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Amber.; Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%..
%rmagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l%
Nylesbury and Theme.. 1%......
Belfast & County Down ei ......
Birmin. and Gloucester..loo
Ditto New 17%
Birmingham and Ox-
•••• ••••""'
ford Junction
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 234
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. — ..
Bristol and Exeter- 75
Ditto, New
...
Bristol and Gloucester... SO Bristol and Liver. Junc.. 2 %............ Buckinghamshire
Caledonian
Ditto Half Shares...... 2%
Ditto Extension ... .. 21/.-2
Cambrian & Grand Jane 42s
Chester and Holyhead... 27%
Churnet and Blythe
Chester and Manchester 425.
Cheltexham and Oxford 2
Clydesdale Junction.. ... 20
Cork, Blackrock, and
Passages
Cork and Killarney
Cork and Waterford ... 1% —
Cornwall
Ditto, Half Shares ... 2%...... —.
Cornwall & Cent'l Devon 2% l%
I ,erby and Crewe 2%
Direct Lincoln, East Het-
ford, and Sheffd. June. 2%
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich

1 dis.
211/1
1%

...........___ .•
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 10
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublip and Galway..... 4
Dundalk & Enniskillen 10
Eastern Counties 14/. 165....... 3114.%
Ditto New l2l. 16s 6% p
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....—. 61.135. 4d...

1%

21%
6% p

I/a P... ...,

% P
34

Ditto ditto. Nu. 2... 6/. 13s. 4d
Do., York Extension.. 2 ....., ~,.,
EastDereh'in andNor'eh 1
Eastern Union
Ditto, Quarter Shares 8N •
Do. Exten.(llarwich) 1743 —
1)o., Camb. and Ely.. 21,i....,,
E•tst Lancashire
Ditto. New
East Lincolnshire
East & West of England 1A....„
Edinburzli and Glasgow 50 „.....
Ditto Half Shares ... 10
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121,4 ......
Edinburgh & Northern.. 10
Edinburgh and Perth... 3
e:ly and Huntingdon ... 74 ...... 61/4
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 21/..2 — .
..
Exeter,Yeovil,& Dorset 51/1 —
Glasgow, Ki Imar., & Ayr 50 ......
Ditto New .. 15 , — ........
Do., 14 Shares (5 per ......
cent. guar.)
Giouc.,Abei ystw ith, and
Central of Wales 1%...... --
Goole, Doncaster, &c 42s.
Grand Union (Notting-
and Lynn
1%
Great E,Lstern &Western 21' .. ...... .....
GreatGrimsby and Shef • — ..••.....•.
•.
field
Great South. and West ..... .. .....
(Ireland)
Great Monster
••• 21/2 Great -
North of Scotland 2 4 ......
.4reat North of England..loo 9AI/2
Ditto New ............... 5
Ditto, New ,
Ditto, NewOA—
'treat Wiest,zn B5 l4O
Ditto 4 Shares ... 50
Ditto 14 Shares lO
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, New
••
Gull an Selby 5O
Ditto 14 Shares •••••• 12V
Do. Half Shares 25
Ipswich & Bury St. Elm. 111/,, —
Do., di . and Norwich 214--
Killarney Junctions ll4
.....
Kendal a,:d Windermere 14 —
L..ncaster and Carlisle... 45
Do. New
Larne, Belfast, and Bal-
lymena
Leeds and Bradford 3O
Leeds and Carlisle
Leicester & Birmingham 225. -- .•• ......„.• •—•
Leicester and Bedfard... 22s IA dis
Leeds and Dewsbury • . 2•14
Lpoo!., Mochstr & New-
castle Juncticn
Liverpool and Bury ... 14 .. ..• „. ...... ,
14^,n don and Black; all. 16/. 13s. 4d.
Do. New
Ditto Extension ....•• 7 1,1! ......
L 1,d..-,n, 1.1-iliton, and
South Coast 5O
Virtu, ,:!'iftr:,
Lindon an.i Croydon, 14/. 15s. 9d ";214 ...
00.(k.zaran.5 per cent. 9
London awitireenwich 12/ 1534 d 95

1814

181/4

6(

29:!,

734

- 60M

22
934