The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-31 00:00:00

FRENCH PLAYS.-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,

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THE GREAT OYER OF POISONING.
Now ready, in one vol. Bvo., with Portraits.
THE TRIAL of the EARL and COUNTESS
of SOMERSET for the MURDER of Sir THOMAS OYER-
BURY, in the Tower of London, and various matters connected
therewith from contemporary MSS.
By ANDREW AMOS, Esq.,
Late Member of the Supreme Council of India.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that the ensuing
Beason of French plays at the St. James's Theatre will be commenced
on WEDNESDAY EVENING, November 11, by the engagement
of the favourite Comedian, Monsieur Periet, who will appear fir a
limited number of representations, assisted by Monsieur Cartigny
(of the Theatre Francais). M. Rhozevil (of the Theatre du
Gymnase) and Mademoiselle Brohan (Premiere Soubrette of the
Theatre Francais), her first appearance in this country. Mr.
Mitchell has also the honour to announce that, encouraged by the
distinguished patronage which has been conferred upon his manage-
ment, he has engaged the following eminent artistes, who will
appeal' in succession during the season :—Monsieur Periet,
Mademoiselle fsrohan, Monsieur Frederick Lemaitre, Mademoiselle
Clarissa, Mondsar Lafont, 'Mademoiselle Fargueil (her first appear-
ance in this aountry), Monsieur Alcide Tousez (of the Theatre du
Palais Neal, his trot appearance), Mademoiselle Duverger,
of the -111.14tre di Palate Royal, her first appearance),
adematintlo /ILO Vallee (of the Theatre du Gymnase, her first
appearasoe). akluisolselle Rose Cheri (of the Theatre du Gymnase),
whom performances Mot year were so eminently successful, and
during ortose engagement, will be produced the new domestic drama
of Cieele.RlSel.S. lURL,OWE, now performing in Paris with extraor-
dinary success, sod also a new Play, written expressly for Mademoi-
selle Rose Cheri, by the popular author, Monsieur Scribe ; Monsieur
Replier (of the Theatre Francais), Mademoiselle Denain (also of the
Theatre Francais, her first appearance in this country), and the dis-
tinguished actor, M. Bohm (his first appearance since 1843) ; in ad-
dition to which the celebrated Tragedienne, Mdlle. Rachel, for a
limited number of representations, and will appear in the popular
Plays of `• Marie Stuart," by Le Brun ; " Britanicus," by Racine ;
Tancred," by Voltaire; " Berenice," by Racine ; "Arlene," by
Corneille, and other plays of her well-known repertoire. Madlle.
Rachel has also undertaken to perform, for the first time, the cha-
racter of Celimene, in Molidre's Comedy of "Le Misanthrope." The
subscription will be for fifty representations, on Monday and Friday
evenings, with the privilege of exchanging for the Wednesday even-
ing performance, an arrangement which has hitherto afforded so
much convenience and satisfaction.
Application for Season Boxes and Stalls to be made at Mr.
MITCHELL'S Royal Library, 33, Old Bond street.

OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Mr. George Bolton, sole Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING

THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, OCTOBER 31.
TJERMOMETER, Lowest, 39; Highest. 51 ; Noon, 45.
BAROMETER, 30 16 —WIND N.N.W., hazy.

lIIGU Wa'l'.Elt AT LoNDOI4.-11111DGE TIII6 DAY.
Morning .. 4 minutes after 11.1 Evening .. 33 minutes after 11.

Will be performed the Play of THE RELAPSE. Lord Popping-
ton, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Young Fashion, Mr. G. Bolton ; Loveless,
Mr. Leigh Murray; Sir Tunbelly Clumsy, Mr. Wilkinson; Coupler,
Mr. J. Cowell ; Lory, Mr. S. Cowell ; Worthy, Mr. Archer ; Nurse,
Mrs. C. Jones; Amanda, Mrs. R. Gordan ; Berinthia, Miss Charles;
Miss Hoyden, Mrs. Walter Lacy.
After wnlch, a grand BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT and MU-
SICAL MELANGE.
To conclude with THE REVIEW. Caleb Quotem, Mr. J.
Cowell.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed the Tragedy of JANE SHORE. Lord Hastings,
Mr. Cooper ; Duke of Glo'eter, Mr. Fredericka ; Earl of Derby, Mr.
Hawkins ; Dumont, Mr. Saville ; Belmour, Mr. Pelham ; Ratcliffe,
Mr. Thomas ; Catesby, Mr. Tyndall ; Jane Shore, Mrs. C. Gill ;
Alicia, Mrs. Tetuan.
= After which, Mr. Buckatone's Musical Farce of MISCHIEF
MAKING. Henry, Mr. Pelham ; Nicholas Dovetail, Mr. H. Webb ;
Naanette, Miss Terry.
To conclude with the Drama of THE BRIGAND. In Which
Messrs. Neville, Lewis, Saville, Pelham ; Mrs. Saville, Miss Rich-
ardson, &c., will perform.
Box-office open from eleven till four o'clock.

ASTLEY'i ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
_

Patronised by her MOst Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince
Albert, and Royal Family. Continued success of Herr Amodio
Neupert, the great Dutch Bottle Equilibrist, with feats of strength
on glass bottles. The Champion Vaulters, Messrs. Henderson
and Lee, will execute
TH twenty
EVESING, thirty, and forty somersaults.
IS
Will be produced the grand Dramatic Spectacle of MAZEPPA
or, The Wild Horse. Supported by the principal dramatic talent of
the Company.
After which, new SCENES of the CIRCLE. In which the Bri-
tish and Foreign Artistes will appear.
To conclude with the WASHERWOMAN OF ST. REMY.
Mr. BATTY begs to acquaint the gentry and public that he has
formed an expensive engagement with STATTMAISTER HEI'S-
BRECHT, from Berlin, with his four highly-trained Horses. This
foreign Artiste, having arrived in London, will appear for the first
time in England in a few days, in his new and peculiar exercise
Of equitation with those highly-trained Steeds.
Box-ofilee open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six
and commence at seven o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot.

SINGULAR METAMORPHOSIS.—There is now in the
possession of Mr. W. Barr, cowfeeder, Cook-street,
'.rradeston, Glasgow, a beautiful white hen, two years old,
which till a recent date was as black as a crow.—Edin-
burgh Weekly Register.
NEW COIN.—FIVE- SOVEREIGN PIECES.—Some
five-sous • • • ieces have lately been struck at the Royal
Mint, b 7 you, the senior medallist, and though as
yet bid ands of a few of the authorities, and not
consequeetlylo public circulation, they stand as portion
of the cou emit realm, but whether they will be called
out for •- Ws immediately or otherwise, the Go-
vernailliNt litkin not decided. This gold piece is con-
sider** not only by Mr. Wynn, but all the eminent per-
sons who Wllk. it, to be the most perfect of coins, to
use the terms of an eminent artist. In point of size it
bears resemblance to a crown-piece, but otherwise, irre-
spective of value, it is much neater in detail. The ob-
-.don of her Majesty, and the
blajeity as Una, as so beau-
.nser, guarded by the lion
holding the sceptre. It may
the public who must for some
absence of the figure of St.
.wn-pieces, that such emblem
wed.

vision of every intelligent mind, and the solace of
every :sympathising nature ; when the violation of public
peace is threatened, and the rights of property are no
longer acknowledged by the starving and destitute, it
is at that moment more especially than at any other
that the prorogation of the Imperial Parliament is
mo3t advisable, it is at that moment that the distri-
bution of its elected and hereditary Members among
their indigent fellow-countrymen is most wise and
most beneficent.

The present Administration has regarded matters
as altogether superior to the interests of individual
statesmen. It has endeavoured to combat with the
infinite difficulties of this period, and it has striven
so to do not by yielding to a specious and clamorous
panic, but by modulating its conduct to the absolute
necessities of the times.

The. mind of the statesman can be imbued with no
more valuable principle than that of interfering as
little as possible with the people in the management
of their own affairs ; and the value of this political
precept has never been more satisfactorily proved
than when it has been deviated from in matters affect-
ing the trade and commerce of the country. There
is no rule without an exception, and the circum-
stances should be extraordinary indeed to warrant a
departure from established usage in reference to
mercantile operations. Moreover, not only should
the circumstances be almost startling in their
novelty to justify the interposition of the
Executive, but, unless the means for effectu-
ating the interference be selected with the greatest
judgment, and prosecuted with the utmost circum-
spection, public embarrassment of an extensive and
deplorable character would be the inevitable conse-
quence. Last year the Government had the earliest
and most authentic information of the partial and
generally menaced failure of the potato crop. With
a laudable regard for protecting the Irish as much as
possible against the horrors of famine, the Adminis-
tration pursued their inquiries with incessant anxiety.
Sir R. PEEL proved himself equal to the crisis. The
Government completed large and secret purchases of
Indian meal, which happily reached our shores at the
very time when actual starvation stared thousands of the
Irish in the face. The admirable manner and the bene-
volent spirit which governed this proceeding of the
Executive, drew forth the warmest eulogium from men
of every political shade ; because, independently of the
seasonable relief it afforded at a moment when the
greatest alarm had stricken Ireland to her very
heart, the legitimate operations of trade suffered no
derangement, in consequence of the secret and ener-
getic raode in which the charitable foresight of the
responsible advisers of the Crown were carried out.
But Ole circumstances of the present year are essen-
tially different from what they were a twelvemonth
back. What Sir ROBERT PEEL did then, and
with such eminent success, Lord JOHN RUSSELL
could snot do now without producing the greatest
mischief. The awful visitation upon the chief article
of food to the Irish was then novel and unexpected ;
it has now become notorious, and the healthy cultiva-
tion of the potato can no longer be relied upon. Go-
vernments cannot constitute tthemselves the general
and permanent purveyors of the people. Such is not,
and never ought to be, considered their province.
The law of self-preservation, evoked by the great
warning of nature herself, prompts us now to resort
to other means than those which the agriculturists
of Ireland have unfortunately of late years so exten-
sively encouraged, for guarding ourselves against the
recurrence of the cumulative disaster that has over-
taken us, and especially on the other side of St.
George's Channel. And this brings us to the letter
which has been written by Lord JOHN RUSSELL to
the Duke of LEINSTER on the state of Ireland.
The letter is addressed to his Grace as the head of
the Royal Agricultural Society. It is peculiarly
well-timed—is fraught with wholesome and states-
manlike instruction, and is well calculated to put
down extravagant expectations. It seems to convey
a mild rebuke to the Irish landlords, and should con-
vince them that they have looked to the Government
to perform what it was not only unreasonable in
them to surmise they would do, but what it is really
impossible for any Government to accomplish. After
Lamenting that the landed proprietary should have
taken a wrong view of the Labour-rate Act, by sup-
posing that public works alone would offer the
readiest means of diminishing the difficulties of a
starving and unemployed population—the intention of
the Legislature having been, that such were only to

be undertaken to employ surplus labour after the
owners of the soil had commenced drainage and other
improvements on their own account,—Lord Joni( ex-
presses his sorrow that, in several parts of Ireland,
calls are made upon the Government to perform tasks
which are beyond the power, and apart from the
duties, of Government :

" For instance, it seems to be expected that we should
not only pay at an unusual rate of wages, but that we
should maintain, in this time of scarcity, the usual price
of food. A moment's thought will show that this is im-
possible. A smaller quantity of food is to be divided
among the same number of human beings. It must be
scarcer—it must be dearer. Any attempt to feed one
class of the people of the United Kingdom by the Go-
vernment would, if successful, starve another part—
would feed the producers of potatoes, which had failed,
by starving the producers of wheat, barley, and oats,
which had not failed. All that we have undertaken with
regard to food, therefore, is to endeavour to create a pro-
vision trade, at fair mercantile prices, where no provision
trade has hitherto existed, and where, without assistance,
none might be willing to undertake a new and unpopular
occupation."

Here we perceive the Minister wisely solicitous
against interfering with the merchant ; but he tells
the agricultural body that individual and social exer-
tions may do what the Government cannot ; that they
can, through committees of their own, supply shops
with flour at a fair price, to be disposed of at a mode-
rate profit; and that this has been done in Scotland,
where the potato calamity has been keenly felt. Even
this Lord JOHN admits is inconvenient with respect to
the market price of food, and is evidently only recon-
ciled to it upon the ground that under existing
circumstances " the good overbalances the evil."
His Lordship exhorts them to rely on their own
energies, to be judiciously exerted in their several
localities, and well observes, that "the interference
of the State deadens private energy, prevents fore-
thought, and, after superseding all other exertion,
finds itself at last unequal to the gigantic task it has
undertaken." The Irish must help themselves, and

we do not distrust the great holders of their

land ultimately discharging the momentous
duties that have devolved upon them to the admira-
tion of the present and future generations. They
are, as yet, staggering beneath the heavy affliction
that has covered the land, and much allowance must
be made for the natural dismay that has
overtaken them. Let them but only do
all that can be fairly expected from them,
and England, as heretofore, will not be found want.
ing to give Ireland every assistance to carry her
through the dreaded ordeal. But, as the Premier
writes, " unless: all classes co•operate, and meet the
infliction of PROVIDENCE with fortitude and energy,
the loss of the potato will only aggravate the woes
and sufferings of Ireland."

The vast importance of the subject introduced by
Mr. JAMES STEWART in his "Address to the Mem-
bers of Agricultural Societies and others interested in
Land," which appeared in The Sun of the 23d inst.,
has, as might reasonably have been expected, excited
much attention. Many communications have sinee
appeared from time to time in the public press in
reference thereto, in one of which the character and
acquirements of Mr. STEWART as a legal practitioner
have been most gratuitously and wantonly assailed by
a gentleman of his own profession, who dates from
Lincoln's Inn, and signs himself " A Conveyancer."
Any person who puts himself prominently forward
for the amelioration of abuses, who proposes great and
comprehensive measures of reform, by which the
intererts or prejudices of any class may be affected or
offended, may make himself perfectly certain that he
will be exposed to the most virulent attacks on every pos-
sible point. It requires no small amount of moral courage,
and an anxious desire for the public welfare, to induce
any gentleman to come prominently before the public,
and thus to invite a criticism, not merely on the pro-
positions he thus enunciates, but also on his motives
and general character, however foreign the intro-
duction of the latter topics may be to the abstract

question.
Mr. STEWART, however, appears to have anticipated
the consequences, and to have fully made up his mind
to this result in his second letter, which appeared

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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1846

simultaneously with that of " The Conveyancer:,
He says—
" Remember that in proposing great changes I am
affecting not only the interests of many thousands of
persons, but those of the most learned and the most
subtle of men. Remember that my proposals must not
only be proof against all that ingenuity, experience,
and knowledge can suggest, but they are also exposed
to all that malice can invent—all that jealousy can in-
spire. Remember that it has usually been the fate of
those who have advanced truths opposed to the seeming
interests of particular classes to have the fire which can-
not be effectually directed against their measures turned
on themselves. Remember that this may possibly happen
in the present case. Neither must I forget that persons
who have proposed reforms as great and as useful as I
believe those which I propose to be, have struggled all
their lives to establish them, and have passed their whole
existence under the shade of calumny. This may pos-
sibly be my own fate, although so far I have no reason
to fear it. But he who ventures to lead an assault must
take his chance of being thrown down ; and it is over
his body that others mount to the breach which he has
made, and thus obtain the victory."
And he deprecates the attack of those who believe
that their own interests are bound up in the present
system, and with great justice inquires as to what
could possibly influence him to injure the profession
of which he is an eminent member. He asks—
" What motive can 1 have in urging a measure in-
jurious to my own branch of the profession ? If there
be poison in the cup which I ask my brethren to drink,
I myself must suffer from its contents. Let us, then,
approach this inquiry with calm and unprejudiced
minds, and I am sanguine enough to hope that all
classes will be benefited by it, and the legal profession
among others."
This is a pertinent interrogatory, and one which it
will be hard for his assailants to answer. Mr.
STEWART, however, may rest contented; his reputa-
tion has been too firmly established to suffer from
anonymous attacks. It is a sound rule, that may in
the great majority of instances be fully relied on, by
which a person, wholly ignorant of the subject-matter
of dispute, may know that the person who gets angry,
and descends to personalities and the free use of in-
vectives, while his opponent remains cool and collected,
has the wrong side of the question to argue. It is
an easy substitute for reason and argument, which
few well-disposed persons will condescend to use
until wholly defeated by the weapons of truth and
justice. We shall not say anything of the good taste
or gentlemanly feeling of the man who shoots his
poisoned arrows at a rival practitioner from under a
mask.

d'etat which has just been attempted in Portugal by one .
of the old satellites of Radicalism, Marshal Saldanha.
The Queen is playing a part that may cost her her
crown. The National even thinks that it may cost still
dearer to this imprudent princess. We trust, however,
that in this latter respect the National and its corre-
spondent may be mistaken, and that the Portuguese will
not, whatever may happen, sully themselves with a
useless and absurd crime. A country which changes its
constitution nearly every year, and which does nothing
but float between coups d'etat of the club and coups d'ltat
of the palace, has no right to show itself so rigorous.
As for us, we have already said, it is impossible for us
to see our way in this labyrinth of intrigues and revo-
lutions, which are called in Portugal the constitutional
monarchy. A few months back a minister who appeared
to be deficient neither in ability nor energy, Costa Cabral,
an old clubbist, was overthrown by a riot. Matters went on
neither much better nor much worse in consequence. The
fall of Costa Cabral brought to Portugal neither a liberty
the more, nor did it prevent the treasury from remain-
ing empty as usual. Is it to fill it that the Queen, aided
by Marshal Saldanha, has thonght fit to strike s coup
d'etat, and add another revolution to so many preceding
ones? Such a mode rarely succeeds; it appears des-
tined this time also to have a miserable result, and we
shall not be sorry for it. We do not like these pre-
tended strokes of authority, which always have the pre-
text of strengthening liberty, but which commence by
suspending all kinds of liberty and all kinds of right.
A suspended constitution is a destroyed one. The li-
berty of the press and the liberty of the subject no
longer exist in Portugal; that is perfectly clear to us in
the coup d'etat of Lisbon, and it is on that account that
from tLe first moment, notwithstanding the magnificent
promises consigned in the proclamations and decrees of
the Queen, we greeted with the most profound distrust
this kind of counter-party of Radical revolutions. We
need not add that it is absurd to impute to the French
Government the slightest part in the imbroglio of Lisbon."
Orders have been given to the French troops sta-
tioned on the Swiss frontier to withdraw, so that in
all probability there will be no French intervention
in the affairs of Switzerland.

Does it, however, require any knowledge of legal
technicalites or legal subtleties to understand fully
how loud is the demand for some change by which, as
Mr. STEWART most happily terms it, " a free trade in
land itself " may be obtained. There is an imperative
necessity for the adoption of some means by which
land can be acquired or disposed of, or changed with
the repayment of a sum of money, more easily and at
a more moderate expense than is at present the case.
The very best security that could by a possibility
be offered would be the real property of the country,
if facilities were given for its transfer or disposal.
How important would it be to the owners of the soil,
if they could readily obtain a sum sufficient to enable
them to carry out improvements beneficial to them-
selves and properties, but which, from the enormous
expense attendant on a transfer of that description of
property, either by way of mortgage or absolute sale,
which in nine cases out of ten acts as an absolute
prohibition to the small vendor or purchaser, bor-
rower or lender, they are unable to obtain, except by
having recourse to a ruinous system of bill dis-
counting, that must be carried on through
the most objectionable channels—as by a
very proper rule of the banks, they are excluded
from the accommodation which is only afforded to
the legitimate operations of trade. The effect of this
restriction is most injurious to the landowners them-
selves; and yet it is supported and sustained by a
certain class. And why? because it tends to the
aggrandisement of great houses ; it leads to the ac-
cumulation of the landed property of the country in
fewer hands; it effectually prevents the small capi-
talist from investing the money for which, in a few
years, he may again have occasion, in the purchase of
land ; or the retired tradesman from thus disposing
of the savings of his industry, if, after his death, he
should wish them distributed amongst several chil-
dren or other relatives. Besides, a class, of all others
the most desirable for the country to obtain—a body
of independent yeomanry, or small landowners, is
thereby prevented from starting into existence.
Why is it that such persons, who are so
numerous in other countries, and who form
so valuable a portion of the communities they in-
habit, are so few in this country ? The answer is
plain. From the legal expenses of the transfer, and
the uncertainties of the title, the remedies for the
mischiefwould appear to be, therefore, the diminu-
tionofthe expenses and the simplifying the nature
of the title, so as to afford greater security to the
purchaser in the property he has acquired. Many
say this cannot be safely done ; that any attempt to
tamper with or alter the laws relating to real pro-
perty, will be productive of greater mishief than the
evils it is intended to counteract. We must, how-
ever, be permitted to doubt this assertion. We see
that it has been done in other countries:; we see it
in France
and
Belgium, and we cannot conceive
what
is in this kingdom to render
that impossible in England which has there
there
been so easily attained. The point is
receiving a full and
a competent and disinterested inquiry.
isnagll assuredly
that Mr. STEWART at present asks for—he
worthy of
mdsTeolloaersastcth is
put forward the details by which he pro-
poses to effect the ameliorations he speaks of, but he
professes himself to be ready to do so at the proper
time. We doubt not his will, or his ability ;we feel
that should he succeed in the herculean task he has
taken upon himself he will deserve well of his coun-
try, and we feel assured that a fair field at least will
be afforded to him, that the irresistible voice of public
opinion will demand the fullest inquiry and investi-
gation.

Letters from Trebisonde of the 20th of September
throughout all the Tartar villages of
state that the cholera has passed the line of the Rus•
sian quarantine on the borders of the Caspian Sea,
andthe d
is
districts ragingcts of
Salgau and Leukeran. The sanatory
state of all the towns west of the Caspian, from
Bakou to Astrachan, is reported to be very un-
favourable.
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Madrid papers of the 23d have been received.
The Heraldo, under the head of " Portuguese In-
telligence," contradicts the report in circulation, that
Queen DONNA MARIA had abdicated. It states also
that the Count DE VINIIAIES, at the head of 3,000
men, had marched from Braganza against Oporto.
The Heraldo declares that if DONNA MARIA should
demand assistance of the Spanish Cabinet it would
not be withheld ; but as this was written before the
determination of M. GUIZOT was known in Madrid,
we are inclined to pay but little attention to the an-
nouncement; by this time the Spanish Government and
Count BRESSON have received their orders from Paris,
and the Heraldo has no doubt altered its tone ac-
cordingly. According to the Tiempo, the note pre=
rented to Senor ISTURITZ by Baron RENDUFFE, the
Portuguese Minister, invited the Spanish Govern-
ment to march troops to the frontier to overawe the
insurgents, but besought them not to interfere.
MADRID BOLA, Ccr. 23.—The Three per Cents. were
at 34% for cash ; the Four per Cents. at 21%; the
Eye per Cents. at 21IA • the Debt without Interest at 63/4 ;
and the Coupons, 20.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
Whether the reception which the French Princes
met with in Madrid has opened the eyes of M.
GUIZOT, as
to the real sentiments of the inhabitants
of the Peninsula, with regard to French meddling, or
whether, having accomplished the Montpensier mar-
riage, he deems it politic to give time for matters to
settle down peaceably before attempting a further ex-
tension of French influence, is not very apparent
but it is very
apparent from the following article
in the
DBats, that Count BRESSON has
either misunderstood or exceeded his instructions.
There can be no doubt but the coup
d'etat in Por-
tugal, and the promised Spanish intervention in
favour of the Portuguese Polignacs were arranged in
Madrid between Count BEESSON, COSTA CABRAL,
and GONZALES BRAVO some time since. This intrigue
is now disavowed by the French Government, an djudg-
ing from the following article, there will be no armed
foreign intervention in the affairs of Portugal, for it
absurd to imagine that Spain will interfere without
the approbation of M. GuizoT. The Journal des
Debuts says:—
" We take but little interest in the destiny of the coup

The National thus replies to the article in the
Presse, advocating a triple alliance against England,
which we quoted yesterday :
" A great noise has lately been made about a pompous
article'in an obscure Review, announcing a new era in the
Cabinet of October 29. M. Guizot was said to be about
to obtain the presidency of the Council, and we were to
see wonders. Many simple people like ourselves believe
that the Ministry had already gone a great way in the
paths of shame and reaction! It appears, however, that
we were all mistaken, for we are told that M. Guizot
was not master of his movements, being stopped in the
direction he wished to take by breaches of discipline, by
evil tendencies, and false prejudices. M. Guizot has
overcome all these impediments; portfolios are to be
Oven to his personal friends, and the springs of go-
vernment which played so easily in unworthy hands
are to be re-tempered in the furnace of the great
Minister and receive an extraordinary elasticity and
vigour. M. G uizot, who has had the honour of inaugu-
rating it, is about to place it on a durable foundation.
After this magnificent prologue, we expected to see the
curtain rise, but the curtain still remains down—the
Moniteur continues to be mute. M. Guizot is not yet
President of the Council, the other Ministers with un-
worthy hands still keep their portfolios. We were
hoping that, on the eve of the seventh anniversary, a
new era would be opened. The Moniteur is like the
dealer of many customers—it opens shop late and keeps
all waiting. Is it put off till to-morrow? Let a decision
be come to. The joys of M. Guizot are sweet to us,
and we are as impatient for him as for ourselves. The
important thing to be known is whether the immu-
table policy is in a state of repentance and about to
contradict itself. This it is which continues to puzzle
us. The system, in fact, has two interpretations. The
first, in spt-aking of England and her alliance, says:—
We think in this respect as we have always thought.'
Now it has always thought that without the English
alliance the system must decay ; therefore it is still for
the English alliance. Very good! But the second in-
terpretation gives quite a different notion. It says :
This alliance would place France in the wake of Eng-
land. No one in France, neither King nor Ministers,
can entertain any allusion as to the impossibility of ever
establishing a cordial and sincere alliance between France
and England. France is convinced that she must return
to her natural alliances with the states of the Continent.'
This, then, is the absolute negation of all entente cordiale.
But this is not enough. England must fall, and this
power can fall only under the triple alliance, which will
one day be formed to combat against her between her

three natural enemies—France, Russia, and the United
States.' Such is the opinion of the second interpreta-
tion. It is candid, openly hostile, and if we do not
perfectly accord with it as to the means, the object is
agreeable to us. But which of these two policies is now
that of the system? The first or the second? Is M.
Guizot, who has had the honour of inaugurating the
first, going to place the second on indissoluble founda-
tions? This ought to be explained, for the public is
curious to know and has a right to be informed. We
have been English during sixteen years to a shameful
degree. Are we now to become madly Russian? Is
M. Guizot, the enemy of Mr. Polk, M. Guizot, the in-
ventor of the famous American equilibrium, M. Guizot,
the author of half of the ridiculous intrigues in the
affair of the Texas, about to open his arms to Mr. Polk,
to proclaim the glory of the vagabond people, and lend
his hand to the conquest of California? Oh dear! Let
this be said, and then let us be allowed the pleasant pas-
time of laughing a great deal without becoming too
proud!"
The Duke and Duchess DE MONTPENSIER left
Bayonne for Pau on Wednesday.
The price of wheat is increasing everywhere
throughout France. In the Paris market on Wed-
nesday the price rose If. for every hectolitre and a half.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thurs-
day at 82f. 90c. ; the Five per Cents., 1171. 90c.; the Or-
leans Railroad Shares, 1,250 f ; Rouen, 917 f. 50c.; Havre,
702 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 6871. 50c.; Avignon, 890 f. ;
Vierzon, 582 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 5421. 50c.; Fampoux, 405 f.;
Dieppe, 360 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 492 f. 50c.; Tours and
Nantes, 501 f. 25c. ' • Paris and Lyons, 5161. 25c.; Lyons and
; Avignon, 495 f. Bordeaux and Cette, 477 f. 50c.; Spanish
Domestic Debt, 33%.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 30.
Dutch Rhenish, 51,4—Great Western Canada, —Louvain ala
Sambre, l N—Luxembourg, 11,4 —Namur and Liege, 3%—Northern of
France Constituted, 11%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 7% —Paris and
Lyons Constituted, 5% —Paris and Rouen, 361%—Rouen and Havre,
26 —Sambre and Meuse, 47 —West Flanders, 3.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
NEWMARKET, FRIDAY NIGHT.
ENTRIES FOR SATURDAY.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, T.Y.C.
Cocoa Nut, 5 yrs—Flattery, 4 yrs—Taurina, 3 yrs—
Infringe, 2 yrs—Marmillo, 2 yrs—f by Theon, d by Wanton,
2 yrs—Agnes, 2 yrs—Millwood, 2 yrs—Ellen Horne 2 yrs
—Condu Maze, 2 yrs—Circassian Maid, 2 yrs—and Horne,
Pepper, 2 yrs.
The Houghton Handicap of 15 sovs. each. T.Y.C.
Sting, 3 yrs, Sat 91b—Prior of St. Margaret's, (Sis. to Jo-
anna colt) 3 yrs, 7st 91b—Young Lochinvar, 6 yrs, 7st 91b—
Wilderness, 3 yrs, 7st 61b—African, aged, 7st 61b—Best
Bower, 5 yrs, 7st Gib—Cherry, 3 yrs, 6st 131b—Collingwood,
3 yrs, Est 111b—Terrier, 3yrs, Est 41b—Glory, 3 yrs, Est 41b
Hydrangea, 3 yrs, sst 111b—Elinea, 3 yrs, sst 111b—Alexa,
3 yrs, sst 91b—Prospect, 3 yrs, Sat 91b.
Sweepstakes, of 5 sovs. each. Ab.M.
Lucille, 5 yrs—Killi Kranki, 3 yrs—Deerchase, 3 yrs—
Needle, 3 yrs—f by Euclid, out of Victoire, 2 yrs—Little
Julia, 2 yrs—Pocket Venus, 2 yrs—His Serene Highness,
2 yrs—Bendigo, 2 yrs—Mouseling, 2 yrs—Restless, 2 yrs—
Bedouin, 2 yrs.

DERBY BETTING.
7to 1 agst Von Tromp Ilsto 1 agst Planet
15 to 1 agst Epirote (t)
TE WKESBURY FACES.—FRIDAY.

The Ham Sa.--kesJ16;;;;:e;i1, with 20 added; three yrs
old, 7st 31b; four, Bst 21b; five, Bst 101 b; six and aged,
9st 51b; winners extra. The winner to be sold for 100
sovs., &c. Heats, once round and a distance.
Mr. Raworth's Idolater, 4 yrs (Bradley) 1 3 1
Mr. Parr's The Attorney, 4 yrs
Mr. Holloway's Old George, 5 yrs .. 4 2 3
Mr. Stallard's The Leg, 5 yrs 3 dr.
A Selling Stakes, of 3 sovs, each, with 15 added; three yrs,
7st 81b ; four, Bst ; five, Sst 121 b ; six and aged, 9st 51b.
The winner to be sold for 80 sovs. Heats, once round
and a dis.
Mr. Stagg's Hector, 4 yrs (T. Jones) 1 1
Mr. Davenport's Florine, 4 yrs 3 2
Mr. Webb's Astonishment, 4 yrs 2 0
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added ; three yrs old,
7st. ; four, Bst 21b ; five, Bst 101 b ; six and aged, 9st 51b.
The winner to be sold for 150 soya. Heats, once round
and a die.
Mr. Evan's Redstreak, by Tipple Cider, 4 yrs (Arthur) 1 1
Mr. Waring's Rosa, 4 yrs 2 2
Mr. Moore's Conservative (h b), 4 yrs
A Hurdle Stake of 3 sovs. each, with 20 added ; three yrs
old, fist 71b ; four, 9st 101 b ; five, lOst 121 h • six and aged,
12st ; winners extra. The winner to be sold for 50 sovs.,
if demanded. Heats, once round and a dis.

Mr. Devonport's Fl,rine, 4 yrs
Mr. Luke's Union Jack, 3 yrs 2 1 2

THE WHEAT CROP of SOUTHERN

RUSSIA.

ODESSA, SEPT. 18.—Whilst a part of Europe is
menaced with famine, all accounts from Podolia and the
Ukraine are unanimous in announcing that the wheat
crop of this year is one of the most abundant that ever
was recollected. The letters from the other parts of
the vast Russian empire are likewise favourable, with
the exception of the country of the Steppes, that is the dry
land in the neighbourhood of Odessa, and of the Crimea,
And the vast plains to the north of the sea of Azof,
where the harvest has proved a total failure. But the
crops in the Steppes have never had any influence on
the value of corn in this city. The principal stock of
wheat is brought from the ancient Polish provinces,
where, the land being damp and the soil wet, a warm
summer is considered an advantage. But if southern
Russia, with its immense stock of wheat, has not hitherto
come to the assistance of the suffering countries of
western Europe, the cause is owing solely to the great
difficulty of finding shipping to convey it, and the con-
sequent high rates of freights. The roads which lead
from the Ukraine to Odessa are horribly neglected, and
particularly at this moment, after a long continuance of
heavy rains.

THE ATTEMPT TO MURDER MR. AVGILL.—We
made inquiries yesterday morning as to the state of Mr.
M'Gill's health, and found that but little hope was then
entertained of his recovery. At a late hour yesterday
evening we caused further inquiries to be made, and
were glad to bear that the report of the medical attend-
ant was more favourable. The answer we received at
M-. house was, that ho was very ml!ch better.—
l'iuncliester Times of yesterday.
GLUT ‘lr HERRINGS.—Yesterday afternoon a fleet
of fishing smacks arrived at Billingsgate, laden with
fresh herrings. So great was the profusion, that Pile
fish were to be had at 2s. per hundred.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUAHTEI? TO THI?EE.
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was firm.
Sales, 5,000 bales. Shares were still less buoyant than
they are in the London market.
The week's sales of cotton are 48,700 bales, and the
stock at Liverpool is 930,000 be,les.
There are no later accounts by ship arrivals from
foreign parts.
The sale of railway shares, yesterday, at Messrs. Lamond
and Co.'s, was well attended, and a large business was
done at rather advanced prices. The following are a
ew of the principal sales :
Yorkshire and Glasgow Union £o 11 0
East Indian ...
Goole and Doncaster 1 17 0
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock. ....
Leicester and Bedford
Churnet and Blythe
Lond m and Blackwall, New
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield 0 15 6
Great Eastern and Western 0 16 6
East and West India Docks and London
and Birmingham Junction
Manchester, Sheffield, & Midland Junct 2 6 6
Shropshire Union and Canal
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 0 15 0
Leicester, Tamworth, Coventry, &c.
Manchester and Southampton, 1847
Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush
Trent Valley, Midland, and Grand Junct. 2 3 0
Cornwall and Devon Central ...
Northern arid Southern Connecting
South-Eastern and Dover 37 0 0
Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, & Dublin 0 3 3
An extraordinary instance of quick passages by a
sailing vessel seems to be that of the Deogaum, Leitch
commander, which arrived out at Calcutta from the
Clyde in ninety-one days. She made three voyages
between these points in a period of 355 days, having
sailed for her first voyage on the 22d September, 1845,
and arrived at Calcutta on her second voyage, Septem-
ber 13, 1846.
The principal alterations in the Bank of England
returns, compared with those of last week, are as
under :
Notes issued
Decrease
14,893,906
Decrease
Other deposits, decrease 328,833
Other securities, decrease
The Stock Market, although there is not much doing,
looks decidedly better to-day, and there is a rally in
Consols. of to per cent. The fact is that up to the
present time no particular reason has been given for
the sudden and special fall that occurred on Thursday,
because the aspect of political affairs generally should
rather have led to a previous and gradual declension,
whereas there was actually an advance. Consols have
been 941 for present transfer, and 94i
for Account. Exchequer-bills were at Bs. to 1 ls. pre-
mium. The New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents.
realised 95 3-; and the Three per Cents 93i. Bank
Stock has been a little better, viz., 2041 to 2051.
The Foreign investments have been nominally at
rather fuller rates, but the transactions are wholly in-
significant. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 25i to
26; the Three per Cents. 37; and Portuguese Four per
Cents. 394- ; Mexican Active Bonds have been at 22 ;
Dutch Four per Cents. are 92.
The Scottish lines have been in favour again, as the
North "Western has leased them as far as Perth, and is
now expected to take up the Aberdeen. Birmingham
and Oxford are down again. The French lines have
been rather more dealt in, at about previous rates.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock . . 205% 204% 204%
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 93% 93%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 94%1/ 94%
New 34 per Cent. Annuities 95%% 95%
Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 9 15-16 74 9%8
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860.... 10 1-16 10 1-16
India Bonds, 1,0001... —
Ditto under 1,0001.. .. .. 22 p 22 p
Consols for Account 94%34 94%
Exchequer Bills, 10001. 1%d.... 811— p 11 p
Ditto, 5001
Ditto, Small
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 22 21%
Ditto. Account
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 3914 39%
Ditto, Account — 39
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account . 26% 26%
Ditto. 3 per Cent —
Ditto, Account 37
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 92

PRICES or BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
r<AILWAY SHARES PAID' AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Amber., Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%..... 23/47R
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% --
Aylesbury and Thaine.. 1% ... ...
Belfast & County Down et
Birmingham andpudley 4%. ... .. 414 p 412/ p
Birmin. and Gleuceiter..loo

Ditto New l7l/
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 234
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225.
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester 3O ......
Bristol and Liver. June 2h......—
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian
Ditto Half Shares...... 21/
Cambrian & Grand June 42s
Chester and Holyhead... 271 j
Churnet and Blythe
Chester and Manchester 425.
Cheltenham and Oxford 2
Clydesdale Junction..... 20
Cork, Blackrock, and
Passages
Cork and Killarney 21%
Cork and Waterford ... 11,i —
Cornwall

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Ditto, Half Shares ... 21/2
Cornwall & Cent'l Devon 2'7)' 1
Derby and Crewe 2%
Direct Lincoln, East Het-
ford, and Sheffd. June. 2%
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich 1
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 10
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Galway 4 ......
Dundalk & Enniskillen 10 ......
Eastern Counties 14/. 16s .. 2214 % ...... ....• 22%
Ditto New l2l. 165 7WA n 7% P
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....... 61.135. 4d...
Ditto ditto. No. 2... 6/. 13s. 4d... .... .
Do., York Extension.. 2 ...... 31/0,1
EastDereh'm andNor'ch 1
Eastein Union 35 •. ...
Ditto, Quarter Shares 8% —
Do. Exten.(llarwich) 1% — ......... .....
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2 4 —
East Lancashire
Ditto. New
East Lincolnshire
East & West of England 1%4--
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ....••
Ditto Half Shares ... 10
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121, ......
Edinburgh & Northern.. 10
Edinburgh and Perth... 3 ....., .....
..
......
Ely and Huntingdon ... ?1A...—.
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 21/2 _
Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorset 5M ...............
Glasgow, Kilmar.,&Ayr 50
.
Ditto, New .. 15 . — ... ...........
Do., VI Shares (5 per
cent. guar.) ... ...... 12%...... .............
Gloue.,Abelystwith, and ..
Central of Wales
Goole, Doncaster, &c 42s.
Grand Union (Notting-
and Lynn
•• ...........
Great Eastern &Western 21/2 —
GreatGrimsby and Shef- ........ ••• ••
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Great South. and West.

(Ireland)
Great Munster 2%
Great North of Scotland 2%......
GreatNorthof England..loo 2361/2
Ditto New 5
Ditto, New .
15
Ditto, New
Great Western B5
Ditto % Shares . 50
Ditto 14 Shares lO
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, New ... 2
Hull and Selby 5O
Ditto 11, Shares
Do. Half Shares
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Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 111,E
Do., de , and Norwich 2 LA__
Killarney Junctions ...... 14....:. ......... ... ..
Kendal and Windermere I %
Lancaster and Carlisle... 45
Do. New
Larne, Belfast, and Bal-
lymena
Leeds and Bradiord
Leeds and Carlisle
Leicester & Birmingham 225. — .......»
Leicester and Bedford... 225.......
Leeds and Dewsbury ... 22%
Lpool., Mnchstr &New-
castle Junction
Liverpool and Bury -
London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d. 91/8
Do. New
Ditto Extension ~, 7% ...... - ........ ...
London, Brighton, and
South Coast
Ditto, Fifths
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d.
Do. Guaran. 5 per cent. 9
London and Greenwich 12/ 1534 d —
Do. Preference ...18117s 2d —
•• -
London, Hounslow, and
Western
London and N. Westernloo 198% 2OO
Do. Quarters
Do., do., New Shares.. 2
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12%
Do., New 14 Shares
(G. J.)
Do 40/.Shares(L.M.) 8
Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 67% x n .... ... 68xn
Do. New Consol. Bths 40
Do. New
Do. New
London and York . 21.4
Do. 1,,.'2 Shares
lA,n,lnti ~.! ‘t I il(tT,r . 1:',.,... • •-•'
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ..... .... ........ 2% ...... --
Loncloriderry&Coleraine 12%. •
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