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LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1846.

Another instance is unfortunately added to the long
catalogue, already recorded in history, of the friend-
ship of nations and the preservation of peace being
jeopardised simply in consequence of a dynastic
squabble. What frivolity to vaunt the superior en-
lightenment of this generation ! What vainglorious
folly to boast the excessive advances of civilisation in
the nineteenth century ! What ignorance to cant
about our emergence from the darkness of feudal in-
stitutions ! We may have increased the repertories
of knowledge to an enormous extent; we may have
effected a mechanical progression, have discarded
horse power for steam, hand••wheels for spinning
jennies, water clocks for chronometers, and so forth ;
but, as far as the emancipation of human intelligence
from the prejudices of government and from the anti-
quated bonds of legislation is concerned, our position
has continued stationary since the war of the Roses
and the struggle between the Guelphs and the Ghibel-
lines : tbis at least, if the jealousies at present
existing between the rulers of Great Britain, France,
and the Peninsula, can be regarded as a specimen of
our political advancement. At the identical moment
when the emancipation of commerce in an empire of
commercial influence immeasurably beyond that of
Tyre, Carthage, or Venice, promises to bind the
whole earth with the golden chain of universal bro-
therhood,
and to render wars impossible from the in-
timate and catholic reliance of one country upon
another—at that solemn and propitious moment the
continuance of European tranquillity is rendered
dubious by the personal avarice, and for the exclusive
advantage, of a single Sovereign. Is this, we ask,
in accordance with 'those enlarged views which
political philosophers have been advocating
for now nearly a century ? Is it con-
sonant with the principles which the wisest and most
cosmopolite of philanthropists have promulgated?
The mind can readily embrace the notion of a war
being aroused for the purpose of aggrandising the
territories of a state—there is an equivalent there
for all the sacrifices incident to a campaign, though it
is an equivalent somewhat deteriorated by its uncon-
scientious character. A defensive war is comprehen-
sible ; a war to maintain the dignity of an insulted
nation presents an idea which the imagination can
readily embrace ; but a war undertaken or rendered
probable merely, for the benefit of a single family,
however exalted, is an event altogether incompatible
with the enlarged opinions which we have hitherto
regarded as the only ones entertained by every civi-
lised people.

For centuries the Bourbon dynasty has monopolised
the interests of European sovereignty. To that dy-
nasty the descendants of nonoLPH of Hapsburg,
the Braganzas, and the Plantagenets, were almost
liable to be regarded as so many imperial parvenues.
tdore or less, the descendants of Ikon CAPET still
occupy their original position of importance among
the continental principalities—as far, at least, as
occupancy is concerned. After an interval, during
which the French, Spanish, and Neapolitan sceptres
were wielded by the Emperor NAPOLEON, King
Josarir, and King JOACHIM, that family has been
reinstated in its original position—the representative
of the younger branch in France, the descendants of
the original occupants to the thrones of Naples and

the Peninsula. The very name of Bourbon, from
its antiquity, is undoubtedly venerable, it is associated,
moreover, with many illustrious deeds, with sublime
exhibitions of virtue, with astonishing evidences
of valour. The name has, moreover, been
sanctified by the misfortunes with which
it has been latterly coupled, and has justly
elicited the superb and pathetic panegyric of CHA-
TEAUBRIAND. Eminently worthy of consideration
as the elder Bourbons are, we are not however dis-
posed to think that for those reasons the individual
advantages of their posterity should be regarded as
of superior importance to the tranquillity, the hap-
piness, the social and international friendship of
nations. It is not surely for the domestic aggrandize-
ment of any man, even supposing his veins to be en-
riched by the blood derived from a CArET, that pro-
vinces are to be exposed to the peril of being ravaged,
or that the blessings which would otherwise encom-
pass a whole generation should be altogether pre-
vented.

Such, in simple truth, however, is the nature of the
consequences which may possibly flow from the
Montpensier alliance. For the extension of the
family interests of an Orleans, the peace of Europe
is endangered, and the very existence of Spain as an
independent nation rendered a matter of the most
harassing doubt and uncertainty. The plea upon
which the English Government, through its ambas-
sadors, has protested against these nuptials, is, as
every one acquainted with the mere syllabus of
European history is already aware, one of the most
simple and indisputable pleas ever advanced by any
Cabinet. That plea is the treaty of Utrecht. We are
familiar with the language of that treaty ; the terms of
the treaties of Amiens, of Luneville, of Leoben, of
Campo Formio, and of divers others, recur likewise to
our recollection, and we cannot conceal from our-
selves the fact, that never was treaty couched in
language more distinct and conclusive than
the one signed at Utrecht. In defiance, how-
ever, of the explicit wording of those stipu
lations, the application of that treaty to

the recent occurrence at Madrid has been
boldly questioned by the upholders of the
Guizot policy. Indeed, a specious article has ap-
peared in the columns of La Presse, denying that the
marriage of the Duc DE MONTPENSIER is in any
particular opposed to the engagements entered into
towards the commencement of the eighteenth
century. The arguments there employed have since
then been most signally refuted by an anonymous
diplomatist in the National. It requires, however, but
little trouble to dispose of such denials when we
find the redoubled Plump, Grandson of France,
Duke of Orleans, Valois, Chartres, and Ne-
, mours, declaring on the 19th of No-
vember, 1712, in allusion to the Spanish :throne—
"We will and consent, for us and our descendants,
that from this time and for ever, we be held, we and
ours, excluded, disabled, and incapacitated, in
whatever degree we may happen to be, and in what
manner soever the succession may fall to our line."
The matter which has thus taxed the ingenuity of
the Parisian scribes is contained in a nutshell.

We adverted on Saturday generally to certain con-
stitutional functions which the Ministers of this country
are expected to discharge, and amongst them was
that of availing themselves of the extraordinary
powers constitutionally vested in them, by virtue of
their office, to ward off, or mitigate the effects of any
unlooked-for conjuncture of affairs that might hap-
pen to menace the general welfare of the country,
and:vve stated that we considered it a positive duty on
the part of Government, under existing circumstances,
to unbar our ports for the introduction of all kinds of
grain, duty free. It is apparent that some of the deep-
thinking, clear-headed, and well-organised public bodies
of vast experience and prominent influence, have fos-
tered the expectation that, owing to the indisputable
and melancholy aspect of the country, in relation to
the threatened dearth of food, with its serious and
inevitable consequences, the Administration would
ere this, and without any promptings, have authorised
—at any rate till the extreme pressure was subdued
—the intromission of grain, free of duty, from every
quarter of the globe. But the patience of those bodies is
exhausted, and sensible that the crisis brooks of no
farther delay, they are endeavouring to convince the
Government that wisdom and humanity alike dictate
the necessity of our ports being immediately thrown
open to the foreign merchant. The Directors of the
Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures
dispatched a memorial to Lord JOHN RU!SELL on
this absorbing topic. It is powerfully drawn up.
They express their gratitude for the measures of
relief lately granted by Parliament, and the confident
hope they entertained of reaching without material
injury the end of the three years, during which duties
were to be leviable upon foreign corn. It is then
solemnly observed, that "the dispensations of DIVINE
PROVIDENCE have, however, interposed, and, in the
opinion of your memorialists, have thrown upon the
Government further awful responsibilities." The
following cutting exporg of the "conflicting and cruel
anomalies" of our system cannot fail of its due im-
pression :
" Prayers are directed to be offered up in our churches
to have those evils averted, and yet one of our laws
enacts, that whatever may be the price of wheat, the
smallest duty to be paid upon the import of it shall be
4s. per quarter ; another law decrees that food brought
into the country by certain vessels shall not be eaten at
all by our people ; whilst a third declares that nothing
shall be used in our distilleries but that which would
serve as food."

The Town Council of Sheffield have followed the ex-
ample of Manchester, Dundee, and other places, and
actually (which was not strictly legal) suspended a
standing order, with the view of losing no time
in memorialising her MAJESTY in Council to
favour immediate free trade in corn. We
trust these philanthropical demonstrations will
have their due weight. From no man more
than the present Premier have we a right to
anticipate that the prayers of these influential peti-
tions will be readily acceded to. Ins position is un-
doubtedly a responsible one, and we quite concede
that nothing short of an imperious necessity could
justify any deviation from the terms of the great
settlement effected by Parliament in relation to the
corn-laws. But that dread necessity has arisen, and
it is now too late, such is the national urgency
of the question, to summon the Legislature to take
the initiative in relaxing their recent law. Lord
JOHN RUSSELL, as well as Mr. CoBDEN, deprecated
the " rag of protection " which Sir IL PEEL offered
the obdurate landed proprietors, and only offered, as
we believe, not from a conviction of its being free from
objection, but simply with the object of enhancing,
the chances of passing his great measure into law ; and
now that " the dispensations of DIVINE PROVIDENCE
have interposed," to expose its futility in point of wis-
dom, and its excessive cruelty towards the helpless
poor, we trust that our • Prime Minister, who pre-
dicted these things, will not hesitate to apply the
needful remedy. Only yesterday we mentioned that
"famine and crime were haunting us on all sides,"
and this morning brings us the sad intelligence of
four deaths from starvation in Ireland. Two have
fallen victims to famine at Castlehaven, one in
Macroom, and another in Skibbereen. Deplorable
facts, these, to go forth to the world, that within the
far-famed British dominions people have suffered the
excruciating and fatal pangs of hunger, and which
might never have been their miserable end had not
selfish laws precluded them from participating in the
enlarged bounties of nature so prodigally scattered
over the various quarters of the earth. It seems almost
a mockery to offer up our prayers in churches, that
we be shielded from the aggravated calamities by
which we are surrounded, till we have first squared
our laws with the true principles of universal charity.
If we would deserve to be emancipated from the
cumulative horrors of pestilence, famine, -and death,
we must draw close the bonds of civilisation with
every country, keep wide open our harbours to the
shipping of every clime, and not presume by con-
ceited laws of prohibitions to disturb the reciprocal
interchange between enlightened and enterprising
countries of the different bounties with which PROVI-
DENCE has severally blessed them.

The convention of the noblesse of Livonia, at pre-
sent assembled at Riga, has been engaged for ten
days in discussing the new constitution for the
peasantry, proposed in the spring by the special corn -
mittee at St. Petersburgh.

The POPE on the 7th visited the towns of Albano
and Castelgandolfos, and returned to Rome in the

evening. His progress both going and returning was
a perfect triumph.
A letter from Rome of the Bth states, that in con-
sequence of the systematic hostility manifested by
the Congregation of Cardinals to the reforms pro-
posed by Cardinal Gum, the Pore had replaced that
body by a Consulta dz Stato, formed of the Under.
Secretaries of State, of the prelates occupying at
Rome the highest administrative fuections, and
several distinguished lay members. A weekly paper,
called the Contemporaneo, was on the point of ap-
pearing under the auspices of Cardinal Gizzt. M.
BALUFFI had been appointed Bishop of LuoLA, the
see lately filled by the POPE.

Madrid papers of the 10th have arrived. They are
filled with details of the preparations for the royal
nuptials, which were celebrated at ten o'clock on the
night of that day. Mr. BUI.WER, who had been in-
vited to attend the ceremony of the signature of the
marriage contracts, had formally declined to attend.
"It is proper, however, to state," says the corre-
spondent of the Journal des Debats, "that Mr. BUL•
WER excused himself with the greatest possible polite-
ness on the ground of the particular circumstances
which impose upon him the reserve to which he has
confided himself, at the same time declaring his re-
spectful devotedness to the KING of the FRENCH and
the Royal Family of France."
On the evening before there was a grand dinner
given at the French Ambassador's. In the published
list of the guests we do not observe the name of the
Duke of VALENCIA (Narvaez). Before the dinner,
the Duke DE MONTPENSIER presented to M.
IsTuarrz, in the name of the KING, the grand cordon
of the Legion of Honour, and the cross of grand
officer to the Duke D'OSSUNA. and M. DE PEZUELA,
Captain-General of New Castille.

The Clamor Publico states that on the 9th Mr.
BULWER returned from Aranjuez, and that before he
left Madrid for that place he presented to the Spanish
Government a new protest against the consequences
of the marriage of the INFANTA with the Duke BE
MONITENSIER. In this note, adds the Clamor, the
displeasure with which the British Government be-
holds the marriage is strongly set forth. The same
journal, on the authority of letters from Valencia and
Saragossa, states that a Carlist band has made its
appearance in the Mueztrazgo.
The 10th being the fête day of the QUEEN, the
Bolsa was closed.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
The Journal des Debats, in a very temperately
written article on the subject of the Genevese revolu-
tion, denies that it has ever manifested any sympathy
for the Jesuits. It expresses its regret at the revolu-
lion, but from the tone adopted it would appear that
it is not the intention of the French Ministry to inter-
fere actively in the affairs of Switzerland.
On the subject of the Montpensier marriage we
find the following reply given by the National to the
assertions of the Court organ, the Presse :
" The Presse has noted our declaration that if the
English Government had conducted itself with had faith
in the negotiations relative to the marriage, we should
have been eager and happy to accuse it, as we have
always done. Neither the National or the Presse
have certainly been consulted upon these negotiations,
but the Presse has received and published a version,
which we believe to be entirely incorrect both in
facts and dates. We beg that it will answer the
following questions:—ls it true, that at the first
interview at Eu, which took place in 1842, there was
no mention of the marriage of the Infanta, but only of
that of the Queen ? Is it true, that, far from presenting
the sons of Don Francisco de Paula as candidates, M.
Guizot named only Trapani and Montemolin, and that
Lord Aberdeen brought forward the two Infantes ? Is it
true that this first conversation was resumed in England,
with this concession, that it would not cramp the in-
fluence of France to promote the preference of Trapani,
provided Spain retained her freedom of action ? If the
first point is certain, it has been wrongfully stated, first,
that the French Government wished to be adopted as
the best of all plans, the union of the two Infantas
with their cousins ; and, secondly, that Lord Aber.
deen was completely in accord with M. Guizot on
this point. The second interview at Eu took place
in October, 1845. Then it was that the question of
the marriage between the Infanta and the Duke de
Montpensier was first raised. Was it proposed that this
marriage should be consummated at the same time as
that of the Queen ? Did not Lord Aberdeen conclude
his opinions with the following phrase This mar-
riage would be attended with fewer objections if the suc-
cession to the Queen were assured by her giving birth
to one or two children ? Did not M. Guizot take the
indirect assent with these conditions and in these terms?
If this be certain, it is, consequently untrue to say that
the combination which is now effected had the consent of
the late English Cabinet, since the marriages are simul-
taneous, and Queen Isabella is without a direct heir to
the throne of Spain. The Presse has since stated that
M. Guizot communicated to Lord Palmerston tl-e
verbal conventions of which we have just spoken, and
asked whether he accepted them. These communi-
cations, it says, were made as far back as the month
of May last. This is a singular date, for the Whig
Ministry did not enter upon its functions until the be-
ginning of July, and the marriage was concluded on
August 28. What passed during these six weeks ?
What guarantee were thc communications of M. Guizot
attended with ? Was the marriage of the Infanta men-
tioned in the letters to M. Jarnac, or that of the Queen
only ? Was it not towards the end of July that this
first letter was sent ? It has been said that Lord Pal-
merston gave no answer to this letter, nor to a second,
which reached him a few days afterwards. Is this cer-
tain ? Had not Lord Normanby an interview, on this
occasion, with M. Guizot in the name of the British
Ministry ? Wns he not charged to declare that the
affair of the marriage required more reflection ;
that the choice of the Count de Trapani as a candi-
date having been unfortunate, Spain should be con-
sulted on that of Don Francisco ; that, as the Cortes
was about to be renewed according to the terms
of the constitution, it appeared to be more proper that
their meeting should be waited for ; that it might be in-
ferred from what had been said by M. Isturitz to Mr.
Bulwer, that there was a certain mistrust of the new
candidate proposed ; that, in fine, the Infante Don
Henry appeared to be more likely to insure the happi-
ness of the Queen of Spain ? We cannot warrant the
correctness of these particulars; but was there not in fact
an answer from Lord Palmerston ? It would be, there-
fore, wrong to assert that from his silence an intrigue
was inferred. In line, are we to be told what is the
date of the last letter from M. Guizot, announcing that
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can he at the same time boast of having been honest,
sincere, and without reproach, as the Presse has de-
clared ? We affirm nothing. We do not nor can we
know if what has been related to us has really taken
place. If we have be en deceived so much the better, and
we shall be able to resume with the deeper conviction
the confidence which will make us happy in combatting
with the utmost energy that British perfidy, against
which we preserve the most lively, the most immortal
animosity."

The Constitutionnel thus comments on the utter
selfishness manifested by the Guizot Administration
throughout their vvhcde proceedings

" A difference remains to be settled between the Eng•
ish and French Governments. Will England permit,
without saying another word, the final accomplishment
of the marriage which she has endeavoured to prevent?
Evidently not. If our information from England is
exact, it is probable that the indirect offer made by our
Government of the renunciation of the Duke de Mont-
pensier for himself and his descendants to the throne of
France will not be accepted. It is also probable that the
renunciation of the Infanta to the crown of Spain will
not be insisted upon, for that would be immediate
war. But our readers must expect to see a
note addressed direct to France by the Eng-
lish Government, to repeat all the reservations
made in that already transmitted to the Spa-
nish Government. These reservations, it is well known,
refer principally to the hypothesis of Queen Isabella
happening to die without children, and the Duchess de
Montpensier being in consequence called on to ascend
the throne of Spain, and to transmit to her descendants
the inheritance of that Crown. England will declare
herself beforehand to be fully determined to oppose any
such succession. Even should the English Ministry
confine itself to this protest and these reservations, it
would be a serious matter, even for the present. It
throws on the politics of Europe a permanent doubt,
which cannot cease except when the Queen of Spain
shall have had several children. Until that time our
relations with England, the probability of peace or
of war, and the safety of the Spanish monarchy will
undergo all the variations attendant on the health of
a young woman and of her first child. Suppose that
one year—two years, should pass ever without the
Queen of Spain having any hope of an heir, during
that time mutual distrust must increase between
England and France, peace becomes problematical, and
the prolonged incertitude places in peril interests which
require that the future should be reckoned on with cer-
tainty. Is the perpetuity of a difference, the solution of
which is entrusted; to chance, a good situation to exist
between two nations? Fre. nations bare secured them-
selves by their very constitution from the most objec-
tionable chances of the monarchical succession ; they
have resolved to enjoy as much as possible only its ad-
vantages. And behold how, for a petty interest, family
discords, family intrigues, family arrangements, have ren-
dered subordinate, precisely as was the case one or two
centuries back, the political relations of three constitu-
tional countries—Franco, England, and Spain—to
the birth, the health, and the physical condi-
tion of a child yet to be born 1 Meantime our

ministers and our ambassadors have obtained, as
the dear and possible result of their great triumph,
a very cool reception for the Priem in Spain, the
irritation of a part of the Spanish nation, and the rup-
ture of the English alliance, with all the reciprocal ill-
humour which may burst forth in all points of the globe.
Persons who for the last six years have been grovelling
before England considered us too patriotic because we
defended with some energy their own policy in Syria ;
they got annoyed because we blamed them for throwing
themselves, immediately after a humiliation, into the
arms of their late adversaries; they preferred disavowing
three French officers, and paying an indemnity to the
murderer of our soldiers, rathsr than supporting the
coolness of England; and at present they become all anx-
iety for a marriage and a dowry! Here we behold them
all in a ferment about a matrimonial alliance which they,
however, declare, ought not to change anything in the po-
litical state of things; and they were cold and trembling
when the interests and honour of their country were at
stake! Prance was neither in Syria, nor in Texas, nor et
Otaheite, nor with M. Dupetit-ThonarA or M. Brunt; but
she is altogether at the feet of a little Spanish Princess.
The en4ente cordiale was then the supreme, the only in-
terest of the country ; and at present, what signifies the
entente cordiale compared with this marriage prize ! For
six years they were proud to be English, and now a
Court affair turns them into inveterate patriots ! Foolish
people as they arb, not to perceive to what a degree of
puerility and paltriness they lower their political conduct
by the language which they use at present ! The public
in France is observant of their deplorable inconsistency.
It compares what they say and do at present with their I
words and acts of the past time ; it looks with pity on
their court patriotism ; and it judges with an equal se-
verity both the unworthy sacrifices which they have im-
posed on France during six years in the name of the
entente cordiale, and the sacrifice which they make to-
day of the entente cordiale dearly purchased."
It is said that M. GuizoT will seek an intimate
alliance with the Northern and Absolutist Powers, as a
substitute for the entente cordiale, and that he has
succeeded in obtaining from Prince METTERNICH an
expression of approval of the Montpensier marriage.
Austria will, it is presumed, bring with her Russia
and Prussia, and the Russian alliance has always
been an object of desire with Louts PintarrE.
On this subject the Courrier Francais observes
that, some months since, even Wore the appearance
of the Grand Duke CONSTANTINE on the coast of
France, it pointed out the obvious desire entertained
by the Cabinet of the Tuileries, and that of St.
Petersburgh, to approach each other.

" Russia," adds the Cour; ier Francais, ' never
remained indifferent, particularly since 1830, to the poli-
tical events passing in the south of Europe. In Spain,
for example, it formerly supported the pretensions of
Don Carlos, and the Emperor furnished him with consi-
derable sums of money, so long as he believed that he
might succeed. At present, on the contrary, when the
son of the same Don Carlos likewise pretends to the
throne of Charles the Fifth, the Russian Government will
neither afford a moral support nor advance a rouble.
Whence has arisen such an alteration with regard to the
Spanish Carlists? Is it not an evident proof that Russian
policy must have changed with regard to the French Go-
vernment? If the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh, no mat-
ter whether from cunning or necessity, would not
connect itself with us, would it not at present favour
the views of the Count de Montemolin ? Is there
any one, in fine, who believed that the treaty of
commerce lately concluded between France and Rus-
sia was possible ? Is there a further proof required in
support of our assertions ? The following is one which
any person at all acquainted with the character of
the Czar will not refuse to acknowledge. The Baron
de Rayneval, our representative at St. Petersburgh,
is at present on the best terms with the Russian Court
sin.d diplomatists, and the Czar invites him to his family
dinners. It may be said, in reply, that M. de Barante
:likewise enjoyed a certain consideration at St. Peters-
burgh. Yes, no doubt, but that considerttion was
purely personal, and when the opportunity presented
itself, the Autocrat failed not to insult, not M. de
Barante, but the representative of the French Govern-
ment. On what conditions has M. Guizot obtained
these results? Whatever they be, we believe them to be
tradically incompatible with the principles in the name
of which we repel that alliance which will be quite as
factitious, quite as false, and quite as disgraceful as the
fii.inous cordial understanding, and which, moreover,
will be immoral. Russia rejoices at seeing the cor-
dial understanding' between France and England
dissolved by the events of the Peninsula. The Bus-
si an diplomatists have on this occasion indulged in ob-
streperous joy ; but let us not deceive ourselves ; it is a
joy full of peril for France. Russia would desire the annihi-
lai'ion of the British power, and it is under the empire of
th:tt hatred that it will ally itself for a certain time with
France; but if it be imagined that for that reason the
Em peror will sympathise more with France, or the
liberal spirit of which she is the true representative in
the 'world, it would be to fall into a gross illusion, and at
a future occasion we should inevitably endure bitter de-
cept ions. This is the reason why, after ever having
corn batted the'cordial understanding, we shall as ener-
geti tally repel the French-Russian alliance as long as
Res sia shall not have entered into the course which Tiro-
vide ace cannot fail to open for her in spite of her Czars.
We ought not to seek our alliance either in Russia or in
Eng land. Germany in a state of progress is there,
and Prussia at its head ; let us turn our eyes in that di-
rection. If great political problems have often arisen at
the extremities of Europe, it is almost always at the
centre that they have been resolved. Charlemagne,
Cha.-les V., Frederick, and Napoleon, have experienced
it sorcxetimes in their triumphs, at other times in their
reverzes. It is an historical event not to be disdained,
that the Germanic race has formally been engrafted on
the G'allic race, and thence we can comprehend that the
Frerwh and Germans ought to be brothers, in spite of
the c( intests which the two nations have had to maintain
one a.gainst the other."
Th e number of the Spanish refugees who have
been sent to the Castle of Blaye since the escape of
the Count de Montemolin, is thirteen, and their
names are the Marquis de Valdespina, a Grandee of
Spain, formerly Minister of War; Generals Villa-
real, Gomez, Vargas, and Guibelalde ; Colonels Men-
zano, Negueralla, Zabuto, Zebacho, and Aysete ; and
three. ecclesiastics, Gonzales Balthazar, Jose Antonio,
and Jose Übage. Valdespina, Villareal, Mensano,
and Negueralla have been so much indisposed as to
require and receive the attendance of Surgeon-Major
Brivin, who is charged with the medical service of
the castle. _

The: Moniteur publishes the Excise returns of
France for the first three quarters of the present
year, which show, as compared with 1845,
an increase of 13,000,000 f. (520,0001.), and with
1844, to increase of upwards of 27,000,000 f. This
sta.tem( mt does not appear to have had a favourable
infiuenoe on the Bourse, where it was stated that
" the reserve" of the Bank of France had from
254,000,000 f. diminished to 130,000,000 f., and that
the IN ;serve of the public Treasury had dimi-
nished, in a similar proportion. The pressure for
money was so great in Paris on Wednesday, that
bills an counting to 15,000,0001. were tend-Jred for dis-
count r.t the bank that day ; the larg2st sum on re-
cord f n. many years.
The price of bread and of meat continues unpre-
cedent, !dly high in Paris. The consumption of butchers'
mlasetatye a.,
illars
aconsiderably b e
r o lessened,fbankruptcies has greatly as compared with
increastuL

The Tilree per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thurs-
nesday a t 82f. 60c.; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 63c. ; the
Orleans .Uailroad Shares, 1,252 f 50c. ; Rouen, 9351. ; Ilavre,
7121. 50 c. ; Great Northern, 696 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 8901.;
Vierzon, 612 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 555 f. ; Troyes and Mon-
tereau, ;1601. ; Basle, 220 f. ; Fampoux, 390 f. ; Dieppe, 362 f.
50c. ; P aris and Strasburg, 493 f. 75c. ; Tours and Nantes,
502 f. 5C ; Paris and Lyons, 5171. 50c.; Lyons and
Avignor 1, 4871. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 4801. ; Spanish
Domesti c Debt, 34.
LYONS,. Ocr. 13.-Paris and Rouen, 940 f. ; Avignon and
Marseille 9,905 f. ; Northern, 7121. 50c.; Paris and Lyons,
5221. 25c..
BUSIN ESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 16.
Boulogra and Amiens, 14%-Direct Bombay and Madras, %-
Dutch IQ), 4%-East Indian, % -Luxembourg, 1%-Nataur
and Liege, 1%-Northern of France Constituted, 12%-Orleans and
Bordeaux., 7%-Paris and Lyons Constituted, 5%.

REMY...LANE THEA.TRE.—This house continues to
be crowc:locl night after night, to witness the charming
perform: tnce of Madame Bishop. There is no chance of
obtainin g either a good private-box, or good seats in the
dress cii .(-;le, unless application be made some days before-
hand. There has been no such decided hit since the
memorabl'e days of Madame Malibran.
" Loy] I NEVER, DIES."—On Saturday week, at
Pyle, Mr. Thomas Harding, of the parish of Newton
Nottaga, aged 69 years, was married to Mrs. Mary
Austin, of Pyle, aged 71 years—their united ages being
140 yew It is said that in their youthful days—
nearly t5O) years ago—they had been " sweethearts,"
had qualm tiled, parted, and had now, after an interval
of half ;a (;entury, redeemed those pledges of affection,
which it t tine hey-day of their youth they made to each
other.

THE] ILI RAILWAY ACCIDENTS IN Two HOURS.—
NEWAR, B, TIIIMSDAY.—Since noon to-day no less than
three accidents have occurred on the Lincoln Railway,
all within the short period of two hours, and within the
distance r)f six miles! The facts stand thus:—As the
train was about to leave the station at Lincoln, at twelve
o'clock a t noon, for Nottingham, the engine was run up
the lines to shunt, when on arriving at the points, it ran
off the line. All hands were quickly aloft, and, after an
hour's di another engine was attached to the train,
but just a s the signal was about to be given for starting,
a pipe irt the engine burst, and let off all the steam and
water. A. second delay occurred, but a third engine
being procured, off the train started, at a rapid speed, no
doubt with, a view of making up tor lost time. Having
travelled al :iota five miles, a third disaster occurred, and
the train came to a dead stand, owing to one of the
pumps of ette engine being out of order; the train, how-
ever, inauag ed to reach 'Thorpe station, six miles from
Lincoln, vrt .ere a stoppage was made till the train leav-
ing Notting ham et twelve o'clock should arrive. The
wished-for train having come up, a messige was for-
wai ded to :Lincoln, from whence a fourth engine was
brought, anal at two o'clock the train started for Notting-
ham, where arrived soon after four, bring two hours
and a quart:ei later than the regular time. Much alarm
was felt by the pasit-ngers, but no one sustained injury.
—llratinghanwhire Guardian.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Saturday Ev'ening.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 10,000
bales; about 6,000 were taken on speculation, at full
prices.

There are not any colonial accounts to-day. Much
satisfaction has been produced by a full denial of the
report prevalent at Liverpool very generally—here par-
tially—that one of the Halifax steamers had been con-
sumed at sea by fire.
As a proof of the extraordinary facility now afforded
by steam and railway conveyance, by adopting the port
of Southampton for the unloading of cargoes of produce,
a convincing instance may be reported of the dispatch
used by the dock and railway authorities at South.
.mpton, in the discharge of a cargo of rigs and sultanas,
brought by the Achilles steamer, from Smyrna, the
whale of which, consisting of 15,000 drums, having
been landed and cleared at Southampton, and
received by"railway in London for distribution 24 hours
after their arrival. The increase of the importation of
fruit and perishable articles to Southampton, as affording
a quicker mode of transit to the London market, has so
much increased, that the directors of the Dock Company
have appointed a superintendent exclusively for the
landing, clearing, and forwarding the various articles of
this now important branch of trade.
The Bank of England returns for the past week,
shows a variation, with the items of its predecessor, as
fulloes

A decrease in the issue of notes .of 281,6601., or to
29,078,135/.
A decrease in the rest (owing to the payment of the
interest upon Bank Stock) of 503.8271.
An increase in the public deposits of 25,207/.
An increase in the other deposits of 155,4834 or to
8,322,6261.
A decrease in the seven day and other bills of but
7,930/.
In the banking department the notes last time were
8,809,150/. Decrease, 503,3651.
There is a decrease in the amount of the precious
metals in store of 234,3921., or to 15,582,234/.
The Consol Market has been eztremely heavy this
morning. For the next Account the price has ranged
from 954 and it, and for Transfer from 95 to 94i. The
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities have been sold at
931, and Exchequer-bills at 13s. premium.
In Mexican Bonds the fluctuations have been rather
frequent to-day—from 23 to 23i. Old Portuguese are
at 84, the Four per Cents. at 41-i, the Spanish Actives
at 27, the Three per Cents. at 37i, Brazilian at 85, and
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 59.
The Share transactions have not been large.
The shipments of the precious metals to the continent
have rather been on the increase this week.
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced Arms...— 94 93% 93%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 95 94% 94%
New 314 per Cent. Annuities 95%34 95%
LongAnnuitiestoexpireJan.lB6o 9 15-16 9 15-16
Consols for Nov. 26 9514 951
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 16 13 pm. 13
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 tier Cent 43 43
Equador Bonds
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 —
Ditto. Account ..... ... ......
Portuguese 5 per Cents. B4 84
Ditto, 4 per Cent 4l 41
Ditto, Account 41% 411/2

Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto, Account C 27 27
Ditto. 3 per Cent —
Ditto, Account ...... .........
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 92 92
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
IsAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Amber., Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%...... 21A% 2%
. ...

Armagh, Coleraine, and
Por trush l4/
. .

Aylesbury and Thame..
Belfast & County Down 4%.....
. .

Birmin. and Gleticester. 100. - 128%
Ditto New 17%
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 23/ —
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. —
Bristol and Exeter 75
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... 50
Bristol and Liver. Junc . 2%......
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian
Ditto Half Shares....„ 214
Ditto Extension ... .. 2% — .....•...
Cambrian & Grand Jana 42s ...... —I
Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% l%
Chester and Holyhead... 27%
Churnet and Blythe
Chester and Manchester 425. — ...
Cheltenham and Oxford 2 ...... •
ClydesdaleJunetion 2O —
Cork, Blackrock, and
Passages
Cork and Killarney ... 2%....
Cork and Waterford ... 1%....
Cornwall

21%
1U

13/4

Ditto, Half Shares ... 2%
Cornwall & Cent'l Devon 2% 1 %...
Derby and Crewe ... 2%
Direct Lincoln, East Rat-
ford,and Sheffd. June. 2% —
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 10
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Galway..... 4
Dundalk & Enniskillen 10
Eastern Counties 14/. 16s 2114 % 21%
Ditto New l2/. 16s. 6%A p 6% p
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1 64135. 4d....
Ditto ditto. No. 2... 6/. 13s. 4d...
Do., York Extension.. 10s. ...... 13/4 1
EastDereh'm andNoech 1 ..,...
Eastern Union 35 .. ... • -
Ditto, Quarter Shares 834
Do. Exten.(Harwich) 1
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 21.... ....
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
East Lincolnshire
Eat& West of England . 1%......
Edaburgh and Glasgow 50 ......
Ditto Half Shares ... 10
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%
Edinburgh & Northern.. 10
Edinburgh and Perth... 3 .....• ......
..
......
Ely and Huntingdon ... 7% 43/4
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2%
Exeter,Ycovil,& Dorset 514
Glasgow, Kilmer., & Ayr 50 —
Ditto, New
Do., 4 Shares (5 per
cent. guar.)
Glouc.,Abei ystw ith, and
Central of Wales
Goole, Doncaster, Sic.
Grand Union (Notting-
and Lynn
Great Eastern &Weatem 2% — ....... •• .
GreatGrimsby and Shef-
field
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Great Munster ... 2% —
Great North of Scotland 2 A
Great North of England..loo
Ditty New
Ditto, New . —
Ditto, New
Great Western
Ditto % Shares .. 50
Ditto % Shares
Ditto Fifthp - I.t
n 31

1 8

I%

-
17%
-
3i

A dia.

_..., .. atlas
Ditto, New
Harwich and Eastern.
Counties Junction ... 2 ••••••
Hull and Selby
Ditto 14 Shares
Do. Half Shares
Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 11%
Do., do, and Norwich 2%
Killarney Junctions li/
Kendal and 'Windermere 11,E —
',rimester and Carlisle... 45
Do. New -
Larne, Belfast, and Bal-
lymena -
Leeds and Bradford 3O -
Leeds and Carlisle
Leicester & Birmingham 225. — ... ....... -..-
Leicester and Bedford 225....... par 4 dis p
Leeds and Dewsbury ... 22,4
Lpool., Mncbstr & New
castle Junction
Liverpool and Bury
Lnridon and Blackwell. 16/. 13s. 4d.
Do. New - ...... •••• •••
Ditto Extension . - 7%...... •
L9ndon and Brighton... 50 .. ... 59 IA 7.
Ditto, Fifths
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 2134 22
Do. Guaran. 5 per cent. 9
Loudon an IGreenwich 1211524 d —
Do. Preference ...18117s 2d 22
London, Houn4low, and
Western
London and N. Westernloo 195
Do. Quarters
Do., do., New Shares.. 2
•••
Ditto Fifths - •••
Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 121
Do., New 14 Shares
(G. J.)
Do 401. Shares (L. M. ) 8 —
Lond. &IS.Western 411 6s 10d — ...... ....
...
Do. New Consol. Bths 40
Do. New -
Do. New
London and York 214 —
..... ........
Do. 1/2 Shares
London and Windsor . 1,46... . .... ..
London, Salisbury, and ...... .
Yeovil
........ 214...... Londonderry & Coleraino 124...... . ..................
Londonderry and Ennis- ~... ......
killen 12% —.. ............
Lynn and Ely ..... ....... 15
••• Manchester and Leeds .. 82-
Ditto 1/4 Shares
. .........
........ ...,
Do. Quarters 2 ...... .
Do. Fifths 3 • .... 81/s ...
.......... . •••
Do. Sixteenths 614
..... .
7,y ...........
Do. Extension 42s. ...... 1)3 .. ........................
Manchester and Birmin 4O ...... 74 ....
Do. Quarters (A) 5 ...... 121, .
Do. Quarters B)
De. Quarters (0) 1 ...... ...............
........
Manchester,Buxton,and
Matlock 42s. % P ... . ...
Manchester, Birm., and
Would Junction
KUlChest. & Southarapt. 2
„ —l
. ....
Ser•O•1••• t•S

-
914

60
47%

16%

-
301,4

131,

......
47%

............ .. 75
12%

Midland
Do. Fifths 2
Do. New
Do. Birm., and Derbyloo
Midlnd& East. Counties 25/8.... .
Midland Great Western
Irish
Newcastle and Berwick 15
Do. North Shields ... 25
Newcastle and Carlisle.-100 •
NewmrketaChesterfrd 2/.12s - p — P
Newport& Abergavenny 2 lA, ...... -
Newry and Enniskillen 4% — .....
Newark, Sheffield, and
Boston ... ..
Norfolk .. lOO -
Do. Half Shares ..... 7 -
Do. Extension
North British ... ..... ... 25
Do. Half Shares ll ...... 14%3/ l5
Do. Fifths 5
Do. Quarters
Do. Extension - 1% 11,4
Northern and Eastern... 50
Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45
Do. Quarter Shares... 12% —
Do. New

25 I 4

North Staffordshire.— 425....... 1% :1,1 2 p - 2 p
North Wales ..... 3% — . —
Northern and Southern
Connecting
Northampton, Banbury,
and Cheltenham 2
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton
Oxford, Witney, and
Cheltenham....
Portsmouth Direct ...... 3% 414
Preston and Wy-re
Do. % Shares
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate 3l. 12s. — dis.
Richmond 15
Rugby, Leamington,ond
Warwick
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland 12%
Sheffield, Buxton, Leek
Potteries, anderewe... 1%....., •
Sheffield & Manchester 100
Do. Quarter Shares... 8
Do. Lincolnshire Junc. 114......
Do. & Great Griimbs. 10
Shrewsbury and Birm... 3 ....
...... 3
Shropshire Union
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
&S. Staffordsh. Junc. 2% —
•• •• ••
Sligo and Shannon l%
South Devon 35
South & Midlands Jane. 425• •• ••• --•
South StaffordshireJunc. 2%
South _Eastern & Don,. 33% - — ... ........
Do., No. 1 20
D0., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
Do., Na. 4
St.Alban's, Hatfield,and
Hertford Junction ... 425. —
Staines and Richmond,— 1
Staffordsh. & Shropshire 23/
South Wales ..... ..... ... 5
Swans. & Loughor & Ca-
meron's Stm. Coal. ... 2 - ••• ...... ••
Taw Vale Extension ... 2
Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke
Vale of Neath ... .. ...... 2 •• •• ..... •••
Wakefield, Pontefract, &
Goole 22%
Warwickshire & Loudon 425.
Warwick and Worcester 425. , ....
Waterford and Kilkenny 11 . ....
Waterford and Limerick 22%
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Düblin
W aterford, Wexford, and
Valentia
/0
Waveney Valley ...... ... 2 :3' —%
Welsh Midland
West Riding Union 42s.
West Cornwall 2
WestLondon,Old Shares 20
Vi'ex for d and Carlow ... 2%......
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
Worcester, Warwick, and
,_Rugby
__ _

•• OA p

York and Carlisle
York and Newcastle 25 ... . 42
Ditto New .. 5
York and North Midland 50
Ditto 1% Shares 25
Do. Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do. Selby 4O
Do. Extension 2O -
Do. East and West Rid;
ing Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo-Belgian 4 —
Barbadoes 1
Boulogne and A miens... 16
Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2
Bordeaux,Tonlouse, and
Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 .. ...
Do. (Espelete's)
Calais, Dunkrk,andWest
Flanders .. 2 ...... .
Calcutta and Diamond
Harbour ....... ....... . 7s.
Callao, Lima, and Pacific
Coast 1 .. ... ... •• .........
Central of Spain ... .
Ceylon .. .. ss. ,
Demerara 2l/Q
Dendre Valley ......... .. 4 ...... ._
Direct Bombay and
Madras
11 Dutch Rhenish 6 ..... 5
East Indian ... ..... .... ss.
is ..
•
Eastern Belgian Junctn. 214
Great Indian Peninsular ss.
Great Western Bengal... ss.
• ............
Great Western Canada... 3 4
Italian and Austrian. ... 3
Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 ' ...... .... Jersey ............. 1
Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 ... . ............ ...
Luxembourg.—
...... •
..... .. 4
Lyons and Avignon ...... 2
Madras
......
...... --
Madras, Nellore, and 1
Arcot
.. •• M
1/8 .... •• ..... •••
Madrid and Valentia 2
... ..
Mauritius -
Namur and Liege
Nn ofFrance Constituted 5
North Jamaica... ...... ... 1
Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 ......
Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ...... —••••••-"
Paris &Lyons Constituted 5
Paris and Orleans 2O —
Paris and Rouen .. 20
Paris and Strasbourg
Constituted
Rouen and Havre ...... 20

141/2

Sambre and Meuse .....„ 10 ••••
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
St. Laurence & Atlantic ••••• .
Tours and Nantes Con-
stituted -

Tournay, Jurbisc, Lan-
den, and 11a55e1t....... 8 -
Trinidad
West Flanders ...... .... 6
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
British North American 50
London & Westminster. 20
Commercial of London 20
Colonial 25
London Joint Stock lO
National Pro v. England. 35
National of Ireland 221/2.
Provincial of Ireland ... 25
Union of Australia
Union of London lO
MINES.

Real del Monte Unregd

FRENCH SPORTING.—There was a grand wolf-
hunt last week at St. Laurent-en-Caux, by the pack of the
Viscount d'Ambray, which was attended by more than
a hundred of the most famous sportsmen of the country,
and viewed by three thousand spectators. Three wolves
were killed. A green sportsman from Bacqueville was
so panic struck at seeing a wolf coming towards him,
that, instead of firing, he dropped his gun and fell. The
wolf made an attack upon him and tore his face, but his
wound was but slight.—. French Paper.
DORCHESTER RAILWAY TIINNEL.---The tunnel has
advanced very greatly during the last three week; and
that in defiance of the mast treacherous soil that could
be met with. A number of the men work by night, and
the effect of the fires and their strange appearance in the
deep cuttings have a most singular effect.—Sherborne
Journal.

PROPOSED RAILWAY FROM SWINDON TO DON-
CASTER, &c.—We understand that the Midland Board of
Directors have not abandoned their intention of forming
a line of railway from Swindon to Doncaster. The
project, compared with the original proposition, will be
considerably amended, and rendered more efficient for
the required purposes of such an extension. The pro-
posed line will approach near the village of Warms-
worth; and by this deviation from the previous plan,
the objections raised, during the last Parliamentary
session, on the part of Sir Joseph Copley, Bart., as de-
trimental to his own property, will be done away with.
The new line will join the branch communicating with
the west at Barnsley, and be further extended, in the
other direction, to the port of Goole; and embrace, be-
sides, several other alterations of au important character,
with the view of effectually meeting all the requirements
of the proposed undertaking. The station connected
with this line will, as before agreed to, be in the field
behind the Shakspeare's Ilead, adjoining the Balky road.
The necessary surveys, &c., have been already com-
pleted, and other preliminary matters arranged, with the
view to the succeiv.ful prosecution of this important un-
dertaking.—Doncader Gazette.
DISTRESSED NEEDLEwomEN.—The committee of
the society, formed for the protection of this industrious
class of females, having already been successful in effect-
ing the discontinuance of the starvation prices encou-
raged by unions and workhouses, are stilt persevering in
their exertions, and are determined that nothing on their
part shall be wanting to effect the same arrangements in
the prisons and charitable institutions. In the course of
laat week a deputation from the ladies' committee waited
upon the committee at their meeting at the Female Pe-

nitentiary, Pentonville, for the purpose of pointing out
the great detrithent that is caused in taking in work
under price. The ladies belonging to that establish-
ment have adopted the necessary precautions. The de-
putation then visited the model prison, when the gover-
nor paid them every attention consistent with his duty,
and promised as soon as the committee could famish him
with the standard prices whieh are about-to be adopted
by practical tradesmen, ho would lay it before the com-
missioners of that establishment. The deputation con-
tinued their route to the Penitentiary, Milbank, when
the governor entered most warmly into their views, and
promised to do all in his power to cagy out the same
object in that establishment. • •

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