The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-20 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Saturday a Court was held for the despatch of business.
EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.
The LORD MAYOR having signified to the Members that
he was determined to proceed with the business list with
regularity the Court assembled. The first order on the list
related to the Municipal Corporation alterations suggested
by Mr. Wood, and those agreed to by the whole Court, of
which Mr. Pritchard was Chairman.
Mr. PRITCHARD rose to request that so important a
subject might not be discussed in so thin a Court.
The Loan MAYOR said that unless very good reasons
could be assigned he would not consent to pass over any
subject upon the paper.
Mr. PRITCHARD should prefer a postponement, even
beyond the present mayoralty, to a discussion of such grave
matter in the absence of some of the most able and influen-
tial members of the Court. His Lordship had dwelt upon
this subject in a manner which slid not at all meet with the
approbation of several Gentlemen of the Court.
Several members urged. his Lordship to postpone the'
question and appoint a special day for its consideration ; but
His LORDSHIP was not disposed to abandon his first de-
termination.
Alderman VENABLES, in the midst of the squabble (for
the scene was what might be called a row), left the Court
to go into the adjoining chamber, and as there were no
more Aldermen present than the Lord Mayor and Alder-
man Cowan (and three are necessary to constitute a Court)
several of the members, who were anxious for an adjourn-
ment, cried out, " There is no Court."
The LORD MAYOR—There is a Court ; Alderman Ire-
nables has left his hat here, and is in the next chamber.
The members rose for the purpose of departing when
the Lord Mayor ordered that the officers should prevent
any members from leaving the Court, and sent the Sword-
bearer to get hold of an Alderman. Immediately after-
wards the Swordbearer returned with Mr. Johnson (who
was declared Alderman of Portsoken Ward by the Court
of Aldermen, but whom the constituency of that Ward
never would recognize). The moment Mr. Johnson en-
tered there was a burst of laughter, and one of the Portso-
ken members started up and said, " My Lord Mayor, there
are not Aldermen enough to constitute a Court ; that's wit
an Alderman (pointing to Mr. Johnson)."
The LORD MAYOR—The business may be proceeded
with. There is a Court now.
Mr. PRITCHARD—My Lord, you have violated a stand-
ing order in putting the notice for the consideration of the
Report at the bottom of the paper. High as your authority
is, the standing order is paramount.
The LORD MAYOR—I am willing to take upon myself
the whole responsibility. I should thank gentlemen to pro-
ceed to business : there is not much more than a fortnight
of my office to run.
Mr. WILLIAMS, of Watling-street—We are extremely
glad to hear it, my Lord..---(Laughter.)
Mr. PRITCHARD again appealed to the Lord Mayor, and
Mr. WooD said if the Lord Mayor would consent he had
no objection to the postponement.
The LORD MAYOR again repeated that the subject must
be at once taken in its proper order, and Mr. Wood pro-
ceeded.
Mr. C. PEARsoN at this period entered the Court ; and,
after some conversation with Mr. Wood, addressed the Lord
Mayor on the propriety of postponing the important subject
relating to the change in the municipal institutions of the
City. After having moved an amendment for the postpone-
ment of the question,
Mr. WooD consented to let it pass over, and it was ac-
cordingly adjourned.
It will not be resumed, we believe, until tho next
mayoralty.
It would be difficult to describe the confusion and inter-
ruptions and contradictions which abounded in the Court,
although we have rarely seen so few persons assembled there.
Mr. C. PEARSON moved that a Committee should take
into consideration and report whether the whole of the fifty-
two standing orders should be rescinded ; or whether, if it
was for the honour of the Corporation and the advantage of
the public at large that the restriction affecting tradesmen
as contractors should be continued, the exceptions in favour
of members exercising their professions in transacting busi-
ness between their clients and the City, or as referees,
ought to be rescinded also.
The motion was agreed to.—Adjourned.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)

PORTSMOUTH, OCTOBER 18.—Yesterday the Sylvia
transport, Lieutenant A. 13. Howe, Agent, arrived
from Quebec and Halifax ; left the latter port on
the 29th ult., when, we are happy to hear, the
cholera had so subsided that only five deaths had lately
occurred daily. The President (Admiral Sir George
Cockburn) and Nimble were lying in the harbour ; the
Vestal had left the St. Lawrence (after landing specie, at
Quebec) for Be'muda and the West Indies. The Sylvia
brought invalids from the regiments in Canada and Nova
Scotia, with Lieut. Woolf, R.E., and Assistant-Surgeon
Damerum.

The Pearl was at Vera Cruz on the 29th of August,
waiting an expected conducts of silver from the mines, and
was to sail for England on the 10th September.
On Wednesday Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir T. Bladen
Capel, K.C.8., hoisted his flag on board the Winchester,
52, Captain Edward Sparshott, K.H., to succeed Sir
John Gore in the East India command. Sir Thomas and
Lady Capel will embark when the wind changes, and will
proceed for the Cape and Bombay. The crew of that ship
have, by Admiralty order, been reduced forty men in her
complement.
The Swan cutter, Lieutenant Lane, has been paid off
at Chatham ; the Blazer steamer is to be commissioned at
Woolwich.

The Pantaloon, 10, Lieut. N. Cory, will sail to-morrow
for Falmouth, to join the packet service.
At Spithead—Winchester and Sylvia transport.
In Harbour—Victory, Excellent, Royal George, Salar!
mander, Etna, Pantaloon, Speedy and Raven cutters.
The Thomas King, for Jamaica ; Warrior, for New
South Wales ; and the Prince Regent, for Bombay, have
put into this port by strong westerly winds.
By a regulation just issued to all widows of naval officers
having children on the Compassionate List, the mothers
must swear, and transmit-, to the Admiralty, the necessary
affidavit between the Ist and 15th of January in each year,
and the children's allowance will only in future be paid after
the Ist of April in each year. After the children attain
the age of fifteen years they are to make and transmit their
own affidavits. A new form of affidavit is also forwarded
with the circular, to be used on all future occasions.
APPOINTMENTS.—COM. John Shepherd (b), Messrs. W.
Dyer, and J. Knott, Secretary's Clerks, and Messrs. W.
Ranger, and B. Byrth, Clerks, to the Winchester ; Lieut.
M. A. Slater, of the Ocean, to be Acting Commander of

the Xtna surveying vessel ; Lieuts. Tho Mas and Cornish,
to the Coast Guard ; Lieut. J. Russell, President ; Mr. C.
Collett, Mate, Thunder ; Mr. H. Medley, Mate, Jackdaw ;
Mr. E. Holmes, Master, Cruizer : Mr. W. F. Newland,
Mate, Raven ; Mr. J. Mitchell, Clerk, Victory. Royal
Marines—Capt. John Thomas, from unnattached half-pay,
to the Woolwich Division.

Mr. C. M. M. Martelli, late Midshipman of the Donegal
(after twenty years' service, and being the author of a work
of considerable merit, entitled " Naval Officers' Guide"), is
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant.

The Rev. George Fisher' Chaplain of his Majesty's ship
Victory, has been presented to one of the divided livings of
Simonbourn, in the gift of the Lords of the Admiralty.
Mr. Hoffmeister, who has been many years Chief Clerk
of the Customs at this port, is appointed Collector of the
Customs at Harwich,

We are informed that the fees on the Patent or Com-
mission by which Captain Prescott, R.N., holds the office
Governor of Newfoundland, cost that officer GM.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 16.—Arrived the Sheernoss, and
sailed again on Sunday, the Raleigh, 16 guns,Commander
M. Quin, with despatches for the Cape of Good Hope and
East Indies ; also the Champion, 18 grins, Lieut. Herrick
(acting), with Governor Henry Prescott, C. 8., R.N., for
Newfoundland. Caine in, the Tartarus, Lieut. James, with
Rear-Admiral Sir G. E. Hamond, Bart., K.C.8., and his
Secretary (Emeric Essex Vidal, Esq.), from Yarmouth
(1.W.). Sir G. has since hoisted his flag in the Talbot,
28, Captain Pennell, for Rio, and will sail the first fair
wind. Arrived, the Curacoa, Dutch Government steamer,
from Helveotsluys. The Victor, Rowe, arrived at Dart-
mouth on Tuesday from Labrador with fish, being the first
vessel from Newfoundland this season. Remain—ln Har-
bour, San Josef and Tartarus ; in the Sound, Talbot.

PARIS, OCT. 18.—The " Commercial Council" sum-
moned by M. Duchatel to meet in Paris has already entered
on its labours, as you will find by a long account of its first
sitting in this day's Moniteur. The plan acted upon by the
Council, at the suggestion of M. Duchatel, is that of call-
ing in men who are known, or are supposed, to have had the
best means of acquiring useful information, and requesting
their opinion on every point under discussion. Thus you
will find among the first persons examined, M. Desormes, a
professor of chymistry of some eminence, and of great know-
ledge and experience, but whose professional habits cannot
expose him to be suspected of interested motives in express-
ing any particular view of the question. On the manufac-
ture of earthenware M. Desormes shows how greatly the
English is superior to the French, and explains the reasons
why it is so. He says that France possesses means of arriving
at the same perfection in regard to that article, but ac-
counts for its present inferiority by the mere want of enter-
prise in this country. He is clearly of opinion that if the
prohibition now existing with regard to the importation of
foreign earthenware were to last to " all eternity," the ma-
nufacture of French earthenware would not in the least im-
prove on that account. Finally, he says he is confident
that the establishment of a duty of 20 to 23 per cent. on
foreign earthenware would be quite sufficient to protect the
French manufacturer, at the same time that it would have
the effect of stimulating his exertions, and gradually to give
to its fruits that perfection which it is yet far from having
attained.

The whole of the manufacturers throughout the country
(the silk manufacturers excepted) seem to have taken alarm
at the mere mention of an inquiry. Some have held meet-
ings, and in choosing delegates have agreed on sending ad-
dresses to the Minister, containing the strongest remon-
strances against any plan of making the least alteration to
the present prohibitive and high-duty system, which they
find to answer every purpose to perfection. At one place,
Roubaix, they seem to carry their notions as to the advan-
tages of the existing system to a rather extraordinary
length. Their address to the Minister certainly contains
allegations of which no one who has devoted any attention
to the subject had hitherto formed any idea. "It seems to
be your wish," they tell the Minister, " that the prohibitions
by which our manufactures have been benefited should. be
now raised. You want foreigners to compete with us in
our national markets. Are not then those national markets
abundantly and properly supplied by the produce of our
own industry ? Does not the cheapness of our manufactures
rove the existence of a competition which is calculated to
satisfy (rassurer) the consumer ?"
I have underlined the word "cheapness" in the above
extract, to render it as conspicuous as it deserves to be,
where it is used. One would be almost tempted to suppose
that it was put forth in pure derision. The French manu-
factures cheap, when muslins, which may be had in London
at Is. a yard, are sold at seven francs the aune, and cali-
coes, chintz, woollen cloths, linen (inferior to the Irish),
and an infinite variety of other manufactures, are sold-in
France from 300 to 400 per cent. higher than in England,
i:i Switzerland, and in Germany ! It is truly ridiculous on
the part of these French monopolists, in whose behalf and
for whose especial benefit prohibitions and high duties have
too long been suffered to exist at the expense of the mass
of the consumers, to tell the world that what they give
their countrymen is sufficiently cheap to- make it quite ne-
cessary that the latter should never dream of lower prices !
One of the curses of France is the excessively high price.
of all her manufactures. The cause of it has been the
system to which the Imperial Government was compelled,
by the frequency of foreign war, and its perpetual war with
England, to have recourse. That system prescribed to
France the means of dispensing with foreign aid, and de se
sure d elle maze. She did succeed in providing for her
own wants sufficiently, but at such cost as none but an
existing impossibility of doing otherwise could justify. The
system has undergone no variation, although 20 years have
elapsed since all the ports of the world were again opened to
France, and the productions of the globe again placed at
her. disposal. Is it not time that the consumers should ask
w 4 a roduotiOu in prices should not in _France, as else-
where, under the same circumstances, be the consequence ?

FRENCH PAPERS OF SATURDAY.

(From the Sentinelle des Pyrenees.)

We have received the following news from the frontier,
of the date of the 11th inst. :—" Jauregui left St. Sebastian
to-day for Tolosa. There was a column of the Queen's
troops at Larrainzar and Albauzo (the valley of Ulzama)
yesterday. On the 7th and Bth instant, an engagement
took place at Elisondo ; Zugarramurdi vigorously repelled
the Carlists. The firing of cannon was still heard in the
neighbourhood of Elisondo yesterday." We have received
the following intelligence from the Aldudes, of the date of
the 11th of October:—" A muleteer of the village of Sil-
veti, the richest proprietor in the valley of Erro, was ar-
rested by Zumalacarregui's order, for having sold fuel at

Pampehina, although that General had forbidden, under

the penalty of death, the transportation of anything what-
ever into that city. He was ordered to be executed in the
cDurse of an hour, when his son-in-law arrived, and only ob-
tained a remission of the punishment on the condition of
furnishing the rebels with 1,500 pantaloons. The regidor,
the five common councilmen, the cure, and the three vicars
of Irurita were arrested by Gen. Cordova, solely because
a gun had been fired by a rebel in a neighbour-
ing wood, while his column was passing the town.
The ten prisoners were not restored to liberty un-
til: the inhabitants, who are all Constitutional, had
paid a' fine of 7,500 francs. On the night following their
liberation, 30 rebels went by Segastibelza's orders to the
Presbytery, to arrest the three vicars, who were accused of
Constitutionalism, but the latter having received intimation
of the colonel's intentions, withdrew, together with two
priests, from Lecarroz into this commune, where they still
are. The valley of Basabura has had a contribution of
150,000 francs imposed on it, for what reason it would be
difficult to say. These are only a few facts out of a thou-
sand of the same sort. The inhabitants of Navarre, al-
most without exception, whatever their political opinions
may be, expect with impatience the arrival of General Mina,
whom they regard as the only man able to put an end to
the evils which afflict that province. Segastibelza has been
with the sth Navarrese battalion at Irurita since the sth
instant. Two battalions of the Guipuscoa are at Lecurroz
and Arrayoz, villages of the Bastan, lying three-fourths of
a league from Elisondo. This colonel has forbidden the
inhabitants of the neighbouring villages to go to Elisondo
on pain of death. The cholera is still committing great
ravages at the Misericordia."
The Consultative Chamber of Arts and Manufactures of
Louviers has come to a resolution, by an immense majority,
in favour of the maintenance of the prohibitions, and has
appointed delagates to proceed to Paris and support its
views.

Extract of a letter from Bayonne, dated the 13th in-
stant :—" The 7th battalion of the Carlists of Navarre
quitted Enea, in the valley of Estilar, on the 9th, and
moved to the valley of Bastan, where the sth, and 6th bat-
talions were stationed. On the Bth the column of General
Cordova escorted 800 mules and 30 waggons laden with
wine and provisions from Tafalla to Pampeluna. The co-
lumn of General Rodil remains at Rerreros, within a league
of Pampeluna, and those of Lorenzo and Oraa are at
Puente la Reyna, Medagiorria, and Urbano. There are
no other Carlists in Navarre except those who are in the
Bastan, and the officers of the customs. According to an
ordinance of Don Carlos all the young men of the valley of
Amezcoa are enrolled under the orders of Don Bernardo
Zubiri, colonel of the 7th Carlist battalion. On the 9th a
Carlist sergeant came into Pampeluna bringing with him 36
men. On the Bth the column of General Rodil at Rerreos
lost 18 men by the cholera. At Pampeluna 50 persons
die daily, of whom 10 are soldiers."

The Aruremburg Correspondent gives a letter from Ber-
lin, which says—" The importance of affairs in Spain both
in a financial and political point of view, has, it is said, in-
duced our Government to resolve to send its former Am-
bassador, M. de Liebermann, to Madrid. As this diploma-
tist has not been officially recalled from the post he occu-
pied, we conceive there will not be any difficulty in resum-
ing his functions, and the more so as there is no idea of ac-
knowledging Don Carlos, notwithstanding all the efforts of
his partisans to insure him the crown of Spain."
The Diario of Saragossa states that the Criminal Tribu-
nal has condemned to death Don Antonio Saez, for conspi-
racy against the Government ofthe Queen.
The Queen of the French and the two Princesses ar-
rived on Wednesday evening at the Palace of Laeken,
near Brussels. On the same day a party of 21 persons,
among whom were the Count de Latour Maubourg, were
entertained at dinner ; the dinner party consisted of 40
persons of distinction.
The Journal des Debats regards the dissens'ons which
have arisen between several of the Chambers of Commerce
as an ill omen for the inquiry instituted by the Minister of
Commerce. Egotism was to be expected on the part of
those whose interests might be affected, but it was not to be
supposed that this egotism would have been expressed in

such absolute terms, and that it would have left no possible
means of conciliation with opposed interests. From this, it
results that the Government will have to interfere in the
contest more actively than it intended, and the Minister of
Commerce will be compelled to set up his personal opinion
between the conflicting opinions of the two camps. What-
ever he may do, he will be sure not to obtain the gratitude
of either, nor even the justice to which he is entitled. He
cannot come to the decision of making no change, for this
would contrary to the advice of all enlightened and disin-
terested men, who feel that a greater or less reform must be
made in the French Customs. As to the discontent 'of the
interested parties, it was inevitable ; and if it is discouraging,
it is not alarming. Perhaps the Chambers of Commerce,
on both sides, have exaggerated their pretensions, upon the
same principle as petty shop-keepers ask more than they
intend to take ; they have demanded much to obtain less.
On examining the protests of these Chambers, we cannot
believe that on the one side or the other they mean to make
no abatement.

The Swiss Directory has sent a new address to the Can-
tonal Governments, exhorting them to use every exertion
in discovering, and sending beyond the frontier of France,
the Italian refugee Mazzini, whose expulsion from Switzer-
land has been demanded by the Austrian Ambassador.
Ext4pt of a letter from Frankfort of the 114.11 i t.:---
" 2c:l:w-impediment has arisen to the projected adhesion
of Frankfort to the German systems of customs and com-
merce. Lately it was the Government of Darmstadt which
claimed indemnities for losses that it might sustain from its
adhesion to the system. This affair seems to have been
arranged. But a new obstacle bas presented itself to derange
all the plans of the High Senate, which is the treaty of
commerce concluded between England and the free towns
of Frankfort. This treaty, which is to remain in force ten
years, cannot be eluded, inasmuch-as the English Govern-
ment will not yield. The French and English Ministers
have frequent conferences on this subject, and M. Thon,
the Prussian Plenipotentiary, goes twice a-day to the Bri-
tish Ambassador. This affair will doubtless delay the exe-
cution of the projected treaty with Prussia, which was ex-
pected to commence on the Ist of January, 1835."
The Augsburg Gazette of the 14th inst. announces, after
letters from Vienna of the 9th, that on the preceding day,
it being the 25th anniversary of M. de Metternich's ap-
pointment to the head of the department of Foreign Affairs,
the Prince received the congratulations of all the public
functionaries and foreign Ambassadors. The Gazette quotes
the Funds at Vienna on the 9th—Metalliques, Five per
Cents., 99 7-16 ; ditto Four per Cents., 90f ; Bank Ac-
tions, 1,262 i.

The Berlin State Gazette of the 12th inst. has the fol-
lowing from Potschep, a town in the Government of Tcher-
nigo, formerly a part of the Ukraine :—" A most terrific
storm burst at the end of August over this town and its en-
virons, causing immense damage, and destroying all the
crops. The most remarkable feature was the immense size
and weight of the hailstones, which destroyed vast numbers
of birds and animals, and even the men at work in the fields
were severely injured. Ten of these hailstones weighed a
pound. The claps of thunder seemed one continued peal."
The Gazette quotes the Prussian Funds on the 11th—Four
per Cents., cash, 99 ; paper, 99k.
A letter from Berlin, dated the 12th inst., states that the
King of Prussia has granted to his Minister of Justice the
power of commuting the punishments attached to minor
thefts. in order to mitigate the severity of the law in cases
attended with extenuating circumstances. The letter adds,
that schools have been established in all the provinces of
the kingdom, similar to that in Berlin, which holds a place
like the Polytechnic School of France. These provincial
schools comprise but one class, which is equal to the se-
cond class in Berlin, so that the most advanced pupils of
the provinces may be at once admitted into the first place of
the capital.

We take the following from a letter, dated Posen, Oc-
tober 6 :—" The Polish inhabitants of this Duchy still
suffer from the persecutions of the Government. Their
torments under the new Minister of the Interior, M. de
instead of diminiohinis ith Lhuy had bcon lod to
hope, have been increased. Many persons have been ar-
rested, and put into close confinement. Among them are
M. Eugene Syczaniecki and M. Joseph Mikorski, who had
been married only a few days. The only crime, it is said,
of which they are accused, is their having sent relief to
some of their unfortunate countrymen in foreign lands.
The researches of the police at Chatemno are daily re-
newed. They have been carried into the tombs of the
family of Syczaniecki, in the expectation of finding arms,
but they were fruitless. All men's minds are disturbed.
The nobles are ruined by the fines imposed upon them, and
are obliged to sell their estates, which are purchased by the
Prussians. The peasantry,
instead of being under one mas-
ter, are now at the mercy of innumerable subalterns, who
take advantage of their ignorance of the Prussian laws and
the German language. To this may also be added a very
scanty harvest. The Catholic clergy of Posnania are com-
pelled to use the German language in corresponding with
the Government and the
ecclesiastical authorities, so that
nearly all those who reside in the villages are obliged to
employ Germans as their amanuenses, whom they must pay
out of their trifling incomes, and who thus become spies
upon the priests, who have always been considered by the
Government as the principal exciters of the national zeal
of the Poles. The fortifications of Posen are finished, and
notwithstanding the present intimate relation between
Russia and Prussia, are calculated to serve as a protec-
tion of the frontier between the two countries. It is
worthy of remark, that with all the expense Russia is at in
improving her roads, they are not made to join those of
Poland to the possessions of Prussia. In their present
state the Russian army cannot come within two days' march
of the frontier of Prussia."

Extract of a letter from Revel, dated the 30th ult.—
" According to the accounts from St. Petersburg, the ca-
pital is much occupied with the disgrace of General Ben-
kendorf, Aid-de-Camp to the Emperor, who rendered such
eminent services to his Sovereign at the commencement of
his reign. Though he has hitherto attended the Emperor
in all his former journies, he has not accompanied him to
Moscow. The General has, it is said, incurred this dis-
grace by the calm and well-considered reflections he has
made to certain personages around the throne. These
accounts add, that the national party, of which M. de
Tzernitcheff is a distinguished member, begins to raise its
head, and by its conduct recalls the period which preceded
the campaign that ended in the battle of Austerlitz. Ha-
ving thus succeeded in disgracing General Benkendorf, it
is probable that the other pretensions of this party will be
listened to. Russia, far from thinking of any aggression
against the quadruple alliance, is occupied in improving its
finances, which are by no means in a prosperous state.
The Treasury gains nothing from Poland, as the produce
of the confiscated estates is nearly swallowed up in the ex-
penses of their management. The paintings and statues
sent to St. Petersburgh from Dereczyn, the residence of
Prince Eustache Sapieha, have been distributed amongst
the different royal palaces. The statue of Orpheus, by Ca-
nova, now forms one of the ornaments of the Hermitage.
The Emperor has presented some of the magnificent vases
in porphyry to his brother-in-law, the hereditary Prince of
Prussia."

A Munich Journal announces that the Duke de Leuch-
tenberg arrived a few days ago in his principality of Eich-
stadt, and immediately afterwards set out for Tegernsee, to
join the Princess his mother.
The elder member of the ducal family of Berkenfeld,
William Duke of Bavaria, has just ceded his domains at
Banz, in the Upper Palatinate, and his appanage of
225,000 florins, to his grandson, Duke Maximilian of Ba-
varia, brother-in-law of the King. He has reserved for his
own use 1,800 florins.

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A letter of the 12th inst. from Toulon, states that the
storeship La Fortune has brought from Parrechia all the
guns that were in the Superbe, and the Rhone will bring
the remainder of the articles which have been saved from
that wreck. The writer announces that within the last few
days there have been in the neighbourhood of Toulon such
heavy storms, that notwithstanding the late extreme
drought, the smaller rivers have become so full, that they
have overflowed their banks, and caused very considerable
damage to the surrounding lands.

FRENCH FUNDS.—Paitts, Ocr. 17.
Five per Cents., 105 c. Vc. 80c. 75c.
yor per Cents., SW. —c.
r huree per Cents., 78f. 15c. 30c. 25c.
Bank Actions, 1,785 f —c.
Rcnte de Naples, 05f. 7. c. 65c. 75c.
Roman Five per Cents., 9734.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 43 %14.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 28A %g.
Royal Spanish Loan, 2734 28 2'N.
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cent, 46 45% %.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 99!*.
Haytian Loan, 270 f. —c.

EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
pnc month, paper, 25f. 35c ; money, 2'f 30c.
Three months, paper, 25f. ; money, 25f. 157..
—fours Authentique.
BOURSE, OCT. 18.—
But little business has been done
to-day, the market has looked gloomy ; the 3 per Cents.
were done at 78 20 ; the continuation from the end of
October to the end of November, 30 cents demanded,
which certainly indicates a bull-market. The Spanish
Stocks have scarcely varied since Thursday, 5 per Cents.,

FRENCH FUNDS.—Rutra, OCT. 18.
Five per Cents., 105680 c. 75c. 85c.
Four per Cents., 92f. —c.
Three per Cents., 78f 15c.10c 15c.
Lank Actions, 1,785 f.
Rente de Naples, 95f. 60c. 50c. 55c.
Roman Five per Cents., 974
Bente ,l'Espagne, Five per Cents., 4314 43 43'4.
Dente d'F.Tagne, Three per Cents., 24 7.714 28
Rov Spanish Loan, 28 27;4 24.31,-4.
Peale Perpct. d'Espagne, Live per Cents., 45,4. 4474
Haytian Loan, 265 f,

EXCUANGE ON LONDON
4me month, paper, 25f. :33e. ; money, 25r. 20,
Three months, paper, 25f. oc. ; money, 25f. 15c.
- Comers Atithentipte.

PORTUGAL.

DRAFT OF A LAW TO PROVIDE FOR THE
RESPONSIBILIEY OF MINISTERS.
TITLE I.
OF THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE MINISTERS AND SEGRE-

TARIES OF STATE. , • -
Article I. The Ministers and Secretaries of Siate are
responsible in conformity withothelaws
1. For all acts of the Executive or Regulating Nwbr,
signed or transmitted by them.
2. For all those in which they may have concurred by
their votes in the Council, in•which the same were taken
into consideration.

3. For those also against which they may have voted: in
the Council, if they do not resign when decisions upon
important matters are adopted by the majority.

TITLE 2.
OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ACCUSATION AND ITS

EFFECTS.

Article 11. No process of responsibility of any Minister
of State can take place except in virtue of a resolution of
the Chamber of Deputies consequent on the motion of
some member thereof.

111. In order to entitle the proposition to be entertained,
it must comprehend the following requisites :-
1. It must be dated and subscribed by its author.
2. The facts on which it is founded must be particularly
specified.
3. The documents must be presented forthwith, or the
testimony which they may serve to prove must be distinctly
narrated.
4. The crime charged must be classified, and the law by
which it is punishable referred to.
5. No acts of private life can be the subject of such a
proposition of impeachment, however criminal they maybe.
IV. On the motion being made, the Chamber will fix a
day on which it will be solemnly read, which reading can
take place only after an interval of ten days at the least ;
and a communication of the said determination shall be im-
mediately made to the responsible Minister, accompanied
by a copy of the proposition and doeuments therewith con-
tacted.

V. On the day fixed for the reading, the defence of the
Minister will commence, either personally and verbally, or
by writing, which he may choose to deliver in ; the Cham-
ber will then deliberate on the question, whether the pro-
position should be taken into consideration or not.

VI. If the Chamber shall decide in the affirmative, a
spccial commission will be appointed consisting at least of
nine members, among whom the authors of the proposition
cannot be included.

VII. The commission must choose a reporter and se-
cretary from among its own members, and from that mo-
ment it will be invested with all the authority, jurisdiction,
and public credit of a court of justice, in order to pro-
ceed with all the diligence and activity necessary for the
institution of a preparatory process, having power to sum-
mon and interrogate the responsible Minister, as well as
any witnesses whatever ; being also empowered to obtain
directly from the Government such documents as may be
judged necessary;and to require from the respective autho-
rities all the papers. and, proceedings which may appear
proper to throw compiele light. tatu the tants and irtip-übat;‘,“
founded on them.

VIII. The preliminary proceedings being closed, and
the preparatory process legally completed, the commission
will present to the Chamber its report or opinion, with the
whole of the process as it has been instituted, and also the
articles of accusation in the event of its being judged that
such proceeding should take place.
IX. The Chamber will appoint the day for discussing
the report, which must be at least ten days after its pre-
sentation. All these documents will be accessible, in order
that they may be examined, as well by the Members'
Chamber as by the Ministers of State.

X. The report of the commission having been discussed,
the Chamber will proneed to vote successively upon each of
the articles, whether or not the accusation' should be made.

XI. The affirmative decision will produce a strict decla-
ration, the effect of which to the Minister will be—

1. His suspension from the exercise of all public functions
whatever, and his inability to resume them until the final
sentence is pronounced.

2. His subjection to a criminal accusation and deliverance
before the tribunal of the Peers.

3. His arrest, whether the accusation turn upon a capital
crime, or be such as may deserve the penalty of degradation
or imprisonment for more than one year.
XII. The Chamber will elect by an absolute majority,
among its member from three to five commissioners, to pro-
pound, prosecute, and prefer in its name, the accusation be-
fore the Peers ; and for this purpose they will be invested
with their respective diplomas, which will be immediately
annexed to the process, and transmitted therewith to the
tribunal.

TITLE 3.
OF THE ORDER OP THE JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS.

Art. XIII. The President of the Chamber of Peers will
be the relater of the process, and he will take for his asso-
ciates two peers, who may be specially elected by an abso-
lute majority.

XIV. The relater, if the accused should be in custody,
will direct him to take his seat according to the regulation
of the Tribunal, but if he should be at liberty, he will
summon him before it at a term as short as possible, by
means of citation direct, or an edict conformably to law.
XV. There being no default in appearance, the reporter,
with his associates, will, after the appointed day, interrogate
the accused, examine the witnesses, and enquire again into
whatever other circumstances may appear to him proper for
the elucidation of truth, including in his inquiries those
points which the accused may refer to for his defence. All
these proceedings will be stated in writing, with the legal
formalities, and attached to the process.
XVI. These preparatory proceedings, essentially neces-
sary for the complete information of the reporter and his
associates as to the state of the question and the resources
for the accusation and defence, being concluded and re-
duced to writing, the Chamber of Peers will determine the
day on which it is to be constituted into a Court of Justice
and open for the discussion and decision of the cause. The
commissioners for the impeachment, the accused, if he be
not in custody, and the witnesses both for the charge and
the defence, shall be summoned by the Court. If the
Chamber should think proper, it will invite the attorney
of the crown and some judges of the Supreme Tribunal of
Justice, to be present at the sittings, and to give their opi-
nion on points of law respecting which the tribunal may de-
sire to be informed by them. All the absent Peers will be
summoned by a special letter from the President, and in the
public audience, after their names are called over, an ac-
count shall always be given of the causes of the absence of
those who do not appear.
XVII. All the documents of the process will be open
in the office of the Secretary of the Chamber, as well for
all the members of the Chamber as for the commissioners
for the impeachment and the counsel of the accused.
XVIII. The Chamber constituted into a tribunal, and
presided over by the Reporter, assisted by two associates,
will hold as many public audiences as may be necessary for
the proposing of the impeachment, the interrogatory of the
accused, the examination and confronting of the witnesses,
the allegation of the parties, and the pronunciation of the
sentence.

XIX. The accused, without alleging cause, may except
against the eighth part of the Judges present ; the same
will be permitted to the Commissioners. These exceptions
will not be admitted, unless made before the commence-
ment of the production of evidence.
XX. The accused may retain as many counsel as there
are Commissioners ; but when there are many accused,
each may retain two counsel, though their total number
should be greater than that of the Commissioners. The
counsel must be selected from the class of jurisconsults.
XXI. The judicial discussion having been concluded, the
reporter, suspending the public audience, will retire with
the whole of the Judges to another chamber, where the re-
port of the whole of the process will be made in detail, and
the discussion opened on the merits of the accusation and
the defence, which being terminated, the votes will be
taken, and in accordance with them the sentence recorded,
with the grounds thereof, which will be signed by all the
Judges, and read in their presence, and that of the parties
in public audience. The documents will remain in the ar-
chives of the Chamber, and from them will be extracted

This election commenced at 10 o'clock on Saturday
morning. The candidates were James Aspinall, Esq. and
Isaac 0. Bold, Esq. The votes of the freemen were taken
in booths erected for the purpose in front of the Town-hall,
the polling being alphabetically, and not, as heretofore in
elections for Mayor, by tallies. Each candidate displayed
flags and banners painted expressly for the occasion. Bands
of music were also engaged, and cars, coaches, and omni-
buses employed to convey the freemen to the poll. In
fact, the preparations for the election of Mayor were on a
scale commensurate with those for the election of Members
of Parliament ; so extravagant are the good people of Li-
verpool in their mode of conducting every. electioneering
matter, the result of a long series of expensive contests for'
the rnayorality and the representation of the town. Great
apprehensions were entertained, by parties who knew the
freemen • and their hebits well, that they would demand
either money or drink for their votes, and that, as neither
drink nor money could be safely given, there would be great
di:liculty in getting them up to the poll. Both money and
drink were, as a matter of course, demanded, but whether
ether or both was given we have not the means of knowing,
though, from the state of the freemen, numbers of whom
were drunk, it is surmised that ale had been very copiously
administered to thirsty souls. Be this as it may, the worthy
and independent freemen did not come up to the poll with
alacrity, and an. election which might have been concluded,
from the facility of voting, in a few hours, continued till nine
o'clock at night, when Mr. Aspinall was elected Mayor.
At the final close of the poll the numbers stood thus

Aspinall
Bold 836

Majority for Aspinal' . 154
Messrs. Lace and Higginson were elected Bailiffs.

THE LATE CONFLAGRATION.

When the flames were raging with their greatest fury,
Lords Melbourne and Hill were in the house exactly facing
St. Margaret's Church, giving directions and animating the
efforts of the soldiery and firemen engaged in the attempt!„
to subdue the fire. The coolness with which Lord''
in particular behaved while all around him was dismanok4
confusion, was remarked with admiration by all who
nessed it, and that sang froid which forms such a striking
characteristic of the Noble Commander-in-Chief on the
field of battle was evinced in a remarkable manner on the
occasion. The flames burst into the house and were rapidly
spreading towards Lord Hill when a person came hastily to'
him and begged him to retire, as there was great danger,-:
The messenger, perhaps underrating his Lordship's capacity
to " stand fire," was cooly desired to let his " Lordship
alone," and then Lord Hill proceeded to complete some t-Z
directions which he was just giving to those below. At
length the firemen commenced playing into the House. His
Lordship's " tactics" appeared to be at fault in such a novel
element, and accordingly, he beat the chainade and de
wended the staircase, not, however, until both he and the 1..
Noble Secretary for the Home. Department had received a
handsome wetting from the deluge which poured into the
house from the engines.

Mr. Leary, the Librarian of the House of Commons''
was singularly unfortunate. He had been insured to the '-
amount of 6001. for some years past, and having gone out
of town without paying his insurance, he gave instructions
to a friend to do so for him ; this, however, was neglected,
and the term allowed by the fire offices beyond quarter-day
only expired on Tuesday, two days before the lamentable
occurrence which destroyed nearly the wholee, of his pro-
perty.- We were present at the destruction of the Irish
House of Commons in 1791, but that spec4cle, grand as
it was, fell far short of the sublimity of the scene on
Thursday night. The former took place at Six o'clock on
a summer's evening, and was attributed to the negligence
of seate plumb:rs who had been at work on the roof. The
HouSe was in debate at the time, and the discovery was
first made by the Sergeant-at-Arms, who, opening a trap-
door in the dome, gave notice of the impending danger.
The Members were seized with terror, and fled in all direc-
tions ; but the Speaker, Mr. Forster, had presence of mind
to put the question, " That this House do now adjourn,"
and scarce had he, accompanied by the Deputy-Sergeant,
who carried the mace before him, quitted the chair, when
the dome fell in with a terrific crash. The injury was
principally confined to
_tlae rout and the body of the tiouse.

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Leeds Intelligencer)

LEEDS.—The woollen trade still continues dull at this place,
occasioned partly by the high price of wool, but chiefly by the
rcccnt failures in London. It is, however, expected that two
or three weeks will restore the confidence of mercantile men,
and that the general aspect of commercial affairs in this district
will be improved. Very few purchases of winter goods have
yet been made, and as the stock; are understood to be low
when the demand revives it will be acicantageously felt by the
operative classes.

RRADFORD.—The market on Thursday was much better
than last week. There was a good demand ti;y hog wools,
which were rather scarce, but very little business w*.as done in
wether fleeces. In the yarn market better prices wefe given
for lasting warps and weft, and ether descriptions were more
in request, though without improvement as to terms. The
transactions in the piece market were almost as limited as last
week, the merchants still using great caution in their pur-
chases, though it is understood that their stocks are low. The
impression still maintains that wools must fall in price before
trade becomes really brisk.
HALIFAX.—At our market on Saturday last there was a
larger attendance of buyers than usual, and a good deal of
business was done. With the exception of fine lastings, six-
quarter merinos, and plainbacks, almost all the goods were
bought up, but no improvement in prices was effected. Last-
ings pf low qualities were in request. Yarns continue nearly
stationary in price.
HUDDERSFIELD.—This market was very flat on Tuesday.
The attendance of buyers was limited, and the sales propor-
tionably few.
ROCIIDALE.—There has been a better demand at this day's

(Monday's) market for fine qualities of flannels, and dry goads
for dyeing were in much request at the prices of last week.
Middle sorts were dull sale, as the buyers wanted them at
lower prices, but the manufacturers seemed deterroined rather
to keep their goods than to sell at the prices offer-0 them.
Low c,ualities were same as last week, and the wool market
remains stationary.
STATE OF THE SILK AND COTTON TRADE IN LANCASHIRk;..

—The silk trade has within the last fortnight become very
dull; the manufacturers attribute it to the rise which has taken
place in the raw material. The weavers are waiting for a.
warp eight or ten days, and some masters are bind/ng them to
be five weeks on a piece, which is not more than half employ-
ment. Several of the manufacturers are changing coarse reeds
to finer ones, which is an unusual thing at this season of the
year. The nankeen and gingham trade is very much im-
proved. The quilting, printing, spinning, and steam-loom
weaving businesses at Ramsbottom, near Bury, are in full ac-
tivity. There seems to be at present a good prospect for the
cotton trade in Lancashire.

(From the Manchester Courier.)
STATE or TRADE IN MANCIIESTER.—Another spring in the
cotton market has taken place since our last number, and, from
present appearances, there is every probability that the im-
provement will be lasting; the season of the year as well as
the general healthy state of trade being such as fully to war-
rant this conclusion. It may with consistency be said, in re-
gard to our manufacturing policy, that, though still capable of
further and very great amelioration and improvement, yet, con-
sidering the short time for operation which has been given
to the several new measures affecting it, the system is working
well. We question whether, in regard to our local establish-
ments generally, business was ever known to have been on a
more sound and stable footing.
• BLACKBURN.—For several weeks past the demand for
hand-loom cloths has declined ; and, although we have not
experienced, as formerly, difficulties amounting almost to
impracticability of effecting sales even at great sacrifices,
yet with no scarcity of good houses in the market the prices
to be realized will not cover the cost. The state of things
in the face of approaching winter, and the certainty of an
advance upon materials, augurs unfavourably for the conti-
nuance of the present rate of wages. We hope, however,
that the very extended field now open to merchants Will
cause this apprehension to be groundless.
TRADE AT PRESTON.—WC are glad to state that the
cotton trade, more particularly the spinning, in this place is
in a very brisk state, and every hand willing to work is in
employment. Sites are bought for new factories, which
are about to be built ; one in the North-road, for power-
looms, will cover an acre and a half of ground. We are
told that the contract for flagging this building is thirteen
hundred pounds. Should trade continue good we believe
the probability is that ten new factories will be in the course
of erection here within the next twelve months.

Saturday, an inquest was held at the White Horse,
Market-place, Old Brentford, on the body of Miss Elizabeth
Reynolds, a young lady of high respectability. The deceased
resided with her mother, a widow lady, and two sisters. On
Friday last she was in good health and spirits ; she retired to
bed about nine o'clock at night, previous to which she had
complained of a tooth-ache, and expressed her intention of
having it extracted on the following day. One of the sisters
slot with the deceased, and on awaking in the morning turned
towards the deceased, calling " Lizzy" at the same time kiss-
ing her cheek, which she (the sister) had no sooner done than -
she gave a scream, and sprang from the bed, discovering that
her much-attached sister was apparently a corpse. Mr. Hall,-
a surgeon, gave it as his opinion that the rupture of a blood-
vesselon the heart was the cause of death, and that the young '"
lady had gassed from sleep to eternity.—Verdict, " Died by -
the visitation of God,"

The events which within the last three Months have
occurred in Turkey have brought to light a highly
momentous fact—a fact which Russia justly foresaw
would follow as a necessary consequence of the later
acts of her policy in this country—the schism between
the Sultan and his people. The protection of Russia
has appeared to him a more secure foundation for his
throne than the one on which during six centuries
rested that of his predecessors. But by this act of
madness he has overthrown the pillars on which rested
the strength of his administration—the allegiance
and respect of his subjects, without reflecting that the
Power which promised him assistance in the hour of
need has contracted this engagement because it insured
it the faculty of governing the ()tonlan:. Empire by.
him, and so much placed him under.Russio.s controul,
that a single act of disobedience on-his part would, if:
thought convenient, be punished-bi his overthrow.
The army has already given unequivocal signs of its,
determination to disobey the orders Of. the Sultan, and
in the remotest province, as well as' in the capital, the
unanimous feeling of the people is, that as a creature of
Russia, the Sultan has forfeited his.rights to be the
ruler of Mahomet's followers. The
,mine is ready—a
spark, from whatever quarter it .comes, instantly will
cause its explosion. How far this state of things is
satisfactory, the Kings of England -and France who
have declared it, of course best know.
The English fleet left Vourla on the 10th instant.
After a few days' cruise it is to return to the same an-
chorage, and remain there till the arrival of the
steamer, which is expected from London about the lat-
ter end of this month. The French fleet has not yet
been heard of.

The stagnation of trade has never been greater than
at present—not only no sales are made, but no money
L. -1.4-I —A r• the bazaars. The great scarcity
of cash and the quantity of paper in the watket have
caused the rate of exchange to decrease considerably—
from 98 to 94. At Smyrna it fell to 91. After the
expiration of the season when exports are purchased
for the markets of Europe, it will rise again, to meet
the limited wants of drawers and the larger demands
of those remitters who did not ship fruits, silks, &c.,
and invest the funds of their employers. The mea-
sures taken -by the Turkish mint's bankers have ren-
dered commerce an important service, by putting a stop
to the sudden fluctuations to which the exchange is
liable. It is thought that in consequence of the con-
trol they possess, it will not rise for some time above
98, and certainly never become on a par with the value
of the gold and silver currency of the empire.
The Persians, who since the plundering of the cara-
van by the Kurds have not been able to pay any por-
tion of their debts, have entirely lost the credit they
once enjoyed in the market. Several of the Greek
establishments are in consequence in the greatest em-
barrassment.

Some of the merchants who went to the fair of Baly-
kesser have already returned. According to their ac-
counts, it has been more dull than usual.
We are without news from Syria, for we do not con-
sider as such the absurd reports, forwarded to the
Smyrna Journal by his correspondent at Rhodes.
Government here continues sending ammunition to
Iconia. A powerful impression, I understand, has
been produced on the Sultan's mind by a note for-
warded by Redschid Mehemet Pasha to the Divan, in
which this General exposed, with much sagacity and
dearness, the chances which, in the event of the re-
newal of hostilities with Egypt, would be in favour of
and against the Sultan's army. The conclusion he
sought to impress on that council is, that peace must
be maintained. It is confidently said that the army is
to spend the winter at Iconia, and that if hostilities are
to be renewed, it will not be before next spring.
The ravages of the plague are alarmingly increas-
ing.—Morning Paper.

PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, OCT. 17.
3 per Cent. Consols 905 Grand Canal Deb, 6 per cent. 913%
Ditto Reduced 89% Ditto, 4 per cent 6274
3% per Cent. Stock 985 Hibernian Bank 22
Ditto New, 1830
3% per Cent. Debentures 90% National Insurance Company 2614
Bank Stock 224 City Debentures, 4 per cent... 79%
Royal Canal Stock
Grand Canal Stock 255/ per cent. 93%