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with respect, and th:,ir vci..,hes and sugg?.stion re-
ceived and acted on with zealous attention. Rattings
and tergiversations are ever rare during the last
years of an aged Parliament. Bat it may be said
that all those arguments are more in favour
of annual than of triennial Parliaments. Granted.
But there are seriou3 inconveniences to which
the former are exposed from which the latter are per-
fectly free. There would be a constant and unceas-
ing excitement that would be by no means benefit -
to the general interest of the empire. There would
be no rest or repose, and the country would be ex-
posed to a very heavy expenditure at too frequent in-
tervals. Besides, llon. Gentlemen would not mu a
single year have sufficient opportunities of acquiring
experience and showing the stuff they were made of.
Many valuable representatives might be rejected, and
their services lost to the country, because they had
not been able to conquer the diffidence
and mauvaise honte that must to a cer-
tain degree attend maiden efforts. For these
among other reasons, we confess that, as at present
advised, we prefer triennial even to annual Parlia-
ments ; and they have this additional recommenda-
tion, that it it should be thought advisable, another
stage might be taken in advance, whereas if annual
Parliaments were once established it would be impos-
sible to prolong the term, however desirable it might
be to do so.

The equalization of the electoral districts is so ma-
nifestly just and equitable that it scarcely requires a
word in its favour. It is, indeed, too absurd to say
that Thetford, with its 220 electors, should neutralise
the West Riding, with its 36,750 voters, or that
Richmond (Yorkshire), or Harwich, with their 2.50
or 260 voters, should be equivalent in the Parliamen-
tary scale to the Tower Hamlets. Let all classes
then unite cordially and in sincerity. Let them sink
minor differences in order to attain the common ob-
ject, and we promise a more speedy success than most
sanguine reformers have ventured to anticipate.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The iiToniteur published official returns, showing
the receipts of the Customs and Excise department
for the nine months of the present year, from which
it appears that the receipts of the present year exceed
those of the corresponding period of 1849 by 28,183 f.,
and of 1848 by 41,227 f.
The Constitutionnel, as in duty bound, publishes a
long article glorifying the Government for those
results.

The Siicle in commenting on the departure of M.
DUPIN from Paris, calls upon the Committee to con-
voke the Assembly at once. It appears that the sar-
castic Duerr? " trotted out" General D'HAUTPOUL on
Friday to the great amusement of the Committee of
Permanence. "Would you not have punished cries
of 'Down with the President,'" said he to the heavy
Minister of War. "That I would," replied General
D'LlArrrpora. "Know then," sarcastically observed
M. DUPIN, " that Vive I'Empereur' means a bas
le President.' "

It is said that Gew,rals EXCELMAINC, OUDITIOT,
Rltd CLIANGARISIER, are to be rdi,ed to the dignity of
Marshals of France.

There are rumours current of an spproachit; g change
in the Ministry. It is said that General D'HAUTPOUL
will resign, and be succeeded by General LAHITTR as
Minister of 'War, who in his turn will be succeeded
in the Foreign Department by M. DE PERSIGNY.
PARIS 13ouasE, OCT. 15.—Latest Prices.—Five per
Cents., 91f. 800. ; Three per Cents , 561. 95c. ; Bank
Actions, 2,275 f.

IUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
I,oliliON SIOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 15:
Boulogne and Amiens, B%—Namur and Liege,
Orleans and Bordeaux, 2--Pir.ris and Roues, 24 —Paris
and Strasbourg, 714—Rouen and Havre, WU.

• SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 10th have arrived: Their
contents are unimportant.
The Bolsa was closed on the 10th.

GERMANY.

Accounts have been rect•ived from Cassel to the 10th

The ELECTOR has at length dismissed HASSEINP-
PLUG from the Finance Ministry,and replaced him by
Herr \VooLMAR D'ESCLIWIGE. HASSENPFLUG, how-
ever, still retains the Portfolios of Justice and of the
Home Department.

Tne ELECTOR, by an ordinance dated the 6th inst.,
has conferred on General HAYNAII full powers to
accept the resignation of the officers of all ranks,
to cashier and punish all who disobey his orders, and
to till up the vacancies occasioned by such regula-
tions, &c. The General has made this ordinance
public in an order of the day. It appears, however,
that the resignations have not been accepted, and
that General HAYNAU has not made use of his powers,
having sent all the resignations to the Government at
Wilhelin3bad. At Julda and Bockenbehn several
officers of the troops stationed there had tendered their
resignations.
The Austrian Government has ordered the arrest
Of SAMUEL CZONTAGH, former secretary to KOSSUTH,
and of Dr. Alumni!, late domestic physician to
PALSRY.

The Saxon Chambers has voted the budget of the
war department.
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE arrived at Hanover on
the 10th.

The Duke of OLDENBURGII has ratified the treaty
with Denmark.

ITALY. •
Count CAMILLECAVOURhas been appointed Minister
of Commerce and Marine of Sardinia.

SICILY.

The following notice has been published by the
Royal Institution of Sicily :
Proposal of the Royal Institution for the Encourage-
ment of Agriculture "lilts, and Manufactures in Sicily,
approved by his Agriculture,
by royal decree of the 27th
August, 1847, rc-issued by his Excellency the acting
Lieutenant-General, by Ministerial dispatch of the Ist
of the present month.

"A. premium of 1,500 ducats is offered to the person
who shall give the most satisfactory answer to the fol-
lowing guestiun:—

To -discover a methed, easily and promptly practi-
cable, especially by persons not versed in scientific know-
ledge, of ascertstuing if, in a given quantity of ground
sumach, there be contained substances that are not
sumach.

"If the inventor be of opinion that the Mixture of
the sumach with other extraneous matter can be de-
dew' from the quantity of tanning acid, or from any
eltier substance, in a given quantity of sumach ; or, if
he be of opinion that fir all purposes for which the
sumach is intended, it is sufficient to have discovered the
quantity of tanning acid or any other matter, in order
to deduce therefrom, independently of the mixture, the
excellence cf the sumach, in such case the inventor
shall be rewarded, provided he clearly prove the said
propositions, and afterwards prepare the easily and
promptly practicable method hef .re-mentioned, for
meting the quantity of terming matter, or that given
substance which he shall have proved it to be sufficient
to be cognizant of, for the purpose before-mentioned.
"In Eny case the premium shall not be adjudged to
the inventor, until after his method has been practically
prnved by the institution, and found correct.

"Jr various plans be sent in which answer the pnr-
Tv se, the inventor of that one which shall be ascertaiord
to be the most easily practicable in every respect shall
be sewardetl.

" The titne in which paper:, instrumento, specifics-
tiGLE, and whatever else pities may wish to exhibit for
the solvicps, of the question, are to be sect in, is two
ycurs, to be computed from the day of the pub:icatiou of
the present proposed.
" FERDINAND LA LUMIA,
The 1' efddent.
For the Secretary-in-Chief,
The Sab•S'acretary,
" FRANCISCO DOTTO SCRIBANI.
1839."
" Palermo, Aug. 12,

HER MAJESTY AND THE LATE QUEEN ADE-
LAIDE% DONATIONS —We are gratified to announce that the
Queen has generously extended her bounty to those numbers
of the household of the late Queen Dowager, whose length
of servitude in the late King's establishment and of Queen
Adelaide merited some permanent and yearly allowance.
Lord John Russell and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it
is said, could not well come before the House of Commons
and ask for a grant of public money, although they acknow-
ledged that many of the Royal servants,
from the length of
their services, were entitled to much respect. The Queen
most generously came forward, and out of her own purse has
caused. yearly bounties, varying from 301. to 601., to be
awarded to those persons whose claims are most prominent.
—Morning Paper.

- -
THE PHOJECTED POLISH BA LL.—Y esterday a
numerous meeting of the committee appointed to make the
necessary arrangements with reference to the Polish Ball
(which is fixed for the 14th of November next), was held at
the Guildhall, Mr. Deputy Holt in the chair. The meeting
was attended by Lord Dudley C. Stuart, M.P., C Anstey,
Esq., M.P., several foreign gentlemen, and a large number of
influential membrrs of the Common Council. From several
statements which were made at the meeting there is no doubt
but that the ball will be largely attended, and that the dis-
play upon the occasion will be at least equal to that of any
previous year.

RURAL P,iLICE FOR SUER EY.—At the Surrey
Quarter Sessions, held yesterday at Kingston. a committee
of magistrates was appointed to consider the propriety of
adopting a rural police in some parts of that county. 'I he
coininitt,-.0 consists of the Lord-Lieutenant, the members for
the county, the chairmen of the different Quarter Sessions,
and other magistrates. The report is to be presented at the
Epiphany Sessions.

FLOGGING IN TEIE AMERICAN NAVY.-2,201 lashes
were adni,nistered ou board the United States sloop-of-war
Albany, which lately arrived at Boston after a cruise of about
twenty-one months. She was commanded by Victory N.
Randolph.—New Yoih Tribune.

ir~C, E 1 and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The silos of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mate i at 4.00 e bales, chi, fly American, and nearly ell
to the trade. The market closed qu'etly at previous
rates.—ln Railway Shims a good business was done at
previous quotations.
The Corn Market is very steady, and with a small
supply. Prices had rather an upward tendency.
It appears that there has been no very satislactery
result, at the quarterly meetings of ironmasters held last
week, and prices were rather feebler, being irregular
also, for it is asserted that there were sellers who had,
for some time, been frittering away their capital, or
gradually involving themselves, by doing business under
the average of the trade generally. The competition
in producing the better descriptions of iron is repro-
rented as being greater than it was, for formerly only
the leading establishments turned it out. Speculation is
exceedingly dormant in the.article, and, under mecum-
stences, we cannot Fee that it can be expected to be
otherwise, 83 there is no opening for increased con-
sumption at present. The simple fact has long been
apparent that the make is too large. It might not have
been deemed excessive during the fever of railway con-
struction, but as it is notorious that new furnaces were
brought into play expressly for that occasion, it is us
evident that when the outlet is closed the supply
should be curtailed, and no one will be surprised to learn
that different works are changing hands.
Accounts to the beginning of September from Hon-
duras, give a very encouraging representation of the
state of trade, and one party writes as follows :
"In this settlement we are very busy manufacturing
the vast quantity of mahogany got out by the late floods.
The Public Meeting has held a special session since my
last. Much ill feeling exists between that body and the
Executive. The latter has received notice of recall,
which is highly satisfactory to the former, who seems
determined to have the Chief Justice also removed, and
wi!l leave nothing dono to effect his recall. This quar-
rel is local, end of no interest to your readers. In the
states of Honduras and Guatemala, the Indians, having
met with many reverses, and having lost many of their
most skilful and successful leaders, have given up the
contest and retired to the mountains, where they
sari comparatively safe from the whites, who, flushed
with euectss and victory, are pursuing and
occasionally taking prisoners and slaying some
stragglev. -The roads are now free. Cochineal and
Indigo aro daily arriving from Guatemala. An un-
usually large amount of goods has been purchased for
that market during the list month. There are a large
number of merchanti from the interior now here making
purchases. Merchendiso is scarce and high. Some
house might Le established here for the sale of American
domestics, which could not fail to be very profitable.
From ten to twenty thousand bales of coarse goods
could (with proper care) bo disposed of for cash, or
cochineal end indigo, every year. I hope some of your
readers will look to this.
"From the Island of Ruatan we have nothing in-
teresting. The people end magistrates having got tired
of quarrelling have set to work planting, which will be
far more profitable to them and this settlement. Our
provision market is in a very good state. All articles
from the United States are paying very well. Mahogany
and logwood are doing better than formerly. Turtle-
shell, indigo, cochineal, sarsaparella, are eagerly sought
after; and ou the whole we are in a prosperous and pay-
ing condition."
In the Amsterdam Bourse on the 14th lust. Stocks
were dull. Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. 56
11-16 to
The English Funds have been very firm again, and the
transactions are on a moderate Sc de. The settlement
of the Account being now over the payments were made
this morning, and one party who had been giving
option;" has been declared unable to net his ee-
gagements. Having euccombed on a former occasion,
however, hi 3 liabilities are but smell. Consols have been
97 :41 fir Tr.sesier and Time. The New Three-and-
a- Quarer per Crnts. have realised 99 to 99k, and the
Thane per Cents. 961 to 97. Bank Stook is worth 209
to 210, and India Stock 2a3. Exchequer-bills have been
655. to 68e, and India Bunch 87 preen.
The Foreign Investments have been steady, but the
arrangements for " carrying over" have been in pro-
gress. Mexican have been at 3 and Pet avian at 80
to for the Pour- and-a. Half per Cents.' and ut a rise to
361 and 37 for the Deferred. Grenada Bonds have been
quoted 184“ Buenos Ayres, 564; nod Brazilian Smell,
91. I)utcn Two-and-a-Ralf per Cents. have been 57k.
The settlement of the account in the Railway Share
Market has engaged almost exclusive attention, and is de-
cidedly in fevour ofthe:speculatora for arise. The extent
to which speculative purchases have been made is such,
that parties are running about offering very high rates
of "continuation," as much, indeed, where the seem-
modation is but for a day or two, as would amount to
30 or 40 per cent. per annum. These, however, are,
of course, only exceptional cases, and merely indicate
temporary pressure. North-Western Shares, being
scarce, have risen to 1161 4, Midland have touched
45, Great-Western 72, South-Eastern 21k, and York
and North-Midland 261. Great Northern have been
supported.
Canada Company's Shares have been at 40, and
United Mexican Mine at 6i.
QUARTER TO THREE.

Consols ...
Dhto Account

::: 97

ONE CLOSING
PIIICES OF BRITInIi Ir'UND9 O'CLOCK. PRICKS.
dank :stock ..... 210 209 210,4
per rout. Reduced Anne. ... 96. k, 97 97
3 oar Cent. Consols Annuities... .... 975,3/4 97%
l'ir:.w- 3.-LA per Cont. Anus- ... .. ...... 99 LAI 99 9.;ig 9914
Long Anus. to expire Jan.lB6o — 7 TN
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859
India Stock 268 266
,n:-i is Sonde. 1,0001 ... ....
Ditto under 1,0001.........
South Sea Stock

Ditto New Annuities ...... 96%
Consols for Account 97%3,
gxch miler Bills. I%d. & 2d
I,eool. June ........ 68 ,65 p 68 p
5001. June --P 68 p
Sms.ll. June 65 p 68 p
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
F,rahilian Bonds — '
Ditto, Small
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 Der Cent.., 58%
Danish 80nd5,1825,3 per Cent.
Ditto 5 Der Cent. -
Grenada Bonds, 1% per Cent......
tioxican, 5 per Cent.lB46, with Coupons—.
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto. Account
E'ru.vian Bonds, 4% per Cent 8034 8034
Ditto. Account .. ••• ....... - 7181%i % 8114
Ditto, Deferred
Fertuguese 5 per Cents.
payable—
in London.
Ditto,4 per Cont.
Bpnnish 5 per (3,,rit. 1840 —.
Ditto,
DividendsAccounton
t h
. • • —e . .a.
above
v. .e....:
Ditto, Pusive 33g
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild.
- ----- - --

9CV3
97

91
583%

101
133%

83Ih
18%
33

57%

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FRICES CF PAID. LIMINESS DONE CLOSINC;
KARA-VAT SIL&RES. AT ONE; O'CLOCK. PRICES
&nude= ... 50 .... 9!,2 ......... ..••• 9'4 Do. Prdlerence Bl •••••• -- ais 2 dig.
Amber. Nom, Bostat,
and Eatern Junction 8%...... -..
... "•••••••
... •.. ....
il 13:
ee:rl rfittiecr:a
Hantst
. andl
r et in Gr
. tasEyi 1
px°D:tro-eac
tv !T.): 3627 iii
....................
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junct., calls duly
paid, or with a guaran. 20
Do, without guarantee 20
Binning, tiVolverhlon,
• and Dudley, calls duly
Ed, or with guarantes 15 --- ••... ..... e••••
Lk). without guarantee 15
Birming.,Wolverh'ptons
and 8 totir Va11ey...... 131. 14a
...
Birkenhead' Lancashire,
and Cheshire Jima.... 26
Bristol and Exeter ...... 100
:..uckini,,hainsliire ...... 1% --.
Caluotuan
Do. New lot. Pref..— 10
.••
Ditt:o,Cisdesdult June 50
CI-A3ter and Holyhead... 50
.. .......
Ditto, Preference •15 ..... —"' ...........
(..lartnce
Direct London & Ports-
month ..... -
..
Dublin and Belfast June. 45 ...... •••..•
+)u & Eriniakillun 30 ...... .:... ..... ~, -.
E.,at Anglian, 251., L. &
E. Liald L. and D.,. 25 ...... --- ......
Do. 181., E. & H.-- 18 ...... —.
Do., 3!. 108.. Pref..... 3% ...... 11,4 ..••
Do., (51.) 7 per Ct..
Preference 5 .....• '''' '''''''..."-'
Ditto (71. 17t.) 7 per
Cent., Prefergneo - 2 ...... ---
adorn Car-IttiC23... .... SO ...... 6,i3 •
Ditto,Extension, 3 par
Cent., .NO.l 61.13 a. id.... P.. *"
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 138.4 d... P ......... "'...
Dv., New,Pry.f.rence,
6 i er Cent .......... 19
Do. North. & Eastern,
6 per Cent. ...... ... 50
Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50
Do. New
Eastern Union, Class A
(late E. 11. Shares) '25
Ditto, Clasa A, ditto... 6
Do., Class It & C ..... 25
Do. Scrip (6per cent.) 20
East f.avearhira ......... 25 - • ••••••
Ditto, New Quarters.. 614
Do., G per Cent. l're-
ference Querters .. 6IA - - ........... .--
Eit Linooln.thirc, guar. ...±. .....•.• ......
... •• ••
6 par Cent. .. .. .
...... -c 5
kthnisargit and Glasgow 50 _
t din., Perth, & Dundee 2

Ditto, Newpo ;ti
rt ...... . 15 .. •• .......... ' .
Exeter•Yeovil.ls Dorch. 2,4
Exeter and Exmouth... 21a. -- ...............
....14strow, DurnAlsa, and
Cardsle B/.65. &1....
Glasgow,liiimar.,& Ayr 50 ...... -- ........... ...•
Do.t'rclOrence Consul.
Gloucester cic Deank ()rest 16 .....• ... • "
ta AO; Nurtbern
Do., 172 A D.:lured
Do., 5 per Cell:. huf. 12ii l2
:rest South. and West.

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(Ireland) ... ..... : ........ 50 ...... 3514
Ditto, Eighths ...... 2q• 3%
, mat North of .England.loo „,... ...
Ditto, New, 40/. ........ •
40
Ditto, New, 301........, 30
I:itta. New.ls/_, .... 15
...
:.reet Western ..... . ...... ICO ....„ 72 71 li, ... .- • -
. Ditto, Now in,— ..... 15 ... `• •"•°°'•• .....
alit] and L'4by .. ...... 50
Ditto, [Jail Shares -. 2 •.« 5 •
..
Do. Quarter Snares-. 12% —.....-.. ......
Lancaster and Carlisle.. 50
Ditto, Thirds ......... 111
Lanes lire &'Yorkehirt • 100 ~ m 50

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