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!THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING,___DECEMBER 8, 1845.

most humbly submit to your Majesty that the said parish
contains upwards of 14,000 houses and 140,000 inhabitants.
" That it has pleased Divine Providence to visit the British
isles with a deficiency of produce used as human food by
vast multitudes of your Majesty's subjects, and which for
many weeks last past has occasioned a gradual rise in the
price of all kinds of provisions consumed by the people, and
created great and daily increasing alarm for the future in the
breasts of your Majesty's petitioners.
" That this alarm has been, and is, augmented by the
operation of an unwise law, which imposes grievous import
duties upon corn and various articles of human food the
produce of parts beyond the seas. That this law vexatiously
and cruelly prevents your Majesty's subjects relieving them-
selves from scarcity and high prices by making purchase of
bread corn, and ether produce in foreign markets, and your
petitioners humbly and dutifully submit to your Majesty
that such state of the law, at a period of national apprehen-
sion and anxiety, is against the principle of common right,
justice, and humanity.
" We, your Majesty's petitioners, therefore humbly pray
that your Majesty will be pleased to call the Imperial Par-
liament to assemble without delay, to the end that such
measures may be adopted therein as may seem expedient in
the present perilous emergency.
" And your petitioners will ever pray."

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
M. JULLIEN'S ANNUAL SERIES OF CONCERTS.
LAST WEEK BUT TWO.
PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING.
PART I.
Overture, Leonora—Beethoven.
The Miauette Quadrille—Jullies.
Solo, Violin, by Master Day, from Bellini's Opera "11 Pirati," ar.

ranged by Ernst.
The Imperial Polka—Jullien.
Sole, Oboe, by M. Barret—Barret.
The First Movement from Symphony, " Power of Sound"—Spohr.
Jullien's New Quadrille, The British Navy—Jullien.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
THIS EVENING

Will be repeated an Original Comedy, called MAIDEN
AUNT. Sir Simon Sage, Mr. W. Farreu ; Percy Sage, Mr. Hud-
son ; Mrs. Sarah Wilmot, Mrs. Glover; Catherine Wilmot, Mrs.
Seymour.
After which, will be repeated an entirely }few Farce, called THE
MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE. Mr. Ally Croaker, Mr. Webster;
Margaret, Mrs. }lullaby.
To be followed by a New and Original Farce, called RAILWAY
BUBBLES. Gorman Hudson, Mr. Hudson, Ellen Seyton, Miss
3eyton.
To conclude with HOW TO PAY THE RENT. Morgan Rattler,
Mr. Hudson.

THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPIH.
THIS EVENING

Will be repeated THE or, A Hundred Years
Age. In which Messrs. 0. Smith, Selby, Stoker ; 3lrs. Yates,
and Mrs. Fitzwilliam will perform.
To be followed by TAMING A TARTAR ; or, Magic and Ma-
tourkaphobia. In which Masers. Paul Bedford and Wright, Miss
Woolgar, Madame Celeste. Or.c, will perform.
To conclude with SEEING WRIGHT.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STItEET.
THIS EVENING

Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled THE VIOLET. Andre,
Mr. Wallack; Trenquet, Mr. Granby ; Armand, Mr. Leigh Murray ;
Marchioness d'Orville, Mrs. Fosbroke; Blanchette, Mrs. Stirling;
ttlanehe, Miss May.
After which, DON CrESAR DE BAZAN. Don Cesar de
Bazan, Mr. Wallack ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling.
To conclude with a New Grand Ballet, entitled LE DIABLE
it'QUATRE.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. -
THIS EVENING

Will be produced a New Two Act Comedy, entitled WHO IS SHE
Characters by Messrs. J. Brown, C. Boyce, Binge, Cockrill, Miss
Hamilton, and Mrs. Walter Lacy.
To be followed by the favourite Vaudeville of CAPTAIN CHAR-
LOTTE. In which Mr. Walter Lacey and Miss Kato Howard will
perform.
After which, THE BOYHOOD OF BACCHUS. The Boy Bacchus,
Miss Kate Howard ; Momus, Mr. G. Wild.
To conclude with THE RAILWAY KING. Sam Stag, Mr. G.
Wild ; tally slop, Miss Kato Howard.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
PROPRIETOR AND MANAGER, MR. W. BATTY.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed THE LAST OF THE BARONS; or, Warwick,
The King Maker, and the Battle of Barnet.
New Scenes of the Circle, combining the talent of the French and
English Artistes.
To conclude with WAR IN CHINA.

DAYIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed a New Drama, TIIE MINUTE GUN AT SEA.
Supported by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Cowell, Heelop, Fredericks,
Mrs. Vining, anti Miss Martin.
To conclude with THE FACTORY BOY. Supported by Messrs.
Rogers, Hughes, Cowell, Mrs. Vining. Miss Martin, and Mrs. Daly.

ROTA.L VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed a New Drama, THE TOWER OF LONDON;
or, The Death Omen and the Fate of Lady Jane Grey. Supported
by Mr. Osbaldiston, E. F. Saville, Miss Vincent, Miss Richardson,
Miss Eliza Terry, &c.
To conclude with JAPHET IN SEARCH OF A FATHER.

SALE or POPULAR WoaKs.—Many of our best
books experienced the greatest difficulty in obtaining a pub-
lisher, and many, when published, remained for a length of
time neglected. The " Paradise Lost" and Newton's " Op-
tics" are memorable examples. The manuscript of " Robin-
son Crusoe" was hawked through the whole trade, and no
one would print it, until a second-rate bookseller, after much
hesitation, entered on the speculation, and eventually made
by it more than a thousand guineas. Sterne, when he had
completed his first and second volumes of " Tristram
Shandy," offered them to a publisher at York for fifty pounds,
but was refused. In our times Dickens's] inimitable " Pick-
wick" appeared for several months without exciting the least
public notice, and Warren's beautiful and interesting "Diary
of a late Physician," the most popular eontribution that ever
appeared in Blackwood, was rejected by the editor of the
New !dandily as unworthy of insertion hi that magazine !
The Patrician.
The Viscountess Mahon gave birth to a son yester-
da7, at the family mansion in Grosvenor-p lace. Her Lady-
ehip and Want are going ou very favourably.

JOIINSON, MAYOR.
•
commeN COUNCIL, holden in the Chamber
of the GUILDHALL of the City of LONDON, on THURS-
DAY, the 4th day of December, 1845,
Resolved unanimously,—That this Ceurt, being desirous of re-
cording its high sense of the energy and aptitude for business evinced
by the Right Hon. Michael Gibbs, late Lord Mayor, tender to him
their thanks for the assiduity, independence, and promptitude with
which he discharged the onerous and important duties devolving upon
him as Chief Magistrate of this City.

_.„.
For his punctual and unremitting attention to his magisterial fano-
tious, together with the patience and discrimination in investigating
cases submitted to his judgment, in deciding which he upheld the law
and administered justice with the strictest impartiality.
For his numerous attendances at appeals made in behalfof the S'it-
rious charitable institutions which adorn this City, and for his dona-
tions in furtherance of benevolent objects.
For the courteous attention and readiness of access which he inva-
riably manifested to the members of this Court ; for the promptitude
with which he at all times convened them, particularly when an at-
tack was threatened in Parliament upon this Corporation at the com-
mencement of his year of office.
For his strict observance of the days appointed for the meetings of
this Court, by which both general convenience and dispatch of busi-
ness were essentially promoted.
For the impartiality with which he presided over the debates of
this Court, and maintained the due order Rad dignity of its pro-
ceedings.
. _ . . . . .

For the judicious and firm manner in which he watched over the
ancient usages of the Corporation and the rights and privileges of his
fellow-citizens, andespecially the privileges of the Ilayor, Aldermen,
and Commonalty, in and over the Royal Hosoitals of this City con-
ferred upon them by the Charters of Henry VIII. and Edward VI., and
confirmed to them by Act of Parliament ; and
For the vigilance and decision with which he exercised the im-
portant oflice of Conservator of the River 'themes.
And this Court cannot but express its admiration at the unaffected,
moral, social, and religious feeling which pre-eminently distinguished
his Lordship's conduct while in office, by which he set a good example
to his fellow-citizens and its respect for the legal knowledge and equit-
able 'discrimination which marked all his magisterial acts, which
supported the good government, and maintained the honour of this
ancient metropolitan city. MEREWETHER.

ASHBURTON, NEWTON, AND SOUTH-
DEVON JUNCTION RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management beg to Inform the Shareholders
that the deposits on the shares have been duly paid, and the amount
invested at interest for the benefit of the Shareholders.

The requisite deed has also been signed. The Plans, Sections, and
Books of Reference, were, on the 29th of November, duly deposited
with the Clerk of the Peace and at the Office of the Beard of Trade,
and the Committee are quite prepared to apply to Parliament in the
ensuing session.
Signed by order of the Committee of Management,
ROBERT TUCKER, Solicitors.
GEORGE CAUNTER,
Ashburton, Doc. 2, 1845.

IVREXHAM, NANTWICH, and CREWE
JUNCTION RAILWAY.

(Provisionally Registered.)

Temporary Offices, Henblas-street, Wrexham.
The Directors have the satisfaction to announce to their Proprie-
tors that the proper notices have been published in the " London Ga-
zette," and provincial newspapers, and that the Plans, sections, and
Books of Reference, have been deposited at the Office of the Railway
Department of the Board of Trade, and with the Clerks of the Peace
for the several counties through which the line is proposed to pass.
Under these circumstances, the Directors are prepared to proceed
for obtaining an Act for carrying out this desirable line of conununi-
cation immediately on the assembling of Parliament.
The necessary deeds will lie for signature at the Company's Offices
in Wrexham, until the 10th day of JANUARY next, after which day
they will-be forwarded to other towns, of which due notice will be

given.
Wrexham, Dec. 2, 1845.

J. DEVEIREUX PUGH, Secretary,

WAKEFIELD, OSSE IT, and DEWSBURY
DIRECT and ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.

The Committee of Management have the satisfaction of announ-
cing to the Shareholders of this Company, that all the Plans, Sec-
tions, and Books of Reference required to be deposited in conformity
with the standing orders of Parliament, have been duly lodged.
And the Committee desire to take this opportunity of stating, that
from the satisfactory report of the engineers, and the very favourable
return which the existing traffic (taken with the greatest care by
most competent parties) shows, they feel an assurance of the Act
being obtained during the forthcoming Session. The traffic upon
the line is almost exclusively local, and cannot, consequently, inter-
fere or be considered to compete with any other railway ; and as the
first attempt to give the advantage of railway communication, in the
most safe and economical form, to the dense manufacturing popula
tion of this district (which from its position cannot be accommo-
dated by the ordinary means), this undertaking mast command the
most lively attention of the Legislature and the public.
Provision having been made to run upon one of the proposed rail-
ways into the town of Wakefield, thereby avoiding the most costly
portion of the work, there is no doubt whatever but that the line
will be constructed for much less than the capital named ; and
under any circumstances the Committee confidently recommend it
as an undertaking which cannot fail to be highly remunerative for
permanent investment. By order,
J. IL CIIARNOCK, Sec.
. .

Company's Offices, Barstow-Einar°,
Wakefield, Dec. 1, 1845.

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tion by a protection harangue to his Wiltshire con-
stituents.

A still more important question is,—what will the
House of Lords do ? It remains to be seen whether the
House of Lords is content, on all questions, to register
the edicts of a I'm Cabinet.

We are not disposed to disguise that rail;vay legisla-
tion will require great care and caution from Parliament
in the next session, or to deny that there has been much
rashness, and something worse than rashness, in the
railway speculation of the present year. But we can
see the difference between difficulties and impossibilities;
and with reference to the course taken by our Con-
temporary the Times, we cannot but think that true
wisdom would have endeavoured to make the best, and
not the worst, of errors affecting pecuniary interests
which are spread over the nation, and would have sought
rather to show how difficulties may be evercome and
mistakes repaired, than, by unmeasured and indiscri-
minate invective, to produce in the public mind confusion
and despair, which must for a time inevitably aggravate
the evils of past excessive speculation.
Where, by stating facts or explaining the provisions
of railway enactments, we can prevent any mischief
that might arise from the circulation of errors about
railways, we think, in the present state of feeling, and
with the known immense extent of railway investments,
we could hardly perform a more important duty. And
with this view, we are anxious to explain the exact state
of the case as to the regulations made by Parliament, in
the last session, for the reintroduction in the next ses-
sion of Bills stopped, as the London and York Bill was,
for want of time.

Both Houses agreed to dispense, in such cases, with a
repetition of the usual deposits of places and notices to
landowners, and requiring only a certain number of
newspaper advertisements, signifying the intention of the
company to apply again to Parliament in the next ses-
sion. The regulations of the House of Commons for the
treatment of such Bills are contained in the following
resolutions, passed on the 7th of July
That upon any petition for leave to bring in a Railwayßill
which shall be presented to the House during the next sesssion
of Parliament, and referred to the Committee on Petitions,
the Committee do examine whether the said petition be the same
in substance as any petition for the same purpose, and from the
same parties, which was presented in this session of Parliament;
and in Mat case, whether any Bill brought into the House in
pursuance of such petition in this session, was pending in either
House of Parliament on the termination of this session, and if
whether a subscription contract, as required by the Standing
rders, binding in the usual why the subscribers to the undertak-
ing has been entered into, and is valid at the time of such in-
quiry, and whether the de posit of 51. per cent. upon such sub-
scription is lodged in the manner required by the Standing
Orders.

" That in such case, and on proof of such notice having
been given as aforesaid (by newspaper advertisements), and
in case it should appear that such Bill had, at the end of this
session, been pending in the House of Lords, or if pending
in the House of Commons, had been ordered to be en-
grossed, the Standing Orders with respect to any such Bill
shall be held to have been complied with.
" That the time between the second reading of any such
Bill which shall be brought in in the next session and the
meeting of the Committee thereon, be shortened to three
days, the parties giving the regular notices in the Private
Bill-otlice.

" That the Committee on any such Bill do examine whe-
ther the Bill be in every respect the same as such former
Bill at the last stage of its proceeding in this House in the
present session, and that in such case no evidence shall be
received by such Committee ; but that on the reception and
adoption by the House, of a report from such Committee,
that the Bill referred to them is in every respect the same
as such former Bill at the last stage of its proceeding in this
House in the present session, such Bill may be ordered to be
engrossed without any further proceeding in respect thereof"
It will be seen that the important privileges conferred
in the three last paragraphs are to be conferred on the
following conditions :—that the petition for a Bill next
session is the same in substance as the petition of last
session; that the petition is presented by the same par-
ties ; that a deposit of 51. per cent, has been lodged (the
new 10/. per cent. standing order does not apply to these
Bills), and that thero is a subscription contract in ac-
cordance with the standing orders, valid next sesssion.
Now what is required to make a subscription contract
valid next session ? Standing Order No. 40, of the House
of Commons, says, " That as regards Railway Bills, no
subscription contract shall be valid, unless it be entered
into subsequent to the day fixed in the session of Par-
liament previous to that in which application is made for
leave to bring in the Bill to which it relates, as the last
day on which petitions for private Bills may be pre-
sented :" and there is no exception for Bills in the posi-
tion of the London and York Bill: so that it is abso-
lutely necessary for the London and York Company,
and all other companies in the same position, to pro-
vide themselves with new subscription contracts before
going to Parliament next session. •
_A statement has lately appeared in some of the news-
papers, addressed to the London and York Shareholdet s,
and signed "One of Yourselves," which ssys "Parliams nt
does not require any new deed from a company in tie
situation of the London and York Company: your a( t
in signing a fresh deed amounts to renouncing your
present deeds, and giving up your present position."
The writer afterwards proceeds to impute motives to

solicitors, engineers, and directors, because the share-
holders are required to sign a new subscription contract.
The assertion, on which the imputation of motives is
grounded, happens to be totally incorrect.

The London and York Bill, having complied with the
requiretl conditions, will go through the House of Corn.
mons, therefore, at railroad pace ; and the question
arises, what course will be taken by the House of Lords
in order to compare the London and York scheme with

the competing schemes ? Will it oblige the London

and York to wait until the competing Bills shall have
been considered in the Commons, and either all of them
rejected, or one sent up to the House of Lords? This
would oblige the London and York to incur a second
time the expense of a contest in the Commons, the re-
sult of the second contest being no more binding on the
Lords than the result of the first, and would be ex-
tremely unfair to the London and York Company. On
the other hand, it would be unfair to the competing par-
ties, to take the London and York Bill without delay in

the Lords, unless arrangements are made to allow the
competing Bills to originate in the Lords. At the close of
last session Lord MONTEAGLE suggested that Railway Bills
should be allowed to originate in the Lords, as well as
in the Commons. Such an arrangement would make
the Parliamentary session go much further fur railway
legislation ; and in cases such as that of the London and
York Bill, common justice requires that no blind adhe-
ranee to es.ablished forms, and to obsolete notions of
privilego, should stand in the way of the adoption of
Lord MONTEAGLE'S sensible suggestion.

We have spoken of the London and York Company,
because its case is generally known ; but there are other
companies in the same position—the Direct London
and Portsmouth, for instance ; and our remarks are of
general application.
But speaking of the London and York Company, we
may notice a recent discovery of the Times ; and, in-
deed, there is no end to our Contemporary's discoveries
when he gets mounted on the Rosinanto of his anti-rail-
road crusade. The adjudication in the Commons be-
tween the great northern lines has been said, by the
Times, to have been made by " a mere boy." The
mere boy is Lord COURTENAY, and there is, therefore, no
difficulty in getting at his age. The Peerages:all agree
in saying that Lord COUILTENAY was born in 1807, so
that the " mere boy" is thirty-eight. We believe it is
well known that Lord Couternx.ty was for some years
a practising member of the Chancery bar, which may,
in the opinion of the Committee of Selection, have gone
some way to compensate for the disadvantage of his ex-
traordinary youthfulness at thirty-eight. We do not
think the Railway Committee system of last year per-
fect. No one will say, however, that it was not a great
improvement on the system of all preceding years ; but
of this we are sure, that they will hope only to be dis
appointed who imagine that the House of Commons
next year is likely to set aside the decision of one of its
Committees, last-eyear, on account of the alleged youth-
fulness of the Chairman, who was called upon to give a
casting vote.

We have much satisfaction in directing the attention
of our readers to an advertisement, headed "Railway
Litigation." It is a proceeding peculiarly called fer by
the present state of railway law, and the liabilities which
hang over parties connected with railway companies. It
is well known that persons of station and circumstance
are menaced with claims to a frightful amount, whose
fears aro still further aggravated by the costs which
must be, in the first instance, incurred, in order to ascer-
tain their legal position. It may be reasonably esti-
mated that the expenses of obtaining what is termed a
first-rate opinion will not be less than from 15/. to 20/.,
and lucky indeed will that client be who finds that one
opinion will settle every pint. In all probability a
second will be required, and a conference, as
va
matter of course, upon matters in difference.
The trembling client is now launched upon a sea
of litigation, perhaps in equity as well as law, and finds
himself involved in a series of difficulties, which he is
compelled to grapple with at his own unaided cost.
Such a state of things, which there is too much reason
to fear has already reached many, and will extend to
hundreds, calls for some measure of mutual protection ;
for while, on the one hand, the expense of bringing out
a useful scheme ought not to fall exclusively upon its
promoters, soapplicants for shares ought not to be allowed
to retire, placing their letters of allotment in the waste
paper basket, laughing in the face of those who only
seek a moderato contribution towards an unavoidable
outlay. Still more is it to be deprecated that men of deli-
cate honour and high-toned feelings should be made the

scape-goats of graspingeredi tors, who single such men out,
under the impression that the shame of exposure and the
weight of litigation will drive them to a hasty settlement.
Such conduct ought not to be tolerated; and we rejoice
to find that a plan has been most opportunely devised
by which just claims may be reasonably enforced, and
unrighteous demands resisted, without imposing upon
individuals the destructive expenses which must attend a
single-handed struggle. Not only has the time been well
chosen, and the objects judiciou3ly stated, but the parties
engaged in it present a guarantee, that whatever can be
effected by sagacious energy and professional reputation
will be done to enforce equity and resist legal oppression.

Accounts have been received from Lisbon to the 29th
of November, by the Black Eagle steam-packet, which
arrived off Cowes yesterday. That vessel carried out
the Duke FERDINAND of Saxe Coburg, father of the
King of PORTUGAL, and arrived at Lisbon on the 25th,
after a stormy passage of five days. The intelligence
from Portugal is without interest. A royal decree had
been issued for raising 8,000 recruits, to bring the effec-
tive force of the army up to 24,000 men, in accordance
with the regulation of the 9th July, 1842, which fixed
it at that number.

We are glad to learn from Paris that the panic
in the Stock and Share-market had completely sub-
sided. The Three per Cents. on Wednesday rose 35c.,
and the Fives 10c. Railroad shares also rose consider-
ably, the improvement, in some instances, amounting to
40f. The settlement had also, up to that time, gone on
satisfactorily, and it was expected that the payment of
the differences of the account would be made without
difficulty. The papers are chiefly occcupied with the
affairs of the River Plate, the Oregon question, and the
conduct of Marshal BUGEA.UD, but we find little in
them to interest the English reader. The National,
which openly takes part with President POLIO
attacks the Government journal for the article which
appeared in that paper some days since, and blames M.
GUIZOT for allowing the Government organ to express
sentiments which render it impossible, for the United
States to accept France as a mediator. This is absurd,
like most of the assertions made by the National of the
question, when it is well known that Mr. PoLK will not
refer it to arbitration on any account. But the great
offence of M. G UIZOT is his apparent resolution " to
espouse the quarrels of England in every part of
the globe, even at the risk of a war with the
natural allies of France." The question of educa-
tion is. again agitated by the French papers,
but the misunderstanding now is not between the State
and the Church, but between the Minister of Public
Instruction and one of the Professors of the Univert ity,
the celebrated M. QUINET. The Opposition journals
attack with great severity M. DE SALVANDY, for interfering
with M. QUINET, to prevent his publishing the pros-
pectus of his lectures in the way in which it has been
accepted by the assembly of professors of the College
of France. M. QUINET has announced his intention
of delivering a course of lectures on the comparative
literture and institutions of Southern Europe. The Mi-
nister has desired that the word institutions may be ex-
punged. M. QUINET, in a letter to M. DE SALVANDY,
declares that he cannot willingly comply with this
order, as it would bo impossible for him to treat his sub-
ject philosophically and scientifically without making the
comparison of institutions as well as literature. This
letter meets with great approbation from the Opposition
journals, and M. DE SALVANDY'S attempt to restrict the
views of M. QUINET is regarded by them as illiberal,
arbitrary, and unjust. The Journal des Debats considers
the Minister of Public Instruction perfectly right, be-
cause the chair which M. QUINET fills is not political,
but merely literary; and it tenders the advice to M.
QUINET not to peril his reputation by listening to im-
prudent friends, who would encourage him to oppose
the Minister, but to conform to the intimation which
he has received. It is thought M. QUINET will re-
sign. The same journal, in alluding to the account
lately given of the fracas between the Baron DE
CYPREY, the French Minister at Mexico, and the editor
of a Mexican journal, states that the facts as given are
correct, and adds that M. DE CYPREY has left Mexico,
and is now at the Havannah, whence he will return to
France in the course of two or three months. The
truth is, the Baron has been recalled for conduct un
becoming the representative of France.
The Courrier Francais contains the following:—

" If the information that we have received is correct, the
instructions to be given to the commander of our expedition
against Madagascar, M. Domain Desfosses, have been agreed
upon in a council of Ministers. England is to intervene at
Madagascar conjointly with France; the two intervening
powers, after having chastised the Orac are to demand
simply for the traders of all nations the right of establishing
themselves on the coasts, possessing land, and carrying on
trade. The only advantage which the two powers are to
preserve for themselves will be the exemption in favour of
their respective nations from all customs and navigation
dues. The two Governments have agreed that their inter-
vention shall be on the same bases for each."

The Constitutionnel adds, that the Ministry had re-
solved on promoting Captain RoMAIN DESFOSSES to the
rank of rear-admiral, and that an ordonnance to that
effect will be immediately presented to the KING for his
signature.

The subjoined letter, dated Tangiers, November 16,
appears in the Constitutionnel:—

On the news of the new levy by Abd-el-Kader, and the
massacre of Djema Ghazaouat, Abderrhaman, who was at
Fez, immediately keld a grand council. At this it was re-
solved that the Emperor should immediately go to Morocco,
in order to be at the greatest distance from the consular body,
and thus delay. as long as possible, the answers to the notes
to be addressed to him by France. The Emperor set out by
forced marches; but, on reaching Rabat, he found there a
courier from the French Consulate, with dispatches of such
high importance that he stopped to answer them. His pro-
gress was also arrested by another occurrence. The southern
provinces had risen in revolt, and his passage was no longer
free. Measures were at once taken to put a stop to this in-
surrection. Since the Emperor has been at Rabat, there is a
daily interchange of couriers between that town and Tangiers.
It appears that the Emperor has declared to the French Consul
that he has not sufficient forces to pursue Abd-el-Kader, but
will not oppose his being pursued by the French, and will
not consider such pursuit as an aggression. He has added,
however, that he could not tell in what light the people of the
country would view the invasion, and feared they might rise
and make common cause with Abd-el-Kader. This is a thorny
question, and greatly embarrasses the French Consul. The
son of the Emperor, Muley Mohammed, who commanded the
whole of the Morocco troops at the battle of Isly. is sent to
Fez to exercise the functions of Viceroy during the absence of
his father. Those who know the violent character and fanati-
cal sentiments of this Prince apprehend that, at the first op-
portunity, and in spite of the Emperor, he will commit some
act of hostility against France, in the vain hope of gratifying
his revenge for his defeat at Isly. His women have already
arrived at Fez, and lie is to follow at the earliest day. He will
go through Rabat to receive the instructions of the Emperor.
The whole population of Morocco is greatly agitated. It
is generally weary of the present Government, which is hor-
ribly oppressive. Tye person who has at present the greatest
influence with the Emperor is Hamod Bou Derbah, son of
Hadji Hamed Bou Derbab, who is said to have kept up a
correspondence from France with Abd-el-Kader. The young
Named is the confidential adviser of Abderrhaman, and as he
acquired some education at Marseilles and Paris, he passes in
his own country for a great mae. He is also considered to be
an enemy to France, and this adds to the esteem in which he
is held by the Moors. The Emperor has granted permission,
from October 15, for the exportation of corn, on payment of
a duty of nine ounces of Barbary for every fanegue ; and
numerous cargoes have been shipped for Genoa and Marseilles.
The Government has increased the nominal value of the cur-
rent coin. The export of Spanish coin is again prohibited,
and the strictest orders are given to all the officers of the cus-
toms to execute rigidly this prohibition, searching carefully
all persons leaving the country. Consequently money is be-
coming scarce, and its importation favoured."
" lbrihim Pacha arrived at Marseilles on the 30th
November."

On the Paris Bourse, on Wednesday, the Three per Cents
closed at 82f. 75c. ; the New Loan, 82f. 45c. ; the Five per
Cents., 117 f. 80c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,150 f.;
Rouen, 950 f. •, Northern, 698 f. 75c. •, Havre, 732 f. 50c. ; Avig-
non, BG5f. ; Vierzon, 635 f. ; Bourdeaux, 595 f. ; Boulogne,
5201. ; Troyes and Montcreau, 425 f. ; Basle, 2451. ; Belgian
Two-and a-Half per Cents., 56 ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 33k.
The following are the quotations for other lines
Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laflitte), 61. premium ; ditto
(Caton), 1; ditto (Ganneron), 1 ; ditto (Lapinsonniero),
par ; Messageries, 5011. ; Mornay, 501 f.; Receveurs-Gene-
reaux, par; Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron), par; ditto
(Hinguerlot), par; ditto (Bechet), par ; Aymard, 501 f.;
Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), par; ditto (Drouillard),
par ; ditto (O'Neill), par; ditto (Lefevre), par; Lyons
and Avignon (Talaltot), 505 f.; ditto (Lecointe), par; ditto
(Compagnie Meridionale), par; Bordeaux and Cette (Mac-
kenzie), par; ditto (Espeleta), 21. 50c.; Creil and St.
Quentin (Kysaens), par; ditto (Carotte), par; ditto (Col-
bert), par; Dieppe (Sellieres), 475 f.
LYONS, DEC. 1.-Paris and Orleans, 1,097 f. ; Paris and
Rouen, 885 f ; Orleans and Vierzon, 6021. 50c.; Northern,
637 f. 55c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT Tina
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 4.
Anglo-Belgian — Mauritius
Boulogne and Amiens.. 8% Namur and Liege 2%
Bordeaux &Mediterran North Jamaica ...
Bordeaux and Toulouse Orleans and Vierzen
Do. &:Cette (Espelete) Orleans and Bordeaux 10
Do. ( Mackenzie's ).. Over Ysgel
Callao, Lima, and Pa- Paris & Lyons (Laffitte) 1%
cifie Coast
Central of Spain .. Ditto (Caics's).— 2
Ceylon . — Ditto (Sod Est) l%
Demerara
Dendre Valley ......
Dutch Rhenish ... ...... 71/a Paris and Strasburg
Dieppe & Paris Janet. (Ganneron's)
Dijon and Mulhouse ... Do. (Compe de L'Est) 1%
East Indian ..... ........ 11A Do. (Aymard's) 2IA
Fainpeux & Hazebrouk Paris and St. Quentin —
Grt Northern of France Rouen and Havre...„ --
._ ....

Constituted l
Do. Pepin lo Halleur —
Great Paris and Lyons —
Great Western Bengal
Great Western Canada
Jamaica& Mid. Junction

Do. Nerth Midland

Royal North of Sp.un.
Sambre and Meuse ....
Strasburg and Basle ...
Teurnay,Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt
Tours and Nantes

(Mackenzie's) _

Do. Extension -

Do. ( Lefebvre's) .....
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Jersey —
Louvain and Jemappe ll4
Lyons and Avignon —
Luxembourg
Madrid and Iralend*"

Do. (O'Neill's). —
Trinidad
VQrcna and Ancona
West Flanders

Madrid journals of the 27th ult. have been received
According to those under the influence of Government

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