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THEATRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET.
TIIIS EVENING

Will be performed WIVES AS THEY WERE, AND MAIDS AS
THEY ARE. Lord Priory, Mr. W. Farren ; Mr. Bronzely, Mr.
Hudson; Lady Priory, Mrs. Edwin Yarnold; Miss Dorrillon, Mrs.
Seymour ; Lady Mary Raffle, Mrs. Glover.
A fter which, will be repeated a New Comic Drama, entitled A
CABINET QUESTION. Sir Beaumont Cressy, Mr. Brindal ;
Lionel, Mr. Howe; Rosewood, Mr. Tilbury; Tom, Mr. Buckstane;
Miss Mortimer, Miss Telbin ; Lucy, Miss Julia Bennett. •
To conclude with a New and Original Comic Drama, entitled THE
FALSE MR. POPE. Lacey, Mr. Hudson; Captain Breval, Mr.
Howe; Mr. Peter Redwing, Mr. Buckstone; Mrs. Breval, Miss P.
Horton ; Miss Jenny Gillett, Miss Julia Bennett; Mrs. Lacey, Mrs.
Edwin Yarnold.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING
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Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled CLARISSE ; or, The
Merchant's Daughter. Martial. Mr. Webster ; John Cabot, Mr.
Munyard ; Barbillon, Mr. Wright ; Galon, Mr. Paul Bedford;
Clarisse, Madame Celeste; Milanie, Miss Woolgar.
To be followed by SEEING WRIGHT.

After which,-will be repeated, THE HA' KING; or, Petite
Peccadillos. Louis XV., Madame Celeste; De Lauzum, Miss
Wool-
ear. In the course of the piece, Grand Review of the Rifimam
Infantry.
To conclude with RINKS, THE BAGMAN.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM
THIS EVENING

Will be performed a New and Original Comedietta, entitled PETER
JENKINS; or, Fibbing for a Friend. Principal Characters by
Messrs. Keeley, A. Wigan, Turner, Meadows; Mrs. Keeley and Miss
Dawson.

After which (second time), a New Farce, called NEXT DOOR,
To be followed by A GO 3D NAME.

To conclude with OPEN SESAME; or, A Night with the Forty
Thieves. Characters by Messrs. Wigan, F. Mathews, Turner, Far-
[told, and Emery ; Miss Hodson, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Fairbrother,
Miss Grove, Mrs. Wigan, Miss Tamer, Miss Hicks, Miss Howard,
and Mrs. Keeley,

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed THE ROVER'S SECRET ; or, The Bridge of
St. Martin's. M. Martial, Mr. N. T. Hicks; William, Mr. H. Ilugbes;
Clarisse, Mrs. Henry Vining.
After which, NO SONG NO SUPPER. Crop, Mr. Leffler ; Fre-
derick, Mr. Binge ; Margaretta, Miss Betts.
To conclude with TOM STARBOARD.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS EVENING WILL BE PERFORMED,
JAPHET IN SEARCH OF A FATHER.
After which,
BLACK WHISKER ; or, THE DEMON OF SEVEN DIALS,
TO CONCLUDE WITH THE YELLOW ADMIRAL.

THE WEATHER.—Sos OFFICE, OCT. 4.
TRERMODIETER, Lowest, 48; Highest, 64; Noon, 60.

BA.ROMETEK, 29.67.
WIND S.W.; fine weather.

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SECOND EDITION.

great change. He said nothing of the vast—the countless
numbers of quarters of wheat, that could be iunportcd
from Tamboff, nor expressed any fear that the British
farmer could not protect himself. The burden of his
speech was Help yourselves—improve your system
of agriculture, and think nothing done while ought re-
mains to do." At one or two of the meetings Captain
Rous's remarks on the necessity of providing food for
the annually increasing population, were alluded to
somewhat ,in jest, but Lord STANLEY viewed
the case in a different light, he admitted
the fact, and showed also how the food
could be found. After strongly impressing upon both
landlords and tenants the necessity of improving agri-
culture by all the applications of science, he thus con-
cluded :—" The country had a right to expect it from
them ; and they must remember, that, as year after
year passed by, they had an increase of three hun-
dred thousand mouths to feed beyond the population of
the preceding year, and that on their exertions the sup-
ply for these 300,000 mouths mainly depended. He be-
lieved himself, not that the capacities of the soil were
infinite, but that the productive capacities of the soil
were infinitely larger than most people imagined ; and
he believed that it was not only capable of providing
for the existing population, but with the application
of science, of providing for a much larger and increas-
ing population."

We are grieved to find by the advices brought from
Buenos Ayres, by the Baronet and by the Martha Jane,
under the dates of the 12th and 26th of July last re -
sptctively, that we had been premature in relying on the
acconnts we had published of the great naval force,
under the British flag in the River Plate, on which Mr.
OusELEY could rely to enforce, if necessary, the terms
of the ultimatum offered by him, conjointly with the re •
presentative of France, to Rosss. By these accounts,
it would seem, that even the small squadron which had
been present but a few days before in the river, had, a
few days afterwards, been reduced. We have reason to
believe, therefore, that we have but one frigate,
instead of two, and that a small one (the Curacoa) ;
but one war steamer, a sloop, and two gun-
brigs, for our whole flotilla in those waters. Now
since, in contemplating the present aspect of our rela-
tions with the Argentine Republic, and the character of
its Presideat-Dictator, we feel something like a pre-
sentiment that affairs may take a turn which will place
us in a state either of diplomatic isolation, or of eculiar
and aggravated injury (it being doubtful, on the one
hand, how far the more imposing and available force of
the French may lead to earlier and to separate terms of
concession to them, and uncertain, on the other, to
what excesses the brutal obstinacy of Rosas may push
his well-known animosity to the English residents under
his jurisdiction)—on this account, we say, this disparity
of armament is, on every ground of political expe-
diency, most unfortunate. Without particularising the
grounds on which it would be easy to make this fact
apparent, we may just indicate one or two considera-
dons of obvious force, and, unhappily, no extreme proba-
bility, that may demonstrate the serious degree in which
the honour of our flag and the interests of our country-
men stand to be affected by this strange oversight or
neglect on the part of our own Government. In all cases
where, from the obscure origin and subsequent excesses
of their chief officers and magistrates, or their own re-
cent establishment, or their remoteness from the great
centres of political and social civilisation, violence and
spoliation are to be apprehended at the hands of new
states by the subjects of older and long-established
powers settled within their territories, and subject to
their jurisdiction, the most substantial protection
for these latter individuals consists in the moral
character of their native countries. That moral charac-
ter is found to exercise a restraining influence on petty
republics and potentates, who would never be acted upon
by any considerations of international law, or civil rights,
or the faith of nations, under the fierce excitement of their
sudden animosities and lawless pretensions. It is just
during the dangerous interval which elapses between the
determination formed to embark on a career of outrage
against defenceless strangers within their power, and
the incipient reflection for which the opportunity is
furnished by the brief season that must elapse before
their execution, that this influence operates with weak
but oppressive governments to abstain from or modify
their outrages. But in the states of that which
was formerly Spanish South America, all the world acts
under mere impulses and blind excitements. Their
whole history is that of a long convulsion. Their birth,
their existence, their decay, their reproduction, their
federations have all been presaged, accompanied, and
indicated by the throes of revolutionary agony. With
such states it is more important, therefore, than even
with the settled establishments of the Old World, to
maintain at its highest point and in the most uninterrupted
operation the:moral influence and authority of the British
name. Now, unhappily, the conduct of our former
ministers in these parts, Mr. MANDEVILLE, the predeces-
sor of Mr. GORE OUSELEY, has been onelof such absurd
vacillation, of such lamentable infirmity of pur-
pose, and tardiness , of action—his pledges to our
own countrrmen_have ht3Pn cp kmantalaly tqunpromised,

his negotiations with the Argentine and other
republics have been such unmitigated failures, that the
temperature of this British influence on the government
of Roses had already sunk below zero when Mr. GORE
OUSELEY entered upon his functions. To reinstate that
influence, to raise it to that degree of healthful action
which our Government ought to have felt it of so much
interest to restore, his remonstrances should always
have been urged with the silent eloquence of a powerful
squadron to back them ; the eloquence of a passive
" present " or active "future." But to set about
bringing Roses to his senses, and our fellow-subjects
under the inviolability of the protection which our
own flag has hitherto proudly guaranteed to them all
over the globe, by the proposition of terms to which the
overwhelming superiority of the French squadron in
the Plate must be taken to lend almost all the success
which may ultimately attend them, does appear to us a
most indefeasible imprudence, not to say a most palpable
neglect of duty, in our Government, a deplorable viola-
tion of the plainest principles of our European as well
as our American policy. It is no time to assume airs of
lofty and chivalrous confidence, or to deal in a spirit of
such unbounded liberality and confidence with an un-
principled and sanguinary adventurer like Roses as
absolutely to discard from our negotiations all the sus-
picions that his past career has not merely generated
but has confirmed beyond the possibility of doubt ;
when our friendly relations with the Govern-
ment of the United States on the eastern shores
of America are so seriously jeopardised by her grasping
but inadmissible pretensions to the finest territories on
the western coasts of the same continent, and when
even the hostility of the feeble empire of Brazil, in case
of war, might address itself with some effect to the
annoyance or impediment of our operations up the La
Plata. Besides, we are paying, at all times, the penalty
of national supremacy and pre-eminent power, in having
for the most effective of our present allies the bravest
and most formidable of our former enemies. The
recollections of the defeats they have sustained from us
in times past are but too easily excited by reckless
spirits and designing demagogues among them into
hopes of our present embroilment and future
triumphs over us. The fact constitutes at once
the delicacy and the peril of our magnificent
position. Our march still is, and we believe is destined
to be for many many ages, an onward one, in domesec
prosperity and external grandeur and power. But it is
over the smouldering memories of those mighty combi-
nations we battled with in a destructive war of half a
century, and broke down and trampled in the dust. The
soil of Europe, of Asia, of Africa, of America, is still
glowing with the volcanic elements that we dissipated
rather than extinguished ; and our destined progress
must yet be—

,4 -- per ignes
Suppositos cineri doloso."

An unprincipled, but not unskilful, leader, like Rosa;,
confident in the natural strength of the country and the
capital over which he p!esides, may have deluded himself,
(reasoning upon what would be the motives of his own
conduct) into the belief that to see us foiled in our
efforts to vindicate the rights and property, the lives and
the freedom of British and other European subjects
within his jurisdiction, would not be unpleasing to the
French Minister D' to the officer in command of the
French squadron ; and he may even, acting on some such
conclusion in his own mini, calculate on neutralising the
act:ve co-opt ration of that force with our own in en-
forcing satisfaction and reparation. We can feel no
dQuht,
to the ultimate result of the signal lesson which
would to read to hip pFczumption and credulity by the
good faith of France, and the deteminpd intrepidity of
our owll
sailors apd marines, whether assisted or not by
those of the French squadrpp, Tint such a pr. possession
on his part could only prolong and aggyante the evils,
phe-, lAvdshed, and the sacrifice of a hopeless challenge
of British at4hoFiti q,p4 power, which more sagacity in
the councils of our pgyernpiept at home, more energy
an 4 forethogg4 in the dispositions of our Admiralty,
and a better selection of dipkonagtic pnts, would, months,
acid even years ago, have either obviated or signally
puni hEd.

By the Levant ?nail, we have accounts from Constan-
tinople to the 7tl), Alexandria, tq the 19th, and
Athens to the 20th of September. It was generally
believed at Constantinople that a gecond battle had been
fought between the Russians an 4 Cireassians, in which
the fernier were defeated. The particulars aFe phuF

stated by the correspondent of a Cottempora,y, but they
require confirmation:—

" Schamil, the gallant and active leader r.f the Circus sians,
unexpectedly attaeced the Russians in their camp, and after
a short but very bloody straggle, Count Woronzoff was
forced again to retreat, in order to reach a mere favourable
position. This lie appears to have effected, but io the re-
treat he lost an immense number of men. The number cf
men killed is not exactly known, but it may be judgeci from
the fact that 180 officers have perished, among whom were
one general officer, two of Count Woronzoff's aides-de-camp,
and an aide-de-camp of General Gluck. The Circassians also
got possession of four pieces of artillery, and the greater por-
tion of the Russian stores and ammunition. The Circassians,
after this victory committed Feat excesses. They ravaged
the country, destroyed the villages, and carried off a great
number of the inhabitants to the mountains as prisoners.
Count Woronzoff reached Tiflis on the 3d of September with
the shattered remains of his army.
Another correspondent says :

" We can get no distinct details from the Circassians of
the late Russian campaign, which has secured to Count Wo-
ronzoff the title cf Piince. All I hear is, that besides the
three generals, whose death in battle the Russians them-
selves acknowledge, they have lost eighty officers of the Erst
families of the empire. There are people here who estimate
their who!e loss, between killed, wounded, and sick, at the
high figure of 25,000 men. This is possible, for the Russians
cannot stand that climate, which is extremely variable."

A letter from Alexandria of the 19th says :

" The Viceroy has been a little indisposed for some days
back, but he is now quite recovered. His departure for Cairo
will, no doubt, take place at the end of the Ramadan. The
marriage of his daughter will be celebrated in that capital
with Kiamil Pacha. Great preparations are being made for
this ceremony. Several European ladies have been invited
by the Princess Nasly-Haneum, the eldest daughter of the
Viceroy, to proceed to Cairo and be present at the celebra-
tion of the marriage. Considerable purchases of jewels and
diamonds have been made. Nothing is spoken of but these
brilliant nuptials. Mr. Waghorn has returned from ,his
journey to the Red Sea. It appears that he has not given up
his plan of having the mails sent by Trieste, and he declares
that he can make the journey from this city to Londen by
that route in nine days, being three days shorter than by
Marseilles. He w:11 leave this place In the course of next
month in an Austrian steamer, which is expected from
Trieste, and he calculates that he shall be able to make the
the affair
Trieste to London by
of only 3-1 days."
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The inteifgence from Madrid is to the 26th of Sep-
tember. A report prevailed that the QUEEN, owing to
the state of her Lealth, will, in a short time, proceed to
Seville, where she will pass the winter. It appears
from letters dated Barcelona the 26th and 27th, that
more executions have taken place at that unfortunate
and discontented city. One of these letters of the 26th
says :—" One of the banditti who attacked the diligence
between Barcelona and Saragossa, some time since, on
his way to the place of execution announced to the au-
thorities that ho was ready to give information of an
important nature, upon which he was respited. The
consequence was, that on the information of this man,
upwards of 40 persons were arrested on the charge of
being members of an organised band of robbers. The
whole were brought before the military tribunal, for here
the civil authority is entirely superseded, and 13 have
been condemned to death, and are to be shot to-morrow
morning." A letter of the 27th states, that 12 of the
party, all young men below 21 years of age, were shot
on the morning of that day on the glacis of the citadel.
It appears they had fled from the conscription, and been
compelled by want to become robbers.

No business was done on the Madrid Bourse.

The late elections in France, and especially the return
of a Liberal for Douai, by the aid of the Legitimatist
voters, are adverted to by the Government journals,
while those of the Opposition, strangely enough, con-
tinue to exult in a victory obtained b 3 such a disgraceful
coalit:o.i. The Journal des Debot?, after stating that
during these elections the Left has carried only one
place, and that the Ministry, since the general election
of 1842, have gained four votes in the Chamber,
says :—" Let the journals of Al. TRIERS and
M. BARROT now congratulate themselves on their
success ! Yes, this election of Douai is a grave
check for us and our cause ! a check of which
we by no means wish to diminish the importance.
The Ministerial question is here exceedingly secondary.
A vote the less will not prevent the majority
from being the majority. We do not fear M.
CHoQUE very much, and M. GulzoT has had
to do with more formidable adversaries. But what is
grave, and still more grave for the future than for the
present, is the success of an impudent system of tac-
tics—this example of political immorality—which goes
beyond all that the cynicism of parties has, up to the
present time, exhibited. It is not necessary to be any
great prophet to predict that this system will fall back
some day or other on the heads of M. THEIRS and M.
G. BARROT, who are now delighted at having employed
it; and every one will comprehend that the example
which they have just given would have, as its last con-
sequence, to render the Government of the majorities
impossible! As to the thirty-five Legititnatist votes, we

conceive still more their satisfaction. - What dishonours

and falsifies the representative government ought not to
cause them much pain. Their principle is all the better
for it. Thirty-five Legitimatist votes in a city like Douai
is very little ! Whether they firm an alliance with the
Republicans, with the Socialists, or with Messrs. 'TIERS
and 0. Banuoir, that object will a:ways be to be revenged
on the Revolution, and to punish France for the liberty
which she has taken in choosing a Government of her
own taste. When the Legitimatists vote with the Left
every one knows what they mean by that. It is as if
they had it cried in the streets and public throughfares
that the Left were senseless men, and that the Govern-
ment of July cannot perish except at the hands of that
party. The part which the Legitimatists play is not, per-
haps, either very noble or very patriotic, but, in fine, it
must be acknowledged they owe the Revolution nothing
but their hatred. The shameful share of the matter,
shameful without excuse, is that of the Opposition. In
the:election of Douai the Legitimatists sold the Opposi-
tion nothing but their votes ; the Opposition sold its
principles !"
The same journal, after quoting a letter of the 30th
ult., from Dunkirk, stating that the project of forming a
port at Adit.kirk was openly abandoned two months ago,
observes that the good sense of the public did not wait
for this abandonment to see the absurdity of such a de-
sign. "It was perfectly understood," says the Debats,
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that England never could have suggested it, and that
if this power had wished to possess a fortified post on
the Belgian shore, it could not have thought of construct-
ing a port of doubtful security, while there exists not far
from Adinkirk one formed by nature, and which is both
safe and convenient."
According to a llavre journal the Government is
about to tend out an expedition to Madagascar, to ar-
range the late defeat at Tamatave, and the command is to
be given to the Prince DE Jonivna.E, who %. ill hoist his
flag on board the Suffren ship-of-the-line. It was also
said that a British force would co-operate with the
French. Oa this subject the Presse, with its usual an-
tipathy to England, makes these remarks:—
" No one, we imagine, could blame the undertaking of such
an expedition—no one, we may venture to affirm, would re-
gret seeing the command of it entrusted to the young Prince,
who directed with so much ability our navasl operations
against Morocco. But there is one point on which this una
nimity will not exist—the co-operation of the English forces.
It might have been acceptable in the late affair, on account of
its urgency, from our station at Bourbon not having the means
to act alone with sufficient efficacy, and, in fine, for our not
being able at that moment to insure by ourselves alone the
repression of that ill-treatment of which the English resi-
dents as well as our own had to complain, the acceptance of
such concurrence became almost a necessity. But it be-
hoves us to leave to this incident the character altogether
exceptional which belongs to it. By the new ex-
Fedition now being prepared, if such theie be,
iance is called upon to assume towards Madagascar an
attitude conformable to her rights, her interests, and
her deities. It has been a fault on her side that she has
suffered to lie dormant so long the right of sovereignty she
possesses over this fine country. Wherever such rights exist
means shou!d always be ready to cause them to be respected
either on one's own account or on account of others. Other-
wise, what must happen ? One is obliged at a critical mo-
ment to accept the services of whoever it may be, and
thereby, in soma degree, destroy the pretension and reality of
the right on claims. It would have been much better in
the case in question, if the French station in the Indian seas
were sufficiently strong to do justice to English residents
as well as our own, without halving the repression with the
commander of the Conway. But this, which was then only
an unfitness, becomes a matter of gravity, if, now that we
have all the means of acting alone, we submit to a combined
intervention. It will be in vain to say that our ulterior rights
have been reserved ; all these reservations, whether written
or verbal, will not prevent the evil effects which such an
operation must produce in that quarter of the world. The
people there, seeing our. flag constantly flanked by that of
England, must infallibly conclude that we are not sufficiently
powerful to maintain the rights we arrogate, and our moral
influence will thus be depreciated, even when our claims to
exclusive sovereignty remain intact. The English, who have
always carefully abstained from acknowledging our rights
upon Madagascar, are not a people to put themselves to
charges, to make sacrifices of their men and money, for the
sole pleasure of assisting us, and giving us a decidi a sanction.
If they make up their minds to play a part in this operation,
be assured that it is because, in one way or another, they
hope to gain some profit. Let us us not, therefore, be simple
enough to supply them, without any necessity, with a pre-
text. for mixing themselves up with this question.. It will
not be easy afterwards to get rid of them, We should re-
member the fable of the liOn and hi§ compgnion ; f lAA they}
but put one foot in, anti they will soon have all four,''
The National also expresses its disapprobation of this
proof of the ei,fe,fe cordiale by a union of the t woforccs;—
" It must not be fprgotten that the English were for a cer-
tain period all-powerful at Madagascar. Their missionaries,
and such of their countrymen as had obtained a footing at.
the Celirt of Radqmai, had ace aired an influence before which
ours vas 040 te bow; an 'fipally to 4imppear altogether.
Singe theappssio of Queoi dovaio /natters have-;
their appearance. All that hears the name of European was
Proscribed, and the English shared the common lot. Then
commenced a series of anno) antes, of which our rivals had
their full share. Since 1836 the relations of the Government
of the N-Fritius with the Queen have exhibited a character of
bitterness Wliiet if was ca4y tQ fQe would lead sooner Ill' later
to hmtilities ;`'and 0-te carnplaintei of put- neigliNur.s agalnff
same pro Portion's .as our own.
VrieonliltoLaiseancautritetitslatite.dnittiwtbbee
easily Inferied th4t Erigl44
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Madagascar in the reign of Radoma, an influence which
would lead her, at a period more or less early, to an absolute
conquest. On the other hand, the complaints which she has
a right to address to the Queen may serve as a pretext for
demanding a direct and personal action in the discussion that
has now commenced. The chief point is to set aside this
pretension, should it be put forward—to act independently,
by undertaking to procure alone the satisfaction which the
two Governments demand. To admit the aid of a British
naval or military force in obtaining vengeance for the com-
mon injury, would be to recognise implicitly the
independence of the Queen of the Hovas. The
English, since 1822, precisely maintain that Mada-
gascar is an independent power. Is this opinion to
bear the authority of fact, by allowing our rivals to obtain
by themselves the redress of their grievances against the
Government of Imerne? To sum up, this is an unique op-
portunity for the definitive declaration of our rights of pos-
session. The press, public opinion, and the Chambers,
ought to be on the alert not to allow it to escape."
Some of journals, however, regard the report as im-
probable.

The KING and QUEEN, with the rest of the Royal
Family, who had been resident for some time at Eu,
returned to St. Cloud on Wednesday.
" M. Rouge arrived at Heidelberg on the 26th ult., but
was not permitted by the authorities to perform public wor-
ship according to the new German Catholic Church, or to
address the people."

The French Funds were flat on Thursday:—
The Three per Cents, closed at 83f. 40c. •, the Five per
Cents., 117 f. 60c ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,225 f. ;
Rouen, 1,055 f. ; N-orthern, 795 f ; Fampoux 523 f. 50e. •
Havre, 872 f. 50. ; Avignon, 1,012 f. 50c. ; Vi '
erzon, 7561.
25c.; Bordeaux, 685 f. ; Boulogne, 625 f. ; Troyes and Mon-
tereau, 520 f. ; Basle, 280 f. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 581/2 ; Spanish Three per Cents., 38%.
The following are the quotations for the new lines:—

Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laffitte), 31f. 25c. premium ;
ditto (Calon), Bf. ; ditto (Ganneron), 1 if. 50c. ; ditto
(Lapinsonniere), Of. ; Northern Line (Laffitte), 72f. 50c. ;
ditto (Rosamel), 37f. 50c. ; ditto (Pepin Lehalleur), 301.; ditto
(Decan Lebeuf), 28f. ; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron),
16f. 25c. •, ditto (Hinguerlot), 13f. ; ditto (Bechet), sf. ; ditto
(Aymard), ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 12f. 50c. ;
ditto (Drouillard), 4f. ; ditto (O'Neill), 10f. ' • ditto (Le-
fevre), 7f. ; Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 311. 25c. ; ditto
(Lecointe), 221. 50c. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale),
101,; Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 2f. 50c. ; ditto
(Espeleta), 14f. •, Creil and St. Quentin (Kysaens), lf. ;
ditto (Carette), 7f. 50c.; ditto (Colbert), if. 50c.; Charleroi
(Kysaens), 30f. ; Maubeuge (Kysaens), lf. ; Dijon and
Mulhausen (O'Neill), lf. ; ditto (Allegry), if. 50c. ; Dieppe
(Sellieres), 40f. ; Caen (Delamarre), 6f. 50c.
LYONS, SEPT. 29.-Marseilles and Avignon, 1,007 f.. end
of September; Paris and Orleans. 1,225 f. ditto; Paris and
Rouen, 1,047 f. ; Orleans and Vierzon, 750 E ; Northern, 7871.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 3.
Anglo-Belgian - Luxembourg
Boulogne and Amiens.. 13% Namur and Liege 6%
Bordeaux &Mediterran - Orleans and Vierzon -
Bordeaux and Toulouse - Orleans and Bordeaux -
Do. & Cette (Espeleta) OverYssel •••
Do. (Mackenzie's) - Paris& Lyons (Lafitte) 3
Central of Spain ..... 2% Ditto (Ganneron's).
Demerara - Ditto (Calon's).... -
Dendre Valley ...... 21A Paris and 0r1ean5...... --
Dutch Rhenish
Dieppe & Paris Junct. - Paris and Strasburg
Dijon and Mulhouse ... (Ganneron's)...
East Indian ........ 3 Do. (Compte deL'Est) -
Grt Northern of France Paris and St. Quentin. -
(Laffitte's) -
Ditto (Rosamel's) '3% Royal North of Spain. -
Do. (Le Boeuf ) - Sambre and Meuse .... 8%
Do. Pepin le Halleur - Strasbourg and Basle . -
Great Paris and Lyons 214 Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
Great Western Bengal 1% dent, and Hasselt... -
Jamaica Junction Tours and Nantes

Do. North Midland
Do. Extension
Jersey
Louvain and Jemeppe 4%
Lyons and Avignon 2%

(Mackenzie's) -----
Do. (Lefebvre's) —
Verona and Ancona —
West Flanders 7%

AMERICAN NEWS.

EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.

ARRIVAL of the GREAT WESTERN,
LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY MORNING.

The Great Western steamer, under command of
Captain B. R. Mathews, arrived here last night, at half-
past ten, with forty-eight passengers. She left New
York on the 18th instant, and has therefore made the
voyage in rather over fifteen days.
The news from Mexico by this arrival confirms the
opinion before expressed, tbat there will be no war be-
tween Mexico and the United States. With an ex-
hausted treasury, ill fed and clothed troops, and, more-
over, civil war and rebellion in her provinces, Mexico,
by the force of circumstances, is compelled to pocket the
affront she fain would resent and resist if she had the
power.

The Washington Union, the official paper, says:—
" Just as we are going to press, we learn that Government
has received some interesting information from the capital of
Mexico, to the 23d of August, and from Vera Cruz to the
30th, inclusive. It is said from the capital, that the new
Cabinet is considered as opposed to the war : and even if it
were otherwise disposed, it has not the means to carry on a
war; that it is with the greatest difficulty it can raise the
means to defray its necessary daily expenses; and that the
war excitement is going down daily among all parties.
" The accounts from Vera Cruz, of the 29th, state that
there has been a retrograde movement in regard to the inva-
sion of Texas—General Paredas absolutely refusing to march
his forces (7,000 troops) towards Texas; that he has him-
self repaired to Mexico, and others have followed his example.
The opinion was pretty well established at Vera Cruz, that
the Mexicans will never attempt to cross the Rio Bravo;
that they have made all the bluster they can; that they are
without money, without credit, and, consequently powerless;
and that they are, moreover, on the eve of a revolution,
which will overturn the present Government."
In a subsequent paragraph the official speaks yet more
confidently, and referring to these lateaccounts from Mexico
exclaims "Thus pass off the gasconades and blusters of
Mexico." So be it--and let us hope that neither by insult-
ing language in official quarters, nor by offensive demonstra-
tions on the part of the armed forces of the United States
stationed in and beyond Texas—may that feeble but
passionate nation, be driven into hostilities they would fain
avoid.

From Texas later intelligence, though of little im-
portance, has been received at New Orleans, by the brig
.ularia Spears.
The Convention had not adjourned. The Austin cer-
respondent of the Galveston News states that they have
fixed upon 21 Senators and 66 Representatives to consti-
tute the Legislature. There had been an animated dis-
cussion of two days on the qualifications of voters. An
amendment was adopted, but afterwards set aside, placing
all residents of Texas, at the time of the adoption of the
new Constitution by our Government, on the same foot-
ing as regards citizenship and suffrage. It was doubtful
how the question would be finally settled. A great
amount of business remained to be done.

The boundary question, and the organization of the
State Government, were to be disposed of. President
Jones arrived at Austin on the 14th, and a resolution
was offered the next day for the appointment of a
commmittee to wait on him and consult with him touch •
ing the propriety of re-organizing the State Government
at once.

The Convention Lad adopted the anti-duelling clause
engrossed on the constitution of Louisiana. Lotteries
are pr( hibited. Judges are to be nominated by the
Governor and confirmed by two-thirds of the Senate.
The term of office is six years.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 3,000 to
4,000 bales the market closing heavily without any change
in prices. In Shares a large business was done at firm rates.
There was some advicea from Port Philip, but they are
scarcely so late as we have before received. The commercial
letters, however, are of interest, as they show that trade was
on the increase. The receipts of the revenue are said to
have been of a satisfactory character.
The Clyde has arrived off the outport from the West In-
dies, but her letters have not yet come to hand. •
There are advices from Rio Janiero this morning to the
sth of August, brought by a vessel arrived at Havre. The
exchange was at 25% to 25%. The Minister was about to
announce his financial views, not a word connected with
which, however, appears to have transpired. There is an
absence of any intelligence of interest as to mercantile mat-
ters. At Rio those connected with the river Plata were
looking earnestly for late information how matters were pro-
ceeding.

The returns of the Bank of England for the month ending
the 27th ult., shows, upon a comparison with its predecessor,
the following results .
The circulation is lower by 240,0001., or 28,798,230/. This
includes the amount in the Banking Department, which
stood list time at 8,237,8951., and which is now returned at
7,946,9951.

The public deposits are now 8,802,110/. They were last
time 8,222,1091.

The amount of bullion by the last return was 15,347,5491.
It is now 15,160,693/.
In the other items of the return the variations are but
small.
Ccnsols for the Account have been firm at 98% 14, for
Money at 98%. Exchequer-bills 455. 495. prem. ; and India
Bonds at 60s. premium. Very little doing to-day.
An immensity of business has been transacted in the Rail-
way Shares to• day, and the fluctuations have been as
numerous, and the bargains have been extensive. An accu-
rate list of prices is annexed.
The Foreign Funds have been in steady demand. The
Equadors are lower. The Belgian Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. have risen from 98 to 100; the Mexicans at 32% 5 ;
the Peruvians are at 37%; Spanish 263/4 ; and the Passive
Steck at 6%.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Consols Anus 98%
India Bonds 1,000/
Ditto under 1.0001 CO
Consols for Account 98%4
Exchequer Bills. 13/4d. I%cl.
1,000/. ...
5001.
Ditto Small — 49 47 pm.
?RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Dan:sh Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent ... 87
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 323%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 37%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 —
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Passive Bonds
Belgian 4% per Cent 9B 100
Dutch 2% per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
Equador 4% 3/4
Ditto Deterred
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE