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THE SUN, LONDON. SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 1845.

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Edinburgh, Nov. 1, 1845.

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.

GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY
COMPANY.

PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
CHAIRMAN—The Hon. JOHN STUART WORTLEY, M.P.
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN—W. J. HAMILTON, Esq. M.P.
Frederick Ayrton, Esq. (late of the East India Company's service)
J. G. Frith, Esq. (Fritk, Wallace, and Co.)
H. Gordon, Esq, (Ritchie, Stewart, and Co., Bombay)
James Briscoe Graham, Esq. (late of Bombay)
Robert W. Kennard, Esq. (Deputy Chairman, Northern and Eastern

Railway Company)
William Nicol, Esq. (Nicol, Duckworth, and Co., Liverpool)
Richard Paterson, Esq. (Chairman of the Northern and Eastern Rail-
way Company)
Charles Turner, Esq. (Sands, Turner, and Co.), Chairman of the East
India Association of Liverpool
D. Waddington, Esq. (Deputy Chairman, Eastern Counties Railway)
Thomas Williamson, Esq. (late Revenue Commissioner of the Deccan,
Bombay)
Melvil Wilson, Esq. (Director of the Alliance Assurance Office).
HON. SECRETARY—John Meadows White.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE AT BOMBAY.
CHAIRMAN —J. P. Willoughby, Esq. (Chief Secretary to Government,
and Provisional Member of Council).
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN—R. W. Crawford, Esq. .(firm of Remington,
Crawford, and Co.)
Colonel Jervis, (Chief Engineer, Bombay)
Cursetjee Cowasjee, Esq. (merchant, justice of the peace, and large
landholder in Bombay and Salsette)
S. S. Dickenson, Esq. barrister
Bomanjee Hormusjee, Esq., (merchant, justice of the peace, and
large lanilholder in Bombay and Salsette)
J. Smith, Esq. (firm of Messrs. Nicol and Co.)
J. H. Jackson, Esq. (Civil Service, Commissioner of Sea Customs,

Bombay)
Vickajee Meerjee, Esq. (many years Farmer of the Government Re-
venue, and also of the Hyderabad Giza n's) Government Dis-
tricts)
H. H. Glass, Esq. (Civil Service, collector of Customs, Bombay)
jugonathjee Sunkersett, Esq. (justice of the peace, and member of
the Boards of Conservancy and Education)
Captain Swanson. (paymaster of the Army, Bombay)
Cursetjee Jemsetjee, Esq. (firm of Sir Jemsetjee Jeejeebhoy, Sous,
and Co., and Son of Sir Jemsetjee Jeejeebhoy)
R. Spooner, Esq. (Civil Service, deputy collector of Customs, Bombay)
Dadabhoy Pestonjee, Esq. (firm of Dadabhoy and 31uncherjee Pee-
tonjee, jnsticeof the peace, and a large landholder in Bombay)
G. Farie, Esq. (firm of M'Vicar, Burn, and Co., Bombay.)
(With power to add to their number.)
PitovisioNaL SEcarraav, BOMBAY—Acton S. Ayrton, Esq. (of the
firm of Messrs. Ayrton and Walker, solicitors to the Company in
Bombay).

TRUSTEES IN BOMBAY.
P. W. Legayt, Esq. (Civil service, judge of the Suddur Adawlut)
Jeejeebhoy Dadabhoy, Esq. (firm of Joejeebhoy, Dadabhoy, Son:

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and Co.)
R. Remington, Esq. (firm of Remington and CO.)
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Robert Stephenson, ESQ.
MANAGRR—John Chapman, Esq.
STANDING COUNSEL—Charles Buller, Esq. M.P.
STANDING COUNSEL IN BOMBAT-W. Howard, Esq,
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. White and BorrettT3Y,linceln's Inn-fields, London)
Messrs. Ayrton and Walker (Bombay)
BANKASS.

Messrs. Denison, Heywood, Kennards, and Co. (London)
Messrs. Arthur, Heywoods, Sons, and Co. (Liverpool)
Bank of Bombay (Bombay)
• AGE
CNTS IN BOMBAY—Messrs. Nicol and Co.
Capital 6,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares.
Shares, 501. each. Deposit, 21. 10s. per Share.
The Provisional Board of Direction desire to announce that they
will this day proceed with the allotment of shares in the Company.
Pursuant to the first intimation received on the subject of registra-
tion, as slated in the Company's original:prospectus, registration would
not have been required in this country. But subsequent communi-
cations, together with the rapid progress which has been made in the
opinion of the authorities and the community at large at Bombay,
and the necessity of negotiations with the Honourable the Court. of
Directors of the East India Company and the Home Government,
as also with the Supreme Government at Calcutta, where the India
Railway Board is established, have rendered it important that the
Company should, under the Registration Act, be organised as a con-
stituted body as soon as possible. It has, therefore, been determined
by:the Directors not to wait for the Indian Charter, which cannot
be granted till after a definite portion of their lines has been sanc-
tioned by the Indian Government, but to effect provisional regis-
tration, and proceed with complete registration as soon as the forms
and requirements of the Registration Act can he complied with.
Meanwhile, in conformity with that Act, the deposit of k/. 10s. per
Share will be received in two separate payments, viz., ss. on execut-
ing the subscribers contract, upon issue of the letters of allotment,
when a banker's receipt will be given, and the balance of 2/. 55., on
WEDNESDAY, the 10th day of December next, when the said receipt
will be exchanged for scrip, and before which day complete registra-
tion will have been effected. _ .

.... _
This necessary alteration in their plans renders it expedient at once
to allot the greater part of the shares to be issued in this country. It
is on. this footing that the allotment will be made. It being, how-
ever, still distinctly understood that no reserved shares shall be is-
sued at a subsequent period, the full benefit of which shall not accrue
and be appropriated to the advantage of the Company.
I [Should any applicant for shares object to the course now an-
nounced, he will be at liberty to withdraw his application on
.or be-
fore the 12th instant.
The Board take this opportunity of calling the attention of all par-
ties who have signified a desire to obtain an interest in this under-
taking to the following statement of its progress and present position.
This Company was the first to put itself into communication with
the Hon. Court of Directors of the East India Company, as noticed
in the published dispatch to the Governor-General of the 7th of May
last. It claimed the consideration of the Honourable Court on the
ground of the great importance of its undertaking, socially, com-
mercially, and politically, to the provinces of the Peninsula between
Bombay and Central India, on the one hand, and Hyderabad and
the eastern districts on the other. In administering the interests of
the Company the Directors consider they will best advance them by
adhering iu their proceedings to the principles recognised by the
Honourable Court in their dispatch above mentioned. With this
view they will continue to prosecute a full and detailed inquiry into
the resources and traffic of the districts which their lines are in-
tended to accommodate.
Their manager, Mr. Chapman, with three assistant engineers, is,
under the recommendation of the Bombay Committee, already en-
gaged in examining the country from Bombay, in a north-easterly
direction, to Oomrawuttee, in the province of Berar, the largest and
most fertile of the cotton districts dependent upon Use port of Bombay,
_011.1.13tg areapp.t.o9.Calgmild,zry, as"?lft"za 'befiratiuttee,-
Mr. Chapman will return and survey it in detail to Bombay, so as to
admit of such a definitive plan and estimate being prepared as will
enable the Directors ,as speedily as possible, to apply to the Honour-
able Court and the Indian Government for a charter empowering the
Company to commence that portion of their lines.
The result of these preliminary proceedings will be submitted to
the consideration of the Shareholders before any outlay is incurred
in the actual construction of works, or any further call made beyond
the V. 10s. _

Thus fortified by accurate details and surveys, the Directors will
also feel themselves im a position to claim at the hankie of the Indian
Government that they shall, in the terms of their dispatch, " take
into consideration the mode and extent of such pecuniary assistance
as they shall think proper to afford towards the execution of the
lines" thus approved. . . . . .

The Directors wish further to point out that this Company, which
takes for the theatre of its immediate operations the Presidency of
Bombay, does not in any respect interfere with the East India Rail-
way Company, associated for similar purposes as respects the Pre-
sidency of Bengal. On the contrary, the undertakings of the two
Companies, it is hoped, may be made reciprocally beneficial to each
other, and generally advantageous to the Indian Empire.
Extracts from correspondence subsequent to the date of that lately
published for the information of parties interested will lie for the
same purpose at the offices of Messrs. White and Borrett, 35, Lin-
coln's Inn-fields, and L. M. Simon's, Esq., 7, Warnford-court, Throg.
morton-street, where on application they can be seen. .
(Signed) JOHN STUART WORTLEY, Chairman.
WM. HAMILTON, Deputy-Chairman.
JOHN MEADOWS WHITE, Hon. Secretary.
London, 7th November, 1845.

YORK and LANCASTER RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered).
The Committee of Management announce to the Shareholders of
this Company that the full amount of Deposits required by Act of
Parliament, namely, ten per cent. on the capital of the Company,
and the legal surplus are in their Banker's hands, and wi I be imme.
(Lately invested. The plans and all necessary documents will be
ready to be deposited, in accordance with the Standing Orders, to
enable the Company to go to Parliament this session.
The whole line has just been examined by a Deputation of the
Committee, with the Engineers, and may justly be termed unex-
ceptionable. By order,
HENRY WEBB, Chairman.
Company's Offices, Palace Chambers, St. James's-street,
London, Noy, 5, 1845.

HUDDERSFIELD and LIVERPOOL
DIRECT RAILWAY.
The Executive Committee beg to state, for the information of the
friends and promoters of the line, that the survey is nearly com-
pleted, and that they may rest assured tho Committee will be fully
prepared to go to Parliament in the ensuing session.
By order,
WILLIAM BARKER,
BROOK and FREEMAN.
Huddersfield, Nov. 7, 1845.

IRISH WEST COAST RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management have great pleasure in stating
that they continue to receive the most satisfactory accounts of the
progress of the surveys, which they are assured are Iu a state ap-
proaching completion. In consequence of the engagement :f the
engineers that every arrangement necessary for proceeding to
Parliament in the ensuing session shall be fully accomplished
within the proper time, the Allotment of Shares has alsolbeen com-
pleted.

The very numerous and highly respectable parties who do not
receive letters in answer to their applications, are requested to
accept as the apology of the Committee, the assurance of their
inability to allot to so vast a number of applicants.
By order,
HENRY T. STUART, Secretary.
10, Old Jewry-chambers, Nov. 8, 1845.

N ATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY.
ROBERT WILCOXSON, Esq., Chairman.
The Members and Friends of this Society will DINE together at
the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street Within, on TUESDAY, the
30th of December, 1845, at Five o'clock precisely.
Tickets, One Guimea each.
WM. M'CIJLLOCH, Esq., Chairman of the Stewards.
The names of the Stewards will be duly announced.

WAGHORN TESTIMONIAL.
Subscriptions are received by the following Bankers, Sm.:—
Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-street.
. Messrs. Cockburns and Co., 4, Whitehall.
Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., 43, Charing cross.
Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand.
Messrs. Glyn (Sir R. C., Bt.), Halifax, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-
street.
Messrs. Herries, Farquhar. and Co., 16, St. James's-street.
Messrs. Scott (Sir Claude, Bt) and Co., 1, Cavendish-square.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard-street.
Messrs. Twining's, 215, Strand.
Messrs.• Willis, Percreal, and Co., 76, Lombard-street.
Messrs. Grinellay and Co., 16, Cornhill, and 8, St. Martin's-place,
Charing-cross.
Messrs, Smith. Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill.
Afessrs. W. it. Allen and Co., Leadenhall-street.
J. AI. Richardson, Esq., 23, Cornhill.
By order of the Committee,
2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill. JOHN STIKEMAN, Hon. Sec.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
TIIIS EVENING

• _
}Viii be performed THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Thaddeus, Mr. W.
Harrison ; Arline Miss Ralnforth.
• To conclude with a grand Ballet Fantastigne, THE MARBLE
MAIDEN. In which Messrs. Petits, Pichler, Albert, Mdlles.
Adele, Dumilatre, &c., will appear.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
THIS 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.
' To be followed by WHO'S THE COMPOSER? The Marquis dl
Tompolo, Mr. Tilbury; Signor Cafarlui, Mr. Buckstone ; Filippo,
Mr. Hudson ; Carina, Miss Julia Bennett.
To conclude with an entirely New Farce, called THE KING
AND I. Period, 1691. Perkin Pyethich, Mr. Buckstone ; Jessie
Donald, Miss Julia Bennett.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated THE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years
Ago. In which Messrs. 0. Smith, Selby, Stoker ; Mrs. Yates,
and Mrs. Fitzwilliam will perform.
To be followed by TAMING A TARTAR ; or, Magic and Ma-
zourkaphobia. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wright, Miss
Wooigar, Madame Celeste, &c, will perform.
To conclude with SEEING WRIGHT.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed OUR NEW GOVERNESS. In which Mr. and
Mrs. Keeley will perform.
After which, a New Farce, called NEXT DOOR.
To conclude with ALADDIN and the WONDERFUL LAMP.

PRINCESS'S- THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
THIS EVENING
W.ll be performed MUCH ADO Ano r NOTHING. Benedick,
Mr. Wallack ; Dogberry, Mr. Compton ; Verges, Mr. Oxberry ;
Beatrice, Mrs. Stirling.
To conclude with a New Grand Ballet, entitled LE DIABLE
A QUATRE.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
TIIIS EVENING
Will be performed THE WEDDING DAY. In which Mr. and
31rs..Walter Lacy will perforan.
To be followed by A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER.
After which, THE RAILWAY KING. Sam Stag, Mr. G. Wild ;
Sally Slop, Miss Kate Howard.
To conclude with THE BOYHOOD OF BACCIIUS.
The Buy Bacchus, Miss Kate Howard ; Momus, Mr. G. Wild.

NEW STRAND THEATRE.
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—BItILLIANT SUCCESS.
PHILLIPPE will repeat all his most popular and peculiar
TOURS DE PHYSIQUE, and introduce several new and novel ex-
pernnents, including the GRAND DISTRIBUTION.
To conclude with a NIGHT IN PEKIN, in which M. Phillippe will
execute several Chinese and Indian experiments, universally ae-
knoWledged to be the most astounding Feats evor attempted by any
European.
1- nors open at a Quarter past E.,even ; to commenee at a Quarter
to Eight.

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

Will be performed VIE BRIDE OF THE NILE, and The Lily
of Memphis and The Horse of the Pyramids, in which the whole
Company will appear.
To which will be added, an entire change of the Arena novelties,
embracing the united talents of the French and English Equestrians.
To conclude with A DAY AFTER THE FAIR.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING

-Will be performed EL ILYDEIi, THE l:ION KING. El Ilyder,
Mr. Hughes.
After which, Moos. PLEGE and FAMILY'S extraordinary per.
fonnimce on the Tight Rope.
To be followed by a New Farce; entitled POPPING IN AND OUT.
Rooney Mean, Mr. Hamilton.
To conclude witb THE ROVER'S SECRET; or, The Bridge of
St Martin's. M. Martial, Mr. N. T. Hicks; William, Mr. 11. Hughes;
Clarisse, Mrs. Henry Vining.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Nov. 8.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 49; Highest, 53; Noon, 56,
BAROMETER, 29.58.—W1ND S.; light rain.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 20 minutes after 8 I Evening .. I mlnutca after 9,

China, and establish commercial relations with the Celestial
Empire, which would render Oregon one of the most thriving
districts on the whole of the western coast. England cannot
stand by with her arms folded, and allow:such an invasion
upon her rights as the expulsion of a hardy and frugal race,
long established at the mouths of the Columbia. But the
neighbouring States, too, are also threatened. California is
already doomed to form a twenty-ninth or thirty-ninth state
of the Union ; Mexico will follow, for in that wretched
country there is no power of resistance ; and unless England
manfully oppose the very first encroachments, she
may reckon upon the occupation of Cuba and the attempted
conquest of all the British West India islands. Our olject is
not to create alarm or to excite a hostile feeling in America,
for we state only facts about which there can be no dispute,
and which are even openly avowed by certain organs of lead-
ing parties in the United States; our object is to put Eng-
land on her guard, to encourage her Government to maintain
her rights, and to remember that no nation ever shamefully
yielded to unjust claims without being compelled to yield
fifty more, or resist at last when the fit opportunity had been
lost, and the strength and insolence of the aggressor,- were
increased by the acquisition of unlawful wealth. For many
reasons both countries may regret the alternative, but it is
neither consistent with the policy, nor the power, nor the
honour of England to put off the evil day.

The French newspapers, we perceive, are congratulating
their readers on the favourable comparison which exists
between the balance of their " exchanges of manufactured
products with England" for the last year :

_
" With England our situation with regard to the exchange of
manufactured products is more favourable. Out of 145 millions
of merchandise which she sells us, 54 are manufactured articles,

of which 12i are consumed here; whilst, out of 144 millions of
our products with which we supply her, 72i millions are articles
of our own manufacturing."

This is, no doubt, a very just source of gratulation to the
statistical critic by whom the results embodied in that article
of the Journal des Debats, from which we are quoting, are
discussed. But it is matter, also, pregnant with grave re-
flection fur the English public. For obvious reasons, we are
disposed to attach more importance to the data for the con-
clusions arrived at by the French journalists, than to those
of the Parliamentary return called for by Mr. HASTIE,
M.P., to which we some time ago adverted (Sess. Pap.,
1845, No. 628), entitled " Trade with France." In the
latter, the summary of "..Imports from France," their
official value is stated at 3,687,8784, and the total of
exports to France, official value, is given at 5,284,176/. Now
the difference in pounds sterling between these two bums
should be a very large amount, indeed, in favour of England.
But, according to the Journal des Detats, it is a difference s
even in francs, less than this sum in our currency. The
question is—what is the cause of this difference? And we
heartily wish that we -could set our mercantile community on
diligently investigating the point. They would find
it identified with that deplorable system of mone-
tary legislation which the country has permitted the
Minister to establish, with a degree of infatuation and cre-
dulity scarcely to be believed, of an intelligent and observant
people, forming the most highly civilized, opulent, and enter-
prising community in the world. What is the reason that
France, Holland, Spain, Belgium, Germany, do not take more
of our manufactured goods? The demand and market for
our exports, considered in relation to the wonderfully reduced
prices at which they are produced—that is natural, or gold-
standard prices—and the diminished rates of the wages paid
for the industrial labour occupied upon them, are fearfully
decreased. It is altogether a false principle of calculation to
take the aggregate increase of declared and official value,
and comparing it with the aggregate of any preceding year,
to assume that because this is larger for 1844-45, therefore,
there is an increase of our trading prosperity in the current
year. There are to be taken into the account the increased
number of ports of consignment, the increased extent of
capital embarked in manufacturing establishments, and many
other elements of any fair comparison, and the
result will be that there is an absolute decrease
both as to the bulk of our trade with certain
given countries, once our largest customers, and as to the
general profit upon the whole of our manufacturing opera-
tions. Gold, our readers will perceive, continues still too

fatally to verify our reiterated predictions. The bullion. ac-
count of the. Bank of England published to-day exhibits a
further decriase. 11,600,000/. is the whole store amount,

over the perhaps 20,000,0001. of gold in circulation, to meet
the floating demands which may be made upon the " con-
vertible " paper issued to represent all the evolutions of
our immense trade ; the preliminary bargains in
the scrip of new railway schemes, the hypothecated
capital cf which exceeds 600,000,000/. ; the weekly drain for
wages of the enormous establishments in our manufacturing
districts ; for wages of all the workmen and staff of the
great lines of railway on the Continent,which are worked by
British capital ; for salaries, pay, &c., of all our immense
public services ; and for our foreign commercial remittances.
The price of gold—that is, the difference between the Act of
Parliament or Mint price of the metal—at standard fineness,
and its realisable or market value—is so palpably in favour
of the foreign importer of grain or goods who has balances
to be paid here, that he rejects at once all those of your
manufactures of which he is not in want as matters of indis-
pensable necessity. He will be paid in English paper—cheque,
bill, or bank-note ; he carries it to the Bank of England, and
converts it into gold, and gold being dearer at Hamburgh,
in Paris, at Lubeck, Bremen, &c., " it follows" (to use the

of it at either of those great European marts. The reaction
on the Bank of England is this :—the enhanced value of the
gold in the market above the price at which it is
compelled by Act of Parliament to pay it on de-
mand over its counter, increases in a far greater
and prompter ratio than its raising its rates of discount and
its contraction of its own paper issues can check this ten-
dency to dearness in the gold market, or raise the value of
its own paper in the exchanges. But what is the effect of
all those causes in combination? The raising of the rate of
discount, the diminution of the gold bullion in deposit, and
the contraction of its paper currency, to which the Bank na-
turally and properly resorts as a precautionary means of
alleviating the pressure upon its resources arising from the
scarcity of gold and the convertibility into gold of those paper
issues on demand, aggravate and aceelerate the declining
tendencies not of the money and share markets alone, but of
the whole trade of the United Kingdom, and must—inevi-
tably must—if, at even more than the eleventh hour, some
timely and vigorous exercise of the authority of the
SOVEREIGN do not avert the desperate and imminent peril
of the impending catastrophe—result in a ruinous and
overwhelming panic. We deny that for such a panic tie pre-
vailingrailway
share speculation mania, lamentable though
t may bev,_ill be mainly responsible. The responsibility
i will rest on a single head. The disaster will be attributable
to Sir ROBERT PEEL, if he perversely refuse any longer to
procure the issuing of an Order in Council, in the first place,
to open the ports. If you relieve. the people than their pre-
sent well-grounded apprehensions of a winterfamine, or, at
any rate, fearful privation;you ;vat go far to restore confi-
dence and cheerfulness to the public mind. If you would
re-establish that banished cheerfulness, and that shaken con-
fidence, another Order in Council must suspend the opera-
tion of the Currency Acts of the years 1819, 1826,
and 1844. We defy any man to show how the
dangers that threaten us, and that have already cast such a
gloom over the City, can be averted by any means short, in
their virtual effect of these. When Sir ROBERT PEEL com-
menced his career of monetary legislation he assigned the
dangers of " over speculation" as the prime motive of his
fatal officiousness. When he introduced his complement Bill
of last year, to consummate whatever ruin accident had
theretofore prevented him from achieving__,
he rested his
case on the necessity for discouraging over-speculation.
What this was, he neither did, nor attempted to define.
It was one of his sublimely vague nothings, on the credit of
which, by a species of technical skill in propounding them, he
has raised for himself a reputation of statesmanship. By
which test will the premier be content that posterity shall
now try his pretensions? By his sliding-scale of corn duties?
All Europe is at this moment ridiculing its stupendous
failure. By his currency legislation? He has shown him-
self, on a memorable occasion, incompetent to solve his own
problem. propounded in his own words—" What is a pound?"
A true statesman, not a Minister of expedients—agreat mind,
not a trimming, cunning one—would come forward at this mo-
ment, and without further coquetting with daily-summoned
and daily-adjourned Cabinet Councils of no conch, stens—man-
fully 41— w- 1115 past views. To recal the past
mischiefs they have occasioned is impossible. To repair the
fault of having committed them is still in his power, by aban-
doning his attachment for them, and manfully coming for-
ward to tear with his own hand his own Bills from out of the
Statute-book. In consideration of the more immediate, press-
ing, and extensive of the calamities his counsels have en-
tailed upon the kingdom, let him begin by opening the ports,
and breaking his unhappy sliding-scale, bury its fragments
deeper than the unholy wand of Prospero.

Accounts from Madrid of the 30th ult. state that the Funds
continued to rise—a singular feature in a country without
credit, and at a time when the public funds in England,
France, and every solvent state, are on the decline. The
doorsper
ctehhetys . sold
w e
rae t 2d 5 0 e
Three per Cents, were officially quoted at 24% for cash, but
out
at 315)4 for cash, and 36iva7ste operations in the
Three of
for time ; Coupons, 25 for cash.
The Gazette publishes various regulations for the execu-
tion of the royal decree of Sept. 17, relative to public schools
and universities. The following paragraph relative to the
everlasting topic of the QUEEN'S marriage, appears in the
Castellano, which we hope may be true :—" We may affirm,
on pretty good authority, that the Ministry have come to no
decision relative to her MaJzszv's marriage, and that there
exists no engagement on the part of the Government on that
point. We may 'add, that the Ministry have retained all the
independence and freedom they require, to submit to her
MAJESTY what may best suit the glory and prosperity of the
country, when the time for so important a union shall have
arrived. We also believe that a national feeling animates
the whole Administration on a question of so much interest to
the prospects of the throne."

The accounts from Paris of the Money and Share Market
continue unfavourable. The advises from London had
caused a further depression in the Funds, and the Three per
Cents. closed 15c. and the Fives 25c. lower than on the
previous day, when they also fell. At the commencement of
business strong efforts were made to give
an impulse to rail-
way shares, and for some time with effect, but ultimately
the market gave.way, and the lines were considerably lower
than on the preceding day. Thursday was settling day, and

we are glad to find that the operation passed off much better
than was expected. The political intelligence is without in-
terest. The Journal des Debuts has an article on the
English corn-laws, and infers from the feeling of the country
that Sir ROBERT PEEL, at the end of the four years of his

administration,will be compelled to go much further even than
the alterations proposed at the eleventh hour by Lord Jowl
RUSSELL and his colleagues. In reference to the effect which
a total abolition of the existing duties might have on France

at the present time, that journal says :—" At all events, the
measures which the English Government may take cannot
endanger the supplies in other countries, and any uneasiness
which might be felt as regards France would be very prema-
ture. The accounts received from all parts of the world give
us reason to believe that the crops are sufficiently abundant for
the wants of the people. The proximity of France might cer-
tainly, in a moment of urgency, which however, does not exist,
induce England to come and satisfy its hunger at our expense.

But that is an evil to which it will always be very easy to
apply a remedy, since the law gives an express power to the
Government to stop the exportation of the produce of the
soil by royal ordonnance. The Government has already
made use of that right, and will do so again in case of neces-
sity."
The Constitutionnel states, but without giving any autho-
rity, that the Government is seriously preparing for an ex-
pe;ition against Madagascar, and for that purpose a naval
squadron is about to be formed. Several ships are to be
taken from the Bourbon station, and the division com-
pleted frorn the ports of France. The Princess DE JOINVILLE
and her 'son are going on well. His title, as we
have already stated, is Duke DE PENTIIIEVRE, and on Wed-
nesday he was christened by the Archbishop of PARIS, in the
chapel of the Palace of St. Cloud, the KING and QUEEN,
their MAJESTIES of Belgium, the Duchess of ORLEANS, the
Count DE Palm, the other Princes and Princesses, the
Prince and Princess of SALERNO, and the two Dukes of
Conuno, being present. The names given to the Prince are
PIERRE PHILIPPE JEAN MARIE D'ORLEANS. The witnesses
to the registry were the Minister Plenipotentiary of the Em-
peror of BRAZIL, with Baron Girton (de l'Ain), and Admiral
DE HELL. The Duke DE PEXTHIEVRE is the tenth grandson
of his MAJESTY. We. subjoin some extracts from the Con-
tinental papers :-
A letter from Pisa, in the Augsburg Gazette, states that Ibis.
him Pacha, who is in better health, was to quit the baths of San
Quilian on the 28th ult., for Florence, Rome, and Naples. In
the beginning ef January he will proceed, by the advice of his
medical attendants, to the Pyrenees. The Ambassador of France
in Tuscany had come to thank Ibrahim for the handsome reception
given to the Duke de Montpensier in Egypt.
The German Catholic Synod, now assembled at Berlin, has
fixed in the following manner the line of conduct which it intends
following, in order to place the German Church in connexion with
the State. The President declared that the State not having re-
cognised the German Catholic Church, nothing could be yet fixed
absolutely relative to their mutual relations. In order to obtain
the recognition of the State, the Synod of the three Prussian pro-
vinces of Brandenburg, Pomerania, and Saxony, has elected the
president of the commune of Breslaw to represent it.
A letter from Bonn, of October 26, says All the Catholic
Archbishops and Bishops of Germany have just received an invi-
tion from Rome, to have celebrated with pomp the approaching
three.hundredth anniversary of the opening of the Council of
Trent. These prelates have addressed to the cures circulars on
this point, and to each circular they have adjoined for distribution
a great number of copies of a catechism printed at Rome, at the
end of which is found the text of the bull, anathematising Luther
and his followers. These are significant acts, at a moment when
religious questions assume each day greater gravity throughout the
whole of Germany."
On the Paris Bourse the Three per Cents. closed at 82f. 20c. ;
the Five per Cents., 117 f. 65c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares,
1,170 f. ; Rouen, 1,006 f. 25c. ; Havre, 780 f. ; Avignon, 985 f. ;
Vierzon, 728 E ; Bordeaux, 632 f. 50c. ; Boulogne, 570 f. ;
Troyes and Montereau, 500 f. ; Basle, 265 f. ; Northern,
761 f. 25c. ; Belgian Two-and•a-Half per Cents., 56i ; Spanish
Actives, 36 ; Spanish Three per Cents., 38g.
The following are the quotations for other lines :-
Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laffitte), 522 f. 50c.; ditto
(Calon), 504 f. ; ditto (Ganneron), 507 f. 50c. ; ditto (La Pinson-
niere), 502 f. • Northern Line (Laffitte), 568 f. 75c.; ditto
Rosamel), 533 f. 75c. ; ditto (Pepin Lehalleur), 525 f. ; ditto
(Decan Lebeuf), ; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron),
5151. ; ditto (Hinguerlot), 513 f. 50c.; ditto (Becket), 505 f.;
Aymard, 9f. 30c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 22f. ;
ditto (Drouillard), 504 f.; ditto (O'Neill), 510 f. 50c.; ditto
(Lefevre), 504 f. ; Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 527 f. 50c.;
ditto (Lecointe), 510 f. 50c.; ditto (Compagnie Meridionalo),
505 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 2f. ; ditto (Es-
peleta), 512 f. 50c. ; Creil and St. Quentin (Carette), 508 f.
50c. ; ditto (Colbert), 501 f.
LYONS, Nov. 4.-Marseilles and Avignon, 998 f. 25c. ;
Paris and Orleans, 1,288 f. 77c. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,012 f. 50c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 7.

Anglo-Belgian 33/4 Luxembourg
Boulogne and Amiens- 9 Madrid and Valentia —
Bordeaux &Mediterran Namur and Liege 3l/t
Bordeaux and Toulouse North Jamaica ...
Do. & Cette (Espeleta) Orleans and Vierzon
Do. ( Mackenzie's) .. Orleans and Bordeaux 93%
Central of Spain
Demerara
Dendre Valley ...... Ditto (Ganneron's). 2%
Dutch Rhenish -
Dieppe & Paris Jana — Paris and 0r1ean5...... -
Dijon and Mulhouse
East Indian
Fampoux & Hazebrouk (Ganneron'sl
Grt Northern of France Do. (Aymards)
(Laffitte's)
Ditto (Rosamel's) Paris and St. Quentin.
Do. (Le Boeuf) — Rouen and Havre......
Do. Pepin le Halleur„ IRoyal North of Spain.
Great Paris and Lyons. Sambre and Meuse
Great Western Bengal IStrasburg and Basle ...
Great Western Canada 14 plTournay,Jurbise, Lan-
Jam aica S Mid. Junction dent, and Hasselt...
Do. North Midland — ,Tours and Nantes
Du. ..... . •
Jersey — Do. (Lereu v e-s)
Louvain and Jerneppe.. IVerona and Ancona
Lyons and Avignon.... 14 !West Flanders

The Cabinet Ministers are leaving town. Lord Wharn-
cliffe left town this morning for the north. Sir Robert Peel
is expected to take his departure this afternoon for Windsor
Castle, on a visit to her Majest2,-. Lord Aberdeen also pro-
ceeds to Windsor Castle in the course of the day. Others
of the Ministers are also about leaving town.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has
accepted an invitation to dine at the Lord Mayer's banquet, on Mon-
day next, at Guildhall.

Viscount Canterbury has left town on a visit to
the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, at Badminton.

Viscountess Canning has been on a tour in Ger-
many, but has since repaired to Curraghmore, to make a short stay
with the Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford. The Noble Vis-
count is detained in town by the duties of his office.

The Earl of Radnor has subscribed the sum of 50
guineas towards the building fund for completing the north wing of
the University College Hospital, making the total recent contribu-
tions 2,6821.155. 6d.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby have
arrived at Florence, and in good health. We have reason to believe
that the Noble Marquis and Marchioness intend to remain abroad at
least six months longer.

The Marquis-of Waterford, after a brief stay at
Mivart's Hotel, has gone to Curraghmore, his seat in Ireland. The
Marchioness, who came to visit Lord and Lady Stuart De Rothesay,
at their seat near Christchurch, has returned to Curraghtnore.

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The Earl of Wilton is expected to return to this
country towards the end of this month, from Nice. The Noble Earl,
on his return, is expected to repair to Melton Mowbray, to enjoy the
pleasures of the chase for a month at least, though his Lordship has
given up his hunting-box there to Viscount and Viscountess Newport
and the Hon. Colonel and Hon. Mrs. Anson, as we stated some weeks
back.

CALATHAM DISTRICT OF CHELSEA PENSIONERS.-
Agreeably to orders received from the Right Hon. Secretary at War,
the local companies of the Chatham District of Chelsea Pensioners
are directed to assemble for drill, at head-quarters, in the following
order :—First company, on Wednesday, the 12th instant, and the
three following days ; the second company on Monday, the 17th
instant, and the three consecutive days; and on the 21st both com-
panies will assemble together for drill at the same hour. Among the
number of men discharged during the week was one of the name of
William Evans, of the 2d Ride Brigade, who received his discharge
after the lengthened service of 32 years and seven months, receiving
a pension of 2s. 5 per day ; and although 47 years of age, he ap-
pears a young man. He was wounded severely at the battle of Wat-
terloo. He served eleven years In the Mediterranean, was in the
Netherlands, and also in America, and the last three years he was
the sergeant axd quartermaster-sergeant of the brigade. Ile has
since his discharge been appointed one of her Majasty's Yeomen of
the Guard.

The laying down of wires underground from the
electric telegraph of the Paris and Rouen Railroad to the Ministry of
the Interior is sow completed. The Minister has already made use
of this mode of communication, and the service is placed at the dis-
posal of all the departments of the Government wanting to send dis-
patches in that direction.
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, Nov. 7.—The sup-
plies of all grain are liberal, and a fair quantity of samples offering
from vessels near at hand. There was a very limited business done
to-day in all grain, •urutillers buying only to supply their immediate
wants until the decision of the Government on the corn-laws be
known. Prices of Wheat must be quoted Is. lower for old, and Is. to
2s. for new. Barley ls. to 2s. per quarter cheaper. Oats sold at
4d. per stone, and Shelling Is. to 2s. per load less money. Beans
rattier lower. In Malt no alteration.

Robert Hall, Esq., barrister-at-law, has been ap-
pointed by Sir James Graham, Bart., to the office of Recorder for the
borough ofDoncaster, in the room of the late Sir Gregory Lewin.
The late James Johnson, M.D., of Suffolk-place,
Pall-mall, late editor of the Medieo-Chirurgical Resist', has left to his
eldest son, James Henry, his valuable library in Suffolk-place, and
two-thirds of his interest in the said Review, and the remaining
third to his son Athol, to whom he has also left all the unsold copies
of works written by him, and all his interest in copyrights. To his
wife, he has left the leasehold at Park Village West, with the furni-
ture, books, pictures, plate, &c., with a power of disposal and ap-
pointment. To his daughter, Georgiana, he las left a legacy. The'
residue of his real and personal estate he leaves to his sons, the wife
taking a life-interest in a considerable portion. The personal estate
was sworn under 30,0001.
OJIBBEWAT INDIANB.—The twelve Ojibbeway
Indians, now hi Paris, were last week invited by Ills Majesty the
King of the French, to his palace at St. Cloud, where they saw their
Majesties, likewise the King and Queen of the Belgians, and all the
Royal Family. They went through their war songs, dances, rifle
and arrow-shooting, &c. ; and were most agreeably surprised at the
appearance of an Indian canoe on the lake, which they most skil-
fully managed. Their feats and performances excited much interest,
and gave great satisfaction to the royal party. The Indians were en-
tertained with an excellent repast, which they dexterously handled,
not with impeding themselves by using knives and forks, but unso-
phisticatedly resorting to their fingers. Ills Majesty has been gra-
ciously pleased to order medals to be struck and presented to the
chief, Mungandans, and the other Indian warriors, with which they
are highly pleased and flattered. They were attended by Mr. Catlin,
the artist and Indian traveller, whose valuable collection of Indian
pictures and curiosities excited so much public attention in England;
also by Mr. H. Percival, the American traveller and daguerreotype
artist, who, is their conductor
THE LATE SUICIDE IN JERSEY.—The investiga-
tion of the circumstances attending the melancholy suicide of Miss
Bond was brought to a close on Monday. After a variety of evidence
had been offered, for which we have no room, the jury retired to de-
liberate, and on their return delivered the following verdict :—" We
are of opinion that Miss Emily Bond caused her own death by hang-
ing, whilst labouring under temporary insanity, and, front the evi-
dence before us, it appears, she was naturally a weak-minded person;
.
and we cannot but strongly censure the conduct of the editor of the
Jersey Times for having written and inserted in that paper, on the
24th of October last, a paragraph entitled ' A Cruel Love Hoax'--a
hoax having evidently been played off upon the said Miss Bond by
some person or persons unknown."—Jersey Times.
FRENCH PLATS.—Last evening these performances
again attracted a fashionable audience, amongst whom we noticed
the Earl of Cardigan, the Viscount and Lady Marian Alford, the
Austrian Ambassador, Sir John and Lady Charlotte Guest, Lady
Burgoyne and the Misses Burgeyne, Lady Wilson, Earl of Mtn-Wier,
Mr. 11. T. Hope, Mr. Hubert de Burgh, the Hon. Spencer Cowper,
Sir J. H. Lowther, Count Kielmansegge, Mrs. Milner Gibson, Sir
Henry Webb, &o.
ACCIDENT ON THE SCARBOROUGH RAILWAY,-.._.
On Thursday, as the down train from York was passing, at a rapid
rate, along the Scarborough Railway, near the Kirkham station,
where workmen are employed on the line, the engine-driver gave
the usual signal, but one of the men, who was deaf, did not get out
of the way in time, and he was thrown down and completely cut in
two. No blame is attachable to any one, as the melancholy accident
Was solely attrilattable to the poor fellow's deafptss.

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