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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORTsTING, DECEMBER 16, 1845.

him a very unusual greediness of power, but it would
be even the extreme of madness, unless he sees his
way to success, or his duty as a patriot
and a loyal subject of her MAJESTY leaves
him no alternative, to commit his fame to the
solution of difficulties of no ordinary nature, in
creating which he has had no share. If he embark
in the great undertaking and fail, the public may
not nicely dispense the just degrees of blame to Lord
JOHN RUSSELL and his predecessor. The Minister
for the time being will be the person in court ready
for sentence ; and when the question on which he is
to stake his fame is the all-exciting one of the free
supply of food to a nation visited with scarcity, a
much less cautious and conscientious man than Lord
JOHN RUSSELL would think thrice before he under-
took the responsibility which Sir ROBERT PEEL has
sought to transfer to him.
There are two things which the new Premier will
have to do. He will have to meet the present
exigency, and he will have to undertake a final settle-
ment of the corn-law question.
For the first of these objects, after the delay which
has already occurred, and the further delay which
new ministerial arrangements would probably neces-
sitate, there would seem now to be no alternative
but an immediate Order in Council for the opening of
the ports. Would Sir ROBERT PEEL and the Duke
of WELLINGTON ensure, as they have it in their
power to do, indemnification by Parliament ?
For the permanent settlement of the corn-law
question, there is but one way of doing it, and, at
any rate, but one way in which Lord Joux RUSSELL
can propose to do it, after his letter to the electors of
London. What course will Sir ROBERT PEEL and
the Duke of WELLINGTON take on a measure of total,
immediate, and unconditional repeal ? Without Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S support, Lord JOHN RUSSELL can
have no hope with the present House of Commons,
though a dissolution would most probably give him a
majority with another. But without the Duke
of WELLINGTON'S influence, what is to be done
with the House of Lords ? Will Lord JOHN RUS-
SELL commit himself to collision between the House
of Lords and the country, and to carrying the repeal
of the corn-laws by provoking a popular excite-
ment, such as that which carried the Reform Act,
and by extraordinary measures, if they should be ne-
cessary, for overcoming the opposition of the House
of Lords. A wise man will weigh all the conse-
quences of a step, and if he take it will be prepared
for the worst. But Lord J. RUSSELL would, pro-
bably, refuse at present to incur the necessity of
rousing the passions of the people ; nor is it likely
that he would ask, or, if he asked, obtain a promise
such as WILLIAM IV. gave Lord GRIT, to swamp the
House of Lords. Other things must be tried
first. Rather than undertake this now, we feel as-
sured that Lord JOHN RUSSELL would compel Sir
ROBERT PEEL to return to his post. Compel, we
say, for it lies on Sir ROBERT PEEL, and not on Lord
JOHN RUSSELL, to extricate her MAJESTY from her
present difficulties. Lord JOHN RUSSELL is free to
name his conditions on taking office. Sir ROBERT
PEEL cannot leave her MAJESTY, as he has left her,
without aiding her, if she requires his aid, out of the
difficulties which he has made for her.

It principally depends then on Sir ROBERT PEEL
how this crisis shall end. It is no ordinary
step which he has taken, in resigning at
this moment. He has resigned while Parliament is
not sitting—not, as is usual, in consequence of a
Parliamentary defeat—with the certainty, whenever
Parliament met ,again, of a large Parliamentary
majority at his back,: even though he should not reli-
giously adhere to the principles on which his Govern-
ment was formed. His Parliamentary majority has
already often followed him in desertion from the old
party standards. How, then, can we read Sir Ito-
BEET PEEL'S resignation' but as a ConfesssiOn that he
cannot govern the country on his. own principles,
nor on any principles so near to them as to
be able to meet again his old Parliamentary majority,
as Minister ? This being so, will he stickle now on
small differences between the measure which he may
have intended to propose and Lord Jou"! RusszLes
measure ? He cannot have resigned without ex-
plaining to her MAJESTY the insuperable difficulties
of his ministerial position. Will he refuse her MA-
JESTY the aid which he can render to the only man
who can succeed him ? Sir ROBERT PEEL has ceased
to be Minister under circumstances which must com
pal him to cease also to be a mere political tactician

On Saturday a meetica of the electors of Hert-
ordshire was held at Hertford, for the purpose of
ascertaining the principle on which Mr. HALSEY
comes forward as a candidate for the county. The
meeting was got up chiefly by his supporters. Sir
MINTO FARQUHAR, chairman of Mr. HALSEY'S cen-
tral committee, presided. Mr. HALSEY was introduced
amidst loud cheers, and everything seemed to betoken
a triumphant issue to the day's proceedings, but un-
fortunately for the Protectionists, some men of sound
knowledge, and not bigotted to the interests of one
class, were present, and by arguments and undeniable
facts turned the anticipated victory into a defeat.
The new candidate is no half-and-half Conservative
—he goes the whole length, and vies with the most
rabid Tory in denouncing Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
and threatening destruction to any Ministry, " let
them be who they might," who would attempt to di-
minish the present protection to agriculture. Taking
for granted that Lord JOHN RUSSELL had already
completed his difficult task, and was in the confidence
of her MAJESTY, he thus opens his attack upon the
party :—" There was now at the head of her MAJESTY'S
Government a man pledged to the destruction of the
Church in Ireland, to the endowment of theßomish
Church, and the abolition of all protection : would a sup-
porter of such a man suit the electors of Herts ?" And he
thus pathetically describes the woful plight to which
the farmers of Hertfordshire would be reduced by the
new-fangled policy adopted both by him and the
Conservative leader who had betrayed their cause :
"If those whom he addressed were willing to be
forced to leave the farms upon which they and
their forefathers had lived and been happy for
centuries—if they wished to be degraded to a
lower rank, the farmer to the rank of the labourer,
and the labourer to the rank of the labourer on the
Continent—if they wished to be dependent on the I
manufacturer for precarious work and a scanty al.
lowance of black bread, then let them support what
was called free trade." Mr. WARD, M P., who
knows the locality well, happened to be present, and
showed the blessings of protection for the last thirty
years in such a light, that the tone of the meeting sud-
denly changed, a motion declaring that Mr. HALSEY
was a fit and proper person to represent the county was
rejected, and the following resolution carried by a
majority of two :—"That in the opinion of this meeting
it is the interest of the tenant-farmer, the labourer,
and the landlord, that the corn-law question should
be promptly and permanently settled, the experience
of the last thirty years having proved that protec-
tion drives capital from land, narrows the home
market by crippling foreign trade, and injures
all classes periodically by ruinous fluctuations." As
we stated on Saturday, these " protection" meetings
are of the greatest service to the cause of free trade,
because the advocates of monopoly have not one
sound argument on which they can rest ; and the
absurdity of their principles requires only to be
pointed out, to meet the approbation even
of those whom they have deluied by false promises
and false hopes. The tenants find that, notwith

standing the vast anxiety displaytid by the landlords
for them and their labourer's the corn-laws have
really afforded them no protection whatever; that
they are now in a worse position than they had been
at any former period, and that there is no hope
for them, but in a final settlement of the question.
That is the feeling entertained by the whole tenantry
of Scotland; it is becoming prevalentin England, and
now that the leading men of both parties, in whom
the public place confidence, are unanimous in that
opinion, it requires not the spirit of prophecy to tell
that this great measure of reform can be no longer
delayed.

(We have read, with great regret, a letter from Mr.
VERNON SMITH, M.P. for Northampton, to one of his
constituents, which contains a most wanton and un-
merited reflection on the Anti-Corn-law League,
We believe this gentleman held a subordinate office
under Lord MELBOURNE'S Government, and he pro.
bably hopes now to come in again for some of the
pickings. Mr. VERNON SMITH, who, by way of

making the thing perfect, calls himself a corn-law
repealer, says—" My own opinion may sound a para-
dox; but it is, that of late years the conduct of the Tories
has advanced the repeal of the corn-laws, and the violence
and abuse of the Anti-Corn-law League has retarded
it. The true-hearted people of England loathe insin-
cerity and spurn dictation." The distinguished lead-
ers of the League can afford to treat this imperti-
nence with contempt, and are not likely, we suppose,
to give Mr. SMITH credit for speaking the sentiments
of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and Lord MORPETH, and
other leading statesmen, with whom he has been con-
nected in a subordinate capacity. Mr. VEalsoN
SMITH might have chosen a better time for abusing
the body to whose unwearying and brilliant exer-
tions the country owes its victory over monopoly.

Madrid journals of the 7th have been received.
Reports of the QUEEN'S marriage with the Count
DE TRAPANI have been again revived, and furnish
topics of discussion in most of them. This project
of marriage is universally disapproyed of by all inde-
pendent Spaniards, and is supported only by the
French party. The Esperanza repeats the rumour
that the notorious BRAVO, once Prime Minister, had
been dismissed from his situation as Ambassador at
the Court of Lisbon. It appears that great reform
has taken place at Court, and most of the ancient
ceremonies when Spain was a great country had
been revived. A letter of the 6th says :
" The ceremonies of the ancient reigns have recently
been adopted at the Palace. The day before yesterday
thirty or forty ladies were admitted to the honour of the
Tabouret, and yesterday several grandees of Spain put
on their mantle for the first time. The ceremony of the
chapter of the Order of Charles M., held this day, has
been magnificent. Seventy-four knights were present
in their rich costumes. The Dukes de Valencia and
Rianzares, and Martinez de la Rosa figured conspicu-
ously among them."

The Gazette contains a notice from the Sinking Fund
Board that the dividends on the Three per Cent. Internal
Debt will be paid at Madrid from and after the 2d of
January next, and that persons holding that stock in
Paris and London may receive bills on Madrid at four
days' sight, drawn by the presidents of the finance com-
mission there on the Sinking Fund Board, for their cou-
pons, if they prefer doing so.
The Three per Cents. have advanced latterly, owing
to the combination formed for that purpose ; they closed
on the 6th at 361 cash, and 36i at 60 days ; 27 millions
done. Five per Cents. 24 at 60 days ; 1,600,000 done.

The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with discus-
sions on the resignation of the PEEL Ministry, and its
probable consequences. The views taken by some
show more knowledge of political affairs in this
country than previous articles would have led English-
men to anticipate. The following remarks from the
Government paper, the Journal des Debate, will be
read with interest :—" The grave determination come
to by the English Ministry was unexpected. We
were not ignorant of the serious difficulties which
had arisen in the Council on the subject of a change
in the corn-laws, but it was generally believed that
the head of the Cabinet had succeeded in bringing
his colleagues to his own opinion, and that a una-
nimity had been re-established in the Councils of the
Crown. It must be believed that the principal ob-
stacle which was thought to have been removed has
again come in the way, and that the member of the
Cabinet whose influence alone could counterbalance
that of Sir ROBERT FEEL, the Duke of WELLING..
TON, ,has felt himself bound to recur to his first
opinion. However this may be, the Ministry of
Sir R. PEEL is dissolved, and the English Government
at an absolute crisis. Without pretending to fore-
see the manner in which this crisis will terminate,
we nevertheless think that, considering the state of
parties in England, and the disposition of the public,
no long time will elapse before Sir ROBERT PEEL
again finds himself called upon to form a new
Cabinet. Without him only two combinations are
possible, a Whig Ministry directed • by Lord Joan
RUSSELL, and a Ministry purely and simply Tory,
with the Duke of 'WELLINGTON for its chief, and
Lord STANLEY for its orator. A Whig Ministry,
particularly after the recent demonstration of Lord
JOHN Ramshrs., would find itself in very consider-
able minority in the present House of Commons,
and would have against it nearly all the Lords. It
must therefore have recourse to a dissolution. It is
indubitable that it would still find itself in a
minority in a new Parliament, and that the
agricultural party, though greatly weakened in
the last four years, would, nevertheless, be still
the strongest at a new general election. There
only remains an ultra-Tory Ministry on the system of
maintaining the present laws, and resting solely on
the landed interest. Such a Ministry will probably
be tried, but all conceive that it cannot last ; and, if
it lasts, it will be dangerous. A political, but at the
same time a progressive, conservatism, like that of
Sir ROBERT PEEL, was the only one capable of neu-
tralising by directing a popular feeling so strong as
that which is now manifested in England. This
mixed party, this party of wise mutual concessions,
would prevent a shock between the two extreme ele-
ments, and gradually, though slowly, prepare the ne-
cessary fusion. The species of crusade undertaken
against the corn-laws has hitherto borne only the
character of a question of economy—this new state
will give it a democratic character. The struggle
which has hitherto been only between two systems,
will become one between two classes; and when
the cause of the freedom of trade and the increase
of labour shall no longer be debated, omly in the he-
reditary Chamber, a conflict will arise between the
middle and working classes on the one side, and the
aristocracy of the great landowners on the other.
We therefore believe that the most probable solution
of the Ministerial crisis in England is, that, after
several attempts by others, Sir ROBERT PEEL will
once more be charged with the formation of a new
Cabinet. The separation of the Duke of WELLING-
TON will, undoubtedly, be a cause of great difficulty;
but a Cabinet which shall reckon among its members
Sir R. PEEL, Lord ABERDEEN, Sir JAMES GRAHAM,
and perhaps Mr. GLADSTONE, will still combine suf-
ficient influence, as well as talents to form a strong
Government. We will add, that particular circum-
stances will render the constitution of a new Cabinet
most urgent, for the Message of the President of the
United States will in a few days arrive at Liverpool."
We subjoin the opinions of some of the other papers
on this unexpected event':_
(From the Const"tutionnet)
"We have already examined, as well as an opinion
could be formed of the future, what were the probable
consequences of Sir R. Peel's withdrawal from office, if
this step be certain, which is not yet definitive. The
journals which pass for the confidential organs of his
opinions, declared the other day that, in consequence of
the attitude taken by Lord John Russell, all coalition
had become impossible between the Whigs and mode-
rate Tories. The result will be, that the Queen will
summon the Whigs to the Ministry, and that Sir R. Peel
will give, in the Chamber, to Lord J. Russell the perse-
vering and disinterested support which he received from
him during the past year ; or that the Tories, who have
just overturened Sir R. Peel, will seize on the Govern-
ment, and endeavour to defend the present legislation.
We believe, as we have already declared, that in presence
of the progress made by the agitation against the corn-
laws, they will not be able to succeed, except by turning
public opinion on a great undertaking, where all the
forces of the country should be engaged."
(From the National)
" The Cabinet of Sir Robert Peel is dissolved. If the
Whigs were ready for and desirous of office, and if they
could command a majority in the Parliament, all diffi-
culty would soon be at an end. But the accession of the
Whigs requires three things which are not easy:--1,
The dissolution of the House of Commons. 2. Favour-
able elections. 3. A considerable creation of Peers.
Lord John Russell must, moreover, be decided to assume
the direction of affairs, and everything indicates that, at
this moment, he has no such intention. The Whigs are,
by this time, accustomed to see Sir Robert Peel sweep-
ing the road for them, transacting their business, and
they rendering government commodious to him. They
then take their portfolios and go to sleep in the
sweetest idleness; when the people grumble and ac-
cuse them of impotency, they request Lord Palmerston
to kick up a bit of a row out of doors, and his Lordship
finds here and there a personage flat enough to pass
through the eye of a needle. The Whigs, enchanted, then
say that they have done quite enough for their glory, and
after this exploit they return into private life. Now, as
Lord J. Russell does not appear much inclined to new
adventures, there remain Sir R. Peel and the Duke of
Wellington—which of the two will the Queen send for?
Both, perhaps ; but the position of each is narrow and
difficult. What can the Duke of Wellington do? Form
an ultra-Tory Cabinet resolved upon resistance. But
who will be chosen by him to lead the House of Com-
mons ? Where is the man sufficiently robust to stand a
single night against Peel and Russell ? There is
not one. Lord Stanley might have tried, but he is now
in the House of Lords, Suppose even that Wellington
should by chance find such a person, where would be
his majority ? The Tories decided on yielding nothing
are not more than 200 ; Peel has the others, and their
junction with the Whigs would at the first trial
Place the Wellington Cabinet in a minority. If, then,
such a minority should be formed, it would not last a
month, and it would only have the effect of facilitating
a coalition between Sir Robert Peel and the Whip,

which has long been foreseen. On the other hand, the
Baronet cannot hope to direct the affairs of the country,
having against him, not only the Duke of Wellington,
but Stanley, Ripon, Buckingham, Buccleuch, Richmond,
in short, the whole English aristocracy. In proposing
the abolition of the corn-laws, he would infallibly ob-
tain through the Whigs a majority of the House of
Commons, but he would fall in the Lords before a for-
midable opposition. There would be only one way to
destroy this obstacle, viz., to create at least sixty Peers
which, sooner or later, must be done. Such a measure
may be resorted to in favour of a firm Cabinet, having a
real majority of its own in the House of Commons, but
Sir Robert Peel would only have a borrowed majority,
which would cease the moment the Whigs should vote
against him. Would he himself, with the consciousness
of his weakness, attempt a large creation of Peers ?
and would he not, in such case, be obliged, in order to
support it, to dissolve the Commons ? Are not the
trials that he has undergone, this painful rupture with
the Duke of Wellington, the insults that he has re-
ceived from his own party, the contempt of the aristo-
cracy, which he has led against its will, and which de-
tested whilst it followed its leader, with the embarrass-
ments connected with his present situation-are not all
these sufficient to induce Sir R. Peel to refuse any
longer to bear so heavy a burthen ? All is uncertain,
all is grave in the present state of things ; we have been
desirous of stating it clearly in order that it may be ap-
preciated by our readers. This Ministerial crisis in
London will produce a powerful sensation in England,
and it ought to indicate to our Ministers that the last
hours of the English Cabinet announce to them al: o, that
the hand which marks the duration of their existence
has nearly run the circle of the dial."
" (From the Courrier Francais.)
The dissolution of the Cabinet, after the resignation
of Sir R. Peel, and in spite of the resistance of the Duke
of Wellington, shows to what point a party in England
shares the fortune of its head, and how that party knows
how to accept the necessities of the constitutional go-
vernment. At the head of the Cabinet, as at the head
of the Opposition, Sir R. Peel or Lord J. Russell are
entitled to say, the pasty of which lam the leader. In
this way the authority of the Government can be pre-
served entire in passing from one hand to another.
Who in France has a right to speak like Sir R. Peel or
Lord John Russell ? Sir R. Peel had accepted the revi-
sion of the corn-laws only in self-defence, and because,
in his opinion, the existence of the Cabinet depended
on that concession. At the head of the Opposition he
will therefore oppose the measure which ho would
have accorded, had he continued at the head of affairs.
The resignation of the Tory Ministry gives the Ministry
of October 29 a blow from which it cannot recover.
Lord J. Russell and Lord Palmerston, succeeding Sir
R. Peel and Lord Aberdeen, will not consent to favour
the system of temporising which the Tory Minister
countenanced, because it was certain to reap consider-
able advantages from it. Perhaps the Whig Ministry
which is going to be formed will lead public discussion
to foreign affairs (it may be looked on as a certainty that
this will be the case if Lord Palmerston gets into po.ver),
in order to turn aside the still graver difficulty, to which
it is pledged beforehand, respecting the corn-laws. In
any case, the struggle will be severe at both sides of the
Cliannel. May the events which must result from it
have for us this time less bitter fruits."
(From the Siecle )
"The withdrawal of the Tory Ministry will be with-
out influence on the difficulties of foreign policy. For
some time past the Whigs have been drawing closer to
France; and we may add that political traditions, which
are all-powerful in England, establish but very ft eble
difference between parties in what regards the relations
of England with the Continent. M. Guizot alone will
lose by it, for he will no longer have a pretext for speak-
ing to us of the entente cordiale."
(From the France.)
"We persist in thinking that Sir Robert Peel is the man
-necessary, indispensable, for present circumstances.
In that case the question for him would be to choose
other colleagues. The crisis, now commencing, will
undergo many a phase before it arrives at a solution.
It will deeply move the Tory party, which at this con-
juncture may lose much more in isolating itself than in
taking part in the movement, in order to direct it. Hi-
therto this party had thought it advisable, from not
being able to do otherwise, to take the initiative in the
reforms which the force of circumstances imposed on it.
We shall soon see if it intends adopting a system of re-
sistance to the last extremity."
The following are miscellaneous extracts from the
papers :-
The Royal Family are not to quit St. Cloud for the
Tuileries, says the Constitutionnel, before the 22d inst.
The Act of April 22, 1806, declares that " three Re-
gents of the Bank of France must be chosen from
amongst the Receivers-General." The dismissal of M.
Bandon, who formed part of the Council of Regents in
his quality of Receiver-General, therefore, involved his
withdrawal from those functions. M. Bandon, we un-
derstand, on Wednesday sent in his resignation to the
Governor of the Bank.
The Minister of Marine has just rendered an account
to the King of the operations of the squadron of evolu-
tions in the Mediterranean, during the five months since
it first left Toulon Roads, and also sent in the report by
Admiral Parceval Duchesne, who commands it, of
the general inspection he has made of the squadron. His
report is most satisfactory. In the manoeuvres in which
it has been exercised from June till October, he states
that the captains and officers have given uniform proofs
of perfect science and ability, and that they and all the
crews have constantly manifested the utmost zeal and the
best spirit.
A considerable sensation was created by the an
nouncement that M. Gabrielde Isot, a brother of the
stockbroker who has just failed, had committed suicide
by blowing out his brains, on the previous morning, at
Grenelle. In addition to the affixing the seals upon
the papers of M. Isot, the stockbroker, a warrant for
the arrest of his person has been issued, but not exe-
cuted on account of his having left Paris.
The news of the resignation of the Conservative Ministry
in England produced a fall in the French Funds on Friday,
but next day they recovered. The Three per Cents. on Sa-
turday closed 'at 81f. 20c. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 70e. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,147 f. 50c. • ouen, 930 f.;
Northam, 695 f.; Havre, 750 f. ; Avignon, 8571. 50c. ; Vierzon,
630 f. ; Bordeaux, 600 f. ; Boulogne, 500 f. ; Basle, 2301. ;
Fampoux, 475 f. ; Spanish Three per Cents, 381/2 ; ditto
Domestic Debt, 35 ; ditto, Passives, 6%.
The following are the quotations for other lines:-
Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laffitte), 4f. 50c. premium
ditto (Calon), 4f.; Union, 12f. 50c.; ditto (Ganneron), 41. •
ditto (Lapinsonniere), 3f. ; Messageries, 3f.; Ardoin, 2f.
50c. ; Receveurs-Generaux, 3f. • Paris and Strasbourg (Gan-
neron), 2f. ; ditto (Beehet), 1f:; Tours and Nantes (Mac-
kenzie), 51.-; ditto (Drouillard), 4f. ; ditto (O'Neill), 41 ; ditto
(Lefevre), 4f ; Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 6f. 50c. ;
ditto (Lecointe), par; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), par;
Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), par; ditto (Espeleta), 41. ;
Creil and St. Quentin, par. The Lyons definitive shares
sold for 65f. premium; Strasbourg ditto, 18f. 50c.; Tours
and Nantes, 40f.
MARSEILLES, DEC. 9.-Marseilles and Avignon, 855 f. ;
Boulogne, 505 E ; Vierzon, 6271. 50e.
LYONS, DEC. IL -Marseilles and Avignon, 3551.; Paris
and Orleans, 465 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 9601.
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LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC 13.
Anglo-Belgian
OUSINESS DUNE IN FORIENIDaOn:
!Mauritius .............. -
Bordeauxßouloe and Amiens
North Jamaica
Bordeaux and Toulouse - i Orleans and Vierzon 151,4
Do. & Cette (Espeleta) -
,lOrleans and Bordeaux 91,
Do. ( Mackenzie's ) 114 Over Yssel ...........
Paris! and Rouen . ......
Callao, Lima, and Pa- Paris& Lyons (Laffitte) -
eitic Coast
Central of Spain
(Gannerozes) ....
Ditto (Calon's)....
Ceylon .
Dutch Rhenish ... 6% Paris and Strasburg
Dieppe & Paris Janet. -
Dijon and Mulhouse - IDo. (Compe de L'Est)
East Indian ........ 3/4 I Do. (Aymard'e)......
Fampoux & Hazebronk - Paris and St. Quentin.
Grt Northern of France Rouen and Havre__ _
Constituted lO3/4 Royal North of Spain: .
•
Do. Pepin lc Halleur - Sambre and Manse ....
Great Paris and Lyons - Strasburg and Basle
Great Western Bengal - Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
Great Western Canada 31,.4 den, and Hasselt
Jamaica S Mid. Junction - Tours and Nantes
Do. North Midland - (Mackenzie's) ........
Do. Extension - Do. (Lefebvre's) .....
Jersey Do. (O'Neill's). .......
Louvain sad Jemappe.. - Trinidad ..........
:.yons and Avignon.... - Verona and Ancona....
Luxembourg
Madrid aid Valencia -

AMERICAN NEWTS.

We have received New York papers to the 20th ult.
inclusive. They do not, however, contain anything of
particular importance.
The Washington Union of the 18th has another lone
article on the Oregon question, in which it intimates
that, having sufficiently shown "its hand" on the policy
heretofore adopted, and still determined upon by the
President on this all-engrossing subject, it may with
propriety suspend further discussion unless provoked
again to controversy. The article, which occupies
nearly three columns on this subject, closes by as inti-
mation that the next Message of the President will
abundantly sustain all the views which he has expressed
on this question.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING.—The arrival of
the New York packet-ship Hottinguer, Captain Burs-
ley, late last night, has put us in possession of pa-
pers from that city to the 21st ult., her day of sail-
ing; they do not, however, contain any news of
importance. The auxiliary screw-steamer, Massa-
chusetts arrived at Holmes Hole, Nantucket, on the
19th instant., having put in there owing to the
illness of the Captain. The Britannia's news was
hourly expected in New York when the Hottinguer
left, as she hail been telegraphed off Boston the day
before.

The following are extracts from the papers :---
DAMAGES FOR SEDUCTION.—At the Monmouth, N. J.
Circuit, just closed, the case of " Rogers V. Ivins," for
the seduction of plaintiff's daughter,
resulted in a ver-
dict of 1,000 dollars.
THE FLORIDA ELECTION.—Mr. Cabell, the Whig
candidate, has got his certificate of election, as the law
requires that the Governor shall certify within thirty '
days after the election who has a majority of the re-
turned votes. Mr. Cabell was found to have 69 more
returned than Mr. Brockenburgh, who,
however, has a
small majority of the whole vote cast in tho State.
INCENDIARY ATTEMPTS.—Four attempts were n:Nde
on Thursday and Friday evenings to set fire to build-
ings of a combustible character, in the vicinity of
Brown's and Coleman's Hotels, in Washington.
A BIBLE Fon OLE BULL.—The Home Missionary
Society of Philadelphia presented Ole Bull with a mag-
nificent Bible on Saturday last, as a testimony of the

appreciation of his kindness, in giving a gratuitous con-
cert to the poor.
The St. L 014 iS -NM Era makes the following strange
suggestion. We hardly think it will be carried into
effect. It would be a fatal advertisement for some M.D.'s :
—" In marriage notices, it is usual to give the name of
the clergyman who performed the ceremony, and with
equal propriety in obituary notices the name of the at-
tending physician should be given."
MONEY MARKET.
NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—Quotations for stocks continue
unsettled.
The Bartlet Mills, of Newburyport, have declared a semi-
annual dividend of seven per cent.
The exports of flour from this port to London and Liver-
pool, in the first eleven days of this month, amounted to
14,092 barrels; of cheese to 910,7311 b. ; and of wheat,
16,848 bushels. The shipments since have been large, every
packet going out full of these articles. The advices from
Liverpool to the 4th instant are anxiously looked for, by all
kinds of speculators.
The high prices ruling in our seaport markets for flour have
increased the receipts at tide water many thousand barrels.
The Britannia steamer, out sixteen days, had not ar-
rived when these papers left New York.

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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
There was a quiet market for Cotton at Liverpool on Satur-
day. Sales, 2,000 bales, all to the trade, and at former rates.
Much disappointment has been expressed in the City,
especially among the commercial classes. at the apparent
difficulties which surround Lord John Russell in the tbrma-
tion of a Ministry. It is impossible that trade and commerce
can revive until there is some definite settlement of the
Cabinet, and until the final disposition of the corn-laws takes
place, it being admitted now, on all hands, that there must
be some radical reform in the sliding-scale, if not an actual
repeal of these odious imposts.
The arrival of the Message of the President of the United
States, on the opening of the Congress of the Republic, is
now almost 'lowly expected, and, as upon its contents may
depend the question of peace or war, it need hardly be stated,
a lirely desire is expressed for the receipt of this most iva •
portant document.
The appearance of the Stock Market certainly offers at the
present time nothing very encouraging. There is a
paucity of business, and a want of confidence among
nearly all parties, quite irrespective of their political
creeds. Consols or Time have been 9214 to 9211;
Exchequer-bills have been at a premium of 21s. to 225., being
the same as on Saturday. East India Bonds under 1,000/.
have been 325. premium. Bank Stock has been heavy at
199% to 200. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
have been 941 to 94 ; and the Three per Cents. 921 i to 92%.
The Foreign Securities have been rather livelier, and Spa-
nish Bonds exhibited an improvement. The Five per Cents.
are 277 to 281,4, and the Three per Cents. 301 to
30%. Portuguese Old Bonds have been 76, and
the Four per Cents. 58. Mexican Stock has been quoted
29 to 2911, being still rather heavy. Granada Bonds are 2012 ;
the Deferred, 414 • Columbian, 1614 ; Buenos Ayres, 39 ; and
Brazilian, 80. These are much about previous rates. Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been marked 59 to 591,2.
The Railway Share Market is rather firmer. Eastern
Countiesare 191,4 ; Caledonian, 12 to 121,4 ; Great Western,
146 to 146 k ; Birmingham, 210 ;Blackwall, 8%34 ; Croydon,
191 to 20; Brighton, 61 to 1/6 ; South-Western, 73 to 74
London and York, 31,/ ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 3 to
; Newcastle and Berwick, 10%, to 111 i, ; North Kent,
214 ; South-Eastern, 34%, and Boulogne, and Amiens,
q4c-

ORR CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. CLOSI
PRICES
Bank Stock ......... 2OO 19914 2001%
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 —94% 94 9414 94 94% 9414
iiong Annuities toexpireJan.lB6o 10 5-16 10 5-16
India Bonds, 1,0001..
Ditto under 1,0004 ..
Consols for Account .. ...
_ 92%%% ex div 921
X xchequer Bills, 1,0004 1 ...
Ditto 5001.
pm. 21
Ditto Small

CLOSING
PRICES
79%
39
16%
3%
2014
29
30
75%
58
28%
2814
38
40

ONE
'IMES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 ner Cent 39
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela 1614
Equador Bonds ..............
Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent 201,4
Ditto Deferred M
414
exican, 5 per Cent. 1837
Ditto, Account .......... ~,...
Portuguese 5 per Cents. 76
Ditto, 4 per Cent 5B
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 284%
Ditto. 3 per Cent...* 38%4
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 4% per Cent..
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 93
PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
.. 5
Aberdeen,Banti; is Elgin 2%
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush ... l% ...
Aylesbury and name_
Belfast & County Down 2% ..... .
Bideford andTavistock... 1% — ...... ....
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 124
Ditto New 17% -- Birmingham and Ox-
..... ""ford Junction ......... 2
Direct 42s.
•••
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. —
Bridgewater & Minehead 425. ... ..
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Ditto, New
. ....
--
. •
Bri4tol and Gloucester... 30
... .....•••.
Bristol and Liver. Juno . N —
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambrian & Grand June 42s ........ 3/4 dig
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% 3%
Do. New
Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% —
Canterbury and Dover.. IN,
Central Kent 2y2 ...... •
Chelmsford and Bury... 1% —
Chester and Holyhead... 15
Chester and Manchester 425. —
.....
Clydesdale Junction
Cork Blackrock, and
Passages .............. . 225.
Cork and Killarney
... 2i,
Cork and Waterford ... 1% —
Cornwall .................. 5 .....
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir.
and Leicester... ..... 114 ......
Dartmouth, Torbay, and
Exeter ......... ... ..... 425. —
Derby and Crewe.........
Derby, Gainsbro', and
Great Grimsby ...... ... 13‘
Derby, Uttoxeter, and
Stafford
Direct Manchester

(Remington's)
Ditto (Rastrick's) 514 — ...
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich
........... 1 .....
Dublin and Armagh 1%......
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 5 ......
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Galway.— 4
Dudley, Dladely, and
Broseley
Dundalk & Enniskillen
......
Eastern Counties 141. 168. l9l‘
Ditto New ............ 6/. 16s.
...... 6 p... ....... .
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1.......6!.135. 4d....
Ditto ditto, No. 2... 4/. 13s. 4d...
EastDereh'an andNor'eh 1
e:astern Union 25 —••—
Dato, Quarter Shares 33/,i, —
Ditto Extension
Do. riswich and " ..

pswich and Bury 4 -
Do. Ex ten'n to Norw'h 21
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2%......
East Lincolnshire
East & West of England X.....

.e.nglan, 1, _
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12"
Ditto, New

7%
Edinburgh & Northern.. 114 —
•
Edinburgh and Perth... 11/2...... ............. ••.
Ely and Huntingdon ... 5 ......
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2N
Essex and Suffolk - —17 ii —
Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth
Glouc.,Abetystwith,and
Central of Wales 1%.....
Goole and Doncaster .. 425....... •••
Grand Junction. 100
Ditto Quarters...
. Grand Union l% ..... . . .......... ••.....
...
Great Eastern &Western 2 % .... ..
.......
GreatGrimsby and Shef-
field - ...... . . ......
Great South. and West
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension ..... 7% ...... ............ ...
Great Munster ........
Great North of England..loo ......
Ditto New ............... 5
;reat Western ......... ... 90 146%
Ditto % Shar ........ 50
Ditto 14 Shares.es...... 2% ...... 14%
Ditto Fifths ......... 20
Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 5 —••—
Harwich .................. 1 ••••••
DittoEfull and Selby ............ 50
14 Shares ...... 12%
••••• .........
Do. Half Shares ..... 2
Inverness and Elgin ..... 1 Ipswieh, Norwich, and
Yarmouth ...... .. ...... 2
Irish North Midland l% —
Isle ofAxholme ......... ... 2%
Killarney Junctions ...... 114 --
............ ••
Kendal and Windermere 11/2
L t ricaste r and Carlisle._ 30
Larne, Belfast, and Bal-
lymena .................. 21/2 - Leeds and Carlisle
Leeds and West Riding
Junction ............... 1%......
-_— ......... ••
Leicester & Bißedforrminghad... m
225. - ••••• Leicester and
Leicester and Tamworth 425.
!it dp
is
Liverp. and Manchester.loo ... -
Do. 1/2 Shares
Do. Quarters.... 25
Liverpool &Leeds Direct 2% - Lpool., Mnchstr, & New-
-34
castle Junction - 34
. 212
London and Birmingnmloo 2lO
Do. Thirds ........... 10
Do. 14 Shares
... 22%
Ditto Fifths ..... ..... 2
I
Ditto Extension ...... 1V 1 . .
834
London and Blackwell. 16/. 13s. 4d, 81,494
3.14
Do. New .............. 1%••• .. 314
Ditto Extension ~... 3 ••-•• •
L indor and Brighton... 50
..-
Do. consolidated Bths... 35
Ditto, Sixths
London and Croydon, 134 15s. 9d. 19% 20
Do. Guaranteed 5 per
Cent. .. ................ 8

:A dis
3%
23/8

148
85
141,

171.2

dis
U dis

Lon., Chel., 0x.,G10., and
Hereford
• ••• •
! Lf•,t,',9l,(l)dGrki,•lllv;.:, 2/
--
Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d 22
London Hounslow. and
Western ........... 2
"•••••• . 4 Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 74 73 ....
Do. New Consol. Bths 20
Do. New .............. 7% —
Do. New ............x... 6
London & South Esse
London and York•
....
London and Windsor 1 London, Warwick, and •••
Kidderminster ..... 21/2 —
•
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ....•.......... 2%.....• ••• ..... -•-. Londonderry& Coleraine 5
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen ...... ....... 5
Lynn and Ely ..... ..... 5
Lynn and Dereham ...... 5
Manchester and Leeds... 76
Ditto % Shares ....... 34 .....
Do. Quarters... 2 ••• ••••
Do. Fifths ............... ...
1 ....... •••••
Do. Sixteenths ..... 414
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Do. Quarters 4 10%
Do. New Quarters ... 2
......
Do. Continuation and
Welsh Junction
..... 34 Manchester,Buston,and
Matlock 42s. l%
Manchester, Birm., and p
Mould Junction ....• ......
Manchester and Rugby
Direct..... • ............
Manchest.. &Southampt. 2 2,4 g;
M•dlouid.. .
..140 142 ..
Do. Fifths ............... 2
Do. New ............... 6
Midland,Birm., Derby...loo
•••
Midld. & past. Counties 23,6--
Midland Great Western
(Irish)
Do. Extens. to Sligo 2
...... •
Newcastle and Darling-
.. ..
ton Junction
Do. New Brandling l5
Yewcastle and Berwick 5
Newcastle andCarlisle...loo
Newport& Abergavenny
New Ross and Carlow... 22s
••••
Newry and Enniskillen 2% •••• .....
N-
_

,ewirk, Sheffield, and
Boston ..... ......... 2%.
••
Norfolk Extension.
• ••• ......... .••

.
North flritiah
Do. Half Shares
.....
Do. Exten. to Carlisle 14
Do. Ext. to Dalkeith 25
Ditto ditto ........... 5
North Devon...
............ 2 .. 11,‘
North of Norfolk ......... 23% - ...••••
.........
Northern and Eastern... 45
Do. Scrip
Do. Quarter Shares... 121,4
Do. New • 1
N. Kent & Direct Dover 21,4 2%%..
North Staffordshire 42s. __— 23A 3 p
North Wales ........ 3% — • •-•
North and South Wales

and Worcester
Northern and. Southern
Connecting
Norwich and Brandon-. 16
Ditto New ............... 3 ..
Northampton, Banbury,
and Cheltenham
Nottingham and Boston 1%
Nottingm., Erewsh Val-
.
ley, and Manchester 1%
Nottir.gham and Mans-
field
Oxford, Gosport, Ports
mouth,& Southamptn 425.
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton
Oxford, Walley, and
Cheltenham.... ....... 13‘ ......
Perth and Inverness ... 2%
..-.......
Pilbrow Atmospheric ... 1
Portsmouth Direct...... 33/4 —
Preston and Wyre ...... 50
Do. 1,4 Shares
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate
Richmond
Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester
Rugby and Huntingdon 2
Rugby, Leamington,aatal
Warwick
Rugby, Warwick, and

.ig
Worcester-- ...... ... 425. —
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland
Sheffield & Manchester 100
Do. Quarter Shares... 8
Shrewsbury- and Birm... 214. .
Shropshire Mineral
....... -.••
42s
Shropskire Union
Shrewsbury & Hereford 2%
&S. Staffordsh. June. 21,E
Sligo and Shannon l%
Somersetahire Midland 2%
•••
South Devon.... .....
25
South Midland. ...... .... 425.
South & Midlands June. 425. - ...
South Staffordshire June. 2%....•,
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 34% ........ ....
Do., No. 1 l2
Do., No 2.
Do., No. 3
Do., No. 4
Southampton, Manches-
ter, & Oxford Junction 425. ......
St. Alban's, Hatfield, and
Hertford Junction ...
Staines and Richmond... 1
Staffordsh. & Shropshire 234 —
South Wales 24 ......
Taw Vale Extension ...
_.
•• ...
Tean and Dove Valley 1% "k..... ••• •• ...
.. ..... ..
Trent Valley 2
...
Trent Valley and Holy-
. 16 15%
head Junction
Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke
..... 514 .....
Ulverstone and Furness 21/2......
Vale of Neath ...
Warwick & Cheltenham 1% -
... .. Warwick and Worcester 425. ... .......
Waterford and Kilkenny 3
Waterford and Limerick 7.4
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin ............ 1%.... .
Waterford, Wexford, and
Valenta
Wavenev Valley ...... -
Welch Midland ...... 21A _
West Cornwall
West Yorkshire
WestLondon,Old Shares 20
West End and Southern
Counties . ............. 1% —
Rexford and Carlow ... 2% ...... Wisbeach and St. Ives... 2 —
Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton ... IA —
Wilts, Somerset,& Wey-
mouth ........ Worcest .._. - 2% 234%------.. ..

er,Hereford,Ros 9,
and Gloucester 425......,
Worcester, Tinbury, and
Ludlow ..... .
Worcester, Shrewsbury, ..
and Crewe
Worcester and S. Wales 425.
Worcester, Warwick, and
Rugby .................. 42s — ...
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
Ditto, New
York and Carlisle 234 — ..... York and Lancaster 2% lYs
York and North Midland 50 - ............ ..
Ditto 14 5hare5........ 25
.... •• • •.. .•
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do. Selby
Do. Extension ...... .. 5

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo-Belgian... 4 ...... ...............
Barbadoes 1
1 ..
Boulogne and Amiens... 8 —...• 71/2
Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2
Bordeaux. Toulouse, and
Cette( Mackenzie's)... 2 ...•,
Do. (Espelete's) ..... 2 .... • 1%3,4
Calais, Dunkrk, and West
Flanders
Callao, Lima, and Pacific ••..••
Coast
Central of Spain ... .
Ceylon s.
Demerara
Dendre Valley ............2
. ..
.. ....... .... ...........
Dijon and Mulhouse
Dutch Rhenish 5 7 634 ...... . .........
East Indian ... ..... .... ss. I ........
Eastern Belgian Ju' 21/ .......

.igian Junctn.
Fatnpoux & Hazebrouk 2
Great North. of France ....
Constituted 5 ...... 11% 11 12......
Great Paris and Lyons 2
••• ..........
Great Western Bengal... ss.
...............
_ _

Jamaica &Mid. Junction 1 ......
.. ... .....
Jamaica North Midland 1
...... ....
...............
Do. Extension ...... 1 ......
Jersey
1 ......
Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... . 1-}434
Lyons and Avignon 2 ......
I,uxembourg...
4 ~ .....•
Madrid and Valentin.... 2 a
.
Mauritius .. .............. 1 .. ~
......
Namur and Liege ...... 4
North Jamaica... ...... ... 1
Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 ......
Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ......
Over Yssel ...............4133 4d —.. ... ... .....
Paris SeLyons(Laftltte's) 2
.........
Paris and Lyons (Gan-
neron's).. ........... 3
Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2
--.....••• ..... . -

.
Paris & Lyons (Sud Est) 2
••,
Paris and 0r1ean5......... 20 ........ • .
Paris and Rouen
...... 36 . ........ ...
.....
Paris and Strasbourg .....
(Ganneron's)
..... ---
Do. (Compe de L'Est) 2 Do (Avmard's ...... ...............
Paris and St.Quen)tin .
l .... . ... .........
•.
Rouen and H
...
loyal North of Spain
...... 6
.. .. .. ...... ...
....
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 ......
St. Laurence & Atlantic .....
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt....... 4 ......
Tours and Nantes (Mac-
kenzie's) ................ 4 ......
......
.....• . .
Ditto (O'Neill's) 2
Trinidad
Verona and Ancona... 3
West Flanders
.. 4 ....
Real del Monte Unregd. MINES.—
a.. . ...... ...
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
Provincial of Ireland ... 25 45% 46%

1%

28
46%