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" The French Ministry," according to La France,
" has twice discussed the question, whether there shall
be a sitting to re-open the session, and a speech from
the throne. The first time the Council unanimously
decided in the affirmative ; but since the affair of the
Belgian treaty this first decision has been re-consi-
dered. The Council is divided in its opinion, and the
arrival of M. Teste is waited for to turn the scale."
A pretty considerable number of Spanish refugees,
especially of the Carlist party, have lately passed
through Bayonne, and are provided with regular
passports, delivered by the Spanish Consuls by virtue
of the decree of amnesty:
The ex-General Dominique Vandersmissen, one of
the persons condemned for conspiracy against the
Belgian Government, has succeeded in escaping from
the prison of the Petits Cannes. The escape was
effected in a manner similar to that of the celebrated
La Vallette.
The session of the Belgian Chamber was opened on
the Bth by a speech from the throneololivered by his
Majesty in person. Her Majesty the Queen arrived
at the Palace of Lacken on the 7th.
The contract for the execution of the first portion
of the railroad between Paris and Belgium has been
finally adjudged- to an English company of the name
of Sherwood, at 7 per cent under the estimate.
A new cathedral is to be erected in Berlin on the
site of the old Domlcirche. It has bean designed by
Stuler, after the King's ideas. It is to be a Roman
Basilika, with two high towers.
We learn from St. Petersburgh, 29th ult., that the
Emperor had recovered from the cold which he caught
on his late tour. He had, since his return, received
the English and Austrian Ambassadors.
The Augsburg Gazette states from Goritz that the
Archduke Stephen had just paid a visit to the
Duchess of Angouleme. The Duke of Bordeaux is,
it says, to repair, in the beginning of November to
Prague, where he' is to pass a few weeks.
"It is said that the postal convention between the
Grand Duchy of Baden and Austria has been signed
by the contracting parties. The principal object of
this convention is to render unnecessary the pre-pay-
ment of postage. The negotiations on the same sub-
, ject with Prussia offer more difficulties on account of
the high rate 01' postage in that country.
It was confidently stated at Alexan-dria, according
to the latest accounts, that the Maronites had united
with the Druses in Mount Lebanon and attacked and
defeated the Turkish troops.

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1--zrE sic olzimxori.
The Times, alluding to the Emperor of Russia's
attempt to introduce uniformity in religion through- •
out his dominions, observes:—" If there is one kind
of religious intolerance more odious than another, it is
that which lacks the pretext of an earnest conviction
or the blindness of sincere fanaticism, and which per-
petrates the crimes of bigotry with no higher motive
than the fulfilment of a scheme of political oppression.
The rod of persecution was a cruel and unnatural
weapon in-the pious hands of Isabella the Catholic ;
but it is degraded to a meaner and more hateful
office when it is used to complete the work of mili-
tary eonquest, and when the anathema of religious
intolerance is directed, not only against the tenets, but
the nationality and the ancient religious • practices
of a people. The cruelties perpetrated in former
ages in the name of the Church• of Christ were at
least regarded by the nations of those times as the
natural consequences 'of a struggle between eccle-
siastical zeal and obdurate heresy; but it was re-
served for the present Emperor of Russia to outrage
the feelings of Christendom, by a revival of scenes
which have not been witnessed in Europe since the
edicts of Louis XIV. against the Protestants. It was
reserved for the Emperor Nicholas to exact conformity
to the Church of Russia as a political institution, and
to direct against the sister churches in his dominions
the whole energy of the secular power, far the sole
purpose of reducing certain classes of his subjects
into more absolute subjection to his own temporal
authority, and more complete uniformity with the in-
stitutions
of Russia. When_ new provinces or king-
doms professing a different form of Christian worship
have been annexed to the Crown, and when that form
has been solemnly recognised in the treaties of cession
and the public acts of several reigns, to attempt to
extend the religion of the conquering country by
force, and to extirpate these varieties of divine wor—
ship, for the purpose of reducing every portion of a
vast and motley empire to one precise standard of
orthodoxy, is to stretch the monstrous principles of
the Inquisition itself. In Russia the standard of or-
thodoxy is that the Emperor is the head of the Church.
Provided the clergy inculcate on their flocks a vene-
ration for the Emperor, which is easily confounded in
their simple minds with the adoration due to the
Supreme Being ; provided the portraits of the mem-
bers of the Imperial House are enshrined beside the
sacred elements ; provided the mysteries of th 6 faith
are made to bear the stamp of Russian authority, and
the persons of sacred history to wear a sort of Russian
uniform, the exigencies of the Government are satis-
fied, without interfering with the more subtle distinc-
tions of doctrinal controversy."
The following appears in the Post :—" .An abusive
and yet a very feeble article appeared in the Morning
Chronicle of yesterday on the subject of the new
appointments of Bankruptcy and Lunacy Commis-
sioners. This lengthy and lame composition, set out
in our Contemporary's most conspicuous type,_ pur-
ports to come from a retired Judge. It is much more
probable that it is the contribution of a disappointed
barrister ; and truly, if it be so, he furnishes very
good evidence that he ought to be disappointed if his
expectations pointed to any office which required
some ability and some good temper for its discharge.
The article in question is of the agreeable length of
seven feet and one inch, or eightartive inches, of as
pointless trash as we ever saw in a newspaper. Mere
dull, stupid scolding; plentifully besprinkled with
lies ; and yet the subject chosen is one which from
its very nature afforded abundant opportunity for
sharp remark, if the critic had not been one of the most
tedious dullards that ever held a pen."
The Herald thus speaks of the Income-tax :—" The
Income-tax it ought to be recollected is something
very different from the Assessed-taxes or the Parish-
rates, and yet are the same class and order of persons
employed in its management. It is the mercantile and
trading community who will chiefly experience the
annoyance of these surcharges ; the income of land-
owners is easily ascertained; the fundholder is treated
with sharp but not imuisitorial practice ; while no
one will presume to doubt the accuracy of the return
of the county magnate; but that large and impor-
tant class of persons who live by the conjunction of
energy, enterprise, and knowledge with capital, they
who may really oftentimes have some difficulty
in ascertaining what the profits of the year's
adventures may have been, they to whom credit and
the reputation of well•doing are honestly and fairly
worth more than the, capital invested, are the indi-
viduals on whom the severity of the tax will fall, and
these are just thew to whom not the least consideration
is paid either by .the Act or by its officers. Against
the imposition of this tax so far as income—contra-
distinguished from the produce of dead capital—was
concerned we incessantly protested ; we warned Sir
Robert Peel of the odium and detestation which
would be begot by the pertinacity with which he ad-
hered to his original proposition ; but we certainly
did anticipate that the Premier would have the pru-
dence to protect his measure from unnecessary seve-
rity, and that an oppressive tax would not be
vexatiously and unjustly collected. It has proved
otherwise."
The Chronicle says :—" Any person sceptical as to
the extent and variety of the existing distress, and
somewhat ignorant of the condition of the country,
must at least have been struck by one ominous indi-
cation, to which we adverted yesterday, presented by
the London morning newapti;%ers of the preceding
day—that of extracts from the 172-ovincial papers,
arranged under the appalling title oi
' .Incendiary
Fires.' Till within these few years this ho::ible
crime, as well as that of the cowardly ann
brutal habit of using the knife in casual quarrels,
were held to be quite alien to the character of the
English population, and it was even boasted that we
had to go to a foreign language for a word descrip-
tive of the first. Be this as it may, it would appear,
if we are to trust to the accounts which have been
published, that incendiarism' is naturalised in our
rural districts. Whenever our agricultural population
are feeling the pressure of any extra amount-of pri-
vation, they exhibit an inclination to revenge them-
selves, as they imagine, by burning. the property of
the farmers ; and so, as the lengthening nights of the
winter, in which we are already involved, are casting
their gloomy shadows over the country, that concen-
tration of amazing ignorance, severe poverty, and
reckless malignity, of which an English agricultural
labourer is but too often a type, displays itself by the
lurid light which it sheds over the security—or
rather the insecurity—of property in the agricultural
districts of happy England.
ELECTIONMEEING.__

The electors of Bute have been publicly addressed
by Mr. James Stuart Wortley, as a candidate for the
seat vacant by the death of the Lord Advocate.
Z 7.11.17.8.16 AND rizzLrrix.R.y.
The half-yearly examination of the officers and
gentlemen cadets at the Royal Military College at
Sandhurst took place on the 3d, 4th, and sth instant.
Sixteen gentlemen cadets Were recommended to the
Commander-in-Chief for appointment to ensigncies,
and
fifty others were declared to be qualifying them-
sel yes for commissions.

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John. Cormick, a smith, residing at was
yesterday brought u for final examinatip at Ken-

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sin ton, charged with marrying a second wife, vCbile
Hall, his first wife, it widow, with three c 1.011:
dren, was living. The prisoner was fully committ
for trial.
James Syble, an engineer, was charged at th .
Thames Police-office, with being concerned in Oen°
during Messrs. Pinchin and Johnson, oil and coloure
men in the Commercial-road, of property to a larg
amount. The two sisters, Eliza and Ann Kirby, WI
had been his accomplices, were, as will be remem-
bered, committed on Monday. After a lengthened.
investigation the prisoner was committed to IleNvgat(*
for trial as a principal in the felonies.
LITERARY 41ND SCIENTIFIC
Mr, Allan Cunningham's surviving family
consists
of four suns and a daughter, of whom the two eldest;,
Joseph and Alexander, and Francis Chantrey,
youngest, are in India, the latter having been one of
the devoted band shut up in Jellalahad during its he-•
roic defence by Sir Robert Sale. Mr. Peter Curl-
. :gbain. the third son, fills a respectable situation in
no Audft-office, Somerset House, and is author of a
' Life of Drummond of Hawthornden." Mrs. CUIr
ningbam, the mother of Allan, is still alive at Dum-
fries, and is upwarli of 90 years of age.
C OURT—r.'AsnioN.anx.r.
The Duke of Wellington left Apsley Home yeste"
day for Dover. •
The Duke of Devonshire is still residing at Chou

worth.
The Duke and Duchess ofßedford arrived at Burgh—
ley House, on Tuesday last, from Newmarket.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster have
been staying at Halpin Hall, since Wednesday last.
The Marchioness of Cornwallis left town yesterday
for St. Leonard's.
The Earl and Countess of Granville have arriyeu at
Florence, from Germany.
The Countess of Norbury is passing the autumn at
Englefield Green.
Lord and Lady J. Russell arrived in Belgvave"
square on Tuesday, from Bowood Park, Wilts.
Lord Ward arrived at Mivart's Hotel on Mondal,
from Himley Hall.
Miss Burdett Coutts is entertaining a select circle
at Cliefden House, Berks.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Ms Grace the DUlie of Wellington has tokerl,_Atbe
marine mansion at Dover, belonging to James taken
dard Douglas, Esq., one of the Members for Rochessi
ter, during the time the Royal family remain
Walmer.
M. Arago is of opinion that the newly- an
comet in Draco will in a few days become more
i
more visible. Its tail has already become more lug
nous, but there is reason to fear from the variationsn
1
its light that it is rapidly approaching to perihelittol•

!!TONE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
Rather more cheering advice: have been receivet.',
from the manufacturing districts, and at Lir-erre'
a very extensive business has been done in cotton.
The trade, are described as having bought eagerlY"
though,. as the demand was freely met, n
in prices occurred. The sales were 8,000 bales,
which 1,000 bales American were taken on sPeell at-
tion. The quotations were for 1,500 bales Sara
bales
31d. to 40. ; 200 Egyptian, 61-,d • and 6,30°
American, 3id. to 6d. per lb.—"ln the Rail`v%
Shares thare was no change. Eastern Counties New fit,
108 ; Grand Junction, 173 ; Great Western
61:x; II
London and Birmingham, 18q; Ditto Quertaneri
471 ; Brighton, ; Paris and Rouen, 03 ;
South Eastern New, or scrip, 171.
The effect of the new tariff as regards provisicar,;
has evidently been felt in a very small degreel.;
what May be anticipated hereafter. In confirinatl,...°
0 alteration,.
of this, we may allude to the almost incredible
ment made in recent advises from Buenos Ayre'.:,:.
viz., that an Englishman resident there 17,,
tended to slaughter 4,000 oxen, and 20,000 sheep,'
.
October, for the purpose of salting the meat and _„ebil;
.ping it to Liverpool. The statement, we say, apv—b3
rather incredible, but possibly it may
correct. in the Argentine provinces, as vve 1/;:
formed by parties in the City, who have reside' the
and continue to trade with South America, _st
herds of cattle are of great magnitude, and the sit'n.„
range of country open to pasturage, causes se t it
usually rapid an increase in their numbers, tha,ts,
is worth while for the proprietors to kill their hearts,
is a
solely for the hides and tallow, the flesh for Wein" j'esg•
sufficient population being comparatively v.,eltio,cii3h,
If the curing is so improved as to suit the rinfrietin
we may expect, therefore, to have South An
meats at about 2d. per lb. turn out t.
the
The speech of the King of the Belgians, t 1 erect
occasion of the opening of the Chambers
satisfactory, and shows the efforts of the Gei ?here
merit to extend the trade of its subjects ; tholV: j'a. to
is one point we look upon as rather threateni,'''ira-
foreign commerce ; viz., the declaration that t_.,,l'emed
port duties upon many articles may he in ev•
with advantage to the country, while those tell
po.rts can be redwed. 0••
trio.!l.
The Consol Market has been very steady this
ing at 94k both for Money and the Account. 'P;
through
Commissioners
for the Savings' Banks have t dap
their brokers made another small investment t 0 have
is consideror
The Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents! pi-anla
inclined to 1003, and the New Stock to 101/. 'dap
Stock has only fluctuated from 172 to 173 tf: „ter
the former being now the nearest value. let''.;.cay,
13111 s are a trifle cheaper than they were ye: coot
viz., at 595. premium. India Stock for the
has been bought at 258. iri
We cannot quote any movement of importance
the Foreign Stock Market to-day. A
ou
reacti°ntbe
Mexican Stock has taken place to 32i, thgh
Buenos
market may now be quoted a shade firmer. at
Ayres Stock has fallen to 21i, and Brazilian is at
SR. The transactions in all the bonds are trloli,
Spanish Three per Cents. have just been sold at.i" `the
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 521, an
Five per Cents. at 1001.
-e oties
Railway Shares are not brisk. Eastern Gres.
Debentures may be had at premium ; the :Do-
Western at 191 premium ; the Fifths do. ait,
mium ; the London and Brighton at 148 alsc-
stcroi
the Loan Notes atemium ; the South-
We
18k premium ; the South-Eastern and l' Dover st,
discount ; and Scrip (issued at 25 discount) a
or.
discount ; Union Bank of Australia, New Shares'
at 21 premium. a a
There were not many public sales of Colotn‘ or,
other produce to-day. By private contract, h°,40.1e ber
we hear there is a better trade doing. The ''s
trade is very active. Another large public sale
.1„5.
nounced, comprising Canadian and foreign
quaE
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT 0?1.
It A umeirs. Paid. Per Share.
Eastern Counties - 23 ... ...... °Poi
Ditto Debentures .Bl. 6s. Bd. ....... 841
Great Western
London an Brighton ...... -.60
o
Ditto Loan Notes
0
London and South Western ... 411016 •.. t
591 ...... to u
to -***
' Northern and Eastern
Ditto Scrip... ............ 5 . 6i.....• -
to
South Eastern and Dover.
Ditto Scrip
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nor', the
market is still depressed, and not much dor'c'The
business being almost confined to local Stec's. go
sales are—Manchester and Birmingham, 19i ;„iith
chester and Leeds, 68, Ditto Quarters, 4k;
Eastern Scrip, 17i.

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS I'A

LoriDox, Nov. 10.—Wind southerly, ligp.
cloudy.
N.
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mt
to GI
3A oTrEg' o Nov..es.
25th ult., a derelict, .—Wind S.W., strong breei.t.o.
_I • Wellingtons, New York. Sld. Jane, MallilLio
CaldiAz.
which
commenced 9.
was--The
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PORTSMOUTH, NOV. 9.--Wind S. W., strnea old.
to-day. & Oa
squally.—Arrd. Justina, London for Calcutta.
her Majesty's ship Thunderer, eastward. ,
1 Lymouni, Nov. 9.—The 'Sterling,
ofG Gloucester to Hamburgh, has put in here with 4
z€
.foremast, having bean in contact with th LI"
plpl, off Falmouth, yesterday. xe.
_AALmouTii, Nov. 9.—Wirid 1•.T.W., strong bree.th
loss rrd. Mazeppa, Gloucester for Sunderland, or'
of bulwarks, 'stancliii; :sr t • been ill c°ll-
- ....c. nailing
tn.& wit
,_ h the Sterling, Hlasistie. '
IN I LIVERPOOL, el-mt.:ET, Nov. 6.—Sid. Broad Axe, New 'York%
BRISTOL, NOV. 9.—Arrd. Sovereign, 3.liramicht•
SHIELDS.--Sits. Rambler, Pernambuco.
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CORK N
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men's Land.
- , ... ov. 7.—Sid. Britm,:f...nmoor, ,
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'METROPOLITAN BURYING PI.4CES.----Ml' - eries
Alfred "Walker, the surgeon, has commenced a 5.,_,..„,
of letters addressed to the Editor of the *VZ,
Herald, on the evils arising from the internae,ntlLga
dead in crowded toi,vns. No man is better
_q
1 I.‘ ego' '
for such a task than Mr. Walker, since to
been prominently drawn to a question of so intih le l;_
tions it unquestionably is owing,- that attentionh;soniflaitioe
importance. On this point a, highly respee ,Abe ._
riodical (the Provincial .Ifedical JOurnal), after a____.r.l.
ing to the labours of the recent Parliantentar.ystie'von'of
mittee, says :—" We cannot lay aside the
ing unto Cesar the things that are Ceesar b,to 4r. a.
intramural sepulture for the present withot:litt:tireonidaecr:
knowletjging the obligations which we owe
ts -L"•d
evince-
A. Walker for the public spirit which lie 11: .
quirc.
Burin;; the whole of this delicate and :diflicul..t
,Troogry
To Mr. 'Walker is due the merit of having rsVrc,`" In tlie
directed public attention to the evils arising ,sraikees
interment of bodies in towns; through Mf. "
zeal a groat portion of the evidence uirY bls
Committee was obtained, and now that the inqs‘e tri,F
been conducted to a satisfactory co,-.lw:!oD._:,,:,Nved ott
that ''iome iliark of public respet v, ,"•_blic ratiA
the author of a measure from which the vu„
reap such great and enduring avantres•
give], ;before the