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ranging labour in one country, they necessarily
interrupt and derange it in many other countries,
We can readily excuse Lord STANLEY for
being ignorant of the quantity of corn grown in
Tamboff; it is not much reproach to Sir R.
PEEL that he was not precisely informed of the
number of oxen in Spain or Holland which
might be exported to England; but we cannot
excuse any statesman for being ignorant of any
of the facts on which the subsistence of the
masses depends. To provide food is, in thct, the
first and great aim of all human exertions; and
all the results of statesmanship, all laws and
constitutions, all victories and triumphs, which
do not end in securing a plentiful subsistence for
mankind, are less valuable than leather and pru-
nella. We have brought under notice an ex-
ample of an immense class of facts, of which
the pervading principle is, that the subsistence
of society is obtained without the possibility of
any one statesman contributing to that noble
end. When so much that is beneficial is done
without the instrumentality of law-makers, they
might, we think, have a little more confidence
in man and in nature, and not presume that
every part of society must necessarily full into
anarchy which is not regulated by them.

affair, and the results it may have ,on ESPAR..
TERO'S Government. Of course some of them
take the opportunity of throwing blame on Eng-
land, for no misfbrtune can happen to France
(and the failure of the insurrection the Presse
evidently regards as such) without somehow or
other being caused by this country. These wri-
ters, while they display their bad feeling, only
give the French and the rest of the world a
much higher idea of her vast. power and attention
to her true interests. The Constitutionnel justly
condemns the policy of Louts PHILIPPE in reft-
rence to the insurrection, and trusts that for the
future no countenance will be given to those emi-
grants (Queen CHRISTINA ofcourseamong the rest)
who seem only capable of exciting partial dis-
turbances, and have no influence over either the
army or the people of Spain. The Journal des
Debats, on the part of the Government, denies
all participation in the late events. " The Eng-
lish," says its correspondent at Madrid, " who
are interested in depreciating the moderate party,
and consequently the influence of France, have
not been behindhand in their assertions that
there were manoeuvres of this party at the bottom
of the affairs at Barcelona, when all the world
knows, on the contrary, that the Moderadoes
had„nothing whatever to do with the events.
The truth has also come out as to the pre-
tended cc-operation of the British navy in the
affair. The Government never solicited any
inaritimesuccour frorn England, and Mr. ASTON'S
dispatch to Gibraltar was only regarding the pro-
tection of British subjects, and nothing else."
The affair of Mazagran still excites some in-
terest, and a very general belief begins to pre-
vail that the dispatch giving an account of a gal-
lant stand made at that place by a handful of
French troops several months since, was a pure fic-
tion. "An English journal," says the National,
"asserted, some days back, that the affair of Ma-
zagran was a lie, of which all France was the dupe.
We hoped that the War Minister would contra-
dict this assertion, or give at least some explana-
tion on the point. Marshal SOULT, however, re-
mains silent, and Ministerial journals follow his
example. The same fbreign journal now recurs
to the subject, giving further details, and sum-
moning the Marshal to state what he intends to
do with thesums subscribed by French and Eng-
lish or the erection of the monument. Govern-
ment can remain no longer silent. Its duty is to
speak out the truth, hoW painful socver this may
be to our amour propre. If we have been de-
ceived by impostors, we ought not to remain accom-
plices of the cheat. If; on the contrary, the
English journal calumniates the soldiers of
Mazagran, it ought to be refuted and condemned.
At-all events, a frank explanation is required."

" The Church," says the Bishop of LLANDAPF;
in his. last Charge to his clergy, " must, to use a
phrase injuriously applied to her sacred forum-
laries, continue to work in chains." And in an-
other part he asserts that the Church is subject
to a grievance far beyond any which
sectaries complain of as imposed upon
them. Our readers, no doubt, will be a
little puzzled to find out what sort of manacles
those are which the ;established clergy are com-
pelled to wear, and what that grievance
is ;which far counterbalances the griev-
ances of 'which Dissenters have such
just reason to complain. Catholics are
obliged to pay largely for the maintenance of an
establishment which they regard as heretical.
Their clergy and their poor, they say, have been
robbed of tithes and Church lands, they have;
therefore, not only to support their own Church,
but also that which deprived them of their rights
and the poor of their. alms. The Dissenters
are placed in somewhat the same predicament,
and though these two classes of Christians pro-
bably amount to one-half of the population of
England and Ireland, they have to contribute
to the richest Church in the world, and one,
too, from which they derive no benefit; but all
these are mere trifles compared with the sad con-
dition of the Bishops and Clergy, for they must
bow to the highest authority—the law of the
land—and bury with funeral rites even persons
that have received only lay baptism. To hear the
Vicar of Gedney or Bishop PHILPOTTS pour forth
such lamentations, and describe in exaggerated
terms the grievances of the Church, would sur-
prise no one, but we certainly read with asto-
nishment such statements from one of the ablest
and most learned of the English prelates. Like
the Non-Intrusionists; his Lordship wants more
power—he warns the laws altered, and proposes a
Commission or a general Convocation of the clergy
to devise some remedy for this intolerable griev-
ance. The stormy proceedings of the General
Assembly, and the disturbed state of tle Scotch
Church, seem, however, to make his Lordship
rather averse to such assemblages, which he
justly remarks, " lead to so much strife
and ambition, as to defeat in a great
manner the good purpose for which they were
convened." A Commission, therefore, will be the
means adopted, and it will probably be moved
for next session. If any such project is se-
riously entertained we would recommend that
a Mixed Commission should be appointed with
the Bishop of LLANDAFF as chairman, and a
•goodly number of his brethren as councillors and
advisers, and to these should be added, a sprink-
ling of Non-Intrusionists, with Dr. CHALMERS
and Dr. CANDLISH at their head. The
Scotch clergy, too, have many grievances
to complain of; and we can, therefore, see
no reason why a deputation should not be sum-
moned to London; and consult with the English
clergy in Westminster Hall, as in days of old,
for removing the chains by which they are
bound, and declaring their power superior to
that of the State. Looking at the question, how-
ever, in a serious light, we may ask what
hardship there is in being required to perform
duties which are amply repaid, or in reading
the beautiful service for the dead over the re-
mains of a brother or a sister, even though they
have not complied in every respect with, the
rules and ceremonies of the Church ?

The amiable twaddle of our fair Contemporary,
the Herald, was never more amusingly conspi-
cuous than in some remarks which she makes

this morning, on the subject of a Chinese Man-
darin's rumoured visit to London in the official
capacity of an Ambassador. Grandmama is
absolutely in hysterics on the occasion. The
importance of the event overwhelms her with
awe, and she lets fly her pop-gun—which she
mistakes for a thunderbolt—full in the face of

the audacious Times, which has irreverently
cracked the most innocuous and good-natured of
jokes on the subject of Fum-no and his invisible-
footed spouse. " Laughter at Chinese pig-tails,"
quoth the Herald, " may be as disastrous in its
consequences, as the cheers which saluted FRE-
DERICK WILLIAM were beneficial." Our Con-
temporary is right; and the reflections which

this grave observation induces, are such as must
necessarily fill all rational minds with the
utmost consternation. To laugh at a Chinese
Ambassador's pig-tail ! Gracious Heavens, was
there ever such blasphemy ! But, alas! the
heinous deed is done—the atrocious joke has
already gone forth on the wings of the Press;
and it is now a matter of historical record, not
only that the Times—that, most outrageous of
journals, which has no more notion of good-
breeding than a kangaroo—has dared to laugh
at the rear-ward embellishment of his Chinese
Excellency's outer Adam, but has set upwards
of two hundred thousand readers laughing also,
fit to split! Thank God, we are not guilty of
the like extravagance ! We never quizzed a
Chinese Ambassador's pig-tail !No; we never
spoke of him, and his, but with a respect amount-
ing to adoration; and we now formally lay claim to
the praise of the Herald for our benign forbear-
ance. Furthermore, we conjure our readers, if
not as a matter of feeling, at least, as a matter of
policy, to exercise the same wholesome discretion.
W e conjure them, as they value free trade with
China, with Bohea at sixpence a pound, and
oereclolnotrrsae;l3a,,ugthos art
eClacindestehpeimg- taila ss ;
symbols
at next to nothing, to indulge in no
more
august rank ; and to make the hou-
tou whenever they 'may happen to
cross their line of vision. If they
must laugh at a tail, why not laugh
at DAN O'CONNELL'S ? His is much thicker,
twice as long, and—with due deference to the
Alderman, be it observed—twice as grotesque!
But should our readers not sympathise with us
in the spirit of these observations, wrung from
us in the patriotic paroxysm of the moment,
at least let them join us in the fervent hope that,
in deference to the risible muscles of John Bull,
his Chinese Excellency will, on approaching the
British shores, see fit, like Lord BATHURST,
to
ecutchance
off his pig-tail, and so save himself from
t mnceof being quizzed, and England from
the reproach of incivility.

We have no further accounts from Barcelona,
if we except the following extract from the
Sentinelle des Pyrences:—'• Demi-official news
has reached Bayonne of the submission of Bar-
celona without any conditions, with the exception
of about 200 men, who had shut themselves up in
one of the fortresses of the town." According to
other accounts, the town on the 28th was
blockaded by sea and land, ;Ind could not long
hold out. The news from Madrid is without
interest.

The Paris papers contain no further accounts
from Barcelona. A dense fog, it appears, pre-
vailed at Park during Saturday and Sunday
morning, which prevented all communication by
the telegraph, either with Spain or the south of
France.- In the absence of news, therefore, the
papers are generally occupied with the Barcelona

MONEY and COAIMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
The opinion seems to gain ground that there will
be a reduction in the interest iu Exchequer Bills, but
at present those bearing different rates command pre-
cisely the same prices. Sales were made to-day to
some extent, and, as was said, on behalf of the Court of
Bankruptcy. The premium closed at a fall to 455.
under the influence of these operations. Consols were
94 to 941, and firm ; East India Bonds brought 42 to
46 premium; the Reduced Tnree per Cents. realised
941 4 ; and the Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents.,
1004 to 101. Bank Stock was steady at 172 to 1724.
The foreign Securities were called generally firmer
this afternoon, and although the buyers did not ap-
pear
in any number, the turn in prices was rather in
favour of those holding stock. Spanish Actives
closed at 18 to +' and the Three per Cents. at 234
to 4. Brazil stock was higher, owing to the expected
conclusion of a favourable treaty. Belgian Stock was
done at 102 to 1024: Danish at 831; and Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents at 53. Mexican realised
301 to 31.
For the Shares dealt in very full rates were cur-
rent this afternoon, but the business transacted since
our last report has been limited to the following
lines :—Cheltenham and Great Western were 204;
Blackwell, 11 ; Greenwich Preference, 24; and South
Eastern, 271 discount; Great Western New were 144
to 141 ; Birmingham Quarters, 241 ; Paris and
Rouen, 41 to 44; and York and North Midland,
44 premium. Provincial Bank of Ireland Shares were
171 premium.
The rates for Bills of Exchange on the continental
cities have been firm, as the trade balance is in our fa-
vour with continental nations, though decidedly
against us as regards the United States. The quota-
tions have been on Paris at 25f. to 85c. to 90c. ; on
Amsterdam 12 51 6 ; on Hamburgh, 13 111 1; on
Antwerp, 12 51 ; on Frankfort, 1514 1 ; and on
Trieste, 9 58 to 584.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The Cotton market at Liverpool was plentifully
supplied, and no alteration occurred in the prices.
The demand was moderate, only 4,000 bales finding
buyers. About 100 bales Maranham realised 6d.; 100
Etryptian, 6id. ; 200 Surat, 34d. to 41d. ; and 3,600
bales American zlid. to 51d. per lb. Great Western,
Liverpool and Manchester, Birmingham and Grand
Junction, and the other leading Railway Shares,
were in request, but the minor lines were in but little
demand. Eastern Counties brought 84; Great
Western 881; Birmingham 188 ; Manchester and
Liverpool, Half, 301 ; Paris and Itouen 241; and
South Eastern, New, 174.
• The overland letter-bags will be made up this
evening, giving barely time to send out the mercan-
til correspondence. It seems desirable that the period
of dispatching the outward letters should be perman-
ently fixed rather later in the month than is the case at
present, for the greater convenience and certainty of
answering the Indian advices, but the Overland ar-
rangements must then necessarily be altered.
The papers forn India, show an increase in the foreign
commerce of Calcutta during the season of 1841-2, as
compared with 1837-8, of some magnitude, though it
is to be feared that various circumstances have com-
bined to render the trade far less profitable, This is
particularly the case with the shipping interest,
freights having ruled unusually low, and leaving no
remuneration to the owners. Last season no less
than 885 ships of 277,816 tons were employed in the
export trade of Calcutta, the value of the exports
themselves being 8.39.40.592 rupees.
From the English manufacturing districts, as well
as from those of Scotland, we continue to receive very
gratifying accounts respecting the improvement in
trade occasioned by the peace with China, the news of
which could not have come at a more opportune time
than just at the beginning of winter, when trade is
usually so dull.
Business in the English Market has been very
quiet to-day, but prices are very well maintained.
The Commissioners for the Savings Banks have in-
vested about the usual amount, 5,0001., in the Re-
duced Three per Cents. at 944. Exchequer Bills are
slightly lower again, being 525. to 495. prem., and In-
dia Bonds have varied from 425. to 465. prem. The New
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have been marked 1011
to 1011, and the Reduced, 1004 to 101, the former
being with the dividend included. Bank Stock was
firm at 172 to 1724, and Long Annuities realised 121
to 12 9-16ths. Consols for special transfer remained
at 95, and were for the opening and ex dividend at
94 to 4.
The accounts from Spain are not yet wholly tran •
quillizing, since although there can be little doubt of
the ultimate success of Espartero it is considered he
will have a difficult part to play after overcoming the
insurgents. The treasury, it need scarcely be re-
' marked, must suffer from this further drain, and
it seems, as though, by some strange fatality,
whenever there is a chance of the Ma-
drid Government being placed in an easier finan-
cial position, some political convulsion again throws
it into embarrassment. The Active Bonds are to-day
flat at 18, and the Three per Cents. at 234. In the
Mexican Five per Cents. we have had no bargains re-
ported this morning, but the Deferred is called 84 4.
Messrs. tLizardi dare not offend their employers, the
Mexican Government, by taking the straight-forward
course of publicly advertising the actual amount of the
Bonds issued here and on the Continent, as this
would spoil the market for any furthei over-issues,
against which the public have at present no security.
The stock, therefore, like that of Spain, will, con-
tinue to be looked at with suspicion. Nothing has
been done in Portuguese. Brazil Bonds have ad-
vanced to 68, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
are firm at 53.

The better class of Railway Shares continue to ad-
vance here, being at Liverpool also those most in
favour. reat Western are 25 to 251; Birmingham,
98 ; York and North Midland New, 19 ; and South
Western, 19ft premium. Brighton, 14*; Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 2 ; and South Eastern, 27* discount.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. s.—Shares
generally continue firm in price. The following are
our quotations :—Lancaster and Preston 4 shares, 19 ;
Manchester and Leeds Half, 30 ; South Eastern Scrip,
17 ; Manchester Assurance, 9*.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock .172
3 per Cent. Red. ....
3 per Cent. Cons 95
3i per Cent. Red 101
New 3i per Cent... ..... lOl4
Now 5 per Cen'
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860 ... l2 9-16
Oct. 1859
Jan. 160

!India Stock
Ditto Bonds .... 46 pm
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities...
Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 45 pm
Ditto 500/...... 45 pm
Ditto Small ...... 45 pm
i Bank Stock for Opg.
India Stock for Opg...
Consols for Opg.
V FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto
Prussian, 5 per cent. , —
Russian, 5 pei cent. ...
Ditto, Metallic ...... .
Spanish, 5 per cent...—. 18i
Ditto, Deferred.... . 106
French, 5 per cent. —f. —r.
Exchange
French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Dutch, 2i per cent. 53
Ditto, 5 per cent. ... 101

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" Who runs may read.'

FOREIGN.

A dense fog prevailedaParis on Saturday and
Sunday.
The Court will return to the Tuileries for the
winter about the 15th instant.
The Moniker contains Royal ordonnances, dated
the 29th ult., making various changes in the nomina-
tion of prefects of the departments.
A Royal ordonnance of the 29th legalises the open
ing of the French custom-houses at the stations of
Tureving and Roubaix, on the railroad from Lille, on
the Belgian frontiers; and of St. Soulve, on the
Valenciennes railroad.
According to accounts from Alexandria of the 22d
the Pacha was still at Mansoura, where he was mak-
ing arrangements in order that the sowing season
should not be retarded.
The Consuls of France and Russia had both left
Alexandria for Cairo.
Egypt is still suffering from the murrain among the
oxen. The loss is estimated at 150,000 head of cattle.
Next year's crops are likely to be seriously affected
by this loss. The cavalry and artillery are dismounted,
and the horses sent to the shifflicks to assist infagri-
culture.
"We have no particulars of the state of affairs in
Syria. The belief is, that both Druse and Maronite
will hold together to expel the Turks from the moun-
tains.

Belgrade letters of the 21st announce the arrival
on that day of Rifaat Pacha, the new Ambassador of
the Ottoman Porte to the Court of Vienna at Semlin.
Prince Michael learnt from the Envoy that his doom
was definitively sealed, and that Prince Georgewitch
would be maintained in his new position.
PUBLIC OPINION.

We quote the following from the Times:—" The
confessions of those enlightened benefactors to their
own pockets, who subscribe 1001. now, that they may
hereafter realise 1,0001., at the expanse, as it of
course must inevitably be, of the rest of the commu-
nity, and who coolly denominate themselves the while
an Anti-Monopolist League, continue to increase in
intensity and delicacy. A gentleman who seconded
a motion at the ' Great League Fund Meeting' at
Liverpool, ' mentioned, with all 'humility, and without
any desire to be considered egotistical, that he had
gladly given his 1001. for the next year to accomplish
the objects of the League. He had hopes that he was
promoting his own individwil good to no small extent
by extending free trade principles. He was not ashanted
to avow his belief, that his 1001. subscription would
bring him back a hundred times 100/., y' the objects of the
League should happen to be attended with success.'
How beautiful is the modesty with which this humble
seconder shrinks from the ostentatious mention of his
own charity ! He feels perfectly miserable at thus
being obliged to trumpet his own praises, and to pro-
claim to the world that he has subscribed 100/. for so
disinterested and magnanimous a purpose as that con-
templated and avowed by the League. But he
shortly reflects that there is, after all, no such great
necessity for being ashamed of his subscription ; his
money is no gift, but only.a speculation; it will bring
in no small profit to himself; so he takes courage."
The Chronicle says :—" Well—we suppose Lord
Ellenborough's friends will now at least not attempt
to deny that he ordered the evacuation of Affghanistan,
before he was aware of the release of the prisoners.
For ourselves, we did not require what we now have
—his own assurance of the fact. We knew the man;
we knew what he had done before ; we knew that it
was General Pollock's refusal to obey the order given
in March to retreat, that led to the advance upon
Caubul ; and, therefore, when we saw Lord Ellen-
borough's proclamation of the Ist of October, in which
not a word was said of the release of the prisoners,
we saw in it only a repetition of the same cowardly
command to leave the men, women, and children to
their fate. Our statement was of course met by vio-
lent and indignant denial. The thing was impossible ;
the very object of the campaign was to release the pri-
soners ; how absurd, then, to suppose that Lord Ellen-
borough would announce the campaign as closed, and
I order home the troops until he was aware that that object
was accomplished. However, we suppose Lord El-
lenborough will not be rejected as evidence on this
point. The proclamation, ordering the troops to
retire, is dated October 1. The first general order
announcing the release of part of the prisoners is
dated October seven—six days afterwards, and the
second general order announcing the restoration of
all the prisoners is dated sixteen days afterwards, that
is, on the 17th, in each case the Governor-General
communicating information which had just reached
him. Is the proof complete ? Is it necessary to
strengthen it by calling to mind that when Lord
Ellenborough issued his proclamation it was impossible
that he could have known that the prisoners were released?
Nov, we appeal to men of all parties, and ask is the
Parliament of this country to be called upon to thank
a man who twice deliberately proposed to withdraw
the British army from Affghanistan while a number
of British subjects were held there in captivity ?"
We take the following remarks from the Herald:—

" The Charge of the Bishop of Llandaff delivered on

the occasion-of the triennial visitation of his Lordship's
diocese in October last, and just published, is full of
that firmness in matters of faith, and charity in non-
essential formalities, which so eminently distinguish
the Church of England. Had the intolerance of Rome
or the polemical furor of Dissent been characteristic
either of the hierarchy or the priesthood of our holy
Establishment, the unhappy controversy which has of
late years divided its members would, as is the case
in the Kirk of Scotland, certainly have disturbed the
peace, if not endangered the very existence of the
Church. It is because of the moderation, due appre-
ciation of their own position, and the profound sense
of their awful responsibility with which the learned
and pious Bishops who now sit in the high places of
the Church are imbued, and because of the respectful
obedience which the working clergy give, as by their
oaths bound, to their ordinaries, that in spite of the
most formidable division of opinion that has for two
centuries past penetrated into the Establishment the
Church herself is in no danger. There is in truth an
earnest desire generally existing amongst both clergy
and laity of the Establishment to extract all that can
benefit the Church from the now we hope fading con-
troversy.

MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE.
The value of exports from Canton amounts to about
8,250,0001. per annum.
Letters from the American cotton planters in
Bengal state the complete failure in the experiments
to grow that commodity in that locality. The hot
winds and bad climate appear the preventives.

LAW AND POLICE.
The driver of the cabriolet No. 1,113 was charged
at Clerkenwell, with furious driving, and thereby
damaging the carriage of R. Davies, Esq., to the
amount of 241. The prisoner's license was suspended,
and he was ordered to be imprisoned for three weeks
with hard labour.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
It is said to be the intention of Lord Ellenborough,
in the course of the present month, to review the
whole of the troops who will by that time have re-
turned from Affghanistan, 35,000 in number.

LITEIta7ELY amp SCIENTIFIC.
The first book auction on record in England was
the sale of Dr. Seaman's library, which was brought
to the hammer A.D. 1676.

COURT-r.ES.SHIONAZ LE.
Sir Robert Peel will leave town in a day or two
for Windsor Castle, on a visit to the Queen, accompa-
nied by Lady Peel.
Lord Montague has arrived at his villa, near Windsor.
The Dowager Duchess of Cleveland takes possession
of her new residence, in Park-lane, early in January.
The Duke of Richmond, after staying a few days in
town, goes to Goodwood Park for the winter.
Th• Earl of Liverpool, Lord Steward, left yesterday
for Windsor Castle, and will stay there on a visit to
her Majesty until Saturday.
The Earl and Countess of Beauchamp arrived in
Portman-square last week, and proceed to Brighton
in a few days.
The Countess of Haddington arrived at the Admi-
ralty on Saturday.
The Dowager Countess of Essex returns to town
in a few days from a tour.
The Earl and Countess of Verulam leave to-mor-
row for Gorhambury, near St. Alban's, where
also the Viscount and Viscountess Follistone are ex-
pected to pass their Christmas.
The Earl of Lucan arrived in town on Saturday
last from Ca.stlebar, his Lordship's seat in the county
Mayo.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—His Juvrial Highness the
Archduke Frederick of Austria arriNd to-day at the
Castle, on a visit to her Majesty, attended by his suite.
The Earl Delawarr, Viscount Sydney, the Earl of
Liverpool, and the Earl of Aberdeen, arrived at the
Castle in the course of the day, on a visit to the Queen.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert enjoyed their usual
morning walk ; and in the afternoon the Prince rode
out on horseback into the Great Park, attended by
the Hon. C. A. Murray, and Sir Edward Bowater.
Her Royal Highne§s the Duchess of Kent visited
her Majesty this morning at the Castle.
The Hon. Frances Devereux has succeeded Lady
Caroline Cocks as one of the Maids of Honour in
Waiting. Viscount Sydney and the Hon. Captain
Duncombe have succeeded the Earl of Hardwicke and
Sir Frederick Stovin as the Lord and Groom in
Waiting on her Majesty.
Sir Henry Wheatley left to-day.
Her Majesty has a dinner party this evening at tho
Castle. Covers are laid for twenty-seven.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Chrrlotte Dundass, Mr. and Lady Mary Stanley and
Hon. Miss Stanley, will join the Royal Circle, which
will also include his Imperial Highness the Arch-
duke, the Lo:d and Lady in Waiting, the two Maids
of Honour, the Groom and the Equerry in Waiting
on her Majesty, the Equerry in Waiting on his Royal
Hihness, the Earl Delawarr, Earl of Liverpool, Earl
Jof ersey, Earl of Aberdeen, le Baron Lebzeltern, le
Compte Marinovich, le Capitaine Kochel, le Capitaine
Dumont, and le Comte Carolyi.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
left town yesterda afternoon to honour the Duke of
W y 'Wellington with a visit at his seat at Strathfieldsaye,
Hants.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses A.ugitsti!
and Mary of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand
Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, have arrived a
°f
Strathfieldsaye, Hants, ea a visit to the Duke ~
Wellington, from the seat of the Duke of Beanfer"
Badminton, Gloucestershire.
A meeting of the Cabinet Ministers was held yes-
terday afternoon at the official residence of Sir Bober!
Peel in Downing-street. The Lord Chancellor,
Earl
of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Lord Fitzgerald Ana
Vesci, Sir James Graham, and the Chancellor of the
Exchequer attended.
Sir Henry Macleod had an interview with Lore
Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-office•
transacted business yesterday, at the Foreign.
Count de St. Aulaire, the French .Ambassador,
-office;
as
A meeting of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
held yesterday afternoon at the office in
place. The Archbishop of
the I3ishop of
Com-
London S. • , if Herbert Jenner Fust, and other
missioners were pre3ent. •
Sir George Cockburn had an interview with Sir
Robert Peel in Downing-street yeaerday. •
Whitehall
The Postmaster-General had an interview, with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at hs °
residence in Downing-street. to
The Earl of Haddington has left town on a visit
Lord Wharncliffe,*at Wortley Hall, Yorkshire. h
Dispatches were received yesterday from Sir
Gough, fur Lord Stanley, her Majesty's Prings-
Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. (Is,
patches from Malta, Gibraltar, the lonian
alson
Ceylon, St. Helena, and British Guiana, were
received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

GRAND JUNCTION CANAJJ. a
The half-yearly meeting of the Directors
134
ani,
Shareholders of the Grand Junction Canal C 4041
was held yesteruay at the Crown and Ancoe
Tavern, Sir William Eden, Bart., in the Chair.
that
Report, which was read by the Secretary, stated tria2l.
the nett tonnage for the half-year ending June 30, 184d'
amounted to 51,5121. Os. 6d. being 10,7261. 18s: 3 i
less than in the preceding 'six months, and 5,41%
13s. 5d.. less than in the corresponding
preceding year. This falling off in the Corepan)of
revenue the Report attributed to the depression,
trade which had generally pervaded the country.
though the revenue had been so diminished, Tet,thi;
consequence of the reduction lately effected In tea
ordinary expenses of the canal, which had wow' one
to nearly 8,0001. in the half-year, the balance of
,1
period a t%
account, to the 30th June 1114 amounted' to 44,3%e
Os. 11d., being thandiing.
3,836/. 15s. 6d. greater
balance of the same account in the corresP°ll re.
period of last year. The Committee, therefore, t.
commended a dividend of 31. 10s. per share, amc4l%
ing to 40,092/. 10s., to be paid, free of Income-!.an:
on Monday, the 9th of January,'
1843, thus !ealhe
the balance of 4,789/. IN. 11d., out of which
and
r
Income-tax would be paid to the Government,s
wo
the remainder carried to the account for new

SURREY THEATRE. pared
An interesting two act drama, entitled Tlie,;
Marriage was produced at this theatre on -"-",0,°-„gra
with complete success. The scene is laid ifyl
during the reign of the Emperor Paul (Yr. '44e(511.r5:
who having discovered that the Countess Ozer2•`bel been
R. Horner), the daughter of Count Ozeroff; rAlex-
encouraging the addresses of the Grand PA'sfre r•
ander, forces her to marry Ivan Daniloff, 5
Cooke), a sledge-driver, and immediately as
e
them to Siberia. In the second act we nj Aleof
act
fr
ander Emperor of all the Russias, and the first
his reign is to recal the Countess Oger°to
and Ivan, who has been as a
her during the banishment. They return.
ilex'
her
ander gives orders for .their divorce, arh'
share his throne with the Countess. She, however,
rejects the Emperor for the sledge-driver, and f-blied
brother
ander joins their hands, having previously en' °auti..
Ivan The acting of T. P. Cooke as Iran, was bileeieg
fully natural ; mid although he was slid full
severely severely from influenza, the part receive
justice at his hands. He was admirably
Mrs. R. Honner, who, in the earlier scenes, C111:I sly
a degree of dignity of which we had not previ.°llaily
thought her capable. The plot is most artistfe.tten
constructed, and the dialogue is morelcarefully 8811 on.
than usual. The piece was received with great r
plause by a crowded house. supportebuitei

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CHINA Pitizs-mONEY.—The China war being _.r.
ended, it is matter of considerable interest
_too,looo
litary men to learn what portion of the 217ucti'liiiese
of dollars indemnity money, which the
Tool
have to pay, is to .be made over as prize- from
~.,1„
to those whose valour has wrung this treasu.r,:civis.,
our crafty enemy; and we trust that such will,",ad,
pensed for the troops with a sufficiently liberal those
not only to cover the losses and extra expemes ° theta
who have been engaged in the war, but to leaver
the
something handsome whereby to remembe
" China expedition."—(lndian) Spectator. been
SIR HUGH GoUGH.—Some puzzlement hastrou
caused in military people's minds by the aPPin a of
of the Marquis of 'iweeddale to the c0m1n,842100
the Madras army, to which Sir Hugh Gougallugh
been nominated; but the fact is, that Si! di, 0
is to be appointed Commander-in-Chief in In be
bag
soon as the termination of the China war 5 ettlecl
known at home ; and it is, we believe, quite a •
..oyi..
thing that Lord Tweeddale will be nominated k'il will
sional Governor-General (probably the next mad' that
bring it out); but we have reason to feel assure _ the
Lord Ellenborough will not leave India before
ex.
cold season of 1844, hy which time his Lordship hes
pects to do a great deal for the country, andusolaa
our best wishes for the fullest success.---Eng 1
(Indian paper), Oct. 13 beery°
The Marklane Express of MonetaY °,_ op.
that 400,000 able-bodied persons • are at thls_ t,be
meat supported out of the poor-rates, and Urge; At
paramount importance of finding employr ,roge.
these people upon the land in works for dr:st the
But it observes justly, that "not only 11) es be
obsolete clauses in the old forms of leas must
oust
abolished, but the letting of lands upon 11.711.0 of
become general, or there must be a large re'"'
vvill clis"
rent." We fear nothing but stern necessitY,
o& of (Oa?*
pose English landlords to consent to Aln ,naepen-
pation which will make their tenants more '
ot to be
dent. But then large reduction of rent is 1%11 grant
thought of. Rather than take less rent they -a,
leases.—Chronicle. CATI.a.
FALMOUTH.—IMPORTATION OF SPANISII . „wain
—On Tuesday last a large brig, called the AI 'cl" for.
and Ann, of Newcastle, from Corunna, bowl' L, a
Southampton, was brought into this harbour'
Yu
Plymouth pilot boat, by which she had beenl for`'
st her
nately fallen in with off Plymouth, having 0 , ed
foremast and sustained other damage which renita,eLdt
her unmanageable, in which state she had been °„"7-b,
ten days. She left Corunna on Sunday, the li?'"
November, and at three o'clock the following morniair
lost her mast in a heavy gale. She had on‘b9.cia
eighty head of Spanish oxen, and the state in vhl.,ll_
othfetyh-earwr,eivaetidlewr atshteriil.)
the rolling of the vessel those stowed between duo'
hatcheslam
MIS CEICaraItZtTEOUB• ecnott:iiliAl en.ot Fromb eoptehneesde;vie,rr;
From China this country has some of its most below, and from want of air and necessaries, togetheriea„,
were thrown through the hatchways upon e
graceful exotics, and among them the Wistaria Sinen- with the injuries they received, fifty-one were dead,
sis, and many of our finest camellias and Azaleas. and several of them remaining alive died after i
The tree-peonies of Canton are much esteemed, and landed. The carcases when landed on the quay
the peaches of Pekin, accounted the most deligious of on Wednesday were in a putrid state, andii wsßeirde
thatsold
the species, weigh many of them upwards of 21bs. to Mr. Lanyon, tanner, at 255. each. 1
At the meeting of the Gloucester Agricultural So-w mil he
ciety, held near Cirencester last week, Mr. Edward ampton, will not recover the insurance,
r_
Rowley remarked, " A Noble Lord in a neighbouring would ;lave done had the bullocks been thrown ove
the owner of the cargo, who is a butchert ati South
county is reported to have said that farmers must board; but the crew had quite as muchhea,
having
gcould
been
exert themselves ; that they must not stand idlepilots were
when their cart is in a hole, and call upon Jupiter for for some time on her beam ends. Tde of the sur-
help. I quite agree with the Noble Lord that it paid 501. for bringing the vessel in.
by do to keep the vessel from foundering, s 1 11
would be useless to call upon Jupiter; but if times viving oxen immediately on being landedrie s read
ter
should continue bad there is another power which the ror all around. He broke away with plart
vessel,
farmer farmer has some sort of right to call upon, and that is tackling by which he was hoisted out of the_. e'',`,a'
the landlord." number
The Duke of Newcastle, at a meeting held last crowds which occupied them ; a considerableed
the length
week at Southwell of the Nottinghamshire Magis- t .ing children. He soon traversed
tel tang
and evinced a determination to clear the wharfs Or t"
trates, proposed that instead of the present rural po- breadth of the town, and was nth=
Fortunately
lice, which at present cost 4,8161., 366 constables means of ropes thrown over his horns.
rgi
should be appointed; the total cost of which would no person received any injury,--Sherborne and rep
be 3,1701. His Grace's recgaraendation failed Nero'''.