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LONDON :
SATtTRDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 5, 1842.

those great trades which depend on gratifying
the animal wants of the masses, in which the

supply and the demand are equal and regular,
end of which the extension is gradual but con-
tinual.

To explain or excuse these vicissitudes a good I
deal is said about the caprice of fashion in an
opulent community, but it is unworthy of us to
content ourselves with such a phrase. Ours no
longer deserves the name of an opulent commu-
nity. A few persons have got plenty, and
live at their ease ; but the masses are steeped in
poverty ; their wages, and the value of their
work has been for a few years continually de-
clining. A great number of the people are given
up to frightful beggary. Amongst the opulent,
indeed, who are exclusively the customers of the
tradesmen in question, there is much caprice, but
it springs less from their opulence than theirimi-
tation of those above them, and their blind admi-
ration of some higher degree of opulence. In
truth it is not the opulence of the community
but the spirit ofan idle aristocracy which disturbs
trade, which meets us here as in every other part
of society, and is found much more redolent
of mischief than advantage.
Much to the discredit of the industrious middle
classes we must say, considering the HERT-
FORDS, FRANKFORTS, and bread-taxing land-
lords, of whom the aristocracy is composed,
they blindly follow the idle aristocracy, and be-
come, without their motives and enjpyments, the
victims of their whims. Instead of studying what
is graceful, useful, and convenient, they only
study what the aristocracy do; and the industrious
classes thus wilfully continue the slaves of the
idle and rapacious classes, after time and circum-
stance have emancipated them. Of course,
they are much laughed at for their silliness,
The titled aristocracy, who have a large annual
income from the land, increased by the bread-
tax, are delighted to see the hard earnings of
the professional man, the manufacturer, the
merchant, or the wholesale tradesman, squan-
dered in imitation of their worthless pursuits.
By that they are longer maintained in ascendancy,
and they are kept in countenance, and the toil-
ing classes doomed to a whole life of irksome
drudgery.
This is not the worst of the matter. The
middle classes, by their imitation of the aristo-
cracy, are compelled to be the hard task-mas-
ters of those beneath them. We remind them.
not reproachfully, but sorrowfully, that out of
this has grown that contest between them and

le lower classes which at this moment makes

the whole society feel insecure. Changes in
fashion, therefore, are not due to opulence,
which seems attended with no startling and
ruinous caprice in the United States, but to
the aristocratic nature of our society. Be-
cause one great Lady chooses to wear tar-
tans for a few weeks, out of compliment
to the gallant people amongst whom SHE has had
much pleasure, and by whom she has been much
honoured and feasted, all other ladies, who have
been neither feasted nor honoured, must do the
same. They cause, by their taste in following
the fashion, no little confusion, it appears, in the
course of trade, and if they give an impulse to it
in some quarters, withdraw it from others where
it seems quite as much wanted.

FALMOUTH, Nov. 4, EIGHT A.M.—We have but a
few minutes to spare to announce the arrival of the
Medway steamer at Penzance last night, with the
West India and other mails, not being able to fetch

this port. ^ She brings intelligence that the Isis
foundered off Bermuda, but that all the crew and pas-

sengers were saved (with the exception of one boy)
by the Medway, which vessel was in company at the
time. _ _ _

The dissatisfaction of the agriculturists, and of
a considerable portion of the trading community, 1
with Sir ROBERT PEEL, is an edifying comment
on that blind confidence which John Bull is so
apt to bestow at times on a public man, merely
because he maintains a cold, reserved, but plau-
sible, demeanour, vents clap-trap common- 1
places at every suitable opportunity, and is as-
siduous in his cultivation of all the conventional
respectabilitieS oflife. Raised to power on the broad
shoulders of the agricultural party, who fbund
excellent allies,in the trading middle classes, and
the genteel, orderly Toryism of the professions,
the Right Hon. Baronet has contrived to asto-
nish, disappoint, and fairly mystify them all.
The landowners and farmers thought, as a matter.
of course, that as they were mainly instrumental
in elevating him to his present post, he would
make a point, in framing his remedial measures,
so to contrive, as that their particular interests
should remain, nearly, if not quite, uninjured.
The traders were influenced by the same agree
able hopes, as far as they were concerned; and
those members of the professions who were still
struggling hard to obtain a decent competence,
never imagined for an instant that the Premier's
measures would affect their especial interests; so
—like their brethren in affliction the agricultu-
rists and the traders—thought it the wisest plan
they could adopt to support a Minister who was
not only a paragon of respectability, but pro-
fessed a genteel and orthodox abhorrence of all
such vulgar, revolutionary changes as were pro-
, jected by his predecessors. And what is the
result of all this purblind confidence? Why,
' just this, that each party has been outwitted, and
now finds to its cost that its selfish cunning has
overshot the mark. In recompense for their
disinterested services, the Tamworth Doctor has
administered to the agriculturists a strong emetic,
in the shape of a Tariff, that has made them all
as sick as dogs ; and the trading and professional
classes be has all but thrown into convulsions by
such a free use of his Income-tax lancet as in a
short time will scarcely leave them a drop of
blood in their veins. Each party now looks at
the other, with a penitent, woe-begone expres-
sion of countenance, that seems to say, " What a
set of fools we have all been !" The agricultu-
rists cry out that the iniquitous Tariff will be the
death of them, and in the few melancholy din-
ners
that they get up for the purpose of record-
ing their sense of the awful and undeserved cala-
mity that has befallen them, make a point of
diligently forgetting to drink the usual toast of
" her Majesty's Ministers ;" and tradesmen and
struggling:professional men in town and country,
exclaim with equal bitterness, that, since the
first invention of taxes—an invention, we sus-
pect, coeval with the Deluge—there never has
been so rascally—so mischievous—so teazing,
impertinent, and inquisitorial an impost as the
Income-tax. We confess we are not altogether
sorry that these parties have been tricked by Sir
ROBERT PEEL. They were warned before-hand,
not once but a hundred times, that he would
play them off, one against the other, and end
by making dupes of them all ; and, consequently,
they were without 'the shadow of excuse for
their blind confidence.

No inconsiderable complaints are made by
the large class of wholesale and retail dealers,
of the injury they have sustained by the sudden
and unexpected impulse which has been given
to the consumption of tartans, in consequence of
her MAJESTY'S visit to Scotland. Orders had
been given for fancy goods, or stocks laid in for
the winter trade, which have been entirely su-
perseded by the use of tartans, and the value of
their stocks has fallen 50 or 60 per cent. The
manufacturers of tartans are, no doubt, profit-
ing by the change, and can scarcely supply the
numeroes orders they receive. In some cases,
perhaps, the double business may he united in
the same hands, and what they lose on their
fancy goods they may gain on their tartans; but
where it is not, and the stocks are heavy, the
LAS must be severe. Such persons may find
consolation in the reflection, that the trade they
are engaged in is subject at all times to these
vicissitudes of fashion, that it approximates to a
game of 'ehance, and that, it' they lose now, they
will gain at other dines. They may remember,
toe, that from the vicissitudes of fashion to which
they are ready panders, they at all times reap
their great profits with great ease, and they will
scarcely feel themselves entitled to murmur at
one little frown from a goddess who showers on
them so many favours.
But though the individuals may have little
right to complain, we are not disposed to regard
as very favourable to society a trade which de-
pends so much on caprice, and partakes so much
of the nature of gambling. Sudden and unex-
pected gains, or sudden and unexpected losses
have no good effects. The former makes men
arrogant and extravagant, and the latter are apt
to sink them to despair. It is a mistake to sup-
pose in sueh cases that the losses of one are com-
pensated by the gains of another. In both the
evil predominates, and such a trade is scarcely to
be called wholesome. It is at variance with

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDFOR, FRIDAY.—Her Majesty and her Illus-
trious Consort enjoyed their accustomed morning
walk in the forenoon, in the new grounds of the
Home-park.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
the Princess Royal were taken their accustomed air-
ings, attended by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton.
In the afternoon, her Majesty and the Prince again
took pedestrian exercise in the Home-park.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester,
attended by Lady Caroline Legge, arrived at the
Castle, on a visit to her Majesty.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and
Lady Charlotte Dundas, will join the Royal dinner
circle at the Castle this evening. The company will
also include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glou-
cester, Lady Caroline Legge, the Earl and Countess
Bruce, Countess of Dunmore, Lady Caroline Cocks,
Hon. Miss Devereux, Viscount Hawarden, Hon. C.
A. Murray, Admiral Sir Robert Otway, Lord Charles
Wellesley, Colonel Wyld, and Dr. Prcetorius.

Her Royal highness the Duchess of Gloucester
attended by Lady Caroline Legge, left her residence,
Gloucester House, yesterday, on a visit, to her Ma-
jesty at Windsor Castle.
A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock yc s-
terday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. It was rt-
tended by Sir Robert Peel, the Lord Chancellor, Lord
1V harncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, Earl of Aber-
deen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of
Ripon, and Sir Edward Knatchbull.
['he Council sat two hours. _ _ _

Mr. Lord and Mr. Batten, from Leeds, had an in-
terview with the Earl of Ripon yesterday, at the Office
of the Board of Trade.

The Governor of the Bank cf England and the pe-
puty-Governor had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in
Downing-street.

The Attorney-General, and Mr. Bond, the newly
Magistrate of Queen-square police-office
aerthineted room of the late Mr. Gregorie), transacted
business at the Home. office yesterday.

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1842.

LOSS OF THE ROYAL MAIL
STEAM-SHIP ISIS.

The Tay steamer, with the West India and Mexi-
can mails, proceeded yesterday, and the Ranger packet,
with the Brazil mails, sailed this morning. The wind
is now from N.E., fine weather.
The following relates to this unfortunate event.
The Isis got on shore on the N.E. point of Porto
Rico, on the morning of Monday, Sept. 12.
R. M. S. Packet Isis, Port Royal Harbour,

17th September, 1842.
Sir—Thinking it probable that a variety of exag-
gerated reports may get in circulation relative to this
ship having taken the ground off the N.E. point of
Porto Rico, on the morning of the 12th inst., I beg
to transmit you the following particulars :
The Isis left St. Thomas's on the evening of Sun-
day, September 11, at 7 p.m., with the outward Eu-
ropean mails for St. Juan, Porto Rico, Turk's Island,
&c. All went on well until midnight, when, not seeing
the land, and by the distance the ship had ran suppos-
ing her to be off the port, she was hauled in towards
the land, which was observed at 30 min. a.m., on
Monday morning. 'We continued our course along
shore until 45 minutes a.m., when, to our great asto-
nishment, the ship struck the ground, going at the
time at the rate of 10 knots. Boats were immediately
lowered to sound round the ship ; the water being found
deep astern, the engines were reversed, and at 1 30
succeeded in backing the ship into deep water. Find-
ing the water again shoaling, and not being certain of
our position, I deemed it most prudent to anchor until
daylight, when, to our astonishment, we found that al-
though the ship had run 54 miles by the log, she had
grounded on the N.E. point of Porto Rico, and
scarcely 40 miles from St. Thomas's.
Fortunately, at the time of grounding, there was
but little wind, but the swell caused her to strike
heavily, by which her bottom is no doubt injured.
The ship making much water we were induced to
proceed to this port, on my arrival at which I have re-
ceived such kind aid and assistance from the naval
department, that I trust with such repairs as they will
be enabled to assist in affording us I shall be enabled
to proceed to England with the mails of the Ist of
October. _

The passengers for England, the Havana, and
Vera Cruz were transferred to the Tay, and those for
Jamaica brought on in the ship.
It may not be unsatisfactory to annex a copy of a
letter addressed to me by the passengers, whom we
conveyed and transferred to the Tay, at Turk's Island.
—I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient
humble servant,
(Signed) J. F. LONEY, Commander.
Samuel Anderson, Esq.
It. M. S. Packet Isis, Sept. 14.

Sir,—As passengers in this steamer, we consider it
not improper to make some allusion to the accident
which occurred by the vessel taking the ground off
Porto Rico shortly after the night of Sunday, Sep-
tember 11.

TO MAGISTRATES, MAGISTRATES' CLERKS. SO-
LICITORS, CLERKS TO POOR-LAW UNIONS, &c.
This day is published, price 6d. stamped, No. 44, Vol. VI., of
THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE;
Containing :—Summary of the Statutory Enactments of
the last Session of Parliament, held 5 and 6 Vic. 1842 ; u ith
the Cases (hitherto published) decided in the Courts at West-
minster in Michaelmas, Hilary, Easter, and Trinity Terms
last, and at some of the Circuits, continued :—The Queen v.
Hodgson, quo warranto; application for.—Timins v. Williams,
Loan Societies ; Treasurer for the time being ; Right to sue ;
Payment of Loans ; Mode of enforcing.—The Queen v. Greene ;
quo warranto ; Costs ; Attorney ; Making Affidavit.—Doe
gem. Friers v. Coombs ; Evidence ; Deed; Stamp ; Attesta-
tion, &c.

As an accident, it is one we all much regret, and
our object in addressing you at present is, to convey
to you this written acknowledgment of our satisfaction
at the cool and prompt manner in which you issued
your orders at a moment of extreme danger, and with
the successful efforts made by yourself and the other
officers, as also by the crew generally, to relieve us
from the very perilous position in which we were for
a time placed.
IVe take advantage of this opportunity to offer you
our best thanks for the consideration you have on all
occasions shown to us.—We are, sir, your very
obedient servants. (Signed by nine Passengers.)

Captain Loney, &c.
After taking the ground, the Isis proceeded to Turk's
Island, when, from her state, it was deemed prudent
to send her to Jamaica for repairs, the leaks during
the passage from Porto Rico having obliged her to
keep all her pumps going—and here the passengers
protested against proceeding to Nassau in her; accord-
ingly the mails, &c., were removed to the Company's
steamer Tay, and those for ;Jamaica carried on in the
Isis. The leaks did not materially increase during
the passage to Jamaica (51 hours), where she arrived
on September 17, and assistance was immediately sent
from her Majesty's dockyard, as well as from the
men-of-war then lying at Port Royal. By the 27th
September, all the repairs that could be aftbrded at
this port were completed, and a trial trip was made
outside the harbour, from the result of which the Isis
was deemed sufficiently sea-worthy to proceed to sea
with the mails. Accordingly, she left Port Royal on
that day, and arrived at Nassau, N.P., on the 3d
October, where she was joined by the Medway, and
after arrangements were entered into, and the mails
and specie transhipped to her, both ships took their
departure in company for England, via Bermuda and
Fayal.
The weather for the first few days was fine, but on
the 7th October a breeze sprung up from the E.N.E.,
which gradually increased to a gale, with a heavy sea
running. From the time of the breeze freshening the
leaks increased, and it was found necessary to set all
the hand-pumps going, which, for a time, kept the
water under. During the night of Saturday, the
Bth, the gale and sea had increased so much as to
cause the Lis to labour very heavily, the water all this
time gradually gaining on the pumps, which were now
rendered unserviceable from constant use. At 7 30
a.m., the engines from some cause stopped, and the
crew was now reduced to the alternative of baling
with buckets as the only means of keeping the water
under. The ship now became unmanageable, and
fell off into the trough of the sea, when the main
trysail was set, but from the violence of the wind it
was of little use. It was now thought prudent to
inform Captain Smith, of the Medway, of the dis-
tressed situation of the Isis, but from the prompt
manner in which the signals had been observed
and answered by that ship, all on board had the
greatest confidence in the assistance that would be
rendered in the event of their being obliged to aban-
don the Isis, and therefore they determined to remain
on board while there was a hope of saving her. By
this time (eight a.m.) the chief engineer had disco-
vered the cause of the engines stopping, and after
much time and trouble they were again set in mo-
tion, but only for a few minutes, for the water had
gained so rapidly as to extinguish the fires. The
ship's company seeing the engines again stop, went
off in a body to know what was to be done with the
ship. No hopes now remained ; the fires were out,
and being deprived of all means of keeping alb
water under, which was gaining so rapidly that it
was feared she would go down before there was
a possibility of leaving her in the boats. The signal
of distress was therefore made to the Medway, which
was immediately answered, and she bore down to our
assistance in the midst of a heavy squall. The life
boats were now with much risk and difficulty got
into the water, but from the heavy sea running, and
from the ship being now water-logged and rolling so
heavily in the trough of the sea, little hopes could be
entertained of saving the lives of those on board, ex-
pecting every moment the boats would be either
dashed to pieces or swamped alongside. Fortunately
at this moment a heavy squall of rain lulled the wind
and sea, and by great care and difficulty the boats
were hauled under the lee quarter, and the passengers
and half the ship's company lowered themselves by
ropes into the first, and she was cast off and allowed
to drift towards the Medway ; the remaining part of
the ship's company and officers then lowered them-
selves into the other boat, and she was also cast off,
and the Isis left to her fate.
From the great exertions of Captain Smith and
officerswere
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who was unfortunately drowned. The Medway re-
mained as close to the wreck as the violence of the
gale would allow with safety, and the following morn.
ing the wind and sea having considerably moderated,
and the Isis being still afloat, boats were sent to as-
certain if a possibility remained of towing her into
Bermuda, about 40 miles distant; but a few moments
sufficed to convince them that such an attempt would
be useless, as the water was now rushing into the sa-,
loon, and the lower deck was already burst up. By
noon the ship had sunk so deep in the water as to
oblige all the boats to leave her. The Medway kept
near the spot until daylight, when it was discovered
that the Isis had gone down during the night, a few
spars and hencoops, &c., being seen floating on the
water, the only remains of this noble but ill-fated
. ship.

London : Henry Shaw, 137, Fetter-lane.

FIRE IN THAMES-STREET.—A fire broke out yes-
terday afternoon in Upper Thames-street, opposite
All-hallows Church and Calvert's brewery, on pre-
mises occupied by Mr. Rumsey, a druggist, and
Messrs. Dawson and Bolt, drysalters. From the na-
ture of the materials, the appearance was, for nearly
an hour, of a terrific description ; but by the arrive'
of several engines, and a plentiful and speedy supply
of water, the fire was shortly mastered, though not
until the whole of the building had been entirely
destroyed. The origin of the fire is not exactly known ;
but it is generally believed to have been caused by the
opening of a carboy of turpentine, upon which the
spark from a candle had fallen, which immediately
ignited, and spread with the most fearful rapidity.
The damage is estimated at 2,0001.
BROCKETT HALL HIRETS.—ViSCOURt Melbourne
is going on favourably,, and, in consequence of his
Lordship's improved health, no further bulletins have
been dispatched to South-street since Tuesday last.
Dr. Holland, however, occasionally visits his noble
patient.

tide :

the Fives at 267-16 cash, 27 26 15-16 at 60 days,
and 211 at 20 days with four coupons.
MADRID, Oct. 2B.—Three per Cents., 211 at 60
days; Five per Cents., 261 cash, 271 at 60 days,
211 with four coupons at 60 days.

The Municipality of Hanover went to King
ERNEST with a congratulation on his son's mar-
riage, begging that he would take this opportu-
nity of giving up his prosecution of the City Ma-
gistracy. King ERNEST bade the worthy citizens
to go about their business, and not trouble him a
fourth time on the subjefit.
DAHLMAN, banished from Gottingen, is to have
a professional chair at 'Bonn.
The King of PRUSSIA has exempted from the
censorship all publications of more than twenty
sheets.

A Frankfort paper relates, that a smith of the
Island'of Felster has nearly discovered the quad-
rature of the circle., A most favourable report
has been mader,of his discovery. The smith's
name is KIRCHBOF;

The Augsburg Gazette says—" The Commer-
cial Company of Trieste have resolved on dis-
patching sonic of their body to the East Indies,
to report, on the best means of opening a direct
trade between Austria and the East.

The correspondence dated Frontiers of Turkey
the 20th, in the Augsburgh Gazette of the 30th
ult., gives a deplorable picture of the state of
Servia. In the midst of the rejoicings at Bel-
grade for the SULTAN'S confirmation of the new
order, or rather disorder of things, terror and
persecution were the order of the day. WUTS-
CHITCH had established committees of public
safety. Arrests of several rich merchants had
taken place, many of whom were very ill treated,
and then banished. The prisons were crowded
with persons whose opinions were regarded to be
unfavourable to the Government; and on the 15th
of September a Turk killed a publiclunctionary
n the butchers' market, alleging that he had
been authorised by WUTSCHITCH, who, amongst
other atrocities, had ordered the Commandant
MITSCHITSCH to be conducted in chains, bound
to a car drawn by oxen, through. the town of
Belgrade, exposed to the ridicule of the popu-
lace. MITSCHITSCH had remained to the last
faithful to Prince MICHAEL, and had been taken
prisoner by the Turkish authorities, who handed
him over to the Servian Government.

The Paris papers are chiefly occupied v►ith
discussions on the opposition made to the pro-
posed commercial treaty with Belgium ; but as
the affair has turned out an utter failure, they
possess no interest fur the English reader.

The Monit cur P ari.sie it has the annexed an

and most peremptory contradiction which language
admits of. We will not weaken the force of the sim-
ple contradiction, to which we gladly give all the
publicity within our power, by expressing the deep
indignation which we, in common with everybody else,
must feel at those whose reckless carelessness or

ieartless apEetite for scandal (for we cannot suppose
anything so unnatural as malice) has given currency
to these falsehoods. Inventors, and propagators—
who have imagined, spoken, and printed such cruel
assertions—we scarcely know who have most reason
to be ashamed of their share in anything so mis-
chievous and unfeeling. We will only express our
hope that this most peremptory and unqualified denial
will have the effect of crushing, at once and for ever,
reports which it is humiliating to think should ever
have obtained a moment's credit.—Times.

THE INDIA AND LEVANT MAILS.
A telegraphic dispatch, which was forwarded from
Marseilles at daybreak on Wednesday, was only re-
ceived in Paris, owing to the misty state of the at-
mosphere, on Thursday morning : it simply announced
the arrival, on the evening of the Ist instant., of the
French Levant steamer, with dates from Constanti-
nople and Alexandria of the 17th ult., Smyrna the
19th, and Malta the 25th. The dispatches and papers
by this mail were expected in Paris on Friday (yes-
terday).
The India mail, with dates from Bombay of Octo-
ber the Ist, had not reached Marseilles up to day-
break of the 2d. We have, consequently, very little
hope of being enabled to publish the full details of the
India and Chinese intelligence, so anxiously expected,
in a late edition this day ; but we trust, in the course
of the day, to receive information from Paris of the
arrival of the mail at Marseilles, with the heads of
the news transmitted through the medium of the
telegraph, and in Monday's impression we rely on
being able to complete the French version, by the
publication of advices from our own correspondents.

A second meeting took place this afternoon at four
o'clock, at the house of M. Fulehiron. It appears
that as many Deputies were present at this meeting
as at the first ; all shades of opinion were represented.
Nothing has transpired of the discussion at this meet-
ing, which it was desired should be considered pri-
vate. All the persons who were present entered into
an engagement to keep what transpired secret.
The Journal des Debuts gives the following
reason for the removal of General PAJOL from
the command of the first military division:—
The Government has felt it to be its duty to give
a successor to General Pkol. It conceived that a
charge so toilsome required an officer, not of greater
courage, not more devoted to his duties, not more full
of patriotism, but in all the vigour of life. It has,
therefore, nominated General Tiburce Sebastiani,
whose claims and qualifications for such an important
post no one will contest. However great consideration
may be due to old and tried services, the duty of a
Government is to consult above all things the good of
the State, and there comes an age when good-will alone
is not sufficient for the performance of certain func-
tions. It is precisely because a man has served long
and zealously that he becomes disabled from serving
any longer. General Pajol has attained his 68thyear
—an age at which retirement is not onlydesirable, but
honourable—for it is no longer the time for active
service, and above all for a service so laborious and
complicated as that of military commandant of the
capital of a great kingdom.
On relinquishing the command the General
took leave of the officers and soldiers in these
words :

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO TEREE.
The arrival of the West India mail furnishes later
dates from all the colonies, the principal being Ja-
maica Sept. 26, Barbadoes Sept. 17, Trinidad Sept.
13, and Demerara Sept. 17.
The news from Jamaica is satisfactory, the rain
having fallen abundantly vegetation looking healthy,
the prospects of the agriculturists being good, and
the labourers conducting themselves with propriety,
though it is alleged against them as a matter
of complaint, that they were (more anxious
to cultivate their own grounds than those:of their em-
ployers. The loss of another steamer, the Isis, be-
longing to the fleet of the West India Mail Company,
has excited much regret in the city, and will no doubt
be a heavy blow for the Association, which, as we
believe, takes it own risks. The accident in the present
instance :appears to have been attended with
such serious results from the circumstance
of the Isis having been previously ashore, and from
the want of a proper naval yard to effect substantial
repairs in her ere she proceeded on her voyage.
The planters of Jamaica, like our own landholders,
finding protection and bolstering no longer the order
of the day, and left to their own resources, have been
compelled to exercise a little energy within the last
two years, and the result, according to their own dear
organ, the Jamaica Dispatch, has been highly satis-
factory, evincing clearly what might have been done
sooner under a better system, much to the saving of
consumers in the mother country. The whole island
is said to have exhibited the most marked signs of
improvement, and the miserable plan of raking up the
ground by hand bills has been superseded by the deep
furrowing of the plough, while agricultural societies
were promoting the pursuits of grazing and the culti-
vation of necessaries never before attempted in the
colony. The Governors of late years are said to have
bestowed much more care on these subjects than
under the ancien regime, and especially Sir Charles
Metcalfe, whom the colonists evidently hold in great
remembrance. The health of Lord Elgin and family,
who were sojourning in the mountains, had been im-
proving. The Legislature was to meet for the dis-
patch of business on the 25th of October last.
From Demerara our accounts certainly do not im-
prove. The greatest privation was experienced in
many families, and the young men who had been em-
ployed as clerks and overseers were unemployed, and
in too many instances, falling into bad habits. Money
could scarcely be realised upon any description of pro-
perty, so prostrated was confidence and trade.
The troops sent to the Brazilian frontier had re-
turned in good health, but beyond entailing expense,
the expedition appears to have had noparticular result.
In Demerara provisions were not so scarce. We
find nothing of general interest from the minor de-
pendencies of Antigua, Dominica, St. Lucia, &c.
The report of the Liverpool Cotton Market kives
the sales yesterday at 4,000 bales, and for the week
at 23,000 bales. The stock is 486,860 bales, exceed-
ing rather that of last year. Railway Shares had be-
come dull. Eastern Counties were quoted 8*; North
Midland, Half, 32 ; and South Eastern, New, 17.
Not a single transaction was reported this morning in
Consols for Account. The nominal price is, therefore
934 ; for Money the current quotation now is 931 s ;
Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities are
heavy at 1004; the New Three-and-a-Half per
Cents. at 1014 4 ; Exchequer Bills were at 60 ; and
Bank of England Stock has advanced to 169.
Guy Fawkes' day has lost much of its interest in
the Stock Exchange as well as elsewhere. Time
was, when scores of pounds' worth of fireworks
were fired off in remembrance of the happy escape of
" the Commons" from the underhanded deadly inten-
tions of the famous Guy.
There are good accounts from Mexico to-day,
brought by the West India steamer the Medway.
She brings, we hear, a further remittance for the next
half-yearly dividends. Mexican Stock has improved
to 33, and the Deferred to 91. Old Portuguese Five
per Cents. for Account have realised 58 this after-
noon, and the Converted Stock remains at 324 4.
Spanish Three per Cents. have been bought at 214 4.
The Five per Cents. Dutch, remain at 1004 4, and the
Brazilian New Five per Cents. at 55.
-A slight movement upward has occurred to-day in
a few of the Railway shares. The Great Western
New Shares, have been down at 114 premium, and in
the Fifths, at 34 premium; London and Brighton re-
main at bout 134 discount ; South Western are at
lBt premium ; York and North Midland at 41 pre-
mium ; Midland Counties at 344 discount; and Man-
chester end Birmingham at 191 discount. Joint
(London) Stock Bank shares are at 34 premium.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
R A ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Edinburgh and Gla.gew
Ditto New
Great Western
Ditto New ••• ... 50 -
•
Ditto Fifths
London ant Brighton
London and South Western ... 41% 594 to 60
Manchester and Birmingham 40
Midland Counties ... 100
South Eastern and Dover SO

Before I quit the troops, from whom I behold my-
self thus suddenly separated, I wish to address to thin
my felicitations—to express to them my gratitude—
for the zeal and discipline which they have exhibited
whilst under my orders. For the last twelve years
nearly all the corps of the army have successively
formed part of the first division ; their courage, often
put to severe proofs, has never been shaken, and in
all the circumstances in which I have appealed to
their devotedness, they.have fully justified my expec-
tations. Officers and soldiers, we have together per-
formed difficult duties, and your attachment has ren-
dered them less laborious to me. I thank you for the
confidence you have invariably shown to me ; it is
the more precious to me, inasmuch as to it must be
partly attributed the order and tranquillity which
reign in Paris.

M. TRIERS has arrived in Paris.
The death of M. TARGET, Prefect of Calvados,
was announced in Paris last evening.
The Gazette de France of yesterday evening
says :—" Hardly had the legal notification of the
decision of the Court of Assizes, which condemned
M. AUBRY, jun., as responsible editor of the Ga-
zette, been given to us for the payment of
the fine of 13,N0f., than it was carried against
M. AUBRY, as regards his sentence, to a year's
imprisonment. He was arrested this morning as
he was leaving home, and taken to the depot at
the Prefecture de Police."
BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 118 50... 118 65... 118 50... 118 60
41,! per Cents 105 25... 105 105 25... 105 25
Four per Cents 100 50... 100 50 .. 100 45... 100 50
3 per Cents 89 15... 80 25... 80 15... 80 15
Bank of France 3275 ...3275 ...3270 .. 3270
Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1050 —lO5O ...1050 —.1050
5,000 f 5075 —.5075 ...5075 —.5075
Belgian Fives 102/ ... 102 k ... 102/ ... 102/
1840.... 1041 ... 1041 ... 1041 ... 1041
Threes 72 ... 72 ... 72 ... 72
Dutch 24 per Cents 531 ... b3l ... 53 ... 531
Spanish Active 224 ... 224 ... -22 i ... 224
Passive 3/ ... 4 ... 3/ ... 4
Portuguese Fives 32* ... 321 ... 321 ... 321
Neapolitan... lOB 40... 106 45... 108 40... 108 45
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.

Ditto Scrip . .
fork and North Midland SO 9l • . .. to -
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHAgGE, Nov. 4.—There
is little doing to-day. Sheffield and Manchester, 31;
Manchester and Birmingham, 19i to 194 ; Manches-
ter and Leeds, 66 to 67; Edinburgh and Glasgow,
45i to 46 ; South Western, 59 to 59i ; Manchester
Assurance, 9 1-16th.

St. Germain 847 50... 850 ... 847 ... 850
Versailles, R.B 263 75... 265 ... 263 75... 263 75
L.B 96 25... 98 75... 96 25... 98 75
Rouen

Orleans.
Strasburg to Bale 205 ... 206 25... 205 ... 205
DUTCH FUNDS.—ANSTEIMAM, Nov. I.
Money. Bills.
Actual Del t, 2% per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amin Syndic, 4% per cent 93 94
Mtte, ditto, 3% per cent 77 77%
Commercial Company, 4% per cent 135% 136
Loan 1837, 5 per cent.... ...... 89% 100
Exchange on London, One 12 20
Twomonths 12 15
Hamburgh, One month O5 871 f
Two months 35 t2yi,
Dutch Papers, Nov. 2.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaUssaLs, Nov. 2
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent, 53%
Bothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. lO2
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent ...
Three per Cent..... . . ....
----Thirty.seven Milli:ns, ditto
(1849) ll3 X
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent 92
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent BO
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 77
National Society
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Nov 2.
AUSTRIAN 1. UNDS...-ViENNA, OCT. N.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents. lOO%
Three per Cents .
Bank Shares
Allgetneine Zeilung, Oct. 2:s.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BEntiv, OcT. 31.
Bills: Money
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. 103% 118%
Prussian English 80nd04130, 4 per cent. 1.,2% 1 2
Exchange on London .. - 6 241,‘
Prussian State Gazette. Nov. 1.

BRIGHTON, Nov. 4.—THE PAVILION. —ln con-
sequence of her Majesty having postponed her visit
to Brighton, orders were received yesterday at the
Pavilion to immediately stop the whole of the work-
men engaged in the repairs, &c. It is a great.disap-
pointment to the 'town, as orders arrived only on
Tuesday last for all workmen to get finished by the
Bth. The town continues filling very fast.
WALMER CASTLE.—The arrival of her Majesty
and Prince Albert, and their illustrious children, is at
present fixed for Thursday next, the 10th, or Satur-
day, the 12th. As the castle is not sufficiently capa-
cious to accomodate all the Royal suite, it is expected
that the members of the Royal household in at-
tendance on the Queen will be limited to the number
which usually attend her Majesty on her visits to
Claremont.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by part
of the Royal suite, left Windsor Castle at nine o'clock
this morning, for the Slough station, and immediately
left by a special train of the Great IVestern Railway,
for town. On arriving at the Paddington terminus,
her Majesty and suite entered two of the Royal car-
riages and four, which were in readiness, and pro-
ceeded to Buckingham Palace, where the Royal party
arrived shortly before ten o'clock, thus accomplishing
the journey from Windsor Castle .to Buckingham
Palace within the hour. Prince Albert afterwards
went to Somerset House, to attend the meeting at the
office of the Duchy of Cornwall. Her Majesty and
Prince Albert left town at one o'clock, on their return
to Windsor Castle, by a special train.
Many persons' attention has been probably drawn
to certain most malignant and injurious aspersions,
which have been circulated with more or less explicit-
ness, upon the character of a lady of.high rank, and
the conduct of a younger member of the Royal fa-
mily. We have ourselves scrupulously abstained from
mentioning them, in the full belief that they were—
what they have turned out to be—simply false and
scandalous. Nor should we now have noticed them,
except to state that we are authorised, on the very
highest authority, to give these calumnies the fullest

WALYER CASTLE.—The Duke of Wellington ar-
rived at the castle on Thursday afternoon from Aps-
ley: House. There i an: erroneous impression that
the Queen and Prince Albert are to honour the Noble
and Gallant Duke by a visit ; that is not the case, the
Duke gives up the castle enterely for the use of her
Majesty and Court.
HER MAJESTY'S LATE VISIT TO SCOTLAND..--4
private letter from Perth informs us of the intention
of the Earl of Mansfield and the nobility and gentry
of the neighbourhood, and the municipal authorities
of Perth, to perpetuate the visit of the Queen to that
city in her Royal progress to the Highlands from
Edinburgh, by erecting a noble arch at the entrance
to the burgh from the Bridge of Earne, where the
temporary triumphal arch was erected by the plat-
form at which the city keys were presented by the
Provost; it is to be of stone from Craigleith quarry.
The Council have voted 1001. from the city funds, and
the members individually have come forward with
subscriptions to defray the expenses of the erection,
and the Earl of Mansfield has given 251. in further-
ance of the object of the promoters of so handsome an
ornament to the qty.
FRENCH PLAYS.—Mr. Mitchell has succeeded in
engaging the distinguished comic actor M. Vernet
for the ensuing season of French plays at the St.
James's Theatre. The established favourites of last
season, Plessy, Dejazet, and Bouffe have been. re-en-
gaged. La Pere de la Debutante, will be one of the
earliest productions for M. Vernet's performance.
MOUNTSHANNON, Nov. 1.--The following bulletin
was issued this morning The Countess Dowager
of Clare has had a tranquil night, and is not worse
to-day. Her Ladyship has escaed the immediate
danger of "her recent acute attack,' but suffers much
from the consequent debility."