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London, England, 1845-11-04 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS.

TIM HAGUE, Oc,r. 30.—The Bulletin of the Laws pub-
lishes in ii s last number a royal ordinance fixing at
2,800,000 _florins the cap Pal assigned for the repayment of
fourteen rew series of bonds, bearing interest at four and a
half per cent., chargeable to the late Syndicate.
The Slants Courant contains a royal message, with a pro-
ject of law and explamtory memorial relative to the ex-
cise on sugar (to be paid (n impartation). The excise is
proposed to be 13tiii florins on every hundred pounds of
raw sugar, 'gross weight, large and small quantities in pro-
portion.
OcronEß 31.—The Second Chamber of the States-General
adopted yesterday evening all the paragraphs of the proposed
address in answer to the speech from the throne, after which
the whole was agreed to by a majority of 40 to 11.
The address is as follows:
" Sire,—The representatives of the nation feel themselves
happy at again seeirg your Majesty among them at the open-
ing of the session, and of learning from you that the situation
of, the country in general bears a favourable appearance.
We wish that the continuance of the good understanding
between the Netherlands and foreign Powers may be a
guarantee that our rights will be I espected. We expect from
it, at the same time, advantage,us results for our commerce,
our navigations, and our manufactures. We hope with you,
Sire, that the visit which you have paid to the Queen of
Great B-itain may have contributed to these results, as far
as our relations with that country are concerned. We are
happy to learn that the army and navy continue to be dis-
tinguished by their good conduct and discipline.
" The development and augmentation of our naval force
appear to be desirable.

4At the same time that we appreciate with gratitude the
benefits of the tranquillity which our colonial possessions en-
joy, we learn %WI pleasure that the increased prices of co-
lonial produce have a favourable effect on the condition of
those possessions. We shall be glad to receive from your
Majesty further communications respecting the measures
which have Ifitely been adopted, and those which it is in-
tended to adopt in the sequel for the international improve-
ment of our possessions, both in the East and West Indies.
We are convinced that order and the regular courses in the
administration of internal affairs are of great importance to
the country.

" It is highly important to watch with the greatest solici-
tude the maintenance of everything relative to the organisa-
tion and improvement of public institutions. Your Majesty
will always find us ready to second you iu your efforts to
attain this important object if a change in the organisation of
public institutions should be found necessary.
The welfare of the nation cannot fail to be promoted by
the enterprising spirit manifested in undo-taking great works
for the draining, erecting dikes', &c.

"We appreciate your—Majesty's care to improve useful re-
lai!ons by means of channels of communication by land and
by water, and by the construction of railways without bur-
dening the State.
" We gratefully acknowledge the protecting hand of
Divine Providence, which averted the extraordinary dani er
that threatened our dikes and other works last winter.

" We attach the greatest value to the prosperity of the
several branches of manufactures. We rejoice that the re-
sults have of late been so generally favourable. We, how-
ever, consider as a calamity the bad crops of one of the most
important articles of food. May God grant that the measures
prescribed to alleviate the misfortune and to procure employ-
ment for the indigent, joined. to the benovelence which ani-
mstes the nation, may prove effectual.
" The restoration of our monetary affairs is a matter which
admits of no delay. We shall earnestly examine the legisla-
tive measures which your Majesty will lay before us on this
subject.

"'We rejoice at the speedy SUCC2S3 of the important mea-
sure for the reduction of the interest of our natlonal debt.
Honour to the nation whose praiseworthy punctuality in ful-
filling its obligations has rendered a result profitable which
was generally desired.
" We consider with your Majesty the.progressive improve.
ment in the public revenue as a fortunate fact when it is the
consequence of the increase of the public prosperity and of an
equitable application of the law.
" We shall attentively examine the projects of law on the
definitive regulation of the expenditure of the current year,
and the means of meeting it. It will be a subject of great
satisfaction to find them a proof of the favourable state of the
public finances We believe that the regular administration
of the finance calls for legislative measures, respecting which
we expect with confidence the proposal of your Majesty.
" e believe that the interest of the country makes it a
-duty to improve, in more than one respect, the Excise law.
" We perceive that the assignment of a pecuniary indem-
nity for the losses occasioned by inundation, ordered by the
military engineers, is desirable, though the subject is delicate
and difficult.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, Nov. 2.—TILE POTATO DISEASE, —The weather
continues exceedingly favourable—as genial as a fine spring
—and the work of potato digging is procee(liog under the
most auspicious crrcumstances. -All reports agree that the
tendency of this state of the weather has been to check the
progress of the p 'tato blight, and to afford the farmers a
better chance of securing the sound portion of the crop. All
through the country the resident gentry are co-operating
with the clergy and farmers in adopting measures to mitigate
the calamity; for in any case a tremendous loss, chiefly
afflicting the poor, has been already suffered, and there are
yet no means of calculating the extent of the malady.
To-morrow the deputation from the citizens is to wait upon
the Lord-Lieutenant, and it is believed that his Excellency
will have received a communication from the Home-office
respecting the intentions of the Cabinet, and of course his
answer will be shaped accordingly. The general impression
here to-day—not of course based upon any certain informa-
tion—is, that the Government will not take any decided
Step at present ; that the ports will not be opened, nor dis •
tillation stopped, nor. exports prevented ; but that consider-
able facilities will be offered for extending employment by
public works. Before adopting any other precautionary mea-
sure, it is considered likely that the Government will wait
for the completion of the potato digging, in order to have a
better means of ascertaining the extent of the loss in the
potato crpp.
Subjoined are accounts received from the country this
morning :
COUNTY OF MEATII.—PUBLIC MEETINGS.—DROGTIEDA,
Nov. I.—On Thursday an important meeting of landholders
of the parish of Nobber and the surrounding district was held
in the Sessions-room, Nobber, for the purpose of taking into
consideration the alarming state of the potato crop, with a
view to devising or recommending such measures as may be
necessary to obviate or to lessen the evils which are feared.
B'e'have great pleasure in stating that the Protestant and
Catholic clergymen of the pariah, and the Protestant and Ca-
tholic gentry and farmers of the district were present, and
cordially united in their determination to do all that lay in
their power to avert the destitution with which the poor are
threatened. Wm. Smith, of Cregg, Esq., was called to the chair.
Several of the persons present stated the result of their exa-
mination of the potatoes, arid it seemed to be the general
opinion that about three-fourths of the crop was destroyed,
some thought as much as seven-eighths. A committee was
appointed to make an accurate examination of the potatoes
still in the ground, and those which have been pitted or
housed, with an instruction to report on the facts, and to
recommend a remedy, the report to be made to a meeting
that is to be held on the 12th of November instant. Col.
Cruise, the respected agent on Lord Gormanstown's estates
in the county Meath, was present, and took part in the pro-
ceedings. One of the measures which we would earnestly
recommend to be adopted, is the taking immediate steps
under the Drainage Act to have the river Dee, in that loca-
lity, improved, so as to give increased employment to the
population. At Moynalty, Meath, we learn that a meeting
similar to that held in Nobber took place yesterday. We
understand that a meeting of the farmers and gentry about
the town of Louth will be held to-morrow for the same
purpose.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS,
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 3. •
&roost ExcuarscrE.—The sales arc—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire, 10—British and Irish Union, 4%—
Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 32—Boston, Newark, and
Shetiiield, s—Caledonian, 12—Ditto, Extension, 04—Cam-
bridge and Lincoln, 51,4—Chester and Birkenhead, Half
Shares, 25Derby, oxet er, and Stafford, 2%—Eastern
Counties, Yew Shares, 15.3 Edinburgh and Northern, 4%
—Edinburgh and Perth, s%—Glasgow and Dumfries, 34
—Grand Junction, 228 Litt°, New Quarter Shares. 3134
—Ditto, Eight Shares, 20—Grand Union, 3—Great Eastern
and Western, 31/9—Great Western, Quarter Shares, 1834—
Goole and Doncaster, 4l—Hudderstield Canal and Rail-
way, 1414—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 2434—Liverpool and
Leeds Direct, 354—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle
Junction, 514—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 6%—
London and Birmingham, 216—Ditto, 32/. Shares, 44—Ditto,
Quarter Shares, 26—Ditto, Fifth Shares, 244—London and
Manchester (Rem.), 314—London and Yolk, s%—Direct
Northern, 51s. 61—Leeds and Dewsbury, 191/.—Leeds and
Tbirsk, 124—Manchester and Birmingham Continuation,
214—Manchester, Midland, ar.d Great Grimsby, 314—Man-
chester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 13%—Manchester and
St:attain pt on, 434—Matlock and Midland, 74—Midland, 157
—Ditto (40!. Shares), 2514—Ditto, Consolidated Birming-
ham and Derby, 120—Mold Junction 44—North British,
Carlisle Bran-Ai, 4%—North Staffordshire, 6%—North Wales
Mineral, New Shares, 53/—North Western, 474—Notting-
ham and lioston, 4—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhamp-
ton, 8713—Preston and Wyre, 39—Sheffield and Manchester,
1351/,—Ditto, Quarter Shares, No. 3, 9--7Sheflield and Lin-
coln, s—Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 61/9
—Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Stafford, 81s. 6d.
—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and. Chester, 7—South Eastern
and Dover, 39—Ditto, Consolidated Thirds, Half Shares, 414
—Scottish Central, 17%—South Midland, Stafford-
shire and Shropshire Junction, 3—Stirling and Dumferm-
line, 31/3.—Tean and Dove Valley, I%—Ulverstone and
Liverpool and Carlisle Junction, 214—Warwickshire and
London, 414—Welsh Midland, 3%—York and Carlisle, 3%
—Belfast and Ballymena, B%—Great County Down, 23j-
-Great Munster, 41s. 6d.—lrish North Midland, 20s.—Kil-
larney Junction, 3—Waterford and Valentia, 24—Dutch
Rhenish, 95/6—North of France (Rosamel), 2%.
MANCHESTER, Nov. 3.
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STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 103%—Boston, Newark, and
Sheffield, 4%—Cambridge and Lincoln, 5 I.l6—Chelms-
ford and Bury, 11/2—Dudley, Iron Bridge, and Sheffield,
314—Eastern Counties, 231/2—Ditto, New, 15/. 6s.—Edin •
burgh and Perth, s—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding
Junction, 3 9-16—Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., 6
Grand Union, 2%—Great Eastern and Western, 31/—Hud-
ders6eld and Manchester Railway and Canal, 14% c. n.—
Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 241 A—Lancashire and
Northern Yorkshire, 31—Leeds and Thirsk, 11—Liverpool,
Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, s%—Liverpool, Onus-
kirk, and Preston, 64—London and Manchester (Reming-
ton's), 314—London and York, s%—Manchester and Bir•
mingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 2l4—Manches-
ter and Southampton, 434—North Staffordshire, 65,,i—North
Union (A), 213—Nottingham, ErmaSl, Ambergate, and
Manchester, 51/B—Sheffield, Leek, and Crewe, 134—Sheffield
and Lincolnshire Junction, s—Sheffield and Manchester
(Quarters), No. 3, 9—Shropshire Mineral, 21A—Worcester,
Shrewsbury, and Crewe, 2.
SHEFFIELD, Nov. 3.

STOCK EXCITANGE.—The sales are—Grimsby and Shef-
field (Quarter Shares), 41/2—Grimsby Railway and Dock
Extension, 8 4—Manchester,Sheffield, and Midland Junction,
sX—Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 33/4—North
British, 24%—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 5%4 Wakefield
and Harrogate, 3%;
BRISTOL, Nov. 3.

STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are—Bristol and Exeter,
New, 97,4—Birmingham and Gloucester (Quarter Shares).
314—Bristol and South Wales Junction (Extension to
-Monmouth), 1 —Manchester and Southampton, 414—Mid-
land (New), 28—Northampton, Bunbury, and Cheltenham,
4—Vale of Neath, 3%—Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, 6.

'EXETER, Nov. 3.

STOCK E KCITANGE.—The sales are—North Devon, 3% p.
—Taw Vale Extension, p.—Bridgewater and Minehead,
p.—Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, p.— Exeter, Top-
sham, and Exmouth (Daw's line), p.—Ditto (Head's),
1 p.—South Wales, 6.
LEEDS, Nov. 3.

" We shall pay the greatest attention to the examination
of this question, and the measures proposed to regulate it.
"We wish also during the present session to revise the
first book of the penal code, for which the simultaneous pro-
posal of the other parts of that code is necessary. We hope
that the important work for the revisal of the niilitary code
is already so far advanced that we may shortly expect from
your Majesty a proposal on this subject. We take this op
portunity to call your Majesty's attention to the necessity,
proved by experience, of making some modifications in the
code of criminal instruction. We shall carefully examine,
the project of law on charitable institutions, the game-laws,
and the communal guard.
" We expect also to receive a project of law on the duties
on importation, exportation, and transit.

, .
"The project of law relative to the carrying into execu-
tion the sixth article of the fundamental law, the presenta-
tion of which your Majesty has announced to us, will be ex-
amined with the most scrupulous care.
"The sentiment expiessed by your Majesty, that the re-
visal of the fundamental law must be subordinate to the
conviction of its necessity, is entirely shown by the repre-
sentatives of the nation. 'We ardently desire that your
Majesty may continue to devote your attention to this iin •
portant subject, which we again recommend to your serious
consideration. We concur in the wish expressed by your
Majesty that the legislative powers may find, in the com-
mon agreement and in the confidence of the nation, be
measures and the support necessary for deciding on the best
means for developing, under the blessing of the Almighty.
the progress of the prosperity of the Netherland,"—Duielt
Papers, Nov. I.

STOCK EXCHANGE. —11: sales are—East Lancashire,
No. 2 (late 'Accrington), 14%—Great Grimsby and Shef-
field, 18—Ditto, Quarter Shares, 4%—Leeds and Bradford,
46—Ditto, Extensions, 41—Leeds and Dewsbury, 24% --
Leeds and Thirsk, 17—Newcastle and Berwick, 17—South
Wales, s%—Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 51—Wilts,
Somerset, and Weymouth, 6—London and York, 534—Shef-
field and Lincoln, s%—Cambridge and Lincoln, 514—
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 614—London and York
(Bawtry), 4—Chelmsford and Bury, par—Clitheroe Junc-
tion, 45/—East Lincolnshire, 4—Essex and Suffolk, par—
Grand Union, 6 D.—Great Eastern and Western, 15s. p.—
Leeds, and Liverpool Direct, 15s. p..-1-Leeds and Yolk, 14s. p.
—Leicester and Bedford, 325. p.—Liverpool, Manchester,
and Newcastle Junction, 514—Manchester, Buxton, Mat-
lock, and Midland, 5% p.—Manchester and Birmingham
Continuation and Welsh Junction, 214—Manchester, Mid-
land, and Great Grimsby, 374—Midland and Thirsk Junc-
tion, 12s. 6d.-p.—North *Staffordshire, 6)4—North Western,
4%—Nottingham and Boston, 525. p.—Wakefield and Brad-
ford, '2ss. p.—Wakefield and Harrogate, 50s. p.—Welsh Mid-
lands, 3X—Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 20s. p.
lIULL, Nov. 3.
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STOCK ExcHANGE—The stiles are—Aberdeen, 814—North
British, (Carlisle), 4—Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, 2
Axholme, 4%—Cambridge and Lincoln, 51/4—Coventry,
Nuneaton, &c., 2%—Derby and Gainsborough, 2%—Dudley,
Nladelev, and Iron Bridge, 31—East Lincolnshire, 37i—
Grand 'Union, 2%—Great Eastern and Western, WA Great
North and South %'ales and Worcester, I—Hull and 'Barnsley
Juncti.n, 39s.—Lincoln and Wainfleet, 2N—Liverpool, Man-
chester, and Newcastle Junction, 51/4—Liverpool and Leeds,
31/4—London and York, s%—London and Norwich Direct,
7s. 6d —Nottingham and Boston, 374—North Staffordshire,
6%—Rugby and Huntingdon, 21/4—South Midland, 6/. 1 7s.—
YOrkshire and Glasgow Union, 3%.
YORK, Nov. 3.

TIFIP STTN, LONDON' TUESIS_AY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1845.

Customs. The,gallant officers were invited to dine with a
party at Arlsford-hall, the. residence Of Mr. William
Hawkins, but their engagements at home prevented their
acceptance of the invitation. The weather was remarka-
bly tine, and in every way highly favourable for the ex•-
permients.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

remunerated employment—whatever nray be the happy
means devised for rescuing a peasantry from their territorial
thraldom, and teaching them to combine the dignity of in-
dependence with the fruits of labour—every thinking man
will feel it to be a cause for gratitude that a season of peril
came on the land, which made one class of men care for
another, and, amid the whisperings of selfish fear, elicited
the genial accents of benevolence. The evil will have been
but t'or a season; the good that shall follow—God grant that
it may be for aye

THE BASINGSTOKE CANAL
NAVIGATION COMPANY.
RAILWAYS VERSUS CARATS.—Yesterday, at two o'clock,
a general meeting of the Proprietors of the Basingstoke
Canal Navigation Company was held at the Gray's inn Cof-
fee-house, Holborn, to receive the report of the affairs of
the Company for the past half year, ending the 30th :,-ep-
tember ult. Mr. R. Davy, a Director of the Company,
presided.

The SECRETARY read the report, from which it appeared,
that the gross receipt amounted to 12,043/. 9s. 2id., includ-
ing 2,500. Exchequer bills, and that after paying all neces-
sary expenses there remained a balance in favour of the Com-
pany of 88/. 4s. 7id. Among the receipts were 2,-'591. for
tonnage, in which item there was a large reduction, in conse-
queece of the competition of the Great Western Railway,
compared with the previous year, in the amount of charge
per ton, though there was still an increase in:the year ot 78/. 4s.
A dividend of 21. per cent. on the bonded debt, applicable to
the year 1841, was recoil:in:elided.
The report having been received and approved of,
Mr. Mitts, the proposer of the resolution, inquired if there
was a probability of any railway company being likely to en-
ter into terms to purchase their canal.
The CHAIRMAN observed that he should be very happy to
find a company who would buy their property, which they
would be very glad to part with, seeing the state they were in.
These were the sentiments of the whole body.
Mr. thus said he was in great hopes that he should have
heard of some proposition having been made. The lienr.et
and Avon Canal had Peen sold to some advantage. Their
line would be a profitable speculation far any company.
A PRorara-ToR observed that it was a favourable line; a
perfect line, and 21 miles in length.
The CHAIRMAN remarked that he understood there was a
branch from the South-Western, the Company connected
with which he thought would have availed themselves of
their canal, but they were going to join the Great Western
Railway front Farnborough.
A dividend of 2!. per cent. was then agreed to; after
which, thanks being voted to the Chairman, the meeting
broke up.

THE BENGAL ARMY.
(From the Delhi Gazette.)
The long and anxiously looked-for relief has at last ap-
peared, and we give it here a prominent place. The arrange-
ments are in accordance with the reports generally bruited
abroad for some days past, and such as might be expected,
though we strongly suspect that some of the corps will not
see the stations to %%hick they are appointed this season.
How many alterations quietly crept into last year's relief;
subsequent to its publicati.tn, and bow many more into that
of the year before? The only increase on the north-west
frontier arranged by the following, is that of one regiment
at Ferozepore, one only being ordered away for the t.so sent
thither. It may aflord matter for speculation that the greater
part of the frontier regiments are to be relieved before
quitting their present post..., so that in case of their being re-
quired, the relieving and relieved regiments, as also those
proceeding to Siude, will be available for any work that may
be carved out for them :

" Head. quarters, Simla, Sept. 15.
"With the sanction of the Right. Hon. the Governor-
General in Council, the following movements of corps and
&taclan,rits are directed to take place, ou the dates and in
the order specified:—

" HORSE ARTILLERY.

"4th troop Ist brigade, from Sinde to Meerut, when re-
lieved by the 4th troop 2d brigade.
" 4th troop 2d brigade, from Meerut to Sinde, November 1.

"Fool' ARTILLERY.

"2d company 7th battalion, with No. 6 light field battery,
from Delhi to Ferozepore, October 15.
"3d company 7th battalion, with No. 5 light field battery,
from Sinde to Delhi, when relieved by the sth company 7th
battalion.
"sth company 7th battalion, with No. 13 light field bat-
tery, from Ferozepore to Sinde, November 1, to march with
the 15th Regiment Native Infantry.

"SAPPERS AND MINERS.

" A company, to be selected by the commanding-officer of
the corps, from Meerut to Ferozepore, October 10.
"6th company, from Ferozepore to Meerut, February 15.

" LIGHT CAVALRY.

"sth Regiment, frori7/11utirat7I:Oodianah, to join, the
Governor-General's camp on the 20th of October at A,ra,
and to escort it from thence.
" 6th Regiment, from Loodianah to Sinde, October 25.
"7th Regiment, from Sinde to Muttra, when relieved by
the 6th Regiment.