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stations are still interrupted. Saerul of the journals
contain articles on the Oregon qu!stion ; and the Jour-
nal des Debats, the organ of the Government, has at
length spoken out on the subject. Itdenies the claims of

President PoLK, but, at the same time, states that he is
so pledged by promises given at his election, and the
language of the political demagogues of the west is

so clamorous, that he will, in all probability, be obliged
to maintain them, to their full cxtent, in his Message
to the Congress. " The differelce of opinion between
the two Cabinets," says that jotrnal, " are very great.

President POLK doubtless, in virtue of pledges given at
the time of his election, inserted in his inauguration
Message, the most solemn document that can emanate

from him, a passage which nothing had rendered neces-
sary, and which declared the extreme opinion of the
Western States. The English Cabinet was moved at
this unexpected incident in the negotiation ; Sir ROBERT
PEEL and Lord ABERDEEN replied, in full Parliament,
in terms as explicit as those made use of in the Mes-
sage. England did more ; she continued, at the expense
of millions, her maritime preparations, at which France
took umbrage in a very mata•propos manner, and
which preparations have now raised the English navy
to a formidable degree of power ; she has taken her pre-
cautions as though a war might break out in the year
1846. The United States, on the contrary, have pre-
pared nothing against such an eventuality. If things
now passed as in the last century ; if commerce had not
created interests which render a declaration of war very
difficult, we should say that everything depends on the
M essage which President Poux is to deliver to
Congress. In the event of that magistrate main-
taining his assertion of last year, there will only remain
the last argument of kings and people ; for of what avail
would be negotiation thereafter. The question would no
longer be as to the division of territory, for Mr. Pout
will have Oregon entire. England has latterly proposed
to refer it to arbitration, but this the President will not
consent to. What other arguments can, therefore, be
brought forward besides those which issue from the
cannon's mouth ? Electoral necessities can, therefore,
alone explain the conduct of Mr. PoLic, who had
the reputation of being a calm and reserved man.
He is a native of Tennessee, one of the western states of
the Union. It is on the west that he founds the hope of
his re-election, and the west demands the entire of the
Oregon territory. It is, therefore, with much reason
that some of the American journals tell their country-
men that the Oregon question, which to be understood
requires an attentive study of old treaties and diplomatic
documents, is solved at once in every village of the west
by political demagogues, who have read nothing, and
who only know one thing—that they are sure to please
the multitude and obtain their suffrages, by telling them
that GOD has given them the new continent from one
extremity to the other for their exclusive use. How-
ever this may be, there is every reason to fear that the
Message will be in accordance with the feelings of
the democracy of the western states. Private letters
from A:aeries, which come down to the 10th
of I;rovember, hold out little to the contrary.
The annexation of Texas caused the first election of
Mr. Porat, and to secure his second he wishes to obtain
possession of Oregon. The calculation will be extravagant,
but the general opinion at New York, at Philadelphia,
and at Washington is, that the President will do it. A
war between America and England will be a calamity
for the civilised world, and by degrees every maritime
nation may be drawn in to take a part in the conflict, in
consequence of the vexatious interruptions which neu-
trals will not fail to meet with in the desperate struggle
which will desolate the surface of the ocean. But for
England and for America it will be such an overturning
of interests, that we cannot but think that, whatever
the language of the President in his Message may be,
the cause of peace will not on that account be irretriev-
ably lost. If war should break out, New York, New
Orleans, and Boston would be closely blockaded, and
their merchants ruined, but at the same time what injury
would be inflicted on British commerce, which covers
every sea, by American cruisers ? What would become
of Manchester, if a supply of American cotton failed it ?
and how would the south-western states of the
Union, whose principal produce is cotton, be sup-
ported without that market ? What a shock would
it even be for the constitution of the Union itself?"
The writer concludes his remarks with a hope that
peace will continue to spread over Great Britain and
the United States the benefits with which it has loaded
these two great nations, to the great advantage of all
other countries.

Accounts from Toulon state that IBRAHIM PACHA ar-
rived at that place on the 27th ult., in the Egyptian fri-
gate the Nile. He was received by a salute of 21 guns
from some of the ships in port and from one of the bat-
teries, and the French vessels were dressed out in honour
of his arrival. The Maritime Prefect and the Marquis

VS., 1,5.7 Lill. J. I Alla,. O WAD IJAI
the Nile, and at eleven o'clock IBRAHIM landed with his
suite, and was received by the authorities and the troops,
who were drawn up in line. The Prince was dressed in
the most magnificent style, as were also the principal
personages of his suite. He is stated to be apparently in
good, health, but his hair and beard are perfectly white.
On reaching the Prefecture, where apartments had been
prepared for him, he received the authorities, and after.
wards went into the roads with the Admiral in his barge.
On their return there was a grand dinner at the Prefec-
ture. He was to stay two or three days at Toulon, and
afterwards, proceed by Marseilles to the baths of Vernet.
The Share Market on Monday was more firm, but no
' great amount of business was transacted. The following is
said to be the fall in the prices of several important lines
during the last week :-Rouen declined 52f. 50c. ; Orleans to
Bordeaux, and Avignon to Marseilles, 47f. 50c. each ; Boulogne,
Rouen to Havre, and St. Germain, 40f. each ; Paris to
Orleans, 35f; Northern, 26f. 50c. ; Montereau to Troyes and
Farapoux, 25f. each ; Versailles (Left Bank), 22f. 50c. ;
Strasbourg, 21f. 25c. ; Versailles (Right Bank), 10f. ; Orleans to
Vierzon, 7f. 50c. The market closed as follows :-Three per
Cents. fur cash, 81f. 95c., for account, 81f. ; Five per Cents.
for cash, 116 e. 45c., for account, 116 f. 55c • Bank of France
Shares, 3,290 f. • Neapolitan, 100 f. 50e. ; gpanish and New
Loan, not quoted.
The closing quotations on many of the lines were lower
than those of Saturday-Paris and Orleans leaving off at
Rouen and Havre, and
,14,v100igmf.0;n,Pnaroits
qaunodtedß;mvieine,rzr,
60.;5E
Strasbourg and Bale,
225. ; Boulogne and Amiens, 482 f. 50c. ; Northern, 600 f. ;
Bourdeaux, 560 f. ; Montereau, 430 f.
But little was done in other lines. Paris and Lyons (La-
Paris and Strasbourg (Definitives) at par; Ditto (Ganne-
ront t)e, )
500f.may b ;
Dqcutiontied ti v
east) 502f.54 50c- ; (Union), 508 f. 75c.
0;
f. ;
Tours and Nantes (Defi-
nitives), 505 f. • Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 505 f. ;
(Lecomte), 500 f:
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 2.
Anglo-lgian - Mauritius
Boulogne and Amiens.. 734 Namur and Liege 2%
Bordeaux &Mediterraa - North Jamaica ...
Bordeaux and Toulouse - Orleans and Vierzon
Do. & Cette (Espelete) 1% Orleans and Bordeaux 9%
Do. (Mackenzie's) • • 1 % Over Yasel
Callao, Lima, and Pa- Paris & Lyons (Laffitte)
cifie Coast - Ditto (Ganneron's). -
Central of Spain - Ditto (Calon'a).... e. -
Ceylon .
Demerara - Paris and Orleans.-- 44
' Dendre Valley ...... - Paris and Rouen .
Ditch Rhenish
Dieppe & Paris Janet - (Ganneron's)
Dijon and Mulhouse ... - Do. (Aymard's) 11K3%
East Indian ........ Do. (Compte de L'Est) -
Fainpeux & Hazebreuk - Paris and St. Quentin. -
Grt Northern of France Roues and Havre...-. -
Censtituted _ Royal North of Spain. -
Do. Pepin le Halleur - Sambre and Meuse ....
Great Paris and Lyons l% Strasburg and Basle ... -
Great Western Bengal - Teurnay,Jurbiso, Lan-
Great Western Canada - dent, and Hasselt...
Jamaica S. Mid. Junction, - - Tours and Nantes
De.Nerth - (Mackenzie's)
Do. Extension
Jersey - Do. (O'Neill's). ....... -
Louvain and Jemappe l% Trinidad .................
Lyons and Avignon l% Verona and Ancona.... _
Luxembourg
Madrid and Valencia..

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRAMPTON COURSING MEETING.
A sweepstakes for sixteen dogs was won by Mr. Fox's
Fairy, Mr. Mounsey's Tyrant ran up.
LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TMSDAY.
THE DEREY.-15 to 2 agst Sting (t)-17 to 1 agst Bro-
cardo-27 to 1 agst Spithead-27 to 1 agst lago-30 to 1
agst Malcolm (t)-40 to 1 agst Aranilldc. (t)-40 to 1 agst
The Traverser (0-50 to 1 agst Smuggler Bill.
CHESTER Cur.-500 to 10 agst Hope-500 to 10 agst In-
trepid-500 to 10 agst Event—and 1,000 to 10 agst Ratan—
offered against each in one bet.

ROYAL SOCIETY.—The anniversary meeting of this
Society was held yesterday, at their apartments in Somerset
House. The Most Noble the Marquis of Northampton,
President, in the chair. The royal medals were awarded to
G. B. Airy, Esq., astronomer royal, for his paper " On the.
Laws of the 'fides on the coast of Ireland, as inferred from
an extensive series of observations made in connexion with
the ordnance survey of Ireland ;" and to "Thomas Snow
Beck, Esq., for his paper " On the Nerves of the Uterus."
The Copley medal was awarded to Professor Schwann, of
Louvain, for his "Physiological Researches on the Develop-
ment of Animal and Vegetable Textures." The President
delivered his customary annual address, accompanied by
notices of the distinguished deceased Fellows, after which the
new Council were elected; and the Fellows of the Society
and their friends dined together at the Crown and Anchor
Tavern—the Marquis of Northampton presiding. The fol-
lowing is a list of the officers of the Council :—President—
The Marquis ofNorthampton. Treasurer—George Rena e,
Esq. Secretaries—Peter Mark Roget, M.D. ; Samuel Hunter
Christie, Esq., M.A. Foreign Secretary—Lieutenant Colonel
E. -Sabine, R.A. Other Members of the Council—John
Rostock, M.D.; Sir Wm. Burnett, M.D., K.C.H. ; Charles
Daubeny, 31:D.; Bryan Donkin, Esq.; Very Rev. Dean of
Ely; Thomas Galloway, Esq. ; William Robert Grove, Esq.,
M.A.; Leonard Horner,-Esq. ; Sr John W. Lubbock, Bart,
M.A.; John Forbes Boyle, M.D. ; William Sharpey, M.D. ;
William Henry Smyth, Captain, R.N.; John Taylor, Esq. ;
,Charles Wheatstone, Esq..; Rev. Robert Willis, 111. A. ; Lord
Wrottesley. The Fellows whose names in the preceding list
are rinted
in italic@ were not Members of the last Council.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was very quiet,
the sales not exceeding 2,000 bales. Prices wore rather in
favour of buyers. There was a slight improvement in Shares,
with rather more doing.
The following Railway shares were disposed of yesterday
at the auction of Messrs. Lomond, and Co., there being more
inclination to purchase in new lines at low prices :
Description. Paid.
_ _

Dendre Valley
Ditto .

Sold for.
0 9 G
0 9 0
1 18 0
0 8 6
0 10 6
1 10 0

Rugby, Derby, and Manchester 2%
West End and Southern Counties ... 1%
Calcutta and St. George's Point ... 7s
Isle of Ely Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire 2%
Midland Irish Great Western, from.
Dublin to Mullingar
Ditto ditto ...
Shropshire Union Railway and Canal... 42s
Ditto ditto ...
Irish North Midland ... 1%
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s
Ditto ditto ... ...
Warwick and Worcester ... 42s
Over Yssel 83s 4d
E xeter, Dorchester, and Weym. Coast... 42s
Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke ... 105 s
Calcutta and St. George's Point ... 73
Ditto ditto ••• ••• •••
Direct Northern ...
Grand Union ... ... 1%
Calcutta and St. George's Point ... 7s
Great Indian Peninsular ... 5s
London and York ...
North Staff., Churnet, and Potteries ... 42s
Ditto ditto ...
Dutch Rhenish ... . . 5
Eastern Counties—Stock No. 2 ... 938 4d
Shropshire Union and Canal ... 42s
Shrewsbury and Birmingham. ... 21,E
Chelmsford and Bury ... ..
Tean and Dove Valley
Man. and Birm. Cont. and Welsh Junc.
Ditto ditto
London and York
Ditto ••• • ••• ••• •••
North Staffah., Chumet, and Potteries, 42s
Ditto ditto •••
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22a
Ditto ditto ...
Leicester and Birmingham ... 22s
South and Midlands Junction ... 42s
London and Manchester (Remington's) 23/4
Ditto ditto ...
Essex and Suffolk ...
Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke ... 105 s
Chelmsford and Bury ... 1%
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s
Ditto ditto ..•
Northavapton,Banbury, and Chelt'ham. 2
Ditto ditto ...
Somersetshire Midland ... 2%
Great Eastern and Western 2%
Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• •••
Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby ... 42s
Great Indian Peninsular ...
Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries 1%
Kentish Coast ... 1%
Eastern Counties ... ... 141 16s
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s
Ditto ditto ...
Ditto ditto ...
Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge 42s
Warwick and Worcester ... 423
Ditto ••• ••• ••• •••
Ditto ••• ••• ••• •••
Cornwall and Central Devon ...
Direct Northern ... ..•
Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries... 1%
Scottish Midland Extension ... 1%
Great N. and S. Wales and Worcester 1
Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge 42s
Liverpool,Manch.&Newcastle-on-Tyne 50s
Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast ... 1
Calcutat and St. George's Point ... 7a
Great Western of Bengal ... M
Ditto ditto ... ...
Great Indian Peninsular •••
Ditto ditto ••• ••• •••
Jamaica South Midland ... 1
Calcutta and St. George's Point ... 7s
Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke ... 1053
Somerset Midland ... 2%
Bideford and Tavistock ... 1%
London, Bristol, and South Wales —. 42s
Metropolitan Junction ... 2%
Great Welsh Central ... 42s
Leicester and Birmingham ... 22s
Ditto ditto ••• ••• •••
Chelmsford and Bury ...
Essex and Suffolk ... •••
Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries...
Mauritius

2 0 0
2 0 0
1 11 6
1 11 6
O 15 0
O 15 0
O 19 0
O 18 6
1 3 0
1 11 6
1 2 0
2 10 0
O 9 6
O 10 0
1 15 0
1 9 0
O 10 0
0 7 6
2 18 6
5 6 0
5 5 0
6 15 0
4 16 0
1 12 6
3 8 0
1 1 6
1 6
1 3 0
1 3 0
2 18 0
2 19 0
5 7 0
5 7 0
O 18 6
O 18 6
0 18 6
018 6
1 0 0
1 8 0
2 0 0
2 1 0
0 19 6
2 10 0
1 0 6
O 19 0
O 18 6
1 19 0
2 0 0
1 5 6
1 16 0
1 15 0
0 18 0
O 8 0
O 17 0
0 3 6
19 10 0
O 19 0
0 19 6
1 0 0
1 5 0
1 1 0
1 1 0
1 I 6
1 13 0
1 18 0
1 1 0
1 9 0
O 12 6
1 3 6
219 6
O 19 6
0 9 6
0 10 6
0 11 6
0 9 0
0 18 6
1 12 0
0 10 6
O 10 6
2 13 0
1 10 6
0 15 0
O 19 0
1 15 0
O 19 6
O 18 0
0 18 6
1% 1 1 6
1% 1 0 0
1% 1 1 0
1 0 11 6
There are no arrivals in the City to-day, except the Con-
tinental mails, and the commercial markets are compara-
tively dull.
The value of railway property (together with much other
aseful information) is given in the "Banking Almanac and Di.
rectory," and from thiait appears that Middlesex, the smallest
county but one in England, is richest in railways, having an
annual income from them of 960,443/. ; Lancashire stands for
593,515/. ; Surrey for 191.018/. ; Durham for 171,089/. ; Der-
byshire for 104,2041.; and Yorkshire for 95,510/. The total
amount of railway income in 1843 was, for England and
Wales, 2,417,6094, and for Scotland, 181„333/.. ; since which
period a material increase must have taken place. At the
date in question no less than twenty counties in England,
and five in Wales, were without railways.
The Stock Market still looks well, and as respects time
bargains there is an improvement in the quotations. Con-
sols have been 943/4 to 95 for present transfer, 95% to 95%
for Account. The premium on Exchequer-bills has been
further reduced, being 19s. to 14s. Bank Stock has been
pavelvv:heltig,2ol2l%. East India Stock is worth 262.
-a tzuarter per UCLIM nave ueen :toys- ,o
95%, and the Three per Cents. 93% 93%.
The Foreign Investments have been rather firmer, although
with a very limited business doing. Spanish Five per Cents.
are 28 ; and the Three per Cents. 37%. Mexican Bonds
have been at 31% for the Actives, and 17 for the Deferred,
being better. Peruvian are 34. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. have realised 583 A to 59%.
The Share Market is tolerably firm.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Anna 9434 95 9434
New 314 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860 lO 7-16 14%
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1859 lOl4
India Stock 262
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities 93%
Ditto New Annuities
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 13Ad. 11,4 d.
1,000/.
5001. ....... ..... .., 2O 15 pm.
Ditto Small — .. 20 15 pm.
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Dan:sh Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent.... 86
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 31%
Ditto Deferred Stock l7
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 34
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 —
Ditto for the Account
Ditto 3 per Cent
Ditto for the-Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cents 584 59% 58%
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 913/4

BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE
O'CLOCK..

RAILWAYS. PAID. PER S, HARE.
Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin... .....
Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% — to
Aylesbury anti Theme ... 1% —
Belfast & County Down
Bideford and Tavistock .. ... 1%.....
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ......124
Ditto New Shares
Birmingham and Oxford
Junction
Birmingham and Deicester
Direct — — .... to
Boston, Stamford, and Birm. 22s .. — to
Bridgewater and Minehead... 425......
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Ditto New 2 ....... 6% to
Bristol and Gloucester 3O
Bristol and Liverpool Junct. 2% to
Buckinghamshire 425.
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambrian Grand Junction ...

Cambridge and Lincoln ...... 1%...... 31/214... to
Ditto. New
Cambridge and Oxford l% to
Canterbury and Dover 1......
Central Kent 2% to
Chelmsford and Bury .., ..... lx — ...... t.
Chester and Holyhead ls
Chester and Manchester
Cheltenham and Oxford ...... 2
Clydesdale Junction.-- ...... 5
Cork, Blackreck, and-Pauages 225. . ... to
Cork and Xillarney 2% . .... to
Cork and Waterford 1%......
Cornwall
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir.,
and Leicester ll4 — to
Dartmouth, Torbay, & Exeter 425.
Derby, Gain;boro', and Great
Grimsby 1%......
Derby, Uttexeter, and Staff'd 2 %......
Direct Manch. (Remington's) 2T4 — to
Ditto (Ritckstrick's)
Pirect Northern. ..
2%„.... 1%...... to
to
Direct Norwich
Dublin and A tmagh .... ...... 1% — to
Dublin and Belfast Junction 5
Dublin, Belfast ,and Coleraine 2%
Dublin and Ga lway
Dudley, Madely, & Broseley 2% — ... „ to
Dundalk andEn niskillen ...... 2% — to
Eastern Countie s
Do. New 6l. 16s, 6 p .. .. to
Do. Perpet. 5 p er Ct. No. 1. 61.13 s 4d 34 p...... to
Ditto, ditto, Na. 2. .. 41. 13s. 4d — ...... to
East Dereham ai ld Norwich 1
Eastern Union

Ditto vt Shares
Ditto Extension
Ditto Ipswich an d Bury ... 1
DittoExtensiont °Norwich 21A
Ditto Cambridge and Ely 21A — to
East Lincolnshire..
East and West of 1, :ngland... 1% — ...... to
Edinburgh and Gla igow 5O ..... 65 ...... to
Ditto 4 Shares... .........
Ditto New 1% Shit] Ts
Edinburgh and Nort hero-- 114 to
Edinburgh and Pert h lq to
Ely and Hunting& m 5.

Enniskillen and Stip ► ... 2%...... .. .. to
Essex and Suffolk.... ... 1% ON is
Exeter, Dorchester, at id Wey-
mouth 42s. ...... ...... to
Exeter, Yeovil, &Do rchester 2% — ...... to
Gloucester, Aharystwi tb, and
Central of Wales . . . l% to
Goole andDoncaster...
GrandJ unction , 100
Ditto 1,4 Shares
Ditto Quarter Share 5...... 25