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LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1845.

The following letter was addressed by the Secretary of
the Bombay Chamber of Commerce to I.ieut. WAGIIORN,
R.N., on consigning to him the dispatches from India, which
he brought overland, via Trieste :
" No. 88, of 1845.
" TO LIEUT. WAGHORN, R.N., ALEXANDRIA.
" Sir,—l am directed by the Committee of the Chamber
of Commerce to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the Ist August, proposing an experimental dispatch of letters
from India, with the view of enabling you to test, practi-
cally, the supposed superiority of the Trieste over the Mar-
seilles overland route. They desire me to intimate that they
have availed themselves of your obliging offer, and have dis-
patched, by the mail steamer of to-day, through your local
agents, Messrs. Spong and Turner, a tin box of letters,
weighing about slbs., which will be delivered to you here-
with at Alexandria. In returning you their thanks for the
valuable opportunity thus afforded them, I am directed by
the Committee also thus to express their very high sense of
the zeai and energy displayed by you, on all occasions, in
facilitating and improving overland communication. You
have their most cordial wishes for the success of your pre
sent undertaking. I have the honour to be, Sir, your mos
obedient servant,

" T. G. H. SCOTT, Secretary C. C.

" Bombay Chamber of Commerce, Oct. 1, 1845."
It is satisfactory to know that the wishes of the Commit-
tee have not been disappointed. Lieut. Wac;Houx, notwith-
standing the obstacles which have necessarily opposed his
progress over a new line of country, unused to the
" push along, keep moving " practice, managed to
beat the express by the old route, and the thanks
of the country are due to him therefore. Not only
has he rendered us independent of the French Post-office,
which has played tricks heretofore, which neither
gods nor men could tolerate, but he has opened to
us a new and nearer route, which would, in the event
of a war with France (the greatest curse that could
happen to the cause of progress and civilization, and
which may GOD in his mercy forefend), or in the event
of any unforseen occurrences in that country, preserve to us
a speedy and safe communication with India. We hope that
the route via Marseilles will be maintained. and that the route
via Trieste will be permanently opened, as it is better to have
two strings to our bow. But for both these communications
we are to be indebted to Lieutenant WAGUORN, and, there-
fore, let all those who are interested in India or its inhabitants
show their gratitude by subscribing liberally to the testimo-
nial to be presented to the man who has brought the re-
motest parts of India within two months of England.

" We possess a power over the Government and the people
of Great Britain, which is a sort of bond and mortgage for
their good behaviour—we mean the cotton market—the
monopoly of the cotton market—which is now still more cer-
tain than ever by the possession and annexation ot Texas."
Such is the boastful congratulation the New York Herald
addresses to its readers as the qualification which they may
safely apply to any apprehensions that might otherwise be
occasioned by the spirit of resistance and hostility which
would be excited throughout this country by the avowal of
President Potx, at the ensuing meeting of Congress, that he
meant to enforce not only the pretensions of the United
States to the Oregon territory, but their determination to
extort the unqualified cession of eat region from the
English people! No nation has, of late years, so rapidly
effaced the memory
of its stern and self-sacrificing
efforts to vindicate its early independence, by
subsequent boasting and extravagant bragging, as the
United States. Flushed with their incidental success in
their past naval war with Great Britain (in which, how-
ever, they were finally defeated, and but for the grievous
folly of our Cabinet might have been extinguished as an
independent power), they affect the assumption of an air
of arrogant superiority over us, as if the transient triumphs
which they achieved were not solely attributable to their
own vastly superior stre4th in all the engagements of that
war, wherein they were the victors, to their heavier metal,
and especially the careful administration and equipment of
their navy, so vastly superior to the:disgraceful condition of
ours under the long incubasage of JOID: WILSON CROKER for a
Secretary, and of Lord LIVERPOOL and Lord CasTLEREAGH's
Admralty lay Lords. The tone of insult and rhodotnontade they
have ever since adopted towards England, and the disparaging
estimate they have affected to entertain of her power,
might well have involved, long since, a less thoughtful
or excitable race than ourselves in an indignant
declaration of hostilities against them. But they have so
much mistaken our strength in our forbearance, that they
have thrown off the mask of hollow alliance and avowed
themselves to be actuated by an incurable and malignant
animosity to our grandeur, our authority, our power, and
our position—the most commanding among the nations.
Looking, however, to their diminished nays-, the dilapidated
condition of thou ports, the vulnerable exposure of All their

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great harbours and commercial' emporiums, the ridiculous
character and complement of their military force, we really
begin to think our coldly calculating brother of the West
insane in rushing on his fate, by so perpetually bearding our
dignity and honour. The notion here announced, that we
cannot resent their affronts, because they have the monopoly
of the market which supplies the raw material for our cotton
manufacture, goes near to solve this mystery. But JONA-
THAN is somewhat over-cunning here. He is wrong in the
fact, and he helps our Government to a lesson of political
wisdom which he never meant to do, and which they
Were at all times determined not to learn, except
from an enemy, or under the humiliating conviction of
its compulsory adoption. Our own magnificent possessions
in India require nothing but adequate encouragement in the
markets of this country for their native staples to rise into the
rank of nations which are the most powerful and opulent as
well as the most populous of the globe. Let Britain exert
every energy to aid and extend the cultivation of cotton in
India, and she will not only consolidate and extend her per-
manent dominion in the East, over a contented, industrious,
and grateful people, her colonial subjects; but she will draw
from them the resources that will enable her at once, by
" repudiating " (after a more honest fashion than the bank-
rupt States of America) every pound of cotton grown in the
United States. She may import it more cheaply from India,
and thus render the popular notion of the United States of
their monopoly of its supply to us, and of the right which, with
their usual good taste they assume on that ground, of grossly
insulting us, almost as chimerical as their dreams, of uni-
versal dominion over the whole northern half of the western
world. In the meanwhile, we are content to wait the issue of
events. It is clear that JONATHAN is very ill-informed of the
care which has been taken to give effect to the resentment of
Britain, whenever she shall think fit to strike.

According to accounts from Paris, the anxiety manifested
for some time respecting the state of the crops had greatly
subsided, and the Government had been actively engaged in
making inquiries in every province with a view to ascertain
what grounds there were for apprehension. The Minister of
Commerce and Agriculture, to whom reports of the quantity
of grain in the kingdom, its quality, the potato disease, &c.,
had been made on the 15th instant, issued a circular letter to
the Prefects of France, containing statistical details of much
interest, with instructions, at the same time, to tran-
quillise the apprehensions of the people respecting the
supply of corn, and to give every encouragement
to the free circulation of agricultural productions from one
department to another. The following is an abstract from
this document :—" The harvest of 1845 has been less favour-
able than the harvests of 1844 and 1843, but greatly superior
to that of 1839. In good years between 30 and 35 depart-
ments have a harvest exceeding their consumption, between
25 and 30 have an adequate harvest, and between 20 and 25
an insufficient one. This year 26 departments have an excess,
28 have a sufficiency, and 32 a deficiency ; the latter are
principally the departments of the south, whose habitual
production is the feeblest ; the produce, on the contrary, has
been abundant in the department of the north-cast, north-
west, west, and basin of the Seine and centre, which, owing to
the usual richness of their crops, supply the country. Buck
wheat and maize, which figure for about a tenth in the ali-
mentary consumption, have yielded sufficient produce; and
saving in a few departments, such as the Upper and Lower
Pyrennees, they present an excess as compared with the
ordinary wants. Chestnuts have failed in the two or three
departments where that resource is of some importance. As
for potatoes, the crops have sustained some damage in con-
sequence of the disease which has affected that tubercle ; in
thirty-six departments the supply is inferior to that of
ordinary years; in thirty-nine it is adequate, and in eleven
superior; but this damage has been greatly exaggerated;
and the reports that daily reach me notably diminish
the first reckonings ; moreover, it is remarkable that the
departments of the north and north-west, where pota-
toes have most suffered, are precisely those where the
produce of grain has been most abundant, whilst that
tubercle has been but slightly injured in the department
of the south and south-west, where the crops of grain
have been the feeblest. In short, if altogether the harvest
of 1845 has been inferior to that of an ordinary year, it is
undeniably adequate to all wants, and its results present
nothing that can alarm the people. Besides, at the moment
of the harvest of 1845, there remained from the preceding
year a considerable excess. In ordinary times we may
reckon at 100,000,000 hectolitres (hectolitre equal to 2i
imperial bushels) the quantity of grain (wheat, and mixed
wheat and rye) necessary for the food of the inhabitants,
and at 20,000,000 the quantity employed as food for animals,
sowing, and the various industrial uses; the harvest of 1843
had bequeathed to that of 1844 an excess reckoned at
5,000,000 hectolitres of the above three principal cereales;
the year 1844, whose produce in wheat alone exceeded
82,000,000 hectolitres, has raised this excess to above
15,000,000, which represent nearly two months of
the country's consumption; the remainder in barley
maize, and buck wheat, did not fall short of
5,000,000 hectolitres." The report then proceeds to state
that the entrepots for grain, especially on the Mediterranean,
are well stored, and that the present prices, either of wheat
or foreign grain, do not justify any fears. Advices from Hol-
land and Belgium were satisfactory as regards corn ; the
crops in Germany were deficient, but in Italy and Spain the
produce had been abundant. The amount of grain in the
entreptits of the north, nearest to England, namely, Dantzic,
Hamburgh, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam, contained, from the
18th of October to the 10th of November, 2,052,310 hecto-
litres. Of course the Government try to make the best of
their case, and some of their conclusions therefore ought to

be received with caution.
The Journal des Debats has another article on Lord ABER-
DEEN'S dispatch relative to the payment of the Greek debt,

and though on the whole complimentary to his Lordship, the

writer seems to entertain a suspicion that the foreign Minister
is actuated by a spirit of hostility to CoLErrr, because he is

supposed to be the opponent of British policy in Greece.
" The English Government," it is admitted, " has right on
its side, and there can be no doubt that the Government of
Greece will give way to the desire of the Earl of ABERDEEN,
and present, if necessary, a Bill for the application of the
excess of the revenue. It is to be desired, however, in the
interest even of the Powers who have guaranteed the loan,
that none of them should be too rigid under existing circum-
stances. They should take care not to realise the fable of
the Goose with the Golden Eggs. Should the three Powers
claim every year from Greece the still feeble excess of her
revenue, they would only succeed in obtaining a small por-
tion of her annual debt; they would regularly impoverish the
country, and render it more and more incapable of discharg-
ing its debts." In reference to this subject, a letter from
Athens of the 2d instant, in the Augsburgh Gazette, says :

" In answer to the note from the English Cabinet, the Govern-
ment has declared it tb be impossible this year to effect the pay-
ments demanded. The Coletti Ministry has met with two Parlia-
mentary checks. The First Chamber has rejected the Bill for-
bidding the carrying of arms, and the Second Chamber has an-
nulled the election of M. Calavrita, which was favourable to the
Ministry. The Opposition are already handing about lists of the
new Ministry."

The following are additional extracts from tlae papers
" It is reported that the Ministry has decided on convoking the
Chambers for the 27th of December.

" The marriage of the sister of the Duke de Bordeaux to the
hereditary Prince of Lucca was performed on the 10th at Frohs-
dorff, at eleven in the morning. At an early hour numerous
bodies of the people carrying banners filled the avenues of the
castle. At ten salvos of artillery and military bands announced
the arrival of the Duke of Lucca and the bridegroom. They
were immediately followed by the Empress and Empress-
Mother of Austria, and all the Archdukes and Archduchesses
at Vienna, attended by their Court. Magnificent presents
were offered to the bride by the Duke and Duchess and
Prince of Lucca, the Duchesses d'Angouleme and de Berry, the
Duke tie Bordeaux, and the Empress of Austria, who is the
aunt of the bridegroom, and much attached to him,
and who, on this occasion, represented the mother of
the bridegroom, who was unable to be present, on account of
indisposition. The Duke de Bordeaux led his sister t 3 the altar.
The nuptial benediction was given by the Archbishop of Vienna,
who was surrounded by a numerous body of the clergy. After
the wedding feast, the newly.married couple, accompanied by the
Duke of Lucca, set off' for the Castle of Urchensdorff; which is
about an hour-and..a.half 's drive from Frohsdorff.
" The King of Sardinia has just promoted to the rank of Colonel
the Infanta Don Juan, second son of Don Carlos."

But little variation took place In the prices of Stock and
Shares on the Paris Bourse on Tuesday.
The Three per Cents. closed. at 82f. 50e.; the Five per
Cents., 117 f. 80c. • the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,156 f.
25c. ; Rouen, 980 f. ; Northern, 725 f. ; Havre, 775 f. ;
Avignon, 935 f. ; Vierzon, 680 f. ; Bordeaux, 622 f. 50c. ;
Boulogne, 525 f. ; Troyes a•nd Montereau, 460 f. ; Basle,
255 f.; Fampoux, 507 f. 50c.; Spanish Actives, 371/2; Spa-
nish Three per Cents., 39 ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 34/ ;
Spanish Passives, 6/.
The following are the quotations for other lines :

Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laffitte), 15f. premium;
ditto (Calon), 2f. 50c. ' • ditto (Ganneron), 5f.; ditto (Lapin •
sonniere), If. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 6f.;
ditto (Hinguerlot), 3f.; ditto (Bechet), lf. 25c.; Aymard,
; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 6f. ; ditto (Drouil-
lard), 3f. ; ditto (O'Neill), 5f.50c. ; ditto (Lefevre), 3f. ; Lyons
and Avignon (Talabot), 21f. 25c.; ditto (Lecointe), Bf. ;
ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 4f. ; Bordeaux and Cette
(Mackenzie), 50c.; ditto (Espeieta), 11f. 25c. ; Creil and St.
Quentin (Carette), 4f. ; Caen (Delamarre), 3f.
MARSEILLES, Nov. 14.—Marseilles and Avignon, 935 f. ;
Boulogne, 540 f.; Vierzon, 690 f. ; Orleans and Bordeaux,
620 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 19.
Anglo-Belgian — 'Namur and Liege
Boulogne and Amiens.. 9 North Jamaica ...
Bordeaux &Mediterraa Orleans and Vierzon
Bordeaux and Toulouse 'Orleans and Bordeaux 101/2
Do. & Cette (Espeleta) 13/4 , Over Yssel ... 2 dis
Do. ( Mackenzie's) .. 13/4 'Paris &Lyons (Laffitte) 2%
Central of Spain .. — ' Ditto (Ganneron's). 31
Ceylon .
Demerara
Dendre Valley ...... ... Paris and Orleans 3B
Dutch Rhenish ... ...... 7% Paris and Rouen —
Dieppe & Paris Janet. Paris and Strasburg
Dijon and Mulhouse ... (Ganneron's)
East Indian ....»........ 2U Do. (Aymard'a) —
Fampoux. & Hazebrouk Do. (Compte de L'Est) 2%
Grt Northern of France Paris and St. Quentin.
Constituted l3 Rouen and Havre-- 283 i
Do. Pepin le Halleur — Royal North of Spain. 1
Great Paris and Lyons — Sambre and Meuse ....
Great Western Bengal Strasburg and Basle ...
Great Western Canada Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
Jamaica S. Mid. Junction dent, and Hasselt...
Do. North Midland... Tours and Nantes
Do. Extension ...... (Mackenzie's) 4%
Jersey. De. (Lefebvre's) 2
Louvain and Jemeppe.. 11/2 Do. (O'Neill's)
Lyons and Avignon.... Verona and Ancona ll4
Luxembourg .. 21/2 West Flanders .........
—.Madrid and Valentia...

Accounts from Madrid of The 12th inst. confirm the re
port, which we published two days since, of some insurrec-
tionary anomenti at BArcelcn& Martial la had Wen

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proclaimed; and It Was believed by the authorities thefe
that Central PRIM, now residing at liarseilles, had organised
plot, and was Prepitring to invade either Catalonia or Valencia,
at the head of a body of emigrants. Two officers con-
nected with the War Department at Madrid had been dis-
patched to these quarters with instructions addressed to the
Captains-General to use every military caution against in-
surrection and invasion on the part of the discontented Ge-
neral. A report prevailed that the negotiations with the
Court of Rome had been broken off, and that the Spanish
Minister was about to return to Madrid. The Funds on
the 12th remained nearly stationary. The Three per Cents.
were offered at 36 7-16 %, and transactions took place a
36% 3/4 for time; Five per Cents., 241% I 4 ; Passives, 84
for cash.