The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-24 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1845.

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'1 lie Committee have much pleasure in informing the public, that
1 N DUBLIN,
AND
in consequence of the highly favourable accounts received from the
deputation just returned from Ireland, In reference to the hearty
concurrence and support of those locally interested in the line, and
the entire absence of engineering difficulties, they have found, after
a careful inquiry as to the probable expense of the surveys and ap-
llPPlication to Parliament, that it is quite unnecessary to call for the
full deposit of 21. 10s. per share at the present time.
They have, therefore, decided that the amount of deposit shall be
received in two instalments. 'the first, of 1/. is. 6d. on the allot-
ment of the shares ; and the other, of U. 2s. 6d., when the Bill shag
, have been read a second time in the House of Commons. The first
in:quit/tent is intended to meet the ordinary preliminary expenses ;
and the deposit of W. per cent. under the original order of the House
of Commons, which alone applies to this Company, and the second
histalinent to make up the additional 51. per cent. required under the
Standing Orders of the House of Lords.
Ity order,

J. J. HOPPER, Secretary.

Temporary Offices, 14, Pinner's-hall.

3TADRAS, SADRAS, and PONDICIIERRY
$ RAILWAY COMPANY, wan a branch to ARCOT.

(Preliminary Announcement.)

(Provisionally llegistered,pnrsuant to 7 and 8-Victoria, c. 110.)

The prospectus of the above undertaking, with the names of an in-
fluential direction will be shortly published. In the interim applica-
tions for shares and other information may be addressed to the soli-
citc.rs, Messrs. Long and Hay, and Charles Le Blanc, Esq., at their
offices, 44, Lincoln's Inn-fields.

mE 13. OPOL11:A N SEWAGE MANURE
COMPANY.

(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital, 1,500,000/., in 30,0001. Mares of 501. each.
Deposit, 11. per Share.
. _ .

The object of this Coutpany is to supply (at a quarter the cost of
stable or farmyard manure) the Sewage Water of the Metropolis to
the surrounding country as manure by mechanical means, similar to
those employed by the Water Companies.

A careful and moderate calculation has been made of the annual
outlay and income, from which It can confidently be stated that the
undertaking will realise a net profit of at least 15 per cent.
Prospectuses, containing, full particulars orthe plan and extracts
from the reports and aethoritles upon which the estimates are based,
may be had on application, at the Temporary Offices of the Company,
No. 5, Berners-street, or will be forwarded to any address.
Applications fur shares to be made in the usual form, addressed to
the Provisional Committee of the Metropolitan Sewage Manure Com-
pany, at Messrs. Bailey, Shaw, and Smith's, 5, Renters-street
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N EW OYEL S.
Now early at all the Libraries.

TIIE ATTRACTIVE MAN. By Mr,z TROLLOPE, Authoress
of " The Vicar of Wrexhill," &c,_3 vols.

LOVE. A Tale of Venice. By HORACE SMITH, Esq., Author of
" Brambletye House," &c. 3 vols.

THE STORY OF A ROYAL FAVOURITE. By Mrs. GORE,
3 vcls.

THE MASTER PASSION, and other Tales. By T. C. GRATTAN,
Esq., Author of " The Heiress of Burges," &c. 3 vols.

THE WHITE SLAVE, AND THE RUSAIAN PRINCE.
the Author of Revelations of Russia," Ste. 3 vols.
Ilenry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed THE ENCHANTRESS.
Ramir, Mr. Borraid ; Nuguez, .‘ir. H. Horneastle; Duke d'Aquila,
Mr. Weiss; Don :Vivi°, Mr. W. Harrison; Doctor Mathanasins,
Mr. Harle)• ; Stella, Miss Romer.
Alter which, wilt be repeated a New Grand Ballet Fantastique,
entitled THE MARBLE MAIDEN. i :like Laurent de Atedieis, M.
P.chler ; Prince COSMO de Medici, M. Petipa; Massachio, ti, Albert ;
Asea io, Mdlte. Leuire ; Princess Beatrice, Mdlle. Adele; the istatue
of Itet e, Mdlle. Adele Dumilatre.

ROYAL, HAYMARK.LT.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed THE 'HUNCHBACK. Master Walter, Mr.
Anderson; Julia, Miss Helen Fancit ; Helen, Miss Julia Bennett.
After which, NICHOLAS FLAB. Nicolas Dam, Mr. Farren.
To conclude with A t :ABINET QUESTION.

THEATt., t oiAL,AI/ELE-1G
THIS EVENING

Will be repeated !HE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years
Ago. In w!ich Messrs. 0. Smith, Selby, Stoker; Mrs. Yates,
and Mrs. Fitzwilliam will peiform.
To be followed by TAMING A TARTAR; or, Magic and Ma-
zourkaphobia. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wright, Miss
Woolga!, Madame Celeste, &c, will perform.
To conclude with 6EEING WRIGHT.

THEATRE Itol AL, LYCEUM,
THIS EVENING

Will be repeat ;d TILE LAST OF THE BRAVOES. Principal
Characters by Messrs. Keeley, F. Matthews, F. Vining, Bender Yar-
nold, and Miss Al den.
After which, a New Farce, called NEXT DOOR.
To be iollowed by a New and Original Comedietta, entitled PETER
JENKINS; or, Fibbing tor a Friend. Principal Characters by
Messrs. Keeley, A. Wigan, Turner, Meadows; Mrs. Keeley and Miss
Dawson.

To cvnelude with ALADDIN and the WONDERFUL LAMP.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STALET.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed KING LEAR. King Lear, Mr. Macready;
Cordelii, Mrs. Stirling. -
After which, KATHERINE AND PETRUCHIO.

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SE( OND EDITION.

to be done for the remote but industrious peasantry of the
bleak is'ands and highlands of the northern and western divi-
sions of Scotland, to whose scanty sources of supply the
potato is one if not more than the two or three main ele-
ments? The danger of a lack of subsistence for millions of
our poarer fallow-countrymen is no longer a figurative allu-
sion, an imposing figure to point the indignant declamations
of Anti-Co-n
-law eloquence. It is imminent—it is
impending—it must be encountered. But with what
Ct,n,ervative provisions ? What shall be the means
of feeding—the principle of sustentation— to be
opposed to it? Now, is it possible—not to roll back the
tide of failure which sets in upon us from every potato-
growing country of Europe, but—to remove thesc millions
from the instant hazard they are incurring of being en-
gulphed and swept away by a calamity of so vast and over-
whelming a nature?

We answer, thus—" Cheap and wholesome corn must re-
place dear and, diseased potatoes." To let in cheap and
wholesome corn for this just, this humane, this politic, this
indispensable, this sacred purpose, not a moment must be
lost in opening the only channel through which the supply
can be poured in a sufficient quantity, and at sufficiently
low prices. Now is the time. The end of October has
overtaken us. The cold and bracing atmosphere
which assures us of its presence, reminds us, too, of the
earlier period at which the whiter sets in upon those
shores, adjacent to which are the vast corn-growing lands
that have long been the granary of northern Europe. There
is not any redundancy of opportunity left us to issue orders
for, and receive in return, ample consignments of foreign
corn, before the reign of winter commences with us. Here,
then, we have, on theone hand, appalling, inevitable scarcity,
not to say famine, for many British millions, following in the
wake of this failure of the potato crop, with the sure but
noiseless stepof destiny itself, so long as the present corn-laws
continue to interpose their prohibitory and penal restrictions
on the poor consumer, in order to protect the wealthier home
grower. On the other (given, the single condition of even
suspending for a limited time, though we may hold
that the' suspension should be permanent, those corn-
laws), we have a certain and prompt influx of grain, which
is truly, as well as poetically, said to form the staff of life,
poured into our market. We treat the question
as fairly a new, not as an economic, not as a
fiscal, notes a party question, but as a question of life-necessity,
if we may so term it. It is the physical claims of the millions to
be heard against the private interests of a few hundreds of re-
luctant landowners. For our own parts we are at all times un-
friendly to abrupt and disorganising legislation. All Caanges
on which it is necesary, either at common law, or on the
principles of the Constitution, to take the pleasure of the
Legislature, ought, as a genera! rule, never to be precipitated.
Here is a condition of timings sui generis, not to be governed by
any existing analogies, beyond the control of all precedents, as
such an exigency superior in its nature, extent, and conse-
quences, to the restraints of legislative systems. The only
safe course to be taken with regard to it is also the only im-
mediate one. The Prime Minister must assume, if he
would avert responsibility for the catastrophe which the
advent of winter must otherwise bring with it, the grave poli-
tical responsibility of advising the Crown to issue an Order in
Council, virtually suspending the whole machinery of sliding
scales and present prices, and price-adjusted duties. He
must make the importation of foreign corn free for some
weeks to come. .It is true this proceeding may still more
embitter the resentment already kindled in the
ranks of the landed interest against him. Better for him,
and far them, that such a result be challenged at once, than
that both themselves and he should incur the more terrible
resentment of a needlessly starving and justly irritated people.
It is true that such an Order in Council will be jealously re-
garded by other classes of the community, on grounds of less
selfish and more constitutional displeasure than those of the
landed interest, at such an, intervention with the working, of
Acts of Parliament. But he has only to carry in with him
on the first day i f the session a Bill of Indemnity, and it
will be carried by the concurrent acclamations of three-
fourths of the people of the United Kingdom.

By the Levant mail we have received intelligence from
Constantinople to the 7th inst., Alexandria the 10th, Athens
the 9th, and Malta to the 15th. It appears from some ac-
counts that a misunderstanding had taken place between
the French Minister at Constantinople and the Porte, relative
to the government of Syria. Some time since a French priest
had been shot by one of the Druse chiefs, and the French Consul
at Bcyrout had demanded of the Turkish authorities of that
place that the culprit (named Anon NEKED) should be shot,
without a trial, in the presence of the crew of a French
vessel of war. The Porte objected to this, and de-
clared that the accused should have a fair trial,
and if condemned receive the punishment due according to
the Turkish laws. A trial accordingly took place and all the
members on the commission declared that there was no evi-
dence to show that ABoe NhkED Vas' the murderer of the
PADRE CARLI, or bad participated otherwise than having
been present cammanding the attack on the village, along
with other Druse Sheikhs; and here the matter rests. The
proposition of the French Consul, to say the least of it, was
contrary to all rules of justice. Any Consul who could demand
that a man should be put to death without trial, would in all
civilised countries be put down for a madman. Accounts
from Athens state that:considerable excitement prevailed in
the Chamber of Representatives, and that the Ministry had
only been able to carry the budget of extraordinary expendi-
ture by a majority of one vote. The Moniteur Grec gives,
however, a satisfactory account of the state of the country
generally. MEIIE3IET Ata left Cairo on the 4th inst., to be
present at the marriage of his daughter with CamEn PACIIA.
Sir JAMES EMERSON TENNENT arrived at Alexandria on the
ith from Eng!and, and contemplated visiting Thebes and
Upper Egypt before his departure for Ceylon. Not a word
is said in the intelligence from Malta respecting the yellOw
fever, said to have broken out in the island. The French vessel
which brought the news to Marseilles reached that place on
the 16th, while we have news to the 15th. The report, there-
fore, is entirely unfounded.

We have received Madrid journals of the. 16th, and as
they make no further mention of the collision said to have
taken place between the civic guard and certain of the
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inhabitants of Gerona, we are inclined to think that it was
greatly exaggerated, or without foundation. From all
accounts the people seem disposed to submit quietly to the
new income-tax. A rumour rrevailed that it was the in-
tention of the Government to reduce to a considerable extent

the present military establishment, and we can easily be-
lieve that the Finance Minister, as well as some of his
colleagues who are labouring to restore public credit, would
gladly 'adopt such a measure, but without the consent of
NAI{VAEZ we fear they can do nothing. The garrison of
Math id has been greatly increased lately to keep order, it is
said, during the municipal elections. Some transactions
took place on the Bourse, but to no great amount. The Five
per Cents. were done at 22 for cash, but the Threes were:
not quoted.

The accounts from Paris of the state of the stock and share I
market, at the close of business on Wednesday, are much I
more favourable. The panic appears to have completely sub-
sided, and prices were gradually recovering. . The Three per
Cents. had advanced about 25c., and the FiveS 20c. A con-
siderable improvement had also taken place in railway
shares. The papers are still occupied with discussions on
the retirement of Marshal SOULT, of which little doubt now
remains. It is only a que'tion of time, and that too very
short, for the veteran feels himself oppressed with the infir-
mities of old age, and is desirous to have some repose before
he clOses his long and active life. It appears that he will
resign the portfolio of the war department as soon as a tem •
porary successor can be found, but retain for some time yet
the office of President of the Council. The following extract
from the Journal des Debats warrants these statements
"The report which has been current that Marshal Soult in-
tendEd quitting the War Department, which he has directed with
so much ability during the last five years, has given birth to a
number of absurd suppositions. The Opposition journals have
announced with the greatest assurance that the Ministry was dis-
membered. We believe we can affirm that the Cabinet has
never been mote united ; that all its measures, including the
most recent ones, have been taken with a perfect accord, and
that, in what concerns In particular the President of the
Council, all the motives attributed to his desire to retire are
pure invention. Had Marshal Soult consulted only his own
inclinations, and the want of repose which his long and
glorious labours entitle him to claim, his colleagues would
some time back have• been deprived or his aid. Several
months ago the President of the Council expressed a desire
to be relieved of the burden, which he believed had become
too heavy for his strength. The request of his colleagues, and
of the King, have determined the illustrious Marshal to defer
the accomplishment of his resolution. It is possible that lately,
also, the President of the Council may have again manifested his
desire in a more pressing manner ; but the King and the Cabinet
are to well acquainted with the value of the counsels of his old and
profound experience, and the advantages that his services confer
on the country, not to endeavour by every means to keep him at
he head of affairs. Marshal Soult, in his long and glorious career,

has too largely paid his debt to his country to be refused the repose
necessary to his age and his health; but we hope it will be pos.
Bible to conciliate his legitimate demands with the wishes spf the
King And of his colleagues, and that, whilst he lays down a part
of the functions which weigh the most directly on him, the illus-
trious Marshal will retain in the Council the eminent position
which he has occupied so legitimately since the formation of the
Cabinet. It is not at a moment when the counsels of his eipe.
ricnce may be of greater utility than ever ,that Marshal Soult will
deprive his country of them ; and we have every reason to believe
that he will continue to afford to the Cabinet of October 29, not
only the high authority of his name, but, still more, the strongest
support."
It was the general belief that Marshal BUGEAUD would be
appointed his successor, but as he could not assume office till
he had settled affairs in Algeria, a temporary appointment
would be made. Several names had been mentioned, among
others General LA PLACE, General PREVAL, and General
SEBASTIANL Some additional news had been received from
Africa. The following appears in the Moniteur Algerian of
the 15th inst.:—

" Our affairs are in a gond way Ist the subdivision of Medea!).
Ben Salem, who is ill, is said to have quitted the camp at the
Cherift Several douairs have abandoned the latter, and have
come to solicit the Amen, The mountaineers are less and less'
deposed in favour of the insurgents. The column of Setiff was
on the 22d ult, at three days' march from that of General Marcy,
who was encamped at Oued.Getnnark. Nothing important has
taken place in the subdivision of Milianah since our last. In the
subdivision of Orleansville, Colonel Saint Amand has visited the
post of the Khamis, in the country of the Beni Ouraghs. After
haling left a reinforcement of 200 men et 'this rut, the Colonel

being informed that the Beni Ouraghs had revolted, and were
waiting for Win on. the Oued Sensig, immediately merched thither,
and on the 11th, at six in the morning, was in the presence of
more than 3,000 insurgents. A very sharp combat ensued. Our
cavalry acted, as usual, with great vigour, and the enemy left a
considerable number of dead in our hands. The last courier from
Oran brings no news of interest. General de Lamoriciere had
sent no accounts later than the 4th, from which we infer that
he was still marching forward, and that no engagement had taken
place."
Another jouraal, published at, Algiers, states that Colonel
Glitz, who was in the subdivision of Mostaganem and Mas-
cara, having heard that contingents had been furnished to
Botr-MAza by the inhabitants of Calab, proceeded rapidly
against that town, took possession of it almost without firing
a gun, and gave it up to pillage for two hours.
Two hundred and fifty Arabs were killed ; only the
women and children were spared. The same paper
confirms the report in the Toulouse journal, which we pub-
lished yesterday, of the assassination of Captain BILLET and
some of his companions in the neighbourhood of Zebdou. It
says, " A new act of treachery by the Arabs has just cost the
lives of two excellent officers and some of our brave soldiers.
M. BILLET, chef de hatailon of the 41st of the line and com-
mandant of the post of Zebdou, had gone to visit the Caid or
one of the neighbouring tribes, who had sent for him. He
was accompanied by M. MATHIEU DE DOM-BASLE, lieutenant
of the ZotiaveF., charged with Arab affairs, and was escorted
by five hussars of the 2d regiment. They were all assas-
sinated in the tribe."

The Constitutionnel, in reference toothe expenses of the new
expedition, says :—"ltappears that it will cost 20,000,000 f. The
expenses of the war against Morocco amounted to 20,000,000 f.
.Nor can we be certain to be let off for that sum. But that
will depend alogether on the chances of war, and the diffi-
culties which the capture of the ex-Emir will present.
Should he resist longer than is expected, should the ruses
which he will most probably employ to escape from us be
multiplied and prolonged, new credits must be demanded
under pain of having tire campaign rendered abortive, and
the success of the soldiers compromised." There is no ex-
aggeration here. When the twenty millions of francs are
expended. We believe ADD- EL-KADEr. will be as Tar out of
reach as ever. The 1110N/tear _contains a royal onion-
! Dance, calling out the fourteen thousand conscripts of
1844, who had been allowed to remain at home; and
the Journal des Debuts announces that the adjudication
of the grater part of the railways, voted last session, would
take place before the 15th of December, and that in a short
time the Finance Minister would fix the days for adjmlica.
tion. A private letter states that the French Government
had received a telegraphic dispatch announcing the arrival
of the Emperor of RUSSIA, and also the Emperor of AusTRL',
at Milan, on the 18th. The following are miscellaneous ex-
tracts from the papers :
" On Monday morning, when the King set out from St. Cloud
for Chantilly, on arriving at the Porte d'Orleans, at the entrance
into the Bois de Boulogne, an officer of the escort, belonging to
the 7th Hussars, wished to pass at the same time as the carriage, in
order to mask the window, but the space was too narrow to allow
both to pass abreast. The officer was in consequence violently
crushed by the wheels, and had his thigh much torn. His horse,
which was also wounded, was borne to the ground with his rider.
The officer, notwithstanding, wished to continue his way, but the
King, who had given orders to stop, would not permit it. The
wound will not, it is thought, prove dangerous.
" A letter from Florence states that the family of Prince Jerome
Bonaparte has just been afflicted with a most cruel misfortune.
The Prince de Montfort, the eldest son of the ex-King of West-
phalia, and brother of the Prince, who came to Paris this year, has
been suddenly struck with mental alienation. He held in the
army of the King of Wurtemberg, his uncle, the rank of Colonel,
and it was at Stuttgard that the malady declared itself. He has
been removed trom Germany to Florence to his family, but there
is not, it is said, much hope of cure.
Captain Olivier, the newly-appointed Governor of Senegal, is
to take his departure from Brest in the course of a week for the
seat of his Government, in the steamer Phoque, which will remain
at his disposal,. and explore the river as high as the cataracts of
Govine.
" The Corsican journals publish a long account of a dinner
given by some of the principal inhabitants of Ajaccio, in honour
of the visit of M. Odilon Barrot, who had arrived there a few days
previously. In returning thanks for the toast to his health, M.
Barrot made an animated speech, in which he informed the com-
pany that his visit to Corsica was for the purpose of making him.
self better acquainted wits its wants and its resources, and eX.
pressed his indignation at the attempts which had sometimes been
made to describe Corsica rather as a foreign colony than an essential
part of the French kingdom. On the 30th ult. M. Barrot left
Ajaccio for a tour in the interior."
On the I'aris Bourse on Wednesday the Three per Cents
closed at 82f. Mc.; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 60c. ; the Or-
leans Railroad shares; 1,207 f. 50c.; Rouen, 1,030 f. ; Havre,
830 f.; Avignon, I,olof. ; Vierzon, 7401.; Bordeaux, 6251. 50c ;
Boulogne, 600 f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 50f. ; Basle,
275 f. -

The following are the quotations for other lines :
Paris and Lyons (Laffitte), 5221. 50c. premium ; ditto
(Calon), 507 f.; ditto (Gauneron), 5101. ; ditto (La Pinson-
niere), 504 f. 50c.; Northern Line (Laffitte), 574 f. ; ditto
(Rosamel), 537 f. 50c.; ditto (Pepin Lehalleur), 529 f.; ditto
(Decan Lebeuf), 5291. ; Paris and Strasburg (Gan-
neron), 51£f. ; ditto (Hinguerlot), 513 f. ; ditto (Bechet),
505 f. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 524 f. ; ditto
(Drouillard), 504 f.; ditto (O'Neill), 513 f.; ditto (Lefevre),
505 f.; Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 5301.; ditt (Lecointe),
512 f.; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 506 f. ; Bordeaux and
Cetto (Espeleta), 514 f. ; Creil and Saint Quentin (Ca-
rette), 513 f. 50e.; ditto (Colbert), 503 f. ; Dijon and Nut-
hausen, (O'Neill), 500 f. ; ditto (Allegry), 500 f.
LYONS, Ocr. 18.— Paris and Orleans, 1,2411: ; Paris and
Rouen, 1,061 f., end of October ; Orleans and Yierzon, 7621.,
to the 15th of November.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Oar. 23.
Anglo-Belgian — Luxembourg
Boulogne and Amiens- 111/. Namur and Liege 4IA
Bordeaux &Mediterran North Jamaica
Bordeaux and Toulouse Orleans and Vierzon
Do. & Cette (Espeleta) 2 Orleans and Bordeaux 101
Do. ( Mackenzie's) .. Over Yssel
Central of Spain ..... 13A Paris& Lyons (Laffitte) 21,E
Demerara
Dendre Valley -
Dutch Rhenish
Dieppe & Paris Juliet — Paris and Rouen ..
Dijon and Mulhouse ... Paris and Strasburg
East Indian ........ 33/4 (Ganneron's).
Grt Northern of France Do. (Compte de L'Est)
(Laffitte's)
Ditto (Rosamel's) 314 Rouen and d Havre...... 30
Do. (Le Boeuf ) Royal North of Spain.
Do. Pepin le Halleur — Sambre and Meuse ....
Great Paris and Lyons — Strasbourg and Basle .
Great Western Bengal Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
Jam sica Junction — dent, and Hasselt...
Do. North Midland- — 'Tours and Nantes
Do. Extension
Jersey —• Do. (Lefebvre's) —
Louvain and Jemeppe.. Verona and Ancona —
Lyons and Avignon.... 2 West Flanders 5

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