The New York Herald Newspaper, November 5, 1845, Page 1

Vol. XI, No, 285—Whole No. 4157. BY ADAMS & CO.’S EXPRESS. EIGHT DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP CALEDONIA. GREAT EXCITEMENT IN THE CORN MARKET. Considerable Rise in Prices, Deplorable Condition of the Harvests. INTENSE DISTRESS IN IRELAND. RISE IN THE PRICE OF BREAD ALL OVER EUROPE. Another Defeat of the French in Africa. Quarrel between Peel & Wellington. MONEY MARKET. STATE OF THE COTTON MARKET. dke., So, Keo, The steamship Caledonia arrived at Boston at halt past 8 o’clock on Monday morning, and we re- ceived our papers before 6 o’clock yesterday mor- ning, byAdams & Co.’s Express. She brings Liver- pool papers to the 19th, and London to the evening of the 18th October. The Caledoma met with some rough weather, which considerably delayed her passage. The steamer Massachusetts sailed on the same day with the Caledonia, with a full freight. The prices of corn were rising rapidly. The weather in England continued most wretched for the crops. The iron trade was brisk, andthe demand far beyond the supply. The state of trade in the manufacturing districts, does not certainly give an indication of the existing feeling in the cotton market. The trade 1s less brisk than it has been. The American provieion trade flourishes. The stock of beef, pork and cheese is light; and the state of things in Ireland will have a tendency not only to improve prices, but to lessen competition. !, The cotton market is depressed, the business transacted islimited, prices have a downward ten- dency, and holders, evidently not at ease, show a desire to accept the current rates, and to press their stock. The failure of the potatoe crop in Ireland isa most distressing event. The accounts connected with this subject, from all parts of that country, are painful in the extreme. Since the 11th ult.,and ‘to the 19th, the usual reports from the manufacayring districts have been received. The intelligence contained therein is of the most cheering degtription. The great cloth halls of Leeds and Huddersfield have been not on™ ly well attended, Wut a very extensive business transacted therein, at steadily supported, and, in some instances, rather advanced prices. A good business has also been done in Bradford; Meri- nog, Coburgg, and Orleans are in good demand at fairprices. Manchester has not been so active as usuil, ow/ng, it is said, tothe unfavorable state of the wevther for concluding the harvest. At the same time, teking every thing into account, the re- ports received during the last week are highly satis- factory. The money market shows symptoms of waver- ing, under the black clouds which appear in the dis- tance. During the last few days the price of con. sols has declined 1 per cent. @ No apparent diminution in the mania for specula- ting in railway shares. The price of bread has advanced in Paris, and in- deed all over Burope. The people of that part of Russia situated near the Black Sea, were, at the last accounts, suffering ter- ribly for the want of provisions. The London Chronicle states that the military force in Canada is to be considerably increased. The dock yardsand naval arsenals of England, exhibit extraordinary activity at the present mo- ment. In many of the outports, steam frigates of the largest class have been ordered, to be ready by a fixed period, andthe builders have been bound in heavy penalties to have them fit for sea at the requir- ed time. The Pugeyite rupture with the Angelican church has taken an important turn. Mr. Newman anda batch of his frieads have at length formally sece- ded, and joined the Church of Rome. The event has not excited much surprise, for it has long been expected. That brave and unsubdued chief,Abd-el-Kader,has achieved another triumph over his French invaders. He surprised and captured another 200 of them. The ‘poor fellows, it is true, were sick, but could ms’ge no resistance ; but, compling this with the pre- Vious defeat, it would appear that the French arms im Africa are in a'fair way of losing their laurels in these unfortunate encounters with the children of thie sun—the sons of the desert. A letter from Barcelona states that a rich mer- chant, named Fontalleras, whose son had been car- ried off by brigands, had received a letter stating that if the sum of 100,000 piastres, (about £24,000 sterling,) were not deposited in a certain place on a certain day, the young man would be put to death. A new conspiracy is said to have been discovered at Warsaw, and some scores of wretched victims, chiefly students, have been packed off to Siberia, and to the dungeons of the fortress. Great cruelties are practised towards monks and nuns, and the people in general, to compel them to abandon the Catholic for the Greek Church. The river Tyne has been visited by a flood, higher than any that has occurred for the last thirty years. Caunt, the pugilist, has commenced an action ageinst the stakeholder in the late fight for the championship, to recover his own stake of £200. Various symptoms of discontent continue to mani- fest themselves in Italy. A letter from Munich announces that much dis- content is manifested amonget the population of Upper and Lower Styria, in consequence of the col- lection of tithes. The Mayor of Llanidloes, in Wales, Edward Hughes, Eeq., aged sixty, recently committed suicide. About forty houses have been destroyed by fire at Moretonhamstead. No reconciliation appears to have taken place be- ween General Narvaez and his wife, Md’lle de Tascher, Alter having passed the season at Bag- neres-de-Luchon, she has returned to Paris. ‘The King and Queen of the Belgium at the last accounts were still in France, but were to return to Brussels the first of the month. The mother of M. Arago, the eminent natural phi- losopher, died at Estagel, in the eastern Pyrenees, a few days ago, at the advanced age of 91 years. A letter from Medeah states that an Arab who was preaching up the hely war between the tribes in the neighborhood of that town, representing himself assent by God to take Marshal Bugeand’s place, has been sent by General Marcy to Algiers to be employed at hard labor. Sceteiesneingionateee tae ae | The Jesuits of Saint Acheul, being dispersed by | | order of their superiors, have sold the Maison de | | Blament, which they possessed, at the gates of | Amiens. This important establishment, which for- | merly contained 200 students, has been purchased | by the Dames du Bon Pasteur as a refuge for repen- tant young wemen. | The Augsburg Gazette gives a rather alarming ac- | Count of the corn-harvest in Russia, Poland, and most parts of (iermany, but it does dot appear to | have arrived at its conclusions from official returns, or any other information of a very positive char- acter. The Russian steam frigate Kamschatka, built in New York, Captain Vanschants, has arrived at Genoa,where the Empress will embark in her, with @ numerous suite of 140 individuals, for Palermo, in which city her Imperial Majesty proposes passing the wiater, and where the Emperor will probably join his royal . onsort at the end of the year. The most important piece of intelligence by this arrival is the immense warlike preparation making iu England. All the dock yards, contractors, &c. were remarkably active. The railway fever rages as violently in France as in England. The new Belgian duties are not to apply to French cottons for twelve months. A Company has been formed for the purpose ef establishing iron works on a large scale at Boulogne. - Prime American beef is selling in the Isle of Man at 24d per lb. Accounts from Berlin state, that a treat merce is on the eve of being conclude Austria and the Zollverein. It is stated thet the present price of plate glass is ten per cent more than it was before the removal of the high duty. In Paris there are 396newspapers, subscribers, and in the departments of” with about 350,000 subscribers. Mrs Fry, who for so many years devoted her time and her purse to ameliorate the miseries of the in- mates of our various prisons, died on Tuesday last, after a protracted illness. The Hamburgh Gazette states, {rom Riga, that the ye ie has appeared in Livonla, and caused many leaths. Alfred Tennyson, the author of ‘Locksley Hall,” the ‘‘ May Queen,” and some other beautiful poems, has just received a pension of £200 per annum from her Majesty. Sir Robert Peel did the thing very delicately, through Hallam, the historian. Sir Robert Pell has selected the Rev. Dr. Wilber- force, the Dean of Westminister, as the successor of the late Bishop of Bath and Wells. The Very Rev. Dr. Wilberforce has been Dean of Westminster since the death of Dr. Ireland, and will be the youngest bishop on the bench. —- Prospects or THE Harvest.—The very wet, un- favorable weather experienced during the week, has done so much injury to that portion of the crops still abroad in the northern counties, as to render it next to impossible for the grain to be secured in any other than the worst condition, however auspicious the weather may hereafter become. When rain oc- curs early in the season, its effects may, frequently, be almost wholly remedied; but the year is now too far advanced to admit us to hope that the mischief done in the present case can be repaired—the short- ness of the days, the diminished power of the sun, and the heavy night dews, all tend to prevent that which has been thoroughly saturated with wet be- sig Caatiy dried, except by artificial means; the corn which have been exposed to the fields to the fre- quent heavy showers of the past fortnight (and the quantity is, we are sorry to learn, considerable) must therefore inevitably be carted in a damp state. In some localities, where there have been heavy floods, a portion will be entirely lost, and that part saved can scarcely be expected to be in fit order for thrashing for months yet; so far, therefore,from any improvement Haring taken place in prospects,there is reason to fear that the result of the harvest—taking the kingdom collectively—will prove even more un- favorable than was before apprehended ; and there can no longer be any doubt that fine old wheat will become more valuable in proportion as it is found to be required for mixing with the damp, interior qua- lities of new. ‘That the quantity ele over of last year’s crop is ee is generally admitted; whilst it is an undoubted fact that of free foreign very lit- tle remains inthe country. It is true that we have about a million of quarters of wheat in bond in the kingdom, and it is possible that somewhat about 100,000 quarters may arrive before winter puts a stop toshipments from the Baltic; but even were the whole of this quantity immediately released, we doubt whether it would have any material influence on prices. In the present position of affairs it is not likely however, that importers will enter for home consumption, as by leaving their property under lock, they will be in a position to take advantage of the fall which must later in the year occur in the of com- between with 700,000 France 898, duty. ‘The trade in wheat has, since our last, been ac- tive; and not only has the previously established advance been maintained, but a further rise in prices has taken place at many of the principal markets. Notwithstanding the inducement held out by the present remunerating rates, farmers have manifested very little anxiety to part with their wheat, and the deliveries have rather fallen off than increased: buyers have, on the other hand, deemed it prudent to make further addition to their stocks, and, at pre- sent, we can discover no symptoms of a re-action. The advices from the western and north-western markets report a material rise in quotations. Ate Bristol, on Thursday, all kinds of wheat advanced 1s to 2s per quarter; and at Birmingham on the game day the enchantment amounted to 2s to 38 per quar- ter. Treland appears to have been visited with similar weather to that experienced on this side of the chan- nel; and a good deal of injrrv is said to have been done in the latter districts, no. cnly to the corn re- maining abroad, but also to the potatoes. ‘These re- ports, and the rise in the English markets, had caused holders of ites to demand higher terms; and, at the principal markets, the value of wheat and oats had tended upwards.—Mark Lane Express. We have advanced to near the middle of the third month of our harvest in England, and there is still a Good deal of grain in the fields unsecured, and an Unusual quantity for the season uncut, north of the Humber. The weather has been very unsettled tor the last fortnight; we havescarcely had two succes- sive fuir days; very little corn has been carried dur- ing that time, and that which has been sacked will prove when it comes to be thrashed, in a damp state, unless kept till theMarch winds have wisked through it. The season has, however, not been damaging; frequent brisk winds and the cold air have prevented the process of sprouting, and we still think that not much harm has been done to the grain since it passed through the hands of the reapers. As to the aggre- gate of the harvest, we adhere to the opinion we have already expressed, namely, that taking the average roduce of the year at 20,000,000 quarters of wheat, last year’s produce would yield 21,000,000, while this year’s will not exceed 19,000,000. OF other grain it seems to be the general opinion that we shal! this year have a fair average, but that potatoes will be a falling crop in some parts of the kingdom, though by nomeans general.— Leeds Mercury. Donation or THE Present Partiament.—The ex- isting House of Commons may continue in being till the autumn of 1847, and from actual appearance, there is no reason to conclude that it will be dissoly- ed much before that ume. Loxpon Newsparrers.—Such is the influx of ad- vertisement of railways, that the press, even assist- ed by steam power, can hardly keep pace with it. The Morning Herald has, on more than one occa- sion, printed three whole sheets as one publication. ‘The Times has constantly two sheets. The papers devoted exclusively to railway subjects are published twice a week instead of once, and most of them have two supplements to each publication: when itis re- membered that the price of a column of advertise ment matter ina London morning paper is about £10, the profits which the proprietors are deriving from the railway mania is an important considera- tion, Stare Gampiina in Avstria.—A Berlin letter of the 7th, says—*' Yesterday, one of our first banking- houses received from Vienna intelligence that about | thirty persons, who had speculated jn Railway shares, | and were notable to fulfil their engagements, had disappeared suddenly. ‘These persons, it is said, are for the most part Jews and persons o| f little import. ance ; nevertheless their disappearance has caused | a considerable fallin the market. ‘The Austrian go vernment had long foreseen this, and, in conse- | quence, had taken measures relative to the safety of the bank. It is true that these steps have produced & momentary want ot money, but they will prevent new disorders and new losses, Similar measures were taken antecedently with full success by the Pa- NEW YORK, WEDN 7 risian government, and since then the phrenzy of jobbing has considerably duninished.”” igi Eneuish Preparations ror War.—The dock yards and naval arsenals of Magland exhibit extra- ordinary activity ut the present moment. In many of the outports steam frigates of the largest class have been ordered by the Government, to be ready by a fixed period, according to the contracts, ind the builders have been bound down in heavy penal- ties to have them, like the old Commodore in the song, “ fit for sea” at the required time. The con- tractors have recently been informed by the Admi- ralty that the penalties will be rigidly entorced in the event of failure us to time. In addition, surveys are | being made of the coast and of the outporta, and pre- parations are also being made for placing the whole in a position of the greatest strength and impregna- bility. But the natnral inquiry is, whence this war- like activity? What is the oceasion that demands it? We are at peace with the world; our ships ride quietly on every sea; the foreign relations of the country wear a pacific appearance. With all the great powers of Europe we are apparently on the most friendly terms—not a ripple disturbs the ealm- ness of the ocean wave. hat, then, can be in the wind which indicates this strange and unnatural prescience of the storm? With the exce;tion of the misunderstanding in the Rio de la Plata, to which France, equally with ourselves, is a party, there is nothing palpable to vulgar ken in this galvanic movement in the arsenals and on the seaboard. Those who protess to see farther into a millstone than their neighbors, point to the “ Far West”—to Oregon, for a solution of the mystery. President Polk, say they, is determined to have the disputed territory, irrespective of the consequences. The spirit of his inaugural address, the same authorities add, actuates the President and his democratic Con- ress. The SOMPAMHLTS weakness of the whigs in the House, as well as in the Senate, and the strong feelings which influence a large portion of the citizens of the United States on this question, are adduced as potent reasons for the arming, and the preparations for onslaught, of which the dock-yards of Britain at the present moment give indubitable proof. The preparations to which we allude are unquestionably matters of fact; whether the inference deduced therefrom be correct, is another question. But the quidnunes, who are never ata loss for reasons on which to build a posoulasion however absurd, in- stance the fact of Mr. Everett having declined an invitation to a public demonstration in Boston, on his return home, because he could not speak except of vague generalities, without violating official con- fidence, ag a prcof that the relztions of the two countries, arising out of the Oregon, are critical, and likely to involve the last alternative—war. We mention these circumstances, because they float on the surface of political and conversationary gos- sip, without atall endorsing them with our own identity or approval. Our own opinion is, that a fight about the Oregon territory would be one of the most reckless and insane exhibitions that the civi- lized world ever witnessed ; and yet the fact stares every one in the face, that the Governments of both countries are committed to hostilities, if either car- ries out the menace of the other. Both Govera- ments are in a false position. The President’s un- called for loquaciousness, denoting, as it did, a fore- gone conclusion, produced the warlike explosion of the present and the proximate Premiers—Peel and Russell—in the Heuse of Commons. The two Governments stand pretty much in the position of the varlets who represent the rival houses of Capu- let and Montague in the play—‘ Do you bite your thumb atme, sir 7” ‘ Is the law on our side if oH 1 If both parties give and take a little, all will e well; if,on the contrary, neither will recede from his position, the swoid, it is not improbable— nay itis more than likely—will be drawn. We hope for the best. “ War is a bloody exchange of ideas at the cannon’s mouth,” some one says. We had much rather see an able and clear-headed di- plomatist like Mr. M’Lane, ‘exchange his ideas” with our quiet and by no means exacting Foreign Minister, Lord Aberdeen, to some purpose—a_pa- cific one we mean—than to see England bristling with bayonets, and America rampant with fur, “* Cry fury, and let slip the dogs ot war,” may do very well for the adventurous and the desperate—for those who have something to gain, and nothing to lose, in the ‘* bloody exchange ; but everpiriend of his species in both countries, every lover of his land whether British or American, will desire a peacea- ble termination of the dispute-—Wilmer’s Times, Oct. 19. A large augmentation in the number of artisans and laborers in all our dock yards will take place immediately. No less than 426 additional are order- ed to be entered in this dock yard, viz: 150 ship- wrights, 36 joiners, 22 caulkers, 38 smiths, 100 labor- ers, 42 sawyers, and 38 ropemakers’ laborers. The ropemakers are also to be augmented, and several stout boys are to be admitted to this department — W.th the increased force four large war steamers are to be built upon the designs respectively of Mr. Fincham, the master shipwright, and Mr. White, of Cowes. These vessels, we are informed, willbe got off the stocks with all possible despatch. A daily re- port is ordered to be made of the state of the advanc- ed thirty sail of the line ; and all stores not perish- able, and furniture not liable to deteriorate by beiug afloat, are to be put on board as convenient. Foru- tications tor amore efficient protection of Portsmouth harbor, and the approaches thereto, are about to be erected.—Hampshire Telegraph. MISUNDERSTANDING BETWEEN Peet, AnD WELLING- The tollowing is from the Dublin A'vening -A report, we have reason to know 18 preva- lent, in what the London Morning Post would call “the superior circles”—certainly amongst persons who value themselves ontheir “* superior sources” — to the etfect that apparently irreconciliable differ- ences of opinion have sprung up between the leader of the House of Lords and the leader of the House of Commons ; in short, Wellington and Peel cannot much longer stable their horses together. We beg the reader to be assured that we do not make this statement in the temper of a factitious journalist, or with any predisposition whatever against these emi- nent persons. fn a word, we do not put it forth with an orange coloring—-though we admit our au- thority is whatthey vulgarly describe as ‘‘ high Con- servative.”” The causes of the disagreement are said to be various—more than one, we are assured, certainly. The chief—how, indeed, could it be otherwise ? 1s the state of Irelend, and the policy to_be adopted in regard to this country. Sir Robert Peel, it 1s said, has snown a decided aversion to coercive meagzures, as calculated to exasperate the wound rather than heal it. The Duke of Wellington would cut the Gordton knot, if necessary, with the sword. — Again, it has been reported that the Duke of Wel- lington 18 inexorable on the corn laws—while Sir Robert Peel, yielding to the pressure, would relax, Uf not repeal them altogether. iit There are other differences mentioned, but it is needless to repeat more on dits or conjectures. That there 1s a serious split, we are confidently told —so serious, that the noble duke and the right honorable gentleman severally tendered their resig- nation into the hands of Her Majesty. Itis added, that the Queen peremptorily refused to accept them—at least tor the present. Every loyal subject will be of opinion, that Her Majesty exercised a wise discretion. She will leave the matter to Parliament. 1t will be very speedily seen, alter ‘the collective wisdom” assembies, which ot the two, or whether either, shall resign. (Questions ! | | } Err: The di DAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 5, 1845. rue New Rariways IN ENGLanp. ference of the railway deposits to the Accountant- General would produce upon the money mar- ket seems to be exhausted. It is dropped, at all events. It may, however, be useful to make a few further comments on one or two of the points which have been chiefly dwelt upon by those who have expressed an opinion that the operation must pro- duce financial embarrassment. Jt has been assum- ed by these parties that the aggregate amount of the payments so to be made is £30,000,000. That is to says the basis assumed is that the subseribed eapital of new railway schemes for next session is £300,- 000,000, on which amount a deposit of 10 per cent, required by the standing orders, £30,000,000. This estimate, we believe, includes all the projects that | were adverrised up to a recent date—all that could be supposed in a situation to lodge their plans and sections within the time besitos It assumes, in short, that the great mass of the schemes is brought out bona fide, und that the promoters will apply for acts next session. At the same time it is assumed that, although there are amongst the crowd of projects announced, some, nay many, of a sound, substantial character, and sure to pay, there is also a mass of rubbish, that will never pay, con- cocted simply to delude the unwary, by scheming adventurers, who never intend to move beyond the initiatory process of advertisement, and pocketing the money of their dupes. Now, it is somewhat inconsistent to take for granted, that all the schemes announced are sound tothe extent of being good for the preliminary deposits of 10 per cent, and in the same breath to assert that there urea great many of them belonging wholly tothe bubble class. Still it is ible that good money may have been aid on A the bad as well as upon the good ‘e believe that this has been done; and in this view of the question, these deductions may have been mede. Mt is also argued, by the same Stabe of economists, that, assuming the annual income of the nation—not of the state, butof the people—to jounced | be as much as £300,000,000—and we do not con- sider this to be an exaggeration—not more than down for accumulation, and of that balance not | more than one-half, say £30,000,000, can be spared for railways. The coincidence of these figures is striking. The ogeregate subscribed capital said to be required for the new schemes corresponds ex- actly with the assumed amount of the national! year- ly income, and the amount which it is said can be spared yearly tor railways agrees with the sum stated as the aggregate of the deposits to be paid over to the Accountant-General. The coinci- dence is no doubt accidental; but allowing that the £30,000,000 of deposits will be made good to the Accountant General, and invested in stocks and Government securities to meet the decision of Par- liament for or against the various lines represented by that'amount, it is plainly impossible—morally, if not uhysically, impossible—that so many as one half of the new lines can be approved of next ses- sion, and authorised to construct their works. When due allowance is made for the worthless schemes—for those unsubstantial projects that are said to be so numerous, and which will never be brought under the notice of the committee on stand- ing orders—and for amalgamations, and the refusal to sanction many competing lines, it ig, we should say, much too liberal an estimate to assume even that the tubsoribed capital of railways that will ob- tain acts in the session of 1846 may amount to £100,000,000. In the session of 1845 the members worked very hard, and sat continually for a series of several months. Itis not by any means likely that they will be more laborious next session than they were in the last, or that the session will be of greater length, but yet in the session of 1845 the ag- firgtte subscribed capital for railways sanctioned bv acts did not exceed, in round numbers about £42,000,000. If, indeed, the session ot 1846 should give authority tor the construction of railways to as much as 000,000, the members will have to work like slaves. They may, to be sure, devise means for bridling the loquacity of counsel, and for shortening the proceedings in railway committees The amount of Irubsttibed capital in certain national lines, may also be -so great as to carry very large sums along with them. It would be premature to predict how far these circumstances may carry the balance of legislation, but comparing the pros- pects of the next generally with that of the past session, there do not appear good grounds for concluding that the labors of parliament in 1846 can bring forth a much richer crop of railway fruit than that ot its predecessor. Taking, however, the ag gregate of acts for next year to represent a BES ed capital of twice as much as was sanctioned in 1845, or £90,000,000, and adding the aggregate of 1845, or £42,000,000, there results a total of £132, 000,000 for English lines, which, divided over a pe- riod of five years, gives £26,400,000 as the amount which will be absorbed annually in their construc tion for that period of time. ‘This does not appear to be so,very formidable, when contrasted with the balance of "30,000,000 that the people are supposed t» be able to appropriate forgsuch purpeses. Whether in that estimate credit has been given for the annual revenue drawn from railroads now in xaction, and which will soon approximate £8,000,000, does not appear, but supposing that it has been taken into ac count, the means seem adequate to the end. It is to be kept in view, also, that the first year’s umount is already provided, by the supposition that £30,000,- 000 will be in the hands of the accountunt-general by the 30th November to meet the parliamentary or- ders; and itis manifest that soon alter parliament meets a large proportion ot this money must be re- paid to the scripholders, and that this source of sup- plying the circulation will go on during the next ses- sien, until the decision of parliament has been ob- tained upon the whole. € write these remarks as bearing with reference to lines proposed in the Uni- ted Kingdom, makirg no allowance for the capital required to construct the numerous lines proposed abroad, in the colonies, and in India.— London Chronicle. Rawways in Switzertanp.—The question of railways 18 very much discussed throughout the whole of Switzerland, but bears the same aspect as many other questions in this country. Opinions are divided in a thousand different ways, local interests prevail, and no authority is powerful enough to guide them allto one aim. The improvement of the roads, and of our most shocking post communication, would be of some service, but not railways; for di- vided districts, with twenty-five independent go- vernments in a space of 4,000 square miles, ure a most ditficult ground upon which to construct trunk lines. Two schemes have appeared here almost si- multaneously. Zurich is to have a line to be called the “Swiss Northern,” which is to join either Basil or the German line at its terminus, und Basil is to construct the Swiss Central, a trunk line to Olten with branches to Zurich, Lucern, and the Bielensa. Both plans have one object in common, viz., the connection of Basil and Zurich; this si rity has, however, failed in uniting the two parties. Basil 1s not concerned either in the direction or in the share list of the Swiss Northern, and Zurich will have no- hing to say tothe Swiss Central. Some attempts towardsa union of the two schemes on the part of the people were rather rudely negatived at Zurich | must immediately arise to make this diflerence (if | such there be) manifest. It is idle to speculate. Nevertheless, we would say that Peel, with ail his apparent sauvity, will not yield ; and that the iron Duke, with all his abrupt- ness cf temper, and obstinacy of opinion, will be subdued. Itis not stated what part the other ministers have taken in the dispute. It is easy enough, however, to divine. The ministers in the House of Commons, to aman, are with their master ; amd with the ex- ception of Aberdeen, and perhaps of Lyndhurst, that part of the cabinet in the lords would range themselves under the banner of the Duke. nough tor us, and tor our gentle public, that there is mutiny in the camp. Tue Massacnuserrs.—The European Times of the 19th says—This beauuful, vessel was ready for previous twenty-teur hours. She goes out to-day full of freight and nearly all her berths taken. We understand, also, that more than one half o freight accommodation for her next | ! kt is now engeged | Zurich, however, finds in the new hine the m departure trom Liverpool, Nearoutran Bricanns.—-The Constitutionnel publishes the following letter trom Naples: -"\Del Garretto, the Minister of Police, has gone to Caz- zena, in Caladria. A band of brigands is said to ex- ist there, which has concluded a capitulanon with the government, by whietr the lives ot all the mem- bers cf the bund wil be spared, but they wili be sent toan island where, under surveidance of the police, they will have to ull the land. ‘Chis band, 1t is said, has long infested the famous forest of Sila, of which Strabo, Virgil, Sullust, Piiny, and other authors so frequently make menuon, "A Nove WaGer.—A youth named Molloy, aged some months ago. Seven years ago, Zurich and | Basil attempted conjunctively to carry aline through | the valley of the Limmat t, Aar, and Khine. The at- temptiailed partly through the then poor condition of their finances, and through the sad experience of the shareholders in the Elsass line, but still more | through the impossibility of obtaining a concession ot the Basik land for a line which was only to traverse a small section of that canton. ‘This objection drove Zunch, with its plan, from the Swiss to the German shores of the Rhine. The disadvantages of this removal cannot remain un- seen. Ifthe Swiss Northern line is to be construct- ed on the lands of Baden, the Rhine must be cross ed, and in torming the line m Baden, 1t must be con- sidered that the toll of the German Union comes between Basil and Zurich. The construction and use of the line are rendered, theretore, rather diffi- | cult, at the same time the people in Zurich them- | selves must work on the line that will encircle them, sixteen, undertook for a wager of £10, to take up | from the ground in his mouth, one hundred eggs, each being a yard apart, and place them one by one in atub of water at some distance, in filty minutes. He achieved the feat in forty-eight minutes, travel- for sooner or later a line will be constructed to- wards the Rhine, in the neighborhood of the Bo- sea yesterday, and would have sailed, but that the | deuse ; but much sooner when the line through the wind had been blowing a gale dead u-head for the | valley ot Kinaig shall appear impossible. The per- mission, also, of the government of Argan would not be given without great sacrifices, a branch wowd f her | have to be built to Aarau, which would require an increase of Capital of at least 2,000,000 guldens (2s.) desired connection with the end point of the man Khine Kailway. This line offersthe least t nical difficulties, and can be completed soonest ; ad- vantages such as these were thought suilicient to outweigh other considerations. The plan ot a rail way across the Jura to Olten arose in Basel, thro’ the celerity with which locomotive conveyance was pertected there, while this line comes in the place ot the four principal roads from Basel, into the interior ot Switzerland. A tunnel 2200 metres long is ce tainly necessary, and may cost 1,000,000 guldens, and the maximum ot the gradients is two in 100, through which the journey from Basel to Olten would be lengthened haif an hour, in contradistinc- tion with a morejlevel line. ges, however, less imposing on account of the rieh- er returns this line ofiers. [t wili receive the whole of the traflic from east, middle and west Switzer- land, the importance ot which appears trom the re- ling over tive miles and three quarters in that period, | port of the custom house of the united cantons, that All these disadvanta- | Price T'wo Cents, nearly 1,000,000 ewts. are carried through Basel, | scussion about the effect which the trans- more than two fifths of the whole of the imports of ing prevails amongst the English Switzerland. {t will also carry the whole of the ngers between Basel and the rest of Switzer- land. Asthe traffic with the eastern cantons is not one halt of the whole, the traflic on the line to Ol- ten would be at least twice as. large as that of the ‘Swiss Baden line. As, moreover, the necessary ex- | tension from Olten to Zurich will go through Aarau, the 2,000,000 guiden for an exirnsion to that place willnot be required. Finally, the line will traverse the most numerously populated district of Switzer- land, as well as the richest manufactures ; therefore there exists a much larger local traffic than on the | other line, and this advantage with reference to the | return is the most important of al!. According to | the report on the Belgian railways, 79 per cent of the | whole passenger receipts are the local traffic. The | central lines correspond,, also, to the wishes of the | different cantons by its direction, and experience, in | consequence, less difficulties in the concession of | | the land as other undertakings of a similar nature. | —Railway Deeector. | Tue lnon Trape.—At the quarterly meeting of | the ironmasters, whieh was held on Thursday in | Birmingham, an advance of twenty shillings upon recent prices was devermined upon, with the | approval of a large majority of the trade present. A few members were desirous that prices should re- main without alteration, their wish being that the | nominal price should remain below, rather than above, that which is actually being obtained. For some days past’ makers js generally refused orders atold prices, a3 it was evident from the heavy existing and cemrete demand that an ad- vance was inevitable. Prices, as now fixed, may be quoted as follows, viz:—bara, 101.; sheets, 11/. 103; hoops, 10¢. 10s. at the works, being 403. higher than the prices fixed last quarter-day. We cannot view without anxiety the probable effect of these ad- vances on the export trade of the town and neigh- borhood, and the manufacturing interest generally. | The present price of iron, we have reason to believe, | will not materially interfere with the demand for | | vance, which the great demand for railways must | oceasion, be gradual and well-timed, we shall still have nothing to fear. That the prices fixed during the present week will be maintained for some time to come there is scarcely a doubt, end so far from the ironmasters themselves entertaining apprehen- sioas on the subject, many have refused prospective orders at the rates now quoted. 1n addition to the large and increasing demand for iron, it is stated that the make cannot materially be increased ; the supply of coal and iron-stone is every day becoming more limited, and the men, as is invariably the case in seasons of prosperity, are unwilling to work full | time, and in many cases are demanding further ad- | vances in their wages, so that there is little innme- | diate prospect of the value of iron receding. Atno former period, indeed, do we remember the trade of the district to have been in a more flourishing con- dition. The manufacturers of hardware goods are fully employed, and the demand for rails is altogeth- erunprecedented. Asan instance we may mention : | her ad- | sixty or seventy millions of that amount can be put | liaise trom Aorea, sake stiesich thesturthes: sd Enatisn Love vor America —A gratifying feel- ] commercial world at the prowpest whieh exists, during the adminiatra- tion of President Polk, of having the American tariff denuded of its present restrictive features. A more liberal tariff would materially promote the prosperity and the happiness of both countries—for commerce is always humanizing in its influences— and, while it adds to human happiness, it h: ten- dency tocurb the military, in. contradistingsion to the civil and social spirit of nations. Scarcity or Laporers.—The papers published in the agricultural districts state that it is becoming difficult to obtain laborers, 1n consequence of the drain by the railways ; and some of them express fears that when the construction of the lines to be preceeded, w th next year is commenced, there will be a quantity of labor withdrawn from the agricul- tural districts sufficient to interfere materially with the produce of the land. _ Tue VintaGe iN Porruga.—The Douro vintage is reported to be a complete failure this year, the grapes are rotten in some parts, and quite green in othere, owing to the variable weather during the summer, and the late heavy, Theatricals, Miss Cusumax, rHe Actress.—We notice that some of the American papers say Miss Cushman has not been doing well at the English provincial theatres. There are few, if any, of our own cele- brated actresses who have pocketed so many En- lish sovereigns as our fair American friend, who fiss so lately left her home and country to seek fame and fortune in a foreign land. Miss Cushman has just completed an engagement of twelve nights at Manchester, for which she received $2000. Her engagements at Bristol, Bath, Sheffield, and other ee, have been excellent and most profitable. At righton she has fulfilled three separate engage- ments during three months, which, we are sure, must be highly pleasing to her American friends ; and when she returns to her native land we fee! confident she will receive, as she deserves, a right hearty welcome. We find in the Bath (England) Heradd, the follow- notice of this lady :—Miss Cushman made her debut in this city on ‘Tuesday as Rosalind, in “ As You Like It.” Her performance was more distin- Hoge by masculine energy and vehemence, than y softness of celoring or delicacy of touch—yet it must be ucknowledged that she displayed talents of the highest order—ler conception of the character being original, strictiy Shaksperian. In the earlier scenes she did not appear to make any very deep impression upon her hearers, but as the comedy roceeded, so did her success, for those who at first looked on coldly, and almost unmoved during the earlier scenes, gradually warmed into enthusiasm as the last act drew near ; and, on her stepping tor- ward to the footlights to speak the epilogue, she was greeted with, the rather unusual compliment, of three distinct rounds of applause. She was well eup- ported by all the other characters, and the comedy, taken as a whole, was very efficiently performed. The character of Bianca, in the tragedy of * Fa- zio,” in which Miss Cushman appeared on Thurs- that one of the greatest railway companies in the kingdom is now seeking to effect contracts in this district for 100,000 tons of rails for its numerous branches and extensions ; and the demand for plate iron is so brisk, that it 18a matter of favor to get masters to accept orders at current rates. We may observe, that at Wolverhampton on Wednesday, the principal Shropshire ironmasters expressed them- selves decidedly opposed toa rise during the present quarter, believing the rapid advances in price to be injurious to the stability and permanent prosperity of the trade. ‘Their opinions were, however, overrul- ed by the large orders in the hands of Staflordshire firms, and the urgent demand for iron rails at prices above the current rates. From remarks which reach- ed us yesterday in the Town Hall, and from our past experience of the proceedings of the iron trade un- der like circumstances, we confess that we enter- tain cause for apprehension, as, should prices again rapidly advance, the export of hardware must most seriously be affected. e hope this consideration, | and a recollection of the effects consequent on the | precipitate movement in April last, will not be lost | sight of by the iron trade in their future proceed- ings.—Birmingham Journal, Oct. 11. ‘Tue Hor Trave.—Since our last publication we have minutely examined the various reports from the hop growing districts throughout England, with a view fs laying before our readers a faithtul ac- count of the forthcoming crop. That the season has been very unfavorable for the growth of thir plant there canmot be a single doubt. Hopes, how- ever, we entertamed that the vines had not received any material imury, but we regret to say that there isan almost universal complaint of the deficiency both in quantity and quality. The reports from some of the districts state that ‘ the crop is expected to come down short in the bushel and light in the weight.” Another account says, “the weight ranges generally from 55 to 56 bushels per ewt.— Most of the sumples are of a bad colour in conse- quence of the lute winds, but are good 1n quality.” Lhe latest account from Muidstone, a very exten- sive hop-growimg district, says—“* When we take into the account the receding duty, a considerable portion of which 1s still in the gardens unpicked, | and the unpropitious weather which we now expe- rience, and must expect at this late period of the yeur, rendering it more than probable that niany icres will never be picked, we have #vod reason to expect tnat the present prices will be maiataiued, aud that a wet and windy day or two will cause & turther advance to take place. We learn irom ali quarters that the picking must be prolonged to an unusuailylate period. Many planters cannot finish vefore the 20th or 2Ist inst, even with favorable weather _nd all are reiterauug their complaints of the saortness of the crop. So great a similarity exists between the reports from every quarter, that it becomes almost unnecessary to take the parishes in detail. Another week will see the principal picking finished, and the duty then can be calcu- lated more closely than it is at present.” Frem these accounts it 1s pretty evident, that, as both the quantity and quality ot this year’s hops are deticient, 4 rise will take place in the value of the article, and that ere long prices willadvance. [tis also evident that the amount of duty previously estimated has been set down at a much larger figure than will be realized. At present it 18 put down by some at £120,000,—Liverpool Times, Oct. 19. Curious Cuarce Against ENGLAND AND PRince GeorGe oF CaMBRIDGE.—The Athens correspon- dent of the Morning Post communicates the intelli- gence that M. Coletti, the Prime Minister, through 4 paper conducted under his auspices; by a mur- derer whose pardon he especially interested him- self to procure, publicly accases the British govern- ment of a deliberate design to procure the assassi- nation of King Otho, and implicates a gallant and distinguished member of the royal family in the atrocious fact. 4 2 To fact that “the object of our government is to have King Otho assassinated for the purpose of pla- cing Prince George of Cambridge on the throne of Greece, and to. compass which, according to M. Coletti, a conspiracy exists under the patronage of England.” “dail led é pathetic as public spirit untortunately is in Greece, it was, however, roused by the appearance of this accusation. The journal in question was in- | dignantly denounced in both Chambers of the Legis- | lature of Athens ; the author of the charge was ex- amined viva voce, and failed in showing that there existed the slightest ground tor that of which he | alleged he possessed “ palpable proof.” M. Coletts | himself was forced to admit his own participation in the libel, to the extent of his Gio | gratuitously distributed the journal that contained it; and his own colleague, the Minister of Justice, declared that the slanderer Cleomenes was without the sha- dow of foundation for the calumny he had circu- mer im gpite of all this, no steps had been taken for the arraignment and punishment of the creature Cleomenes. ‘Tne Evectric Terxcrarn.—The Prussian go. vernment has determined to apply an electric tele- graph to the line trom Berlin to Cologne. It will be established between Berlin and Potsdam betore the end of the year. | Sgcessions rrom THE ANGLICAN CuurcH.—We are now enabled to mention the names of all those membera ot the University of Oxford who have | been received into the Roman Catholic Church im tie course of the last few days. They are :—The | Rey. J. Ll. Newman, B.D., Fellow of Oriel College. | | The Kev.— Stanton, M.A., of Brasenose College. | The Rev. — Bowles, M.A., of Exeter College. ‘The Rey. Ambrose St. John, Student of Christ Church. J.D. Dalgaurns, Esq., M.A. of Exeter College 5 and | Albany Chrisue, Esq., M.A., Fellow of Onel Col- | | lege. It is stated confidently tha other cleigymen, | tlso memabers of the University of Oxiord, are pre- paring to take a sumlar step =~ We understand that | the reception of Mr. Newman into the Roman Ca | tholie Church took place at Littemore.— Morning | Post. New Sreamer to Sr. Joun.—We congratulate our triends in Newioundland and Nova Scoua, on between these two colonies, as we. anderstand, on good, authority, that the splendid steamer “Uaicorn™ has been purchased by Mr. Whitney, the contractor, to be put on that route, and will leave for Halitux early in March next, their prospect ol improved means of communication | Mile. Kachel, but the fi day, was far better suited to the development of her culiar—almost masculine—powers. Owing but ittle to personal attractions, possessing a voice re- markable rather for power than sweetiess, her transcript of the gentle Rosalind necessarily lost much of its ideal ; but in the character of Bianca— the loving, trusting, and betrayed wite—there was full scope for the display of those magnificent pow- ers which enabled her to appreciate and depict so forcibly the effects of maddening jealousy and wild revenge. The paroxysms of consuming yet repressed passion—thick hard breathing — of the laboring chest, the starting eye-balls, the spasmodic contortions of the teatures, the mut- tering of scarcely audible yet rapid sentences throug: her clenched teeta—and then the out-burst of pent-up rage and jealousy and despair—the sharp, shriil scream of agony—was a picture 80 real, so life-like, that the blood fairly curdled in the veins with horror. Her look of intense and withering hatred at Aldabella, by whom she has been robbed of the affections of her husband, would have formed a study for the fuce of a fury; while her struggle with her feelings when resolving to denounce Fazio as the murderer of the old miser, was depicted in her look and gestures as in a mirror. The whole of her acting was, in fact, a series of triumphs—art imitating 8o closely the workings of nature, that the feelings sympathized with it as with something real ; and though there was nothing throughout the piece | to “ope the dewy fountains of the eye,” yet would we dare affirm thatin the prison scene, where she is struck senseless and motionless by the first stroke | of the death-bell—and had she been smitten into stone, there could not have been a more sudden or more utter withdrawal of all evidence of the opera- tion of the funetions of life—there was not a heart that did not feel relieved as froma deadening weight, not a bosom that did not breathe more freely, when the first wandering of her hitherto fixed and staring eye-ball gave evidence of returning con- sciousness. Let those who go for the first me to witness the performance of Miss Cushman, prepare themselves to come away, as we did, with an over- whelming sense of the magnitude of her genius. Forrest appeared at the Theatre Royal on the 15th ult., as Spartacus. The story is based upon an incident in the servile war of Reine, and it involves the gladiatorial exhibitions in which the citizens on the banks of the Tiber were wont to indulge. Henry Russell, the American vocalist and com- poser, whose talents have created a great sensation in England, gave his popular vocal entertainment last evening, at the Liverpool Concert Hall, toa densely crowded audience, whose numbers much exueedan two thousand persons. On the appear- ance of Mr. Ruszell, the audience manifested great enthusiasm, which continued throughout the even- ing. Mr. Russell has just returned from a very suc- cesstul engagement in Dublin; the Earl of Cardigan and several branches of the resident nobility visited his entertainment Mr. Russell intends giving three other concerts here, after which he leaves for Manchester, Preston, Newcastle, Durham, Carlisle, and London, bes i, Anderson intends, shortly, to revisit the United States. The new opera, by Mr. Forbes, announced for production at Draly ane, is put off. Macready is coing well at the Princess’s ; the doors are besieged long before the time of opening, and afterwards every nook up to the{ceiling occupied. Macready,it is said, looks better and acts better than he did three years ego. The other theatres in London are doin, well, crowded every night. Even in a theatrical way the all-pervading influence of the railroad move- ment is felt; if one may judge from the new and fresh faces seen in pit and boxes. Sharp lookin, fellows {rom the north; equally sharp, with a das ot rural broadness and simplicity, are the lads con- nected with the west of England—Somersetshire, Gloucestershire. de ; these are the folks whose “lines have fallen in pleesant places,” and who form the half price customers at the theatres, after doing well, if not wisely, at some of the taverns in the vi- cinity. Braham’s two concerts at Cheltenham last week were very successful. Charles Braham was not well enough to sing, but the evergreen British Apol- lo, and his eldest son, Hainilton, gathered golden opinions; Richard Blagrove performed a funtasia on the concertina in a capital style, accompanied on the pianoforte by Mr. Annelli- Miss Dolby has gone to Germany. : Rooke, the composer of Amilie, is preparing an opera for Drury Lane. The Queen of the French has presented Madame Dorus Gras with a valuable diamond bracelet There was an amateur performance in Manches- ter, for the benefit of the widow of the late Mr. But- ler, the actor. : Macready made his first appearance in London these three years, at the Princess Theatre, in the character of Hamlet. The theatre was crowded. M. Listz is engaged in the composition of an Ita- lian opera, in five acts, the subject of which is taken from the history of Venice. : ; ‘The Sacred Harmonie Society will resume its verformances at Exeter Hall early next month, with {undel’s oratorio, Israel in Egypt. ‘Mr. Ligier is about to retire Irom the stage, hav- ing given notice to the Frangais of his retirement. Ligier is a good, sound actor, and his logs, such is the dearth of high dramatic talent at the present day, will be severely feit. The Bardic Festival was held at Abergavenny on Wednesday and tient in a tentporary hall erected for the occasion, there being no room in the town spacious enough fot the purpose. A provincial paper, in recording the success of the new vat Drury Lane, appears to have some doubts the possibility of there being a marble maiden, and gives it the more matter of tact ule of the Marble Mason. ‘Verdi's opera of Ernani is to be brought out at the Ttalian Opera, wader the tile of the Proseribed, or Coreair of Venice, M. Victor Hugo having positive- ly refused to allow his drama to appear in an opera: tic form—the degradation would be too great vi Mitehell, the director of the French Theatre in Loudon, when lately in Paris, wished to engage wir tragedian demanded £200 ger contd not accede to, ght, whiel the mony eats Regatiatiolly we hear, was broken off. The following is the vocal corps of the italian Theatre, Paris, for the present se on, which co! menced’ Thursday, October 2ad:—Prime donne ;