The New York Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1845, Page 1

BY AN EXCLUSIVE AND EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD OFFICE. HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM EUROPE, ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP BRITANNIA AT BOSTON. Terrible Railway Revulsion in England and France. Expected Famine in England. PROPOSED OPENING OF THE PORTS. Meetings of the English Cabinet. Warlike Preparations in Great Britain. BUERGEMON IN Lan OonrON MARKET Excited Feeling in England ON THE CORN LAWS. Renewed Political Agitation in England and Ireland. Important Ministerial Changes, RESIGNATION OF MARSHAL SOULT,. APPAIRS IN. INDIA. ABDEL KADER AND THE FRENCH. Prostration of Trade in the Manufacturing Districts. Briskness in the Iron Trade. MARKETS, &c. &. About 1 o’clock yesterday afternoon our special and exclusive express from Boston reached this oflice, with the despatches whie) arrived at that city in the steamship Britannia at 6 o’clock on Thursday evening. Our messenger came by horses part of the way, and then by the famous steamer Neptune, of the Independent Line, to this city. We are particu- larly indebted to Mr. Geo. Williams, the gentle- manly agent of that line, and to Capt. Rollins of the Neptune, for their energy and exertion, in aiding us to carry out this piece of enterprize. The Britannia sailed from Liverpool on the 4th inst., and we have papers from that city to that date, from London to the 3d, and_from Paris to the Ist, inclusive. Our accounts in a commercial and financial point of view, are more important than they have been for the last twenty years. A terrible revulsion has commenced in England, greater than that of 1825, and similar to that of 1837 in the United States.— This revulsion has been produced by the combined influence of a bad harvest all over England and Europe, a bad monetary system, and the unthink- ing inflation in railway speculations. All stocks, aad every staple is going down—except the price of breadstufls, which the impending famine enhances and improves. This terrible movement is just in itscommencement. The first blow has been struck —and in Ireland, the agitator O’Connell is already using it for the purpose of opposition to the union. ‘Tue English government seems to be ina state of alarm, and Sir Robert Peel is calling cabinet after cabinet, to deliberate on the opening of the ports, and the best means to meet impending famine.— Cotton is down—corn is up—and the excitement caused by the revulsion is increasing every day.— What the result may be, no one can tell—perhaps it is the “begianing of the end” of the financial and political superstructure of England and France. The steamship Marmora from New York and Li- verpool, for Constantinople, put into Cove 2nd No- vember, with coals on fire, and would discharge | them. The warlike preparations in Great Britain con- tinued, The frequent Cabinet Councils, following each other so quickly, had created a good deal of anxiety throughout the kingdom, and it was thought that they would result in the opening of the ports for grain. The London Standard of the evening of the 3d | inst., officially makes the annexed important an- nouneements :— A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the residence of Sir Robert Peel, in Whitehall Gardens. ‘The Misisters present were Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Wharncliffe, the Karlot Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir Jai Graham, ncellor of the Excheqeer, Earl of Haddington, of Lincoln, and the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert. The Council sat four hours andahalf. After attending the Council, the Earl of Lincoln left town for Windsor Castle ona visit to the Queen. Another Cabinet Council will be held at the residence of Sir Robert Peel, in Whitehall Gardens, this afternoon, Allthis trouble and distress in England is pro- ducing an extraordinary revolution in parties there, It is already stated, on excellent authority, that Lord John Russell, the late leader of the whigs, will join the administration of Sir Rebert Peel, and that he will succeed Lord Stanley as Colonial Secretary.— To this important change in the Ministry may be at- tributed to a great degree the confident hope that the ports will be thrown nc American news to the 16th, was republished in London papers of the 28th, together with specula- tions of the American’press on the affairs of Mexi- co, Texas and the La Plata. The London Times, in an article on American politics, remarks that the commencement of the session will, m the course ot amonth, call from Mr. Polk a full and authentic statement of the policy of the Government, and add thus—“‘the message of the President of the Unrted States has seldom had more momentous topics to deal with, more important doubts to re- move, more hidden things to reveal.” The Paris correspondent of the London Times an- nounces that the great Powers were about to insist on the separation of the Legations from the Govern- ment of the Pope, and that they would be added to the dominions of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. ‘The chairnvan of the American Chamber of Com- merce, Liverpool, has received a letter from Lord Sandon, expressing his Lordsnip’s approval of the memorial to the Privy Council in tavor of admitting Indiancorn. His Lordship thinks that sucn a course ‘on the part of outa in America, the hands of those wno advocate the relaxation of the tariff. sur Allan McNab, speaker of the House of Assem- bly of Upper Canada, leaves Liverpool by the mail for Hahitex, Nova Scotia, on the 4th of November next. , They talk of building a railroad to connect St. Petersburg in Russia with Pekin in China, Last week, George Hudson, M. P., the lucky spe- culator, who has been absurdly named the Railway King, Was entertained ata public dinner at the Po- jytechme Hall, Sunderland, in honor of his election for that borough, The King of Prussia, and the Corporation of the city of Berlin are at loggerheads on the subject of the Kongean Reformation; the Corporation favoring it, and the King opposing it. Mr. O'Connell attended a great gatherin, Repealers at Mayo, on Sunday, Oct. 19th. stated that 80,000 persons were present, in spite great deluge of rain. of the It is ofa overnment would greatly strenthen | | The Paris share market is ina still worse state | than that of London or Liverpool: | Reserved carriages for ladies are becoming gen- { eral upon all the principal railways in England. lt is rumored that the banks of England and France are about to make arrangements for the re- ciprocal remittance of railway deposits, so as to ob- viate the derangements in the currency. Accounts from Leipsic and Frankfort state that the commercial interests in both those cities were in a very embarrassed state, and a financial crisis was inevitable. Thirty railway speculators have taken ‘French leave” of their bankers in Vienna; the consequenee is a fallin shares, and a curtailment of credit. Another advance of a half penny on the 4lb. loaf took place on the 28th ult , in different parts of Lon- jon: the “top” price, therefore, of “cheap” bread‘is now 84d., and of the best wheaten 94d., and in some places 10d, the 4lb. loat. Since the introduction of railways, 412 acts have passed the British Parliament, empowering the con- | struction of 278 lines, (some of the acts were for extensions, durations, &c.,) and the totul amount of capital to be raised on them was £154,716,937. There is _a report that the Prince de Joinville is to proceed to the coast of Morocco, with a squadron of ships of war, to protect the subjects of France, and to overawe the government of Mo- rocco. The average number of British shipwrecks in a ear is 600, the value of property destroyed £2,500,- sterling, and the number of lives lost 1,560. A Paris Ministerial paper has the following rumor of a settlement ot the Oregon question :—Our private correspondence from London announces that the Cabinets of London and Washington have come to an agreement on the question of the Oregon territo- ry. Oregon territory has been rejected by the Ame- rican Senate by a majority of only two votes. An American plenipotentiary had repaired to London to follow up the negociations, which have at length ended in a final arrangement. The Emperor of Russia by a rapid journey un- expectedly joined the Empress, who was previously in Italy. “They arrived on the 19th with a suite of 75 persons at Genoa, whence they embarked on the lon board some Russian frigates which were waiting in the port for Palermo. The Empress was in anextremely feeble state of health, but she had revived somewhat under the climate of Italy. Che Frankfort Gazette states that the Grand Duke Nicholas, the heir jto the throne of Russia, had arrived at Botzen, in the Tyrol, on his way to anh to join the Emperor. _ The Journal de Francfort states, from Berlin,that since the Ist of October, 1844, net less than seven millions of Prussian dollars have been given by the King of Prussia or the State towards the relief of the sufferers by the inundations and other calami. ties which have visited parts of Silesia, Pomera- nia. &c. Puei.ism—Tue Cxamrionsair—So much disa- greement has arisen in consequence of the late fight between Caunt and Bendigo, after which the latter claimed the belt, that a challenge _has been made and accepted to fight it over again for 1000 sove- reigns. Puseviem.—Mr. Newman,who has lately seceded frem the Established Church, of which he was a minister, 1s reported to have purchased several acres of land at Littlemore ; and that an important institution is likely to arise there for the promotion ot the objects of the Puseyite and Romanist party. For the present Mr. Newman remains in Bay com- munion with the Romish church; and rumor tends to connect him with the Jesuit College at Stony- hurst. ARRIVAL oF Packet Suips.—Since our last pub- lication we have had several arrivals, which were all, however, anticipated by the extraordinary quick voyage of the Cambria, which reached here on the 27th ult., in less. than 1i days, including her calling 26th, the Empire and the Cambridge on the 30th, and the Patrick Henry on the 31st. We may also mention that the new ship Washington Irving, Cap- tain Caldwell, one of Train’s Line of Boston packet ships, arrived on the 29th, having.sailed on the Ist. —Liverpool Times, Nov. 4. Iron Sreamsuirs.—The construction of iron steamships is now making rapid progress in Eng- land, and particularly at Liverpool. In the extensive yard of Messrs. James Hodgson & Co., there is now no less than five iron steamers building. One an iron steamship, of 1400 tons burthen, the first of a line of new steamers to run between New York and Liverpool ; her engines will be of 180 horse power, first style for passenger and freight accommodation. Also another iron steamship, of 600 tons, to run be: horse, with the screw propeller. Also a third iron steamer, of smaller tonnage, intended for Buenos Ayres, with the screw propeller. They have also several other smaller iron ships now building. Their | yard accommodation is extensive, possessing ma- chine rooms, furnaces,Ismiths’ shops, with a 90 yards’ frontage to the river, which is a mile wide at that point, and 24 feet deep at high water at their yard— which, with other conveniences, are ample enough for building seven iron ships of 700 tens each, it | Gtred with the screw, at the same time. War.ike Preparations.—There is evidently a screw loose between us and some or other of ‘the countries from which, according to royal speeches, we are everlastingly receiving assurances of love and amity. Preparations for sudden hostilities is going on inall directions. Signs of the gui vive are to be traced in every quarter. Old fortifications are being repaired, added to, and strengthened. New ones are being erected. There is an unusual bustle | in the naval yards, as well as inthe arsenals. Ships are being made ready up to that point from which | they could atonce be pushed into immediate ser- vice. Those in service are gradually increasing | | fleet, delicately called “ an experimental squadron,” | as an army of observation is sometimes designated a cordon sanitaire, is in high order, and fully man- ned, prepared for a dash to any part of the world, and against any enemy against whom it may be re- aie But what is it all for, what is it all about ? hese preparations cannot be from any apprehen- | sion of a quarrel with the United States about Mex- ico or the Oregon territory. Some of them are being made too near home tor that. The real cause is, we opin», without mincing matters, that, in spite of the recent bathing-machine alliance, things are not quite comfortable between us and our French neighbors just now. The causes of difference, if | not dispute, between us are, indeed, many. Not satisfied with kicking us out of Spain and ‘turning trigues in China, that they may carry off all the ad- vantages for whieh we fought and conquered in the late war with that country. Their eagerness to re- peat the fable of the wolt and the lamb towards our ally of Morocco may, also, in the end, lead toan un- pleasant issue with us. But the grand bone of con- tention just now is the marriage of one of Louis Phillippe’s sons with the sister of the Queen of Spain, which is sure to elevate him to the throne of that country, and bring about a new and formida- ble compact between France and Spain. We say that such a marriage would surely elevate the French prince to the throne of Spain. We have not a doubt of it. Louis Phillippe has no such thought ; rounded and held in captivity, are too deeply steep- ed incrime and blood and villainy, to hesitate about adding one more murder to those which they have | already committed, to. subserve their selfish and itious purposes.—Ltverpool Chronicle, Nov. 1. Freeman, tne American Grtant.—This well known pugilist 18 no more. He expired,in Winches- ter Hospital on the 25th ult. His complaint was consumption—we might almost say atrophy. He was wasted to a complete skelton. Tue Wesr Inpia Maw. Sreamsuirs.—The half yearly meeting of this compliny took place last week in London, at which a satisfactory report was read | and a dividend of five per cent on the paid up capita | was declared. The new system, introduced by the secretary in 1843, relative to the routes of the com- pany’s vessels works well; it has increased the re- ceipts and decreased the expenditure. The half | year of 1845 shows an increase of £41,215 as com- | pared with the half year when the change was intro- duced. The surplus of receipts over expenditure from January Ist to June 30th, 1845, amounted to | £75 556. The report stated that a new, and as re- |gards the company, a more beneficial arrange- ment had just been completed with the Govern- | ment. Pont Apetator a Free Port.—We have received advices via Sydney, by the last Overland Mail, ot [the fact that on the “4th of July last, by an Act of | Counsel, Port Adelaide, South Australia, was de- clared.a free port, and that no duties were thence- forward exis le for pilotage (which is, however, to | be furnished by the Government as heretofore), har- | borage, moorings, &e., &e. We anticipate that | one of the immediate advantages that South Austra- | lia will derive from this wise step will be, that nu- merous American whalers will resort to Port Ade- laide to refit."} and stay at Halifax. The Sheridan arrived on the | with the screw propeller: she will be fitted up in the | tween Liverpool and Rio de Janeiro, the first of a | new line of eight; her engine power is to be 100 | their crews to the war complement, while a large | us out of Greece, they are now busy with their in- | but the wretches by whom Queen Isabella is sur- | OVEMBER 22, 1845 Price Two Cents. | Exvenstve Forgeries ny a Liverroor Mer- cant —On Saturday information was circulated throughout the divisions of (he metropolitan and city police, that Mr. Lyon, an extensive merchant in Liverpool, in the Smyrna and American trade, had absconded from that city, having committe forgeries to a very large amount. Mr, Lyon is be- lieved to have quitted Liverpool about Monday or Tuesday last, but he was not missed till Thursday. It is supposed that he is in London, and that he in- tends to quit the country. He is deseribed as about f= ten inches higk, sallow complexion, black bush ‘hae and whiskers, rather prominent nose, dar eyes, thin face, prominent teeth, thin figure, and very upright; dresses generally ina black frock coat, igured silk waistcoat, light trowsers, and black hat, Wellington boots, and black stock, and wears a large shirt pin, and several rings on his fingers—is fond of smoking, and is well known in the sporting world.—London Times, Nov. 3. _ Sir Joun Frankcin pEDITION.—The expedi- tion to the North Pole, consisting of the Erebus and the Terror, Captain Crozier, under the command of Captain Sir John Franklin, was spoken by the En- terprise, Martin, master, arrived at Peterhead, lying at an iceberg, in lat. 4312 N., long. 62 W., on the | 28th July. Tue Ev.essonovcu TestimontaL.—The total subscription at Calcutta already exceed £50,000, of which only £10,521 remains uncollected. It is in- tended to apply the total sum realized to purchase of a service of plate. that the letters received by the mail from China, | on the 25th ult., announce the extraordinary arrival | of no less than twenty-one vessels at Hong Kong, | direct from Liverpool, since the sailing of the pre- | vious mail. : | Terrible Rallway Revulsion. The railway mania has received its quietus. Something like a panic has overtaken the specula- tors in iron highways. Now that the re-action has come, it brings in its train ruin and devastation,and bankruptcy to thousands. But the end is not yet. | A more gigantic system of swindling has rarely been | seen in these latter days, and the number of | “respectable” persons who have lent their | Names to support bubble companies, make us blush for the cupidity of our common humanity. The Times has been foremost in this work of ‘flut- tering the Volcians.” It matters little what motives | may have prompted the potentates of Printing-house | Square to sound the tocsin ; whether Healer of. their contemporaries, or vexation that they did not participate equally in the spoil, or a determination to destroy the game of those who did—all this is be- side the question. ‘‘ We try the act, the motive heaven can judge.” The only regret is, that it | was not done sooner. But certain it is, | that The Times, true to its character of seizin; the right moment for acting upon fears, or | controlling the pubhe mind, kicked the beam at the critical instant, and to some extent produced | the revulsion which i i ut with. i uls is now witnessed. | out desiring to undervalue the power and the in- | Muence of the journal in question, it would be- | weak to attribute the prostration in the share market solely to its thunder. The Bank of Eng- ‘land, the critical state in which the food of | the country has been placed by the harvest, and the | state of the potato crop; above all, and beyond | all, the ridiculous experiments which the projectors | of the numberless moonshine companies made upon | the common sense of mankind—these causes, ir- | respective of the diurnal monitor, have forced the | declension to its present point. The wreck of for- tune and of character which this temporary insanity | has produced, will be felt long after the causes that | Produced it have passed away. Asa proof of the | extent to which this huge system of swindling has | been carried, it may be mentioned that even ladies | were not exempt from its influence. The female | friends and relatives of those who pulled the wires | of certain imposing puppet schemes, were in the | daily habit of haunting the purlieus, and offices of | theshare-brokers in the metropolis, to watch the market, in order to turn their letiers of allotments | to the best account! One of the railway papers | mentions a certain batch of female speculators who | contrived to realize, by this kind of chicanery, dur- | ing the height of the manta, the astounding sum of | £500,000. The appropriation of the property of others by fraud or ants reas tn aD, is pronounced felony by the law of the land; whereas, for a system, based for the most part on falsehood and deceit, there appears to be no legal restraint—certainly no legal remedy. Now that people have time to reflect and to analyze, they find that out of thirty-three sets of provincial committees, the name of one party appears 23 times; the names of two others, 19 times; of three, 17 times; of fourteen, 14 times; of 33, 8 times; of 29, 9 times; and of 22,10 times! Can further proot be needed of the systematic attack upon the pockets of the lieges, which this cunning and clever scoundrelism has worked. But whenthe cloud, which now hangs like a pall over every species of railway speculation, | has been cleared away—when the market has been thoroughly sifted ofthe ‘‘ bears” and the “stags” of legitimate enterprise, the result will be better for the country and for capitalists. Thunder storms | clear the atmosphere, and the convulsions in the physical, producefconsequences hardly less oe A better cial than those in the commercial world class ot men—men of stability and subst step in and take the place of the rotten re are now being kicked with scorn out of the way.— The railway system requires a thorough weeding, and no time was ever more opportune tor effecting it; but the reform must commence with the legisla- ture. The cumbrous and expensive machinery for getting a new line through Parliament is mon- strous, and to any parties but those with a large joint stock purse to back them would be ruinous. Upon the members of parliamentary committees, the duties involve a wear and tear of body and mind that almost pass comprehension. To save this lebor, many members are said to have secured one or two shares in the principal new undertak- ings afloat, so that by pleading their interest therein they may be spared the fatigue of serving on the | committees. This is asad indication of the work- ing of the system within the walls of Parliament ; | bnt the primary evil is the opportunity which exists for clever and plausible knaves, fleecing the gul- lible public out of doors, during the existence of times of excitement like those we have recently witnessed. Sir Robert Peel is said to have invited Mr. Hadson, the great railway speculator, to fier few days with him at his country residence, Dray- ton Manor, for the purpose, doubtles, of puttin their heads together, in order to devise some e cient working plan in future. Mr. Hudson’s in- (luence with the legitimate railway world,’ is per- haps, greater than that of any man living, and what he sanctions in the way ot check or simplicity will, with the prestige of his name, go down. The coming session of Parliament is dreaded by many weak and delicate members, and their fears can scarcely be said to be groundless ; for the heated atmosphere of the wretchedly-ineilicient and con- tracted committee-rooms, crowded to suffocation | with the members of the committee, with witnesses, with barristers, engineers, and others, during the | areater part of the day, is enough to paralyse sen- | sitive nerves, to say nothing of the midnight legis- lation, of which the morning’s labor 13 Oy the pre- cursor. Upon the whole, whether we view the crash which is now dealing pecuniary destruction over | the land, or whether we regard the drain upon the | national resources, which the carrying out of so | many new projects will entail upon the future— whether we glance at the fearful derangement of the monetary system that must follow in the train of these adventures, as surely as the flash precedes | the rolling of the thunder—or wirether we limit our vision tothe case of individual victims, and to the wretchedness which it has brought, and will et bring, to many smiling hearths and happy homes—the subject in every phase in which it can be viewed, requires the prompt application of prac- tical, comprehensive, and sagacious statesmanship, and it ought, nay, it must, receive it instanter, at the hands of the ‘‘ powers that be.” Rar.ways IN tae Pavar, Srates.—Extract of a letter dated Florence, Oct. 2:—* Perhaps you have read in the papers of the revolution at Bologna and some other of the Pope’s states ; the country is in a very disturbed state. The Cardinal of Bologna ar- rived here a day or two ago, having escaped from that town, dressed as a servant. They say that the Pope and the Cardinals have retired into the Castle of St. Angelo at Rome. The priests are feared and hated among the middling and lower classes ; the are, indeed, a very bad set. The Pope is very muc against railways, and wont hear of one being con- structed in his states. Some people took the mea- surements, and surveyed the ground from Civita Vecchia to Rome secretly ; it came to the Pope’s ears, and being very much enraged, he ordered that any one found with instruments for making, We. railways, should be arrested and put in prison. So one day some of the wise gendarmerie found a poor tinker travelling along with his tools, and pounced on him as a railway man ; the poor tinker swore he was not, but they said his instruments were toolike the others ; at last they determined to take him to a en ay elt of monks to be judged. ‘The monks set him to mend @ big cauldron, and findin, out his ability before the: | vent, which were not few.' _, Famine Pypected in England. Hitherto, the cycle of the seasons has befriended Sir Robert Peel. Four good harvests in sueces- sion have filled his exchequer—filled the stomachs of the liegés—made the nation prosperous—the people contented. Alas! the seene is chi — the evil day has come upon him, and has found him unprepared to face it. Famine—gaunt, hor+ rible, destroving tamine—seems impending. Fears have seized the public mind. In Ireland matters look appalling—in England gloomy. The grana- Ties of the continent are exhausted. The corn flelda of the Vistala, the Danube, and the Elbe, are barely sufficient for the loca! wants of the inhabit- ants. The nation is in commotion ; and the “Open the ports and let in corn, fduty free neard, on all sides, reverberated from every part of the empire. The ‘pressure from without” has made itself heard in Downing street; and faith in the sliding scale—Peel’s sliding scale—is gone for ever. A third of the potatoe crop in Ireland is destroyed. | tifie professors to the scene of the mischief, and Trape wirn Curna.—We understand from Mr. | Court, of the Underwriters’ rooms, in_ Liverpool, | | | | | sity of usin | tural protection,” as it is called, are numbered, and | 1g : ve a favorable sen- | Bright, it cence, made him mend ail the utensils of the con- | and.convi a | times eloquent and humorous. | Government police: the awful truth is out that this large portion of the people’s food—the esculent that Cobbett sbborred=ik unfit for use. What is tobe done in this terrible, this unlooked-for emergency ? ‘Open the ports!” is the exclamation; and there stattds the shivering Premier, like a reed in the wind, par- alysed between affection for his sliding scale and the horrors ef public famine. There he is, balanc- ing the pros und cons. But necessity is superior to superior even to law. The ports must be opened. ©'Connell, who assumes to be the tribune of the Irish people; goes beyond this, He demands a grant of public money to the extent of a million and a half, to be expended in tae purchase of food—he calls for a tax of fifty per cent on the absentees, and a tax of ten per cent onthe resi- dents—he asks forfthe prohibition ot corn and pro- visions leaving the island—and the prevention of distilleries consuming grain. Large demands these —will they be conceded ? A day or two will solve the question ; and in the meantime speculation will tind a wide margin for the exercise ot its ingenuity. The sliding seale—that cunning scheme to make food artificially dear—is in the crisis of its fate.— Swept away now, as it will be, its reimposition, with the views which the public entertain, an mee | which conservative and even agricultural mem- bers have tardily adopted, will be found impos- sible. It is gone for ever. In future years a small fixed duty may be imposed—the sliding seale never. Every thing proclaims the speedy extinction of the sliding scale—the tone of the government organs, the language of the professed supporters of the ministry, the feeling in the pub- lie mind. It has long been seen and fortold that the first season of scareity would fix its doom. So ithas. Peel is a good actor; his “ shivering” is probably simulated, not real. Placed between cross fires, exposed on his flank and his rear, it 1s neces- sary that*he should play his part so as not to appear to give a triumph to either party. ‘This he has done; thishe is doing. Like the “coy maid half willing to be pressed,” he may perhaps feel inclined to sing— Pe anow happy could 1 be with either, Were t’other dear charmer away.” But itis suspected by those who appear to know him best, that his leanings are towards a liberal commercial, in contradistinction to a monopolist, policy. Latest Commercial Intelligence. [From Liverpool Times, N Provisions—The American Provision trade pre- sents no very striking feature. Of Beef there is only a limited quantity in the market, and holders appear anxious to dispose of the stock on hand before the arrival of the new. Pork is dull, notwithstandin the small supply in the handsof the trade; this result is maialy attributable to the unhappy state of matters in Ireland, where the farmers have been compelled to force their stocks to a sale. There has been some Cheese et to the hammer _at a public sale, but only one half of the quantity offered found purchas- ers, and that at a reduction of 3s. percwt. The market is bare of Lard, and the price is high,owing to the state of the Butter market. The Wool of the United States continues to find customers in Eng- land, and this branch of trade is improving; indeed, there appears to be no bounds to the consumption ot au article which never, until recently, formed an article of exportation from America. é FLour anp Gratn.—The Corn market continues to rise, and the averages to decrease a little ; but the “ jump” in the scale by no means indicates the actual price which good Wheat realizes. The quantity of indifferent or bad grain which is thrown upon the market keeps up the averages—if such a nisnomer can be applied to a scheme which very unfuirly represents the actual price of the article. The opening of the ports is a question so important in it- self, not only as it affects the corn trade, but what is of far greater consequence, as it affects the general | interest of the country, that it absorbs every other topic at the present moment. A moraing paper stated a day or two back, that a treasury order had been transmitted to, and received at, the Dublin Custom House, admitting grain free of duty. This statement tums out to be incorrect; but it was generally believed—a proof of the public mind being prepared for such a stepon the part of the Government. An evening paper has published a statement tothe effect that Wheat and other de- scriptions of Corn, are to be admitted immediately, at a low figure: Wheat at sixpense per bushel, and the other kinds stil lower; but this statement. although put forth imposingly, is also considered premature. A Cabinet Council was held on Fri- day, at the house of Sir Robert Peel, as the Pre- mier could not leave his home, owing to an at- tack of gout in the foot. At this nok the question of the opening of the ports was no doubt discussed in all its bearings, and expectation was on the qu vive to know the result. Another Cabinet Council was held at Sir Robert Peel’s house the following day, and the result of this, as of the preceding meeting, still remains a mystery. People have been anxiously looking to the London Gazette, expecting to see an official imimation of the 'y, but they have looked in vain.— ‘The Cabinetis said to be divided on the point at issue, but no one presume to think that th will not be opened. It is the only thing about which people talk—“Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaketh.” The decision of the government must speedily be known, because if corn is to come in duty free, every day adds to the difficulty, as the time ot the year is rapidly apptoaching when not only the Baltic, but the St. Lawrence will be closed by the ice. As regards the former, however, owing to the scarcity which prevails amongst our continen- tal neighbors, and the high price which grain com- mands there, much cannot be expected. The great hope 1s in the United States and Canada. The proot of the scarcity exists in the fact, that most of the continental powers have already opened their tos for the self same object, and it 1s justly said, “Why should England be less considerate for its citizens, than are the continental rulers for theirs?’ The real fact in all probability is, that Peel 1s unwillin, to act until he 1s armed with the strongest possible reasons for doing so; and in order to. put cavil out of the question, he is said te be waiting for the re- port of the scientific commissioners whom he has sent to ireland to investigate the potatoe disease.— Some say that Parliament will be immediately sum- moned to consider what ought to be done in the present emergency. A Privy Council must be call- ed ere the ports can be opened,and as no announce- ment of such a meeting has yet been made, some days, it is probable, may elapse before the policy of the Cabinet will be made public. The state of things in these kingdoms at the present time, with the cer- tainty of “bread stufls” coming in free, or at the lowest nominal duty, must have a considerable ef- fect on the price of those commodities in the United States and Canadian markets. Asa proof of the diversity of opinion which prevails in the Cabinet on the subject of rescinding the Corn Laws, even tora temporary purpose, we may mention that another meeting was held, at the house of Sir Ro- bert Peel, yesterday afternoon. ‘Tue Corn-Law.—The members of the Anti-Corn- law League, resident in Manchester and its neigh- borhood, held a special general meeting, in the Free Trade Hall of that town on the 28th ult. The whole area of the building was oT crowded, and so great was the anxiety felt by all classes of the people to be present at the proceedings, that many ladies and gentlemen who attended were utterly unable to find sitting sccommodation.— Among the more influential gentlemen who Na ed seats on the platform were R. Cobden, Esq. | P., J. Bright, Esq., M. P., and J. Brotherton, Iheq., M! B. Messrs. Cobden and Bright addressed the meeting in speeches of considerable length, and urged upon the audience the importance and neces- ee exertion to upset and finally | overthrow the present system, that prohibits the free importation of coramodities which form the principal poten of sustenance for the laboring classes. Judging from the present aspect of affairs, | and the wonderful change which seems to have come over the minds of seme of the corn-law advo- cates, there can be no doubt but the daysof “agricul. | | that ere long the “sliding scale,” corn duties, &c., | will be consigned with the things that were. With regard to the addresses of Messrs. Cobden and itis enough to say that they were pointed | incing in argument, pleasing in style, and at + oH in | e ports | | past, as regards the potato crop, | to report to his Excellency the resul | Coritox Marxer.—The Cotton market, as a re- ference to our reports will show, continues in a de- | pressed state ; there is but hte doing, and if prices ate not actually lower than at the departure of the | last steamer, they may be said to be in favor of the buyer. The Cotton market reflects so faithfully the general feeling of the commereial world, that itmay. always be regarded, and in fact ‘s, the best index of the national prosperity or otherwise. A variety of circumstances wi!l account for the depression which prevails: foremost amongst the number is the ap- rehension of a general panic, ¢ontingent upon the fearal state of the potatoe crop; the deficiency or badness of the corn crops; and the absurd pitch to which speculation in rails has been carried. Other branches of business are suffering more or less from these combined causes, and as the winter approaches, this feeling of alarm, there is too much reason to apprehend, will rather increase than abate. The news which came to | hand 1ast week by the Cambria, gave no reason to | below that of last year, and ithas had no percep- | | tible influence on the trade. Long stapled, it will | \be seen, is lower than at the ing of the last | steamer ; so are Brazil os but the inferior kinds of American have not sut- fered much depression—albeit the turn of the market is in favor of the buyers. Since Friday, the Ist inst., (he business has not improved; an dullness reigns eee: Speculation has disap- peured, and in the absence of al! activity, the sales daring the intervening three days, only amount to about S000 bags. This stagnant feeling has made itself felt at Havre, where, as our correspondent at that city states, the same kind of lethargy exists which at present prevails here. Hop Inreuiticence.—Hopping is now almost uni- versally finished. The last report from Maidstone states that the crop 18 short, but the quality much | better than was previously anticipated. The ac- | counts from Yalding district say that the growth has | not been known to fall so fat short for many pre- | vious years, or the planters so much disappointed as to grape and golding. From Canterbury we are in- | formed that a person, who terest in this takes an int subject, has made the following computation of the duty that will be raised from each district :—Ro- chester, £50,000; Sussex, £60,000; Faversham, £15,000; Canterbury, £30,000; Worcester, £11,000; | Kingdom, £2,000; total £158,000. From the ac- | counts which have reached us since our last publi- cation, we feel disposed to restate our opinion, that | the deficiency in this year’s quantity and quality of | Hops will cause prices to rise and loubt very much whether the duty will reach even £120,000.—Wil- mer’s Tumes, Nov. 4. INcRRASE IN THE InpoRTs oF SucaR.—It 1s highly interesting and satisfactory to learn that the imports of sugar into Great Britajn up to this time exceed | those of 1844 by 24,000 tons, of which 10,700 are | from the West Indies, 7000 from the Mauritius, | 4500 from the East Indies, and 2000 Foreign pro- duced by free labour. The increase in consump- tion for the same period of eight months has been 24,100 tons. Rattway Trarric—For the last three months of the present half year £2,413,062 has been received for the conveyance of goods and ppesseniers on the various railways now opened in England,the length of which is estimated at abcut 1180 miles. MiscetLangous.—The West India markets, nevertheless, appear to be in a __ tolerabl) healthy state; so far, the shock whic! public confidence has experienced can barely be said to have affected them. The consumption of sugar and coffee enters so largely into the expendi- ture of the working man, and indeed may be said to be the props of his existence, that {as leng as he is employed they must be consumed, and cannot fail to command good prices. Now, whatever other peculiarities belong to the existing state of things, the laboring classes are well employed, and_pur- chase largely of the articles wehave named. West India sugar 1s, therefore, in good request ; the stock on hand 1s decreasing, and prices have rather an up- ward tendency. é 5 The Share market is inactive, and the funds are flat, caused by. the rumors relative to the opening of the ports. The Discount market shows symptoms of “tightness,” and in taking bills the discount | houses show more than their menakpantion, Nothing of much importance has occurred in the Foreign market. * The return published by the Bank of England for the week ending the 25th of October, gives the amount of notes actually in circulation, as £22,026,- 115, being a decrease, as compared with the previ- ous week, of £227,330. The feng deposits show a decrease of £164,757, and the private deposits a decrease of £905,470, ainst these the Bank has diminished the securities held by £1,118,414,and the notes in reserve by £135,935. 4 The amount of bullion has again suffered a de- cline of £189,022, the present aggregate amount in both branches being £14,001,263. fone ‘Trade in the manufacturing districts shows, in its comparative prostration, the effect of the various causes at which we have hinted in our publication to-day. Nearly all descriptions of produce have re- ceived a check, but there is nothing so gloomy ahead, that a speedy and healthy reaction may not take place. b ‘The iron trade continues brisk, and masters and men are well employed. Inthe price of pg iron a ight decline has taken place; it is now quoted at | £4 15s in Glasgow. Our market returns will show, | nevertheless, that the existing rates are still high | and remunerative. | Theatricals. | Mr. Macready continues his round of tra; | racters with great success at the Princess’ | tre, | North Walsham Theatre, which eighteen years ago cost £1800, has lately been sold for £400 ; it is | to be converted into a school. vi | Theatricals in Manchester appear to progress. | Taglioni has been playing this week at the new | house. Special trains to the neighboring towns | leave at the close of the performance, shortly before * midnight. : | At the Adelphi, a Terpsichorean burletta, entitled | “Taming a ‘Tartar,” was produced with cornplete success. Madame Celeste, Miss Weolgar, Wright, Paul Bedford, and Munyard, occupy prominent po- | sitions in this extravaganza. » | According to the papers Mr. H. Spicer, the au- thor of “Honesty,” has taken the management of Covent Garden Theatre. The tact is, that negotia- tiops have been some time pending between him and the proprietors, but nothing is, as yet, defini- tively settled. 3 Mr. Webster, of the Haymarket, has entered into an engagement with Miss Ellen Faucit and Mr. An- derson, for a series of pertormances, the first of which took place on Monday night. Neither of these clever artists has been in London for some time—the lady having for the most part been repo- sing from projes-ional toil—the gentleman pursuing a profitable round of business in America. Mrs. Butler, the wife of the tragectian, who lately died in Manchester, under peculiarly sudden and afllieting circumstances, has announced a work, “The Life and Dramatic Times” of her husband. A new furce has been produced at the Princess’s Theatre, called ** Jack Both Sides.” A_new piece called ‘* Who’s the Composer,” was produced at the Haymarket with success. The scene is placed in Italy, and the intrigue is ingeni- ous and lucid. a . Jonson’s “ Every Man in his Humor” was to be played again on the 15th, at Miss Kelly’s Theatre, | Bean street, Soho, London, by Dickens, Jerrold, | John Foster, Mark Lemon, Dudiey Costello, Leech, | Frank Stone, and others of kindred repute. Prince Albert is to be present. . : ‘There have been four Ophelias tried at the Man- chester Theatre Royal, none of whom have given satisfaction to the critics but Miss Emmeline Mon- e, whose personation is said by the Manchester | Guardian to be the most pertect on the stage. | Pett Stephan and Silvain are dancing at the new Manchester ‘Lheatre._ Mr., Mrs., and Miss Malone Raymond, and the German Dwarfs have been playing at Blackburn. On the Ist, Mr. Coxhead, well known to the thea- trical world, and who, it is said, has lost £15,000 in theatrical speculations, went into a hair dresser’s shop in Kennington, London, where, after he was shaved, he inflicted a dreadful gash across his throat. Surgical assistance was instantly provided, | and as soon as the necessary remedies were applies the unfortunate gentleman was conveyed in a cab to his residence in a very hopeless state. Ireland. | ‘Ths accounts from the sister Island for some da! are of a very serious The failure 18 dreadful in prospects betore the Srrat majority of the lower classes truly borsiyang. he authorities at Dublin Castle seem to have directed — their attention to the matter. Commissioners have been employed to visit the different provinces, and of their ex- amination, Up to the present time these reports are of the most discouraging character. With a people so steeped in poverty as the Irish are, and discontented with “the powers that be,” it is fright ful to comet es the Ean Gare ot Coney he nufnerous railways likely to be in progrees of forma- tion next summer, and during,the course ot the pre- | ic cha- 3 Thea- and alarming character. the exireme, and_ the sent winter, will, no doubt, materially assist to alle- is, 80 is common Egyptian ; | complain of Government tor permanent! |ament. It should be observed that viate much of the suffering that would otherwise ensue. . The agitation tor Repeal is still carried on. Since the sailing of the last American steamer, a number of monster meetings and repeal banquets have taken place ; at all of which the Liberator figured as com- mander-in-chief, long and eloquent orations made on behalf of the darling object of these poiiti- cal agitators. A grand banquet has been given to Mr. Smith O’Brien, at Rat . Mr. O'Connell was present asa guest, and warmly eulogised the member for Limerick in first-rate style. We ob- serve that the annual tribute to Mr. O'Connell will be collected, according to custom, early in the pre- sent month. The customary notices have been lished, and the starving peasantry of Ireland exhor- ted to fill the pockets of him who professed to be the regenerator ot his. country. It strikes us that he has a most glorious opportunity of exemplifying his philanthopy and benevolence by distributing the proceeds of ie year’s tribute among the poor pea- The Government has sent scien- | apprehend that the’new crop will be much, if any, | santry who have hitherto manfuily supported all his rojects. ¥ he Orange party have issued an address to the Protestants of the British Empire, in which they ly endowing Maynooth, maintaining the present national system of education, and not Died, 4 money to enable the clergy of the Established Chureh to support their own schools. These form the chief griev- ances: There are other minor ones—some of them anticipated orexpected. The address, which bears the signature of the Earl of Roden, after recom- mending the discontinuance of secret signs, which system, it says, ‘modern sedition polluted, and the law has denounced,” con- cludes by calling upon the Protestant party to exert every emergy to secure to their utmost a faithful representation of their principles in Par ; ode! eps has been drawn up in a very moderate tone ; the journals pro and con agree in commending it for this particular feature ; but, as @ matter of course, the principles and views ot Lord Roden and his party are very money. censured by those who take a dif- ferent view of the matter. Foremost in defence ot the address is the Dublin Evening Mail ; whilst the London Morning Chronicle, Herald, Standard, and other minor prints, all write with the view of show- ing the impolicy of the address, the unreasonable- ness of the demands which it contains, and the total absence of any feundation for the alleged com- faints. : ‘The meetings at Conciliation Hall are still carried on, and speeches delivered in advocacy ot repeal ; whilst the various steps taken by the ministry in conducting the affairs of ihe qorcrarneee are severe- ly criticised, and generally condemned. The amount of rent has not been go large forithe last two weeks. At the meeting held on the 27th ay es Liberator, having returned from his provincial ex- cursions, was present, and made the speech of the day, in which he abused John Knox, Wickit: Cromwell, Queen Elizabeth, and Bacon—ridicule the idea of erecting statues to them, or any of them; and insisted on the necessity of the return of repeal members, and the consequent inevitability of re- | peal. The rent for the week was £248 15s 11d. The Dublin Corporation held a meeting on the 29th ult. for considering the best means of avoiding the danger impending the extensive tailure of the tato crop. r. O’Connell attended ; who, after # long speech, moved that a deputation should wait upon His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, and call on his lordship and the Government to stop the dis- tlleries and breweries—prevent the exportation | of provisions tojforeign countries—to raise a million | anda half on the credit of the Irish Woods and Forests—and to take ey into. their con- | sideration the levying of a very large income tax | for the present year, if necessary. The motion was | put and carried. The Dublin papers state that the custom house au- thorities in that city, have been directed to make arrangements for the admission of corn, duty free, on and after the Ist of November. The repealers are boasting of anew adherent to repeal, in the person of the eldest son of the Earl jazooune Gort, the Hon. Henry Pendergast Vere- er. The “Times Commissioner” continues his re- ports from the west of Ireland. He paints, in forci- ble colors, the wretchedness of the people, their want of industry, and their unwillingness to expend the least money on the improvement of the land, how- ever much it may repay the outlay. Mr. O’Connell still makes him the object of bitter attacks. Tue Porato, rue Famine, anp THE Rent.—A correspondent of the Dublin Mail, calculating that one-third of the potato crop has been destroyed— | that six millions of the Irish population are depend- | ent for their existence on this esculent—that the smallest average quantity of oatmeal,the,next cheap est food, that can be allowed to sustain human life for a day, is one pound avoirdupois—comes to the legitimate conclusion that, supposing oatmeal now selling from 16s to 17s 6d per ewt. should,during the dearth, rise no higher than 20s, it would take no less a sum than £17,940 a day, or £3,255,000 for the half year, to sustain the lives of two millions (one third of the six millions) of the Irish people.— As our contemporary well observes, this is a fright- ful estimate, and the great agitator has turned the matter in his capacious mind, and has just issued his appeal tor—what does the readerthink t—why, for nothing less than the annual O’Conneil tribute.— This would be incredible if told in a romance, but simple truth beats the mostelaborate fiction. The “ faithful” are to contribute on Sunday, Nov. 16th. France. Our advices from Paris are to the 1st inst. The announcement of the resignation of the brave old veteran Soult appears to be based on truth. At his advanced age, repose and re- tirement would well befit him, so that the old soldier, hike the Roman in the capitol, should be enabled to adjust his mantle before the closing scene of his eventful career. It 1s now said that although he will resign the post of Minister of War he will stil nominally retain the Presidency of the | Counctl. The French telegraph has been busily engaged intransmitting to Paris the state of the warin Algeria. The French forces had left Oran with 5,000 men in quest of Abd-el Kader; whether they will take, or overtake him, is another question. He is said to treat his French jprisoners well and handsomely—and, in doing so, he sets an example, which it would have been to the credit of the French arms, had they imitated towards his countrymen. Algiers has occupied no mean portion of the Ree of your Parisian contemporaries during the last fort- night. But the news may be summed up ina few lines for the foreign reader. After the defeat of the | French detachment, related in my last, General La- moriciére, the commander-in-chief in the absence of Marshal Bugeaud, set out to effect a junction with the column of General Cavarnac. After long march- ing, an union of the two divisions took place on the | 12th, on the right bank of the river Tapia. On the | 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th, General Lamoriciére made | repeated attacks on the Arabs, commanded by Abd- el-Kader, and eventually succeeded in putting them to flight. The French aecounts represent that Abd- el-Kader was a spectator of all these combats; and that, on finding that the French gained the advan, tage, he ignominiously retreated,amids the yells and execrations of his followers ; but such conduct is so different to the acknowledged heroism of Abd-el- Kader, and he is so venerated, idolized, adored by his bent not only as a warrior, but as a saint, that I think we may be warranted in receiving the statement with great distrust. Be this, however, as it may, itis certain that the French were victori- ous. After the flight or retreat of Abd-el-Kader, they succeeded in hemming 1n several hundreds of old men, women and children. The soldiers would have avenged their slaughtered countrymen upon them, had not the General commanded that they should be spared. Besides the affair of General La- moriciére, there have been numerous others which it would be Nvhcw thi had recapitulate; in one, how- ever, the French Colonel, at the head of 250 caval- ry, attacked 1200 Arab horsemen, and sent them scampering away in a terrible fright at such daring audacity. At the last arrivals, General Lamoriciére (he is a young man, though entrusted with so impor- tant acommand) was marching towards the fron- t ers of Morocco, determined to catch Abd-el-Kader at all hazards. But there is, it appears, some rea- son to believe that, so far from having retreated into Morocco, Abd-el-Kader has advance | into the very heart of the French possessions, inciting the people to revolt. Atall events, itis certain that the greater part of the provinces are in a flagrant ingurrection, even those in which it was believed the French power was firmly established. According to one of the newspapers, Abd-el-Kader has resolved upon a new system of tactice—that of Petenading, the ‘ople to quit every part of the country in which the “rench are, leaving them the barren country, but without a soul to reign over. Abd-el-Kader has, at present, several French prisoners, but he treats them exceedingly well, and even forwards their let- ters to the French lines. Between Tlemeen and Prau a detachment of 200 Frenchmen were assailed by the Arabs, and in answer to 4 summons, laid down their arms. Marshal Bugeaud arrived in Al- giers on the 15th, and was well received by the po- pulace. He has delivered an harrangue and issued proclamations, in which his tone is very much sub- dued as compared with the haughty indignation at the “faults” of the government, expressed in his letter to his friend the Pretect. He proposes to