The Express. — London, England, 1851-12-02 00:00:00

Elte ervrefSg. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Oewwd Eoetios•t" 104 T.sorwo." ea. ULLS;•tte isms enifirr's " Gut p.tdwitei testy tomoto ow 1 Friday .1,04 in VIA* tar mt. A oeirelttaloWwled " The T ;M.0....1111000 Evetalic ►aper, Ow: Ie thill Olen, 104 ausltzw•zreet, ky Two o'eborA ow the dol of potOlootion. NIGH WATER AT LONDON MUDGE Isl. Iv .v—Vorpleg. 111. 37fs. A tiers.... OIL JUL u.sossor —Monis& Lem. Aftersbea, 101. Hne. LOYDOY, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2. BAIT. we a ministry, or have we not? Rumour, and more than rumour, says that grave dissentiment has sprung up between different persons and frac- , tions of the cabinet, and that an old wound, which had been considered for a long time healed, has opened afresh. What can be the cause of this sore ness and schism? Is it that our rulers disagree on the grave subject of electoral reform? We - believe that they are not by any means too unanimous. But reform is too trifling a matter to break up a cabinet. Is there any difference about peace or war ? Such things arc not within the remotest probability. Have any of Earl GRES'S colleagues become restive and discontented, at the prospect of bearing the odium of his lordship's policy at the Cape, and of the campaign of his nominee commander in that colony ? We believe not : his colleagues were pre pared to take their share of Lord GREY'S blunders and unpopularity. have the remote consequences of Lord JOHN'S Durham letter stirred any of his colleagues to rebel at the eleventh hour, and induced them to sacrifice him to tho POPE and Dr. CrLIEN ? Not even that. Is ono fraction of the cabinet fur offering a share of office to the politicians of Lancashire, and cloth the other fraction prefer the 'pond im colleagues of Sir Itonear PEEL? Neither is this the mountain of difference that has arisen. That difference is a mere stumbling block ; a precipitate and imprudent word which Lord Pet.- steams is accused of having employed in answering an address from Blanc parochial deputation. The suburban liberals came to congratulate the Foreign Secretary for having aided in the liberation of Rosser'', and they mingled with their con gratulations some disoblicpwr expressions for the potentates, who showed such a fierce anxiety to hang KOn rTit, and who did hang and ~hoot his companions. Lord Peimensrox received the ad dress politely; perhaps somewhat jocularly, objected to some of its expres.ions ; but, on the whole, showed his own breast, however ministerial, as participating in that universal sentiment of sympathy for the constitu tional and liberal cause in I lutmary, which has stirred, and which still stirs, nine-tenths of Englishinew Lord PALMER...TO:S . 4 sentiments were pretty well know,, before; but his expreadon of them is, it seems, a high offence. The Carlton Club have made it the foundation of an impeachment ; of which, for the last ten days, they have been framing the articles. Those piod tones have found a very fit attorucy-genend to plead their cause in Baron Burs- Now, the Russian ambassador. And he has addressed his formal 3CCUsiltioll to her NIAJI:SIY, both in court anti in council. _ _ Had Baran lIRCNNOW, the Carlton, and the Mites, stood the unsupported trio of accusers in this matter, then should we have little doubt of the decision, and, after all, see little gravity in the accusa tion. But the absolutist trio have, by good luck, found an efficient support in Earl GREY. His hereditary and long-seated jealousy of Lord PM: Nvit rug has been aruuscd to a thine; so, at least, it is pretended. by the fact of his colleague laving paid an impnident compliment to the llungariati. And his lordship, to tell a plain story, refuses to sit any longer in the same cabinet with the Foreign Secretary. Once more, therefore, is the Prime Minister put in the painful alternative of siding with one of his colleagues against the other. Earl finis, a member of the cabinet and of the liberal party. is en titlA to the higlutst consideration. Ile has dune good 'service, and has been often stanch on vital p..ints when his opponents failed. it is ps.sible. too, that on certain questions of conduct iu foreign policy, Earl Onv.v may have taken the right view, and Lord PAIMER•ToN the wrong. But at the present juncture to break up a cabinet, and a reform cabinet, on account of ca imprudent word; and u Cabinet, ton, of which the members have had to pardon earl] other many imprudences, Lord Or.t.T's own letter,. to his colonial subordinates being amongst the number ; —will be cousidered as an act uf unnmnutt- ablo petulance. Besides§ it will infallibly be said that his lordship was actuated in no small degree by thew motives which drove Mr. Itewrot from office. A lowering parliamentary storm hangs over the government on account of the policy and consequent expenditure at the Cape. And it will he said, that whilst Mr. Ft:int.:ark has shwa a courage dispropor tionate unit his yaars in undertaking to do Wade for Earl tint.Y. the Earl himself has considered discre tion to be the better part of valour, and retreats as the only way " to live to light another day." As inoy be well supposed, we take no very great interest as this personal quarrel, nor in the main tenance of this statesmene or that, in office. We feel pretty well natured that no one, in the cabinet or out of it, meditates a war with Russia or with Austria. But a atatesman or even a minister telling these potentates indirectly a bit of English mind, we really see nu harm in If we du not want to attach, neither do we want to curry favour with these potentates. And if England should not play the bull), neither should it, after the fashion and the n commendation of the Times, enact the sneak. What we want is peace'; but peace won by up rightness and not meanness. With peace we want economy and reform. All ministers will give us peace; they WV all bound over to keep it. But what ministry will give us most economy and most reform? These are the points on which we should like to hear how statesmen think, and how they differ. If Lord GREY finds Lord Pstuntsrox not liberal enough or too liberal on this puint, we should like to hear it. We could understand a liberal statesman breaking up a cabinet is such a cause. But to get up a quarrel because a colleague has made use of an imprudently liberal word; or, made a speech which does not harmonise with the ctitpu ttc of a court.—this is child's play, lot Man . ,' play. Schoolboys would deserve t o b e Hugged for falling out about such things. And for our part, we feel strongly inclined to use the birch. ALTHOUGH the judgment delivered yesterday morning in the t'ourt of Exchequer, in the case of the QUEEN against IlttumuitY and ANOTHER. WAY given by a majority of three to one in favour of the oefettlitits ; and although .6 Dickens's flousehold l'isrrathe of Current Events - has thereby escaped the sercelwessure of the Stamp-uttice, yet the trout questions involved, and thus nominally alarmed, na really left in uncertainty. Of the Your judges d which the court wascompased two averred that a pro- per construction of the acts ef parliament relating to • Mr. lewspawrs admitted of coisiderable doubt; Baron Paver declared that the dictum of the Inland Revenue Board regarding the law was " utterly pre posterous:" while Nlr. Baron Psitxt:considerea that judgment ought to go in their favour. Two of the judges, therefore—the CIIIEF BARON and Mr. Baron Motres—necused the statutes of ineertitude while the other two proved the accusation by the opinion of the one tiatly contradicting that of the other. The decision of the three judges, which allows Mr. DICIER NS to communicate untaxed, in his own pleasant manner, the news of each current mouth to his readers at intervals greater than twenty-six days between each publication, invites no comment from ; because we agree with it. The decision, how ever, of the dissantent judge must not be so passed ever. His main argument in reference to the point at issue,—natuely, whether a paper issued at greater intervals than 26 days between each publication, like the Ilersiel.44l Serratire,i. or is not Hi law a s t amp . able paper —was, firstly that, as the 611th of Gim. 111.. cap. 34, in whie:i such papers are so speci fied, was passed to extend the newspaper stamp duties over a greater surtace than previously, no limitation of its operation whatever could be con templated by the allusion to periodicals published at intervals exceeding 26 dap. Secondly, that if the legislature hod intended to exempt such papers, it would hare excepted them in express and induhita-i ble terms. Tlus Inferential mode of construing acts of parlia ment can seldom be relied on; and wag never so much at fault as when employed by the learned Mr. Baron PARKE. The, history of the clause he referred • to, and of the ezhedole to the latest newspaper stamp act, pfsem at once that learned judge's misapprebente.on. It happened in the year 11+19, wlem the former act was' that a well-known weekly , publicaticii, valrarl'i as the " Gridiron, but, really enti tled (!obbetts Ileyister, was in the height of its bold and abusive career. At that time the legaldefinitioni of a newspaper was simply a paper containing "rosl ports of public news, intelligence, and occurrences to be dispersed or made public ;" and manifestly a paper like CA/BBEIT'S, which merely com mented upon passing events ' could not be brought within the Stamp Act. Hence the 60th of GEO. 111. cap. 34, was passed to include prints putting forth "remarks and observations" on public news, intelligence, and occurrences in the number of the taxed. Had no restriction been provided, many respectable and harmless monthly publi cations then existing,—such as the Gent/cilium's -Vaya:ine, Hansard's Debates, and several others —which printed either news or observations on news, or both, would have been, against the wish of the t hen government, saddled with the stamp. In order therefore to exempt them, a clause was inserted excusing such periodicals (then being issued at in tervals exceeding 26 days) from the payment of stamp duty. Therefore, for once, and contrary to Mr. Baron PARK F.'S opinion, the legislature actually said what it meant. By this clause it also took the Amoral Reyister, the Quarterly Berle's., and other such works out of the statute, by defining • limit (26 days) within which a journal containing news must he published to be taxed as a newspaper. As the Clime BARON aptly remarked, that statute pointed out what was to be considered as a Chronicle or History, and what a Newspaper. Nothing, there fore, can be clearer than that, although the govern ment wished to extend the operation of the Stamp Act over certain obnoxious weekly periodicals; it purposely exempted the innocuous monthly publi cations. Mr. Baron PARKE . 4 second point assumed that all acts of parliament are framed with a rigid regard to grammatical accuracy and distinct meaning. If the legislature, he in effect argued. had intenied to exempt such publications as th e 11010.(14061 Nelerll - it would have stated so much without ambi guity. Such is the learned Baron's faith in the lucidity of the wording of the statutes! This faith would, however, have been considerably shaken, if he had traced to its origin the schedule of the 6th and 7th WILLIAM IV., c. 76, upon which the whole dis pute arises; professing, as it does, to define a news paper liable to stamp duty. A comparison of it with the schedules of the other acts will show that it is a mere collection of each of the latter transplanted bodily, reds:tins ct literalitn, without any at tempt at harmony or assimilation. limier, to construe it literally and to make sense of it is impossible. It first declares that all newspapers having certain characteristics are liable to be shunted; and, in a succeeding clause, sets forth that not only all, but some more than ail, are so liable : that is to any, those which arc published at less intervals than twenty-six days. Yet Mr. Baron Pause affirms that the law is quite clear upon the whole matter,fur the euriousreason that thelaw inmost ambiguously expressed ; for if the legislature had meant so-and-so, it would have expressed itself that " clearly". This application of the r( da, ti" ad ab surdum is uncommonly original. If the framers of Acts of Parliament referred to, had expressed them selves clearly," the dispute his lordship was called upon to judge in would not hive arisen. If any faith could be placed in the consistent practice of the omnipotent Board of Inland Revenue. the proprietors of such publications as that under ,discussion need no longer dread the terrors of the Stamp-office; hut those who have felt them will be a little disgusted to find that they . have been victimised in error, and that there is no hope of redress. The consolation of having suf ered, martyrwise, for being in the right is no greater to editors than to other people. It will not rehabilitate them; it will nut Iniug to life their strangled olfawitig, nor restore to them their beloved subscribers. Why, they will risk, were ere selected as the victims of your wrath? We, who not having the means to contend with you, were obliged to stlif. Mit to your arbitary fiat? Why have you for years allowed unstainped monthly publications to flourish in nirmy parts of Scotland unmolested? What com pensation will you give us far the hoses you have inflicted oil us by your erroneous proceedings? The answer when the crown is appealed to in this fashion is—" None." HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM FRANCE. PARIS IN A STATE OF SIEGE. The following important despatch has been re ceived by Submarine Telegraph : " PARIS, TUFiI/AT MOMING. "Paris is in a state of siege. "The President re-establishes universal suffrage, and appeals to the people." Another telegraph adds to the foregoing: "The Assembly is dissolved. ' " Gencnils Cavaignac, Changarnier, Charms, and Lamoricii•rc, and M. Thiers hive been arrested and conducted to Vincennes. " It is said that the President prop-ses a presidency of ten years, and two clambers. " Paris is quiet." From our usual correspondence we extract the following : MONDAY EVENING. M. Devinck, having received 38,6 , 47 votes in 113 sections, is named representative for Paris. MM. Pascal Duprat and Cremieux have brought forward a proposition for repeating the ballot at the tribune every time that a decision is only carried by a majority of five Totes and l ess . U rgency i s de manded. The sitting of the Assembly had no sooner opened to-day, than an incident raised ou the discussion of the minutks with regard to the vote of Saturday gave rise to a moot violent dispute. M. Clavier pro tested against the omission of his name among the voters. M. Chapot explained that the name of Clavier had been confounded with that of Clare. M. Mathieu (de la Drdme) called attention to the reclamation of ltl. Boeher, whose name is in the .Voniteur as having voted against hlonet's amend-' ment, although he was among the absent. After a long dispute, in which MM. de Vatiincsnil and de Larey took part, the Assembly passed to the order of the day. M. Lk° de Laborde raised then another incident. Ile complained that M. I)upin, who professed himself formerly the lover of legitimacy, refused to receive hit pmpusition relative to the revision of the con stitution to arrive at the re-establishment of the legi timate monarchy. The President of the Assembly had imagined that his responsibility would hare been en gaged by receiving the propsiition ; but this would not be the ease any more than when he listened in silence to the speech of Dijon and that of the Circus, Laughter.) M. Dupin replied that as President of the Assem bly under the Republic ho would not receive a pro- , position which was the subversion of the existing state of things. The misfortune was that nobody would stick to what was real, or at least to what was fact. (Movement.) The Assembly, on being con sulted, passed to the order of the day. The house then resumed the debate on the Avig non Railway Bill. M. Dufaure proposed. on the part of the committee, to word tile amendment of ..1. Lacrosse, referred to the eeminittee, in the follow it:,; manner :—" The reduction 'minis) shall apply t o the proportional part of the expense which the state is to furnish under the title of subvention. This !part canna exceed either tin half of tile whole ' expanse nor the sum of tit) 'Phis means I that the companies which co:ilia:re for the ad judication of the line are to understand that the lease is to be made fur an invariable ' numbers of years, and that cateria puribas that offer THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2. 1851. will be preferred which demands the lowest sub vention from the state. This form of the amend ment, which completes theist article already voted. was adopted. Several articles of mere form were then voted. The snsembls of the Avignon Railway Bill was liapoted by 481 votes against 253. The Assembly I 1 on proceeded to rename the debate on the Mum. sip Bill. A Electoral A meeting of officers of the National Guard is to eake place this morning, to represent to the Minister of the Interior the inexpediency of the appointment of M. Vievra as head of the staff. luten.ellations in the Assembly will also probably be made upon this subject, expressions of hostility to parliamentary government being attributed to M. Vieyra. The Assesiale reports that serious disturbances have broken out at Tulle. To-day some sensation has been caused by the ap =nce of a pamphlet, entitled " La Revision de la ation," and which is attributed to the pen of a certain exalted personage. It accuses the authors of the existing parliamentary system of being the cause of all the difficulties under which the country is at present labouring. Tho author finds great fault with the constitution granted by Louis XVIIL in the year 1815, which he maintains was quite unsuited to the French character; he warmly recommends a return to the parliamentary plyinie created by the Emperor Napoleon, and says that if it is for the interest and honbur of Fiance the constitution should be revised in the spirit of the Napoleonian institutions. " Every government," says the author, in conclusion, "which shall be founded on constitutional fictions and parliamentary omni potence is inevitably doomed to destruction, however it may act." At the Bourse the Five per Cents. rose 40c., clos ing at 91.75; the Threes rose 15c., and closed at .56.50. This rise was attributed to the state of the account. VDe Court. OSBORNE. MOIfDA v. Divine service was performed yesterday morning at Osborne, before her Majkity, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, by the Rev. T. Prothe roe. The suite and royal household attended. . Them was no addition to the party at dinner. Mr. Richard Blanchard had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Captain Stanley Carr had also an interview with the noble earl yesterday. The Postmaster-General had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. I Sir George Grey arrived in town last evening, from his seat, Fallodon, Northumberland. The Right lion. the Secretary at War and the lion. Mrs. Fox Mauls arrived in town on Saturday night, from Scotland. ..... Earl Granville arrived in town yeiterany. De•p+trhea were sent off yeiterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governors of the West India A 'CABINET COUNCIL was ;held to-day, at the Foreign-office. THE GOLD DUST ROBBERY ON THE SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY. Our reader. will rejnember that at the last Win chester As-ins. held in the month of July, William Plain pin, a tailor, of London, took his trial on the charge of stealing the gold dust so mysteriously extracted from the railway waggons during their transit from Southampton London, or of receiving the same knowing it to have been stolen ; and that, having been found guilty on the latter charge, he was sentenced to ten years' transportation. Several witnesses swore to having seen Plampiu at Win chester on the night of the robbery, to his having gone up to London by the mail train the same night, and to his being there again on the following evening ; whilst the coffee-huuse keeper and cab-driver in London, with whom the man supposed to be Plampin came in contact, deposed to his being so wrapped up that they could not positively swear to his being the man, but believed him to be so. It is now clearly proved that the witnesses must have been mistaken, and that Plampin was not the man seen at Winchester ou the night of the robbery. Plampin, it will be remembered subsequently male a confession, which led to inquiries re suiting in the apprehension and conviction of other parties concerned in the South-Western Railway robberies, as re. corded from time to time in this journal. The parties Mt plicated in these robberies, whose names have transpired are---Plampin, now under sentence of transportation ; Whitcher, transported for ten years; Senior, sentenced to seven years' transportation, and since dead; Seward, im prisoned for twelve months; and Winter (formerly a tally. man in the company's service, but discharged previous to the gold dust robbery), who has been suceessful in de camning, ned still remains at large. The man seen at Winchester on the night of the robbery, and sup posed to he Plampin, it has since been ascertained, was Winter, who carried off with him two of the boxes of gold dust, leaving the third where it was sub sequentiy found, in the hedge near the railway station. Winter went, the day after the robbery, to Senior's house (a public-house in 'Loudon, where these robberies were planned and arranged), and there saw Whitcher and Plane pin. Ile told them it was all right. and made Whitchee an offer to go down to SVinchester, for the box left there Whitcher would not consent to go down under 20/., bat Plampin agreed to do so for 101., and when he got there he lot once fell into the hands of the police. Thus, it will be seen that Plampin was never in possession of any portion of the gold dust, and was therefore wrongly convicted of re ecieing the same; and midi r thews circumstances the soli citors for the prosecution (the railway company) are endea vouring to procure Planapan's pardon, or a remission of his sentence, in which they will be, no doubt, successful. Senior, it appears, mild the gold dust that came into his possession for 3,11001. or 4,04101., and must have se cured to himself more than the lion's share of the booty, for all that he is proved to have advanced to Winter is 000/. Of this sum Winter gave 2001. to his wife, which, it will be remembered, was friend at her brother's house, and still remains in the custody of the metropolitan police ; and with the remaining 40p11. there is no doubt Winter made off to New York or some other place of refuge. Senior paid .53 guineas to Mr. Butt to de fend Plampiu, and it was also arranged that Senior was to pay Plampin'e wife 30e. a week duriug the period of his in- caret:mem, in caw he pitiful(' be convicsed. All these facts were confessed by Plampin, and subsequent inquiry has proved them to be correct. In proof of the cleverness with which the whisk 'tine was arranged it may be mentioned that Winter had drawn a map of the railway, marking the exact spot where the box of gold dust lay; and further, that a part of the tree under which it was deposited, and which was supposed to have linen broken by the box being thrown upon it, was really broken off to serve as a guide to the party silo came fur the box. Winter was seen in the I Southampton Docks on the day of the robbery; but how, or by what means, he pout the boxes out of the tram, still remains a mystery.—hods forkesenderie. The following additional particulars respecting the above singular robbery have been furnished by a eerresp indent. Plainpin, whcu he confessed, was asked how lie could at tempt running such a risk as that of attempting to secure the box of gold secreted at Winchester for the sake of lel. ; lie stated that it was his determination, if he had secured the box, not to have let it out of his possession for a less sum than 6001. Putinpin, it is expected, will obtain a free pardon. The South Westein Railway Company have now placed carriages on their law built expressly for the con veyance of specie. These carriages are built of corrugated iron, and they enclose the specie completely. They are secured by euessive bone and locks. TIIE GREAT EXIIIBITION.—The Great Exhibition, Mc • many other great eimbhiations which have served their purisose, may be said to have quite lia•sed away. Its once numerous and busy atoll have dwindled down to a mere fragment. There is not a red jacket visible anywhere, the ordinary workmen being quite adequate, if they would only put u little more steam un, to wheel out, in a very abort time, the residue of the goods which still occupy the building. Hut judging than the past, the additional fort ' night allowed fur removal will not be too long a pritsilt, effect a complete clearance. Some of the articles which we mentioned as having )e packed more than a week since still encumber the. main avenue. The foreigners are nut slow in ascribing much of the delay that ha■ arisen to the customs department; and, no doubt, if the solidarity of nations were more advanced, and the principle of commercial non-interference lees au thoritative, our foreign friends would energetically swell the cry that has gone forth for a reformation in that quar ter. Although the Crystal Palace, with its gloss sides and covering, was said to be anything but favoura'sle to the propagation of harmony, its musical contributions arc amongst the latest in their departure. The large organ in the eastern end of the gallery has been removed, and yester day an ingenious workman was busily engaged in taking to pieces the internal mechani,ra of Duernimet's Fri nch organ. That in the western gallery still maintains its posi tion, in theemwetation, it any be, of sending forth a note of welcome to the visitors who will be admitted on the first of neat month. THE ACCIDENT TO TILE SOUTHAME7ON NEW DOCK. —Divers were employed yesterday to et-twine the bottom of the dock where the gates were fixed. An attempt will be made to hung the gates again almost immediately. If this cannot be done, it is probable that coffer clams will be made on each side of the dock where the gates are to be hoed, and the water between the dams will hare to be pumped out. The gates arc now floating about the dock. . • Tim ltaeoux MovestENT.—On Saturday after noon a uumerous and influential meeting of leading liberals was held in the Reform Registration Rooms, at Leeds, to appoint delegates to the conterasee to be held at lslan•Mes ter, on Wednesday (to-morrow.) Alderman John Wilson presided; and after a good deal of conversation on the permit subjects, the following gentlemen were appointed delegates:—The Chairman, Mr. Alderman Carbon, Mr. John Wilkinson (one of the borough )'ustices), Mr. Edward Baines, Mr. Alderman Richardson, Mr. Councillor Mar shall, Mr. Councillor Carter. and Mr. David Green. This list includes ROan of the high or conservative whig party, but comprises whig-radicals, radicals, and chartists. ITALY AND HUNDARY.—Last evening, a public meeting of the inhabitant.' of Nutting-hill and its neigh bourhood (convened by the Notting-hill Ref erm Associa tion), was held at the Prince Albert Tavern, Notting-hill, for the purpose of adopting measures in favour of Italian and Hungarian independence.—Mr. Danford, president of the association, took the chair, and opened the proceedings by complimenting the gentlemen present upon the ns they had Like's to carry out the objects in vi e w. He ob served that an address had been presented to Kossuth by the members of the association, but no answer had yet been received.—Mr. P. H. &nest moved the first resolution, sympathising with the oppresed people of Italy and II uu gory in their struggle for nationality and liberty against a common oppressor, and recording is conviction of the im portance of the Italian struggle against a spiritual, as well as a civic tvranny to the cause of li berty of conscience in 'Europe. —Mr. Teargus O'Connor then addressed the meeting, but in a manner which pro duced so much dissatisfaction that the chairman was fre quently obliged to call him to "order," on the ground that he was not speaking to the question under discussion. Mr. Munson and Dr. Truman supported the resolution, which was ultimately carried. Mr. Lesingham proposed, and Mr. J. H. l'arry seconded the second resolution—pro raising protection and support to the Society of Friends of Italy, as Wording en admirable opportunity of giving a practical direction to the wide-spread sympathy already existiug in this country with the cau e of liberty in Europe. Several gentlemen addressed the meeting in favour of the resolution, which was adopted. A committee was then formed for the purlese of co-operating with tho Soch ty of the Friends of inaiy. and the business terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairmau. TILE IiAFFIIt WAlL—Yesterday afternoon a public meeting. convened by the mayor, was held in the Court house at Leeds, for the nurposo of memorialising the government of Lord John Re•seil, to take stop: fur putting an end to the destrnethe war now raging in Ssuth Africa. The meeting was held in the lesser court-room, which was well filled. The mayor presided. A memorial and all the resolutions were carried utianinionsly. Mr. Robert Jowitt, the Rev. T. Wickatead, and other leading members of the peace tack% were la attendance. THE ST. ALBANS BRIBERY COMMISSION. Yesterday the commissioners, F. W. Slade, Esq., T. Forsyth, Esq., and T. Phian, Esq met again at St. Albans, to connect some of the scattere:d facts of the in gairy, to grant certificates of indemnity, and, in effect, to conclude their important investigation. Tho court was throughout the day intensely crowded ; the inducement being in an expectation that Mr. Repton, the sitting mem ber, and Mr. Craven and Mr. Wilke, candidates in the con test of 1847, would be examined. The Hon. F. Craven was called, and took his place in the witness-box. Ito stated that he was a candidate at the election of 1817, on which occasion he was nut successful. He did not recollect how ho became connected with the borough. Ho was connected by marriage with Lord Versa ls= lie did not recollect who induced bits to come for ward. He had communications with Mr. Cooper and with Mr. Coppock about the matter ; but he could not say who brought him forward. Mr. Gibson was his agent. The first person in St. Albans whom he saw in reference to the election was Mr. Kinder. lie was given to understand that 1,500/. would be the cost of the election in the event of there being no contest. The sum that would be necessary for a contest was left indefinite. It became certain that there would bra contest very soon alter he (Mr. Craven) came forward. Ile supplied various aunts at different times; but could not recollect the amount. lie advanced 400/. at one time. He should say the contest cost him between 600/. and 1,0001. This was less than he had been led to expect; but then this was accounted for —he was at the bottom of the poll. (Laughter.) Mr. Gibson had received all the money from him; but he had received no items of the expenditure. Ile had a shrewd suspicion that there was bribery going on at the election, and he thought i t very probable that the saw sort of thing was going on on his own side. Ile, however, told Mr. Kinder, the day before the election, that he would not accede to a proposition which had been made that ho should buy a certain number of votes. Ile wished to ret , re, seeing that he had no cleaner ; and he only went to the poll to gratify the wishes of some gentlemen who had shown him civility. The votes he was asked to buy were about 100. He could not recollect who made this suggestion ; it was sue of his own party. Mr. W. 0. Tucker, solicitor, was nest examined. He had been so far connected with the last election that an application had been made to him, on the vacancy, to know if he had among his clients any gentleman who would like to be a candidate. [The witness spoke to IS - eh:aces' application.) Ile heard of Sir It. Carden, and he minim nicat..l with Sir It. Carden. A Mr. Coleman mentioned Sir It. Carden's name. This was the first time he had ever been connected with elections, and he greatly regretted his connection with this. The SUM of 2,0001. to 1,5001. was mentioned by Web-er, and Sir It. Carden said ho would not spend th .t. Was not surprised, himself, at the large ne,s of the sums. Front what ho had heard of boroughs generally, he believed that this was rather a small ream. I r .Pecock, solicitor, was examined. He had communicated with Sir R. Carden iu reference to the last election. Previous to hearing of the St. Albans election he had spoken to Sir Robert of another borough. Ile de sired not to mention the borough to the tonurassioiture, because at the time there was it t vacancy. lle heard of the St. Albans vacusey through Mr. Coleman, who was employed in his office, who beard of it through Mr.rucker. The necessary suns was mentioned. The 2,500/. was scouted as absurd ; and 1,2001. was, he thought, afterwards mentioned. Sir Robert repudiuted the lower 61111/ WO. lie said to witness, " Woul 1 you give it r' and he (witness) said he certainly would nut. Purity" was not put for ward by the deputation at all. Sir Robert and Mr. Russ.ll put it forward. (The witness went into de tails already fully given.) Hy (witness) bail canvassed with Alders:cut Carden at St. AlilaUS ; but ho host not been retained professionally ; and he had never received a farthing for his services. Sir it. Carden's committee were all on purity principles. They said that the alderman could not get its weleses he spent money; hut they did not reconnuend that course. The general notion of Sir IL. Carden 's friends wa=, that they would win the election on petition. At first they thought that the other side would shrink from bribery, knowing that there would i be a petition, and that therefore there would be a chance. When the cont. st commeueed the understanding was that they wnuld win on petition. Sir IL. Carden went to the pull with that view. Mr. G. W. %igen (member for the borough) was called. Ile was elected for St. Albans first in 1541, and had been the member ever since. Lord Verulani first induced him to stand fur the borough. Ills opponents its 1841 were Lord Listowel and Mr. Muskett. At tint election in 1847 there were three other candidates besides himself in the field. Ile was aware now that there had been a coalition between his party and Mr. Raphael's side, lie had, however, refused to ask any of his friends to split their votes. Ile said whatever could be done would LW useless, for up to the day of polling he believed lie would be unsuccessful. Mr. Mang suggested that he (Nlr. Rep ton) should split his votes with Mr. Raphael, Mr. Rapliael'a voters agreeing to split with hint. At one time lie had wished to retire. Ile was told that it would take 1,000/. to turn the thing in his favour, mid hie observation ou that was that lie would have nothing to do with that system again. What he had meant by " again " was that he would not do what had been Iloilo is 1841. His election in 1811 cost between 3,0001. and 4,000 , . (Sensation.) But he begged it to lie understood that he was nut made aware of the fact until many months after the election was over. The matter was managed altogether by his rustily and friends. Mr. Mang never told hint of it; nor did his family. lle mad dentally !iseertained the fart by looking at an old haiikises book. Up to ti te day of noininse Lin last time he had till 4501. to Mr. lilmtg ; and ten days uker the elation lie paid about Luna more. lie afterwards threw all the aeceunts in the fire, and vowed he would never come to St. Albans again. (Laughter.) Ile FRw the way the mosey hail gone. Mr. Illagg's bill was a bill of items, such as for ribbons, car riages, rooms, ittss ; but he (Mr. Replon) saw that these were disguised. lle was disgusted; and swore solemnly he would never come to St. Albans again. Ile asked no (VW. Ron*, Mr. Blagg having shown great zeal fur him; and thinking he was bound in point of honour• he paid the stony at once. Until he saw it in the papers, he was utterly ignorant that Mr. Blum; bad borrowed 500/. A letter addressed to the commissioners by Me. Wilks was here read. It explained the absence of the writer to be oe cisioned by illne,es and enclosed a tardier' certificate. Mr. Wilks expressed his approval of the appointment of the easninissioners, and declared his readiness to come forward as soon as he was able. Mr. Run:bull (an el-mayor of St. Albans, and an active agent fur Sir Bohol Carden) begged permission to call the attention of the commissioners to some points affecting the course of the inquiry. Ile had already addressed the com missioners a letter on the subject, and he now wished to make publicly the broad allegation that there were certain persons, voters, who had been bather the House of Commons St. Albans committee who had received money as bribes at the lust election; end that Mr. Edwards awl Mr. Blagg, in stating to the contrary, had stated what was not true, and what therefore disentitled them to a certificate. Ile wished those parties to be called, sad such other persons to be stimmoned as could speak to the fact of the bribery. Mr. Edwards begged to say that if the commissioners did not voluntarily ' ,iv.; him a certhicate, on the ground that he deserved one, he would nut apply for one. (This declara tion was received in court with loud cheers.) Mr. Forsyth—We don't know what you want, Mr. Rum ball. We have not called the parties named in your letter because they have not been charged with anything. You must recollect that this is a serious matter, and that you must be careful what charges you make. Mr. Rumball persisted, and it was agreed finally that he would take the risk of the consequences, and that his letter should be read. The letter referred to the detention and hiding of men named Atkins, Lynes, Howard, and Bran don by Edwards, while the proceedings in connection with the petition were going on; and asked what object could there have becu in withholding them it they had not to tell that they had been bribed? The letter further mentioned persons who could testify to se veral of the men named having received money either from Mr. Edwards or Mr. Blagg It was intimated, after some discussion, that the parties named would be called; the commissioners, however, at the Same time declaring that the evideuce would be super fluous. Mr. Gresham also wished to show cause why Mr. Ed wards should not receive his certificate. (Laughter.) Mr. Gresham was put intu the witness-boa, and entered into a statement contradictory of portions of Mr. Edwards's ' evidence. Having been listened to fur some time he was desired to stand down. As he left the witness-box he was , jeered at by the mob in court, Mr. Ed war d s , w h o was sitting at the table, joining in the laughter: and Mr. Gresham (as we understood the scene) said to Mr. Edwards " Here is your rough committee at work." Mr. Edwards, enraged at a taunt which local traditions appear to have made peculiarly cutting, jumped up, seized his horsewhip lying by his side, and holding it threateningly over the solicitor, exclaimed, " How dare you say that, sir ?" The audience was silent in a moment at sight of this extraordinary episode ; and Mr. Gresham, with Anti fable coolness, addressed the commissioners, and said, " I ' beg you to take notice that I am assaulted." Perceiving his error Mr. Edwards dropped the whip. Mr. Gresham took it up, held it up to the comuiissiuncrs, and said spin, "Thu is what lie was going to assault me with." Mr. Ed wards then dragged the whip from Mr. Grethain, and shouted " How dare you speak as you did:" Mr. Forsyth at this juncture interposed, with an " Order, order," and a horse-whipping in open court was pre vented. Mr. Edward.; took his scat, Mr. Gresham passed quietly on to his own place, and the quarrel closed in general laugh ter—the commissithers wisely abstaining (ruin taking any ' notice of what had p asse d. I While the persons referred to by Mr. Rurnball were be ing sent for, the commissioners examined the three or four remaining voters (charged with bribery) of Messrs. Ed , wards' and Illagg'm lists. The cases were of the usual cha racter. The first called was a shoemaker. Edwards had named him us one of those whop lie had nut bought, simply because they hail asked more than he thought they were iworth The witness now denied Edwards's representations so MO; an 1 Edwards, recalkd, reiterated what he had said before. A third person, cognisant of the contemplated ne gotiation between Edwards and the accused party, was the; ! called. and he corroborated Edwards's statement. The shoe maker in consequence left the witness-box in great disgrace, evidently disbelieved, and, evidently, therefore, having lost the chance of obtaining a certificate of indemnity. The neat occupant of the box was an old man who acknow ledg to " somur shoot 80." lie was very deaf; and it was a tedious process getting anything fro,n him. He had been a voter for 40 ye are in the borough. Ile had received money last time. And whom did he vote for? "For Harry Ed'ards," that was the comprehensive answer. lied he heard his vote was for Mr. Raphael in 1847 ? " Oh, yes, he had heard of Rachel." It was clear he was anti ho alw Is get --sass in the belief that the candidate was a lily. The next ma s ; was a respectable tradesman. He had got 10/. from Ea, ward.. But the money was not fur his vote. His shup q m right opposite the hustings, and the windows woe A way , having votes, and yet getting paid sictording to the sam e reserved for f d o w r l r ad n ie e s ig a i l b e o l u ee n tio , n ha tim th e e s, um„,mini, or th;:in 101 not tariff; and this being proved, the commissioners ad mi at el that no imputation rested. The next Tll3ll WAS a " painter ; " h e had painted flags, etc., for Edwards, and had been pod toe his work, but clearly not more than the work deserved. Er e his calling had been ascertained, Mr. Phina asked, hou a lawyer ?" " A lawyer, oh dear 119; I hope l am ea onest man." This frank expression of clatempt for the profession of the questioner, created immense anaueeme n t. One or two persons now came up to represent that they bad applied to the secretary to the commission, Mr. Fits geraltl, who was holding a levee in another room, for their certificates, and had been refused. Mr. Fitzgerald was e t a, granting certificates in cases reported as worthy by th e commissioners ; and the court had now to confirm Mr. Fite. gerald's decisions. The looks and manners of the rea•ctea ap plicants, as they appeared before the commis:4mo r-, were very pitiable and painful. They were in levers of fear, and were now ready to repudiate all their former evidenca. The first who presented himself was a very poor man and a very old man, apparently a h. lsourer. He had streautansly denied on a former day Edwardn's allegation against him—that he took 41. for his vote. " The vote was never mentioned," and he tlenfore refused to admit that he had considered the bride as a bribe. He was now asked did he cOllfCRi that he had re garded the money as for his vote. "Yes, I suppose it teas." " Then why did you not say so last time?" Why, the vote wan never meritionel by Ed'ards." But ltd you not in your conscience know that the money woo to secure your vote ?" " Yen, I did, I suppose I did." i• *th en ," said the chief commissioner, passing sentence, you stated a falsehood when you were before us before, and to grant you a certificate that you have spoken the truth would be in us to commit a crime something like yiiiir Own. You must abide the result." The succeeding case N a mere personally humiliating. The petitioner was, a " mu.i clan." Edwards had stated that lie hid received 5/. the lot vote. When called in his turn he denied that th, At. was for his vote—it was for music—three gongs, worth Its, This story he adhered to with strange obstinary ; aril th e consequence was that the certificate wan now refused t He came to express his compunction to the e . ommis,i,n-n, and to beg that they would relent. " Ile had not kniwa how to answer, when he was under examination. lielie! not intended to tell an untruth ; anti ho wan very " Did you, then, tell us false?"—" Yes, I " you cannot have your certificate. You set a bad examp: • ; and must abide by what you have done." The poor leilow left the witness .box, his frame quivering with emtio n , an a his eyes bloodshot ; his whole aspect telling h ow inn . nstay lie was feeling, and bad p, chaps for weeks fat, the morti fication of his disgrace betere his fellow-towassnen. tore wen• some similar incidents, the commissioners adhered to their role firmly. The batch of Mr. Rumball's witnesses then erne up. Atkins was the first. He was a huge, six-feet-hig'i, three feet-broad man, and he had to speak, piteim-ly and ludicrously, of his having been "stolen away' by I.: twanle and Blagg. Some people came to him one nialit att• r the election, when he wanted to no to bsal, and hauled hiin ad' to Watfortl, and thence to Edwunls's farm, near 1% atm!, where he was kept, " pretty comfortable." he eon. as to food, for eight or nine days, eventually being taken before and examined by the election Lenient:, ist the House of Commons. lie did not know whir all this anxiety had been shown about him. lie had received no money from Edwards •' and he had never been t o ll C rum that dIV to this why he had been earn( off. " But have. you no idea why it was ?" " Not the least—no mar: n yourself." Edwards had said to him that ho was heal out of the way to keep him from the other party—that was all he knew. He had never got a halfpenuy for hie vote at the election, nor for his loss of time since. Ile had lost Ida situation as a labourer under Lord Orinistune. " li. had been enraged there for 24 years, and he had lost his -luta- Con. But perhaps he wouldn't 11.4 C lust it if a taxa with the other party." Ile was now working as ht, could get a job. He had always got money at elections pre vious to the last one; but lie had'ut got any last time be cause he hadn't asked; and he hadn't asked be cause he was afeard of being bothersome. Ili* wife, lie believed, had promised his vote last time to Edwards, but there was no money in the case. This was his distinct statement; and, despite the dim mystery about Isis elope ment with Mr. Edwards, it was clear be was telling the truth. Mr. Edwants was recalled, and reiterated that hu had given Atkins no money, and ho did not believe he had ever even asked the wife for the husband's vote. Why, then, had he carried Atkins away ? " Oh, not fur tear ho could tell anything, lie only wanted to thwart the other party. Ily taking Atkins out of the way, we tbeeived them, and threw them off the scent ." Why had he nut paid tkins the same as his other men ? Because Atkins' never came near him to ask him. Then why did you take him away ? " Better, perhaps, if I hadn't, Lind havo escaped Newgatc. It was simply to throw the other party off the stunt; and we had some notion that we might drive them to abandon the petition." And afterwards it appeared Mr. Edwards took Atkins up to London, and produced him before the committee. Mr. Edwards further stated that he had paid no money to Dia, Brandon, or to Lynes ; and Mr. Blagg mute the same di eMration. Mr. Hlag explained his partiripition with Edwards by stealing Atkins and Lyne s away . Il e had had an idea that those men were being tampered with for an improper purpose by the other slile. The parties en gaged in the hrst attempt to take them away—(an attempt defeated by Edwards unit Blagg)—were men notorious for tainperiii4 with witnesses at former elections. - - 11.1qUIry was made Is to Bigg, Lynes, and Brandon. but they could not be found. They were not resident in the town, nor could not be met with. Mrs. Atkins, the wife of Atkins, was sent for, and on her zipptarance was asked aliout having pmmised her husband's vote to Edwards. She utterly denied it ; and also the charge of having received money for him. sho was confronted with Mr. Brabant, a clerk to Mr. Low, Mr. Carden's solicitor—Mr. Brabant stating that she had in his presence dropped the expression that if her husbaiel had got anythiug, it was not more than the others"—but this she denied, and as Mr. Brabant did not insist on the ac curacy of his memory, the matter cam: to nothing. Lastly—to conclude Mr. Bumball's case—a Mary Items was called to speak to Braiehni having at the time of the election entrusted her with four sovereigns to k, him, her impression tieing that the money had tutu re ceived by him for his vote. This testimony was all vague and unsatisfactory. Mr. Rumball had not made out his case. Mr. Slade, addressing Mr. Edwards, said that the torn mhsioners wished to have certain discrepancies rr:pi uting Mr. Edward+ cleared up. lie (Mr. Edwards) had said about 1,700/. or I,Boot, had gone in bribery, unit that the rest of the 2,6001. obtained front Mr. Cuppuek had been devoted to what 'night be termed legitimate expenses. lie had further said that lie hail only put 4111. in his own pocket. The I commissioners on going over thu list of those who hail ad mitted to the receiving of money, could find only 1,001. ac counted fur in bribery. How was this ? Mr. Edwards replied that the commissioners wool! re member that lie had stated that he had burned all his haiku, and that, therefore, whin lie ineutionol what he paid each man, he spoke only from memory. lie had, consequently, to give a fair margin, said in most crust "51. or upwards." On the average he had given at least 71. to each mon, and therefore the persona called had unfairly taken the cue an to the 51. front him, and acknowledged it too little. As to the general statement that ho had ex pended 1,7001. or ',ball. in bribery, he had not pretended to exactness; and he might have said too mach or too little. 'the commissioners would have to take that part of his evidence with a large allowance. People had met hint in the street, and told him they would only ac knowledge to U. They knew that lie could nut swear to the items. He was satisfied the average received wis 7/. Ho repeated that ho had not put more than tint into his own pocket. lie did not think what was left was even quite so much. Ile bad got the residuum and that war all. This explanation appeared to be satisfactory to the cute mi.sioners. It was intimated that those persons who had nn thst day received their certificates, would obtain them on application, and that in the cams of those engaged directly, by the candidates, such us Mr. Low, Mr. lilagg, and Mr. Edwards, certificates would be granted at sum . suliscluent period. Mr. Edwards—Then, we may consider that we have the certificates ? Mr. blade—All I can say is, you aro aura of th:an, if things remain as they now tippear. And let it be undcr sLost, that if any one is liarass,,l in any way for imp Mug in councrion with the part he may have token in this in quiry, his hest course is to apply to us. The inquiry was then adjounted to the 25th of January. The date is merely nominal. The commissioners will not sit again. EASTERN COUNTIES AND SOUTIIEND JUNCTION RAlLWAY.—Yesterday Mr. Wordsworth, as counsel fur Mr. Ewart, the official manager, applied to the Master in Chancery, Sir William Horne, to have Mr. Crusty°, the secrete y to this company, and other gentlemen, who had signed fur a certain number of shares, what was alle,ol to be a deed of settlement, placed on the list as liable. Mr. 11. Harris, on behalf of these gentlemen, contended that the deed being unstansped was not a legal instrument, that it bore no date, and was all along treated as value less by the company, and that none of the shares signed for had in tact been allotted. Various documents were read and put in evidence to show that 2,0001. were to bo presented to the projectors of the company for briugiag the whom° before the world, and that a quarter's rent still remain d due for rent of the company's ofliao in Broad-street. The Master said it was evident from the proceedings that a gnat deal of business had been, and would have been done, and that a set of persons with a secretary, liable for the part they took in the transactions, sated and intended to Oct throvsh the medium of other people's money, sad who had evidently affistsl their gig ' natures to this deed, for which he must hold them liable, with a view, though without the Intention of fraud, of la (lacing the Queen's subjects to Wenn° members of the company ; bolting at all th.e circumstances of the ca-e. he must hold these gentlemen liable under the act, fur the consequences incurred ua.lcr their own hand and seal. LIGS.iNE.I AND GENERAL NIINING ASSOCIATIOU 0? JAMAICA.—.I special general meeting of the above awe ciatilh was held yesterday at the offices in 3doorgste-street flub: rt lontgomery Martin, Esq., in the chair. 'Tao business before the meeting wai a proposition for iner,asing the numher of the directors from three to six, and the fol lowing gentlemen were, without discussion, unanimously elected—namely, Thomas Mien, Esq., William Priasep, Esq., sad Thomas Baling, Esq. SPAIN. MADRID, Nov. 26. The money is said to be all ready for the payment of the half-nearly dividends of the home and foreign debt. M. isturitz is expected to r..reivc the order of the Golden Fleece on the occasion of the Queen's deliverance. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. In the sitting of the Volksthing on the 20th of Nov., Kompmann inquired of the government when it intended to lay before the Chamber the promised explanations respecting the political rel3tions of Den mark. The prime minister replied, that the govern ment were actively engaged in prosecuting the re gulation of the affairs of the country, but could not name any period when the foreign policy could be submitted to the Volksthing. The foreign minister, Bluhme, explained that the negotiations were still pending, that the intentions of the ministry had been much misrepresented by the foreign press, but that if the interests of their country could be promoted, the ministry were willing to resign. The sitting was most noisy, and very great dissatisfaction was ex pressed by many members. Oda Lehmann an nounced tfiat he had placed a proposal in the hands of the president of the Thing for a patriotic ad dress to the King. It was to be discussed iu the next sitting. A report is printed in the Berlin papers that the Holstein contingent is to take the oath of fidelity to King Frederick VII. on the Ist of December, and that the command will immediately after be as sumed by General Bardentleth. The uniform of the officers of the contingent remains the same as under the provisional government, with the addition of the royal insignia and colours. GE It NJ AN Y. BERLIN, Nov. 21 The September treaty and its probable treatment at the hands of the new ministry iu Hanover conti nues to create great anxiety. All the batteries of Austrian diplomacy are in operation to procure its annulment. 1)r. Hock, the great commercial diplo matist of the Austrian government is Hitting to and fro among the minor courts, appearing and disap. pearing with equal rapidity where least expected, spinning an intrigue here, uttering a threat there, promising a decoration to this court councillor, and opening his portfolio of bank-notes to 'hat newspaper editor. He is most active, and he is not alone in his labours. Dr. Hoek is the type of a r.unierous body, with the exception that he is the acknowledged public agent ; the others labour in secret. Prussia, to all appearance, remains totally inactive. M. de Manteutfel believes that the great advantages which must be added to those already enjoyed by the members of the Zollverein through the junction with Hanover, will suffice to counteract the insidious whisperings, open threats, and pro mised bribes of envious, grasping Austria. lie is in the right, if the treaty is safe, its recogni tion and execution certain. In the meantime there is a growing party among the Hanoverian manufacturing classes, whose opposition to the treaty is most decided; and another party, who, speaking through the press, openly advocates the insertion of the wedge which Austria so much desires, viz., the conclusion of a treaty of commerce between the Zoll verein and Austria. One of the main points to which the labours of the Austrian diplomatists are at this instant directed is the conclusion of some kind of agreement which shall give to Austria the right of presence, if not of vote, in the councils of the North German commercial politics. TURKEY AND THE LEVANT. We have received advices from Constantinople up to the 15th instant. Namick Pasha, commander of the corps d'armC,e of Irak, is appointed governor of Bagdad, and thus liecomes civil as well as military governor of that province. Ali ltiza l'asha is appointed governor of Jumria, and Zea Pasha governor of Adana. Colonel Itawlinson, political agent of the East India Company, and British Consul-General at Bagdad, had left Constantinople by the Turkish steamer Poursond, to repair to his post. M. Nicolacwitch, Kapou-kehaya and son-in-law of the Prince of Servia, has left Constantinople for Bel mde, in connexion with the affair of the English Consul at Belgrade, upon which M. Nieolaewitch has had several conferences with Sir Stratford Canning. LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES. PARIS BOURSE. SS 3.1 tol 73 rue Awar4. PARIS, Dbc. 1. 1 .- 31qtry. /11110•4 Ci.rr. —, 3 per Coats. ' 56 SO , se 4f) se se so 33 yea Ctilta. i per Centa. It do. Ner Wm ... 1. ... • per (slts Exehartre cc Landon : a: rlaht, 25 10 ; 10 day% 24 . 114406,1 a, 3, 5610 la.. 3. 164 — ... Hamm Loan, ISSI . .. ... tin. 45 ...... 95 .. lax dos 11 . 01 .., 76 ... las 24 Piedmont SP. Cents. MI 73... IRek sb sr. 21 : 14 .:: Pants, Dec. I.—Paris and Orlenka, 88 0; Paris and Loon. 377 50 ; Rouen iss4 Merle. 213 :5 ; Ilaeseil:esstio Aii411312. 20373. tanannara mod Bair, 171 s; r ea m e , 134 73; is, ou t , re en d Arat.us, 264 73 ; Wen* sal 6 .1 , 14,112, 374 73 ; N olueen. 467 50; Sc,. ~e. I ..sr is ...ad, 466 75 ; I..urs w a d Nuates, 256 :3 , Moat IV3II and Troyes, 96 .5. - 1(0. MADRio, Nov. 26.—Three per Cent&, 37 1-16; after Bolsa, 37 1-16 c. Four per Cents.,l3; ; after Bolsa, Fire per Cents., 16 ; ; after Bolsa, 16t. coupons, 8 after Bolas, St cash. Passives, 6; after Bulsa; 6. Bank of St. Ferdinand, 9'J cash. Exchange on London, 30.50. (By E.t . a, telegra:A.) VIENNA, DtC. I.—Fire per Cents., Metalliques, 91:i; Exchange on London, 12.40; on Paris, 152 . 1; Agio on gold, 32 ; on silver, 25t. Umiak:an, 11Ec. I.—Three per Cents. Inte rior, 33. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., BSi. FRANKFORT, DEC. I.—Five per Cent. Nletalliques, 71 15-16. Three per Cent. Interior, 334. BERLIN. DEC. I.—Voluntary - Loan, 1021; Na tional Debt, SO. Russian Pour-and-a-Ralf per Cents.. 102 k. I ANIWERP, DEC. I. —Five per Cent. Nlittalliques, 721; do. irdoins. 161. Three P er Cent. Interior, 3.5 i. Itumi in Four-and-a-Half per Lents., 101. Exchange on London, 25.13. DIA% 1.-I.lelgian Five per Cent*, ; I Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 90 ; ; Two-and-a-11.1f per Cents., 491. Exchange on London, 23.15. est t beet yet rip be fur i no" trra• But Ca icc' tivo. the view whit that act a fentL favut