The Sun. — London, England, 1829-11-25 00:00:00

THE SIA.MESE UNITED TWINS. These ext•aordinery youths were yesterday ex hibited privately to a conviderrble number of lite rary and scientific gentlemen, among whom we ob served Sir Francis Burdett, Sir Astley Cooper, Mr. Brookes, the well-known anatomist, Sir Anthony Carlisle, Dr. Thomas, and • several others. " The attention of the medical men," says a Morning Co temporary, of whose account of the exhibition, as it is strictly and impartially correct, we shall not scruple to avail ourselves, " was directed to ascer tain the truth of the statements previously published and to examine the nature of the band by which these twins are united. After such an examination, a certificate was written by Mr. Brookes, the ana tomist, and signed by several eminent men of the faculty, declaring the twins a great natural curiosity, and assuring the spectators that there was no de ception. Sir Astley Cooper, on examining the band, the dimensions anti appearance of which have been already described, pronounced it to be car tilaginous, and not cutaneous only. To this assertion every one must have assented who took the troubleof feeling it. The next, and the most singular fact which was ascertained is, that the twins have only one navel, which is observed about the centre of the connecting band. When we have stated these two facts—as being placed beyond the reach of doubt, we have little to add to the general account of the habits and to the description of the personal appearance of these boys, transmitted us from America, and already in serted in the English papers. Though their union is a monstrosity, they have nothing offensive or dis gusting in their figure, countenance, manners, or movements. Their appearance is healthy, theirdie positions cheerful, and their attitudes and motions graceful. None of their actions or proceedings be tray any symptom of suffering or feeling of inconve nience occasioned by their forced proximity. They swim across the room with all the ease and grace of a couple skilfully waltzing, and seem never to have any difference of intention or purpose which can give pain to their band of union by making them draw opposite ways. They are said to fall asleep and to awaken at the same moment. One of them cannot be roused in the night without immediately exciting the vigilance of his companion. They both generally direct their eyes towards the same object ; end it was remarked that, on being conveyed through the town in a coach, they could not be induced to look out of its opposite windows. Their health be comes robust, or declines at the same time; and whatever affects the one, seems nearly in the same way to affect the other. From these and other circumstances we were aroused yesterday in hearing physicians and meta physicians gravely inferring doubts about the separate organization and distinct personality of these twins, without reflecting that every one of these appear ances is easily explicable, on the supposition of their external accidental connexion, without any union of mental or bodily structure. Though they have their separate purposes, sentiments, and volitions, their memory and other mental faculties, as distinct as if they were " far as the Poles asunder"—though their nervous system, their circulation, and bodily organs, with all their :unctions, are likewise as in- , dependent as if the band which connects them were a metallic hinge, it would necessarily follow, that (n ith the same degree of original resemblances as many other twins) being bound to each other for 18 years,—being obliged to take the same exer cise—to go to bed at the same time—being nou rished with the same food—breathing the same at mosphere—and being treated in every respect in the same manner—their frames might be expected to harmonize as much as they are represented to do. None of the facts authentically stated show that there is any- further interchange of sensation or feeling than their perpetual ploxi- Tony would occasion. Their keepers, who as sure us that they fall asleep and waken at the same time, do not pretend to say that they are E isited by the same dreams. Suppose the one railed Ching should he indulged in a taste for turtle, and should in consequence, catch gout in this land of luxury, his brother Eng., if he continued his rice diet, might reckon his great toe secure against any. attack ; and if ; on the other hand, Eng, forswearing his usual simple fare, should, like his Majesty of the Sandwich Islands, choose to take a surfeit of pork sausages, and in consequence be oppressed with the night-snare, it is extremely probable that Ching, if he went to bed suppetless, would enjoy an undisturbed slumber. It i 3 stated by Mr. Hunter, who ha• known the to ins six years, that the band is becom ing more cartilaginous, and that there has been a grea ehatrze in this respect within the last four years. If this process of induration continues, all danger of separd mg the youths will be removed; but a d's so:ution of partnership is not likely to be attempted so long as union is so profitable to the firm. We , übjoin a letter from Sir Anthony Carlisle, which has ...eyed us the necessity of stating some particu lars which we had notel for insertion." MAILS. Amved. Due. Arrived. Due. O America (1 2 Hamburg 0 0 Brazil ... ........... ... 0 0 Holland O Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0 O Card - Int:11a 0 0 La Guayra 0 I Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 0 O Flanders 0 0 Mexico O France 0 ' 0 Sweden . 1 O Guernsey&Jersey.. 0 1 Waterford 0 s. d. perty for sale in the neighbourhood of all the principal approaches to the French capital. The people in general are perfectly aware of the great improvement which has taken 'place in their general condition ; they know also their own political strength, and they will no doubt take ' care that those exclusive privileges by which pro perty in France was formerly fixed in great and unwieldy masses, to the profit of a p a rticular class, and to the injury of industry and com merce, shall never reappear. " In taking a general view of the trade of a country, it is scarcely necessary to say, that a great proportion of the labour of the mechanic and the artisan is applied to the manufacture of articles of general necessity, for the use of the middle and the lower classes of society. But although the change to which I have alluded in the structure of society in France has immensely increased the demand for articles of the first ne- cessity, yet the industry of luxury, if I may_ so express myself, has not diminished, but, on the contrary, although not in the same proportion, has also considerably increased. " It is obvious, however, that facility of trans port, by the extension and improvement of the internal communications of a country, are much more important with reference to articles of ge neral necessity than to mere objects of luxury, which can afford to pay for the acceleration of their conveyance by lighter carriages on the com mon road. The extensive levels in France, and the abundant supply of water, have long pointed out the advantages of internal navigation, while in England a variety of causes have latterly con curred to give a preference to the railroad over the canal. As I mentioned in a former letter, the mercantile interest in Paris are at present warmly engaged in the project of constructing a canal for vessels of 200 tons, from Rouen to Paris, and it would certainly be of incalculable benefit to the increase of industry and the gene ral comfort of the great body of the people especially, if it were possible, as some have ima gined, so far to reduce the expence of transit, as to make English coal cheaper at Paris than the wood which is now used as an article of fuel. " In some manufactures, and particularly in the working of metals, coal is found to be abso lutely necessary ; and, from the circuitous am expensive mode in which it is brought to Paris, some idea may be formed of the advantages to be expected from the proposed canal. The ca pital is at present supplied with coals from the mines of St. Etienne and live de Gier, from whence it descends the Loire, and by the canal of Briare is brought to the Seine, and thus to Paris. From St. Etienne to Andresicux the coal is transported on a railroad, by which these towns are connected ; but, as may be supposed, it is only in the neighbourhood of a coal mine that a railroad can be advantageously constructed in France, from the great expellee of iron in other districts, arising in a great measure from the excessive price of coal. At Andresieux the coal is stored up to await the floods of the Loire, when it is loaded and brought to Roanne, but at this stage several months are sometimes lost. At Roanne a third part of the coal vessels are unloaded, and their cargoes are transferred to the other two-thirds, because from this point the Loire is deeper, and admits the passage of boats of a greater draught of water. These two thirds continue their route, but the other third are taken to pieces at Joanne, because the rapi dity of the stream does not admit of their re ascending it. The same operation takes place at Briare, another third of the boats are there found useless, and are also taken to pieces. The remaining third arrive at Paris, to be there also cut up, because the imperfection of the na vigation of the Upper Seine and the Loire does not admit of their returning. In fact, I had often been surprised, as every stranger is in Paris, with the extraordinary appearance of these immense flat-bottomed boats, with their still more extraordinary rudders and other appoint ments ; nor was I less surprised on learning the history I have now given you of their progress from the coal mines to Paris, for which I can only find a parallel in the trade of the Missis sippi, between the Western States of North America and New Orleans, where, after a river passage of fifteen or sixteen hundred miles, the vessels are for a similar reason taken to pieces, and the traders return home by an overland journey. It will, indeed, be difficult to believe that suc a state of things was still suffered to exist in France, if it were not veri6ed by public and au thentic documents. In a report made to the Chamber of Commerce of Paris in 1826, on the supply of coal to the capital, I find the follow. ing passage : " A great loss is sustained in the boats which are constructed on the spot of fir, " which is brought at a great expence from the " mountains of Pila, the Upper Loire, and " Puy de Dome. They never re-ascend the " Loire, and are used only once. Thus each " flood brings as much wood as it brings coal.' " Who would believe,' it is said in another passage, if the fact were not notorious, that " a boat from the North coining from Valen " ciennes to Paris, rarely makes more than one " voyage in the course of the year, and that " some even, surprised by the closing of the " canals, are fourteen months in arriving at " their place of destination, and returning " thence to the port from which they set out. " When it is known that the navigation of " the canal of St. Quentin, one of the most " important in France, and that which con " nects Paris with the departments in French " Flanders, is left in a state of absolute decay ; " when it is known that a boat takes often " more time to compass the distance of fifty ," leagues from Valenciennes to Paris than a " ship takes to go to the West Indies and re " turn again, it calm at be denied that a Davi " gation of this kind is truly ridiculous, and " that it might as well cease to exist if it does " not soon attract the attention of the Go- " c vernment.' " From it,ts natural situation, arid the exten. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. SlR,—Having, in common with many of my pro fes.i• nal brethren, been invited to this interesting xhibition at the Egyptian-lutll, perhaps the public tray be gratified by the following account -- the boys were dressed in the garments of their own country, and no parts of their persons exposed save the front aspect of their living band which connects them together, it being placed immedi ately below their respective breast-bones. The juicing part presents a surface of natural and healthy skin, and to feel it seems to include an extension from each of the cartilages which terminate the breast-bones. The entire band admits four fingers to pass freely behind it, when the boys stand shoulder to shoulder, and its width and thickness allows the thumb to meet the fingers on the front aspect. The vestiges of one common navel are visible at the lower and middle part of the band. When either of the boys was desired to cough, it became evident to the person grasping the band that a ruptural protuzion was forced into the band next the individual who coughed, and a middle shut space of more than an inch remained of those rupture sacs. These facts are of importance, because in the event of death to one of the twit's, the life of the remaining brother might he preserved by a prompt and skilful separation of the dead individual. The pulse of the boy on the tight side was 87 beats in a minute, that of the one on the left 82; but as they had not before seen a st , p-watch, and were much agitated by observing it: movements, it is probable that moral excitement hid some influence on the frequency of their pulses. Their general aspect w as alike, and their teeth of similar character; they were cheerful, apparently in equal good health, and evidently unaccustomed to petty restraints. There is nothing disgusting or even indecorous in the exhibition of these curious persons ; they do not deserve to be regarded as monsters, since their slender union is but one of the many instances which happen to the whole animal creation. If, indeed, Nature had not carefully provided against its frequency to the human race, the occa rional appearance of united twins would give rise to many legal perplexities.—Sir, your obliged servant, Langham-place, Nov. 24. ANTHONY CARLISLE. TUNBRIDGE WELLS.—It is stated, that the proposed new line of road from London to Hastings through Surrey, Tunbridge Wells, &c. will save a dis tance of near 15 miles less than the present line of commu nication ; but, if carried into effect, how far it may prove beneficial to this our retired watering-place, appears to give rise to Van ions opinions, which time alone can iletermine.— Mait 7 st , ,ne Gazette. EXTRAORDINA IVYCIRCUMSTANCE.—About fonr months ago, a pig belonging to a labouring man, at the village of Stainsacre, near \VLitby, auddeoly left off ott i n; , ti mest as usual; and since that period has been In a very languid state , al thou g h ever y met he . i was used to relieve it. On Tuesday Week it was slaughtered, and on pe ning it, a corroded needle was found sticking in its heart, --Moll Picket. LONDON. WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 95, 1829. Our intelligent Paris Correspondent this day resumes his observations on the trade of France, and his communication will he read not only with pleasure, but advantage. The NI on de r is, that in such an enlightened country as France, the arts should have been so long neglected — we mean those arts so indispensable to the in dustrious classes of the people, but the truth is, that the enterprise of our neighbours was more directed to the national love of arms than to the promotion of objects connected with civilized Fe : " PARIS, NOV. 22. " I now propose, with your permission, to resume my observations on the trade of this country ; having at present principally in view the internal or domestic trade, of which Paris is the centre. Fifty years ago the industry of France, and especially of Paris, was chiefly directed to ob jects of luxury, of which a very small portion indeed was consumed by the lower classes. This, in a great measure, arose from the exces sive inequality which formerly existed in the distribution of wealth. Happily, however, that extreme inequality is rapidly disappearing, through the operation of two different causes, which acting at the two opposite extremes of the social body, are gradually concentrating their forces, and creating a middle class of society, like that of England, capable of consuming a large quantity of those objects of luxury which were formerly reserved for the privileged few at the upper end of the scale. A striking instance of the change which is silently working in the fabric of French society has fallen under my own observation. A friend of mine, whose family was drive► from France by the events of the Revolution, returned to his native country about ten or twelve years ago, with a moderate for tune, and with tastes and habits considerably modified by a long residence in England, and by extensive travels through both of the Ame ricas. On his arrival in Paris, he formed the desire of purchasing a small property in the neighbourhood of the capital, with a house and offices of moderate dimensions, similar in point of accommodation to the innumerable villa resi dences which are to be found in the environs of London, and indeed of every considerable mer cantile town in England. At this period, how ever, the two causes to which I have alluded had not Yet come into full operation. The law, on the one hand, which abolished the right of pri mogeniture had not yet proceeded far in break ing down the great masses of property into mo derate Ind manageable portions ; and, on the other laud, the more general diffusion of know ledge, wealth, and skill bad not yet raised many individuals from the lower classes, to create a demand for such objects as that which my friend was in quest of. At so late a period as ten years ago, it was with the greatest difficulty that he could find a ready made place at all suited to his income ; whereas, at the present moment, I have occasion to know, that the rapidly increas ing demand for villa property has rather been exceeded by the supply, as may indeed be seen from the numerous advertisements of such pro- :RICKS OF STOCK'S THIS DAY AT ONE O'OLODE. El trtk 'rtnek - • - _ -----. I per ( ent. Red....... 92 1 ,i 2 '4 Old Annuities 1 p_.r Cent. Cons. 93 2% 3 New Dittp N per rent 9 9 14 9 Ex. Bit's, .£1,09f , 2d. 68 69 pm !)iao Bed .... 99 Ditto lid. 6i (9 pm. I per Cent. Ann '03% 1 4 Ditto .500 . 2 d. —69 pm ',)itte, 1 4 26 Ditto Scrip Oats 'email Sank I. Ann. 19y4 1 4 Ditto lid. 68 69Ipm. Ditto 20 scars IiPA 3-161 Bank for Account — !mini Stock —llndia for Account 'I'M , Bonds 65 66 pm. (Cons. for Account 92%5; 2 PRIORS OF LORILIGIN FUNDS THIS DAT AT 01418 O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds • !Neapolitan — Rrazilian Bonds 66% U 'Peruvian Bonds ...... ......... Buenos Ayres Bonds —;Portuguese Bonds ... .......... 1 Chilian Bonds ... — 'Prussian, Old i'olornhian Bonds — i Ditto, New — Ditto, 1824 Danish 74X, Spanish, ini..4v oito 3 / 4 1,4 it!„ Greek Bonds '-- 1823 Ditto, 1825 .... 27 3 4% SIA 8 % French Rentes, sp. c. —f —c. j ua ti ma l a - Exchange —f. —c. Mexican Bonds • " -- !-- 3 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto, 1825 — --- Exchange —l. —c. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £2O Ditto 'Nation Al lO 15!4 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, NOV. 21. Bank Stock 257N ISt. Patrick Insur. (per sh.) Consols, 3 per cent. Gov. Stock, 334 per cent. 5834 , National Ditto — Ditto, New 9BN, !Patriotic Ditto — t per Cent IOIN Hibernian Bank — Gov. Deb. 3! percent.... 95%, Provincial Ditto .... ..... Royal Canal Stock 43% Royal Irish Mine — Grand Canal Stock — Imperial Mine — City Deb. 4 per cent Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c. Commercial Buildings COURSE OF BICH) Amsterdam C.F 12 8 Ditto, at sight 12 51 Rotterdam 2 U 12 8 Antwerp 12 8 Hamburg M.B. 14 1 Altooa l4 1; Paris, 13 clays• sight 25 93 Ditto .2 U. 26 20 Bordeaux 23 SO Perlin ,NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 47% Genoa 26 0 Venice 47,4 Malta 48% ' , Triples . 39% Palermo perea. 119 Lisbon Oporto 43 Rio Janeiro ...... Bahia 26% Buenos Ayies — Dublin, VI days' sight l% Cork IN, Fiank fort on Maine, Elt,M 1511 Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, effective :I. 2 M. IA 15 Trieste do 10 15 Madrid Cadiz liilboa Rarc,lona Seville ....... . . ...... 36 Gibraltar BULLION, PER OZ. X. B. d. IPr‘rtugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 New Doubloons 3 13 6 New Dollars barp, standard 0 4 11 FOIWON KXCHAN HAMBURG, Nov. 20.-13. 141: STOCKHOLM, Nov. 13 -=Sevei CHRISTIANIA, Nov. :11.—Thr LEIPiIC, Nov. M.—Three in BERLIN, Nov. It —Three MI BREMEN, Nov. 19.—Two zoo iGIS ON LONDON. months, 13. 13. mty-five days, 12. It. ree months, 01. 26 nonths, 6. 19%. torahs, 7. onths, 620. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning... 50 minutes after 1. I Evening ...13 minutes after 2. THE COLOSSEUM—REGENT'S PARK. The Proprietors of this Magnificent Exhibition invite the atten tion of the Public to the NEW ARRANGEMENT OF ADMISSIONS. To view the Panorama, with the original Ball, removed from St. Paul's Cathedral—the Prospect from the sum mit of the Building—and the Saloon for the Reception of Wcrks of Art 3 0 T, view the Conversatories, Fountain, and Swiss Cottage 2 0 To view the Panorama only The whole to be viewed for 5 0 ANNUAL TICKETS of A D M ISSION, at One Guinea each, may be had at the North Lodge. N. B.—The ASCENDING ROOM being now completed, is used &41l' in raising Visitors to the Gallery. Open from Ten till Dusk. TO CORRESPONDENT3 , --." CANDIDUS TO-MORROW. 1 , ...igk -.:., ~":. ' 4.0 - -- 4 - • 44, - ' 4. ' tit 1 sive levels it could 'command, Paris is undo übt edly very well suited to become a great centre for internal navigation ; and all things consi dered, it is not wonderful that sueh an object should engage the attention of' men of science and capital ; yet, strange to say, its water commu nications are less perfect than those perhaps of any great town in the kingdom. Efforts have been made in Paris on a large scale to establish manufactures of various articles of primary ne cessity, but hitherto with very hadifferent suc cess, because cheap and regular means of con veyance are for such undertakings indispensable, particularly in those departments of trade in which working in metals is an essential element. Machine making, for instance, and particu larly the construction of steam-engines, has long been languishing, and may now be said to be almost annihilated ; whereas in England machine making is the trade which has, perhaps, most steadily flourished through all the casualties to which commerce is proverbially exposed : and the wealth which it has been the means of cre ating would have been still more largely accu mulated, had not the parties engaged in this de partment of manufacture been induced to sink their growing capital in the form of accommo dation to the cotton spinners and other classes of manufacturers, who are their ordinary cus omers. Thus, I havelnown a machine-maker, in a large manufacturing town in England, build a steam-engine and supply a whole cotton factory with spinning jennies and other necessary machines, for which he would be paid by a series of bills amounting in number to not less than twenty• five or thirty, and spread over a period of six or seven years, by which means he identified himself with the fate of the cotton trade and the general prosperity of the country during that long period. " Although poorly supplied with water com munication, Paris, however, is better furnished with roads than any other town in the kingdom, from its being the great centre of all the royal roads in France. Articles of luxury being easily transported on common roads, by ordinary con veyances, the continued prosperity in Paris of this species of industry is sufficiently accounted for, while others of more general and primary necessity have been unable to support the ex pence of transit by such imperfect means of con veyance. London is like Paris, the greatest manufacturer in the kingdom of articles of lux ury, but while in Paris these articles are the chief object of industry, in London they are only secondary ; and in France, while the pro- I vinces are justly jealous of the innumerable eta tues.and other ornaments accumulated in Paris at the expence of the State—a jealousy which has been not unnaturally, although not very reasonably extended towards useful and reason able improvements ; in England it is very diffe rent, for there, in every county, the foreigner is referred with pride to the growing pros perity of London, between which and the pro vinces there is no such ridiculous jealousy as that which is now so prevalent in France. If I have not already exhaused your pa tience on this subject, I may take some future opportunity of returning to it, when, as to-day, there is no topic of more pressing interest afloat." The following are extracts from the Hamburg Reporter and other Hamburg Papers of the 20th inst. : HAMBURG, NOV. 20. BOAsEN HAILE, FOUR O'CLoCE.—Our arrivals of wheat from the interior continue trifling; the best parcels have been bought for exportation, and among our own consumers a disposition manifested itself in the early part of the week, hut has con siderably abated during the last few days. Oar ar rivals from the Lower Elbe, though small, are of such inferior quality that the owners have been forced to dispose of them by public sale. In Rye little doing ; prices the same. From the 7th to the 14th November inclusive, twenty cargoes of corn passed through the Sound ; of these one was bound for Emden, eleven to British, three to Dutch, two to French, and three to Swedish ports. Weight. Rix dollars. Dantzic Wheat ...... ..... . 122 to 126 120 to 180 Pomeranian '24 to 13S 109 to 118 Anhalt, white llB to 124 115 to 196 -- red 122 to 128 116 to 171 Danish 120 to 128 BO to 05 Petersburgh and Riga 120 to 125 O5 to 105 Dantzie Rye IPS to 125 6O to 66 Upland 1113 to 123...... 64 to 68 Magdeburgh Barley OS to 104 52 to 54 Anhalt OS to 104 55 to 57 Mecklenburgh Oats 66 to 74 4O to 44 Pomeranian Malt —to '%O to 52 Pease, Upland, yellow , —to Holstein Rapeseed In consequence of plices coming lower from Berlin and Amsterdam, Funds have, generally speaking, been heavy this day. Anglo-Neapolitan and Falconets have been more particularly affected, the former at 94, and the latter at 89-i. Bills on London have been freely offered. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent. ..... .... 1% A ng l o -Itussian Loan IO4S Hamburg-Russian Loan % Polish Bonds lOO 12 Austrian Bank Shares 351 Attstlian Metallinues -» 102 New Austrian 4 per Cent-s. ... ..... ....„.... 01% - ODESSA, OCT. 31. Our Journal contains a report of the army in Turkey, from the 21st of September to the `1 of October. It nearly coincides with that which we have already given from the St. Petersburgh Jour nals ; it contains, however, the following passage, which we do not find in the other :—" Numerous Turkish troops are assembling at Silivria ; the Sul tan has already sent four regular regiments frotn Constantinople to that place ; it seems that they in tend to push towards Rodosto, between our ad vanced posts." In consequence of the warning of Count Diebitsch, that the Turkish troops were not to come within the line of the Russian cantonments, the movement appeals to have been suspended. HAMBURG, NOT. 17 In consequence of the severe frost last night, there is already a great deal of floating ice in the Elbe, but the navigation is not yet interrupted. HAMBURG, NOV. 19. The melancholy news has been received from Oldenburg, of the death of Prince Alexander, eldest son of the late Prince George Frederick of Oldenburg and of the Grand Duchess Catharine of Russia, afterwards Queen of Wurtemburg. Dr. Meyer, of Frendenthal, a Jew, is appointed Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Tubingen. Major 'Von Wacherhausen has purchased in Mecklenburg five handsome bay coach-horses for the English Ambassador at the Spanish Court. They passed the Elbe here on the 7th, and are to be conducted by way of Frankfort, Paris, and Bayolll4e, to Madrid. BREMEN, NOV. 19. The frost that we have had has been succeeded by a rapid thaw to-day. HAMBURG, NOY. 17. The Gleaner, an English Journal, published kere, has given ut to-day, fro!? . English Annual the " Keepsake," the first part of the tragedy, " The House of Aspen," taken by Sir Walter Scott from the " Sagen der Vor Zeit," a collection of tales by onr worthy fellow-citizen, M. Leonhard Wachter, whose lectures on the history of the Commerce of Hamburg we lately announced. The editor of the Gleaner promises to publish the whole tragedy in the succeeding number. It is with much pleasure that we notice the satisfactory report we have heard of the progress the University of London has made in its num- bars since the opening of the present Session. — In the Medical Classes, especially, a considerable augmentation has taken place, as well as in the department of Law; and if the chairs of Foreign and Oriental Literature have not been attended by so great a concourse as the characters of their Professors deserve, there is, nevertheless, no reason to fear that their popularity is on the de crease. The attendance given at the various, lectures has, on the whole, equalled the expec- Cations of the Council and friends of the esta- blishment ; and though sufficient funds for the eompletion of the wings of the building have not yet been raised, we trust the Council will not cease to confide in the merits of their plan, and imitate the example of those ROman citizens, who were taught "never to despair of the for tunes of th• Republic." The greater praise is due to the Founders of the London University, because their friendly deportment to the more recent and rival institu tion of King's College is an evidence of the sin gleness of purpose with which they have la boured to supply the intellectual wants of the rising generation of this metropolis. Party spirit might have suggested much ground for hostility to a College formed in as direct an op. position to the original University, as the schools Of BELL were to those Of LANCASTER ; but inasmuch as the two kinds of schools have, happily, for some years, been working together for good, it is to be hoped, also, that the two Universities, however different may have been the circumstances of their conception, may spring into life, and grow to maturity with great strength, and may rival each other only in the earnestness of their endeavours to diffuse sound [earning and knowledge amongst our youthfu' countrymen. It is somewhat remarkable that the Profes sorships of History and of Moral Philosophy in the London University should have so long remained unfilled. That great difficulties have been experienced by the Council in the disposi- tion of them, we can well believe, and that a division of opinion has existed, we have also heard ; especially with reference to the latter appointment. Among the Council are several gentlemen of distinguished attainments, whose bias towards the Utilitarian System of Philosophy, as it is called, has led them to insist on the expediency of the Professor being of that school ; which has, on the other hand, been strenuously opposed by the more in fluential members, whose views are ge nerally in accordance with those lately expressed by the Edinburgh Review on this head, and nho are desirous of avoiding nothing so much as the semblance of making the University a partizan of the levelling and sceptical doctrines inculcated by the philoso phers of the BENTHAM school. Besides this, the total disregard into which Moral Philosophy has fallen among us, has made the selection of a competent Englishman no easy task. The last lamp of mental science may be said to have gone out with the much-honoured DUGALD STEW ART ; and though we have Divines of ample learning in their own profession, yet to fix a Clergyman in the Philosophical chair would be its almost inevitable ruin, from the confusion that must ensue between the Theology and Ethics, that would be sure to be blended in the lectures to be delivered. For ourselves, we greatly lament the disrepute into which Meta physics, or the science of mind, has fallen in this country ; and we are therefore the more anxious that so good an occasion as the London Uni versity Lectureship should not be either ne glected or perverted. To prevent this, in our humble judgment, the only course is, to appoint a Professor, not of Moral Philosophy generally, which leaves him the liberty of inculcating his own favourite system, but to prescribe to him simply the duty of teaching the History of Phi losophy, from the earliest known indications of it down to the present day. By a knowledge of the multitude of metaphysical systems that have divided mankind, young men will obtain, if they learn nothing else, an enlargement of their mental powers—a habit of judging can didly and charitably of opinions contrary to their own—and a lesson to abstain from dogmatizing, or imagining that truth does not extend beyond the compass of their individual notions. Meta physics are grievously neglected in England— their very name is a bugbear ; and hence the explanation of the question so often asked—why our morals are in so unsettled a state ? But it is absurd to dispute concerning the merits of the Utilitarian, or any other Philosophy, unless our metaphysical principles are first agreed on ; for, as SCHLEGEL said to Madame DE STAEL, " L'un depend de l'autre." The importance therefore of making a beginning in teaching the science of mind is great and urgent ; and if the Council of the University of London would eondescend to consider our suggestion, we feel confident it might tend to ob much of the difficulty of the predicament in Which they are at present placed in the digposallorthe Profee sorship in question. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY-) FROM LLOYD'S. PORTSAIOUTII, Nov. 24.—Arrived the Nassegy Nl‘Lean, from Alexandria. Off Port, the Remiess Boon, from Zante. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 23.--Arrived the Magnit• Taylor, from Lisbon. HULL, Nov. 23.—Arrived the Foster, Bennett, from Quebec; Terrys, Parkin, from St• Petersburgh and .klbury, Cunningham, from Riga. FALMOUTH, Nov. 23.—Wind W. to Sailed the Mutine packet, for St. Dorninges • Jamaica, Mexico, &c. ; Zephyr packet, for BIG Janeiro and Buenos Ayres; and Marchioness of Queensbury,' for Plymouth. DEAL, Nov. 24.—Wind E.—The Mountaineer► Shiel, from the Cape of Good Hope, has gone ria shore near the South Barracks, and two boats have gone off to render assistance; quarter-past five, the • crew of the Mountaineer have not yet left the vessels and several other boats are going off to assist; still blowing a gale. BELFAST, Nov. 22.—Arrived the Hur, ViTilsot t from Pictou ; and Traveller, Ryley, from St* John's, N. B. GALWAY, Nov. 22.---Arrived the Amanthts, Burtwell, from Quebec. The Thomas, Tobin; of .'. Liverpool, from St. John's, N. 8., is report!d to have put into Arran Roads short- of provistone; le MARGATE, Nov. 24.—1 t came on to blow * this morning at abeut E.; 4 p. m., the gale eonti" nues, one schooner remains riding in Westgate Dols and three ships in Pansand Hole. DOVER, Nov. 24.—1 t has blown hard all day!: The Robert Edwards, from New York, has shippfos and run to leeward. The Isabella, Wildgoose, fro. Demerara, was off Sandzate last evening. The Martin, Frank, of Whitby, was driven 0 11 sllore near SaWhet, during a heavy gale frdm 1 1 4 11 ":" 1 en Monday morning ; crew saved. The General Palmer, Thomas, from Madras,' driven on shore at Whitstable, last night, with 100 of anchor and cable, but expected to be got off. THII FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY. TwELrig o'CLiecr• The accounts from Liverpool, received this WM' ing, of the 23d of Nove mber, state that there WI been a steady demand for British Plantation Sug;lirgf the sales amounting to upward s of 1,000 hini`.9 chiefly brown and middling qualities, besides which. 240 bags of yellow Mauritius; and the demand for Cotton through the week hasbeen animated and extes 2- sive. The prices obtained by private show tiler advance of -id. per lb. on American a nd and on most other descriptions. There b i g ' 3 1 -c' been a considerable demand for Tobacco, a n d 5 1 , 1 ,1 e: h iye been made to the extent of 400 to 500 I '7; at steady rates. The public sales of Indigo d"rt ele week have been very well attended, &MI bar e gone off with more spirit than had been expeet e , h ' 688 chests East India, and 154 serons Spn"" 590 of the former were disposed of at an 3(100°, on the prices of the Company's Quarte rl y Sale, °I 31 to 4d. per lb. THE FUNDS. " The great rise in the Funds from Saturday' 16 has been occasioned by a very inflitentisl Bro k. taking in a very large amount of Consols, Ivh' e •- - it was fully calculated on by the speculate o, would have been delivered on the account day's addition •to -this the same Broker made a f_ r nr o s purchase of Stock; the combined oper'; made available the calls of Options to a large s in "„i nt ; between 92 and 93, which had the effect of 1. 11 '; 11 4 the market bare of Stock, owing to the epectils`, ° ,4 not having calculated on the abstract being to e for. The New 4 per Cents. not having advanced is unison with the Consols. this is looked upon ft certain indication that the abo ve Stock will he paid off during the next Session of Parliament. Consols, which left off yesterday at 93 to for the present account, and 93-1 for Januar'', d opened very heavy this morning at 94 she 93i en 93i I for next time. Th i s heaviness of te market is attributed to the jo bbers having got is their accounts, and the Bu lls not as yet havitqf closed theirs. The great snow storm experienced last nigh t ' delayed the delivery of ti .e inland letters to sil#, hour, and the prey iling easterly winds have preen'. ed the arrival of any ship lette rs, which cause's, great dearth of information this morning. \V s r : informed by a traveller who has just arrived frost' 7 • tour in our Northern manufacturing districh7 that there is a decided improvement i n 1$ all "- branches of trade, but all hands willing to vro ' l obtain employmet t. Nothing doing in the Foreign Markets as yet' ENGLISH FUND& Back Steak, 214:13 181 ref Cent. WO 10i; 016 India Stock, 22/6 3 per Cent Guns. 92i 3 De., for Account, 93i- Ditto Reduced, 92i New 4 per c..t., Ceat. 1546 1 0 ' ladia Bonds, 65 66 r _ o Exclieluer Bills, 67 0 FUNDS. Greek, 413 Mexican, Peruvian, 16 Ponape**, 10i Prussian, Russian, 1(11/ 9 Spanisk, 11 C TWO O'CLv• - , ir . tb Consols, which were in the early part 0` morning heavy at 92i for Money, have since rl t 9 1, improved, and may be quoted at present 921 ion and for January 93i. The chief business doich in settling their accounts against to-morrow, is settling-day in Consols. d 1 In the Foreign Market there ha s been g f . 4 ( bustle in the Spanish Stock, which h as got llPQ,ltarcl: cent. owing to a report that the above 'l'lo has come 3 per cent. be tter from Paris "c'ff that some negociation is on foot in this cotinet, with Spain to acknowledge t he bonds of the Corto In other Foreign Securities little doing. it°ol4 Stock has come lower from Hamburg it Per 4- which caused the above Stock to lower. 0d On the Corn Exchange every thing Wo st d lifeless this morning, there being few baler 6 g r'd the best samples of Wheat were ineffectually °"" at Monday's quotations. T H NB O'CLO FOREIG Pm-11;as, 661 Buenos Ayres, E 5 CkiHas, 21) 26 Colombian, 20/ I D.nisll, 'T4 Freneie, k per Cent. 105* gi Ditto, S per Goa. 54 Consols for Account, 93, for Money. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICS9. Consols 92i ! Danish 741 _,1:),,' Do. for Ac. 92-a! Greek, 1825 2: 11 1tAl j. Brazilian Bonds 66 Mexican, 1825 • P P 4 Buenos Ayres Peruvian 15/ ' 1 : Chilian Do. Russian 1081 Columbian, 1824, \ Spanish 111 EPIGRAM ON THE TRESENT TO MISS FANNY %Sp— Two beautiful Arms, and 071 C BriiiOrit i;:el' If a Bracelet's the present, a brace let it be' it. 0. - GREAT FALL OF SNOW.—ri ' . r fall of snow took place last night , acionvanir - „, ° r e be preceded by a wind that was little short of A ', CO ; 0 1 Ile snow this morning lay at least si x inchen dee:col° : round, and bas been followed by a frost Loa ° showers of sleet, which still continue. . .5.- h If Lord DONZRAILE be elected an 1 e 6 1° il presentative Peer, the appointment Wlll rall )0 0- it , Tem the county or Cork, viz.:--TIIOSOXDP DOI* B E N D ON, CARBERRY, MOU24TcAsIiEE, and