The Sun. — London, England, 1852-11-05 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, lIAYMABE.ET. Farewell Season of Mr. Benjamin Webster as Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING. The new and original Historical Comedy of RICHELIEU IN LOVE, by Messrs. B. Webster, Leigh Murray, fLowe, and Faradle ; Mrs. L. S. Buckingham and Mrs. Stirling. After which the laughable new Farce called a A CAPITAL MATCH, by Mr. Keeley and Miss Rosa Bennett. The petite Comedy of a NOVEL EXPEDIENT. To conclude with the Farce of DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Aer Sipe Managemelat of Madame Yestrls. THIS EVENING, Nov. 5, Will be performed (fourth time this season) ANYTHING FOR A CHANGE. Margaret, Miss Kate Hickson (her athews. fourth appearance in public) ; Swappington, Mr. Charles M After which, the new Comic Drams. of MARRIED DAUGHTERS AND YOUNG YILTSBANDS. Principal characters by Messrs. Boxby, F. Matthews, Baker, and Suter; Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss Julia St. George, Miss M. Oliver, Miss Fanny Baker, and Miss Martindale. To be followed by TAKING BY STORM. To conclude with A HOUSE OUT OF WINDOWi. Characters by Paul Potter and Mr. Robert Roxby. Sole Agent tor the Private Boxes, Mr. W. Aileron, 15, New Bond , street. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPM. Open for the Season. Proprietor, Mr. IL Webster ; Directress, Madame Celesta. VHS EVENING (Last Night but one of The Green Bushes and Jack Sheppard) The celebrated Drama of TUE GREEN BUSIES. or a Hundred Years Ago, by Madame Celeste, Miss Wecigar, Messrs. Honey, Paul Bedford, Emery, &c. To conclude with (at Second Price) the Historical Drama of JACK SHEYPARD. Jack, Mrs. Keeley ; Blueskin, Mr. Paul BeAllord. ROYAL, PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean. THIS EVENING Will be performed (eighth time) a new and original Play, in five acts, by Westland Marston, Esq., entitled ANNE BLAKE. Ches- Prin cipal characters by Messrs. C. Kean , W . Lacy, Addison, and ter ; Mrs. Winstanley, Mrs. Daly, and Mrs. C. Kean. To be followed by the Comedy of SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES. Principal characters by Messrs. Wright, J. Vining, Addison, Chester, and Cathcart ; Misses Murray, Leclerq, Daly, and Mrs. Daly. To conclude with THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVER. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. The Fifth Night of the Dramatic Season. THIS EVENING, and during tho week, will be presented the raw gorgeous Spectacle of Enchantment, entitled THE BRIDE OF GOLCONDA ; or, the Genus of the Ring—supported by Messrs. Haddocks. Dun nville, Dolman, Smith, Craddock, Johnson, and Roberts ; Mesdames Fenton, M'Lean Lydia Pearce, &c. To be succee ded b y the most brilliant Achievements of Scenes in the Arena. To conclude with the popular Farce of MISCHIEF MAKING. stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Doors open at Half-past Six o'clock; Box-office open from Eleven to to Four daily. Half Price at half-past Eight. PORTRAITS WELLINGTON AND SOULT, WITLI MEMOIRS AND FAC-SLIIILES OF THEIR HAND- WRITDICTS. A PORTRAIT OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGT ON TOGETHER WITH THE MOST SPLENDID LIKENESS OF SOULT EVER TAKEN, BY WYON, FOR WHICH. THE MARSHAL SAT SIX TIMES, IS THIS DAY PUBLISHED, AT THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, PRICE SIXPENCE. Sun Office, Now. 5, 1852. IZIGII WATEI3 AT LONDON BRIDGE. Trus DAY —Nloyning 51 min. after 6 I Evening 24 min. after 7 Ta-Moaaow—Morning 7 min. alter 8 Evening 52 min. after s TILE WEATHER,—ScuI OFFICE, NOT. 5. THERMOMETFY, IN THE SHADE. 52—highest silica noon yesterday. 46 this morning and during the night. 58—this day, at noon. _ BAROMETKB, 29.47. Wpm, S.W.—Light breeze, and very sultry, sunshining weather. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. state of the Wind and Weather at each of the following pieces at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations ar. arranged in order of latitude. FlAsmos—Calm—partially cloudy. 3)u raAstyros—Win , i E., gentle breeze foggy. Fol. a - v.:To:iv— Calm—cloudy. Tuwnita)GE—Wind E , calm—foggy. GREES',VlCLl—Calm—partially cloudy. CoLcuzs - rEa —S.W.. gentle breeze—partially cloudy. Cameauxtz—S., gentle breeze—cloudless. Lc returns from the following places indicate the state o the wind and weather on Wednesday morning at nine o'c'cek Mut.miamt—Wind S., calm—partially cloudy. Pool --Wind S , gentle, breeze— partally cloudy. LirmtrroN—Wind S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. Hor.yuy.,kr,--Wind S.W., strong breeze - partially cloudy. LA:WI/ITEM—Wind W., gentle breeze—cloudless. iirrtsv--Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. BRAP—Wind S., calm—principally clear. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We caLnot undertake to return rejected communica tions. X---'44- 7'" IN 4-7e z ~ .L I C4:4 1 4., f Z`• c 1„: ;cr; (1: foilwit-Ir LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1852, In a very short time Ministers will have to make a statement containing a distinct avowal of what they mean to do, and how they mean to do it. The ghost of Protection cannot be revived —of that we are comfortably convinced. They have "a fair field and no favour," and it is to be hoped that they will make the most of their position. We look upon it that no Ministry, within the last sixty years, has bad a better chance than the present. Lord DERBY, him self the representative of one of the oldest aristocratic families, his beaten down, by one blow, the idea of bl 4 country's being doomed to submit to a succession of Governments, consisting, es neceAsitale, of Members of particular Houses. His Cabinet,:at all events, is not a mere family party. We look back on the late Ministry, end wonder how the country could so long have tolerated it, comprising, as it did, the " finality " of Lord JOHN, the incompetency of Earl GaRT, the palpable inefficiency of Sir CHARLBi WOOD, the mar-all diplomacy of Lord MINTo, and the take-it easy do-nothing-policy of Lord BROUGH• Torr. Family connexion until now appears to have been the great (indeed, in some instances, the wily) qualification for office, and Whig and Tory alike ap peared chiefly influenced by this during more years than the memory of " the oldest inhabitant " can re collect. Prominent among the present Ministry is one who has fairly won his position by high and undeniable merit. Mr. DISRABLI, the son of a private gentle man, is nn w the Government leader in the House of Commons—not by virtue of any aristocratic con nexion (though his ancestry, we doubt not, is far more ancient than that of many Members or Peers), but simply by reason of his full possession of the higher aristocracy of genius. On him, in the Session just commenced, will mainly rest the burden of the contest. From him more particularly must come the official declaration of the fiscal and financial measures intended to be offered for the acceptance of the coun try. Ch ief among these must be a recasting of the In enfdarPraTirty Tax. In 1351 it :Was only re newed ngle year, in order that the subject might b e adopted to tho roughly d investigated, and • means sion it Was, .o liker it more equitable. Last Ses te rmanner, continued for twelve months more , l renewal in its existing form being solely granted the position of the Ilinistr a due consideration for bring forward any importantY who were pledged not to Parliament. But it wasso question before the then unlerstanding that it shoals b e °n the express make it press more evenly ~,3 thoremodelled, so as to to be br,rne. One of Sir CHAIM:: A b k y Whonl it was . T oo - , ideas on the subject wsi, th at the LI 5 fl oat in g only wav ,, with the impost, so as to render it more tol erable to ueal the payers, was Simply to increase it in i ts to form, without change or modi fi cation of the obnox ious principle so justly complained of, by unaristocratTe sufferers. The Whigs have never been very distinguished as financiers, but they have been peculiarly unfortunate in their dealings with the taxation of income. In 1806, when the Ministry, self-styled " All the Talents," succeeded Mr. PITT, all that the then Chancellor of the Exchequer could do to increase the revenue, was to double the Income•tax ! The ateaman who brought forward the preposition, Me the present Marquis of LANSDOWNE, then Lord HENRY PETTY. His measure was oppressive, but it succeeded in its object, it raised the wind for the time being. In 1805, the Income-tax yielded 6,300,0001. ; in the following year, it brought in nearly 12,000,000/. The screw must have been pretty well applied, for, in 1810, it produced 13,492,2151• It had fallen to 12,291,1551. in 1811 ; but in 1812 it rallied, and 13,368,6061. was paid into the Exchequer under that head. The question then arises—lf in these years an Income-tax of ten per cent. raised a . . revenue of thirteen millions (!) what would the yield now be, that property has so greatly increased in value, if that property were fairly charged ? The manner in which the assessment is made, and the principle of such assessment, must greatly influence the result. _ Apply a correct principle of taxation, on Income and Property, and even the present rate of seven pence in the pound, will yield a revenue nearer ten than five millions sterling. But the tax has been made what it is, by that abominable nuisance— " Class Legislation." One set of people impose taxes —another have to pay them. Old WILLIAM COB -SETT truly said—" the partiality of taxation is ex treme. While the rich pay a tax of twenty per cent. on their houses, the poor have to pay a tax of two hundred per cent. on their beer. While the land owners pay no duty on legacies, and on probates of wills, an enormous duty is paid on personal property ; that is to say, the property which consists of move ables, effects, or of money; so that while the heir or legatee of a Lord receives a landed estate from his predecessor without paying a farthing, the heir or ►egatee, if a farmer or tradesman, has to give to the Government a considerable portion of the amount of the legacy, or of the effects. You have only to open the tax-book to see who it is that has made the laws, and to see that while it was the great who contracted the Debt, it is the little who have to pay for it." Thus the defunct Corn Laws were for the direc' support of the landowners ; while, excepting the Land-tax (a comparatively trifling impost as now levied), the Assessed Taxes, Excise, Customs, Stamps, &c., fall heavily and unequally on the middle and working classes, and scarcely' touch the rich aristo cr'.cy. Thus, also, the lucome-tax of 1806 (which by the way the Tories took off, after the Whigs had doubled it), as well as the present Income and Pro perty-tax, are alike unfair. We have lands and tene ments, in short " Property of all kinds, assessed at the self same rate as the Incomes arising from profes sions, trades, and other avocations ; so an income not worth, at the highest calculation, five years' purchase —income made by the personal exertions and depen dent on the mental and bodily health of the toiler, is subject to the same tax, and at the same rate as re venue arising from accumulated and realized property with full thirty years' purchase. Thus, industry is taxed six, or probably eight, times heavier than:wealth. Luxurious ease and productive labour are regarded in the same light. The landowners, who laid on the tax pay scarcely one-sixth of what the industrious classes pay. Landed estates and whole squares or streets of houses may go down from father to son, or even to collateral relatives, to the end of time ; but they pay no more to the tax-gatherers than the precarious and fluctuating income of the shopkeeper, the mer chant, the lawyer, the author, the tradesman, the schoolmaster, the clergyman—each of whom lives by his personal exertions, and whose income ceases when his health fails. To have the tax fairly laid on, there should be a high rate for Property, and a low rate for Income. In 1848, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, finding that there was a deficiency in the revenue of two millions and a-half, actually proposed in Parliament to increase the Income and Property Tax from sevenpence to a shilling, from 3to 5 per cent. He did not think of reducing the expenditure, for that might meddle with the sinecurists—the Gzatrroiss, the SCHOMBERGS, the COWPERS, or the BOONES. He failed, but it was, as we then stated, owing to the disgust excited by the flagrant injustice, the scandalous inequality, of the impost ; and not, as Sir CHARLES WOOD pre tended to believe, to any real objection entertained by the principle of direct taxation. We want a graduation of the tax. In 1798.9, when Mr. PITT passed the first Income-tax, he adopted the principle of graduation. Incomes under 601. were wholly exempt ; under 1051., the impost was one-fortieth part of the income ; above 2001., one-tenth ; so the tax fell fairly on those who had the largest incomes. We can yet remedy the evil, and apportion the burden equitably. Let Property pay six times, or at least four times, what Income has to pay, and graduate the asseements on Mr. PITT'S principles. The payments to be just, should be lightest on incomes—the result of personal exer• tion—and heaviest on these which are derived from fixed and permanent sources. The fate of the Minis try will depend an their fiscal and financial policy. If they will only do simple jastice in this matter of taxation, they will establish a well-founded and eternal e.aim on the gratitude of their countrymen. They may, perhaps, have to encounter a one-aided o'oposition in Parliament; but if the country be with them, they can well afford to be abused, because they take the part of justice and of the people. We are at all events convinced, that Mr. DISRAELI will not commit such an act of folly as to think of increasing, without modifying, the tax. That bril liant attempt at legislation was worthy of Lord Joule RUSSELL and Sir CHARLES WooD. The amount realized may, however, be much augmented, if its principle he improved. Let Property pay far more (as in justice it ought) than mere Income. Graduate the tax on both, so as to make it fall proportionately lighter on the poorer, than the wealthier classes ; and whatever may be the point at which the impost is to commence, have it paid on all above, and not on a sum inclusive of that minimum. That a man with an ,income a fraction under 1501. should be wholly exempt, while the possession of 1511. per annum makes his neighbour liable to pay one hundred and fifty-one sevenpences, instead of a single sevenpence, or the excess over the 1501., is what never should hare been sanctioned, and should not be suffered to continue. With respect to the final settlement of this im portant question, we trust a great deal to one quality, which, in Mr. DISRAILI'S mind, surpasses even his genius. We trust much to his common sense, which will enable him to perceive the anomalies of past legislation on this subject, and will supply him with the means of rectifying them. We do trust that, at last, we have working men to govern us; and we feel there is much to be grateful for, in having an ac tive, intelligent Ministry, with the spur of a strong Opposition. It is but a simple act of justice to the Whigs to declare that out of office they have invaria bly been energetic and useful, adopting popular views, and strenuously endeavouring to have them carried into practical operation. Out of office, they have merited the approbation and gratitude of the people— in it, they have exhibited a vacillating and feeble policy, truckling to all parties, and forfeiting the re spect which a very different course had obtained for them. People talk about war. It is pretended that we are to have a repetition of battles and sieges, and that the soldiers are to indulge their appetites anew with the long-neglected luxuries of rapine and massacre, unbridled licence and indiscriminate devastation. Meanwhile the system of railroads, not only in the United Kingdom, but more or less throughout the European Continent, is rapidly maturing in its orga nization. Facilities are everywhere afforded to the traveller. The means of communication between remote countries are being in all directions multi plied. The old lumbering mail is forgotten in Eng land. The older and still more lumbering diligence is being abandoned by Frenchmen. Amongst our selves, indeed, we have arrived at that point fro* which we can even venture to look down with dis dain upon the dapper stagecoach celebrated by the panegyrics of APPEBLEY. We have so far forsaken the Road for the Rail, that DICK TURPIN could scarcely find it remunerative, even if be could find it safe, ware he restored to life, to renew his old course as an equestrian highwayman. He would have to discard " Black Bess " for one of the metalsome Ik ags of NAPIER : and instead of administering a re fresher in extremis by means of a bucket of brandy and water, and a raw steak twisted round the bit, would have to satisf y the thirst of his courser from the mouth o f the ten ' le a th ern tend er , r hose, and its hunger from the coke in the Ever tommere is simulating by aley w ai h d e roef, railways esankd, THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1852 stearn•packets--everyw here, in this work-a-day gene ration, in this age, not of poetry but of merchandise, there is whirling frcm city to city, from nation to nation, from continent to continent, a monster more wonderful in its beneficence than was ever dreamt of by oriental fabulists, the Fiery Dragon of the steam engine bestridden by one more potent than the _ _ _ Fairies—the Genius of Modern Civilization. Yet, the quidnuncs tells us, we are to have war, the gobemouche babbles about bloodshed and spoliation— there are heard in London, in Paris, in Vienna, in Berlin, in Brussels, in Warsaw, in St. Petersburgh, the sounds of trepidation. It is England that is going to be invaded. It is Belgium that is about to be seized. It is France that is to be assailed by Russia. It is Germany that is to be ravaged by the armies of the third NAPOLEON. There are no want of rumours, either in number or in diversity. We may make our choice of them at pleasure. One grasps us by the cuff to explain all about the cause of the ap proaching outbreak; according to him, it will be ad ventured upon with a view to avenge the disasters of Waterlco. Another fastens us by the button• hole to expound his version of the story ; according to him, the explosion will originate from a totally opposite reason, and, indeed, from an entirely different quarter of the globe--the EMPEROR of all the Russias will not tolerate the new plan revealed by that ever- Protean Revolution. The Cossacks are to water their horses at the Seine, or the Chasseurs de Vin cennes are to amuse themselves with human batlues at Twickenham—following up the discharge of the minie bullet, of course, with the thrust of the sword bayonet. The truth, after all, seems to be this—that several of the great Powers of Europe have been frightening each other of late into warlike prepara tions. Suspicions have been excited on all sides by the more unprincipled or the more ignorant ; and out of these suspicions have gradually started up maritime activity in France, and the Militia in Eng land ! Meanwhile there are threads of copper thrilling amicably to and fro between the two countries—the magical core of a rope of gutta percha trailed uncles the billows of the British Channel. Talk of war de vastating the shores of France and England! Listen to the voice of the electric telegraph. Look at the vibrations of that wonderful instrument—stirring simultaneously at the central offices in Paris and in London. Monday, the Ist of November, 1852, ought to be long remembered in the annals of civilization. For it was upon that day that the mechanism of the electric telegraph was brought into complete opera tion, so that people could converse with each other in the twinkling of an eye, although separated by a neck of the ocean, and by the considerable distance dividing the two greatest capitals in Christendom. Necromancy has been surpassed—thanks to the genius of Professor WHEATSTONE. Familiar, however, as we had become with the astonishing capabilities of the electric telegraph, we cannot acknowledge that we could peruse without emotion the parti culars of last Monday's most memorable and most successful experiments. A group of gentle men assembled on that day at No. 30, Cornhill, in the heart of the city of London, and thereupon talked, by means of the vibrating needles of the elec tric telegraph, with another group of gentlemen standing, at the same preconcerted time, at the oppo site terminus in the heart of the city of Paris ! And the messages flashed back from one to the other—from London to Paris, and from Paris to London—passed with the facility and the rapidity of conversation. First, the needles at Cornhill spoke thus graciously by way of introduction—" M. Foy, Director-General of French Telegraphs, presents his compliments to the Hon. F. Cadogan." A pause—and then the corres pondent in the French metropolis says briefly to the watchful observers in London—" Foggy in Paris." The group at Cornhill bestir themselves in their turn, and the next instant the group in Paris are reading a pithy intimation, as follows—" Strangers are visiting the London office : please send a few words." The answer is as terse as it is instantaneous—" Wait." Then there comes flashing from Paris—along the earth, under the sea, across the Channel—through those quivering needles at Cornhill, the desired com munication. It runs thus—as they spell it off from the dial of the telegraph—" This day is very unfa vourable for transmission between London and Paris. The atmosphere is very damp. We are to try double needle instruments in direct communication between Paris and London." Precisely when the hands of the clock at Cornhill point to ten minutes past two p.m., the question is asked of Paris, " Whet time is it ?" The answer is returned immediately, " Ten minutes past two p.m." This is not enough. Another in quiry is made by the people at London; but this time it is as to the state of the weather at Arras, a town situated between Calais and the French capital. The answer is given forthwith—the people at Paris in forming those at London that the atmosphere at Arras is " Overcast and dull." Other messages are subsequently lashed backwards and forwards between the terminus at Paris and the terminus at London—but the last communication transmitted from the latter place to the French metropolis is the only one of any peculiar interest and importance. We transfer it to this column entire —regarding it, as we do, in the light of an historical document. It is thus worded : " The Directors of the Sabmarine Telegraph Company beg leave to approach his Highness the Prince President, with the expression of their best thanks, for the assist ance which he has uniformly given towards the estab lishment of this instantaneous means of communication between France and Great Britain. " May this wonderful invention serve, under the Em • pire, to promote the peace and prosperity of the world. " Dated Nov. 1, 1852, 30, Cornhill, London." Yet, in spite of commerce, in spite of railroads, in spite of the electric telegraph, people still babble about war as probable ; about bloodshed, rapine, and devastation. And so—gigantic ships of war are being constructed in the French dockyards. And so—a huge body of militia is being organized in England. Shall the peace of thirty-seven years' duration be broken because a few silly persons have indulged their rancour by idle insults, or gratified their na tional pride by empty fanfaronades ? The responsi bilities of the future in this matter devolve upon the respective Councils of her MAJESTY the QUEEN, and these for circum stances, u de ` of His Highness th e P RINCE P RESIDENT. Europe, c o i r si r o a n the a r bo t u h t e w to or be ld, is looking a kinganxiously ~ under stances, by the leading statesmen of the two foremost races of Christendom. DEFEAT OF THE TRACTARIANS IN CAMBRIDGE UNIVRESITT.- We stated some time ago, that Mr. Baron Alderson, one of the mast decided Tractarians of the day, bad started as candidate for the Mastership of Caius College, Cambridge, vacant by the death of the late Dr. Benedict Chapman, and that he was so anxious to obtain the honour, that he was prepared to abdicate his judicial functions, re tiring on the usual pension, rather than be disappointed. The result of the learned Baron's canvas was to convince him that there was no chance of success, and the event has verified his apprehensions, for Mr. E. Guest, M.A., and F.R.S., was yesterday chosen to fill the vacant office. Mr. Guest was made a B.A. in 1824.—Morning Advertiser. VAUXHALL BRIDGE COMPANY.—Yesterday, a n ad journed general assembly of the proprietors of this cornpaav was held at the George and Vulture, Mr. Prendergast, Q - .C. in the chair. The company still retained 21 shares in the undertaking, and Exchequer Bills to the amount of 2,0001. The reserved fund in the Three per Cent. Consols is 1,212 L 10s 9d, and the unpaid dividends amount to 3651. 3s. The tolls for the last six months were 5,5941. 10s, being a de crease of 1,6051. 143 Id upon the corresponding period of last year. The pier dues were 221/. 2s 7d; the expendi ture, 1151. 3s ld ; and the profits, 1151. 19s Bd. The report was adopted. INCOME AND EXPENDITURE OF MUNICIPAL BO ROUGH3.—Yesterday a parliamentary paper was printed, showing the receipts and expenditure on account of muni cipal boroughs in England and Wales, in the year ended the 31st August, 1851„ The receipts, with balances in hand, were 1,254,4831. is. 1 1 / 2 d., and the expenditure, with balances due to treasurers, 903,721/. 4s. 111,V. MAILS FOR NASSAU.— " GENERAL POST -OFFICE, OCTOBER, 1852.—The mails for Nassau (Bahamas) will, in future, be made up in London for transmission by the West India contract packet leaving Southampton on the 2d, instead of that leaving on the 17th of each month, and the return mails from Nassau will be due by the corresponding packet arriving at the beginning of the month." INTERESTING DISCOVERY IN THE TOWER.—In the course of some of the improvements now being carried out in the Tower, the workmen, in the removal of some portions of the foundations, have brought to light the cell and stair case of the Beauchamp tower, and are now preparing for public inspection this antiquarian and historic curiosity. A MAN KILLED BY AN Ox.—Yesterday Mr. W. Carter held an inquest at the Angel, Lambeth-walk, on the body •f William Reeves, aged 73, formerly a coach-builder, residing at 34, Walnut-tree-walk, Lambeth-walk. The evi dence showed that on Monday afternoon last, about 5 o'clock, the deceased was walking in the neighbourhood of Saville terrace, when an infuriated ox, which had played sundry freaks just previously, started at him, and pursued him to Berkeley-street, where he knocked him down, and inflicted a wound on the scalp about an inch in length, which resulted in death. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-(THIS DAY). Their Lordships met at two o'clock, when the Lords Commissioners took their seats at the foot of the Throne. The LORD CHANCELLOR then directed the Usher of the Black Rod, Sir A. Clifford, to summon the Members of the House of Commons to attend at the bar. In a few minutes afterwards, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, accompanied by his mover and seconder—Mr. Robert Palmer and Lord Robert Grosvenor—and surrounded by a great number of new Members, appeared at the bar. Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE then addressed their Lordships to the following effect—My Lords, in obe dience to her Majesty's command, her Majesty's most faithful Commons have proceeded in the exer cise of their undoubted right and privilege to elect their Speaker, and I have to acquaint your Lord ships that, however unworthy of it, I am the object of their choice ; and I, with all humility, have now to ask her Majesty's most gracious approbation of that choice. The LORD CHANCELLOR replied—Mr. Shaw Lefevre, we have the command from her Majesty to assure you that her Majesty is so fully sensible of your zeal for the public good, and your ample suffi ciency to discharge the high and arduous duties to which you have been elected by the Members of the House of Commons, that she fully approves and confirms you their Speaker. The SPEAKER—My Lords, with the most pro found gratitude and respect, I submit myself to her Majesty's commands; and it now becomes my duty in the name, and for, and on behalf, of the Commons o f England, to lay claim by humble petition to the free exercise of all those ancient and undoubted rights, immunities, and privileges more especially those of freedom from arrest and molestation for themselves and servants,—free access to her Majesty when occasion may require, and that her Majesty will be graciously plealed to put the most favourable ' ,construction on all their proceedings and actions ; and for myself, my Lords, I have to entreat, that if any errors should be committed, they may be attributed to me, and not to her Majesty's faithful Commons. The LORD CHANCELLOR—Mr. Speaker, we have it further in command from her Majesty to as sure you, that her Majesty most readily confirms all the right and privileges of her faithful Commons which have ever been granted by her Majesty's royal predecessors ; and with respect to yourself, Sir, al though her Majesty is sensible that you stand in no need of such an assurance, her Majesty will ever put the most favourable construction upon all your words and actions. The SPEAKER then bowed to the Lords Com missioners, and retired from the bar. The LORDS COMMISSIONRRS then bowed to each other, and retired. The LORD CHANCELLOR then divested himself of his robes as a Lord Commissioner, shortly afterwards re-entered the House, and took his seat on the Wool sack. The swearing in of Peers was then proceeded with, and continued till shortly before four o'clock, when their Lordsbips adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS-(THIS DAY). The SPEAKER took the chair at the Clerk's table shortly before two o'clock. The Right Hon. Gentle man did not appear in his full-dress robes, but simply wore a plain barrister's wig and a knight of the shire's uniform. The mace was to-day laid on the table, and not the floor—the form observed yesterday. There was a very numerous attendance of Mem bers, but the House wes by no means so full as yesterday. Mr. Thomas Babington Macaulay came in early, and took his seat on the front row of the opposition side. The Right Hon. Gentle man was warmly welcomed on his return to the House by several Members who had sat with him in former Parliaments. Sir Auouszus CLIFFORD entered the House shortly before 3 o'clock, and, addressing the SPEAKER, said the Loans COMMISSIONERS desired the immediate at tendance of the House in the House of Peers. The SPEAKER then proceeded to the House of Lords, accompaniedby nearly allthe Members present. He returned in ten minutes, and having taken thechair, said—l have to stat 3 that I have been this day to the House of Peers, where I communicated to the Peers forming her Msjesty's Commission, that the House had Proceeded to the election of a Speaker, and that its choice had fallen upon me. My Lords Com missioners, on behalf of her Majesty, have confirmed that choice, and also her Majesty's most gracious ap proval. 1, therefore, on behalf of this House, laid claim to the ancient and undoubted privileges hereto fore prescribed by this House ; especially the privi lege of freedom from arrest, for ourselves and our servants—the freedom of debate—free access to her Majesty at all reasonable times when we desire it, and also that her Majesty would put the most favourable construction upon our words and actions, and my Lords Commissioners were authorized by her Ma jesty to concede these privileges to the House. Hav ing made this communication to the House, I hope Hon. Members will allow me to take this op portunity of again offering them my sincere and grateful acknowledgments for the high and honourable position in which they have placed me _f e ar, hear, hear,)---I invite them to aid and assist me by their council and support in maiataining the authority of the chair—(Loud cheers) ; and I may, I believe, assure them that, so far as it is in my power that authority shall be exercised with the most pesfect impartiality, and in a manner which shall be most conducive to the peace and honour of the House. (Cheers.) The Right Hon. Gentleman then took the usual oaths, after which the swearin g i n o f M em b ers was proceeded with, which occupied the House until four o'clock, when it adjourned till twelve o'clock to-mor rely. THE PERSIAN EMBASsy.--His Excellency Shah Khan, who has been some time resident here as Charge d'Affaires from the Schah ef Persia,bas lately been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary from that Court. The Schah has also honoured Major Mirza Ibraham Malcolm, first Attache aLtaNSTiEnAM this-P aunclitucEkTy M and Interpreter, by raising him to the rank o f " Kh an. " ELwEOo me U c R a NE. , —Several e E ral A o U f passengers ship, h home from Lisbon, had interviews with th e di rectors yester day, and their statements of the accident whi c h b e f e l th e Melbourne, together with the general conditi on an d accom modation of the ship, were received in det a il. I t i s sa i d that the directors intend to send out another captain to take the ship on to ber destination. It may be said that the com mander of her Majesty's steam-sloop Inflexible, Commander Wooldridge, has had the experience of being the mail agent for more than a year in the General Screw Company's ships to the Cape. MIDDLESEX HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday the general quarterly court of the governors of this institution was held in the board-room, Mr. Michael Smith in the chair. From the minutes it appeard that the charity bad either received, or had bequeathed to it, legacies to the amount of 1,80016 s sd. The residuary property of the late Sir Joseph Le Farm, esti mated ultimately to realize 20,000/, is, by order of the Master of the Rolls, kept in court for the benefit of the hospital. The collector reported that in new and increased subscrip tions there accrued a gain of HI. 3s. The general balance amounts to 1,152/. 12a. ld., and that of the Samaritan fund, 135/. 17s. 10d. The sum of 16s. 9d. was found in the poor boxes. There are at present 218 patients in the house. The report:was adopted. ACCIDENT ON THE DOVER RAILWAY. --Between four and five o'clock on Tuesday morning, a South -Eastern goods train of 14 or 15 carriages, laden with hops, from Maid stone, met with an accident near the Stoat's Nest station. Owing, it is supposed, to a fracture of the axletree, one of the middle trucks got off the line, and the coupling irons becoming unhooked, the engine and tender , with t he forward portion of the train, proceeded, the driver being unconscious for a considerable time that he was drawing a burden shorn of its fair proportions. The rear carriages of the hinder portion of the train mounted those in advance, smashing and upsetting and throwing them and their contents in all directions, both lines were blocked by fragments of the carriages, intermixed with pockets of hops. THE FOUNDERED SCREW STEAMER Orr BEActry HEAD. -..The recovery of the wreck of the splendid screw steamer, Metropolitan, of London, which, it will be recollected was run down off Beachy Head on the night of the 18th of last month, by the barque Zollverein, appears now to be abandoned, chiefly owing to the great depth of water where it lay. The Metropolitan was quite a new vessel, sister steamer to the Cosmopolitan she wa s g reatl y ad mired on the Thames f or h er b ea utiful symmetry and "rakish" gait on the water. Her loss with cargo amounts to nearly 30,0001. buoCILINa DEATIL—A: very shocking accident (m -ewed in Nottingham on Wednesday night at half-past eight o'clock, by which a woman named Turner, re siding in Newcastle- streot, met with her death. The deceased and her husband are both upwards of 70 years of age, and, as two workmen were passing the house door at the time in question,ithey observed a great quantity of smoke issuing through the crevices. Thinking that all was not right, one of them tried the door, but found it fastened. They immediately gave an alarm, and suc ceeded in breaking it open, when a shocking spectacle presented itself. A chair near to the fireplace was in a blaze, on which sat the old woman, portions of her body being burnt to a cinder. The flames wore extinguished as quickly as possible, and a surgeon sent for, but life bad been for some time extinct. The husband of the unfortunate woman was returning home at the time of the accident ; and, indeed, witnessed the appalling spectacle. It is conjectured that a burning cinder fell upon her clothes while she sat asleep near the 6.e., LAW INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY) COURT OF CHANCERY. The Lord Ohmic°nor did not sit to-day in eons; quenee of his Parliamentary datiea. TIIE LORDS JUSTICES. Their Lordships were occupied the early part of the morning in hearing lunatic petition?, and the only mat ter of interest in this Court arose out of an appeal. IN RE WILD. Mr. Follett, Q.C., was retained. The chief point was to show that the terms of " share and share alike " in the will of a testator gave to tho legatees no right in common over the property loft, but that each must take his assigned portion out of some particular portion of the demised estate. The pleadings were not concluded, b u t this point seemed to be established. ROLLS COURT. (Before the Master, Sir John Romilly.) LIABILFTY OF A SECURITY.-FOLICINO ♦. MARTIN. Mr. Roundel' Palmer appeared to enforce a snit arising out of a transaction in which a widow was gua ranteed against her husband's debts. It appeared that Mr. Blogg, of the firm of Blogg, Samuel, and Emanuel, died indebted, and that his widow, for a consideration of 1360/., gave up all claims upon the general estate, the sum being secured through the agency of a person named Ritchie, whose principal was the defendant in this cause ; Ritchie, however, having originally, been placed in the position of chief defendant. The question arose as to how far Martin was bound, Mrs. Blogg having been sued by a Mr. Lyon Lansdill. The learned Counsel was showing that the principal was impli cated incidentally, although no direct personal gunge had been given. QUEEN'S BENCH. Sittings in Banco. ;Before tho Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Coleridge Mr. Justice Wightman, and Mr. Justice Erle.) THE NEW LAW OF EVIDENCE.-THE CORPORATION OF BERWICK V. RENTON. Mr. Knowles, Q C., appeared for a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be granted to set aside a verdict given in this cause at the last Northumberland Assizes, and on the ground of fraud. The cause itself was not of importance on account uf the great sum of money which was implicated, but it was of the utmost importance from the fact that it proved, that so long as the present law of evidence continued, no man could be safe when a man was allowed to:give testimony in his own cause; and after the execution of a solemn bond twenty years ago ho might come into Court, and say that he had been deceived by a person who was now dead and gone. From the notes of the Lord Chief Justice, it appeared that on the 27th of December, 1841, a resolution was come to in the Town Council of Berwick, that all the moneys should be paid into the bank by the treasurer, in the name of the corporation. A person of the name of Doby was a candidate for the situation of treasurer, and on the faith of this resolution Mr. Renton became one of his securities, but on the 11th of January another reso lution was come to i❑ the Town Council, by which the former one was in effect rescinded. Doby proved to be a great defaulter, but before leaving the country paid into the hands of Mr. David Murray, his other surety. The bond of Ronton's suretyship was prepared, or at least it was executed in the office of the town clerk, who, it was assumed, must have been cogniz int of this last resolution, and, therefore, misled Renton, who he knew had become surety only on the understanding that the treasury money would form part of the Corporation Bank account. The verdict at the trial was for the defendant. Mr. Knowles now stated that the ground of his appli cation was the existence of proof that the bond was drawn, and in the Scottish form, by Renton's own soli citor, and not by Mr. Giltless, the town clerk, and that it was not executed until the 15th of January, that is four days after this resolution was passed, and when, of course, the defendant ought to have been acquainted with it, especially as it had been published in the Warder newspaper, before the bond was executed. Rule to show cause w as gran t e d on t h e groun d t h at the verdict at the trial was contrary to evidence. VICE - CHANCELLOR'S COURTS. (Before Sir Richard Kinderaley.) THE MAYOR ♦ND CORPORATION OP BASINGSTOXII V. LORD BOLTON. This was a demurrage to a heriotship over the town and parish of Basingstoke, claimed by Lord Bolton. Mr. Craig, Q.C,. appeared for the Corporation, and Mr. Kemp, Q.C., for his Lordship. The defence set up was limitation and want of fealty. OPENING OF CONVOCATION-(TIIIS DAY This being the day appointed for the meeting of the Now Convocation, the fourth under the present reign, the Members of both Chambers met shortly before eleven o'clock at the Chapter Ilouse on the north side of St. Paul's. There was at first some doubt whether the Archbishop of Canterbury would attend and open the business in person, but all doubts were dispelled by his Lordship's arrival shortly before eleven o'clock. The proper arrangements having been gone through at the Chapter House, the Archbishop of Canterbury pre ceeded by the Dean of Arches, Vicar-General, Chan cellor, Advocates, Proctors, and Clergy, proceeded in procession to the entrance of the Cathedral, where his Grace was received by several of the bishops, and con ducted by them up the centre aisle into the choir. All having being seated, the Bishop of Llandaff Proceeded to read the prayers in Latin, after which the anthem " Oh. pray for the peace ofJerusalem," was sung by the choir. This part of the imposing ceremony having been completed, 1)r. Jeremie ascended the pulpit and preached the sermon, which was also in Latin. After the sermon, the anthem " Gloria in excelsis " was sung. and His Grace the Archbishop concluded this part of the proceedings by pronouncing the blessing. The procession then formed in the same order as upon entering, and proceeded again to the Chapter:House f o r the purpose of electing a Prolocutor, when the Bishop of Ely was elected. The Chamber then adjourned until Friday next at Westminster. There were about 200 clergy in attendance in the Ca thedral, in addition to a very large number of the laity. Tho line of passage from the Cathedral to the Chapter House was crowded with a large concourse of respectable persons. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, Nov. 4 The following had the honour of dining with her Ma jesty yesterday :—The Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Nemours, the Prince and Princess of Hohen lobe Langenburg, the Princess Adelaide and the Prin cess Hermann of Hohenlohe, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Earl of Eglinton, Sir George Couper, and Mr. Gibbs. Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke of Nemours Prince Hermann of Hohenlohe, atttnded by Lieut.- Colonel the lion. A. Gordon, went out hunting this forenoon. Major-General Buckley arrived yesterday as Equerry in Waiting to the Queen. The Countess of Neuilly arrived at the Castle at a quarter before two o'clock, to pay a visit to her Majesty, and remained to luncheon. The Duke and Duchess of Nemours returned to Clare mont this afternoon. The Earl of Eglinton left the Castle to-day for London. The Duchess of Kent had a dinner party to-day at Frogmore. The company consisted of the Queen. Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the Prince and Princess of Hohenlohe Langenburg, with the Princess Adelaide and Prince Hermann, the Countess of Desert, Lady Augusta Bruce, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Hon. Miss Macdonald, the Earl of Morton, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, Lieut.-Colonel Biulph, Captain the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West, Major General Buckley, and Sir George Couper. The Duchess of Kent had afterwards an evening party. The following had the honour of receiving invitations :—The Hon. Mrs. Grey, the Hon. Mrs. Phipps, Lady and Miss Barrington, Colonel and Lady Emily Seymour, Lady, Miss, and Mr. R. Cooper, Mr. Gibbs, Dr. Becker, and Mr. Glover. The Belgian Minister had an interview with the Earl of Derby yesterday, at his official residence in Downing street. The Brazilian Minister had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official resideuc , , in Downing-streer. The Earl of Eglinton (Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland) returned to town yesterday from Windsor Castle. 116 Lordship paid a visit to the Earl of Derby. The Lord Chancellor hay appointed J. Pitt Taylor, Esq., barrister-at law, to be the judge of the Lambeth County Court of Surrey, and of the County Court of K.nt, to be holden at Greenwich, in the room of George Chilton, Esq , Q C., deceased. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The privileges, in the shape of admissions, which will be conferred on the shareholders in " Her Majesty's Theatre Association" have been officially set forth. The proprietor of 50 shares will be entitled to a personal entrée for all representations ; a holder of double that number will he entitled to a reserved seat in the pit ; while 150 and 200 shares will respectively entitle the proprietor to a pit-stall for two nights a week, or for every representation. The actual owners on the Ist of February in every year will be the proprietors entitled to the proportionate priviliges during the ensuing season, such privileges to be totally independent of the divi dend receivable on the shares. The reserved seats under thes? regulations will be so far transferable nightly that the proprietor's nominee will. be admitted to the seat on paying balf thv ordinary prio9 of entraoo! MUNEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS• CITY, Two o'CLocx. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday amounted to 7,000 bales. The market was heavy, and the prices of those kinds of American at 61 and under, declined I, while other kinds were without any material alteration. Of American, 500 bales were taken for exportation, and 1,000 ditto and 500 Surat on speculation. The sales included 5 500 American, GO Pernarn and Maranham, at GO to Girl; 600 Egyptian at 60 to 15d ; and 1,000 Surat at 4id to sii. Railway Shares were steady, and an improving market was perceptible. In the Produce Markets this week, a fair business has been transacted. Tea has been less dealt in, but Tallow has been taken freely on speculation, owing to the short shipment from St. Petersburgh, and the rinsing of the navigation. The Silk Market is steadier. Cotton is rather drooping, and for hemp there is less demand. Sugar and Coffee have been firm, but not active. Rice has been dull. Spices have been at full prices. There are further arrivals from Australia, but not bringing later dates. A meeting had been held at Mount Alexander to protest against transportation, and seeing that within the last few days there has been a further cargo of transports sent with tickets of leave to Van Dieinen's Lind, the subject is of most serious and pressing interest. The petition is as follows : To the Honourable the House of Commons of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled. " The Petition of the Gold Diggers and other Inhabi tants of Mount Alexander, Colony of Victoria, Australia Felix, in public meeting assembled, "Humbly Showoth,—That a large number of your petitioners, both British and foreign, have been induced to make the Australian colonies their adopted country, from the promises held out by Earl Grey in the name of Great Britain, that the system of sending criminals to these colonies was to be discontinued. " That your petitioners have struggled on in hopes that those promises would, before this, have been tul filled, and on the discovery of largo gold fields in New South Wales, and also in Victoria, fully believed that the Home Government would see the inducement held out to crime by the continuation of sending convicts to the immediate neighbourhood of productive gold mines. " That your Petitioners learn, with feelings of deep regret, that the Home Government, by Earl Grey, in reply to John King, Esq., the Anti-Transportation Dele gate from this Colony, have no intention of discontinuing the present practice of sending convicted criminals to Vau Diemen's Land. " That your Petitioners would beg to remind your Honourable House, that while Van Diemen's Land con• tinues to receive convicted criminals, these Colonies will ❑ever receive the full benefit the gold mines otherwise would cause to extensive free emigration. " That your Petitioners would fiirther call the attention of your Honourable House to the fact, that about two thousand of the working population are likely to alter, annually, their position in life, from the Gold Mines, by becoming employers, and may be induced with their capital to seek for a more appropriate homo for their families than these colonies are likely to give when transportation to Van Diemen's Lind is allowed to con tinue. " Your Petitioners, therefore, pray your Honourable House to address her Most Gracious Ma jesty the Queen, to rescind the Order in Council that allows convicted criminals to be sent out to Va❑ Diemen's Land, or any other of the Australian Colonies, and your petitioners will ever pray, &c." The following letter being addressed to us by a party of high respectability, who furnishes his name, we think it desirable to give it, remarking that the complaint might be made of numerous other new undertakings, though perhaps in a less direct form : " TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN. " Sir,—ln your number of the 3d November, are ad vertisement inviting the publio to take shares in the Western Railway of Switzerland, in which the names of most respectable men are given as a body of Directors ; and notice is given in the advertisement that no further application for Shares will be received after Saturday next, the 6th of November, applications for the shares to bo made to the Secretary of the Company, and to Messrs. George Burnand and Co., and Messrs. Spurling and Son, the Sharebrokers of the Company. " This morning I proceeded with my application, duly signed witk the requisite references, to the office of Messrs. George Burnand and Co., 12, Cornhill, where I saw the representative of the house, who told me that they declined receiving applications for shares, because they had been all allotted on the evening of the 4th, but that I might be accommodated with them by paying 12s. 6d. premium per share in the market ; and this, he admitted, had been done without any meeting of the board of directors, who to this hour have not met. " It this be the beginning of the management of the Western Railway of Switserland Company, I think it would be desirable to call attention thereto. Does not this savour strongly of stock-jobbing? " London, Nov. 5, 1852." " VERITAS. The Stock Market is very buoyant, and there is a marked increase in the money business doing. Con sols have been quoted 1001 to for Transfer ; and WO} to for Account. The New 3f per Cents. have been 103} to ; and the 3 per Cents. 99i to Re duced 3 per Cents. have been at 99i to j. Bank Stock is worth 2231 to 224 i. India Stock is at 2741 to 2751. Exchequer Bills are firm; and India Bonds realize 843, premium. The news from Paris of the initiatory proceedings for the declaration of the Empire, is apparently but little heeded here. Tne Foreign Securities have been neglected, and the Turkish Scrip is further depressed, being only 2i to 24 premium, or say at present 2} to 3 premium. Buenos Ayres Stock is at 811. Sardinian Bonds are worth 98. Dutch 4 per Cents. realized 9Gi ; Mexi can are higher, being 244 to 25. Spanish Deferred have been quoted 25f to f, and the 3 per Cents. 51i to 52k. The news from Constantinople regarding the Loan does not up to the present time con firm the assertion that an indemnity will be offered, although it is admitted in an official com munication that the Ambassador of the Porte at Paris, and the agent of the Bank exceeded their instructions. Such being the case, the Government must be held responsible; but the question then remaining is, what compensation shall be offered? The Railway Share Market is not so good as it was yesterday, and there is less doing in the English lines. Still it cannot be said that there is any marked depression. French Shares do not quite support the material rise of yesterday, but are buoyant. The Gold Mine Shares are firm. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. (From the Official List.) Business done. Bank Stock R ;.,or Cent. Reduced Annuities— ..... R por Cent Consols Anus. look i g i i New 34 per Cent. Anus. Long Annuities. Exp. Jan. Bth. 1860.. -16 1 / 2 7-16 Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 6 3 / 4 India Stock 275 4i p. Do. Bonds, 1000/ B4 South Sea Old Annuities . Ditto New Annuities ..... ........ 3 per cent. Annuities, 1751 Consols for Account Eschaquer Bills. I%cl. March June. 1,000!. — 74 7 5001. Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent - Ditto Small Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent. Danish 5 per Cent. Kquador Bonds . . Mexican 3 per Cent Peruvian Bonds, 1849, 6 oar Cent, ...... Ditto Deferred 3 per Cent. .... Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto Converted 5 per Cent. ... ...... Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent..... II B 3A, Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent.... — Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent...— 2 5 1 /s IA Ditto Passive (Converted) Swedish Loan Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852 2 i 4 i i P. Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent Dutch Excha., 2 1 A per Cent., 12 Gull — Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 711 REE O'CLOCK. Consols 4190 OP *P. Ditto Account. Nov.ll .„ 100% !la ~. 100N, ib TRH BRIGHTON RAILWAY COLLISON. GOVERN" 111 INT INQUlR.Y.—Yesterday Captain Wynne, the Govern ment inspector of Railw a y s , p rocee d e d t o institute an in quiry on behalf of the railway department of the Board of Trade, into the recent collision with the express train on the Brighton line. His report of the disaster will be forwarded to the Ward of Trade, when it will be made public.—The injuries to the Earl of Chichester is not of that serious char acter, which from general report we had been led to expect. His lordship's left eyebrow was laid open, the wound being rather more than an inch in length, but not of serious; depth. Mrs. Cloves, a widow lady, residing at 18, Regency-square , who was in a first-class carriage with Mr. George Tamplin and Mrs. Tamplin, received the most severe injury of any person in the train. She sustained a compound fracture of her right leg, and the anterior plate of her left leg was greatly indented, but the limb was not bro ken. She is at tended by Mr. B. Valiance; and on inquiry las nights at the surgery, we ascertained that she is going on as favourbly Ai can be expected under the unfortunate circumstances. Lord and Lady Foley and Mr. and Miss Wygram, of Brunswick square, were also among those who were injured. REPRESENTATION OF BRADFORD.— The committee which conducted the late election in the interest of Col. Thompson, have decided to petition against the return of Mr. Wickham. They feel that the election of that gentleman was not the frir expression of the opinions and wishes of the electors —that it was accomplished directly by a conspiracy of the Roman Catholic voters and indirectly by corrupt and false votes. The votes of the former cannot to removed from the poll, but those of the latter can, and by their removal the not of the former rendered null and void. On this account cLitsfiY go we b e li eve , have the friends of Col. Thompso n re solved on a petition. An intimation of their intenti on has been made to the chairman of Mr. Wickhiam's li mince, ce, and a meeting of that body was heldyesterd a y l at the New Inn, to consider what steps shall b e taken in the matter. re have not heard the result of their delibei birb Vition+ EPSOM AUTITMN RACE (THIS DAY.) (BY EXPRESS.) The Hurdle Race. Tomboy ... ............................................... Marriott.. , .................................................. Won by six lengths. The Scramble Steeplechase. Nutley ..... .. .......................... ....................... La Chouettes ..............•••.. EPSOM AUTUMN RACLS• (THIS DAY.) Tho Durdans Stakes. May Day ...................................................... La Mllhoureuse . ..... Newport. ..................................................... 3 14 ran. Won in a canter. LORD MAIDSTONE and MR. 111ACAVIA We are requested by Lord Maidstone to Plib lll the following letter, which we do verbatim 71, South-Audley-et. Nov. 4, I°'". " MAIDSTONE " versus 4 ' MAC AIMA:r " To T. B. MACIULAY ESQRE M.P. Frost EDll 4o° _, ° ‘ t hel Sir,—The world at large will be surpris'd to fie"' fia o you cannot address your Philistines at Edinbro, far hour together, without introducing a subject 11 1: 1°1:1 7iV i il' you are as ignorant as you were two years ag o ° f „ g el liam Penn's morals, or of James (quere John?) of Dundee's christian name. ; titl e o m Yu may, or ay not merit the compreh en s 4- 0o; pp b once alied to you of " book in breeches "; should recollect, that many books (including the tn e 'cl ,4 volumes of your own history,) are generally 001 very pleasant reading, and very poor authority. „g -as a profess'd historian and moralist, it cannot h111.",,b0 cap'd your notice that, duty excuses every r° 3ll fis' changes his opinion conscientiously from the charg e m" co consistency. Otherwise, all arg u men t, and 431.-e° must be dispens'd with definitively. , tb o If your friends at Covent Garden had allow'y ib a e rs h lo t Englishman's right, (which in their charccter of they very consistently denied me,) wiz a hearing -41 10 1 have clear'd up the difficulty in less than five raintl,!, e „‘il that worthy plebs was so engsg'd in cheering Sir j. 0 ° - e fi na platitudes, cursing General Evans's explanations, exhibiting to him backs which he had flogged 1° ' 1 ,50 —that it would have been better for me to bare takes i a hint from the clown of the theatre opposite, 44 : 13 e Ol furled a series of legends at them, instead 0 1 0°° mouth. 10 01. But without the direct evidence of a public el. d o' tion, charity if not chivaly might have led you t c/ i , elude that one who can count kin with the greet, vmeant Graham (not John, mind! nor he of NetherhY ) c - its? have had good and honourable reasons for talci°g; 50d which you are pleased to brand with inconsisteno/1,006 for which you, after the long parliamentary elP e n r a 0 11 ' you boast of, are not ashamed to coin base °- generous motives. a th e To raise a laugh at the expense of the absent, an„t helpless, has long been the prevalent sea kees of o d facetiously term'd Whig humour. In the last ot ite rf lerof I have no design to figure. Give your OVIII , 0 1 ,C1 Mr. Macaulay! They shall be punctually attecu:l,ol: " according to the measure of power of the aeli e n i. o ugls' It will be for you to cry Ohe, when you have had en In the meantime, Gare a qui me touche reel(' If this charge of incon s i s t enc y d e p e nds upon r'l, 0 0 I am sorry to be obli g 'd t o t e ll y o u that the re , for foundation for it; and if you d e p en d upon anct,lr,"loo your information, pray put in practise the directions you have thrust into the mouth ° f APQ Claudius, end— " Stop him alive, or dead ht 5 o 'l'l " Ten thousand pounds (in copper), to tho man who bring ,- I am, Sir, (With every respect for you as a Novelist) Yours as you use me MAIDSTONF" MARKET NEWS-(THIS DA The quantity of English Wheat on sale is toad ° market was very moderate, and in but middlia pod dition. On the whole, the attendance of both tow°oo country millers was small: whilst the demand f or ,bo o kinds of home-grown Wheats was steady, at Pri Ce6 ; r oll equal to those obtained on Monday. fe w 9- changed hands for delivery from the North. on Upwards of 20,000 quarters of Foreign Whea t " Ott th e come fresh to hand, the show of samples p a te r ate` increase; nevertheless, holders were firm, and 1,11000/ were generally supported. Floating cargoes 01 were We quite as dear. had an active inquiry for all kinds of par.-, itifig supply of which was small; and really flee /113 parcels were the turn higher. , y , o e ch s a h nge took place in the value of Malt. The trade The w e of Oats was tolerabl good. was inactive, at lain currencies. y lb. Beans were firm; but Peas met a slow sale. --a value of Flour, no change took place. A glii VALt3 'filth ly,ka;A. Wheat. Barley. Malt. 1m0).... 5 .; POO (211. I , —, Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. 050 _. English .. .• •• 1 2,610 2,420 1,960 0 01 Irish .•••• • • • I 8,24 0 IL. ' Foreign —.• • • 20,7G0 2,010 17, pflO_________./ SMITHFIELD. t 0 ,30 Although the supply of Beasts on sale i n a elf market was very moderato as to number, and e% tr " ro les deficient in quality, the demand for all ki ed3 6sr heavy, and Monday's prices were with difficultiobieti ported. We were fairly supplied with Sheep, 1 15 a very limited business was transacted, at btsre,ll/ rates. Calves—the supply of which was very moved off slowly; but we have no actual dec line tic° in the quotations. In Piga very few trans" took place. , eg obt Mulch Cows were very dull. at from 1 41 . to 19' including their small calf. f n 4s t i Inferior Beasts 2 s ot o 2 s 2 S ou th Downs...4s to "" 35 5 Second do. ...2s 4to2s 10 Large Calves..." 6 8 t o Prime Large ...3s oto 3s 6 S ma ll ditto ...23 1 Prime Scots 3s Bto 4s 0 Sucking C dves 196 0 t055 0 , Inferior Sheep 3s oto 3s 4 Large Hogs ...23 ~, 35 l" Second do. ... 3s 6to 3s 8 Small Porkers 3 6 8 19 5- Coarse Wiled. 3s 10 to 4s 2 Qr. Old Pigs.-163 0 to TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET- Cows. Sheep. Calves. I 10' I 110 4,982 I 241 FOREIGN surPLY. Beasts Sheep. I Calves. 1 1,680 5,770 1 120 NENVGATE AND LEADENHALL. 1 0 r3 These markets continue to be somewheat hesTl4:oss, plied with each kind of Meat: yet the general ulo,Ouv is steady, and prices are well supported. Abou t or elg . carcasses of Meat arrived from the provinces - 6, At per stone by the Carcase. d tog 0 • B. d. to 1. d. o fleet, inferior...... 2 0 2 4 adatton,interlor .• 2 4 middling 2 6 2 8 --- middling •• primolargo .. 210 3 0 prime ••• • ° 6 4 prime small.. 3 2 3 4 Pork, largo ••••• • • • 2 # Veal.• ••.•••.• .• • • 2 8 310 small ..... •.• $ f 13 0 13 onouGH HOP. For nearly all kinds of new Hops, the show 0 •: 0 is extensive, the demand continues active. In 5 7e: stances, higher rates have been p a id f o r fine 5 . 11 " qualities:—Mid and East Kent Goldings, 1203 t a to 9 1/ ,' Weald of Kent, 76s to 88s; ditto, choi ce , 90 4 n 'i l oo l ' Sussex, 72s to 80a; ditto, choice, 82s to 86 s; F l4l :diliv ,"i 100 s to 120 s; ditto, choice, 130 s to 145; country Os to 1003; ditto, choice, 110. to 120 s per cwt. COLONIAL. II 1 6511 Sugar.—Thera has been a fi rm market for to y Plantation, and grocers and refiners have bontV7lo), moderate extent. Barbadoes, by suction, has r„ ° , l l o ` 34s to 36s od for low to mid yellow, and 37s to 0'6,/ ord to fine. Refined has been in request at 4 58 if; 48s for low to fine grocery. ,101 0 , 4 1 East India.—Thero has been a large business -filia Mauritius at full prices. At auction, low brown re d 40 d 25s 6d to 27. 6d, low to mid yellow 33s to 3 45 "to 4, ; good to fine 35s 6d to 375. Bengal went at 4 43 6 d ( 0 ' far grainy white, 395 to 43s for yellow, 26s to 2 63 5 , 1 13 V soft brown, and 373 6d to 41s for common ,t o g slet Benares. Privately there have been considera b i°'d Foreign.—This has been firm at fuller rates , loolgi request. Brown Bahia 18s per cwt, and very lo vi a b 03 1 .. '1 duty paid, to good brown 29 s to 34s 6d. Havanni, to; at 34s 6d to 3 78 Gd for low and mid white, and ,40' fine. Cuba went n t 34 s to 36 s for low and mid, gr''Or yellow, and at 313 6d to 33e for ord to low grey' a do' nilla was taken in at 30s to 31a 6d for low Must be e !, Coffee —For plantation Ceyl on , th e ma rket l l ' IP; fi rth , and not a great quantity has b ee n offertno mid has been sold at 52s to 54s 6d ; and finet t ",tio l37 to 54s 6d, being of old ireP °l 7s7s 1 1 0 o s o 2 d s colory and favourite marks sold at siTa' gt fine ord and low mid, 49. 6d to 55 ,110 11 , P , 42s to 48s 6d ; few parcels of fine were Nam at triage, g o ef i nn d ed a l a i t y e 7s h s a t s o b 7 e B e been in a n g d o good p d e e a m " b a e n r d r at a t 46 6 5 75 65 t0 t: 8 : 753 ,, u.f 515 t° 5 / 4 new import. Costa Rica has been sold at 555 to for mid, rather mixed. Jamaica sold at 52 3 n ., 6J 6d for low mid an d m id , "`"- 70s for good colory , tr isg e. 49s Gd for good an d fi ne ord, and 40s to 5 13 I.°l. Mocha held for very f u ll pri ces . ba c° Rice—There has been less doing, and the pricc; B , 6L I remained about the same to white Bengal, 113 to st per cwt. Saltpetre —Sales have been made in Beng al tic) l tl r °‘ 25s 6d to 26s 6d, for ord. to mid. 10 to 8i pot fa fraction being full prices. n d Dyes, &c.—The demand for both Cochinoi a t o digo has been rather active. last ' ll l Tallow—There is more doing within 0° et ors ' days, and P. Y. C. has risen to 43s and 4sB 6d P to on the st. na Tea—T There is some want of animation per gcod common Congou remains at 9id to I° ' &cis" Green in moderate request. rjo- 1 d Green Fruit—The weather has operated P etio on d against the market, and has produced our% ,I r opP e d , depression in prices. Black Spanish Nuts bli v i OW 51 per barrel; Barcelona is per bag; Grap es , f : 1 . 1 , 0 lower. A parcel of 200 Malaga, sold by cargoes Hunt s opfahmlicosssainlea, Lemons 0 2 n s s t to a 3 v a e p a e r r ibarrelbe d I : tc yv ati e r r r e g . e i l s t u o l Been a state for immediate consumption' (Mariam:4 'gal daily apealud, Beasts. 199