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A LLIANCE CALIFORNIAN GOLD MINING COMPANY. (Completely Registered.) Capital, 20,000/ , in Shares of 11. each, to be paki up on allotment. In consequence of the receipt of D spatches from Joan PRANKERD, Esq., the General Superintendent of this Company in California, the Directors are prepared to Issue the remaining unallotted Shares. Applications must be made in the usual form, and addressed to the Secretary at the offices of the Company, No. 33, Essex-street, strand, where prospectuses may be obtained By order, CHAS. RINKS, Sec. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. 7arewell Season of air. Benjamin Webster as Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, The immensely successful new Comedy of RICHELIEU IN LOVE, by Messrs. B. Webster, Leigh Murray, Howe, and Pavane ; Mrs. L. S. Buckingham and Mrs. Stirling. After wh , ck, the petite Comedy of a NOVEL EXPEDIENT. With the new Farce of YOUR LIFE'S IN DANGER To conclude with JOHN JONES. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris, THIS EVENING, Nov. 1, Will be performed (third time this season) ANYTHING FOR A CHANGE. Margaret, Miss Kate Hickson (her third appearsnc2 In Public); Swappington, Mr. Charles Mathews. After which, TAKING BY STORM. To be followed by THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Jason, Miss Julia St. George; Medea, Madame Vestris. To conclude with A HOUSE OUT OF WINDOWS. Characters by Messrs. Roxby and Baker; Mrs. Macnanaara and Miss Mar tindale. Sole Agent for the Trirate Boxes, Mr. W. Allcrott,' 15. New Dbnd•street. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPH.I. Open for the Season. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster ; Directresa, Madame Celest*. THIS EVENDTG The celebrated Drama of THE GREEN BUSHES. or a Hundred Years Ago, by Madame Celeste, Miss Weolgar, Messrs. Honey, Yxul Bedford, Emery, &c. To con Elke with the Historical Drama of JACK SHEPPARD. `4l-3. Keeley ; Blueshin, Mr. Paul Bedford. ROYAL PRINCESS'S TUEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under-the Management of Mr. C. Kean. THIS EVENING Will be performed (fourth time) a new and original Play, in five acts, by Westland Marston, Esq., entitled ANNE BLAKE. Prin cipal characters by .Mossrs. C. Kean, W. Lacy, Addison, and Ches ter ; Mrs. Winstanley, Mrs. Daly, and Mrs. C. Kean. To be followed by the Comedy of SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES. Principal characters by Messrs. Wright, 3. Vining, Addison, Chester, and Cathcart; Misses Murray, Leclerq, Daly, and Mrs. Daly. To conclude with TllE SPITALFIELDS WEAVER. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Fi-st Night of the Dramatic Season. On MONDAY, November 1, and during the week, will be pro duced the new Ilippodrainatic Spectacle, entitled TUE BRIDE OF GOLCONDA ; or, the Genus of the Ring—supported by Messrs. Maddocks, Danavilie, Dolman, Smith, Craddock, Johnson, and Roberts ; Mesdames Fenton, M•Lean, Lydia Pearce, &c. To be succeeded by a hrillia'it Routine of Equestrian Achieve• merits in the bcencs of the Circle, by the most emilent Artistes of the age. To conclude with the popular Farce of MISCHIEF MAI:LNG. Sca , gu Manager. Mr. W. West. Doors open at Halt-past Six o'cioca; liox-otoce opea from Eleven to to Four awl,. Half Price at halt-past Eight. PORTRAITS WELLINGTON AND SOULT , WITH 111.111110111 S AND lAC-SIMILES OF TUEII LAND- IVRITI-tiG S. A PORTRAIT OF TEE DUKE OF WELLINGTON TOGETHER WITH TILE MOST SPLENDID LIKENESS OF SOULT EVER TAKEN, BY W YON, FOS WHICH THE MAI:SEAL SAT SIX TIMES, IS THIS DAY PUBLISHED, AT THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, PRICE SIXPENCE. Sun Office, Oct. 30, 1852. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BEID(E. Tuts DAT —Morninz 3 min. after 4 1 Evening 18 min. after 4 To-aoasorr—Mcrniag 3 min. after 4 j EToning 53 min. altar 4 TEE WEATTIEL—Sex OFTICE, Ocronsu 31. TunnstomErnit, IN rim SHADE. 55—bigheA !Alm noon on Satmlay. 47—lowest yesterday morning, and during Sat. night. s:;—yesterday at noon. BA ROMOTE R, 29.69. Wa) W.SW., light breeze, and fine sunshining weather. OVE3I3EB. 1. sS—bighest since woe yesterday. 47—Lowest thz morning and daring the night 56—'his day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29.85. WISD W. SW. —DIM muggy weather, with slight rain. ----- - DAILY WEATHER TABLE. state of the Wind and Weather at each of the following place A at Nine o'clock on Saturday morning.—The stations en arranged in order of latitude. fleseencs—Wind W., gentle breeze—overcast. Eaiererame rot[—Wind W., strong breeze— cloudless. Fot SOI3TONE—Wind S.W., light breeze —partially cloudy. Tueeeeseoe—Wind S. W., gentle breeze—rtially cloudy. GREENWICTI—Wiad S.W.,gentle breeze pa —partially cloudy. Srnooe—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. SwlllDor S. W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. O:MUMMER—W.. gentle breeze—rain. CucsitroGr.—S.W., gentle breeze—cloudy. YARMOUTH—Wind W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Friday morning at nine o'c'uck Pcmx—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. BASINGSTOKE—Wind N.E., calm—overcast. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot undertake to return rejected commucice.. Hons. i, 4( .: ? 0 . • . • A ,t 4-1 , .. k.ii . ...., :, . 4 ' '(' ,.. N- 14:. , , ' , , 4 % 1,.. 0- ...&• ,%,,.-„ . . . t, , ~, . .; p- ~ ..- 4 ,1A., . .;. s .c. , ii„ ' ' i.z ---,,,-----4,00.?-, --: Itat. " 0 :" 1 4 / 4 11 ° f I Y 0); jellkn C-4110. LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1852. "Extreme cases make bad precedents." The apoph thegm is well founded, more especially in relation to the criminal law. Justice should be administered without passion or excitement. Judges and jurymen should, so far as practicable, divest themselves of the ordinary feelings of humanity—not suffering them selves to be influenced either by compassion for a prisoner, or horror at the offence with which he is charged. In the olden time frequent appeals were made to juries to interpose between the stringent severity of the law end the prisoner. The act with which he was charged might 'rive been committed under what our continental neighbours term " ex tenuating ciraums!ances," wh;cl3, although they could not justify, might materielly lessen the gravamen of the crime. The skilful advocate would create a deep sympathy for his unfortunate client, who had perhaps previously maintained an exemplary character. Every point that could be urged was strongly insisted on, and acquittal was often the result, although totally opposed to the evidence, and despite the salutary warnings of the presiding judge. Thn consequences of this undue leniency were of a serious description. It is the certainty rather than the severity of punish ment that strikes terror into offenders, and thus re presses crime. The chance of acquittal served in a great degree to remove the wholesome terror that should ever be maintained, and a great increase of the class of offences in which the " humanity" of juries was usually called into operation, was the re sult. _ _ _ _ It is needless to cite examples of this fact. For gery—so long as it continued to be a capital felony, 171 which the extreme sentence of the law was almost invariably carried into execution, and homicides by d uelling, may serve as familiar instances. Numerous cases occurred in which the injured parties refused to put the machinery of the law into operation, declining to prosecute or even forfeiting their recognizances, rather than place the life of a fellow creature in jeo pardy. 'While verdict s in m directean suncommon. opposition A to the facts of the case, were by no prosecution was rarely instituted against any of the parties concerned, in a fa i r duel, sometimes when the survivor had evinced a great want of discretion, offering gross provocation to his opponent, or refus ing a reasonable apology. A verdict of manslaughter, returned in obedience to the laws of honour, rather than to the laws of the land , might mark th e i n di gna .. Con of the jury. As a general rule, however, the practice wcs sanctioned, and it consequently became a fashionable amusement. Scarcely a week e l apsed in which accounts did not appear in the public jour nals of some " affair of honour" that had been con dactel to a satisfactory conclusion, while a person who bad just been committing a capital felony, by firing at a fellow-subject with intent to kill, strutted along the streets and eighweys as if he had been en -el y a eseircgrArkit*. . in a most laudable trans action.. If the duel . __, i ,S e t Fplu ted fatally, 4 th e pa might pcoqbly go out of 411113, . - iAlii,3r. for a time, until the views of the family of '-?zt--4 ,, :: - NAe.d ed were known, and it had been ascertained te 4. , --.;;4,- - - 4 —O, ~ , 4 h e they ,-;..v 4 , w o uld act in a gentlema6 manner, d i . - if Sacl: THE SUN, LONDON, There was, however, but little if any search for the delinquent, and the required assurance was rarely long withheld. It is needless to say how completely matters have been changed, by a few stringent verdicts, There has been a complete revolution in public opinion, and the man who at the present day sent or accepted a challenge, would be exposed to ge neral censure, in place of the party who neglected what was termed " the vindication of his honour" by a personal encounter with his adversary. But if in these instances " hard cases made bad pre cedents," and that the results were exceedingly inju rious to the best interests of society, much more per nicious would be the straining of the law beyond its legitimate bounds, for the purpose of ensuring the punishment of some unmitigated ruffian, whose atro cities had excited the just indignation and disgust of all to whom they were revealed. There might be no doubt of the moral guilt of the party, or that he had richly merited the most stringent punishment; but it should be inflicted in strict conformity with the law, and a precedent should not be established that might sub sequently be made available in cases of a very different character, and against comparatively innocent persons. Better that the greatest ruffian that ever disgraced society should escape with comparative impunity, than that the law of the land—the great palladium of our national liberties—should be in any degree strained. If necessary, a special statute might be enacted, as in the case of JONATHAN WILD, but there should be no tampering with the existing law. The case of JAMES CANNON, the chimney sweep, who was on Wednesday last, capitally convicted at the Central Criminal Court, for a brutal and unpro voked assault on a police constable, named DIV7EN, affords a strong illustration of this principle. No person could feel sympathy or compassion for the truculent scoundrel. His previous atrocities consti tuted him the terror of the neighbourhood in which he resided. There was a reckless ferocity exhibited on many occasions, more particularly on that which forn;ted the subject of the indictment, that , placed him beyond We - funds of ci%ilized society. llis very name was a byeword and reproach—notorious in every police court and station in the vicinity. He habitually yielded to his ungovernable temper, and was indifferent to the consequences either to himself or others. No penalty could be too severe for such a wretch. Ile was just the sort of person that a despot might order for instant execution, without exciting feeling of compassion for the sufferer, or regret at the occurrence. The exemplary conduct of his la'est victim, poor DIVTED, too, increased the horror felt against his ruthless assailant. lie was affording assistance at the moment of the savage onslaught, and, though so severely injured, be exhibited a degree of forbearance beyond all praise. It was, indeed, an extreme case in every sense of the phrase, and it is not from any sympathy 'with the convicted monster, but in order to prevent a dangerous precedent frcm being established, that we consider it an imperative duty to direct public attention to the subject. It must be borne in mind, that CANNON was not de fended by counsel—en omission that should never take place in capital felonies. There was, therefore, no opportunity for any person of com petent ability commenting upon the language of the statute, or explaining the nature of the " intent," and the overt acts, by which that " intent" could be determined. Tile circumstances of this case are so fresh in the public recollection, that it is quite unnecessary now to set them forth. The counsel for the prosecution, in opening the case to the jury, declared that it "was one that would ordinarily have been prosecuted in the form of an aggravated misdemeanour, and he dwelt some time on the conduct and declarations—exclama tions might have been a more correct phrase—" of the prisoner during the time of the occurrence," to show the spirit by which ho was animated, and to establish the criminal intent laid in the indictment. The Learned Judge who presided laid the case very fairly before the jury. He explained the nature of the Statute 7 WM. IV. and 1 Vic., c. 85 s. 2, which was to the effect, that if any person should administer poison or other destructive thing to another, or.stab, cut, or wound any person, or by any means 7rhatever cause to any person bodily injury, dangerous to life, with intent to commit murder, such person should be guilty of felony, &c., and, being convicted, should suffer death. Now, it appears to vs that the case in question did not come within the provision of the statute—that the " means" resorted to should be ej'sdcm gencris, with those previously referred to, such as poisoning, stab. bing, cutting, or wounding, or that, at least, some instrument or weapon dangerous to human life, and likely to prove fatal, should be resorted to. His Lordship declrred, that " it was the first time in his experience that an indictment had been framed on that statute (or, we ventoTe to assert, on any similer one), in which no weapon had been made use of. Oa the 4th section of the same statute it was considered ne nessary that some instrument should In used; so that when the defendant bit off the prosecutor's finger, it was held not to be a wounding within the statute (R. v. Stevens, 1 Mood, c. c. 409 ; R. v. lierris, 4 Carring ton and Payne, 446.) It is right, however, to add, that th© words " other means" ore not included in th© 4th sect ion. If the jury could have convicted of a minor offence, we have little doubt that they would have ave;led themselves of the privilege ;I but, unfortunately, the difficulties which arose in the case of the BIRDS hei led to an enactment which prevented such a crime. They should either find him guilty on the full charge, or acquit him altogether ; and henc3 the verdict of which we cannot help compla;ning. It would Le impossible, within the compass of en article, to point out the consequences tint rn follow from this novel interpretation of the law. We may, however, illustrate it by saying that in every prize fight or pugilistic encounter, where death results, the parties may be capitally convicted, and that the use of the knife and other deadly weapons will receive great encouragement from this verdict of an English jury. On the part of Lord DERBY and the present Con. servative Administration,;we beg permission to return sincere thanks to the Edinburgh Review for its lest article on Representative Reform. It apperers that the obsequies of Protection are to be celebrated prior to those of the Duke of WELLINGTON ; that the QUEEN herself, indeed, is to be chief mourner, im diately followed, of course, by her PRIME MINISTER and her CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, and a very large accompaniment of mutes ; and although a little uncontrollable grief is feared on the part of some country cousins, it is nevertheless fully expected that the grief will be interred with the remains of the deceased. No party strife can of course be tolerated during the two funerals; but these being over, Lord DERBY'S campaign will begin in earnest. Now as he will be able to choose his own position, and as he has defences which can long withstand a pretty vigo rous opposition, we do not see why he should not make the best of his advantages. It will be impos sible for the EX-PREMIER to summon the League to his rescue, if the QUEEN'S Speech, and the movers and seconders !of the Address, do really dispose of the question of Protection. The leaders of the the League, to do them justice, have never shown the least solicitude for office. They were ready to back any statesman, Sir ROBERT PEEL or Lord Jowl', indifferently, if either would carry their object for them. Their first hot zeal against Lord DERIST was due entirely to the belief that he would W I to unsettle, as far as he could, thelresults of their s even years' labours; or that ho might be compelled by his supporters to do it. In proportion as they saw that he was sincerely determined to abide by the vote of the country on their one question; saw too that the Genius of the Cabinet was availing himself of the Budget as a magic spell to silence the last hopes of Anti-Free-Traders,—they became less and less fiery in their opposition, and some of them, to the great dismay of the Whigs, began to talk of giving the new Government a fair trial. The former, no doubt, hoped as soon as they had opened their eyes from their "Resignation fit," to see the : Treasury benches all ready cleared fer them by the Free-traders. The against the a surtrevra e Free-trad ers f e lt, h owever , no p ar ti cu l a r i n t e r es t i u the family c li que. They had b een expect i ng secur i ty suffrage to al of their policy, by a large extension the classes sses most interested in chew focd, and a demolition of their enemies' atron g h o ld e , the nomination boroughs; utterly disappointed in this, they naturally lost all confidence in the Whig Minister who had deceived their hopes, and were quite content to go on with practical legisla tion, end to bide their time. They have much of that feeling still. We expect that the great meeting at Manchester will snow consithrable unanimity of feel-. ing amongst the Reformers, on points which they will be slow to trust in Lord Jour ' s hands. They will want a very large end real extension of the suffrage; an easier mode of registration; a fairer apportionment of represen+ltives ; above all, they are determined to tolerate no new Reform Bill without the Ballet; and on most of these points, especially the last, and the one preceding it, Lord JOIIN, notwithstanding all his declamation at Perth about democracy, is as they, and we too, believe, no more inclined to concession than the PREMIER himself. Lord JOHN has not often, so far as we can remember, transcended the .Edi,ohurgii Review; and we feel little doubt that the writer of the late article on our representation was aware in generals, and perhaps in details, of what the Noble Lord would like to offer to Reformers. Some becom- ing differences, deducted to save the credit for inde- pendency of the writer and the statesman, and we fancy the reviewer is not far from the meaning of the Perth laudations of Democracy. If so, we again say that we think the Earl of DERBY is much indebted to the re viewer. He, too, will know what to offer to Reform ers. Mr. DISRAELI has declared himself friendly to including intelligent operatives within the limits of an extended suffrage. 3lr. WAr.rone, we know, would have no personal objection to giving votes even to militiamen ; and Lord DERBY may well believe that to stem democracy the best course may be to enfran chise the elite of the masses. If so, the .Edinburgh Review will furnish him with some useful hints. A main object of the article we allude to is, to show that the middle classes are the chosen constituency of the Reform Bill (Lord DERBY'S own Bill, be it remem bered, as much as Lord Jennie) ; that by cutting off gradually the old freemen and potwallopers, and abolishing so many nomination boroughs, it diminish ed the power of the aristocracy on the one hand, and of the populace on the other ; while by enfranchising the ten-pound householders, it created a largo middle class constituency. Now, this was Lord DERBY'S work. This work ho could consietently carry on ; and the reviewer contends that another Reform Bill ought to move in the ruts (we will not say on the rails) of the old one. Moreover, the reviewer shows how this may be done. He selects various clams of persons, against whose admission to the franchise we believe that the greater part of Lord DEBBI supporters would raise no objection whatever. He proposes to enfranchise all the members of the three learned professions, all officers in the army and navy, all schoolmasters, all who pay, or may have to pay, direct national taxes ; all these classes but the last would be, of course, an educetion suffrage, one which the most Conservative member of the present Cabinet would hardly object to; while most ra wns paying direct taxes are already included in the present constituency ; it would merely fa cilitate, in some cases, sustaining a claim to be on the register. The reviewer goes, however, a little fur ther; he would put on the register all persons who could prove satisfact erily to the Revising Barrister that they were possessed of the clear sum of 501. invested in Government securities, in a savings' bank, or in the purchase of annuity. Ho would not, indeed, object to 501. worth of property, in any form, conferring a vote ; but he thinks the above-mentioned form the only ones susceptible of easy verification ; and in 501. invested in a freehold gives a vote, there appears, he truly enough conceives, no reasonable objection to its giving a vote if invested elsewhere. Here, again, we think Lord DERBY would be as liberal as the Whig organ. Men who had saved end invested 50/. would at least approximate very closely to the class Mr. DISRAELI declared himself willing to enfranchise. The reason which the reviewer appears to assign for preferring the extension he advocates, is one too which must find favour with the head of the present Ministry, end the part author of the Reform Bill- Tire voters thus created will be, he observes, of the class most resembling the middle classes, even such of them as belong nominally to the working classes ; on the same e ground he suggests the enfranchisement of all managers and superintendents of labourers, over lookers and foremen, &c., in factories. He discussed the propriety of a small number of members elected by working men exclusively, as their representatives, but thinks they would prove a knot of obeructives ; also whether by double election workmen might not elect electors, and these again the members of Parliament (as in Norway), the fatal objection with the reviewer is, that there is but one step between this and the awful abyss of universal suffrage ! In both these views Lord DERBY will agree with him. We have no doubt, moreover, that his Lordship and Mr. DISRAELI still more, would look favourably upon the suggestion which first appeared in the Spectator, and is much approved by the reviewer, of a certain num ber of natioaal representatives, to be elected by per sons who shall request the Revising Barrister to strike the name out of the local list, and insert it in the national list ; the object being to provide an opening for that superior class of candidates, who, though all intelligent persons wish to see them in Parliament, are not popular with any constituency, because, as independent tFnkers, they cannot swallow the entire creed of my party. For ourselves, ves,w we frankly own that there have been many indi viduals excluded from Parliament, whom, in a local election, we could scarcely have supported, but whose absence from Parliament we deeply felt, and for whom, as national voters, we could have given our suffrage gladly. We must pass over the reviewer's redistribution of the franchise. Again, the Conservatives are much in debted tobine for his ingenious special pleadings for the Aru.ndels end Honitons, and other little places, called indeed towns—but, in fact, nothing better than large agricultural villages. Places, fur the most part, with a lord or a squire, and a clergyman ; but no librery, no news-room, and no mechanics' institute. " They are places having a peculiar character."—Yes, that of insignificance. Tise Ballot, though he thinks it pru dent not to be too contemptuous, he evidently dislikes as t in m l e a c fgo h or , a a s t t h h 1 safe e e m V. plan an i o by w hiec w rhb r y o h. e e ll t r o FRAIL, We would supersede of u mentioned,p ers Shrews bury,eadsebo: necessity. He would send round to ell the elcztors an officer, attended of cots-se by the agents of the candidates, to receive in a box, with a slit in the top, voting papers lett at least 24 hours previously would prevent good i ( n th s e e p ot la la n nd alopt ihis adopted he el s e h ct o i w ng s, Poor-law deal of the bribery, which gets to its worst about 2 p.m., on the polling day, and prevent also much of the excitement and drunkenness. Be it so. Yet., since ce a s r esigno numberlessl e rl c d bbo oroy_im withk, can it c th ans e tei s name i ti prevent thepublished guiltiest of papers si n the p We h e e mosthave estimable members o f soc i ety have been compelled to elolate their religious or consc i entious convictions by a barbarian, a political leouEe, under the name of a landlord, or a master ; we have seen th e i r menta l anguisha ware isho y sometimes, are usbutthe p sucheeti sorrow,protection of th eB that Ballot nothing lot n afor those theo t best voters in the w h o l e comm ern csf commonly w it h r and os e t i h e e ntiou indifferent, n an who b ?mbeurcttharey enidnawf nh t i h c he that voter, cruel! and that cares about them The en who tt einks for himself, ought to be surrounded em by every safeguard the Legislature can furnish. Lord Jon et and his reviewer must add to this pretty little sub terfuge two things. One, that the voter is not to sign his name to the voting paper; another that he is to inclose it in an adhesive envelope, before he puts it into the box. Then, my Lord, we may begin to think of asking you back, that is, provided you pledge your self more surely than you did to the Appropriation Clause, to carry the Ballot, or to resign office. Meantime we see at present no reason why Lord DERBY cannot offer us nearly as good a Reform Bill as Lord Jones and his reviewer ; and, if so, we also see no reason why, after completing their legal and other reforms, they should be driven Dom office on the Reform question. The reviewer has furnished what Lord DERBY at first appeared to wish for, a check for Democracy only, and it will suit Lord DERRY better, for the very reason that it will be held to be a liberal thing from him, while it is in reality nothing but a spring buffer to save the Parliamentary train too violent a shock. A remarkable paper of a political character adorns the current number of Blackwood for November. It has especial refer:mce to the state of parties during the lapse of the recent "Holidays." The writer AY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, is o over the recollection of the lull offintumn—celebrating its merits as the interval an nAally set apart by general consent es a time of n'ational relaxation. He has, generously enough, however, a commiserative glance at those itufortunates who are necessarily compelled to " remain in bond age " while the rest of the world are recreating themselves on the sea-shore or upon the continent, compelled by an inexorable destiny to perform tasks which are wholly indispensable. Feelingly does he say—with an eye to journalism—feelingly, as though he spoke from some lung-past but bitterly remembered experience—" To write leaders during the dog-days is worse than Tunisian slavery." Heigh-ho ! But then the people have this satisfaction in the circum stance that there are ARGUS oyes ever on the watch, even when the walls of Parliament are as silent and as desolate es those of Os.:tair's " Old House at Home " Balclutha. Reverting to the consideration of more tranquil regions than the offices of the daily newspapers, the writer in _Blackwood talks to us rather distractingly of the luxuries of a stroll over the heather, away from the roar of politics grid even the thought of the Legislature. He reminds us plea santly of the only two notable interruptions to the pervading stillness immediately after the genera) elections were completed. Lord JOHN RUASELL'S movements in Scotland, when he went about recently "picking up stray burgess tickets" in bis progress from Gert to Stirling, and from Stirling to Perth— are duly noticed with a sort of " aside " lamentation that no letter was written this time by the Whig leader from the good old city of Edinburgh. Prince Lours NAPOLEON'S movements in Southern France are:then referred to in terms worthy in their elevation of the serene and stately judgment of our contempo rary. This reference is acknowledged by MAG.I to be " a practical rebuke to the blindness of thw,o who could see in this extraordinary man nothing more than the features of a common adventurer." We can perfectlywell.understand, by the way, the feelings of exaltation prompting the monthly organ of the Der byites to "have at" the various discomfitted mem bete of her MAJESTY'S Opposition. We have before now expressed our doubt, however, of the policy, to say nothing of the indecorum, of pouring out invec tives upon the head of a defeated antagonist. Fortu nately, we observe in the present strictures of our contemporary a certain degree of moderation both in tone and in treatment. Instead of noisy vituperations as in October, we have little more than sly- badinage in November. Sir Jeates GILAIIAM is no longer railed at like a political pick-pocket. He is simply bantered, as though the satirist were not altogether unconscious that he virus treating, of a distinguished statesman and an illustrious administrator. Lord Jona. Ilteisenn is not soundly " rated " as you might reasonably expect to be rated yourself, sup posing you were brought some fine morning into sudden collision, cheek by-jowl, with one of the delicate purveyors of fish at Billingsgate. The tex.Prelilier is satirized, it is true ; but the sati rist does not appear to be altogether unconscious that he is directing his jibes at one who not long since di rected the affairs of the Government of the British SOVEREIGN. We rejoice over this change in the man ner of our esteemed contemporary. We rejoice oe, e r the abandonment of a style of abuse which derogated, iu no inconsiderable manner, from the dignity of its reputation. The article upon which we are here commenting, for instance, contrasts agreeably enough with the stormy diatribes which not long ago dis graced the pages simultaneously of both Blaclwoed and the Quarterly. As to the former of those two periodicals, its present tone, we take it, is rather more in accordauce with what might but reasonably be looked for in an organ presumed to express the senti ments actuating the leaders of, or at any rate the sympathizers with, a dominant Administration. Not thus vociferously and coarsely, we have been gratified to observe of late, has argued the daily organ of the DERBY Government. Indeed, the tone adopted during the last few months by the Morning Herald, cannot but have struck the attention of the more dispassionate class of observers, as contrasting honourably for that journal with the virulent antagonism and blustem lag vituperations indulged in by some amongst its Tore contemporaries. Happily, however, Blackwood seems to be at last tardily repentant. It no longer throws up the mudiof gratuitous insult iu the:direction of Netherb) : what though it still amuses itself by casting a stray pebble or a casual potsherd in the way of jests and insinuations towards the constituency of Carlisle, for inrsmuch as it chances to have become the consti tuency of the night Honourable Baronet the ex ex- Home Secretary ! Our contemporary, again, no longer condescends to hurl the brickbats of person - ality at INIT. COBDEN, or at Mr. BRIGHT, though it appears to compensate itself for this tardy act of self , denial, by flourishing a bunch of stinging nettles in • the shape of cooked statistics before the eyes of those who are the moat unlovely of all politicians in his estimation, the school of economists generally reso , elated in the Tory mind with the people of Manches ter. Even when alluding first to the arch-enemy among all on the side of the Opposition—late the Prime Minister of England —the writer contents himself with mentloning b;el humorously es one whom the Derbyites have long come to look upon as "a choleric fellow, who would take his own way in spite of every remonstrance: So far good. The change is un questionably, in every respect, a change for the better. And we rest satisfied that . it is one, moreover, more acceptable to those prudent rulers whom the mega , eine is avowedly desirous of maintaining in authority; more welcome to the heart of Lord DERBY ; more agreeable to the wariest of his colleagues; end cal culated, in fine, much more effect'vely to secu- the realization of the chief of the popular wiahea— not those of party squabblings or of factious contention, but rather those evolved by the genius of patriotic states , manship in the blessings of a good, and the advanta , gesiof an energetic, Government. ECCLESIASTICAL COURT.—Th e Law Times says that the Government intend to bring in a measure fur tnu entire reform—it not tor the abolition—of the Ecclesiastics I Courts, so far as respects all their jorisdiction that is not strictly ecclesiastical. SW'EARING IN OF LORDS JUSTICES ON SATURDAY. —A privy council was held in Dublin Cestle yesterday, when the Lord Chancellor, the ANA Rer. Dr. Whately, A rcubishop of Dublin, and Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Blakency, commander of the forces in Irelred, were sworn in lords justices during the absence of the Lord-Lieutenant, which, it is said, will extend to three or four weeks. The sudden visit of his Excellency to London at the opening of Perlia ment has given rise to various rumours and conjectures here. Tim NEW LEGAL YEAR.—Term begins on Tues day, and with it all the iutcrest that will result from the first trial of the new procedures, both in law and equity. The common law courts commence the legal year with the smallest list of arrears ever known. Altogether there are but forty-seven, distributed thus -In the Q. 13. 24 ; in the C.P. 6; in the Ex. 17. Of those in the Q.B. 16 are especial cases and demurrers, 4 are new trials, and 4 appeals from the county court. In the C.P. there i 9 one demurrer, 2 are en larged rules and 3 are new trials; and iu the E x . the spe cial paper riles, 5, the peremptory paper 3, and the new trial paper 29, including one that stands for judgment. Of course, the beginning of the term will produce some motions for new trials growing out of the last assizes, but beyond these there is no prospect of business to occupy half the term.--Law Times. FIRE AND Loss 07 LIFE AT PHILLIPS'S FIRE "le premises of the' An nihilator" Womas.—Yest; 'ay nihilator" Company, in Battersea-fields, were ravaged for two hours by a destructive fire. Mr. Braidwood last tight drew up the following official report of the occurrence c— " Oct. 31, 1852,11 ; .} a in., celled to a fire In Battet€ta-fields, near the Workhouse. On arriving found the premises known as the stores and even houses of Phillips's Patent Fire An nihilator Company on fire. The flames were extinguished by firemen. Engines that attended: Five Brigade, one of the parish, and that of the West of England Office. The premises and their contents destroyed. Cause of the fire supposed to be from a defective flue." Unfortunately it is to be added that a poor woman, nrmed Garrard, aged 54, the wife of the watchmr', lost her life in the flames. She had gone to a cupboard for come domest:c purpose, when she was overtaken by the flames, the outbreak of which probably were accompanied by the generation of some suffocating gas, which disabled her from retreating in time to save her life. Wh en found after the extinction of the fire the body was shockingly disfigured. A largo number of " annihilators" were on the premises, which were not long ago the scene of a number of experiments designed to exhibit the efficiency of the inven tion in cases of fire. SINGULAR ACNIDENT—Mr. G. S. Brent, the deputy-coroner for Middlesex, held an inquest, on Saturday last, at the Red Lion public-house, Twickenham-common, Twickenham, touching the death of Thomas Finney Pichols, aged twenty-eight, which occurred in the following singular manner appeared from the evidence that the deceased was a milkman, rid resided with his father, who keeps a small masicet-gard , n in the above village, and on Wednesday afternoon last he got en a ladder for the purpose of repairing the roof of a pigsty which let in the rain, and being subject to epileptic fits, when, having taken off a consider...hie por tion of the rociling, he WS suddenly attacked by ono of the fits, by which he fell off the ladder through the roof, pitching with his head into a small pot, containing about three-quar ters of au i nc h d e pth of water. Being stunned by the fall, and as no assistance was at hand, be turned with his face downwards into the water, by which the passages of the month and nose were stop:set:, and the deceased was soon suffocated, in which positim he was found by his father, who, not hea r i ng hi m at wor k, was i n d uce d t o go ou t t o l oo k f or him. Medical assistance was immediately obtained, but life had been gone some time. A verdict iu accordance with the above eyidellCO was retnreed, TLIO3IAS ROOD'S GRAVE. THOMAS HOOD—the gay, the gentle, the blight eyed, and large-hearted Tnosns Loon--is at last to have rais-Al ov , ,r his mouldering dvq, :,onio token of the popular gratitude. Nruo, moLster 1 - 1 he way, had flowers scattered over his grave by seine unknolNa hand as the sign of a (16 , ctionate remembrance. Why, therefore, should not How), the poet of humanity— why should not HOOD have his monument ? Happily, that question h:s lately been asked by one whose voice his not pleP.ded 'in vein. The goodly work has been projected by a woman, and a kindred spirit ; and perhaps, among the list of living poco . s, none could have more zealously and gracefully effected it than ELIZA. Coox. A short time since a few simple and graphic verses from the pen of this lady, written from the heart, told us that nct even the commonest memento—a slab or a head stone—marked the spot where Hoop is reposing at length in deep and everlasting tranquillity : scarcely a fortnight has passed by since a committee was orga nized to redeem the admirers of genius from that lamentable charge of negligence—and already nearly two hundred pounds have been collected to defray the expense of erecting some tardy tribute of recollection. Cordially, and with unaffected emotion, do we rejoice at this, because TUOMAS HOOD was, to our thinking, one of the truest and noblest samples of human natr-e —a brave heart beating warmly through a wee -y life—the energy of a man and the sensibility of a woman, audible to the world in every pulsation ! There is scarcely a man of letters recently deceased whose name is cherished more generally, certainly none more deservedly, with such genuine and earnest feelings of endearment. OLIVER GOLDSMITH is re membered even now, it is true, by a generation sub sequent to thatiof the JOHNSOMAN era, with kindred sentiments of tender and yearning admiration. Bat we can never forget with poor NOLL his babble rnd his gautheries. The popular affection for THOMAS Hoop has none of: these dreervbacks to enthusiasm. We era required to make no allowances while we commend in his instance the sparkle of the wit end the music of the poetry—we think of him merely as of one whose writings have called forth ulike so often our tears and our laughter. As such we remember him with gratitude, no less then with adn“ratior Here, at the grass-mound under which he lies in Kensel-green Cemetery, he commands our homage, for in his life did he not command our sympathies ? Every one who has listened to the melody, and the pathos, and the sweetness, and the solemnity, and the benevolence of his "Bridge of Sighs," will answer, Yee. Every one will reply in like manner, who has loved (and who has not ?) that wonderful lyric of his" The Song of the Shirt," who has listened to the chimes of the " Workhome Clock," or has glanced over the grotesque and innocent humour of the "Annual," or lingered among those quaint but exquisite conceits which he showered about with equal prodigality in prose and in metro, through the wide range of our periodical literature. Happily, in this matter, the majority of the world thinks with us ; and we may now look forward with confidence to the successful completion of the enterprise upon which a few ear nest admirers of Tisomas Hoop have recently adven tured—that of raising over his honoured dust some appropriate evidence that he is borne in the national recollection. Already, nearly half of the sum pro posed to be collected to this end, has been subscribed with the most gratifying promprtude,—insomuch, that we rest assured the remaining amount must be very speedily forthcoming. Those who have participated in the undertaking when it shell have attained its intended consummation, will recal the fact of that participation with no un enviable emotions—emotions only subordinate to those which cannot fail to be experienced by the fair and rarely-gifted originator of the cnterprize. They will remember that they at least have offered to the noble and beautiful memory of THOMAS Hoop, the posthu mous panegyric of an epitaph carved upon no men or fragile monument. -='- AMERICAN MAIL.—The United States mail stmm ship Atlantic, West, commander, will sail for New York on Wednesday next, with the mai% &c. STEAM BETWEEN LIVF.UPOOL AND L13130N. 51essm. W. 'Wits3n and Son have announced their interVion of running a line of first-class screw steam-Ships the Corino rant, the Gannett, Albatross, and Palican, between this port and Labors. The lira steamer win he the Gannett, Capt. Salliven, which soils on the P.th init. GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA.—It 1V,15 rumoured to-day, in Liveipepl, that Lord Ragland (Lord Fitzroy Somerset), the present Mister-Generol of the Ordnance, iviil be Lord Delhonsie's suer' or rs Governor.OncrA of India. THE CRYSTAL PALACE or I.Bsl.—The ploughman is busy at work in Hle Pcrk, where the police stow], pre paring the ;otind for grass seed, which will be sown ;ti few des. Except some pillars of grenite and lumps of cog.'; upon which the ominous word "Lot" may be sT.en, nothing remains of the structure or its contents. Will there be no memorial erected to iaarl the spot where it stood ? TERMINATION OF THE BOOTMAKERS' STBIILF: On Saturday, the unfortunate dispute between the masters end men in the " Strong Bootmellers' Strike," which has existed sine) the 18th of October, when about 900 men struck, wee amicably settled. It appears that a meeting of the masters and men, twelve on each side, took place, end the confer ence lasted fourteen hours. Both sides appear to be satisfied with the arrangement that he 3 been entered into between them. TLIREE MALE FEESONB FOUND DILOWNED.—On Saturday morning, shortly after 11 o'clock, the body of a young man, apparently about 19 years of age, wss found floating in the river off Limehouse Hole, in the parish of All Sa:uts, Poplar. About ncan, information was received by the surolloving officer of the same district respecting the dis covery of the oody of a trnn named Edward Ski , : , ner, aged 31, in the import basin of the East lud'aCks. A third body was picxed up tba came morning iu the Limohouse cut of the River Leo. THE LATE D UEL.—As a striking proof of the in terest created by this red event in this locality, we may men tion that her M.jesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, in one of their recent thive-, nroceeded to Priest Hill, and stooped for some time in t :Lair cr , Lingo while the spot where uournet fell was oointed out to them by their attendants. The field where tae duel wes fought is the second from the road, and is close to Ev-"►ymede, where the Egham races are now held. Until within the last day or two, a small heap of straw marked the spot where the v fortunate victim foil. The place selected for the fatal ren contra was a deep dell, csanpletely shrovded from public view, except at one particular spot. Had the whole of the sur vivors fled, the body might, in all probability, have remained undhcovered for months. THE TURF.—No less thus 313 horses passed the judge's chair at Newmarket last w;,:271. DEATH OF FIR EDWARD Sir Edward Stanley, the premier kni:sht of Ireland, expired at his residence, Great Brunswick-street, on the 2711 instant. Sir Edward was knighted in the year 1809, on the occa sion of the jubilee, when the lab King George the Third attained the 50th yez.. , r of his reign. Ile took an active part in the proceedings of the olei corporation, by which ho was elected one of the sheriffs of the city, and sub sequently selected for the lucrative office el inspector of city prisons. Sir Ed ward acted as the fiiend of Mr. D'Esterro, in his fatal duel with the late Mr. O'Connell. Sir Edward was also, for many years, a leading member of the Royal Dublin Society, end wee, it is saiet, the ori• ginator of those periodical exhibitions of arts and manu factures, which have led to such important results both in Iceland and other countries. Bt ICEITON RAILWAY:-. , -It is rumoured that Mr. Laing intends to resign the manegirl directorship of the Bri(zhtou Railway, but not to leave the board.—liera path. DIRECT TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ENGLt ND AND EUROPE.—The establishment of direst telegraphic communication by means of the Submarine Telegraphic Comprny's land l i ne caom Cornhill to Dover, Ad thence by submarine telegraph to Calais and Paris, and 200 of the principal cities of Europe, is to take place on Monday next. EFFECTS OF FREE TRABE...-The expenses of the Banbury Union have been greatly reduced since the year 1845, when they weld in round numbers 17,0 00 /. This year they have been 12,0001, the reduction on the year being 1,0001. Dt.A.l'n OP A treeltEY IN IRELAND.—.An inquest was held last week at Cashel, on the body o f Christo p her Colgan, a jockey, who was killed the preceding day while tiding a steeple chase at the races in the vicinity of that town. The horn struck a fence with his chest, and fell back over the unfortunate rider, breaking the spine of Ids melt * diet was accidental, dealt. his jaw-bone, and two ribs. The yea- DETERMINED SU:CIDE By A WAITER.---011 Sena. day Mr. Wattiey held an inquest in St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington. on Joseph Turncock, aged 31, late a waiter at the Bell, Kilburn. On the 14th inst. he was found lying in a pool of blood, in the long room of the tavern, and a knife and razor beside him, with which he had cut his throat from ear to car. He W 53 sensible, but could not speak. The Jury returned, in the case of Tttrnce6, the following verdict: Deceased committed suicide, but what MI the state of his mind at the time. 'here is no evidence to prove.'' FORTUNATE Escare.—Saturdav afternoon, Wino] four and rive o'clock, a young French lady, attired in a riding habit and hat, mounted on a spirited hoi.,e, riding through Regent-street, accompanied by a gentleman, and followed by a groom, had a narrow escape of her life, as the horse, be coming restive, reared suddenly and threw his rider. She, fortrnately, escaped with a s li g ht bruise and a torn and soiled habit. The gentleman, haling scan that his fair companion was unhurt, changed horses with her, when the lady, nothing daunted, remounts ;/, and rode away laughing et her disester. SOUTH WFSTERN RAILWAY.— Mr. Wl' palm Harding has resigned his office cf secretary to the South Western Campany, and it is sat at all improbable that other char ges in tee mar end dittet;nn the affairs of the campany will slior;.!y The traffic on the trunk lino is at prase - at ao largo that the greatest difficulty is experienced in keeping pace with the increased requirements of the public, sad it will re quire all the energy of the corn vany to carry eut the measures requisite for this prpose, -~ - 5.., - :...e... i _._... - • • - . - - MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLf,cx. The sales of cotton at Liverpool, on Saturday, amounted to 12,000 bales. The market was quiet, but closed firmly at full prices. Of American 1,000 were taken far exportation, and 2,000 ditto and 100 Egyptian on speculation. The sales consisted of 9,000 American ; 600 Pernam and Marenham bid. to 70.; 100 Bahia at id. to 7d., 1500 Egyptian at 6i to tifd. and 600 Surat at 441. to sd. Railway shares were dull but firm. The state of the Manchester market is thus de scribed by Messrs. M'Nair, Greenhow, and Irving:— Coincident with the transactions in Cotton may be said to be those in the manufactured article. Seldom or ever have we known them to have been of greater extent at this season of the year, or indeed at any other. The demand has been increasingly progres sive ; and though occasional comparative quiet char acterized the action of the market for a while, that appeared to be only the result of heavy preceding operations. Stocks, of either cloths or yarns, were scarcely ever lighter at the close of the mouth than they are at this moment; and notwithstanding the great advance which has taken place upon many de scriptions of twist and cloth, the great bulk of the spinners and manufacturers are under contract until the end of the year, and even beyond that period in many instances. I The express in anticipation of the American mail has arrived, and the advices she brings appear to be satisfactory in respect to mercantile matters. The letttrs are not yet delivered. The Amsterdam stock market on the Both inst. was dull for Dutch stock, but at previous rates. In Foreign very, little was done. The Conversion of the Spanish Debt is open one month longer to the holders. The Stock Exchange being closed as usual on the let November for a holiday, the half-yearly balance being taken at the Bank of England. Consols are nominally 1004 Turkish Loan are at about 3i to 4 premium. Railway shares are considered firm, but no bar gains of sufficient magnitude to establish prices have been entered into. The following letter respecting the Sambre and Mouse Railway, is in reply to a special inquiry, and may be interesting to many, although, of course, to be taken as the opinion of a patty having a stake in the concern: -- " I hasten to answer your request for information I a specting the Sambre and Mouse Rsilway. When the first steps of this line were made by the Belgian engi neers, i❑ 1835, they estimated the traffic at 500,000 tons to a line of 5,000 metros. The development of industry since this period proves that the calculations are below the reality. To instance a single fact. I will only speak of the traffic with France. The Belgian engineers have estimated it in 1835, at 125,000 tons. that is to say, in wines and heavy goods coming from France, and in coal exported from Belgium by the means of the railroad. Bat in this instance, the solo department of the Ar dennes takes 90,000 tons of coal, and the town of Rheims 50 000 tt,na. 'rho cost of carrying these coals to Char lan& and Meziers at present is 25 frti. tho ton, and the railway now proposes to take them there at the price of 18 to 19 frs. the ton. This reduction in price will double the consumption of the Usines M 6 al ti goes, which still use wood. " The heavy goods and the wines will in all probability increase 10,000 tone, so that the actual traffic by this line will be 150,000 instead of 125,000, which was the estimate of the Belgian engineers. Relying then upon these facts and comparing them with what bus occurred in all the Belgian railways, whose original value has been estitna , ecl at 75 per cett. below their return, I be hove I can bring, without any exaggeration, the traffic of the Sambre and Meuse Railwry scorn its opening to six millions of tonnage, by reason of 40 centimes or 8 centimes the kilometre, this traffic will produce 2,400,000 fra. of receipts. Calculating the cost of transit, Itc , at 40 per Cent., an estimate too large for the trans port of morchandize, there remains a net annual return of 1,440,000 or 6.80 per cent. of capital on 21 millions ememployed for the principal line, and it, branches. The shares at 101. per share will produce then 13.60 per cent. This plain relation of facts tells you, that I consider that the shares of the Sambre and Mouse Railway will speedily roach 161. per share, and oven par. If there is an excess of expendi dure in the construction, there is compenealion in the surplus of the receipts, assured by the general move ment of traffic, which the opening in France of_several lines we did not expect, promises." The railway meetings announced are the following : —East Indian, Nov. 2, 50 Old Broad Street ; Leeds Northern, Nov. 2, Leeds; London and North West ern, Nov. 3, Euston Station; Midland, Nov. 3, Darby; York and North Midland, Nov. 2, York; York, New castle, and Berwick, Nov. 2, York. The railway calla for this mouth are as under : Date due. "Call." *Mon to Besavcon 1 £2 0 0 Dundee and Arbroath, third' 1 Fleetwood, Preston ' and West Riding 15 Miry port and Carlislp, 4 p. cent. Pref... 1 *Namur and Liege, Pref ........... ......... 1 Norfolk Debenture Shares 20 .. . 1 0 0 Oxford, Wtirtester, and Wolverhampton, Pref. (2d a110tment)......... *Pari s s and Lyons, Bonds, 1 *Sambre and !dense, 51 per cent. Pref 1 * West Flanders, 51 per cent Prof l5 'The proportion called by foreign Companies is 466,6151., but the holdings of English proprietors are not known. The total is about 614,000/. making 7,252,000/. this year. MARLBOROUGH STREET (THIS DAY. OCT FOR A SPREE.—Chas. John Davidson, 13, Albert s:yeet, Camden-town, medical student, John Keith Wit hins,;?:, 16, Guildford-street, Russell-square, medical student, and Wziliana Campbell, who described himself as a were placed at the bar before Mr. Bing ham, charged with being drunk and riotous. Sergeant New,ratra, 7 C, stated that about two o'clock this morning, he was in Princes-street, where he saw the three defendants, who were exceedingly drunk, and bawling out at the to of their voice, to the great annoy ance of the inhabitants. lie requested them to desist and go away, and ea they refused to act as he desired, ho took them to the station. 'l'ho mai drunken fine cf 53. each was imposed, which the defendants paid. ENBEZZLIMENT.—Etheard Granville, was charged with having embczzled several sums of monor, received far and on account of his late employer, Mr. Edward henry Englat - A, money lender, 21, Coventry-street. Mr. !lesson, who appal - ea for Lilo prosecution, raid at present he wait ,clot pinned to prove more than one case against th prisoner; but if the latter was remanded ho bhould, on a future occasion, bring several other cases of embrzzlamont against ) 1473 . The facts of one case havinj been proved by the prose cutor, the prisoner was remanded till Friday next. MARKET NE WS-(TB1S DAY.) CORN EXCHAN3E.-MONDAY. The eupplies of Wheat ea offer in the leading country markets held en Saturday were but woderate. On the whole, the demand ruled wifely, and previous rates were well supported. Malting Barley aas scarce, and the turn dearer; whilst grinding and distilling sorts commanded atreme ratce. There was a fair sate for Malt, Oats, Beans, Peas, and Flour, at very full prices. Nearly the whole of the Continental Markets continuo steady for all articles of grain, but we have no further advance to notice in the quotations. The latest accounts from New York state that Flour was held fur more money. The arrivals of English grain up to our market, last week, were very moderate. From abroad, wo received 29,005 quarters of Wheat; 1,330 Barley; 8,429 Oats; 4,066 Beans; 3,918 Peas; 25 Taree; 6,239 Aniseed; 2,804 Rapeseed; 103 ?award Seed; 400 sundry seeds; 520 sacks, and 36,151 barrels of Fleur. Fresh up, today, the arrivals of English Wheat, coast wise, were very moderate, and in but middling condition. From the East coast, they were trifling; but we had a few parcels by land carriage from the Midland counties. Notwithstanding that the attendance of both town and country buyers was comparatively limited, the demand for all kinds of Wheat of home prodaco ruled very firm, at the extreme rates paid on Monday last, and at which a good clearance was effected prior to the close of business. There were numerous offers from the north as well as from other quarters. The growers were very firm in their demands, and previous rates were freely supported. About 1,200 quarters were disposed of. Tho show of Foreigu Wheat was on the increase, yet importers were very firm, and a good business was trans ward in most descriptimee at full rates of currency. Floating cargoes were nut offering so freely as of late, the airital of the coast during the last few days having fallen off. The demand was not today active, yet the quotations were well supported. We had a ready sole for Matting Barley, at en advance of is per quarter. grinding and distilling parcels moved off freely, at very full prices. The Malt trade was steady, but no farther advance took place in the quotations. Owing to the large arrivals from Ireland, u . the Oat treele wee in a sluggish state, at barely previos tions. quarter Now Beans moved o ff sluggishly, at is per more money. Old qualities were quite as dear, with a fair demand. The know of Pees was good, yet the demand ruled steady, at Isat week's prices. Both English and Foreign Flour produced :all quota e,onr, but the dernend was not bus . d. .c . . o: r: It: . 2 211 e l l 8,83 2 2 : 4 E 51 s s : CURRENCY rßr: IMPERIAL MEASURE; Malt—Chevalier ......60s to €23 Wheat —Essex Kent, Red .... new 35s to 418 Oats— Yorkshire and Lincoln:o4., Peed. 178 228 Ditto •• • • .... 010. 40s 52S Ditto, "?..iiito new 3,,,s 44, Potato old 4lc :> , ss YOuSh i lt a l et fl . Ditto .. .... J.'slo r follk and L'n ,,eocrake,hiV,peieted.......... coin, Red, old 42s 46s ...... 31a 41s Ditto, new Rye _ ol d _ .......... 318 Us Beans—'Pick......... ...., „.. 1 38 3 , •)3 ....... 31s 33:; Pigeons •... 36s 408 N . ,,„. •• •• . Barley—Criairg..... 'As 268 Peas—Grey .......... 29 s 34s Maple ........... 32 d 35, Ma lting ••• _ ~ 31a 3,8 Ch e valier •• •• ... 338 3 5 s eof Alt—uffolk and .Nor- Rogers .......... 178 4 1 s toll: ............ 54s 58,3 lieur—Tcwn.made,_ ..;ry,, O s , 7 it •.•••• . • • • ' ;', ;)‘. , Sat 014 ••••• • • • .. 1!9 I Ztts K. 1 ngstou and Ware 541 Os Stoc.lite, &Norfolk 303 353 SMITHFIELD. We wero tolerably well supplitd with foreigo stock to-day, as ton m . bar, but general quality was very ; 2, 3Tiirrynillnissoulakm. The arrivals of beasts fresh up from the northern grazing districts were seasonably extensive, thc4.l somewhat less numerous than on thi s day s e'neiu_k The primest Scots, & 0., owing to their extreme Wee sold readily, at an advance in the quotations of id P Blbs. In all other breeds, a fair average bIISiDOSS transacted, although the weather was unfavourable, IP late rates were well supported. From Lincehbire, Leicestershire, and Northelgt4 Lincoln' 5 ,; shire,we received 2,500 short horns; fro m other Pi% of England, 400 Herefords, Runts, Devons, tel; $ ll from Scotland, 40 horned and polled Scots. 011 There was a further decrease in the supplY °' t he breeds of Sheep, especially Down qualities; hence, demand for that description of atoeX ru l e d steady , 0 rise in prices of 2d par 81b. The pr i mes t old D° ll 3 , wore worth 4s 6d per Sibs, and a good eleganc e /1 effected. n -auitY We had a steady, though not to say a brisk, , —ure for Calves, at full rates of currency. The top Lib was 4s per 81bs. ci cg The Pork trade was, less active; nevertheless, Pr were well supported. IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN THE PAST Val"' Pik " From Boasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. flamburgh ... 17 ... 372 ... "*. Ostend Nies. Diep ... 69 ... 1,480 1 ..• Antwerp — Amsterdam 7 ... 974 ... 39 Dordt Tonningeu 7OB ... 112 ... " ••• • Bremen Harlingen Rotterdam ... 340 ... 2,094 ... 252 1•.••••• 179 Total 1,361 .. 6,719 3 19 0 The yearly comparison of the weekly imp er° under:— Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. 2 P gO 1851 1,411 ... 7,037 402 5,36 1850 .1,367 ... 5,419 ... 295 o' 1849... 1,149 ... '2,615 107 ••• 1848......., 1,222 ... 5,247 ... 326 " 1847......... Fi o r s Inferior Sheep ••• Second goal. Shco 3 ,„- 4 Coarae-woolleddltte3 '; 4 0 Southdown blether 4 7, 0 Ditto out of the wool° ~, `" SSG Largo Hogs •... 2 11 ,1 ; Small Porkers Quarter old k'lgtl •.1, Por albs. to Olathe offal. a. d. to a. d lu!nri3r 1301131,3..... 2 0 2 2 Second quality 2 4 2:0 Prime largo UEOR.. 3 0 6 6 Primo Scots •• • • 3 8 4 0 [Argo coarse Calves 2 6 3 6 Primesmall ditto .• 3 8 4 0 Suckling Calves .•18 0 23 0 Lambs • • .• •• •• 0 0 0 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. r I ig i, IBbeep. I Calves. 25,050 t lB5 1 PP ?'OR lON SUPPLY. IV . Beasts I t3heop. 1 Calves. .5 1 r 1,6i0 I ,710 1 120 ic 9 d A Statement and Comparison of the Supplies ail gotel Fat Stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle 4Q on Monday, Nov.., 1851, and this day, Men ds/' I, 11;52: Beasts. 4,812 N6v.d 3, 1851. r o v, lf (1. a. d. 24t0 2 6 1 2 otodo 2 8 210 2 4 g 3 0 3 2 3 0 4 0 3 4 3 8 3 8 5 210 3 ti 3 0 5 3 2 3 6 3 6 4 3A 8 310 3 10 4 't 0 4 2 4 4 01/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 6 2 8 3 6 2 6 4 0 ...3 8 310 3 8 , 6 , ••• ...210 3 6210 lv ...3 8 310 3 8 4,0 Per Ens., to sink the dials. Coarse and inferior Beasts ... Second quality ditto ... Prime large Oxen ••• Prime Scots, OF c.... ••• ••• ••• Coarse and inferior Sheep... ... Second quality ditto ... Prime coarse-woollud ditto ... Prime Southdown ditto ... Large coarse Cah ea Prime small ditto .., Large Hogs .. Small Porkers 111 .•• 4, 3°1 eagof i Clll/4 Beasts 5,451 sheep and Lambs .. 25,370 Calves 2181 Pigs ...............5101 SUPPLIES ON SALE, Nov. 4, 1850.-1 Sheep, 28.080 ; Calves, 118; Pigs, 350. Now. 5, 1849.—Beasts, 3,685 ; Sheep, 2' 171; Pigs, 320. NEWGATE AND LEADENUALL. These markets .continue to be somowheat ...betiiill deoo plied with each kind of Meat: yet the generill' is steady, end prices ere well supported. Ab °ns ore fr carouses of Meat; arrived from the provinces , t, At par steno by the Carom e, d, m I i it. d. to s. d. 0. I Cod, inferior.— 8 0 2 4 1 hfutton,inforior middling .... 3 6 2 8 I —middling.: ; primclargo .. 210 3 0I- prime 6 - prime small .. h 2 a 4 Pork, Jorge. .. • ••• ~ .• .• •• •• .• •• 2 8 310 --- imam •• ZOROUGH HOP. IP I 3 The demand continues rather active for all ucv‘ ser at full rates of currency. The supplies o n t'd large. Duty, 255,0001. to 260,0001. Midland Keut Goldings, 1203 to 1503 per cwt ; Weald a'to 75a to 843; do. claoice, 75s to 90s; Sussex, 7 2 , 3 4 00,.." do choice, 803 to 84s; FArthams, 100 3 to :-001' choice, 1303 to 140 s; country do, 903 to 100 3 ; u° 110 s to 120 s. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. to sa to The imports of foreign Potatoes, last week, we :0 extensive, viz., 516 tons from Dunkirk, 8 , baskets 46 bags from RfAterdana, 300 bags 5 ° .,;00, warp, 65 tons firom Ca!ais, 93 ditto from .50119bjoi ditto from Bordeaux, 93 ditto from Rouen, sod and 21 baskets from Hamburg. The deloo, ° , o active, and print:6 are barely supported. ~„v"- 's Ird about 2,000 tons have arrived. Kent and P a l ; o'4 gent's, par ton 90s to 110 s; ditto Shaw's, 8 5 t ° 1 '01" Middlings, 60a to 85a; York Regent's, 1008 to Foreign, 60s to 51° A The whole of the Colonial Wool afford at pn p Bjresd i last week, was disposed of, at fully the advance Colt, noticed. Thu quantity sold for shipment to 2 4 4 14, tb tinent had been comparatively mall. Last "Tdes o l f ; imports were 856 bales from Odessa, 429 trolo `,l , dria, 1,200 front Melbourne, 25 from Naples, I° ,l/ P el l : Tagaurag. 21 from Buenos Ayres, 1,600 Wee "6,10 0 , 129 from Mogadore, 330 from Bombay, 9 froit o s bog 91 from Port Elizabeth, 57 from Calais, and from Hamburg. e l SEEDS. Since our last report, the arrivals of Linsce,.. ba 4f 9De4, small. Smyrna is selling at 44s 9d; Black s7 4o o ll ii to 445; St. l'otersburg, 41s; Calcutta, 44s 5 9 of For arrival, Black Sea has produced 44s 6d " n 4` )9 h o Calcutta, 46s 6d to 475. Rape firm, at 4 10 sv o o,c; Calcutta. Cakes are quito as dear as last 11 other articles command very little attention. p 4 Carraway, new •• 1 0 ! s a l Coriander, new •• fr, Rempseed, per guar , '" bO O Linseed, Eng.sowlog': 45$ Crushing .• •• •• • 40 0 1 Baltic .....• •••• 4 0 Odessa .. • • •• Linseed Cake, pr. ton,„ ni ot t4O r English .• • Foreign, per ton 4 ; 10$ 4 1 "' 'Rape Cakes, pr ton op Rupeated,licW,Prlst arnip,Whito, per bush. 8s to Ils Swede .. • • • . 10s 12s Mustard, 8r0wn.... • • 73 Whito, n0w...... .. 7s (Id 104 Tares,Winter, new.... 4s 6(1:580d, Spring .• • Us Od Os Od' Camay, per quarter .. 37s 41s, Rye grass ••.. • 26s 34s' Clover, ltcel Eng. (cwt.) :3535 48s White •• .• • 33s 4'a /Fort•ign cias White • • Z; Is 46s Trefoil, new.. •..•.• .• 21s 24.3 TALLOW. k'o 6ll 0 Since our lalt report, the demand for woe s tv6 s notwitb3tauding that numerous ve g- „ ° s ov d r with that descriptions of produce have Sound, has aled steady, end prices are " v 0 ;t1 portci. To-day, P.Y.C. on the spot is selling noel 43s 6d per cwt; Tows Tallow, 423 6d per ctv s Hough Dit, 2s 5d per 8 lbs. ISb l ' gl l te 14 3 Lds 37 3 too os % t iS' 38, 4, 2 6 7,31 0 osty" 91 t 3 a', 1848 1g49. 1850. teck this day • • .. • • Price of Y. C. •• .. Delivery las t vleek • • Ditto from J une 1.... Arrivals last week ,• Ditto from June 1. Price of Town • • 37,516 43s 0:lit to OS 01 2,509 42,797 8,(2,3 76,782 478 6d 46,344 386 3(1 to ZBs 6tl 2,322 32,351 12,305 60,055 4130 d AT ST. .7 - Cie rs CO" . 13 11 / 0.1 0 ; 96,69 9 1 9 L,, 1 2,69 5 o M 109, 394 60V 9, 852 ,1 924 3 , 51, 016 11 '1' . 16, 699 q_b4 9 1 1 '4.4! W , 562 6,v 0 ! 4,0 28 :40 1 01,0 0 00 Ir, 4° ••••••••••"....: 11 % ' 9689' 45,677 3730,1 to 373 3d 2,342 36,134 5,403 39s 6,1 :UPPING Casks. rT.ATEDIENT OF TALLOW s: Tallow dispatched from Cron stadt to 5ept...22, O.S. . • . In sblps loading and lighters Total loaded off, Scpt. 24, O.S. Loaded afterwards•• •• .• Total at the close of naviga tion London.• •.•• • . • ..• • • • • • Livei pool .... L'ristol ••••••• - • • • • • •• .• Other English ports • • .. • . Ireland .... • • ••.. • •• !Scotland.... ...... • • .... Germany .......•..••••.• France ••.• • • .!• •••.• • • • • • 53,455 20,946 74,403 33,333 6,909 2,642 2,860 2,380 'llO 4,913 Ighl. Casks. 87,169 12,102 t 9,272 4,189 103,461 63,144 13,758 1,811 3,813 728 3,116 _ as A vb f ' S ;o s RULES AND BEGuLATIoNs UNDER THE 115.'0930? LAw.—A second set of rules and regulationo,osooo, been issued the now Patent Commi ss ioners' O f f i e by tution of some others that have been canne4cobsill f ors . nulled, appointing the office of the director 0 co A O in Scotland, and the lurolment-office of tin 0 03 ,' 0 0 1 : Chancery in Dublin, to be the offices of t';„" 1 , 9 1 0 ,` No warrant under the now regulations is to , r ," 13 0 4 : ° , 0 0, sioners fur the recording of transcripts of lot", e es" o f for the sealing of any letters patent that cont7raviol: o f more distinct suba:lrutive inventions. Tb o , r a atO r- i s ei specification is to state distinctly the vrh°' ° ho app oD ~ a ny invention, so that the law officers roil ",, - F ror f of the improvement. Where letters patent to be extended to the colonies, the partintil,r ti", to to be specified. Every appli ca tio n to the •"° t erig :n l is% cellor against, or in r e l a tio n to, any letters P' o ptlV $l , be, by notice, left at th e C omm i ss i on ers' offietfeeKeor Leopards,particulars c o . f . th a e oh o n bjec t t o i m on a s iy, T at he ß r . ule y s t a r ed o co °: ol , ; tof ger, A.G.; and Fitzroy Kelly, S.G. The tler t i o OP,J FINANCIAL CONDITION of TUIIKE.•,, -- won- r e ,- ing extract of a letter from a merchant at 1 - 0 10 connected with a house in Monehesterr . Tcono`ooff with some interest at the present tuner - ",,,. 00. 1 0 se nople, 14th October, JBs2.—You will be ,"coosSiisef no doubt, about the Turkish Loan and t" ) „,, with I ° olo 4 nople Bank. Yesterday I attended a metin g tho,do, merchants and the directors of the bans- 0 0 1 '0 where we had an interview with the eiga ALifoti the Master of the Mint, the Ministe r of l'fi°so7,oil and the Commander-in-Chief, when the egifis to of the empire were laid before us a nd clearifo oleo: It proved that the Government have 11 .. 11 1 ro ther Ac iel li , meet the engagements of the bank and to!" 0 a sow firo" An official document was drawn up Pla cil trn o ° l rie; t 0 rot - rOO o amount at the disposal of the band oc al 0 , 0 01. payment d the loan which had been ref ud 800t v A frOa! tified; and also 300,0001. from Egyp t ; ¢ c ollee ve o u oL s ' l e xtraordinary contribution, welch is b ingof all parts of the country, besides an is° ll n ffe nr ° ard in. . t he y i : i tie o t)sw anti shove these large arrionots !_ bo haf_ e a the bank falling due to the 18 th of NO:n o cost s ye' remitted for, and all now running. I " ll ' s , oo tietto '" Ouse or at maturity, and the bank 1 8 t 0 gotiationts of exchange at 110.7 53,455 87,169 mon with off b -~,~' the 116 "xi loh, Lai Ma: had day MI view ment arhicl urdtu and tho n 1 ic. ~i;Yi eat fic Seat, the i .--I I ho is! rune; the in tn, ti appf,! will t the the d bo as