The Sun. — London, England, 1848-11-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES. —Yesterday was the great metropolitan fes tivity. ' The Chief Magistrate of the ancient city of London entered his year of office with the same antique pageant, grave ceremonial, and magnificent hospitality that our fathers saw before us, ere the age of revolutions had begun. Representing all the municipal corporations of the country, he presented himself, with all his civic court, at her Majesty's Palace of Westminster to be sworn to his arduous duties; and after the " double triumph" by land and tide, which still excites the smile it did a century ago, he received the chief notabilities of The empire at that same Guildhall which Plantagenets and Tudors have visited on similar occasions. Among the few relics of old London, happily there survives one centre of civic associations. It is true, that instead of the lurid torch, the blazing hearth, or the forest of wax candles, the walls are resplendent with gas, and ten thousand myste rious tongues of flame shed aseconddaylight on the festive array. It is true that the chiefs exalted to the dais are no longer men of fierce countenance, more used to blows than to words. Lower dowa, faces full of comfort and wealth contrast oddly enough with the barbaric effigies that still adorn the hall. Yet as a whole there is not to be found, probably in all Europe, a more perfect and na tural mediaeval idea than the Lord Mayor's banquet and show. The scene which historic novelists have attempted to describe with so much tedious detail is here recog nized at a glance. It is no affectation, no revival, no v Lin attempt to ingraft old upon new—it is old Loudon where it was, and, in many honourable respects, very much what it was. Go where you l you will nowhere see so goodly a muster of old English will industry, honesty, and skill. Of the many hundred men who yesterday crowded the hall and its adjoining apartment, nearly all had risen to a position of competence, respec tability, eminence, dignity, or power, by habits of independent feeling and exertion. The vast variety assembled illustrates the uniformity . of character pervading all the orders of British society. There were the constitutional advisers of the Crown, men of no mean reputation or ill-tried honour; there were distinguished naval and military commanders, the law officers of the Crown, judges, dignitaries of the Church, noted merchants and tradesmen, men who had made their own fortunes, and won their own fame. The Lord Mayor sat on the seat whereon have sat before many a man who once was houseless, and who after wards attained still higher distinction. Many of our nobility, if they wish to go back so far, will find the cunabula of their race in the gaudy honours elf the homely old city. The tone of such a company is that of industry and honour. Here are no murmurings against fate, no accusations of the elements or the stars, no jealousy of Governments, no schemes of revolution or greediness of plunder; for the simple reason that our good citizens have proved and ascertained by expe rience that a man may generally rise if he chooses, and that if he does sink lower, or grovel in his native squalor, it is generally his own fault. In such a place, if anywhere, may be permitted those modest congratulations which will sponta neously rise to the lips and struggle for utterance, at the' comparison of this metropolis with its continental sisters. Prudish moralists have forbade us this innocent joy. We were lately told by a man who has not taken his own elevation with the most exemplary meekness that it is self. righteeus to recognise the remarkable immunity we hitherto enjoy from the scourge of epidemic insurrection. The parallel, indeed, is striking enough. Our Hotel de Ville is occupied by harmless citizens, instead of a revo lutionary junta, or a democratic clique. Instead of whole battalions a few unarmed policemen protect it from in vasion. Our metropolis has not seen its streets con tested inch by inch by furious factions. It has net become familiar with volleys of musketry and the thunder of cannon. It has not been besieged by provinces, blockaded by famine, bombarded, and taken by assault. It has not been mined from below, and burnt with rockets from above. It has not been entered by victorious strangers. It is not a prey to anarchy. It is not " govet ned" by an imbe cile, or, what worse, by a man too crazy to reign, and too sane to depose. Its citizens are not armed. Its youths do not dream of conquests, at least on European soil. Its credit, shaken by commercial mischief at home, has revived even under the alarms of spreading revolution ; its industry is not abated, and the fountain of wealth is not dried up. It is scarcely human not to think of these things and be thankful for them. Such congratulations need not be alloyed by vanity or ill will. We can receive with equal pleasure Lord Lans downe's well-deserved compliments to the loyalty of the late Lord Mayor and his fellow-citizens when threatened with revolution, and M. de Beaumont's excellent obser vatiou, that the common prosperity is furthered by in ternational peace, and impaired by war ; and that it is rather our object to raise our neighbours than to ruin them. CHRONICLE.—We may fairly and properly address to our countrymen the words addressed by Burke to the House of Lords, towards the conclusion of his famous speech against Warren Hastings—" Your justice stands pre-eminent in the world; but it stands amidst a vast la( ap of ruins, which surroun 1 it in every corner of Europe." It is this last circumstance which gives a more than common significance in the case of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort v. Strange (reported in our paper of the 7th); for although the superficial observer may regard it as a mere matter of course, that the highest personages in the realm should appear before Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce to ehforce a claim, and be recelve3 on a perfect footing of equality with the lowest, it it not the less true that there is not another country in the world, aristocratic or dcm ,critie, monarchical or re pubiean, where the Sovereign or the First Magistrate, or any one identified in inti..r.st with the Sovereign or First Magistrate, would app ear in a court of justice without fear and trembling, or (worse still) without en undue, yet well-ground •d, eereidence in the result The first remarkable c ec:soe on which the stern, uncompromising character ' shins t law became fami liarly known throughout Earn: e, was in Queen Anne's time, when an Ambassador from Peter the Great was arrested in the streets of London for a debt of flits' pouiels. Peter was furious, and insisted that the S:leriti of Middlesex, and all others concerned in the affair. Omni; be punished with instant ;death; but the Queen replied, that " she could inflict no punishment unles warranted by the law of the land; and, therefore, we; persereled that he would not insist upon impossibilities." Napoleon, as arbitrary as Peter in his way, accepted with extreme reluctance the small reparation offered him in the prosecution of Peltier; and could never be made to understand that the Government might not have gagged Sir James Mackintosh had they thought fit. The legal victory gained by Horne Tooke 'e father, a pultsrer, over the Heir Apparent of the British 'chrome, might have taught him better; or he might have been consoled on hearint that one of the severest mortifications ever inflicted on a member of our Royal Family, was the beinc , defeated in the attempt to stop a path across Richmond-park by a shoemaker. It is remarkable that Napoleon did once suspend a pro jected improvement in Paris rather than eject a shoe maker who refused to resign his tenement; but the Em peror was so little in the habit of respecting rights of any kind that we suspect this solitary instance to have been a coup-de-theatre at the best. When Louis Philippe laid claim to the right of engraving from the n-w pictures in the Versailles Gallery, and the claim was contested by the painters, he forthwith proceeded to use the whole influence of his Government to get a legis lative declaration of his alleged rights, and failed. It will he admitted on all hands that our Sovereign and her Royal Consort have come with infinitely more grace be fore tho public, in their capacity of patrons of art, and assertors of their rights as amateur artists. As to these rights, there was not the shadow of a doubt from the beeineing. The only difficulty was to discover the proper parties to be proceeded against. " The in formation stated that her Majesty the Queen, and her Consort, his Royal Highness the Prince Albert, re spectively, had occasionally, for their amusement, made drawings and etchings, principally on subjects of private and domestic interest to themselves, of which etchings they had made impressions for their own use, and not for publication; that, for the greater privacy, such im pres,ions had been for the most part made by means of a private press kept for that purpose, and the plates themselves had been ordinarily kept by her Majesty under lock ; that the impressions had been placed in some of the private apartments of her Majesty at Wind sor, and i n suc h pr i vate apartments on l y. " Th ese h a d boon abstracted, and a gallery formed fthem, which advertised, had been duly 9 as well as a work entitled " A. Descriptive Catalog Alfieri Gallery of Etchings:' The the Roy a l Vi c to r ia and The collection (according Vl') the report) " cont ained gs." portraits of the favourit e dogs of the Q ueen an d the P inc?, etchings from old and rare engravings in the possession of her Majesty ; several from the original designs of the Queen and his Royal Highness, representing wa rr i or animals and birds, and histo r i ca l and domesticht? heads subjects, and of and a variety of interesting wor k s , some from s orlgiaa drawings by Landseer and other es t eeme d artists. The information alleged that the impressions of the etchings w ere intended to be for the private use o f h er Majesty . and bis Royal Highness Prince Albert, and that' al though copies of some of them have been occasionally and rarely given to some of their private friends (one to one friend and one to another), no such collection as that so advertised for exhibition as aforesaid was ever given away by them or either of them, or by their or either of their permission ; and no such col lection could hare been formed, except of im pressions surreptitiously and improperly obtained.' " After the requisite technicalities were complied with, the desired " injunction" was decreed. The impression left by the perusal of "Lord Hervey's Memoirs" is certainly not favourable to royalty. It is not simply the irregularities in which one of the royal pair, so graphically delineated by Sporus, indulged with the express sanction, and even connivance, of the other, but the total absence of refine ment or cultivation in their pursuits, which strongly offends modern notions. But any rash conclusion to which a reader of delicate perceptions and high moral tone may have been hurried regarding the effects of high station, will be at once corrected and repelled by the charming picture of domestic life in a palace, inci dentally suggested by the grave legal documents in this case. Monarchy is safe in the affections, as well as in the principles, of the people, so long as the curtain, however rudely and suddenly drawn, is sure to disclose nothing but harmony, purity, intellectual habits, good feeling, and good taste ; and Justice receives the high est of earthly homages when Princes and Rulers seek, of their own accord, her judgment-seat. CHOLERA ON BOARD HER MAJESTY'S STEAMER SEAFLOWER, AT JERSEY. The Admiralty were in formed yesterday of cholera having broken out on board tile above vessel, stationed for the protection of the British fisheries at Jersey; and more medical re sources {fah the ship afforded being required to meet the exigencies of the case, their Lordships have o rdered medicalofficers to be dispatched from Portsm outh to her r el ief. The steamer Myrtle took out the required medical aid yesterday tern THE SUN, LONDON, BANK RETURNS. (From the London Gazette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, zap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales. in Circulation during the Week e nding Satur .Average day, the 28th day of October , 1848:- A . PR IVATE BANKS. mount. Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co 13,066 Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmitt and Pomfret 11,801 Aylsham Bank, Aylsham-R. and Roc kf ordG. Copeman M 42 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury- and Hunt 35,563 Baldock Bank and Baldoc k and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock-Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell 26,327 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Drake and Co 13,025 Basingstoke and Odihave. Bank, Basingstoke -- Seymour, Lamb, and Co. 33,977 Bedford Bank, Bedford - T. Ba rnard 3edford and Bedfordshire Bans, Bedford- Trapp, Halfhead, and Co. Bewdley Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and Crane dicester and Oxfordshire Ba nk and Oxford Bank, Bicester-Tubb and Co. 14,166 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 23.115 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham-J. L. Moilliett, and Sons .... 12,225 3!andford Bank, Blandford-Bastard and Oak. 6,003 Boston Bank, Boston-Garfit and Co 70,050 Boston Bank, Boston-Gee and Co 15,106 !3riag A. iter Bank, Bridgwater-J. &J. Seale) 7,563 Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Harford, and Co 27,745 Broseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-Messrs. Pritchard 19,35 Buckingham Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett, Parrctt, and Co. , Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Stow- Market t uurryy oB lßadna Bank, , 1 c a nB , k,an u brßußy-Oakes,Banbury-Messrs. b_u rGyi-ll e x it ß t e e as v ns a rd n s ~, T a ca n ow d a C e . y o . 2 7 9 6, , 8 7 8 75 0 28,362 Ba ßan n Bath City Bank, Bath-Moger and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett and Grant 36,170 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and Lloyds . 33,216 Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H. A. and W. M. Harris and Co 12,085 Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 59,178 Bridport Bank, Bridport-S. and W. E. Gundry - Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington- Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- J. Worlledge and Co. 3,185 Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove-Rufford, Biggs, and Co. 13,487 Oambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and Sons . 20,073 Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co • 27,626 Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chcrtsey-Messrs. La Coste , 3,146 Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, and Co. 15,770 Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester -Mills, Bawtree, and Co 33,800 Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little and Wood- 6,8 50 cock City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Birkbecks and Co Christchurch Bank, Christchurch—Tice, Welsh, 8,506 16,563 72,382 and Co *lardiff Bank, Cardiff--Towgood and Co ( .:lhepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon - mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co. ......••• Derby Bank, Derby—Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby—Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Hughes. 2,348 6,290 7,575 13,678 37,632 25,902 Locke, and Co hiss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank, Doncaster—Leatham, Tew, 11,95 S 10,146 and Co. Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster — Cook and Co. Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, & Co i)evonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Nor- 63,942 10,310 man 9orchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster and Co. East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hutton, 42,610 86,071 and Co. - •••• Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Ch e lmsford—WaHord. and C 0.... . ... Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk- 51,637 44,009 26,606 22,476 beck, and Co. Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes and Medley 4,513 Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight 13,780 Faversham Bank, Faversham—H M ilton and Co 5,324 `3odalming Bank, Godalming—ellersh and Keen .;rantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King 27.068 Ciluildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Hayden... 9,823 Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... 27,063 Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Udder, and Co. 2 t,051 flereford City and County Bank, Hereford — Matthews and Co. lertford and Ware Bank, Ware—S. Adams and 16.762 Co lull 13- , ,nk and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull —Smith, Brothers , an d Co. luntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Cc,. 4,659 Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead — Smith, and Whittingstall lionitot Bank, Honiton —Flood and Co. Heft re rishire,Hitehen Bank, ilitehen—Sharpies 18,403 31,984 and Co. leraord, Ross, and Archenaeld Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan, Hoskins, and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hudleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexanders and Co. :Centish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kinc,rton and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J. Davies and Co Knighton Bank Knighton—J. Davies and tinaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, 22,960 20,138 73,444 17.338 25.376 7,975 19,668 and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—Gaz;h and Sons., Longton Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C ilarycy and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co feeds Union Bank, Leeds—W.Williams, Brown, 35.925 7,979 5,399 39,501 and Ca. Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Leek—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. fieines ter Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co chl eld Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green Lincoln Bank. Lincoln—Smith and Co Lampeter Bank and Liandilo Bank Llando very—David Jones and Co. :.oughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle t.,ns and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St Barbe Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynnßegis —Gurneys and Co . Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Massey and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brooklehurst 36,042 26.803 35,102 20,845 89,936 27,005 7,204 3,280 42,782 13,905 and Co Nic an i n b i o n r gt ou r e g e h Ba n k Bank,, 11an nin Marlboroughg t ree— N uannndW ilt s and Cot ts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerfordßank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillier Aerionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead. 14,475 Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and Sons Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton 23,336 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co 51,545 Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock. 21,856 Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond. and Son Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and 11,498 5,147 13,919 7,569 9.741 13,913 24,620 Dy50n................................................ 2,906 Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hud50n5..................................... :. —" 4 2,200 Norwich and Norfolk Bank , Norwich—.Gu r neys neys and Birkbeek Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not_ 70 ' 537 tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton — Craddcoak and 8 , 989 Co Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and Co. New Serum Bank, Sarum—Hetley, Everett, and Co 11,426 Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co 27,879 Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os weFtry—Croxon and Co 11,106 Oxford Bank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell 10,231 Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Co. . Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge— Beeching and So.'s._ Oxfordshire Witney Bank Witney—Williams, Cl* Snd Average Amount. rase n Old Bank, hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 44,651 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and go 11,610 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank. Peter _ __ _ _ borough:LMArTs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson, White, and Simpson 11,762 Pemnrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 27,740 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton and Co 4,605 Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood. Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank ;Roches ter—Day and Nicholson 9,451 Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 14,143 Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 11,998 Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 13,541 Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co .. 10,591 Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaway Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co 11,428 Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall 5,183 and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons, and Co . 30,511 Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son 3,556 Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Son .. 12,196 Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co. 13,268 St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story 642 Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and King Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall . 3,697 Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 3,413 Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 13,512 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. 20,820 St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib son and Stuart Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcoek 21,869 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co Thornbary Bank, Thornburg—Rolph, Yates, and ParsloW Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns- ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S PerciTal Union Bank, Cornwall, lieLston—Vivian and Co. Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, 16,816 9,347 6,684 7,584 10,964 11,519 8,040 7,624 16,785 6,825 and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co. Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good riche and Holyoake.. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, and Co. Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster — Everett and Co. Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbe-;k, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 11,597 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten 6,297 York Bank. York—Swann. Clone'. and Co 43,045 22,907 3,262 40,739 12,784 23,7 G 4,764 14,002 31,412 54,443 7,241 13,410 11,289 78,954 10,982 48,588 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 46,013 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford Burton, Utt,lxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington . Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 12,589 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 20,420 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 19,900 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington 29,466 East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 145,063 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 13,035 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 35,285 Hull Banking Company, Hull Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Ha- 9,068 lifax Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax 29,740 Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,502 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 25,173 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 22,868 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,212 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster ... 52,128 Leeds Bankin g Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 51,600 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,949 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 22,887 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 2,663 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 50,583 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 74,675 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 28,813 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei cester . 46,287 Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth... 1,655 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 34,640 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com -52,820 Bank, and Somerse tshire Bank, Lan g - StupcakneyY'Sstßarnanfokridng. Company, Bristol Somerset shireport Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ... ..... 39,497 Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Co m pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and llallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield .... .••. Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking Company, Shollield Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond 43,050 Storey and Thomas's Banking Company Shaftesbury Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield ... - Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Com pany, Wolverhampton 35,255 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 11,677 Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven Warwick and Leaniii:gton Banking Company, Warwick West of Englane. and South Wales District 7 70 0 0 : 8 830 4 W B il a ts nk an -B d ri ltr i set . lianking Company, Salisbury West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield2s,s93 Whitchurch and Ellesmere B an ki ng C o mpany, vir W orc h e i s tc te h r ur c ch ihty ylrooWrrkkocurcinetysiotearirnd and County Banking Company, 3,138 Banking County Banking Company, Y Company,ork 70,467 York 88,736 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. 4 st4a2pB and Tau% Noyember 4,1848. 9,460 FRIDAY EVENING-, NOVEMBER lO, 1848, FRANCE. Abd-el-Kader left Bordeaux on Sunday morning in the Caiman for Nantes, whence he is to proceed to the Château of Amboise. He was conducted to the steamer by the Archbishop of Bordeaux; and on the quay a guard of honour was drawn up to salute him as he embarked. _ . _ The Minister of Agriculture is taking measures for the immediate organization of the National Agrono mical Institute at Versailles. Three farms belonging to the Park, viz., those of the Menagerie, Satory, and Gally-Cherreloup, have been marked out, each to be applied to a different branch of agriculture. In that of the Menagerie experiments will be made in the improvement of the different breeds of horses ; in that of Gally-Cherreloup the breeds of horned cattle, and at that of Satory in the breed of sheep and other wool-bearing animals. The extensive woods of Ver sailles will afford means of instruction in wood-craft, and other branches of agricultural economy, and hor ticulture will not be neglected. I n th e a b ove f arms , in addition, agricultural experiments properly so called, will be conducted on an extensive scale. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 9 THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY V. COWARD. This was a motion to discharge an order of the Vice- Chancellor restraining the defendant, a starch manu facturer, in Lambeth, from summoning a jury under the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, to assess the compen sation to which he is entitled for his interest in the works taken by the company to complete their railway to Waterloo-bridge. The defendant's tenancy expired pending the negotiations with the company, and in that interval the company purchased the fee-simple from the landlord. He remained as a yearly tenant, and paid one half-year's rent before the company took possession. The Vice-Chancellor thought the interest of the defend ant was not one that could be determined by a jury until it had been considered by a court of equity. Mr. Stuart, Mr. Faber, and Mr. R. P. Collier were heard in support of the appeal. His LORDSHIP without calling on Mr. Bethel and Mr. Beales for the other side, said it was a very clear case. The interest of the defendant was one that had not been determined, and where was the propriety of sum moning a jury to consider it ? The matter was one ex clusively for a court of equity, and the appeal must be dismissed with costs. VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURTS, Nov. 9. (Before Sir J. L. KNIGHT BRUCE.) MOSSMAN V. MEEK.—COPYRIGHT IN VALENTINES. This was a motion for an injunction restraining the defendant Meek, an embosser and manufacturer of lace paper, in Crane-court, Fleet-street, from selling any papers or articles which wore imitations of the plaintiff's designs for valentines or valentine piper. The plain tiff also asked that the defendant might be ordered to deliver up, for destruction, all papers and articles manu factured or ornamented by him, to which the plaintiff's design, or any alleged fraudulent imitation of it, had been applied, as also all drawings, dies, designs, tools, plates, punches, and instrument 3, used for applying such design. The plaintiff was a designer and lace. paper maker, residing at Islington, and claimed to be the pro prietor of an elegant design for embossing, perforating, and ornamenting note-paper, and of valentines. The merit claimed by the plaintiff was in combining various methods by which a portion of the paper surface (under neath which was concealed an ornamental coloured em blematical drawing) was drawn up in a spiral form, so as to exhibit through the interstices the coloured em -1 blem. This was known in the trade by the technical I term " pull up." Mr. HADDAN, in support of the motion, stated that the plaintiff had obtained the usual certificate of regis tration under the Designs Copyright Act, 5 and 6 Vict., c. 100, and 6 and 7 Vict., c. 65, which certificate was dated Nov. 0, 1847, which expired to-day. The plaintiff had discovered the alleged infringement in July last. The VICE-CHANCELLOR (after examining several of the plaintiff's specimens)—Mr. Haddan, what can be the use of such articles as these? Mr. HADDIN said that the object was to have a pic ture introduced, but concealed, which would be shown on pulling the string. Some of the " valentines " manufactured by the de fendant were handed up to his Honour, who, after look ing at them, said, " Well, Mr. Winstanley, I think yours is better than theirs, for there is a great heart in the middle of it." Mr. WINSTANLEY (for the defendant) said neither the design nor the " pull up " was original. As to the lacing and embossing, it was positively sworn that they were those of defendant's own invention. The privilege was at an end this day, therefore the injunction would be useless. The plaintiff had applied to a magistrate for his interference, under the Act, but he had retused. The VICE-CHANCELLOR, returning the different spe cimens to both parties—" I think so elegant an inven tion ought to have a better name than you have given to it. I think it is a very elegant manufacture, but I am not aware of its usefulness; but there are a great many good things in the world for which there is no use." The counsel stated that the public seemed to think that they were useful, for an eminent house in the Strand had orders for valentines last year to the amount of 2501. The VICE-CHANCELLOR—I dare say it is a profitable adventure, but I think you had better not take an in junction; take leave to bring an action. The plaintiff's counsel accepted the offer of the Court, and the motion was ordered to stand over until after the trial of the action. The evidence on both sides, as to the originality of the invention, was very conflicting. (Before Sir J. WIQRAM.) ATTORNEY-GENERAL v. LAWII.—THE IRVING CHAPEL IN NEWMAN-STREET. This case, which was before the court upon informa tion on the 18th of July, when certain inquiries were directed to be taken before the Master, was now men tioned, in consequence of a difference between the parties interested as to the precise terms in which the order of reference should be framed. It may be remembered that a testatrix, a Miss Burry, had directed her execu tors " to pay to the Messrs. Drummonds, the bankers at (;haring-cross, the clear yearly sum of 1001., for the sole use and benefit of any of the ministers and members of the churches now forming upon the apostolical doctrines brought forward originally by the late Edward Irving, who may be prosecuted, aggrieved, or in poverty for preaching or upholding such doctrines, or that the same may be appropriated for the benefit of the church founded by the late Edward Irving, in Newman-street." The decree was taken, without argument, for transferring a sufficient sum of money into court, and directions were given that it should be laid out in the usual manner. The reference to the Master directed him to inquire, and state to the court, what were the doctrines re ferred to in the will of the testatrix as " the apostolical doctrines brought forward originally by Edward Irving," .nd whether there was any person, or " any class" of persons answering the description contained in the will of the testatrix. It had been proposed to strike out the words " any class" of persons, and substitute the words " and if the said Master should find there are any such persons, let him inquire and state whether such persons form a class." This form of reference had been objected to by some of the parties, upon the ground that it would make it incumbent upon the Master to ascertain the names of such persons. The Solicitor-General, Mr. K. Parker, Mr. R. Palmer, and Mr. Bovill, appeared for the parties. The VICE-CHANCELLOR—The testatrix has given it to a class of persons. The word " class" does not sup pose a communion between them. To ask whether the persons form a class is out of the question; it is giving the word a signification which it does not mean. It does riot mean that they are united by any particular bond. If there are two persons holding such doctrines living in one parish, and three in another, they form what is com monly called a " class." Here it means a number of persons. It merely gives plurality. But to ask whether they form a class is quite another thing. lt is quite correct to say " persons, or class of persons. The order of reference was accordingly taken in this last mentioned form. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 9. WATSON V. THE EARL or CUARLEMONT. - This was an action to recover back money paid as a deposit on the purchase of certain shares in the Newry, Armagh, and Enniskillen R ailwa y Company. The ac tion was in the form of mone y had and received, and c ame on for trial before Lord Denman at the sittings after Michaelmas Term, 1847, when it appeared that in the beginning of September, 1845, a prospectus had been issued, to which the name of the secretary of the company was attached , and in which it was stated that the shares had be en allotted, and that the applications for them, particularly from persons locally interested, had been so numerous, that the provisional committee had been compelled to refuse many such applications, although they came from persons of undoubted respect ability. The plaintiff had a certain number of shares allotted to him, and after the appearance of this pro spectus paid the regular deposit upon them. The eallot ment paper contained th e name of the defen dant as one of the provisiona l directors. The company was finally dis solved, and this action was then brought. Evidence of these facts was given, and it appeared ,that only 13,000 out of 16,00 0 shares had been allotted, and that some of the allottees were mere speculators. The plaintiff had contended that he was entitled to recover, as he had paid his money upon false representation, to which the de fendant e er a dt d oi c o t p s opted to d ra s t i h td i he s e v th iew of the case, and the jury was, as a provisional director, a party. The Lord rbCeehteul been f n j e du obtaineds a ti p is la v i e n r t d iff. iet o A n t r h u e le g h ro ad un s d i s nc o e f the improper admission of the prospectus of September in evidence, and of misdirection. Sir F. Thesiger, Mr. Butt, and Mr. Hoggins appeared to show cause against the rule. They insisted that, as the defendant had been a member of the provisional committee, he was responsible for all the papers issued in the name of that committee and by its authority, whether h• had been or not actually cognizant of their contents. The evidence of the prospectuses had, there- fore, been rightly admitted, and the jurors were pro perly directed to form their opinion on these documents in connexion with the other circumstances proved in the case. _ _ _ Mr. MARTIN and Mr. BRA3IWELL, in support of the rule, contended that the prospectuses were n o t s h own to have been the cause of the plaintiff parting with money, since no proof had been given that he had ever seen them, and there certainly was none to show that the defendant had even the slightest acquaintance with their contents. The defendant, therefore, had not, in fact, been guilty of any misrepresentation, and yet this action proceeded solely on the assumption that he had. If, instead of the vague and unmeaning form of money had and received, the law required a true state ment of the real circumstances of the case, the plaintiff could only have sued the defendant on an allegation that he had committed not merely a legal but a moral fraud, in making these representations. Supposing suc h a charge made, and the parties going to trial upon it, there could be no doubt that the verdict must be for the defendant, for there was not the slightest proof that he had taken the slightest part in anything which was even put forward by the plaintiff as a ground of alleged mis. representation. If the defendant could not, as he could not, be held liable on the direct trial of such an issue, he ought not to be held liable under a vague form of pleading, which could only be supported on the nicest legal subtleties. The COURT took time to consider the question. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 9. (Sittings in Banco.) HAMILTON V. COCHRAN. This was an action for the alleged infringement by the defendant of the plaintiff's patent in a certain im proved machine for sawing wood in a curvilineal line, with what was termed a varying bevel, principally in use for ship-building. The trial of the cause at the last assizes at Guildford lasted three or four days; and to-day Mr. M. CHAMBERS moved for a rule tr. set zsick the verdict substantially entered for the plaintiff, and for a new trial. Three grounds were raised in support o f the nwtiva; first, that the plaintiff's inve n ti on was not new; secondly, that it wai of no public utility; and, thirdly, that the defendant's machine was different from that of the plaintiff, and no infringement. The motion occupied the whole of the day, and the arguments in support of it had not concluded when the Court rose, about five o'clock. SHERIFFS' COURT, Nov. 9. (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BUItCaELL.) SINGULAR INQUIRY, AND REFUSAL TO GIVE EVIDENCE.— THE QUEEN ON BEHALF OF SOLOMON V. NORMAN. This was an inquiry under a Crown writ, to ascertain what property the defendant was possessed of. On the last occasion the witnesses were not present. Mr. VPayne, a solicitor, was now called on to produce the probate of the will under which it was alleged de fendant was entitled to property. Mr. Payne refused to give evidence until his expenses were paid ; but the question being reserved, he said, he had not got the pro bate, having handed it over to the executor, Mr. Stun•. Mr. Stone was called, and admitted that he had the document, but did not considsr himself bound to produce it. The UNDER-SHERIFF said it was an inquiry on be half of the Queen, and every one was bound to aid and assist. The fee of one shilling he considered was strictly the legal fee, and on that the deed must be pro daced. The probate was then put in, by which it appeared that the defendant was entitled to 3701. a year, and a verdict was given accordingly. Mr. Payne again applied for his expenses, which were objected to on the ground that on the first day he would not produce the deed to be read, and on the second, was called on his subpwna, and was liable to an attachment for not attending. The UNDER-SHERIFF, however, thought as the wit ness had not had notice to attend on the last occasion, he was entitled to costs. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. NOVEL AND CURIOUS AFFILIATION CASE.—Colonel Blanc was summoned before Mr. Bingham to show cause against an order being made on him for the sup port of an illegitimate child, of which he was sworn to be the putative father, by Sophie Mertz, a young French• woman. The case has undergone a very lengthy and minute investigation, having been adjourned three or•four times to produce additional evidence, in consequence of the defence set up that Colonel Blanc was not the father of the child, and that great doubt existed of the plaintiff being the mother of the child produced in court. It was found necessary to send for witnesses from France, of course at very considerable expense. Mr. Wontner was retained professionally by Sophie Mertz, and Mr. Ballantine for Colonel Blanc. From the very great length to which the examina tions extended each day, it is impossible to give more than a brief outline of the leading matter. The plaintiff, Sophie Mertz, stated that she had for merly lived in London, as milliner's assistant; that she became acquainted with Colonel Blanc, and that an in timacy commenced between them and continued for four years. She had met Colonel Blanc) frequently by ap pointment, and had remained with him at his lodgings and other places all night. [Numerous letters from Colonel Blanc making appointments with the plaintiff were put in, which put the nature of the intimacy be tween the parties beyond all doubt.] In consequence of this intimacy she became enceinte, and trio months before her accouchement she mentioned her situation to Colonel Blane. She went to France to be confined, and there gave birth to a child, which Colonel Blanc refused to acknowledge or support; she had, therefore, been obliged to come from France to obtain by legal means some support for the child. Mr. Ballantine called evidence to prove that the plain tiff's correspondence with Colonel Blane had ceased for so long a period that it was impossible for Culonel Blanc to be the father of the child. Other evidence was called to establish a doubt about the plaintiff having had a child. The French nurse was sent for from France, who proved that she had seen the plaintiff just before her ac couchement; that she had evident appearances of being enceinte, and that half an hour after the birth of the child she had received it, and bad attended the plaintiff as nurse until her recovery. Mr. Ballantine, on behalf of the defendant, contended that the whole case was a conspiracy against Colonel Blane, to oblige him to support another mans offepring. But his first objection was, that a foreigner, as the plain tiff was, who had given birth to a child in a foreign country, could not by law proceed against a British sub ject in such a case, in the same form as a British subject could proceed. His next point was, the improbability of the plaintiff concealing the circumstances of her alleged pregnancy from Colonel Blanc ; and the in credible circumstance of her going to France to give birth to the child. He further contended that some of the letters and documents produced as corroborative of portions of the evidence were manifest forgeries. Mr. Woatner, in reply, said that, civilly and crimi nally, a foreigner had the same rights in English courts of law as Englishmen. This was the peculiar feature of the country. As an instance, he might mention Napo leon Bonaparte, who had instituted proceedings for re dress in one of our courts. With respect to the evidence, he contended that the intercourse, which was not denied, was established by evidence up to a period which war ranted the presumption that Colonel Blanc was the father of the child ; and that with respect to the birth of the child, that had been proved beyond doubt by the testi• mony of the nurse. Mr. BINGHAM said in this case Sophie Mertz, a Frenchwoman, residing in London, seeks to affiliate on the defendant a child born in France, after an intercourse alleged to have taken place in England. It is objected to the jurisdiction of this Court, that the statute 7 and 8 Vice, cap. 101, does not apply to such a case. That Act, however, without reference to nation or place of birth, gives the mother of a bastard child the right to apply to a magistrate of the district wherein she resides for an order of affiliation on the putative fattier, who, if the case be established against him, is compellable to pay her a sum not exceeding half a- crown a week toward. the support of such child. And it seems to me that this payment must be considered either as a statutory debt in the way of compensation to the mother, or as au in demnity to the parish where she resides, which, in case of her falling into destitution, is clearly bound to assist her as one of the casual poor. If it be a debt a fo reigner may sue for it in our country, as well as a Bri tish subject. If it be an indemnity to the parish, it is necessary that the parish should be indemnified against a foreign as against an English child. I think. therefore, that the statute applies to a case like the pre sent, and that the objection to the jurisdiction is not well founded. On the merits, the case has undergone, as I think it demanded, a careful and even a rigid, investiga tion. Some doubt was thrown on the birth and identity of the child, and it was reasonably required that both those facts should be established by the corroborative proof which the statute exacts. But the witness, Antonie Duez, who is properly admitted by the defendant's advo cate to be the witness of truth, has now stated that the child produced was delivered to her half-an -hour after its ' birth—that for seine days before that time the complain ant had all the appearance of a woman far advanced in pregnancy, and all the appearance of a woman just de livered when the witness received the child. And what the witness Frederick Muller deposes to, as having passed at the interview which he and the complainant had with the defendant on the subject of this child, is to my mind significant, if not conclusive, proof of the defendant's loag intercourse with the complainant. Under these circumstances, the resistance to an order appears to rest mainly on certain surmises and suppositions, grounded on the complainant's j eirney to France—on the levity of his introduction to the defendant four years ago—her demeanour as a witness—the style and chas ratter of a letter a leged to have been written in France on the subject of the witness Duez's journey; inscrip tions on passports, and on some discrepancy in state ments. Considering the complainant's station in life, the journey to France is sufficiently accounted for, by the greater cheapness of providing for the child in that country; and it might not be difficult to find a solution as simple for many other circumstances apparently suspicious. But I refrain from entering oe such topics, because it is contrary to the spirit of English law to decide any case upon surmises or suspicions, however plausible, in opposition to expressed testimony, and in the absence of testimony to support such surmises. It has been proved in this case that the defendant cohabited with the complainant for some years, and that she has been delivered of a child which is produced in court. No proof has been given, sach as is frequently given in bastardy cases, that the complainant has cohabited with any other man or men ; nor, although ample time has been afforded for the purpose, has any witness been brought from France to contradict any part of the detailed statement made by the complainant a month ago of her proceedings in France. In such a state of the evidence the burden of providing for this child, according to the statute, falls under our law clearly and unexceptionably on the de ' fendant. An order will be made, therefore, for the usual weekly allowance, and for the statutory expenses of the delivery, and for the expenses of the witness An tonie Duez. Mr. Ballantine gave notice of his intention to appeal. The order for payment towards the support of the child is only 2s. 6d. per week. The expense for the de fence is supposed already to be likely to amount to 15 or 20 years payments at this rate. LAMBETH. PASSING FORGED NOTES.—CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC. —Three men, named John Harley, Thomas Dale, and William Davis, who had been in custody for some days on a charge of being concerned in passing a forged Si. note, were again placed at the bar for final examination. An officer belonging to the Bank of England attended, and, in reply to a question from the Magistrate, said the evidence against the prisoners was not sufficient to sus tain a prosecution, and, therefore, it was not his intention to press the matter further. The prisoners were in consequence discharged. It appears that a number of these forged notes, on the ' Newcastle branch of the Bank of England, have been passed in the metropolis, and they are so well executed that it requires an excellent judge to detect them. CAUTION TO BROKERS.—Mr. Edward Smith, a li censed broker, carrying on business in George-street, Camberwell, appeared before the Magistrate to answer to a summons for excessive charges. In this case it appeared that the defendant had been engaged by Miss Mary Ann Brown to distrain on the goods of a tenant, and while the goods seized were con demned at 165., his charges for the job were 1/. Os. 6d., being an excess of 1 ls. beyond that which the Act of Parliament allows, The defendant was convicted in a penalty of three times the amount of his excessive charge—namely, 355,, ant. 2s. costs, both of which he paid. BENEVOLENCE .—Mr. ,Norton received a note from D. W., enclosing five pounds for the poor-box, whi c h was requested W bo twliunledged ila the papers. AUSTRIA. The Breslau Gazette of the 4th i ns t an t s t a t es th a t perfect tranquillity had been restored at Vienna in consequence of the excellent discipline established by Prince Windischgratz, who had ordered that some soldiers should be shot for having pillaged the inhabi tants. It was reported that the Prince had been fired at. It was likewise said th a t a por ti on o f t h e National Guards had refused to surrender their arms. Prince Windischgratz and Baron Jellachich had established their quarters in the Imperial Palace. The leader of the Academic Legion had be en arres t e d, together with an aide-de-camp of General Messen hauser. General Cordon had b een appo i nte d Go vernor of the city. DENMARK. Letters from Copenhangen of the 27th ult. state that Herr Nyholm . put a question to the Mi n i s t er o f Foreign Affairs in the Chamber the preceding day , respecting the unexpected arrival of the Commis sioners Reedtz and Stedmann at Copenhagen. Count Knuth replied that, although the Government was perfectly willing to give every information to the Chamber, he could only then state, for its satisfaction, that the new Government Commission having greatly transgressed the limits of its lawful competency, M. Reedtz had determined to leave Schleswig, and was perfectly justified in so doing. The Minister viewed the adhesion of the German to the Danish Govern ment Commissioner as a favourable sign. He pro mised to give further explanations in the course of a few days. ITALY. The Opinione of Turin, of the 14th, announces that the Cadore and Udine have risen, and that Rovigo and the whole of the Polesine are ready to drive the Austrians away. General Ramorino, Com mander-in-Chief of the troops of Lombardy, has published an order of the day, in which, after recom mending discipline and obedience to his troops, he expresses a hope that victory will smile upon them in the field. The Archbishop of Turin, who has been obliged to leave Piedmont, because he was opposed to the expul sion of the Jesuits, has arrived at the Chateau de Divonne, in the Pays de Gex. The Rivista Indipendente of Florence, of the 30th ult., publishes the programme of the new Ministry. It promises financial measures to remedy the penury of the treasury, particularly by the sale of the national property; military reform, for the purpose of obtain ing a sufficient regular armed force for the defence of the country; entire liberty of the press, and some assurances of a general character, to be found in all programmes. The public press of Tuscany considers the present one as nugatory, and is far from favourable to the new Cabinet. A demonstration took place at Lucca, on the 28th ult., in favour of order. A crowd of about 4,000 persons went to the prefecture, de claring that from henceforward the people would not endure tumultuous demonstrations, but that all grievances should be met by the right of petition. The Venice Gazette, of the 27th, in an extraor dinary supplement, gives the official bulletin of the taking of Fusina and Mestre. The Venetians, after an obstinate conflict, have taken 500 prisoners, eight pieces of cannon, six horses, and several ammunition waggons. The Austrians have had 200 between killed and wounded. The same bulletin adds that the Marine office has just received notice that 44 Sardinian vessels of war are anchored off the port of Malamocco. The Augsburg Gazette has letters from Rome to the 24th and 25th ult. They announce the departure of General Armandi to Venice the preceding day, on a secret mission, although little doubt was entertained that he was the bearer of a large sum of money from the Pontifical Government for the use of the Vene tians. Colonel Ciaddi, who commands the Papal steamers stationed in the Adriatic, hail simul taneously received orders to restore and main tain the postal connexion between Ancona and Venice, in spite of the blockade. These acts, the letters before us observe, leave no doubt as to the future policy of the Roman Government in the event of a renewal of hostilities. The war-party are pursuing their plans for the attainment of independence with indomitable energy. The Jews' quarter of the city was placed in a state of siege on the 24th, in conse quence of some bloody encounters between the Jews and some of the citizens. The disturbance had been suppres9ed by the military force. The Constituzionale Subalpino , of the 4th instant, publishes the project of electoral law for the convoca tion of the Italian Constituent Assembly. That As sembly is to prepare a federal compact, which, re specting the existence of the different states and their form of government, shall tend to insure the liberty, union, and independence of Italy. All the states are to return an equal number of representatives, and the latter, 300 in number, are to be elected by the Chambers of Depu ties. The Assembly is to meet at Rome, a month after the approval of the present project by the three: Italian Parliaments. The deputies of Lombardy are to be chosen by the Lombard Consults, and those of the Venetian provinces by the Committees and the Assembly of Venice. Those of Modena and Reggio are to be elected by the Sardinian Chamber of Depu ties. The confederation is to consist of the kingdom of Upper Italy, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. the Pontifical dominions, the kingdom of Naples, and the kingdom of Sicily. The Confederation is to have an army, a fleet, a treasury, and a diplomatic representation abroad. Its central authority is to be composed of a legislative congress and a perma nent executive power. The congress to consist of two chambers, in one of which each state is to be equally represented; and in the other, the repre sentation is to be proportioned to the population. Both are to be elective. The members of the first are to be elected by the constituted powers of each state, and those of the second by the people. The executive power is to be formed of a responsible President, and a Council of Ministers, equally responsible. The P res id ent is appointed for a limited period by the Legislative Council, and the Ministers by the President. The Con gress is to deliberate on all matters of general in terest for the confederation ; to interfere in case of a collision between confederate states and foreign countries, or of a difference arising between confederate states, &c. ; all Custom duties on goods passing from one state to another are to be abolished, and the foreign tariff is to be based on the principle of free trade. The confederation proclaims liberty of the press, individual liberty, free municipal institu tions ; the right of association and o f petition ; civil, political, and religious equality, &c. - LONDON CLERKS' PERMANENT BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETY AND SAYINGS FUND.The first subscription meeting of this society was held at the Literary Institu tion, Leicester-square, on Wednesday when upwards of one hundred shares were taken up by the members pre sent for themselves or friends. In the course of the evening it was explained that in this society, unlike the majority of building societies, the borrowing members incurred no risk contingent on the success of the society, but were advanced the money required for the purchase of property at a fixed period, at the moderate interesti of 31. 12s. per cent, per annum. It was also explained that in the case of respectable parties purchasing the houses in which they reside, the full amount of purchase money would be advanced by t h e society, though only a propor tionate am oun t wou ld be advanced towards the purchase of property as a specu l a tion. At the request of several shareholders, it was resolved to hold another meeting in the course of the present month, to give parties an op portunity of joining it without having to pay up arrears of subscription. ABBOT' S LEIGH.—The parish church of Abbot's Leigh, which is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, has again been opened for divine service, after being rebuilt at the expense of William Miles, Esq., M.P. The old church was an incongr uous mass of doub le hi g h p ews, g aller y , plaster, ceiling, and whitewash, the whole of which were destroyed by fire. The tower and chancel were not in jured, and the new erection has been designed to make the whole of the building a uniform perpendicular struc ture; it con s i sts o f nave, north and south aisles, tower, sacristy, and chancel. The exterior of the building is faced with the old red sand-stone of the neighbourhood, with Bath st one d ress ings. The accommodation has been much increased by the new arrangement of single , low, open sitti ngs . The roofs are open to the church, and have traceried ribs and cushed braces. The old belfry arch is opened into the tower, and the new font placed under th e same , thereby exposing the western w indow. The pews in the chancel have been removed, new stalls substituted, and in the whole of the windows are inserted ornamen t a l glass. The architects are Messrs. Pope, Bindon, arid Clarke, of this city, and the glass has been executed by Mr. Bell, of Trinity-street. The churchyard is pleasantly situated, overlooking the house and domain of Abbot's Leigh, and it contains the pedestal and steps of an old cross.—Bristol In the last Amsterdam and Rotterdam accounts the state of business in produce is described as one of extreme calmness, scarcely say variation having latterly taken Owe in the leittling ttrueles of consumption. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSDIOUTH, THURSDAY.—This being the anniver sary of the birthday of the Prince of Wales, the event was commemorated by festive assemblies by the heads of departments of this port and garrison, and by a superb ball and banquet at the King's Rooms, given by the bachelors of the navy at this port, to which upwards of 400 of the elite of the port and district were invited. The Plumper screw-schooner was commissioned to day by Commander Nolloth, and was removed from the basin. The Amphitrite, 25, Captain T. R. Eden, was at sea on the 12th of September, all well. The Commodore was off St. Paul de Loaudo at that date, but had arranged: to be at St. Helena on the Ist of November, to remain_ there until the 30th, and then sail for Ascension, to hold. one or two courts-martial. The Amphitrite sailed from. the Bights on the 17th of August, reached Ascension_ on the 29th, filled up with provisions for the Bights squadron until February, and sailed again for the Bights on the morning of the 3d of September, about 5 30 A.M. About 6 A.M. on Sunday, the 10:h of September, in. lat. 4 deg. 1 Mill. N., long. 1 deg. 45 min. W., she cap tured a brig under . Brazilian colours, with 283 slaves on board, 12 days from Whydah, after a chase of two hours and a half, with all the sail she could set. Theprize did not heave to until the inner studding sail tack was shot away by one of the Amphitrite's bow guns, fired by Lieut. Furneaux. This was most fortunate, for laden up as the Amphitrite was with provisions, and difficult as it was to get even the bow guns clear, the prize might have got, away, being a " clipper," and baying a crew of upward of twenty hands on board,. She was dispatched to Sierra Leone before twelve o'clock in charge of Mt.. Graham, mate of the Amphitrite, with Mr. Baker, mid shipman, and ten men. The Amphitrite left at Ascen sion the Tortoise guard-ship, the Wanderer, refitti►ag, and the Blazer, preparing to go to the southward to meet the Commodore. In the Bights, the Cygnet, the Star, the Firefly, and the Dolphin. Mr. Hutchins, second master, who left the Amphitrite in the priz e in May last, and Lieutenant Strickland, who left in a peize in July last, had neither of them rejoined at the above date from Sierra Leone. The Amphitrite left Lieut. Walker, five officers (juniors), and five men ill at the hospital, but none of them seriously; three men were invalided. Capt. Eden and all the officers, with very man y of the men, have been ailing since the Amphitrite left Ascension. Very few of the crew appear able to bear with impunity the sudden transition from the coast, even to Ascension and back; and although there are none of them seriously ill, their health is clearly little able to resist any stronger attacks of disease. Our correspondent concludes:—" The captures have, no doubt, been nume rous of late; but from this it would be wrong to infer that the trade in slaves has been in the like degree checked. The truth is, it is carried on extensively— that we only add to the horrors of it; and while doing so, tax poor John Ball to the tune of a million or more per annum.' The Ajax, 56, steam guard-ship, was removed from the basin to-day. The Reynard screw steam-schooner, Commander P. Cracroft, was removed from the basin this morning, and immediately aiterwards docked, the Urgent steam vessel having been undoeked last evening to make room for her. The Manceuvrer lighter, with stores, from Deptford, for Clarence-yard, arrived this morning. Wind, N.E. by N.; fresh breezes and fine weather. PLYMOUTH, Nov. B.—Her Majesty's frigate Daedalus, was taken into duck yesterday. Her Majesty's ship Impregnable, 104, is to be masted to•clay. Her Majesty brig Heroine, 10, Captain Edmunds, waits orders directing at what port she is to be paid off. The Admiralty Financa Committee, yesterday morn irg, at halt-past nine, landed from the Black Eagle's boat at the Royal William Victualling-yard. Their Lordships first visited the office of Captain Toup Ni cholas, the Captain Superintendent, with whom and Mr. Armstrong, Master Attendant, and Mr. Pike, Store keeper, they continued in conference until half-past eleven. Their Lordships then inspected the brew house, the Clarence spirit-store, and the bakehouse, and at twelve o'clock left for the Black Eagle in Hamoaze. The Glene'g emigrant ship, for Port Adelaide ; the Lord Hungerford, for Port Philip; and the Athesian, for Port Adelaide and Port Philip, sailed this afternoon. The passengers per Steadfast suffering from scarlatina. continue to progress favourably. Wind northerly, light, fine weather. THE CORN TRADE. GLASGOW, Nov. B.—The foreign arrivals at Grange— mouth since last week comprised only about 784 quarter& of wheat, 1,000 quarters of barley, 600 quarters of oats,, 800 quarters of brans, and 75 quarters of peas. A fair supply of wheat and flour from Canada and the United States, and of oats from Ireland, reached Clyde direct. Coastwise, the imports continue moderate. There was a fair sale of malt and flour during the week, at the full rates of last Wednesday. New wheat sold 6d to is dearer per 240. b f,r fine qualities. This day's market was thinly attended. Wheat was held firmly at the cur rency of this day se'nnight. Flour, in barrels, 6d dearer. French flour offering at 43s to 44s per sack. Barley in short supply, and Gd to is higher per 3201 h. Oats and oatmeal without material alteration. Egyptian beans realised 1133 to Ills Gd per 2801 b, being an advance of 6d to 9d per boll. White peas in better demand, which is freely met by holders. New beans the turn cheaper. BIRMINGHAM, YEEITERDAL-At Gloucester market on the 4th, good wheat sold freely at rather over the currency of that day se'nnight. At Worcester, same day, the eupply from the growers being large, no advance could be obtained on any description. Barley dull, but not lower. Oats maintained their value. On beans the turn was in favour of: the seller. Peas in fair demand. Oats unaltered. During the present week the transac tions in wheat have been limited, our millers holding off rather than submit to any advance. Barley the turn lower, end a dull sale. Beans held for more money, with which buyers will not comply. We have less inquiry for peas. Only a limited sale for oats at former prices. At this day's mat ket there was a large supply of wheat ; the trade ruled dull, at rather under the rates of this day week. Barley, is. per quarter lower. Oats a very slow sale, and to have made progress a reduction must have been submitted to. Beans in good demand, and fully as den.. Peas maintained their value. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, Nov. 9. STOCK EXCYANGE. —The market remains firm. The sales are—Great Western, Quarters, 3 dis.—Ditto, New 17/. Shares, dis.—Bristol and Exeter, 3714 dis. LIVERPOOL, Noy. 9. STOCK Exchamitt.—The share market has been rather dull to. day, and but little stock is offering. Prices, however, were firm. The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 31/. Sh ares, 9/. 6s. 3d. c. dis.—Cale donian, 19 1 4—Eastern Counties, 12%—Lancashire and York shire (late Manchester and Birmingham), 101. Preference, / 4 6 p.—London and North Western, Quarters (C), 1 3 4 p.— Midland , Stock, New Halves, 9, 1 1 , dis.—North British, New 33p—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 15/. 7s. 9d. Shares ( A), Preference, par—York, Newcastle, and Ber wick (G. N. E. Purchase), 1 1 / 4 c. dis. MANCHESTER, Nov. 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, Prefer ence, I, A dis.—East Lanca , hire, Preference, 3-16 p.—North Staffordshire, 6 7-16 dis.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, Halves, 534 dis.—Leeds, 32/. Shares, 9 cis.— Ditto, Preference, % c. p. BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 9. STOCK EXCHANGE. The sales are—North Staffordshire, 61.85. 9d. dis.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), 41. Bs. 9d. dis.—Shropshire Union, 3/. Is. 4d, dis.—Caledonian, Prefer ence, 1, dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Preference, Is. 3d. p. YORK, No 8. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day was as follows: Great Northern, 3 1 ,4—North British, Thirds, 3 3 / 4 —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6t. 13s. M. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Nov. 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The only sale was—North Stafford shire, 6 7-16. GLASGOW, Nov. 8. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, Prefer ference, 88s.—Dundee and Perth, 22 % — Edinburgh and Glasgow, Halves, 9 1 -4 —Edinburgh and Northern, 11—Ditto ( Newport), 6 1 4 —Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 50— Ditto, Halves, No. 1,61 s. - Glasgow and Greenock, Prefer ence, OA—Great Northern, F Bs. 6d.—North British, Thirds, 725. 6d.—Scottish Central, 231. THE WEATHER.—LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY...—A. fall of snow took place last night. BIRTHS. On the 7th iust,, at Plouden-hall, Shropshire, Mrs. Camp bell, of a daughter. On the 7th inst., the lady of Ralph Merreek Luke, Esq, of a daughter. On the Bth inst., at Cleveland-square, the Countess of Sandwich, of a daughter. On the 7th inst., at Hickworth, Lady Alfred Hervey, of a son. On the sth inst.. at Tottenham, Mrs. T. F. Robins, of a son. On the 6th inst., at Iford, the wife of the Rev. W. E• Allfree, of a daughter. On the 7th inst., at Duncan-terrace, Islington, the wife of A. Mackinto,h, Esq., of a daughter. On the Bth inst., at Wandsworth-common, the wife of T. S. Watson, Esq., of a daughter. AfAitliCIED. On the 7th inst., at the parish church of Tor, Devonshire, by the Rev. Richard Fayle, A.M., Gilbert Ker, Esq., of Liverpool, eldest son of William Ker, Esq., of Gateshawt J.P. county of Roxburgh, to I-abella, third daughter of the late Thomas Benson Pease, Esq., Chapel Allerton-hall, York shire. DIED. On the 23d ult., at Cronstadt, aged 78, John Booker, Esq., for upwards of fifty years her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Cronstadt, Russia. On the 31st ult., at Aldwick, Sussex, T. Cabb2ll, Esq. At Brighton, on the 4th inst., H. T. Windsor, Esq., of Muswell-hill, and Mincing-lane, aged 52. On the 4th inst., at 13(;VerleY, Yorkshire, Henry William Hutton, Esq., aged 61. At Brighton, on the 6th inst., aged 15, George I. C. Ward, second son of the Hon. J. Petty Ward. On the Gth inst., at Ham-court, Upton-on-Severn, Worces tershire, W. Tennant, Esq. On the 6th inst., at Nantwich, aged 30, ♦nn, wife of John J. Garnett, Esq., of Stoke-hall, Cheshire. _ . On the 6th inst., aged 26, Emily Mary, the youngest daughter of W. Murray, Esq., of Cambridge-square. On the 7th inst., Lucy, the infant daughter of W. Newton s Esq., of Westbourne-terrace, Hyde-park. On the 7th inst., aged 66, Mr. Andrew Wilson, of New road, St. George's, Middlesex. On the Bth inst., at High-street, Southwark, Mr. John Gilham, aged 58. On the Sth inst., Leonard, eldest son of Leonard Dobbin, Esq., of Gardiner's-place, Dublin. On the Bth inst., Ernest Edward, youngest son of Mr. C. Smith, of Upper Thames-street. On i the Bth inst„ at Augusta-place, Clapham-road, Mr. B Parrey, late of Tower-street, aged 133. 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