The Sun. — London, England, 1848-11-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, 1848. 13, Great liarlborongh-etreet. HE YOUNG COUNTESS, A NEW NOVEL, By MM. TROLLOPE, IS NOW READY, at all the Libraries, in 3 vOlB. Fleury Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlboroagh-street. Dedicated, by permission, to Miss Edgeworth. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., -H ELEN CHARTE RIS. A Novel of the Present Day. " Of all defects with which frail man Is curst, How oft a want of firmness proves the worst; Ah ! rather seek to build upon the wave, Than trust one hour to Indecision's slave." The Rival Sisters. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. Manager, Mr. BITS.N.*. TO - MORROW EVENING, The Entertainments will commence with a Grand Opera, entitled lIATDEN I or, the Secret. Loredano, Mr. Sims Reeves ; Malgenio, Mr. Whitworth ; Andrea Donato, Mr. Herberte; Havdee, Miss Lncombe. T AMAZ. Josifa, Mdlle. Louise ; Nisida HM , Mdlle ONS . Piunkett ; Don Ethur, M. Petipa ; Don Oscar, Mr. W. H. Payne; supported by Mdlles. Celeste Stephan, Moncelet, Arnal, Annie Payne, Therese Cushnie, Horne, Sophie, Annie Cushaie, Le Tete, Lowe, and Fenton ; Messrs. Paul Red Jules. Mr. BUNN, by an arrangement made with the Directors of the Royal Italian Opera, is enabled to avail himself of the vast resources of that celebrated Establishment, the Entertainments will be supported by a mise en scene never yet given on the English stage. With the view of representing the Performances submitted to public patronage In an equally efficient manner, he submits the names of the principal Artistes with wheat he has entered into engagements : FOR GRAND OPERA. SOTRANI AND CONTILALTE—MdIIe. Nissen (principal singer from the Imperial Theatres of Italy and St. Petersburgh), Miss Homer, Miss Bassano, Miss Wallace (sister of the composer, her first appear ance), Miss Nelson (her first appearance on any stage), Miss Messent, and Madame Stoltz (the renowned singer from the Grand Opera at Paris). Bassr.s AND BARITONES.—Mr. Borrani, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Bar dini, Mr. R. Corn (principal buffo from the Theatre Royal, Dublin), IC'. donee, and Mr. 11. Phillips. TENons.—Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. llerberte (his first appearance on the London stage), Mr. Barker, and Mr. Sims Reeves. The Orchestra has been entirely re-arranged, and selected fro= the first talent, on a greatly increased settle. limical Director, Signor Schira. The Chorus will be augmented to an unusual extent, and will cen• rise the best voices in the country. Chorus Master, Mr. Laid. FOR GRAND BALLET AND SPECTACLE. Wiles. Plunkett and Sophie Fuoco (both from the Grand Opera do la Nation, Paris), Mdlle. Celeste Stephan, bidlle. Mencelet, Mdlle. Gaillot, and lidlle. Areal (all from the principal Theatres of Paris), Mdlle. Louise, and Mdlle. Maywood (principal danseuse from the San Carlos, Naples) ; M. Petipa and If. Desplaces (both from the Theatre de la Nation, Paris), M. Jules (from the Grand Opera La Scala, at Milan), M. Paul, Mr. W. H. Payne, Mr. T. Matthews, Mr. Cormack (from the Theatre Royal, Liverpool, his first appearance), M. Tier (his first appearance these eight years), and the most renowned 1 Dancer now on the Continent, M. Durand ; with a more numeroas and effective body of Corps de Ballet, Figurantes, and Promeneuses, than has ever yet been engaged in an English Theatre. A grand Opera, in threw acts, composed expressly for this Theatre by Mr. W. V. Wallace. The First Wuipurgis Night" (th , Poem by Goethe, and the Mn sic by the late Dr. Mendelssohn), will be given in a dramatic form by all the immense resources of the Theatre. A celebrated Musical Work (dramatised for the first time by J. P. Planche) is in preparation, and will bo produced as speedily as the magnitude of the subject will permit. A new grand Opera, entitled "Kenilworth," by Signor Schira ; anal a grand semi-seria Opera, composed expressly by Mr. W. Balfe. An entirely new Ballet will be produced for the debut of Mdlle. Maywood. .Numerous treaties are pending, and amongst others, an answer is daily expected from the celebrated Herr Pischek. Principal Scene-painters—Meurs. Grieve and Telbin. Property Maker —Mr. Illamire. Ballet Masters-1411. Barrez and Mazilier. - Under Ballet Master—Mr. B. Barnett. Stage Director—Mr, G. Ellis. ENTRANCES AND PRICES OF ADMISSION. Grand Entrance, Bovr-street.—Grand Tier Boxes, 31. 3s. ; First Tier Boxes, V. 2s. and 1/. I Is. 6,1. ; Pit Boxes, 21. 2s. ; Stalls, 10s. 6d. ; Single AthrOs4ioril to a Private Box on the First Tier, 7s. Bow-street Entrance—PA, 3s. 6d. Piazza Entrance. —Publie Boxes, 35.; Gallery Amphitheatre, 2s. 6d. ; Gallery, Is. 6cl. Half-price to take pi4ee, as usual, at Nine,—To the Public Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre Gallery, Is. 6d ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at Flair-past Six, performance to commence at Seven. The Box-office is open from Ten till Five, under the direction of Mr. John Parsons. UKATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, mole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompten. The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during the recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations, and the Whole re-decorated. THIS EVENINC, Will be performed a new Tragedy called THE PATRICIAN'S DAUGHTER. Alter which, the new Comic Drama, called THE ROUSED LION. Characters by Messrs. Webster, Howe, Wigan, H. Vanden holt': Mrs. Keeley, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. S , aymonr, and Mrs. Stanley. After which, WHO'S YOUR FRIEND, To conclude with tta_. comic Drama, entitled THE IRISH POST, Jharacters by Messrs. Tilbury, Braid, Hudson, J. Bland, W. Santer, A. Ik'rindal ; Mrs. numbs, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, and Miss Woulds, TIIE.A. PRIG ROYAL, ADELPIIL undur ti.,. o; Madame Celeste During the Recce.; this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the original designs by Di4by Wyatt, Esq , executed by Mr. Sang. A new Stage, Curtain, Act lirop, and Chandelier. An approved sys tem of Ventilation, &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs added to the Seats, and Stai!s rendered more comfortable. ► be depreciated—mills and factories idle and deserted— ' artizans and operatives unemployed—and everything low and unremunerative, save the interest of money. Those amiable men, the Moneyocracy of the country, loudly complain of the reduction, proclaim the impro priety and inexpediency of the Bank giving the signal for security, and thus taking the game out of their hands. They cavil and fret because the directors have " for the nonce," disregarded their narrow and restricted views, to which they have too long been the slaves, and dared to fol low the path which a due consideration of the inte rests of the Bank proprietary, and of the community in general, simultaneously indicated. They cannot conceal their vexation and disappointment, and, forgetful of the adage, " they bark where they are unable to bite." Those prejudiced and narrow minded men may, however, be treated with silent contempt. The motives by which they are actuated are too palpable to deceive even the most cre dulous. The nation will not be deterred by their croakings from taking full advantage of the improved prospects—of the more pro pitious seasons—" the good time coming "—which we hope and believe to be at hand. They will not be permitted to realise their own forebodings, to accom plish the evil they prophecy with such intense anxiety for the fulfilment of their predictions. The public may now be convinced of that which a careful ex amination of the Bank returns for some time past, and of the general prospects of the country, would have satisfied the more experienced, viz., that there is no immediate danger of monetary embarrassments ; that greater facilities for obtaining money at fair and reason able interest will be afforded; that confidence and credit will gradually improve until they are at length fully re-established, and just and adequate prices may be obtained for every description of property. We again congratulate the public on the step that has been taken by the directors of the Bank of England, a step which was not only equitable in itself, and what the country had a right to expect at their hands, but wise and politic in the highest degree, and likely to prove equally beneficial to the Bank itself and to the nation. Really the contradictions and perversities of judg ment displayed by the gentlemen who stickle for the sanctification of the Sabbath aro exceeding all reason able and bearable limits. We can endure the nui sance no longer. To squeeze the whole question into the compass of a very portable proposition, we say for once and for all—lf Mr. SO•AND-S0 thinks that by shaving his chin upon the Lord's day, he is acting sinfully, why, in Heaven's name, let him go unshorn until Monday morning, but for GoD's sake don't allow him the power of making his neighbours equally unclean by compulsion ? Were the whims of half-a-dozen frequenters of the conventicles to coun terbalance the will of the multitude, we should soon enough have the whole fabric of society turned topsy turvy. We should exist upon biscuits and cold meat fifty-two days in the year ; we should be shivering over our unlighted hearths for twenty-four hours in every one of the weeks of winter ; we should have not the permanent consecration of the Sabbath, but the periodical stagnation of the community. No trains would run upon the railways, not an omnibus, a stage- coach, a cab, a hackney carriage, not "A whisky, buggy, gig', or go-cart, Curricle, or tandem;" nay, not even the must ramshackle brougham, the most ricketty clarence, or the most unostentatious chip of a wheelbarrow would break the monotony of our streets on a Sunday. Sadness and silence would descend upon the population of our great cities with the bolting of the last shutter on Saturday nights. Religion would doom horseflesh to the stables once every seven days, and would unconsciously promote the interest of the cobblers of England, Ireland, Scot land, and Berwick-upon-Tweed by the compulsory trituration of shoe leather. Every line of traffic and communication would be blocked up as effectually as by the barricades of the Parisians. The cooking of a cutlet would be prohibited as an infringement of the Commandments. The receipt of a letter would add an eighth to the seven deadly sins. The purchase of a newspaper would require for its expiation some thing more than the singeing influences of the purgatorial fires" mentioned by the ghost in Hamlet. Now, we protest in Coto against this enor mous humbug. We maintain, in defiance of di rectors of railways, of Secretary-Kens, of PLUMPTRES, of AGEWS, and of all the other godly individuals Rho are known under the soubriquet of Sabbatarians, we maintain, we say, in , defiance of all these very excellent gentlemen, that GOD never intended our souls to pass through life in a straight-waistcoat. The virtues inculcated by Christianity are persuasive, not peremptory. We are taught to be moral, not forced Willi-nilli into this or that pathway of excellence. One of the divinest glories of the religion founded in Palestine is its non interference with the will exercised by humanity. Had it been otherwise, twelve unlettered fishermen would never have dissipated the sensuous charms of Paganism. To found Christianity (such as it is de picted by the Sabbatarians of Scotland) would have required an army greater than that of XERXES, a cunning more profound than that of MecniaveLen a military awe more overpowering than that of ALEX ANDER, the resolution of Cseaseet, the daring of Heeler nen, and the dazzling pornps of NAPOLEON. As it was, the Gentiles were lured into a recognition of the divinity of CHRIST and of the truths of his religion, not by arbitrary enactments and rigorous penalties, but by the inspirations of eloquence, by the force of logic, by the purity of precepts, and by the witcheries of example. But, No! The Sabbatarians can't, for the life of them, perceive one atom of all this. The truth which is as a shining light to the million is as an impenetrable blackness to themselves. Oculos habent, et non videbunt : acres habent, et non audient : nares habent, et non odoraiunt. To them religion i s as something intimately dependent on the temporary cessation of the labours of letter-carrying, engine driving, and the like diabolical operations. They are in the minority, it is true ; but they are moreover (to their own thinking) in the right--and therefore we must down all of us on our marrow-bones and submit to their adjudication. Wait a moment, however, and let us see whether these men, who expect the whole population of ;he United Kingdoms to yield obedience, without a murmur at the despotism of their evangelical whims are consistent with themselves and their theory i They say that all Sunday travelling is sinful—and yet they convey the mails very submissively on their railways, and in so doing employ stokers, and guards, and engine-drivers, an d po li cemen, and a number of other subordinates ! They deny a daughter travel ling to the death-bed of a father a seat in one of the empty carriages in a mail-train—and yet they convey the letters, and those letters may be filled, for aught they know to the contrary, with libels, and chal lenges, and ill-will, and back-biting, and all abomina tions! One of the Sabbatarian lines is closed against a Duchess —while another facilitates the journey of a Queen ! But here, take the following tidbit of practical morality. It is the record of a number of penalties inflicted only the other morning:— " PUBLICANS ---FAST DAY.—Two or three licensed lraise: ),Littbillicans were charged in the police -court on Saturday that day drinking and tippling within their pre re one o'clock of the afternoon of the fast-day, ay having been ' se n t apart for public worship by for two of the lawful authority•' pa;tiesfir.and 1 Robertson, solicitor, appeared being a day set apart for publicc pleaded e t rity, no conviction couldl: son, however, entertained a d e isf by Mr. Robertson in cases of the samellcobjections Dick the complaints proven. cutting within the jurisdiction of the ma at the_ fast -day, not Place, by lawful autho son, hFirig tsken ace. Mr : sheriff Dick simaaerreonbt. opinion, and found Tullis concurred in the opinion given g bv zeription, n!- rreslailte suhstitute. Penalties were imposed in all the ceat,ese.'l:lfr- And then read the subjoined paragraph as a testi mony of the consistency of these sanctimonious money-makers. " THE FAST DAY.—Thursday having been the half yesrly sacramental fast, was observed in the city with the usual solemnity, all the shops and other places of businesi being clo Ad. The weather being fine, a con siderable number of people devoted the day to excursion * of / leasure, for which the various railways ago; dod (very facility. We learn that 6.450 passengers tr-tva i d b y the Edinburgh and Northern Railway ; 5,000 by the Nw th British ; 1,500 by the Eiiinbur,i.-,h and Gl,:lgow ; and 900 by the Caledonian. 'I he Er,;:. Day in Gl a s gow having occurred on the same clly, there was less ttttrac iion to visit that city than hitherto ; but on the North finish Railway a source of amusement was found in Gullane races, which took place on Thursday. The vari )us churches were in general well filled." The deduction from all this is too obvious to be stereotyped. It reveals the perfect disinterestedness and the inflexible consistency of the godly individuals called Agnewites. Yet, as a n a dditi onal token of their en lightenment we may observe that they have recently exerted their energies to prevent the trammission of the mails on all Sundays to and from Rothsay. Oh those doomed days the steamboats shall no longer, if they can help it, spoom across the Firth of Clyde on such errands of Satan. Bute is to be closed against the contamination of loving letters and impertinent journals. The Sabbath, in that quarter at least, is henceforth to be kept holy—a revival of the sanctity and seclusion of the once famous Icolmkill. The Sabbath ! And it is this day, encumbered with these execrable and most un-Christian restrictions, which is apostrophised by a Labourer's Daughter as The Pearl of Days 1 The Pearl of Days, forsooth ! they would soon render it the Curse of Weeks. But i enough of this. The scruples of a few superstitious persons are not going to overrule the rational mo rality of twenty-six millions of human beings in the middle of the nineteenth century. The extra agita tion of the Sabbatarians is only leading the more ra pidly and the more inevitably to their own final dis comfiture. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. Wednesday, being All Saints Day, was observed as a strict holiday in Paris, and consequently the majority of the journals did not appear. Among those published was the Demecratie Pacifigue, which states that several quarrels have occurred between the soldiers of the Gardes Mobiles and the soldiers of the Line, and that conflicts have, in many instances, ensued in which the ouvriers took part against the Gardes Mobiles. The Gerdes Mobiles were on Wednesday confined to their barracks in the Fau bourg. Poissoniere to prevent the recurrence of these collisions. In consequence of a difference of opinion among the several members of the Clubs of the Rue de Poi tiers and the Institute, they have determined that, as clubs, they will abstain from recommending any candidate. M. TRIERS supports the pretensions of Lours NA POLEON BONAPARTE:, being moved thereunto by the promise of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with, of course, full power to " work the telegraph," asuusual. Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON is already giving him self the airs of royalty—keeping himself aloof from the profane vulgar, transacting all business through the intervention of his cousin, who acts as a sort of Prime Minister to him, holding levees, grant ing audiences, contracting loans, and drawing up lists of his future Cabinet. One of these Ministerial lists gives the Foreign Affairs, as we before stated, to THIERS, the Interior to ODILLON BAREOT, the Finance to FOULD, War to OUDI" NOT, Marine /0 DUFETIT THOUARS, Commerce to LEON FAUCHER, the Post-office to EMILE DE GI RARDIN, and the Prefecture of Police to LEON DE MALLEVILLE. In fact, it is the Ministry of the old Centre Gauche, which, presented by LOUIS PHILIPPE to the people as a peace offering on the 24th of Fe bruary, was rejected by them with contempt. The only addition being the appointment of M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN to an office of trust—an addition not at all calculated to add to the respectability or the sta bility of the proposed Bonaparte Cabinet. General CHANGARNIER has published a letter, de claring that he will not permit himself to be nomi nated as a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic. A deputation of the wives of those who have been condemned for taking part in the insurrection of June went through the streets of Paris yesterday, intend ing to present a petition for a general amnesty to the National Assembly. The procession was stopped at the Pont de la Concorde by the police, and the peti tion was received by one of the officers and carried to the Assembly, afer which the women quietly dispersed. The following are the candidates, as far as hitherto known, for the vacant seats in the National Assem bly :—ln the Charente-Inferieure, Marshal BoGnacu and M. PAILLET ; in the Tarn, the Abbe DE GENOUDE and M. FOREST; in Corsica, M. E. DE GIRARDIN, the Abbe DE GENOUDE, and LUCIEN BONAPARTE ; in the Yonne, MM. ALEXANDRE DUMAS, FREDERICK GAILLARDAT, and PINARD ; in Calvados, M. GUIZOT is put forward, but without his own consent; no other candidate has hitherto been started. The election takes place on the 19th of November. At the sitting of the Assembly yesterday the dis cussion on the revision of the Constitution was com menced. A motion by M. DEVILLE, to the effect that the whole Constitution should be re examined and re-voted by the Assembly, on the ground that during the former discussion Paris was in a state of siege, was, after a smart debate, withdrawn, and the first eight paragraphs were agreed to. On the ninth paragraph being proposed, M. FELIX PYAT moved, as an amendment, that the clause recognising the right to labour should be re-inserted. The amend ment was, after a sharp and angry debate, rejected by a majority of 552, the numbers being —for the amendment 86, against it 638. The discussion on the revision of the Constitution had not concluded when the post left. BOURSE, PARIS, THURSDAY, Nov. 2. TEIP.EE o'cLocx..--To-day there was again a heavy fall at the Bourse, which is attributed entirely to the uneasiness produced by the approaching election, and the bad state of the finances of the Republic. After the close of the Bourse the Five per Cents. fell to 67f. 40c. For the Account, the French Three per Cents. have fallen 40c. ; Five per Cents. 500. ; and the Lean, 75c. For Money, the Three per Cents. have also fallen 40e. ; , the Five per Cents. have fallen 55c.; and the Loan 75c. ; Bons du Tifosor not quoted ; Bank of France Shares have fallen 40c.; Belgian Bank Shares have fallen 5f.; ditto Five per Cents. have fallen per cent. ; Spanish Funds not quoted ; Roman h as advanced per cent. ; Rothschild's Receipts are at 79. Exchange on London (30 days), 25 45 ; ditto (90 days), 25 27i. Railway Shares have again declined; Orleans have fallen 31. 75c., fair! the Rouens 6f. 25c. In the others there is no mate rial change. IJUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Nov. 2. Boulogne and Amiens, 6%--Namur and Liege, 4!s. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 28th ult. have arrived. M. LEVRIER, the French police agent, who arrested ESCOSURA and the other Spanish refugees at Per pignan, has arrived at Madrid, and been feted by CHRISTINA and NARVAEZ. The accounts which have been received at Madrid from the insurgent provinces are of a very contradic tory character. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA, BOHEMIA, AND HUNGARY. We are still withoxt any direct communications from Vienna. It appears, however, beyond a doubt that it has been attacked and bombarded by W E I . DUCIIGIIATZ, and that his troops have suffered se verely, and when the last accounts left had failed to make themselves masters of the town. JELLACIIICH has been compelled to retire, and the citizens are de,. termined to destroy the city rather than surrender. The defence of Vienna can only be paralleled by the defence of Saragossa. The Breslau Gazette, of the 29th ult., gives the following letter from Vienna :—" A report was spread that the city had surrendered to Prince WINDISCII GItATZ on the nth October, but this turns out to be false, as appears by the following letter, dated Lungerburg, Oct. 26 :—' The brave Viennese are everywhere conquerors up to the present moment they maintain a murderous fire. The Austrian officers say, if it should continue they will not have sufficient troops left to take the city. There are only 150 men alive of the chasseurs who attacked the city by the Prater. Yesterday, between four and five o'clock, Prince WlNDlscu caxrz was forced to suspend the attack by the want of powde r for the small arms. lie asked an armistice theyWtoluleldVfiigehnt to neset„he last.wliich they refused, saying thtught h e could easily penetrate to the heart of the city b y the barrier lu'isiNsdnorisfcrifGoautntdTz,thwe' the gr ea t est obstacles. After three d ' ays' fighting; y ofN all that the Imperial troops were able to p ossess themselves o f was the station m o u f sk th t e N a,s ort t l h ie e r y n obli ged Railway. They Were geex of i ammunition on the d,ecittiess,aid c onvoy onvuoiy from Ouse cannon gunpo w d er for their have no other l e f t. It wali s would start ex p ected th a ts a llmu t z for vn 27th. Th ey are also in want of pro e a lowitz visions. The firing will recommence this evening, and we expect a terrible night. WINDISCAGRATS is continually pouring bombshells into the city., The great steam-mills on the Danube and the large edifice called the Swiss Buildings, have been burnt down. The Viennese fight like lions. The Imperial Castle (Burgen), the Bank, the University, and even the Cathedral of St. Stephen, are all mined. JEI.LA• Cinch has retired. The Imperial pioneers attempted to carry a small redoubt near Florisdorf, but the Viennese destroyed it." The Berlin Deutsche Reform of the 30th publishes in a supplement the following letter from Breslau, for the authenticity of which, however, it will not pledge itself, and which, even if authentic, is but the ex park statement of one of the pupils of METTERNICH, who, like his master, is no doubt exceedingly adroit in " dressing up " a statement, but even, according to this, the most favourable account for WINDISCHORATiII, the Viennese have annihilated one batallion of his army, and he is not yet in possession of the city• The letter is as follows : 29, " The following telegraphic ßreslau dispatch was yesterday sent to 011mutz, and h as arr i ved here to-day by the pas senger train from Vienna:— " General Wius to the Minister Von Wessenberg in 011mutz. Yesterday, Oct. 28, at eleven o'clock, Field-Mar shal Windischgratz made an attack from all sides. The battalion Schonhols, which, at th e entrance of the In gerzeil, stormed the first b arr i ca d e, which was guarded by 12 guns, has been completely destroyed. The barri cade was afterwards carried by the Jagers and grena diers. The military have penetrated as far as the Karla Theatre. The suburbs Louisentrasse and Franze Alice are in flames. The leaders of the students have fled.'" The Prussian Staata Anzieger, of October 31, says the above is so far confirmed by authentic intelli gence that the bombardment and attack of the city commenced on the morning of the 28th, soon after ten o'clock. Respecting the events which imme diately preceded it we have received the following intelligence from the environs of Vienna : " Prince Windischgratz had twice extended the time for deliberation—the last term expired on the evening of the 27th. On that day there was an almost entire ces sation of arms. Two large fires were seen in the city or its immediate vicinity. The Prince had notified to the Communal Council that he should consider it re sponsible for all the damage which might be sustained by the city from the necessary measures of violence. Some individuals who escaped from the city with the greatest difficulty, stated that the armed people forced their way even into the inns, and forced strangers to take part in the combat. " The Hungarians were posted on the 27th ult., with, it it said, 40,000 men, on the other side of the Leitha." The Hanoverian Zeitung of the 30th, in the after noon, says, " We have just learnt, from undoubted authority, that WINDISCHGRATZ has entered Vienna and disarmed the Aula, and that JELLACRICR has fallen back sou th war ds; that the E MPEROR, i n a ma nifesto, guaran t ee d th e liberties promi se d t o t h e city, and the conti nuanc e of the Diet in Vi enna. " The statement m of e n this intelligencemust tbe is o f itself a proof that th e In Preran th e report was current on th e 28 t h t h at Vienna was b om barded ; but it was n o t generally premature. believed. At Oderberg travellers, who arrived there from Vienna on the 29th, stated that the terminus of the Northern line was occupied by 5,000 men, and that the first bombs were thrown into the city on the even ing of the 28th. At Ratisbon the intelligence was very similar, with the additional assertions, that the city was bombarded nearly throughout the whole day ; that many streets were on fire, and that the flames could be seen at a distance of three miles off. A later report, given by the Berliner Nachrichten, as the last intelligence,:runs thus :—"From Florisd or f , Oct. 29.—S evera l o f the suburbs of Vi enna are lying in ashes. Negotiations have commenced." The deputation from the Vienna Diet succeeded in obtaining an audience of the EMPEROR at 011mutz on the 28th. His MAJESTY refused to listen to their protest against the adjournment of the Diet, but pro. raised to re-consider his determination for its convo cation at lireinsir. The deputation had again set off, but the Minister KRAUS had remained behind, and was to follow by special train. The Hungarians have come from Pesth to Pres burg with nine steamers and 18 tow- boats ; they had on board about 8,000 scythemen, who were for the third time approaching Vienna. We also learn from 011inutz that the EMPEROR has appointed Baron Donixorr Minister of Public In struction, Prince SCHWABTZENBURG Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Under-Secretary MAYER Minister of Public Works ; Busu is to retain his portefeuille as Minister of Justice. RATISBON, OCT. 31, r.m.—The Vienna train ar rived this morning at half-past nine o'clock, and brought a traveller from thence on his way to Cra cow. He stated that he had succeeded in making his escape from the city two days before, but gave us in formation as to what occurred there up to last night at a late hour, which he had obtained from a Vienna student. This young man stated that yesterday after noon he was taken prisoner by the soldiers, and was to have been hanged, but happily for him he was known to the major, and at his intercession, not only his life, but his liberty was granted him, and he was imme diately sent under an escort to the railway station, to be sent to his parents at Teschen. The latest intelligence respecting Vi enna was as follows :—That four of the suburbs, namely, Lich tenthal, Landstrasse, Jageraeil, and Erdberg are in flames, that the cannonade continued without inter mission on both sides throughout the day ; the troops are in possession of the northern line, and have not yet succeeded in takin g any of the suburbs. In the Jagerzeil a tremendous barricade has been erected, defended by eight cannon and as many companies of burghers. A perpetual fire is kept up against the enemy, but they were beginning to husband the powder. Ther e was still a supply of provisions. The western conduit, which is in the hands of the enemy, has not been destroyed. The dead are bu ried in the glacis, as the churchyard is occupied by the enemy. Unfortunately, there has been an encounter in the streets between the tri-coloured and the two-coloured Burghers, in which ,the latter were overcome, after they had set the streets on fire. This is, however, a solitary instance, as otherwise great harmony prevails. A captain in the National Guard has been hanged, because he wanted to inform the enemy of an intended sally from Nussdorf. There is no want of money. The Bank has not yet been attacked. 70,000 florins, which were destined for the military, have fallen into the hands of the National Guards. JELLACHICH and AUERSPERG stand southwards and WINDISCHGRATZ northwards. The Polish Legion has had considerable losses a the Prater—from GO to 70 dead. Theyrague PEROR to the Moravian Diet : Zeitung contains the reply of the Ear "I see with pleasure that the Aforavian Diet has full confidence in my paternal sentiments and views for my people. It i i extremely pa i nfu l to m e that the capital of Vienna has become the theatre of such fearful disorders, and that duty compels me to adopt severe measures for the protection of the right-minded, and the restoration of peace and legal order. Nevertheless, I cannot resign the hope th a t i t may yet be possible to l ea d b ac k m y cap i ta l to peace and obedience, without having recourse to ex treme measures." The E MPEROR has also wr i tten an au t ogra ph l e tt er to the Vi ce -P resident WoGiLowsKY, in reply to the congratulation upon h i s M AJESTY 'S arrival on hi s national so il , by a deputation of the Diet to Se- Court and all the civil and military authorities, were present. PRUSSIA. The Congress of the German Democrats, assem bled at Berlin, adopted, during the evening sitting of the 22th ult., the following resolutions :—" 1. The Assembly considers the cause of Vienna its own. 2. An appeal shall be made in the name of the Assembly." The Zeitungshalk, of the 30th ult., says that during the sitting of the National Assembly of that day the Commission of Priority pro posed an extraordinary sitting to deliberate on a proposition concerning the events at Vienna, con ceived as follows :—" To invite the Ministry to use for the protection of liberty, compromised at Vienna, all the means of the State." The motion was car ried by 181 to 118. DENMARK. OPENING OF THE DIET.-THE KING'S SPEECH. COPENHAGEN, OCT. 25.—His Majesty the KING opened the Diet on the 21Id with the following speech from the throne : " Men of Denmark, " It is a great joy and comfort to me, for the first time, to be surrounded by the elected representatives of my faithful Danish people. " The love and unanimity with which they upheld the cause sacred to me and the country, in the perplexing days since I have ascended my father's throne, are to me a pledge that a better time will soon dawn upon our suf fering country, which has been so severely visited by violence and dissension. " With a deeply -felt remembrance of these past days, I now proceed to discuss with the representatives of my people that Constitution which, by my free Royal re solve, I promised them, by which it is my desire, my hope, and my pride to consolidate the ancient glory and happiness of Demark. " I submit to you, by my Ministers, to whom I re serve the free access to the Assembly, and the right of taking the lead therein, if you find it necessary, the draft of this law of the Constitution ; and I rely im plicitly on your faithful and energetic co-operation, in order that a conclusive arrangement of this important affair may be accomplished by the present Diet, who are here assembled for that purpose. Should this, how ever, not be the case, it is nevertheless not my intention to let that Constitution come into operation until I hare first submitted it to a new Diet. " May the blessing of God rest upon you and your endeavours, so that our beloved country may obtain honour, happiness, and peace." At the conclusion of this speech the whole As sembly gave a long and reiterated shout of " Live Kongen I" The KING returned thanks, and quitted the hall amidst continued cheers. On the 29th the project of the new Constitution was published. It is composed of eight sections, divided into thirty paragraphs. The legislative power is to be exercised by the K:NO and by the Diet. The royal law of succession remains in force, and can only be altered by a majority of two-thirds of the Diet. In default of a successor to the throne, the Diet will elect a King and fix the order of suc cession. The electoral body to embrace all natives of thirty years of age, with a good reputation. MON E Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000 bales, with a steady market for most sorts.—The railway share market was lower again. The following remarks upon the state of the London colonial markets are furnished by Messrs. Wilkinson and Jewesbury:— " In the foraign and colonial markets during the early part of last month there was a large amount of business done; the quantity of produce brought forward was immense; dealers, however, refused to purchase at any material advance in prices, but at previous rates they bought freely, and business generally assumed a better tone. This state of things was, unfortunately, quite dispelled upon receipt of news respecting the disastrous condition of affairs in Germany, which had a most de pressing effect upon the markets. The arrivals continue large, and the stocks are greater than they were at this time last year. The deliveries for home consumption have considerably increased, which is satisfactory. Importers have evinced a strong desire to realise,, even at declining prices ; yet dealers purchase only for their immediate wants ; indeed, experience has shown for some time past this has been the only way of safely transacting business under the almost constant downward tendency of prices. From the manufacturing districts in Lan cashire the accounts aro rather more favourable within the last week, and prices are improving ; the chief part of the business now doing is for the India and China markets, the last advices thence being considered most favourable, as also those from the United States. From the woollen districts the reports are, upon the whole, satisfactory, although there has been a considerable falling off since our last." From Manchester we have a report of the manufacturing markets, from which we give the following:—"Consider ing the character of the month, its transactions have again been principally for exports, the demand for the country trade having throughout it been of a limited extent, although exceeding very considerably that which might have been expected. There is, as yet, no material increase of stocks, on the contrary, with a few excep tions in both cloth and twist, they may be pronounced generally light, and that in the absence of any diminu tion in the production. Prices, as we stated in our last report that they probably would be, are in every instance lower than what they were at the end of„, September, and the generality of them ranging below the lowest rates previously known. To-day they have not only become firmer, owing to a slight advance in the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, but in some instances a trifling ad vance was asked and obtained." The Hamburgh mail has arrived, and brings intelli gence of the conflict having commenced at Vienna, whe ther to terminate in a bombardment is a question yet to be solved, and respecting which all parties here, in any way connected with Germany, are extremely anxious. The Corn Market is firm to-day, but there is no alter ation in prices. In the Colonial and general produce markets there is more activity to-day, but the sellers meet the buyers too freely to allow of any material improvement in prices, or of a small advance only that can be deemed permanent. The Funds have been higher again this morning, the effect of' the Bank of England discount reduction being faveurable. Consols have been done as high as 86i for Money, and are since 86+ to +. Exchequer-bills have touched 395. to 435. premium. Bank Stock has been 189+. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 854 to 86. In the Foreign Market the transactions have not been extensive. Spanish Five per Cents. have realised 1111, and the Three per Cents. 23i I. Mexican are 214 1. Brazilian New Bonds have been 73, arid Peruvian 32. Russian Stock has been quoted 99k. Belgian Four-and a-Half per Cents. are 71 ex dividend. The Railway Share Market is very good, although there may be scarcely so much life in it. The York lines have been in request at enhanced values, the North British and Midland also, and the North- Western fluctuate less. The Great Western are quiet, and likewise Eastern Counties. Caledonian dearer. ONE CLOSING P,ficEs OF LiRITISII FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 189% 190 3 ;:or Cent. Reduced A , ins.. ..... 85 1 4% 1 / 8 85 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 86 1 4 %% 8e 1 .4 1 New 3 14 per Cent. Anns. .. Long Anns. to expire Jan. 1860 -16 9-16 8 9-16 India Stock — 236 India Bonds, 1,0001. 44 p Ditto under 1,0001. . .. 44 p 44 Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 2'4d. & 2d. 1,0001. March .. 1,000/. June 5001. March. 43 p 4J p 500/. June 43 p 43 p Small, June PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS ONE CLOSIN t, O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds Ditto, Small — Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent..... Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. l3 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 — Ditto, Account 21%% 21% Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 32 32 Russian Bonds -.. 99% 99!4 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Passi ve 23% % 23 1 / 6 . Dividend s on t h e a b ove payable in London. Belgian VA per Cent PRICES OF „Am. BUSINESS CLOCK. PRICES . RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. ritich7.B. Aberdeen 5O Amber. Nott., Bosto n , -" and Eastern Junction 4 1 ,4 ...... Ayrshire and Gallow a y.. 5 ...... _.— Belfast & County Down 19 Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 ••• ........ . ••• Do, withoutguarant ee 20 Birming, Wolverh'ton, and Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 10 ....• Do. without guarantee 10 Birming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 134 145... . ... • Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Juno_ 10 Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 5 Bristol and Exeter 9O ... . 53 Ditto, Thirds •.»..•.• 27 1 ,4 — ..... - ........ buckinghamthire... 14/. 4s. Caledonian - Ditto, Half Shares Do. New 10/. Pref 5 .... 41,414 ............ Di tto, C lydesdale June 50 Chester and Holyhead-. 50 Ditto, Preference l5 - Clarence !4 ...... Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct lO • ...... ""'••'•••••••........ Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct lO ...... . ""•'•••••••••......... Do. Government Loan, '••' •••••..... 4 per Cent. .. lO ...... _,. .. Direct London & Ports- "~••••••••. mouth Dublin and Belfast June ......... ..•• 35 ...... Dundalk & Enniskill en 20 _ ...... _ ............. East Anglia, 251., L. & .. ............ Eand L. and D... ••• 25 ...... 4% ... Do., 184, E. & H.... 18 ...... 2:1", •......... Do., 3/. 103. ......... 13 1 ,4 ~... 23% . • ............ Eastern Counties... ..... 20 ... 1ni ,•...... "" ... Do. New Gua ran t eed A ............ 6 per Cent. •........• 2 7y •••••• --- ~ Ditto,Extensi on ,s per . ......... ... Cent., No. 1 ....... 64 13s. 4d.... -- Ditto ditto, No. 2...6/. 13s. 4d... .... .. ........ Do. North. & Eastern • 50 . -- •• ............ Do., 5 per cent. ...... 50 ... .. . .............. DDo. Quarters ... ...... 12 1 .4 .... . • • .............. o. New .............. 84 .... -- • ....... •••• • Eastern Union, Class A .... (late E. U. Shares) 25 . Ditto, Class A, ditto... 1 ...... -- ............... Ditto, Class 13 (I. & and B.) ............ 20 ...... 4 Ditto, Class C, ditto... 20 . .... 4 ................ DDo. Scrip (6 percent.) 10 ...... .......... .. itto, ditto ... ......... 20 ...... . ..... ..... ........ Ditto (C. & E.) gum.. 2% 53 5 per East Lancashire 2 21 •, .............. Ditto, New ............... ._Do., 6 pe r C en t . Pre- ference Q East Lincolnshire 25uarters ... 64 ..... . ............... .... ..... 241,i% ......... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 39 01A ......... Ditto, Half Shares ... 15 EdinburghandNo r th ern 25 ...... ............ Ditto, Newp 0r t........ ...... ......... l3 ..... Exeter,Yeovil, & D orch. . .... 2414 Aaegow, Dumfries, and Carlisle ....... ••• . .8/. 6s. 5d.... _.Glasgow,Kilmar., & Ay .. • r 50 ... Do. Preference Consol. • Great Northern ......... 17 Do., % A Defer re d ... 121/2.....• Do., 1 / 2 B 6 per Cent. guaranteed ... ..... 4 4 / 2 — Do. Extension 2 l /2 ...... Great So u th . and West. ••• (Ireland) .... .......... 42 1 / 2 ...... ......... ... Great North of England.loo •••••• ............... Ditto, New, 40/ 4O Ditto, ditto 25 Ditto, New, 301 3O Ditto, New, 15/ l4 Great Western 9O •... . SO Ditto, 1 / 2 Shares Ditto, IA Shares Ditto, Fifths Ditto, New 171........ 13 „„ Huddersfield and Manch. 30 Hull and Selby 5O ...... -- ............... Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, 1 4 Shares Lancaster and Carlisle Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 ............... - Ditto, ditto - ••• ............ € Ditto, 1 . /4 • Shares ...... 43 ...„,... . • Do. QuP.rter Shares... 17%. •• — ,••••. ... Do. l ; .tths... ....... ....• 9 Do. Sixteenths 6 1 5...... Do.. Thirds (Reg.) l3 . 37 Do. New, Gua.6 per ct. 5 Do. Liverp. and Bury 43 Ditto % (late Hud dersfield and Shelf.) 43 ...... Do.( W e k e d a ld , P onte- .. .• Tract, and Goole) ... 50 Do. (W. Riding Union) 7 .. ... 1 1 1 / 2 ...... Do. (Preston :', Wyre) 25 ...... 34 1 / 2 ...- ....... - Do. % Shares (A)... 9 1 / 2 ....... Leeds and Bradford 5O Leeds, Dewsbury, &c 5O ..... Do., Half Shares, .... ...... 25 • •—• ••• Do., (blue) Scrip...... 2 1 / 2 ... .. Leeds and Thir.k ...... 50 ... Ditto, New ...... ....... 35 - Do., Pref er ., 6 per Ct. ; ... ••• --•• •.. Liverpool, Crosby and Southport . 3 1 42 — Liverp., Alanchest 17% 17% 10% and Newcastle Junction... London & Black wa11...13/. 6s. 8d.... Do. Extension ... 22 % ...I to 00. m y .......... 4% 3% 514 1 1 / 34 London, Brighton, and South Coast Do.Guarant. 5 per ct.., 9 ...... Do. Pref. Con. 5 per ct. 50 .. ... .. Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 — Ditto, New 54 ~ guar. 284 6 per cent. .._ Londonand Greenwich 1 2 / 1 5s 4d... 8%.., B% Ditto, Preference... 18t 17a 2d... 20 London and N. Western 100 ll9 117 ll7 Do Quarters (L.& B.) 22 Ditto, New Ditto, Fifths 00000 .. .. 2 .... 8 .. 6 Do. 40/.Sh ares (L . M . ) 25 ...... Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 9 — Do. 10/. IR •••••• & B.) C. 1 ••• Lond. &S. W es t ern Do. New 504 ... ..... 4214.. .. Do. New 401 •• ..•• •• ... Ditto ditto .. ..... 40 •— Ditto. Third5......13/. 6s. 8d... Pi ef. 7 per Cent. on Deposit, and 5 per Cent. on Calls ...IL I3s. 4d... London, Salisb ury ...... ••••••• par , and Yeovil ..... ...„ ........ 1%...... .., Londonderry&Coleraine 27%. Londonderry and Ennis- "•.•"•••••••• killen 2 7 1,4 ...... ••••• ... ..... ••••• .... Lowestoft (4 per et.) Ditto (6'pe'r ct.) 9 3/4 .3 Mancheitei,Buxton,an..d Matlock 4 — Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...loo Do. Quarters (No. 1) 18 .._ .., .. _ THIS EVENING When w!! be performed the original Dragia, called HARVEST HOME. Principal ehar,eters by Messr.i. 11. Hughes, Lambert, Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Turner, Re. After which TIES i ANCE OF TETE SHIRT. Ts conclude with the Faro:, of THE DANCING BALBER. Lord Mlncington, Cr. itoyce ; La iy Flitterly, Miss E. Herding. ROYAL LYCEUM 'THEATRE. Under the _Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed COURT BEAUTIES. Principal characters Messrs. Selby, C. Mathews, 11. Roxby, F. Matthews, Granby, Par selle, Miss Howard, and Miss Marshall. .Ater which, MY FATIIER DID 60 BEFORE ME, in which Mr. John hooves will appear. To conclude with TilE CRITIC ; or, a Tragedy Rehearsed. Sir Fretful Plagiary and Puff, Mr. C. Mathews ; Tilburina, Mrs. Yates. i.oxes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. IS• half-price to any part of the house. Thc ,Sew Boa-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the public ,sety '?ay, from Ton till Six. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. m. Maddox, Solo Lessee and Mana-cter. During the Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and embel ished In a superb. and co:tly manner by Mr. tlurwitz. A new Chan delier has been tatted, and the best arrangements have been imade for the due Ventilation of the Theatre, and the comfort and c•nvcaicnce of tke audience. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the Opera et'NORMA. After which, a new Farce, entitled HIS FIRST PECCADILLO. To conclude with the 'Ballet LE DIABLE A QUATRE. TO CORRESPONDENT& No communication can be attended to unless autheati• cated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. THE WEATHER.--SuN OFFICE, NW/MEI:ER 3. TIIERMOMETER, Lowest, 38; Highest, 48; Noon, 52, BAROMETER, 29 64.—WIND S.S.W.; cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 49 min. after b Evening .. 12 min. after 6 4 1 ,,,.,,,, ii? *tk '. s , . . 1 , Nl.-3V:. • .c.sW ..). ,- tt, , , , ..0, ' '-,-,„, , • ,_ ,:-. 4 , A'r..-'evr -.. 41- ,- " " t ' ' - ..:, tireraTi , J...." 144: 4 It' LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1848. The rate of interest at the Bank of England on bills not having more than three months to run, was yesterday reduced from 3} to 3 per cent. It sill, we believe, generally be coeceded that the di rectors of the great national establishment should not charge a higher rate of discount, or maintain a higher price for money, than the various bankers and great discount houses, by which they are surrounded, and who are not entitled to any exclusive or extraor dinary privileges. It is yet notorious that for some time past money could be obtained freely on first class paper on easier terms than at the Bank of England. If, therefore, the directors were not prepared to sacrifice the business of the concern, to disregard altogether the interests of the proprietors of Bank Stock, and to report at the next half-yearly meeting, a divi dend becoming "small by degrees, and beau tifully less," no other course remained but to announce an immediate reduction. They have already disgu s t e d many of those who had been among their best customers by the stringency of their proceedings. Men who had successfully weathered the storm, and fully and fairly met every liability, were denied th e accommodation they had just reason to expect, and compelled to make heavy sacrifices. which a more liberal spirit on the part of the directors would have rendered quite unnecessary. The screw, which was put on during a period o f panic and general ces sation of credit, was kept up to the fullest ex tent when there could no longer b e th e slightest necessity for a course so detrimental to the i n d ustrious classes generally, and mere especially to all those in any manner engaged in trade or manufactures, or earning their daily bread by the sweat of their brows. The di rectors, however, attempted to keep up the artifi c i al scarcity of money at any loss to the proprietors, whose interests it might have been suppesed it was their especial duty to protect. The Bank reserve was increased to an extent far beyond the amount which is generally considered to be fully sufficient for the business of the Bank, and which might have been issued to the public with the most perfect safety ; while s t the same time large sums were drawn in every week from the public, to wham accommoda tion was meted out with a most nig s ardly and sparing hand. Private securities were jeSS a nd less in every week, until the amount was reduced in leas than one short year from 20,409 ; 8971. to 10,847,2101., the first being the average lint on pri . ra'e the 30th o,:tober, 184 uri:i:?s for the week ending ILe latter for the week end- ing the 21st 0ct01)....., 1,?18. Notwithstanding the abwe facts, 'hick c'early and unequivocally prove that the dirctors should long since have adoit•ed the coursa they have at ength sot 'jys there are to be found persons, q ; ardhinAtregialloceeding, who would desire f to+ os iF3 purposes that the country /49g ic ;i4....J- s s f ipA ept in a state °f diffi 'tywant of confidence should b ito p p . :;". - * I A T `l l / 4 that prices should 1;1 S ITALY. -4w Some disturbances took place at Trieste on the evening of the 23d ult., but were promptly repressed. The National Savoisien of the 30th ult. announces that the Congress of the Federal Association, which met at Turin, terminated its labours on the 28th, and voted the federal compact. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) TUE QUEEN V. ALLEN. This was a quo warranto calling upon the defendant to show cause by what authority he exercised the office of one of the Aldermen of the borough of Southampton. The case was tried at Winchester before Mr. Justice Coleridge during the last assizes, when a verdict was found for the defendant, with the leave of the Learned Judge to ent er a verdict for the Crown upon one of the issues. Mr. Bu rr now moved in accordance with the leave re served, a n d stated the grounds on which he did so. On the 9th of November last there was a vacancy for five Aldermen. There were eight or nino candidates, the defendant being one of them. He had eighteen votes, and a person named Lefevre had fifteen. It was con tended that his election was bad under the Act, inas much as he held the office of assessor. The question, therefore, turned upon the point whether those who voted for Mr. Allen were aware of the fact. The Learned Judge told the jury if the parties were aware of the fact before the election, and forgot it at the time they voted, or were never aware of it, that they must find for the defendant. They accordingly did so. The Learned Counsel contended that this was a most dan gerous doctrine, and amounted to not rendering mon responsible for their duties, if they excused themselves by saying that they had forgotten them. The COURT took time to consider the evidence. EXCHEQUER. -(THIS DAY BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) Thomas Mardy, an athletic young Irishman, was charged before Mr. Jardine, with cutting and maiming Michael Murphy. It appeared that both parties reside in adjoining houses in Langley-court, Long Acre, and for some cause or other their respective families have been at variance. Last night the prisoner went into the prosecutor's room, and asked for some warm water, which Murphy's sister refused to give him, whereupon he swore that he would have it in spite of her, and laid hold of the kettle. Murphy went to hinder him, and ;bei ng a much larger a a n n d d d stronger h im t man, o p l n u a s v h e e d t h hi m e ro 0 %7 y T fr h o e m p t r h i s e o nfierr P e -p u l al pulled open the table-drawer in which he knew the knives and forks were kept, and took out a knife, with which he struck the prosecutor, who was endeavouring to put him out, across the arm, and inflicted a long gash above the wrist through his coat and shirt-sleeves. The prisoner said that he had no intention of stabbing the prosecutor, but that the latter wounded himself in striving to take the knife trona him. Mr. Staggles, the house -surgeon of Charing-cross Hospital, said that it was a very severe cut, and would keep the prosecutor from his work for at least a month ; but it was not likely to be attended with any danger. The prisoner was remanded till Tuesday. -• Dear Baron Wogkowsky,—lf the reception given THE LORD MAYOR ELECT. —Yesterday morning me by the Moravian people bas already soothed my Lord t ity (Sir J. Duke), accompanied by deeply oppressed heart, I received even more comfort the Lord Mayor from the expression of its attachment and faithfulness, the Sheriffs and officers, proceeded to the rest by the representatives of the United Diet in so loyal and deuce of th cordial a manner. Chancellor, for the purposof e re ceiving her Majesty' " While I express my thanks to the united representa- Shortl after s approbation of his election. fives of the country for this proof of their affection, may usual Shortlyl..eleven the company arrived ; and after the they rest assured that the remembrance of the unshaken Lordshiirma_ Ines, Sir J. Duke was introduced to his truth and devotion with which the Margravite of Mo- ~ p,_ who was pleased to express her Majesty's en ravia faithfully stood at the side of my forefathers in all " reapprobation of the selection made by the citizens of the portentous eras of older times are vividly im- London in electing the worthy alderman to fill the civic „ for the ensuing F . press; d upon my mind, and now depending on them, I chair have repaired with confidence into the midst of my Mo- P RESENTATION DINNER OF TUE LORD MAYOR raviau and Silesian people. E LECT.—Sir James Duke, M.Y.the Lord M ~ M a or Elect en • " May the representatives of Moravia trust my Ina- .. , entertained a large party, last evening, at the Al perial word, with which I hereby reiterate to thorn the eton, on the occasion of his presentation to the Lord maintenance of their liberties already sanctioned by m e , Chancellor to receive theracious approval of her Ma and assure thew o f my Imperial favour. j esty . Messrs. Staples provided a splendid dinner to " 011mutz, Oct. 18 , 1 848 ; 6 ` FERDINAND. wlrch the company sat down soon after • ' six o'clock. Among the 'eel h 4 s were Sir William Burnett, Aldermen This autograph letter was received by the Diet W . T. co peland, M.P., Sir G. Carroll, J. Humph y, with loud acclamations, and it was unanimously re- M.P., Gibbs, Farncornb, Musgrove, Challis, Sidney, - solved that it should be printed and distributed among I A _oon, Alderman aLd Sheriff Finnis, and Sherff Good the ; the Under-Sheriffs, the Town Clerk, City goli the Deputies. citor, Mr. Commissioner Bullock, J. Locke, Es - k ' On the 28th a general service was performed in mon pleader ; Mr. Secondary Potter, the Comptroller,qcora honour of the late Count LATOUR, in the Cathedral the Chamberlain, the Remembrancer, Deputies Bedford, of 011mutz. The EMPEROR And Extri"ssl w i t h t h e ,di bard, All an, P eacoc k ; the Lord Mayor Elect's chap. lam ; Messrs. Anderton, R. Taylor, Edkins, &e. 11VGREGOR V. 'MILEY. This action was tried before the Chief Baron at the last sittings after term at Westminster, and a verdict found tor the plaintiff; damages 3002 Mr. CROWDER moved for a new trial, or for a nonsuit, or for leave to enter the verdict for the defendant. The action was brought to recover an attorney's bill of costs incurred by the committee of the Midland Grand June tion Railway Company, of which the defendant was a member. The COURT, having listened to the arguments of the Learned Gentleman refused to grant the application. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) HONAGHAN V. WALTER, AND OTHERS. The plaintiff in this case was a Parliamentary reporter, and the defendants the proprietors of the Morning Ad vertiser. The case was tried before the Chief Justice at the last sittings at Guildhall, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff for 81. Bs. Mr. Sergeant BYLES now applied to the Court for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside. The action was brought by the plaintiff to reco ver four weeks' salary, which he alleged was due to him in fulfilment of an annual engagement entered into with the proprietors. It appeared at the trial that the plain tiff, upon the recommendation of Dr. Sheridan, the editor, was appointed by the managing committee of the paper a sessional reporter for 1846. Ile continued to hold that appointment some time after Parliame n t rose; but was dismissed after a month's notice, four weeks before the termination of the twelve months. The Learned Judge directed the jury to find whether it was a yoarly or only a sessional hiring, and the jury found that it was the former. He also put it to them whether the contract was made with the Corporation of Licensed Victuallers, to which the paper belongs, or with the defendants, who are the registered proprietors; and the jury were of opinion that it was entered into with the for ed services that extending there was o v n over a y defendants personally. The Learned Ser geant stated that the declaration was not proved by th e fi nding of the jury, inasmuch as it was not shown a t th e trial that the defendants had anything person a lly t o d o with the h plaintiff , e e written ar, contract, which was necessary un d er t h e 4th section of the plaintiff ought to be 120D•SUitQd. The COURT granted a ru l e n i s i . the statu te an d o f frauds,conten contended Ditto ditto (bro. 2) ••• •••••• • • ••• ScOttishiCentral Scottish Midland 25 Ditto, New .......... 17%... Sheffield, Rotherham, & 731 i caster, and Goole 5 Swans. & Lougho r & C a - "•"••••• meron's Stm. Coal 6 ......... raw Vale Extension Thames Haven Dock Valeand Railway ............... of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 17% ... Waterford and Lim eric k 45 ......... Waterfd,W x f r d,W. 'icklw, Joan Peninsular i%...... Louvain Ila Sambre ... 7% •••••• Ditto lO Madrid and Valentia 2 ..... Namur and Li ege 2O "'.„ ... ............ Northern of France...—. 12 ...... Orleans and Bordeaux... 7 Paris and L yons ll .•• . ••• - '—. .............. ._Do. D o . . lO Paris and O r l eans 4 ............ •• Paris and Ro uen ...... ... 20 Paris and Str as b ourg ... 9 ...... ••• .— Rouen and Havre •••••• .... •• • ............ - .... Sambre and Meuse 2O .... 2 % ............ .. . ' 2% , Strasbourg and Basle ..... .. --- Tours and Nante s 9 ......... ......... .......... .-- Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den' and Hassell West Flanders - ...... ........ -.., ...N.- - LL _ % MAYS SHIPPING —(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Nov. 3.—Wind S.S.W., moderate brews and dull cloudy weather, with rain. LYME REGIS, Nov. I.—A vessel's quarter-board, painted stone colour, and a boat's chock, were passed the 26th ult., of Portland, by the Dorset, arrived here. SHIELDS, Nov. I.—The star, of this port, in going down the river yesterday, got in contact with another vessel, when the former lost her mainmast. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 2.—An American brig, full of water, dismasted and abandoned, with Richmond on her stern, was passed Ist ult., lat. 34. long. 75, by the Josephine, arrived at Liverpool. Arrd. Hannah Salkeld, Down ward, Calcutta; Norfolk, Rogers, New Orleans; Espe rance, Duff, Charlestown • Jane H. Glidden, Child, New York; Atlantic, Ross, Dalhousie; Sir William Moles worth, Middleton, Tatmgouche. Sld. Samuel Hicks, Wilson, New York. Off port, Bonita, Pernambuco ; Josey Jesware; Barbara. FALMOUTH, Nov. 2.—The Elizabeth, of Shoreham, from Ganto to Liverpool, was spoken 30th ult., in lat. 49 N, long. 3, totally dismasted, by the Eroe, arrived here. CARDIFF, Nov. I.—Sld. James Gray, New Orleans ; 2d, Friends, Panama. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 2. —Wind N.W.—Arrd. Sperma ceti, Wood, Quebec; Daedalus, Nicholas, ditto. DEAL, Nov. 2.—Wind N.W. to W.N.W.—Arrd. A. Park, Barbadoes; Helen Catherine, Larven, St. Croix; Atlantic, Honduras; Feronia, Henzell, Quebec. Arrd. from the River, Ranger, South Seas ; Royal Archer, Adelaide, South Australia ; London, Sierra Leone; Caroline, Jamaica; Admiral, St. John's, New Bruns wick, and not on the 31st, as before reported; Canton, Cape de Verde. Sid. 1. Lord Hungerford, Port Philip; 2. George, Sydney, New South Wales; Glenelg, Port Philip; Cecilia, Adelaide, South Australia • Labuan, South Australia ; Willi am G a l es, Madras; Rat hural, ' As cension; Scottish Maid, Callao; Helen, Trinidad; Har lequin, Grenada ; Mina, Tobago ; Index, St. Kitts ; Queen of Britain, St. Lucia; Ealing, Grove, Dominica; Union, Belize. Th e Warrior, M'Kellar, f rom H u ll to Bristol, and the Hotspur from Shields to Limerick, got on the Goodwin Sands this morning, but came off on the flood without assistance, loss, or apparent damage. The Carmelite, of Bangor, United States, was passed, on the 10th ult., in lat. 34, N., lon. 50, W., waterlogged and abandoned, by the Catherine Larsen, in the Downs. 2444 401/2 34 ADMISSION OF ATTOUNEYS.—Yesterday notice was giv4n in the Court of Queen's Bench from 190 articled clerks, of intended application during Hilary Term, 1849, to be admitted attorneys of that court; there were also 62 notices for re admission, to be made at Judges' Chambers on the 27th instant, and nine on the last day of term. The number of students to be examined for admission during the present term is 207, the original number was 188, 19 having been added, pursuant to Judges' orders. The examinations will eonunence M the Law Institution on the 20th instant. /••• ... ...... .••••••• Ditto ditto (No. 3) lO ... ...... Ditto, New 10/. Pref 10 ... ............ Ditto, Gt. Grimsby 4O ......... ... Ditto ditto . l3 ...... Ditto ditto D4' Atte Sheffield and Lincolnshire......,.. 15 . ... =MI Do., Grimsby Dock... 20 IMO Do., Manchester and Lincoln Union..... 41.25 — MEM Midland ... ........... —lOO.. -.82% 81% 83 80% 80 Do. Consolidat e d Pref.loo ...... Do., do., SO/. Shares... 21 ... .. 9% 10 94 -9% Do. Birm., and D er b y l oo Do. Consol. Bristol and Birming., 6 per et.... 100 ..., • Ditto,Brist. & Gl ocs t r . 38 .......... .. Ditto, ditto ...... ...... 14/. 185.... Ditto,Leieest. & Swa n - nington, 8 per et. guar.100 .11., U. Midland Great Western ...t Irish ... 42% —• 6 per cent. guar. NeweastleandCarlme...loo Do. Quarters 25 ...... -... Newmarket ... .. ... 20 ..... . ..... ... Do. Extension..... -.21 125.... ..... Newport, Abergaven n y, .......... and Hereford 6 •••••• ... mom Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpomt, and Rostrevor .. 20 Norfolk ............. —.. ... ....... ....100 ..... •• Do. New 201. .. lO — Do. Guaranteed 5 p et. 20 - Do. Guaranteed Wi t '•"""•••••••pc. 5 Do. do. Waveney V a l . 2 Northern Counties Union 4 ...... .... North British ........ ... 25 .... 15 - Ditto, Halves .. ..... 12% ..... ............ ..... DDitto, Quarters itto, Extension O% ..... —-. ........ -. Ditto, Thirds .... .. North & South-Western 2 - .............. North Staffordshire l5 98%9% 8% 9 _ 81,4 North Wales North-Western . lO - Oxford, Worcest er , an d ...... ... Wolverhampton '. ..... 60 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate lO ..... Roystonland Hitchin 2 sow. 44 14% Goole (Nor. Div.) ... 7% Do. do (Sou. Div.) - 6 Shrewsbury and ... 9 Ditto ditto. Class B. 5 .............. Shrewsbury and Ilerefd. 2 ............... Shrewsbury & Ch es t er <N W (Nor. , . Min.) - ..... .. ........ .—. .. Ditto Halves • ... ditto 8%.... Ditto Oswestry - .. .." ........ 1 ,4 Ditto New 1 ....... .............. 9 ..... IN ........ Do. 8 per C en t. P re f . 10 MD g• • ...... .. ....... .. - 3% Shropshire Uni on ...... 4 . .. . .. .. . South Devon 5O ...... ...... . ........ "'- Do. Preferen ce South Staffordshire 61.4 ...... -- ............ .. South Eastern •••• ........... Do., N 0.2. Do., No. 3 25 Do., No. 4 Thirds ... 10 ...... ..... 6%. South Wales ...... ......... 28 South Yorkshire, Don- ...... % and Dublin ..... .. ..... 3 .... .-- Wear Vall e y 6 per Cent. '••••••• DoGuaranteed ... .. 42 3 4 ...... -- ........... .... . d o . do. ... 25 ...... 27 ............... , West Cornwall . Do. do. do. ... 10 ..... ... West London ..... ... .... .. ..... 20 6 ... .. .—. ... .......... .... ...m. .. C....lass .. . 20 .. .. Do. D o. 2d Class ... ..... »...»... ••••• 20 ~... ........... W hitehave n & Furnessl3 ..... Win dsor, Staines, a n d South Western..... .. 94 - ...... ........ -- Wilts, Somerset& Wey mouth" ......,... 40 Y0rk,...... -• ... . ._gewcastle, •and Berwick. .... ... ........ 25 .. ..• 27 ... Do. Origin a l N ew and Berwick .. ...... ... .25 26 25 3 4 26 254 Do. Exte ns i on N o. 1. 15 13144.... 27 27 13 Do. do. No. 2....... 16 ...... 13 1 4 14 134 1 34 Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 ...... 634 Do. East and Westßid- 4,6 %............ ing Extension ...... 25 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian). ... 4 1‘ - ............... Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or- .. "'•••••••••. 64 leans and Vierzon) ... 17 Ceylon 4 ...... Demerara ... 15 ............ ... Dendre Valley... ......... 4 ...... Direct Bombay and Madras ......... ss. . ... Dutch Rhenish ..... .... 74 East Indian ....... .. ... .. .. . ..... .... ...... 34 — Great Indi -* I PP". 1% 24