The Sun. — London, England, 1852-11-08 00:00:00

AMALGAMATION and the FINANCIAL POSITION OF RAILWAY PROPERTY.—The Share lioders of the London and North-Western, Midland, Great Westorn, Great Northern, and all Railways, will receive poet free an abstract view of Railway Management, the Financial Position of Railway Property in General, with instructions relative to the necessary steps to be taken respecting amalgamation. Apply by letter to Messrs. May and Co., Railway Valuers mid Accountants (enclosing order for 2s. 6d.), No. 10, Great Windmill-street, Haymarket, London. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Farewell Ereason of Mr. Benjamin Webster as Lessee and Manager. THIS EVE-TLYG, The now and •inal Historical Comedy of RICHELIEU IN LOVE, by Messrs. B. Webster, Leigh Murray, Nom, and Parselle ; Mrs. L. D. Buckingham and Mrs. Stirling. After ,whioh, the successful new Farce called A CAPITAL MATCH, by Mr. Keeley aid Miss Rosa Bennett. The petite Comedy of a NOV/IL EXPEDIENT. To conclude with the Farce of DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. fader the Management of Madame Testris. THIS ETBNLNG, Nov. 8, Will be performed TAKING ET STORM. After which, the new Comic Drama of MARRIED DAUGHTERS AND YOUNG HUSBANDS. Principal characters by Messrs. Roxby, F. Matthews, Baker, and Suter; Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss Julia St. George, Miss It. Oliver, Miss Fanny Baker, and Miss Martindale. We be followed by THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Jason, Miss Julia St. Qeorge; Medea, Madame Vestrls. To conclude with A HOUSE OUT OF waDows. Characters Pawl Potter and Mr. Robert Roxby. Sole Agent for tke Private Boxes, Mr. W. Aileron, 15, New Itond-street. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Open for the Season. Propriettr, Mr. B. Webster; Directress, Madame Celeste* THIS EVENDrn Will be revived the celebrated Drama of THE BLOWERS OF THE FOREST, a Gipsy story, by Messrs. Paul Bedford, 0. Smith, Emery, and 11. Bedford ; Miss Woelgar, Miss Keeley, and Madame Celeste. After Which, the first time here, the Farce of A WIFE FOR A DAY, in which the celebrated American Comedian, Mr. Josh. Silsbee, and Mrs. A. Wigan, will appear. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean. THIS EVENING WUI be presented a new and original Play, in HIT acts, by West land Marston, Esq., entitled ANNE BLAKE. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Kean, W. Lacy, and Addison ; Mrs. Winstanley, Mrs. Daly, and Mrs. C. Kean. After which, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Principal charac ter by Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with BOMBASTES FURIOSO ; in which Mr. Wright and Mr. Harley will appear. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Second Week of the Dramatic Season, and of the new gorgeous Spectacle of Enchantment, which has been nightly received with immense applause. THIS EVENING (NOVEMBER the Bth) the Performances will commence at Seven o'clock with the Grand Equestrian Spec tacle entitled THE BRIDE OF GOLCONDA; or, the Genus of the Ring. New Scenery, Costumes, and appointments, and embracing all the best resources of this Theatre. To be followed by increased Novelties in the Scenes of the Circle, introducing the First Eques trian and Gymnastic Talent in Europe—including those extraordi nary artistes the Brothers Seigrist. To conclude with the popular Farce of MISCHIEF MAKING. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Doors open at Half-past Six o'clock; Box-office open from Eleven to to Four daily. Half Price at half-past Eight. HER ZIAJESTY'S THEATRE ASS. To be incorporated under the OCIATION 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110, or by Royal Charter. Applications for Shares will be received until MONDAY, the 15th inst., addressed to Messrs. Hughes, Kearsey, and Masterman, 17, Bucklersbury. SHAREHOLDERS' PRIVILEGES. A Proprietor of 50 Shares will be entitled to a Personal Entree for all Representations. a Reserved Seat in the Pit for all Represen tations. a Pit Stall for two !Re presentations a-week, the particular day s being selected by the Shareholder in his preliminary notice. a Pit Stall for all Repre sentions. 1. The Pit will b e di v id e d i nto separate seats, ta each seat to be timbered ; but space will be retained for general ciresilation. 2. A Proprietor of 50 Shares and upwards may, before the let of February preceding each Season, transfer his privilege of admission during that Season to a Nominee; and a Proprietor of Shares, con stituting two or more of the above qualifications, may, in like man ner, transfer each privilege to a Nominv, who will be entitled to the privilege transferred in lieu of the Proprietor. 3. The right of admission to a Stall or Reserved Seat may be transferred nightly - , by voucher from the Proprietor or his Nominee ; the Transferee paying at the Theatre for each Representation half the usual price of admission. 4. The actual holder on the Ist of February in each yoar of the number of Shares specified above, will be the Proprietor entitled to the proportionate privileges during the ensuing Season. 5. The intention of the Proprietor to avail himself of the above privileges must be declared before the Ist of February preceding each Season. 6. In the event of a Proprietor not desiring to avail himself of the above privileges, it will be at his option to have an allowance, equal in the whole to four per cent, on his Shares, in payment or diminu tion of any subscription, for not less than fifteen nights, which he may enter into for a Box or otherwise. 7. To suit the convenience of individual Shareholders, the Com mittee will have a discretionary power, before the commencement of each Season, and by an arrangement with the Shareholders, to sub stitute for his right of admission during that Season any equivalent rights. 100 Shares 150 Shares 200 Shares 8 . A discretionary power will likewise he vested in the Committee t• reserve such further privileges to the Shareholders, in proportion to their Shares, as circumstances may be found to allow, and gene rally to make such regulations as may appear expedient for the general interest of the Proprietary Body. 9. The above privileges are independent of the dividend receivable by the Proprietor in respect of his Shares. PORTRAITS WELLINGTON AND SOULT, WITFI MEMOIRS AIND FAC-SIMILES OF TIIEIR WRITINGS, A PORTRAIT OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON TOGETIIER WITH THE MOST SPLENDID LIKENESS OF SOT_ILT EVER TAKEN, BY TVYON, FOR WHICH THE MARSHAL SAT SIX TIMES, IS THIS DAY PUBLISHED, AT THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND PRICE SIXPENCE. Sun Office, Not. 8, 1852. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tni3 DAY —Morning 54 rain. after I() Evening 25 min. after 11 To - Moßzow—Morning 0 rain. after 0, Evening 51 min. after 11 THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Nov. 8. THERMOMETER, El THE SHADE. 5 5—highest since noon on Saturday. 49—lowest yesterday morning, and during Sat. night. 55—yesterday at noon. BAROMETEs.,:29•9B. WIND S.SN. to S.W., strong gale, and dirty, rainy weather, inclining to be stormy. NoyEatux a 8. 56—higheat since noon yesterday. 50—lowest this morning and during the night. 60—this day, at noon. BAROMICTSI4 30.17. WIND W.SW., stiff breeze with plenty of scud ; it blew a storm last night. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock on Saturday morning.—The stations ar+ arranged in order of latitude. LIMERICK—Wind S., calm—overcast. ULLINSAR—Wind N.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. if.asTneGs—Wind S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. Sourausyrosr— Wind W., strong breeze - rain. lemaczemsz— Wind S. W., strong breeze—overcast. TinriminGn—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—scud—rain. BAsmosmoicE—Wind W., strong breeze—overcast. (4 r; E icH—Wind S.W.,gentle breeze—partially cloudy. CoLufF.szne—S.W., gentle breeze—fine. CAMBRIDGE—S., gentle breeze—cloudless. Yanmotrro—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. The returns from the following places indicate the state cf the wind and weather on Saturday morning at nine o'clock : P , xmic—Wind S.E , hard wind—partially cloudy. CowunisTice—Wind S.W., gentle breeze —overcast. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot undertake to return rejected communica tior.s. 4 fa,, 4 4\ Ff.t:ip NnCji 7V:4 :›olli,Nl 6 l l* C Frit LONDON, ti0Nn4.5..., , 'NOVEMBER 8, 1852. - -------. o ..._______ may be l i d s ,s lobject, the origins ` excellent most certain at the tor of every new enterprize outset to encounter cpp os i t i on a I randfeearsitbhlee project, perhaps we might even say thehhe g ino r e phere its realizltion, the greater lik e lih ood the,: antagonism. la the discovery o f clothe is of this r proposed—it is only allowed co n 4deretlonel;:s a arough the advocacy of the Prior of L a R a b ida. i Vonal system of astronomy conceived —it is only per mitted to appear before the world through the m un fi ceoce of the Bishop of Eremeland. It was so W i t h COLUMBUS. It woe so with COPERNICUS. A n d so it has been, more or less, conspicuously throughout every phase . of social, artistic, scientific, and political innovation. People laughed at the idea of lighting our streets with gas when that idea was first broached. Derision was excited by the earliest notion of drag ing carriages along iron tram-ways, by the aid of the then recently invented steam-engine. A philosopher no less eminent than DIONYSIUS LARDNEE scouted preposterous the scheme of traversing the in vessels propelled by the force of paddle- wheels. A thousand incidents of a similar kind are familiar, we doubt not, to the popular recollection. Yet it has long since been demonstrated with tolerable distinctness that cities can be illuminated with coal gas, that trains can be be conveyed to and fro upon iron rails by the steam-engine, and that ships of a rather considerable burthen can be enabled to cross the ocean not merely through the cumbrous instrumentality of paddle-wheels, but with the in visible assistance of the screw-propeller. Greater marvels than these have been effected, moreover, in our own time—greater marvels than even HORATIO could, by any possibility, have ventured to dream of in his philosophy. We have seen how easily a metal tube can be thrown across the Menai Straits for the oonveyance of the crowd of travellers between England and Ireland. We have seen how readily Time itself can be outstripped by the magical swiftness of the electric telegraph,—we have seen how effectually the sunbeams can, by the adroit employment of iodine, be made to take our portraits according to the exquisite process of the daguerreotype,—we have seen how the electrotyping arrangements can grow copper with the utmost imaginable delicacy and precision,—nay, more than this, we know how, through the development of the powers of the microscope in one direction, and of the telescope in another, the infinite mysteries of creation have been disclosed more and more plainly to the sense of vision—here in their minuteness, and there in their magnitude. Nevertheless, with all these testimonies before us, with all these examples glaring upon our judgment, with all these truths forcing themselves irresistibly upon our remembrance—we are still as resolutely determined as ever to throw cold water upon whatever change is suggested, no matter how obviously it may be calcu lated to benefit the community, and to enhance the comforts or the luxuries of the population. An alter ation of the existing state of things has only to be proposed, to be pronounced by a hundred different voices as wholly preposterous. This propensity to discountenance whatever is novel appears to us to contain within it the reason why so little has been effected in the way of sanitary innovation. Other wise GEORGE ALFRED WALKER Would not have talked so long, unheeded, about the necessity for ex tramural interments. Otherwise SOUTHWOOD SMITH would not have argued in vain so long in favour of a more wholesome method of house ventilation. Other wise the citizens of London would have obtained years before now better drainage, better water for domestic consumption, and a whole host of other and equally necessary metropolitan improvements. The facts are before the nation as plain as pikestaves —but no ! they are new—that is enough—they are new, and therefore are neglected. Evi dence to this effect has been collecting during more months than we like to think of, by the Commissioners of Gwydyr-house. It has been dis cussed again and again in both Houses of Parliament. It has been considered in Committee—it has been re corded in Blue Books—it has been insisted upon in the public journals. The thing is notorious—as no torious as the abuses in Chancery, or as the abomina ble architecture of the National Gallery, or as the absurdity of the fountains in Trafalgar-square, or as the non-completion of the unfortunate Nelson Testi monial. Yet the refuse of the capital is still not properly cleared away; the contaminated water of the Thames is still swallowed daily, by wholesale ; corpses are still buried away in our intramural grave-yards—as though Mr. WALKER had never written his pamph lets ; as though Dr. SMITH had never published his books; or, as though Mr. CHADWICK had never been installed in that unlucky building in Whitehall-gar dens, so long and so bootlessly dedicated to the labours of himself and his brother Commissioners. The reason of all this is, unhappily, precisely as we have stated it. The changes are obviously practicable, are obviously advisable, are obviously necessary, but then they are new, and therefore they are discarded. Popular as Reform is amongst us, we are still, very many of us, far the most part, in this way—Conservatives. Only we ap pear unluckily to begin at the wrong end—by endea vouring to conserve whatever happens to be the most flagrantly worthless. We see the abomination before our eyes, we have its demerits dinned into our ears, we come at last to that stage of perception that the evil is actually " stinking in our nostrils," and yet we somehow or other seem to hug it to us the more closely, and to cling to it with the more unrelaxing tenacity. In this manner, as we asserted at the com mencement of these remarks, the innovator, however rational or commendable his enterprize, invariably encounters the bitterest opposition. Aware of the truth above mentioned, we are by no means surprised to observe the discredit thrown from various quarters upon Mr. CHARLES PEARSON'S mag nificent scheme of a Grand Central Railway Ter minus in the metropolis. Everything combines to prove this project as practicable as it undoubtedly is desirable. Granted that it must necessitate an enor mous outlay; but then the returns must no less cer tainly be proportionally great. Already we have taken occasion more than once to direct public attention to the proposed undertaking. It appears to us, however, so peculiarly remarkable in its character that we must, perforce, avail ourselves of every rea sonable opportunity of reverting to it until such time as we may have the satisfaction of witnessing its actual completion, or at any rate its actual com mencement. The meeting held ca Monday last at the London Tavern, and presided over by Sir JAMES DUKE, presents to us, we conceive, precisely one of these welcome opportunities. Upon that occasion the originator of the enterprise submitted the details of his plan to the serious reconsideration of his fellow citizens. Reflection seems only to convince him the more fully of the entire feasibility of his proposal. And no wonder The inducements to its acceptance are so numerous as to be rather difficult of enumera tion. Foremost among them is that rather terrible consideration that whereas the houses in the city of London have within the last forty years diminished by 1,500, the population has increased by 4,ooo—an overcrowding which Mr. PEARSON justly designated as " revolting to decency, and injurious to morality, and destructive of health, and even of life." Anything that can tend to ameliorate the condition of those who are the innocent victims of this over-crowded state of the metropolis, must as suredly command for it the sympathy of each sincere and practical philanthropist. Nothing could more effectually secure a really beneficial change in this direction than the establishment of a central railway terminus, such as would place within the reach of the humbler classes a cheap and ready means of convey ante—between the place of busiGess and the suburban residence. It has been calculated that, as things are at present situated, the cabs and omnibuses of London make (Lily no Icsa than 12,000 jclurneyE, couveying on the average no less than 144,000 passengers Place a cheaper and a readier means of conveyance at the command of the hard-worl:ing inhabitants of the City—we allude here more particularly to the clerks end subordinate officials in our various metropolitan establishments—and instead of living, as at this period they de, in over-crowded, and even, in scme in stances, e valid and delapidated tenements, in the :hick of the ill-ventilated and ill-drained bywaya o the capital, they might occupy wholesome and decent dwellings in the suburbs, with no fear of any lapse in punctuality. That is merely one among the very many inducements to Mr. CHARLES PEARSON'S enter prize. Numerous other, mentioned before now by ourselves, might very readily be recapitulated. Such a recapitulation, howaver, we cannot but regard as altogether unnecessary. We repose confidence in the good sense of the majority of our fellow•citizens, and, doing so, rely upon their energy for the furtherance of this noble scheme of a Gsntral Railway Terminus. g nator of the presents t t e o rpr t i h z e e Farringdon-street, as the ori gi nator has admirably well demonstrated, public precisely the very site that was seeded for the due carrying cut of the undertaking. Let not that sit e be lost for ever by the shameless timidity or injudicious procrastination. Let the supporters of the rherne, on the contrary, combine vigour with vigi- J rn 'nee ‘ in the task of its promotion, and many more i ni n a a y: w el a a y pse before Mr. CIIAELES PEARSON may be enabled to rejoice in beholding his darling pe n et B of rapid and prosperous realiza. tion. OW Government knows its fate. Manchester, and no inconsiderable portion of the House o f C ommons' , have spoken pl a i n l y enough. Every one knew they would do so, as every one QuEEN kn ows that th e 'S speech will not do it. Ais settled now that Protec- MEM -1 of before Christmas. allowed, tion is to be finally disp ost. - "ill not: mt e ta ion Lord DERBY and his colleagues . rke r,a question on any pretext whatever , to bu till next February. He m elec. t last spring, by - a solemn : nt time e promise Alr. that V a l t.:v . the tion Parliamen t should be assembled .n eurtin now be to pronounce its final ver dict on Free Trade and Pee tection before Chr. stmas. That promise must fulfilled. The coun-trY has a right to know on what principles its commercial transactions are to be con ducted. The farmers Aught to be finally dis abused of any lingering' reliance on protective duties for their produce. All political parties ought to have the rubbish of Protection squab bles cleared out of their way, to facilitate their re-formation ou the real questions of the day; and all the world ought to know that our policy on this vital question is settled for ever. Such are the reasonable views of Mr. COBDEN, and all the speakers at the Great Manchester gathering. If the Queen's speech does not announce, in full and decisive terms, a thorough Free-trade policy, "a distinct renunciation and recantation of Protection on the part of tilis Administration," then, either by an amendment on the Address, or by a substantive resolution, the House of Commons is to be called upon to declare that; it hac no confidence in any Government "which does not avow its determination to adhere to the policy of Free Trade, as it has hitherto been adopted, and to carry it out in every practicable way." No toleration is to be given to any " mystical intimation from the Government that they do not intend to in terfere with Free Tiede ;" but an "avowal that they have changed their opinions, and are honestly in fa vour of Free Trade," will be unflinchingly de manded. Such is the practical purpose of this great meeting. We sincerely hope that Lord DERBY and his colleagues are, and for some time have been, dis posed to act in accordance with this purpose. The Free-traders express themselves willing to receive their repentance not only " at the eleventh hour, but at the eleventh and three quarters hour." They remark truly enough, that greater men than the Members of the present Cabinet have changed their opinions, and they fairly ask the present Minis try, if they cannot change theirs to go manfully at once into opposition. It is perfectly clear that there is a large majority against Protection in the House of Commons, and an infinitely larger majority in the country at large ; and nothing, therefore, could be more unconstitutional, than for persons whose opi nions are at variance with those of the majority, both in the House and outside of it, to carry on the Go vernment of the country. In this representation of the case, Mr. COBDEN and his coadjutors are unques tionably right. The Ministry must, to insure the respect of the country, either announce them selves converts to Free Trade, or retire into oppo sition. If not converts, it cannot be expected that they should avail themselves of the innumerable facilities which the Government of the day possesses, for fur thering the great cause, both in their home adminis tration and their diplomacy abroad. A Free-trade Ministry would be ever on the watch to teach its ad vantages at Foreign Courts, and to Foreign Ministers and Ambassadors, and would eagerly improve every opportunity to perfect the abolition of all monopoly and protection at home. An Anti-Free-trade Min istry, on the contrary, merely working out a policy which it disapproved, must, negatively, lose many advantages for that policy, and must be tempted to embarrass it as far as lay in their power. We hope, therefore, that the Government have become real converts to Free Trade. They have had such lessons on the subject, that if they have not learned them, it will be generally believed that they are either unaccountably slow to learn, or un pardonably obstinate ; neither opinion being very favourable to their continuance in office. They have received the seven years instructions of the Anti- Corn-law League ; the impressive teachings of Sir ROBERT PEEL, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and other truly great converts ; the lessons of opposition and the les sons of office ; the Budget lesson of their own CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, and the national lesson of the General Election ; lessons from tenant farmers, lessons from landlords, lessons even from the large shipowners themselves ; verily they have had it line upon line, line upon line; and if, after all, they now hesitate about a full, frank, and manly confession, that they have erred, that they repent, and that they will bring forth fruits meet for repentance, assuredly they will lose whatever respect Liberals of every shade may have hitherto felt for them. JOHN BULL is a most forgiving old fel low ; assault him with all the violence which used to escape with a 51. penalty, and if you show him you are really grieved for your conduct, ten to one but he will shake hands with you, and share a bottle of wine with you, instead of inflicting a paltry penalty; and we feel pretty confident that if our present Ministers will but make a clean breast of it ; if they will confess, for instance, that political partizanship or necessities may have blinded their eyes—but that the evidence against their past creed is too glaring, too conclusive, to be withstood, and that they now therefore give in their cordial, unreserved adherence to Free Trade, and will honestly lay themselves out to render it complete—if they will say thus much, we are confident that, on this subject, byegones will be byegones, and Lord RADNOR and the Earl of DERBY, RICHARD COBDEN, and BENJAMIN DISRAELI will shake hands most heartily, and be thorough good Free-trade friends for life. The rumoured plan of making the QUEEN'S Speech the vehicle of Ministerial recantations, is, we think, the one to be desired above all others. No one doubts that with our beloved SOVEREIGN'S education and intelligence, she is a sincere Free-trader, and although she delivers only the advised speeches of her Cabinet, yet when her un derstood sentiments are in harmony with those of the great mass of her attached subjects, there is something peculiarly graceful in putting language into her mouth, which she can utter with sincerity, and her people cheer with cordial enthusiasm. Minis ters might, indeed, individually avow their changed opinions ; but it would neither produce the same im pression at home and abroad, nor afford her MAJESTY an opportunity of placing the last wreath of legislative triumph on the brows of Free-trade. When once she has performed this solemn yet joyful act (for we are willing to take for granted she is to do it), it is morally certain that she will soon have Royal and Im perial followers; nay, we are daily expecting to hear that England's transatlantic daughter has placed a Free-trade Ptesident at the head of her Government. Bankrupt exchequers on the Continent, and strange to say, a largely overflowing exchequer in the United States, are alike teaching the advantages and the ne cessity of Free Trade. Large classes in each country arc beginning to understand that protection of a few is the robbery of all ; that protection to native indus industry realty means protection to native idle ness, or native incompetence. The world is ripe to learn the great lesson of Free Trade. It needs but the DERBY converts and Queen VICTORIA to proclaim their conversion, and the door of Protection is sealed abroad as well as at home. OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.—The Queen, it is ex pected, will leave Windsor Castle on Wednesday next, for Buckingham Palace, for the purpose of holding a Privy Coun cil, at which her Majesty's Speech from the Throne, on opening the Session of Parliam ent will receive the san ction of the Sovereign. Her Majesty, as we have already stated, i s expected to deliver the Speech from the Throne in person, on Thursday, in the HotLe of Lords , returning to Windsor Castle the same afternoon. NOMINATION OF SIIERIFF3.--The nomination of sheriffs for next year is appointed to take place on Friday next in the Court of Exchequer , on which occasion the Right Hon. Benjanim Disraeli will officiate in his robe as Chancellor of the Exchequer, for the first time since his ap pointment. The chief judges, and a lso the judges and barons of the three courts—Queen's Bench, Common , Pleas, and Exchequer—will take part in the ceremony. Three gentlemen will be nominated for all the counties in England and Wales. THE FOREIGN SECRETARY.—On Saturday evening the noble Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Countess of Malmesbury, entertained a selects circle of the hunt ton and dip'omatic corps at dinner, at their residence, Whitehall-gardens. The guests included his Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge, his Excellency the French Ambassador and the Countess Walewski, his Excellency the Napolitan Minister and the I'rincess Carina, his Ex cellency the Portuguese Minister and the Countess Lavradio, the Earl and Countess of Derby, the Earl and Countess of Glengall, Viscount and Viscountess Mandeville, and Lord Stanley. DEATH OF THE DOWAG ER V ISCOUNTESS CASTLE , e regret to announce the demise of the Dowager of p r i f n a c i i l p u a r l e failures housesere Viscountess Castlemaine, the mother of the present Lord Castlemaino. —prAovilstrngetranduern. number r he an nouncedAlLUinßEthse. in volved are those of Messrs. John Ruck and Co., Messrs. ii Joseph Stuart and Son, and Mr. C. H. Harben, essr. others, which are four or five . in number,. being of an unimportant' character. The libilities in the case of Messrs. Ruck are stated at About 40,0()04 -~,~., m ,, ;t ,d„ y ~; AME 1 \ T T• HOUSE OF LORDS—CURS DAY). The Lord-Chancellor took his seat on the Wool sack at two o'clock, when the swearing in of Peers was resumed. Lord Stratford de Redeliffe, late Sir Stratford Canr ing, and Lord Raglan, late Lord Fitzroy Somer set, took their oaths and their seats on their elevation to the peerage. The former was introduced by Viscount Canning and Viscount Hardinge, and the latter by the Earl of Eglinton and Lord Colville. At 4 o'clock their Lordships adjourned until to‘• morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS -(THIS DAY, The Speaker took the chair at one o'clock. The business of the day consisted in the adminis , tration to the members of the oaths prescribed by law. For the purpose of swearing in members, the clerk of the house goes through the list of counties in alphabetical order, and the members are formed into groups consisting of numbers as large as can be con veniently accommodated at the table. The swearing in was proceeded with up to four o'clock, when the House adjourned till to-morrow. LAW INTELLIGEIVCE-(THIS DAY. QUEEN'S BENCH. CRIMINAL INFORMATION—CROLL V. TALUS. Sir Fred. Thesiger said he was instructed to move for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not bo filed against Mr. John Tallis, printer and pub lisher of St. John-square, Smithfield, for a libel which he had very extensively circulated against Alexander Croll, who was one of the Sheriff's of the City of London, and joint Sheriff for the county of Middlesex. Mr. Croll was a very considerable shareholder in the Great Central Gas Consumers' Company, which was incorpo rated by Act of Parliament in 1851. He was also en gineer to ncompany, and suppli e d it w i t h gas w hi c h was ine manufactured e the tured bya process f or w hi c h b e h a d o b ta i ne d g a patent. It appeared that Mr. Tallis had employed the company to supply,hina with gas for some time, but hav ing discontinued dealing with the company, an action was brought against him for the arrears due by him for gas, end that action was pending when the libel was published, and continued to be so still. Mr. Croll was elected Sheriff on the 30th of August last, during his absence from London; and on the 30th of September he gave his inauguration dinner at the London Tavern. fie was first mad e aware of the publication, by a letter which he received on the 22d of October last, enclosing the handbill or libel of which he complained. On the following day he saw an advertisement in the Times ob an i isdsthaiemnrtp,ism:, Messrs.eat intimating ad th dT a r e t asl F s e in r e e r mroenipgtibyhte to oeen receipt newspaper, headed, "Important to every gas consumer in gratis, tthe knagtpdtohosen: postage mw o of Mr. Croll r o ohi by the Great Central Gas Con sumers' Company, on that he the h e 28thwa s n taware September, of l a B n s y 2. a d N d r o e w s s , having been published by the company, at all reflecting on Mr. Tallis, and that, therefore, ho could neither be directly nor indirectly, a party to such a production. The libel in question was very extensively circulated, and in a form which was likely to make it very attrac tive, because it was accompanied by notices of certain cheap publications which were issued by Mr. Tallis. The learned counsel then read portions of the alleged libel. Alluding to the growing cry of dissatisfaction . among gas consumers, it went oil to say that the engineer of the Great Central Ccmpeny, who held 125 shares, and and that they would have to resort to a little more lying, also the directors, began to tremble for their investments, boasting, and chicanery, in order to make the increased . cost of their gas, compared with that of other companies, less gross and apparent. Mention was then made of tho clique of hungry speculators, who had contrived to make their contractor Sheriff, and of their having d stated beenp an y t i II : sued called into aid a Sheriff's dinner, at the London Tavern, for the purpose of promoting the views of the company. The article next insinuated that Mr. Tallis had no chance of a fair trial, as Mr. Croll had been elected sheriff, because as he was not unacquainted with the node of cooking accounts in joint-stock com panies, it vas just possible he might cook the jury panel. Lord Cempbell—lf there is any charge that Mr. Croll had cooked accounts, there would be a good ground for a rule. Sir Frederick Thesiger—That is not directly charged against him, but it is insinuated that ho is not unac quainted isith making fraudulent and deceptive accounts, and the in'erence is raised that ho would so utterly dis regard his responsiblo duties as Sheriff as to unfairly strike the ,ury panel. Lord Cm:lPbell—The office of Sheriff is ono of great responsibiity and peril, and of great importance to the public, and the Court thinks that Mr. Croll is entitled to the protection of the law. I presume, of course, that be denies my improper interference with the accounts ? Sir Frecerick Thesiger—So entirely, that he says he had nothieg whatever to do with the accounts, which are auditec by persons appointed by the Corporation of London. Lord Campbell—You may have a rule, but this case is not to be taken as a precedent for the Court inter fering in matters of dispute between shareholders and directors. Sir Frederick Thesiger—l can only say that if this case had been merely one of that description, wo would not have trespassed on the Court by making such an applicatior. Rule granted. The proceedings in the Bail Court, the Court of Exchequer, and the Court of Common Pleas, this morning, were entirely devoid of interest except to the parties concerned. The Bail Court only sat two or three minutes. FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON , (From the _'Horning Herald.) vv e h ave received the following letter from Vienna, which accounts for the Austrian Government declin ing, to send a general to attend toe Duke of Welling ton's funeral. Russia, Prussic, the Netherlands, will depute their most ' Spain, Portugal, distinguished officers for that purpso :_. and Hanover, is in th e " VIENNA, N ov, 1, " We believe the Austrian Government will not be able to s end an officer to carry theit M ars h al ' s baton at the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, for the very con clusive reason that the marshals in their service hav e no which belongs a cane with a sword-knot to n b n at if o o n r . m, T to he distinctive mark of their marshal s it, but w hi c h the officers gets for hinself, th e Govern to d d ow e t iirtua, both in Viennarhe Emp eror and Govern meat eu s armyhaving n hav©, e, nothing however, on and in all their garrison towns, to mark their respect, for the Duke, that they can hardly regret bein g d eprived of this opportunity of repeating it, and they will thus he secure from any affront to the Austrian uniform from the Austrian refugees now congregated in Lond on _ by a repetition of such scenes as the attack on Marshal Ilaynau, or th e ova tions of Mons. Kossuth." I o Bast expired pir l e n a dia DEATH OF GENERAL CAULFIELD, Al. P. A P: vacancy has be en crea ted in the direction of th e ,vpany by the d ea th of General Caulfield, •"9rsday. The deceased, who had previously &lied severalon political appointments in India, was elected 4 director • 1848. At . the last general election the gallant officer w as in 1841. returned without opposition for the borough of Abingdon,- which he had twice contested before with the present A. ttorn2y-General, Sir F. Thesiger, once in 1845, and agai n —On Saturday, Caulfield, archdeacon of Kilmore, and was born in 1 185. - assayer for the gold dust he had gat hered ' He was the ' seventh eon of the Venerable John been het in ANOTHER EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF AN EINII qRANT information was received, of a men named Henry Bell, a Newcastle collier, who had been out to the diggings in California, and had just received 4001. frem en Cornhill by two of that class of metropolitan plunderers m de nominated ' — agsmen,' who wheedled him about from place to place, and plying him with liqueur, eventually deprived him of the fruits o f hi s h ard labour the poor dupe finding himselfin a brothel in Kent-street, Boron h, without a farthing. .FATAL ACCIDEN T ON THE EIVER.—On Saturd a y a lighterman, named William Bentinck, residing in Long_ lane, Bermondsey, was working the barge Swift, coal-laden, The felt for the the result, out . of . Bugsby s '--- Hole, and was standing on the gunwale amidships, when the wash raised by a passing steamer caused the craft to lurch, and the poor man fell overboard, The accident was witnessed by several persons, but no fears h e b e ing an expert swimmer. oar that went down with him speedily rose, but no more was seen. of him. Drags were used, but the body was not recovered. lie le aves a wife and four childre n. ESCAPE AND REC APTURE OF A CONVICT.—A convict, named St ep h an Tillet, 19 years of age, escaped from the gang to whi c h he was attached while at work on board the Cormo ran t, i n the cast doc k a t Woolwich dock_ yard, by putting on some of the shipwrights' clothes, which had been laid asido when they were at work, and slipped away unperceived by the guard, and succeeded in getting over the dockyard wall at the west end, near the factory I chimney. Sergeant Gill, 28, it, was passing down the Albion-road at the tim e , and, happen i ng to turn round his head, he witnessed the conv i c t d rop f r om the top of the wall into the road; but he look e d so un lik e a convict, dressed as he was in a good frock coat, duck trousers, and a cloth-cap, with anchor buttons, that had it not been that Sergeant Gill witnessed his mode of egress from the yard he might have passed unnoticed. The convict Tillett crossed the road and went along Upper Hardi ng - s treet, but, as it i 3 crossed by the North Kent Railway, there is no thoroughfare , and on his return back through the street he was captured by Sergeant Gill , and when taken to the dockyard, it was u. certained that he had not been missed up to the time he was brought back to the Cormorant. Stephen Tillett escaped before about three months ago and was retaken, and will be I severely ptuaislied ter escaping a second time. ING, NOVEMBER 8, 1852. MONEY AN CIAL NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLock. , The sales of cotto n a t Li verpool, on Saturday, were I estimated at 6,000 bales ; of which 1,000 American were taken on speculation. The market was tame, but steady, without alteration in prices. The sales comprised 4,500 American 60 Pernam an d Maren ham at 64d t o bbd, 50 Bahia at bbd, 1,000 Egyptian at 71c1 to Bd, and 200 Surat at 4d per lb. Railway Shares were steady. The state of the dried fruit trade is described by Messrs. Witb.erby and Hanson, in terms which con clusively show that there has been no improvement in respect to the prospects of future supply. They state that :-- " The latest accounts from Greece mention that at the middle of October there would probably not be one vessel taking in currants there, or at the islands. " On the 3rd inst. a cargo of New Patras Fruit, just landed, was offered by public auction, the lowest quality, very bad, was taken in at 28s, rather better at 335, and the best about 40 tons, at 55s (since sold at that price) whilst some low rain. damaged 1850 Fruit was sold at 475. There has. since been more business done, but principrdly in middling qualities, and the Market appears to have boon banefitted by the exposure of this miserable Fruit. Holders of Old Fruit, many of whom are acting upon orders from abroad, where they are more alive to the prospect of an absolute scarcity of currants in this country than ourselves, are sanguine in their ex pectation of still higher prices. They know that the 1852 crop, if it exceed 8,000 tons, will not have produced any better Fruit than has been imported in the 15 car goes already arrived in this country, and therefore that we shall have nothing but the Old Fruit to fall back upon, much of which is of ordinary quality;—that cur rants are no longer an article of luxury and extrava gance, as was the case 20 years ago, bat one of daily use by all classes of society; —and above all, that the London clearances alone ; from the Ist November to 30th April, during the last four years, have averaged 6,500 tons, whilst those of the United Kingdom have, during the same period, exceeded the total quantity that now exists in this country." The New York advices are very satisfactory as to trade, considering the advanced period of the season. The amount of specie brought is 100,000 dollars. In Stocks there was a buoyant feeling, and money was more abundant. The accumulation in the sub-Trea sury had nearly ceased, and more gold dust was coming forward from California. Most of the im ports for the season had been received, and the exports were steadily increasing in value. The value of merchandize put upon the market in the third week of October was 709,484 dollars, and of dry goods 763,319 dollars, making a total of 1,572,803 dollars. The imports of the first two weeks in October were 5,331,782 dollars. The ex ports were 4,495,382 dollars, for the three weeks, including specie. Freights continued firm with an upward tendency. At the close of the second week in October, the excess of imports over exports was 2,451,973 dollars. At the close of the third week the increase was 3,309,203 dollars. Increase in one week, 857,230 dollars. This is the only important feature in the last returns. In the list of articles exported, there is nothing new. The shipments of cotton to Liverpool were a little larger than usual, and the aggregate value of exports for the week shows a slight increase. Bread stuffs were pretty active for shipment. The Old United States Bank was paying out its final dividend of 70c. per share. Its most recent pre vious dividend was in 1834, 18 years ago, when about 2 per cent. was paid. The whole amount paid to stockholders since the expiration of its charter is about 109 dolls. per share. The Boston Post says that the State Treasurer hes accepted the proposal of Messrs. Blake, Ward, and Co., of London, for the purchase of 100,000 dolls. of elassachusetts 5 per Cent. Stock, running 20 years, at 5 3-100 per oent premium. The Potomac Savings' Bank, which failed, was ex pected to pay in full. Gold seems to have been discovered near Quebec, unless there is an imposition being practised. ' Accounts fectn Halifax state that nearly all the Nova Scotia fishermen were detained by the steamer Devastation, for alleged informality in their papers, and any vessel attempting to leave would be fired into. The underwriters at Lloyds are drawing up a pro test against the prosecution of the voyage by the Mel bourne steamer, which has put into Lisbon. The Banking Institute holds its second soiree for the season to•rnorrow evening, when Mr. Macgregor, M.P., will preside. A public meeting of the General and Executive Committee for promoting Tribunals of Commerce is to be held on Wednesday, when a series of resolu tions will be proposed, embodying the chief objects contemplated by the association. There is no movement in the stock wriest, end the quotations have been almost the same throughout as on Saturday; Consols realise 1003 # for transfer, and 1001 a for December 9. Exchequer Bills are 745. to 775., and India Bonds, 84s. to 87s. premium ; being a little flat, Bank Stock is worth 223 to and India Stock 274 to 276, being an improvement on the latter. The New 3 per Cents. have been marked 103 k to. In foreign stocks there have been a good many bargains. Mexican have been in more demand at 9 5i , to I,'and Peruvian Deferred at 621 to a. Equador Stock has been done at , q b, being rather flatter. Buenos Ayres Bonds are worth 80k. Grenada 21i. Venezuela Deferred are dull at 14:1. The Turkish Scrip is heavy, still at 2 to 2i premium ; and the Swedish Scrip is 4 discount. Spanish Deferred realises 2.5 i, to ;2-, and the Passive Nothing has been done in Dutch or Northern Bonds, Railways do not quite support the advance of Sa turday, and there is less doing. The French shares are generally firm, though likewise quieter. Swiss Railway I to prem. Upper ludia 1 prem. Gold mines are dull and in banks there have been no dealings. BRITISII FUNDS THIS DAY. (From the Official List.) __ Business done. Thank Stock ... 223 i 3 i.er Cant. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Anna. ... 1003 i Sew 3 1 4 per Cent. Auras. .. 103% 1 /, Long Annuities, Exp. Jan.sth, 1860 — Do. 30 Ire -s, Expire Jan. 5,18G0 6% India Stoc" - ... .. 274 6 Do. Bonds, 10001... ................. ...... 87 4 Ditto under 1,0004 Consols for Account lOO% Exchpuner BRIT lqd. March June. 1,0001...... 5001. B=ll PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Brazilian Bonds. 5 per Cent. lOl Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent. . ........ 80 1 E q uador Bonds .... 4:!,i Grenada, 1 1 ,E per Cent. Do. Ex Dec. Coupons 1849 2li Ditto Deferred Mexican 3 per Cent. Ditto fer the Acccant2.. Peruvian Bonds, 1849, 6 per Cent., ...... Ditto Deferred 3 per Cent. ............ Sar3inian Bond: 5 per Cent. ............ Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent — Ditto for the Account D i tto Passive (Converted) Swedish Loan Tarkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852. 2 i t li p. Venezuela Bonds _ Do. Deferred 1 Cent. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 10 Gu.£ Belgian Bonds, 4 1 h per Cent Dutch Exeha., 2 1 h per Cent., 12 Gull 65% THE SHARE MARKETS BRITISH RAILWAYS. Railways. Closing Prices. Aberdeen 100/. paid Amb., Not., Bost. & E. June. Bir., Wolv., and Stour Valley all pd. Birk., Lan., & Ch. Jet., late 33/. 65.8 d., 28/. pd. Ditto, Chest. & Birk., 50/. & 25/. Cans., all pd. Ditto, 20/. 18 1 % pd. Brist. & Exet., 100/. pd. Caledonian ...100/. pd. Chest. & Holyh., all pd. Cork & Bandon, all pd Dub. & Belf. Jet. 451. pd. Dundlk & Ennis., all pd. Dundee,Perth, & Aber deen June. Ditto, New East Anglian (251. L. & E. and L. & D.) all pd. Do (18/. E. & 13.)all pd. East. Counties Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shrs., all pd. Do. do. do. 61. pd. Do., do., B & C., all pd East Lancashire ...all p E. & W. India Docks and Bir. June., all pd Edinb. & Glas., 100/. pd Edin.,Per.& Dun. 100/. Glas. & S.-West.,lool4 Great Northn., 100/. pd Do. %s. A Stk., 100 L p Do. % B Stock,loo/. p Gt. S. & W. Ireld., all p Great Westn., 100/. pd Lane. & Carlisle, all pd Do.Thirds,ll/.13.4 pd Lane. & York., 100/. pc Do., Fifths l5 lad Do.,W.Rid. Un. 11%1 Leeds Northern, all rid Liv.Crsby&Sthpt. all p Lond. & Blackw., all pd London, Tilbury, and Southend' 3 pd Lon.,Briglic S. Ct 100 p 1 Lon. & N.West., 1001. p 1 Do. Fifths 12/. pd Do. 10/.,M &B (0) 14 Lon. & S.-West 1.00/. p Do. New 501., 42% pc) Do. New 401 341. pd Lon. & Enniskil , all pd Man. Shef. & Lin.,loolp Do. Manch. & Lincoln Union 4/. 2s. pd Midland 1001. IA Do. Bir. & Derby 1001. Mid. Gt. Wt. (Ire.) 47 1 ,4 Do. % Shares, 17% pd Newcas. & Carl. all pd Newmarket _lOO4 pd Newport, Abergaven., and Hereford ...14/ pd Newry & Ennisk. 7 1 ,4 p Norfolk lOO/. pd Do. New 20/. ... 201. p North. Coun.Un. 3 %pd North British ...100/. p Nth. Devon, N0.1,13/.p Do., No. 2 6% pd Do., % A, def....a1l pd Do., % B, guar. 5/. pd North Stafford. 17% p North-Western...all pd N. & S.-W. June. 8% p 0xf.,W0r.,&W.,100/. p Scottish Central 100/. p Scottish Midld., 100/. p Shrews. & Do. do. Shrew. & Her B/. p Shrewsbn. and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) all pd Do. Halves all pd Do. Oswestry all pd Shrop. Union _6% pd Do. A, B, C, & D fully pd. up at par cent.... South Devon all pd South-Eastern 100/. pd South Wales all pd S.York. & Riv. Dun 15/. Do. Do. U. pd Stirl. & Dunferm. all p Stock. & liar. 16/2s. 3d. Taff Vale 126/. pd Thames Haven Dock and Railway -19/. pd Vale of Neath...l7/. pd Waterfd. & Bilk. all pd Waterfd. & Lim. all pd West Cornwall 13/. pd West London ...all pd Yk., New. & Ber. 1004 Do. & New. Ex. 20/. p Do. G.N.E.purc. 10/. p York & N. Mid.loo/.pd PREF] 29 to 29;4 - 101 —lO% 6.-1 VA dis. 21 3 / 4 —22 i 3 254 dis. 105 106 57 1 4 57% 23 —24 1 7% —18 i 5 4 dis. 7%- 81,4 41i ..- 5 3% - 123' $ - 123 1 0 - 10% ••• •-•• ••• % 71 i 78% - 79% 57 —59 76 —7B 24 —26 56 —5B 821 1 4 —B3i 47 — e 49 IIW —l2O 50 1 4 51% 9511 96 85 —B7 11 —l2 p 87 87% 334 3 dig. 244 2 die. 17% --18 •.• 105 —2l / s p % —106 i 124 i 125 3% 314 p 2 1 4 p 93 —94 3 3 4 die. 2 1 ,4, 21 —22 32 —B3 Pi 79 , - 79 45 1- 47 ••• •-• .. 49 ..-. IS 1 2 1 4dia. 3 1 4 —2% die. 48 —5O 6 1 / 2 - i ... dia. 361 6 6 %die. 2% —2% % % di,. 4 % -4 % di& ••• --.... p. 48 ... 49 90 —92 60 —62 68 -- 70 IX l i Al 20 —2l 10 10% 15 —l6 81 4: 3 d. •.• ... 22 —23 79 —go 41. —41% 14 —l5 4 5 "'" ••• 2%- 2% 13 ,- 13% 25 -26 9 1i - 10% 29 9 6% 1053( 5744 6 3 % 7 23 1 , s 3( 1 ,18 Aberdeen all pd Do. No. 2, 7 per ct. all Bris. & Ex., 4 p. ct. Stk Do. 4 p. c. Shares, 51. pd Caledonian, 101. 100/ p Ches. & Holyhd. all pd Cork and Bandon, s', per cent. 136 Dundee, Per., & Aberd. Junction all pd Ang. (3110x)6 p c. all Do. (SL) 7 per ct. all p Do. (71175) p. c. 2 p Eastern Counties EL, 5 p. c., No. 1 pd Do. No. 2 all pd Do. New 6 p. c. Stk. all Eastern Union Scrip, Guar. 6 per ct all p Do. 10/. Dab. Sh all p East Lancashire, 6 per ct. Quar. Shrs. all pd East & West Yorkshire Junction, 5th5...a1l pd , Edin., Per. & Dun... 5% 4% 3 5 / 5 12% ys 10% 7 1 / 8 78 v. 2414 57 1 A, 835 i 47i pm g 74 7 1174 per cent. all pd Glas. & S.W. gua 5 p.c. Gt. North. 5 p. c.lOO pd Do. 5 p c. red. sc. 100 p Great South. & West. 106 2 ,4 5 6 4 % 125t4 411 943 x, (Ireland) Bths all pd Gt. West. (Berko & IL Ex. 5 per cent).. .6 pd Gt.W. fixed 4% 1 001. p Lancashire and York. 82 1 ,i 2N shire, F. 201. ...6/. pd Do. 6 p. c. Stk. 1001. p Leeds Northern, 6 per cent. No. 1 131. pd Do. Qrs., 1848...9/. pd London & Brig. guar 5 per cent. ...100L pd Do. Pr. 5 p c. Stk. 1001. Do. Con. 5 p c,1852 all Do. N.Gr. 6la c 1001. p Lon. & N.-W. (Coy. & Nunet.) 5 p. c. 100/. pd Ln. & S.W. Co.3ds. Si. p Lon. & En. % Sh. all p , Man., Sheff., & Linen. Qr. Sh., No. 1 all pd Do. New, 10L pd Do. 6/. 3l. lad Maryport and Carlisle, 4 per cent all pd Do., 4% per ct. 6% p Mid. Con. 6 p c St. 1001. Do. Con. Brie. & Bir., 6 pet cent.... 1001. pd Do. Erewash Val. all p Do. Leic. &Swanning. 8 per c. Guar. 1004 p Do. Pref., 4i p.c. 5L p Norfolk Exton._ all pd Do. Gr. 5% pet. all p Do. W.Val. 5 p.c. all p North British 1001. pd North Statford all pd Oxf. Wor. & \Vol , 15/. 6 per cent.... 100/. pd Ditto ditto ... 61. pd Shrews. & Bir. N.G. all Shrews. & Ches. (N.W. Min.) 8 per c all pd Do. 5 per cent. 101 pd South Devon all pd Do. New I%pd St.-Est. (Reading An. nuities)...l /. Os. 6d pti Do., 41,E p c 100/. p Sth. York. 4p c gd. all Stock. & Hart. gd. 5 p c until July 1,1856, all p Waterford & Kilkenny, 6 per cent. 3l. pd York, New. & Bar. all p Do. Do Si. pd York & N. Midland H. 79 % 463 h 37 GX 13 12% 68% 8 68 6% 22% 79 5 /, 1 8 3 4 9j 41 Sy s i 7 7 dis. 12% dis. 7 1 4 54 65 63% di :RFANCE SHARES 1 0 = 109 14 -.104 18 IA ..-. 19 par ..... 3p 6 ...... 6% B % 8% 3 % -8% 114- 2 p 1% •-• I% p 14 - 15% 1 7; -17% ••• ... ... 3 -. 3? [26 - rig . 11 -- 113 8% ..... 9% p 109 -- no %dis. -. % pm 152 -_ 155 ••• •••• ... ... •••••• .40 pm ••• •- ... and S. Parch. 10/. pd South-t: . LINES LEAS. ••• '.... ... ''• .'"' ... '•• "'a' *so I • • 0.. ... 8 l A ..... 4 p 9 1 ,4 10% 11% 11 Vs— Tis p (di.. x p par— %p 148 - 150 P par 'lb p 22% 23% 5 :4 6 1 3 4 2 100 102 2* - -- ix 11 % .-. .11 % 17% - 18 I 'si —l% p 16 —16% %dia.-4 pm 26 .-- 261 ... 19 -20 ••• ~ m o ... %dia. -- par 101 103 17}g i 127% 113 109 2 4 117,‘ % 311 148% lOU pm. Pm. 115 3 4 2ay s 6 p item, 4% per cent., :D AT FIXED R. IN ,100. ENTALS. . Nominal Prices. le "Co L m easinS B ta llain day 6B . 4l Railways. Ln parues. le le Bdf. & Bitch., all p 1.0n.&N.W ... ...., ... 1p Bir.& Ov.,gua.allGt. Westn. 29% --3 U 1- Do. without, a ll p! Do. ...... 29 --- 80 Bir.Wolv. & Dud., ~. guar all pd DO. L- ...... 30 ..... 81 Do. without,all p Do. .. .. .. 29 -- BO ~ Buckinghash. all p' Lon. &N.W 109 -.. a Clydsdale Jc., all p Caledonian 52 111 —. 53 52% E. Lin., gua. 6 per P e cent 100/.pd Gt. Norttn. 149 --. 151 150 49 Glouceet. & Dean ,i Forest all pd Gt. Wastrn. 32% 83 e Hartlepl. Dk. & % i Yk.New.l , Railw.... a ll pd i I &Berw.f ••• —. ••• ;Hull & Selby, all p Yk. &N M 113 —ll5 Do. Halves., all pl Do. ..... : 56% 57% . Do. Q uar t s., all p Do. ..... 27 _2B Lou. & Grew., all'S. Eastern.. 14 14% 1 4 % Do. Pref all pd! Do. ...... 25% 26% Lowestoft., gua. 4 per cent—all pd Norfolk ... 18% 19 % Do. 6 p. et., all p Do. Manch. B ux t n, f L.&NW 3 $ 8 & Matlck,s% p 1 &M. 5 Middlesbr' & Red car, 6p. c., all p Stktn &Dar •-•— 108 1 07% 34 Midlnd Brdf.,allp tlidland __ N. & E., sp. c., all E. Counties 64 —66 Prestn. &Wyre, { L.&N.W.I. "' ._ "'all paid &La. &Y f Ditto, Halves, A, • .... 100/. pd Do. P• D oy o . • s Sr h l - I n it . .,l s ( t )o o / c . k p GIN . orthn 1 1 1 4 4 9 9 ..... 1 5 51 1 150 Sht: Rth. & Goole, I, B v D . s e S ial: Pt t a i ffe ci a d" i i ' i h t li G:p: .9l c a l l , l al 6 p pP l S ilL p i t... a ^ r o n kt M : B6 & Cl D Ykst'an ar 3 ; 7 ' 6 .....--: . i 41. 1.4 di5. Wilts ' &Son 1004 qt.ll estrn. 105% —106% liusinetis done this day. 963 5 6WA 49 By, 9% 8% 6i THREE O'CLOCK. 100% loes Ci0n5079 .• ••• Ditto Account. Dec. 9 COMING EVENTS.—ON is stated by those who at least wish it to be believed that they are in the confidence of the Government, that the Chancellor will positively propose the repeal of the Malt Tax, and, if possible, of the Hop tax also. It is further asrerted that the Income Tax will be wholly taken off the tenant-farmer class --that that on other incomes will be reduced to 2d. in the pound sterling ; and, that on property raised from 7d. to Is. per pound, or to 5 per cent., going down to property returning 501. per annum, in place of 150/. We may presume that Lord Derby's supporters in the Upper House are not likely to tolerate so direct an attack upon property; while the Free-traders will neither consent to except farmers from their fair share of the national burdens, nor to part with the malt tax until other imports of a much more objectionable and clamant kind are repealed. The manufacture of soap and paper must be free before we can listen to the emancipa tion of beer.— Weekly Dispatch. THE F UNERAL OF THE D UKE OF W ELLINGTON. --Up to a late hour on Saturday night no order had ema nated from the Horse Guards to alter the arrangements made with regard to the number of officers, non-commissioned Officers, and men of the line regiments ordered to come up from the head-quarters and depots of every corps in the United Kingdom, and the islands of Guernsey and Jersey. The number of each corps to be present at the funeral of their late gallant Commander-in-Chief, will therefore be three officers, one sergeant, one corporal, and six privates, as first stated, with the exception of the 33d Foot from Glasgow, and the Rifle Brigade from Canterbury; these corps being designed to walk before the funeral car with their arms reversed, and all the others will follow the funeral car carrying the body, and be without their arms. —ln the official programme of the forthcoming grand funeral Precession, a conspicuous place is given to what is denomi nated the , 4 Guidon." which is thus referred to in the de scription :—" The Guidon, carried by a lieutenant-colonel, supported by two captains in the army, on horseback." It is rkt generally known that the guidon is a military ensign or flag, and i n it se lf an o bj ec t t h at at the funeral may escaue notice except f rom m ilit ary men. It is a term now used for the little banner of a regiment, and the guidon which will bt borne in the procession is the banner of the 33d Ite_ giment of Foot, tlae late Duke's regiment. By the way, it is, perhaps, worth knowing, that some of the regular "Whig set" begin to .{press a decided preference of Mr. Bright to Mr. Cobden. It is somewhat curious that Mr. Luca.. M.P., the rampant Romanist of th e Tablet, h the brother of M r . B r i ght ' s sister's husband (do our readers trace the pedigree?), and the son of a steady old Mark-lane Quaker, of w h ose denomination the member was formerly a professor. There is no zealot so fiery a; a new convert.— Weekly Dispatch. IMPERI Railways. Cent. France (0.V.) all Charl. & Erquel. all pd i Demerara......... all pd Dijon & Btsancon,4 pd Dutch Rhenish -81 pd East Ir tan ......all pd Gt. Indian Penin, all p Grad. Juno. of Fra. 4 pd Great West. of Canada Shares ..... 5% pd Louv. a la Sambre 7%1 Luxembourg ...14/. pd Do. (Railway) 104 pd' Do ............... 1% pd Do. (Canal) _2% pd Lyons & Avignon, 5 pd Madra5......... 44 pd Maria Antonia 27% pd Do. New ...... 8% pd Namur & Liege all pd Do. ex int ....... all pd North. of France, all pd Do. 201.3 p. c. Bds, all p Orleans & 80r...114 pd Paris & Ly0n5...104 pd Do. Bonds ... 12 pd. Paris & Orleans all pd Paris & Rouen ...all pd Paris & Stras. ...all pd Paris, Caen, and Cher bourg 4 pd Rouen & Havre —all pd Sambre &Meuse all pd St. Andrew's & Qaebec (A) ............. pd Tours & Nantes 174 pd West Flanders pd West. of France 91. pd 1113,4 = ii% ••. 5 3 4 p %di& 8 3 4 9 2 `4 -2% 3 3 / a 4 par 1 p ••• - 4 5 - ;z, - 4 1 - 12 -14 p - - - - 8 ,., - 8 ! . 4 0 -,/, - 714 37y, - 37 3 / 4 14:! 4 - 15% 21 - ii% p i 0 ... 72 42 -43 37 - 8754 7 - % p 22 -23 11 4-. 11 ••• ... dis. 4% 5 9 % 10 MINES. Agna Fria all pd Anglo-Californian, all p Asturian 151. p Australasian 21. pd Australian 5/. pd Austr. Freehold all pd Ave Maria all pd Brit. Austr. Gold all pd British Iron 131. ss. p Braz. Im. (is. 5 p) 24 Do. Coca. & Cul. all p Do. St. Joh. del R. 151. Carson's Creek all pd Cobra Copper _4Ol. pd Colonial Gold 1/ pd Copiapo ............ 14/ pd Eng. & Aust , Cop. all p Genera 1..........,, all pd Gold Mountain all pd Grd. Duch. Baden, all p Great Polgooth all pd Lake Bathurst...all pd Liberty .. ...all pd Lon. & Cal. Gld Quartz Crushing Cora.. all pd Mariquita all pd Mexi. & S. Amer. 9/. p New Grenada all pd Nouveau Monde, all pd Port Philip all pd Quartz Rock all pd Santiago de Cuba 10% South Australian, all pd Tin Croft 7l. pd United Mexican all pd West Mariposa all pd Yuba 1 paid JOINT-STOCK BAN . Australasia all pd 59 —59 Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd 67 —5B Colonial 25/. pd 15 16% Com. of London 201. pd 29 —3O London Chart. Bank of Australia ...... 2% pd Lon. &ii tufty 20/. pd London Jt. Stk. 101. pd Lon. & Westm. 201. pd Nat. Prov. Eng. 35/. pd Do. New lO/. pd Nat. of Ireland 22% p Orient. Bk. Corp all pd Prov. of Ireland 251 pd. Do. New all pd Roy. Aust. Bkg. & Gold' Importing Com. Ipd Union of Austral. all pd' Do. New 2% pd Union of London 10/. p Union of Madrid all pd % .34 p % P 1•11 , ... ••• 2 ' A ..... 2 3 / 4 p % --• 1% 36 ''''' 1 4 dig '4 3/ 8 dia. 1 4 dia. par 6 % — 7% 5% 6 1 / 2 2% —2%, ...• ••• %die. —j.;; p 44 —45 1 1 ,6 p 61 / 754 % dis. ••• ... 14 die.' dis p "".• 1 3a p % 1 —l% p 14— % 34 P 4 1 %, —4% ••• % p % P • P. 13 1 4 dia. P 11 1 / 4 121,6 7 % 8% 1 / 4 din. par % P ai ... 18 % - . 5% 32 -33 95 - 46% ih :20 38 -39 46 - ... 16% - 17% 1 -1% 49 -50% 17 -18 MIE AustraL Roy. Mail, 4 p Canada 32% pd Copper Miners of Eng land . all pd De. Preference, pd Crystal Palace ... 5 pd Eastern Steam...2s. pd Elect. Tel eg. Ireland 1p Gen. Stm. Nay. 141. pdl Gen. Screw Steam Ship ping Company...so/. p Irish Beetroot Sug. 2 p Netherlands Land, 2 pd Perin. & Or. St. all pd Do. Do. _l5l. pd Royal Mail Stm. 601. pd Universal Emigration and Colonization, 2/. p •.• - ... DELLANEOUS. 3 - 4 60 -51 86 - 377,4 29 -30 50 % x.d 2 87 42 79 2% 87 MARKET NEWS-(TRIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. —MONDAY. Most of the country markets held on Saturday were fairly suppli e d w i t h Wh eat, the demand for which ruled steady at very full prices. Fine maltinv Barley improved in value Is. per quarter ; whilst grinding and distilling sorts were quite as dear. No change in malt. The 0 81 trade was dull; but both Beans and Peas moved off freely at extreme quotations. Most kinds of Flour were tolera bly firm. The New York market, at the date of our last adYinee/ was active for flour at high rates. Throughout the con tinent the Corn trade has continued firm, with fair aver' age supplies of most articles on offer. The arrival of English Grain up to our market last week were but moderate. From abroad we received 47,357 quarters of Wheat, 2,367 Barley, 12,142 Oats, 3,276 Beans, 3,850 Peas, 11 Tares, 15,640 Linseed, 7,2 52 Rapeseed, 559 Sundry Seeds, 1.604 sacks, and 11,89 8 barrels of Flour. The arrivals of Wheat from Essex and Kent fresh up to our market to-day, coastwise, were very moderate, and much out of condition. From the east coast the receipts were small. By land carriage a few cotchels came to hand, but their quality was by no means fine. The abode being very moderately supplied with samples of both red and white, the demand for all kinds, although the attend ance of millers was not to say numerous, ruled steady. and a good clearance was effected at prices quite equal to those of Monday last. Millers in general appear Wbe lightly startled with home-grown Wheats. The demand for Wheat for forward delivery was large yet the amount of business doing was by no means ex. tensive. Growers were very firm in their demands. a The quantity of Foreign Wheat on offer was consider ably on the increase; nevertheless, importers were fleas in their demands. Fine samples sold somewhat freely, at fall rates of currencies; but low and middling kinds commar&A very little attention, yet we cannot call them cheaper. The arrivals of floating cargoes off Falmouth have been on the increase. The demand for them was rather inactive, but no change took place in prices. The Barley trade was by no means so active as tali week. However, the late improvement in the value of fine malting samples was fully supported. Grinding and distilling met a slow sale, owing to the increased supplies of English. In prices, no change was noticed. Malt—the show of which ready for delivery was very moderate —sold steadily, at late rates. We were fairly supplied with Irish and Foreign Oats, for which, the demand was in a sluggish state, at last weadeeks' currency. E ng li s h and Scotch parcels were Inßeans, comparatively few transactions took place, at late rates. Peas met a slow sale, yet no actual decline was re ported in the quotations. We had a moderate inquiry for both English and Foreign Flour, at last weeks' currency. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEABURR. Wheat-Essex & Kent, Malt-Chevaller•• .. • • Got to 62 Rod .... new 358 to 41, Oats- Yorkshire and Ditto - - .... old 498 528 Lincoinsh., Fes : Ditto, White new 38s 45 1 Potato ..... - • Ditto - ...... old 44 s 55 9 Yougha l an d Cor a,._ Norfolk and Lin- Black. •• • • •., Ise lo coin, Rod, old 428 46s Cork,White.•• •• 1 6s 21s Ditto, new Sco tch, .. Feed. •• • • 211 25s Eye—Old .. ........ 31s 32s Beans- .• - 218 41 a Tick ... ••• • .. 33 4 353 2 1 1 7 1 : 4 2 2 ~, Pige0n5.......... oos 40s N ew. ••• • • 313 33, •••• • • • -Grey • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 29 4 348 B arley - Grinding . .... 2Gs 283 Pe as Malting ......... 31 8 33s maple •••••• • • • • • 32s 38 whit s e. • • • • • • • • • . 341 41 57 Chevalier .... ... 33s 35g Boiler ••••• • • • .. 378 41s Flour - Town - made... 37 s 43 21 Malt-Suffolk and Nor- A. 685 folk •••• -•••• • • 5" 2 Suffolk .......... 2 , 3 us Brown ... •••• • • • • 464 L. n po S r t t o h c a k v Btockta & Norfolk 305 355 Kingston and Ware b3l SMITHFIELD. w in e g re am re o °e un iT te e d d Fair average s into London last wee . same period in 1851, they to 6,117 head. uPP lt ii — es th o e f t F ot o a r l e i i m g 7,602; in 1850, 6,072 - in 1849, 4,412; in amounted to 1848, 4,085; and, in 1847, 4,950 head. ' nipoßTs INTO LONDON EN THE PAST VVZKX. During the • . Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calve.% Pigs. From ... 50 ... 1,261 ... ... 2 Hamburg h ..• 95 ..• -- ... ... -- ..• 140 „.. -_ Ostend Nieu Diep Antwerp Amsterdam lO ... OS .., ..- • • • ''. . An • • Z ~/ Dordt .. . --. .. I ... "- Tonningen 169 ... 153 ..... • Bremen Harlingen Rotterdam ... 192 ... 55 Total The yearly comparison of the w ee kly 2 imports is as under:— 1888844558901: ....................................................... 5 3345 1: :22 : 7806 e 03 p 867 . :. Lambs.___ 12 a 1 ; 21 v 4202 e s 184 7 . ...... To:daya' market was seasonably well supplied with Foreign Stock, the general quality of which was inferior. The demand for all kinds ruled heavy, and prices had a downward tendency. The arrivals of Beasts fresh up from our own grazing diitricts were again tolerably extensive; but we observed B great deficiency in their gener a l weight and condition. Notwithstanding that the weather was unfavourable for slaughti ring, the Beef trade w as s t ea d y, at p r i c es quite equal to those of Monday last, and a good clearance Pigs. 308 178 140 EOREIGN. Closing' Price 3. Business done this day. 283% 9 7% 7% . 8 774; 37 1 /, 14%a% 42 IN 21,4 2 7 37 1 4 7 614 101, 2 22% 10 % % lEi 34 30 1 4 13( 4% 13/ 134 62 3 58% 9 38 1 4 53% 111% 3% 3 18% ext Mu the of 1 ...MM. and is s Sus 100 903 up' pric to 4 per ng 41 1 Tun Huns Tare Cam Rye Cloy, Tref( zar lust -43 a tic] price Lt Ditic Pricl STA' 1 1 41:( sU Itt ii Tot% Loa Tots' 14 1 11 11 +JO i Of g 1 4 hls' It hei6 ll] . 4 1 41 crew Si h orn d one 104.