The Sun. — London, England, 1841-11-26 00:00:00

publishe4,,price Two Shillings, TIE CORN:L AWS.—Their EFFECTS on the TRADE of the COUNTRY CONSLDERED, with SUGG_gSTIONS for a COSIPgO3IISE. By DAVID SALOIVIONS, Esq. - Pelham Richardson, 23, Cornhill. MR. JAMES'S NEW NOVEL. On Saturday, December 4th, in 3 vols. postlivo. THE JACQUERIE ; an Historical Ro mance. By G. P. R. JAMES, Esq., Author of The Huguenot," " Henry of Guise,":&c. Lately publ shed, by the same Author, THE ANCIENT REGIME. 3 vols. CORSE DE LEON ; 'or, the Brigand. 3 vols. London 1 Longman, Brown, and Co. • 13, Great Marlborough-street. MR. THEODORE HOOK'S NEW NOVEL, „ 4 1 - IATHERS ,AND SONS, wil be ready on Saturday next, Nov. 27, in 3 volg. Henry Colburn, Publisher; 13, Great Marlborough-street. * 4 l , To be had at all the Libraries. NEW NOVEL by THE AUTHOR of " COUSIN • - - GEOFFREY." Now read} at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., H E MATC.H-MAKE R, A N 'II- *he I,fir, the Author of " Cousin Geoffrey," " The Marrying Man," &c. " This clever nuvel, like the History of a, Flirt,' cornhinesb a va3t share of moral instruction with itt .piquant sketches of manners and soci .ty."—Sun. Henry Colburn, Publi•her, i 3, Great Marlborough-street. Immediately, in 2 vols. post Svo., THE GLORY AND SHAME OF ENG LAND. By AN AMERICAN. Richard Bentley. New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. THEATRE. ROYAL. COVENT GARDEN. U. , iDER the MANAGiOdENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THISEVENING, NOV. :26, Will be repeated the New..COmetly, entitled COITRI"AND ClTY..—Captain• Ddript s esieldv- Mr. W. Lacy ; Sir Paladin Scruple, Mr. W. Farrcirl , Harry Whiffle, Mr. C. Ma thews ; Sir Hecior IttliAbrist - Nr. Bartley ; Mr. Winning ton, Mr. C,ioper; Huirifsfiiff3' unibush, Mr. "Harley : Lady Whiffle,. Madame Yestsis..; ,Mrs. Charmington, Mrs. Nisbett ; Lady pangerEeld, Mtl. W. 'West ; Barbara Yearbinder, Mrs. W. fitty. • ' ' - After which the rat tsir FREE AND EASY.---Sir John Freeman, Mr-Charlos.,lla.thews; Mr. Charles Courtley, Mr. Bartley ; Michael, Mr. Harley ; Gertrude, Mrs. Orger. D°°C4 tckrbeeVsened at 'calf-past Six—the performances to cammoge , at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7a.: Second Price, 3s. (id.; First''" Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; Pit, 33.: Secoloit-.Price. Gallery Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes jii.be taken-col Mr. Groan at the Box-office, from Ten till Fesk; 'Stasrio Tickets may ha had upon application. Privitayßoxes to , he'liad solely of Air. Andrews, bookseller, 167.1sirsir Bond-street. •Ji Teiltiori-o*, Norma, with The Wrong Man. 40YAL SURREY THEATRE. (IN lIER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND tIIR. IVILLIS JONES. Unegtitnyledrirtiveltv. Change of Entertainments every night, .:7 'THIS EVENING. NOV. 26 WiTI tie acied.tha , Play of THE IRON CHEST.—SirEct ward Mortirtier,'LMr. Graham. After which, .THR MUTINY AT THE NORF.. To cmcluaiitith THE DAY AFTER THE FAIR. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. JNDER Tin! DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON, Immense saccess ' and Nightly overflowing Houses. THIS EVENING, NOV. 26, Will he acted the Nev Melodrama, entitled CASPER THE DOOMED ; or, the VICTIM of the VAULT.—Casper Hauser, Mr. E. F. Saville; Schwartz, Mr. Dale; Ernes Vorlidb, Mr. Seaman; Maize, Mr. Gardner; Von Pompe,, Mr. Paul ; Eva, Mrs. Howard. After 'which, the New Domestic Drama, entitled THE WRECK OF THE HEART : OR, THE STORY OF AGN ES PRIMROSE.—Wm. Norwynne, Mr. Dale; Henry, Mr. Seaman ; Old Primrose, Mr. Cullen ; Ralph, Mr. Gard. ner ; Agnes, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroine of Do mestic Drama. to conclude with, THE DUKE OF SHOREDITCH.— Henry VIII., Mr. Dale ; Adam Allyne, Mr. Gardner ; Lion Bell, Mr. Cullen ; Queen, Mrs. Lee ; J,an, Mrs. Howard. Boxes, 2s.—nt, is.—ualler l , 6d. dalf-price to the Boxes snlv, at Half-past Eight. To-morrow, Casper the Doomed, Wreck of the Heart, and Duke of Shoreditch. THE RAILWAY SUN. NOTICE.--A New Edition. of the RAILWAY SUN is NOW PUBLISHING. TII E CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Ciffcc, Nov. 26, 1841. THE WEATHER.—NooN, NOVEMBER 25. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 40 Highest 431 Lowest 32 Barometer 29.67,—Wind W.—Freei.ing Point '.Z2 Deg. HIGH-WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. M rnang...::.-tlrritnutes after II I Evening 0 minutes after 0. LONDON: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1841. The difference between the two great princi ples of Government, of letting the people do for themselves, and do for them, may be illustrated by the conclusions to which the Tory Journals, embracing the latter, are compelled to come. The more the functions of Government are ex tended, the greater must be its expenditure, and the larger must be the revenue it must exact from the people. .In the present condition of the finances of almost every nation, this consi deration should be all-important with statesmen, to induce them to limit the sphere of their ac tion. It - testifies that they have already tres passed beyond the bounds of propriety. The Tory Herald, however, comes to an opposite conclusion. That Journal yesterday had an elaborate ar ticle on the sugar colonies, deploring the limited consumption of sugar, and devising means, for the sake of the revenue, to increase it. From the article we might infer that the cultivation of sugar should be regulated by Government, as it regulates the number of men in the Navy. It clearly made out that it was the duty of Go vernment to augment the consumption of sugar, which the Tories would not allow to be done, by diminishing the duty; and it went to recommend that the Government should take on itself the supply of the labour market in the West Indies with labourers. Here is a specimen or two of our Contemporary's observaf . . . ions : — It is not to be denied that the consumption of sugar is Checked by the increase of the c ost ev o t ioduc . tion in our colonies. 'This check is not, how their ow country ; it is common to Europe Inore' peculiar to this who have not seen wi t h" Those n eoyr less. Hum ,4 what an immense quantity of at _ w es, . boldt, is consumed in gpinish America, even in the poorest families, must be astonished at Ending that France requires not more than three or tour times as much h for her use o f C u b a ." The fact h discloses is generally the island o y f true as to the ITuited kingdom. , The consumption limited by t h e qocien.t.. si9ply. The supply ufg sugar• is colonial iiiitor izinst bl increased; fortunately itruash easily be au gmented, if Prolle measures be t a k en. can Our CrinteMporary then discusses. at length th e immigration f oin A fri ea , , r which' h e advocates, and cornesgo this conclusion : i -- Without; however. now discussing this ,question generallyAtis clear that any emigration fr om Africa into the West Indies must be presided over, both i n Africa and in the Colonies, by Government; it cannot be left to the guidance or direction of the planters.. The plain conclusion to which the Herald is driven is, that the Government here in England, must provide, and if now, at all times, for the due supply of labour by immigration throughout the sugar colonies. The Houses of Parliament must devise the means to send labourers to the colonies from various quarters, and those means must be carried into effect by the Executive. If there be at any time too few or , too many la bourers-74f the consumption of sugar fall off or increase at home, if the seasons abroad be barren or prolific, so as to make more or less labour be required, the Government which is to take on itself the task of directing and regulating' • mon gration, will be responsible, and bound to correct the temporary and perrranent evil. Might it not as welt undertake to controland reoulate regulate the seasons, to provide for the diffusion of sun shine and rain, to - decree that soils shall be fer tile or barren, as to regulate and control th e applicati on of capital and labour which depend on those circumstances ? The conclusion to which the Herald, unconscious of its absurdity, comes, let us say, in all sincerity, if not in all courtesy, is as mad as the R conclusion of th e un happy phil osop h er in asselas, who imagined that the government of the atmosphere was placed in his hands. ot. p , gents would h ave t o d o , an d Wlle t ei 0 - ration a • - - -. i lions the Government . . , , u....,e f or, what would make _ _____,..„_, ...,, ~ miuutice it must at ...%ltTaro,r_rtt roftt. , % =~ r 0~:4 c, IG.:. • . . 1 lbil , ~. hr 'iit' N tend to—otherwise the acts of oppression com mitted in its name would be multitudinous—may be inferred trout the following extracts from a correspondence which appears in the Demerara' papers. The Agent-General for Immigration writes to the Secretary of the Government, and, speaking of a vessel which had just brought over a cargo of seduced free blackm from Sierra Leone, says— I then read his Excellency's memorandum to the im ported negroes, naming the various estates on which it was proposed they should be advised to go ; they ap peared very much gratified, and thanked the Governor for his kindness ; but it was evident that the head men or delegates who have returned with them had already made a different disposition in favour of the estates on which they had themselves been located. I regret that I have not been more successful in giving effect to his Excellency's intentions, as contemplated by the memorandum, in the allotment and location of these people ; but more than urge his Excellency's advice to them I could not do, and they have pleased themselves. Writing to the Agent-General, an immigra fon agent of Guiana at Sierra Leone, says— Accompanying the emigrants in the ship Superior are the six delegates who returned from Demerara in that ship. Whilst they have been here I have given them the means of subsistence at the rate of is. per day ; this sum was by no means adequate to their wishes. One of the men is called Thomas Cole. I have had every reason to be to much dissatisfied with his conduct ; he has appeared several times before me in a state of in toxication, and has been the source of much annoyance and complaint even from the authorities here ; owing to his misconduct I have not advanced him anything, but I have been well aware that he has had the means of sub si3tence. Were I to suggest a plan to the authorities at British Guiana, it would be to send back either Tom Freeman or the head Krooman. I send Charles Walker and the head man of the liberated Africans, Charles B. Christian; it would inspire the people here with confideinee, and I believe them to be intelligent, sober, and active. The emigrants I have embarked, I belieVe; will be found, for the greatest part, strong healthy labourers. It is true that the other ships are freighted, or about to be freighted, for the other West India colonies. From such minute communications, now it ap pears, that the Government, in taking on itself the control of a general system of immigration into the Colonies, would make itself responsible for the conduct of a great number of agents, liable to great temptations, for the sort of labourers embarked, and for their conduct; and for the due distribution of the men amongst the different - estates when they arrived. We can conceive that the claims of rival planters would be as perpetual a source of trouble as if the Go vernment were to undertake to settle the quar rels of lovers. The description of first seducing the Africans by Kroomen, then providing for their passage, and finally, endeavouring to ap propriate them to different estates, by reading a memorandum of the Governor, entitles us to as sert that there is, in fact, a revival of the slave trade, but conducted decorously, by the Govern ment. The proposed scheme of the Herald would therefore convert the Government into a great slave trader. If such considerations have no weight with our statesmen, eager to rush in where angels would shrink back, let them look at what the Herald states as to the effects of their interfe rence on the consumption of the people and re venue of the Government. The taxes on sugar, raising the price, lessen the consumption. By whatever mode the agents for carrying into effect the control of Government over immigration be paid, the cost of maintaining them must raise the price of articles and limit consumption. It is not only the tax on sugar which lessens the consumption of it here, but the tax on bread, for people will buy bread before sugar. The more, therefore, that Government extends the sphere of its operation, the more it must extract from the resources of the people, and the more it must limit consumption and production, and in the end limit its own revenue. It is clear, therefore, that this extensive system of doing everything for the people must come to a still-stand. It cuts its own throat, though it be by a slow pro cess. It increases expense on the one hand, and diminishes means on the other. At present the national revenue is not sufficient for the expendi ture and, under such circumstances, to increase the former by any further restraints on the free employment of labour and capital, instead of al lowing the latter to be increased by the expan sion of the people and their resources, is almost as absurd as an attempt to control the seasons. The manner in which the chief organ of the Ministers yesterday abused the Chartists, calling the " generality of them" " rank, incorrigible scoundrels," is an index to the manner in whicli the Tories are preparing, by means of their new barracks in the manufacturing districts, to treat he Chartists. They will no longer be allowed to bold their conventions, and intrude into public meetings. They must no more think of assembling in the Bull-ring. or of rallying round the defeated candidate for Nottingham, standing on hostility to the New Poor-law. Heavy as was the hand of the Whigs on them, they will now find that the hand of their late allies, the Tories, will crush them as with the foot of an elephant. The Chartists will also admire the morality of the Tories. Their political opinions make them scoundrels and, according to the Times, an aspi ration for liberty is a grave moral offence, like forging Exchequer bills. If the Tories remain in office, they will destroy, with liberty, all moral distinctions. They are, however, consistent, fbr it is necessary to obliterate the distinction be tween right and wrong to preserve their power. To carry out the Ministerial views, the Times borrowed from the French Tory papers a long diatribe against the Secret Societies of France, to terrify the upper classes here against those " rank, incorri g ible scoundrels," the Char- tists. The Tories make bitter complaints against Mr. O'CONNELL for receiving assistance from Republican America, but they invoke all the aid they can from despotic France. Independent of the notorious Holy Alliance, which was never put an end to, and which is now tacitly revived, there is a combination of all the Governments of Europe to act against the people. The growth of freedom in Spain or in England is looked on by them with great abhorrence, and they are always ready, like Louis PHILIPPE in Spain, to check and stint it wherever they have the means. Their Press comes to their help, and thus we have the exaggerated, partial, and distorted view giVen by the French official authorities of secret societies, adopted on the same day that the Chartists are described as " generally rank incorrigible scoundrels." If the populace in both countries were well provided for, there might, perhaps, he some justice in the vituperation; but when they are in both countries in a most wretched condition, and have many just causes for discontent—when England is almost threatened with a servile in surrection, it seems to us alike impolitic and un just to exasperate the populace in both countries balyreaadysTak similar rn treatment. Communicatio n s h a ve land and the tr.Paldae:s of b France,etweenthad e n tra if de t s h eofpeEonpgle are denoun ce d by their respective Governments eas lnildineoanvOterstOitmke ca willisa to b cause against nd apprehended t e l m i a tbtohtehy. The Paris Journals have been duly re ceived. France, it appear , ciiii,: sent ere to for m theremonstrances Bl Ministry, supported, as it is believed, by n strong remonstrance on the part of England. d From the amicable terms in which the French Ministerial Journals now speak of the Regency of ESPARTERO, we anticipate an early with drawal of the French troops now assembling on the Spanish frontier. The Paris Globe of Tuesday takes up the question of the right of search exercised by . England over French vessels, with a view to the suppression of the slave-trade in the same way as the Presse had done. Neither of these journals attempt to show that the treaty, could have been carried into execution without the exercise of this right, nor will it admit that the stipulation of reciprocity takes away all the character of degradation from the concession of the French Government on this subject. It does not strike them that an English journalist might, upon as g oo d groun d , comp l a i n t h at t h e English Govern ment had degraded itself by permitting the reciprocity, ' which, according to them, does not shake the argument to which they resort. The Globe asks why the English -- seize French vessels, and allow those of Holland tb' s I 47 In reply, it may be asked, " What proof is there that the I English do any thing of the !zind." Thf_ , GlobesaivS,ViSWlC sacred principle of maritime right, for w hich torrents of French blood ha ve b e ed s h e d, th a t t h e fl ag covers th e I cargo ; but under the pretext of putting down the slave trade, the Duke d e Broglie when Minister of Foreign Affairs, sig ne d a t reat y which permits English cruisers to search our vessels on the African coast ; and, in pal liation of this piece of shame, the Minister of Marina talks of the reciprocity granted by England, which is a derisory one, and of the existence of the same treaty, as regards Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands. We sent a vessel on the coast of Africa, to take on board a hundred negroes to recruit a black regiment at Cayenne, and it was captured by an English cruiser, without doubt in virtue of the t rea ty of 1833. Wh y does Eng land seize our' vessels, and allow, those of Holland to pass, althotih Holland, like us, has conceded the right of' search ? `. We have reason to believe that the King of Holland has bought a thousand blacks of the : King cif the Afhantees, who are destined to reinforce the Dutch "g•arrisons of Java. A Dutch vessel, the Brittania, of 1;400 tons, which left Rotterdam in October last, for the coast of Africa, in passing,Hel voetsluys, took on board fifty soldiers, to serve as a guard over the blacks who were to be embarked." We venture to prophecy that if the fact mentioned by the Globe, and which is taken from the Anti-Shivery Reporter, be true, and the l3rittania, with her slaves on board. should be fallen in with by an English cruiser, the Globe will not have to complain that French slavers are seized whilst Dutch slavers are allowed to pass free. The Moniteur, of the 23d, publiShei in its official part. a report of the Minister of Public Instruction, relative to primary schools, followed .by a Royal Ordinance, direct ing the establishment of such schools in several towns, when: they . have been hitherto wanting, and w hi c h, hav ing a population of above 6,000 inhabitants, ought to have had them, according to the law of 28th June, 1833, but want of funds have prevented their establishment. Reschid Pasha, the Ambassador of the Ottoman Porte, was yesterday visited by several members of the diplo matic body and great officers of the Court of France.. Among the visitors were M. Guizot, the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Many Prefects and Sub-Prefects are no!W at Paris, and more are arriving every day. " The general commerce of Belgium," says the Cour rier Francais, " amounted in 1840 to 430,000,000 fr., being nearly one-fifth of that of France ; a fact remark able in a country, which reckons only one-tenth of our population. In the above aggregate, the imports stand for 246,0001 r., and the exports for 184,000,000 fr. The special commerce of Belgium, that arises from its own produce and consumption, was 346,000,000 fr., of which 206,000,000 fr. were imports, and 140,000,000 fr. exports. There remains consequently to the account of transit and re-exportation 84,000,000 fr., or about nineteen ,per cent. of the total commerce. In France, whose geo graphical. position is more advantageous than that of Belgium for European transits, this branch represents 30 per cent. of the total. In France, however, the tran sit trade has rather diminished, while in Belgium it has increased three-fold since that country commenced the use of railroads six years ago. Of the imports of Bel gium at least three-fifths are brought by sea, but of its exports two-thirds are sent by land. Of the 183,000,000 fr. worth of merchandise exported by Belgium in 1840, France received 83,000,000 francs, or nearly one-half, while the exports from France to Belgium, in the same year, amounted to only 52,000,000 fr. of which 45,000 000 fr. were for her own produce. This is only a twentieth part of her general exportations." The Journal de Rouen publishes a long report, signed by the masters of several French vessels, containing an account of an alleged outrage upon the French flag at Algesiras. It appears from the report that the Essai, of Trepot, having accidentally run against a Spanish brig which was bing towed out of port by a steamer, but without causing any damage, the master of the Spa nish brig demanded two ounces of gold as an indemnity for his loss of time, and, this being refused by the master of the French vessel, the Spaniard went on shore and made his complaint. Four days afterwards M.Boujonnier, the master of the French brig, received a letter from the Vice-Consul at Algesiras, stating that he had to pay 50 dollars to settle the affair, to which M. Boujonnier replied that he had not so much money on board, and gave the names of his owners, to whom he said applica tion should be made. On the following day, wishing to change his anchorage, he got under weigh, on which the Spanish authorities, thinking he was about to leave without paying the sum which he was called upon to pay, sent a force of thirty men, to take possession of the Essai, and twelve of them remained on board. The masters of the French vessels at Algesiras, adds the re port, endeavoured in vain to induce the French Vice • Consul to interfere in favour of M. Boujonnier, and the Spaniards who were left on board the Essai having mo mentarily quitted the vessel, M. Boujonnier hoisted his canvass and sailed away. The Nonvelliste des Flandres says,—" A lace school in our province, containing 300 scholars, has sold, during the year, produce from the hands of these children to the amount of 72,000 f., so that each of them has earned upon an average 240 f., or 75 centimes a-day, although there are many very young apprentices among them. The or dinary gain of an expert lace -maker is a franc a. day. This manufactory is the principal resource of the poorer people of Bruges." The Bayonne papers mention the loss of a vessel, with all hands on board, on Monday last. It was the Jenny, bound from Bayonne to Rouen. Five corpses have since been washed ashore, near Biarrits and St. Jean de Luz. A letter from the Havannah states that the local Go vernment has reduced the value of the pazeta (the quar ter dollar) to the fifth of a dollar, with the exception of the ancient Spanish and the Mexican pazeta, which will be current as heretofore. The present holders of the coin whose currency is reduced are to be indemnified by Treasury Bonds ' for the payment of which, however, no period is fixed, but they are to bear interest of six per cent., in the event of their payment being sanctioned by the Spanish Government. To meet this burthen upon the Treasury an additional duty of one-half per cent. is to be laid on all exports and imports. The new duty is to commence for imports from the United States, on the Ist December next, and for imports from Europe on the Ist February, 1842. The Princess Helena Ghika died a short time since at Odessa, aged 73. " One day last week," says the Memorial of Rouen, " a boat with two men went to a brig near La Mailleraie to take out the pilot. As they were leaving the boat upset, owing to the agitation of the water, from the rapid rate at which the brig was going, and the three men were plunged into the water. Two were saved; but the pilot, an old solder of the empire, named Amand Poultier, and the near relation of M. Poultier of the Opera, who recently made his debut, was drowned." Baron de Bourquenay, French Minister Plenipoten tiary to the Court of Constantinople, left Paris yester day evening, and is accompanied by the Count de Gram mont and M. T. de Bourqueney, his nephew, Attache to his Embassy. M. His de Buterval, who has acted as Charge d'Affaires at Constantinople during the absence of the Ambassador, will resume his functions as First Secretary. The office of Second Secretary is filled by M. Gilbert de Voisin. The Augsburg Gazette, in noticing the last arrivals from Rio de Janeiro, and a' discussion in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, in August last, on the commercial treaty entered into by Brazil with England, by which English merchandize was to be admitted for 15 years into the British Brazils on payment of a duty of 1:5 per cent., indulges in some strong remarks against England. It appears that by one of the clauses of the treaty it was to continue in force after the expiration of 15 years, un less either of the contracting parties should two years years previous to the expiration of the term agreed upon give notice of its intention to decline a renewal of it on the same terms. Our Contemporary states, that this no tice was given by the Brazilian Government in 1840, and that fresh propositions have been made by England, but merely with a view of perpetuating the advantages which it derives from the present treaty, and which, says this journal, are the sole cause of the unfavourable position of the Brazilian finances. "Of all the Govern ments of South America," adds the Augsburg Gazette, " that of Braz4 is the only one which has faithfully kept its engagements with England, and the time has arrived when it has a right to expect the same conduct on the part of the English Government." DUTCH FUNDS.—AMBTERDAU, Nov. 23. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 254 per Cent Jitto, peiceat. A mit Syndic; 4% per cent 9oi; gi Ditto, ditto, 3% percent 7e 76% _ _ - - Commercial Company, 4!,, per cent 155 1 56 Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ..... lOl5 102 Loan 1837, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 0734 Two months ' • Hamburgh, One month 35 75 Two months 35 110 Dutch Papers, Nov. 24. BELGIAN i! UNDS—Bauenate, Nov. 23. Actual Debt. 236 per Cent. Rothschtld's Loan. 5 per Cant. . . ..p.m lOl Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per C ent. • • 3 per Cent. ) 1013. Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent 9434 Society of Commerce, 43.; per Cent lOl% Bank of Belgium, 5 per CenL ...... ...... NationalSeciety. ... — Exchange on London (short) .Brussels Papers, Nov. 23. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vimm, Nov. 10 Thirty.wven. fire per Canto. Metalliques ....».»...N». »000 ••••••• ,. 105% Foist per Cents. ••••••-•••... 0000000 •••••••••••••••. 0000000 .... 98% Three or Cents. .•..... 0000000 •. 0000000000000000 OD 601 10.11.1.1. 74% Bank shares .... 00000 ••••....••••. 00000 .........• 00000 •.•••••••• 3569 ....Allgemeine Zeitung. I\ ov. 20. HAMBURG BOBSENHALLE, N0v.20. Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. .4,m... 00000 0 0 000 . 0000000 ••••• 107 1,C63i Bank Shares 1605 Anizlo-Russian Loan 00000 ...»........ 000000000000 0 •••• 106% UK( Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate •••••• 102% 162% Inscription, Ist Seri^s lO2 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3cl and 4th Series 96% PR Ditto in Certificates Ncw 4 per Cent. (1g40) 86% 0654 Dutch Actual Debt, 214 pe Cent 5O 4SA Ditto b per Cent -- Polish Bonds New ticket A rig!, Danish Loan, 3 per Cen , Norwegian Loan, 18.14, 4 per C.nt... lc-2%c - 2% 102 k Spanish, New 5 per Cents. l sg THE MUSICAL CHAIR AT EDINBURGH.-Mr. Muller, who had, at one time, every prosp e ct of bein g name from th e li st of candidates, in consequence, appointed to this Chai r , h as w i t hd rawn his as he states, of the superior claims of Mr. Bishop, who, it is generally believed, will be elected. The appointment is worth about 300/. a-year• The whole town was shocked on Friday at learn ing that the Venerable the Archdeacon Hutchins was no more ! This lamented clergyman dined on the preceding evening with his Excellency the Governor, and soon after ten o'clock quitted the Government house in his usual excellent health and spirits. He rose at his or dinary hour, about seven in the morning, and while in the act of dressing to the ground, and almost instantly expired. — Hobart Town paper. ,Y '~~ gpp F ;j: AND Publtt Opt nton, " Who runs` may read." - PORE/ON. The right of search, which the principal European Powers have mutually conceded to ships - employed in the suppression of the slave-trade, is again denounced in the Paris Globe of Tuesday. That Journal will have it that the French flag is dishonoured by permitting an English officer to overhaul - it, evert When it eTiiewa7 slaver. Their Majesties the King and' Queen of the French gave a distinguished reception on- Monday to the Mar quis and Marchioness of Clanricarde on their return from St. Pe tershurgh. , The Presse denies the right of the King of Holland to prevent the steamers of the German Commercial Union from navigating the Rhine. General Rodil has ordered all the fortresses in the Basques to be dismantled within fifteen days, except that,of Pampeluna. The .penalties of rebellion are at tached to a refusal to obey this order. The funeral of the late Queen Dowager of Bavaria took place on the 19th inst., and was followed by almost the whole population. By the side of the King were his Majesty ,the ,Kine• of, Prussia, and by the side of the "Crown Prince the ' Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse. The diplomatic body also followed in the procession. PUBLIC OPINION. The Horning Herald fires off a few penny pop-guns at the new rural police, and evidently thinks that it is pouring in a destructive cannonade against that institu tion:—" If it had been the object of the Government," observes our Contemporary, " to devise one scheme more hostile, more disgusting to the feelings,—the prejudices, it may be,—more abhorrent to the moral and physical tem perament ofEnglishmen than another,—it would certainly have paused, content, at, the suggestion of a 'rural police.' In every vicissitude of ,fortune,--;-under the fiercest ac cess of that salutary malady of grumbling, for which he is so notorious,-- r in his;highest prosperity, or his lowest fall ;—successful abroad: or desponding at home,—your Englishman is essentially a rural . denizen ,_throughout the world,—here or abroad. He loves tithe country. He endures towns. In. the woodlands; the. plains, the mountains, he carries with him that confidence,—be yond all price to hint,—that he shall be undisturbed. His steps will not be watched.. -His passion for locomo tion, natural or artificial, may be safely: indulged."- -What a farrago of words is here 1 What lackadaisi cal sentimentality I Does. our Contemporary suppose that an Englishman cannot stroll in the fields, or along the high-roads, without a policeman dogging his every step? That he cannot scale a mountain without a policeman scal ing it immediately, after him,, to take, him into custody, should he feel inclined to walk off with a loose rock or two ? That lie cannot ramble by the side of a river without a policeman being on the watch i .to see that he does not . set it on fire,• as .Mr. Peter Barthwick is very likely to do with the Thames ? That , the rural police may in some cases stretch duty to.the extreme point of officiousness is likely enough ;, and whenever this is the case, the nuisance should be abated ; but they are by no means so great a bugbear as the Herald would have us believe they are. In fact, the institution is the necessary consequence of the general establishment of beershops throughout the country, which, though they may have done some good, have done more harm. In an article on the subject of Chartism, the Times observes:—" The ,Chartists, though at present only can didates for electoral privileges, set public decency at de fiance. Only empower them to influence election pro ceedings and Parliamentary debates, as they now embroil anti distract public meetings, and what sort of a country should we then be blessed to see? The power conferred on them would be an irresponsible power of the worst possible kind: because, judging from their behaviour as non-electors, they seem to. be lost to every sense of decorum, and impervious to all the wholesome social influences which govern an orderly people. Some decent fellows have, indeed, been induced to join the Chartists, and by their influence some good has been effected ; but, really, the gene rality of them are rank incorrigible scoundrels."— This is A fair sample of the way in which the Tories treat their tools. They first flatter them ; get them into their meshes ; make them suit their own party pur poses ; and then, having no longer occasion for their services, cast them off, and denounce them as a set of scoundrels. If the Chartists' eyes are not now opened to the incorrigible baseness of Toryism, they deserve, indeed, all the reproaches that this powerful faction is now daily heaping on them. The Post says We observe with deep regret—not unmingled with some indignation—the use which cer tain public journals are trying to make of the differences which exist in Oxfold University as to the election of a new Profesor of Poetry. The attempt which is made to fasten upon Dr. Pusey the imputation of desiring to force a Professor of Poetry upon the University, out of regard merely to the theological party to which the proposed Professor belongs, is in the last degree un just. It has no foundation in fact, and the endea- your to make a current'prejudiee subservient to the pro mulgation of this calumny . 'shows a cunning depravity which we are ashamed to witness in those whose busi ness should be to guard the public from beine• misled."— There need be no'squabbling or disputing about who is best fitted to be elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford. One Oxonian, provided at least he has not an atom of imagination, will do quite as well as another, for the appointment is of no earthly benefit, except to the pos sessor. It has never encouraged, and never will encou rage, a taste for poetry. No -young man has ever been made a poet by attending the lectures of the Oxford Pro fessor, though many of them have thereby been imbued with such false principles of taste, as should lead them to despise the genius of a writer like Burns. If Mr. Macculloch happened to be an Oxford man, we should strongly recommend him to the Professorship of Poetry, for he has quite as much fancy as the majority of these Professors ever had, and would lecture quite as know ingly. on the subject, and almost with as little real sen sibility. Joseph Hume, too, would make a most ortho dox Professor. The Chronicle thus alludes to some of the more re cent tergiversations of the Times—" When Sir Robert Peel came into office, there were decided indications that he bad not forgiven the Times for its recent assaults upon him. The Times had, therefore, the mortification of seeing itself placed on the second or third list of Mi nisterial papers--a mortification which it evinced by in termittent fits of uneasy querulousness and sulky silence. Latterly there have been signs that it has been taken into favour, and its grateful joy, like that of the spaniel's, has been sundry times evinced by fawning adulations and frisking impudence. Its zeal has, in different in stances, outrun its discretion. It sneered, for instance, at the meeting for the relief of the distress in Paisley; but when it found that her Majesty, Sir Robert Peel, and others, were subscribers to the fund, it tried to make amends by eating up its words; and it sneered at the dis tress of the London compositor s , and then tried to re move the impression, by publicly offering a situation to a solitary compositor, who had ,,. anointed it with honey and butter." - . Speaking' on the subject of emigration, the Ayr Ob serccr says :—" Much has been said by sickly philan thropists about the hardship of expatriation—and, no doubt, where large bodies ..of people have been com pelled to leave their native land without any means of their own, and without the smallest provision for them in the country of their adoption, the circumstance is deeply to be deplored ; but in a kingdom so limited as Great Britain, it would neither be wise, nor possible— even though there were ample employment and pro vision for them all—wholly to restrain the migratory dis position of the people." We quote the subjoined extract froin the York Cou rant :—" On every hand do we hear of the abounding of distress ; and not only so, but of its rapid and alarming increase. It is not one particular branch of industry that is assailed—it is not the trade of one particular lo cality—but all seem liable to be involved in the widening and destructive circle. Tales of woe and suffering, that are almost too horrid for belief, are repeated from the West Riding of Yorkshire, whilst Lancashire awakens echo with the painful response. From Paisley to Spital fields, a cry - of all but absolute famine prevails." The Dublin Evening Post observes, with reference to Lord De Grey's Irish policy :—" Lord De Grey, this will not do. You are a great patron of the arts, but to such arts as are required to bawl a shrewd and consi derate people you seem to be an utter stranger. Either you are too honest, or else (which is more probable), you have too much of the Goosey Goderich in your com position to work out the policy of the crafty statesman who sent you here. If Peel thinks it necessary to go on with the humbug, he must regal ,your Excellency, and send over something of a more refined dissembler." The Worcester . Chrorticle anodes . the following terms to the present distress of the Copitry :—" Sir Robert Peel was warned of the risk helBtild incur by disregarding the remonstrances of the - 13041e' and pro roguing Parliament. lie cannot complain that he has been taken by surprise. The, state of things that has 'come upon us, and which promises; if it be trot cor rected by prompt legislation, to sink England in the rank of nations to the level of a petty German or Italian State, has been foretold by a million and a half of voices. It has been foretold in and out of Parliament; by the clergy and by the laity ; on the hustings anti in the hall ; at public meet i ngs an d p r i va t e assem bli es; from the pupit and the professor's chair." ------- MONEY—BADE—COMMENCE. The whole quantity of iron made in the United States in 1830, computed in pig-iron, amounts to 191,536 tons, produced from 230 furnaces; The quantity made in 1837 was about 250,000 tons. ECCLESIASTICAL. The mother of Dr. Pusey was Lady Lucy Pusey, for merly Lady Lucy Cave. When Dr. Pusey was a child, the family of the Puseys held the greatest intimacy with the Throckmortons, the head of which house was then Sir John Throckmorton, a Roman Catholic Baronet, in whose family the Rev. Joseph BerringtOn, a Catholic . priest, of very mild and insinuating manners, was sedu lous in making con verts, and in his chapel there was scarcely standin g room. Some trace of the birth of a schism, which bid s f a i r to disturb the peace of Protes tantism, to th ese c i rcumstances. STATISTICS- The number o f pupils now at Eton College is greater than' ever: befor e k nown, and even larger than i n 1830, when the student s amounted to 630. The Co ll ege num bers at present G 35. Nav al. LED DZILXTILIVIC. Colonel Cuyler, the oldest Colonel in the service, hav ing been longer in it than the Duke of Wellington, died suddenly in his 73d year on Monday. He was accus tomed jocosely to say, th a t t h ere were three great men born in one year— t h e Duke of We lli ng t on , Napoleon, and himself, but th a t one of them h a d no t been so fortu nate as the rest. A general order has at last been issued at Woolwich by the Master-General of the Ordnance, conveying his thanks to Captain Maclean, Lieutenant Radcliffe, and 1841 the non-commissioned officers and men of the. detach- went of Artillery in the Toiyer, for their valuable assist ance on occasion of `.hi: LAW AND POLICE. Michaelmas Term ended yea rday. At Greenwich police court,. a young man, of the name of Peauclerk, said to be the son of a deceased nobleman, was charged with assaulting Charles Leggatt, his father in-law, a self-styled " minister of the Gospel." Mrs. Leggatt related the particulars of the case. She be lieved the attack was not made by her son, but by her husband, in a fit of insanity. He was a strange man, and would occasionally spend whole days in his room praying. The case, in consequence of this statement, with the evidence of two witnesses, was dismissed. . . _ _ _ At Marylebone office, on Wednesday,J. Ward, charged with having murdered the child of the woman Easted, with whom he cohabited, was fully committed to take his trial for murder. The prisoner is a journeyman carpenter. In the Admiralty Court on Wednesday, an action was brought by Lieutenant Walters of the Coast Guard, and a boat's crew of eleven men, for salvage service to the Union, from London .to the Mauritius , on the 19th of April last. The vessel with a cargo valued at 10,4511. got on the shore off Dungeness, an the plaintiffs were employed two days in saving her. The owners tendered 1051.. but the Court considering that sum insufficient, awarded 1501. A case of dispute between a master and his apprentice was brought before the Lord Mayor on Wednesday, when Mr. C. Pearson, the City Solicitor, gave his opinion at length, expressing his firm conviction that cases of that sort came within the jurisdiction of a Magistrate whether a premium had been given or not. THEATRICAL. Mr. Macready has now completed his engagements for the ensuing season, and will open Drury-lane Theatre on the 27th of next month. It is said that the Queen has specially requested that Mr. Young will again make his appearance on the boards of the theatre, and that he will very shortly go through the round of his principal characters. A new opera, by Benedict, has been written for Miss Adelaide Kemble, which will be brought out early in the Spring. COURT-FASHIONABLE. The Duchess of Hamilton has returned to Bath, on a visit to Mr. Beckford, from Bowood Park, Wilts. Baroness Keith, the lady of the new French Ambas sador to the Austrian Court, left Mivart's Hotel on Wed nesday for Brighton. The Duke of Newcastle, with the Ladies Clinton, ar rived at Clumber Park last week, .from !Hafod. Thu Earl of Dalhousie has arrived in :tovvn.from Scot land. The Duke and Duchess of Buceletichi do not intend leaving Montagu House for Dalkeith until next month. Lord and Lady Dinorben were to leave the seat of Sir J. Williams yesterday for Bute House. MaCELLANEOUS. The great silver seal of the Exchequer at Dublin has been purloined from its strong box. Its intrinsic value as old silver is about 201., but it is difficult to say what falsifications may be made before it is destroyed. The poor of the ten townships round Harewood were presented with a quantity of blankets, clothing, coals, &c., by the Earl of Harewood on Monday, to protect them from the approaching winter. Yesterday in 1760, an earthquake occurred at Da mascus, by which one-third of the city was thrown down, and 30,000 inhabitants buried in the ruins. The shock was felt as far as Tripoli, where three minarets were thrown down, and the houses rent. The first park made in England was by order of Henry 1., at Woodstock. The park in St. James's was drained in 1537. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. The notice from the Bank of England, inserted in the Evening Edition of The Sun, differs in no respect frsm the one issued in September last, prior to the closing of the transfer books. All further uneasiness being unne cessary, as the Bank will receive six months' bills of exchange, Exchequer bills, and India Bands, it may be hoped that the Money Market will be relieved from some of its late stringency. Christmas time, however, is always rather trying for the commercial world. Stocks were buoyant to-day, and the adjustment of the Account did not create any particular demand for money, or cause inconvenience to the jobbers. The Funded Debt was much higher, but .the Unfunded much the same. Consols for immediate transfer have realised 89 to 891, and for the new Account or the opening on the 14th January next, 898 to Exchequer Bills were qnoted at Bs. to 103. premium ; and East India Bonds dropped to ls. discount. India Stock was at 248 to 249. The new Three-and-a-Half per Cents. realised 99 to 991, and the Three per Cents. 87* to 84. In the Foreign Market there has been again a good deal doing, but the rates of the gambling Stocks have not been so well maintained. Active Spanish Bonds were at 244 in the morning, but closed at 23i to 231; Portuguese New Five per Cents. were chiefly dealt in for the Account at 33 to 32*, and the Three per Cents. were at 19* ; Colombian Bonds were at 198 to 20 , Mexican 25k, and Brazilian advanced to 581. In the Share Market the transactions were rather li mited. Birmingham were 67; the Quarter 16i ; Great Western New, 61 to 74 ; York and North Midland 37 to 37*; South Western 18k to 188 premium ; and Brighton were down to 13+ and 14 discount. London Joint Stock Bank Shares were 2+ prem. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Nov. 24.—The busi ness in the Cotton Market to-day continues to shtuw symptoms of improvement. The sales are 5,000 bales, all to the trade. Prices are firm at Friday's quotations. LIVERPOOL SIIARE . MARKET, Nov. 24. —A limited business has been transacted at the Stock Exchange this slay ; the operations are in London and Birmingham, 156 ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, b2l ; Midland Counties, 82; Paris and Rouen, 10. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 24.—Our mar ket continues dull. Our only transactions are—Liver pool and Manchester, 1964'; Manchester and Leeds, Quarters, 21. 14s. 6d.; Manchester and Birmingham, 231. Towards the close of business some heavy sales were effected both in Consols and Three per Cents. Reduced, but it produced little effect upon the market, Consols closing at 89, and the Three per Cents. Reduced 88, at which quotations they opened this morning. Consols for the January account are 891; Exchequer Bills 8 10 premium. Spanish Securities continue to improve. The Active Stock opened at 241 ; Passive, 51 6 ; Deferred, 121 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, NOV. 22 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 97i 'Grand Canal Stock ... Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... 841 Ditto New 1830 97i Ditto 4 per cent • ... 3i per Cent. Debs. 4O /1 Royal Canal Stock The Dutch Mail, with the letters and papers of yester day's date, has just arrived ; a further improvement had taken place in the Stock ; the Five per Cents. came 99/, and the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 51k 9-16th. The settlement of the English Account is proceeding very satisfactorily. Consols are now 89k for Money, And 891 / for the Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 38k ; Ditto, Three-and- a-Half per Cents., 97/ 4 ; Ex chequer bills, 8 to 10 premium ; India Stock, 248 249, :,he•Market looking very firm. There has been a good business doing in the Foreign Securities at the following quotations;—Colombian. 19/ 20 ; Venezuela, 284 ; Mexican Bonds, ; Por tuguese Five per Cents., 321 ; Ditto Three per Cents.. 19/ ; Spanish Active, 241 4 / 241 ; Passive, 6 5/ 1 Deferred, 121 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52k 52 ; Ditto Five per Cents., 991 4. Very little doing in Shares. London and Brighton have receded to 36k 1. London and Birmingham are quoted at 157 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 21i ; South Western 57 ; York and North Midland, 87 ; Ditto, New Shares, 29k. Consols, for Money, 89i ; ditto, Account, 891 4 ; Mexican, 254 a ; Spanish, 241 4. There is no news of particular interest to-day. From Odessa they write that there was a great de mand for English vessels to be freighted to this country, and that there were none in port. Those arriving singly were immediately taken up. The grain market had become very active. - CLOSING PRICES BRITISH FUNDS. Sank Stock .. , India Stock ..............?49 3 per Cent Red. BBk !Ditto Bonds 1 dis 3 per Cent Cons B9b Ditto Old Annuities ... 3* Tor Cent Red 974 Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent 99 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....23d 10 prr New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001:....... 9 pia Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small. ... 9pm Jan 1860. l2 7-I&Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859. ...... ... l2* India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. — Consols for Acct B9& FOREIGN FUNDS. • kustrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. 44 Bplgnin, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditt0......... 33 Brazilian Bonds sBi Prussian, 5 per cent.... Buenos Ayres, 6 per cell Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent. - Ditto, Mr -Bic. Colombian, 6 per cent,. Ditto, 1824. Metal. Spanish, 5 per cent 234 Ditto, Deferred .. 1.21, Danish, 3 per cent — Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent — Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. SHA' French, 5 per cent.lo. —c. Exchange French, 3 percent. —f. Dutch, 2i per cent s2h nitto, 5 per cent. RES _ ------ Great Western Railway( tis paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid s7i London and Brighton (50 paid) 36i London and Birmingham (90) ....... ..... .. 157 Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) 2li London and South Western South Eastern and Dover (43 paid)... ... . . York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 88 Ditto New Shares (15 paid) - - ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA.—For the past few days we have experienced all the severity of winter, the thermometer at times ranging two degrees below Zero. With this frost, however, the atmosphere has been Qgenerally clear, and often the sun has shone with un ouded brightness, contrasting strangely with the cold looking azure around. It is, perhaps, to be considered a remarkable circumstance that both on Monday and Tuesday nights repeated flashes of vivid sheet lightning mingled their fitful gleams with the glittering stars which studded the heavens, and for the instant overpowered their brightness.-- York Herd]. HONESTY REWARDED.—On Tuesday a gen tleman called a cab, 1,910, off the rank in the Strand by Somerset-house, and desired him to drive to the Bank of England. After setting down the gentleman near the Bank, he perceived a pocket-book, with the ends of some Bank notes hanging out of it, lying at the bottom of the cab among the straw. He directly ran after the gentleman and gave him the pocket-book ; when he said he was an honest fellow, as there was upwards of 2,000/. in it, and gave him sixpence, and told him he would see him another time. THE BREVET.--111 addition to the Brevet of Wednesday, it is said that in a day or two a Brevet pro ;notion of officers in the East India service will appear in the Gazette. COURT CIRCULAR. - Their R , )yiii T l .- Duchesl Cambridge tH ~, u hridgo, arrived in town yesterday from their residence at Kew, and visited her Majesty in the afternoon at Buckinghatn Palace. Mr. George Hayter, Painter of History, and Prin cipal Painter in Ordinary to her Majesty, had the honour of an audience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, when, by her Majesty's gracious permission, it was de cided that he should commemorate the forthcoming solemnity of the christening of his Royal Highness the Infant Prince, by a grand historical picture, with por ttai6, the size of life. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr. Stothard with a sitting yesterday at Buckingham Palace for his medal. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent took an airing yesterday in her carriage. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Clarence House, St. James'.. THE QUEEN DOWAGER. His Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, attended by Sir A n d rew B arnar d , C lerk Marshal to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, arrived at Marlborough House, Pall-Mall, at half-past six o'clock yesterday even ing. from a visit to his August Relation at Sudbury Hall. The bulletin of her Majesty's health exhibited to the Nobility and Gentry yesterday at Marlborough House was as follows : " The Queen Dowager has passed another good night, and her Majesty feels herself better and stronger this morning. " DAVID DAVIES, M.D. " Sudbury Hall, Nov. 24, 1841." COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a Special Court was held at the Mansion house for the purpose of presenting to Major-General Sir Charles Felix Smith the freedom of the City for his gallant conduct in Syria. The Court was unusually crowded. It was stated on the paper of business that the Court would not proceed to any of the ordinary topics. Deputy GODSON requested to be informed whether ap plication had been made to Prince Albert to lay the first stone of the new Royal Exchange. The LORD MAYOR said, he believed that application had been made, and that his Royal Highness had been pleased to acquiesce. —(Hear, hear.) PRESENTATION OF THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF LONDON TO MAJOR-GENERAL SIR CHARLES F. SMITH. Major-General Sir Charles Felix Smith having entered the Court amidst loud cheers, The CHAMBERLAIN (Sir James Shaw, Bart.) rose, and with the usual forms swore in the new citizen, In pre senting the freedom in the magnificent box, the counter part of those presented by the Corporation to Sir Rbbert Stopford and Commodore Napier, Sir James addressed the gallant new member of the Corporation in a short speech. Sir C. Smmr, who was frequently interrupted by cheers, said—" I have to offer my unfeigned and most grateful acknowledgments for this especial mark of your favour. On this Syrian affairso much of misrepresentation has gone forth to the world, that it becomes essential—a duty I owe to you—to clear up one point, lest my fellow citizens (fur such I presume I may now hare the honouf of designating you)—lest, I say, my fellow-citizens might imagine that they had conferred a signal mark of their approbation upon one who had done little to deserve it. I will pass over the amusing fictions with which the British public have been diverted, and come at once to the report in the newspapers of Sir Robert Stopford's speech at the Mansion-house. A peru sal of that report would lead an otherwise uninformed person to suppose that I was only intended" to command the land forces at the siege of Acre, and that my health was such as to prevent me from parti cipating largely in the operations of the. campaign. I have an assurance from the lips of my respected friend, the Gallant Admiral, that such was not a faithful re presentation of what it was his Excellency's inten tion to impart. It is true that I was taken seri ously ill the day after I left Gibraltar, and that I ar rived on the Syrian coast in a state of health far from satisfactory—so much so, indeed, that I could not take a very active part on shore in the establishment of our first depot station for the distribution of arms to the na tives ; but, like the Admiral, I issued my orders from the flag-ship, and I gave my counsel to him, being held by his Excellency as jointly responsible with himself. I was absent for eighteeen days, having gone to Con stantinople for the purpose of seeking instructions from the British Ambassador as to general operations, tnd to define all that had theretofore been ambiguous or equivocal in our • respective positions ; for it will hardly be credited that my instructions from her Majesty's Government were only dated in London, on the 10th of September, the day on which (although contrary to the orders then in the Admiral's possession) we bombarded Beyrout, and were received by me the 10th of October, the day on which I took possession of that place, after having returned from Constantinople with the Sultan's firman, em p ower i ng me to com mand the whole of his Imperial Majesty's troops in • Syria, coupled with an instruction, giving me the control over the Turkish squadron in all matters connected with military movements. That I so continued to command, having to con tend with unparalleled obstructions and diffi culties, is shown by the official despatches of the time; , but if more be re q u i r ed, I, have the unfortunate evidence ' of a severe wound;•disabling one limb, which will remind me of Acre at every.guture step in life. I have been 32 years on foreign sepsice,, for the most part contending against the clim a t e g t jite„ tropics, or actively engaged with the enemies of,,,c i m qc w i atry ; I am now about to return to my statioil, ( fibroad,.. but, if ever I come back.. to England again, it ( skill be my earnes t en d eavour so to qualify myself as `o•' "cultivate and improve my ac - „ quaintance with tKeigzens of London.—(Cheers.) The Gallant 'Offreer"tlien shook hands most cordially with the Lord , Mayor and several of the members of the Corporation, and left the Court amidst loud acclamations. ROYAL OBSERVATORY, GREEN- WICH. EXTRAORDINARY DISTURBANCE OF THE MAGNETIC INSTRUMENTS. (From the Cambridge Advertiser.) Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Oct. 26. On the 25th of September of the present year, a most extraordinary disturbance of the magnetic instruments was observed at the Magnetic Observatory attached to the Royal Observatory of Greenwich. The disturbed state of all the instruments attracted the attention of Mr. Glaisher (chief assistant in the Magnetic Department), at an early hour of that day, and he immediately com menced a series of observations on all the instruments at short intervals. After a time the disturbance became so small that the extraordinary observations were dis continued ; but it again increased, and observations were again immediately made with all the instruments, and repeated as rapidly as it was possible for one observer to do so. But for the promptitude and judgment displayed by Mr. Glaisher on this occasion, the record of this dis turbance, unprecedented in this magnetic latitude, would probably have been lost. The following statement will ;ive an idea of the magnitude of the disturbance : that within eight minutes of time, the declination needle changed its position more than 21 deg. (having passed in both directions the range of the observing telescope, which includes that angle): that the verticle force was increased by more than 1-40th of its whole value, the in strument having then reached the extremity of its range; and that the horizontal force was increased about 1-30th of its whole value. The following more detailed account is taken princi pally from the abstract furnished by Mr. Glaisher. It is to be remarked that the time throughout is Gottingen mean solar time, civil reckoning ; that the readings of the theodolite for the declination needle increase as the north end of tho needle moves towards the east, and that the reading for the astronomical meridian is 269 deg. 51 min. 45 sec. nearly ; that the increasing readings of the verti cal force magnetometer imply increasing vertical force, one division being equal to 0.00471 of the whole vertical force ; and that the increasing readings of the horizontal force magnetometer imply increasing horizontal force, one division being equal to 0.002214 of the whole hori zontal force. Early in the morning of the 25th of September, the needles were in an agitated state. During the appear -ince of an aurora additional observations were taken, :Lnd the declination needle in less than three hours tra versed an arc of 34 min. After this the needles were in a tolerably quiet state, and extraordinary observations were discontinued. The observation at 10h. A,M. showing a charge of 17 min. of arc from the previous reading, at Bh. A.M., extra observations were again resumed, and continued till 11h. A.M. ; no.hing remarkable appearing during this time, they were again discontinued. At 2h. P.M., Gottingen m ean ti me , i t was ev i dent that all the needless were affected by some unusual cause of disturbance, and incessant observations were at once commenced, the instruments being observed successively as quickly as one observer could take them. At 3h. 53m. Mr. Hind joined, and subsequently Messrs. Dunkin and Paul. From this time to the discontinuance of the ob servations two persons were constantly engaged, one taking the observations with the vertical force magneto meter—the other those of the declination needle and of the horizontal force magnetometer. About 2h. 40m. P.M. the motions of the needles became very peculiar ; the vibrations of the declination needle and of the vertical force magnetometer being quite destroyed ; and those of the horizontal force magnetometer being reduced to a continuous succession of jerks or starts. It will, perhaps, contribute to clearness if the motions of the three instru ments are now separately described. DECLINATION NEEDLE. Every change in this instrument from one position to another was by sudden impulses ; after each of these it was stationary, for intervals varying from 5 sec. to 20 sec.; then it was forced again to another position, and was again stationary without the slightest motion ; and so on successively. At 3h. 30m. the changes from one position to another became very decided, but the motions still partook of the same character ; absolute rest and jerking motion followed alternately. In 2 sec. or 3 sec. the needle fre quently moved through many minutes of arc, and then one suddenly became stationary again. At 3h. 36m. 20sec. F.M., a bold sweep carried the north end of the needle towards the west 56 m. of arc, in minute of time ; at 3h. 37m. 20 sec. the theodolite react 245 d. 22m. ; and for two minutes after this time the cross carried by the needle was out of range of the e : I ni te lescope,* being in a position , in which, if the tel escope had been exactly directe d to it , the theodolite would h ave read less h At 3h. 4 md Om o . far4e d 6 e had e the needle theodolite than 245 d. , 22m. At needle sec.thero 4.4 of ss carried by th e nee d le was out _. towards a3 3 ht B . 1 34 h. , 4. a ln4 n . 3 d t i 11h the 20 .e s e soe a c s e i ) that the theod o li te reading was 247 d r ange of the telescope on the oppo s it e s i de, . ..1.11 ling INIORNING SU.N 1 2 This extraordina r y magne ti c s t r ide, of more tha n h„ - deg., was travers e d i n about.Bm.,.the.extre nies b , ina . " l '; sepat,,, , d by that inte?val of time. . ah At both extremiti e s th e nee dl e w as without JWlligf momentum from such a wide sweep being quite destroye:.. After remaining at this place for more than Se .; minutes, the needle slo w ly returned, and at 3h. 48 m . 54 5 the theodolite read 246 deg. 27min.; at 311. 53m. 2,1 . 5 ,* it read 246 deg. 37 m . Wi t hi n 5 sec : a fter this, a[lol to bold bold sweep carried the cross out of iliV ) rawre °r . telescope ; when found at 3h. 54m. 40 lite read 245 deg. 31 min. ; instantaneously back, with a violently agitated motion across slicl'uu'iottiu the field on the other side; the circle reading at 36 . ~,A . OO was 246 deg. 43 m i n ., an therefore this arc of 1."94" 12 min., was passed over in 20 secs. of time. et* lIS This was the last very great excursion ; the n . was incessantly watched for nine hours longer; durOl-' which time it w as muc h ag i tate d. Th e m ost rernarktiblg P ,R changes are the following:— ro t, H. M. S. At 4 25 36 P.M. Gottingen m. t., theodolite read 24631 31 36 8 49 36 21 4 55 36 10 5 46 37 i 50 37 6 0 30 6 33 37 J g = 2 6 i 3 . 3g9 6 46 36 .. -. 3 s 'cl ig 7 16 3g -. 0 llO .1 " ... 11 7 31 38 ' ... 1 .1 I tt , 7 56 38 ... - ill " ii •• • 9 , 8 53 38 .. . ! 9ni a / ... .- 918 38 ... •. :, 10 1 . 0- 6 9 38 38 ... -• ' oliS c sS t il a ito 10,10 39 . ... "• ~ , ,qcril. r eo ” ,, 10..41 39 ... ''• .:,ifil rt., l' 3 oil .. 10 46 39 . ••• . WO 441 , 0 i ~, 11 45 40 ... ... 12 52 40 ... ' „ ht -9 0f It is.to be remembered that increasingrea.dingsa4l7. -: t 1 that the North end of the needle moves toward 3 di", ~A VERTICAL FORCE MAGNETOMETER. affected ''' The vertical force ma gne t ome t er was as much "„ f its '! as the declination instr umen t. Th e di s t ur bance.; " fre ... vibrations were very similar, except that, it .` i l ls es of quently much longer in th e s t a ti onary s t a te, its tiT h o f rest varying from 5 sec. to 2m. ; at the end of e 4 ' these it jumped on, then was again still, and so nn.• ll t he This instrument had bee n much affected car i L i tive ett are morning ; the extent of i ts excurs i ons being ''' . 3le c 37d.9, and 44d.1 on the scale. The following readings, commencing with noon : D. 1/ :., 11 . M. 8. , ,44 - At 0 0 '0 (n.) Gotti ngen mean ti me, sca l e r ea d ing ; 8 4 1 47 30 P.M. :.• ••• 4S 1 57 30 • • 50 v • , , , ... 2 730 - 55 0 3 15 21 55 9 ... 3 16 21 579 .... 3 21 26 ... ... ... 5 8 , 5 3 22 21 5 90 ... ... 3 22 51 60 ... ... 3 23 21 6 05 ... ... 3 23 51 60 4 ••• ... 3 24 21 3 26 21 3 27 51 3 31 21 3 32 21 63 0 63 1 6 7 0 69 5 7 1 ° 3 32 51 SI 3 ••' ... 3 34 21 ... ... 9 5 ° 3 34 51 id' 1 •• • '• ' Ay the 3 35 21, the mark e d en d o r th e nee dle . to towards the east, the needle being transverse or magnetic meridian), was resting ► -4)11 the easte ll/ ipg apparatus intended f o r guarding; the, needle, d'P a r re otlY much as the frame perm i tt e d it, And.held there for ten by a great power ; in this. situation it remained minutes, till 3h. 45m. S. . v . 1. 11.14 eel At 345 42 P.m.Gottingen m e a n ti me ,scni0 r , 65 3 46 23 ' 65 4 5 7 1 3 50 31 3 57 38 3 58 58 4 13 36 4 29 26 5 21 37 5 44 37 5 55 37 6 19 7 7 17 8 735 8 922 9 '!T•41 ,1 9 ... 66 9 55 6 6 06 ss: 6 g 3 53 ° 50 3 456 _ __ _ ... ••' Sept. 25.11 25.11 039 33 ... ... Sept. 26. 058 25 A.M. ... ... 3 6 ' 1 325 ••• •'' ti dier sr About 6h. 19m. P.M. th e nee dl e assum ed a steadie r bat , pearance, having a mo ti on somet hi ng like vibrati on, exceeding irregular. HORIZONTAL FORCE MAGNETOMETE R ' t less. The horizontal force magnetometer was 11 ,11 0 of affected than the other two instruments. peculiar to r feet on its vibrations was, however, Peeu•„ddea self ; in the midst of its swings it was 5 7,0 o r , checked, and held in that place for two, then hurried backwards, again suddenly a stopper e l:5 then forced back in the contrary direction ; th if ter ar were sometimes at 5 sec.. sometimes at 10 seei, mm es' riving at its limit. They were most striking' dto look perience with this instrument, we are accust°'n„e, :In d for an almost imperceptible motion at the el'L' no site the variations, then to see it move slowly in tr'' " + „";,,, o rril direction, quickly in the centre of swing, sloWlY,n,,t to the end, then return, and so on ; but to see it, am"„ 01 1, the same instant, moving rapidly, and absolutely 1 0 " loss, was very striking and strange to the observer s ', of This instrument was less affected in th e ear l y part the day than either of the others. About noon it sb°: ; „(t , signs of being under the influence of some disterul, I . ' l , cause : the scale th en rea d 55d. 8 ; at lh. 50m. the r ib. ''', 4 ing increased to 58d. 6 ; at 2h. Om. to 59d. 3 ; i g t ol4 ,' 15m. to 60d. 1 ;it then oscillated between 59d. n„,r' h u p - dir '',o till 3h. llin., the scale then reading 59d. 7. .- I r th - the l '4 turbances now became as surprising as those Zvi ''''l,l other needles ; a steady and rapid increase ° n. .., :' 1 reading took place, with a strange jerking Inc dj°- 1)- 7; H. M. S. _i d 1 Al 8 At 3 14 48 P.M., Gottingen mean ti me , th e si•- -8 reil - g 3 21 3 6k - ••• ... 3 27 26 6 4 4 1 , 3 28 6 . ... . ... 3 o ... 6 4 u „ ••., .. 328 46 4 , ... 3 33 16 •.. 7 3 1 ••• 3 38 56 a nd ... ' 81/ ° ; Then there was a remarkable start to 7 s 'h, 43 ' n '' here it remained stati onar y f rom 3h . 39 i n. tu - when it started back. O. " t • At 3 47 41 P.M., Gottingen mean ti me , t h e scale read 6."4 6 3 56 31 63' ••• ••• 4 051 6 31 ... ... 4.855 64 6 , ... ... 4 15 11 6 1 ,: ... ... 4 47 41 dusW ••• ra Then the reading increased a little, and then g m , Ole , lu d v e hh c ee r un eased, till sh. 53m. 12sec. P.M., GOlting nin ,,,,,, a- 12 5°4 t l i t ie re s a c d al s e i r d e . a l ; 6 i 2 t d t . h l e . n increased to 6b. le"'' ;171 1 .` 25°1. It then oscillated between 58d. and 60d., unt :ok p lace' 13sec,, when a sharp diminution to 53d. 9 tu d far t ile The readings alternately increased and decrease n ds7c l ' next 6 hours, oscillatiugall the time between 53d. l init the Frotn the preceding account it will be seen,, o el! r magnetometers were more affected on this day ti _ we' • before, and that the great disturbanco affected tne , instruments at the,sani e ti me . pier s- The most abrupt and. violent fluctuations of 6 the 0 A $ dian needle occurred between 26. 36m. and Ph• • 4 befor.l ' 31s. 35m. 21sec. the vertical, force magnet wen ro oat'' the scale: at 3h. 45m. it- a g a in came on. The .-°,,. 38 0 " force needle began its great deflection before 3 ' d t hefl l 16sec. ; it was over at 3h, 38m.; and probably' h' ve beg; been an otserver at each instrument, it would h a s,tic,, found that the effects on all were simultanenu s ' bo t (7, was Mr. Glaisher's impression while observing . ; , 0 1 0 he remarks) the startling and b ew ild er ing effecwas l 0 great changes was such, that all that he could dn., ids s make such observations as seemed practicabl, 7,0' view of discovering the extent of such extraord;ns' / turbances. , ere After this great disturbance the t ruestirregularity still very great ; the horizontal force a nd the 005 rba e force magnetometers partook of similar dill'', ic reas i throughout. With a few trifling exceptions. Itt'L l ,,,,e ° of force in one was accompanied with an. in c "ii i e d e ' force in the other, and so also with respem; t° one crease of force. ~.v e r, 4 4 'The declination magnet has certainly, boas'', ;to great deflection, in which the others have no sil o ; Psec c : which occurred between 3h. 54m. 40sec. and3h- 5 1 9. 05e , 0 where an arc of 1 deg. 12m. was dehcrihed,. rot t' Nothing similar, at this time, is shown. by eitu - 1 1 : 7 0,) • air .'' other needles. this er ' ''.,44 In addition to the observations contained . 11 o ken , c , '''e ct i count, ample and abundant observations were _ lid al' :1 4 ',„qg , obtain every variation of the vertical force , ; ce alag i ',47l,o . observations of the declioation and horizontal f I _ , , e, ittwo , a,",: t " netometer sufficient t'o show every great OW' , ts ,hea" ;o l nearly all the small ones, until Sept. 26, 111. " 3- ' 3.' .40. i i ) i •viIJC:IO i i il l the observations we:re discontinued. en, g t , y r At 4h. 40M. as observation of the dip was tali j: 10, SI I r a result greater aIS ) t'' ti than ordinary. 1 A The day (sept. 25) was cloudy throughotlyb, tix e :, :, / ,,,P 911. P.M., a fr.,.w bright streamers were seen thre"e_ii,atr,,,,al.„.. clouds, theo nothing more till 11h. e. 31., when to, to, 1,,, roral arch, about 24 deg. high, was visible for asu 0 ,,,,,r ', It is desirable that accounts of corresponding/ jai I V ; vations of this disturbance should be collectedr; ~e s e e i v observers who may have made observations o . 7 . ,, a . 1_ day to send to me abstracts of their observatuu best , v ., communicate them, in the way which they thinif _ 0 og ot:eTt,ite'lr".l:lltgibit. :11:11.' the public, or to the persons who are interested T o r, ~,, anvenience. G. B. AI 4' th e . 4i V', netical phenomena. ois t i, ,04 ) (1 1 * This arose from the great inclinatio si n:f t collimator (carried by the magnet) to the mag ne s t i,,lo ° O pe 1 , 0 ) ) side e ° o h b f an jec t ge h t e -g o l b a j ss ect o . f e t a l' s * : in consequence of which the pencil of rays Fo ir A,„ oa 0 , 5 „ , 0 0 f i Server to shhoifftthan-teleshurpebenseinonsueffif the e is __ ne t, but. _ ,re . t: 1 , cooflltihmeatiohreodwaosiitteh.rownine;inoal.i. yth r e a obot , ~ ii i 50 1 f, ; ,, rto Lea _,, ri , it t. changes on Sc et. 25 did not allocwtileienthtirneYagobserve neaptter '7 j o 4 Eleaece from Observations with the mirror in Gauss's it' . , CO:s j 3 oarti MEsslts. HOBHOUSE AND bite A" r 5 RUpTGL-Public meetings were held at th e e„,_in wiss ione for on Tuesday and 'Wednesday, before th ae l ',7 ) , ) ,,alingt oti s Messrs. Gunning, Heade, Batchellor, a oSed °f V''fi rl l ' " the further proof of debts, when they disp n _, der the bar. ~ complicated claims and questions arising under file t itt lit ruptey. About 180 additional proofs were to _: °s9 /65.:,"a, the two days fbr debts, amounting together 2 .::_ sl 1% !„ .e making a total proved to this time of . 2 .ll l : tt i o gi Y d . The assignees have shown great activity I , g, e j og A iiii lied to the Commissioners and obtain f 1 6 , ~l i t o h u e t y sta a n p d p ing assets, and at one of the above o ut i t( ' pifoarkiinngveswtiittihg thein Exchequer bills the sum 1.4,he_14:14. c`' ' B )S ftra l. trhonisicdlei,s o p f os T ed hu o rsd f for the purpose of a v.... H i' .~\~