The Sun. — London, England, 1841-11-05 00:00:00

MORNING SUN NEW NOVEL EDITED BY THEODORE HOOK, ESQ• Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., THE PARISH CLERK. By the Author of " Peter Priggins," EDITED BY THEODORE HOOK, ESQ. " These singularly clever and spirited volumes will be read with unfailing interest and extitement. They more than sup port the reputation of their still anonymous author—unless, in deed, they have been concocted, as well as their no less racy and original predecessor, Peter Priggins ' (Beaumont and Fletcher fashion) between the two writers whose name and want of name they bear."—Naval and Military Gazette. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Just ready, in 2 Vols., post Syn., with numerous Illustrations, by Leech, &c., including several fac-similes of rare and unique old Prints, MERRIE ENGLAND IN THE OLDEN TIME; Or, PEREGRINATIONS with UNCLE TIM and Mr. BOSKY, of GEORGE DAN IEL. LITTLE BRITAINDRYSALTER. By Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. U vDEIi the MANAGEMENT of MADAME YESTRIS. THIS EVENING, NOV. 5, Will be performed Sheridan's Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL.—Sir Peter Teaz!e, Mr. W. Farren ; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Bartley ; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Harley ; Joseph Surface, Mr. Cooper ; Charles Surface, Mr. Charles Mathews; Moses, Mr. Meadows; Lad y Teazle, Ma dame Vestris Lady Sneerwell, Mrs. Orger ; Maria, Mill Cooper ; Mrs. Candour. Mre. Glove ; After which, Sheridan's Dramatic Piece of THE CRITIC. Sir Fretful Plagiary, Mr. W. Farren ; Puff, Mr. C. Mathews; Sneer, Mr. Cooper ; Don Fcrolo Whiskerandos, Mr. Harley ; Sir Walter Raleigh, Mr. Meadows ; Tilburina, Mrs. Orger. Doors to te opened at half-past Six—the performances to c3mmence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7e. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circ'es, ss. ; Second Price, as. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 25.; Gallery, ls. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had so',ely of Mr. Andre .vs, bookseller, 107. New Bond-street. To-morrow, Norma, with a New Farce, entitled The Wrong Man. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAUENIENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. .WILLIS JONES. Wonderful Novelty! Two Equestrian Spectacles in one Even- lAA. "Blenheim" at Half-pr;ce, and more New Scenes in the Circle. 'THIS EVENING, NOV. 5, Will be presented the gorgeous Equestrian Spectacle, entitled CHARLEMAGNE ; THE STEED OF CHIVALRY ! introducing Mr. Ducrow's magnificent Stud of Forty Horses, highlly-trained Palfreys, Fairy Peneys, Equestrian Troop, and Companies of both Theatres. After which, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, in the Largest Arena in the World, in which Madame Ducrow, Sig norlillier, the Great American Rider, the British Horseman, Signor Felix Carlo, and the First Artistes in Europe will appear. To conclude with THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM ; OR, THE HORSE OF THE DISINHERITED ; embracing all the Military Exploits of the Great Duke of Marlboreugh, Cirand Reviews, Battles, and Glorious Victories. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. 'JNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Continued succession of Novelties, first week of another New Domestic Drama, and second week of " Katty O'Shiel," and " Simon Lee." THIS EVENING, NOV. 5, Will• be performeJ a New Domestic Drama, called THE WRECK OF THE HEART : OR , THE STORY OF ' AGNES PRIMROSE.—Wm. Norwynn e, Mr. Dale • enry, Air. Seaman ; Old Prirose,Ralph, Mr. Gard. ner ; Agnes, Miss Vinc m ent, the acknollwledged Heroine of Do mestic Drama. After which, SIMON LEE; or, the MURDER of the FIVE FIELDS COPSE.—Simon Lee, Mr. E. F. Saville; Walter Hatherleigh, Mr. Dale; Japhet Jones, Mr. Gardner ; Dicky Ding, Mr. Paul; Grace, Miss Vincent. To conclude with, RAFFAELLE the REPROBATE. Boxes, 2.s.—Pit, lg.—G.lller), 6d. Half-price to the Boxes Drily, at Half-past Eight. To. morrow, Wreck of the Heart, Katty O'Shiel, and .Raf faelle the Reprobate. THE RAILWAY SUN. NOTICE.—A New Edition of the RAILWAY SUN is NOTV PUBLISHING. TUE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Nov. 5, 1841. THE WEATHER—NOON, NOVEMBER► 4. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer.. 46 1 Highest 12 I Lowest Barometer 30.48.—Wind N.E.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. M rning..».•42 nunutps after Evening 9 minutes after 6. * 04 0 1, -- • , . IV 4ti k „ Tin cc-71,111,4 LONDON: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1841. Some of our Tory Contemporaries have lateli renewed the war against machinery and lin provement, which ignorance and prejudice have waged at all times. That new intentions and contrivances may injure individuals, is proved every day. The use of railroads has almost put an end to travelling post, and postmasters and innkeepers are suffering very severely from a change in the mode of travelling, which is of great benefit to the multitude of travellers. In like manner, the substitution of power-looms for hand-looms, of spinning-mules for spinning- jennies, of self-acting mules for spinning mules, has lessened the employment for hand-loom weavers and spinners, and reduced their wages; _ . _ but all the consumers of the products of the loom are very much benefited by the cheap produc tion of an increased quantity of cloth. In all questions of legislation we are bound to consider chiefly the advantage of the numerous classes of travellers and consumers, for whose benefit roads and weaving exist ; but we are not wholly to overlook or neglect the few who suffer by such improvements. When the question is, therefore, whether the successive inventions of machinery be beneficial to society, the answer is to be found in the mul tiplied conveniences and enjoyments which its use has provided for the bulk of society. The few sufferers' constitute at the utmost a very small portion of the whole, and their sufferings last for a brief period, while inventions and im provements in machinery, leading one to an other, benefit mankind through all ages poste rior to the date of the invention. When we consider this subject, then, in reference to legis lation, we must remember that laws which would tax, or repress the use of m ac hi nery are perma nent, wh i le t h e distress to b e re li eved by them is the benefits they wou ld l i mit ternporary , and an d curtail ex tend through all f utur i ty. If, for example, the use of power-looms had been pro hibited or res trained by a tax, there wou l d have been a limitation to the great present dem an d for yarn, and , we ma y venture to assert th a t t h e se lf- ac ti n g mule would not yet have been call e: 1 into existence. With that a great number of • -qne would ave beer other ingenious contri cs v, rhaps, to have h been in suppressed, never, Pe vented, had machinery b ee n taxed, or the use of it restrained. The vast future benefits growing from every useful invention, and such as are not useful are soon cast aside and foriotten should be, in making permanent laws, or laws intended to be durable, perfectly decisive aga inst taxing or restraining the use of machinery. . Moreover, it should be considered that even those who temporarily suffer from the introduc tion of new inventions and improvements, as a • part of the great body of consumers, share in the general advantages the use of machinery confers on the human race. Ships, for example, are some of the noblest machines ever invented, and the wants even of the suffering hand-loom weavers are now comparatively easily and cheaply supplied by importations of food from various places, while the bulk of their employment is derived from the trade which those instruments are used to carry on. Looking at the employment of machinery undir these general aspects, there can be no shadow of a doubt that society in all tinie is amazingly benefited by such ingenious contrivances as now b a ound in England. But as the general benefit, not special and particular interests—as the welfar e of well as their present temporary enjoyment, is the proper rule and guide of legislation, there can be no manner of Vioubt that the invention and use of machinery ought to receive from the Legislature as complete and effectual protection as any other species of industry, or any other kind of. art whatever. We do not ask for it patronage - and rewards, such as importunate ar- tists, and importunate writers demand for the so-called Fine Arts, but w e say that it has such transcendant merits, that the Legislature ,is bound to refrain from restraining or impeding the invention and use of machinery. That any man should raise a doubt in Eng.- land at this day, whether the invention and use of machinery, on the whole, augments or dimi nishes employment for the people, excites in us great surprise. Why, on what does the very existence of all our sea-port and manufacturing towns depend but on the invention and use of machinery? Ships are machines, and the great improvements recently made in the modes of impelling them by the adaptation to them of other machinery, has much augmented the inha bitants and the wealth of our sea-ports, who owe their very existence to the use of these ma chines. " Why, what," said Mr. COBDEN at the late meeting at Stockport- , - Why, what are Stockport and Manchester but the growth of machinery ?—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.) What are Rochdale and Bolton but the growth of ma chinery ? Had not the machinery of these places at tracted the cotton from India, where it was spun upon the wheel and distaff, we should have had no such towns as these in existence. They would have been in the con dition of the small town of Buckingham, and the wretched and miserable serfs of the landed aristocracy ; and when those men tell you that machinery throws men out of employment, these are my fac ts ; I point to the towns of Manchester and Bolton, and Rochdale, and show that machinery has not been the cause of a worse state of things, but has been the increase of employment, and given increased means of subsistence. Glasgow, Paisley, Liverpool, Manchester, Bir mingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Coventry, and two thirds of London, with a considerable number of other towns, and a large proportion of nearly all our towns, and no inconsiderable portion of our agricultural population, are indebted to ma chinery for their existence. Since the com mencement of the last century our population, much of which, as all those then working with ships, ploughs, and looms, found employment by using machinery, has increased at least three-fold, and nearly all that increase is mainly due to the successive inventions and improvements of ma chinery. Although there is now a much greater quantity of wealth in the country than in 1700, and a much greater number of persons living at their ease on their property, employment has in creased fully commensurate to the increase in their numbers. There are, in fact, a much greater variety of employments for the people. Those who take the opposite view seem to confine their attention exclusively to the few persons whom every improvement may displace, and wholly to overlook the still greater number whom it employs. The extensive new buildings at the terminus of every line of railway with which we are acquainted, the new buildings along the lines, the great shops or factories at Manchester, Bury, Bolton, London, and other places, for the manufacture of locomotives, the number of men who are employed to guide them, the watchmen on the roads, the addi tional colliers, miners, and smiths, to whom the construction and use of the road must give work, independent of the great increase of interchange by facilitating it—all these circumstances, when takea into consideration, will prove that the in vention of railways has, in tact, though it may have diminished the employment for post-boys, added very much to the whole sum of em ployment. So the introduction and use of power looms, the effect of which seems to have been measured exclusively by the number of hand-loom weavers whose employment was diminished, created a new species of employment for a number of per sons who manufactured them, and gave great ad ditional employment to all the miners, smelters, colliers, smiths, carpenters, &c. &c., whose la bour was necessary to complete the manufacture, and great additional employment to all the sea men, carriers, merchants, brokers, &c., &c., who were engaged in distributing the increased pro ductions of the power-loom. Similar facts hold good throughout. The use of thrashing ma chines, of swing ploughs, &c., might have dimi nished the work of the agricultural labourer, but it must have increased the employment f,)r all the persons who were in any way concerned in making and erecting those machines. A gasometer is a machine without which our streets could not be lighted, and independently of the increased light, and safety, and improved morals, which are the results of the use of gas, there can be no doubt that the invention of gas has very much more increased employment to those connected with it, including those who supply the coals and the metals, than it de creased employment for candle-makers and oil producers. These instances are quite sufficient to establish the general rule. The invention and use of machinery is the creation of a new art, and a new art is new employment. In fact, therefore, however paradoxical it may seem to those who are contented with first im pressions, as they are contented with the belief that the sun moves round the earth, the invention and use of machinery is the creation of employment. This a priori theory is confirmed by the growth of manufacturing towns in Eng land, in all of which the great mass of the popu lation find profitable, and in general ample, em ployment in arts wholly unknown to our an cestors. The secondary, or collateral, effects of the use of machinery are as striking as their immediate and direct effects. In Wales, for example, a vast population has grown up, chiefly of colliers and miners. But they and all the multitude to whom machinery gives employment, must be fed. The demand for agricultural produce and the cultivation of the soil, hay" increased as the towns' people found employment in new arts; and to them may be traced the increase which has taken place in employment for agricultural la bourers since the year 1700. At present every person who lives in the country, except persons of property, works at agricultural occupations ; but in the olden times a great number of idle menials, with their families and dependents, dwelt on the land. In our younger days there was no inconsiderable number of huntsmen, game-keepers, whippers-in, and unemployed and half-employed persons in every country vil lage with which we were acquainted, the mass of whom have now disappeared, and nearly all who live on the land are now employed in agri culture. A much greater increase of employ ment in agriculture, therefore, than is indicated by the increase of the rural population since 1700, is really due to the increased demand for agricultural produce, arising from the invention and use of machinery. The admirers of an agricultural population are, in fact, much in debted to the manufacturing system, which they foolishly decry, for the increase in the number of the peasantry. We have now, we think, demonstrated that the invention and use of machinery, instead of diminishing, adds very much to the sum of em ployment; and it will not be difficult to show, in another article, that, instead of lowering, it raises wages. Paradoxical a s t hi s may appear, it flows directly and certainly from the principle we have established. The real cause of the de cline of wages is perfectly different, as we will in a future article endeavour to make apparent; when we will also suggest what a provident and wise Legislature ought to do to alleviate the great evils a few individuals continually suffer from the introduction of machinery, Fhich we set out by adtnitting. Mr. E. B. SMITH, who stands charged with the forgery of Exchequer bills, was y esterday brought before the Magistrates of Bow -street, The depositions taken against him at the hearing were read over, some few questions were asked, and he was committed to Newgate to take his trial. Mr. RAPALLO was remanded from the Mansion-house, and will be again brought up on the 17th instant. On him heavier suspicions now rest, from Mr. SMITH'S statement, than we should infer from his own account that he voluntarily went to the Treasury to give information. Mr. SMITH'S statement, however, that he did not sign the bills, which was done by another hand THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1E3.41. than his, as he would not sign his declaration, is perhaps to be taken as one of the last efforts of a man guilty of many subterfuges to conceal his greatest delinquency. At present no other per son is implicated than these two gentlemen, and they share all the guilt betwixt them. We are glad that the secret inquisition is at an end, and that the fraud, like other frauds, is to be investigated by the ordinary means, before the ordinary tribunals. It will no longer be easy to whisper away reputation at the West End, and character in the City. What has been done will now be revealed, and who has done it. We have read of late some strange phrases, which harmonise well with a secret inquisition, such as "several other parties are placed under surveillance," a French system and a French word,—but which grates most harshly on our English ear. We hope not again to hear the words, and never to see the system to which they belong introduced here. We cannot object to the Treasury examining Mr. RAPALLO for several hours in private, when he volunteered his statement ; but as soon as it was discovered that his information went to criminate himself, and when Messrs. GoULBURN, PEEL, and GRAHAM meant to take advan tage of it, they ought to have informed him. He is a Genoese, and perhaps not well ac quainted with our language, nor with our cus toms. Such circumstances should be, and we are satisfied they will be, now that the investi gation is to be public, taken into consideration. Mr. RAPALLO, too, has now an able defender, and we say GOD defend the right, and the right only. In the mean time, his examination at the Treasury ought to be taken with the allowances we have hinted at, and which will not be neces sary for his public examinations. What transpired yesterday is so far satisfac tory, that it implicated no well accredited per sons. All the agents employed were of inferior note, and the public is probably relieved by the disclosures from many painful suspicions, both of respectable men in the City, and of men high in office. Though the extent of the evil is not yet known, much relief is given by clearly pointing out the channels through which it has flowed. By the packet ship Rochester, Captain WOOD.. HOUSE, arrived on Wednesday night at Liver pool, we have received New York Papers to the 17th ult., being one day later than the Journals brought by the steamer Acadia. They con tain no news of any interest. The following is the latest intelligence of the state of the New York Money Market : NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, OCT. 15. --- The sales at the Stock Board, to-day, have Seen to a fair extent, and prices, with the exception of the United States Bank, which declined 4 per cent., generally im proved; Delaware and Hudson - 3 - 4 ; Harlem 1 ; Long Island h ; Stonington i I ; Mohawk , United States Bank bills are selling at a discount of 45 per cent. The liabilities of the Southern Life and Trust are bought at N. Sistares, 13, Wall-street, at 45 cents. on the dollar. This has been bill-day for the Boston steam packet, which takes her departure to-morrow for Liverpool. The supply of bills has not been large, and the events to which we have alluded on former occasions still conspire to render buyers extremely cautious as to the character of the bills they take. Those drawn by known houses against actual shipments of coin are most in favour, and command the full rate of 10 per cent., at which price shipping specie to draw against is a profitable operation. The amount going forward fur this purpose will be about $500,000. The rates on the Continent are less firm than at the last packet. If the Southern Banks resume with the opening of the crop, the bills drawn against produce would command more confidence, and the shipping of specie would soon cease to be profitable, and it would find its way south for circulr.tion, instead of remaining a burden to the New York Banks. In State Stocks no material change has taken place. The Government loan, for which proposals were issued, being $2,000,000 of the $12,000,000 authorised at the late Session, has been partly taken at par fur a six per cent. Stock, in small lots here and at Boston. It is very heavy upon the market, in consequence of the want of a vent for stock abroad. The State of New York issued proposals for $150,000 Six per cent. Stock, to supply a deficiency in the Safety Fund, but can obtain no offers. This is partly the result of a combination among the agents of the foreign houses to compel the Federal Go vernment to authorise 7 per cent. at the next session. The following is a table of prices of stocks as compared with former packet dayS : RATE OF SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE , $2,000 Indiana D. Bonds ..... . 47 4,000 New York State; 5i 2,000 Illinois, 6's, 1870 25 Shares Delaware and Hudson •25 Ditto Stonington.... b 28 10 Ditto Auburn and Rochdale... lO5 50 Ditto Long Island H slo 523 600 Ditto Harlem Railroad b 3 &c. 16i 100 Ditto do s 15 16A 25 Ditto do 100 Ditto do b6o 16i 25 Ditto Seventh W. Bank 50 Ditto Mechanics' Banking Association 50 Ditto United States' Bank ......... s. 10 4i 56 Ditto Jackson Ins 4O 95 Ditto Farmers T. 25 Ditto Mohawk Railroad . . b. 6U 64 SECOND BOARD. 25 Shares Delaware and Hudson nw 107 107 50 Ditto Harlem Tuesday being the festival of All Souls, and a close holiday in all Roman Catholic countries, only two of the daily journals appeared in Paris, the Presse and the Courrier Francais. The former, which is a Ministerial paper, expresses great satisfaction at the acquittal of APLEon, and deprecates the thought of a war between two great nations, whose mutual interests are inter woven with the preservation between them of the most friendly relations. The Courrier Fran cais, which is the organ of a faction hostile to England and to peace, is indignant at the report of the King of the FRENCH having offered to act as a mediator between the two countries. We believe that the CITIZEN-KING has made no such offer; but were he to do so he would be only repaying a debt of good neighbourhood, which France owes to England. Nor can we regard Royalty in a more glorious light, or one better calculated to elicit the approbation of all good men, than in that of interposing its mediation to maintain the peace of the world. As warriors, Kings are the curses of their species ; it is only as conservators of the peace of nations that men owe to them fealty, allegiance, and reverence. General O'DONNELL narrowly escaped being delivered up to EspnivrEno by the soldiers whom Ile seduced and betrayed. The house in which he took refuge was surrounded by the troops, and he only escaped disguised as a common soldier. For two hours was he compelled to walk down the bed of a stream which marks the limits of the Spanish frontier. Had he been taken, his death was inevitable. MONTES DE OCA died with great firmness. In his pocket was found the draft of a letter, complaining with great bitterness of having been abandoned without instructions, money, or ammunition. Madame MuNoz was more solicitous about her dollars, than about the brave men whom she corrupted, and abandoned to a dishonourable death. The Avignon diligence was about to start a few even ings since from Sorgues, for Orange, when the passen gers, 15 in number, who had found the water from the floods previously up to the axletrees, expressed their un willingness to proceed, but were overpersuaded by the conductor. They had not gone more than the distance of two gunshots from the town when the water entered the coach, and those inside called upon the postilion to stop. The conductor, however, persisted in going on until the horses had lost all footing, and were actually afloat. The postilion wished to turn round, and go back into Sorgues. The danger of this was too apparent to the travelers, who fortunately were all men, and they obliged him to take the horses off, while some of them mounted to the top of the coach, some remained inside, some got on the horses, and others attempted to save themselves by wading through the water. After a time their cries were heard by an innkeeper on the road, who came with his two sons in a boat, and by their exertions at length rescued the whole party. A quarrel took place, a few days ago, at a public house at Clervoix, near Compiegne, between some sol diers of the 7th Regiment of Hussars and some civilians. One of the soldiers, having called for a glass of eau sucree, complained that sufficient sugar was not given to him, and t h e a l tercat i on b e tween him and the waiter becoming violent, the civilians interfered, on which the Hussars attacked them with draw swords, and they de fended themselves with sticks. The guard was called in and separated the combatants, but not before some severe wounds had been inflicted. One of the civilians, a boatman, was so much injured by a sword wound in his side, that he was dead before surgical assistance roeur eietdh.r trial Fivei ve of by a th e Court-martial. The arrested and conveyed t o t h e m i l i tary prison, the Abbaye, in Ic3oau r r r lid l s ie be Cowpto awai t rier de Grenoble mentions the following as amongst the results of the recent inundations :—"Ten houses have fallen at Vienne, the bridge of la Gabetieres which was destroyed by the last inundation and provi sionally replaced, has been again carried away, and a feot bridge has had the same fate. The route of Beaurepaire and the route Royale;with the Rampe des Croza-de-Re ventin, have been rendered impassable, and the bridge of Chanas which formed part of it has been carried away. I An inn at a short distance from the bridge fell down, and an ostler was buried in the ruins." A letter from Tarascon, 26th ult.,represents the Rhone to have made wide breaches in its banks, and so inun dated the country that all communication is cut off, the new-sown seeds washed out of the ground, and all hopes of the next year's crops destroyed: The waters have in vaded several parts of the town, and a regiment of chas . seurs has been forced to remove from its barracks to Nismes. It was expected that the whole town would be inundated, and the inhabitants, as well as the country people, were in a state of despair. A letter from Tours says that the Loire has become so swoln, that, on the 30th ult., it bad risen 11 feet 5 inches above the usual water-mark. The wind was from the north, and if it remained in that quarter no serious consequences were to be feared. BOURSE--PARIS, TUESDAY, Nov. 2. first , Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents ...... ll5 60 ... 115 80 ... 115 60 ... 115 75 3 ner Cents... ...... 79 90 —BO 20 ... 79 90 ... 80 90 New Loan ..... ..... Bl 10 ... 81 30 ... 81 10 ... 81 30 Bank 01 ' , ranee [34o —2315 ...5.340 ...5340 ...505s UMW/ Bank 5,000 f. St.ares 505 —5055 —5055 Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 per LOW., 1840 lOl ... 102 ... 102 ... 102 ipantsh Active .............. Passive 5 ... 5 ... 4% ... 4% Dutch 2% per Cents. 52% ... f. 2% ... 52% ... 52% 20 Neapolitan R05nan......, .... 104 ... 104 ... 104 ... 104 RAILWAY SHAMES. Versailles. LB 2.3 75 „, 203 75 ... 203 75 .. 203 75 Rouen ..... ..... ....... Orleans . 478 75 ... 478 75 ... 478 75 ... 478 75 itrasburgtoßale„shares red. 23.5 ... 235 ... 232 50 ... 233 BELGIAN V UNDS—Bausane, Nov. 2. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. B/1 R o thschild's Loan, 5 per Csnt Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92 ---------- Spec CenL ..... ease ... . 71% Thirty.seven . IM) ... 101 Y Loan of City, 1:32,4 per Cent. ........ ......... 93 Society of Commerce , 4 li per Cent 93 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.... ...... National Society. .... — Exchange on Londe% (short) ........... ..... 11 95 _Brussels Papers, Nov. 2. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, OCT. 26 Five per Cents. Ilfetalliques Four per Cents. •••••••••• ........ ••••••••••••••••••• Three per Cents. .•. ...... ••••••••••••. .......... ••••• ...... .• . 7 :N Bank Shares ..... ........... ................. —4l/genseine Editing. Oct, 30. -THE EXCHEQUER BILL AFFAlR.—Rapallo, the stock-broker, who was arrested onWeduesday and examined at the Mansion-house, charged with being a confederate with Smith, in issuing fa bricated Exchequer bills, underwent another long examination yesterday. The Lord Mayor elect, Mr. Alderman Wilson, Sir George Car rol, and a number of other civic functionaries, were present. The examination, which will be found at length in another part of the paper, led to some important disclosures. At the conclu sion, the prisoner was remanded till Wednesday week. MONEY and COMME — Catt L NEWS CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. Our own securities maintain a firm appearance, in the absence of any particular incentive to speculation, and the investments just now are on bona fide account. To day the Market was buoyant, and at one period Consols ranged 4 per cent. above the prices of yesterday, but subsequently * per cent. was the more general average im provement. For present transfer Consols closed at 881 to 89, and for Account 89 to 894-. Bank Stock was worth 1644 to 1654, and India Stock 246 to 2 74, being a rise of Ito 1 per cent. on the former, and to 11 per cent on the latter. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were worth 98* to 99*, and the Three per Cent. Annuities 87* to 88. India Bonds 2s. prem. to par. In the Foreign Stocks there was only a moderate bu siness done, but prices were supported ; Brazilian went higher. Spanish Active Bonds to da y were marked 2.11 to 211 ;Portuguese New Five per Cents. 294 to 29* ; the Three per Cents. 18i to 18* ; Colombian 19 to 194 ; Mexican 254, and Peruvian 134. Brazil Stock was quo ted 58 to 59 ; Belgian Bonds were 1008, and Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. at 511 to 51*. In the Share Market there was a greater degree of ac tivity than usual, and many of the leading lines improved in value. Great Western went as high as 144 ; York and North Midland 31, andßirmingham New 22 preen. ; Brighton touched 121 discount.. London and Westmin ster Bank Shares were marked 1 prem. (From The Sun of Last Night. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Nov. 3.—Th e market to-day has had a very drooping tendency, an d we have to notice a decline of *d. per lb on the inferior qualities of American; in other kinds there is no change. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, Nov. 3.—Grand Junc tion, 1901 ; Half Shares, 954- ; Quarter Shares, 254 ; Great Western, 201. Shares, 84 ; London and Birming ham, 321. Shares, 52 ; New ditto, 238 ; Midland Coun ties, 821 ; New ditto, 201. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 3.—The Mar ket remains very quiet, and the only business done is London and South Western, 511; Eastern Counties, Her Majesty's packet Shelclralie has arrived at Fa mouth, with a mail, from the West Indies. The dates are from Demerara, 20 ; Trinadad, 21 ; Barbadoes, 25th September, and Jamaica, Oct. 1, but they do not con tain any news of importance. The Barbadoes papers state that September has been a glorious month for the planters. Her Majesty's ship Orestes has arrived from the Brazils. The dates from Rio de Janeiro are to the 12th September. The papers do not contain any political news of interest. Exchange on England was at 31, and the Six per Cent. Stock 704 The Rio de Janeiro Papers state, on the authority of a private letter from 'Pernambuco, date Aug. 27th, that an attempt had been made to assassinate 1)r. Pedro Chanos, President of Paraiba, on the 21st August. Intelligence one day later from New York has been received by the ship Rochester, but the papers do not contain any news of impOrtance. Stocks were improving. Both the English and markets continue to ad vance. Consols opened g per cent. higher than they closed yesterday ; they are now 894- for Money, and 89* 4 for the Account. Spanish Active Stock 21* Passive, 54; Deferred, 101 11 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 291 30 ; Do. Threes 181. The British Market has declined since the early part of the morning. Consols for Money are now 88* 89, and for the Account 89*; Three per Cent. Reduced, 88 ; ',New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 98* ; Three and-a-Half per Cent. Reduced, 978; India Stock, 246; and India Bonds have been done at 2 premium, and are now at par. The Foreign Market has also declined, although there has been scarcely any business doing. Spanish Active Stocks have been done as high as 21i, and are now 21* I; Portuguese Five per Cents., 291, and the 'Three per Cents., 181 ; Mexican, 254 ; Colombian, 194 ; Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents., 511, and the Five per Cents., 991. The Share Market continues without variation. Great Western New. Shares are 57; London and Brighton, 365; Manchester and Birmingham, 20*. Comols, Money, 88* 89 ; Ditto, Account, 89* ; Spanish, 218 1. The crowd at the Mansion-house has been very great this morning, to hear the examination of Mr. Rapallo, which is agate postponed to -the 17th instant. Ex traordinary interest is felt in the result, as many parties are supposed to have qnite as strong grounds of suspicion against them as this gentlema n. The plot seems to thicken every day, in fact. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ... 1651 India Stock ...... —.246 3 per Cent Red. Ditto Bonds 2 pr 3 per Cent Cons BB/ Ditto Old Annuities ... 31 per Cent .Red 974 Ditte New Annuities... New 3/ per Cent 9Bl Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d —pm New 5 per Cent Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small. . —pm Jan 1860 .. 12 7-16' Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 lndia Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. Consols for Acct B9 FOREIGN FUNDS. !Portuguese, 5 per cent 5O Ditto, New Ditto 291 Prussian, 5 per cent. IRussian, 5 per cent 'Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent 2ll Ditto, Deferred ... 103 French, 5 per cent. —f. Exchange —f. —c. French, 3 percent —c Dutch, 21 per cent 514 Ditto, 5 per cent. SHARES Cheltenham and Great Western (621 paid) 81 Great Western Railway (65 paid) 79i Ditto New Shares (50 paid 5/ Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) 361 London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 1 Ditto New Shares ( paid) 2l 16s 8d London and Birmingham (9 0 ) ...... Ditto Quarter Shares ( paid) 214 Ditto Thirds (32 paid) Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) London and South Western London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 111 Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ...• 201 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) North Midland-Railway (100 paid) Ditto New Shares (40 paid) Ditto Thirds (15 paid) ............. 14 York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 81 V Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent looa Brazilian 80nd5.... 5B Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824. Danish, 3 per cent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent — Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. THE POLICE AND THE LICENSED ICTUAL LERS.—The licensed victuallers have for some time past complained of the spy system and trickery in other spects adopted by constables for the purpose of enabling them to lay informations for alleged infractions of the law. The Police Commissioners, who seem to be at last convinced that the mode of Proceeding usually adopted should be discontinued, have sent to the superintendents of the various divisions the following order, which has been read over to the men on duty:—" The police, in visiting public-houses are to wear their uniform; they shall not make any attempt to disguise themselves, nor aro they to enter in any other way than by the regular doors." RAISING THE POSTAGE TO THREEPENCE. —We are assured, on excellent authority, that the Government have been making such inquiries regarding the :penny postage as clearly i n dicate that they a rc at present considering and c o ntemplati n g the raising of the postage to threepence. To this we may add, as a striking proof of the educational good issuing from the cheap postage, . a fact confirmed to e us by tor a benev a olent clergyman, who has . made himself a bnefac to a large m anufacturing tow n by establishing schools. Shortly after the passing of the Act, fifty factory girls entered one of the evening sch oo l s to learn to wr i t e, because, as they said, " letters are so cheap now. The waters are a l ar minglY " high at Ely, and vontinue rising rapidly ; but it is a fact that, from the operation of steam-engines, the fens aro comparatively dry, whilst the high lands are saturated with wet, and ihe wheat sowing is so. much retarded, that fears are en tertained for the next harvest. --Bury Post, liffailltßY 11};'• NEWS AND iNtiatc •tziptuton. " Who runs may read." rOILZIGN. Tnesday being the least of All Souls, only two Jour nals were published in Paris. One of these—the F'resse— 'eativatalUtes Great Britain and the United States on the acquittal of M‘Leod, and denounces as most suicidal to both the idea of a war between them. The Presse advocates our true inter ests in a far more patriotic spirit than the Times or the Morning Herald. The French Minister of Commerce and Agriculture has nominated the following persons to be the Members of the Council of Agriculture:—Duke Decazes, M. Girod de l'Ain, Marquis de Cambis, Marshal Clause], Baron Charles Dupin, Count de Gaspirin, Count de Rambuteau, Baron Seguier, M. Beaumont, General Bugeaud, Count Dangeville, Messrs. Darblay, Desjobert, de Gasparin, de Lamartine, Lemaire, Duke de Marmier, Messrs. Pisca tory, Sannac, Tourret, de Tracy, Vuitry, J. Boulay, C. Beauvais, Behague, Bella, Baron Buche, Dailly, Mathieu Dombasle, Viscount Hericart de Thury, Julien Lefevre, de Mirbel, Baron Silvestre, Soulange Bodin, Trochu, Yvart, Count Angles, Count de Bonneval, Count de Cautnont, Oscar Leclerc, Lefebvre Sainte-Marie, Leroy of Bethune, Duke de Liancourt, de Mornay, de Morny, Niviere, Pommier, Victor Rendu, Rieffel, Viscount de Romanet, Baron de Tocqueville, and M. Villemorin. General O'Donnell had a narrow escape into France from his own soldiers, who, having a suspicion of his in tendons, determined to deliver him up to Espartero as a rebel and a traitor, and to insist upon his being shot. The Moniteur Beige states that several merchants from Constantinople are now in Brussels making large pur chases of all kinds of goods, clothes, cutlery, glass, tools, nails, &c., which they are about to send to the East. These merchants have visited England and France, and regard Belgian manufactures as equal to those of these kingdoms. The same Journal states that had the conspirators, half Orange, half radical as they were, marched into Brussels in the middle of daylight, with their guns and flags, the citizens would have received them as a band of masqueraders. So little did the War Minister care for them, that he went disguised as one of them to see the shells cast, and gave directions for improving them that they might be sufficiently valuable for a place in the na tional arsenal. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Herald, after enumerating the evils of machinery, and comparing the manufacturing with the agricultural districts, giving of course the moral supe riority to the latter, goes on to observe :—" Mr. Cob den and his associates have converted free trade into a question of life or death to the landed interest ; and yet they profess to be astonished that the agriculturist.; should compare the moral and • physical results of their oecu pation with the evil consequences of over-stimulated mannfactures ; and their organs write dull and heavy lectures on the abstract truths of political economy, which no one denies or controverts. With all mode rate men the subject has now become a question of com promise, and the greatest enemies of peace and future prosperity are the wild and perambulatory spout,ers who infest and disturb the manufacturing districts. '— If by the word " compromise" the Herald means that the important question of free trade is to be settled, so as to suit the interests of the Monopolists, then we say that such a question will admit of no compromise. Trade must be free in reality. A nominal or a partial freedom will be wholly unavailing. Of what use is it to knock off the fetters from a man's legs, if you keep his arms fast tied behind him ? Those who advocate free trade do so from a conviction that it will be most decidedly and last ingly beneficial to the country ; and thus thinkinT, they should allow of no compromise. The very circumstance that a Tory Journal suggests something of the sort should be quite enough to put the Reformers on their guard. In an article suggested by the returns of the municipal elections, the Times says:—" What becomes of the mi serable allegation, that Sir Robert Peel's Government is only the creature of a landed aristocracy? Why, it is emphatically the people's own Government, chosen, ra tified, and confided in by the overwhelming majority of all ranks in the nation. The conviction that the Right Hon. Baronet, notwithstanding the ruinous condition in which the Whigs have handed over the country to his care, will in due time restore it to a prosperous condi tion, is as strong among the middle classes, who pre brably commit their municipal interests to Conservative councillors, as , among the high-born gentry who rally around him in the national Legislature." — It is not respect for, or confidence in, the Tories that returned them in such force to Parliament at the late elections, but a dislike on the part of the people—natural enough, we must confess—to the halting, dubious, timid, inconsistent policy of the Whigs. Any change, argued John Bull, must be for the better, for it can scarcely be for the worse ; and it was this impression that induced him to give his old enemies the Tories one more chance, on the honourable principle" of fair play. Well, they are now on their trial ; and the result- will, we appre hend, be such as to convince John Bull that questionable as was at times the policy of the Whigs, that of their successors is a thousand times worse. The Post says, in reference to Mr. O'Connell's election to the Dublin Mayoralty :—" The letter of our Dublia Correspondent affords ground for apprehension that the new Lord Mayor of Dublin was not quite sincere when he declared to his brother corporators that, as Lord Mayor, he would have nothing to do with Repeal, and that, for the year, he would do nothing, not even eat, drink, or talk, but as Lord Mayor. Perhaps his Lord ship, who has long been accustomed to use two different styles of expresion, and to develope two different trains of thought, on the opposite sides of St. George's Chan nel, may think fit to adopt the same flexible policy in respcct to the Corporation of Dublin and the mob of that city. His Lordship is now in a position in which he cannot help advancing the Conservative cause. If he prefers to do so by , degrading the office which has beets bestowed upon him, and the Corporation that conferred it, rather than by another and more respect able course, we can only say, so much the better."— It must be confessed that Mr. O'Connell is in a queer position just now. In his official robes, as Chief Ma gistrate, he is confidently expected to de his best to maintain the unity of the Kingdom ; in his capacity of Repeal agitator, it is expected with equal confidence, that he will do his best to overturn that unity. The Magistrate and the Agitator combine to form a truly Irish concord and congruity in his person. O'Connell, in his robes at the Mansion-house, is as different from O'Connell in the chair of the Repeal Association, as light from darkness. It must be the duty of the one to keep a wholesome check on the vagaries of the other. In a word, the Lord Mayor must discountenance the Repeal agitator; and, if necessary, take him into custody! The following is from the Chronicb :—" Lord Stanley, though held in less regard by the middle classes than Sir Robert Peel, is a much greater favourite with his party; and our readers cannot have forgotten the ques tion that was raised in pamphlets, Who shall rule us, Peel or Stanley?' And yet this Tery statesman, second only in importance in his party to the Premier, displayed in the face of Europe an ignorance which must excite universal astonishment. The people of the Continent do not know how statesmen are f'ormed in aristocratical England. An over-grown schoolboy acquires at an university a superficial knowledge of the classics, and, from his social position, lie obtains a familiarity with good English. On this stock, if he be a fluent speaker, he at once sets up for a statesman." — This is too much the case in aristocratic England. Many a speaker in Parliament has set up for a statesman on the strength of an apt Latin or Greek quotation ; and many a raw Etonian bsen looked up to as a future Pre mier, because he has shown great facility in the manu facture of hexameters and pentameters. As for an ac quaintance with the real business of life; with the coin inercial relations of England; and all that goes to make the enlarged statesman, this is deemed beneath the notice of an aspiring young aristocrat. Lord Stanley is one of the most intelligent of the school he belongs to; but it is a bad school, and now more useless than ever. The Worcester Chronicle contains the following re marks:—" If any fear of war may , be reasonably enter tained at the present moment, it is not on account of America, but of France that we should find ground for it. The conduct of Louis Philippe in stirring up the late insurrection in Spain, that, by restoring the chief authority in that kingdom to the ex-Queen Regent Christina, he might obtain from her the hand of her daughter, the child-Queen, and a crown for his fourth son, marks him for a man who will stick at no means, however base and culpable, to aggrandise his family and extend his influence. No matter how dirty the paths to be trodden, if he set his mind upon gaining an end he will travel forward through the mire without heeding how closely it may stick to him." The Dublin Evening Post remarks as follows, on the subject of Mr. O'Connell's election to the Dublin Mayoralty :—" He sought the office, we had been well persuaded, and the result has proved it, not from any vulgar motive respecting the rank it conferred, for to him such things are valueless ; but on account of the opportunity which it would afford him of de monstrating that the best mode of removing all pre judices against Catholics, is to render them perfectly equal with the rest of their fellow-subjects—to give them the means of exercising power, in order to prove that they are incapable of abusing it. It was with these views that Mr. O'Connell undertook the onerous duties of Lord Mayor, and every sentiment which he uttered— every opinion he expressed—proved that he was ac tuated by the most laudable anxiety for the welfare of the citizens." The Cheltenham Examiner, speaking on the question of the Irish policy of Ministers, says 1—" Notwithstand ing the thin veil of moderation, in which the new Pre mier has shrouded his Irish policy, and the cautiousness which the Orange regime has been hitherto administered, we believe, that next to the Corn-laws, Sir Robert will yet find that ' Ireland is his chief difficulty.' We ground this opinion on the very nature of Irish Orangemen ; the bitter, persecuting, and we might almost add, blood thirsty spirit which ever actuates your true Protestant ascendancy Tory." MONEY—TR./LDS—COMMERCE. At the adjourned meeting of the Talacre Coal and Iron Company, held on Wednesday at the Adelphi, the report and accounts were referred back to a committee, and an adjournment made sine die. The new alterations just made by the Post-office are as follow :—The packets from Liverpool for North America will be once only in the month, instead of twice; and in future two mails will be despatched in November, and only one in March. The rate of postage to and from the province of Panama, or any place on the western coast of South America, are reduced from 2s. 3d. to Is. 2d., when not exceeding half an ounce ; 2s. 4d. when n ot exceeding an ounce, &c. The gun-making trade, both in London and Birming ham, are looking out for good orders in consequence of the destruction of arms in the Tower ; the masons also, and other classes of labourers, expect to profit by the accident. • - Colonel Monroe Edwards, son of Ninian Edwards, who some years ago figured at Illinois as a political character, has been lately arrested at Philadelphia, hav ing obtained from two houses, by means of forged letters of credit., about 50,000 dollars in cash, .44,000 of which were recovered, in his trunk at the time of arrest. In Bethnal. green, Spitalfields, and Shoreditch, out of 14,000 looms, 3,000 are .entirely out of work, and the remaining 11,000 are only employed three-fourths of their time COIVIMERCIAL stEr °WV. At a public Meeting of the Stepney Anti-Corn-law Association, held at Mile-end-road on Wednesday evening, Mr. Sidney Smith intimated that steps were about to be taken to hold a conference of representatives from all the Anti-Corn-law Associations now formed in London and the country, at Manchester, at an early period, to determine on some specific, vigorous, and de cided movements; during the recess, and to prepare for the approaching meeting of Parliament. • NAVAL AND MILITARY. The final trial of the Devastation steam-frigate took place at Woolwich on Wednesday, with a cargo of 320 tons of coal on board, and 61 tons of water in cask ; she accomplished the measured mile against the tide in 5 • minutes and 48 seconds ; and with the tide and against the wind in 4 minutes and 42 seconds, being nearly at the rate of 12 and one-fifth statute miles on the average per hour. Mr. Evart, the chief engineer, ordered to report on the speed and efficiency of theyessel, said, " he never timed any that could approach her in speed be fore ; she was decidedly the fastest vessel in her Ma- jesty's navy." LAW AND POLICE. Messrs. Cubitt, of Gray's Inn-lane, are the builders of ..te new Equity Courts, in Lincoln's Inn, and are under engagement to have the two Courts ready for the recep tion of the new Vice-Chancellors for the ensuing sittings after Michaelmas term. A mandamus was issued on Wednesday by the Court of Queen's Bench, directing the gaoler of the manor of Pomfret to give up the body of a prisoner of the name of Forster, who had died in the prison. The keeper had refused to deliver up the body on the ground that Forster was indebted to him for necessaries supplied while in gaol. The Police Commissioners have issued an order for bidding the men on duty from enterinc , public houses as spies. either in plain clothes, or by back-doors. W. H. Mence, a messenger in the General Post-office, was brought up for further examination on the charge of stealing money-letters. Two cases against him were heard, and he was remanded on a third till the 24th inst. LITERARY AND scxzwripac. The library of the eminent Physician and Counsellor Stieglitz, which is rich in works relating to every branch of medical science, and which the Duke of Cambridge declared to be the brightest jewel in the Crown of lla nover, is now to be sold in that kingdom by public auction. SPOUTING. The Earl of Wilton has returned to Walmer Castle, which he leaves for Melton Mowbray, for the hunting season, at the close of the month. THEATRICAL. - - The officers of the Queen's Bays, quartered in Sheffieh are about to give a grand theatrical entertainment for the benefit of the distressed operatives of that town. We mentioned on Wednesday that an attempt was being made among the friends and admirers of the celebrated and now veteran tragedian, Charles Young, to induce him to return to the stage for a few evenings, for the purpose of enacting the most prominent of his histrionic characters. We believe we may also state that a similar request has been made to Charles Kemble. COURT—FASHIONABLE. The Duke of Newcastle is expected to remain at Hafod until the early part of next month. The Earl of Lincoln arrived in Portman• square yes terday from an excursion in different counties, under taken for the purpose of inspecting the state of her Ma jesty's woods and forests, preparatory to the introduction of new and extensive arrangements. A large party of distinguished fashionables are shortly expected on avisit to the Duke and Duchess of Northum berland at Alnwick Castle. Lord W. Pelham Clinton leaves town in a few days for Vienna, having been appointed an attache to the new Ambassador. Lord Burghersh has not left town for Berlin, nor will he depart for ten days or a fortnight. The Earl of Westmoreland, and his daughter Lady Georgiana cane, are still in Brighton. His Lordship, although afflicted with the loss of sight, takes exercise on horseback, by availing himself of the privilege granted by the Queen of riding in the Royal stables. IVIESCELLII.NEOUS. On Wednesday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House,when the Right Hon. Lord Ellenborough was sworn in as Governor-General of India. His Lord ship afterwards dined with the Directors at the London Tavern, where her Majesty's Ministers, and many other distinguished personages, were present. The calamitous losses by fire, which the country has of late experienced, no time or money can replace. They have been—the Custom House, the Houses of Parlia ment, the Royal Exchange, the two fires in York Min ster, Nottingham Castle, Plymouth Dockyard, and last the Tower. Besides these, ° there have been attempts to fire Westminster Abbey, Sheerness Dockyard, and the old Church at Thirsk, in Yorkshire. The Duchess Maximilian, of Leuchtenberg, the Em peror of Russia's daughter, was safely delivered of a Prin cess, at St. Petersburgh, on the 17th ult. Born on - this day, in 1771, James Montgomery, the Sheffield poet, at Irvine, in Ayrshire, a county distin guished also as being the birth-place of Robert Burns. It is said that there are now almost as many wooden pavements in the streets of London, as there are wooden heads in the Cabinet. A robbery has taken place at one of the principal hotels in Brighton. Colonel Fludyer had placed in his hat-box notes of the Rutland Bank to the amount of 751., which have been extracted. The police are hives titrating the matter. ' A Devon Journal states that a maid-servant and a fellow-rustic, in a farmer's employ at Ashburton, having fallen in love with each other, the farmer, by way of disturbing one of their tete-a-tetes, disguised himself in a bullock's hide, with horns, and suddenly presented himself before the enamoured couple, so much td the horror of the young man, that he rushed from the spot, and has not been billing and cooing since:—The farmer did wisely to disguise himself in a bullock's hide, for had he clothed himself in an ass's hide instead, the youth, so far from being horrified, would merely have regarded him as an animal of a congenial nature with his own, perhaps as a rival. 27.1711301 MS OF THE DAY. It is said that the hand of the Princess Januaria, sister of the Emperor of Brazil, has been offered to Count Hugo Mensdorff, the nephew of Duke Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg. It is well known that the Brazilian envoy has been six months in Europe in search of a consort for this princess. The examination of Exchequer bills at the Bill-office is carried on with all possible despatch ; but in conse quence of the large number to be examined, it is thought the examination will occupy the whole of this month. THE QUEEN DOWAGER. The following account of the health of the Queen Dowager was received in town yesterday : "The Queen Dowager has slept at intervals during the night, and her Majesty is not quite so languid this morning. . " DAVID DAVIS, M.D. " Sudbury Hall, Nov. 3, 1841." COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing in the Parks yesterday afternoon, attended by the Hon. Miss Devereux and the Hon. Miss Anson, in an open carriage and four. Colonels Arbuthnot and Wylde were in at tendance on horseback. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Wylde and Captain Francis Seymour, rode out on horseback yesterday morning. The Royal dinner party at 13nekingliam Palace last evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, Lady Char lotte Dundas, Earl Delawarr, and the Right lion. L. Dawson Damen The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards were in at tendance at the Palace. during dinner. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived in town at two o'clock yesterday afternoon from New market. His Royal Highness, attended by Colonel Cornwall, honoured the " Nulii Sccundus " Club with his company at dinner that evening . . The Prussian Minister, on a specific mission, and the Bishop of London, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Sir Henry Smith had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday, at his official residence in Downing street. The Lord President of the Council, accompanied by Dr. Kay, yesterday visited the Model School of the Bri tish and Foreign School Society in the Borough-road, and inspected the building of the intended Normal School. REPORTED FIRE IN THE GUILDHALL.-- Last night some sensation was caused by a report that the Guildhall was in flames. It proved, however, to have been merely a slight explosion of gas issuing from the temporary pipes being fitted up for the annual civic banquet, which had set fire to some adjoining wood work, and was extinguished as soon as communicated. The large fortune and estates left by the late Prince Butera, have devolved to Major Wilding of the Hanoverian service, half brother of the Prince. The Post Amt Gazette states that the decree of the Swedish Government, for imposing an import duty on corn, is to be in for ce from the 15th inst. to the 31st December, 1844. Foreign corn may be exported during that time, without paying any duty. The Emperor of Austriahas given a pardon to c n e u r i t u a e i r n o o u ff s ei P ic e e r s so a l g 's a inos ft hi s Transylvanian subjects, for the fiscal regulations, for which they had been prosecuted. Among them are several noblemen. MR. JUSTICE BOSANQUET.—It was currentl y . reported yesterday morning in Westminster Hall, that in consequen ce of continued indisposition, Mr. justice Bosan quet would resign his s cat in the Court of Common Pleas before t he ex p iration of the present term. Air. Sergeant Goulburn, the Recorder (the Hon. Mr. Law), and Mr. Sergeant Mereweather, are each mentioned as lik e ly to be elevated to the Bench when a vacancy occurs. • LEF ROY A JUDGE I I is even so. Our Orange masters, who have been so profuse in their pro fessions of conciliation, and of their determination to exclude, partisans from the administration of justice, have determined to appoint Mr. Lefroy—the most osten • tatious, unscrupulous, Orange partisan amongst the entire faction—t) adjudicate upon the lives and liberties of the Catholics of Ireland !--Dublin Evening Post. MORNING SUN 1 POLICE INTELLiGENCE . GUILDHALL. A young girl, named Ann Bullings, was p laced at the bar before Sir Peter Laurie, charged with having at tempted suicide, by throwing herself from the third arch of Blackfriars-bridge into the river. 6ergeant Diblen, No. 306, said she fell on her back in the water, when some men, who were working at the repairs of the bridge, brought her to shore in a state of insensibility. She was taken to the receiving-house, and thence to the Compter. The only effects she complained of from the fall was a slight pain in her s houlder. N° less than three similar attempts had been ma de by other females last night. The prisoner said she had been in the service of a fur rier, named Collins, in the Newington-road, by whom she was discharged, and in consequence made the attempt. Sir P. LAURIE said this bridge was becoming a r esort for persons like the prisoner. It must be put a stop to, and he was determined by every means in his power to o do so. The public mind had , in his belief , b een p oi by a set of low penny publications, in which-those cases were blazoned forth, and they had instances of the effect produced from such sources in the Monument cas es. lie s hOuld, under these circumstances, at least do away with, the romance of the affair, and commit her on charge of felony to NeWgate, where she would be tried and most probably transported. MARYLEBONE. On Wednesday Eleanor Gooding,. a woman abcut 50 ~ y j years of age, was charged on suspicion of having been concerned in plundering the premises of Mr. Louis Kyczor (to whom she was housekeeper), No. :1 7, Edgewarc-road, of. nearly 100 silver watches, valued at ,• but little short of 3001. Prosecutor deposed that on Suaday-ovening last b e returned home, between seven and eight o'clock, to an other shop of his, and at which he and most of his ..0 1 ' family reside,in Tottenhana-court4oad, when he received information that the prisoner had, a. short time pie viously, come there in breathless baste, saying tha t she had been sent for to see his daughter, who, n 6 she bad been informed by a young woman, was LAO suddenly and dangerously ill. On finding that there was nothing the matter with her, the prisoner exclaim' ed, " Oh, my God ! I've no doubt been hoaxed, and I'm afraid the shop has been robbed." She then raw out of the place, followed by one of the apprentices ; and as soon as he (Mr. K.) was made acquainted tvith what had transpired he called a cab, in which h e vas driven off at a rapid rate to the Eigeware•road. On arriving at his premises he taw the prisoner and hi s apprentice standing at the door, and having aseertailed that a great number of watches had been carried off he at once repaired to the station-house. Serjcan ts Thompson and Levett, of the D division, returned with him, and on making an examination it was d iscovered that there were no marks of violence on the door lead ing into the street, but that the lock of the door oPcn• ing into the shop had been forced, and by that oleo, the robbery had been effected. A chisel w hich ha ° evidently been used for the purpose was lying by th e side of the counter. Mr. RAWLINSON—When you made the. discover,' nr, your loss, what conversation passed between you the prisoner ? Prosecutor—l told her I was qui t , e , ,0 sure it was a " put up" robbery, and asked her who ba". ; she . been to the house in the course of the day, w hen stated that a gentleman and two young men had ealleu upon business and wished to see me. At a little afte r seven a young woman knocked at the door, a d e a telling her that she was wanted dire tly to see MiLis Kyczor, who was dying, she got into an omnibus out loss of time There being . no other evidence to implicate the pri' Boner, Mr. %MUNSON ordered her to be discharged for the present. lIAT7'ON-GARDEN. On Wednesday Mr. Benjamin Peacock , proprietor of the Empress of Russia public-house , St. J ohn-street I Clerkenwell, appeared to answer the complai nt of !: spectos Penny, of the G division , for havi n g kept t house open at lt.e hours, and suffering drunkenness. Mr. Duncombe, Solicitor, attended for the defenda er Inspector Penny stated that on the morn in g Of flied e 19th ult., about a quarter past one o'clock, he enter d the taproom of the defendant's house , wher e be fann, ten men and four women ; eight of the m en drunk, and one of then insensibly so. Some o f ter men were smoking, and some vessels containing P nr- j were upon the tables. The defendant followed viitne" and said they were lodgers. The Inspector then gal, so me further evidence in support of the charge , and Mr. COME said he should convict the defendant. id Mr. Duncombe suggested that the . Magistrate s bnu to convict his client in a high penalty, to enable big° appeal against the conviction at the Sessions. Mr. GREENWOOD, who also sat on the bole.l, , s aid 0 , that in such cases it was his rule to convict i n any 1,13, he thought proper, and leave the party to ap p eal at .1.0. Sessions. They might as well ask the Judges to tfainv. , port a man, who was only deserving two year prisonment. Mr. COMBE said, as there was nothing verY vated in the case, be would convict the defendant I" the penalty of 20s. and costs. app M ea r i . D ag u a n in c s o t m t h h e e c th o e n n vic e t x io p n r . essed his determi na tion to MUNICIPAL REFORM. In the little independent borough of Andover, f o ur T v, ries quitted office on the Ist, and stood for re-clectit'l'i They were opi osed by the Reformers, and never fail' contest been carried forward with such determined sl?!.11110 on both sides, as was witnessed upon this occasion. A. 04 Reformers btained a most triumphant victory, bavi won the yvhole number, viz, REFORMERS. T. H. Mortimer • 127 TORIES. 10 0 John Ilollow•ay ...... ( J .; 11. Thomson ............ W. Poore ............. • 6 , T. H. Parker ........ 353 Hugh Mundy W. F. Bridger ll4 Samuel Shaw .... 474 I Majority for Reform . l4l . 1 , TEWKESBURY.—The election for four Town C(4ll3coia lors here has returned all four Liberals. There is il Conservative in the Corporation. Vo gt a rl WORCESTER.-'The Tories contested every Isar T e n lo° resolutely. The election took place on Monday. Liberal:, and two Tories have been returned. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILIOT. Traffic returns for the week ending Nov. 1, 184 1 Passengers £941 18 Merehandize 5 4 £1,4, 6 D. O'BRIEN, Secretau Darlington, Nov. 3. . . Lo Hetesbu s appointment to te tri - 0 , no s h i p of th e Isle o f Wight, we perce n ive, by h the i, e ,;ro' ing extract from his patent, is merely honorary:--- ~Lia v w id i e ll d ia a m lw L a 3o • r s d , a u n e d y o te u s r hi l i v r i y ll s a h n a d ll p n l e e t a , sure is, that the ,ir , tue of the said several offices herein in befo granted, or of any or either of them, or of holu'lLvoo' occupying the same respectively, or otherwise l' e `j to ever, be entitled unto, nor be authorised or emplo ce ., re es' have, accept, receive, or take any manner of salur.ques, sion, wages, fees, annuities, or allowances, gratuitiets' sti i t! rewards, profits. commodities, or emoluments, to o c doe, right re r e o s r p ei h e: Y t . i .j, co t{ office or offices, or any or either of them, heretofore e 0 of payable, accustomed, belonging, or appertain ie o p artg right or otherwise, or any of them; Or any par t 0r thereof respectively." • ce ment s We have reason to believe that the state ding lately made relative to six shi of the line pro ce , - f eec l ' .reo o rsne u et l oo o t i n . eolaib t la o spdel ß ony r ,ta e hot s ain t ot fnottirihe(t)h those whichacoast purpose xthe sF vesselsja.oci t nn . .b e heairnaeg 0 t d ,,a, j e 6 iii e f . o, " )0 1 a a t is purposes cit fromi tirinapcdooTsi —.Hera " 0. ,, , THE MURDER AT ESCRICK, NEAR I r° , ll wire , Jonathan Taylor, the supposed murderer of 11 : s m , th e was examined at York on Wednesday last, ‘ ' 1 '010: Jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder a"i lls if ial a' and he was committed to York Castle to takeThi3 ''' the ensuing Assizes. • 0 41 0 i' re The public are cautioned a'gainst parties 00' in the habit of puttingadvertisernents in the c ountrY o . 3 0 papers, offering to supply the London newsl9a,lii I tail, such prices as must convince any person, N‘ 11° % frae the trouble to make the slightest calculation, that. lsoah is intended. It has very often happened, the t ryt 0 ° being tempted by the low prices named, havehenie, P"g parties orders for papers, and, us desired by t- 0 ball meet in advance, and in every instance, such pc.r s° e els e c e been swindled out of their money. Advertiseu:oo, r l t a h t a e t , Landon paper s ' sharpers anti the above description have been observed to to f eilf somein t h e e e f o t u h n e t r T reap ea harvest by this nefarious practice. IRISH LAW APPOINTMENTS.. -- a or, respondent of the Post.)--The light Hon. Thorecose't froy, M.P., has accepted the vacant Judgesb i r' j3are n (From as f,e: by the resignation of the Hon. Justice Johnson. ,i , 0 ,1 4 0 therhemi,es reason, , ric h Foster goes to the Common Pleas, and Mr. 14ef. r° L ee r e ' the puisne Baroncy. This creates a vacancy 111 otacli presentation of the University, and already twg to 3 1. r. dates are named—George A. Hamilton, Escl"(1.1). for the city of Dublin, and 1)r. Longfiel,l, F.l'. . t hree We learn by a letter from Vevay that tim e o we. children of Queen Christina are now residingo toe, Her Majesty and her husband were sta)h4 5° ... 1 f o nd ° i f at Veva)• before they 1% eat to Paris, and were ~iece the place, that they have been in treaty for I ground to build a palace u The parishes of Bethnal-grevn and sp.: by tile have lately had a large addition to the charitiesai_:chotiot upon.—Brightot Ga:act.f.e;ifielcls will of Mr. George Founier, who was a wealthy ~ (e ) 01 ( 1 , .. in the City. He has bequeathed the sum .(2t - ‘, 4 ‘iic h oil: each of the above parishes, the interest o - A l , o tr i o:, e i ; :ted e i 'l g r a r n h to r, u e n . t an t o d. a . b . ,ju i a t 1 1 1501. (the (tt3ehieitnsr.)o,neto, thoebacpipnr(twi(s. deseolr.lef objects of charity as have not received Par: 000 1 to SL. ally on the 22d June, his birth-day, to s e :: e l l,ial rt!l. o schools. tw years. He has also bequeathed _ 0.. ,.. ee t, P c , s ttached to the French Ilospital, lia I o s".' vi va P Luke's, for the education of the children L in I lle refugees. markets of France up to the end of last inontna. ‘ i 0 110 1. 1 , The of fi cial returns of the Prices of wb, e , a j bo - 0 , t 1 1! highest to have been 22f. 37e. per hectolitire a s . g,: itir oa rues ay : I /j a y, l i e sen and Strasburg ; and the lowest ltif. 71 .. ' .. oit to Nantes, and Marrans. A fatal accident occurred on Mr. William Tharby, farmer, of 'Thetford, reros sea toy Mr. Sizer, of Soham Fen. They ileprudent. y r _ .oust ia ... 7 ^,l high the boat upset, and both were drowned•i' river in a gunning boat, and the water 1)c...t0r , ' A iry i v :~i~ ~' ~ ~r "omift I ItE Pubi wow )vhi, wh o Just'