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..... _ THE WEATHEIL—NooN, NOVEMBER 17. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer 32.5 Highest 33 i Lowest . 2l Barometer 29.60.—Wind S.E.—Freezing Point 22 I)eg. RNING SUN IMPORTANT NEW WORK ON INDIA. Just ready, in 2 vols., Bvo., with numerous illustrations, FIVE YEARS IN INDIA. BY HENRY EDWARD FANE, ESQ., Late Aide-de-Camp to _his Excellency the Commander-in- Chief in India. - Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. • s Orders received by all Booksellers. Just ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., FREDERICK THE GREAT AND Hl@ TIMES, Comprising Original Letters of that Monarch, Now First published ; with an Introduction By THOMAS CAMPBELL, Esq., " Author of " The Pleasures o f H ope . Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. *,,,* Orders received by all Booksellers. 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VDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS, THIS EVENING, NOV. 18, Will be repeateeßellini's Opera of NORM A.—PoHie, Mr. W. Harrison ; Flavins, Mr. Clement White, Orovesn, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Ilainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble (her eighth appearance upon the English Stage). After which will be repeated, the NevviFarce entitled THE WRONG MAN..—Sir Bryan Beansex, Mr. Bartley; Beech wood, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Simon Tack, Mr. Harley ; Alice, Miss Cooper ; I'atty Smart, MN. Humby. To conclude with the Farce of THE OMNIBUS. Doors to to opened at hall-past Six—the performances ti commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, is. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d., First and Second Circle 3, ss. ; Second Price, 'ls. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. '2,.; Gallery Is. Ticket-3 and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ter, till Four, where Season Tickets may b?. had upon application. Private Boxes to be bad sci'ely of Alf. Andrea's, bookseller, 1' 4 7. 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We must decline inserting- any letters commiserating the fate of the murderer Blakesley. The sooner the horrible crime is forgotten the better.l ItStA E ~~un+- I~_M_~~ ,fttv. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVENIpER is, 1841. LONDON: TIIVBSD.AY, NOVEMBER 18, 1841. We were not wrong in anticipating a great support from the Liberal Press for Sir ROBERT Pr.F.es and Lord STAN t.Ev's presumed scheme of emigration on a large scale. The Vor ' • Chronicle yesterday carne forth as the - avowedC lilli advocate of such a scheme, which it denomi nated a most excellent thing. It has no fear that enlarged emigration will prevent the repeal of the Corn-laws, hut recommends us, if we can. to get an extensive scheme of emigration first, and go on stedfitstly to ecorti e,the repeal of the i3u Corn-laws afterwards. some f distress was re lieved by sending awayhalf.or a million of l a b o urers, most of the motive s for urging a re l which pecu ers liarly peal of the Corn - laws, - except those l we igh with a few mill -cm ' , and tho se which arise from a deep conviction- of the utility of justice, which o p erate on only af' - ew persons. and on them but coldly, would almost cease " exist : and though a few enlighte ne d eulighteneadvocates of repeal might remain, they would no more b • attended to than they were between 1830aridlsnr Th e ass umption is t hat a lar ge scheme of emigration is to be adopted by the Tories, who strenuously deny that the Corn-laws cause the Present distress, in order to remedy that distress; and the view of the Tories is practically sup ported by the Cb ron icle. Our Contemporary says : But the great and immediate benefit produced in this country by emigration arises from its raising up new communities of customers out of the superfluous popula tion that hung before as a bumf= on our hands. The untrodden forebt, the coast unvisited by trade, are thus made to furnish new marts to our manufactures, and new outlets to our trade. A civilised and kindred race, having the same habits and wants as ourselves, is thus placed in circumstances which enable it to supply its own wants by furnishing a demand for our industry. On the coast of New Holland, where the lowest race of naked savages formerly fed on grubs, and stared at a spade, a large awl thriving population now exports a sure supply of the material of otir manufactures, and takes in return the largest proportionate amount of the entire consumption of the wares of She f field and B• ' trrna;g ham. and the fabrics of Leeds and Manchester. If emigration is to produce the immediate benefit of raising up new communities of cus tomers, and if such communities are to take great quantities of manufactured goods from Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, and Manchftter,. emigration must be a panacea for our distress and late Ministry acted erroneously by pro posing etty measures of c:nnn►ercial reform, when, on the showing of the Chro. , llcle, they ought to have proposed —as the Tories mean, it is said, to ProPese—a large scheme of emigration. The arguments of the Chronicle cut away from the Corn-law repealers all the. ground on which they have hitherto stood, and substantially con cede to the Tories that the Corn-laws do not cause the distress of which the people complain. Throughout the controversy on the Corn-laws, the Tories have said, " Build up.:our, own colonies, extend that trade which you can politi cally command, encourage emigration and the extension of piur own dominion, and your people will be happy and. your empire safe." A large scheme of emigration is suitable to their theories, and to this scheme and to those theories the Chronicle assents. All the advantages which are offered by civi lization, and many more, are offered by a free trade in corn. The acres of the United States woo the industry of our people ; the immediate benefit would arise, were the Corn-trade free, of new communities of customers demanding the produce of our manufactures : •but all these ad vantages the Tories, who propose to ship off the people to New Zealand or New South Wales, Will not allow them to enjoy, because they Would then escape from the control of the aris tocracy, both at home and abroad. Those who freely went to the United States would no longer be the slaves of the landlords; they would pay no tithes, and do no homage to Bishops; and those who got wealth in England by a free trade with the republicans of America, would soon find much more evidence than the existence of the Corn•laws that the privileges of the aristocracy are injurious to the national welfare. But, by not allowing a free trade to America, and by sending off the people to the colonies, where there are numberless posts for the connections of the aristocracy, and where the hierarchy flourish in lordly magnificence, the people are continued in subjection, and the power of the aristocracy maybe preserved. We kre not surprised, therefore,. that the Tories like the emigration scheme ; but be cause they like it, and because it would, at least, stave off repeal of the Corn-laws till emigration had been tried, the Liberals should now strenu ously oppose it. When are the Whigs to learn practical wisdom ? They are nothing, and can prevail in nothing, without the help of the people ; yet they foolishly cast away their sup port by carrying out a theoretical conclusion concerning the poor, fur the behoof of the land lords, with a severity that has made them unpo pular in every part of the country. The emi gration scheme is founded on a similar theore tical view of population, which certain Li berals would carry into effect without consulting the persons who are to be sent abroad. The people do not ask to be transported ; they isk primarily for political rights in their own country, and secondly they ask for a free trade in bread and meat. Their prayers are met by the Liberal Chronicle with a scheme for sending them to till land at the antipodes, which they ire never likely to own, for their scanty wages will not enable them to pay 20s. per acre. The .vorst part of the emigration scheme is that it will infallibly, like the new Poor-law, be looked in by the people as an injury to them, and they will look on the Liberal party which supports it, as more anxious to banish them than give them political rights in the land of their fathers. The terrible schism which still prevails amongst the middle and lower classes is further evidenced by what occurred at Birmingham on Monday, where the Chartists opposed the Anti- Corn-law party ; and a public meeting, to hear Mr. CURTIS, was, from beginning to end, a scene of violence and uproar. Amongst the cries were heard repeatedly, " Remember the Bull-ring ;" thus the fatal attack on the people, by Liberal Ma gistrates, acting under a Liberal Ministry, which we always deplored, now rebounds against the Li beral party, and the exasperated Chartists even refuse them a hearing. We state a fact ; we do not excuse the conduct of the Chartists, which to us appears wholly unwarrantable and indefen sible. But so it is; their passions get the better of their reason, like the passions of other men, and they revenge now the injury done to them in 1839, by opposing the wishes of the party then in power. All Liberal politicians, all who side with freedom against restriction and oppression, shoul d now endeavour to reconcile these classes, and make the working men forget the neglect and the in juries they have experienced at the hands of those who attained power by their means. When that is so desirable it is inflicting, we think, a serious injury on the Liberal cause, for a Liberal journal to advocate the supposed Tory scheme of transporting a multitude of the people, in order to relieve the present distress, and to put an end to agitation for free trade and political rights. To defend a great scheme of emigration, which is unasked by the people, is to break up and sacri fice the Liberal party to a theory of population, which experience has shown to be unfounded in fact. The meeting of the friends of free-trade at Sheffield on Monday—elsewhere noticed—pre sents a favourable contrast to the meeting of the Anti-Corn-law party at Birmingham on the same day. At Sheffield all was order and decorum, and resolutions favourable to free trade were unanimously carried. At Birmingham all was riot and disorder, and no person who attempted to address the meeting—be his party what it might—could obtain a hearing. Accordingly the Birmingham meeting is a general theme for ridicule or sarcasm ; while the Sheffield meeting is honoured by its friends, and respected by its opponents. We are told, however, by a Corre spondent, that the men of Birmingham will Teedily redeem themselves, and stand forth worthy of their former fame—the most energetic champions of order and freedom. For the unseemly proceedings on Monday we cannot imagine an excuse. Such conduct brings public meetings into disrepute, and, depriving; public opinion of all weight, leaves no alterna tive but a despotic Government. If the Bir mingham Chartists have no regard for them selves, they ought to respect the wants of the Paisley weavers, and of the suffering multitudes at Bolton, Stockport, and other places, and de mand with a voice of thunder that the bread of the people be untaxed. Till the Chartists gene. rally do that, they will be held in a great measure responsible—after the aristocracy—for the misery which is inflicted on the people. ' The letter read at the Sheffield meeting from Mr. WORTLEY is worthy of notice. The Hon. Gentleman implies that the present Ministers are not indisposed to review the whole question of the import duties, though they are not likely to agree with the gentlemen assembled at Shef field. Perhaps Mr. WORTLEY is not good autho rity for the intentions of the Cabinet. If he were, we should say that the Ministers are in all things imitating, but in a most humble and awk ward manner, the gentlemen they so recently displaced. From Madrid our letters and papers are of the Bth inst. Four officers of the Princessa Re giment were condemned to death on the 7th, and it was expected that two of them would be shot on the Otl. The other two would be par doned. A letter from Pampeluna of the 10th in stant states th a t General Itonii, had a e p or tiered all the fortre sses in ehensai the Bisque pro ve of a Frenchtviiiieicpeesoptole,bewhd oeniaroelisl p d a protection f o r invasion; a strong military force • is to be stationed in the different provinces. In Navarre an army of twenty battalions of 1,000 men each 1,000 y, is - h o rses, and four batteries of artillery,to oc. cupy without delay the extent of • territory w hich lies brtween Vera, on the borders of Guipuscoa, and Arragon, along the Fre nc h tier and from Panipeluna and Estella to Tu. dela, on the Ebro. Eighteen battalions, with a corresponding force of artillery and cavalry, will retain possession of the Basque provinces. The two branches of this force are to be called the right and left wings of the Army of the North, the whole of which will be under the command of ItontL, whilst the divisions are to be under the immediate orders of AYERBE tbr Navarre, and ALcALA, promoted to the rank ofLieutenant- General, for the Basque provinces. All the of ficers of the insurgent battalions have likewise been dismissed. The following affecting incident is from a letter from Pampeluna, dated the 10th inst. : A melancholy scene took place here on Saturday even ing last, the day before the Regent left Pampeluna for Saragossa. This was the interview between Espartero and the mother of the unfortunate Fulgosio, who had Leen condemned t death by the Military • o;:t —• mmi.uu of Madr:d. 'The unhappy lady, who is considerably ad vanced in years, set out for Pampeluna the moment when it became evident that there was no chance of safety for her son, and travelled by post, night and day, until she arrived here. The moment she alighted from her carriage she proceeded to the apartment of the Regent, who, though somewhat indisposed, was then engaged with some of the members of,the munici pality of Pampeluna. Here she was attempted to be stopped by the Aide-de-Camp in waiting, who informed her that the Duke was then busy, and that she should be admitted when her turn came. Knowing that every moment was of value, the distracted woman threw him aside and rushed shrieking into the room ; she could only fling herself at the feet of Espartero, and cry " llfi Hijo ! He tried to induce her to retire, but she clung to him with all the tenacity of despair, and held him grasped in her arms with a strength far beyond her strength or years. He in formed her that it was out of his power to prevent the law from taking* effect, and endeavoured again to disengage himself from her grasp. When she heard no words of hope or comfort her force gave way, and losing all sensation she fell motionless to the ground, and was conveyed out of the apartment by the attendants. There were young and thoughtless Aides-de-Camp loitering about ; there were aged men, and men of business, who had passed through a long life of reverses, and in whose hearts there did not linger much softness ; there were rough soldiers long accustomed to scenes of horror ; but amongst them all there was not, I am sure, one from whose eyes the tears did not come, though they scarcely knew it, freely like those of an infant. When the news of the acquittal of M'LEoD arrrived in Madrid on the Bth inst., an eye-wit ness writes that it elicited the following general remark :—" We shall hear no more of troubles on the frontier, or intrigues on the coast. Eng land's hands are free to help us, and France will let us alone I" The interior of Spain presents some danger to travellers. Two chainfuls of presidarios (con_ victed felons) have lately escaped, and are now exercising their old vocation of robbers. The diligence was stopped last Tuesday night on the Samosierra road, and all the passengers plundered and stripped even to their shirts. Amongst them were four English ladies, who were also left nearly naked on the road, but the eighteen pre sidarios who were plundering the party became alarmed and took to flight, happily without a:- tempting personal violence. On the Madrid Bourse on the Bth the Three per Cents. were done at 20 for cash, and 30s for the 13th and 20th inst. One transaction took place in the Four per Cents. at 26 11-16, at sixty days, and 37 in the Five per Cents. at 264 for cash, and at 27* 4i f 281 :1 and 'l9, at dif- ferent dates. The debt bearing no interest sold for 6at sixty days. The French Ministerial Journals announce that two armies are to be concentrated on the Spanish frontier; the one consisting of :25,000 men, to have their head-quarters at Per pignan, and the other, of 25,000 men, at Bayonne. These armies are to compose a sort of cordon sanitaire, .to shut out the contagion of Spanish ideas, and, if possible, to get into some squabble with the Basque authorities, so as to justify an invasion of Spain, for the purpose of upsetting the Spanish Constitution, and disposing of the hand of the young QUEEN. LOUIS PHILIPPE adheres to his first policy, notwithstanding the recent triumph of ESPAR TERO and the utter discomfiture of the partisans of Madame MUNOZ. But as all is riot sunshine in France, a force of 12,000 troops of the line has been ordered to Toulouse to keep down the discontented in that quarter. The Presse, a Government Journal, admits the intention of an interference of the Continental Powers in the affairs of Spain, without the concurrence of Eng land. This Journal says France has seen the Whigs destroy the policy and the ministry of those persons supported by her on the other side of the Pyrenees. At present no one thinks of reviving the chimera of the Quadruple Alliance, and fur that reason it will be perfectly easy for France to effect an arrangement with the other European nations respecting Spanish affairs. In this question our interest is conformable to theirs. The same motives which separate us from Great Britain will ever prevent the Cabinets of the Continent from joining her. In a word, we are convinced that the Spanish question offers us an excellent ground for taking full satisfaction for the state of isolation in which the British policy placed us in July, 1840." We can tell the Presse that England will not permit the Powers that were the last to recog nine the Government of Spain either to modify her institutions, or to dispose of the hand of her SOVEREIGN. Spain has a Government of her own choice, which, during its brief career, has manifested a degree of wisdom, modera tion, and firmness, which France failed to purchase by the Revolution of July. We will have no bastard imitation of a Holy Alliance for robbing Spain of those liberties which she pur chased by seven years of civil war. The KING of the FRENCH had better restrict his solicitude to the Government of France. He has there enough to reform—more than enough, if such be his mood, to weep over. The Augsburgh Gazette contains an explanation of the late disturbance in Livonia. It appears that promises of grants of land in Russia were actually made to the pea sants of the German portion of Livonia by the Bishop of Riga, on condition of their entering the Greek church, but that, as he had not been properly authorised to make these promises, 'the grants never took place. A great effervescence ensued, and it would have become a re gular revolt had not Government interfered. Madanie Lebaron, a lace-manufacturer at Caen, but who has a depot in Paris, in the Rue Thevenot, was robbed two days ago of lace to the value of 11,000 f. by a man whom she had taken into her service imprudently to carry her pattern-boxes when she went round to her customers. It appears that her servant being ill, she hired a man who sold matches about the streets to fill his place, and this man for some days served her faith fully, but suddenly disappeared, and another match vendor offered his services, stating that the former had been arrested for some irregularity. Madame Lebaron engaged him, but on the very first day he absconded with the stock which he was carrying, whilst his mis tress was in a shop in the Rue Saint Denis. The police have arrested the two match-venders, and also a man and woman who are suspected of being their accomplices but none of the property has been recovered. About a month ago, two thieves, named Wolff and Dupleix, who were being conveyed to prison in a cellu lar van, mado their escape, the door baring by error been left unlocked, and every attempt by the police to discover their retreat was vain. A few days ago, how ever, a notorious,thief, having been taken, told the com missary of police before whom he was conveyed that if he would regale him with a good dinner he would put him in the way of making a famous capture. The commissary, althopgh he did not place much confi dence in his word, treated him with the dinner, and immediately afterward the thief took some gendarmes to a house in the Rue Rochechourt, where seven men and two women were found, whilst dividing the spoil resulting from several thefts which they had recently committed. Amongst them were Wolff and Dupleix, but Wolf contrived again to make his escape, and was recaptured on Fridaf last. _ _ The National, in an article on the Hospice of Salpe triere (for aged and lunatic females), says :—" The in curable lunatics have lately had given to them for their physician M. Trelat, a man mild and persevering, who, taking his unhappy patients in commiseration, and wish ing to afford them all the diversion of which they are capable, conceived the idea of making them sing. This having succeded, he is now teaching them to read. This is done by two persons, who have undertaken this diffi cult, and in many instances painful, task gratuitously. The poor patients have become much attached to their teachers, and are pleased with their lessons. They hasten to their classes as soon as their friends appear ; and those who have not yet been admitted, have no other de sire than to be so. Some already begin to read fluently, and some are able to make out the music given them to learn. The music is taught them by a colleague of M. Wilhelm, and the reading by M. Teste, a brother of the Mi n i s t e r. They are also taught to work with the needle. Their work is excellent, and done much quicker than by ordinary hands, but purchasers are wanting." The Sentinelle des Pyrennees of the 9th instant says : "On Tuesday last a Spanish boat, having on board a person who is supposed to be an emigrant general, was on its way from.. the coast of Biscay to Socoa, and had arrived off Saint Sebastian, when it was perceived by a trincadour, which pursued it to within a distance of the coast over which French jurisdiction extends. Arrived there, a combat it is said took place. A small French vessel, kept on the coast for the mail service, fired upon the trincadour of Saint Sebastian, and compelled it to abandon its prey, and to respect French limits." The same journal adds—" A battalion of the 38th Regiment of the Line left yesterday for the extreme frontier of Spain. The staff goes to Saint Jean de Luz, and several companies will be cantoned at Hendaye, Behobie, and other places. Night and day merchandise is being _ a person packed at Bayonne to send to Spain, previous to the I Gaite, exlgliobiintegdt‘w"h car rying into execution the customs law, or rather the tariff established A by the Government of Espartero." pickpocket, furnished e il v e en p i 2 nf i s n a g igo for int i i i ) is tffi p e la T ee he a atr tl e .e d u e_ o i a l m iis ed attractedthe pro fessedtwiohtoiceemoitfriavedtoobtain a seat in the pit next to the Delleehamps, ofthe treasure. owner . While the attention of his intended victim vas deeply' engrossed by a scene on the stage, our adventurer thought he could sec for himself, from the e ure his coveted prize. Unfortunately denseness stake of the audience, Delle champs made a slight mistake, the pocket of a Municipal Go , a a r i d id putting his hand into who was next to . th purse-holder, grasped instead. of the pair _of scissors, the points of which reproved h i m lnrse a ' so severely, that forgetting his customary caution,h -claniation. This attracted the notice of f. ethe uttered an e h x o at once seized the unlucky Dellechamo soldier, who at by the collar, and conducted him to a neighb • mirin g guard-house. The Constitutionne/ states that a letter has been re ceived from St. ' Laurent de Cerdans, announcing that the soldiers of the Spanish post of la Mouga had pur sued two of their fellow -countrymen, and fired upon them on the French territory. The Spanish soldiers did not return to their post until a Company of the 25th French Light Infantry came up. The price of bread for the remainder of th• month is fixed at 35c. the kilogramme. • The Anti de la Religion states that Father Jean Bap tiste de Frascati, the Carmelite monk, who built the convent on Mount Carmel, in Palestine, has returned from that place to France, and is now in Paris collecting subscriptions for making some additional walls of defence for that establishment. The Siecle states that the Bishop of Beauvais, who had been seriously ill for some days, died the day before yesterday, aged 73. Extract of a letter from Algiers of the 3d inst., given by the Toulonnais :—" During the last three days the six months' drought has been followed by such a de luge of rain, that the lower town, cr modern Algiers. has been converted into a lake. The streets, become rivers, are no longer passable, and the arcades are a benefit which all experience ; for otherwise the liquid mud, thrown in all directions by the carts and cattle passing along, would cover all the pedestrians. The works at the gates are stopped, and all passage through them would be impracticable, were not men kept constantly employed in removing the encumbrances brought down by the torrents. Several of the terraces have been crushed by the weight of the water. The hospital of the Saltpetriere has narrowly escaped being inundated with all its patients. A conduit, which carries into the sea the waters from the Dey and the mountain being in sufficient to disgorge a quantity so great, the current, di verged from its course, broke into the wards by the doors and windows, and bad risen in them to the height of three feet invading the beds, before it was possible to make a passage out for it Last week a well-dressed man accosted the portress of a house in the Rue du 29 Juillet, and, in the broken ac cent of an Englishman speaking French imperfectly, in quired his way to the Hotel de la Madeleine. Whilst he was speaking, another person came up and asked the portress what the gentleman wanted. The portress told him, and the pretended Englishman offered this man a Napoleon if he would show him the way. At first he refused, 'but at length consented, generously offer ing, however, to give the portress half the gratuity, if she would accompany them to receive it. Tempted by the prospect of earning ten francs so easily, the_ portress consented, and they set off together. On arriving at the Rue Tronchet, the pretended Englishman expressed a wish to enter a house of doubtful reputation, which was pointed out to him by his male' guide, who observed that he would do well to confide the bulk of the money which he had about his person to the portress, who would wait at the door. The advice being followed, a purse was put into a handkerchief and placed in the hands of the portress, but, as a guarantee for the safety of the deposit, she was asked to place her watch in the hands of the man who was to share with her the promised Napoleon. The portress, judging by the weight of the purse that there was gold enough to purchase half a dozen such watches as hers, which, however, was of gold, with a gold chain, did as was requested, and took up her station at the door. After waiting nearly an hour, she became uneasy, and opening the purse, found that it contained only bits of lead., The thieves had, in the meantime, made their escape by another door. 'ln formation having been given to the police, the men were soon afterwards apprehended, and recognised as two no torious thieves. They have just been tried, and sen tenced, one to seven years' imprisonment, and the other to five. It appears by letters which we have received from the Spanish frontiers, that the Regent is received in Navarre with the same enthusiasm as during his passage in the Guipuzcoa. At Pampeluna he was received us a King, and conducted himself as a King. After having passed a portion of the day in inspecting the damage caused by the late bombardment, and having had presented to him a list of the losses suffered by the town, he decreed that the property of live of the chiefs of the rebellion, belonging to the noble and monied aristocracy of Navarre, should be applied to the rebuilding or re pairing of the 253 houses and edifices which were de stroyed and injured by the fire of the citadel. This mode of disposing of the fortunes of citizens is altogether royal, but perhaps it will not appear to be very constitu tional. The Town-hall of Pampeluna has principally suffered, as it offered a good mark for the in surgents, who knew well that the political and municipal authorities were always sitting there. A military commission has been appointed to try the conspirators, but the conduct of Espartero relating to the prisoners of Saint Sebastian Fives reason to hope that no more blood will be shed. — Temps. A letter from Carpentias of the 11th has the following paragraph : " The Jury of Vancluse sitting at Carpentias, yes terday, acquitted the Marquis de Forbin, after a most brilliant defence delivered by M. de la Boulie, formerly a deputy. " M. Forbin, as is well known, was prosecuted as the author of a pamphlet, in which he laid down, as a prin ciple, the illegality of the Census (re-assessment), ac cording to the mode prescribed by M. Humann, and his object was to prove the necessity of passive resistance in questions relative to taxes and violation of domicile."— , Constitutionnel. We are requested to make known the following act of justice of the King of Prussia :—" It is notorious that, in conformity with a policy adopted during the last war in Poland, the German Journals have not ceased to re peat that General timinski, a prisoner of state at Glogau, was upon parole, and that he violated it, by leaving and taking an active part in the war against the Russians. The General did not fail to refute this assertion, which was an attack upon his honour, by positive proofs ; but the hatred against him was not disarmed, and one of the principal ma gistrates of Prussia went so far as to repeat the accusation in an official letter. The General did riA hesitate a moment to make his complaint to the King of Prussia direct, and to supplicate him to become his judge in an affair which affected his honour so closely. The King ordered all the documents connected with the residence of the General at Glogan to be presented to him, and, after having examined them himself, he decided that the accusation against him was unfounded, and gave orders that the result of his inquiry should be communicated to the General. Thus, by a truly royal act of equity, is an end put to a calumny which has existed for ten years. The well-known Hotel des Trois Bois, at Basle, has just been sold for 260,000 E The purchaser intends to pull it down, and to erect a new and splendid building, to be called the Hotel Baur, in its place. This specula tion has been entered upon in the expectation that the Strasburg railroad will, ere long, be completed up to the town. An extraordinary suicide lately took place in the forest of Argues, near Dieppe. A young man had been seen for some days wandering on the borders of the forest, and as it was supposed that he was a criminal concealing himself from justice, the gendarmes went in search of him, but he was not to be found. A few days ago, however, he was discovered by some sportsmen hanging from the branch of a tree at only a few paces from the road. There was found upon him a memoran dum hook with the words " Augustus Renard " written in it, which is supposed to have been his name. The medical man who examined the body declared that before the man hanged himself he had nearly starved himself to death. A circular order has been issued by the Danish Go vernment, directing the bailiffs of districts to discover whether secret associations of workmen exist in their lo calities, and to report upon them. It is stated in the circular that tile Government, in concert with those of the neighbouring Status, has agreed to make mutual de nunciations of all such associations in their respective territories. SUMMARY NE-5 AND Public Optuton. " Who runs mug read." FORZEXGN. There is but little political news in the French papers. The France asserts the truth of the following curious statement :—" M. Olozaga having demanded from M. Guizot the expulsion from France of Maria Christina, the Minister asked if he made the demand in the r.ameof Queen Isabell;. -7 .iiieS;;;;ish Ambassador replied in the affimative, and M. Guizot then observed, that in order for such a demand to be regular, it was necessary for him to produce a note as the Minister Plenipotentiary of. Isabella. M. de Olozaga, who is usually so accute, fell into the snare, and sent the note in the sense required, and it was communicated to some members of the diplomatic body. The Neapolitan Ambassador protested against such a demand, observing that hospitality could not with de cency be refused to a female who was daughter of a King, widow of a King, sister of a King, and mother of a Queen, and that her expulsion from France would be a monstrous and even an immoral act. The Austrian Charge d'Affaires was of the same opinion. The other Ambassadors of the Sovereigns who have not recognised Isabella, said they could not offer an opinion without re ceiving instructions from their Courts on the subject. As the hosts of the Tuileries are politically very moral, Maria Christina of Bourbon will, if it suits her, be her own mistress to pass the winter at her villa of the Rue de Courcelles."—So because Mad. Munoz happens to be the daughter, widow, and tnother of a sovereign, she is to ob- tain an immunity for crimes for which her accomplice: have already forfeited their lives ! Kings' widows, like kings themselves, can do no wrong. M. Guizot has certainly precedent on his side, for when in the reign of Louis XIV., the ex-Queen of Sweden, Christina, murdered her chamberlain, the Court of France held her excused be cause she had been a crowned head ! Such is the mora• lity of Governments, especially that of France. Need we wonder to hear of the existence of communist revolu tionary fraternities after this ? The Pres.se contends that Franco has no ambitious de signs upon Spain. Why, then, assemble an army of 25,000 men at Perpignan, and 25,C00 men at Bayonne ? Does Spain threaten to invade France ? Or with the proceedings now going forward in the Chamber of Peers, will the French Cabinet have the assurance to affirm that the Government of Espartero in Spain is not more popular than that of Louis Philippe in Prance? Louis Philippe may withdraw his armies from the frontier, for he can neither overthrow the Constitution, nor dispose of the hand of Queen Isabella. Spain will not permit it, and were she wanting in the elements of successful resistance, England would be bound to assist her. Louis Philippe need not flatter himself that he will be permitted to play over again the game of that old fungus of corruption Louis XVIII. The Moniteur announces the arrival at Brest on the 12th inst. of the squadron under the orders of Rear- Admiral Casy. consisting of the ships of the line, Le Suffren, Le Jupiter, Le Scipion, Le Triton, and Le Jena, from Toulon. M. Guizot is now in his 55th year, having been born at Nismes on the 4th of October, 1787. "The baton of Marshal of France," observes the Na- tional, "is no lenger borne except by septuagenarians and octogenarians. Marshal Moncey is in his 89th year; Marshal Soult is in his 73d; the Duke de la Tarentein his 75th ; the Duke de Reggio in his 75th; Count Mo litor in his 71st; Marshal Clausel in his 70th; Marshal Grouchy in his 76th; Marshal Sebastiani in his 70th. The two youngest are Marshal Gerard and Marshal Valee, who, however, are both in their 69th years. The joint age of all the Marshals is 737 years—the average age 73 7-10." The Pope has announced that a perfect reconciliation has taken place between the Courts of home and Portugal. Mr. Lyell, the eminent English geologist, is lecturing before crowded audiences in Boston, in an establishment called the " Lowell Institute," founded by a wealthy man of that name, who bequeathed to it 200,000 dol lars, the interest of which is to be devoted to the disse ink ation of useful knowledge among the reople, free of charge. The trustees have adopted the plan of engaging the services of eminent lecturers, to deliver courses be fore the people, on their respective branches. Hence Professor Lvell was engaged to come over, and receives 100 dollars for each lecture he delivers. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Post observes, in a leading article on the subject of the education of the Roman Catholic clergy : —‘• The present Government is fortunately in a position of strength, based upon the solid foundation of public confidence, which warrants and commands it to confront the difficulties which surround the subject of the educa tion and social state of the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland, the most difficult and intractable subject with which any body of patriotic statesmen has ever been summoned to contend—a position of strength which not . only warrants and commands them to confront these difficulties, but affords them a reasonable ground of hope that they,may, by subduing them, achieve the great est and most valuable triumph that patriotic statesmen ever won since the progress of human civilization first began to combine the ideas of government with those of philanthropy in its highest sphere of int! uence —of phi losophy in its noblest field of investigation ; of energy, and moral courage on the loftiest stage for their display." —These allusions to the strength of the Ministers, founded on the public confidence in their integrity and patriotism, are so absurd as to wear the appearance of irony. There may be partial, but there can be no lasting public, confidence in a Government of which such a shameless apostate as Sir James Graham for:ns one of the most influential members; which is compelled to pay deference to the opinions of such a determined monopo list as the Duke of Buckingham; which is alternately wheedled and bullied by a Stanley; and which acknow ledges as its head a statesman so wholly devoid of vigour, decision, promptitude, and enlarged sagacity, as Sir Ro bert Peel ! The Chronicle contains an article on the subject of Sir Robert Peel's industrious habits of business, in the course of which, after observing that a man may be busy to very little purpose, our Contemporary goes on to say : —" If he has a laudable ambition of writing his name in the book ,of posterity, he will take care of his pre sent opportunity. Now or never will he rise into a statesman. Now or never must he comprehend his position, if he wish to retain it. Now or never will he ' disprove the current opinion that, clever as he is, he is but a superficial politician, a mere master of expediencies. Let him, then, wisely improve his time—let him be prepared for the next session of Parliament. His dan ger, on one side, arises from the party that has brought ' him into power. It were the poorest folly to deny that they consider him as their servant, brought into office for their own purposes. To assert his independence is to convert them into his antagonists, or, at best, his lukewarm supporters. And yet if he throws himself entirely upon his party, his downfal is as certain as that the sun rises to-morrow. The present system cannot be upheld in the face of a decaying empire."— Sir Robert Peel can only rise into a statesman by wholly changing his habits of thought—by altering, in fact, the entire structure of his mind,which is scarcer to be expe led from a man considerably advanced on the shady sid: of fifty. He may still continue, by means of his well known tact and plausibility, to keep himself afloat as a party politician; but he will never exhibit to a tvantage as a legislator of an enlarged and philosophical turn of mind. He has been brought up in a bad school. His intellect cannot take in a whole. It has a limited and partial range; and takes microscopic views of things. The purblind party that made him, will unmake him ere long. They have got him so fast in their clutches, that he must, perforce, sink or swim with them; and it needs no great foresight to predict that, however it may triumph for a season, Toryism—in its present form— must eventually sink, and be heard of no more. The Times remarks on some recent Tory public dinners in Shropshire and elsewhere-:--" Few things have contributed more to consolidate and strengthen the Conservative party than those loyal constitutional festivals, which, in later years, have become so frequent in every part of the kingdom. By means of such as semblages, in which convivial gratification has ever been subsidiary to a much higher object, the sounder ele ments of political society have been brought into useful and systematic co-operation ; gentlemen whose talents and activity qualify them for rendtwing essential ser vice to the good cause, have been drawn from a leisurely retirement into a well-defined field of exertion ; an en lightened zeal for the preservation and improvement of public institutions has been more widely diffused ; Conservative registration societies have sprung into vigorous existence ; the insolence of democratic aggres sion has been extensively checked ; and the current topics usually discussed on such occasions have given a beneficial impulse to the national mind in canvassing and modifying the general policy of the country."— God help the persons who expect to derive—what the Times so magniloquently calls—the sound elements of political wisdom, from the speeches made at Tory public dinners ! Infinite will be their disappointment if they hope to glean from such speeches one idea beyond abso lute common-place. Allusions to our glorious Consti tution in Church and State ; trite panegyrics on our na tional virtues, which render us the envy and the admi ration of all surrounding nations ; discourses on the patriotic propensities of the House of Lords, mixed up with special eulogiums on Toryism in general, and on the present Ministers in particular—these form the staple of Tory after-dinner oratory ; and he who can glean any of the sounder elements of political wisdom Irons such backnied common-places, must be a man far indeed below the average of humanity in point of intellect. It is not from the lips of Toryism that maxims of political wisdom can ever be expected to fall. " Can any good come out of Nazareth ?" The Herald thus speaks of Lord Alvanlev's recent pamphlet :—" Lord Alvanley in proposing that a Pro testant State should take into its pay a Romish clergy, resembles the Indian who fells the tree that he may gather the fruit, the Arab who plunders the caravans of commerce, or the thoughtless Romans who pillaged and wounded the pilgrims visiting the shrine of St. Peter ; his Lordship overlooks the future in the present, and would relinquish for the possible momentary enjoyment of tranquillity the long and secure possession of the most important blessings. Lord Alvanley, or the subtler spirit who is allowed to use his Lordship's name, would purchase peace at the expense of principle—for expos diency he would resign conscience, and sacrifice to an ideal object advantages which can, if lost, never be re gained. Lord Alvanley is a man of the world, or at least of that portion of the world which is to be found in political clubs, and fashionable society—yet he, or some one for him, has put forth a proposition wholly in consistent with worldly knowledge." The Dublin Pilot says—" Peel, in the tottering condi tion of his Government and of the country, has, in every instance, resorted to postponement instead of measures and intrigues instead of force. On no question has in trigua been so busy as iu relation to Repeal. Yrow, Home to Galway, from Manch ster to Carlow, every de . vice has been employed, every soft point acted upon,- every infirmity of temper or principle tampered with, to try even from the bosom of the Irish people themselves, to get some of them, as of old, to roast each other, their country, and its most vital measures on the political spit." The following is from the Brighton Guardian : " There is no cessation of public distress. On the con trary, more persons at Nottingham, Manchester, and Paisley continually requiru relief, and several additional failures, it is said, have occurred at Glasgow. Some little expectation was excited by the acquittal of AtiLeod as removing one chance of hostility with the United States ; but the condition of our trade is less dependent on such contingencies than on our own legislation, and till that is altered there will be no revival of our pros perity. he Tyne Mercury remarks, in an article suggested by the signs of the times:—•' rhe pressure from without forms itself gradually by the impinging as it were of one mind upon another, till that vast combination is produced which goes by the name of public opinion. Never was the process of intellectual amalgamation so powerful as it is at present. Almost every newspaper you take up convinces you of the truth—almost every man you meet with adduces to you, in ordinary con versation, some evidence of the forming of one of those immense phalanxes of thought and feeling which are preparing for great and overwhelming achievements. We ever expected, as, indeed, we have frequently de clared, that such things would arise from the accession of a Tory Ministry. That accession was required to pro duce the reaction which is approaching." We quote the following from the Cambridge Adver tiser:—" We shall soon feel the disastrouS effects of the rejection by the Tories of Lord John Russell's proposi tion of a reduction upon the duty paid for the admission of Brazilian sugar. Manufactured articles to the value of nearly five millions of money are annually exported from this country to Brazil, while by the imposition of a duty, which amounts almost to a prohibition, we vir tually refuse to take :thy portion of Brazilian produce in exchange." WIONEY—TRADE-601121YLMRCE. At Paisley during the past week, the number of work people, with their wives and families, depending on the Relief Committee for existence, has increased to upwards of 2,000: the total number being no less than 8,435 persons, who have no means of supporting themselves except by charity. BOURSE--TARIS, MONDAY, Nov. 15. trot Highest Lowcst Last Price Price. Prick Prier. french 5 per Cents lld 116 35 1 6 ... 116 35 4 per Cents lOO 80 ... 1 0 81:... 1 0 80 ... 1 1 0 111 3 per Cents... BO 30 80 35 ... 80 2.3 ... 80 30 Loan ••• •...• Bl 15 81 15 ... St S ... 81 5 Bank of prance Latlitte Bank 1.0001. Shares 1140 ...IC4O 5,001 f. Shares 5090 .40130 ...5080 weirrien Bank, 1141 760 ... 770 ... 760 7 0 Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 per Cent,., 1840 lO4l, ... 102 y. ... 102 N ... 10/54 3 per Cents .....» 7l 80 ... 71 80 ... 71 1,0 71 60 ipsnish Active ......... 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'Nov ' . 11. yesterday in th e DEPRECIATION OF THE C O IN. —It was mentioned Herald that of late large imports of sovereigns have t a k en place, w hi c h are mostly light, and which the B an k o f England an d the tax-gatherers re , ject. 'We understand that the loss of weight, or depre ciation of this coin, am oun ts to nearly 5 per cent. , which makes Bank -notes by that amount more valuable than the quantity of this coin they represent. If a man have a good stock of these light sovereigns, and can, in the course of trade, exchange them for notes, with these notes he can obtain from the Bank of Eng land sovereigns of full weight ; and if he have pur chased the light sovereigns by weight, and not received them by tale, he may ma ke 5 per cent., or something less, by the transaction. Formerly Bank paper was de preciated ; now the gold coin is depreciated, and Bank paper is more valuable than the coin it, represents. The effectual cure for such changes on either side, is to make Bank - notes promi se to pay not the coin of t he realm, 51. or lot sterling, but one, two, three, five, or a hundred ounces of gold. It has sometimes occurre d to us that individuals without trans,gressing on any law, might issue small notes to pay o n demand aliquot parts of the preciou s metals, to the great advantage of them selves and the public. morning fright ene d from its SUSPECTED MURDER AT WARRINGTON.-- WARRINGTON, M oNDAy. Thi s town was yesterday propriety" by an alarm that an old lady, named Mould, ha d b e en found suffocated on the " bank of a di tch in a f i e ld a djoining Warrington churchyard.A The ue cease d was the sister to the cook at the Rev. T. V. B aynes ' s, t h e master of the Warrington Free Gramm ar S c h ool. She was a woman who had seen better days, but recently she had earn e d a precari ous livelihood by: working lace and occasional employ ment as a dressmaker. This morning a highly respect able Jury, of which Mr. J. Davis was foreman, and over whom John Hey es , Esq , of Prescot , p resided as Coroner, met at the Ring of Bells, C h urc h -street, to investigate into the cause of h er d eat h. After a lengthened inves tigation, the Jury returned a verdict to the effect thas the deceased was found suffocated, without assigning any means by which she came to her death. The ease, it it said, will be reinvestigated by the Magiitrates. COMIVIEILCIAL REFORM. The AntiCoirTiTt;As;;Jiati(lTof7l.lirningham in vited Mr. Curtis, of America, to deliver a lecture in the Town-hall on Tuesday evening, upon the injurious effects of the Corn-laws. White, the Chartist, however, with his followers, broke up the meeting, voting fur the ex pulsion of Mr. William Scholefield from the chair. pre venting Mr. Curtis from speaking by the uproar, till Mr. Sturge, owing to the interruptions, was compelled to dissolve the meeting, upon which the fury of the meeting against White became so great, that had the people not been prevented he would have been thrown over the gallery. Mr. Sturge finally gave him his arm, and led him out. AGRICULTURAL. In the year 187af7milyoF vine-dressers, consisting of nineteen persons, emigrated from the duchy of Nassau to New South \Vales, where they transplanted the diffe rent descriptions of Rhenish vines. This crop, by the last accounts, produced 15,800 bottles. - Ja.4.I:CTIONEERING. On Tuesday evening, a numerous meeting of the West minster Reform Society, was held at Stannard's Hotel, Covent Garden, to receive the report of the Committee appointed to superintend the registration of voters for the city of Westminster, 1841-42. It appeared that there were more than double the number of claims and objections made this year than in any preceding ; the total number of voters was 15,000, and the return of two Reformers will be insured at a future contest. NAVAL AND MILITARY. Eighteen of .the twenty-three Lieutenancies in the 62d Regiment are for purchase—a circumstance un paralleled in any other corps of infantry on the India e;tablishment. The port of Gloucester presents a bustling scene ; the shipping arrivals are so numerous, that dock-room cannot be obtained. The trade of the city is greatly im proving, and no less than twelve vessels have arrived from France these last two days. 1..0.V1 ELND POLICE. At the inquest held on Tuesday on the bodies of the two firemen killed on Sunday morning at the fire in Welling ton-street, the Jury returned a verdict to that effect. It did not appear from the evidence how the fire originated. A young man of the name of Armstrong wus charged at Guildhall with attempting to utter a forged check for 21. on Messrs. Masterman. From the evidence of the prosecutor it appeared that it was the second attempt of the kind. The prisoner was remanded till Thursday. An Italian of the name of Cette was committed at Hatton-garden to take his trial tbr obtaining goods under false pretences from M. Gunguinetti, of Catherine -street, Strand. ltapallo, the associate of Smith in forging and uttering Exchequer bills, was yesterday fully committed at the Mansion-house, to take his trial at the Old Bailey. FINE ARTS. It has been proPZcithaTilieinass of fused metals formed by the destruction of arms in the Tower should be employed as a base on which to erect the proposed statue of the Duke of Wellington in the City, thereby raising his effigy on the arms which were wielded under his direction' LITEItA7ZY AND SCIENTIFIC. Beranger, the poet, is occupied in composing some new odes and satires. COURT-PASHEONAZILE• When the Duke of Cornwall is shown to the visitors privileged to behold his Royal Highness he is dressed en grande tenue, viz., with a purple velvet robe and ermine, and a lace cap with a rosette. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has re turned from honouring Colonel Wyndham with a visit at Petworth, Sussex. The Duke arrived in town on Tuesday. The Duke of Montrose left Buchanan on Monday se'nnight, for Selby Hall, the seat of Mr. George Payne, where his Grace intends to hunt during the season. Earl Powis is e.xpected in town next week from Powis Castle. The Earl of Chesterfield arrived at Hooton Hall on Saturday. Sir Frederick Trench gave a bachelor dinner in Bol ton-street, on Monday, to the Duke of Rutland and Sir Robert Peel. _ General O'Donnell and his lady have arrived at New Orleans. _ _ _ _ The Duke of Wellington has given directions for the refurnishing of the principal apartments at his celebrated seat at Stratlifieldsaye, and it is said that her Majesty and Prince Albert will honour the Noble Duke with a visit early in the spring. _ _ _ 'TIIIIATZLICA.I.. We regret to announce the decease of Miss Agnes Taylor, late of Covent Garden Theatre, who was a vocalist of much promise. She made her debut at the Adelphi about five years ago. The celebrated actress, Miss Kelly, has lately quitted England to fulfil some engagements in the United States. On Monday evening, while Mr. George Wild was per. forming at the Olympic, in the farce of Angels and Lucifers, some portion of the stage gave way, and his body instantly disappeared, leaving only his head and shoulders visible. Luckily Mr. Wild sustained no mate rich damage. IVICISCELLIINEOUS. A considerable pension reverts to the Crown by the death of Peter Burrow•es, Esq., retired Commissioner of the Insolvent Debtors' Court, Ireland. The Magistrates and clergy of Surrey have established an institution, to be supported by voluntary contribu tions, to furnish the means of subsistence to those who, on their discharge from prison, are found to be without funds and unable to procure employment. This is a praiseworthy Society, and deserves support. No scarlet cloth is now manufactured in Ireland. Forty years ago the Irish loom could clothe the British army, as it did then the yeomanry corps. There is now living at Roinsey, Mr. Floyd, supposed to be the largest man in England. His weight.is 4431b5. ; Mrs. Floyd also weighs 2181bs. ; Mrs. Powle (her daughter), 2U6lbs. ; Mrs. Hawker (another daughter), 1731b5. Total weight of the family of four persons, 1,040 lbs. A gentleman named Scott, who has a nursery near Moss- side, is a member of perhaps one of the tallest families on record. His father, who lives near Carlisle, was married, at the age of thirty-nine, to a young lady of nineteen, and their family consists of six suns, whose united height is thirty-eight feet (on an average six feet four inches each), and three daughters, two of whom are also of extraordinary stature. About seven years ago all the family were assembled at the paternal resi dence, and the appearance of the six suns in the streets of Carlisle excited no little interest. A jet d'eauh.garasbdeeenns, and con ordersstruc tedon ha th e e a b lfi n ci g a i l v w en to ater Kensingtonin construct fountains on the lake in the gardens attached to Buckingham palace. A French Journal states that " in consequence of the removal of one of the Paris slaughter-houses, the colony of rats, whose enormous number was well known, have emigrated to Belleville, and the Fauxbourgs du Temple and St. Martin."—We wish that our House of Commons' rats, whose enormous number is also well known, would fellow the example of their fellow-vermin of Paris, and emigrate from the Treasury BencheS. The Augsburg Gazette says:—" On Monday, the Ist inst., the celebrated Professor Havernich commenced his lectures at Konigsburg with an explanation of Genesis. The room was crowded, but no sooner had the Professor uttered a few s entences, than a sudden rush was made to the door, and in a minute or two the lec ture-room was empty."—Just such a violent rush to the door is always made when the celebrated Peter Both wick rises to address the House of Commons. lie in variably clears that House with as much expedition as he cleared the Surrey Theatre, when he performed Othello. _ _ he esedhattyries. night an inquest was held at t. 12.ipas A r street, Mount- street, Grosvenor-square, on the body of J ohn Smith, 49 y ears of age. From the evidence adduced, it appeared that the deceased was for merly in business as a liuen-draper, but had lately been employed as a c onamercial travelljr ; his circumstances, however mere embarrassed, which, in conjunction with bodily ailment, had produced great mental excitement. On Tuesday morning, 9th inst., deceased left his home at No. 32, North-row, Grosvenor-square, since which time nothing was heard of him until the body was disco vered in the Serpentine on Sunday last. The Jury re turned a verdict of "Found drowned." STOPPAGE OF THE OLD BANK.—We are sorry to announce the failure of Messrs. lidge and Co. of the " Chichester Old Bank." The announcement of the stoppage was made on Monday, and spread great consternation thro.:gh the city. We have not been able to learn with any apptoach to accuracy the extent of their liabillties.—Brighton Gazetle. MORNING StI,N- COURT CIRCULAR. The Royal Family sent yesterday morning to Buck ingham Palace to inquire after the state of t he Q and the Infant Prince. Her Majesty going on favourably, and the In fant Prince continuing well, no bulletin of her Majesty's health was issued yesterday. His Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningo, arrived at the Palace in the afternoon, and made inquiry alter the health of her Majesty and the Royal Infant. The Countess of Charlemont, Lady in Waiting on. her Majesty, the Earl of Hardwicke, Lord in WitiOng, Captain, Meynell, Groom in Waiting, and Colonel Ar buthnot, Equerry in Waiting, having arrived at Buck. ingham Palace, at three o'clock the following Ladies and Gentlemen were received :—The Countess of Poulett, the Countess of Hardwicke, the Countess Delawarr, the Lady Stratheden, Lady Langdale, the Lady Colville, Lady Emily Seymour, Honourable Lady Coffey, ad L y Elizabeth Osborne, Dowager Lady Brownlow, Lady Seymour, Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Lady Agnes Buller, Lady Frederic Smith, Hon. Miss Campbell, Hon. Mrs. Portman, Miss Cust, Miss Seymour, Miss Somerset, Mils Hamilton, Miss Douglas, the Duke of Rutland, the Duke cf Leeds, the Earl of Oxford, the Earl Dela warr, Hon. Berkeley Paget, Hon. Edward Phipps, Lieu tenant-Colonel Sir Frederic Smith, Colonel Webster, Me. Alfred Montgomery, Mr. Vincent, Mr. Osborne, and Mr. B. Brookes. After having had candle served, se veral of the N 0 bility above named had the honour of being conducted to the north wing of the Palace to see his Royal 114 4 7 • ness the Infant Prince. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday afternoon. Among the inquirers at Buckingham Palace yester day were Mr. C.)lquhoun, Agent for the Haim roes li the Duchess of Leeds, the Marquis and Marchionesser` . Wellesley, Earl and Countess of Jersey, F' of Wiltshire, Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Earl and Countess of Denbigh, Lady Il lif Ya Fielding, Bishop of Winchester, Viscount His Lo %A harnclitfe, Lord Fitzg 9 erald and Vesci,. Lord Cherie'Che rie' Welle,ley, Lord Walter Butler Lady E. Repton, Lt) Dunboyne, Dowager Lady de Clifford, Lady Aug the Onsiow, Lord aid Lady Mostyn, Lady Keineys, Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress, Marquis of tol, Lady Clark, Lord Adolphus Fiteclarence, Sic A l e ; * gustus and Lady Albinia Foster, Sir John and L Sir' Rae Reid, Right Honourable H. Goulbur n, John Scott Lillie, Honourable Mrs. G. Billierasj Sir John Key, Sir Frederick Hamilton, Sir G. , we • Lady Larpent, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Parker, Sir Git'n. Murray, Sir George Chetwynd, Lord CampbA ,f,; m a t and Lady Hamster, s'ir Robert H. Inglis, S:r Phillips, Mr. Sheriff Magnay, Mr. Sheriff and F i iold Rogers, Mr. Under-Sheriff Pritchard, Rev. Dr. Bowes, Rev. Dr. Vivian, Rev. Dr. Kuper. Rev. 11 . ; '1 1 :11; mas (Lord Mayor's Chaplain), Mr. Sergeant Ana Tallhnrd, Mr. Alderman Wilson, Queen's Harbingei Mrs. Wilson, Mr. C. Lee Wilson, Mr. Alderrnsol. Wood, Mr. Alderman Lainson, Col. H. Montagu, till, Walton, Major and Mrs. Weymouth, Miss Merherr Capt. J.W. Pritchard, Capt. R. D. Pritchard , C a p son, Dr. Thomson, Mr. and Lady T.Lister, Mr.Boddia,Co Mr. Normals Macdonald, Mr. Rowland Alston 311:0d Alston, Mr. Locker, Mr. B. Botfield, M.P.; Mrs. Bannerman, Mr. Balguy, Q.C.; Mr. W. Erle, and Mrs. Erie; Mr. Ormsby Gore, M.P. , a patite Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester 11'? u , s ,„ -. g ea . His Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe Afe„' n ' c 'T ss paid visits yesterday to her Royal Highness the vn izo y e al of Kent, at Clarence House, St. James's; to be! • — „ - s 'ter: Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gi cnl. : t let. House ; and afterwards to their Royal Highne ss. " at' Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, at their resid ence Kew. The Postmaster-General, and the Chairman of S : and Taxes, had interviews with the Chancellor f ; e , Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Paw° street. THE QUEEN DOWAGER. ni g Dr. Chambers arrived in town on Tuesday e"- from Sur llall, an o d imediately roceeded to Du c ingham ud Pa b lac y e, to announce the state - o p f her 312 iest/ t h, Queon Dowager. s a l t Weimar, Serene Highness the Duchess Ida of _ A . - 0 Weimar, the sister of the Queen Dowagerarrivu—tbe Marlborough House, Pall Mall, last evening fro C SO' The bulletin of her Majesty's health, issued id bury Hall last evcning, was as follows the " The Queen Dowager slept several hours (1:1;03iiplgtoos night, but her Majesty's cough and other remain the same. " DAVID DAVIES, S' l3o. " Sudbury Hall, Nov. 17, 1841." EWE _ . MONEY and COMMERCIAL DI --8 CITY, WEDNESDAY EvsSirttia In the Stock Exchange the tendency Yve s rate m dt o sp re os i i n tto t o av w ou as r s o t f tl t t h to e p bu re y s e s rs sa t t h e a s, n the seller s, $ L l t f r oth the scarcity of money. Consols fo a r ris i i m n in g e n ci ladt°:l 7l l lls b ir tl ar t• were 89 to 88,1, and for the Account 89 to 4 ~v w s st 105 4 to 12s. premium; Bank Stock was down little doing. Exchequer Bills were rathe r m ea: ' d 163ir to 164 an India Stock was supported at 247; an d and-a-Half per Cents. were at 99 to 9811 - • ne spa The Foreign Stocks wore a heavy aPPear a- 4 - „ c o et tin: the quotations were barely so good. For the f -- - no nds• there were very few transactions. Active Spanisn -. 1 , - Yom ,,, • brought 211 fur . Money, and 211 to I for Tittle. idle Three per Cents. 18. Colombian S tuguese New Five per Cents. brought 301. 511- 1 . te- Three.... 191, and Brazilian at 57 8 , being about previous 11,10,. Belgian per e e ii t s. s Stock ter o w s a t s 1 w l6 . o f. rt 2 h so l ., oo a k od t p o o l t o oh t.. l l v ' e re p l i c;o - OT ,- toctlkie was as .9 o, , at 99 to 995. 1 r itl' Shares were again inanimate, but no parten' s i s ty '' • teration occurred in prices. Great Western Pito4 Shares were 14 to 13i, the New 6i, the L° ll°zi t. , 14i , Birmingham 66 to 67, the South Western 141 -- „,i00•, i and York and North Midland 85 to 36 p r rn Brighton were 12 8 , Blackwall 16, nd S o uth 441 and Dover 23 discount. I , (From The Sun of Last Night.) rrii i i ile o LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Nov. 16- -- ' ir belli to-day are 2,000 bales to the trade, consisting . of American descriptions. 16 The Cow- LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, Nor. --•-- Cow- l eS actions at the Stock Exchange are Eag e r, st id Oi r ; Debentures, 7i ; Great Western, 78f ; . 14°/1- 11 ° 11 ; °Tell mingham, 156 ; Ditto, Quarter Share / :, - I ldinhorg - Western, Fifths, tit ; Grand Junction, 19v ; and Glasgow, 43. 16 ......_Tbe re is MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nor' --. (Kt And not much animation in the Share Market' to - , _ lo ot, ilmite a `. , of business has only been transacted to a , r i o tio . . s nevertheless there is an inquiry for sota wo e u a la e , sc u g L i ii b d ul s lY, shares—Manchester and Birmingham at improved rates, as also York and North * .qust,' Our quotations are—Lancaster and Preston Thr ee ,,g/ i ni 4 ter Shares, 17i ; Manchester and Birrninenh re , 22 Manchester and Leeds, 55 8 56 8 ; ditt o Half t gl ict lt 231 ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bans!coroon Her Majesty's packet Lapwing has arrive d hat oug bt hi . . with a mail. from the Brazils ; but th e nei. he r l‘le" he had been anticipated, some titne bac k, by i• i jesty's frigate Orestes. f u ll I P: The English Stock Market gave way mood' cent. yesterday, Consols closing at 88 4 i f or .10r0ing this ,", r ibot and 88-k 89 for the Account i and opened at the same quotations, The decline is c hieflf 9 .:4 1 , con: . to its being a strong bull account. Exchequer % s ocit tinue steady at 10 12 premium. Spanish Aen 3 ‘ o l ; do• opened at 21i i ; Portuguese Five per Cent s " P' cic Threes, 18i. • te • tie There has been but little business doing in, Bo a u' 1 , , Exchange up to the present time. Consols 0 on heavy at 884 for Money, and 84 for the Aee °ll 3 873 I ' Stock, 164 163 8 ; Three per Cent. Reduc e .0 1 P ' Three-and-a-Half ditto, 91 i 1 ; Escheque' of 10 12 prem. e n ds, I '4 • a Spanish Active Stock, 21.1 ; Belgian 1 3 ,,,, 0 -an : Brazilian, 571 ; Colombian, I9i ; Dutch •L" , Half per Cents., 511 i ; Ditto Fives, 991 9 9 • _., 7 8 11 Not much doing in Shares. Great Weste'i o s o an' Ditto, New, 568 ; Grand Junction, 191 ; L, e , 11 4 ; D ilt i c ° Brighton, 378 i ; Ditto and BirmingheM, ."' s i ; V r South Western, 531 i ; North Midland, Ne w A and North Midland, 854 86 ; Ditto, New, 2 " . joit)g - Consols, 888 89 ; Spanish, 21 There is nothing particularly novel in th e Money is scarce, and trade dull. CLOSING PRICES .241 BRITISH FUNDS. .••••".. ..-- p t Rank Stock ... 1631 India Stock.... ..... 3 per Cent Red. l4. Notbiutity to-dal. 874 Ditto Bonds ..... ..4 6 .., ..... 3 per Cent Cons BB4 Ditto Old Anhint ß tio „, efit,• 34 per Cent Red 97i Ditte , New fien el . 31d lg New 34 per Cent 9Bl Ex. Bills, 1,0 0 -Th . , • .... 10„, , New 5 per Cent — , Ditto 50 ,4 _,•,"" „ lair .! . Long Annuitiestoexpire Ditto Ste . "' ;„ 1 Jan 1860 .. 12i Bank S tock for Mc, ' ..... , Oct 1859 l2 5-16 India Stock for Aces••• . : a gi. ~. Jan. 1860. Consols for Aect ....... v FOREIGN FUNDS. • kustrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese , Belgian, 5 per cent lOO4 Ditto, New Ditto ...... ~. Brazilian 80nd5 .... s7f Prussian, 5 per cent' ''' •-•• .• . Buenos Ayres, 6 per ces R ussian , 5 per cent •' ~... Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Nletallie .......... Colombian, 6 per cent., I Spanish, 5 per cent ...... ..... Ditto, 1824. lDitto Deferred ..... . r l . oe . Danish, 3 per cent — 'Frenc h, 5 per cent. 1 .... 151 . .::"„ Greek, 1825,5 per cent — I Exchange ............ ....i . ....e Mexican, b per cent— 25 IFrench, 3 • peru ent• 5 11 Ditto, 6 per cent, 1z,25 ~D utch, 24 per cent. ..... • 04 Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per et. Illitto, 5 per cent. ...... '- SHARES 14 Great Western Railway (65 paid) ........... 56 5 per cent. Ditto New Shares (50 paici ........ ........ ~,tv. Grand Junction Railway (100 paid) ......... i' 3 ' 7l .... London and Brighton (50 paid).. ........... • , A _ t: London and Blackwall Railway (25 Pidui•" 2 / 16. '''' .-' Ditto New Shares ( Paid) .............. 157 - :'/ London and Birmingham (90) . ........ ••• " b 3 '. ~, London and South Western .................. ..... ~ North Midland Railway (100) ............... 34. Ditto New Shares (40 paid) ............ ••• 20 South Eastern and Dover (43 eaid).•• a.A • , , York and North Midlan d Railway (501 aid) „,3 1 , Ditto New Shares ( 15 p aid) .. ••• •' ,4 3 .......--.......—......-- --__----- haf a. . SPRATS.—.linmense shoals of i 0 within the last few days visited the Bristol Channe' and Severn. The captain of a vessel, which arrived glen yesterday, expressively said that he could ha ve t soch tons on his -passage up with the greatest facility. i. a circumstance is . • vcry unusual on this side of the o li land. On the eastern coast, particularly off the othst of the Thames, sprats are taken in such quan,t it r ie : t or many tons are every year landed at Gravesena -''''' nure.— Gloucestershire Chronicle. 'de' sprats - ~,, On Monday night last Mr. R. D. Abbott, ii rig surveyor of Sunderiand, found concealed in the :dhtl packages of contraband snuff, 425 packages Preston, Bradley, on her arrival from Dordt , e ',c o, and two packages of coffee, all of which he of to7rhe se ize& or e vess el was placed under seizur e, and the whole crawl/ . taken into custody.--T to Mercury. PA Cc;