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RA 'nine SO minutes after 6 I Evening ......19 minutes after 7. The Publication of the Evening Edition of THE SUN com menced at 10 minutes after Three. LONDON: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1841. DISTRESS IN LONDON, AND MORE PARTICULARLY IN SPIT. LF/ELDs, !—lt is said in Scripture that " the P oor I shall not cry unto the LORD in vain." Th ey have cried, and their prayer has been answered ! The Citizens of London, headed by their ge _ nerous—their patriotic LORD MAYOR, have resoonded to the call of distress in a manner so noble as to take the heart by surprise, till tit there d vent for its emotion in tears of j o y ! u is no glory in all this—it is only what man owes to his fellow man, when the hour of trial comes ; yet the difficulty is sometimes to find— `Alen with hearts and hands prepared, The blessings they enjoy to guard." " No !" say the free-born and independent citizens of London, " Our purpose is to sur mount every difficulty in a good cause, and what cause appeals so touchingly to the heart as that of charity? The condition of the poor to-day may be curs to-morrow—above all, it is our Christian duty to ' do unto others .as would that they should do unto us.' " The world is wide enough for us all— each man has the liberty of his own free action; but while we sail on the ocean of c i rcumstance—with all the elements cheering us on in our adventure, if a portion more unfortunate than the rest should meet with shoals, and encounter the danger of ship .is it not the bounden duty of those who wT ,arela clu fe, of :io t l ht en ir d dfii a i h e e u l i p t i i n efl hand to extricate them This really is the state of the present distress • , Amr-s . , 4; 4 ` ' • ott s.' , in Spitalfields—one ship, though a large one— (taking it metaphorically)—among a whole flee And, suppose the Admiral of that fleet should allow his ships in succession to perish for want of timely help—and, in this life, time is every thing—where would be the end of his fleet and his command? The ocean of time would an swer, " Thou hast been an unwary pilot—come and share the fate of those whom thou wouldst not or couldst not protect. Thy race is run, be. cause thou wouldst not take heed in season." Even so is it with a great number of the poor sufferers in SPITALFIELDS and other places— they basked in the sunshine of prosperity, with out making due allowance for the shadows of the coming night. Their hearts were so full of joy and gratitude—it may be thoughtlessness—that they supposed the flood-tide of prosperity would roll on for ever. People running down the hill of pleasure never dream of the difficulty of re covering their mountain ground of independence ! The flood-tide of enjoyment leaves them on the dry sands of adversity, where they remain —to pine and starve ! From such extremity, Providence has wisely ordained, that one portion of society should, in brotherly kindness, relieve the other. In the present case that is being done, and done w"th spontaneous generosity.—" By whom?"— " Ask not—but, go and do thou likewise !' But if thou wilt have value for thy charity— know that the Citizens of London bestow their benevolence without value and without price I" With them—Virtue is its own reward. Since our appeal of yesterday to the charity of the humane, we are gratified to learn that the LORD MAYOR has offered his cordial support to relieve the distressed; in which he has been most unanimously supported by the CORPORATION of London, Aldermen and Sheriff; included. With such a respectable body, the only question is, who shall do roost? In another column, we insert with pleasure .Isro letters, addressed by that ardent friend of liberty Mr. Ti ICHOLSON to the LORD MAYO 4 and to this Journal. Mr. NICHOLSON is pleased lo give us the honour of originating this good -work in the cause of charity, but we beg respect fully to disclaim it. Our maxim has been, and ever will be, " Honour to whom honour is due." We may have thought of such a possibility, and we did ; but we gave it no publicity—we were pondering over it, when Mr. THORNBORROW, the active friend of the distressed, called our reflections into being. We have no other merit but that of endeavouring to do our duty. After all, the question is not, in a cause of benevolence, who was the first to originate a good idea, but who was the readiest to contribute his mite according to his means. One may knock at the door of charity without hope, because the house is empty—but it happened to be our fortune to touch the door of human kindness when the heart was full ; and behold the result I—the ME TROPOLIS outspreads her arms to clothe the naked and to feed the hungry. This is not our merit, but her benevolence! The scheme for transporting the people on a large scale, in order to put an end to Corn-law agitation, to which we have called public atten tion, finds great favour with a large body of per sons in the City of London. To their disgrace, and to the eternal dishonour of a metropolis that was wont to take the lead in every good cause, they have never given the repeal of the bread tax the least assistance. They have, however, got up a requisition to the LORD MAYOR to call a public meeting, and have prepared resolutions, with a view to petition the QUEEN and the Par liament to promote emigration. We never doubted that numerous classes, such as are de scribed in the letter of our Leicester Correspon dent, would be most desirous to promote the scheme. By every kind of loan or Government expenditure, these gentlemen find their advan tage; and to borrow money partly from them to carry out labourers to fertilize the untilled lands they have acquired, or expect to acquire, in the colonies, is a scheme abounding in attractions. Looking on emigration, when voluntary, as essential to the national prosperity, we shall regret to see it jobbed by landlords and money lords, to stifle the piercing demands of the bread-taxed people. Since the world began, the history of mankind has been, on a large scale, a history of migra tions. The go-ahead system which has been latterly spoken of as peculiarly characteristic of the Anglo-Americans, in contrast to the some what stationary population of Europe, is as old as the dispersion at Babel. In obedience to the command, Increase, multiply, and replenish the earth, the generations of men spread themselves gradually over its surface, one empire being destroyed and another founded as the successive - ;vaves of population rolled over and impelled one another, and, as they came from different directions, crossed and were jumbled together in ' one destructive confusion. We consider migra tion, therefore, to be natural to man, and as ne cessary to the welfare of his race, and the ful filment of the great purposes for which he has been created, as the continued propagation of the species. We make no objections to emigration ; we rejoice to see the time-honoured name and noble language of Britons spreading over the whole world ; but we protest against the Govern ment undertaking to promote it as a remedy for the existing distress. We shall protest at all times against Government meddling with the matter; but to meddle with it in order to get rid of the difficulties which at present result from improper legislation, deserves the most earnest opposition. The Government is already overwhelmed with business, and all that it undertakes, from consti tuting a National Church to issuing an Exche quer bill, is done so as to disappoint the public hopes. It seems for ever trying a 'prentice hand on same new scheme which never succeeds. It is the most vague, gigantic, unfeeling projector that ever existed, carrying its crude schemes into exe cution—whether they relate, like the present in trigues of Louis P H ILIPPE, to an ambitious ex tension of external influence and power, or, like the existi ng C orn -law, to some suppose d aggran disement of a lives and Prop c e l r a t s y s , a t t h h e om h e e — alt a h t th an e d exp la e p u p s i e n o e f s ' s tle or the people. W e are, on principle, decidedly op posed — contrary, we know, to the Frenchified disposition which the operation s o f G overnment. With now unhappily prevails— to extendingation it ha s hi t h erto had little to do, emigration mg r and it ought to be repelled if it endeavour to ' make that subservient to it s purpos es . Our great master, and we know none o f h i s disciples who have yet equalled him in sagacity, taught us this important precept : Tit , STATESMAN," said Dr. ADAM SMITH, " WHO SHOULD ATTEMPT TO DIRECT PRIVATE PEOPLE IN WHAT MANNER THEY OUGHT TO EMPLOY THEIR CAPITALS, would not only load with himself a most usnecessary attention, but ASSUM E AN AUTHORITY WHICH COULD SAFELY BE TRUSTE D NOT ONLY TO NO SINGLE PERSON, BUT TO NO COUNCIL OR SENATE WHATEVER, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it." What, how ever, is a scheme of emigration in the hands of a Government but an assumption of authority to direct private people in what manner to employ their capitals? The Government has no ca pital, and in the proposed case would do this: It would assume the direction of a capital tanta mount to the sum it borrowed, and would undertake to direct all who must use and all who must be sustained by that capital, to employ their industry and to use that capital in cultivating the land of some distant settlement. , If the Government were not to assume that au thority, and were not to undertake this direc tion, it is clear that the capital and labourers would not go where the Government would di rect them. So to direct them, therefore, con eravenes the soundest, the best established, and most thorough-going principle of the science first reduced into order by SMlTH—the principle that every man is the best judge of his own in terest, and the most advantageous mode of em ploying his own capital and industry. The con travention is, however, only a continuation of the system of attempting to direct men to em plyy their labour and capital in agriculture in stead of manufactures, which the Tories approve of, but which the Liberals condemn. To carry out their system to all its conclusions is con sistent in them ; but for the Liberals to object to the Corn-laws, and to support the Govern ment in directing emigration, is as silly as the recruit who mutilf.tes himself to escape military service, and is made to pass his life in the galleys. On these general principles we oppose the • plan of Government takingup the scheme of pro moting- emigration. We should oppose that at all times; but for the Government to adopt it as a panacea for thi, existing distress, is an at tempt to bolster r.p one gross interference with capital and industry by another. The object of it is to prolong an act of oppression and injustice. If :Ministers :adopt the plan, it is to give a respite to the Corn.-laws—to maintain and extend the dominion of the aristocracy and the priesthood. It is dou'otful, at the same time, whether it will relieve - the national distress. The number of persons who emigrated in 1840 was no less than 83,746; and, according to the accounts from the manufacturing districts, which state that our best workmen are fast emigrating—looking, too, at the wast number of uninhabited houses in the kingdom, 162,756, or one-seventeenth of the whole—we cannot assent to the assertion that emigre tiou requires to be fostered by a bounty, or proinot,?..d by the interference of Government. We fbnd from Parliamentary Returns that the number- of emigrants who went to North Americ a. alone, in the eleven years ending with 1839, IN 545,216, of whom 273,723 went to the ti ni ted ;States, and 271,493 to the British colonies ; which r; ives an annual average emigration to America , during the eleven years ending with 1833, of 49,564. Last year the number was 65,520. We have not under our hand any ac count of the emigration to all our colonies for the Fame period, but we should set it down at a low fig are if we were to state it at 10,000 per year. Our readers are aware that, within a few years, several new colonies have been founded, and bounties have been given, from the sale of lands al td other sources, to induce considerable numbers to emigrate. We may state, therefore, in round numbers, that 700,000 persons have emigrate d during the last twelve years. Of late the avez2age number of emigrants has in creased. Instead of any relief being the result, the difficulties of the country have increased year after year. Notwithstanding the formation of so many new markets, which, according to the Chronicle, should be so instantly ad van tag was, the distress and poverty at home :have in no wise diminished. It may be doubted, therefore, whether the fur ther transportation of labourers, and the further exportation of capital, will tend in any degree to lessen the distress ; and unless that were quite certain, there is not the shadow of a reason for tbt Government undertaking to promote emi g, ratio' a. if the cause of the distress were inability on the part of the people to feed themselves, emigration might be a suitable remedy; but they are capable at this moment of buying more food, by the exertion of their vast mechanical power, than they could consume, did not the unrighteous and impious Corn-laws prevent them. There is no surplus population in England, there is yet plenty of land untilled, plenty of mines un wrought, and plenty of persons in other coun tries rmtdy and willing to purchase our pro duce. The cause .of the national distress is a whole series of unjust laws, of which the Corn-law is one of the worst. There is no want. either of a disposition in our people to emigrate, or places to move to. The wide world opens its arms to English artisans, and some are now to be found almost every exist ing empire. They sluruld rather be wooed to stay at home, by amending our legislation, than be tempted or (J.:lven in greater numbers abroad. An Act to 'raise a loan to promote emigration, howe vQr 'temporary might be its provisions, would only 'add to the mass of unjust legislation which D.ready encumbers the statute-book, and would increase the evils under which the people groan. The promised letter from a Correspondent at Edinburgh, respecting the persecutions carried on against the middle arid lower classes in that city, is withheld, in order not to expose the writer to the tender mercies of the Inquisition. It may be convenient, however, to notice the proceedings of the Town Council regarding the imprisonment of the shop-keeper, for selling sweatmeats on Sunday, in whose behalf Lord KINICAIRD generously subscribed three guineas. Evidently aware of the public odium incurred by such relentless severity, the Corporation ap pointed a Committee to investigate the matter, who conclude their Report in these words There is a suggestion they would respectfully make to the Magistrates in regard to future cases of a similar kind. The present prosecution was, it seems, gone into at the earnest solication of St. John's Kirk Session. The Sub-Committee suggest, that when a similar application shall be made in future, it shall be in the perfect option of the Magistrates to accede to it or not, just as they may see fit; and either to refuse their authority altogether, or to grant it under such conditions as they may think proper. It thus appears that the Kirk was the insti gator of these persecutions; and, like the Ca tholic Church in the dark ages, made the arm of the civil power subservient to its malignant spirit. The Committee, sensible of the dan gerous practice of allowing ecclesiastics to point out how the law shall be adminished; rebuke the LORD PROVOST and his Non-Intrusionist colleagues; and, in language not to be misunder derstood, tell them to beware of listening a third time (another victim is still in prison) to " the earnest solicitation" of Mr. GUTHRIE'S Kirk Ses sion. But these cases are only two out of ten thou sand. The inhabitants of Edinburgh are tor mented in every possible way by men who pro fess to be the followers of the Great Founder of Christianity, but who in practice are rebels against his divine laws and example. He loved little children—he rebuked, not his dis ciples who plucked the ears of corn, but the wle:ed Pharisees, who made the observance o Sabbath a cloak for every crime—he was forgiving and merciful, lenient to the frailties of i2uman nature, and abhorrred the hypocrites who would inflict imprisonment or death for the slightest breach of vain rites and ceremo nies. " His yoke was easy, and his burden was light." Is that the character of the religion which these modern Pharisees are vainly at tempting to establish in a land of liberty? The following statements, for which we have the best authority, will testify man of the name of Bullock has been imprisoned since the 31st of October, for selling one halfpenny-worth of lolli pop to a child during divine service—all the principal reading-rooms in Edinburgh have Il'en closed during the entire Sunday— a stop also has been put to the sale of milk, biscuits, and sweetmeats, to chil dren in the King's Park, a place frequented by the humbler classes on the afternoon of Sunday. For the last four weeks the police have entered a h t o id tet, ryien o d in ra to er ev t e o se ryr e haoowmotf is a goingllth the second-rate the bed-chambers of the proprietor's Wife and of allowed te l l t vi e en r dq a ut r io e s a n t in o oy t n s.reecsNtildroeettai at drop a ad i tr n oa s pn t o t h h fo e st s pe e li l ts y sh r oo m ur hn n ee s is find it convenient to dine during church service. The Church in that devoted place is everything —the very press of Edinburgh appears to be muzzled, and Lord Provost FORREST and Mr. GUTHRIE, and the other ministers of the Gos pel, seem bent only on making people take seats .in churches, in order that the ministers' stipend may be abundant. A day of reckoning, however, will come ; the over bent bow will re lax ; scoffers and infidels will spring up in thou sandy:, as in the days of CHARLES II.; and even the divine religion of the :;Ti!starnerA will be brought into cont6MPtty ; outrageous conduct of these madmen. Are. At to blame for calling them madmeni . yhen'tvittild one of the principal speakers ,at she,. of the . • Town Council addressing,.loS,.,,colleagUgs (and listened to patiently) in °, thc . ,:fiillOi)tig „absurd language? No Mornioniie eituJd indite greater nonsense : Dr. Macaulay said, some people might think it ti Small matter to buy and sell such things as had been bo - ught and sold in this case on the Sabbath-day, but Scripture nnd experience warranted them 1D 71 ew i ng very differently even so small a matter P:, the purchase practices whet the childre of a few sweeties. If not taught t ietter, did not suc h ;appetite for spirits ? and ‘iluarrelling, and lead to trial and h ' a ' t was the use of inviting the chit ilmidpr net spirits t ? excite :7 te t drew to t;abbath school, if immediately Opposite the scho.: ll .l . nere was a shop with sufficient temptation in it tZ:break at least one of the commandments, which, in the school, they were taught to respect ? He demurred entirely to the sympathy expressed for a man who would thus tamper with one of the divine commandments. Much had been said about the misery which had fol lowed the prosecution. Undoubtedly sin must breed sorrow ; but that should be considered before thesiwwas committed. Had such men as Dr. MACAULAY and Lord Provost FORREST, and the Rev. T. GUTHRIE, lived in Judea during the reign of TIBERI us, and been the chief men of the Synagogues, our SAVIOUR would have been crucified before his divine mission was completed, and the people of Christendom would have been still heathens, or Pagans, or circumcised adopted Jews. We direct attention to the energetic resolu tions adopted, with unabated hope, by the Anti- Bread-tax League at Manchester, on Wednesday, and inserted in another p.u•t of The Sun. We arc rejoiced to see that the League continues steady to its resolve to promote measures, with all its power, for the total and immediate repeal of the Bread-tax. Nothing less will satisfy the justice of the case, and nothing less will they get so easily as that which justice commands. The Report of the Peers' Committee on the subject of QUENISSET'S conspiracy, occupies the leading columns of the French journals received this morning. Those on the Liberal side ridi cule, as they well may, the solemn pomp of the Chamber of Peers assembled to try a handful of madmen, whom the Journal des Debats and the other, organs of the Court had previously represented as formidably menacing the existence of social order in France. Had a conspiracy existed of the kind intimated by the Debats, it is not in the columns of that paper that we should first hear of it. The National contrasts the conduct of the Belgian Government in the affair of the conspiracy at Brussels with that of the French Ministry in the case of QUENISSET and his accomplices, from which it draws conclu sions most unfavourable to the SOULT-GUIZOT Cabinet. "In Belgium" says that Journal, " where the conspiracy had ramifications ex tending even to the army, the Government thought it wise and prudent to give as little importance as possible to the affair, and even to turn it into ridicule. Here the direct reverse of such prudent conduct is shown." The National forgets that it is because the conspiracy of QUENISSET is so very ridiculous that the Government exaggerates it so much. The Government is afraid of setting all France laughing at the solemn humbugging of the Court of Peers. This Journal says : " Here a handful of madmen receive as theories the dreams of some enfans perdus of the materialist philo sophy of the eighteenth century, and whose means of action consist of only two pistols and a bad receipt for making gunpowder. Why is so much importance attached to these poor creatures, that in order to try them one of the great political bodies of the State is called together? Why, even in acknowledging, as M. Bastard has done in his Report, that they are a handful of men too feeble and too disunited to merit the name of a sect, is a quarto volume printed to show that this handful of men places the State in peril ? The reason' of this difference between the Belgian and French Governments is, that in Belgium the Orangeist conspiracy is a real and serious affair, and it is felt that it is good policy to diminish the importance of it in the public eye ; whereas, in this country, the men who govern us think they incur no danger in giving such gi gantic propositions to a plot, which had its birth in a tap•house, from which it never emerged into the world. If there had really been any danger for the Govern ment, for property, and for established order, in the petty communist and other associations, on which M. Bastard has bestowed his lucubrations, so much would not be said of them, and certainly so much pains would not be taken to exaggerate their import ance. If they are held up as a phantom to terrify the public mind ; if by bringing the Communists before the Court of Peers, a sort of pedestal is made for them, it is because it is well known that their folly is not conta gious, and that there is no danger in assigning to them an importance which they do not possess." The article of the National concludes as follows : "We should never finish if we wer e to e xam i ne in all long and and indigestibl e re p or t o f M. all thi s gran d sca ff o ldi ng Bastard, i tsd t a a n il d s, e t t o he sh l o o , n v of conspiracy has been built upon the pretended disclosures of a wretch, who, upon his own con fession, became an assassin from fear, as ho , doubtlessly from fear has now became a denunciator. We think the Court of Peers will be weary and ashamed of the part which it is called upon to perform, and that it will disperse with a breath these phantoms of imaginary plots got up by an odious Ministry, in order to maintain itself in spite of France and against France." The Coinmerce takes nearly the same view as the .Na //end. We have room only for the following extract : " The extreme indifference with which the report of M. de Bastard has been received shows that the public mind is no longer to be worked upon by the phantasmagoria with which it has been continually terrified for the last ten years. There must be other and very different men from Quenisset and Boucheron to make us believe that society is in danger of or near convulsion. There are in France, as in all countries, turbulent and bad passions, which require to be watched, but when they are manifested in so absurd and impotent a manner, the danger is certainly not great." It was reported in Paris on Thursday that Prince METTERNICH had entirely approved of Louis PHILIPPE'S plan of an European Con gress to settle the affairs of Spain. There is some difficulty about Prussia, as that Power refuses to enter into the question at all, unless Don CAR LOS be first set at liberty. The Clermont papers state that the number of per sons in detention fur participating in the late disturb ances there is 60, and that from 30 to 40 of them will be brought to trial. An extra Session of the Court of As sizes is to be held for this purpose. A female, aged 23, an inhabitant of one of the com munes of the Basses-Pyrenees„ was lately brought to bed of three children, who are all living, and suckled by the mother. A letter," says the Sentinelle of Bayonne, " has been found written by Monies de Oca to General O'Donnell, in which he says:—` This infamous town (Vittoria) has sold us. Its municipality has written to Zurbano that it will not resist, but will deliver me up. We must, there fore, abandon Vittoria, and take our departure this very night. We shall go to Bergara. where I hope your Ex cellency will join us ; for to-morrow the town will be occupied by 6 battalions and 300 horse, commanded by Aleson." A letter from Tabriz, in Persia, dated the 3d of Sep tember, in the Leipsic Gazette, says:—" The English Ambassador, Sir John M'Neil, has arrived here, and been received by the Shah in the most flattering manner. It is hoped that English influence will regain ground— that of France is entirely gone, and Rue ian influence is on the decline. General Damas is the only Frenchman who has arrived in Persia who has found means to get into favour with the Shah. Some Lazarist Missionaries having lately resorted to violent means for the convenion of the infidels, it is believed that the Persian Govern ment will order the Lazarists and Jesuits out of the country. and the French Ambassador will find it diffi cult to prevent the order from being carried into exe cution." There was a rumour on Change (says the Courrier Francais) of the approaching dissolution of the Ministry. Some persons announced that M. G uizot and M. Hu mann would retire ; others contented themselves with saying that the Ministry was in such a state of dis organisation, that it could not survive the week. The Minister for Foraign Affairs is himself sensible of the necessity of a ministerial modification ; some say he has made overtures to Messrs. Dufaure and Pussy. The lesson has not been thrown away, only there are persons who, instead of striving to support M. Guizot, think they can exclude and supplant him.- Constitutionnet The mails from Havre, Bordeaux, Marseilles, and London, had not arrived this morning when we went to press. We never before had such a delay at this season as we have had within these few days. While corps of observation are forming in the North and the South, the disarming of the coasts is commenced as a preliminary to disarming the fleet. 'We have already published some notices on the subject. To-day we find in the National de T Orient the following letter from Belle Isle en Mer of the 10th of November (the date is recent) : " The disarming h qs co mmenced to-day ; the De la Montagne has been disarmed. The soldiers of the gar rison are employed in removing the bombs and balls to the citadel. The soldiers who occupy the forts round the coasts are to return immediately to the Ville de Palais, as the coast is not to be any longer guarded," We ask again wh a t is the meaning of all ethi tradictory proceedings? All the journals of the northern departments are still full of details of the movements of troops for the formation of the corps of observation. We should not be surprised to learn soon, from the same journals, that all these troops are moving in a con trary direction, and are returning to the places from which they came, for we are told that counter orders have been sent from Paris. It was said long ago Order and counter-order--disorder. This is surely the motto of our War Department. Who gains by all this? The army contractors of 5.2.1 kinds. But the Budget is swelled and useful pttYlic works are delayed.—Commerce. BOURSE—PAms, WEDNESDAY, Nov. 17. lest Hig hest Lowest Last Price Price. Prics , Prier. French 5 ..... . 116 10 ... 116 20 ... 116 10 ... 116 15 per Cents lOl 75 101 75 101 75 101 75 3 per Cents Bl 5 80 15 ... 80 5 ... 80 15 Kink or trance Laffitte Bans 1.0001. Slams 1040 ...le4o ...I(40 ...1040 rreivan - flank,lBll 767 50 ... 775 ... 767 50 ... 7 5 Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 ;.er Cent!., 1840 ... 102 g ... 102% 182 , 4 insnush Active ...... 22% t 2% .2.4% 22% Neapoittsn Roman, tx. div 10 2 ,4 ... 102% ... 102% ... 102% RAILWAY SHARP'S. Versailles. L.B 2ds ... 205 ... 20S ... 205 R. B 316 25 ... 316 15 ... 316 25 311 25 !tenon 455 ... 455 455 ... 455 (Means „ Strasburetoßalr.shares red 230 .. 231 25 ... 230 231 25 From Madrid we have news of the 11th inst. We regret to have to announce two other exe cutions, one on that day in the capital, in the person of the unfortunate Colonel FuLoosio, and the other of a priest at Bilbao, by order of the remorseless Brigadier-General MARTIN ZURBANO. The ecclesiastic, whose name was ZAVALA, was a guerilla chief, and therefore bad in some sort divested himself of the priestly cha racter, as well as functions. General SOANE had been appointed to succeed VAN HALEN as Captain-General of Catalonia; and on the 9th the REGENT published a decree, energetically con demning the proceedings at Barcelona, and threatening to punish their authors. The instant this missive reached its destination, the Junta took fright, and the members at once fled to France. It was rumoured in Paris that the Go vernment had received despatches stating that ESPARTERO had entered Barcelona, and that the city was perfectly tranquil. We regret to state that the police have com menced anew their crusade against publicans for allowing customers to remain in their houses after twelve o'clock on Saturday night. Three were fined yesterday at Marlborough-street police-office, though in no case was it proved, or attempted to be proved, that refreshment bad been served after that hour. Several Magis trates have decided that the Act, if it applies at all, can apply only to the furnishing of liquors, but Mr. Hardwick, who appears to be a disciple of the Agnewite school, ruled otherwise, and punished the defendants with all the relentless severity of this unfeeling sect. When will the publicans unite for their own protection against the spies that infest their houses? Tlie Gazette of last night contains a Treaty of Navigation between her Britannic Majesty and the King of Sardinia, signed at Turin, Septem ber 6, 1841, which has already appeared in The Sun. We call the attention of our musical readers in the north to a letter from an Edinburgh Cor respondent, respecting the appointment of a Professor of Music in the University of Edin burgh. It would, indeed, be difficult to find any individual in this country who could furnish such testimonials as those which Mr. Muller can pro duce, from almost every Harmonic Society in Europe. DISTRESS IN SPITALFIELDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—Accept my hearty thanks for your ex cellent article in The Sun of this morning in behalf of the poor and really distressed people of Spitalfields. It is, indeed, a glorious Sun to the poor and suffering people in this district. I have enclosed to you a copy of a note I sent to the Lord Mayor on the 18th instant. You, Sir, deserve, and may justly claim the first prize in this great and good work, for ori• ginating this public undertaking. You have thus justified my feelings in favour of the press, expressed in my note to the Lord Mayor, nameiy—" That the public press, to its great honour, is always unanimous in pleading the cause of the poor and distressed." Now, Sir, the amount of the distress in this kingdom is most dreadful. The people of Scot land were the first to appeal to the benevolent ' people in London. The press placed that appeal before us. The answer was prompt, and the first fruit came from Sir Robert Peel, followed by some others of her Majesty's Ministers. Now, Sir, may we not fairly calculate upon Sir Robert's sanction and liberal support in favour of our own distressed fellow-subjects, and all her Majesty's servants ? May we not also calculate on the benevolence of all our Bishops and Clergy, our Princes, Dukes, _Lords, and Conanons, and all in authority over us? May we not fully depend on all our rich bankers, the great and wealthy merchants, and the thousands of private individuals who are blessed with the riches of this world? It is, Sir, to the higher orders we must look to raise such a subscription as will be equal to meet, or in any degree mitigate, the awful distress. which now exists in this once happy old England. his not in the power of the middle classes to contribute. The distress now existing amongst tradesmen and shopkeepers is so great, that it is notorious there are many thousands in the City of London and its neighbourhood, who are unable to pay their Assessed Taxes, so that there is only one step down to place them on the list of charity. Your obedient servant, JOHN NICHOLSON. TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR. MY LORD—The numerous meeting at Guildhall last night, held on behalf of the expatriated Poles, is a noble proof of the benevolent feelings of all classes of her Majesty's subjects, and that it is only necessary to adopt and organise a plan, in order to bring out the vast stock of benevolence which exists and lies dormant in this great me tropolis, for want of some tangible means of dis tribution amongst the famishing poor. The dis tress in Scotland has been placed before us by the public press, which, to its great honour, is always unanimous in pleading the cause of the poor. I fake the liberty of suggesting to your Lord ship, whether something cannot be done in fa vour of our poor starving neighbours in Spital fields. The distress, suffering, and unparalleled misery now existing in Spitalfields, and .which must be daily on the increase from the severity of the weather, can only be known to those benevolent persons who visit these poor fittnilies, with their numerous children in a state of nakedness, and existing on a scanty supply of potatoes. - lam quite sure that a great good might be done if some plan is adopted, under your Lord ship's patronage, to draw out the benevolent feel ing which exists in favour of our distressed neighbours, so as to afford them immediate re lief; perhaps something might be done at Guild hall, as the fittings up yet remain, and would save a great expense in adopting a similar plan, for the same benevolent object. I have named this to several persons, who all express a strong feeling . on behalf of the poor in Spitalfields—all that is wanted is to bring it before the public under your Lordship's pa tronage. I beg to enclose you 151. 16s. as a beginning, and I hope, and have no doubt, that I can obtain a considerable sum if sonic plan is fixed on to carry out this good work.—l am, your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, JOHN NICHOLSON. 15, Fenchurch-street, Nov. 18. FATAL ACCIDENT.—This morning, between seven and eight o'clock, Robert Atkinson, a bricklayer, aged forty years, expired at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, from the dreadful injuries he sustained by falling from off a scaffold two storeys high. The unfortunate man has left a widow and four children to deplore his loss ; they are totally unprovided for. SUDDEN DEATH.--Last evening an inquest was held at the Red Lion public-house in Upper king. stree:, Bloomsbury -square, before Thomas Wakley, Esq., M.P., the Coroner, on view of the body of Mr. John Bazeley Took, aged 62 years, a gentleman of very large fortune, whose death occurred under the following circumstances:—The deceased was residing with his wife and a niece, at No. 14, Southampton-row, Russell square, and on Friday, the 12th instant, after hav ing eaten a hearty dinner, he laid himself on the sofa, and in a few minutes afterwards was discovered a corpse, having expired without a groan or struggle. His death is attributed to an affection of the heart, Verdict, " Natural death." It is generally remarked in Westminster Hall, that notwithstanding the long vacation which has elapsed since the last sitting of the Courts, the present is the dullest and most uninteresting term ever remembered by the oldest legal practitioner. SUMMARY OF taws AND Vut) c 04.itutoit. " Who runs nuzy read." The Queen Dowager of Bavaria, Frederica Wilhel mina Carolina, died at Munich, of a complaint in the chest, on the 13th instant. Her Majesty, who was daughter of Prince Charles Louis of Baden, and niece of the present Grand Duke, was born on the 13th July, 1776, and consequently was in her 66th year, leaving five children—Elizabeth Louisa, Queen of Prussia ; Amelia Augusta, married to Prince John, brother of the King of Saxony; Frederica Sophia Dorothea, married to the Archduke Francis of Austria; Maria Anna Leo poldina, Queen of Saxony; and Louis Wilhelmina, con sort of Duke Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria. The following is said, by the Debuts, to be the in tended composition of the brigades of infantry and cavalry, for the corps d'armee now forming on the Belgian frontier: —" General Bourckhoultz is to com mand the first brigade of infantry, which is to com prise a battalion of the 23d light, two battalions of the 40th, and two of the 46th of the line. General Galinier is to command the second brigade of in fantry, composed of one battalion of the 14th light, two of the 28th, and two of the 71st of the line. The head-quarters of these two brigades is to be at Lille. General Bro is to command a brigade composed of three battalions of the 42d of the line, four squadrons of the 10th Chasseurs, and four squadrons of the Bth Cuirassiers. His head-quarters are to ba at Valenciennes. General Letang is to command the first brigade of cavalry, comprising four squadrons of the 2d Lancers, and four of the 2d Dragoons. The second brigade of cavalry is to be under General Lanthonnet, and will comprise four squadrons of the Ist Carbineers, and four of the 4th Cuirassiers. The head-quarters of these two last brigades is to be at Lille." In 1837, a family of vine-dressers from the valley of Rheingau, in the Duchy of Nassau, composed of nine teen persons, emigrated to Sydney with the object of introducing there the principal sorts of Rhenish wines. According to the latest accounts received, the enterprise has succeeded beyond expectation, and these German colonists have already made more than 3,500 gallons (15,800 bottles) of wine. The quality, according to samples which have been sent home, although not quite equal to the Rhenish wine, is excellent, and the differ ence is not easily distinguished. The Captain of a vessel, arrived at Bordeaux from Monte Video, which he left on September 1, reports that as he was getting under weigh the cannon announced the death of General Fructnoso Riveira, President of the Republic Uruguay. The war with Buenos Ayres was still going on. A letter from Singapore, 4th September, mentions the arrival of the French frigate Erigone, Captain Cecile, from Rio de Janeiro, having on board Colonel Dubois de Gencigny. She found orders to proceed to Manilla and Macao, where the Colonel is to obtain and trans mit to the Government an account of the state of affairs in China, and make advances towards a commercial treaty with the Celestial Empire. His mission is said to be limited to two years. The Presse makes two great blunders in its news. First, it denies that Sir Stratford Canning is going to Constantinople, and gives his destination as Vienna ; and, secondly, it asserts that a Treaty of Commerce had been signed between Spain and England. The Presse is wrong in both statements. Colonel Don Damaso Fulgosio's execution took place at Madrid on the 11th, at half-past one o'clock. He proceeded in full uniform, in an open carriage, accom panied by his friends and a clergyman, but seemed very much dejected, though attempting to bear up manfully ; the parting scene with his brother had quite overpowered him. The Havre Journal tells a story of a Cherbourg sloop, the Amiable Desiree, having been seized by the English Custom-house officers when discharging brandy near the coast. The officers got on board, sent some of the smugglers'ashore, and were securing the sloop and cargo when a storm arose and blew the sloop from its anchors out to sea. It at last blew the sloop ashore on the French coast, near St. Waast. The French count on an exchange of prisoners in this case. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Post, returning to its favourite theme, abuse of the Opposition Press, remarks:—" We do not et .4) to notice the string of ridiculously overstrained ex pressions by which the Whig-Radical journalist seeks to persuade its readers that the present distress is more severe, more extensive, and more permanent than ever existed before. We have been sickened by the same phrases at intervals for the last forty years, that is tosay, during a period in which the manufacturingiand commer cial prosperity of Great Britain made advances in pros perity wholly without example in the: history of nations." —We can readily imagine that the Post is " sickened" with the frequent references to the distressed state of the country, which the Liberal Journals, in the discharge of their duty, are compelled to make. Our Contem porary's fine sense of gentility must revolt at the details of squalid destitution—must shrink with loathing from the idea of a Paisley weaver, with scarce a ran. on his back, or an ounce of bread in his possession! But truth is truth, and must, and shall be told, however it may shock the susceptible Post. So far from diminishing, the distress of the operatives in the manufacturing dis tricts is daily increasing; and, as if this were not enough, Ministers treat the matter with the most supercilious indifference, and hope to console the destitute working classes by coolly telling them to wait the advent of better times ! Alluding to its pet-hobby, the New Poor-law, the Times makes the following observations :—" When in the late Session of Parliament the propriety of abolish. ing the Poor-law Commission was under discussion, various boards of guardians remonstrated against that step, expressly on the ground that they did not wish their own responsibilities to be increased. It is of all things most contrary to the true policy of laws for the relief of the poor tolextinguish, or deaden, in this manner, the sense of moral responsibility in the parties to whom the actual ad ministration of relief is confided. Under a system which aims, like the present, at a reduction of the cost of re lief, such a distribution of power must inevitably lead to gross oppression. The Commissioners issue harsh orders without remorse, because they do not come in contact with the sufferings which they occasion ; the boards of guardians and their satellites execute them with equal apathy, because they are not responsible for them. Thus a harsh administrative character is formed for which, oven in its excesses, the system itself is mainly accountable." The Chronicle, speculating on the nature of Sir Ro bert Peel's remedial measures, says :—" What the plans of Sir Robert Peel may be, when Parliament meets, may not yet be known even to the Right Hon. Baronet himself. To judge from his Revenue Commission, be in tends to promote a reform of that part of our Custom house legislation which relates to its collection, and very probably, also, he intends to improve its cumbersome and antique regulations. That will be a good and wholesome work—a necessary accompaniment of a modification of the Corn-laws. To judge, also, from common report, Sir Robert Peel intends to bring for .vard a general and comprehensive scheme of national emigration. That, also, will be a good and wholesome deed—a very appropriate and very fitting accompaniment of a modi fication of the Corn-laws. And were he to go a step further, and devise some plan by which the Bank of England would be effectually checked in playing tricks with the currency, that also would be an excellent con trivance, and prove to be a necessary and salutary com .._ panion to a modification of the Corn-laws."—ZThese, though well enough in their way, are at best but secondary measures ; first and foremost should be a repeal of the Corn-laws, which is the grievance that now most severely presses on the commercial energies of the people. Let Sir Robert Peel, then, begin with the beginning in his Reforms, and first consider the question of this grind ing impost ; his other measures can afford to wait until this paramount one is disposed of. We quote .the following from the Herald :—" The state of public feeling on the subject of slavery in the southern States of the great American republic, is, if indeed that be possible, even more degraded than that in the Brazilian empire. The Brazilians would—at least in profession—tolerate free blacks ; the southern Ame ricans will not. Black finedom south of Maryland is a privilege practically unknown. We ask the public to peruse an extract to be found in another column, from a New Orleans Journal, and then decide what must be the condition of public morality in Louisiana, which can tolerate, much more sympathise, in the publication of such brutal sentiments. The writer demands legislation that every free negro in the state be driven from our borders as a pest, as al plague ;' that the law of South Carolina, imprisoning every free black landing in the State, be extended to his State; that it be rendered unlawfulito employ free blacks as menials on board ships or steamers navigating Louis ianian waters; that emancipation be prohibited in the State, unless the manumitted person be at once sent thereout; and that no black be permitted to hold pro perty. Drive them from us,' he adds ; speaking of free blacks, it is our only means of salvation !' The mon ster—for to use ordinary language in speaking of such a writer would be affectation, hypocrisy, and injustice — gloats over the prospect that when the State Legisla ture next meets, our whole free negro policy will be changed.'" The • Plymouth Journal, - speaking of Lord John Rus sell's late reception in that town says :—" The living impersonation of hi s p ar ty is Lord John Russell. He was a man born to high personal honour—of a noble fa mily—with the blood of some of the best patriots that have adorned this country in his veins, cool, wary, wise, one to be trusted by his friends—to be dreaded by his enemies. A man that success could not unduly elate, or disappointment baffle. Early in life he took his stand on the side of the people—on that side which his family had befriended with their name and influence, from the clays of the Stuarts downwards. He took his stand, and he maintained it." On the subject of the Maynooth grant, the Dublin Evening Post makes the following remarks :—" That Sir Robert Peel regards th e question as one of a very embarrassing nature we arts well convinced ; and we feel persuaded that he will endeavour to get rid of it by one of those pieces of dexterity which he has been in the habit of resorting to upon all occasions of difficulty. The present miserable annual grant he will not refuse ; on the contrary, we think, he will profess the greatest anxiety to meet the views of the Prelates, as expressed in their memorial. • But he will talk very plau sibly of the necessity of removing the prejudices excited against the system of education in the College of May nooth, by an official inquiry, and, if it should appear ne cessary, by a revision. In fine, Sir Robert Peel will pro mise a great deal, contingent upon a change, to •be effeewd by a Commission of Inquiry—a Commission composed of Tories and Orangemen, to regulate the education of the clergy of the Catholics of Ireland.' The Durham Chronicle thus alludes to the present dig.- tresses of the country :—" In the late Session of Polio' ment, Sir Robert Peel ' dished up' his case against the alleged distress of the country by an artful aide;; ingenuous reference to the amount of Sav Banks Deposits. The state of the merchants' accounts with the Bank of England is a m uch better crite rion of the present condition of the whole plibl i ic industzy of, the country ; and has n either reeel'Z: nor is capable of receiving, a satisfac tor y answer. 1"(: ts public priat,%, up to the present hour, teem with statenrn of the dreadfulsufferings and the all but absolute sas-va don, of the man:tfactur ing population, enough to wring the The Leicester Mercury says :—" There are indication,si , that Sir Robert Peel will endeavour to p ut a stop to !l substantial Reform, by buying ov,lr, us fa r as possible, he leading men of various par-ties." MONEY—T RADE hoIders —CO of MM. i„he B ritish Iron BCE. At a Company, held yesterday at the LonLondon'London'meeting of the Share qie halflea Report, read by Sir G. Larpent, Bart., for . iror ending; June 30, stated that the tota qua .tat of raised 25,578 tons, steel 40 tons, and t:u't o f c l o s a a s stone, &c. 9,682 tons, on which the total Co fit ' c 7,1471., leaving, after various payments, a ba lance tve... profit of only 2711. 14s. Besides this, the payments i * r, I n , • rest, law charges, &c., absorbed the sum of 14,4171- Id.'"'" Tavern, thr The Spring-knife Cutlers held a meeting on T.le 5 a ), ' . last, in Sheffield, when upwards of 1,000 cutlers Ifi e '_, present. Resolutions were passed to the intent tha t " c " , immediate organization of the body should take pl. o lc us so as to form an union, thereby to put down the ruin competition, and sustain prices. COMMERCIAL Ercnow. The inhabitants of the Libert it y of the Rolls h e ld 0:‘ adjourned meeting yesterday evening, in Chaneerrsoeilw' T" for the purpose of forming an Anti• Co rn-law. tion for the district, and a Committee wa s accordiDO constituted. LSIASICAL. Mr. Harris, ECC of Alfo E rd, L T incolnshire, a talented '' .l/i ! c l senting preacher, last week added another convert to a, Romish faith. As an independent p re acher, he I°l. of number of years inveighed against " the horrorase. Popery," and denounced the doings of Catholic s as il rre , ness itself. He is reported to have lately h ad c° -1 . spondence with Mr. Sibthorp. His chapel is now closet, =GEC PIONEERING. Above one hundred Reformers of Hull attended s,e -dinner ; dinner lest week to celebrate the return o f the two Farm candic!ates at the election. NAVAL AND 11117ATAIVr . 0 The West India steam-fleet is rapidly assembfilia; ling „, 11 the port of Greenock, and will soon snake a srle L display in the Southampton Rh er. Fourteen of of will shortly have arrived, all of thslm the prope rt Y, , jae , Royal Mail Stearn Packet Compam, from the Tweed, Solway, Thames, and Mersey; 0 5, 7 On Tuesday her Majesty's ship illustrious,! g the Commander Erskine, sailed from Ports mo uth,, W: d Go- Right Hon. Sir Charles Begot, the newly-aPlv int vernor, and suite, for America. sr Wi n Captain Bushell, of the Britannia, on hill "AI yea w O i .• th Dover to Boulogne, on Monday last, fell il: - „ T ie t ° h very large whales, and was obli g ed to alter is C prevent the vessel being swamped by one of thea ll ' LAW AND POLICE. t he I° _,i' The case of peisoning at Lutton has been e-avr vestigated, and a verdict of " Wilful Murder" r e e ' s . th# against the wife and daughter of Thomas Jobe ./ ' deceased. a st°l l At Worship-street, yesterday, William Elder, era young man, was charged with begging. It,,sPdsged' that he was dressed like a sailor with his arm ban and solicited alms, telling a pitiful story aboutil.' s b. V° fallen from the mast and crushed his p re cious li ra d hse'' admitted when arrested that his sailor's dress ° l o gic. daged arm were mere disguise, but he could gft,ftte sea 1 and must do something to live. The M a g isl ' - him to work at the treadmill for s month. LITERARY AND SCINNTIOC. hi the The Marquis of Breadalbane was re-elee,t e lust, oll students of Glasgow, as Lord Rector of the Lin t Friday last. d i e d I ss Mr. Bennett, the Dissenting minister wbo m t hat week in Sheffield, was the son of a g rinde r to raciP t . ' town. He was for some time missionary in tflareseu Islands, and also at Madagascar, where h e was '•ts die at the funeral of King Radama, remarkab le furl play of barbaric splendour. SPORTING. Lord Rivers, who some weeks back wit h a s era tls ;Tie S h - aued accident while hunting with the East us sex has so far recovered as to be able to leave his roo m. 1411- COURT-PASRIONAIU.S. cotlen On Tuesday, the 16th inst., was married at. A p s forat lingham John Butler Clarke Southwell Wrari_r; S e lla Esq., of 'Castlecomer, county Kilkenny, to Emil.' Pt' Frances, youngest daughter of John 111‘Clinteelc:f gel of Drumcar, county Louth, and Lady Eliz. I‘ l ` Cli A ll et ° , l/ We understand that the winter season at 1 17 s iet.' promises to be very brilliant in point of rank au.,„: 40 0 0/ The Earl and Countess of Beverley leave 1- sa Dad/ square on Monday next, on a visit to Lord en Hatherton, in Staffordshire.res i des cev Viscount Melbourne has left town for his Melbourne Hall, Derby. :s' Lord and Lady Munster have arrived in raror ti l ' s Viscountess Keith has returned to Piccadilly Bre season. tp,' • The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield return tO \ Park to-day. -of DICISCILTMAILMTEOI7I3. , Of A Morning Paper states that the " Lora 10 ,,,/ vir Dublin attended the Castle Levee in his carriage, tev-bee panied by the Board of Aldermen."—lt must hare- 0.1 , an extraordinary carriage that could have coa t 6 and still more extraordinary horses that could het! o e drawn, such an astonishing amount of heavy 1° it " The Board of Aldermen should have been conve,sioe• a broad-wheeled waggon built expressly for the eei tit' As incendiarism seems fast becoming the rage t i," viiel Metropolis, it is to be hoped that Mr. Peter 1 3 ° r lire not take it into his head to set the Thames °- He is fully capable of such an act. Ode ° At the second day's sale of the late gl e ' r e - ""„fas Hook's library, the Marquis of Lontle . .„°"„aigu , .., ' ° us quarto " Narrative of the Peninsular C'''', n ' en°' - e k ill knocked down at eight shillings. This 1 t he virrnrae price, considering the literary value et ~liseus -t et e. question. A fourpenny piece would have bee,'", ol 7ll es, 0 Duncan Munro, the oldest tenant on the .tlito? taw , • h uas bere' died in the 108th year of his age, on the 8 t - f o refs t hte r his farm near In verary, which he and ill 4 c log- - have possessed for above 300 years. His eiu r e 7 - 0. A ss is So, and his youngest son alive upwards O.' ' r adis'", A Turkish advertisement in the .Djerithre SI is ailiq ( 1 ° thus :--•`• For sale, a black female slave w, ll 9, fli er ; sil f for playing the fiddle, lute, mandina, and'au. pot.' is, moreover, a beautiful dancer. Price 3 ' l " -- of (about 271. sterling). Apply," &c. , yrd° lll ,be Monday will be the anniversary of the Inait:, out the St. Cecilia, who was stifled to death by shuttitody, and air of a bath. She is the Saint of 1-10 1 Y l' e e of l i j when Stationers' Hall was rebuilt, after the fi r e vear . , ) ,,i don, a solemn annual festival was held ther „ 0 ' /3 0 , , i For the celebration of this solemnity purcei v i n e ' pe , 0 . 11 his Te Deum and Jubilate, and Dryden' ''' others, their Odes. IN es MONEY and COMMERCIAL:4OO , CITY, TWELVE r oe trO LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, NOV.. 1 9 ' .. " -- ", AS l3° o ' l sactions in Cotton have been quite as modelore e ticed last weeo, and although the same "enSwelic", anxiety to sell was not so apparent in the, c° lAst , t ; : ment of the present, importers have, in the raeoP c; days, shown an equal, if not an increased desir e t ,, 5 which has enabled buyers to effect their pore A O 5; rather easier terms In the common qualities,. r kir co r rican, amounting barely to id. per lb. ,• ricer'ot'e 10, partake of the general dullness, and the P Sp e nes Brazil, Egyptian, and Surat, are ver y irregular. DP' lators have taken 200 bales, and exporter he tr s American. a LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, Nov. ti r11 „(1 sactions reported at the Stock Exchange Allfidis-nct Junctions, 184 ; Ditto Half Shares, 9 1 1 Ah O f %- Counties 88,} ; Ditto Quarter Shares, 20k ; shard' Crewe, 45f London and Birmingham, New A 'T - e North Midland Thirds, 14*; North Union, i'vyire b i": 1 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, NOV . 19:, tait had a very quiet Market to-day, and have '-ficl change in prices to report.—Manchester t - e 7l Quarter Shares, 2L 16s. •, Eastern Cou n . , 2 7 i Great Western, 78 781 ; Bristol and Esetgi North Union, 75 75i ; North Midland , 65 THE FUNDS. „ing ,er The British Markets opened this OTT,. whe t c ,% . leaving off prices of yesterday, with n9tllln„ doing. Consols for Money and the Accotintvta-ni, tV c e , 88k i,-;Exchequer Bills, Bto 10 premium ; ; ribrccv.• 163 k 1641 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 87 /1 the 14 and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced , 971 ; a nu Three-and-a - Half per Cents., 981 doin g ' In the Foreign Market thre is nothing ef ilen%. • the only alteration to notice is a slight irnP r°l- 0 1 'er ' Spanish Active Stock, which are now firm a t yore Passive, 48 51 ; Deferred, ;ro rtu g uese„feo; l :ii Cents., 30 ; Ditto Three per Cents., 18i ; 241- 25 ; Colombian, 188 19* ; DutCh AT - per Cents., 511 f ; and the Five per Cents, 0 9 i ,§, * l 6. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT w. - P a id . Per S hare , ',- RAILWAYS. Great Western ° ...... .••••• London no find d w Gosport Junc li t l io ag n ekwall 50 .... 54_...••• t: London and Bri hton 25 .... .. _.--- ...... "1 z. e ik London N an e d w ßirmingham 4 9 . 0 6 . 1; .. 8d ..15 . 5 . ....... s±to° ..;... Ditto 1 Shares ...„ h Eastern d Dover ._...,•••• A t y). SoutCOURSE an EOF XCHANGE--(YESTitty" 46 . 4 6 Amsterdam CF.I2 7i Gibraltar ... ••• ........... 0 90 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 1 12 2 4 8 i , L G e e g n h o o a r u . .. .... ..................... ....... r i A A Eli n atin t o w n b e a u rP rgli 51.8. 13 1 6 4 3 V i e li n an ice .. .. .. ............................. ....: gi: 13 14 Naples ............... .• •••, Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Palermo, per oz. ........ J,4 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 ,Lisbon ..................... b'2i Marseilles .. • 0. 7 Frankfort on Maine :0190 Bourdeaux Petersburgh, 3Us ... 371 Buenos Ayr,cs ....... ; . j; t • oi l 1 33 11 ah io iJaan.e.ir..o. ............................. .......:',66,„ Berlin__ ... 7 New York, 21 days i g • 4 6 $ Vienna, effee. fl. 351 953 Philadelphia ......... 5..., . . r ._ , ob . Trieste, ditto ........ 56 PRICES OF atit.Lio __ '4 _ M ridrid, adrid ... 36 'Portugal Gold Coin t . i 7 9 , Cadiz 36 Foreign Gold, ba rs . . 0 0 0 1 ,.! Bilbao ................. 36 'New Doubloons ..... . r . 4 IF, Barcelona ............. 36 New Dollars ... ........ o u 4 Ilg Seville ............ . 36 Silver in liars ••• , T oir. id.,i. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, P ..... 10is 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 97 fi 'Grand Canal tock••••0.. •":„.. Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto New 1830 97i Ditto 4 per cent ...... ••'" 4 per Cent. Dubs. HALF-PAST 7 1 ; 2 i; pc There has been but little busine ss doing in _e:VEN'ING SUN THE SUN, LONDON. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1841. EVENING SUN