The Sun. — London, England, 1841-11-27 00:00:00

MORNING SUN NATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE SOCIETY.—ROBERT CURREY, Esq., in the Chair. The Members and Friends of this Society will Dine to gether at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, on MONDAY, 27th December, at Six o'Clock precisely. Tickets, One Guinea, At the Bar of the London Coffee-house, and at the Office 0: the Society, Arthur-street West, London-bridge. Just published, price Two Shillings, THE CORN-LAWS.—Their EFFECTS on the TRADE of the COUNTRY CONSIDERED, with SUGGESTIONS for a COMPROMISE. By DAVID SALOMONS, Esq. Pelham Richardson, 23, Cornhill. Tow ready, in 1 volume, price 12s. 6d., THE HISTORY of the KNIGHTS-TENI- X PLARS, the TEMPLE CHURCH, and the TEMPLE, By C. G. ADDISON, Esq., of the Inner Temple. London Longman, Brown, and Co. MR. JAMES'S NEW NOVEL. On Saturday, December 4th, in 3 vols. post Bvo. THE JACQUERIE ; an Historical Ro mance. By G. P. R. JAMES, Esq., Author of " The Huguenot," " Henry of Guise," &c. Lately published, by the same Author, THE ANCIENT REGIME. 3 vols. CORSE DE LEON ; or, the Brigand. 3 vols. London Longman, Brown, and Co. 13, Great Marlborough-street, Nov. 27. THE BREVET.-THE UNITED SER VICE JOURNAL, and NAVAL and MILITARY MAGAZINE for December, will contain the whole of the ex tensive BREVET which has just been granted ; the Number hav:ng, been enlarged for the special purpose of admitting these interesting documents. Henry Colburn, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. •„ " Orders ± eceivedby all booksellers. Now ready, elegmtly bound, price 125., 1100 D'S CONTIC ANNUAL FOR 1842, With 37 Illustrations by the Author and Mr. Leech. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MR. THEODORE HOOK'S NEW NOVEL, Nowlready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., with a Portrait and Memoir of the Author. _ _ _ FATHEIi§ --- AND SONS A NOVEL. By THEODORE HOOK, Esq., Author of " Sayines and Doings," " Gurney Married," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW WORK ON INDIA. No. in ready, in 2 vols. small Bvo., with 22,;Illustrations, FIVE YEARS IN INDIA. Comprising a Narrative of Travels in the Presidency of Bengal, a Visit to the Court of Runjeet Sing, a Residence in the Himalayah Mountains, an Account of th late Expedi tion to Cabul and Affghanistan, Voyage down the Indus, and Journey Overland to England. 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. On Monday next, the .9th instant l in 2 vols. post Bvo., T HE GLORY AND SHAME OF ENG LAND. By AN AMERICAN. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. THE NEW WORK B Y THE AUTHOR OF " THE SUBALTERN," &c. THE VETERANS% of CHELSEA HOSPITAL. By the Rev. G. R. GLEIG, Author of " The Subaltern," &c. In 3 vol:. poet Bvo., IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS by GEORGE CRVIir- SHANK, LEECH, and CROWQUILL. THE DECEMBER NUMBER OF BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. Contents : RICHARD SAVAGE, A Romance of Real Life. By CHARLES WHITEHEAD. ILLUSTRATED by LEECH. An Unpleasant predicament. The Night Shriek. A Tale By the Author of " Hours in' for December. By Charles Hindostan." Oilier. The Philosopher in London. Loose Leaves from the Tra- By G. D. I yellers' Album at Cha- The Family Butler. By Al- mouni. bany Poyntz. !Ode on the Birth of the Prince. Merrie England in the Olden Wanderings of a Painter in Time. By George Daniel. Italy—The Casale, a story of Giles Chaw-Bacon ; or, the Neapolitan Banditti. With Adventures of a Moon- an Illustration. Raker. By Paul Pindar. Misadventures at Margate, an With an Illustration byi e'er true Tale. By Thomas George Cruikshank. Songs Ingoldsby, Esq. set to Music, and pictorial An Irish Footman. By the Illustrations. Author of " Hours in Hin- Trifles light as Air : The Two dostan." Friends—The Saw and the Warren Hastings. With a Axe—Every Man his own Portrait. Cook—The Rat's Lamenta- The Funeral. By the Author tation—Dick in the Stocks— of " Stephen Dugard." Equality, The Pot Bey's,The Rainy Day. By H. W. Oration—To Nancy—The Longfellow. Lovers. By Alfred Crow-!Almack's. A Sketch. By quill. With Illustrations. I an American. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of • AUSTRIA, His MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, His MAJESTY the KING of PRUSSIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain ing LARGE FORTUNES, - HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS TRIBU HONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions -nay receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION contains DI. VIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO 5,000 400 1,500 200 1,000 150 800 120 HEINE BROTHERS having remitted during a short time 25,9001., 18,0001., 9,000/, 5,0001., 3,600/., &c. &c. &c., to London ; 3,6001., 800/., and 7001., to Edinburgh ; 3,6001. to Dublin ; 3,6001. to Beverley; 3,600/. to Halifax (Yorkshire); 1,2001. to Portleaven Harbour ; 900/., 7001. and 6001. to Li verpool ; 9001. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. to Hull ; 900/. and 600/. to Manchester ; 70111. to East Retford (Not tinghamshire); 600/. to Bideford; 6001. to Cork; 600/. to Bradford ; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of the next Distribution to England, Ireland, and Scotland. Direct for Prospectus and Particulars, nithout delay, either to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. £llO £7O 100 60 90 50 80 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGE ;LENT of MADAME VESTRIS THIS EVENING, NOV. 27, Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA - .—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White; Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble (her eleventh appearance upon the English Stage). After which will be repeated, the New Farce entitled THE WRONG MAN..—Sir Bryan Beausex, Mr. Bartley ; Beech wood, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Simon Tack, Mr. Harley ; Alice, Miss Cooper ; Patty Smart, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with the Farce of THE OMNIBUS. Doors to be opened at hall-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 75.; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, :Is. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, J 67. New Bond-street. On Monday, the New Comedy, entitled Court and City, with Free and Easy. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Unexampled Novelty. Change of Entertainments every night. THIS EVE. ING, NOV. 27, Will be acted Shakspere's Tragedy of OTHELLo.—Othello, Mr. Graham ; lago, Ir. H. Hughes ; D esdemona, Miss Wa ve rly Emilia, M r s. H. Vining. To c onclude with ALICE GRAY,.—Alite Gray, Mrs. H. Vining._ ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Immense success, and Nightly overflowin g H ouses. THIS EVENING, NOV. 27, Will be acted the New Melodra ma, entitled CASP ER THE DOOMED; or, the VICTIM of the VAULT.......c a Hauser, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Sc hwartz, Mr.. Dale; Ernes; Vorline, Mr. Seaman; Blaine, Mr. Gardner; Von p omp ; Mr. Paul ; Eva, Mrs. Howard. After which, the New Domestic Drama, entitled THE THE STORY OF WRECK OF THE HEART ; OR, AGNES PRIMROSE.—Wm. Norwynne, Mr. Dale; Henry, Mr. Seaman ' • Old Primrose, Mr. Cullen ; R al p h, Mr. Gard . ner ; Agnes, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroine of Do mestic Drama. To conclude with, THE DUKE OF SHOR EDITC.— Henry VIII., Mr. Dale ; Adam Allyne, Mr. Gard ner ; Lion Bell, Mr. Cullen ; Queen, Mrs. Lee ; Jian, Mrs. Howard. .Boxes, ls.—holler}, 6d. rlalf-price to the Boxes only, at HAlkaost Eight. Hg COURT OF CHANCERY.-011 Thursday being the lest a bf Michaelmas Term, the new orders in CharicerY a nte into ,operation, with the exception of th'44ist - five, which by a recent order are sus pentlid• iil next Easter Term. Those that are pendedi , relate to the. entry of the names of every so licitor in a book to be kept at the Six Clerks'-office, with their reSidences, where papers in every suit could be left, in ;ostler to dispense with the present plan of serving .the necessary papers upon the Clerk in Court of the respective parties. It is expected that some new order rYill be made in - the interim. The operative rules -create some important changes with respect to -pleadings and the mode of enforcing the orders of the Court.. Among many salutary regulations is one, where no bract relief is sought against any party but who is necessarlade a party for the sake of conformity ; in such cases, instead of a hill and answer, a copy of the bill is to be - Served on the parties. In cases where it was ne cessary to obtain attachments for nut obeying a decree or order, ,which practice was attended with much ex pense, it is, provided by the new rules that every decree or order shall stipulate the time in which the act re quired to be dose is to be performed, and on proof of service of the order and non-performance, the body of the individual is to be attached. Considerable benefit is expected from the orders and the commission recently issued. The routine of the Master's Office, and the necessity imposed on every,party in a suit to take office copies of the different proceedings, w ill, it is understood, orm a portion of the inquiries under the Commission. Lord Fitzroy Somerset had an interview with Sir J. Graham, at the home-office yesterday morning. THE RAILWAY SUN. NOTICE.--A New EdjUon of the RAILWAY SUN is NOW PUBLISHING. THE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Nov. 27, 1841. THE WEATHER.—NooN, NOVEMBER 26. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, A DELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 36' Highest 4l I Lowest 26 Barometer 29.69.—Wind N.E.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 6 minutes after 0 I Evening 30 minutes after 0. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The speech alluded to hi" - " A Constant Reader" was noticed with praise in The Sun at the time it was delivered. It was published as a separate pamphlet. • il - ^e Ch i u f 4 411, 1 " 14 1( • 'AL —4IRIV-, ~ tilt VOL LONDON: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1841. For a considerable time past the faction, which would starve others and fatten themselves, have been depreciating manufactures, and exalting agriculture, as the most proper and most healthy employment for the people. They have de scribed manufacturing towns as sinks of moral and physical corruption, in which both soul and body are destroyed. It would now appear, from an account which a Correspondent has sent us of the proceedings of certain Chartists at Halifax, that they have eagerly adopted the opinions of the Starvationists. A Chartist missionary at the meeting declared that his " object was to per suade the manufacturing population not to allow the country to be made the workshop of the world." A large portion of the meeting held up their hands for the Charter, and for stopping the progress of manufacturing industry. " Triumph, glorious triumph !" will exclaim the landlords; " they are considerate and natural men, not to be led away by the ' lies' and inflam matory speeches of the Anti-Corn-law League. We knew we could trust the good sense of the people." Not quite so fast, good landlords. The Chartists are in love with your Arcadian pictures, and anxious to realise them. You have inspired them with a taste for rural enjoyments, which they will call on you to gratify. They are "to direct their efforts to OBTAINING POSSESSION OF THE LAND IN PORTIONS OF FIVE OR SIX ACRES A PIECE," to which end they are to obtain the Charter, and then they will be able to divide the suil. The Tories have taught them to ad mire a rural life, and the profit of the Chart ists on it is, that they will have an agrarian re public. This is another of those almost spontaneous effusions of the public mind, arising from circum stances, of which the blame cannot be laid on the Anti-Corn-law Press. It has taught no agra rian doctrine. It has advocated the progress of manufactures; it has implored, conjured, and supplicated the landlords to allow the population to flow into the towns, by allowing the manufac turers to find food and employment for them. The landlords have been deaf to remonstrance and reason, and have stopped the growth of the towns, by stopping the supply of food. In Parliament, and out of Parliament, they have vaunted the beauties and the superiority of an agricultural life, and would on no account allow, much less ' encourage, the extension of manufactures. They are likely to see their wishes realized ; the people will not make England the workshop of the world, but they will cultivate the land for their own happiness. How beautiful will it look to see the goodly domains of Stowe, the nice grounds of Drayton Manor, the undulating hills of Goodwood, the stately walks of Belvoir, all laid out in nice plots of ground of five acres each, with a hut, a garden, and a rosy-cheeked fa mily on every one—and all cultivated by the spade, and by the cheerful owners, compared to the dingy shops of Manchester and Bolton. The Chartists have planned out a very paradise for England, and their scheme of agrarian feli city does justice to that love of the beautiful in their teachers with which the Tories always boast their writings exclusively abound. The clergy, too, will be delighted with the prospect of again reigning over a true agricultural flute-blowing population, having no neighbours with more than five acres to draw off the attention of their flocks from heaven by any display of worldly magni ficence. The Chartists are resolute men, as well as do cile pupils. They will endeavour to carry the lessons of their teachers into effect. Every man is entitled to live, they have been told, in the country; and as they are not allowed to live by manufactures, they naturally fall back on the land, the only other resource. They are good, practical logicians, and do great honour to their Tory teachers. They will soon realise the beau ideal of the landlords, and spread a happy rural population over the empire. At the period of the next Census, the Arcadians will have the un speakable satisfaction of knowing that the in crease in the agricultural has been much greater than the increase in the manufacturing popu lation. Perhaps the condition of England may then approximate to that of Ireland, before the clearing process began, when squatters and sub tenants divided the land into portions of one or two acres, and the nominal landowners lived abroad because it was not safe to live at home. Should the landlords catch a glimpse at that possibility (and how they will reduce to ser vility the people whom they will not allow to get an honest living, we cannot tell) they will, perhaps, begin to suspect that they have in themselves much worse enemies than in the Anti-Corn-law League, and that a condi tion of society infinitely more offensive to them than would follow the repeal of the Bread-tax, may be the consequence of maintaining the law. If they will not allow England to be made the workshop of the world, they may live to see their, estates divided, on the Chartist plan, int o five-acre farms. Thi -ne Morning Chronicle found out yesterday that a large loan to promote emigration is not just at present so very desirable. It will take, according to our Contemporary, 400,0001. to send 60,000 emigrants to Canada, and 1,200,0001. to send the sam e number to New South Wales. Such a sum abstracted from the resources of the people—for the nominal land fund is nothing more than advances made by some parties here—for so trifling a relief, and to be unproductive for twelve or eighteen months; would, in reality, add ,to the national distress. The people east of Temple-bar, not being jobbers in colonial lands, begin to count the cost of the project, and they hint to their West-end friends that they must not allow themselves to be de ceived by interested representations. The gentlemen of the City, who have taken up the subject, are actively at work, areeaansdes a to s meet on Monday to fix on such measures may be deemed necessary to promote the emi gration project. We infer their interestedness from their partiality. If we are correctly in formed, they included only Canada and the colonies of the Southern Ocean in the benefits of their scheme, till they were informed that, for the sake dr decency, they must include the whole of our colonies. Considering the long connection which has existed between the corruptionists east of Temple-bar and the Tories, we can readily credit a Correspondent who informs us that they are concoeting.this scheme in common. The Mi nistry embraced it with great delight, as a means of neutralizing many a staunch Whig in the City, and of diverting public attention from the pre vailing distress. To have the fingering of 20,000,0001., extracted by hook or by crook from the pockets of the public, would be a prodigious pleasure to all the underlings of office, and all the jobbers of the City ; and, when they can hide their rapacity under the mask of pa triotism, they will unhesitatingly sacrifice the people to their own purposes. We have, however, now got a powerful auxiliary in warning them that mischief is intended, and that those whose duty it is to provide for their security and happiness at home, contemplate transporting them in order to stifle their com plaints. Emigration, we must again remind our readers, of itself may be a good thing, but emigration as a remedy for distress, caused by Corn and similar laws, will add to the existing injustice, and aggravate the existing evil. The public lately saw with pleasure two new Equity Judges appointed, and praised the en deavours of the Legislature to procure for the people a speedy settlement of their disputes. We always characterised the scheme as a mere bait by which solicitors and barristers would catch more causes, by a promise, no more to be fulfilled hereafter than heretofore, of quickly deciding them. Those gentlemen can file bills merely to take advantage of the delay, and in stitute suits never intended to be prosecuted, but to be suspended in terroron. The evil is not caused by any want of Judges, but by the two large bodies of men in whose hands exclusively the whole business is placed—who claim it by a sort of Divine right, having an overwhelming pecuniary interest in hanging up causes as long as possible. Whether conscious of it or not, they are biassed in favour of delay, and delay they produce. That barristers and solicitors protract suits by their negligence, was shown by none of them being in Court on Thursday, the last day of term, so that the Court felt itself insulted, and declared the term at an end, while there was still business to be done and time to do it. If a surgeon causes damage to his patients by his want of skill or attention, the lawyers will punish him; and they ought, by the same rule, to be punished for the damage they may cause their clients by their negligence. Some council of discipline, or some special Court, should be instituted to punish, by heavy fines, those solicitors and barristers who neglect the interest of their clients; and unless that be done—unless it be made their interest to bring causes to a quick settlement, the multiplication of Judges and Courts will only multiply litigation, and prevent justice being done to litigants. The University of Oxford is quite in a ferment on the subject of the late conversions of clergy men of the Established Church to the religion of Rome. Many of the students, it appears, are shortly expected to declare themselves Catholics; while not a few of the Professors are suspected of having secretly reconciled themselves to the Papal See. To every well-regulated mind, nur tured in the principles of the Reformation, such a state of things in an English University must be a source of sincere sorrow. Pitying, as we do, these dupes of their own credulity, it is not our intention to join issue with our Contempora ries in abusing them, or calling in question the purity of their motives. The agony of mind which the sincere convert to any creed, if he be a good man, must feel before he can bring him self to renounce the religion of his fathers, of his childhood, and of his country—before he can, by implication, denounce as unhallowed by true faith the temples in which he worshipped— before he can bring himself to gladden the hearts of his enemies, and fill with sorrow the breasts of his friends by renouncing his religious fellow ship with them; is at least deserving of Christian forbearance, if not of pity. Nor is such a man likely to be moved by revilings for having taken such a step. The conflict through which he must have passed must have rendered him indifferent to what the world thinks or says upon the subject. But while we are for avoiding everything like a persecution of the converts to Romanism, it be comes a serious question how we are to close the floodgates which admit the pestilent stream into our Universities. Unless proper means be taken to arrest in time the progress of the evil it actu ally threatens to overflow this country. Some of the divines at Oxford are assuming all the functions of Roman Catholic priests, without going through any form of conversion, so that there is a positive danger of the Established Church being overthrown without the people knowing any thing about the matter. Thus, for example, auricular confession has been intro duced into the University, and there are persons in Oxford who can testify to such confessions being made to, and absolutions for sins given by, clergymen of the Church of England ! This may sound monstrously improbable, but we have, among others, the testimony of the Rev, BADEN POWELL, Savilian Professor of Geo metry in the University of Oxford, that it is quite true, nevertheless. This distinguished divine, in a sermon preached on Sunday, the 7th inst., before the Mayor and Corporation of Oxford, gives the following account of the re cent doings of the Professors of Puseyism : " This system, now so extensively spreading in this land, finds its main strength in the partial support of numbers who think it, at least, harmless, and still go alonc , with its advocates to a certain extent. lam per suaded, on the contrary, that the objection lies at its very foundation. I contend against it from first principles. But, if practical proofs are wanting to render its true nature clear, I will advert to one single circumstance which, I think, alone must afford sufficient evidence. " Of all the artifices of the Romish system, the most powerfully efficacious for maintaining the iron despotism with which she ruled the consciences of men, the prolific source of the most monstrous of her abuses, the true working of the mystery of iniquity,' has ever been found in the maintenance of what is termed auricular confes sion,' coupled essentially with the power of the priest to give absolution. _ " Now (I speak not from loose reports, but from the testimony of facts which have been brought to my know ledge) attempts have been made recently, in this place, by ministers of the Established Church, to enforce this very practice on those under their influence." The Oxford Chronicle confirms this, and adds that a Protestant clergyman not resident in the College, has urged the adoption of auricular confession by his family, male and female; and that it is quite common among the Newmanites of the University. Thus seduced by the clergy, numbers of people are becoming essentially Roman Catholics without knowing it. The mis chief is done, not by the open converts to Roman ism, but by pretending Protestants, whose ac commodating consciences allow them to eat the bread of an Establishment which they are covertly seeking to overthrow. The results to which Puseyism was leading its professors, was clearly and explicitly pointed out to the clergy of the diocese of Chester, by their eminent PI : late, in his charge of 1838. "Many subjects,' said Dr. SUMNER, " present themselves, towards I which I might be tempted to direct your thoughts. One more especially concerns the Church at present, because it is daily assuming a more serious and alarming aspect, and threat ens a revival of the worst errors of the Romish system. Under the specious pretence of defer ence to antiquity and respect for primitive models, the foundations of our Protestant Church are undermined by men who dwell within her walls, and those who sit in the Re formers' seat are traducing the Reformation. It is again becoming matter of question whether the Bible is sufficient to make men wise unto salvation —the main article of our national con fession, j ust ifi cat i on by faith, is both openly an d covertlya assailed, I are ed, instructedand the stewards t to res e r ofv e the e e mys teries o of G which th e y h ave be en ordained to dispense, and to hide u n d er a bushel those doctrines which the Apostles were commanded to preach to every truths creature." It is the duty of the priesthood not to lose a moment in endeavouring to counteractthe efforts of the Puseyites to restore the spiritual domina tion of the Papal See in England. This is only to be done by labouring to enlighten the people; by the exercise of constant benevolence and charity; by vitilajnii leliem in sickness; by re- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1841. lieving them in distress; and by taking an active, kindly interest in all that tends to promote their I welfare. At present the Church is felt by the poor to be a curse, not a blessing. They are crushed by the weight of its support, and hardly ever communicate with its ministers, save through the harassing medium of a tithe col lector. Hence the apathy with which the humbler classes regard the threatened downfal of an Establishment, to uphold which their an cestors would have died in the field or perished at the stake. Catholicism would not make a convert in England once in a century, if the clergy of the Establishment only performed those duties which at their ordination they so lemnly swear to perform. We refer with pleasure to the public meeting lately held at Leeds, and the presentation of a handsome service of plate to the late Member for the Borough, Mr. BAINES. In all the testi monies borne by the several speakers at this meeting to the ex-Member, we cordially concur; for no man has ever paid more diligent attention to his Parliamentary duties, or advocated liberal measures with more undeviating skill, boldness, and sincerity. It must be highly gratifying to Mr. BAINES to find his past labours thus appre ciated by his fellow-townsmen, now that he is in the decline of life, and his work is well nigh done. Ever since his first entrance on public life, now forty years ago, he has advocated the principles of Liberal and substantial Reform, With a steady perseverance, that few have equalled, and none have surpassed. From Madrid we have advices of the 17th inst. They bring no news of any interest. France had ordered her vessels of war to retire from the Spanish coast, so that there are no lon ger any suspicions entertained of the firmness of ESPARTERO, who is now at Barcelona. Madrid Bourse of the 17th.—Five per Cents. 281 for cash ; 29 at 60 days. The French Journals announce with an air of triumph the acquittal of the Na tional by a Jury for an alleged libel upon the Government. Nothing can lit more preposterous than the conduct of the Government in autho rising prosecutions of the press in cases where an acquittal is within the limits of a possibility. By so doing it degrades itself, and draws down ridicule upon the Royal authority. But the acquittal of the National cannot be considered the triumph of the press in a country where such an outrage as the following narrative exhibits, can with impunity be inflicted upon a public writer : The responsible editor of the Revelateur of Montpel lier, who had been condemned to imprisonment for an offence against the laws on the press, has addressed a letter to that journal containing the following statement. He says that on the 9th instant, when about to proceed from Nismes to the prison at Montpellier, he was arrested and handed over to the gendarmerie, by whom he was brutally handled, and thrust into prison in that town. Whilst in prison at Nismes, he wrote to the Procureur du Roi, requesting to be allowed to proceed to Montpellier in a carriage, at his own expense, and offering also to pay the expenses of the two gendarmes who were to be his escort ;but whilst the Procureur du Roi was replying to him through the keeper of the prison, that he must address his application to the Commandant of Gendarmerie, he was at the same time giving orders to have him removed to Montpellier, from brigade to brigade, handcuffed, and with a chain round his neck; and at the end of three days, during which he was confined with thieves, and had them for bedfellows, those orders were carried into execution, with the exception of putting a chain round his neck—a severity with which the gendarmes humanely dispensed. His fellow-prisoners on the route, says he, were seven men condemned to "trainer le bolt ; ' but whilst his own hands were bound like those of a forcet condemned to the bagne, the other prisoners were unbound, and walked freely by the side of him, sometimes singing, and sometimes imploring charity of the passengers on the road. - Such conduct on the part of a Government, as is here exhibited, would disgrace a nation of Hottentots. The Siecle asserts that the movement of French troops towards the Belgian frontier was the re sult of a private negotiation on the part of King LEOPOLD, of which his Ministers were ignorant. This is not impossible. The King of the BEL GIANS, like his Royal father-in-law, is exceedingly fond of acting without the knowledge of his Cabinet. Now, this is rather unfair, when it is considered that the Ministers are responsible for the acts of the Sovereign. A letter from Goritz of the 12th of November says:— " The news received this morning respecting the Duke of Bordeaux continue to be satisfactory, but the Royal family has expressed a wish that the stay of the Prince at Vienna may be protracted as long as shall be neces sary to effect his entire recovery, and to avoid the fatigue of a long journey.— Gazette de France. A journal says that M. de Bourquenay, who has just set out for Constantinople, with the title of Minister Plenipotentiary, is not destined to succeed M. de Pon tois, and that the Cabinet has desired to recompense his docility and his zeal by an office superior to that of First Secretary of Legation. M. de Pontois has arrived at Marseilles. He may pass on the road M. de Bourquenay, who, as his friends say, does not think of making a long stay in the Levant. • A Ministerial paper affirms that the Marquis de Brig nolle, Ambassador of Sardinia at Paris, will address the King in the name of the diplomatic body on New Year's Day. Yesterday, after the Council of Ministers, Messrs. d'Argout and Dupin had a pretty long conference with the King. The journals of the Sou horn Department continue to announce the passage of troops, proceeding to the de partments on the frontiers of Spain. A fire, attended with melancholy results, occurred a few night since, at Amiens, in the house of a baker. The husband, wife, and one of the children, were burnt to death ; but a man, the female servant, and three chil dren, were saved. _ _ The European population of the French possessions in Northern Africa is at present 32,017—viz., 14,669 men, 7,742 women, and 9,606 children. Of these there are 7,585 men, 4,470 women, and 6,331 children at Al giers. Out of the whole number 13,563 are French, 9,591 Spaniards, 4,392 English and Maltese, 3,136 Ita lians, 1,329 Germans, and six Greeks or Russians. The native population, in all the towns occupied by the French, is calculated at 30,000. The Independent of Brussels states that Mademoiselle Panas, " dite Madame Parent," who is a native of France, has been ordered by the Administrateur de la Surete Publique to quit Belgium. A passport was deli vered to her on Sunday, with orders to leave within 24 hours on her way to Lille. This is the lady described as the wife of the ex-Colonel Parent, and who was arrested as an accomplice in the late plot. The same paper adds that the police, on Sunday, seized four bar rels of gunpowder in one place, and in another a trunk, containing papers and a carbine addressed to Col. Parent. The Minister of the Interior has appointed a Commis sion to prepare a Report on the competitors who have submitted models and designs for the tomb of Napoleon. The Commission is composed of Count Houdetot, Peer of France ; M. Fontaine, architect; M. David, sculptor; M. Cave. Director des Beaux Arts • M. Vitel, Deputy ; M. de Remusat, Deputy ; M. Ingres, painter ; M. Peysse, Conservator at the Ecole des Beaux Arts ; and M. Theophile Gauthier, one of the Editors of the Presse, who is to be Secretary of the Commission. A collection of all the weights and measures used in France at various periods is now making at the office of the Minister of Commerce, and will form there a kind of museum. The uniform of the foot chasseurs, in garrison at Vincennes, has just undergone great changes. The frock coat is now of dark green cloth, the cap is orna mented with galloon., and the waist-belt, which was black, is now white, the same as that of the cavalry. The Moniteur Purisien says that the trial of Quenisset and his accomplices will be put off till the sth or 6th of December, to allow of the Procureur- General, M. Her bert, who has only taken part in the cognizance of this affair, a short time since, being able to study it with suf ficient attention. The Guienne states that eighty refugee Carlist officers at Bordeaux gave, this autumn, an honourable example of courage in supporting the hardships of exile. They were sent by the Comte Louis de Calvimont to the Vicomte de Chasteigner, under the direction of M. Mayor, their superior officer, and they all aided in getting in the vintage for the Vicomte, conceiving that in so working they were not doing any thing derogatory to their character, but, on the contrary, were gaining their livelihood with honour. M. Lehrberger, a Jew, who carried on the business of a"printer at Rcedellieim, in the Grand Duchy of licsse sChaq.rhto n a e n and alto, Darmst!ldt, and who was much respected, having died It Protestant, tatnhte, accompaniedCli an cl e rhgyy theof the eiv place, tid mi . h . tary . authorities. attended the funeral. The tolerant spirit of the clergy 'of Rcedelheim did not stop here. M. ' Thudichum, the oldest member of the Catholic clergy, opened a subscription for the widow and nine children of the deceased who had died poor, and himself sub scribed 100 florins (250 f.) The Breton of Nantes states that, at Porille, near that place, the bann s o f marriage have been published be tween a young woman and a Catholic clergyman, who was regularly ordained priest some years ago, but has since left the Catholic Church for the sect of the Abbe Chatel. "It remains to be seen," observes this Paper, " whether, according to the laws of France, a priest can abandon the ecclesiastical condition, and marry. The Court of Cassation has twice decided in the ne gative." BOURSE—PARIS,WEDNESDAY, Nov. 24. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Price. French 5 per Cent 5........... 116 25 ... 116 30 ... 116 15 ... 116 15 4 per Cents lO2 102 ... 102 ... 102 3 per Cents... SO 25 ... SO 95 ... 80 25 ... 80 25 Loan Rank of France 3397 50 ~.3400 ...3397 50 ...5400 Latfitte Bank I,ooof. Shares 1050 ...1050 ...1050 ...1050 5.000 r. Shares 5085 —.5085 ~.508' ...5085 , eleian Bank, 1811 795 ... 795 ... 795 ... 796 Belgian 5 per Cents. ... 3 per Cents., 1840 lO2B ... 102% ... 102% ... 192% Dutch 2% per Cents. 52% ... 52% ... 52% ... 52% Spanish Active t3% - ... 24% ... 23% ... 24% PailliVe••••••• 5 % ... 5% ... 5% ... 5% Neapolitan lO6 40 ... 106 50 ... 106 40 ... 106 50 Roman, ex. div.... ........ _ 102% ... 102% ... 102% ... 102% Portuguese 3 periCents. New 25% ... 26% ... 25% ... 26% _ . RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles.Lß........ ....... 200 ... 200 ... 200 ... 200 R. B 3lB 15 320 ... 318 '75 320 Rouen 450 ... 450 450 ... 450 Orleans . 4BO 480 480 ... 480 Strasburg to Bale.shares red. 230 ... 2 30 , n 238 75 ... 230 BELGIAN k UNDS—Bausslus, lgov. 24. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ..... Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 92 ---3 per Cent. — ----Thirty.seven-- 71% (1840) lOl Si Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent. 95 Society of Commerce, 4 ;,i per Cent lOl% Bank of Belgium, 5 per CenL... ........ National Society. ........ ............... .......... Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Nov. 24. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Nov. 17 . five per Cents. Metalliques Foam per Cents• ••...•.^ ...... •••••••••••• ....... ••••• ........ ••• 99 1 /6 Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1591 ...Allgemeine Zeitung. Nov. 91. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, N0v.23. _. Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares l6lO Anglo-Russian Loan lOB% 1084 Russian 5 per Cent. let series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Sella lO2 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series 98% 98 Ditto in Certificates Ncw 4 per Cent. 0840) 86% 8644 Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 5O 49% Ditto 5 per Cent — Polish Bonds New Picket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 76% :75% Norwegian Lean, 1834, 4 per Cent... , 102% 102 k Spanish, New 5 per Cents. 15% EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, Nov. 23.-13 7.—Two months, 13 5%. RIGA, Nov. 12. —Three Mouths, 39 :1-16. STOCKHOLM, Nov. 16.—Seventy-five days, 12. 5. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bitaux, Nov. 20. Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4% per cent. ......... ..... .104% jos% Prussian English Loan, 1830,4 per cent.... 102 ;101% Exchange on Landon, three months.... 6 16% —Prussian State Gazette. Nov. 21. DEATH OF THE EARL OF HAREWOOD.—We are sorry to announce, by the information which reached us at a late hour, the sudden death of the Earl of Harewood. The Noble Earl was out hunting on Wednesday last. Whilst return ing homewards, in the neighbourhood of Tad caster, he felt himselfindisposed, dismounted from his horse, leaned against a gate-post for support, and almost instantly expired. The Noble Earl was found by the whipper-in lying on his face, and quite dead. He had only been left about ten ten minutes. His Lordship's remains were re moved to Bramham. The death of the Noble Earl occasions a vacancy in the of fice of Lord Lieutenant for the West Rid ing of this county. His Lordship was horn in 1767 ; married the daughter of Sir J. Se bright, Bart., who died on the 15th of Fe bruary, 1840. His Lordship was the second Earl of Harewood, the title being created in 1819. He was appointed to the office of Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1819; and was also High Steward of Allerton.— Doncaster Gazette of yesterday. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND übUc izottiton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. Since the French revolution of July—a period of eleven years and four months—the King of the French has had nineteen Cabinets ! The longest in office was the Cassimir Perier Ministry, which had a duration of 577 days ; the shortest that of the Duke of Bassano, which was dissolved in eight days. Marshal Soult has been five times in office, M. Guizot three, M. Thiers three, and the Duke de Broglie an equal number. Count Mole and M. Lafitte have been each twice in office. The average duration of each Cabinet is 215 days—no very long time for acquiring much proficiency in statesmanship. The National was tried for a libel on the French Go vernment on Tuesday and acquitted. With the single exception of the Paris Globe, the whole press denounce the prosecution of the National as an act of madness. The France exclaims :—" What is to be thought of a Government which is constantly provoking its adver sary, and which, like the metamore in Italian comedy receives all the blows?" The Presse says:—" We fore saw the acquittal of the National. Will the Govern ment at length comprehend what we said on this subject two months ago—namely, that discussion is frequently better than prosecutions?" The Constitutionnel, and the Courrier Francais com ment on the report now current that a conference of the great Powers of Europe on the affairs of Spain has been seriously under discussion. The former of these jour nals regards the report as true, and censures the propo sal as an infraction of the non-intervention principle, and an arbitrary attack upon the rights of a free State. The Courrier says, the idea of such a conference is so unjust and unreasonable that it will not, in the absence of proof, believe the report of its having been entertained. The Siecle asserts the following to have been the cause of the recent assembling of French troops on the north ern frontier :—" The King of the Belgians was at his seat of Ardennes, when he was informed of the conspi racy at Brussels, in which the democratic party was be lieved to be engaged. Before entering into any further inquiries his Majesty despatched M. Van Praet, his Se cretary, to Paris, to desire the French Government to prepare a military demonstration on the frontier. Such was the origin of the assemblage of troops at which the Belgian Minister showed so much surprise, to the great astonishment of all who knew how affairs were managed between the Courts of Brussels and the Tuileries." The Temps states that orders have been sent to the French ships of the line, which recently arrived at Barcelona, to return to Toulon; their presence being no longer needed on the Catalonian coast. At a meeting of the " 221," or Mole party, held last Sunday, it was resolved that M. de Lamartine (the poet and Deputy), should be proposed as President of the Chamber, to replace M. Sauzet. It is reported that the Ministry prefers the latter as a candidate ; but if it will preserve the support of the Right, it must yield to their demand and support the return of Lamartine. The Francpnian Courier of the 21st instant gives the heads of the arrangement concluded between the Papal see and the diocese of Cologne. That principle is re• spected which renders nugatory the dismissal of a Bishop by the temporal authority, and the Pope's brief on this point establishes the following three articles :-Ist. The Archbishop is to have a coadjutor, who will succeed him, but only on the plea of his Eminence's state of health, and because the administration of his diocese is too onerous. 2d. M. Geissel, Bishop of Spire, is appointed coadjutor to the Archbishop, with his own consent, the latter, however, to retain the title of Archbishop of Co logne. 3d. The said coadjutor is appointed Apostolic Administrator of the diocese of Cologne. PUBLIC OPINION. A document recently issued at Birmingham by an As sociation for promoting the general welfare of their fel low-countrymen, forms the subject of a leading article in the Times, in the course of which our Contemporary observes :—" Our own domestic circulation has no doubt been greatly reduced by the failure of many joint stock banks, and the due caution of others, more parti cularly of the Bank of England, imposing a restraint on their issues. Our home means of purchase are, there fore, no doubt greatly diminished. How are such evils to be abated ? Certainly by the endeavours of very different politicians from the authors of the Birmingham address, and the members of the Association ; but in the first place by Christian charity, and above all by humage laws for the relief and support of those who, are in no way the authors of the sufferings under which they la bour. We have bestowed this discussion on the address, because we see, though the design is kept out of the full glare of day, that it yet aims at a compulsory paper cir culation, with which we are convinced there can never either be security or comfort." The Morning Chronicle reverts to the question of Puseyism in the following terms :—" The Puseyites, it seems, feel themselves strong enough to think of carry ing a contested election for the Professorship of Poetry. They are determined to show that they can write prose and worse' in defence of their Papistical principles. Of course, as the county candidate said to his wife, every thing comes out at an election ;' and sundry extraordi nary fraternizations with Rome—auricular confession and else—have already transpired. We make no com ment, at present, on the theology, or the jesuitry, of these revelations. There they are, in the bosom of the Church; that is all."—And this is the very fault we find with the Puseyites ; that holding Papistical tenets, they still stick to Protestant temporalities. We quarrel not with their opinions ; freedom of thought is the right of all ,• but we do object to their continuing within the pale of the orthodox Church establishment, when they are doing all they can to further the interests of the rival Church. We have no notion of men fighting under false colours. The Herald thus alludes to Mr. O'Connell's late bear ing at the Viceroy's levee in Dublin Castle. There is a great deal of absurd exaggeration—for party purposes, of course—in our Contemporary's statement:—" Through the person4f Earl de Grey, Mr. Daniel O'Connell, as Lord Mayor of Dublin, has dared to offer a token of dis respect to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. In pre senting himself in an offensive manner to the Lord Lieu tenant of Ireland at his Excellency's late levee,he insulted Queen Victoria, and, through her Majesty, every one of her subjects. The fact is notorious; it was witnessed by a l a rger assemblage of all classes of Irishmen than has for ten ears been gathered round any Irish Viceroy. It is coni. , ...ssed and admitted by the offender ; nay, more, an apology has been tendered at the hands of a Corpora tion menial for the outrage on decency, for the disrespect to the Queen's deputy in Ireland, and for the deliberate insult to the Sovereign herself. To be sure there is an excuse--but such an excuse I Mr. Daniel O'Connell misconducted himself at the levee because he personally knew no better, and because the Corporation Marshal had not drilled good manners into him for the nonce. Such is the apology which is tendered by the Lord Mayor of the metropolitan city of Ireland for an offence which the meanest Irish bogtrotter would not, un prompted by motives, have committed." The Derby Reporter, alluding to the emigration ques tion, makes the following remarks :—" Depopulating emigration must bear our labourers by hundreds of thousands to lands where labourers are few. But how often is the experiment to be repeated? Years will again swell our numbers to their present extent—are they again to be driven across the Atlantic by the scourges of monopolies which will not let them live a t home ?" The Plymouth Journal observes.—" NV hat is the pre sent position of this country in reference to the ele ments of its prosperity—its commerce and manufac tures ? By a false system of Protection and Mono poly, to the principle and injurious effects of which we cannot now specifically advert, the price of bread and of many other necessary and desirable commodities which affect the happiness, nay even support the exist ence of the homes of England, is raised to the consumer for the supposed benefit of particular interests. It is easy to see that the pressure of this shameful taxation falls with severest weight on the humbler and more numerous classes." We extract the following from the Doncaster Gazette —" The privation, destitution, and suffering which are now severely experienced in the manufacturing districts, are, it is feared, likely to be considerably in creased during the prevalence of the appreaching winter, especially if it prove, as is by no means a matter of improbability, one of great severity. It is indeed to be apprehended that countless numbers of ope ratives, whO have large families, will, under these cir cumstances, be starved to death, or reduced to such a deplorable condition as to be carried off by disease, arising from the want of sufficient food." MONEY:-TRADE-COMMERCE. At the half-yearly meeting of the Southern, Eastern, London and Dover Railway, held at the London Tavern yesterday, it appeared from the Report that contracts were entered into for completing the railway to Ton bridge, in May, to Staplehurst-road, in July, and to Ashford in December next. The tunnel of Bletchingly is completed, and by the first of January the line would be connected with the Brighton line, near Red-hill. The balance in hand was stated to be 26,3611. ss. Id. Mr. Cubitt is engineer in chief. A rumour is given in the Derby and Chesterfield Re porter, that the extensive cotton mills, at Burton-on- Trent, recently closed, are about to be occuped by a new species of manufacture—viz., tape and brace making. It is said that 100 hands will be required immediately. COMMERCIAL REFORM. On Tuesday last a public dinner, attended by upwards of 400 gentlemen, was given at Glasgow, in honour of James Lumsden, Esq., and William Cross, Esq., the lately elected Liberal Representatives of the City Coun cil. Mr. Wallace, the Hon. Member for Greenock, de livered an excellent speech, remarking that he was now going into his tenth Parliament, and he had voted uni formly for a total abolition of the Corn-laws. But while they were, no doubt, the master-grievance, the Import duties were also as baneful, and he concluded expressing his determination to promote their complete revision. NAVAL AND MILITARY. The dreadful loss of life and property which has oc curred during the heavy gales of the last six weeks upon the south-eastern coast of England, has led to the pro position that the Margate-roads should be formed into a line of floating breakwaters, commencing at the Long Nose Point, and extending in a north-westerly and north-easterly direction the distance of one mile and a half. The expense would not be more than 50,0001., and form a harbour of the first importance. On Tuesday the Illustrious (72 guns), Capt. Erskine, with Sir Charles Begot on board, got under weigh at Falmouth about two o'clock, and proceeded for America with a fine breeze. Sir Charles did not land while de tained there. LAW AND POLICE. At Bow-street yesterday two men were brought up charged with making a disturbance at St. Giles's work house. It appeared from the evidence of the parish officers, both of St. Giles's and the Strand Union, that applications for relief have, within the last few weeks been made by such numbers of persons that they find it quite impossible to comply with the demands. Sixty or seventy persons, many of them excavators, have ap plied in the course of a day. FINE ARTS. The Polish Royal and f'oniat ow ski gems, formerly the property of the Kings of Poland, are now in the possession of Mr. Tyrell of Craven-street. They are in number 1,200, consisting of a series of heads, single figures, and groups, cut on sardonyx, calcedony, ame thyst, beryl, &c., and beautiful as works of art. The Luxor obelisk at Paris, is said to be in a dange rous state, owing to a fissure at its base, which is daily increasing. THEATRICAL. The Duke of Wellington, accompanied by Lady Burg hersh and a party, occupied her Majesty's box at Covent garden Theatre on Thursday night. An alarm of fire was raised on Thursday night at the Adelphi Theatre, which occasioned much confusion, the house being crowded; Mr. Yates, however, came forward and assured the audience that the alarm was altogether a false one. SPOILTrNG. The town of Aylesbury will be excessively gay next week. Her Majesty's stag-hounds visit it for the first time, and Baron Rothschild, the Earl of Rosslyn, and a number of the nobility and gentry, are expected to hunt there. COURT--FASHIONABLE. Prince Nicholas Esterhazy arrived on Thursday night at Chandos House from Middleton Park. Prince Paul Es terhazy is expected to arrive on the 10th of December, to resume his diplomatic functions at this Court, and to be present at the marriage of his only son and heir to the daughter of the Earl and Countess of Jersey. The Marquis and .Marchioness of Thomond left Taps low House, on Wednesday last, on a visit to Sir Gore Ousley, at Hall Barn; Bucks. ' The Earl of Brownlow and his family left Belgrave square on Thursday for Torquay. The Earl and .Countess Grosvenor left Grosvoaor square on. Thursday for Motcombe Park. The Dowager Countess of Sefton left Stoke Farm last week for Croxteth. Prince Albert has consented to lay the first stone of the Royal Exchange, but we believe no day has yet been fixed for the ceremony. MISCELLANEOUS. A Wilts paper states that sheep-stealing is greatly on the increase. Were rat-stealing also on the increase Sir James Graham would stand a very fair chance of being kidnapped. Who is the English poet that the Puseyites ought most to admire ?—Pope. At a trial that took place on Thursday in the Sheriff's Court, for slander upon a Solicitor, the Counsel for the plaintiff expressed his opinion that " some attorneys were perfectly harmless !" We never heard of such at torneys, and would just as soon believe that some sharks were harmless His Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall is the first heir-apparent to the Throne who has been born free of the City of Landon. His father, the Prince, having been some time since admitted a freeman of the Goldsmith's Company, the young Prince obtains his freedom by patrimony, and, being of full age at his birth, may take up his livery at any time on paying his fees. A meeting of the freeholders of the county of Ren frew was to be held on Thursday to move congratulatory addresses to her Majesty and Prince Albert. Mr. Wal lace, the Member for Greenock, being anxious to bring under the notice of the Queen the unprecedented dis- tress prevailing in that district, bad given notice of an amendment to that effect, which was to be opposed. RUMOURS 01' THE DAY. The Commissioners of Woods and Forests are ex pected to apply for an Act of Parliament next Session, to annex a piece of ground, now considered anti:paro chial, between Kensington and Paddington, to Kensington Palace, to be used as a " kitchen garden." By the same Act they will also take power to exchange with the Provost of Etrn College, certain land belonging to the Crown, near Eton, for about 53 acres of ground around and including Primrose Hill. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. There was rather less business doing in the funds to day, and prices though steady for the Government Stocks were flat for the unfunded debt. Consols for immediate transfer brought 89/ to 891, and 891 to I for Account. Exchequer Bills were at Bs. to lOs. pre mium, both for the large and small. Bank Stock was lower, viz., 164, and India Stock was not higher than 248. India Bonds were ls. discount to Is. premium. The New Three-and. a-Half per Cents. brought 99 to 991, and Three per Cents. 88 to 4. For the Foreign Bonds, notwithstanding the advance which continues in Spanish Stock abroad, there has been a less buoyant market here, and the rise has tempted some of the speculators to realize profits. The Active Spanish Bonds to-day were quoted 231 to 231, and the Passive 51 to 51. Portuguese New Five per Cents. fluc tuated from 32 to 32k, and the Three per Cents. were dull at 191. Mexican Bonds were 251, and Brazilian 57/ to 581. French Five per Cents. were a shade lower, viz., 115 f. 75c., but Dutch Five per Cents. improved to 991 and 991. The Railway Shares were not very animated. Great Western were at 141 to 15 ; the New, si to 71 ' • Bir mingham Quarter at 161 ; and York and North Mid land, New, at 141 premium. South Western Shares were not quite so good, being 18/ to 171 premium. Brighton were 131 to 13/ ; and Birmingham and Glou cester 441 discount. Australasia Bank Shares were 11 to 12, and London and Westminster 18 premium. There was no alteration in the rates of the Foreign Exchanges this afternoon. Bills on Paris were taken at 25f. 721 c. to 771 c. ; on Antwerp at 12 4 ; on Frankfort at 150 ; on Hamburgh at 13 10 to 1 ; on Amsterdam at 12 41 to 5 ; and on Trieste at 9 51 to 53. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Nov. 25.—The busi ness done in the Cotton Market to-day is to a fair ex tent, the sales amounting to 4,000 bales, all of which are taken by the trade. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, Nov. 25. —Eastern Counties debentures, 91. I Is. 6d. ; Edinburgh and Glas gow, 421; Grand Junction, 189; Liverpool and Man chester, 196; London and outh Western, 55; Paris and Rouen, 101. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 25.—The only business done to-day is Midland Counties, at Kt ; and the market is without alteration. There are, however, no Stocks pressing. By a private vessel from Demerara papers to the 15th of October have been received, from which we take the Monthly Report of the West Coast and Bank District Agricultural Society, ending the 11th of September : " Somewhat contrary to the usual routine of the sea sons the weather has been rainy ; this• has caused the canes cut to yield but indifferently ; it has, however, been highly advantageous to the young cultivation, and has afforded to the planter a prolonged season, to enable him to supply fields which there is but too much reason to suppose were, from peculiar causes, much neglected last year. " The labourers of many estates during the earlier portion of the month worked very irregularly. The fer ment caused amongst them by the operation of the Rum Ordinance had scarcely subsided they are still un settled, and are in many instances demanding an equiva lent for the rum now withheld under the recent ordinance. " The reports received respecting immigrants are, on the whole, highly satisfaetory, both as to their general MORNING SUN inclination, labour, and their health ; in some in stances, however, they have shown in erratic tion. The cause of it is not difficult to divine. They are generally allowed some pro4ions, in see. instances one month's, gratis, on every estate they go to ; having exhausted that indulgence on one estate, al the temptation is but too strong to try the same o r an on another, consequently much changing about is t e result. It is an evil of a temporary nature, however, . 4.4 that carries its own remedy with it, consequently , , 1 ,4t 1° , weight is attached to the circumstance by the Society. The English Securities opened firm. Consols, for Money, are 898 +, and 894 for the Account ; Th ree per Cents. Reduced, fifq 4 ; Exchequer Bills 8 10 prem . In the Foreign Securities the only alteration to notice : 4 is in Spanish Active Stock, which has given way a little , the quotation is now 23i 8 ; Portuguese Securities con tinue firm, the Five per Cents. at 321 33, and the T hree per Cents., 191 20. • A second notice was issued by the Bank yesterday, to the following effect : " In every case of an advance by the Bank of Eng land, in pursuance of the notice dated this day, a U. misory note will be required, wh e ther such advanc e upon bills of exchange, Exchequer bills, or India bonds. " Bank of England, Nov. 25." ; tbe The English securities are not quite so firm as early part of the morning. Consols for Money are nog'. quoted at 89k, and S9i for the Account. Excheql Bills are flat at premium ; Thr ee p e r Cents. Eed.g c ,, nk e 88; Three•and-Half per Cents. R e duced, 974 ; Stock, 164 ; India Stock, 248. The principal business doing again to-day in the, F 1: reign Market has been in Spanish Securities, - Active Stock is now quoted at 234 ; Passive , 53 . x•; Deferred, 1.2 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. , 5 ,1: Ditto Five per Cents., 998 ; Brazilian Bonds have IT vanced to 581 ; Portuguese Five per Cents. are 321; Ditto Threes, 198. There has been but little business doingin the Market, but the Market has a firmer appea ° rance. Ll l ` . '„„ Western have advanced to 79i ; Ditto, 'slew, 5 6 1 London and Brighton, 368 ; Ditto South Westernp ,s " 57 ; York and North Midland, New Shares, 291. The supplementary notice from the Bank of Eng' -11 has excited a good deal of conversation in the City is evident that it must be intended for the mercantile munity as well as for the members of the. Exchange, since Bills of Exchange as well as E 171; he quer Bills and India Bo n d s , mus t b e accompanie d a promissory note. If this display of mistrust is im ita in private circles, there bid s f a i r t o ar ise a vim, ow unusual and inconvenient s t a t e o f thi n gs ; 11 .. the Money Market, and people will n a t ura lly be unee' r „ ti d impression that nothing can secur e th em a gainst ' — ose or forgery, but similar precautionary measures to th , adopted by the Bank. This will be gi v ing double 6e curity for the same accommodation.; Consols, for Money, 89-k ; ditto, Account, 8 -1 1 4 ; Mexican, 251 a ; Portuguese, 321 33 ; Spanish, 231 CLOSING PRICES - • . BRITISH FUNDS. 24 9 Bank Stock ... 164 India Stock, .......•• iet 3 per Cent Red BB Ditto Bonds ... • ~.. 3 per Cent Cons B9A Ditto Old Annuities ••• 3i per Cent Red 97i Ditto New Annuities... 01 00 i New 3i per Cent 99 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....20 /ipso New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/.. ....... . 8/ 0 Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small. • " ~.. Jan 1860 ... 12a ,Bank Stock for Acct.' Oct, 1859 India Stock for Acct.. , 9 91 Jan. 1860. 124 Consols for Acct ....... . FOREIGN FUNDS. ...... kustrian, 5 per cent.... ,' Portuguese, 5 per cent - ~ Belgian, 5 per cent — I Ditto New Ditto .......•• ~ I Brazilian Bonds sBi Prussian, 5 per cent. ... ..., Buenos Ayres, 6 per cea Russian, 5 per cent ...••• ...; Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic ............ ask Colombian, 6 per cent,. Spanish, 5 per cent ...•'• j 9 Ditto, 1824. Ditto, Deferred ....... ... /se. Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent.lo ,A Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange --f. • ,„,,i Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent - --6 ca , Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 2i per cent. ..•••' P.' mi Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. ..•••• SHARES Birmingham and Gloucester .Rail way (100 p) tit Great Western Railway( 65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid Bi Ditto Fifth (4 paid) 36if London and Brighton (50 paid) .... London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid) 51 i s ei Ditto New Shares ( paid) Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) London and South Western North Midland Railway (100) - 14 Ditto Thirds (15 paid) York and North Midland Railway (50 paid/ 2 - 4 Ditto New Shares (15 paid) COURSE OF EXCHANGE--(YESTERDAn6 Amsterdam CF. 12 8 Gibraltar ............ ..... 59 90 0 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 st Genoa ... .............. ... n , Antwerp l2 7 "Milan .... ................. .i. Hamburgh M.B. 13 13ir Venice ................. ... gini Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Palermo, per es ........ . ~ Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon .................... . u , Marseilles r ,,, Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro ............... , .t, Frankfort on Maine... 150 i Bahia .................... !.::: Petersburgh, 3Us 8er1in..... Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M 953 Philadelphia ............... s op Trieste, ditto 955 PRICES OF auLLlort , ro 6 ' ii 17 Madrid - re ~, ft i Cadiz 36 Foign Gold, bare... 3 I' 0 ; Bilbao 36 New Doubloons OO it Barcelona il Seville - COURT CIRCULAR. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of K en t visited Majesty yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace' t is His Serene Highness the Duke of S axe Ice!11.0 visited his Royal Highness Prince Alb er t a t flue Palace yesterday. v I. sa f The Viscount and Viscountess Guillamore , Sit Augusta Gordon, Sir George and Lady co v e n , : Mr. Robert and Lady Otway, Miss Otway, and ti le b . :lo/ and Mrs. Berkeley Paget,l attended at 1 3ac al id 1.3 j. Palace, at three o'clock yesterday afterno° l l.' h i- 1 3°1- the honour of being gratified with the sight o' Highness the infant Prince. bl COP e His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attende d o f SP Wylde, visited his Serene Highness the Dek a Meiningen yesterday, at Marlborough House. Os' Lady Caroline Cocks and the Hon. Miss ) l i s , have succeeded the Hon. Miss Anson and the"-°' " ..- 0 . 0 h e ^ Devereux, as the Maids of Honour in Waiting Majesty. -ohiliPP s ; His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse "-.1, and that, visited their Royal Highnesses the I ?r, t i c e, st Duchess of Cambridge yesterday, at their re a ' Kew. biiais. His Excellency Edward Everett, the Americ an ter, left town on Thursday, for Paris. C A Deputation from the Southampton Dock -47 bat' ' consisting of Mr. Liggins, Chairman, Mr. ()II" — , GOO' Director ; Mr. Saintsbury, Secretary ; and lu r * f the Engineer, had an interview with the Chanccllor 000,, Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence , in 9 ing-street. Wei Despatches from the Governor of the Bahama received yesterday at the Colonial-office. THE QUEEN DOWAGER. h*lit s(l A The account of the health of her Majesty, ehuiv el,: at Marlborough House yesterday to the .1g Gentry was as follows: • 0 0 ; " The Queen Dowager sat up for several hours in 11/ . , day without being fatigued, and, though troirefeel her cough towards morning, her Majesty is , 11 respect, as well as yesterday. DAVID DAVIES , •-•- " Sudbury Hall, Nov: 25, 1841." CHARTISM OR SOCIAL1S 111? „ A discussion was entered into yesterday eveointro,„ Mr. Jones, the Socialist. and Mr. Parry, the Char ` ' the Literary Institution, John-street, Tottenh° 3ll- road, as to which of the systems was most entitled t° port by the mass of mankind at large. The Wiling COW, passed by the reasoners rather in statements pro o ,oq , • thani n any actual grappling with each other'ssrgn, but as the parties were only on the threshold oe the ts subject, the continuation of the question betvreeliewbsi this evening (Friday) will, of course, assume ecl.;" yol" more the shape of.challenge and animadversion. Ah,obtain ever, either Chartism or Socialism were likely t° Sino the spread which may be safely augured of ri iser e f th e '; a system which, backed by all the enthralling f Romish pomp and worship, is makin g quarters, stealthily, but surely,—we should. lild ew hi stress upon the discussion, but the statements toer the respective parties of the system of their rivals, itbss hibit the success of both in such a doubtful re' :; r e oto we need only refer to them. While one ad' s fersr , marked that Chartism was split even to its (- 3 or e c i i rtisl' visions, so that there were two separate bodies of ,„„ the g in Scotland and two in England, the odier '; PrOgreSS• or e complete failure of the New Harmony systems: t hese . ' institution.of that name had broken up insolvent:o late, cond, New Lanark, was equally unfortunate ill 1 , i n fso s except that it had given rise to trur very excelleov ale st • schools: and the third, now formed on a sina l ,l, Bc diclo° Tytherleigh, would be assuredly prosperous , t i o t T occe lo re sc' become insolvent before the year arrived The meeting was very crowded, and the audie r . i yes otr spectable, well-behaved, and attentive. The " 1 , 0 0 11 operatives, and a number of decent rnatrcolY se a of gave a pleasant aspect to the meeting, which P,,,a 5 „ 0 , tb in a most respectable and orderly manner.---gr" The Sun of last night. r" ffirt, CHURCR -RATES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SC 7, o r - Sin—About 20 Church-rate seizures have taken, take, place in this parish. . t w ith a. to re high Church party are determined to carry ' the high hand, now they have a Tory Member for Ogg ( and a Tory Ministry for the country. a s trf This, taken in connexion with Puseyisre, free:: sign of the times, let every man oho wishes to e!liv.i ino 19 dom of religious opinion look to it in time , for. tir, is fast approaching whe . .l only the Author ters" will be allowed to instruct ( read blind) 11 k' Westbury, Nov. 2F,, 18 41 . LEC.rti C—oArn .C i r o h Cores • • __--7.- - . -.. -__. _-_•_-__-----_-_---------, MR.TI-T_OMSON'S ANTI-CORN -LAW_ . obel i * e L s e p a o gu nd e en th t seaypsr:o‘p‘ Will you yoofupsruiggensgt tVhae.o :; ! form for .eitensive circulation, the beautiful lectur . ~, Thomson at Edinburgh, in your Paper of scin Wedlle night ?" THE 'rittz TRAGEDY AT CAR Sun ' Musson, thi-man who was shot by his wife, nil Su ncill bs ' the 19th of September, the particulars of which wilt._ po fresh in the reader's recollection, is still alive, theilgnae.. hopes are entertained of his recovery• He lies at th e a t- , neral Hospital, in a dreadful conditio n, his foe Pr es- it l. '" 0' ing the most horrifying appearance, and blr ,odrrzeitg hil r 'c ri i? I most uninterruptedly from the frightful • A per ( il jaw.—N o ttingham Review. ERRATUM: In the leader yesterday, begZ3no e. i l:, The manner," and in the last line, th ' a word " cf, ; al o „ s hould have been inserted bet ween "p . iv .kp" and