The Sun. — London, England, 1855-11-07 00:00:00

--~-~', MONEY MARKET AND COMt[ERCIAT4 INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed with an upward tendency, and prices of Ameri cans were fully id. per lb., and Surats 1-16 d. per lb. dearer than on Friday. All other sorts were unchanged. The sales were 8,000 bales, 1,000 ex port and 1,000 on speculation, comprising 180 Pernam and Maranham 6id. to 7d., 170 Bahia 51d. to 6d., 200 Egyptian 60. to 84d., and 1,509 Surats 34d. to 4id. per lb. Imports since Thurs day, 10,000 bales. The Railway Share Market was very steady, closing at its best point. Recent accounts from Rotterdam furnish us with the following interesting report relative to the commerce between the Low Countries and different foreign States during the official year 1854-5. The total value of importations, according to Govern ment returns, exhibits a rise on the previous year, and amounts to 356,454,519 florins (Dutch), whereof 244,495,510 florins were for home con sumption ; the exports amounted to 308,780,801 florins, of which 193,621,258 florins were products of the country, and 115,159,543 florins came under the head of transit. In these totals Great Britain figures at the head of the list ; the imports from thence being 992 millions and exports to this country 754. Belgium shows importations from 441 millions, and exports to 301 millions. For other States the proportions are as fol low': Java, 75-29 i ; France, 121-13 ; Russia (Baltic and White Sea), 91; Black Sea, 2 ; Zoll - 69-116; Hamburg, 62-92 ; Hanover and Oldenburg, 51-21 ; North America, 7-54 ; Denmark, 4-4 ; Naples, 2-4 ; Norway, 4-1 ; Surinam, 4-11 &c. From Madrid we learn that a project to establish a new general Bank of Credit, has been submitted by Messrs. Milland and Company, to the Govern ment, which has been favourably reported on by a committee of the Cortes, and it is likely that that assembly will sanction the proposition. The draught of the scheme proposes that the Govern ment should have constraint over its operations, that it should have a capital of 800 millions of reals (8,000,0001.) to be issued in shares of 2,000, and that the directors should have the power to cause notes as low as 100 reals, payable on de mand on bearer at the provincial branches as well as the chief office of the company at Madrid. Membera and outsiders on the Paris Bourse remained in a state of inactivity yesterday, in the absence of any news to agitate the market. The business transacted in Rentes showed a tendency to fall of 5 to 25 centimes, but no large dealings are concluded at the reduced quotations. A degree of hesitat:on to make purchases in the share market likewise manifested itself, and speculators were dull in their bargains. The advices from Rio state that trade was very inactive, and that for export there was scarcely any inquiry. Much satisfaction is expressed by parties in terested in Australia at the reduction again in the Victoria postage to 6d. per oz. The new charge comes into operation on this day. A work, entitiel " Ferguson's Tables," has just issued from the press, which is calculated to be of service to the commercial community. The writer proposes to supply more comprehensive, ac curate, and portable tables of profit, loss, discount, Commission, brokerage, and other similar subjects ; and the copiousness and arrangement of the details seem well adapted to effect the end in view. Mr. Fer guson, in these "tables," omits all fractional parts of a farthing (100 parts being equal to one farthing), thus prop . osing to avoid the confusion and errors of the proximate system in which the opposite prac tice is adopted. In addition, these pages embrace much matter of a useful character to the commer cial student, and facilitate also the solution of many questions of daily occurrence. The settlement of the account in the English Stock Market takes place to-morrow, and the deal ings entered into to-day are chiefly in reference thereto. As was expected, stock is not found to be plentiful, and the quotations,are consequently well maintained. Consols have been 881 to 88g, but at the present moment they are not higher than 881 The rate for next month is 88l to 8 8i. Exchequer Bills are rather firmer again, being 7s. to 3s. discount. Less is doing in the New Three per Cents., and they rule at 88i to 888, and the Reduced at 87i to 87g. Bark Stock has r;sen to 1061 and 108, and India Stock is marked 226 and 2271. Most of the foreign securities maintain the quo. tations of yesterday, and are still quiet. Turkish Six per Cents. are 791- to 79k, and the New Scrip about 2/ discount. Sardinian Bonds are ss high as 8 5k, and Spanish Deferred Stock is 19g. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks : Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6i to 74 ; Mexican, 198 to ; Peruvian, 74 to 75 ; ditto Three per Cents., 52 to 54; Portuguese Four rer Cents., 4 3 to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 95 to 98 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to $8; Spanish New Deferred, 19k to l ; ditto Three per Cents., 37i to 8 ; ditto Certificates, 41 to f ; ditto Pas sive, 51 to In Rai lway Shares there are very few altera tions to notice, the market being generally steady and the dealings limited. Lancashire and York shire, Brighton, North-Western, and South-West ern are most in favour. The foreign and colonial lines are supported. A further improvement has occurred in Canada Land Shares, which now rule at 135 to 137. Joint stock Banks are in limited request. :3arrisn FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE o'ol ' . ( From the Oditli List. 1 lin,in,,s, don. . 206 8 Bank Stock 000000 •.• 3 per Own. Reduced Annuities B7l $ i 3 per Cent. Consols Annaitios ~,, 11 3vr 3 por Cent. Annuities .. New 2A p er C ent. Annu i t i es 72 Llng Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth April, 1885 161 India Stock India Bonds, £lOOO r:ltiols lor Account OO 88i a a i Etchequer Bills, lid. 4000 7 3 d ..., - Small 4 d par Exchequer Bonds 1858, 3i per Cont..., 08, 1 4 Ditto 1859, ~ ~. OSA t . PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO , K. S , rdinian Bonds, 5 per Cont. Ditto for the account B5 i Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent — Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto for the account 193 Turkitl Bonds, 6 per cent — Ditto for the Account 79 Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. Ditto for the Account.~ Dividends on the above payable in London. HALF-PA ST TWO. Consols ......................... ... ........... 8 8 4 a Ditto for Account (December) --_—___ 20 20 10 10 5 5 Wi 10 20 5 29 18 25 3/ 2e COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, Nov. 4. The Queen and Prince, with Prince Arthur, attended by the Duchess of Atholl and the Hon. Caroline Caven dish, drove out in an open carriage yesterday afternoon. Major-General the lion. Charles Grey and Captain Da Plat were in attendance on horseback. Lieut.-General Sir John Burgoyne and Major-General Sir Henry Bentinck arrived on a visit to her Majesty. The dinner party in the evening included the Duchess of Rent, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, the Eton. Mrs. Grey, Sir George Couper, the Misses Cod ringten, Lieut.-General Sir John Burgoyne ; Major- General Sir Henry Bentinck and Colonel Hamilton (Grenadier Guards), who have very recently arrived in England from the Crimea ; Lieut.-Colonel Poulett Somerset (Aide-de-Camp to the late Lord Raglan), and Col. Boileau, the commanding officer 22d Regiment. The band o f th e 22d R eg iment performed during din ner. Thu Queen's private band afterwards played in the cawe. Princ e Albert, attended by Colo . nel the lion. C. B. Phipp s and Captain Du Plat, went to London this morn ing, and presided at a meeting of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall, at which also the Right Hon. Pem berton Leigh (Chancellor of the Duchy), Lord Portman, Viscount Monck, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Mr. Alexander (Attorney-General), were present. His Royal Highness returned to Windsor at 2 o'clock. Earl Somers and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore have succeeded the Earl of Listowel and General Sir Edward Bowater as Lord and Groom in Wa •t• • •riff. C C -LTY ,03IMISSION OF aFwiins.—Yesterday a Court Was held, at which Mr. Heywood read a report on the various plans which have been Submitted for the inter ception of the sewage of the metropolis. The report WAR ordered to be printed and circulated. SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. Ctlosing Prices yesterday. B,AILWAYs. A.berdeen kmbg. Nottng. Bost. and Eastn. Bel fast & Ballymena. [firming. Wolvorb Stour Valk y Birk e ihd. Lancol.. di Cheshire Jnnct Do. Chesh. dc Birk., £5O and £25 Cons Do., ...... Blyth & Tyne erigina £25 (issd. at £45: Bristol and Exeter 1 Caledonian Carm. and Car digan Chester do Holylwari. Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, ea Paw, Cornwall Do. A Do. B el le Junction. Dirolin&BelfastJunc Dun. P. dt Abel. Jne, Do. N , A , East Anglian Eastern Counties... : East. 7Tnion, A Sti Ds., B. 5t0ck..... . Do., New . East Kent East Lancashire . Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles., Edin. Prth & Duarbsp Forth & Clyde Jrn Furness. Do. Extension........ I Glasgow &S. West!, 'Great N. of Scotlnd. Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. 5t0ck........ Gt. SO. &West.(lre.) Great Western Do. Stour Val, Rail Gua. Stk Irish South-Ear4en Lancaster & Carlisle 'Do., Thirds Do. Now Thirds Lancash. and Yorks} , Do., Wst. Riding Un. iLiv.C...sby.&Southpt !London & Blackwal Land. Bright & S.Cst. Loud, and N. Westn. iDo. Fifths Do.101.1311.,M& 8...0 no. Eighths London andS. Westn Do., £5O Do., £4O Lndndrryes Coleraine Ludndrrr. & Ennisk. Manch.Shef.& Linch, Do. Shares, No. I Do., Man. & Lin. Un Metropolitan Midland Do. Riming. & Derb Midld. G. West. am Do. Half Shares Newcastle& Carlisle Nwpt.Aberg. &add Newry & Enniskillei Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor. . Norfolk North n.Connties Un, North British North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., A Deferred .. Do., B Guarantee , ' N. Eastern—Berwie:: Do. do. Extension .. Do.do. G.N.E. o. Leeds Do. York North London N.&S.Wstrn.,Hamt stead, and City Jn. North Staffordshire. North Western. v. & S. West rn. June Nuneaton, Hinckley anti Leicester.. Wore., & Wolv. Pcrtsydonth o ,tish Central ~ SeottishMirlland.. liropshire Union 4outh Devon ...... 3aath Eastern south Wales s. Yrksh. di Riv. Drn Jo twines, Wok. 8-,,W017 •tockton Az . , Dar zkten & liratlet): gaff Vale )o. Pref., No. 1. Phames flay. P.& R. Ulverstone (St Lanes Vale o; Neath Watertl. & Kilkenny Waterforil&Limer.: West West End of London and Crystal Palace.. Do. A . Do. B • . West Loudon. Wimbledn & Croydon 23 - 6 3i - 4 •••• .... • •• 7/ - 16 - 15 134 - 14 9 - 8 85 - 87 58/ 58 11 ri 5 4 - 4 i 5 -, 6 - - 67i - 634 - 51 91 - 16 `- 17 74 - 76 6 - 84 - 69 - 71 , 18 -7 ! 0 [OO - 102 501 - T 514 68 - 72 6 - 7 5 - 7p 754 - 75 94 —•96 92i 934 2 14A - 833 9 8 41 8 7 el 21 - 21), id 61i 641 36 38 ... - - .. - ii - i*6 25 26 68 - 69 8/ - 11 5 - - 12 44i 45i 92 - 97 ii 2 23 - 25 100 - lot 73 75 42 -- 44 11 12 57 58 30i —31 i 5 --3 d, 2d 33 - 35 ... _. 18 19 3-- 4 18 - 20 4 - 6 FOREIGN. Antwerp dr itottzdam Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. in Sh. at par till '64 Ardennes....... ....... Belgian Eastn. June. Reziors to Graissessac Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Scril Do. [Demerara 'Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. Now East Indian, g. 5 p c Do. Extension Do. do. do., '59, do.. Gd. Tk of CanadaA is Do. St. Lawrence Az Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Deben. con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Cohtral of Franc Gt. Indian Peninsull guar. 5 per cent... Do. New 5 per cent Do. Extensions Great Luxembourp Constituted Sharef Do. Obligations Gt. Western of Canad qbares Do. New Do. Bds., payable's7,' with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O D. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lake Const. & Bask Lions and Turnhout Lyons and Genova Lyons di Meditorran Madras Do. New Maria Antonia Do. do. New 'Namur & Liege ( with interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. D 0.201. Shs. Do. 20/. 3 p. c Bch' (fmy. B. & Am s. She. NorwegianThankPre' Paris and Lyons I Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans , Paris and Rouen... ParisCaen di Cherbrg. D 0.. . Rome and Frascati Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. Obligations Sambre and Meuse Do. 54 p. cent. Pref Scinde Do Southern of France.. St. Andrew's and Quebec (A).,. West Flanders Do 5i per c. Prof Western of France &Aland JOINT-STOI alasia Bank of London iiri. Col. Bk.&Ln. C . Ilritish N. A moricat Chartd. Bank of Asia Ohrtd. Buk. of India, Australia, & China City Colonial ******* : * *: ** Commercial * o — f ******* Kng.Scot.&A ur.Cht Loud. Char t . Bk. o; Australia. ........... Ditto New .........•••. I,eidon and County Lmi.&E.Bnkg. Corp London Joint Stock.. Loud. & Westminster National Pro.of Eng. Do. New National South iona l Irelaud. New Wales Oriental Bank of Corporation irovincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp Co Royal Bi i'ish south Australia Union of Australia.. Do. New ValQll Q. LOlldg 711 - 721 2id 2 d 4- i . ... .-- ... 1 iel 354 —35 i 94 —103 p 2 1 4 —• 22i •1 -..- •• 9} - 9• r 15 - 16 68 70 87 - 89 3 -3/ 51 51 par ip 31 4} 21 3 22 —22 i 1 —11 p 99 101 105 110 Id 6 111 101 . 102 21 - 22 105 - 110 5 6p f6i - 19 1 7 9 pi 2 - 3 - 51 44 - 5 244 244 11i - 76 Re 44 d i in ... - pm 19i —20 i 21 2 d 2/ 2i 8 8i a 1• P ... -- pm 3i - 4 - 29i -30 i iBi i9A BANKS. 9G -- :42 54 - 56 .•. •.. i d par 57 7 d 15/ 164 13i 19 li 1 d par 2p N• ..... NO •••• Mom M• 35 _ ii 3 9 - 41. 52 - 54 .. '"''''' •• • 39 - 41 73 - 75 8 9 33 2 30 LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) POLICE INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) RAILWATI. Lte slut, Compans loam tricer yester lay. titt4lness this ,tay. COURT OF CHANCERY. BOLD T. lIIITCHINSON-JUDGMENT. SOUTHWARK. London N. Went. L.&N.W. Caledon... E. Un. E. C Bedford and Blet chley Buckghamsla Clydosdale Je Col. Stour Vy Sud. and Ha] E. !An. v. 6 pc E. Un. H. Sh Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. Ncw Glstr.cli Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. i Shares. Do. i Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do.Preferenoe Lon.,Til., & S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. Bxtn and Matlock Middlosbro' & Redcar Midld.Bradfd Newmarket Bury Exton En. Coun. N.dt Est.s p.c E. Count. Do. 6 rer et. D 0......... Do. Fixeds p , Do Prest. k 7 4 yre L. & N.W Do. i ars. A Do Roystu.& Hit. tNorthn Shot Roth and Lancash& Goole g. 5 p.c. York sh. Shrews. &Tier T. Brassoy S. Staffordsh. X. MClean Wear Valleygr 1 8tockt. & 6 per cent... , Darlingt Do Do WiltsVomrst iltWeetn The Lord Chancellor gave judgment to-day in this case, the arguments in which were concluded on Satur day last. The case came before his lordship on appeal from the judgment of the Master of the Rolls. The question in the court below turned on the marriage set tlement made on the marriage of the plaintiff, the Rev. Hugh Bold, and Miss Thesdoria Frances Hutchinson. The Master of the Rolls decided in favour of the plain tiff, holding that, notwithstanding the settlement con tained no covenant on the part of the father, his assets were liable to make good the :representation made by him as to his daughter's intended fortune, her husband, the plaintiff, having survived her. FREAKS OF A MEDICAL STUDENT.—CharIes Thomson, a fashionably-dressed young man, a medical student, re siding at No. 9, St. Thomas-street, Southwark, was brought before Mr. Combe, charged with cruelly tor turing a cat, by causing a dog to injure the same, in the Borough Market. Mr. Binns appeared for the accused. Serjeant Baker, 8 M, the acting inspector at the Stone's-end police station, stated that about two o'clock this morning he was passing through the Borough Mar ket, when he saw a dog worrying a cat and tearing pieces of flesh out of its sides. The prisoner was there urging the dog on ; and, perceiving such cruelty on his part, he considered it his duty to take him into custody. In cross-examination by Mr. Burns, witness said he saw several people about the market at the time, and they cried out "Shame." The prisoner was laughing and jeering, and kept saying to the dog, " Seize ber, seize her." The dog then flew at the cat and tore the flesh off. Witness did not know to whom the dog be longed. Etnstness dote this day. Gt.Nrtnn. E. Count. Caldonian. Do Gt. West) Yk. Now. & 73erw. Y. &NAI Do rD . o Easter: The facts of the case have already been published. The Lord Chancellor, to-day, after going at consider able length into the case, affirmed the decision of the court below, and dismissed the appeal with costs. Pete & Co. Norfolk.. L.& N. W. k Midid. Stckton & Darlingt. QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco.) THE BUSINESS OF THE COURT. In defence, Mr. Binns contended that his client had nothing whatever to do with either the dog or cat. He was passing through the Borough Market, like other persons, when the dog flew at the cat, and his curiosity made him stop to look at them. As for Mr. Baker, he had made a mistake about his client. Lord Campbell stated that to-morrow the Court would proceed with the special papers after the conclusion of motions, and on every day during term, as soon as the Crown paper was disposed of, the Court would proceed with the special papers. Mr. Combe said, that as the evidence was not conchs sive against the prisoner he must be discharged. REECE V. HARRISON. Mr. Sergeant Shee moved for a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be granted in this case on affidavits, on the ground that evidence had been impro perly received, misdirection on the part of the learned judge who tried the case, and that the verdict was against evidence. The action was tried at the last Middlesex sittings before Mr. Justice Erle, and was an action brought by the endorser of a pro missory note for 3001. given by three persons, of whom the defendant was one, to a person named Strasbourgh- The pleas were-Ist, that Strasbourgh had not endorsed the note ; 2d, that the note was obtained by the fraud of Strasbourgh ; 3d, that the note when overdue was endorsed to the plaintiff ; 4th, fraud and covin, no value or consideration being given for the endorsement ; and sth, that the plaintiff acted in taking the note as the agent of Strasbourgb, and was in collusion with him, Strasbourgh having obtained and procured the note by fraud. The defendant and the other two persons whose names were on the nota were three of the directors of tha London and County Assurance Company, Strasbourgh being appointed in October, 1854, ma nager and inspector of country agents. Shortly after his appointment it appeared by the evidence that the compPny was in want of money, and they applied to Strasbourgh to lend then 3001. He re fused to lend the amount to the company, but consented to lend it on the note of an individual director, or "on your's, Doctor," addressing the defendant. On the Ist November Strasbourgh gave a check for 2921. 103., less 71. 10s. discount. At the next meeting of the board a note was prepared, drawn on the 7th November, and signed by the defendant and two other directors ; but, before Strasbourgh took it, he said he must have the date of the note altered from the 7th to the Ist of No. vember, the day on which he advanced the money, and the note was altered accordingly. Several of the direc t ra on the trial stated that the note was altered 2ft,er it had been given to Strasbourgb, and although they did not stateit, they insinuated that he had alter- d it, and had com mitted a fraud on them by not permitting an inspection of his books to show he had not discounted the note with money belonging to the company, but no evidence was given that be had any money belonging to the com pany. It was not even suggested that Strasbourgh was a defaulter. The pi 3bability was, that Strasbourgh had not sufficient money of the company to discount this bill belonging to them, because he had but been recently appointed, and his duty was to go round to the county agents and receive money from them. Lord Campbell asked why Strasbourgh bad not been examined on the trial. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AND PRO CEEDINGS ON PECKHAM RYE. Yesterday, at the Lamneth Police-court, Samuel ilawgood, the son of a pawnbroker in Surrey-place, Old Kent-road, and William Smith, an assistant to a pawnbroker, in Locks-fields, were placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, on the following charge :—Mr. Lund, the superintendent of the P division of police, addressing the magistrate, said that the inhabitants of Peckham had subscribed a sum of 2501., as he was credibly informed, for the purchase of fireworks, and to defray the ne cessary expenses of a grand demonstration on the an niversary of Guy Fawkes and the memorable battle of Inkerman ; and from the fact of the intended grand doings being made known by printed handbills, ex tensively circulated, there was assembled on Peck ham Rye on the evening before no fewer than from 25,000 to 30,000 persons, the greater number being roughs, costermongers, and thieves, collected from all parts of the metropolis. At about seven o'clock in the evening, a procession was formed, consisting of three cr four carriages, drawn by four grey horses in each, with a band of music, and at least 200 persons carrying lighted torches. This cavalcade was headed by men on chargers, in military unlorms, to represent Lord Rag lan, Marshal Pelissier, and the Turkish and Sardinian geierals, and in the centre a "dummy" effigy of the Emperor of Russia. At the top of the Rye a large bonfire was set fire to, and a display of fireworks took place, during which, as he (Mr. Lund) under stood, the effigy of the Emperor of Russia was set fire to and burnt, amidst loud cheering. The procession being again formed, it was intended that it should pass through the village of Peckham, but he (Mr. Lund) knowing what the consequence of such a concourse of people passing through a village at such an hour must be, objected to their doing so, at least in proc - ssion. He, in consequence, despatched a mounted sergeant to the turning leading to the town to stop the procession, and after a short parley be succeeded in doing so. Tne pro cession and. crowd then moved towards the King's Arm Tavern, which faces the Rye, and on halting in front of it some persons up-stairs were indiscreet enough to throw some squibs among the crowd. The consequence was that those below made an im mediate attack on the house, threw into it a quan tity of fireworks of different descriptions, forced the door off the hinges, and at one time he thought that nothing less than the burning down or the de struction of the premises would have been the con sequence. By great exertion and perEuasion on the part of the constables, this was fortunately averted, not, however, before some injury was done to the house, lout to what extent he (Mr. Lund) had not been as yet in formed. Segeant Holdaway deposed that on coming up to the crowd in frwit of the King's Arms, he saw the prisoner Hawgood throw three squibs, and as soon as he could reach him he took him into custody. On doing so, and while taking him to the station-house, he was pelted with mud and stones, so that when he got to the station he was covered from head to foot with the former, and severely smart;ng from the injuries of the latter. Sergeant Frazer, 26, said he was on horseback, and, riding up to the King's Arms, he eaw various fireworks thrown at the house and windows, some of them I;ke balls of fire nearly as large as his bat, and he thought at the Vme nothing could save the house from destruction. Observing Ws brother sergeant in difficulties in endea vouring to get his prisoner along, he rode up to his as sistance and wag instantly attacked by the mob. He soon received a blow on the small of his back with a large stone, thrown with Euch force as to prevect his breathing for a moment or two, and he was still suffer ing the greatest pain from its effects. He (witness) f,.e quently heard the cries of "Hyde-park the -," and instantly a shower of mud and stones came towards him. He noticed the prisoner Smith amongst the crowd, and raw him rush towards Hawgood, and on his (witness) preventing him, and telling him to keep hack, he saw him deliberately stoop down, take up a piece of macadamised stone, which he flung at and struck Ha). Mr. Elliott observed, that if persons in the neigh bourhood were so foolish as to subscribe their money for such purposes, they must expect to get their win dows broken and other damage done. Mr. Sergeant Shce said it arose from an accident, but the defendant made his appenance in court when the learned judge was summing up to the jury. Lord Campbell said the court could only grant a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside on the affidavits, on the payment of costs. Rule granted accordingly. LEAKE v. YOUNG AND ANOTHER.—Mr. Hill, Q.C., said this action was tried at the last Liverpool assizes before Mr. Justice Crowder, when a verdict was re turned by the jury, by direction of the learned judge, for the plaintiff, with is. damage, and with leave to the defendant to move to enter the verdict for him. The action was one of ttover, brought by direction of the Lords Justices in a case of bankruptcy against the plain tiff, a woollen manufacturer, and the defendants, who were the assignees, and a question arose on the trial with respect to the petitioning creditors' debt and the act of bankruptcy. Rule granted. FRAY V. PCTTER. -SLANDER.--Mr. BOVi l ls RAI, in the absence of the Attorney-General from indisposition, moved for a new trial in the case which was tricl at the last Guildhall sittings, before Lord Campbell, and was for slander, when a verdict was returned for the plaintiff damages 1001. on that poi:,ion of the declaration charg ing the plaintiff with having sent an anonymous letter to the defendant. Tie action was brought by the plain. The prisoner Hawgood, in reply to the charge, ad mitted that he let off tbrze or four squibs ; but Smith denied the charge of throwing the stone as sworn to. Mr. Elliott ordered Hawgood to pay a penalty of 10s., or be imprisoned for 10 days ; and observed that in the cage of Smith, he had been guilty of a most scandalous proceeding, for in stone-throwing no one could see the end of it, and he must therefore pay a penalty of 31., or in default to be imprisoned for one month. tiff, principal lady's maid to Lady Zetland, against the defendant, an elderly person, who had been 25 yerrs in the same service as housekeeper iu the London estr blishment, and the alleged slander was stated to have been uttered at Marlborough, in the presence of Lady Zetland, and was to the following effect : —Tbat the de fendant had received an anonymous letter from Mrs. Fray, and the language was of such a disgusting nature that it was not fit to be produced in any court, and she believed she had been aided by Mrs. Hislop and Emily, and concocted by them, because Mrs. Fray could not have been aware of what had been going on in the establishment for so long a period back. She then knew it was her letter, because she had recei , ed one from her last week, and was similar to it—badly written, badly spelt, and altogether like her. That Mrs. Fray was often under the influence of drink. In fact, she was often drunk, and according to her own admis sion, at the servants' table, she was a drunkard. That she on every possible occasion made improper overtures to Gunn, the groom of the Chambers, in every hole and corner of the house, and that, in faith, the young man had been a second Joseph in her hands. She assured her ladyship what she had said of the plaintiff was per fectly true, and that she was unfit to be about her lady_ ship's person, or any woman—indeed she was not a re spectable person. The effect of this, the plaintiff said, was to deprive her of her situation, and injure her character. The learned counsel said it would be necessary to call their lordships' attention to the age of the defendant, which was over 60, because the plaintiff had made certain assertions with regard to her and Gunn. Lord Campbell—That is the love, not the law of the case. What he left to tb3 jury was, that if they be lieved the defendant made the statement compla'ned of, bona fide, after being summoned to the presence of Lady Zetland, it was a privileged communication, if the plaintiff was entitled to especial damages if she lost her situation in consequence. Mr. ,Bovill then referred to the evidence given on the trial, and to that of the plaintiff's, which showed she was labouring under various grievances, suoh a s being rung to dinner, and having to put coals on her own fire, which caused an ill-feeling on her part, and he was prepared to show, from the family physician, that the plaintiff was suffering at the time from nervous excite ment, bordering on insanity, and that it was her lady. ship's intention to have discharged her in consequence without no ice. He asked for a rule on the ground of misdirection ; second, that the finding of thejury should be for the defendant, and not the plaintiff ; thirdly, that the finding of the jury was imperfect and unsatisfactory ; an d fourthly, that the verdict was against the weight of evidence. . _ Lord Campbell said the learned counsel might take a rule generally. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Sittings in Banco.) JOBIL V. HINTON. THE SUN LONDON WJEDNESDAY EY 141NQ IN (4 NOVEMBER 7 1855 REPRESENTATION OF SOUTHWARK. A requisition signed by a number of master engineers and other large employers of labour having been pre sented to Sir C. Napier, that he would favour them by expounding his sentiments at a private meeting at which n me but electors should be present, Sir Charles at once acceded to a request emanating from so imporiant a portion of the constituency, and last night was set apart for the purpose. The place of meeting was a commo dious apartment in Nelson -square, known as Turner's dancing-rooms, capable of accommodating about 300 persons, and at the hour appointed it was filled with an influential audience, which, though a trifle less demon strative in its expressions of approval, was to the full as unanimous and enthusiastic as any of the large public out of-door meetings at which Admiral Napier has at tended. Mr. Amos, of the firm. of Easton and Amos, having been called to the chair, said that the gentlemen around him, having found it inconvenient to attend large public meetings where there was much crushing and difficulty of entrance, had resolved upon inviting the candidates to attend at that place to explain their sentiments. Both had kindly expressed their readiness to do so, and an appointment with Mr. Scovell had been made for Thursday next. Sir Charles was then present, but, under the altered circumstances of the canvass, it was not probable that the meeting on Thursday would take place. With this brief explanatory introduction he called upon Sir C. Napier to explain his political views. Sir C. NAPIER said that, when he had the pleasure of addressing a very large meeting upon the previous even ing, he little expected that things would have taken the turn they had, and that Mr. Scovell would have thought proper to resign the contest. He could not say, how ever, that he was sorry that the hon. gentleman had de termined upon that course, because to continue it longer could only be to keep up a great excitement, to lead to no satisfactory results so far as the retiring gentleman was concerned, and, in short, to do no good either to Mr. Scovell, the constituency, or himself. (Cheers.) He had been invited to attend there that evening to meet a select number of electors, who, of course, had great in fluence in the borough. He responded to their invitation with great pleasure, and should have done so with equal satisfaction had Mr. Scovell still been in the field. The object of the meeting wag, no doubt, to hear from him a statement of his sentiments, and he shosild endeavour to recapitulate them as briefly as possible while he varied his language so as not to prove wearisome. To com mence, then, with the first and most engrossing topic— the war. He was convinced that the country was una nimous in desiring the continuation of the war until it should be brought to a happy and successful termina tion. (Cheers.) What that termination must be he left to Ministers to decide upon their own responsibility; because he did not think that a meeting of that descrip tion was exactly competent to decido with what amount of humbling of Russia the country should be sarsfled. (Hear, hear.) He was quite sure, from the proceedings of the present Government, presided over by Lord Pal merston, that they would not make an inglorious peace. If they did make an inglorious peace, or attempted it, they would soon find that their tenure of office was at an end. (Loud and continued applause.) The hon. gentle man in the chair had asked him before the proceedings commenced whether he was a descendant of the great Napier of Merchistoun, who bad invented a machine for destroying any animal within a circuit of nine miles, and three feet high. He believed that his worthy an cestor had invented a machine of that description ; but he had thought that there were weapons enough of destruction in his day, and so he carried his invention along with him to the grave. Whether he would have done so had he lived in the present age was another question. (Hear.) However, Lord Dundonald, better known, perhaps, as Lord Cochrane, who in his younger days was the scourge of the enemy and the admiration of the navy, had a means of destroying—he was going to say every living being—nearly as high as his great an cestor could have done. Lord Dundonald had brought his invention before different Ministers, and his secret, although intrusted to a great many men, still remained in abeyance. Among others he had communicated it to him (Sir C. Napier), and, having given his utmost atten tion to the subject, he must say that he really believed that Lord Dundonald could accomplish all that lie had stated in the papers. What was the reason of the Go vernment for not adopting it he could not say. Perhaps humanity deterred them, or perhaps a fear of failure. He could not admit that a fear of failure was a good excuse, because the effects of a failure would fall entirely upon Lord Dundonald, who was the inventor of the plan, and who offered to carry it into execution, and RCN upon :he Government. Whether it was a humane invention or not he did not stop to inquire; but when we went to war, the best thing that we could do was to put an end to it as soon as possible ; and probably, after all, that was the most humane course which soonest brought a great war to a close. (Cheers.) He (Sir C. Napier) bad been called an old man ; but Lord Dundonald was 10 years older, and yet he ventured to say that that noble lord was possessed of as much zeal, energy, and nerve as any man in that room. He should not be at all afraid to trust himself entirely to Lord Dundonald's care--to go just as far as he went, and no further. (Hear, hear.) The gallant admiral then went through the heads of his political eLtechistn, and declared, as the sum of it all, that he was not exactly a Whig, and not exactly a Ra dical, but something between the two, without a name —gerhaps he might say that he was between a Whig and a Radical, w ith a leaning always to the Radical side. (Cheers and a laugh.) As ten days would pro bably elapse before the nomination, it was just possible that other candidates might start in the meantime; and the names of Mr. James, Q C , and of one or two aldermen had been already mentioned. (Cries of They'd better keep away," and loud cheers) It the y did come forward, the only effect would be to put themselves and him to trouble, anxiety, and expense, for he did not believe that there was the smallest Chance of any man in England now succeeding in Southwark. He had come among them a total and entire stranger. He bad met with more than kindness at their hands, for he had met with the most entbusia , tio reception wherever he had gone. He ascribed that, not to his own merits, but to the resolution which English men had when they found a man unjustly treated to come forward to his support. (Cheers.) With these sentiments, had Mr. Scovell thought. proper to maintain the contest, he should have gone to the poll in most perfect confidence that he should have been returned by a triumphant majority ; and to any new candidate who might think of presentiag himself, he said with equal c )nfidence, is the wores of the old Scotch maxim, that he "had better keep his breath to cool his parritch." Mr. HAWKINS (late chairman of Mr. Scovell's com mittee in this district), asked, after some complaints of the operation of the Poor Law, if Sir Charles would en deavour to tiling about in. equalisation of the poor-rate f Sir C. NArIER said that, while aware that the Poor Law had many defects, he could not pledge himself to do this thing or that thing, and he thought that he should be a very unfit man for a legislator if he were to state off hand that he would endeavour to abolish a law which was the law of the land. All he could promise was that he would do his utmost at all times to benefit the poor._ (Cheers.) Mr. IIAwKINs expressed himself perfectly satisfied with th's answer. Mr. ALSREY then moved a vote of con6dence in and approval of Sir C. Napier. He expressed the obligation which the meeting was under to the gal'?nt admiral for hav:ng responded so readily to their invitation ; and ob- served that the gallant officer's explanation bpi been so lucid and satisfactory that, to his mint, it left "rothing t ba required. If ever there were a straightforward, honest candidate for any place, he believed that they had one right before them. (Cheers.) Mr. WIIITEHURST eeconded the motion, ard Mr. Amos having expressed his perfect concutzenco it was, car, ed with unanimity. The meeting, which was probably more significant In its import as affecting the interests of the candidate than any that has yet been held, concluded with the customa , y compliment to the ch&rman, and three hearty cheers for the "hero Admiral." PREFEREN , 1100 F.OO Iberdeen Do. N 0.2, 7 p. c... Myth and trio 10 pel c. pref. (issd. at 50/ Brill. & Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyheao Guar. 5i per cent.. Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Do do. Prof. No. 2 Cork 4Bandons2p.e Dun.Prth .ifx Aber. J M. Anglian Cis. A Sh Do. do. Cls. B 6 p. c Do, do Cls. C 7 p. c ii:astern Counties Ex- tension, 5 p. c. No. I Do. No. 2 . Do. New 6 p. c. St. Est Un., G. 6 p. c Do. 51., 10 per cent. Do. 16/. DefJontr.Sh. bo. do. 4 per cent East Lancask. 6 p. ets E.&W. York. J. sths Ed. Prth.&Dun.4p.c Furness Glas. & S.W. G. 5 p. o . Great Northn. 5 p. c Do. 5 p. c. 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H a ll' s , wharfinger, wharehouses, the defendant at the same time, according to custom, delivering to the plaintiff the warrant for the delivery of the goods. The warrant ultimately turned out to be one of a number of forgeries by a person named Anderson, who was subsequently tried for forgery and was transported. The learned counsel contended the defendant had done all that was customary in delivering the warrant he received from the previous purchaser, and was not called upon to re. pay the purchase-money on the discovery of the forgery. The Court decided the delivery in question was no delivery, and that the verdict could not be disturbed. 13 Rule refused. NEWS.—(Tbis Day). CORN EXCHANGE. Scarcely any English wheat was on sale in to-day's mar ket, coastwise or by land-carriage. The business doing was, consequently, li m it e d , ye t , i n some instances, Mon day's prices were rather exceeded for flue qualities. Only 1,410 quarters of foreign wheat have come to hand this week. There was a fair demand for all kinds, at fully late currencies. The barley trade was steady, and malt realised former terms. We had a slow inquiry for oats, the flow of which was good, at barely stationary prices. In the value of beans, peas, and flour no change took place. L'nglish Irish Wheat. 1,070 ARRIVALS THIS WERE. Barley. I Malt. Oats. I roar. 1,250 1 210 420 883 3,690 7 ' 150 I —b.!, ForelLa 1 1,410 ROUGH Fine hops are in m BO oderate request HOP ,. at full prices, but inferior kinds aro a dull salo. Duty, 350,000/.. HITECHATEL. The trad e ruled inactive to-day, as follows :--Beef, from 38 2d to 48 6d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 8d ; pork, 3s 10(1 to 5s 2d per 81bs by the carcase. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(Phis Day.) LONDON, Nov. 7.—Wind this day at noon, S.S.W. ; light, cloudy weather. (PER ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday MoiAing. Ai rived—Henry Turner, from Port Madoc ; Salome, Leith ; Woodwill, Hopewell, and Plough, Swanage ; Le cage and George, Cherboug ; Johnson, Exeter ; Darling ton. Memel. Sailed—Southwestern (s.), for Jersey; Duke of Corn wall (s.), London ; Bessie and Maxien Kiratine, Sunder land ; Jessie, Newport ; Pet and Anne, Newcastle. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning. Wind, S.E. Arrived—Britannia and Nerbudda, from Montreal; Arab, Quebcc ; Egeritein, Antwerp. Sailed—Albion, for Messina ; John and Edward, Dun• kirk; Edward, Stettin ; Benares, Madras; Circassian, Arendal ; Rhoda, Gibraltar. QUEENSTOWN, Nor. 5. Wind W.S.W. Arrived—Active, from Bergen; Harvest, Baltimoxe ; Fidenter and Maansa, Syra ; Maria Costanza, Leghorn ; Predelita, Bucadecatro ; John Edrin, Elsinore. (BT SUBMARINE AND) BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 10.5 a.m. Wind W.S.W. ; tide, 31 hour's flood, weather cloudy. Arrived, 6th—Argus, from Malaga. Sailed—Electra, for Grenada. DEAL, Wednesday, 9.31 a.m. Wind, S.S.W. ; fresh. Anchored—Storm King, from China; Hussar, Cardiff; Jallawar, Akyab—all for London; Emma Eugenia, from London, for Barbadoes ; Lucia, London, for Rouen ; Ju'i ana London, for St. Kitt's. Passed—Leander, from Colombo, for London ; Her Ma jesty's steamer Dce, from the wes tward, for the river. TAE SOUTH WALES RAlLWAY.—Considerable force is now employed in levelling for the station at the Neyland terminus of this line. FlRES.—Yesterday morning the Duke of York Ta vern, in Turk-street, Bethnal-green, was entirely de stroyed by fire. Four houses adjoining the premises were seriously damps: - d.—Another public-house, the Fleece, in Masbam-street, Westminster, nearly shared a similar fate.—The veneer-store of Mr. Connell, timber merchant, Church-street, Bethnal-green, was totally de stroyed in consequence of a half-spent rocket falling into it. DARING ROBBERY.—James M'Kce, a private in the 75th Regiment, was committed by the county magis trates for trial for robbing a jeweller's shop in High street, Chatham. The fellow dashed his arm through the plate glass window, and made off with all he could lay his hands on. RUSSIAN PRIZES.—The following vessels, captured in the Black Sea, were yesterday condemned at the Admi ralty Court :—The Nicolo, Michael Archangel, Achilles, Ayos Joannis, Buona Fortuna, Ercole, Calliope, Con stantine, Ayos Caralambos, and the Aspasia. The Pal las, seized in the Baltic, To o also condemned. TAB MA TEEN MURDER. NEWCASLE-ON-TYNE, Nov. C.—The inquest on the body of Dorothy Bewicke, who was found murdered in her own dwelling-house, at Waterloo, near Matfen, in Northumberland, early on Sunday morning, the 21st ult., was resumed yesterday, at the Crown and Thistle Inn, Matfen, before Mr. Reed, coroner. Three men—namely, James Conroy, who had occu pied one of the cottages belo - nging to the deceased, and had left his home two or three days previous to the murder, and two men who had lodged with him, named Michael Allan, alias Anderson, and John Simms, were apprehended on suspicion shortly after the murder, and have since been confined in the county gaol at Morpeth. They have undergone several examinations before the magistrates, but the chief points against them were given in evidence at the inquest. Ann Robson spoke to a conversation with Conroy in her home at Sweethope, near Kirkwhelpington, a two before the murder took place, when Conroy referred g or to the reputed wealth of the deceased, and o bserved that she would have as little money as he had. Isabella M`Dougall spoke to the three pr isoners com ing to her house on the Saturday before the murder, and going away again in the afternoon ;they had sticks with them newly cut of mountain ash, w hich they left behind them and which were afterwards given to the police. William Robson, the receive dbrother-in-law notice to quit th e cot tage he occupied r-in-law of the deceas e d , spoke to Conroy having belon the deceased, and t o t h eir having had words about Conroy to Conroy taking in disorderly persons to lodge. He bad observed some sticks of moun tain ash out from th e Dane at Sweethope, and on th e Saturday before the murder saw the three prisoners come out o f the Dene , and proceed in the di rec ti on o f the house occupied by the last witness. John Gillespie, constable, had compared the sticks left at M`DouPirs' and also anothe r f ound in the house of the deceased after the murder, with the stumps in the Dene, and found them to correspond. A hammer with a hazel shank was also found in the house, and the shank corresponded with the cutting off a stump near to where the mountain ash sticks had been cut. Witness had taken a leather strap, with a buckle attached to it, from the hands of the deceased, and a rope from her legs. He found drops of grease upon the body of the deceased, which showed that a candle had been used. Rebecca Hudson, a married woman, at Kirk Harle, identified this belt and buckle as resembling one which Allan had round his leg when he was at her house along with Simms eight or nine days previous to the murder. Patrick O'Callaghan saw the three prisoners on the Saturday before the murder at West Harle, when Allan had with him a hazel stick, which witness identified as that which formed the shank of the hammer found in the house of the deceased after the murder. The inquest was adjourned till Monday, the 19th inst.. 8i f 704 70 1194 51 f i 93J I li Bii I 218 8 6S 8 74 i 351 221 I 15i 16 4 4 1 i 10 St. 20 50 10 St 26 1061 ad ad pm pm THE QUARTERLIEA The Quarterly Review. No. CXCIV. A thoroughly genial and exquisitely appreciative notice of Mr. Thackeray is, to our thinking, the charm of the present number of the Quarterly. The reviewer considers, as we ourselves have long done, that " The Newcomes" must be regarded as our great novelist's masterpiece. Justice is accorded to that most masterly creation—Colonel Thomas New come—henceforth to be cherished in remembrance as one of the glories of our national literature. Scarcely enough, however, is said in commenda tion of Monsieur Paul de Florae, Prince de Monti . : contour—pink and pattern of French gentlemen. More than enough is added in praise of the skill revealed in our satirist's excruciating portraiture of Mrs. Mackenzie—fiend rather than woman, and yet, though displayed as such, an actual callotype rather than an extravagant caricature. The passages extracted from " The Newcomes," in justification of the panegyrics here lavished upon the writer by the critic, are one and all of them precisely those we ourselves have, from time to time, specified accordingly as the numbers of the serial story is sued from the press periodically : passages so spe cified by us as brilliantly demonstrative of the wit, the pathos, the sarcasm, the eloquence, the humour, the tenderness, squand ere d b y the affluent hand of genius upon this one inimitable masterpiece. Among these, for example, must be remembered the celebration of the little ills of life as those by which existence is for the most part embittered ; the sarcastic inculcation of sel fishness as the primum mobile ; the droll memorial of the political principles of the East India Colonel, the real hero of the tale ; the humorous eulogium pronounced upon evil tempers, as exemplified by. the Bla c k D og o f L a d y K ew ; the memorable-disclo sure of the skeleton hid away somewhere or other, in a dark cupboard, in every household in the land; the pathetic affectation of sternness towards the woman who falls, and the yet more pathetic truthfulness of her career as depicted afterwards ; the life-like sketches of the vulgar Potters of Rosebury Green, of the delicious De Florae as an English country gentleman, and of that horrid little group typical of men of the tuft-hunting and toad-eating genus, as exemplified in the presence of Mr. Bowman, the valet, by honest Jack Todhunter and the ever-faithful Captain Henchman. Enough: having alluded thus far in detail to this very delightful criticism upon " The Newcomes," we may now content ourselves by referring every admirer of Mr. Thackeray to the entire panygeric itself as pronounced upon the Field ing of our age by the authoritative voice of the Quarterly Reviewer. The article on " Pitt and Fox," though undoubtedly clever as it is, would have been still better had the writer con fined his attention more im me di a t e l y t o th e twin subject nominally under his considera tion, instead of allowing his comments to wander away so very discursively upon the Earl of Shelburne and the Marquis of R oc ki ng h am . We begin, formally enough, with the birth of Wil liam Pitt, the second son of the great Earl of Chat ham, on the 28th of May, 1759—we attend to the record of his home tuition under his father's car e from six to fourteen—we follow him to his entrance, in 1773, at Pembroke Hall, in the University of Cambridge, and thence to the date of his being called to the bar in 1780, and o f his going the Western Circuit—we mark his unsuccessful attempt to be allowed to represent the University of Cam bridge in Parliament during the ensuing autumn, and of his ultimate entrance into the House of Com mons in the January of 1781, as M.P. for the bo rough of Appleby—and then we are all at sea floundering about in a chaos of loose commentaries upon the position of parties towards the end of the eighteenth century, hearing little or nothing about Pitt, or about Fox, but a very great deal about Lord North, and Lord Shelburne, and Lord Rock ingham, and Lord Thurlow, and the Lord knows who else besides. The paper wants condensation. It is altogether too long and too straggling. There is one pa.sage, however, of a wholly episodical, or rather parenthetical, characte r , which we cannot resist the satisfaction of quoting precisely as it stands here in the old Tory Quarterly. It occurs whore the reviewer is speaking of Lord Shelburne, afterwards Marquis of Lansdowne—of whom the writer observes that in his less amiable and attrac tive attributes ho is— "Favourably indeed contrasted by the son, who ulti mately succeeded to bis honours, and who yet lives to command the affectionate veneration of all, who, what ever the differences of party, can appreciate the nature in which a rare elevation and an exquisite suavity ad mit of no enmities, while cementing all friendships— and which, gracing by accomplished culture a patriotism not embittered by spleen nor alloyed by ambition, har monies into classic beauty the character of one with whom La3lius would have eagerly associated, and whom Cicero would havo lovingly described—' Ad inatationen sui vocet alios ;ut sesc splcudore anima: 41 vit sum, sicut speculum, prcvbcat civ3us.'" Against one observation pronounced by the Quar terly upon the intellectual incapacity and minis terial fatuity of Lord Rockingham we must protest, as against a view in every way monstrously unde served. It is where the writer says—"We question whether Lord Rockingham, take him altogether, was not the dullest man whom England ever saw in the rank of First Minister." An opinion alto gether, wo repeat, monstrously undeserved, when it is remembered that in these later times we have had the calamity to witness at the head of affairs a dull man— "Dull—beyond expression—dull," like my Lord Aberdeen. After whom we cannot conceive to ourselves the possibility of any further bathos ministerially. Half-a-dozen other articles yet remain to rejoice the readers of the Quarterly. Foremost among these in position, and perhaps in value, is the biographical and critical paper on the subject of Peter Daniel Huet, his life and opinions. Huet, the editor of " Origea," and better still and. far more memorable, the originator or projector of the famous Delphiu Classics !—the originator or projector of them at least in companionship with. the Duke of Montausier. A contribution upon the subject of " School Sermons," together with one upon the recently published "Caldwell Papers," a sort-of minor sequel to the celebrated " Paston Letters," known so well and valued so highly by every student of English historic literature, follow in duo course. Subsequently to which come—a philanthropic disquisition upon " The Charities and the Poor of London ;" an ingenious criticism upon certain lately compiled atin Dictiona ries and, to close our catalogue of the contents of the current number of the Quarterly, a brilliant essay upon " Men of Science," as sketched by the master hands of Arago and Brougham. THE LORD MAYOR'S DAY. In former days the Lord Mayor's pageant was a very showy affair. Allegorical in its design it was elaborately got up, each party, animal, or figure representing a part, illustrative of the whole, which ea masse typified corn' coerce, industry, and the vast resources of the metropolis of this great empire. There were, wo find, generally () specific actors w h o h a d s p ec i a l p ar t s t o perform. of the earliest pageants extant were written by Piele, Webster, mad other early dramatists. For some years, it appears, the City was u sually engaged from poet larreate, but a person h had had a regular of Charles the no year to 3 ear to compose those share in the establishment. City, and when the Civic h p e a r g e e i a g n n ts o , government of the First, when the Lord Mayor un controlledalnndtAlderamrieentolicaradcythoefthe Court was composed of the mercantile . ' City, much extravagance was conduits d scommltte' of which the in the streets played following are recorded and ewer, instances : and O y n e Ma th Yg e narn-e lddenYrmen the gave Prin ce Ch ar l es a thteheQKueieeg Queen a gold basin a diamond, w hi ch cost 4,oool. r o e r s t e h n t 7 osfo d on W e in Lord , To such a desperate plight w ere t h e revenues forced doen in c onse quence of these ex t ravagano i es, present f. ° ; ° l a . n ; d that, in order to pay for the above gifts, after having advance d LOC., the Aldermen arranged to liquidate the remainder of the debt by instalments of 1,0001. per annum until the whole was paid. These, however, were tames when the Aldermen bad sole control of the funds of the Corporation, and when they would not permit the Common Council to interfere, or, indeed, to hold any meetings, whenever they could help their doing so. Hence we find that, during the year 1633, not a single Court of Common Council was held, and in the preceding and succeeding years only one. The result of this loose state of things was that, upon an examination of the cash account of the City's estate some time before tl:e Commonwealth, it was found that 15 then living Aldermen, and the executors of four others who had died, owed the City upwards of 30,0001., and that up wards of 10,0001. was then due to the Trust Fund for arrears of interest. The cost of the procession on Lord Mayor's da l ?' i.s . regulated, of course, by the extent to which it is car r ied. Last year and the year before the expense nes by ti th : 5001. each year, the extra amount being Pala Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs conjointly, w en Sheriff except in the instance of Alderman Sidney's Mayoralty Wire had to pay the sums Lord Mayor and Sheriff Wallis refused to subscribe, the result being that the . verv e cost of the enter tainment's set down at 2,2001., charged between them. by the Corporation f moieties by the Lord s M uril ayo o r The paidLamorodunMtaoyfor2'9sTodlh.a-yiare Halm, 2,0001. is defrayed in equal"for ng and the two Sheriffs. - The allowance to the Lord Mayor, to enable his lord; is about y t e h a e r dignity_ of his high office , ; but this amount is very frequently : the expen i ure of a liberal chief magis trate.d'tesBhx, oc i ship exceeded ds furu s b t t. s ustain Civic h' tory furnishes one instance, and only one , of a gentleman is who was chosen by his fellow citizens to fill the civic chair refusing to do so. As the circumstance is singular, we furnish the entry as it apJ pears in the archives of the Corporation, and thus end our notes of the Lord Mayor's show, and its associations, for the present : " Sir Benjamin Hammet elected Lord Mayor, Mi. chaelmas, 1797, excused serving on paying a fine of 1 , 0001, "--Correspondent of tli,e Morning Advertiser. 'p all 14-r, 7 7.,00 206 206 too 20 1.6 20 z 0 40 100 40 50 25 20 all 50 all all 100 100 100 20 20 ex d