The Sun. — London, England, 1849-11-22 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, ,ele Lessee and Manager, Old BrOMptoll. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Comedy, entitled THE SERIOUS FA MILY. Characters by Messrs. Webster, J. Waßack, Buctstone ; Mrs W. Clifford, Miss Reynolds, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. After which the comic urama of THE JACOBITE. To be followed by the Farce 4:7 SEPARATE MAINTENANCE. Mr. PennipotheA Mr. Keeley ; Mrs. Pennipother, Mrs. Keeley ; Jan. Briggs, Miss P. Horton. To conclude with the Farce of LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS.'" Due notice will be given of the appearance of Mr. and Mrs. KEAN. The Box-office is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE SONS OF MAR'S. To be followed by an entirely new Extravaganza, entitled DO- MESTIC ECONOMY. John Grumly, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Grumley. Mrs. F. Matthews. After which a new Farce, entitled A BIRD OF PASSAGE. Mr. Carry Chick, Mr. Wright; Mr. Chaunt Ginger, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Charles Pusher, Mr. Boyce; Ernest Hopeful, Mr. Worrell; Mrs. Waters Rammer. Mrs. Frank Matthews. To conclude with a new slippery sketch called MRS. BANBURY'S SPOONS. Mr. Highbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford ; Bob Twinks, Mr. Wright ; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Bunbnry, Mrs. F. Matthews; Mrs. Highbury Barnes, Miss Brooks. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame. VestriS. sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will he performed NOT A BAD JUDGE. A fLer which METHINKS I SEE MY FATHER, To conclude with THE CRITIC ; or, a Tragedy Rehearsed. Sir Fretful Plagiary and Puff, Mr. C. Mathews ; Tilburina, Mrs. Yates. Dress I:oxes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; ls., h dr-orice to any part of the horse. All applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Allcroft, 15, New Bond-street. PRINCESS'S THEA.T.C.,%. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and 3lanager. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Opera, entitled CHARLES THE SE COND. After which the Extravaganza of THE FIRST NIGHT. To conclude with a new comic drama, entitled THE LIFE GU ARDSMAN. To conclude with BORROWING A HUSBAND. AS MET'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Immense hit ! Moncrieff's New Pedestrian and Equestrian Ex'ra vaganza of Mr. Briggs in the " Pleasur. s of Housekeeping and Horsekeeping, ' having been received v, Ith roars of laughter and shouts of approbation, will be repeated every evening until further notice.—Mr. Batty has engaged the fo'lowing eminent Gymnastic and Equestrian artistes, Mr. Milner and his two sons, Messrs. Crowhurst, A. Powell, A. Bridges, Mons. Valentine, and those ce lebrated Provincial Clowns, Messrs. Jackson and Wheale, who will appear. THIS EVENING, The performance will commence at a Quarter to Seven, with Fitz ball's magnificent Spectacle of THE PROPHET. After which Batty's SCENES OF THE ARENA. To conclude with the new Extravaganza of Mr. BRIGGS ; or the PLEASURES OF HOUSEKEEPING AND HORSEKEEPING, in which the whole Company and Stud of this Establishment, a long train of moveables, comprising Omnibus, Barouche, Go-Cart, and other vehicles, will appear. Box-oftico open from Eleven till Fot r. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. nue DAT —Morning, 8 min. after 6 I Evening, 41 min. after 6 Tt r 'oasow-I'orning, 56 min. after 6 i Evening, 28 min. after 7 THE WEATHER.—Sox OrricE, Nov. 22. Tarnstomwrztt, Lowest, 35; Highest. 45; Noon, 41. BAROMETER, 29.94—mercury going down. WIND S.S.E.—dull weather. f.tt 4,14. so 4v , c '464 ' - 4 . „4, - ;7. • Vi 16,110 , DI T • c.rtir. • 2•" 4 ,1"C . , F: r R:ii~J~~~~ ~'~~s LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1849 j A wonderful amount of parade is just now being attempted by the naval authorities respecting what they are facetiously pleased to call the expedition evinced in manning and fitting out British vessels. Occasionally, it is true, when the voice of popular displeasure at the indolence and mismanagement per ceptible in the maritime service becomes too audible, spasmodic effort :are made to assuage the general indignation. Of late this has been conspicuous. Several vessels have filled up their necessary compli ments within comparatively brief intervals. In the Leander, for example, 500 men within thirty days were entered; a similar period enabled a crew of 200 to be drafted into the Firebrand, an equal number to be passed into the Encounter, and 160 to be collected together in the Cormorant. About a month after its pendant was hoisted on board the Spiteful it obtained its complement of 160 men, and proceeded up the . Mediterranean. Precisely the same amount of crew was assembled, in twenty-five days, on board the Scourge, and on board, likewise, of the screw-steamer Conflict, lying off Devonport. Yet, with all these energetic endeavours which are made, every now and then intermittently, the service is compelled to languish in consequence of some rational and really economical arrangement for the retention of those able-bodied and efficient seamen who are scattered abroad upon society every time a ship is paid off, on returning from a foreign station. Nay, simultaneously with the recurrence of such circumstances as those just enumerated, the public is made aware of some grievous mismanage ment, like that witnessed at present in regard to the manning of the splendid eighty gun man-of-war, the Superb. As recently as the 14th of this present November, that magnificent vessel was, by 180 mariners, short of her required complement of 750, although for eight or nice months she has been lying off Spithead, while hundreds, or rather thousands, of prime first-rate seamen have been from week to week disbanded in her immediate vicinity. Conse quent upon this lamentable carelessness, stupidity, or procrastination, she is now compelled to take whatever men coma to hand, good, bad, or indifferent, and to scrape the necessary increase together with a "hurry scurry" of the most ominous description. To obviate henceforth the ceaseless repetition of these evils to the service it is incumbent upon the authori ties at the Admiralty themselves to take the initiative in the way of innovation and improvement ; other wise the task of effecting the changes now altogether inevitable will devolve immediately upon the Par liament. Professional men are proverbially jealous of the interference of non-professional men in the alterations introduced into their respective depart ments. If the naval authorities, therefore, are really solicitous to retain in their own hands exclusively the conduct of their own service, we would certainly commend to them the advisability of exa mining how far changes are demanded in its organi zation ; for most assuredly come those changes will —either from the Admiralty itself, or from the wholesome pressure from without, or from that instinctive intelligence from within which has not unfrequently been evidenced by the Legislature. The grievance of the present system, or rather we should invariably say, of the present want of system, has become altogether too glaring to be endurable. Common sense, right reason, a moment's considera tion, alike assure us that no course more effectually than the one hitherto pursued for the purpose of manning the navy could entail greater expense or more intolerable difficulties upon the country, a larger amount of anxiety. and annoyance upon the officers, or a more pitiable degeneration upon a class of men whose efficiency should be our pride, whose esprit de corps should be our boast, and whose col lective vigour and unremitting activity should be the themes of our national glory and exultation. Another evil, of a very different description, is at the same time visible in the general conduct of the maritime force of England. Those who are familiar with the condition of this great service—the principal souse of our national greatness, the chief instrument of our national defence, and the sole guarantee for the conservation of our naval supremacy—will not be slow to conjecture that the evil to which we are now making allusion is that which is, without question, sufficiently manifest in the construction of the vessels constituting the British Navy. It appears :to us, it must appear to any rational observer, that the habit has too long prevailed of permitting naval officers to exceed, with overmuch temerity the due limits of their very responsibl e an d very distinguished profession. To subject the labours of shipbuilding to the superin tendence of a man simply because he happens to wear a blue uniform coat appears to be rat a h n e d r an couple of epaulettes , ingenious method of embarrassing the di ffi culties of a science of itself sufficiently onerous and intricate, and a capital contrivance for frittering away much ability and no small amount of the public moneys. In illus tration of our opinion upon this point, it may prove somewhat appropriate to apply to the argument before us a passage penned upon a very different subject, namely upon the Civil Disabilities of the Jews, by no less distinguished a writer than the essayist, poet, and historian MACAULAY. It will be seen at once that in the subjoined paragraph our author has evidently taken asi ,Ilia text the somewhat hackneyed motto sutokLidtra crepidam. He says—" The points o f differend between Christianity and Judaism have very , Fich to do with a man's fitness to be a bi s h o p er pibbi; but they have no more to do S THE SUN, with his fitness to be a magistrate, a 'egislator, or a minister of finance, than with his fitness to be a cobbler. Nobody has ever thought of compelling cobblers to make any declaration on the true faith of a Christian• Any man would rather have his shoes mended by a heretical cobbler than by a person who subscribed all the Thirty-nine Articles, but bad never handled an awl. Men act thus, not because they are indifferent to religion, but because they do not see what religion has to do with the mending of their shoes." Now the ap plication of this mode of reasoning in the present instance must be sufficiently obvious without any very elabo rate explanation. The knowledge of bow to manage a vessel at sea, or of how to keep its crew in proper subordination, has surely no more to do with the science of ship-building than the belief in Judaism or in Christianity has to do with the skill or activity of a cobbler. And yet, perceptible, ridiculously perceptible as the truth of that assertion is, the authorities of the Admiralty now for some years past have appeared to consider otherwise. At any rate, whether they consider so or not, they have unques tionably acted as if they considered otherwise. Of this the enormous disbursements required for the experi• ments of SIMMONDS and others in the cultivation of the science of naval architecture afford ample and most melancholy testimony. We would see this eccentric predilection for amateur performances in the way of ship-building replaced by a reasonable preference for the aptitude of men who have adopted that description of labour systematically from the outset as their pro fession. We would see the capabilities of the science developed by a wholesome and not merely an idle and speculative scheme of competi tion. We would see the risk and the respon sibility of expenditure, in the way of mere experi ments, transferred at least now and then to the voluntary efforts of men capable of entering upon an honourable rivalry—a rivalry which would not only redound to their own credit, but would materially forward the interests of the naval service, while it would prevent any repetition of useless and unfortu nate extravagance on the part of the Government. Both in the want of Zorne propor C.TYOsogo ment for the better manning of the British navy, and in the necessity for some less expensive and more effectual plan for the construction of its vessels, there is visible a great and importunate necessity. Let the authorities at the Admiralty recognise the existence of this necessity before the opportunity of rectifying matters them selves has passed altogether beyond the reach of their influence, devolving upon the energetic and practical civism of some non-professional Member of the Com mons House of Parliament. Promptitude is incumbent upon them if they are solicitous to retain within their own hands the privilege of naval jurisdiction. The Ulster Orangemen and their sympathisers continue with unabated malignity to grumble forth their slanders against Lord CLARENDON. Old and refuted lies are repeated with a circumstantiality of time and place which does infinite credit to their in genuity. A mere dull, common-place falsehood ex pressed in vulgar generalities was not found sufficient to stamp a clear-headed statesman with the gross folly and inconsistency of secretly arming the Irish Orangemen, and they have been compelled to " come it a little stronger." They have been obliged to re sort to the usual trick of adepts in misrepresentation to give the air of probability to their inventions by a detail of minute particulars. It is now openly put forward by some of the Orange organs in Dublin, that the Orangemen were regularly drilled by some of her MAJESTY'S troops in a house in William street and in IVhitefriars' Hall; and it was arranged that they should receive a pass word to insure their recognition by the military on duty— " And that the signal for turning out' was to be com municated by the bell of St. Anne's Church tolling three distinct strokes, which signal was to be repeated there upon from the other parish steeples throughout the city. A book was regularly kept, containing the names and addresses of the Orangemen so organized, and an ow h was administered to each on receiving his arms and ac coutrements. But this book has been, as Colonel Phare in his circular declares, abstracted, and is now nowhere to be found." And Lord CLARENDON, they aver, did all this in the teeth of his express directions to every functionary in Ireland to whom was intrusted the distribution of arms. We are called upon to believe that one of the ablest men that ever represented the QUEEN in Ire land entered into a secret combination with the low Orangemen of Dublin, and for what end ? Wby should be deal in any secret mystery with TREsIIAM GREGG, and the silly brawlers of Whitefriars' Hall ? If he could rely upon the loyalty of any of the Dublin Orangemen, surely he would be perfectly justified in supplying them, in common with every other loyal subject in Ireland, with arms to be used in defence of the QUEEN and the laws. Their being Orange men would not at that time have justified the Lord- Lieutenant in excluding them as a body from the test of allegiance and loyalty, to which he had invited the well affected of all classes and creeds in Ireland. He would have been no more justified in refusing arms to the Orangeman who was vouched to him as a loyal subject than he would have been in refusing them to the liberal Protestant, or the well-disposed Catholic. Yet, in the teeth of this plain fact, the absurd tale is reiterated that the Viceroy secretly countenanced the mysterious drilling and organiza tion of the Dublin Orangemen, but, alas ! the book that could have proved all this is nowhere to be found ; indeed we believe not, for in truth this black book had never " a local habitation" beyond the fertile brain of the reckless inventor of this egregious absurdity. But nobody beyond the murky precincts of an Orange lodge could give it the smallest credence. " The three strokes of St. Anne's bell" will appeal in vain to the senses of even the most credu lous beyond the dark porch of some Orange conclave. Now let us for a moment suppose that the Irish Government on an occasion when the country was threatened with rebellion did place confidence in the Orangemen anti their leaders, let us for the sake of argument suppose that the Government supplied them with arms to aid the authorities in maintaining order and crushing insurrection and disloyalty, let us suppose that they were sworn to use those arms in sup port of the military against the QUEEN'S enemies, would this justify them in turning these weapons against their unoffending fellow-subjects? Would this justify them in using these arms to shed innocent blood ? Are they to turn the arms with which they were entrusted to use against the rebellious and disaffected, against the peaceful subjects of the QUEEN ? Surely the old woman of seventy was no rebel, the playful child was no rebel, the poor demented being whose skull was shattered was no rebel. If they obtained the QUEEN'S arms—as their organs assert they did— and used them for this unholy purpose, what does it prove but that they deceived the Government, be. trayed the trust reposed in them, and added duplicity to murder ? The argument of the Orangemen and their organs, if it mean anything, amounts to this, that Lord CLARENDON is answerable for the innocent blood shed on the 12th of July, because he supplied them with arms from the QUEEN'S armoury. If the Lord-Lieu tenant did this it would, no doubt, be a grave error. If he supplied these miscreants with arms and accoutrements, in order to indulge in insulting processions, and to parade, like a gang of ruthless bandits, through the country, spreading terror and devastation around, he would not only prove himself unfit for the high place, the arduous duties of which he has on all occasions so ably discharged, but he ought to be at once impeached for treason against the Con stitution and the laws. We entertain, however, little fear that he gave the smallest countenance to such atrocities ; and we believe that he will be able fully to crush these foul slanders on a fitting occasion, and before a proper tribunal. But the public have a deeper interest in this sub• ject than the mere question between Lord CLARENDON and the Orangemen. It is now of minor importance whether the arms were supplied by Lord RODEN or Lord CLARENDDN. The purity of the administra tiismoonvpeorr:tnfaedtbj ciu u y s ae,,n tic tdi: e on is at stake. The great and through whe a whether Ireland or d not, i i st s ti i ll ny t o o lve b d e . These are questions which affect the interests of the community. The blood of the innocent has been shed. It concerns the public to know whether men can countenance scenes of massacre, and then use their high office to shield murderers from the ven geance of outraged law. These are the serious ques tions with which the public have to deal—these are the principles which that public requires Lord LONDON, CLARENDON to vindicate; his character demands no vindication. The absurdity of the Orange slanders carries with it its own refutation. These fanatics would seem to say :—" My Lord CLARENDON, you gave us arms to aid in crushing rebellion, but our services were not required. The army and the police were found sufficient for the purpose ; you deprived us, by your timely and ever• getic measures, of the pleasure of shooting the Papists under cover of the QUEEN'S troops ; you must, therefore, allow us to indulge in a little sport on our own account by burning a few cabins, and shooting a few old women. You allowed us, my Lord, to march in grand procession, in 1848 ; true, the game was scarce in the route we then took, we had not much sport. On that occasion we were only able to get a stray shot or two at a Popish priest ; you did not appear angry then. Why, my Lord, should you visit us now, in 1849, with your displeasure, for merely ' wrecking a few houses and shooting a few beggarly Papists ?" These are the absurd arguments with which these insane bigots would attempt to justify the revolting atrocities of Dolly's Brae ; these are the fatuous puerilities with which the Irish Orangemen would presume to insult the common sense of the British empire. At this moment the Orangemen are sitting in secret conclave in Dublin, every moral cloaca in that wretched land has discharged its mal-coniente upon the metropolis. The evil spirits of the island are pent up within the walls. of Leitrim House, whence is to issue the dread explosion that is to annihilate Lord CLARENDON as a statesman, and hurl him from his high office a disgraced and dishonoured man. But let not the members of the Leitrim House cabal delude themselves with the notion that they can, by insane resolutions, or furious invectives against Lord CLARENDON, shield themselves from public reprobation, while they avow themselves the atettors of the crimes of their bretheren of Castlewellan. They must purify themselves from the imputation of the blood of the innocent ere they can appear before thp b; 3 l-, --t, „r p ule wan clean hands. The ravings of surpliced fanatics and furious bigots, who glory in such triumphs as Dolly's Brae, are but little calculated either to win public sympathy or dethrone a Viceroy. `We believe many indiscreet but amiable persons have been seduced into the Orange Society. We have no doubt many young persons, otherwise ra tional and Christian, have, through curiosity, fashion, or the persuasion of friends, been drawn into the vortex of this absurd and mischievous mysticism. Now, we would seriously ask these persons, What is , the use of Orangeism It is useless as a system of defence—the laws are sufficient to secure the life. liberty, and property of every British subject. It cannot be based on the principles of the Christian re ligion—the faith of CHRIST repudiates the sword, and enjoins peace, and love, and charity. It is useless as a manifestaticn of loyalty—true alle giance requires not the aid of secret signs and pass words. Uses, it can have none, but, alas !it has many evils. It is the nursery of evil passions, it is a moral pestilence tainting the young Protestant mind of Ireland, spreading hatred and all uncharitableness through the land, disgracing religion by assuming its garb, and putting humanity to the blush by the re volting misdeeds of its misguided votaries. There can be no peace or hope for Ireland while such a nui sance is tolerated, and we hope one of the first acts of the Legislature will be to put an end to it for ever. Tim FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Assembly on Tuesday discussed the proposition of M. RASPAIL, interdicting any banker from holding the office of Minister of Finance. The following is the report of the discussion, which was throughout one scene of confusion : M, Raspail, jun., developed his amendment. He argued that any minister who chose to speculate at the Bourse could make large gains by using the intelligence which he might receive in his official capacity.—(ol].) He meant nothing personal to any member of- the pre. sent Ministry.—(Loud laughter at this allusion to M. Feuld.) There were honest folks in every station— A Voice—Even amongst the Reds. M. Raspail, jun.—There were honest folks in every station, even amongst the Ministers. But was it to be supposed that a man accustomed to stock-jobbing could all at once renounce that practice because he became minister ?—(Enough I enough !goonlgo on !) He maintained that the minister would always remain banker. But the interests of the country were at stake, and something ought to be done in the matter. Would it not be well to declare that an ex-banker could not be come minister until five years had elapsed from the time that he had ceased to form part of the banking class ? (Loud interruption.) If that were not done, ministers ought to be selected elsewhere. A Voice—From the Mountain, for instance ? (Laughter.) M. Raspail, jun,—Could not an instance be found where a minister had saved 1,500,000 f. out of his salary of 100,000f.—(Loud interruption on the Right.) Vuices—%Vtio? who? Name name ! The President—An attack like that cannot be allowed to pass unnoticed. On the Right—Name, name, whom do you mean ? On the Left—Go on, go on ! The President— Twenty or thirty Ministers of Finance have quitted office with an unstained reputa tion. You cause a calumnious allegation to weigh on them all.—(Hear, hear.) On the Left—Do not reply to these interruptions. The President—The Hon. Gentleman must give some explanation, for we cannot allow—(lnterruption on the Left.) M. Raspail, jun., had only spoken of a vague re miniscence. On the Right—No, no ! Not a word of that was said. M. Raspail, jun. (turning towards the Right).-- The Gentlemen at that bide could better tell the names than he-- On the Right—Order, order I You are an insolent fellow. The President—When whole classes are attacked, they defend themselves by th e ir own f orce aga i nst calumny; but when a person individualises, he ought to give names. On the Left—No, no! On the Right—Yes, 3 es! The President—You must give the name, or I shall call you to order. On the Left—lt is downright tyranny. A. Member of the Extreme Left here rose, and said something with great animation, which we could not catch. The President-13y such vivacity, you encourage the Hon. Gentleman to go still further. I call you to order. M. Bourzat—lt will be said next that no minister was ever guilty of peculation! A Voice on the Right—We never belonged to the Provisional Government. M. Raspail, jun.—When I refer to a reminiscence which I draw from history, I am called to order. I submit to being so called to order. On the Right—Your history is calumny! The President—You are unable to state the fact. I formally declare it.—(Hear, hear.) Great agitation was here manifested. Loud exclama tions were uttered on the Right, whilst on the Left we caught the words "Peculating Ministers—Teste— Cuthires." M. Raspail, jun.--I am really astonished that this question has raised such a tempest, —(Loud interrup tion) _ _ Vie President—What, you insult a large portion of the Assembly, and you are surprised that they are in• dignant ! Several Members of the Right at the foot of the tri. buns, and amongst others M. Base, cried out, " Name name Lwe insist on it." M. Respell, jun. (with great apparent unconcern) — Contemporary history On the Right—No, no 1 Name, name ! The President, to M. Raspail—lf you continue in the seine strain, I shall consult the Assembly as to the pro priety of publicly censuring you.—(Applause.) M. Bac approached M. Raspail, and addressed some observation to him. M. de Benet spoke with energy to M. Bac. The President—l allow Hon. Gentlemen to ascend the tribune to discuss and not to insult.—(Great agitation, which lasted some time.) M. Raspail, jun.-1 regret having alluded to a fact which has so moved the Assembly, when I could have cited others which could not have done so.—(On the Eight—You cite no fact !) Can you forget the case of M. Tests ? Did he not yield to the solicitations of an ex-Minister of War and a banker ?—(Great agitation.) I cannot say if justice strikes the guilty in proportio❑ to their position. Ido not think it does ; for we every day see poor devils condemned for a paltry theft, and sometimes when only intending to procure bread for their families.—(Violent murmurs.) The President—You attack everything, even what has bec 11 judged, and those who judged it!—(Tumult on the Left.)_ M. Ducb e —lt is you who attacked him just now. The President—l recommend M. Duct,` to use less violence, or I must call him to order. On the Left—lt was the Right who interrupted jus now, and it was we whom the President called to order. The President—There was on the Right just now a legitimate indignation, and on the Left a violence with out example—an illicit support to a calumnious assertion struggle against the President himsvlt when endea vouring to enforce order.—(Hear, hear.) M. Raspail, jun.—Was not a letter found on the 24th of February at the Tuileries, in which I forget what King wrote to Louis Philippe: —" Your Ministers ma naged badly, else assuredly you would have realised millions of profit."—(Loud exclamations.) On the Right—lt is a lie I Other Voices—lt is alike ridiculous and odious. The President—Once for all, I call on the li9l]. THURSDAY EVENING: NOVEMBER 22, 1849. Gentleman to confine hmself to a proper tone of dis cussion. M. Raspail, jun., then vent on to argue on the facility of forming a ministry without including a banker amongst its members, aid declared that by so doing the choice of the President )f the Republic would not be any way circumscribed, since he had himself deslared in his works that he siould take good care never to appoint a banker miniter.—(Movement.) The Hon. Gentleman concluded bycalling on the Assembly to take the proposition into consderation.—(Marks of indigna tion on the Right.) M. do Larochdaqueln ascended the tribune amidst cries of " Do not reply.' He merely intended, he said, to inform the Assembly sf, what had passed before the Committee. M. Raspail, when invited to explain his views, answered, " I have not studied the question so as to bo able to enter into my development.—(Laughter.) He added, " But it appears to me that a Minister of Finance can speculate at the Bourse more than any other." On the Left—Certainly; be is quite right. M. de Larochejaquelin—He then cited the fact of 1,500,000 f. having been gained by a Minster of Finance. M. Raspail, jun.—l did not say a Minister of Finance. M. de Larecisejaquelin—l heard what the Hon. Gen tleman said, and I think that I can take on me to declare that he said a Minister of Finance. But since he now withdraws that expression, I shall be content to take that of Minister. We called on M. Raspail to name the person, but he said nothing. On the Left—He acted quite right! On the Right—lt is shameful ! M do Larochejaquelin—M. Raspail is a young man in political matters, but as he grows older he will learn that one of the greatest evils in politics is to dissemi nate calumnies which he caanot prove.—(Hear, hear.) But ho ought to have taken a lesson from his own party, and remember that the Provisional Government chose two bankers, one after the other, for Ministers of Finance.—(Hear, hear.) Voices—M. Gamier Pages was no banker. M. de Rochejaquelin—No; but M. Goudchaux was, and after him M. Trouve Chauvel.—(Hear, hear.) Was there anything to be said against these gentlemen? Cer tainly not. What M. Raspail proposes would not be a progress, but a backward step in the morality of the nation, for it would imply a doubt. It is natural that a Minister of Finance should be selected from amongst those who are best acquainted with financial matters, and consequently it was nothing wonderful to find a banker selected. The committee is unanimous in calling on you to reject the proposition. M. de Montebello—M. Raspail has brought to the a lt is permissible to believe that he reckoned on the disgust which he would inspire us with—(Bear, hear)—to escape all demands for explanation.—(Hear, hear.) But there is an assertion which I cannot allow to pass unno ticed—that which relates to a pretended letter from some sovereign to King Louis Philippe. I summon M. Raspail to ascend the tribune and produce that letter, or at least to state its contents.—(Loud applause.) M. Raspail, jun.—l have no answer to make to the last speaker—(Ah, ah)—but I shall reply to the com mittee.—(No, no. Answer what relates to your calumny.) I cited a fact which is notorious. Every one knows it.—(Oh, oh.) From the Benches of the Committee—lt is a calumny. M. Raipail,jun.—l regret that M. de Larochejaquelin should ...imagine that I intended any thing personal against the Minister of Finance.—(oh, oh.) M. do Larochejaquelin—l sever said a word on the subject.—(Laughter.) On the Right—The letter, the letter! M. Raspail, jun.—He leas mentioned that M. Trouve Chauvel and M. Goudchaux were bankers; but I myself was the first to admit that other Ministers could also speculate at the Bourse. A Voice—Of what use is your proposition, then ? (Laughter.) Voices on the Right—The letter! the letter! M. Respell then descended from the tribune in the midst of jeers and laughter. The President—The Hon. Gentleman admitting that he is unable to reply to the interpellations of the as sembly, I proceed to put to the vote the conclusions of the committee, recommending that the proposition shall not be entertained. The Assembly being consulted decided by an immense majority that the proposition should not be taken into consideration. The sitting was brought to a close at six o'clock. M. DUPIN and his friends, the reactionaries, are doing the cause of liberalism infinite service in com ing forward as the defenders of MM. TESTE and CURIERES, and thus establishing a solidarite between the members of the reactionary party and these con victed criminals. Nossitur a soicis is a maxim we commend to the especial study of the constituents of M. DUPIN and of the other friends and abettors of M. TESTE. Some of the journals, not satisfied with the dismissal from the army of M. PIERRE BONA PARTE, demand that he shall be brought to a court martial for having quitted his post without orders. It is said that M. PIERRE BONAPARTE is about to publish a justification of his conduct. The .'doniteur publishes a list of twenty prefects who are removed or displaced. It is said that M. FoULD is - about to retire from office, in consequence of the desire expressed by the PRESIDENT of the Republic to continue the abolition of the tax upon potable liquors. At the commencement of the sitting of the As sembly yesterday M. CREMIEUX expressed a wish to know whether the Government intended to afford any assistance to those who were wounded in the re volution of February, when N. SEGUR D'AGUESSEAU remarked that those who were the most worthy of assistance were the municipal guards who were attacked on that occasion. These observations gave rise to the most violent outburst from the Mountain, and for an hour the Chamber was the scene of the most uproarious tumult, and several Members of the Left were called to order by name. M. BERTHOLIN reproached the President with being the tool of this majority, instead of acting as the president of a Republican Assembly.—(Cries of {dive la Republique' and "A has les factieue were raised.) After order had been restored, the Chamber proceeded to discuss the Bill relative to the naturaliza tion of foreigners, the discussion on which possessed nothing of interest. PARIS BOURSE, WEDNESDAY, Nor. 21. The market opened with some firmness, at a alight advance on the closing quotations of yesterday, and for a time kept looking up, but towards the close many sales were made to realise prbfits, and prices again gave way, to close rather lower than on the previous day, Threes leaving off at 57f. 5c., and Fives at 89f. 85c. The mar ket closed as follows :—Threes for cash, 57f.; for ac count, 57f. 5c.; Fives, for cash, 89f. 80c.; for account, 89f. 85c.; Bank of France Shares, 2,395 f.; Neapolitan, 90f. 50c.; Spanish Threes, 35ff.; Ditto Fives, not quoted. RAILWAYS.—The Share Market has not been very lively, with but very slight variation in quotations. Orleans closed at 738 f. 75e.; Rouen, 530 f.; Havre, 235 f.; Avignon, 220 f.; Vierzon, 300 f.; Bale, 103 f. 75c.; Bor deaux, 398 f. 75e.; Northern, 445 f.; Paris and Stras burg, USG 75c.; Nantes, 28.; Montereau, 110 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT MBE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 21. Boulogne and Amiens, sX—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 121,4—Dutch Rhenish, Northern of France, 2% dig. Orleans and Bordeaux, 2%—Paris and Rouen, 204—Rouen and Havre, 9%. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 16th have arrived. The conferences between NARVAI2, CHRISTINA and the QUEEN and KING Consort were frequent they relate it is said to the Palace . question. MADRID BOLSA, Nov. 16.—Three per Cents., 28i, Five per Cents., 11i, both paper. Exchange on Lon don, 50 45, disarming of all the fortresses on the Rhine. The disarming of that at Cologne has commenced. AUSTRIA. The Vienna journals announce the death of the notorious Prince HOHENLOE, the miracle monger The commission appointed by the Austrian Govern ment to revise the tariff has commenced its labours. The first reduction proposed is on iron, metals in general, china, and earthen ware goods, glass, chemical productions, and raw material for manufactures. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were es timated at 6,000 bales, including 2,000 American on speculation; and comprised 4,500 American, at 51d to 7d., 150 Pernam and Maranham, at 61d. to 71d, 300 Bahia, at 61cl. to 60. 100 Egyptian, at 71d. to 71d., and 400 Surat, at 41d. to qd. per lb. The market closed rather tamely, and, compared with Friday's rates, prices of American were id. to *d. lower, and Brazil and Egyptian, 8d. —Railway Shares declined consi derably. The colonial produce markets are not very lively, and the accounts from India advise us of the probability of large supplies of sugar from the Mauritius. It may be interesting to note that a report was read at a meeting of the City of London Board of Guardians held this week upon the subject of the smoke nuisance, and which stated that coke was not found to be of suffi cient strength for the fire apparatus, and to prevent the smoke from being a nuisance to the neighbourhood a shaft twenty feet higher should be added. Accounts from Amsterdam, give Tuesday's quotation for Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 531, and Spanish Three per Cents. 27 1-16. REDUCTION OF DISCOUNT. At the Bank of England parlour meeting held this morning, the determination has been come to of re ducing the rate of discount. It is now 21 per cent. on the best bills. The Funds have been very buoyant again in the anti cipation of the measure adopted by the Bank of Eng land Directors. Consols have ranged from 94t to 941 The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents, have been 934 to 94, and the Three per Cents. 931 to 1. Exchequer bills have been 50s. and 475. premium. In the Foreign Market the principal feature has been an active business in Spanish Bonds, upon the informa tion that the Government at Madrid is likely to accom plish a saving of two millions per annum in the expen diture. The Three per Cents. have been 361 to Portuguese Four per Cents are nominally 33 to 34. Mexican Bonds are 26i to 27. Brazil Stock is worth 85. Dutch Two-and a- Half per Cents. have been 54-i to 4, shares are dull, but comparatively firm. f3RITI6II yUNDS T 111:, DA r AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cert. Consols Anns New 3 , 4 per Cent. Anus. 93 % 3 /1 94 93 Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, IV6O B% 8 7-16 D 0.30 Years, Empire Octl 0, 1859 -16 oo Y...., r,pire Jan. 5, 1860 B% South Sea Stock Ditto New Annir ties Consols for Account ... 94%%%% Exchequer Bills. 1 1 Ad. 2d. March. June. 1,000/. Small 52 45 r i•Ricic OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCE. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent B5 Equador Bonds ... Mexican Sonsts,lB46, 5 per Cent, Coupons Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto Account Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o Ditto lB4B 10 Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent......... 36%%% 3 / 4 Dividends on the above eavable in London. Belgian 4% per Cent. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 1 /s 4 Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificates BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SILUIES Ay ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAW. Paz SHARE. k.t.rftieeti Ditto, Preference 6l 5 l /9 to r., Notting., Boston,&c. 6 3 /{ — .... • to Nyrshire and Galloway .11fitst, and County Down .. 28 3erks and Hants Extension (Gt. West. Perpet. 5 per ct.) 6 4irmingharn f OxfordJunct., calls duly pd, or with guar. 20 Do., without a guarantee... 20 dirmingham,Wol.,& Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 ...~ Do., without a guarantee... 10 Binning., W 01., & Stour Val. 131.14 s — Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction.., 2O doston, Stamt., & 45 i3ristol and Exeter Do~ Thirds Buckinghamshire.. — 17% _aledonian Ditto, New 101. Preference 10 ...... 7N jr .. to Ditto. Clydesdale Junction 50 nester and Holyhead 5O ..... Ditto, Preference Aarence. Do., lat Class, 6 per Cent... 10 D0.,2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 Direct London & Portsmouth 5 , 4 — to Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 40 Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 27% — to • East Anglia, 251. L. & E., mad L. & D , 25 ...... to , Ditto, 181., E. & H lB Do, 31. 135.,6 p. Ct. Pref. 3% _ to Eastern Counties Do. New Guarant. 6 per Ct. 10 Do. Exten., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d .. Do., d 0... ......... N 0.2,6/. 13a. 4d... . Do., Northern & Eaitein... 50 Do., 5 per cent. Ditto, New __ _ __ - 43 . .... to Eastern Union, Class A (late ...... ... .25 Ditto, ditto, Class A, ditto 3 1 ,4 — Ditto, do, Class B (I. &B) 25 ...... . . . _ Ditto, do, Class C, ditto... 25 Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per ct.) 20 - 4ast Lancashire ... Ditto, New ... .......... .... • 25 Do., New Quarters Do., 6 per Cent. Preference Quarter Shares 6;,t — East Lincolnshire ',:dinburgh and Glasgow 5O — to Ditto, Half Shares Edinburgh and Northern ... 25 Ditto, New port.. ... ..... .. 15 rxeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — Exeter and Exm0uth......... 21s. alusg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..Bl. 6s.Bd -® .. .... to Glasgow, Kilmai nock, & Ayr 50 — to Do. Preference Consolidated —•—• - to Great Northern 2O Do. % A Deferred ..... ... 12% 2 3 ,9 to Do. % B 6 per Cent. Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 50 Great North of Eng1and......100 ......214 . to Ditto, New 40/.... ...... .. .. 40 Ditto, ditto .... ..... 35 Ditto, S ew 30/ Ditto, New 151 ... ...... 15 ...... . ... to Great Western 100 —55 3 / 4 46% 55 3 / 4 to E 6 Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths 2O — to Do. New 171 Hull and Selby Ditto, Half Shares .. Ditto,Quarter Shares Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 Do., Thirds L a ncashire and Yorkshire ...1 00 ..... to Ditto, ditto, M. B. & B ... 98 Ditto, ditto Ditto Half Shares — 49 Ditto Quarters 23% — ..,... to Ditto Fifths lO .... . .... to Ditto, Thirds.-- .. Do., New Guar. 6 per cent lO Do. Liverpool axed Bury... 49 Do. (Hudders. and Sheff.) 50 Do., West Riding Union... 10 .... Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 Do., do., Half Shares (A) 10 Leeds and Bradford 5O ..... ...... to Leeds and Thirsk ........ Do. ,do., Prater., 6 per Cent. 5 . Ditto, ditto... No. 1 5 Ditto, ditto ..... ... No. 3 5 Do. Pref. Quarters, 1848... 9 Liverpool, Crosby, andSouth port.. lO - London & Blackwell ......111. 6s. Ed — ...... to -• Lond., Bright., & South Coast 100 Do., New 5/., gua. 6pr Ct.loo l3O .... . to 127% Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 . — - .... to De. Preferential, 5 per Ct., 50 — ... .. to Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... London and Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d... Ditto Preference 2O London & North Western.....loo .11 1 3A %... to 112 Do. New Quarters. Do. Fifths 7 Do. 40i. Shares.....L. & M 85 — to Do. 10/.... M. and B. (C.) 1 London and S. We1tem....... 50 Ditto, New 501........ .. ..... 42%...... Ditto, New 40/. Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent .•• Londonderry and Coleraine... 25 Do. Half Shares . 5 .. ••• .. to Londonderry and Enniskillen 25 Do~ Half Shares L- . ..westoff, guar. 4 per ct 2O Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 13 ...... Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 5 Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto 'A Shares ( No. 1) ... 25 ...... . t Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 — to Ditto, % Shares (No. 3)... 124 ...... Do., New 10/. Preference.. 10 ... .. 9 Ditto, Grimsby & Sheffield 50 — to Ditto, ditto. ..... ....... ...... 20 Ditto, ditto ... ..... Ditto Sheffield and Lino. 25 •••••• Ditto, Grimsby Dock 25 — to _ Ditto, Man. & Lin. Union 4/. 25.... Midland......- .... ........ ...100 Ditto, Consol. Preference...loo - Ditto, 501. Shares ..... ...... 30 Zdidland, liirm., and Derby...loo ... .. klidlancl, Consol.l.3ristei and Birmingham, 6 per cent...loo Midland, Bristol and Glonc. 42 ... Ditto ditto 22/. 78. ... . Ditto,ErewashVal., Pref.- 50 Midland, Leices. and Swan nincton (8 per ct.gua.)....10 0 .... . Liidld. Great Western (Irish) 50 Middlesbro' and Redcar. 6 per cent. guar. Newer sae and Carlisle lOO ...... - Ditto Quarter Shares . .... 25 ... .. Newmarket ...... ... ..... ..... 23 Ditto Extension Scrip... 2/. ,2s .. Newport Abergy., and Lieret. 6 Nowry and Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint, anu Rostrevor ....,.... .. —___ ............... ... :• tt r ono __ !Cortolk lOO Ditto New 20/. Ditto Guaranteed 5 per ct. 20 .. ... to -.- Do. Do. 514 per cent...—. 5 Do. do. Waveney Valley.. 2 ...... Northern Counties Union .. 4 North British .. .. ......... . 25 ...... - Ditto Half Shares, ..... .... 12% — to GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. PRUSSIA. The Prussian Stoats Anzeiger publishes the fol• lowing notice from the Minister of Commerce : " Merchants have been officially informed of the prin ciple adopted by Government relative to the treatment of merchandise bearing a ticket in the English language and destined for importation into or transit through England. Hence all labels are prohibited which would give the merchandise the appearance of having an Eng lish origin—such as the arms of England, the initials of the Queen of England, the name of English manufac turers or of English manufacturing districts; but that the English language may be used on labels to indicate the quality of the merchandise, and to express technical phrases which are used in England to designate cer tain kinds of merchandise. " It appears from an official communication from the English Government, under date of October 10, that those principles have undergone a new modification. By this all merchandise bearing only labels indicat ing their quality in the English language, shall no longer be admitted without conditions, either for im portation or in transit ; they shall be admitted only when accompanied by the name and residence of the foreign manufacturer, and an inscription in a language not English, rhich shall obviate every doubt as to their origin. If these conditions are not complied with, the merchandise from which the English label may be torn off shall be returned free ; that from which it can not be torn off shall be sent back to the port whence it came. _ . _ " All merchandise, in regard to which fraud is eviden shell be confiFcated." The same journal publishes the answer made in the sitting of the Council of Administration on the 17th, by the Prussian Plenipotentiary, to the declarations of Saxony and Hanover. Prussia persists in her resolution to summon the Diet, and protests that the prcjects of those two kingdoms would have no other result than to postpone indefinitely the union of Germany. It is said that the Prussian Government has sent a Minister to Copenhagen with powers to attempt a settlement of the affairs of the Duchies of Schleswig- Holstein. The New Prussian Gazette gays that for some days past the workmen engaged on the canal of the gate of Silesia repair to their work armed with carbines, and that at night persons are seen walking the streets carrying arms, and with colours wound round the shafts of halberds. The Democrats are supposed to possess 12,000 guns. The Prussian Minister of War has proposed the SAXE-GOTHA. Prince ALBERT has protested against the resolution of the Chamber declaring all the domains of the Ducal family the property of the country, and settling upon the reigning DUKE a civil list in exchange for them. BADEN. It is said that the Grand Duke of BADEN intends to abdicate in favour of his second son. HOLLAND. SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES GENERAL. THE HAGUE, Nov. 19.—1 n the sitting held this day Messrs. VAN HOEVELL and VAN HUMSTRE, who have been re-elected, took their seats, after having taken the oath prescribed by the fundamental law. A project of law was presented for grunting the ne cessary sums for providing for the expenses resulting from the conversion of the Deferred Debt and Trea sury Bonds into the national debt. The project was referred to the sections. The Chamber then proceeded to the formation of the list of five candidates to be presented to the KING for his selection of a Minister of the High Court of the Netherlands, occasioned by the vacancy caused by the death of the Councillor of State, M. NOIRET DE BRUIGN. The gentlemen proposed were —M. EVEETZ, M. SCEIMOLCK, M. VAN YSSELSTEIN, M. VAN HASSELT, and M. ASSES. This list is to be presented to the KING by a com mittee appointed by the Chamber. The Minister of Finance communicated to the Chambers the result of the fresh revision to which the Ministry had subjected the budget of 1850, al ready presented to the Chamber, and of the modifica tions which they had introduced into it. The 4saaBs..t, vu ~ l.b 4. is" 4akt n immediately into deliberation by the Chamber, as the changes introduced into it were very minute, and the time allowed for the discussion, before the close of the year, being so short.—StaatsCourant. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 20.—DUTCH FUNDS.—Active Debt, Two-and •a-Half per Cent., 53+ bills, 531 money ; ditto Three per Cent., 624 bills, 631 money; ditto Four per Cent., 824 bills, 824 money ; East India Loan Four per Cent., 82 bills, 82f money. Exchanges, on London, sight, 12 05 ; ditto, two months, 12. Hamburgh, sight, 34 87 ; ditto, two months, 34 62. Paris, sight, 56 62 ; ditto, two months, 56 25.—Dutch Papers, Nov. 20. TURKEY. Sir W. PARKER was to proceed on the 12th to Constantinople in the Odin. The English squadron was in the Dardanelles, and the French squadron in Vourla Bay. THE POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY FOR 1850. The Post-office London Directory has now been in existence upwards of half a century. From small beginnings it has gone on year by year improving until this, the fifty-first annual impression, which is incontestably superior to its predecessors, and which may be considered as near an approach to perfection as it is perhaps possible to attain in a work of this description. The Post- office London Directory for 1850 extends to 2,091 pages, and consists of no less than twelve separate directories, under the heads of the Official, the Street, the Commercial, the Trades, the Law, the Court, the Parliamentary, the Postal, the City, the Conveyance, the Banking, and the As surance Directories. The Official Directory at once indicates the posi tion of every public employe. The Street Directory furnishes the names of the residents in each street or place; this being the only work that has ever even attempted to include in one general list the nobility and gentry as well as the merchants, professional men, traders, and tradesmen of the metropolis and its immediate environs. The Commercial Directory has all these latter in complete alphabetical order, while the nobility and gentry will be found in similar arrangement in the Court Directory. The Trades Directory exhibits all the members of each of the two thousand trades classified distinctly— the sub-divisions of each being suitably distinguished. The Law Directory is devoted to the classifica tion of the members of the profession, together with the general legal matters appropriate to a work of this character; while the Parliamentary Directory furnishes all requisite information as to Peers and Members of Parliament, and as to their town resi dences and country seats. The Postal Directory gives full instruction on the subject of money orders, and of the transmission of letters and newspapers to all parts of the world. The Conveyance Directory is devoted to the important subject which its title indicates, as are the Banking and Assurance Directories. The proprietors of this, the most useful and most accurate Mirror of the Metropolis of the World that has ever been presented to the public, are well justified in making it their boast that — "Such a mass of facts of this particular description was never presented to the public until in the pages of the Post-office London Directory; and unceasing efforts have been devoted to secure, not merely a large amount of information, but such an arrangement, condensation, and classification, that any desired part of this large volume may _be referred to without difficulty." As a proof of the desire of the proprietors to keep this work always au niveau des connaissancea actuelles, and as an instance of the manner in which they have redeemed their pledge to the public, to furnish on every occasion the latest and most accu rate information, we may remark that the names of the present Earl of Albemarle, of the present Lord Alvanley (who has not succeeded to the peerage above a week), and of the new Member for Cork, Colonel Chatterton, who was not elected until the 15th of November instant, are given in their proper places in the Post-office London Directory. Not only is the in formation contained in this work most ample and most accurate, but it is arranged in such an admirably clear and succinct manner, that a reference can at once be made with the greatest facility to any por tion which may be desired. It is not going too far to say that this is far and away the best book of the sort ever presented to the public. As might have been expected, the great and most deserved suc cess of the Post office London Directory has induced several persons to attempt to vend spurious imitations of it ; and, in order to guard the public against fraud, we give them the following extract from the preface, in which the proprietors allude to these attempts at imposition : " The great success which has attended these efforts bas induced the belief that it is only necessary to announce a book to contain several Directoriea,' and taking the titles of some of the sub-divisions of this work, as Street Directory," Parliamentary Directory,' Banking Directory," Official Directory,' &c. &c. &c., in order to ensure a sale ; and in conse quence, a year now seldom passes without some experiment of the kind. There has been no instance of any one of these ephemerals surviving the year of its production, or, indeed, of being, in the ordinary sense of the word, published, or even announced in the newspapers. The circulation is always as secret as possible, BEd limited to those who have been induced to order' the book, and who, on scrutinizing, after having paid for it, are disappointed that it is not the one they had expected. " These abortive experiments do no injury to the Post office London Directory ; probably, indeed, to the small extent to which they offer a contrast, the opposite effect is produced. Still it may be well for the public that the facts should be known." Ins the case of such a volume, produced but once a year, mere cost must always be quite secondary to fulness of information and accuracy of arrangement; still, it may not be entirely irrelevant to direct attention to the fact that, taking its bulk only, and without reference to the general typographical and other arrangements, it is by far the cheapest book which issues from the English press. RUDIMENTARY DICTIONARY of TERMS used in Architecture, Civil, Architecture, Naval, Building and Construction, Early and Ecclesiastical Art, Engineering, Civil, Engineering, Mechanical, Fine Art, Mining, Surveying, 6-c. By John Weale. This is a most useful book of reference; the expla. nations are clear and lucid, and the dictionary contains, we believe, every term used in construe• Live art. .... 6 !.% Do. Quarter: Ditt;rl hirds ...... -- 6 1- Ditto. Preference 5 North Staffordshire..... 17% forth Wales North Western Ixford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Reading,Guildfd.,& Reigate 15 Royston and Hitciiin Scottish Central Scottish Midland .... ....... .... 25 Ditto, New.......... ........... 22% — ...... to Shrewsbury and Birmingham 12 — lto Ditto, ditto, Class B. 8 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 ...... to Shrewsbury and Hereford .. 4 Chester Shrewsbury and (Nor. 'W. Min.) Ditto Halves, Ditto 9 ... Ditto, Usweeiry lB% •••• to '-•-• Ditto ,New)... 1 Ditto 8 per Cent. Pref....... 10 Shropshire Union VA.— .. South Devon .. 5O ...... Ditto, Preference South Staflordshire B% — ...... to South Eastern Ditto, No. 2. Ditto, No. 3.* 3O Ditto, Registered No. 4.... 10 Ditto, Scrip No. 4.. .. South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole iheflield, Rotherham, and _ __ Goole (1•1'.D) Gua. 5 perct. 16% ... .. to Do. do. (South Div.) 5 4 wans. and Loughor and Ca meron's 5tm.C0a1......... . 7 raw Vale Extension ... 8 *moo - •••••• to .... Thames Haven Dock and . . „......_ Railway .... 17 1 ,E — Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 2O ...... Waterford and Limerick..... 47 1 %..... Waterford,Wexford,Wieklw, and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... 5O ...... Do. do. do. Do. do. do. West Cornwall Whitehaven and Furness lB ... .. , ..... to Windsor, Staines, and South Western l4 Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 45 ...... York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 Do. and Newcastle Exten. 20 Do. CI. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8 - De.Hartlepool Dk. & Ely. 100 York and North:Midland .. 50 Ditto, Preference FOREIGN RAILWAYS. &nglo Italian (late Italian and Austrian) 6 I ,E — Boulogne and Amiens 2O .. ••• 5% ••• •• to --- Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon) Demerara. ...... 1 7 1,4 .... Dutch Rhenish S East Indian Great Indian Peninsular 5 ....•• ...... to Do. Do loe. Louvain ala Sambre ......... 7 1 /. 2 — to Luxembourg ......... ....... PA...". Ditto . lO ...... Madrid and Valentia Namur and Liege......... 2O Northern of Prance 14/ 55..... 2% die... to:— Orlerns and Bordeaux ... 7 ... .. Paris and ( )rleans... Paris and Rouen 20 Paris & Strasbourg .... ..... 12 Rouen and Havre 2O - Sambre and Meuse - ..•••• to ..-"trasburg and Bale ..... ...... 14 ..... Tours & Nantes ... .. ...... .. 13 Tournav, Jurbise, Landen, and flusselt .. ...... ..... .20 1 West Flanders V I A — ....... to Ditto ... Bl4 — - '' 1 JOINT STOCK ZANIES. Australasia British North American .... 10 ...... Colonial - , ..` to - Commercial of London 2O ••• ••• ...... ••• ..• to ..... London Joint Stock ..... London and Westminster... 20 National Provincial of Engid. 85 Ditto, New National of Ireland ....... ..... 22% — ... .. to Provincial of Ireland , Ditto, New Union of Australia Ditto, New .. 2% — to Union of London ........ ...... 10 Union of Madrid 40 MIS IiCS. Anglo Mexican lOO ...••• Asturian - Australian 4 - Barrossa Range 2Bs. ...... ...... to Blaenarvon Iron and Coal Bolanos Scriu - to - British Iron Brazilian Imperial ..... .. ... 24%...... • to --, Ditto Cocaes and Cuiaba... 30 - Ditto St. John Del Rey ... 15 . Cobra Copper ......... ....... 40 General Heal del Monte, Unregistered . .. .. ... to Do. Black Debentures — — ....... to Do. Red Debentures ... Santiago de Cuba. lO .....• ..... to -- United Mexican LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G—( THIS DAY.) LONDON, Nov. 22.—Wind this day at noon E.SE., light bßtze and fine. The schooner Orion, of Pictou, has foundered at sea, near 'finish Strati' lighthouse; crew saved. NORTH SUNDERLAND, NOV. 19.—The Isabella and Margaret, of and from Newcastle, for Dundee, struck on the Fern Islands yesterday and sunk; crew saved. BELNULLET, Nov. 19.—The stern of a vessel has come on shore at Dunlogh, in Black Sod Bay, with the following words on it:—"Honi Soit qui mal y—" " Dieu et mon Droit," and gilt carved figures of a tiger, a lion, and a unicorn. The side of a vessel, with part of the deck beams attached, has also come on shore to the N. W. of this place. DuNcmou, IRELAND, Noy. 18.—The Confidence, - Yarbart to Glasgow, struck on a reef of rock. on the Island of Enniskerragh, and went over into deep water, , where she now lies. PORT TALBOT, Nov. 20.—The Liverpool Packet, from Bristol to Neatb, struck on an anchor 17th inst., in the River Avon, and filled. DEAL, Nov. 21.—Wind E.S.E. to S.E.—Arrd., 20th, Louvre, Weeks, New York. 21st, Soubadab, limfre ville, Calcutta; Victoria, Johnsone, New York; York town, Bradish, ditto. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 21.—Wind S.—Arrd. her Majes ty's ship Dart, Sierra Leone, sailed 18th ult. WEYMOUTH, Nov. 21.—Wind S.—Arrd. Union, Chapman. Quebec. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 21.—Wind S.—Arrd., 20th, Fidelia, Yeaton, Quebec. 21st, Patriot Queen, Roddock, Cal cutta; Helen, Munroe, Cape of Good Hope; Primrose Rogerson, Cape Hayti; Ashland, Rice, New Orleans; Franconia, Smith, Baltimore ; Enterprise, Funk, New York; Lord Stanley, Quebec; Eglinton, ditto. Sailed, 20th, Nereide, Jamaica; Edinburgh, Mobile; Vixen, Wilmington. 21st, John Knox, Sydney, New South Wales; Reliance, Port Philip; Camana, Lima; William Tucker, Buenos Ayres; Mersey, allia; Catharine, Santa Martha; James Dean, Honduras; Virginia, New Orleans; Greenock, Mobile; Wisconsin, New York; Washington Irving, Boston. Pat back, 21st, Oxford, Goodmanson, New York, with trifling damage, having been in contact off Holyhead. CROOKHAYEN, Nov. 18.—The Marchioness of Aber corn, Quebec to Cardiff, got on shore at Mizen Head last night in a fog, and is expected to become a wreck. KILRUSH, Nov. 20.—The Andrew White (brig), of Sunderland, timber laden, was on shore 20th inst. at Malbay, on a ridge of rocks, and was breaking up; cargo expected to be saved. COWER, Nor. 21.—Wind S.—Put back, Adele, Smidtt St. Thomas's. GALWAY, Nov. 19.—Part of the jibboom and flying jibboom, with sails attached, belonging to a ship of 700 or 800 tons, have been picked up inside Arran Island, in the bay here. The spars are of Memel timber, painted yellow, and the sails marked as follows:—" Ex tra, No. 2, 14,231," with the words " All long flax, without starch," in a square, and the " Edinburgh Ropery, No., Sailcloth Company, Leith," in a circle. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) NEWMATN AND LEADENEALL. These markets were firm to-day, and prices were well supported, Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s 10d; and Pork, 3s 4d to 48 2d per Sibs, by the carcase. HAY DIAZZETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 3/ 108; Clover Jitto, 31 Os to 4/ 10s; and Straw, 1/ 3s to 11 9s per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 25103 to 3l 129; Clover ditto, 3/ Os to 41 los ; and Straw, 11 4s to 1/ 105 per oad. Supply but moderate, and trade dull. WHITECHAPEL. Meadow Bay, 2/ 8s to 31 10s; Clover, ditto, Si Os to 41125; and Straw, 1/ 2s to 1/ es per load. Both Hay and Straw moved ff slowly, at late rates. _ MEAT MARKETS. SOUTHALL, Nov. 21.—Prima Beasts and Sheep cow• manded a steady trade, at an advance in the quotations of 2d per 81bs; all other kind of stock sold at lull prices. Beef, trom 3s to 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 2d; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s ad; and Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 10d per 8112 s, to sink the offal. EONFORD, Nov'. 21.—Our market was firm today. and prices had an upward tendency. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 2d; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s ad; and Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per Sibs. Suckling Calves. 20s to 275; Quarter•old Store Pigs, 20s to 235; and Mitch Cows with their small Calf, 141 lOs to 181 each. HAILBHAM, Nov. 21.—We had a steady trade to-del i on the following terms :—.-Beef from 3s 6d to 4s 4d. ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s ; and Pork, 3s id to 3s 8d per 81bs. ARUNDEL, Nov. 20.—The general demand Was steady, and at very full prices. Beef from 3s 4d to 4 $ 2d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s 4d to 35 8d; and Pork, 35 2d to 3s 8d per Blbs. CHICHESTER, Nov. 21.—Each kind of stock moved off freely, at higher rates. Beef from as 2d to 4s 2d Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 2d; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 6d ; and Polk. 35 4d to 3s 8d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 2()! to 235; Quarter old Store Pigs, 18s to 21s ; and Mulch Cows with their small Calf, 161 to 181 each. 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