The Sun. — London, England, 1855-11-15 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMER,CIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Twu o'Ctoc),, The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed tamely, without change in the currency of last week. The sales were estimated at 8,000 bales, (1,000 for export), comprising 100 Pernam and Maranham, at 6d. to 6d.; 100 Bahia, 6d. to 61d. ; 300 Egyptian, sd. to °id. 1,500 Surat, 31d. to 41d. ; and 70 Sea Islands, 10d. to 17d. per lb. The Railway Share Market was quiet, at a slight decline from Tuesday's quotations. Accounts from Paris represent the state of affairs on the Bourse as unfavourable, with a downward movement in the Rentes of 10 centimes in the 3 per Cents. for the close of the month and the December account, and 25c. to 30c. for the 4i Stock. Bank of France shares are without variation at 3,190, and also Credit Foncier at 510. Treasury Bonds have been negotiated at 5 per cent. for five months. In railway shares there is a decline generally, but they are in demand. Nothing of importance is contained in the re ports from the foreign grain markets. Throughout Belgium wheat maintained its price at 22 florins the hectolitre and a half, and the rye was sold at 16 florins the hectolitre. The Brussels grain mar ket showed that little business was doing. The Paris flour market was more active, and a fair average maintained in prices. The factors declared to the sale of 2,043 sacks. Wheat was quoted at nominal prices, in anticipation of Thursday's market. The commercial advices from India do not re port any movement of consequence, the import markets, both at Calcutta and Bombay, bein g still inactive. Money was comparatively easy, and the arrivals of merchandise were moderate. When the approaching native holidays were over, an increased demand was expected. In the upper provinces, sales of most articles bad been made to a moderate extent. At Bombay, grey goods and yarns were taken rather freely, owing to the small quantity which had been imported some time previously. The Indian mail brings advices from Ceylon to the 15th October. The Arabian, from Melbourne, had arrived with intelligence up to the 10th Sep tember, from which we learn that the Donald M'Kay mail packet from Liverpool, with the Lon don mail on board, arrived there on the 26th Aug., having made the run out in eighty-two days. The coffee plantations throughout Ceylon were progress ing favourably, and this season was expected to yield a more abundant crop than during the two previous years. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this date, are in round figures as under : 1855. £23,925 1864. £21,085 Great Western South-Western 13,148 11,978 North-Western 56,126 52,621 Brighton Midland South-Eastern 12,626 28,792 17,963 13,179 28,130 15,920 11,673 11,536 23,257 20,443 23,062 19,640 29,858 5,927 30,759 5,646 Caledonian Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire North-Eastern Bristol and Exeter Manchester and Sheffield Edinburgh and Glasgow Aberdeen and Scottish Midland 9,077 5,105 3,150 9,050 4,920 2,858 The weekly meeting of the Bank of England Directors has separated without adopting any of the measures which were rumoured yesterday. There is an extremely inactive market for public securities, but their quotations are fairly supported. Consols for money have been 88 to 88i, and for account 881 I, but they have since been 88k I. Ex chequer Bills are 7s. to 4s. discount, and India Bonds 7s. discount. The New 3 per Cents. have been 8711 to 88, and the Reduced 87 to 87i. India Stock is 226. In reply to an inquiry by Mr. Webb, the secre tary of the Stock Exchange, it has been elicited that, in the opinion of the Board of Inland Reve nue, no deduction for income tax should take place in the dividends on the Turkish 4 per Cent. Loan, guaranteed by England and France, where the bonds are proved to belong to foreigners residing abroad. Foreign Securities are generally quiet, but rather heavy. Mexican Stock is ) per cent. lower, namely 191, and Russian 5 per Cents. have de clined to 94. Spanish Passive are 6. Dutch 2/ per Cents. are marked 631, and the 4 per Cents. 931 to 94. Turkish 6 per Cent. Bonds are dull a 791 to 80k, and the Now Scrip is again quoted at 4 to 4/ discount. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks: Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 7 ; Mexican, 191 to 1 ; Peruvian, 74 to 76 ; ditto Three per Cents., 52 to 4; Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 94 to 97 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 88; Spanish New Deferred, 19/ to 20 ; ditto Three per Cents., 38 to 381 ; ditto Certificates, 41. to 41 ; ditto Pas sive, 6 to 1. _ This is " ticket day" in the Railway Share Market, and the preliminaries for the adjustment of the account have been in progress. The " Con tangos" are, in several cases, heavy. Most of the principal lines are higher, but the general business is of a limited character. There are very few trans actions in the Foreign Market. St. John Del Rey Shares have risen 10s. to 1/., but the Lenares are weaker. Union of London Bank Shares are rather lower. Amsterdam are down 1/. Crystal Palace Shares ruled steady. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY IT ONE Prom the Official List. Pu:inesh don. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent Console Annuities BBl 8 • New 3 per Cent. Annuities L Ong Annuities, Expiie sth Jan., 1860 India Stock India Bonds, £lOOO Ditto, under £lOOO 7 d Consols ?or Account BBl Exchequer Bills, 2Lft. £I000 Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO K. Mexican 3 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cer £St 9l Spanish Ronde 3 per Cent Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Passive 6 Tarkieh Bonds, 6 per cent 794 808 Ditto for the Accouni, BOl Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. Nvidends on the above oavabte In Loorio,, Witch Exchange, 28 per Cent. 12 Gull 63A Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifleates 932 4 HALP-OAST T Rib 888 I 881 Consols Ditto for Account It is exoected at Paris that the King of Sardinia will make his entry into that capital on horseback at mid day and in great state. FATAL ACCIDENT AT PllTNEY.—Yesterday mornine an accident, which was unfortunately att en d e d w i t h f a - a l ' consequences, occurre d t o a middle-aged man of the name of George Laurance, a pl,sterer, r es idi ng at Put ney, under the following circumstances :—lt appears that the poor fellow was employed on a scaffold in front of a new building now in cour,e of erection at Putney, when his attention being called to a man below he un fortunately lost his footing, and fell a depth of 40 to 50 feet. In his fall he struck against the " putlocks," and bounding from one to the other received very severe in juries. He was at once picked up and taken to St. George's Hospital, where it was a.certaitied , by blr. Phipps, the house surgeon, that the poor mans spine was broken. Every attention was paid him, but he ex pired shortly after his admission. The body now awai ts a coroner's inquest. BANK OF ENGLAND.—The fact of the Governors of the Bank of Eng!and having bad an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street has been followed by a rumour that the Government have intimated an intention to authorise the Bank to increase the notes they are allowed to issue on secu rities beyond the present total of 14,000,0001. The impression is, that the interview was for the rm-- pose of conferring on the financial requirements of the Government during the next few months, an d th a t, if anythingg passed regar di ng th e genera l amoun t o f t h e circulation, it was confined to an ! intimation that the Government, whenever it may be thought desirable, will be ready to take the s u bj ec t i n t o cons id erat i on. A t t h e same time, itis not improbable that the desirab'eness of making up the deficiency in the country circulation wh!cl - i has taken place owing to the failure or retire ment of individual banks, has at length been entertained. The total of that deficiency about 700,0001., and . tie fifth clause of the act of 1844 the Government ari• empowered, on application being made to them by tb. Bank of England, to order the issue of additional note to the extent of two-thirds of the amount, the profits of which issue are to go to the State. The increase which could be made would, therefore, be about 470,0001. ~~~,.~ VIP, JUN, LON I 6O.I4 I __TRyfRADAY Ist.tosst 1,1 , ' , "XSE.I) • EtatLit Aix. Legann, Company I...tdng i rice? yester this Bedford aryl BI et Alley . ItIIO , this do. Buckchamsh. Clydesdale Ic. Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. E. Lin. n. 6 pc. E. Un. H. Sh. Glae. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. New Olstr.& Dn. Fr Dk. Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. d Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Lon., Til.,&S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. Batn. and Matlock Middlesbro' & Redcar. Midld. Bradfd Newmarket Bury Eaten N.& Est.s p.c. Do. 6 7+er et. Do. Fixeds p Prest. k NV:O Do. 4 Stirs. A Roystn.& Hit. Slief. 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(Sittings in Banco.—Before Lord Chief Justi c e Campbell, Justices Coleridge, Wightman, and Erle.) CRIMINAL INFORMATION FOR LIBEL-THE QUEEN ON THE PROSECUTION OF THE REV. HENRY J. WILKINSON Y. Mr. Pashley, Q.C., in this case, moved for a rule calling on the defendant, an attorney, residing near Bowness, in Westmoreland, to show cause why a crimi nal information should not be filed against him for a libel reflecting on the character of the rev, gentleman in the discharge of his sacred duties at a funeral. The Rev. Mr. Wilkinson was curate of Lootan Pagnell, near Don caster, and at the time of the publication of the letter in question was stipendiary curate of Bowness, near We:4- moreland, and it was with reference to the burial of the body of a female that had been drowned in lake Win dermere, that the libel in question arose, being in the shape of a letter, published in July last, in the Carlisle Patriot, bearing the signature of " Viator," in which the writer charges the rev, gentleman with a total disregard of his sacred duties at the funeral of the drowned person. The learned counsel then read the following Setter, con taining the libel in question " Sir,—l read in your last Friday's paper an account of the drowning of a poor girl named Lucy Warriner, in the Windermere lake, and of the inquest held on her body, when the verdict was returned found drowned. Of course this may be considered as an open verdict and there is no doubt that the poor girl was the cause of her own death. But would you believe it, or could the revolting idea ever enter any person's head to ima gine ; but, nevertheless, it is true. When the funeral took place and the coffin of poor Lucy was brought alongside the grave, the stipendiary curate refused to proceed with the service until the position of the coffin was reversed and the head of the corpse instead of the feet turned to the east. The parish clerk, who is also the sexton, had to procure a hack and a spade and alter the shape of the grave, while the sorrowing and ago nising relations of the deceased (who belong to the class of `statesmen') stood by absorbed in grief and astonish ment,and the rev.Puseyite (altered by the editor to 'gentle man') waited until the hateful' (altered to ' painful') task was finished to his satisfaction before he would pro ceed with the funeral ceremony. I leave your readers to judge and comment upon the specimen and unchari tableness and bigotry.—Your obedient servant, "July 3, 1855." " VIATOII. The affidavits stated that the statements contained in the above letter were untrue and without foundation, and that what was done on the occasion alluded to was strictly in accordance with the canons a the Church of England. It was also sworn that the rev, gentleman did not perform the service, at this time having au assis tant, also that the sexton was absent, and the church warden perfcrming his duty for him. The affidavits of the churchwarden, of that of a byestander, and also that of the stepfather of the unfortunate girl, stated that the funeral service was performed without any interruption, and in the usual manner. The court granted the rule. CONDITION 0? THE .1) A Vt7/3 TAN PUN CIPAUTTE:S-Al/STUAN Pt";RFIDE We believe the ~cca, i onerl to the G .17,1 , 1 7 lent, by the reports fi,pm :tod C,nstanti , ,ople, a.s to the pr.ct-edlng- of the Austrian array in the Dnnu nan Provinces. ba , ; rf4c:ntly been wueb aggravated by the occurrent: , of anticipated events, but evecially the communication of some extraordinary information from nonofficial quarters. We believe the facts now in their possession, ought to leave no doubt on the minds of Ministers as to the real character in which that per fidious, but feeble Power, called an Empire—and for whose alliance the Western Powers have sacrificed so much—contrived to introduce an army into those un happy provinces. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, among others, has lately conveyed his views to his former colleagues, in no mistaken language. We understand that in a lengthy and important communication, to which he was prompted by the result of his observation and in quiries in the East, his Grace not only expresses the most grave apprehensions on the subject of the Aus trian occupation, but the opinion—which we were not slow to promulgate from the very first—as to the honesty of Austria in the military arrangement vo lunteered to the Porte. It may appear patriotic in his Grace, to have thus, under the light of a better expe rience, spontaneously acknowledged the evil conse quences of the policy to which he hai been a consenting party. But the Duke of Newcastle must have learnt ,sisclom in his generation, and it may have occurred to him that a timely confes-ion may partially shelter him individually from the execration which the sanctioning of an Austrian occupation of the Danubian Provinces is destined to stamp the Ministry of which he was a member. Our readers may not be generally aware that, in the understa , ,cling between the first Napoleon and the Em peror Alexander, which followed their famous interview on the river Niemen, in 1807, it was proposed that Auss tria should participate in the gigantic territorial spolia tion which was then projected. Francis I. was to lend •his military forces to the accomplishment of the ambi tious objects of the two Emperors, and was to receive as his reward those three provinces of European Turkey which she long coveted, and which she is still determined to acquire—the provinces of Bosnia, Servia, and Bul garia. Russia, among other territories, required the Northern Danubian Provinces, the lonian Islands, the Herzogovine and' Montenegro ; while. Austria wou! cede Lombardy, Venice, and Illyria to the French empire. But, foresight of Napoleon warned him against giving Russia any ports or naval position in the Medi terranean, add this great project for changing the poli tical and geographical divisions of Europe was abandoned The Northern Colossus and the German Emperor never relinquished designs which emanated from the very in stincts of a common traditional policy and a constant political ambition. The present Emperor of Austria, who, only a few pars ago, was obliged to solicit the aid of the Northern tyrant to suppress the struggles for independence of his own suljects, actually cherishes the same unhallowed ambition with as much ardour and Call fidence as his predecessors. We believe that, before the meeting of Parliament, the views of Ministers will undergo a complete change on the subject of the Austrian alliance, and that the language of Lord Clarendon, if he is really dealing honestly with the country, will be of a different character and tone from that of the last two sessions. It will be strange if Austria is at the same time found faithful to the alliance and following the policy best calculated to further the joint designs of Russia and her own ambiti ous views. Her pertinacity in opposing the entrance of an Anglo-French force into the Danubian Provinces, while, at the same time, the withdrawal of the Russian garrisons of Ismail, Reid, &c., on the Danube and on the frontier of Gallicia, leaving many points of territory unprotected, would justify the strongest suspicion that Austria is holding the provinces for other purposes than those of the alliance. It will be well if the consequences do not result in a war with that Power.—Morning Ad vertiser. WINTER EXII1bI;ION OF.XICTUBE.S. Cu Saturday-afternoon we had the satisfaction of attending the Winter Exhibition annwlllv held at the Gallery, 121, P4ll-inall East, or as they would have deAcrined it in the Did f'gefie.l times— " over against" the Cyera Colonnade. An exhibi tion this is, as its frequenters very well know, of the most chequered and diversified character. It includes, besides oil paintings, water-colour draw ,isgs an engravings—specimens of sculpture, and this season, beyond all other attractions, "A com plete Set" of Lithographs, Etchings, Line-engrav ings, and Mezzotintos "of and by" Sir Edwin Landseer, the most popular, as he is also in his own peculiar department one of the most illustrious, of our Academicians. This solitary division of the Catalogue extends, of itself, to the extraordinary number of 278 altogether : very little .short of three hundred engravings—line, etching, litho graph, and mezzotinto —" of or by a single great-master ! How many old favourites there are, of course —be sure of that among these exquisite and varied examples of the genius of our eminent animal-painter. ''High Life" and "Low Life" (12 and 13)—the beautiful hound among tapestry and fragments of old armour, and the vul gar cur with its congenial accessories of the clay pipe and the pewter measure ! " Cat's paw" (130), with its visible concert of flit !-spit !-miaou !-ing ! ! ! "The Travelled Monkey" (141), with its leathern little visage wizened up into so many complacent wrinkles of superiority over the broad mass of his fellow-apes and co-baboons ! " Napoleon's Eagle" (150), with the shadow of the hero's face shining out sadly against the descending sun, typical of so much glory passed away ! . . . . "-A Rat A Rat ! Dead fur a Ducat ! Dead." (230), with that little wiry rapscallion of a dog trembling, quivering, bristling with expectancy ! " Alexander and Diogenes" (235)—the canine cynic and the canine Lord of his Race ! " Peace" and " War " (237 and 238), those wonder ful idealisations of an exquisite and ghastly contrast—the smoke, and flame, and blood, and agony of the one picture—the serenity and sweet ness, the sunshine and repose of the other, with the sheep and lambs browsing on the heathery down, hard by the rusty cannon, with the cobweb spun across its unused muzzle ! "The Highland Drovers departinc , for the South " (239), with its charming groups o ° f pastoral life in Caledonia—and the famous "Return from Hawking" (243), in which the artist, under the semblance of a glimpse into the "olden time," has preserved for after times the forms and features of the various members of the comely family of the present accomplished Earl of Ellesmere. "No Place like Home" (251) — changing a miserable kennel into a sanctuary of rest oy the mere magic of a sentiment borrowed from the sweetest of the sweet songs of poor, dead Sir Henry Bishop ! " Dignity and Impudence" (266)—such an incongruous pair, the little yelping puppet of a pup, cheek by jowl with the grand old, sober mastiff ! " The Stag at Bay "—with its erected antlers, tearful eyes, and distended nostrils; •and " Eos " (278), limber and elegant, H.R.H. the Prince Consort's favourite greyhound. Mingled with these and other hardly less celebrated engrav ings " of and by " the great master—imagine the interest of etchings such as " Heads of Sheep and Cattle " (29), etched by Sir E. Landseer when eight years of age ; " Donkeys" (30), etched by Sir E. Landseer when nine years of age; "Cow and Calf " (35), etched by Sir E. Landseer when ten years of age, and so forth The collection from first to last is, to say the least of it, wonderfully interesting. Among the oil pictures ranged along the walls of the Winter Exhibition are several which will, of course, be at once recognised. F. Geo call's masterly " Raising of the Maypole" (342), and James Thos. Linnell's magical "Evening "(353), the latter with those delicious ruddy dies of the sunset glowing in among the countless twigs and innumerable green leaves of the woody coppice, down in the twilight hollow, replete with its mysterious effects of light-and-shadow. James Sant's " Early Morn " (370)—" It is the Lark, the Herald of the Morn," full of beauty, poetry, and fresh ness • A. Solomon's " The Sailor Boy's R e turn" (371), with its almost audibly-told story of love and adventure ; Clarkson Stanfield's "Entrance to the Zuyder Zee " (376), with its wondrous confu sion of dancing waves and Dutch-coast scenery ; Frank Stone's charming illustration to one of Moore's Melodies (378)—a1l are things to be seen, not merely heard of, and when seen to be mused over in admiration. Mrs. S. Anderson, in (301) ".My Last Sentry-Box," portrays an old red-coated Chelsea pensioner in the snuggest little garden smoking-box imaginable —a very nest of greenery ! While T. Jones Barker, in a spirited commemora tion of the glorious but deplorable " Charge of the Light Cavalry" (307), has shown to all comers that portion of the Great Charge in which its leader, "the belted Earl of the nineteenth century," the heroic Cardigan, acted the poetry after wards written in such congenially impassioned numbers by Alfred Tennyson, when the Laureate sang : " Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd all at once in air, Sabreing the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd : Plunged in the battery-smoke, Fiercely the line they broke ; Strong was the sabre-stroke : Making an army reel Shaken and sunaer'd. Then they rode hick, but not— Not the six hundred." Verses so noble and beautiful all of them, except ing only in as far as relates to that horrid Cockney rhyme to " sunder'd" and " wonder'd" of—ugh ! it makes one shudder—" hun-derd 1" A passing reference at least must be made by us to J. Mor gan's ingenious picture, "A Royal Game of Chess —Scene in the Tuileries" (359), iu which the ima ginary antagonists are the Czar and our own Monarch—the Emperors of France and Austria being among the number of the lookers-on ! A select collection of Water Colour Drawings by artists such as Frederick Tayler and W. Topham, and Mrs. M. Harrison—the last-mentioned flowerinc , over with moss roses, lilacs, primroses, and convol voluses—with four " Marbles " by Alex. Munro, complete the catalogue for this season of pictures of the English School collected together in the an nual Winter Exhibition. TRIALS OF FIRE ENGINES IN FRANCE. A trial of twenty-three fire-engines, in the Paris Uni ♦ersal Exhibition, took plane on the banks of the Seine, between the Pont d'..A.lina and the Pont de l'Ecole Mili mire, in the presence of his Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon, accompanied by the Secretary of the Impe rial Commission. These trials were, if possible, worse managed than those of the English Exhibition of 1351, the absurd and ineffectual attempt to systematise the ex periments on that occasion being entirely omitted in Paris. _ Little account was taken, in the French experi ments, of the various elements upon which superiority must necessarily depend, Even the distance to which the water was projected was only ascertained by stepping, no accurate measurements being taken. The exposed and shelving bank of the river was but ill adapted for the trial, and a maliciously high wind blowing at the time sadly marred the fair proportions of the perform ance, the best engines being necessarily the greatest sufferers. The engines were worked by a party of Sapeur Pompiers, who exerted themselves in a very creditable manner. The first engine tried, and, as the result proved, the first also in merit, was a London Brigade Fire Engine, named " The Emperor," on the patent principle, manu factured and exhibited by Mr. Merryweather, of Long acre, London. This engine had two 7-inch pumps, with . metal valves in separate valve chambers and spherica air-vessel, the suction pipe being 3 inches, and the ev,it de livery 21 inches in diameter. Worked threw a three-fourth inch jet upwards of 12bOyf2ee6gta, mvaondunitis. elegant appearance and general performancerconstruction, versa! satisfaction. An engine of " The Prince Albert," in the Hyde s -park 13-16th inch jet upwards of 137 fe;tt ia , eng ine. In attained by any, except the large u 1 engines been fact, in no trial have Mr. Merry weather'e surpassed. The ne x E t rn inpeorrodre, order l b le u s t sr a s l l . An engine of similar power w to as Tylor and Son, of London,or some time unavailing, and attempts to work it w ere rk f wben Mr. Merryweather it was passed by as unworkable, ardb,le'and, upon examination, handsomely suction-cock turned off. Having put this found the ma t ter s traight he rec alled the working party, an d a trial took plac e ; .b u t the performance was much i n f er i or ria t o that of its 1• ship v A prettyfire-engine, named The Admiral, by Mr. M err yweather , c ould not be tried, in , consequence of the bratreb - piP O having been lost. A farmer's fire-engine, by Mr. Baddeley, of London, was tried, and its perform limuch satisfactionAeing far b eyon d w h at cou ld i ' ce gave have been expected from such a portable and easily worked machine. Mr. Lem o i ne, o f Canada, was also an , exhibitor at Paris, and his engine worked well ; but, like that of Mr. Perry, required too many men to work it. M. Letestu, of Paris, exhibited several excellent en gines, but none of any great power. Considerable efforts were made to establish a superiority on behalf of 31. Letestu's engines, and the Moniteur went so far as to assert that the French engines beat the Canadian and English ; " whereas," says the Times' correspondent, " the fact is that its performance was the worst of the three." The fire-engines of M. Letestu attracted much l notice in the Exhibition of 1851, and a prize medal was awarded him, but the performances were t of equa l to those of the few English ei:gines that were then l tri e d. een The perforated plate valve of M. Letestu has lately been introduced, with much advantage, into . th 4 (used in steam fire-engines. M. Fland's fire-engines Paris) gave much satisfaction ; but the e a ' l suction pipe, with its right-angled sharp turnings,swis very ob jectionable. Several German engine their performances were very mediocre. re tried, but - :,, - .T..1., LiTriThAI7I7REL Law and Practice of Limited Liability. By E. • Cox, barrister-at-law. John C.lOckford. To al! parties desirous of becoming acquainted with the law aul practice of limited liability this work nr-ty he recommended as a useful manual. Justly cunsid ring that without the Joint-Stock Companies Registration A-zt the Limited Liability Act is useless and unintelligible, the author has put the two acts together, and prefaced them with Er short p rac ti ca l t rea ti se on t h e l aw an d practice of Joint-stock companies, in which the proceedings to be taken for the purpose of formi ng an d conduct ing a joint-stock company, together with many .useful suggestions of a practical nature, are given in such a m anner as to be intelligible to the pu b lic as well as the p ro f ess i on. Though apparently un friendly to the principle of limited liability the author has not the J ess succeeded in giving .a po pular exposition of its application by recent enact ment. The North British Review. Pursues its way as steadily, and with as much practical purpose as can reasonably be desired. It is quite possible that you may meet occasionally with articles of greater brilliancy in some of its con:tern ' poraries, but you repair to it with the certainty of finding subjects of interest ably handled, and a number of them chosen with a more than usuaNy direct application to the necessities of the times, The opinions advanced may not, it is true, in some instances, meet with your approbation, nor the conclusions drawn your assent, but it would be difficult to withhold your admiration of the flesh. and-blood earnestness perceptible throughout its pages, an earnestness you would desire to meet with more frequently elsewhere. In the present number the subject of education engrosses a large share of consideration, and is treated with a direct application to the necessities of the times. In the opening article, which, with numerous and striking faults of style, is evidently the production of one essentially qualified for his task, the need and pos sibility of a special education for manufacturers, in order to the improvement of manufactures, are forcibly pointed out. Owen's College, Manchester, suggests to him a nucleus for the establishment of the sort of institution required, viz., one where in struction in both abst rac t an d applied science may be carried on, and that without interference with the studies now pursued there. " The Paris Exhibition and the Patent Law " attests the appropriateness of the preceding article and the judgment of its writer. With irresistible logic the painful truth is enforced that unless we advance at a more rapid rate in me chanical art than we are doing we will be beaten out of the market by foreigners, and especially Frenchmen, who are rivalling us in branches of manufacture in which our superiority had long been incontestible, at the same time surpassing us in others of a nice character, and all owing to a better education. Even Mr. Mechi is forced to confess that French cutlery is now equal to ours. A third article on the subject of education deals with " Home Reformation and Christian Union," on the whole in a fair and enlightened spirit. " France under the House of Orleans" .is the least satisfactory paper of the number ; its attempt to show that the Citizen King eschewed governing by corrupt means being to our thinking by ruo means so successful as its strokes at the statesmen of that day. The speculation of the writer respecting the present ruler of France we will only advert to to remark that if the Emperor relies on his own judg ment and instincts, and resists the Circean spells of Gcrinan flattery and wile, his " star " is not likely to fail him till his work is accomplished. " Books from Ireland," and "Government by Parties or by Statesmen," suggest many important reflections, and contain a num ber of valuable remarks on our past and existing political condition. " Samuel Butler;" and " Fielding and Thackeray " are bonne bouches for the literary palate, the former present ing us with some interesting information of a biographical nature respecting the author of " Hu dibras" and his career, and the second doing pretty much the same for the author of " Amelia," as well as successfully vindicating Thackerayfrom the charge so urgently-preferred against him of representing men and women as worse than they are : "Let the reader take a glance," says the writer, "first over the score or so of portraits in the Newcomes,' and then over a score or so of his o wn acquaintance—in cluding, of course, himself,'and let him candidly say whether, the numbers pre-supposed being equal, he knows as many worthy people as Mr. Pendennis, in his editorial capacity, pretends to depict. Of course we are assuming, though this is, perhaps, unfair, that our reader knows his own friends and himself as intimately as he is allowed to become acq sainted with that most respectable family,' the Newcomes, and those who are associated with it. This, however, being premised, we certainly should judge him happy if, among his peculiar score, he can find matches for the great-minded gentleman, Colonel Newcome ; the high and sweet lady, the Countess of Florae ; the (considering the disadvan tages of her bringing up) remarkably right-minded Miss Ethel ; the frank and honourable boy Clive ; the honest and independent, and withal amiable, Miss Honeyman ; the immaculate matron, Mrs. Laura ; the unprete n ti ous wife-and-home loving member of Parliament, her husband • the meek man of genius, J. J., not to sp ea k Of others of less significant, or a more mixed quality, as F. Bayham, Sherrick, George Barnes, Lady Walham, De Florae, Lord Kew, Miss Cann, and half-a dozen others, who are right at heart,' as the cant and very questionable phrase goes. Against this galaxy of excellence, what have we of the ut terly abominable to put in the scale ! Only Barnes, Newsome, Mrs. Mackenzie, Mrs. Hobson New come, and Lady Kew, all of whom, except the last, let it be allowed (tor it is true), are extremely com mon characters, though we have not, commonly, the means of becoming so thoroughly and philoso phically acquainted with them as in these instances. Why do we go on calling ourselves miserable sin ners' on Sundays, if we are to abuse Mr. Thackeray on week-days for making out many of us to be somewhat less than saints The plain fact is, that Mr. Thackeray is decried for exactly that quality which constitutes his originality, namely, his faith fulness to some important point or points of truth hitherto denied or disregarded. We are all, nomi nally, orthodox on the point of human imperfection in the abstract, but now that Mr. Thackeray insists on proving in detail that there is really some sub stantial verity in the charge, he meets with a moss heretical roar of di-approbation. He is the Athanasius of the doctrine of human peccability." The writer is not far from the truth when he re marks that "we are all disciples of that school of the new science of moral anatomy of which Mr. Thackeray is the master ;" and " it is emphatically true of him, as of all other great writers, that I .'.e is only sustaining the age in the direction which is spontaneously taking." The number e with an earnest exposition an denforcem n ent: b o n j f e ' c ' t Th o e f Significance of the Struggle," the g u ra blic d mind the the writer being to impress on the all-important truth that "the Crimea no circumstances and on no conditions, p must,be restored under provinces must to Russia, and her Transc aucasian be wrested from her.' nd Evans._ - . The Ferns of Great Britazn , an , c 1 I reland. produ c t i y , Thomas Moore, F.L.S. Bradbury The eighth part of this splendid which, as our r eaders may remem b er, is edited by the moss learned of our living botanists, Mr. Lind this instalment process designated ipy, and illustrated by a new Bradbury. The Nature Printing, by Mr. Henry Ferns presented in beautiful specimens of a b ‘ trea dilatata Glandulosa " uient are the " Las- Chanterioe," and th e 1 the w c: l n: t i s ot lout "Lastrea dilatata, dumeto rum,"faithfully rendered. a lj ut a i s f t u r l e t a ri d be ila ra ta o t s a t scale,asA work of this sort, on such a art, contribute to the progress of gestive is the promote the study of botany, so sug trated therein ' graceful and delicate tracery, illus trated with so much fidelity and skill. The Iland Place Book of the United Kingdom. Blackie and Son. The value of this abstract from the Census of 1851. will be apparent when it is stated that within the compass of an exceedingly small pocket volume (you may put it in your waistcoat pocket) ivl ll o , ° „ ° found references of daily use to uwards of 1 5 ,t localities in Great Britain and Ireland.. Thesec the em brace the population of all the pa.rishesof Eng. United Kingdom, the area of the paris land and Ireland (the area of Scotlantdohivweisaass ntootwrne: turned), the population of ships, villages, and hamlets o n : f t bo d t o O t h s eooiffr tvinhabitantsathhaeer'ckoUnitede ut.sn a ta n ire d es upwards, and the days on which held, together with tbe and the smaller inhabited an Kingdom. In addition to this mass of useful . infor, mation, which is presented in the most immediately available form, t a bular abstracts of th e e d ucat i ona l and ecclesiast ical statistics of the country are given, w hi c h statistics, of co u rse, contribute to the utility of this happily-conceived and well-digested work. A return issued yesterday shows that the number of resident students at the University of Cambridge is 1,844, being 52 fewer than at this time last year. AUSTRALIA.—GoId arrivals from Australia continue to be anxiously looked for from day to day, the Ballarat, which made the passage in 69 days, and the advices .by which were r ece i ve d more than a f ortn i g ht b ac k, having brought intelligence of several vessels being about to b s e e: alrubNt immediately after her departure. Alnorig f l were the Oliv er L a i ng an d the Surprise, whietb,__i sailed at th e i r a pp o i n t e d tim e , have been ou a. 103 day ' day'. the White Star out 77 days, and the lient SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RaiLWAls leto.fo. Prieto" yesterdly. 22i - 23 31 - 4 ...• "'" .... 74 - 7i 16 - 15 13.1 -14 i 9 - 8 85 - 87 57} -57 i ii. - ri 5 - di 5 Y — 6 88 27 - 29 17 -- 19 67! - 63! 41 - 51 91 16! - 17:! 175 77 6 -6% 851 860 70 72 .19 :21 101 103 491 50 I 70 15 6 7 6 7 t 74i 751 _ 6R 94 96 934 - 94 14 tA - 854 9 - 8 8 7 224 .... - ... id 63i 64 36 38 .» - .. ••• "". .. 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(Sittings for the hearing of Queen's Bench errors, before Chief Justice Jervis, Justices Crowder, Martin, and Wiles, Chief Baron Pollock, Barons Parke, Platt, and A.lderson.) GREGORY V. COTTERELL AND ANOTHER-JUDGMENT. This was a writ of error from the Court of Queen's Bench, and was fully argued on Tuesday, and reported in The Sun. The plaintiff was formerly member for Dublin, residing in Park-street, and had an execution put on his premises at the suit of a Parliamentary agent named Baker. The plaintiff paid out the execution at the office of Jones, a sheriff's officer, to a person named Lewis, who levied under the writ. Tue money did not reach the defendant or the sheriff., and in conse quence a second seizure was made, which led to an action for damages, tried before Lord C'►mpbell, the jury awarding 4001. damages. An exception was taken to his lordship's ruling, and on arguing the case before the Court of Queen's Bench the ruling of his lordship was confirmed. The question for consideration was whether the. Sheriffs were bound by the acts of Lewis, the agent of Jones. Chief Justice Jervis said the Court had fully con sidered the question, and were unanimous in their opinion. The Court considered the damages were large, and re gretted the jury had not attended to the caution of Lord Campbell, and abstained from giving damages in an ex aggerated form. Originally there were three propositions before the Court for their consideration. One had been withdrawn by the amendment of the record, and the two remaining were, first, were the Sheriffs liable as to the trespass for the seizure and levy made by Lewis, the follower of Jones, and if so, had that been made out ? and, secondly, was the payment made by the plaintiff at the office of Jones, in his ab sence, a satisfaction of such seizure and levy, and such as to prevent the defendaniz from pleading the second warrant as a justification for what the• had done? The Court were unanimously of opinion that the judgment of the Court below was correct and must be confirmed. Judgment confirmed accordingly. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. --(This Day.) SOUTHWARK. MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—Edward Gray, a tall power fill-looking man, was brought before Mr. A'Beckett, charged with committing a murderous assault on Mar garet Clark, by striking her on the head with a poker. The complainant, a young female, whose head was covered with adhesive plaster and bandaged up, stated that she was unfortunate, and last night about 12 o'clock she met the prisoner in the Borough, and he took her into a public-house to treat her. After remaining there a short time he accompanied her to her lodgings in Tiverton-street, Newington-causeway, when he proposed to remain with her for the night, at the same time giving her half-a-crown. She told him that it was not sufficient, and quietly demanded another shilling. The prisoner made use of an oath and refused to give her more, and if she did not return him the half-crown he would mur der her. She told him that he had given her the half. crown and should not return it, when he seized up the poker and struck her a violent blow on the top of th e head with it. She burst from the room calling out "murder," when her landlady came to her assistance and prevented him striking her again. She was conveyed to the hospital sihere her wound WSJ dressed, and the prisoner was given into custody. The landlady of the house said she heard the prisoner makinga noiseabout a shilling which the prosecuttiz was asking him for. He then demanded a half-crown to be returned to him, and then a blow was struck. I mee diately afterwards the complainant screamed " murder " and rushed out of the room, with blood flowing copiously from her head. She told witness he had struck her with a poker, when she sent for a constable and g ave him into custody. Police-constable 235 M said he was called to take the prisoner into custody, and having ascertained that he had struck the female on the head with a p ok er , he con veyed her to the hospital, w here the wound w as d resse d . Witness produced the poker, which was p ar ti a ll y b ent and covered with blood. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said the female robbed him of the half-crown, and because she would not return it him he pushed her, and, being dark, she fell down and hurt herself. He never touched the poker. The witnesses all denied that the female was drunk, and the latter said she had not robbed him. Mr. A'Beckett remanded him until Monday, to enable her to indict him it the sessions for cutting and wounding. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. CHESTED AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY. —Traffic return for the week ending Nov. 11, 1855 £5,138 6 5 Corresponding week last year 4,665 9 4 Increase in 1855 . .... £472 17 1 GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending Noe. 4, 1855 £23,257 7 0 Corresponding week last year 23, 63 9 2 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. —Traffic re turn for the week ending N(Ar. 11, 1855 £20,443 10 3 Corresponding week last year 19,640 10 2 CORK AND BANDON RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for week ending Noy. 10, 1855 Corresponding week last year ,„224 8 7 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—;This Day.) LONDON, Nov. 15.—Weather this day at noon, dense fog PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 14.—Wind N.E.—Arrived.—Ara bta (s. tpt.) and Ottawa (s. tpt.). from Constantinople; H.M.S. Blenheim, Baltic. Sailed—Robert Lowe (s. tpt.) for Deptford. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning. Arrived—Wonder (s), from Jersey ; Georges, Cher bourg ; Udine, Dantsic ; Allart, Christiansand Fiudikewall ; Alliance (s), Havre. Sailed—Tiber and Eleanor, for Newport ; Despatch (s), Ostrich, Jersey; Atalanta ( s), Havre; Thomas and Mar garet, Sunderland. LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning. Wind S.S.E. Arrived—Helen, from Quebec. Off—Princess Royal, from Quebec. Sailed—Jas. Nasmith, for New Orleans ; New World and Antartie, New York; Sir Walter Raleigh, Jamaica. QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 13. Wind S. Arrived —Warrior, from Domingo ; Ann Powell, from Iquique ; Digby awl Anna, Callao ; Comora, Boston, - U.S. DUBLIN, Nov. 14. Wind S.S.W. Arrived—Jano and Mary, from Malaga. KINGSTOWN, NOV. 14. Wind S.S W. A.rrived—Agenora, from St. John's. (BY SUBMARINA ANL KRITISR TELEGBAPF7.) GRAVESEND, Thursday, 9.50 a.m. Wind calm ; tide, six hours' ebb; light and hazy. Arrived, Nov. 14.—Wist Friesland, from Kampen. sailed.—Migrator, for Madras. DEAL, Thursday, 9.38 a.m. Wind N.W., _ Passcd—Europe, from London, for Akyab ; Alfred, from London, for Jamaica; Marion, from London, for Demerara; London and Paris, screw steamer, from Rouen, and Pere, from Mal iga —both for London. The Beale, for Constantinople, has put back, having been run into by a steamer off the South Foreland last night. She has lost her bowsprit, and sustained consider able damage, but makes no water. VESSELS SPOKEN' WITH. The Agnes, of Liverpool, Cardiff to Porto Rico, let. 44 N. long. 15 W. The Prescott (barque), Boston to Rio Janeiro, Sept. 27, let. 6 N. long 19 W. Her Majesty's steamer Electric, steering S., Oct. 4, lat. 11 N. long. 21 W. The Ashland, New Orleans to Liverpool, Oct. 14, South- West Passage, bearing N. 50 miles, Canton, let. 46 N. long. 11 W. The Epaminonda,s, Sept. 11, let. 2 N. long. 20 W. The Pio IX., Sept. 1.;, lat 4 N. long. 20 W. The Shepherd, New Orleans to Liverpool, Oct. 21, let. 34, long. 73. The Hurricane, London to Calcutta, Sept. 2, lat. 4 N. long. 25 W. The Ohio, Mobile to Liverpool, Oat. 19, lat. 28 N. long 80 W. The John Jay, Liverpool to Charleston, Oat. 18, off Trinidad, South America. The Heatherbell, Calcutta to London, Oct. 22, lat. 26 N. long. 26 W. The Helena, West Indies to Bristol, Oct. 23, lat. 42 N. long. 35 W. The Boomerang, Liverpool to Mobile, Nov. 3, lat. 49 N. long. 11 W. The Credenza, Sept. 25, lat. 4 N. long. 22 W. The Anne Jane, Liverpool to Demerara, Nov. 3, lat. 48 N. long. 10 W. The Queen of England, London to Calcutta, July 23, lat. 8 N. long 22 W. The Noetnie, Mobile to Liverpool, Oct. 17, lat. 24 N. long. 81 W. The Berbice, Sept. 10, lat. 3 F.. long. 27 W. The Bellona (Dutch vessel), Cardiff to Melbourne, Sept. 16, lat, 10 N. long. 27 W. The James L. Bogart, Liverpool to New York, Oct. 25, lat. 41 N. long. 67 W. The Mary Ann, of Calcutta, Nov. 3, lat. 42 N. long. 14 W. The City of Glasgow (or City of Gloucester), for Cal cutta, Nov. 5, lat. 41N. long. 13 W. ; Elizabeth, of Irvine, Troon, to Havannah, same nay, lat. 43 N. long. 14 W. The Danube, London to Rio Janeiro, Nov. 2, lat. 42 N. long. 13 W. The Eel, Liverpool to Rio Janeiro, Sept. 9, lat. 22 N. The Ellen Bates, of Liverpool, OA. 24, lat. N. long. 17 W. No. 1,062 third distinguishing pendant (Kandian Chief), Oct. 31, lat. 41 N. long. 32 W. The Agamemnon, London to Calcutta, Sept. 22, ht. 11 N. long. 22 W. ; Comet (ship), same day. The Lady Hardinge, of Dundee, Nov. 7, off Point Lynas. The Fleet Eagle, Boston to Calcutta, 28 days out, lit. 6 N. The Lady Prudhoe, Swansea to Cuba, Oct. 20, lat. 22 N. long. 34 W. The Holland, Manilla to Boston, Aug. 11, lat. 27 S, long. 34 E. The Perseverance, Calcutta to Cape Town, Aug. 21, lat. 39 S. long. 6 W. FATAL COLLISION AT SEA.—A. collision involving the loss of six lives has been reported at Lloyd's by the Dutch steamer Stadt Dordrecht, Capt. Stuit, which has arrived in the river from Dordt. Tne steamer left the Pool on her usual return voyage on the evening of the 7th inst. On the following morning, between two and three o'clock, she wag pursuing her course to the west ward of the 'Kentish Knocks the weather being some what misty and dark, when a fishing lugger was observed a short distance ahead. The helm was shifted in the hope of clearing her, but unfortunately her stem caught the lugger and she was run down. As quickly as pos sible the steamer brought up and put back, and it was discovered that the vessel had sunk, but that the crew, eight in all, floated on the nets which had got entangled with the broken mast, which assisted in their buoy ancy. The crew of the stee tner endeavoured to rescue the fishermen by throwing them ropes and oars ; the darkness of the morning, however, and the sea which was running, with other circum stances, greatly frustrated the attempts to save all their lives. After some difficulty the master (William Heather) and one of the men (Richard Wells), succeeded in laying hold of the ropes, and in an ex hausted condition were dragged on board the steamer, which continued to cruise about the spot for some time in the hopes of picking up the others. Their cries, how ever, gradually died away, and the poor creatures, six all, perished. Their names were—Alfred Heather and George Heather, brothers of the master; William Bol ton, who has left a widow and large familY ; Wheeler • a young man named Bali, and an apprentice. Benjamin The smack was then ascertained to be the Ocean Queen, of Worthing. At the time of the occurrence the men fish were already on board, and there were five nets remaining to 10,000 were in the act of taking in their nets ; be got in. To add to the loss, there was some cash on board the lugger. The survivors received every kind ness on board the steamer, and were taken on to Dordt, where they made a statement of the catastrophe to the authorities. None of the bodies have yet been picked up. 100 tr.) LOG R 2!.: 1 100 0() 100 100 100 3 , t• i ;:11, 10 10 4} ell &11 18 all all 1191 931 3 4 z~ wempGriry % ~~.: ~~:. ear ion igh Am ice i 5 5 if , 10 20 5 tO 18 20 "X) 20? 100 10 23 20 20 100 100 100 20 20 20 50 100 50 100 100 20 411 50 all all FOR TGN. 101; 43