The Sun. — London, England, 1849-11-26 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 25.—Wind E. to N.—Arrd. Wel lington, Chad., ick, ,London, and sailed for New York, Eleanor, Barbr.does; John W. Dare, Gibraltar. CowEs, Nov. 24.--Wind N.E.—Sid. Adele, St. Tho mas's; Sabina, Havanna. YARMOUTH (ISLE OF WIWIT), Nov. 25.—Wind, N.— Sld., 24th, Flora, Jamaica. OFF ALBAN'S HEAD, Nov. 16 —Arrd. Liberty, Law, New York. OFF FALMOUTH, Nov. 23.—Osborne, Algea Bay. MILFORD, Nov. 24.—A large barque, abandoned, foresail set, maiutop-sail flying, and bowsprit across her bow, sides and stern much damaged, and having appa rently been in contact, was seen about eight A.M., es terday, between Lenny:Head and St. Gowan's Head, by the Mathiblis, arrived hare Cron) Bristol for Cork. STORNAWAY, Nov. 20.—The sloop Harmony, of and for Drogheda from Wick, in running for this harbour 17th instant, was stranded at Inaelit Point, but has been got off after lightening, and brought into the harbour to be surveyed and repaired. WARREN POINT, Nov. 23.—A rrd. Seraphine, Qua h‘ e. BELFAST, Nov. 24.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. 22d, Mar chioness of Bute, Montgomery, Qaebte. LARNE, Nov. 23,—Arrd. Standard, Ritchie, Quebec. CLYDE, Nov. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. 23d, Ann Hurley, Scott, New York ; Allan M'Arthur, Quebec. 2403 , Cassandra, Gall, Quebcc. Std. 23d, Helen, Tri nidad. CARDIFF, Nov. 23.—Wind S.E.—Sld. 21st, Daniel, Charleston. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY. CORN-EXCHANGE-MONDAY. The supplies of Wheat on sale in most of the country markets held on Saturday were tolerably good. All kinds met a very dull inquiry, at a decline in the quota tions of from 13 to 2i per quarter. In Spring Corn and Flour very little business was transacted. The foreign letters at hand, to-day, represent the trade abroad as in a very inactive state, notwithstanding the low prices ruling in most of the large shipping ports. Up to our market last week the receipts of all articles of English Grain, except Barley, were smell. Those from Ireland and Scotland were confined to a law cargoes of Oats. From abroad we received 35.644 varters of Wheat, 21,662 ditto of Barley, 42,282 ditto of Oats, 2,875 ditto of Beans, 2,812 ditto of Peas, 446 ditto of Tares, 7,765 ditto of Linseed, 190 ditto of Rapeseed, 379 - ditto of Mustard Seed, 242 ditto of sundry seeds, 1,472 harrels 5,449 sacks of Flour. Fresh up to our market, to-day, the receipts of Wheat, coastwise, from Essex, were hut moderate. From Kent, Cambridgeshire, &e., the quantity at hand was trifling. The supply by railway conveyance was very moderate. Notwithstanding the extensive nature of the imperta lions from abroad, the factors were tolerably firm to daY. Selected samples of English Whew—the number of which on offer tans trifling—sold without difficulty, at prices equal to those obtained on this day•se'enight,. In the middling and inferior kinds, only a limited busi ness was transacted, but we have nut the slightest change to notice in value. Offers continue to reach us fi ow Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, as well as from York shire, to ship at present rates. With F reign Wheat we were somewhat heavily supplied; but the quality of the fresh arrivals is by no means first-rate. Really flee samples of both red and white Were mostly taken at last week's currencies. The secondary qualities were very slow in sale, at un altered quotations. In floating cargoes—which were offering freely in order to save. landing expenses—very few transactions took place. We were well supplied With English Barley, and the show of foreign was large. As the quantity exceeded the wants of the dealers, the demand ruled heavy, and prices gave way from Is to in some instances 2s per quarter, without effecting a clearance. Very few parcels of new Malt were on offer, but the supply of old qualities was tole rably Coed. For all deecriptionsithe demand was heavy, and late rates were with difficulty supported. The show ho.ne•grown Oats was small, th a t o f foreign large. NO change was noticed in the value of the best sa raples, but d amp qua li t i es went a s h a d e l ower. Beaus were in lull average supply, and sluggish inquiry, at previous currencies. White Peas supported last week's prices; in other kinds very little was doing. The sale fur Flour was very slow, owing to the pressure ot foreign Parcels; in p r i ces no c h ange t oo k pl ace . I n di an Corn and Meal were almost nominal. Wheat—EcssexitP, NCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Kent, Malt—Chevalier...... 59s tc 60s Red, New..,. 405 to 463 Oats—Yorkshire and D itto,White, Now 41s 505 Lincolnsh., Feed. 15s :Ss Norfolk and Lin- Potato lBll 241 coin, Red... • . 40s 45s Youghal and Cork, Ditto, White...... 42 s 461 Black..- 145 17 Irish, Red.... ••• • Ms 4'. Cork, White. •• • • 1 55 l e B Ditto,White.... • . 415 45s Scotch, Feed.-- 185 21s Rys—Old ...... •• • . . 24s 255 Beans—Tick ... ••• • • • 27$ 33s New. •••••• • • • • • . 24s 26s Pigeons 365 395 Ha rley —Grinding .... 22s 25. Peas—Grey 283 295 Malting . .... • 265 28s Maple ...••• • • • • • 30s 32s Chevalier 214 313 White. ••••• • • • • 305 315 Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers • . 305 Zai folk ...... ••• • .. 86s 58a Flour—Town-1n ade ... 35s 405 Brown ......• •• • 465 485 Suffolk •••• • • • • 31s 33 5 Kingston and Ware 575 583 Stockta & Norfolk 31s 335 SEED. The demand for all kinds of Seeds, to-day, was ex ceedingly inactive, at almost nominal quotations. Not withstanding the advanced period of the year, there was scarcely any inquiry for cakes. The quantities of Clover Seed on which duty was paid this year, up to she 17th instant, were 135,254 cwts., against 96,020 ditto, during the correspondieg period in 1848. Turnlio•White, per bush. 10* to Ils t Carraway 295 34s , Ited mid Green.. • • 105 11.1 Coriander ........ •• • • 164 22s Uustard, 8r0wn.... • 9s l2s llempseed, per quarter 32s 355 Tares, White .• .. 65 9, Linse e d, E ng.4ow i ng .. 54s 561 Xew Winter.. 55 Cd 53 6d C rus hi ng ........ 404 43s Old •••••• • • •... 4s b s Baltic •..... •• .. 384 44 , Canary anarY. per quarter • • 775 85 E Od Psse ••.• • • .. 426 46 6 ~ grass•• ••• • • 20s 24 5 Li nieed Cake, pr.l,ooo— Lea En.,. (cwt.) 355 48 6 E ng li sh ...• . 91 Os 101 es White ........ • • 34s 42s Foreign, per ton 6/ Os 8/ Os l' orel6ll Red .... • • 30s 406 Rape Cakes, pr ton 4/ 5s 41 lOs Trefoil R'hit2 l 6 4 3 4 19 2 s Rapeseed, s ew, prlst 281 Os 29110 E SP/UTZ/FIELD. !We have again to r e p or t t h e arrival of a very extensive ?PPly of f ore i gn stock into London. During last week e total importations amounted to 5,687 head, being an "xcesi of 101 head compared with those the preced les week. A t the corresponding period in 1848 we re d 4 ,261, and at the saute time in 1847 3,193 head. par Amongst the stock imported since our last are 5 Sheep 2 Pigs f rom N ew York, for, we presume, breeding posm IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN THE PAST WEEK. Prom Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calvet. Pigs tarlingen l,llB •.. 4 ... 81 Hamburgh ... 106 -- New Y r k 5 2 Antwerp ... 42 Nieu Diep ••• Rotterda m . 890 ••• 10 . 7 Tonuiugen.... 908 1825 -- ..... ••• .... .. 184 ... 36 ... 122 ••• Total ...... 1 ,037 ... 50 Correspo n di ng 4,133 ... 2 'week in 1848.. 943 ... 3,173 ... ... 14') ... Battle week i n ... Th e arrivals at the northern outports have amounted to 11,250 head of Beasts, Sheep, Calves, and Pigs. The l uPPly of foreign stock on offer here this morning was tolerable good as to number, but of very middling quality From our own grazing districts a full average l uPPly of Beasts came fresh to hand today, and there I Las a decided improvement in quality. The attendance 'of both town and country buyers was tolerably good; lievertheless as the dead markets were failly supplied, the Beef trade was in a very sluggish state, at, in most instances, a decline in the quotations of Monday last of 2 c l per 81bs. The highest figure realised for the best :Scots was 48 per 81bs. The arrivals from Lincolnshire, Le icestershire, and Northamptonshire, amounted to 2,100 Short Horns, from the eastern, western, and midland coun ties 700 Herefords, Runts,Devons, Short Horns, and Soots, and from other parts of England GOO of various breeds There was a slight increase in the number of Sheep, the. general quality of which was tolerably good. Prime old Downs, which were scarce, moved off steadily, at full rates of currency, viz , from 4s to 4s 2d per 81bs. All other breeds of Sheep sold slowly, at Friday's decline in the quotations of 2d per Sibs. Calves, the supply of which was small, commanded a steady sale at fully last Week's prices. There was a slight improvement in the demand for Pigs, at full currencies. Per albs. to sink the offal. S. d. to 8. d, s. d. to s. d. Interior Beasts— .. 2 8 210 Second qual. Sheep 3 4 3 6 Second quality —•. 3 0 3 4 Coßrse-woolledditto3 8 310 Prime large Oxen.. 3 6 3 8 Southdown Wether 4 0 4 2 Prime Scots ... •.•3 10 4 0 Ditto cut of the wool 0 0 0 0 Large coarse Calves 3 4 3 6 Large Hogs 3 6 3 8 Prime small ditto •• 3 3 4 0 Small Porkers 3lO 4 2 Suckling Calves • .20 0 211 0 Quarter old Pigs lB 0 24 0 Inferior Sheep .. -.• 3 0 3 2 Lambs ...... • • 0 0 0 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKE T. Beasts. I Sheep, I Calves. I Pigs. 4,220 25,730 I 10 FOREIGN SUPPLY. 6 290 Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. Pigs. 603 2 , 710 16 NE IXTGATI3 AND LE.A.DEN1113.7.4 e . Since our last report these markets have been very scantily supplied with each kind of prime meat, the de mand for which has ruled steady, at very full prices. In the middling and infirm descriptions, the supplies of which have been good, a full average amount of business has been transacted, at late rates. The receipts from the provinces have been seasonably good. About 1,200 Foresees of foreign mess , have been disposed of, and 14 baskets. of Beef have arrived from Hamburgh. At per stone by the Carcase. s 2. di 21 to A. d. 1 s. d. 0 5. d. eer,lnt ert 0 r ...... 6 i Mutton, inferior 2 6 210 ---- middling ...• 282 10 i middling— 30 3 4 ....-- printelarge 3 0 3 2 1 _____ prime .• •. 3 6 31 0 .7 Prime small •• 3 4 3 8 Pork large.— •• .. 3 4 3 8 vcal•••—•• •• •• •• ••:44 4 0 -- ' small . 330R017333/ AND SPITILIAPIELDS. The total imports of Potatoes into London last week were very extensive, viz , 2 492 tons, derived as follows: 3 65: Roste r —Antwerp, 152; Rouen n 34 1,347; Dieppe, 90; Colitis, 70; Dunkirk, , 4 bar rel s e6..aBnitetotnos,band from Belfast, these large arrivali In addition to of thheo receipts were Coastwise and by land earria been npplies brought tons. The general quality2,49o forward since our list report having l h i g a t h Italy and inferior kinds ferior, the best samples have sold steadilysoltint"s. Improved currencies. The middling area dull sale, at our quotations. Per Ton. ' York. Regents P,Os to 1008 Ditto Shaws ... —s to —s Scotch Reds ... 508 to 60s Ditto min. Cups 40s to st's Ditto Buffs ... 50s to 55s Li ncoln.itegents. 65s to 853 Wisbeach ditto 505 to 603 Nevveastleditto 659 to 75s Common Whitcs —s to —8 ZIOROUGH 2atOP IVT.A.R.R.T. I.,roOur market i s very scantily supplied with fine new 44 Ps, the d tman d for which is steady, at very full Prices. The best Yr arlings are quite as dear. Other w'se the market is heavy. New MTd and East Kent Pocketstr., per car t. , Cl 103 to 13/ ; New Weald of " ( Alt, ditto, Cl Gs to 8/ ss; New Sussex ditto, 5/ 158 to 71 •le h AIM AM; 111 111 $Q 131; Yearling 4ent(i, 31 to Kent K Per T on idneys ..• 70a s to 85s Essex Regents ... to —a Ditto Shaves ...... —s to Ditto Kidney s a ... sto — s French Whi tes ... Belgian ditto..... 551 to . 55s to 65s 5s Dutch ditto ...... 55 s t o 654 German ditto ••• 503 to GL)s - -,_ _ AY•) i. -- Nx -,, Fostof ArieJ etlberh moor , maico; , ditto; buret WWI. tb', turd >,froo care s I lo b ° iroxibo e hsr lok 1113° irroorh , $4113, 20 13 1 z i ere oc i for 030 0 1' 401 1'AX.7.017;r. Although the delivery lust week was confined to 2,894 casks, holders to-day are very firm, and, in some instances, prices are 3d per cwt higher than on Monday last—P. Y. C. on the spot being quoted at 37s 6d per cwt. For forward delivery we have offfrs at 36s 3d per cwt. Town tallow, 37s to 37s 3d per cwt net cash ; rough fat, 2s Id per Blbs. The shipping season at St. Petersburgh may now be considered at an end. The total quantity loaded off, up to the 13th inst., was 118,369 casks, against 129,504 ditto in 1848, 131,864 in 1847, 113,223 in -1846, and 113,008 in 1845. There are now about 14,000 - casks - or,-their way to London. KNIGHT U. 3I4.JORIBANKB This case came before his Lordship a short time since upon appeal from the judgment of the r of the Rolls dismissing the plaitmtl's bill with coste. The suit was in stttuttd by the assignees of Colonel Latour for the pur pose of at tting aside two deeds, by which it was alleged he was deprived of at:: advant?ge of partnership in a speculation which turned out must profitable, called The New Sou►h %Vales and Van Dieman's Land Establi,hment. The. Lord Chancellor, after going at considerable length into 0:e facts of the case, which we have already given, both upon the appeal and the original hearing before the Master of the Rolls, ordered the judgment of the Court below to be Aimed, sad dimissed the appeal /fit costs. ROLLS' COtRT.-(THIS DAY.) his Lordship the Master of the Rolla heard motions to-day, it being the last day of Michaelmas Term. Nothing calling for a special report came before hi: Lordship during the morning. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND Ilis Honour sat to day at 11 o'clock, and heard ruc tions, it being the last day of Michaelmas Term. The Court, at its rising, will adjourn, it is understood, to this day wok, which is the First Seal after T, rm. Nothing of any interest occurred in the Courts of the Vice-Chancellors Knight Bruce and Wigram. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) THE PALACE COURT-BARILAM V. JOYCE. In this case the defendant had been committed to gaol by the Judge of the Palace Court so lets as the sth instant. A rule had been obtained, and it now came on for argument, calling upon the keeper of Whiteeross street Gaol to show cause why the defendant should not be discharged from custody. Mr. RUSSELL appeared in support of the rule, and contended that the Palace Court had no power to make the order under which the defendant was committed. The 12th and 13th of Victoria, which states that the Palace Court shall be ab fished on the 31st of December in this year, expressly declared that "no action or suit shall be commenced after the passing of the Act." The Act was passed on the 31st of August last. The 14th section of this Act stated that, on the 31st of December next all the power and jurisdiction of the Palace Court should cease, except so far as such power might be necessary for the enforcement of its own judgments. The proceedings in this case originated in a judgment of the Court of Exchequer, and the Palace Court not being at the time a court for the recovery of debts in accord ance with this statute, had no power to enforce it. A tender of 55., one of the instalments which the defendant had omitted to pay, had been made to the governor of the gaol, but be said he had no power to receive it. Mr. CORY rose to oppose the discharge of the pri soner, but Th© COURT interrupted Lim by saying that they be lieved the commitment good, inasmuch as the Act ex pressly said that suits should proceed after the passing of the Act, and made provision for the enforcing of its judgments after the 31st of December next. Suits pend ing were to proceed, and the Judge did no more than he was fully entitled to do.—Rule discharged. EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) IN RE WILLIAM WILLIS, A BANKRUPT. In this case, which came from the Vice-Chancellor of England, a person named William Willis had guaranteed the payment of a bill of exchange, and before the bill became payable a fiat of bankruptcy aas issued out against him. The bill of exchange in question was duly presented for payment and dishonoured; and the ques tion now was whether the claim under the guarantee was provable under the fiat of bankruptcy rzains- Willis. The LORD CHIEF BARON dt livered the judgment of the Court this morning. The Court, he said, was of opinion that a claim on a guarantee for a sum certain, which this was, when due was provable as a debt, and before it was due was provable as a debt that became due ou a contingency. _ BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Before MR. Justice PATTESON.) ARTICLED CLERKS: Mr. ITUDDLESTON app'ied to the CcAirt on behalf of a young gentleman named Strutton, an articled clerk, for leave to serve the remainder of his term with a third master without obtaining an assignment from the gen- tleman to whom he is n.)w under articles. lie moved under the following circumstacces:—Mr. Strutton was articled to a gentleman who had recently been convicted of forgery, but since May last, when the charge was first made, he had been serving this gentlemen's partner, and the object of the present application was that the period from May to the present time should be computed in his term of five years' servitude. Mr. Justice PATTESON doubted whether or no he had power to grant the application, since it was quite clear the service since May had not been to the master. Mr. HIIDDLESTON remarked, that the case of forgery against the master had been reserved on a point of law for the opinion of the Criminal Court of Appeal, and the conviction had been confirmed. Now, supposing the Court had decided in favour of the point reserved, the articled clerk would have had the advantage of counting the time since May, inasmuch as having been engaged in the office of the partner, it would have been tanta mount to serving the master, for although the partner gave notice of his intention to terminate the partnership im. mediately after the charge was preferred, no dissolution had as yet taken place. Mr. Justice PATTESON observed that it was a hard case, but he had no power to interfere. Mr. HUDDLESTON said, perhaps, then, his Lordship would grant a rule absolute for an arrangement of the remainder of the t‘ rn3, without the present master being made a party to it. Mr. Justice PATTESON said it was rot usual to make such a rule absolute in the first instance, but he would grant a rule nisi returnable at chambers. Rule nisi accordiug'y. CRIMINAL' (JOUR'.—(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. The first sessions of the present mayoralty were opened to-day by the Right lion. the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Aldermen Hunter and Carden, the Sheriffs, and other civic functionaries. After the selection and swearing in or the grand jury. The RECORDER proceeded to deliver MS charge' He said the number of prisoners contained in the calendar, against whom c;ha:ges were about to be preferred, amounted to 184, and the number would be increased by some additional commitments before the close of their labours. Although the number was not by any means unusually large, he lamented to say that there were several instances of imputed offences of a very grave and serious description: there was a charge of murder, a case of manslaughter, a charge of rape, h charge of sending a letter, threatening to InUrdir; two charges ith intent to do grievo u s b o o f d c il u y tti h n a g rm a . nd an w d ett a ntl e f i t l ig a; ge of atteitiptino to tiL i There were be s ides charges of totliery with force, and four persons itPIT thargrd with shooting feloniously at another with the intention to kill or minder, or to do tome grievous bodily harm; but the vast bulk of the cases in the ca l en d ar was cenatcted nces against pro perty rather than against the person, and indeed in those against the perso n t h e mot i ve and inducement i n many instanc es seemed to be the acquiring of property by criminal means. Out of the 184 eases there were 103 for larceny, i, e., the acquisition of property without any attempt upon the person. Thy. proportion was very small, indeed, of offeee.s which were wholly independent of eny att,rept to a c q u i re unlawfully the prop( rty sli 9tber. The character an d cornpltxion a the off e nc es f.roln time to time exhibited in that court Effordecl, in fa c t, no appearance of zrly improvement i n t h e morals or habits o f : h ose within its jurisdiction. The nature of thee punishment had been from time to time changed, s ' v eritY of it mitigated —a vari: ty of Courses had been pursued tion 48 as to th e mo d e of carrying out transporta a as punishment, but the result had hitherto certainly been ;bat 'crime had not been checked THE SUN, LONDON , 4/ I2i; Yearling Sussex, 2/ 8i to 3/ 17i; Old Hops, 11 to 4/. V.' 0 OX. During last week the imports of Wo( 1 into London amounted to 362 bates from thirribmgb; 1,179 ditto from Port Adelaide ; 539 ditto from TagaurN; 3 ditto from Antigua; 30 dhto from 11 , gs,clort ; 100 ditto from Naples; and 6 ditto from Bombay. 0,1 the whole a fair average business is passing is Ole private contract markets, and late rates are welt supported. The stocks held by the manufacturers ,re represented es mail. - 1845. 1846. I- 1847. I 1848. 1849. Stock this day 17,9t(1": 16,310 . , 31,708 43,231 Price of Y. C. .... ; 0 425 0 •:( 6 1 0 to4B-sas t 0 Od :458 0s O o d a •45 0 s 8 0 0 cl a to t 03 7 0 83 0 6 0 d [, Delivery last week • . '2;666 2;101 3,010 2,356 2,894 Ditto from June 1.. 31,802 42,391 46,204 50,880 41,341 Arrivals last week • 3;810 360 1272 347 .5,084 " - Ditto from June 1 ... 66,502 50,€82 54 , 413 75,052 62699 - Price of Town •• •• 45s Od 525 6d 495 Od 495 Od 398 6cl STATEMENT OF TALLOW sIIIIi'ING AT ST. PETERSBURGII. 1849. 1848. I 1347. 1846. 1844. Tallow dispatched Casks. Cask.. Casks. Casks. Casks. from Cronstadt to Nov. 12, O.S. .... 116,201 shi.s loading and lighters 2,168 .... Total loaded off .... 118,369 .• Loaded afterwards • . • • .. • • • • •• • • Total at the close of the navigation.... 115,369 123,394 131,864 .113,223 113,008 London.-- .• • • 48,381 70,617 60,8211 55,508 53,924 Liverpool 17,890 11,743 15,182 14,412 19,157 Bristol .......• .. 4,214 5,28 4,451 3,787 3,723 Other EngliBh por Es 13,915 11,733 10,946 13,669 9,597 Ireland ...... •• • • 4,903 4,110 6,483 6,787 6,304 Scotland ........ 9,71;7 9,337 7,564 6,281 Germany .....• 13,075 8,161 14,77'1 8,598 6, 32 Frame .......... 7,341 623 8,978 2,471 7,843 116,201 129,501 1131,173 , 113,058 112,961 LAW INTELLIG NCE. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) Thia being the last day of Michavim as Term, the Lord Chancellor heard appeal motions after giving judgment in the appeal of so as to afford any satisfactory evidence to Parliament of the sum.ssful application of those labours which it had anxiously given with the view of diminishing the amount of crime. Having simply mentioned a charge against a young man for shooting his father, without making any comments upon it, Le next alluded to the case of murder, saying that if the party charged with the crime was shown to be the individual at whose hands the deceased met with his death, the other circumstances connected with it would place no difficulty in the way of their coming to a decision. He would at once relieve them, if they plttced any confidence in his opinion, by saying, that if the circumstances were spo ken to by the witnesses in the same manner in which they were disclosed in the depositions, it would become their bounden duty at once to risco the ease in the course of further inquiry. After referring in detail to several other eases in the cab nder, the Learned Re corder remitted the jury to the discharge of their im portant duties. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) A tall gaunt-looking woman named Morris was charged with having assaulted two of her own sex. Mrs. James, the wife of a fish•dealer in Clare-market, proved the assault. She was standing in the Nelson public- house on Saturday night with :friend, when the prisoner came in and assaulted them in a very desperate manner. The friend of the complainant, a young woman named Andrews, with red hair, confirmed this statement, adding that the prisoner, who lived in the same court as herself in Clement's-lane, was constantly attacking her reputation, and she went in what is called "fear of her life." Mr. HALL—WeII, prisoner, what have you to say to this? Prisoner—Why, its all false, as them ere wimen has been a sayin of. The truth is they insulted me first, and not bavin bin satisfied of rippin up my cap, Bich here is the remains, • ,they sets to and tares my gown up. _ _ _ Mr. HALL—But it seems you attacked them first. Prisoner—Well, my good man, they are both bad 'uns, and that carroty one there has sedoosed my husband what works at a rag shop. Mr. HALL asked the officer who had charge of the prisoner if she was drunk when he arrested her. Prisoner—Yes, I was very drunk, and so they was too. I'll call a witness, if you please, air, which is a female. Mr. HALL—Very good; call her. Mary Cope was then sworn. She said these two females was a standin in the passage, when the lady at the bar comes up, and has some words with 'em. With this she ups with her fist, and knocks James's bonnet off, and then James turns round and tears her cap and gown to pieces, while the other one goes for the police. Mr. HALL—The prisoner says she was not sober ? Mrs. Cope—No more was none of 'em. They was all drunk together. Mr. James said the prisoner had been charged with assault before. Prisoner—Oh, you bud 'un. Mr. HALL asked the officer whether the complainant or her friend was drunk?—Tbe cffiecr said they were not. Mr. HALL had no doubt that the prisoner was a most violent woman, and as this was not her first offence he should fine her 31 or three weeks' imprisonment. The prisoner was then removed in custody. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM TIII MORNING PAPERS OF TIIIS DAY. ES—The recent intelligence received from he distant waters of the Eastern Archipelago is of a nature to demand public attention and inquiry. In the present state of cur information w•e cannot divest ourselves of the impression, that by the signal chas tisemcit recently inflicted on the Bornean pirates, Sir James Brooke has rendered eminent service to the cause of civilizatiun and humanity. On first reading the accounts of the conflict—or slaughter, should we not rather call it ?—at the mouths of the Sarebas and Zaluka rivers, one is naturally affected with a very painful feeling. Here is the case of 1,500 or 2,000 barbarians, who in an incredibly short space of time were blown to atoms, and their boats or prahus sunk,. burnt, or destroyed by a body of British seamen, with all the resources of civilizmion at their command. This was no "naval battle," it was a "naval execution." It remains only to be seen whether the victims had deservedly incurred their fate, and whether any milder measures than those actually adopted would have been sufficient to obtain peace for the present, and security for the future. We are so far removed from the scene of action that we are of necessity compelled to form a judgment without any possibility of acquiring such accurate information of details as would have rendered an opinion more satisfactory to ourselves, and more convincing to the public. As yet we are rather in possession of an account of the warlike operations than of any minute and circumstantial description of the state of facts which necessitated them. We are thrown back, then, upon our previous know ledge of the condition of the Eastern Archipelago, by the light of which we must read the earlier and more meagre paragraphs of the intelligence recently received. We know from the earliest times in which these waters were visited by European travellers, that they have been infested by hordes of law less pirates, whose rule it was, and still is, that any ship, or maritime village, of which they could possess themselves by force of arms was their own absolute possession. The luckless crews of the ships, or inha bitants of the villages, which might be so reduced, were assassinated as a matter of course, and the women, if any there were, carried off to dishonour and slavery. These things were not done in secret. Piracy was, and is, with certain of the inhabitants of the Archipelago, a gainful trade—an honourable profession. As you would say of a particular spot, "it is a fishing village," so you would have described another as a " tcwn of pirates," as much so as Algiers was before Lord Exmouth's days. The avocation of a pirate descended from father to son naturally, and as an acknowledged fact. We need not dwell upon the extreme misery inflicted by such a state of things upon the more peaceful natives of the Archipelago. Coasting intercourse was crippled, not to say annihi lated ; traditions of blood and slaughter were perpe tuated from father to son ; their more intimate ac quaintance with the European element of civilization was almost indefinitely postponed ; and, in short, this fertile and noble section of the habitable globe was left to struggle on, as it best might, under the undis puted sway of murderers, pirates, and common sea vagabonds. Of the consequent prejudice to European commerce and of the injuries inflicted upon Europeans it is not our design to speak at length, for it was morally certain from the first, that when the Eastern pirates were once fairly set to try the conclusions with 32 pounder traversing guns and rocket tubes, their fate was sealed. We know something of the modern history of Eastern piracy from the diaries of Sir James Brooke and the published testimony of Captain Keppel, lately of her Majesty's ship Dido, and now of the Ma:ander, nor are we aware that the testimony of these gentlemen has been impugned on any material point. We start, then, with the assumption that they have borne true witness. If this be so, it follows that for some five or six years past great efforts have been made to bring the pirates to abandon their unholy trade, as well by peaceful remonstrance as by inflicting upon them a series of petty defeats, which should have brought home to their minds the real nature of the power with which at length they were called upon to con tend. To our judgment, the praise or blame to be awarded to Sir James Brooke, as director of the recent transactions, must depend mainly upon the quantity and quality of his previous efforts to turn away the Eastern pirates " from the wickedness which they had committed," and were yet minded to commit, before inflicting upon them the terrible slaughter of which we have recently received the de tails. A tremendous responsibility 1 For the utter and complete destruction of the piratical hordes Was certain from the moment the final and awful resolu tion was taken to turn against them all the resources which the experience and science of Europe have developed after ten centuries of almost unceasing warfare. It appears that in July last the purpose was fixed of directing the expedition against the pirates which has been attended with such sanguinary results. The European force consisted of less than 150 men in her Majesty's ship Royalist, the Hon. Com pany's steamer Nemesis, and eight boats. On the evening of the 26th of July the expedition anchored off the mouth of one of the Bornean rivers, and on the 28.1 intelligence wa s r ece i ve d " th a t at large force of upwards of 100 prahus were out from Sare bas, in the direction of the Rejang, with the inten tion, It wag supposed, of etiacklng the town of Siriki." The position of the British force was instantly taken up. " Sir James Brockel and a detachment of the tletiVe auxiliaries, anchored off the mouth of the kaluka river, and the other detachment at the mouth of the Satebese4he nemesis in the bay between the two rivers, and the men-of-war's boats in line shorewards." It was not until the evening of the SOth that decisive intelligence was received that the piratical fleet had actually at tacked rule, and *eh then lying In a river called Si Maring. On the evening of the 31st of July a scout boat brought news that the pirate fleet of up wards of 166 large prahus, each manned by 50 men, was approaching. Upon the particulars of the conflict chat ensued it is nut our intention to dwell. In the %tin in• which they reached us they were laid before the public in our impression of Friday last. Suffice it to say that the horror of the scene that ensued can scarcely find a parallel in the history of warfare. Of 120 piratical prahus said to have been in the bay on the evening of the 81st of July, 87 were destroyed, with an immense loss of life. Even of those who escaped the death shot of the British force, many were cut down along the shore and in the j ung l e by th e - a the operations in native auxiliaries. Of the me..... . a military point of view we presume there can ue doubt. The expedition accompli s h e d i ts purpose the most complete manner. Nor do we lay much stress upon a fret which has been noticed, that no prisoners were taken, although so ruby of the pirates were slain. Where prisoners could have been secured in such a case as this is not very readily intelligible. The captives would have outnumbered the captor:, and turned their weapons against them selves. But, as a question of policy, .Sir James Brooke baa himself fillip up a broad and distinct - et n MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, J 849 ground upon which he must be judged. He is re ported to have said, at a public meeting subsequent to the expedition :—" Recent occurrences should open the eyes, even of the most prejudiced, to the enormity of the system which has been showed to grow up on the coasts of Borneo, and I thank God, with a large and minute experience, I have clear and unflinching principles of public duty, and that I know of no wa y to advance civili zation, and secure the safety of commerce, except by the punishment of these hardened and lawless tribes, which have long been the terror and the scourge of Borneo, 'and who even find advocates amongst the Christian community of Singapore." Sir James Brooke at the same time gave the most emphatic and straightforward denial to the accuracy of certain statements which have originated with a Singapore journal, on the strength of which he had been charged with inhuman cruelty. " I blush (said he) for the authors of this monstrous calumny, lest they should be unable to blush for themselves." Until some very different evidence is forthcoming from any , that has been produced vet, we have little hesita tion in saying that the charges in question will, by any rational man, be considered slanderous and false. On the presumption that the defeat of these Eastern pirates is absolutely necessary in the interests of civilization and humanity, it would appear that Sir James Brooke is performing good service by their destruction. To take an instance upon a larger scale, who ever dreamt of impugning the conduct of Lord Exmouth for the bombardment of Algiers ? These Eastern pirates are, like the Algerines, hostes humani genera ; they give no mercy, and expect none. Those who are so ready to sympathise with the fate of a horde of sanguinary marauders would do well to spare a thought, sometimes, to the fate of those whom they had already consigned to destruction, and to . the security of the unoffending persona over whose heads a similar doom was impending at the same blood stained hands. Is the fountain of pity to be ever unsealed for the murderer, and never for the murdered man ? We have no disposition to countenance Sir James Brooke in any abuse of power of which he may at any time be guilty, but, at the same time, it is a discreditable thing to turn open-mouthed against a man whom we all of us so lately delighted to honour simply because he is carrying out in a firm and unflinching spirit a very painful duty, and fulfilling his important mission to the best of his ability. DUST.—The monetary condition of the United Kingdom is, at this juncture, very peculiar. 'The total circulation of Bank of England notes was re ported, for the 17th November, at 18,000,000/. only, to which add 1.000,0001. of bank post bills. The Bank of England had 11,00,0001. of its own notes unem ployed in the banking department, while the bullion, gold and silver, in the issue department, was upwards of 15,000,0001. sterling, besides 828,3951 in the banking department. Thus the bullion in store, in both departments, approaches to within 2,000,000/. of the batik notes in actual circulation, and the Bank has an unemployed balance in the two departments of 27,000,0001. sterling—a large sum to be lying wholly idle and unproductive. The Bank, on the other hand, is drawing interest in the issue depart ment, but at very low rates, upon 14,000,000/., and in the banking department, excluding the dead weight, upon 23,500,000/. But the rates of :interest realised annut, safely, be estimated, at the present time, higher than 3 per cent. all round ; and from this source the heavy expense of establishments and al: other charges have to be met; the proprietors, there fore, must look for reduced dividends hereafter. Shallow observers ask, upon this—Why should not the Bank, having nearly 12,000:0001. unemployed in the banking department, buy with it Exchequer-bills or Three per Cents. P Rather, they say, take the rates of interest that might thus be realised than let the money lie absolutely idle. An individual would doubtless so act, but a bank cannot. And for this reason: a purchase by the bank of Three per Cents. would run the price of this stock up to 95 at least. Whenever the Bank might desire to sell, the price would, in value, of course be similarly depressed. As a temporary investment, therefore, such an employ ment of the funds of an institution like the Bank of England would be sure to be a losing speculation ; for the difference upon re-sale would exceed even three years' ordinary interest. It is for this reason that, when there is a plethora of money in the market, a wise banker prefers to hold his funds, or to discount short bills at any rate, however low, so as to insure the future receipt of a fixed amount, rather than to purchase, for the sake of interest, securities of any kind that are subject to fluctuation. The notes, deposit accounts, and other liabilities of a ba n k are all of fixed amount, sure to be cashed at the particular time when the realisation of permanent securities is attended with the heaviest sacrifice. The mercantile, public are well aware of this, and were quite prepared, therefore, for the resolution taken by the Bank of England to reduce its discount rate to 2f per cent. The Bank, however, knew well that, even at this rate, its desire to extend its discounts was not likely to be accomplished ; and therefore the directors have added to the notice of last Thursday an intimation that, for the sake of obtaining a good transaction for their purposes, they would not consider themselves pre eluded from giving out the Bank's money at a lower rate even than 21 per cent. When the Bank of England is in a state of plethora, it is a sure sign that the private banks and bill brokers of the metropolis are in the same condition. All these, therefore, have money for short discounts — all are competing with the great Bank for the bills in the market. What chance has a public institution in such competition ? It becomes a matter of favour to discount a bill, and who seeks to confer favours on the old lady of Threadneedle-street? The Bank parlour is only a kind of refuge for the destitute, to be applied to like commissioners of poor-rates when other resources fail. Then, indeed, the Bank is sure to make its profit out of people's necessities, and its profits are large in proportion to its means. But in easy times a public bank may reckon upon obtaining only such bil s for discount as others are nut de sirous of obtaining; and its profits will be less than those of keen competitors not above canvassing for beneficial business. Here, however, is the Bank of England barely realising profit for an average dividend, while the note circulation of the country, and the gold likewise, is at a lower ebb than it was during the convulsion of 1847-8. The notes in circulation, then, ex ceeded 20,000,0001., and the country banks had also more notes out, than now, by several millions sterling. There was then no run for gold in exchange for notes to lead to the conclusion that gold was scarce in the country, although, for purposes of fo reign export, there had been a drain on the Bank of England. What, then, are we to infer from this ? The status is not peculiar to England. The circula tion of Ireland has diminished to one-half of what it was in 1847 8, and the returns of the Bank of France show a smiler abundance of unemployed funds, and a store of bullion equal to the entire aggregate circulation of notes, including in the comparison the branch banks of the interior. What, we ask again, does this indicate ? Is it prosperity or the contrary ? We think there is but one legitimate conclusion to be drawn from the general di , position thus evinced to leave money unemployed in banks—viz., that there is, from some cause or other, a want of activity in works of internal production. Industrial pursuits are comparatively at a stand. People are averse to spe culations of all kinds. Those who have capital employed desire not to extend their operations, but seek rather to withdraw funds, in order to place them in some more secure investment not subject to accident and fluctuations. And what is the cause of this dread of loss from all kir.ds of industrial speculation ? Why should people hoard—for leaving their money in banks is the bonding of the present day—in prefer ence to employing or lending capital to be employed in trade or in manufactures, or in promoting useful projects, or in providing what might furnish liveli hood and income to tradesmen, artizans,•and other men who live by their industry and enterprise? There Is but one reason for the preference shown to the low interest of Three per Cents. at 93, or to a Bank deposit without any interest, and that is—distrust of the profitable result, at this particular time, of every branch of industry, every speculation of trade or production, because of the condition of the home market under the competition of coun tries less burdened with taxation. Every pro ject, every device for earning profits and subsistence from industry of the head or hand is paralysed by the results of the policy that has opened the markets of the United Kingdom to the foreigner, and caused the wealth that, heretofore, stimulated and rewarded native industry to be spent in replac ing the capital and wages of producers who pay no taxes. So long as we subject native industry of all kinds to heavy burdens, and place it under restric tions and under taxation, the expectation that it will stand competition with producers exempt from these disadvantages is like the hardship of requiring the Israelites to make bricks without straw. It compels the British labourer and artizan to work at the lowest wages of the competing nations, and out of that low rate to pay the taxes, direct and indirect, which bear upon him. This state of things will not be mended by the Bank of England lowering its rate of dis count. It is only a bid made for the bills in the market. There will be no renewal of the hope of profit from speculation till markets are improved and cheapness is repudiated as the first aim of t h e national policy. jr. George Hudson, M.P., paid a visit on Thurs .- hi.; constituents in the borough of Sunderland. In the Hon. Gentleman inspected the -Aod a meeting of the board day the course of works at the dock 4, and att.— directors.—Novcastie Journal. VIOLETS IN NOVEMI I ER.,,-AS a proof o f th e MI,, ne§i the season, our Sedgefield eorrespondknt informs us that, a few days ago., he haq presented to Lich a very fine specimen of violets, gathe:7,ed on Sunday last, in a field belonging to Mr. Shepherd, farmer, at Buttqwich, near Sedgelield.—Nctvcastk (ittpirdian. PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY, Nov. 25.—The Penin sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Jupiter, Captain F. Meehan, arrived here at one r.re. this day, with the usual Spanish and Portuguese mails, in charge of Lieutenant Newenham, RN. Admiralty agent. She brings only a few passengers. Her dates are —Gibraltar, November 16 ; Cadiz, November 17 ; Lisbon, Novemb er 19 ; o ff O porto, N ovem b er 20 ; Vigo, November 21. The freight list comprises 622 half chests of oranges, 10 boxes of Tangerine oranges, 11 cases of saffron, 8 kegs of grapes, 32 barrels of dates, 47 cases of eggs, 49 sacks of chestnuts, 9 packages of specie, and 40 packages of sundries. Although the Jupiter arrived here and was along side the wharf at one o'clock, yet we understand her mails will be detained until the midnight train, and cannot therefore be deposited in the General Post office till Monday morning. The effect of this deten• Con will be to deprive the provincial and northern towns of their Peninsular packet letters till Monday night, at which time they will be delivered, thus preventing the possibility of replies being prepared in the north for the Montrose to leave Southampton with the outward mails on Tuesday. lied the Jupiter bags been forwarded to the metropolis by a special train, there would have been ample time for the letters to be sorted and dispatched by the London night trains for delivery throughout England on Monday morning, as in the case of the India mail by the Ripon, which vessel arrived this morning. By this steamer we have received letters from Lis bon of the 19th instant. Some anxiety had existed in respect to the Queen's state of health. It appears that the royal family had intended to honour withqheir presence a concert at the Philharmonic Society on the evening of the 17th, but her Majesty was, during the afternoon, obliged to notify her inability to attend from indisposition ; which being communicated to the different members of the society, had caused more alarm than appears to have been warranted by the slightness of the ill ness, from which her Majesty was reported convales cent when the packet left the Tagus, and the Diario do Got'crno of the 19th declares her to ho in her usual state of health. We learn that this moil brings the Viscount of Moncorvo's note in reply to Lord Palmerston upon the Macao affair; it was asserted in Lisbon, in well informed quarters, that this correspondence had tended to aggravate the indifferent terms upon which Lord Palmerston and the Portuguese Ambassador at this Court were said to have been ; that the latter bad, after appealing to Lord John Russell, assured his Government the affair was likely to be more favour ably considered by the British Cabinet than indicated in Lord Palmerston's first dispatch. The Portuguese appear very sensitive upon the point, and complain that his Lordship treats them with illiberality and chicane in his endeavour to establish the English Go vernment's jurisdiction over its own subjects in Ma. cao, by virtue of the treaty of peace with China, when they contend no such pretension had existed before that treaty, and that it ought not now, in the absence of express stipulation, to be held to alter a fact previously existing and tacitly recognized for centuries. As far as was known in Lisbon at the time of closing the mail, the muniepal elections throughout Portugal had is en conducted peaceably, and in general the members chosen were moderate Chartists favourable to the Government; in a few places the Septembrist influence has always prevailed, in others the Royalist, and it was in these that those Oppositionists had contested and carried the elections, whilst in other municipalities they abandoned the ballot and revived the usual questions of falsified registrations, undue official interference, &c. Our correspondent writes, " With reference to the election for the capital, I can state from personal inspection at a great number of the parishes that the ballot appeared to be conducted in an orderly and legal manner. I, however, inva riably found that the voters did not amount to one. fourth of the names called over from the register; in a parish in the centre of Lisbon, there were only 80 votes out of 800, and the entire number of votes tendered in 2.5 out of the 38 electoral assemblies was only 3,986 ; the returns from the other 13 have not yet been made, but personal observation convinces me they will only confirm still more the oft-asserted indifference of the people to the most important of constitutional forms. It is true that the election was deprived of the excitement of a contest, and thus it was that with a splendid clear sunshiny day, such as would be prized in England in the middle of summer, the streets of Lisbon presented yesterday no bustle beyond that usual on a holiday, and in fact, the greater part of those tempted abroad were more in terested in the public gardens and exposition of national manufactures, which has made the great room at the arsenal a fashionable lounge." Bills upon London continued to be little sought for on the Lisbon exchange, and the rate for three months' paper comes quoted at 54d.; Paris, 520 ; Hamburgh, 50; Amsterdam, 484 ; Portuguese Five per Cents. 54i to 55; Four per Cents., 44 to 46 ; Bank of Portugal shares, 60 to 50 milreis discount per share ; Bank of Oporto shares, 30 milreis premium per share. As usual, the above rates for stocks and shares are given in Lisbon Bank notes, which were at a discount of 19f per cent. The following ships of war were at anchor in the Tagus :—Her Majesty's steam-frigate La Hogue, Captain M'Dougal, under quarantine until the 20th; her Majesty's steam-corvette Encounter, Captain Gurdon ; and the Russian frigate Pallas. The Portuguese Government expected to arrange with the impracticable Lisbon Board of Health some reduction of the quarantine after the arrival of the mails sent from Southampton on the 17th inst. The following is an extract from the letter of a Lisbon correspondent, respecting the commencement made towards a reform of the Portuguese Financial Administration : " Upon - a report of M. Avila, a decree signed by all the Ministers has been issued, to reform the or ganization of the finance department, by virtue of an authorization granted during the last session of the Cortes. "It is impossible to give in your columns more than the general features of the 61 articles of the de cree, and these .1 shall divide into two parts, with my reasons for approving the one and condemning the other, that your readers may form their own opinion of this step towards the financial reorganization of the country. "By this measure the Finance-office is divided into general departments, viz., for direct contributions, Custom-house and indirect contributions, trea sury, and accounts ; each of these is to have a general director, and the fuur directors will form a consultative tribunal whenever required by the Fi nance Minister; but otherwise each will be sufficiently occupied in the direction of his own department, and its ramifications throughout the country. " The four counsellors who sat in the pomp and state of a tribunal of the Treasury, apparently for the purpose of wasting the time and patience of claimants and others having public accounts to settle, are now dispensed with, and the four general directors left un shackled to decide rind dispatch the business of their respective departments ; and they will only recur to the Minister upon extraordinary occasions, whilst parties aggrieved by their acts will have a right of appeal to him and to the Council of State. All this is an improvement, as also the steps taken to simplify. the operations of the fiscal departments in the pro vinces, where the public will now be in direct contact with delegates of the Treasury, who in their turn give direct accounts to the general direction in Lisbon, without the interference of the administrative autho rities. " I believe that an active, intelligent, and persever ing minister of finance like M. Avila will make these reforms work well, save the time of the public, and give the minister a more immediate insight into and check upon the public moneys throughout the country. " It is in these general features of this new organi zation of the financial system that I find much to ap prove, because the simplification of the business is attained with better checks upon peculations, and a declared reduction of the number of employes ; but my objection is, that this reduction is left to the operation of time, and meanwhile those found to be unnecessary are allowed to retain their snug berths and perpetuate a system of general inattention to duties there are confessedly too many hands to perform. The public expenses of Portugal require great reduc tion, and this opportunity should have been availed of, the more so that it would have come with good grace on this occasion, as it would have included four councillors of the Treasury who have been Ministers of State, and are otherwise well provided for ; instead of this, they are added to the five coun cillors hitherto forming the tribunal of accounts, which after being , increased to seven, still leave two without anything to do ; it were much better to pay these and other functionaries the bread of idleness than to keep their offices open in the budget of the finance department, and I am sorry to see M. Avila adopt this principle in his reforms, as it promises no good for the country, which is eaten up with unne cessary employis." Oar accounts from Gibraltar and Tangier' by this packet both confirm the report previously received of an amicable settlement of the dispute between France and Morocco. Accordingly the French Consul- General, M. de Chasteau, with the whole of the per sons under his protection who had left the Moorish territory, embarked on board the steam-frigate Pomone, and returned to Tangier on the Bth instant. M. Martino, the Neapolitan Consul General, also re turned to Tangier, and the representatives of both Governments were successively saluted on their landing. The French flag was likewise saluted on its being hoisted over the residence of the French d'Affaires. M. • de Chasteau subsequently *he Emperor in favour of one of the " - , ood Mussulmans to fall •-• and likewise interceded wu. judg.7s who had directea a.. upon and ill-treat the French subjeuv., iu favour of the ALM* who had executed bis Calm._: At Gibraltar the exchange on London had slightly declined ; the last quotations for bills on London, at 90 days' date, wne 49i to 4.9 i; on Paris sf. 34c. ; M arse ill es , sf. 870. ; Genoa, sf. 47c. At eight days' sight on Madr:d, Cadiz, and Seville, par ; Malaga, premium; Alicante, discount; Valencia and Bar celona, 4 discount ; paper scarce on the four latter cities; Spanish pillared dollars, 4 per cent. premium. —Tinges. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON NOVEMBER MEETING. Nominations for the Stakes which closed on Thursday last:— Sweepstakes for two and three yrs old.—Arena, 2 yrs (to be sold for 301.)—B f, by Don John, out of Sister to Ainderby, 2 yrs (500—Secondhand, 2 yrs (300 — Rochester, 3 yrs (300—Captain Parry, 3. yrs (301.) zo, 2 yrs (500—Emma, 2 yrs (20/. )—Countess, 2 yrs (30/.)—Pansey, 2 yrs (300—Syrup, 3 yrs (300 — Sr. Denis, 3 yrs (300—Clothworker, 3 yrs (300 — Young England, 2 yrs (700—Carbuncle, 3 yrs (300— Sis) wachus, 3 yrs (301.)—The Peasant Girl, 3 yrs. Entry for the Hunt Cup.—Miss Burns, Sobriety, Outcast, Kilkenny, Merriman, Lansquenet, The Prophet, The Ace of Trumps, Gazelle, The Agent, The Mangler. LATEST BETTING ON THE GRAND OPEN CUASE. 7 to 1 agst Vain Elope (t)-7 to 1 agst Pau. Simple (0-7 to 1 agst British Yeoman-8 to 1 agst Chandler —9 to 1 agst Rattrap-10 to 1 agat Maria Day (t)-10 to 1 agst Knight of Gwynne-11 to 1 agst Agitation -12 to 1 agst The Doctor-15 to 1 agst Venom (t). HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Cheltenham stag hds., Sat., Churchill's Farm. Norfolk stag hds., Thurs Mr. Gowen's. Albrightcn hds., Tues., huuniugton; Thurs., Bel broughton; Sat., Wassail Top-101 1 . South Berkshire lids, Tues., btaafoid-street; Fri., Streatley. Sir John Ccpe's lids., Wcd., Rye Common; Fri., White Waltham-10-L Craven hds., Wed.:Brimslado; Fri., Alborne Chase; Sat., Atheridge—loi. 11=We...don hds., Wed., Hill Place; Fri., Upham. Haydon lids., Wed., Kennels; Sat., Kingswood Hall. Col. Wyndharn's hds., Wed., Fitzhall; Fri., Stoke House-11i. Ham bledon Hunt hds., Tues., Hinton House; Thurs., Herriard Park; Sat., Medstcad Mr. Lushington'ts lids., Tues., Hollingbourne House; Fri., Gore Court-11. New Forest lids., Tues., Dcnny Lodge; Thurs., Bowlesbury Farm; Sat., the Rising Sun, 'Wootton-10i. Sir Henry Seale's hds., Wed., Morley Tollbar; Sat., Torbrian. Vino lids., Thurs., Asho Warren Farm; Sat., Ew hurst-11. South Wilts hde., Wed., Bathampton; Fri., Jervois F3rm-11. Mr. Deacon's harm, Wed., Shaugh Village; Sat., Sh eepster Bridge -10. Lord Lonsdale's harrs., Tues., Drayton Mo3d; Sat., Wendover-12. OLYMPIC THEATRE. On the 29th of March the Olympic Theatre, which was erected by old Philip Astley, and which obtained some celebrity from the fact of George the Third having contributed the principal portion of the timber used in the building, was entirely consumed by fire. A comparatively short period has elapsed since the work of re-erection commenced. Already the new theatre presents the appearance of being all but com pleted. The frontage of the house is plain and simple, the entrance to the pit and boxes being, as before, in Wych - street. The lumbering portico, which formed part of the old theatre is not to be re stored ; but in lieu a light awning carried sufficiently forward is to be erected. The entrance to the gallery is to be from the passage fronting Newcastle-street, and a roomy and handsome stone staircase has been erected, ensuring at the same time perfect safety and convenience. The entrance to the boxes is by a flight of steps of Portland stone, which leads to a small but neat saloon. On entering the theatre the beauty and proportions of the interior contrast strikingly with the plainness and simplicity of the exterior. The stage occupies about as much space as it did in the old house. The audience part of the theatre is of the horseshoe shape, decidedly the shape best of all adapted for the comfort and enjoyment of the audience, From every part of the boxes, pit, and gallery, a complete view of the stage will be obtained, and so perfect is the arrangement, that from the ex tremest bench in the gallery the spectators' vision can take in the farthest end of the stage at the height of at least ten or twelve feet. The boxes and gallery are supported by reeded columns of cast iron, of a light and airy appearance, and so constructed that they cannot in the least impede the view. The seats in the tier of bores are to ba supplied with arms, and to be cushioned, and the seats in the range of stalls in front of the pit are to be similarly furnished. The private boxes are twelve in number, six upon each side of the house. The pit, it is calculated, will hold about 700 persons, and the gallery about 800. Escape passages have been provided in case of fire, the passage from the gallery leading into \Vych-street, and that from the pit leading to Newcastle-street. The deco rations are to be in the Arabesque style. A consider able portion is already completed—the proscenium, the pilasters on each side of the proscenium, and the ceiling. The latter is divided into four compart ments, representing the seasons, and underneath is a sunk pannel, having the signs of the quarter cor responding with each season. On the proscenium is a representation of the Muses, painted in Chiaro 'scuro, and on the pilasters, on each side of the pro scenium, are exhibited the crests of the proprietor of the theatre, and of the landed proprietor—Lord Craven. The front of the tier of boxes is also to be in the Arabesque style, corresponding with the other decorations. It will be divided into pannels, on each of which is to be a cameo, and every pannel is to bo of a varied character. It should be mentioned that the comforts of the performers have not been over looked, in the providing of numerous dressing-rooms. The ventilation of the house has also been attended to. On Thursday the Government referees paid a visit to the theatre, and expressed themselves to be entirely satisfied with the work and the arrangements. The audience part of the house is to be lighted by means of an immense glass chandelier, weighing nearly three-quarters of a ton. It is intended to open the house for performance on "Boxing Night." Mr. Wratts is the lessee of the new house. The taste and judgment exhibited by that gentleman during his management of the Marylebone Theatre may warrant the anticipation that a liberal and judicious course will be pursued in the direction of this house. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. PORTSMOUTU, SUNDAY.—The Indiaman ➢Minerva, Captain Muir, from Madras, Calcutta, and the Cape, passed this port this morning, and sent in passengers and mails by a pilot- boat. The Minerva's news from the Cape is six days later than our last advices, viz., to the 28th of September, and, although of a gloomy character, is somewhat more promising than the former. The Governor, Sir H, Smith, was at Cape-town. The excitement relative to the arrival of the convicts off the colony continued unabated. The Anti- Convict Association had addressed powerful appeals to the Governor to induce him to take upon himself the responsibility of sending the convict ship and her freight to Ascension, or any other place, but he steadily refused to embroil himself or his authority in the matter, and in a manifesto returned to the association a day or two prior to the sailing of the Minerva, Sir Harry expressed his deep sympathy wit'i the cause of the colonists, but objected to act without orders from the Hume Government, and set forth the extreme danger of any interference with the destination of convicts, as a measure fraught with the most fatal consequences— as, in the event of their being legally transferred to any other port than to that one to which the consti tuted authority consigned them, they could rise and massacre the whole crew of the ship, and set them selves free, as a justifiable act under such circum stances. The colonists had prohibited supplies to the army, navy, and all Government establishments, and no sup plies accordingly were granted. The Governor was compelled, in this state of things, to make bread in his own house, a situation in which Commodore Wyvill was also placed. As such a state of siege cannot last long, we anxiously look for the next advices. Her Majesty's ships Castor and Geyser and the btoreship Seringapatam were in Simon's-bay. Her Majesty's ship Eurydice had sailed thence for Eng land, and the Orestes for the Mozambique. The Minerva encountered an awful gale off the Cape. CALIFORNIA AND THE BRAZILS. PORTSMOUTH, NOV. 24.—Her Majesty's ship Con stance, 50, Captain Courtenay, arrived this afternoon from Brazil, with four days' later news. She sailed from Mazatlan on the 26th of June; San Blas, sth of July ; Valparaiso, 28th of August ; passed Cape Horn the 14th of September; arrived at Rio de Ja neiro on the 7th of October ; and sailed on the 13th with a mail, the Express packet having sailed three days before her. Emigration on a large scale flowed to California from the United States, by way of Mazatlan and San Blas, during the Constance's stay on the coast of Mexico, and vessels under all flags were reaping rich harvests by passenger traffic thence to San Pranciace, notwithstanding the enormous wages exacted by sea men, varying from 150 to 250 dollars a month. Many persons, however, were returning thence, particularly South Americans, broken down in health and fortune, for, although gold is still plentiful, it is only to be ob`ained by a vast amount of hard labour and priva tion, under which all but the strong and hardy even tually succumb. The Constance has brought a freight of about 2,000,000 dollars, partly in placer gold, which is probably the last freight of such an amount that will be sent from the west coast of Mexico by way of Cape Horn ; in future the remittances will go by steamers to Panama, and thence across the Isthmus. The Republic of Chili is prospering under a wise and pacific Government, and the town and port of Valparaiso improving in an extraordinary manner, under the able and energetic intendency of Admiral Blanco. The other republics are quiet, with the ex ception of Bolivia, which is constantly convulsed by revolutionary movements. Emigration to California by way of Cape Horn was greater than through Mexico. Ships . were daily touching at Valparaiso for supplies, freighted with passengers of all descriptions, as well from Europe as from the United States. Rear-Admiral Reynolds arrived at Rio from the Cape of Good Hope on the 9th of October, and sailed on the 13th for the River Plate to take the command, and sent home Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert. Affairs in the River Plate s emain in statu quo, wait ing the return of a treaty sent to England for ac ceptance. THE HUNGARIAN AND ITALIAN QUESTION. It is not too much to say that the great meeting held in this town on Monday last was of national importance. The sentiments expressed on that occasion are, we believe, no less generally prevalent than genuinely English. The moral of the proceed ings was, that the people love peace much, but justice more. We do not undervalue the importance of the Ro man question ; and the elaborate, able, and eloquent speech of Mr. Larkin upon this subject will not soon be forgotten by those who heard it. lie appeared to us, however, to deviate somewhat from the immediate question,, and to address himself rather to what may be called the Liberal Catholic party in Europe than to the meeting actually before him. There was, in consequence, an unwillingness exhibited to hear him through, (especially as the hour W4S late), over which no powers inferior to his own could have achieved the triumph which ho undoubtedly did achieve. But the interest of the meeting was in the more immediately pressing question respecting the Hun garian refugees, and the speech of Lord Dudley Stuart, who has won golden opinions among our townsmen, was the speech of the evening. Most sincerely do we trust that the confidence which he expressed that Kossuth and his companions ►-ill not be kept captive in Turkey may prove to be well founded. His language, in reference to this report, is undoubtedly most judicious, and the generous confidence which he has avowed he places in the Sultan, is snore calculated to have the wholesome effect at Constantinople than if he had expressed suspicion. Still, it must not be forgotten that the report alluded to in the Memorial is, as Lord Dudley Stuart said, official from Vienna, and has, since Monday, been confirmed. It cannot, therefore, be disregarded, and we rejoice that there has been so marked an expres sion of public opinion, to the effect that such a solution of the extradition question, even though peaceful, will not be accepted as satisfactory. One thing we feel sure of, namely, that any de mands that may he made by the Russian and Austrian Governments will not be acceded to by the Sultan without previous communication with the Govern• ment of this country. To them we confidently look, and especially to Lord Palmerston, to give their sanction to no arrangementithat shall in any way diminish the wholesome moral effect that will be produced in Europe by the relinquishment, on the part of Austria and Russia, of their infamous demand.—Newcastie Guardian. TO THE EDITOR OF THE' SUN. Sui,—An occasion has led me to look over the "Navy Report," one of the Blue Blooks of last session, and I am surprised, upon the high authority of my Lords of the Admiralty, to find therein the phrase " futtock," having always clearly from the situation of the rope-ladder or shroud under the ts - ps in a ship recognised it as " foot-hook" shrouds, i. e., where good hold must be taken with the "foot." I am, Sir, &c., Q. [This is but one of the many corruptions, made either for brevity or from ignorance, not only in the navy but in every other department of the ordinary business of life.—ED. Sun ] LAUNCH OF AN EXTRAORDINARY PONTOON.—A pontoon, pr floating landing stage, 400 feet long by 56 wide, and weighing 600 tons, has been constructed by Messrs. E. B. Wilson and Co., locomotive engine manu• facturers, of this town, and is to bo launched at Goole early next month. This vast platform, which is twice the length of a ship of the line, will be launched broad side, and the launch is looked to with great interest by engineers, as no structure of equal dimensions has ever been launched in one piece. The pontoon is made of plate iron, except the deck, which is of wood : it is in tended for the pier at New Holland, on the Humber, opposite Hull, and is for the landing cf passengers from the steamers, communicating with ono of the Lincoln shire railways. The pontoon will rise and fall with the tide. Two covered ways, called girders, also made at the same winks, of plate iron, and on the same principle as the new tubular bridges in Wales, 142 feet in length, will r:tend from the pontoon to the railway station on the pier, so as to enable passengers to go and luggage to be conveyed, under. cover, at all states of th e t i de, from the railway carriage to the steam er . Of course the inclination of the girders will vary w i t h t h e h e i ght of the tide, as o no end will be attached to the stone pier and the other to the floating pontoon.—Lccd, Mercury. QuEBN , s PRISON.—A saving of 1301. per annum has been effected in the charge for medical attendance in the Queen's prison. Mr. Morton, the late surgeon, had 2001. a yen; and Mr. Hooper, d e p u ty- ass i s t an t, 801. prr annum. The places have been consolidated, and Mr Hoopc:r aKointed at a salary of 1501. The Islington Cattl9, Market (says a contemporary) is now most decidedly on the ascendant. Smithfield is not only doomed, but the removal of the great metropo litan cattle market to Islington will tyke place sooner than its warmest friends had ever anticipated. A wise book is a true friend ; its author a public benefactor.—Eliza Cook's Journal. FIRE AT NOTTING-HILL. On Saturday morning, at an early hour, a mount e d express arrived at the London engine stations with intelligence of a fire having broken out in Union terrace, Notting hill, near Shepherd's Bush. Four of the London Brigade engines, with that belonging to the West of England Insurance Company, imme diately started for the place, with strong detachments of fireman. It was then found that the disaster had occurred in one of the newly-erected and lofty houses, No. 6 on the before-mentioned terrace, and that every part of the property was wrapped in a general blaze. On one side of the premises on lire were the spacious warehouses and stores belonging to Mr. Wotton, tea dealer and Italian warehouseman, and on the other side were the premises of Mr. Hill, dairyman, and Mr. Hume, stationer. The moment the engines from town arrived they were set to work from an abundant supply of water, and the hoses from several engines were conveyed upon the roofs of the adjoining houses, by which means the firemen were enabled to prevent the corn• stores at the back of Mr. Ilill's premises from taking fire. They, however, were unable to get the fire entirely extinguished until upwards of three hours had elapsed. Respecting the origin of this dis astrous event nothing certain is known. It appears that police-constable Threadbold, No. 66 of the T division, whilst passing the house, perceived smoke pouring forth from the front shutters, which at once satisfied him that a fire was on the eve of bursting forth ; he therefore sprang his rattle, and, after some time, succeeded in making the numerous inmates sensible of the great danger to which they were exposed. By the time he had done so the whole of the shop presented one immense sheet of flame. Several women having made their appearance in their night clothes, the police and neighbours carried them across the road, and they were safely housed in the, opposite tavern. These persons had scarcely left the premises, when a loud and fearful noise was heard in the shop, similar to the discharge of a heavy piece of cannon. This, it is believed, was caused by the bursting of the gas meter, for in an instant afterwards nearly a dozen rcoms in the place became ignited as if by magic, and when the roof fell in the flames mounted terrifically into the air, illuminating the entire dis trict. The following is the official report :—" No. 6, Union-terrace, Mr..lCluggeridge, perfumer, &c., stock in trade, furniture, and building destroyed, insured for contents in the Sun Fire-office; ditto, Mr. Lindall, (private), burnt out, insured in the Atlas Fire -office ; ditto, Mr. Applegarth (private), furniture, &c., en tirely insurance not known. N o . 5 , Union -te e r s r t ac,ll l; Ir. Hill, corndealer, building damaged by fire and furniture very much injured by water and hasty removal; ditto, Mr. Clements (private), considerable damage by removal ; insured in the County Fire-office. No. 4,Union- terrace, Mr. Hume, stationer, stock-in trade, &c., very much injured by hasty removal; insured in the Sun Fire-office. No. 3, Mr. Robinson, fishmonger, furniture, &c., very much damaged by removal; not insured. No. 6, Union-terrace, Mr. G. C. Wotton, teadealer and Italian warehouseman, stock-in-trade greatly damaged by hasty removal, &c. ; not insured. The whole of the destroyed premises were insured in the London Fire-office." It is feared that the loss caused by the removal of furniture, &c., will be as great as that occasioned by the action of the fire. CONSULAR ADPOINTMENTS.-Mr. John Beecroft has been appointed her Britannic Majesty's Consul for the Bights of Benin and Biafra, on the coast of Africa. Mr. George Charles Miller, who has been for some time acting as British Consul at Otaheite, has been confirmed. THE GOLDEN LECTURESHIP.—In addition to the candidates already announced, the Rev. W. J. Irons. 8.D., Vicar of Brompton, is in the field. The Rev. Gentleman is favourably known as having stood forward in defence of the Church on frequent oce.-ions. Re is aho author of the answer to Mr. Newman's " Theory of Developement," which Dr. Wordsworth has pro nounced to be the best. Tho election will take place on the Ist of December next.