The Sun. — London, England, 1849-11-27 00:00:00

IT 1, V General BARAGUAY D'HILLIERS arrived at Rome on the 20th, when General RosroLAN and M. DE CO/WELLES resigned their functions. it is said that the Cardinal Triumvirs refuse to receive General BARAGUAY D'HILLIERS until he shall have delivered his credentials to the POPE. . Letters from Urbino state that the parties the most compromised in the affairs of Rome are retiring in great numbers on the territory of the republic of St. Marino. At Turin a Liberal Electoral Committee, composed of MM. BUFFA, CARDORNA CARLO, CAPPELINA, Com,s, and others, hai issued a document, in which it is stated that the deputies of the dissolved Chamber were invested with the mission of preserving the con stitution ; that the Left were always the first to offer terms of conciliation to the Ministers, but which the latter always refused; and that a Centre-gauche was formed in order to pursue a course moderate, but not servile, which was considered necessary for the wants of the country. The Ministry, however, dissolved the Chamber, thus adding to the already excited state of the country. The policy maintained by the Com mittee appears more than ever necessary, and they call on the electors to devote themselves to their country's cause. The KING has appointed Count ALBERT DELLA MARMORA Governor-General of Sardinia. NAPLES AND SICILY. The Legge contains a letter from Sicily stating that that island is treated as a conquered country, and that the people are loaded with taxes, and acts of violence and oppression are daily practised. In Messina the arrests are very numerous, and mous taches and beards are proscribed under the penalty of imprisonment. The same paper says that at Naples some of the municipalities have been intimidated into signing a petition fur the suppression of the constitu tion. To sign or go to prison is the demand. It is as much as one dares to salute another in the streets lest he should be arrested for a conspikator. THE SABBATH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sra,--It is with reluctance I touch upon a theolo gical and argumentative subjeet in the haste in which I write this, but having just seen the letter of " G. H." in your paper of Saturday, and fearing it may escape any reply, I wish to make one or two remarks. Not merely may I be incompetent, even if I had leisure, to afford the best reply to his letter, but in the few minutes before me I may fail in recalling the most important ideas which under other circumstances would be familiar to my own mind on this subject ; however, if so, I shall only leave an opportunity for others to supply my deficiency. To be brief, then, your correspondent's conclusion in favour of a Gentile Sabbath is founded on two assumptions :- Ist. That an abstinence from labour one day in seven is a " moral" duty, 2dly. That Jesus enjoined this duty. Now, Sir, nothing would be easier than to prove that both these positions are flagrant fallacies, but without (or before) doing this, let me just suggest to " G. H." that he has refuted himself, and relieved me from the necessity of entering into his first assump tion. He has, Sir, distinctly affirmed that " Jesus established the moral law and abolished the ceremo nial." Now, then, nothing can be clearer than this, that if Jesus did not enjoin a Gentile Sabbath, that it is not a moral law, and of course not obligatory, for ".• acknowledges that Christ abolished the ceremonial. We have only then to ask when and where did Jesus ever enjoin a Sabbath ? The answer is, never, never • and to keep it, therefore, is not a moral duty. If Jesus abolished the ceremonial law and established the moral (as " G. H." affirms he , did), and yet h 0 Undeniably omitted the Sabbath in all his teachings, surely such a remarkable coincidence with the teachings of Paul, and the omission of the Sabbath in the New TestaMent whenever the " Command ments" are quoted, is an additional argument, to the abundance of arguments that can be brought, against the abominable human imposition of a Gentile Sabbath, and displays at once the absence of all scriptural argu ment in favour of one. ,But) Sir, a total rest day for man never was a moral law. (" By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread," was the ordinance of God towards man till the time of Moses.) A rest day never arose as a moral duty; it was one of those glorious privileges or ordinances given by God ; given to the Israelites as a " sign between Him and them." " Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths " was the gracious announcement. That Jehovah Himself (as it is said) had His rest day after the creation of the world, and which is afterwards alluded to as a comparison in the giving ' a rest day to the Jews, if it prove anything on this point, only proves that euch a rest was not enjoined as a moral duty, arising out of the nature of man, but as a positive ordinance, requiring, and being honoured, by an allusion to God's own rest as a sanction and seal to its importance and benignity as a privilege of heavenly mercy. And when we bear in mind the difficulty there must have been in an age of slavery and bondage of enforcing on a newly organized nation a law whereby the rich should be made to give rest to the poor, our hearts warm with gratitude to an All-Gracious God for the solemn and Magnificent importance with which He surrounded this ordinance, and as their Monarch made His own rest an example for their duty. This privilege for the poor and duty for the rich Was, indeed, most beautiful and perfect in a national and local religion, where EVERY law was enjoined by an Allwise Governor, and who consequently provided in all things for its suitability in application and blessedness in result ; for, doubtless, He did thus provide by the whole tenour of his laws, if not directly and immediate, as He did on its first enact ment, when on the sixth day " He gave the bread of two days." Exod. xvi. But, good heavens to argue that because this privilege of a people so divinely organized was suitable to them, that therefore to keep a Sabbath is a moral duty, and as such obligatory on all mankind, however situated, would be attended with such a host of absurdities, and is so repugnant to the genius and spirit of Christianity as a spiritual and universal religion, that I cannot now attempt to touch further such a mass of error. _ Sir, if fools an d h ypocr i tes will " not have Christ to reign over them," but in their human law-making will mimic Israel's Almighty King, let them, for de cency's sake, no t p i c k out those parts, and those only, of the Mosaic code which suit their own narrow mindedness and self-interest, but let them remember that he who will have only a part and not the whole Is a guilty as well as a degraded sinner; for he who 'recognizes the law " and yet offends in one point is guilty of all," and to sin under the pretence of obe dience aggravates the crime. If, Sir, one totally idle day in seven for the whole of the G en til e world, situated under varying human imperfect laws, would be a good political enactment, let it n o t h e contended for as a moral duty or as a Jewish law. But even as a political institution it must be fraught with oppression and cruelty, unless all the other benevolent Judicial Sabbaths and laws of Moses go hand in hand with it. But, thanks be to God, such is the beautiful con sistency of Christianity, that immediately that universal religion was announced, outward, local, and positive enactments were abrogated, a display of them " was made openly," they were " nailed to the Cross," all power was given unto Christ, and He became " Lord (or had authority) even over the Sabbath-day." I have thus only slightly touched upon that one little part of the Sabbath question upon which "G. H." relied, viz , the " moral." I have long entertained my present convictions, but if I have now expressed myself warmly on this unjust, unchristian admixture of God's holy lawis With man's vain fooleries, you will not be surprised when I tell you that within the last month I was kept by such injustice a whole Sunday away from two of my children, who wire lying dangerously ill with strangers fifty miles off. Your human laws allowed me to receive the bar rassing letter of information in the morning, but your inhuman laws would not allow me to travel to per form what my moral nature dictated and a parent's heart beat hard to execute. Your Sunday English idleness and hypocrisy a moral duty ? Pshaw ! Let your pretended Christians be real followers of Jesus. Let them worship the Father in secret, in spirit and in truth. They will require none of the Jewish Sabbaths (but if they have • the seventh day let them have the seventh year and the fiftieth year). The Sabbath God now requires (and will soon with his own might effect) is to `_` undo th e h eavy burdens and to set the captives free." Let them, as with Paul, have " every day alike." When you act the Christian's part, when you do not impose burdens on your fellow-beings, when you do not and are not compelled to overwork daily your sons nor your daughters, your maid servants, nor the stranger w se i r t v h a ii n i ts yo n u or r Sunday gates, you will r equ i re no idleness, but on every day will arise an d be performed nof a the mo ra l d ut i es of lite, every day will b e a day improvement, ex ercise, joy, peace, and gratitude, and ayouu will lock back on the law and a one - day Sabbath y ou free." " shadow of good thing s come' " an d t a as onl y a in the liberty wherewith Christ has stand fast m If haste has led to laxity and length, pardon me. I am, Sir, yours obediently, Cheltenham, Nov. 26, 1849. D ALE TH. REPRESENTATION OF SLIORERANI.—It has been erroneously reported that the Liberals of Shoreham have petitioned Lord Arundel to represent them, in plac e o f the l a t e M r. G or i ng . N o suc h t hi ng has been thought a. Lord Arundel has no intention of resigning the seat he at present holds. Be at peace with all mankind, but at war w i t h Cooh'a Journal. itated ) Five Ditto, 1 / 4 dis. 9A ES. tested hreat ere in rmed• in the ion of la the Prus- ie Se' was vial by mend' m blish nr it se )ath to wmule rs VOO - • 3nt la . on the ire be for all as read LANO i I as we" aria , Con' en t Cot l 01 ilt,,tlC is ditlt in th e fences , of the cour t to th e ,e With n Con' eonse' ;land the 11 , 4 300 ;is, ut ects IP 10 3 Led the duct"' to th e irks n fool, , port' it vv iii ty ore- t. stat e 4 - ng the is t ir e ile the inisterl lock , - ( • 0 rqui s "ttrii BlB , l Cha n fobs ''' •Gr Sir we re Nobl e c il f°f .0 0° 1 n 59°- sot., he fleet - w oo , , rs of I o°l3' DO ' N de" U nder , o f tbo l / \, ~~ THE SUN S LONDON, t)NE an CONIME It C L E S Toe sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000 ineluJing 4,000 American, 200 Pernam and Ma ranham, 500 Surat, and 150 Sea Island. Of the above, 1,000 American were ou speculation, and 500 Surat for export. The market closed quietly, and prices were without alteration.—ln Railway Shares a fair business was done at rather higher prices. From official returns made up, it is found that Ireland has steadily increased her reliance upon foreign countries and colonies tor supplies of food, which she could her self so amply produce, and although her exports to England must be taken into account as balancing them, they have not proportionably increased. We may beat illustrate this by arranging the more voluminous statis tics before us into a condensed tabular Corm. First, we take the total imports of grain, and of meal and flour, fur the ycal-s sv.cifiecl, the grain being given in quarters, and the flour in cwts. In ports. Exports. 1839, qrs. 75,320 . . ... 1,499 398 cwts. 658 ... 1,476 565 1842, qrs. 149,714 ... 1,461,312 cwts. 11,953 ... ... 1,865,519 1845, qrs. 55,148 ... 2,171,480 cwts. 8,005 2,481,563 1846, qrs. 516 227 1,266,659 cwts. 110,610 ... 1,277,869 1847, qrs. 2,692,413 ... 698,858 cwts. 1,128,676 ... ... 541,713 1848, qrs. 1,216,952 1,326,919 cwts. 195,480 ... 1,496,814 As regards the quantities of grain and flour imported into Ireland from Great Britain, they were:—ln 1839, qrs. 119,899, and cwts. 32,145 ; 1842, qrs. 105,176, and cwts. 52,813; 1845, qrs. 68,464, and cwts. 61,301; 1846, qrs. 306,636, and cwts. 429,649; 1847, qrs. 1,001,365, and ewts. 1,678,092; 1848, qrs. 747,757, and cwts. 572,987 cwts. Perhaps it may be interesting to refer to the progress of emigration during tho period above comprehended; and although we take the number of steerage passengers only, and distinguish Great Britain from Ireland, it is notorious that nearly all the emigrants from Liverpool, and they amounted to 131,000 last year, were Irish, con iequently we must add largely from the number under the head of Great Britain to that distinguished as Ireland— _ _ _ Groat Britain. Ireland. 1839 ... ... 48,672 ... ... 13,535 1842 ... ... 87,791 ... 40,553 1845 ... . . 64,674 ... 23,464 1846 ... 85,524 ... 36,408 1847 ... 156,515 ... ... 94,945 1848 176,838 ... 58,893 We could desire that in former years the official sta tistics upon this and other heads had been better kept, but believe there is more inclination now to attend to this point. In the llamburgh market last Friday money was abundant, the rate of exchange being 13.10 on London, and with a good demand for bills on London. At Am sterdam, on the 25th instant, Spanish and Portuguese Stocks were higher. In the Frankfort Bourse, on the 24th instant, Austrian Bonds were quoted 87, and at Vienna on the 22d they were 94*. The feeling in reference to the influence of the low value of money, which nevertheless is not quite so cheap as one or two of our contemporaries have stated, bids fair to run to an extravagant length unless checked by a little judicious reflection. On one side we hear of wagers iu favour of Consols being at par before July next, then of a supposed determination of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reduce the rate of in terest on Consols to 2 per cent., or, as some say, even to I*, and that the stanard of gold, owing to the influx from Calitornia, is to be re duced. Again, coffee, cotton, tallow, sugar, everything in fact, is to rise materially, and there is even to be no sugar left ere long (vide a tabular statement in the Morning Past), while we can scarcely enumerate the host of similar crotchets which leeset the habitues of our City subscription-rooms, as well as of the Ex changes. It will ne readily conceded that to a certain limit there may be truth in all these impressions, suppos ing, as mathematicians have it, that all other things remain the same, that is supposing tranquillity is preserved, foreign loans are tabooed, Californian gold steadily arrives, and no new outlet is found for accumulating capital. It be hoves every one interested to be cool and calculating, however much on the alert, for these aro times when excitement is in the ascendant, and the Bank of Eng land example is in all quarters cited as authority for proceedings it never was intended to warrant. The Funds have been exceedingly buoyant. Consols opened at 95k, touched 95k, and aro now 95/ j for Transfer. Time bargains have been effected as high as 95* The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 944 to 95, and the Three per Cents. 94k to k. Bank Stock has risen to 199 and 200. Exchequer-bills are lower, the revival of confidence promoting a transfer from the floating to the fixed debt. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active Bonds have been 17* , and the Three per Cents. 37* to j. Portu guese Four per Cents. have been 34k, and Brazilian 864. Mexican have risen to 27* Grenada are- 15t, and Buenos Ayres 44. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been marked 54:1 to 55. Railway Shares are all higher, and there is an in creased disposition to do business. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 199 200 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 8 per Ceut. Consols Anns New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anns. 9 4 54 95 91% Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1960 B3/ D 0.30 Years, Expire Octlo, 1859 Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 11160— 6% Consols for Account ... 9 53,E % I 4 2 d. xchequer Bills. IY 2 d. March. June. 1,000/. 5001 •—• ********* ••• 48 45 p Small_ — 47 p ['RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 8 6 3 /4 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 44 Equador Bonds 3% Grenada, 1 per Cent. ...... ...... Ditto Deferred Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent., Coupons Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto Account Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent 62 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto 4 per Cent. Ditto Account Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,l840 Ditto Account . 17% Ditto, Coupons Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 37 . 14%% Venezuela Bonds Do. Deferred ... 7 3 /4 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES A 3, ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PNli SllAltli. .t.enigen Ditto, Preference 6LA 5 1,4%... to al ber., N otting., Boston, &c. 6 :',l >yrshiie and d % Galloway 'Qlfast and County Down .. 28 .. .. 3erks and Hants Extension (Gt. West. Perpet. 5 per ct.) 6 ..irmingnain & Oxiordi amt., calls duly pd, or with guar. 20 Do., without a guarantee... 20 ... -- - i‘irrningharn,Wol.,S4 Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 ..... Do., w ithout a guarantee... 10 iirming., Wol., & Stour Val. 131.14 s — ilirkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction.. lristol and Exeter Do., Thirds iuckinghamshire... 17 1 ,( 1 — .aledonian Ditto, New 101. Preference 10 ...... 8,614 ii. 2 to Ditto. Clydesdale Junction 50 :heater and Holyhead 5O ..... 9%%... to 10 Ditto, Preference larence. Do., let Class, 6 per Cent... 10 D0.,2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 Do.; Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 Direct London & Portsmouth 5 1 4 — to Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 40 Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 2714 — ii:ast Anglia, 281. L. & E., awl L. & D Ditto, 181., E. & H lB ... .. Do, 31. 135., 6p. Ct. Pref. 354 — Eastern Counties, .... Do. New Gusrant. 6 per Ct. 10 Do. Exten 5 per ct. No. 1,6/.135. 4d .. ~ _ _ to Do., d0...L. ..% ...... N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d... Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 Do., 5 per cant. • 50 . 53%M... to Ditto, New .. .43 . .... 4514,...... to 45 Eastern Union, Claus A (late E. U. Shares) ...... ... .. 25 Ditto, ditto, Class A, ditto 31 to Ditto, do, Class B (I. &B) 25 .. Ditto, do, Class C, ditto... 25 - to - Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per et.) 20 . - .. to - East Lancashire ... 25 - to - Ditto, New .. ........... ...• • 25 - to - Do., New Quarters - - Do., 6 per Cent. Preference Quarter Shares - - East Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Glasgow ..... 50 - to - Ditto, Half Shares - - Edinburgh and Northern ... 25 - - Ditto, New port l5 Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% ... - Exeter and Exm0uth......... 21s. ......... - ..• - thasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle-84 64.8 d... - .. ... to - Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 - to - Do. Preference Consolidated - ..... .. to ..... Great Northern 2O - Do. 1-A A Deferred ..... ... 12% - - Do. 14 B 6 per Cent. - ...... to - Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. ...... 10 - at. South. & West. (Ireland) 60 - ...... to - Great North of England 100 - Ditto, New 404........... - 40 - to - Ditto, ditto .... - ... . to - Ditto, iN cw 301. ........ ...... 30 ... - - Ditto, New 15/...... ... ...... 15 ...... - . - ,ireat Western Ditto, Half Shares - Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths Do. New 171 - Hull and Selby... 5O - ..... to - Ditto, Half Shares .. ...... 25 .., - . .... to - Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12% - ...... to - Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 - to - Do., Thirds - - Lancashire and Yorkshire ...100 - - Ditto, ditto, N. B. & B ... 98 - to - Ditto, ditto Ditto Half Shares .. _ 49 - to - Ditto Quarters 23!4 - to -' Ditto Fifths lO .... - . .... to - Ditts. Thirds i l l i 0 0 :: , Liverpool Ni (Rudders. New Guar. de r s.aan 6 ndd p B e sr Bury... rye ff cent. i 54 1 1 6 09 0 (.2 ...... - 12% .... : : : to - Do. -- - . ... to -- Ml= Do., WeetliidingUnion... 10 .••• • ^ . to -- Do., Pre3tor. and Wyre ... 25 Do., do.. Half Shst-rf, (Al 10 I.."CeilS a;o_i :,. i'd ' ' :AU 14(ieds and Thirsk .. ...... 50 Do. ,do., Prefer., 6 per Cen t. 5 . Ditto, ditto... Ditto, ditto ..... ... No. 3 5 Do. Pref. Quarters, 1848... 9 Liverpool,Crosby, and South _ port London & Blackw all ......11/. 6a. 2 d Lond., Bright., & South Coat 101 .. .. 81 Do., New 'l., gua. 6 pr Ct.loo D. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 . Do. Preferential, 5 per Ct., 50 Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... London and Greenwich... 121. 153.4 d... Ditto Preference Lonaon North W estern.....loo ......113 Do. New Quarters. l2 Do. Fifths 7 8 t/ 5 ...... to U!o. 4U,. Shave).— 7.. & M 35 to Do. 101. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 Lc) _don and S. Western...—. 50 Ditto, New 501........ .. ..... 4234 2 ...... 23 . % %.. to Ditto, Pew 40!. 34 - I'o., New Serip,lB4B, Pref. _ 7 par Cent Londonderry and Coleraine... 25 Do. Half Shares ..... 5 .. ... to Londonderry and Enniskillen 25 Do., Half Shares ...... 5 Livrestoff, guar. 4 [or et Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 13 Stanch 'Burton, & Matlock 5 Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto ij Shares (No. 1) ... 25 —....— to Ditto, ditto (No. 2) _ 25 ___ _ . . . _ Ditto, I ,‘ Shares (No. 3)... 12%...... Do., New 101. Preference.. 10 ..... Ditto, Grimsby & Sheffield 50 Ditto, ditto. - •...•• to Ditto, ditto .. l2 Ditto Sheffield and Line. 25 ...... Ditto, Grimsby Dock 25 Ditto, Man. & Lin. Union 41. 2g. ... ilidiand........ .:.. ...... .. ...100 _ _ Ditto, Consol. Preference...loo - •NO. •• • to Ditto, 501. Shares ...... 30 ...... Birm., and Derby...lW - Consol. Bristol and Birmingham, 6 per cent.... 100 111(118.nd, Bristol and Glouc. 42 Ditto ditto 221.7 x...... Ditto,ErewashVal., Pref... 50 nidland, Leices.. and Swan nington (8 per ct.gu5t.)....100 . Great Western (Irish) 50 Middlesbro' and Redcar. 6 per cent. guar. Newcastle and Carlisle lOO to Ditto Quarter Shares . .... 25 ... to Newmarket Ditto Extension Scrip... 21. 12s. — Newport Abergy., and Heret. 6 ...... to Newry and Enniskillen ...... Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor .......... 20 ..• tiorfolk Ditto New 201. l 5 Ditto Guaranteed 5 per ct , 20 Do. Do. 5% per cent. 5 to Do. do. Wac:eiley Valley.. 2 - gorthem Counties Union ... 4 , gorth British .. .. ......... . 25 ...... Ditto Fall Shares, .......... 12% — to Do. Quarters 6 •••••• Ditto Thirds .. Fi ..-.. Ditto, Preference ...... 5 North Staflordshire... ...... 17% North Wales Yorth Western 13% ..... .... to Ixford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton 50 — to Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 15 Royston and Hitchin Scottish Central - ,cottish Midland .... ....... .... 25 Ditto,New 22% to hrewskury and Birmingk arra 12 Ditto, ditto, Class B. 8 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 . Shrewsbury and Hereford .. 4 Shrewsbury and Cheater (Nor. W. itiin.) - Ditto Halves, Ditto... 9 ... Ditto, Uswestry 18%...... .... to Ditto ,New).. Ditto 8 per Cent. Pret:...... 10 4 hropehire Union 6%..... 3 • ..... to South Devon .. Ditto, Preference ...... .. ... 25 South Staflordehire tPri 4% M g to 5 south Erstern Ditto, No. 2. BO Ditto, No. 3.' Ditto, Registered No. 4.... 10 Ditto, Scrip No. 4.. .. South Wales I 43 - South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole (bI . .D) Gua. 5 perct. 16 1 ,4 Do. do. (south Div.) 5 - Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm • Coal .. ...• 7 •••••• raw Vale Extension ••• 8 «•••• ••»•• to •-•• Thames Haven Dock and Railway .„,,, 1714...... Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 2O ..... Waterford and Limerick..... 4714.. . . to Waterford,Weaford,Wielraw, and Dublin Wear Valley 6 par Cent. Guaranteed ... Do. do. do. Do. do. do. West Cornwall Rbitehaven and Furaoos lB ... .. ..... to . _____- Windsor, Staines, and South -- Western..... Wilts, Somerset,&Weymouth 45 — to -- f ork, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 Do. and Newcastle Exton. 20 ..... 1154 to Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. _8 ...... Do.Hartlepeol Dk. & Rly. 100 York and Isiorth'hlictland .. 50 Ditto, Preference FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo Italian (late Italian and Austrian) 5 1 ,2 — to Boulogne and Amiens 2O ..... Eisji .. to Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon) Demerara. ..........- ........ ... 17 1 ,x..... —. Dutch Rhenish 8 ...... Esuit Indian Great Indian Peninsular 5 ...... Do. D 0......... ...... ... 10s. - Luxembourg Ditto Madrid and Valentia Namur and Liege 2O ..... ...... to Northern of France.... 14/85..... 2%4 disto Orleans and Bordeaux ... l'ans and Orleans... Pans and Rouen 2O — to Paris & Strasbourg ... Rouen and Havre 20 - Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Bale ..... ...... 14 Tours & Nantes ... - •••••• to ..... Toumay, Jurbise, Landau, and Hassell ... ..-.. .. 20 .....• ...... to West Flanders fily, — ........ to Ditto ... 8;4.. .. JOINT STOCK ISANK.S. Australasia British North American .... 50 ...... 42 Colonial , 25 ..... • •• to - Commercial of London 20 — London Joint Stock ~... London and Westminster. .. 20 National Provincial of Engld. 85 Ditto, New National of, Ireland 22% - .as •• to - Provincial of Ireland ~ 25 - Ditto, New - ..... to Union of Australia Ditto, New .. 2% •— to Union of London ...... .. ...... 10 .....t_to Union of Madrid 40 - NINES. Anglo Mexican .. 100 "•••• -- Asturian ........ ..... ... ..... lb ...... Alustralian ...... ............... ... 4 Barrossa Range 2Bs. -. ...... to Blaenarvon Iron sad Coal ... 50 Bolanos Scrip .. .—. - British Iron Brazilian Imperial .... .. ... 24% —. ..... to Ditto Cocaes and Cuiaba... 30 - Ditto St. John Del Rey ... 15 Cobra Copper .. 40 General - ...... to Real del Monte, Unregistered ... .. .. ... to Do. Black Debentures to Do. Red I)ebentares ..... .... Santiago de Cuba lO ..••.. ••• .41 to - United Mexican LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LoNDoN, Nov. 27 .—Wind this day at noon, W.N.W., moderate breeze, and fine clear frosty weathar. CROOKHAVEN, Nov. 23.—The Marchioness of Aber corn, Quebec to Cardiff, on shore on Misen Head on the 17th, is waterlogged, and has lost her fore and main masts. None of the cargo is as yet got out. YARMOUTH, Nov. 24.—The William and Ann, Hartlepool to London, was' run on shore on Winterton Beach last night, with the water over her cabin deck, bating struck on the Cross Sand. TENBY, Nov. 24. —The Caroline, Newport to Ber muda, which was abandoned on the 21st instant, atter being in contact, drove on shore, near Crow Rock, last evening, and went to pieces. NEW Ross, Nov. 24.—The John Bell, from Quebec. got on the shoals of Broom Hia, inside of Hook Tower, was towed off, after remaining four hours, with damage. WILLS, Nov. 26.—The Petrel, Newcastle to Dublin, went on shore, about four miles to the east of this port, this morning, and remains in a dangerous situation. WIYENHOE, Nov. 26.—The Active, Newcastle to Dublin, was totally wrecked on the sunk Sand this morning; crew and passengers saved.. CHATHAM. Nov. 26.—Arrd. Louisa, New Zealand. LivartrooL, Nov. 26.—Wind, S. S.E., very foggy. —Acrd. 25th, Xerexano. MiMinn, Quebec. 26th, Dublin, Robinson, Calcutta; Sir Howard Douglas, Snell, Richibucto;, Helen, Jackson, Quebec. Sld. 25th, Huron, New Orleans. 26t1, Win. Fisher, Rio Janeiro; Cambria, New Orleans; June, Charleston. DEAL, Nov. 26.—Wind, N.N.E . to N.E., strong— Arrd. from the River, and sailed, George, Tregarthen, Sydney, New South Wales • Salim tt e , M unn , Sydney, New South Wales; Mary i 3 rovax, Trinidad; Gilbert Munro, ISPLean, St. Lucia. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 26.—Wild, N. to N.E.—Arrd. Fcrtitude, China, with top mast sprung. Sid. Flora, Jamaica. Off Port, Ludwig, Tn.nnyren, Rio Janeiro, for Gothenburg. RAMSGATE, Nov. 26.—Wind, fresh—Arrd. Duke of Cornwall. Stettin, for Swansea. 'leaky, having been on shore on the Kentish Kite ck ; Highland Chief, St. Petersburg, for Bristol, leaky,, b aving been on shore on the Sbipwash. EVENING, FALMOUTH, Nov. 26.—Wind, N.—Arrd. 25th, Dryad, liamten, Valparaiso; Wsidar. Hasoe, Ragusa. tiurrelu,o, Rio Janeiro; 26th, Emu, 2LvMouTH, Nov. 26.—Wind, N.—Arrd. Tt z,!r, Quebec. NEWPORT, Nov. 25.—The Fortune, from Granville, which fe'l over in the river yesterday, has been got up with considerable damage. MILFORD. Nov. 26.—The abandoned barque, passed by the Mathilde, reported yesterday, was the Caroline, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. MARKET NEWS.-(TBIS DAY.) HAY IitrAXYLTS. SNITIIFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 3/ 10s; Clover iitto, 31 Os to 41 10:4; and Straw, 112 s to 11 9s per ioad. A full average supply, and a steady demand. C U ItIBE aLANL..—Meadow Hay, 2/ 85 to 31 12,1; Clover ditto, 31 Os to 4/ los ; and Straw, 11 3s to 11 lOs per os.d. Supply good, and track) dull. WHII ECIIAPEL. Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31 1 O.; Clover, ditto, 310 s to 4/ 12s; and Straw, 112 s to 1/ per load. Trade firm, at full prices. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation continues heavy, and the sales are only 240 hhds, at rather easier rates for the lower qualities. 4,530 bags Bengal mostly sold at rather lower rates; low to fine white Benares, ' 37s 6d to 425; low to very fine yellow date kind, 34s 6d to 425, and good to fine white crystal ized 42s to 45s 6d. 2,355 bags Madras were offered, but only 300 sold at 29s to 33s for low brown to low yellow. 160 barrels 140 hhds St. Croix mostly sold at 39s to 43s 6d, being very full prices. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 909 hhds, 133,tierc es , 62 barrels; there were taken for home consumption, 1,474 hhds, 136 tierces, 247 barrels. The stock in the same place is 16,064 hhds, 3,336 tierces, 4,723 barrels. COFFEE.—A small parcel of Plantation and Native Ceylon (the latter of old import) sold readily at full prices ; 250 cases Tellicherry brought 51s to 56s 6d, being rather dearer. Rurs.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 34 puns, 27 hhds; there were taken for home consumption 272 puns, 49 hbds, and ex ported 26 puns, 23 hhds. The stuck in the same places is 22,696 puns, 2,111 hhds. TALLow.—P.Y.C. is 37s Gd per cwt on the spot, and Town 39s a TEL.—The market is firm. LAW INTELLIGENCE. CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sat to-day in his court, Lin coln's-inn. It is not usual generally for the Equity Courts to sit after the last day of term till the first Seal, but the Lord Chancellor, anxious to dispose of the arrear of appeals caused by his late indisposition, has deter mined to sit during the whole week. At present there are nearly seventy appeals set down for hearing. THE SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER. RAILWAY COMPANY V. THE CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY COMPANY, THE BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND CHESHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY, AND THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. In this case, yesterday, a motion was made before the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce for an injuction to restrain the defendants frum interfering with or obstructing the station accommodation of the Shrew sbury and Chester Railway Company, at the joint station at Chester, and from doing any act restricting them in the enjoyment of such complete station accommodation as was necessary for their traffic, and from preventing or precluding the plaintiffs, their servants, and clerks, or the joint servants and clerks of the defendants and plaintiffs, from booking at the joint station, and in the ordinary joint booking office which had hitherto been used, and in the ordinary or usual manner, either goods or passengers, beyond the limits of the plaintiffs' railway, whether to Wolverhamp ton or otherwise; and from in any manner interfering with the plaintiffs' through traffic, and from preventing the access of any omnibus or oth e r vehicle duly autho rised by the plaintiffs to carry th eir . passengers either to or f rom t h e i r ra il wa y, or to or from Birkenhead, or to or from other places; and f r om confining or limiting the right of access to the said joi nt station to vehicles licensed only to ply within the city of Chester, or from otherwise:interfering with:such accommodation and rights as under the circumstances aforesaid the plaintiffs were entitled to with the usual directions. Mr. Ma - lins and Mr. Giffard were the counsel for the plaintiffs. Mr. Russell, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Willcock, Mr. Follett, Mr. Birkbeck, and Mr. Glasse, appeared for the three companies, the defendants, and applied that the m o tion might stand over, the a ffi davits, in part, having only been filed on Saturday, and the counsel for the plaintiffs asking that some arrangement, in the mean ti me , f or the management of the joint station, might be made. The Vice-Chancellor allowed the motion to stand over until Monday, but said he thought that he ought not to interfere without allowing the defendants an opportunity of filing affidavits. This morning, at the sitting of the Court, Mr. Mums renewed his motion before this branch of the court, and The LORD CHANCELLOR granted an inte r im o r der for the injunction, thereby in effect reversing the judgment of the Court below. CHAMBEES V. SIGGERS. The arguments in this appeal occupiod the Court the remainder of the morning. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) His Honour sat to-day, and hoard bankrupt petitions and motions, but nothing of any interest came before him. None of the other Equity Courts will sit till Monday, with the exception of the Lord-Chancellor's. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius before Mr. Justice WIGHTNAN and Common Juries.) SKELLORN V. LEVY. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a person in the employment of an upholsterer named Halford, in the Strand, to recover compensation in damages from the defendant, Mr. Morrice Levy, a " wine merchant," living at 25, Norfolk-street, for having caused him to have been given iato custody, on a charge of feloey, which was, according to the case of the plaintiff, utterly without foundation. It appeared that on the 24th of April last the plaintiff was employed at the house of the defendant to take up and carry away a carpet, and to do some other work. On his leaving, the defendant dis covered that a chest of drawers had been broken open, and that a gold watch and jewellery stated to be of the value altogether of 4001., had been stolen, which he assumed to have been carried away in the carpet. Suspicion naturally attached to the plaintiff, and he was take into custody, in which ho remained all night, and was taken before Mr. Henry, at Bow-street, the next morning ; but the defendant being beyond the specified time with his wit nesses, he was discharged. He was ,again, however, given into custody, but, on the charge being investigated by Mr. Hall, he was again discharged. None of the property was found on the plaintiff, or at his house in Clerltenwell ; but it was endeavoured to be shown that the marks on the drawers corresponded with the size and shape of the hammer with which the plaintiff had been at work. It was on the other hand shown that several persons were at work in the house at the time the rob bery was supposed to have taken place. Mr. WA.TSON ' who appeared for the defen dant, b r i e fl y addressed the Court in his behalf. He held that the defendant had done no more than would be done by any of them if they were placed in a similar position. The defendant, in the course he had adopted, disobeyed not simply a private but a public duty, from which it would not have been well, upon any consideration, for a good citizen to shrink. It could not •be denied that some suspicion attached to the plaintiff. As the defendant had not pleaded justification he contended that since the plaintiff was entitled to re cover some compensation, that it would be of the most moderate amount. Mr. M. Chambers was for the plaintiff. Mr. Justice Vir r IGHTMAN summed up the case, and left it to the jury to say the amount of compensation to which the plaintiff was entitled. The jury expressed a wish to retire, when it was found that a juryman, named Welby, who had been challenged, had remained in the box. An unexpected difficulty teeing thus thrown in the way of the settlement of the case, the Learned Judge, after some discussion, was appealed to as to what should be done in this emtrensity. Mr. Justice WIGHTRIAN said he should discharge the jury. in order, however, to avoid expense, it was agreQd between the parties that a verdict should be taken with consent. The jury, after much deliberation, gave a verdict for the plaintiff for 211. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY. OLD COURT: (Before the RECORDER and Mr. Alderman CARDEN.) William Walters, an omnibus driver, was indicted for stealing three pair of gloves, a handkerchief, and a measure, the property of Henry Parry. It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor, who is a certificated attorney practising at Deptford, that he went to the White Hart public-house in London-street, Greenwich, on the 7th of November last. He took off his coat, according to his custom, on entering the house, and on leaving between two and three in the morning he missed it, and on search being made it was found in the taproom. The articles in question, he said, were in the pocket when he took off the coat, but on it being re turned to him he found that they had been taken out. The prisoner assaulted him when he left the house, and completely covered him with flour, and for this assault he gave him into custody. He had no idea that the articles were stolen by the prisoner, but on being searched at the station• house they were found upon him. Several witnesses were called for the defence, from whose evidence it appeared that there was a "regular row" in the coffee-room at the time of the occurrence, with respect to the payment for some punch which the company had been drinking. The prosecutor got very excited, took off his coat to fight, jumped upon a table, and struck with a cane a respectable old gentleman, old enough to be his father. One witness said that having been called by the landlady to resue a girl from the row, he went into the coffee-room, and found three or four gentlemen lying on the top of each other at the door, evidently engaged in a scuffle. This witness also said that the prisoner, before he was taken into custody, took the articles alleged to have been stolen out of his rocket anti showed them to him, saying that he had found them on the floor in front of the bar, and supposed they had been dropped by some one in the scuffle. The witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent character. The RECORDER said, in summing up, that there had been no direct defence by the prisoner to the charge, TUE SDAY NOVEMBER 27 1849. and that it would have been the duty of an honest man, if the stcry about tindir,g the antic es was true, to have given them up to the lahulorn or tho party who had lost them. The jury, after a brief &liberation, found the pri soner Not Guilty. Margaret Mitchell, a • young woman, was indicted with stealing from the person of a young German, named Kaugh, a half-crown, seven shillings, and two pence-halfpenny. The prosecutor, who could not speak English, and whose evidence was given to the Court through an inter preter, said he was a baker, living in Tabernacle-rquare, and that as he was passing down Holborn-bill on Satur day, 28th October, the prisoner accosted him, took hold of him by one hand, and put the other into his waistcoat pocket. She said something to him which he could not understand. Finding that three half-crowns, seven shillings, and twopence-halfpenny, which a few minutes before he had in his pocket, was gone, he called out " Police," and gave ht r into custody. The female searcher said, at the station she denied having any money about her except the twopence-half penny which she said had been given to her by the pro - secutor, but afterwards she produced a half-crown from her bosom and another from her stocking. The other moneys wi re not found upon her, but she was very violent on her way to the station-house, so that the as sistance of another constable bad to be obtained, and she had opportunities of getting rid of the remainder of -the money by dropping it down gratings in the streets. The prisoner in defence said the prosecutor gave her the twopence-halfpenny and asked her to take a walk with him, but denied that the two half-crowns belonged to him. The jury found her Guilty. The prisoner had been previously convicted and suf fered one year's imprisonment in the House of Correction. The RECORDER sentenced her to ten years' transpor tation. On hearing the sentence she set up a loud hysterical cry, and could only with difficulty be removed from the bar. NE TV COURT. (Before the COMMON 7 SERGEANT.) The Court was occup i ed the whole of the morning in trying Mint cases, none of which'preseutcd any feature of public interest. • BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) A cab driver named Richard Johnson was charged with having picked a gentleman's pocket of a silk hand kerchief. The gentleman stated that last night he was about to enter a cab in the Strand when the prisoner came up and said, " Allow me, sir," and opening the cab door with his right hand, extracted the handkerchief from a dress coat pocket with his left. The gentleman, how ever, felt what he was about, and, seizing him by the collar, he held him till a policeman came up and took him into ctistody. The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and he was fully committed for trial. MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—James Miller, a re spectable looking man, was brought before Mr. Bing ham for final examination charged with having em bezzled the sum of 241. received for, and on account of, Mr. Wm. Panesoa, pianoforte manufacturer, Cleveland street, Fitzroy-square. The prosecutor deposed that in the month of July last the prisoner was introduced to him by a friend, as a person likely to sell instruments for him upon com mission. About a month afterwards the prisoner called upon him again, and said he wanted a pianoforte for a person at Brighton, and witness agreed to give the pri soner ten per cent. commission upon the sale, and all other sales he might effect, and the prisoner was to remit all sums of money by Post office order as soon as received. The piano selected by the prisoner came to 241. Previous to the prisoner's leaving ho said he thought he could sell at least two instruments a week. Witness subsequently sent the piano to Brighton, and about a fortnight after he received the letter produced from the prisoner, stating that he (prisoner) had sold the instru ment, and that witness was to draw a bill upon him for the amount. Witness declined to do anything of the sort, and told the prisoner that ho must remit the money at once to him, as per agreement. About a month after he saw the prisoner in London, and told him he would not take a bill from him, but that he would take a bill from tho person to whom he had sold it. A fortnight after that he offered to let witness have 10/. on account, which he refused to accept. Witness then suspected that all was not right, and from inquiries he made found that the prisoner had received the money for the instru ment and converted it to his own use. He then gave him in charge. Mr. George Harper, an innkeeper, residing at Brigh ton, stated that on the 27th of August last he pur chased a cottage piano of the prisoner, and paid him 201. 10s., the price agreed upon, the same day. The prisoner gave him a receipt signed " J. Miller " at the same time. Hughes, 114 E, proved taking the prisoner into cus tody on the 24th of October at his lodgings, in Howland street, Tottenham-court-road. The prisoner, on being informed of the nature of the charge against him, said he had sent up 15/. to his wife, and she in mistake had paid the money to a Mr. ['yam. The prisoner, who said he should reserve his defence, was fully committed for trial. LANCASTER MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.—Great prepa rations are making here for our annual literary soirée, which is to be held to-morrow (this) evening. The Rev. James Aspinall, Rector of Althorpe, the Rev. J. P. Whittaker, Vicar of Blackburn, and several other eloquent and distinguished gentlemen, favour able to the cause of education, have signified their intention to attend and assist st_the maatioa, James 'Heywood, Esq., M.P., is to preside.— Correspondent . At a meeting of the Southampton Dock Company held yesterday, it was resolved, on the recommenda tion of the directors, to capitalize the entire debenture debt by a further issue of preference shares. The com pany have power under their Act to raise a capital of 700,0001. and to borrow 300,0001. Of the former the stock already created is 423,0001, while the amount held on loan is 168,0001. The capitalization is to take plale as the debentures shall fall due, on such terms as may from time to time be decided upon, and in the first instance 50,0001. will be raised for the purpose by creat ing a preference stock of 5 per cent. in perpetuity, with participation in profits beyond that amount. In seven years the operation will be completed, and the capital of the company will then consist exclusively of 600,000/. stock, with full power to create another 100,000/. stock if requisite, to provide accommodation for increasing trade. THE LATE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A. STOCK BROKER IN HOLYWELL STREET.—LaSt evening Mr. Bedford concluded at the Plough, Carey- street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, an adjourned inquest on John Thomas Wild man, a stock-broker of independent fortune. The in quest-room was crowded with merchants and others, who took a deep interest in the inquiry. Police-ser geant Thompson, F 11, of the detective force, stated, that although he and his men had made every exertion, no intelligence of the young man who slept with de ceased when ho met with his death could be obtained. In his (the sergeant's) opinion deceased threw himself out of the window. After some further evidence, the Coroner summed up at great length, observing, that although the case was of a dark, mysterious character, au adjournment would throw no light upon it. The jury, after half an-how's deliberation with closed doors, returned the following verdict:—" The deceased died of injuries sustained by a fall from the window of Colliver's Coffee-house, but how he fell there was no evidence to prove." The jury could . not separate without noting the unsatisfactory evidence adduced re specting deceased's death. The private advices from Rio do Janeiro, dated the 12th ult., quote the rate of exchange upon London 26i to 27 ; Paris, 358 to 360 ; and Ilamburgh, 660 to 665. The local stock was called 88 to 89 ; freights averaged from 40s. to 455. ; and the coffee market was not well supported, only moderate purchases being effected. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.—The Council have received notice of two legacies—one of 5001. for the hospital, by Mr. Lewis Morris Cuthbert, of Lyon terrace, Maids-hill ; the other for the college, 1001. free of duty, by Mr. Wilkins, of Maokworth, Derbyshire. MURDER AT BOULOGNE:OI2 Monday a murder was discovered in the Tintelleries, which is not the most reputable part of the city. A woman, about 40 years old, named Ambroisino Barret, had, about 11 or 12 o'clock on the night previous, her throat cut by some person or persons unknown. Several suspicious indi viduals were arrested on Tuesday ; among them an Englishman, named Gregory, upon whom suspicion seems to rest most strongly, but as yet nothing has transpired tending directly to criminate any of the persons in custody. FOREIGN MIN UPACTUREB.—An importation having taken place from the Continent of a quantity of figures and other articles of a most indecent and improper cha racter, formed of vulcanized material, orders have been given for them to be seized under the Act of Parliament in force having reference to foreign importations of an immoral tendency, and to be immediately and entirely destroyed. This was an instance which it is to be re gretted is sometimes shown of a most inventive talent with a facile power of execution being turned to the most degrading and disgusting uses. t SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING.—About 600 bales of cotton were disposed of yesterday at the Havre market, at prices about half a franc lower than last quotations. Arrived yesterday, at the port of Havre, the Heliopolis from PernambucJ; also the Rio from Buenos Ayres. DEATH OF MR. SANTos.—Our readers will regret with us to learn the death of Mr. Emanuel Dias Santos, who has so long contributed to our instruction and gra tification, under the signature "D. S. E." Tho health of Mr. Dias Santos had been indifferent for some years, and for several months he had been unable to leave the house, but such w as his desire to communicate the varied and interesting stores of information with which an acute mind, great observation, and much travel, had supplied him, that he ceased not even on his death-bed to indite what he considered might be useful and prac tieal upon the subject of poultry. Mr. Dias Santos, at au early period of bis life took an active pat tin the struggle for Catholic emancipation, giving that question considerable literary, political, and pecuniary assistance. In all his relations of life ho was a man of great probity, generosity, and disinterestedness. By good acts he made many friends, and by a bad act he never lost one.— Agricultural Gazette. A DIFFICULT TASK.--" You have only yourself to please." said a married friend to an old bachelor. " True," replied be, " but you cannot tell what a diffi cult task I find it." FINE FISH.—TWO very fine jack were caught at Marlow on Saturday, by Mr_ J. S. Wilkinson, one weigh ing 20tb. and the other 8Ib: They' 'were remarkably tine fleshed.--13erkItire Chronicle. ADELPIII THEATRE. A regular-built, thoroughly Ade]phi domestic melodrama was produced here last evening, and em bracing as it does the whole strength of the company., having been put upon the stage with the tact and kno;v , ledge of effect which is so peculiar a characteristic of this theatre, being moreover an interesting drama, and being accompanied by some clever and appro priate music, the composition of Mr. Alfred Mellon, l it is not matter of surprise that its success was a thorough Adelphi triumph. The authors of the drama, which is entitled The Willow Copse, are understood to be Messrs. Bourcicault and Charles Kenny, who have introduced an innovation in the con ' struction of their melodrama, by making it coniist of five acts instead of three. The plot, as is usual in such cases, consists of a some what complicated story of crime and retribution. Sir Richard Vaughan (Mr. Boyce) has been disin herited by his father, and the broad acres have been bequeathed to Luke Fielding (Mr. Hughes), a neighbouring farmer. The will, however, has not been produced ; Sir Richard has lived quietly, though with mental uneasiness, on the family estate, and has moreover seduced R o s e (M a d ame C e l es t e ) th e far mer I daughter. Some rigid maxims uttered by Luke on the subject of female virtue have such an effect on Rose that she resolves to drown herself in a certain " Willow Copse," and betakes herself to the spot, having just written a letter to her father. The good old gentleman, being more profound in ethics than in literature, cannot read the epistle, but begs the assistanceof Lucy Vanguard (Miss Ellen Chaplin), a young lady, who with her father (Mr. Cullenford), and her intended (Mr. Worrell), is stopping at Sir Richard's manor house. She misleads Luke as to the sense of the letter, and, going to the Willow Copse, prevents the perpetration of suicide by Rose. She is escorted back to the manor-house by Sir Richard, who has likewise been to the copse to have an interview with Hulks (Mr. 0. Smith), a mysterious villain, who knows the eiistence of the will, and they find the mansion broken into by the same villain, and two accomplices (Messrs. Bedford and Wright). Sir Richard hides Lucy in a pavilion, but dares not detain Hulks, whom he recognises, and who therefore escapes with the will in his possession. The discovery of Lucy in the pavilion, coupled with the fact that she has taken the midnight walk with Sir Richard, fur a while compromises her reputation. An explanation, which takes place at a harvest-home festival, soon sets her right with her friends and her father, but Farmer Luke, who perceives that Rose's letter is used as the chief explanatory means, grows very uneasy. As no one will give a satisfactory account of its contents, he makes his daughter read it herself; and the tableau in which she, on her knees, reads the confession of her guilt, while Luke stands listening with suppressed agony, and the rest of the characters watch them with horror, is one of the most effective in the piece. The disgrace of Rose being fully revealed to Luke, he resigns to her his farm, intending to settle elsewhere, but insists on knowing the name of her seducer, the only fact which yet remains untold. She resists his demands and menaces, but the sound of a man's voice outside the door seems to promise that the secret must now be revealed. Luke snatches up a billhook, Rose falls senseless, as also does Luke him self when he perceives that the intruder is Sir Richard Vaughan, whose father was his friend. Sir Richard, to shelter Rose from the paternal wrath, takes her in his arms, while yet senseless, and conveys her in his carriage to Loudon. The old man, when he rises, has lost his intellect, and a powerful scene is produced, in which Meg (Miss Woolgar), the rustic servant of the farm, who has innocently caused much of the mischief by her bab bling, is almost distracted at perceiving such fatal results. Before the denouement takes place four years are supposed to elapse. Sir Richard has married Rose, and has been vainly endeavouring to find her father, who has strayed from his home, and is sup ported by Meg, now a London milkmaid. At last accident brings him to his daughter's door, a recog nition takes place, and Sir Richard, while obtaining his forgiveness, has the satisfaction of placing in his hands the will, which has been recovered with much difficulty from Hulks, who is exhibited as a frequenter of the vilest dens in the metropolis. It will be seen from the above description of the plot that the Willow Copse, as might indeed have been expected from its authorship, is a dramatic composition of a much higher order than the general run of melo dramas—it is a well-built play ; there are neither incidents nor personages introduced who do not sub serve in some degree to the progress of the plot, neither is their a single scene in which it does not progress; the dialogue, too, is of a higher order than is generally to be found in compositions of this nature, and the incidents are many of them of a perfectly novel, none of them of a hackneyed, character. The admirable manner in which the comic characters are made to contribute to the effective working out of the plot is deserving of especial commendation; we recommend the attentive study of the construction of this portion of the Willow Copse to all concocters of melodramas. The piece was admirably acted ; each performer was fitted to a nicety, and each ex erted themselves to the utmost. The Rose of Madame celesta was one of the most touching pieces of pathetic acting ever presented on any stage; in the suicide scene she was exquisitely pathetic, an her acting in the scene in which she reads the letter to her father was perfectly agonising. Of Miss Woolgar's Meg it is impossible to speak too highly—it is one of the chefs ceuvre of this most talented young lady—as perfect, though in a different line, as her Lemuel. The Luke Fielding of Mr. H. Hughes was full of heart and energy, and his mad scenes were given with a truthfulness to nature which was terrific. 0. Smith, as Hulks, was perfectly fitted, and his assumption in the London scenes of the play of the character of a missionary preacher, was a rich piece of sanctimo niousness. In the same portion of the piece Paul Bedford appears as a pious beggar, wandering through the streets, accompanied by four children, whom he has hired, " warranted to cry like waterspouts," and addresses the public in general as his Christian friends, with most amusingly impudent unction, while Wright is full of drollery as a peripatetic vender of razors and dog-collars. Mr. Worrell and Miss Ellen Chaplin had but little to do, but that little they did excellently well. The piece was loudly applauded at the conclusion, and all the principal artistes were called before the curtain. We predict a long career of success for the Willow Copse. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM. A new farce, entitled Drop the Curtain, was pro duced last night at this elegant theatre. The plot was amusing, and afforded scope for very many highly comic situations, of which the artists ably availed themselves. Charles Mathews acted a drunken soldier to perfection, and elicited much laughter from the audience. Mrs. Humby threw great spirit into a meagre character. Oxberry acted and looked a drummer so minute that Mrs. Humby, on one occa sion, carried him across the stage. Miss Kenworthy, Mr. Granby, and Mr. F. Cooke did full justice to their parts. To say that the piece was produced at the Lyceum is to say that it was put on the stage with taste and elegance. The house was well at tended, and other entertainments followed which have already received the stamp of public approbation. The management are exerting thentselves to produce novelties, and we see another announced for this evening. STRAND THEA TRE. It has often struck us what ruin would result to dramatic authors if love were to them a prohibited theme, for amorous intrigues appear to be their stock in trade, and nothing issues from the fountain of their imagination that does not turn upon some incident of the affections. It is surprising, too, how these nothings —to use a Germanism—become somethings in the hands of skilful artists. Aided by the talent of a Farren' and bewitching vivacity of a Stirling, the merest trifles assume an air of importance, and become palatable and'interesting. Impartial critics will doubtless trace to that cause much of the success that attended the first representation of the 211 a- Trap, a musical comedietta in one act. Of course the litan- Trap is laid and baited by a woman—mantraps gene rally are now-a-days. A drawing-room is the scene, a father and son, a mother and daughter, 'the actors ; while he plot turns upon a not unfrequent occurrence in every-day life. Co lonel Beaument's son Alfred, a young gentle man who has just attained his majority, falls a victim to the attractive beauty of a charming widow, the Marchioness de Roseville, not "fat, fair, and forty," but just verging 03 mellow thirty-two, and makes her an offer of his hand and heart. The fact finds its way to the ears of the Colonel, with the unpleasant addition that the widow's age is sixty at least, while her personal attractions spring from the rouge pot, the perfumer's shop, and the dentist's laboratory; and he seeks an interview with the lady, determined to thwart her designs upon his son. The widow, however, fortunately overhears a soliloquy in which the Colonel discloses the delusion he labours under, and she determines to encourage it by disguising herself as an antiquated dame, whose length of years has not destroyed but fostered her vanity. The deception succeeds so far, that when the widow retires for a few minutes and returns in her propria persona, displaying to the best advantage the un sophisticuted simpli c it y o f h er m i n d , w i t h the faultless beauty of her person, and introduces herself to the Colonel as the daughter of the venerable Marchioness whom he has just parted from, the old Colonel is so over powered by her simple, elegant demeanour, and charming exterior, that he resolves upon introducing her to his son, and insisting upon his; sacrificing the mother for the daughter. Meanwhile his son suddenly encounters, for the - 'first tithe these four years Florence, the dauter of the Marchioness, who has , ripened from the budding girl of 14 into the blushing 1 maiden of 18, and with dismay he discovers that tne heart he has offered to the mother is ash by ).daughter. But there is no retracit74, , his father now appearing upon th - k"'" e t • Marchioness, he is dumbfoundedOfigethe r - 47,e.pnc, sion that has taken place in the 'C . * 's:feeli4 t wards the object of his former tiaaion... - The Mar: chioness, too, is annoyed at 104, coolness, the enthusiasm with which he had lAe l / 4 6*b_y_t to retveiitvi her has given pl ace t o a freezingiftigidiK44o she - , devines the cause of the change, anti generously de.; termines to accept him as a son instead of a husband. The real state of things now breaking in upon the mind of the old Colonel, and resolving to marry the Marchioness himself, the piece ends with the mutual congratulations of all the characters. The piece is interspersed with songs and duets, composed by Tully and Rodwell, which afford Miss Rebecca Isaacs and Mr. W. Farren ample opportuni ties for displaying their musical abilities. The for mer made her first appearance this season in the comedietta. Her reception was most flattering, and in two of her songs, " A Pretty Young Maiden," and " There's not a Cloud," she was rapturously encored. Mrs. Sterling, as the Marchioness, was really delight ful, while Farren, as the warm-hearted old Colonel, was gentlemanly and natural. The piece was put upon the stage in excellent taste, and, as its first re presentation, was more than an average triumph. It will, in all probability, prove as profitable to the treasury, and attractive to the audience, as most of Mr. Farrell's other productions at this compact little theatre. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.--The Constance, 50, Cap tsin Courtenay, was towed into harbour this morn ing by the Stromboli steam-sloop, and moored along side the dockyard jetty, for the facility afforded thereby of landing her freight, which will be conveyed to London to-morrow morning by the agents, in u special train on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, in charge of Mr. Superintendent Sutton. Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, R.N., K.C.8., Surveyor of the Navy, came down to-day to pay the Constance (his last ship) a visit, when, it is almost unncessary to add, his reception was of a most gra tifying character, his pleasing manners as well to men as officers, wherever in command, having endeared him to their recollection. He afterwards made a tour of the yard with Mr. Fincham, the master shipwright, and crossed the harbour in the evening to the Railway Hotel, Gosport. We have high autho rity for stating that the rumoured courts-martial on sundry officers of the Constance will not be held, the affairs alleged as the reason for calling for them having been most amicably adjusted to the satisfac tion of the officers and the Admiralty. The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord Amelius Beauclerk, sailed this evening for Plymouth and Queen's-town, with newly raised men for the Indefatigable and the Superb, fitting out at those ports. The Fire Queen steam-vessel, late a post tender on this station, is ordered to be a packet on the Holy head station, vice the Flamer steam-vessel, whose officers and crew are ordered to be turned over to the former on bringing the Flamer to this port. ROY AL MARINE ARTILLERY. First Lieutenant Meade, 2 sergeants, 2 corporals, 1 drummer, and 40 gunners ar e under orders to proceed by rail to Woolwich to embark in the steam frigate Terrible, just re-commissioned there. Wind, N. by E., fresh breezes and cloudy weather. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE SQUADRON. SIMoN's BAY, &Fr. 27.—The Southampton, 50, flag of Rear-Admiral Reynolds, C. 8., left this on the 12th inst. for Rio. An accident occurred on board the ship on the 27th ult., during the sending up of topgallantmasts at eight A.M. The main-top gallantmast rope broke, and the mast coming down brought the topgallant yard with it, which struck a seaman named Cladinbole, and fractured four ribs, au arm, and a leg. He has been removed to the hospital and is doing well. The Castor, 36, Commodore Wyrill, arrived here on the 29th ult. ' last from Ascension. The Commo dore has assumed the command of this station, and, from his well-known activity and experience, the duties of the station are likely to be carried on most efficiently. Dr. Munro, of this ship, has been re moved, in a very sickly state, to the hospital at this place. The Reynard steam-sloop, 11, Commander era croft, arrived here on the Ist inst. from England, last from Rio, and having been replenished with coals, &c., sailed on the sth for Singapore. The Geyser steam-sloop, Commander Brown, is preparing for sea. She was ordered to tow the Dee troop steamer to Mozambique, but those orders have been countermanded. A man named Hawkes, a black smith of the Geyser, fell overboard whilst in a state of intoxication a few days since and was drowned. The Dee steam troop ship, Master Commander Filmer, lately returned from Algoa and Buffalo Bays, whither she had conveyed . the different detachments of troops that arrived here in the Kent frieight ship. She has coaled and provisioned, and the Commodure has sent two of his boats and 40 men, under the orders of Lieutenant Crowder and Mr. Albert, second master, and will dispatch her on the 2d proximo to the Mozambique, to cruize after slavers, which have be come very numerous and bold of late. Lieutenant Crowder will command her, as Mr. Filmer is still sick in hospital, recovering from an attack of apoplexy. The Orestes, 14, Conunander Hawker, arrived here from the Mozambique on the 15th inst. She has been to Zanzibar, where she got on shore and remained some hours, but was off again without damage. She is to sail to-morrow for the Mauritius. The Seringapatam store-ship, Master Commander Russell, is in Simon's Bay. The Neptune convict ship, Dr. Deas, surgeon superintendent, arrived here on the 19th instant. Seven deaths have occurred amongst the prisoners on the passage, and there are a few cases of scurvy still on board. In consequence of the Governor refusing to have them landed till the arrival of .fresh instruc tions from England, the Commodore has ordered 120 to be placed on board the Seringapatatn, as the hot weather is coming on and the ship is so crowded. "I think the people generally (says a correspondent at Simon's Town) are beginning to be weary of our red hot agitators." Dr. Deas has been removed to the hospital, suffer ing from a very severe attack of epilepsy. ET. \VooLwlcu, Nov. 26. APPCINTM Second Muter—C. R. B. Wilkinson (IM9) to the Wellesley, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral the Earl of Dun donald, G.C.13 , Commander-in-Chief on the West Indies and North American station. The Horatio, 24 guns, of 1,090 tons, to be fitted as a steam guardship, with a screw-propeller, is to be taken round from Chatham to the Thames to be fitted with her engines of 200-horse power by Messrs. Seaward and Co., at the City Canal Works. The day for bringing her round is not yet fixed, but it will be during the next spring tides, and the seamen riggers who will navigate her are expected to take the Vulcan steam-frigate from Woolwich to Chatham on their return. It was at first intended that the Vulcan should be taken to Sheerness only, but it has been considered advisable to have her taken to Chat ham until she is complete and her services are required, as the water at Chatham will not act so strongly on her as it would at Sheerness. The Terrible steam-frigate, Captain James Hope, C. 8., had her pendant hoisted this morning by Lieu tenant Robertson, of Captain Austin's steam de partment, and within a very short period he entered six first-class, and 19 other of the 36 stokers required for the ve.,sel. A number of petty officers, able seamen, and others, assembled in the dockyard to-day, many of whom had previously served in the Terrible, and were anxious to be re-engaged for that favourite vessel ; and those who had previ ously served in her, and had received good certificates, had their names taken down to be submitted to Cap tain Hope, when he arrives here, which he is expected to do to-morrow from Scotland, where he was at the time of his appointment to the command. A letter, dated Hong-Kong, Sept. 29, has been received from Rear-Admiral Sir Francis A. Collier, C.B , K.C.H., Commander-in-Chief on the East Indies and China station. The letter was written by the gallant officer himself, and he again assured his friends that " his general health is perfect, and if all remains quiet at Canton he hopes soon to go to the north." The letter is written in good -spirits, and what he has stated himself is confirmed from other sources of information as to his general health. The St. Vincent, hired convict freight ship, has ar. rived in the Warren Bight, opposite the Royal Arsenal, to take convicts to Van Diemen's Land. She is at present under the charge of Mr. John Young, master. HANDSOME DONATIONS TO THE PORTSMOUTH HOSPITAL AND THE DREADNOUGHT SEAMAN'S HOS PITAL.—We have great pleasure in announcing that Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Batt., has given 1,372/. 10s. 6d. Three and a-Quarter per Cent. An nuities, to the Portsmouth, Gosport, and Portsea I los pital, established during the period of the gallant Admiral's service as Commander-in• Chief at Ports mouth ; and a similar amount to the Dreadnought Seaman's Ho.,pital, off Greenwich; these sums having been placed at Sir Charles Ogle's disposal for the benefit of any casualty hospital. CALIFORNIA.—STOPPING THE SUPPLIES.—We hear by the arrival of her Majesty's ship Constance, at Spithead, that previously to her departure from Val paraiso, on the 28th August, Admiral liornby had started her Majesty's frigate Inconstant directly to San Francisco, on the coast of California, to protect British subjects. Everythin . gat California is in a very unsettled state; in fact, Commodore Jones, in the Ohio, had stopped all arrivals of provisions 'by sea, - as the inhabitants had refused to obey the Government orders, and the inhabitants were too strong for him to use force on shore. ,e -led of of the rist )1y of ye, all 'nal gal 3hes n a loth TEE