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but ill* )rds an rirrG. circles LYS now s from is said, . The inade rs, and at me- carious ee, ad iemy's f. 95c. a-Half F. BQc. ; 'them, 760 f. ; Medi ; Bor nil of 670 f.; L Rail- .e this ceived imiral likely squa as the r yes- Came tching now •stood, Russia crui in a Irefore carry other are in flown vessels tent it their y con aid to of the of the brim y that onigs- Is for- ations 1 Can- earn just TN? 9TYN, LONDON',____FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBP,It 28, Isso; tried in shun them. They mocked hk inllrrnitiea, and one got behind him and the other in front and hustled bim. He tried to get away from them, but they would not let him, and the prisoner suddenly snatched his watch and carried it away, guard and all. He tried to seize the prisoner, who handed the watch to her companion, and shoved him down. The woman then ran away. He pursued them and caged out as well as be could for the police, and a constable came up and took the prisoner into cu , tony. The other woman got away with his watch and chain. The value of both was above 51. Mr. Ingham asked if tlie unfortunate young man was quite sane ?____ - George Windeat, a police-constable, No. 98 K, said that Everett was palsied from his birth, and he always expressed himself imperfectly ; but h►s father, a respect able man, said his son was an invalid, but of perfectly sound mind. He knew the young man a long time, and he never knew him to do wrong. Witness apprehended the prisoner at 9 o'clock last night, in Gough-street, Pop'ar, Mr. Ingham said it was a most cruel robbery, and remanded the prisoner till Thursday next. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day). CORN EXOHANGE. Coastwise and by land carriage the arrivals of English wheat fresh up to-day were very limited, and the show of samples was small. For all kinds we had a slow inquiry, at Monday's quotatiors. Rather over 6,000 quarters of wheat have arrived from abroad, but chiefly from New York. All descriptions met a dull inquiry, and the cur rencies were almost nominal. Floating cargoes were quite as dear as on Monday. There was a steady business doing in malting and other kinds of barloy, at full currencies. Malt was in fair supply and steady request, on former terms. We were well supplied with foreign oats. On the whole the oat trade was steady, at full prices. Beans, peas, and flour as on Monday. Wheat. 2,140 AILRIVAL3 THIS WHISK. }Barley. Malt. 3,890 2,170 Ingitsh .. Irish .... complete in itself as a life-history, that we dose its pages reluctantly, and even let us add unaffectedly, with a iense of grateful admiration. Henceforth may John Forster exult in the knowledge that he Las associated his own name inextricably with that of dear old Oliver Goldsmith. Oats. 770 f 1,360 25,330 6,440;a1 Foreign 1 6,630 lIKET IAW INTELLIGENOE—erhis Day.) AND COURT OF CHANCERY. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (Before the Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices of Appeal.) ourY, Two O'CLOC) EX-PARTE BARCLAY, PERKINS, AND CO —IN RE GAWEN, The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed N tct BANKRUPT.— e— j.Junt_ g u m m e E u N t The Lord Chancellor a B ibis morning in heavily, and prices of American wore /d. per lb. this bankrupt petition, which was argued before them a lower than on last Friday ; all other sorts were short time since, upon appeal from the judgment of Mr. without change. The sales were 5,000 hales, one- C f ommi:s . ioner , Fane t . o b T re h w e e q r: e l s i t u i e o r n ise i d ii v t i b c i . s u c a a u s e e rv is an is half of which were American (all taken by the p n er g son's g m en p e o r r ai a ly nne e mbarking in trade, who have to ex trade) ; 15U Pernam and Maranham, sid. to 6id. ; pend their capital in fitting up premises in order to enable 150 Egyptian, 61d. to 7d. ; and 2,000 Surats, 3jd. them to carry on business.the t ir ha h o lnd d i t u h t e .. present c u as b e . to 4fd. per lb. The Railway Share Market opened gr u a . h w u e u n a , e t called `The P , Crown," in Kent-street, in p the dull at a general decline, but on the announcement Borough, and also in four houses adjoining. Messrs. of the breaking up of the Bank parlour without Barclay, Perkins, and Co., the eminent brewers, , supplie l d any advance in the rates of discount there was intothe housetbeir d with ebt, hud beer, eapdosited Gawent e h le a a y s l e ng o fgn got hisciolunuidsees withy a rally, and prices closed at about Wednesday's them to secure that debt, and any further advances they rates. might make to him. The memorandum made on the deposit of that lease was to the effect that it was intended to operate as an equitable mortgage of the houses and their appurtenances, and of the fixtures to the said pre• mises belonging. Gawen made various improvements OD the premises, and laid out on them a conside rable sum of money, and the question for the decision of the Court was, Gawen having become a:bankrupt, whether the improvements and additions he had made to the premises were to be considered as goods and chattels in !the order and disposition of the bankrupt under the 125th section of the Bankrupt Law Consoli dation Act. On the case coming before Mr. Commis sioner Fane, be decided that the improvements and ad ditions made to the premises by the bankrupt were to be considered as .goods and chattels in his order and disposition, and that therefore they passed to his assig nees. From this decision Messrs. Barclay and Perkins appealed to the Lords Justices, and their lordships thinking the question one of great importance expressed their 'wish that the matter might be argued before all the Judges of Appeal. The case was argued before the full Court, and the Lord Chancellor this morning gave the judgment ; and after going at considerable length into the facts of the case, stated the clear opinion of the whole Court to be that the fixtures and improvements were not goods and chattelf in the order and disposition of the bankrupt. The decision of Mr. Commissioner Fane must therefore be reversed. The Colonial Produce Market this week has again been exceedingly quiet, and the values have tended downwards. Sugar has been very little inquired for, and at the public sale a small quan tity only has been offered. The West India de scriptions have receded 2s. to 3s. per cwt., and the same fall may be noticed in East India kinds. Foreign has generally maintained full rates. For coffee there has been a steady demand, but without any alterations in the quotations. Holders of rice have asked rather higher prices, and busi ness has been checked to some extent in conse quence. Rum has ruled firm. The public sale of tea proceeded without animation, and the green sold at rather lower rates without reserve. Salt petre has been dull, and also cotton. Spices have generally commanded former currencies, and mace has risen ld. per lb. For hemp and flax there has been a fair demand, and tallow has been supported, P.Y.C. being 71s. per cwt. on the spot. The Continental Bourses, with the exception of Paris, continue in a dull and uncertain state, and are not likely to improve in Germany should the new Russian loan, said to have been effected, be privately negotiated on their Stock Markets. At Vienna the 5 per Cents. rule a shade lower than previously, and the New Loan about -3 cheaper. Exchange on London is the same, and on Paris has risen to 1311. The Prussian 4 per Cents. on the Berlin Bourse are quoted at 97, and the 4i per Cents. of 1854 at 108. At Frankfort the 4i Stock rules at 56k, and exchange on London is 1181. Spanish 3 per Cents. at Madrid mark 34.30, and New Stock 20.30. On the Paris Bourse a further advance of about 15 centimes took place yesterday in French 3 per Cent. Rentes. The market opened with great boyancy, and they at one time rose above 66f., closing with firmness at 5 centimes less. From Vienna we learn that the New General Bank of Credit will be opened to subscribers from the 10th to the 15th December, and also that the amount of Stock laid apart for the public shall be 15 millions of florins, instead of 10, as at first an nounced. Former news are confirmed in that city, that the Austrian Government have thought seri ously of organising a staff to establish an Exhibi tion at Vienna in 1859. The Minister of Com merce is stated to have already named a commission for this purpose, and that plans of the intended Palace of Industry are in progress of execution. Accounts from Sardinia give the financial state ment of the extraordinary expenditure for the army in the East, and the probable expenses of the war establishment during 1856. The amount for the ensuing year is estimated at 43 million francs, of which England is expected to pay 25 millions, showing a deficiency in the war budget of 18 mil lions. The Minister of Finance, Count Cavour, proposes to add that sum to the accumulated deficit of preceding years, making in all 30 mil lions, and meet it by a loan. Before leaving with the ing of Sardinia, on his visit to France and England, that minister produced an elaborate statement concerning the contemplated reforms in the Customs department, boards of trade, and public imposts. From Belgian we learn that the mode of employ ing the proposed grant of 1,500,000 francs, for the benefit of the poor and working classes in distress, will be employing the able-bodied in constructing public, works. There is a good inquiry for discount accommo dation owing to the payment of the instalment on the Turkish Loan to-day, but it had, no doubt, in several cases been liquidated in anticipation by those who wished to obtain possession of the stock when it ruled at a fair premium. There is an upwarl tendency in the market for English Stocks, owing to an impression that peace will soon be restore, and much importance is attached to the probability of Sweden joining the Western Powers. Consols for money are 881 3, and for account 88i to 89, but there is very little speculation going on. The New 3 per Cents. are 88i, and the Reduced 87i- 3. Bank Stock is 209. Exchequer Bills 12s. to Bs. discount, and India Bonds ss. discount. Turkish ponds are buoyant, the 6 per Cents. having advanced to 803 and 81, and the New Scrip to 34 and 3 discount. Russian 5 per Cents, are 96. Peruvian 4 per Cents. are heavy, being 741. Mexican Stock is 191 to 194, being per cent. higher, and Equador remains firm at 5. Brazilian 5 per Cents. are marked 100, and the Small Bonds 99. QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chief Justice Campbell, Justices Coleridge, Wightman, anti Erle.) THE QUEEN V. THE MAIDSTONE LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH. . Mr. Bramwell, Q.C., moved for a rule calling on the ' Local Board of Health of Maidstone to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue, commanding them to make such sewers in the town as were necessary for the effectual draining of the district for the purposes of the Public Health Act. The board, though turned by a considerab!e minority of the persons empowered to elect the members, was legally constituted. They bad levied rates, and had plans made with reference to the drainage of the town, but nothing had been done by them to remedy the defects complained of, and some of the members had stated they would not entertain the question, and the consequence was that the public health suffered. Lord Campbell said if the board bad considered the question, the Court had not the power to review it and compel the board to make a drain on any single applica tion. .It was for the board to say if certain sewers were or were not necessary. Hal they refused to consider the question the Court might compel them to do that. Mr. Bramwell said he was unable to state whether the board had or had not considered the ❑ecessity of making the drains in question, but read from his in structions that several of the members of the hoard had stated they would not construct any drains unless com pelled to do so. Lord Campbell said the statement referred might have been made by the parties over their ale for what the Court knew to the contrary. The Court was will ing to assist in putting such an important act as this into effect. He was afraid there were leagues formed in certain towns to prevent its application to the districts, and the Court would be happy to assist in defeating them. The rule could not be granted on the present state of the case, but the Court would allow the appli , cation to be again made on other facts. Rule refused. TIIE GRAND JURY PRESENTMENT. The grand jury empannelled on the sitting of this Court to investigate any criminal charges that might be preferred before them came into court this morning, and were formally discharged by Mr. Justice Coleridge. The Foreman of the Grand Jury then read the follow ing presentment:—"The jury, of which we are mem bers, beg humbly to present to the Court the opinion that such juries as these, of which they have thioday formed a part, are summoned to appear to this Court for purposes altogether needless, and that, in fact, the days are past since they were of real benefit to the coun try ; and they believe that, if the Court abstained from summoning such juries, unless in cases of necessity, they would be much more satisfactory t i the community liable to serve on juries ; and to such cases as would (if any) probably come before them could with greater pro priety be decided by a preliminary examination before a magistrate and tried in the ordinary canna. Humbly hoping your lordships will be pleased to receive this our petition of the grand jury of which I am a member—l am, &c., "JOHN FLETCHER." Lord Campbell said the summoning of a grand jury on the sittings of this Court had regularly taken place in accordance with the laws from tune irnmem.,rial, and it was a matter in which the Court had no discretionary power. The Legislature alone could absolve them from discharging the duties. It had very often occurred that grand juries summoned had had important duties to per form, indictments for high treason baying been preferred before them, and it was of importance both to the Crown and the people that in the event of any complaints arising they might be speedily investigated and decided. Happily such cases wtre now of rare occurrence, and he bad much pleasure in congratulating them on the light ness of their labours. The jury then withdrew. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks : Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6.i to 7 ; Mexican, 19} ; Peruvian, 74 to 76 ; ditto Three per Cents., 52 to 54; Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 94 to 96 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 88; Spanish New Deferred, 19k to ; ditto Three per Cents., 38} to ; ditto Certificates, 4i to 4i ; ditto Pas sive, 5-6 to 6-8. Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. report that during the week there has been no revival of business in American Securities ; that the few transactions which have taken place have been at lower prices ; and that the .quotations are for the most part nominal. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) SOUTHWARK. ROBBERY OF FOREIGN HlDES.—Three young fellows, named Manley, Morris, and Mahoney were brought be fore Mr. Combe for final examination, charged with stealing four foreign cow hides from Pickle Herring Wbarf, Tooley-street. William Sitwell, foreman in the employ of Messrs. Margetson and Son, White's-grounds, Bermondsey, said that on Tuesday morning week, about eleven o'clock, Marney came to him and asked him whether he would purchase any seals. Witness replied that at present they did not want any. Marney then said be had four cow hides which be wanted to sell, at the same time asking what he would give fur them. Witness having some suspicion about him told him he must see the bides before he could say anything about the price. Marney then went away and witness immediately communicated with the police, and a constable attended and remained about the premises. About twenty minutes afterwards Marney and Mahoney came to the warehouse, each carrying two raw cow hides. He examined them and found marks on two of them, which induced him to be lieve they had been stolen from some wharf re eently. They were foreign hides , and worth thirty shillings each. The constable came in while he was examining them, and took Marny and Mahoney into custody. Morris, who was wait ing . outside, was also secured. GOTERNMENT SECURITIES. Redeemable. Per Cent. United States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868...106A 107 A STATE SECURITIES. California 7 per Cent. Bonds 1870... 78 Maryland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 90 Massachusetts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds) ... 97 Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Bonds 1877... 80 Virginia 6 per Cent. Bonds 1886... 85 Virginia 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) —lBBB._ 82 RAILROAD BONDS. Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Ist Mortgage, not Convertible 1875... 68 Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Freeland Bonds 1860... 71 New York Central 6 per Cent., not Convertible 1833... 80 New York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort-_. William Hobbs, the foreman at Pickle Herring Wharf, said that on the Monday and Tuesday they were unloading bides from a vessel just arrived from South America. The prisoners were not employed at the wharf, neither bad they any busines, there. The hides in question were stolen from the place on Monday even ing, as he had missed four, and they bore the marks of the shipper. Henry Hunt, 34 M, said he received information from the witness Sitwell, and went to Messrs. Margetson's warehouse, where he took all the prisoners into custody. Marny and Mahoney said Morris had picked up the hides under the archway of the railway, and had given them to them to sell. gage . 1883... 81 N. York and Erie 7 per Cent. Sinking Fund 1875... 76 Pennsylvania Central 6 p. Cent., lstMort 1880... 86 . . _ Although the transactions in Railway Shares were not large, the quotations show an advanc e as compared with yesterday's closing rates. The prin cipal business in the North-Western which are about per cent, better. In the Foreign Market the Northern of France have risen s , but the other lines are inactive. Mining Shares are nominally without alteration. London and 'Westminster Bank Shares are rather derrer. Mr. Combe said it was not likely that any one could find eueh valuable property under the arch of a railway. He should commit each of them to three months' hard labour under the new Criminal Justice Act. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. -CLOSING PR1(114 S. (Prom the Ofcial Litt. - Be.m.,s , ;:.,;.. Bank Stock ... , 209 3 per Cent. Reduced Anenitiee i 3 per Cent. Console Annuities ............... .. 88$ $ New 3 per Cent. Annuities 88 k 8 i 8 / 8 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., IMP Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th 0ct., 1859 3 3-16 I Ditto 30 Years, Expire s th Jan.,1860 33 In lie Bonds, £lOOO . °consols tor Account BBi 9 81 i i / Exchequer Bills, 2id. ZlOOO •-• Small .. Exchequer Bonds 1858, 3i per Cent..., 98/ Ditto 1859, It ~. 98/ PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds 5 per Cent. .. lOO 99 Ditto Small Equador Bonds Mexican 3 per Cent. Ditto for the Account l9l i Peruvian Bonds, 4/ per Cent..., . , ...... 74f Ditto for the account 74i Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £St 96 gptnish Bonds, 3 per Cent — Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Turkish Bonds, 6 per cent — Ditto for the Account BOl $ 1 Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. Ditto for the account 3/. 3 i Dividends on the above oavable in London. etch Exchange, 2/ per Cent. 12 Civil — Ditto 4 por Cent. Certificates ...... THREE O'CLOCK. Consols ... . ........... ~. Ditto for A ccount Dec. 6 AMERICAN ACTING.-- On the evening when the ne re s of the fall of Sebastopol reached Richmond, Virginia, J. H. Taylor wag playing hamlet ; and in the last scone, when he exclaimed— , ---" Oh ! I die Horatio; The potent poison quite o'ercomes my spirit. I cannot live to hear the revs from England," a spectator cried out, " D'e away, old. boss ; Sebasto pol is taken I"—New York Herald. WESTMINSTER. ROBBERY THROUGH STARVATION.—AN EXTRAORDI NARY REQUEST.—Ann Stevens, a thinly-clad, miserable looking old woman, was charged with stealing half a pound of bacon. The prisoner went to a cheesemonger's in Ebury-street last evening, and, thinking she was un observed, took the bacon and placed it under her shawl. She was, however, seen to commit the theft, and given into custody. Mr. Brotighton (to the prisoner)—What have you to say ? Prisoner—l did it through starvation. Mr. Broughton—Have you applied to the parish Prisoner—Yes, often ; but they will do nothing for Mr. Broughton —What reason do they assign Prisoner—They give none ; but they leave me to lie about the streets and starve. I am in a wretched con dition. Mr. Broughton —You look so. I believe you are; but still you must not steal. I shall commit you for fourteen days. worshi Prisoner—l have a part i cu l ar favour to ask of your p. • Mr. Broughton—What is it ! Mrs Broughtononer-0, pray Wdo make it 21 days. . — hy ! Prisoner—Because I shall get some meat then, but I shan't if its only fourteen, for I have not tasted a morsel of meat for a month. Mr. Broughton good naturedly complied with her re quest, and she was accordingly committed for 21 days. THAMES. F EMA LE HIGHWAY ROBBERS.—Mary An n Wil l i ams, a pale-faced girl, about 17 or 13 years of age, was br oug ht before Mr. Ingham,charged with stealing a s il ver watch and gold chain from the person of John Everett, a young man residing at No. 32, Cliurch•lane , Liinehouse. The prosecutor is afflicted with paralysis, and has been so from his birth, and incapable of making a H y resistance. His father is a sailors boarding-house keeper, and last night he was going through a new neighbourhood in Poplar when he was accosted by the prisoner and annther female near the Hero of Waterloo public house. They commenced talking to him, and he METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. Although the supply of beasts in to-day's market was very moderate, and mostly in low condition, the beef trade ruled heavy, at barely Monday's quotations. We were but scantily supplied with sheep, which moved off steadily at fully late rates. The best Downs readily produced ss. per Sibs. We had rather a large supply of calves in the market, and the veal trade ruled heavy, at a decline of from 6d to 84 per Blbs. Pigs sold slowly on former terms. Milch cows were dull, at from 141. to 191. each, including their small calf. Per Sibs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d.l s. d. d. Inferior Beaste....3 6to 3 B,P r i m eSouthdown 4 8 5 0 Second quality.... 3 10 4 2:Large crse. calves 3 6 4 2 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 BPrime small do 4 4 4 8 Prime Scots, drc. 410 5 o ( Large hogs Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 6,Small porkers 4 6 5 Second quality ...3 8 4 2 Suckling calves-23 0 30 0 Prime crse.-wlled.4 4 4 6,Quarter old pigs. 22 0 28 TOTAL SUPPLY. 11011EIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .................. 1,024 1 1 8ea5t5......... ........ . 220 Sheep ................• .. 3,300 Sheep .......... •• • ... ... 621 Calves .................. 440 Calves...". ............. - 392 NEWGSTE AND We had a moderate trade 1 Per Blbs by LEADENHALL. here to-day, as follows : tLs 0 CarCabn. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 3 2 3 6 Do., middling 3 8 3 10 Do., prime large 4 0 4 2 De , do. small 4 4 4 6 Purk, large 3 10 4 4 8. d. 8. a Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 6 Do., middling 3 8 4 0 Do., prime 4 2 4 6 Veal 3 6 4 4 Pork, small 4 6 5 4 BOROUGH HOP. Owing to the large amount of duty as officially declat ed, and to the extensive show of samples, our market is heavy, as follows :—Mid and East Kent pockets, 80s to 120 s per cwt; Weald of Kent, 708 to 955; Sussex, 65s to 935. COLONIAL. TEA..—The public sales went off heavily, and prices re ceded to a small extent on most descriptions, particularly gunpowder, which went at 2d per lb cheaper. Common congou since the sale may be quoted at 9/4 to 91d per lb. SUGAR.—The market opened on Tuesday at the full prices of the previous week, but with a quiet appearance ; it has since become very dull, no disposition being shown to purchase, as importers were not disposed to accept less money; consequently little or no business has been trans acted. Mauritius bought in at yesterday's sale have been Ad at the buying-in prices. Java sold by private contract at 54s for No. 8. Martinique fair grocery 58s 6d. Mauritius good brown to good greyish yellow GOA to 645. ihvannak good brown bought in at full rates ; good brown, 59s to 60s; middling to coloury yellow. 63s 6d to 655, duty 15s; low to good florette, 64s 6d to 668 6d, duty 178 6d per cwt. Bengal was offered and sold at about 2s to 2s Gd de cline on the grainy kinds ; Cossipore middling to good yel low, 61s to 655; middling to fine yellow Mauritius kind, 63s to 678 ; and middling to fine white Benares, 66s to 68s por cwt. In the refined market there has been a little more inquiry, and prices remain firm. Brown lumps sold at 71s Gd to 72s per cwt. IPi4 hogsheads West India sold about 2s to 3s under the late highest point of the market. COFFEE.--The market has been steady, and prices re. mained firm. Plantation Ceylon, fine ordinary small greyish to good middling bold colory 57s Gd to 64e, pea berry 61s to 71s, and triage 50s to 575. Good ordinary Native Ceylon brought 55s 6d to 56s per cwt. Mocha, good large berry, 80s 6d to 82s; short berry, 75s to 78s per cwt. RICE. —The market has been firm, but owing to the small quantity offered little business has been done. Ben gal good middling 178 3d to 18s ; Java, 29s to 32s ; Caro lina. No. 2,39 s 6d. Patna scarce, fine sold for 183 6d to 24s Gd per cwt. SPICES. --Pimento, good ordinary coarse and stalky sold at 4-id. Mace bas been dearer, good pale 2s Bd, middling 2s sd, and damp and wormy is 9d to 2s 5d per lb. Nut megs have been steady. Penang small to good bold brown 2s 9d to 3s sd, shrivelled is 7d to is 9d per lb. Ginger— Malabar middling bold sold at 45s to 464, and rather wormy 35s to 3Gs per cwt. Pepper.—There has been more inquiry for black. Singapore white middling to small 7d per lb. SALTPETRII.—Madras 37ilbs refraction sold at 28s. Bombay middling grey refraction 20i to 21 26s to 26s 6d, ordinary brown 245. Bengal 11 to 111 sold at 365. COCHINEAL has been firmer, and :more business was done in this article. Teneriffe silvers 3s 7d to 38 9d, and blacks 3s 10d to 4s 2d per lb ; Honduras silvers 3s 9d to 3s 10d ; Mexican silvers, 3s 4d to 3s sd; blacks 3s 7d to 3s 10d per lb. Rum.—There bas not been much clone in this article, the market having been very quiet. Madras on the spot 3s, good middling Jamaica 4s bd, and Calcutta 28 10d per proof gallon. TALLow.—The market has been flat and a decline of fully is has taken place. P.Y.C. onthe spot 70a 6d to 71s, and for the spring 70s per owt. GREEN FRUIT.—More inquiry exists, a second carp of oranges ex Pomona from Fayol has arrived at Bristol, a portion of which s e nt by rai l wa y t o London, sold by Keeling and Hunt, realise prices equal to former sale. The first cargo of Messina lemons is at hand. The stock of all descriptions of nuts being considerably less than last year holders are firm in price. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Nov. 23.--Wind this day a t noon, W. ; light breeze and fine. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 22.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrivod— Mortar-vessel Cupid, from Birkenhead, in tow; H.M.Str. Lizard, eastward. FALMOUTH, Nov. 22.—Wind variable.—Off the port— Port Glasgow and Rodin Castle, from Quebec. CROMER, Nov. 24.--The schooner Morgan, from Copen hagen to Harwich, got on the Lemmon yesterday, and settled into deep water ' • crew saved and landed here, ex• cept the mast e r, who refused to leave and was in conse quence drowned. LOWESTOFT, Nov. 22.—The Paca, of Copenhagen, from London, for Sunderland, grounded on the Holm Sand, but was assisted off and brought into harbour. ELSINORE, Nov. 18.—The Caroline, of and for Greifs wald, was in contact with the Arnold, of Stralsund, from Scotland, for Stettin. (PEE ELECTRIC) TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. Arrived -Laura and Clara, from Sunderland; Star, from Jersey. Sailed—Sylph, steamer, for Dublin; Blue Jscket, for Hamburg; Waters and Ally, for Sunderland. LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning. Wind N.E. Arrived—London, from Marseilles. Sailed—Lord Nelson, for Lima ; Truth, for Antwerp. (BY SUBMARINE AND 2iRITISFi TBLEGBApii.I GRAVESEND, Friday, 9.51 a.m. Wind S.W.; tide, two hours' flood ; weather fine. Arrived, Nov. 22.—Dorre, from Gottenborg. Nov. 23.—Gipsy, from Havre ; Victoria, New York ; Caroline, Cephalonia. Sailed—Retriever, for Fernando Po; Earl of Eglinton, for Calcutta. DEAL, Friday, 9.36 a.m. Wind W.S.W., light. Anchored Land o' Cakes, for Melbourne . Frederick, Bardiff; Comet, Madeira ; Prospero, St. Michael's ; Jover Capita, Cadis ; Navigateur, Havre ; Fanny Buck, New Orleans; Eugenia, Constantinople ; Attivo, Naples ; Con fidence, for Malta—all from Loudon. EXPECTED LARGE ARRIVAL OP SPECIE PROM THE WEST INDIES.—Two millions and a half of dollars left the city of Mexico on the 18th of October, per con ducta, for Vera Cruz—the greater part of which may be expected at Southampton by the next West India mail steam-ship, due at that port on the lst proximo. Letters from Rome mention that the Rev. Mr. Tal bot, whose name has been repeatedly mentioned as one likely to be raised to high soiritual office in the Roman Catholic Church in England, has been appointed by the Pope to proceed to America, to regulate some affairs between the Transatlantic bishops and the Holy See. A. FORTUNATE PURCHASE.—The Northern Ensign says that in the year 1838, Mr. James Malcolm, of Olrig, Caithness, bought half an acre of ground in the town of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, for the sum of 401., and sold the same in 1852 for 12,0001. ; and in another purchase of a similar amount he realised much more. This almost incredible rise in the value of land is entirely owing to the discovery of gold in Victoria. CUTTING A POLICEMAN'S Non OFF. —At the police court, Liverpool, on Wednesday morning, an ill-looking fellow, named William Kelly, was charged with cutting and wounding police•officer 704. It appeared that on the previous evening the officer was taking the prisoner to the Bridewell for being drunk and disorderly, when the ruffian drew a claspknif e f rom hi s poc k et , an d , aiming a blow at his face, cut off about half an inch from the end of his nose. Inspector Swaine came to the officer's assistance, when Kelly endeavoured to stab him. He cut through his coat sleeve, but it did not, fortunately, extend further. The prisoner, after a fierce struggle, was lodged in Bridewell. He was committed .or trial. LITERATURE. The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith. A New Edition in One Volume. By John Forster. Bradbury and Evans. Heartily glad are we to welcome in this goodly volume a popular reprint of Mr. Forster's "Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith" —a charming biography, which has gradually expanded into one of the nobler classics of our national literature. The original edition, published in the spring of 1848, was literally the merest rough draft or out line sketch of what became six years afterwards a finished masterpiece. Goldsmith's memoirs had been previously written by other admirers, but never before se compietely and satisfactorily. Mr. Prior had prosed about the poet to the dreariest extent imaginable—drawing his portrait somewhat as Traddles- would have done had he tried, namely, as the veriest scarecrow of a skeleton. Mr. Irving again had more recently romanced to his heart's content, and for that matter let us confess to our own also, about the "Captain in Lace,"•and dear "Little Comedy " and the " Jessamy Bride," until he had so contrived under the influence of this same delightful romancing that our sympathies embraced at last the whole pleasant family of the Hornecks, for the sake of a grateful remembrance of their affectionate regard for Oliver Goldsmith. Scattered lights, too, had been thrown upon the same comparatively brief but very memorable ex istence by other writers, such as Percy, and Cooke, and Boswell, and Davis, and Glover, and Hawkins —Percy, for example, through the suggestive but inadequate "memoir" prefixed to the Miscellaneous Writings, and Cooke through his interesting but fragmentary papers in the European Magazine. It was left for Mr. Forster, however, to distance every one of his competitors, Washington Irving inclusively, by the production of those two masterly volume , issued immediately at the commencement of 1854—volumes which the original edition of 1 1848 may be said to have prematurely fore shadowed, and of which the present popular reprint of 1855 may be accurately enough described as the ingenious and comprehensive abridgment. Hence forth Forster will be regarded as pre-eminently the biographer of " Goldsmith"—precisely as Southey was of "Nelson," and Mackintosh of "More," and Cavendish of " Wolsey," and Johnson of "Savage," and Boswell (in his turn) of "John son." Companion classics upon our bookshelves from this time forth, indeed, must now be ranged together side by side—the last mentioned and the first men tioned—Boswell's Johnson and Forster's Goldsmith. Higher praise than this we know not, but praise it is to which Mr. Forster appears to us to be eminently well entitled. His portrait of our glorious dramatist-poet-novelist, as here pencilled in every lineament with such exquisite delicacy and discrimination, must be accepted as altogether more valuable and life-like of its kind than even the famous painting by which Sir Joshua has perpetuated upon canvas the familiar and be loved features of the author of She Stoops to Con quer, and of The Deserted Village, and of The Vicar of Wakefield. Reynolds drew the form ; Forster has, so to speak, literally eallotyped not merely the form, but with it the intellect, the character, the living and breathing individuality. Reading the four books of this enthralling memorial, we seem to follow poor Oliver—stepping, close at his heels, in his warm broad footprints. Beginning with his birth, ou the 10th of November, 1728, we track the chequered progress of that " strange eventful history" to the very moment of its hero's death, at a quarter to five o'clock on that sad Mon day morning, the 4th of April, 1774. A space of 45 years and five months—the last decade of which has proved so very memorable in the annals of our popular literature. The pathway worn by the weary feet of Goldsmith in that memorable pil grimage —from the cradle, at Pallasmore, the little Irish village on the banks of the river Inny, in the county of Longford, to the grave in the Temple, commemorated soon afterwards by the marble monument in the Abbey at Westminster—devious though it was throughout, and obscure at its com mencent, has here been traced, almost step by step, with a loving pertinacity of research, very admirable to witness. It has been described too by the hand of Mr. Forster in characters we believe to be (so far as anything like this can be predicated of any bin graphy in our language) imperishable. Oliver's 1 schooldays, at the knees of Elizabeth Delap, learn ing his letters from a horn-book, or at the desk of Thomas Byrne, doga'earing his grammar and dic tionary—Oliver's holidays, listening to the songs of blind old Carolan, or dancing a pas scut at uncle John's merrymaking— Oliver's advance from school to college, from the Academy at El phin to the Dublin University—Oliver as he was from 1728 to 1757, from nothing to twenty-nine : here is the whole story recounted in Book One, showing us the un friended adventurer in his various situations, as sizar, as student, as traveller, as apothecary's journeyman as tutor, as poor physician ! The sizar in his red cap and his coarse black gown with out sleeves—carrying dishes into the fellows' hall and writing ditties on the sly for ragged ballad singers ! The student decked out in claret-coloured cloth and sky-blue shalloon—straddling home on the lean barrel of Fiddleback ! The traveller in rusty garments—warbling hi s way on the flute through Holland, France, Germany, Italy, Swit zerland ! The apothecary's journeyman dingier still and footsore from his long wanderings—trund ling the pestle and rolling the bolus, and mixing the blackdraught ! The tutor, dingiest of all, and heartsore at length as well as footsore —grinding the propria quo maribus and the pothooks into the youth at Peckham-rye The threadbare Physician, in a suit of green and gold miserably tarnished—holding his three-corner hat adroitly over a patch in the rusty velvet So much for the motley figure cut by poor Oliver Goldsmith in these introductory chapters descriptive of his life and adventures ! Chapters conducting us to Book Two—where he is author .by compulsion : writing for Griffith's Monthly Review, and for Hamilton's Critical Review, penning at thirty a Life of Vol taire, and a thirty-one an Inquiry into Polite Learning ! Afterwards leading us to Book Three— where he is author by choice : writing in the Bee and the Busy Body, editing the Lady's Magazine, and penning The Citizen of the World, scribbling the Memoirs of Beau Nash, and the nursery tale of Goody Two Shoes—subsequently giving to the world, at thirty-six, THE TRAVELLER, at thirty-eight THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD, at forty "The Good natured Man," at forty-two THE DESERTED VIL LAGE, at forty-three " The Haunch of Venison," and at forty five SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER and " Retaliation. Book Four —revealing him to us as Dramatist, and Novelist, and Poet, as the friend of Reynolds, and Burke, and Johnson. Such is the drift of this remarkable bioer aphy—carrying us with it not me re ly th r ough ° the " Life," but also through the "Times" of Oliver Goldsmith. Nobly has Mr. Foster acquitted himself, from first to last, in this self-imposed labour —obviously •to him a very labour of love—the labour, that is, of commemorating in adequate terms the most memo rable of Johnson's literary contemporaries. It is observable that Goldsmith's biographer has reason, during the course of his narrative, to speak (page 215) of the well-known charges of plagi arism from Percy's Reliques directed against the writer of the exquisite ballad of _Edwin and Angelina. Is Mr. Forster himself unconscious meanwhile that he himself has here inadvertently allowed a plagiarism of a rather glaring kind to flaw the symmetry of the fourteen lines of his " Dedication 1" Unquestionably we regard him as so unconscious. Yet the plagiarism to which we are now compelled perforce to direct attention is altogether as indisputable as we are satisfied it is entirely unintentional. Briefly, however, to • —ex -Alin Mr Forster writes in the graceful dedica tionr of his book to Charles Dickens : " Genius and its rewards are briefly told A liberal nature and a niggard doom ; A difficult journey to a splendid tomb, &e, While, years ago, Coleridge wrote as the eleventh 1 verse of his celebrated " Monody on Chatterton" —what ? Mr. Forster of all our readers will, doubtless, be the most startled when he finds, on reference to that Monody by S amue l Taylor Coleridge, as given in every c omp l e t e edi tion of his gc P oems ," that that eleventh verse runs actually thus— " A prodigal nature and a niggard doom." So liable is every man who reads much and writes much to plagiarise unknowingly, and that, more over, at the very time when he is committing his ideas to paper with the most conscientious credence in his own scrupulous originality. It may be re membered by so me bow Lord By ron, hi mself often charged with a like offence, jocularly repu diated the notion of any blame being evolved from the accusation, by declaring that every such lapsus calami must be regarded as a tribute to the excellence o f an author's m emory as being et once well stored and retentive ! Enough, how ever—the present unconscious vibration of a chord in the well-stored and retentive memory of Mr. Forster having now been directly traced to that thrillingand sonorous verse of Coleridge—th e second line of this sonnet-dedication of Goldsmith's " Life" to . lliekens will either have to be re-written altogether, or, after the substitution of " prodigal" for "liberal," explicitly marked byinverted commas as au avowed quotation. Any way, we would on no account have the sonnet in question eliminated from these pages, regarding the dedication, as we do, as the noble tribute of an earnest and affec tionate friendship. A memorial of genius, this ex quisite biography is, indeed, so eloquent, so true, so THE STRIAE AT MANCHISTER. The only change in the situation is, that the operatives of Messrs.. Pooley and Co., Bradlord-strret, who had ac cepted,the reduction offered by the employers, but who bad,reported at a public meeting that they were earning higher wages, have been persuaded to strike. They gave notice, yesterday morning, to their employers, that they would cease working in 14 days, if the original prices were not restored to them. The third weekly meeting of the factory operatives on strike and their friends was held in the People's Insti tute on Wednesday, but was of a less interesting cha racter than those that had preceded it. The SECRETARY opened the business by again caution ing the operatives out of work to be cautious in their walks (or processions) through the streets, to be peace able, and neither give insults nor take notice of insults from other people. They had with them at present a greater amount of public sympathy than turnouts ever bad before, and they ought to be careful to preserve it. He then read the reply of the masters to the memorial of the committee, and commented upon it, but disclaimed any intention to give a ieply. Tte reply, he said, would come from the committee, after due Consideration and care in drawing it up. He took credit fur the operatives that, by their own temperate course in addressing their employers, they had elicited from them an answer chapac terised by a tone of moderation which was unusual, arr.d which contrasted.strongly with the spirit in which Mr. Ker.nedy had personally treated them, when ho threw the memorial into the fire and refused to entertain it. Their memorial had evidently made an opening between the men and their employers that might lead to a favour able issue. It was nut well that in any establishment there should be ill feeling on one side, and scorn, tyranny, and neglect en the other, and he hoped, from the tone of the masters' statement now pub li,hed, they might look forward to better days. (Ap plause.) In this statement the masters said they could not give the prices they were now paying un less the prices paid by the masters in other towns were brought up to the same standard. But this was new language. Did the masters recollect 1853, when the operatives of Preston struck against the wealthiest mill owners in Lancashire there, who were paying the lowest prices of any masters in the district ! They then said that the question was not one of wages, but whether the masters should be masters in their own establish ments ; and they, the masters of Manchester, then en tered into a combination and subscribed money, not to help the turnouts, but to help the masters of Preston to crush their own workpeople. (Cheers.) Such was the conduct of the men who now talked of bringing wages at Manchester down to the standard of other towns, • unless the wages of other towns could be brought up to the Manchester standard. lie concluded by moving that, notwithstanding the statement of the masters to the effect that a reduction of prices was the only alter native, the operatives on strike still adhere to their first suggestion, that short time was the better remedy, and that they promise to do ail they can to induce short time in other districtß. This resolution was seconded and carried. The SECRETARY said another Tesolution had been pre pared, pledging the operatives to resist any reduction in their wages, and to use all le g itimate means for obtain ing sympathy and support from the public to enable them to carry out that resistance. He thought, how ever, as their reply to the masters' address had not yet been drawn up, this resolution had better be withheld for the present. A communication from the Barbers' Society was read, promising their support to the men on strike, but ex pressing a hope that the operatives who wished to sup port their own pricss would not patronise the halfpenny shops. (Applause and laughter.) The SECRETARY —The meeting laughs, but it is no laughing matter. They are quite right. (Hear, bear.) An OPERATIVE said the workmen at Messrs. Pooley's mill had just held a shop meeting, and wished to state the result. ?Arne SECRETARY said it bad not been intended tr, go into that business till the next meeting, but he might as well now announce that the hands at Pooley's mills' had agreed to strike, and would give the requisite notice next morning. He hoped, however, that the business would be settled before that notice had expired, so that the operatives at Pooley's would not have occasion to cease work. Thera was one other shop working at lower prices, and that was the large mill of the Oxford road Twist Company. The hands had submitted to a ►eduction there, and Mr. Cooke, one of the firm, was so proud of his success in reducing them that he had boated of it at Messrs. Kennedy's mill, and said his workpoo- ple were perfectly satisfied. That was a fair challenge to the operatives on strike to fetch those hands out if they could, and it remained to be seen what could be done. (Cheers.) A. vote of t!ianks and three cheer: were given to Pooley's hands, and it was announced that the operatives of Messrs. Simpson and Thompson, whose notice expired on the previous night, had agreed to work another week on the old terms, so that their strike would be postponed till next Tuesday. The meeting was then adjourned till next Wednesday. THII ARMY OP OMER PACIIA. The army of Omer Pacha, with which he has now commenced his great operations against the Caucasian army of Russia contists according to reliable information of not quite 36,000 men. About 15,000 of these are stationed in Mown. S.etkum-Kaleh and Redoubt- Kaleh. It was with 20,000 of his best troops that the Sirdar forced the passage of the Ingour. With respect to the Sirdar's operations in the valley of the Ingour, all we know is from the short report of Ferhad Pacha, the chief of the Turkish staff, with the exception of the well known telegraphic despatch. This latter officer occu pies, with 12 regiments of infantry and 4 regiments of cavalry, the main road from Redoubt-Kaleh to Kutais. Omer Pacha's attack was made from Soukum-Kaleh against the Russian position on the Ingour ; yet in reality it is Ferhad Pacha's diversion from the road along the left bank of the Ingour that has compelled the Russians to retreat from there, and fall back on the heights of Kutais. By his advance along that road, Ferhad Pacha covers the further movements of Omer Pacha, who has two smaller rivers to cross yet, before he can effect his junction with Ferhad Pacha. Accounts differ respecting the strength of the Russians near Kutais ; but we learn that Prince Be butoff is hastily collecting there his ressrvee, that he may be able to make head once more against the enemy in the defiles of Kutais. The latest accounts received from Constantinople give out that Omer Pacha has al,o brought up his reserves, and the opinion prevalent in Stamboul was, that a second engagement will take place near Santredi, where the roads meet that run from Kutais to Redoubt-Kaleh and Shefke; il.—Cologne Gazette. It is notorious that the major part of the officers on Omer Pacha's staff consist of Magyar refugees. Weppler, mice a cavalry captain in the Austrian army, who is a moat efficient officer, a cousin of Ordnance-master Hay nau, was appointed only the other day to the command of the cavalry corps. He arrived at Soukum Kaleh on the 23d October, accompanied by Ruszid Pacba, one of the Sera s ki er ' s a id es-de-camp T ne l ast - name d officer brought to the Sirdar orders to advance forthwith on Alingrelia, because scouts had reported, in agreement with certain secret reports regularly sent to the Porte from General Monravieff's head-quarters, that Omer Pacha would meet with no serious resistance, and would find capital winter quarters in Mingrelia. It is said that the Porte has kept up a constant communication , since the outbreak of the war with various officers of Polish extraction who are stationed at the Russian head quarters in Warsaw, in the Crimea, and before Kars.— Augeburg Gazette. Sporting Intelligence. TATTERSALL'S—THURSDAY. Scarcely twenty subscribers dropped in, and the busi ness transacted was too insignificant to require notice. AQUATICS. SCUT:ERB' MATCH BETWEEN HENRY WHITE AND JAMES FINNIS FOR 401.—Rowing matches, at this time of the staason, are like angel visits, few and far between; but such. as there are of them are f a first-rate character. The neighbourhood of Wapping furnished one of these which for speed, . and good and perfect rowing, could hardly be surpassed. The race was from Chariton Pier to the: Tunnel Pier, a distance of nearly seven miles ; but owing to the earliness of high water, they had but little tide Under them. White, of Mill's-stairs, Ber mondsey, was well. umpired by Mr. Alexander Grace, who, in consequence of his knowledge of such matters, has been chosen manager of the Bermondsey Regatta for seven successive years, while Finnis, of Wapping, was attended by Mr. Thomas Knott, and Captain Styles, of the Perseverance, was referee. The above-named boat had been chartered to accompany the race, and was densely crowded by the friends of both men, while the eho. , -es were well lined with spectators. Finnis was the favourite at 6to 4. White baying won the choice of station, took the Middlesex side, and at 12 o'clock a good start was effected in gallant style, both men keeping together for a considerable distance ; but after 20 or 30 strokes, White drew in advance by a boat's length or so. In a short time, however, the Wapping hero again took the lead, and alter a few strokes pas-ed his opponent. The excitement now be came very intense. Finnis continued leading to Green wich, where White again came up, and they were abso lutely s cull and scull for the next mile. But here the terrific pac e at which they had been pulling began to tell againot. Finnis, who, though he rowed in a most desperate manner, was distanced by his opponent, and eventually gave in a little above Deptford Dockyard. White c ontinued rowing, and reached the winning goal amid st the most deafening cheers ; but not l ess so the losi 1g man, whose backers, although some of them bad lo st a considerable sum upon him, were almost compensated by the determine d and p lucky manner in which their f avourite had rowed. FATAL SO VICAMBULIM—YeBterday afternoon Mr. Charles St. CIA ir Bedford, tbe coroner for Westminster, received info rmati'ou of tbe death of Mr. Francis Bailey, under the f °flowing circumstances :—The unfortunate gentleman T ras in the habit of walking in his sleep. The other night bri opened his bedroom window, got out, and fell a dep th of from 20 to 30 feet. He was picked up by a polio —constable in a state of insensibility, and taken f,o St. George's Hospital. Every attention Vali paid b im, b' at he expired shortly alter his admission. 83 78 88 Spirit of the Public Journa THE MANCHESTER STRIKE. (From the Times of this day.) What a vast amount of mischief is there hatching in Manchester just for want of a little timely con sideration ! Perhaps it would be truer to say that there is the consideration, but a want of the moral courage to act upon it. No doubt the case of the spinners is a very hard one—hard, that is to say, so far as concerns the self-denial and the positive difficulty it entails. They find themselves pinched at both ends. While provisions aro rising, and while, consequently, they who have always lived up to their incomes, small or great, find they most reduce something if they would pay their way, hese unfortunate spinners find not only this hard ship, but also one at the other end —viz., that their ages are seriously curtailed. Their pound a.-week, if so much, won't now go nearly so far as it did ; but now they won't get their pound a-week. As to the embarra ssmen t an d di s comfort this must cause there can be no difference of opinion. Every body finds it h ar d t o r e trenc h . Y ou can d o with out a thing so long as you have never had it, or made no point of it, but when it is once customary, and part of your nature, it's like losing a limb, or what is dearer even than a limb. How hard it is to shut up a country-house, or to put down a car riage, or to send old domestic servants crying out of the house, or to take an eldest sou from Eton, or even to give up wine. A Manchester spinner, perhaps, will think all these sacrifices easy enough —quite nominal. Indeed he would think it more of a sacrifice to have to keep all these things. But use is second nature, and if people are so weak as t c.t render themselves the creatures of circumstances lit becomes a burden without their indulgences. They think themselves abominably ill-used by some body ,or other—society perhaps, not Heaven of course —if they are obliged to do without their usual coin forts. During the late war there was an army tailor who made his 10,000/. a year and spent it. When the war was over he failed, and his widow, after some vicissitudes, was fain to live with her son at a renaote country curacy. There she mo lested the ne;ohbourhood with the narratives of her former splendour and how ill-used she had been. One strong-min tied lady told her she ought to be thankful she hk.ml enjoyed so much prosperity— not discontented because she had lost it. The army tailoress, however,, would not be so comforted ; but every night, when all the village was wrapt in slumber, she had a blazing fire in her bedroom, lighted two candles on the toilet-table and two more on the mantel-piece, put on her old dresses, one after another, kept a poor maid yawning and stretching, and about two o'clock slowly retired to the huge feather bed she had reserved from the wreck of her fortunes. Of course, a spinner who only wants, may be, a pound a-week, if so much, will think the woman was mad. But a sudden drop from 10,0001. a-year to 100/. a-year is a much greater trial, and touches many more weak points, than a drop from 30s. a-week to 205., or 255. to 18s.; and the question is not one of absolute in come, but of comparative. What these spinners and piecers at Manchester have to consider this, not the difficulty and dis agreeableness of having to do with less income, but whether they can really get more. From the statements of their employers, which don't seem to be contradicted, this is impossible. The em ployers have already, they say, gone a good deal too far. For many years they have been giving higher wages than their brother employers in the smaller towns of Lancashire, and the result has been the bankruptcy of many houses in the trade, and the closing of mills, while mills burnt down have not been rebuilt, and millowners have seized every opportunity for giving up this particular branch of manufacture. It is just that coarsest and commonest kind which admits of the largest competition, and which is apt to leave expensive localities for cheaper ones, either at home or abroad. There have been various ups and downs in the rates of wages, but the Manchester employers have always kept above the country ones, and even the proposed reduction will not bring them down to the country le "But ," say th e s pi nners , "living is so much dearer in Manchester than in the other towns--rents higher, everything higher; and a man must have better wages in Manchester to live as well as a man at Stockport, Ashton, or Bury." But hero comes the fallacy, which is en snaring the spinners to their ruin. The "low counts of yarn" that they make can only be sold at a certain tariff of prices all over this part of the world. A merchant or warehouseman won't pay more for it simply because it comes from Manches ter, if he can get it as good anywhere else. There are, indeed, certain employments the value of. which is connected with the spot, and if the spot is an expensive one the employment must be better paid. If you want your dinner cooked, or your shoes cleaned, or your bed made, you want it in your own house, and if you choose to live in an ex pensive place you must pay what the servants ask you. The same is truer still of such things as meat, and fish, and vegetables that must be fetched from a distance to where it is your pleasure to reside. If you want to eat a cabbage cheap, you had better go to where it is grown ; but if you prefer having it brought to you, you must pay f::.r the carriage and for the expense of the trades man keeping a stock. Fresh eggs are twopence a dozen in one place and twopence a-piece in another, because, among other reasons, they don't keep fresh for a twelvemonth, and cannot bear a voyage of 500 miles without some degree of risk ; but cotton goods, and coarse yarn in particu lar, may be kept and carried about as much as you please, and if you cannot get them cheap from one place you can from another, and have them brought to you at much the same carriage. All this is not only true, but has actually taken place in the matter before us. The merchants and the middlemen, the Manchester warehousemen of Lon don, the moment they found the manufacturers of Stockport, Ashton, and Bury selling yarn cheaper than the Manchester people, went to those towns, and, as the Manchester people were still unable to come down to the lowest figures of the market, this particular branch of manufacture has been rapidly declining in Manchester, and now bids fair to be totally extinguished. We believe there is absolutely no other help for these poor people than that they should consent to do the same work at the same wages as the spin ners of the other towns, or, at least, at such an approach to those lower wages as their employers may think necessary. As for the objection that living is dearer in Manchester, and therefore that labour should be bettor paid, that is ridiculous, as we have attempted to show. There is a great deal of labour in this country that has cost a fortune, and is hardly paid at all. The rearing and educa tion of a young gentleman, from first to last, at a good school, and at college, and in some degree of professional preparation, generally costs not less than 2,0001., aud, as often as not, the man who has had this capital sunk upon him is either a curate with 1001. a year or a ba rr i s t er w i t h noth i ng from his profession. Many a gentleman has spent 20,0001. or 50,000/. on his house, but, instead of finding that considered in tke sale of his estate, ho cannot get sixpence an acre more on account of it, and the first thing the new purchaser does is to pull the house down to the ground. So these poor spinners must put the cost of their labour—that is, their personal expenses—out of the question, and consider only what their employers can afford to give them. These employers must know the condition and the prospects of the mar ket much better than the operative, for it is their business. Should the strike continue, and s hould the market still f a ll, w hil e prov i s i ons are r ising, it is frightful to reflect what digress the poor work men are prepa r i ng f or th emse l ves an d their chil dren. Better think betimes of the that__ "Half a loaf is better than no bread. "a give' old ,, saY2U the same advice to all. Never was thereaw in anfew which called louder upon people t° timesdr the reefs in their expenditure. At All e lie loose upon pru dent will let their habits of expeeffris superfluities as them, so that they may throw et return of summer, easily as a winter coat on with a prospect of it and now more than . ever, s. creased taxation and high price THE HYDE-PARK RIOTS. (From the Times of this day,) The Commis sioners appointed to in q ui re into th e disturbances which occurred in H 3 de-park on the Ist of July last have at length say their thatd in report, and we are bound to y m ain it appear s to be a just andh reasonable com ment in th e upon the evidence. The last few Sundays have revived the of the the subject, so that almost as immediate an interest is felt i n this report as though it had been given to th e w orld two months ago. The great qu e sti on for decision is wheth er - or not the M e t ro p o lit an Police can safely be intrusted of the public peace—whether with the m a i n t enance reasonable de gree of 'ether they will di s pl a y th a t which we havemoderation and forbearance a right the midst e ven of to expect at their hands in of course, a very tumult and disorder; and it is, will not ab use thy strong security that the police eir discretionary powers when it is known th at the Home-office will not shield them from the consequences of their ' acts. Now, this security we have . A obtameu iu the presen t Report. i Commissioners, inspectors, superintendents, ser geants ) and constables will all be upon their guard when they see their h that ' conduct, or m . i- c onduct, t may at any moment be made the subject, of the most searching and public investigation. And who will deny that investigation was necessary in the present case after reading the Report of the Com . tigissioners? They tell us that not only was want of „,,,, isrstssmesrossiose.--ssyssissssitir judgment displayed in the arrangernBtitt4rnacit3 Superintendent Hughes for clearing the rails by the Drive in Hyde Park, but that considerable and un necessary violence was committed by the police on perfectly inoffensive persons. A similar judgment is delivered with reference to the occurrences in Park ' street at a later period of the day, where, it is said, ' there was "serious injury to um:landing indi viduals,” and a " discreditable exercise of violence." The conduct of Superintendent Hughes has been specifically censured, although Sir George Grey has contented himself with administering a severe reprimand, and has not recommended the still graver punishment of suspension or dismissal, upon the ground of the Superintendent's long and faithful services in the force. The conduct of some among the constables has been especially denounced by the Commissioners—some of them have been even selected as fit subjects for indict ment and criminal proceedings. We would, how ever, by no means wish to leave upon the minds of as many of our readers as may not have the patience to peruse the report for themselves the impression that it is entirely unfavourable to the police. So far from this, the Commissioners speak with well-merited praise of the vast majority of the police force engaged in Hyde -park on the ist of July. The service required of them was of file most harassing and irritating kind. They were; at the critical moment and at the critical spot, i n _ sufficient in point of numbers, and were very badly handled. The condition of the cell at the Vine. street station, in which many of the prisoners made by the police were confined, is most severely cen sured. For fear of exaggeration, we will adopt the very language of the report upon this point : "It was impossible to hear the evidence of the witnesses who underwent this infliction without being surprised and shocked at the sufferings to which they were subjected." Forty-three persons were immured in a basement cell 25 feet in length by 8 in breadth, the height being 7 feet 10 inches. Ten persons were ultimately removed, but still 33 were left to endure the intolerable hardship 'of confinement during a long night in such a locality. Nineteen persons were even condemned to pass a second night in this horrid den, and, as a natural consequence, the health of some among them has suffered permanent injury. The conduct of the police at this point of the transaction was perfectly inexcusable, and is consid ere d so b y t h e Commis sioners and the Home Secretary. On the whole, the report of the Commissioners is our full justification for having urged forward this inquiry in July last. _NATIONAL SUNDAY LEAGUE. With a view to facilit a t e the co operation of the pub lic in the action of the Sunday League, its committee have prepared three forms of petition, general and spe cial, of which we subjoin copies. In their prospectus the committee say :—" It is n o t anticipated that the re sults of this movement will be confined to metropolitan institutions only. The inhabitants of our large towns have also their museums, their picture galleries, and botanical gardens ; and it is pre=utned that the impetus once given in London, its effects will be felt to the re motest corners of the empire. The support of the pro vincial seats of industry to the metropolitan movement will be the surest means of completing an undertaking which claims for itself the title of National.'" The following are the petitions referred to "Petition for the opening of Museums, Picture Galle• ries, and Botanical Gardens throughout the United Kingdom on Saturday afternoon. " Yt,ur petitioners take it for granted that museums and other c-llectious of a similar character are established for the instruction anti moral improvement of the people ; and that in proportion as such in-titutions are made available for popular education do they fulfil the pur poses of their origin. "That the labours and necesF-ary avocations of the great body of the community leave little or no opportu sity of visiting such institutions during the week, when they ara open to the public, and hence the main object of ttieir formation is lost to those whom they are in tended to benefit. " The Sunday, as a day of rest and pleasure, when the thoughts of men, released from the engrossing la bour of mere existence, turn naturally to the beauties of the universe and to its Creator, is the time most fitted fir the exercise of the reflective faculties ; and your pe titioners being firmly convinced that all true education must tend to the reverence and love of the Deity, be ' hey, that if such institutions as above enumerated were open to the people on Sunday afternoon, it would be an inestimable boon to th e l a b our i ng population, would raise up an opposing principle to intemperance and im morality, and in every way advance the condition of the people. "Your petitioners therefore pray that all restrict ions and impediments may be removed, ro that mu , eurns, picture galleries, botanical gardens, and similar collec tions generally of parochial or municipal foundations throughout the United Kingdom, be opened to the pub lic on Sunday afternoon. " And your petitioners will ever pray, &c." " Petition for the opening of the Crystal Pattce on Sun day afternoon : " Tile petition of the undersigned showeth : " That among all classes of her Majesty's sutjects there is felt to be a necessity for providirg means of healthful and innocent recreation on Sunday, in a man ner consistent with the religious feelings of the people. " That after labouring hard for six days in the week, it is no rest, but weariness and vexation, for the work ing -man to be confined on Sunday to the scenes and cir cumstances of his accustomed toil ; and that while the rich have ample facilities at their disposal, there is a lamentable deficiency of means of relaxation adapted to the physical, intellectual, and moral needs of the fami lies of the poor. " That the Crystal Palace, so splendid in its architec tecture, so rich in its accumulation of natural and arti ficial objects of extraordinary beauty and interest, and with its healthful and magnificent gardens, affords the noblest provision for the recreation of the people which any age bath seen ; and your petitioners believe that the opening of this great institution on Sunday afternoon would have the happiest and most beneficial effect, and would be an inestimable boon to the waking popula tion, whose imperative duties will not permit them to devote any portion of the week to visiting it without a very heavy pecuniary loss, which they cannot affGrd. " Your petitioners therefore pray that your honour able house will effect any changes in the law as may en abl© the Crystal Palace Company to open that institu tion on Sunday afternoon. " And your petitioners will ever pray, &e. , &c." " Petition for the opening of the Briti-h Museum, the National Gallery, Marlborough-house, and other na tional institutiona to the public on Sunday afternoon : " The petition of the undersigned showeth : " That the British Museum, the National Gallery, Marlborough-house, and other collections of art and natural objets, being the property of the nation, and maintained at the public expense, should be readily accessible to the people. " That under the present arrangement the great ma• jerity of the people are unable to profit by the means of instruction there accumulated for their use. " Your petitioners believe that if the above institutions were opened to the people on Sunday afternoon they would render invaluable aid to public instruction, greatly le ssen t h e i nducement to seek o bj ec tionable means of relaxati on , an d b y prov idi ng i n nocent and nday healthful recreat i on , more effectually render the Sunday a day of rest fo r th e m illi ons w ho toil throughout u the week. to p t e he " So far from leading to an incretaitsieonienr,t,hbeeliheovuertshaot labour, as has been objected, your f people a know. which they pray for (by g i g ledge of the benefits arising v from an i e n x s a tr e u ti c y ti o o p n p a os L i d te ir te ,to n l : lectual recreation) would hav e dency. fully persuaded that, so far Your petition t e h r e e tt e d a e r t e rimen of true religion, such a would l e eg l e eyowtneoenudel would o bn i ea ts tut p ar r eu o , m ,ahn o d tio o n f promotion, inasmuch s a m e u e e c 3 h . from operating to t more deeply, i ne n gp t l e te l bs li e g th e ee n ys tly, to reverence the Creator. proceeding sb a s iebc.i: b t y it i e t n moreh d e epr poop Your petitioners therefore pray that, in order to promote the moral and intelle c t ua l i mprovement of the people, the British Museum, the National Gallery, Marlborough House, and other national collections, be opened for public inspection on Sunday afternoon. And your petitioners will ever pray, &c." HOW TO MAKE CRIMINALS. -.0. --- The following letter has been addressed to a contera. porary : Sir,—The following extracts, taken from the Sussex Express of Saturday, Nov. 10, are a sample of the cases that usually are brought before the magistrates in petty sessions, and may be taken out ad libitum of any of the country papers : " REIGATE.—John Humphrey, servant, for rici i in . g o o: the turnpike road without reins—fined 205., d costs. James Bull, workhouse boy, aged 12, 11 apples on the 9th of Augu , t ; received b value of whipping at the time—fined ld., and d a pottla stealing the apples ; costs 15s. James May,. for costs and value of potatoes, value 2d.—fined (including of potatoes) 11. for stealing one gallon " DORKING.—William Sawyer, and 9s. 6d. costs. for o a d !rt ror li se ng: of potatoes, value 41.—fined I . os. ' a ged 11, for stealing " MIDIIURST.—AIfred Y : jr P dova w ci: e en r ev i f c ca t r h r i o m ts landilr s e t o e :t li a. t) g a portion the , e costs are re Now, carrots—fined Gd t , ,, of _ a P kc , 15 s , to place a young urchin laded, or why it sliou te : t pilfering four while another, for pennyworth before the costs 53 61 l ess , I ' of potatoes, , • ( . ess, will not pennyworth .p m o a f g a is P t P ra l ee, but the case of the waggoner is one of stop to This poor fellow pleaded in excuse been out all night with his team and was tired, but this excuse did not avail him, and he was Yell .th e enalty of 205., and 20s, costs, or 14 days' mu l c t in P very great iciluia'rrcisbiP• as no very great outrage had been hard that co mmitted on society by this poor tired and jaded man comm a ur. Now, riding on his waggo n w i t h out reins in a lonely country road, one would have thought that a fine of ls. and a caution would have satisfied the ends of justice, instead o f (as probably is the case) kicking his heels in the c.unty gaol. Of what earthly use is it trying t cr zeforr our critninals if t h ey are manufactured wholesale out f such trumpe r y cases as these? a - 31- The Taunton Courier mentions that the hills in the --- neighbourhood o f C oom b o St . N ic holas, Char d, Somer set, were c nered with snow to some d e p th on Wednes• day morning, the 21st intat. - Gth ; orto, 11. in per had as a reao- were the ) ad was d in to good fined sipal the ex the lade rise ith got I to ion, and pub •P.) tem 'ro 121 aser I re and and ads; 9 of does iilty (the the ally lery the