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Direct for the few Bonds which are still on sale, WITHOUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS at HAAIBURGII. Bonds are on sale NOW at £l3. Against the end of this Month the price will rise to £l5, and the Sale will close before the end of this Month. Those who remit £l5 BEFORE the 15th instant, will re ceive an order for £2 upon our London Bankers, together with the Bond. To those ordering too late for being attended to, their re mittances will be returned by first post. HEINE BROTHERS. HAMBURGH, Norember 1, 18.42. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING. NOV. 17, Will be repeated the English Version of Rossini's Grand Opera of SEMIRAMIDE.—The Character of Semiramide by Miss Adelaide Kemble ; Arsace, Mrs. Alfred Shaw (from the principal Theatres in Italy) ; Assur, Mr. Giubilei ; Oroe, Mr. Leffler ; Idreno, Mr. Travers ; Shade bf Ninus, Mr. J. Bland. After which will be repeated a New, Original, Comic Drama, written by Mr. Mark Lemon, Author of " The Ladies' Club," &c., entitled THE TURF. Captain Flatooker, Mr. Walter Lacy; Clovis Culpepper, Mr. Bartley; Gallop, Mr. Meadows ; Aaron Tret, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Culpepper, Mrs. Humby ; Miss Warren, Miss Lee. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price :is. ad. ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-effice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ; of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Bond-street ; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street ; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, NOV. 17, Will be repeated THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prin cipal Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Lyon, H. Beverly, Wright, Sterling, Wilkinson, Maynard, Craven, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, Miss Faucit, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Beverly, &c. After which, a New Comic Burletta, called ANTONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright•; Cleopatra, Miss Murray. To be followed by a Grand Burletta Spectacle, entitled ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche Ginbilei. To conclude with THE SECRET. Thomas, Mr. H. Beverly. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Immense success of the new Nautical Drama. Mr. T. P. Cooke as Union Jack is highly cheered by crowded audiences— the novel effects surpass everything hitherto attempted, and the ship on fire creates a complete hurricane of applause. THIS EVENING, NOV. 17, Will be repeated an entirely New Nautical Drama, en titled THE UNION JACK; or, the SAILOR and the SETTLER'S DAUGHTER, written expressly for Mr. T. P. Cooke, who will be supported by Messrs. Hicks, Neville, Smith, Heslop, Mrs. R. Honner, and the entire Company. New scenery and splendid nautical effects never before attempted. After which will be produced an entirely new Drama, en titled THE BLACK LAW OF MARTINIQUE; or, the FUGITIVE SLAVE. Zamba, the Slave, by Mrs. H. Vining. The other Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Neville, W. Smith, Mrs. Hughes, and Miss E. Terry, who will sing Miss Eliza Cook's Song of the " Red Indian," composed by Mr. G. Stansbury. To conclude with THE PLEDGE OF LOVE ; or, a SIS TER'S SACRIFICE. _ Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, from eleven to four. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 0 minutes after 1 I Evening 17 minutes after LONDON: THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 17, 1842. Mercantile letters from the Mauritius, brought by the later arrivals, state that the labourers there, under what the writers call the restrictive system, had been saving money for some time, and were growing rich. Such a circumstance seems to rouse the envy of the former masters of the slaves, and they appear quite spiteful at the successful and happy lives of the labourers. They speak harshly of the system which has prevented them from continuing to import Hill Coolies from Hindostan, and look forward with hope to the new legislation of Lord STANLEY. They expect that the Noble Lord will enable them to revive a mild and modified slave-trade, and their expectations will not be disappointed. Lord STANLEY, like other statesmen, has no ob jection to a slave trade, or to slavery, or to any other similar contrivance, either at home or abroad, for debasing and degrading one portion of the species for the pre sumed advantage of another, provided only that he has the ordering of it. Statesmen like to reconcile contradictions, to controvert nature, to overcome impossibilities, and they are the men to make a slave trade decent and dignified, and slavery itself a condition of happiness for all classes. They abhor it enough when it has its root in private enterprise, and is carried on for ' private advantage, but when it comes within the scope of a Parlia mentary regulation, and the question is to reconcile a slave trade and slavery with the dictates of humanity and the rights of man, Lord STANLEY is the law -maker who will not boggle at the undertaking, or find a difficulty in achieving it. In 1335—we copy and abridge L or d S TANLEY ' S own speech in the House of Commons on July • 26—sunie merchants of the Mauritius enlisted in their service by private agents a number of the natives of India, whom they imported into the Mauritius as labourers. Great abuses ensued, and inlB3S it was fbund necessary to prohibit the exportation of labourers from India to the Mau ritius. In 1840, on the representation of the planters and others in the Mauritius, Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposed to rescind the prohibitory law, and again permit the importation of labourers from India into the Mauritius. Lord STANLEY being then in oppositio n , voted against such a revival of a semi -slave trade, and the measure was quashed. But in 1842, the very Same Lord STANLEY being then, as he is now, in office, was prepared to overcome all the difficulties which before had appeared insurmountable, and he brought in a measure to legalise and regu late the importation of labourers from Hindostan to the Mauritius. The instant he proposed to regulate the process, all its enormity disap peared from his view. He flattered himself that he had achieved wonders, and his scheme to give effect to this new species of slave trade, so eagerly desired by the Mauritius planters, is now the law of the land. We beg the abolition ists who have employed so much time and ex pense to promote their object, to be on their guard, or Lord STANLEY will certainly succeed, as he proposes, and the Trinidad and Demerara planters earnestly desire, in re-establishing under his regulations for harmonising freedom and slavery, a slave trade between the western coast of Africa and our western colonies. Lord STANLEY supposes that his system will work well, because it is deprived of all that recommends slavery to any person. His system is founded, " on giving no benefit to any individual, by the introduction of any exclusive labourers." It is all to be done by and for the Government. All iniquity ceases, in this case, as in so many others, the instant law-makers, like Lord STANLEY, make a law to regulate it. "In dividuals are not to collect labourers," but that abstract being, the " COLONY, IS EMPOW ERED TO VOTE A SUM OF MONEY TO PAY THE EXPENSES OF THE EMIGRATION OF THE LABOURERS, and when these emigrants arrive, they are to be free to choose masters, and go where they please." Hill Coolies transported to the Mauritius, speaking no word of the lan guage there spoken, destitute of funds, as much inclosed in the island as if they were in a prison, " free to choose and go where they please !" What an abuse of language. " They may then," added the Noble Lord—which, for the planter, is the gist of the whole matter— " compete for wages with the freest man there." " The whole system," he said, " was 'altered from the root the moment they substituted a public grant ;" and Lord STANLEY made regula lations for the trade " for individual speculation.'' Said we not right? Even the horrid iniquities of a slave trade cease to be vices when Lord STANLEY can regulate them, instead of having their root :in private enterprise. But suppose we can show that Lord STANLEY'S scheme has a whole batch of iniquities more than the private speculation ? Individual planters, looking after their own interest, have a right, if they like, to import labourers who go freely and voluntarily from other countries, without the least regard to the interest of the labourers already existing in the Mauritius. But the Government of which Lord STANLEY is the organ is bound to protect the labourers of the Mauritius as well as the planters, and to hold the balance impartially betwixt both. When it sets about importing labourers, there- fore, to compete for wages with the existing labourers, it turns the power of Government against one class of men whom it is bound to pro tect. It acts unfairly and unjustly. But mark, reader, the colony is to vote a sum of money. The abstract colony, however, has no funds except those it levies on the inhabitants. The money will be voted out of the taxes. The taxes are paid by all the people, including the labourers, who may be said to pay the largest share of them there, as in all other countries. Thus Lord STANLEY'S improved scheme actually makes the labourers of the Mauritius pay for the free pas sage of the labourers from Indio, who are to be imported into the Mauritius expressly to beat down their wages, and prevent them saving money. The planters, when they undertook the work, did it at their own expense. Lord STAN LEY, by his law, generously relieves them from all the odium of their selfish undertaking, pays its expenses out of the public purse, and actually condemns the free labourers of the Mauritius to pay for their own degradation and the revival of a slave-trade begun, instigated, ordered, and regulated by Lord STANLEY. This is the very climax of injustice; it is all the iniquity of the system that was abolished in 1837, with the superadded iniquity of being perpetrated by authority, levying a tax on those who are to be the victims of the scheme, to carry it into effect. The whole matter from beginning to end, the patriotic and humane opposition of Lord STANLEY when the law was not his own, his readiness to enact such a law when he was in power, his fancy that by a few regulations he can overcome the inherent vices of a slave trade and of slavery, and the eagerness with which he perpetrates, by means of a solemn enactment, a gross injustice, which he bitterly stigmatises when perpetrated by an individual, is a pregnant illustration of the character of such law-makers as Lord STANLEY, and of the rise, progress, and nature of their enactments. A n advertisement inthrms us that " a Great Metropolitan Public Meeting of the Friends to Justice and Humanity, irrespective of Class and Party," will be held to-day at the Crown and Anchor," to consider of the proceedings connected with the recent lamentable disturbances in the Northern and Midland Counties." What may be the specific object of the meeting we are not aware, but we conceive that it may be most be neficial. It is to be a meeting of the friends of justice and humanity, belonging to all parties and all ranks. It may be intended, therefore, and may accomplish the intention of giving a tone to similar public meetings to be held throughout the country, for the purpose of unit ing the people, by sympathies and principles, in which all participate. All love, or profess to love, justice and humanity. To make those great princi - ples the means of union, no strong party opinions, no extreme political principles, should be suffered to show themselves. :Neither the Five Points, nor Complete Suffrage, nor that Ultra-Toryism which preaches the suppression by force of all liberal opinions, should seek to be conspicuous. The mass of the public do not recognise them as just, and will not go along with those who do. if these extreme opinions can be kept in abey ance, and the meeting be brought to pass reso lutions in conformity to justice and humanity, it may do an immense deal of good. It is called in reference to the Special Com mission, and there is no doubt that both justice and humanity were violated, and law set at de fiance,by '1 Lord ABINGER'S charge. On thatsubject there are not two opinions. So far as his influence went, he procured, by operating on the minds of juries, improper convictions, and subjected per sons to unnecessary punishments. If the meet ing shall be called on to express temperately, but firmly, disapprobation of Lord ABINGER'S injustice and his want of humanity, it will find an echo in every part of the country. Unfortunately, and of this there can 'be .as little doubt as of Lord ABINGER'S want of huma nity, the prisoners Drought to trial at the Special Sessions, had grossly violated the laws. Their conduct was, in fact, and it is looked on as, an attack on the middle classes. It injured their property. It stopped their works and put an end to their profits. If the meeting, therefore, shall be called on to express approbation of that con duct, it will not carry with it the sympathy of the middle classes in any part of the country. They will now, we believe, cordially unite in expres sing compassion for the sufferers; they may pos sibly be brought to concur in measures to address her MAJESTY to remit their sentences ; they may even- contribute to relieve the distress of their families; but the meeting will never obtain a general concurrence in any expressions of ap proval of the conduct of the convicted. If those who summon the meeting possess notions of justice and humanity of this sort, and they propose to interest the public in behalf of the sufferers, not because they did right, but because they were exposed to great hardships and were easily misled, and because they had a Judge who appeared vindictive, they may bring a large b o dy o f pu bli c sen ti m ent in concu rrence with them, and may lay the foundation of an ex tensive and cordial union of all classes in prin ciples of justice and humanity, to be worked hereafter for more extensive purposes. Sup posing some objects of this kind to be contem plated, we wish the meeting success, but we can assure those who ca ll i t that i t cannot succee d i n obtaining any influence in the country unless it be concocted and conducted in a spirit of perfect fairness and moderation. Tie Whig and Tory j ournals are very b usy writing i against one another. There is in this, for their respective parties, an instinctive good policy. They will raise a great dust, in which both may perchance escape, but each hopes to turn the rising indignation of the public on their opponents. One says, " You Whigs began the war in Affghanistan ;" and the other retorts, " You Tories mismanaged it, and deserve im peachment for your vacillation, and the discredit you have brought on the national councils." " It was the Whigs," say the Tories, " who inter rupted the peace and the trade with China ;" " It is the Tories," say the Whigs, " who have neglected to exert themselves, and bring the EMPEROR to terms." " It was the Whigs," say the Tories, " who caused the defalcation of the revenue ;" "It was the Tories," say the Whigs, " who would not allow us to set trade free and increase the country's resources." "It was the Whigs," say the Tories, " who brought the country into its present terrible condition, for distress was prevalent before we came into power ;" "It was the Tories," say the Whigs, "who would not allow us to cure the distress, who undertook to cure it themselves, and who have only increased the disease, and perhaps rendered it incurable." The clear purpose of all these critninations and recriminations, is to make out a case for the Tories on the one hand, and the Whigs on the other, by proving merely that their opponents are far worse than themselves. Both are con scious of great demerits"; neither party can say. or ventures to say, " We have conferred great benefit on the country, we have made the people happy at home, and we have made the nation respected and honoured abroad ;" but both do say, and say loudly, " We have not done as much mischief as our opponents—we have con tributed less than they have to bring on intense distress at home, and cause discredit abroad." That kind of crimination and recrimination which can scarcely be very pleasant to the gentle men concerned, must not be permitted to blind the public to the faults and the errors of both. Both are answerable for the condition of Eng land. Both have undertaken conjointly in Par liament, and one after another, in office, to govern the country. Both have said, in fact, and even in words, " Our measures will promote the public welfare. Give us power, place us in office, and we will make the nation happy and honoured.' Both have frequently united in Parliament to pass the very laws which now cut up prosperity by the roots ; and both have promoted those measures abroad which have compro mised the reputation, if they do not affect the safety, of the empire. Both being sections of the aristocracy, having their power based on monopoly, have promoted restrictions on traffic, and have silently carried on a continual legisla tive war against the democracy; that is, against the interests, the freedom, and the hap piness of the bulk of the people, whose present condition attests their fatal suc cess. For the moral degradation of the masses—manifest in the increase of pauperism, workhoUses, and gaols—as well as for their physical privations, both Whigs and Tories are deeply, nay, awfully responsible ; and we, at least, will not allow their mutual conflicts, as to which of the two has incurred the heaviest re sponsibility, to turn from either the severe con demnation which the present condition of the empire emphatically pronounces on both. Certain of our readers, with whom we gene rally concur on political and commercial topics, blame the present Government as well as the last for keeping up so many military establishments in different parts of the world, and waging war on distant nations at an enormous expense, and without any probable chance of beneficial results. Mr. GISBORNE last week, in a speech delivered at Derby, denounced both Whigs and Tories for the Affghan war, and implied that, like most other disputes with foreign nations, it had been entered into rather for the purpose of benefiting the aristocracy and higher classes, than for pro moting the power of the country or the wel fare of the people. We neither justify nor blame Lord AUCKLAND for his Indian policy. We give no opinion on the subject, because till all the circumstances which led to this expedition are laid before the world, it would be ..!xtreniely un fair, as well as preposterous, to give any decision; but looking at the motives which generally actuate mankind, and the mild and amiable character of that nobleman, we may confidently assume that a war so expensive, so hazardous, and so distant from the seat of Government, would not have been undertaken without some great and im perious necessity. It is for his Lordship to settle his account with the country on these points, and till that is done, till he is fully heard in his 01511 defence, we must, as in all other cases where persons lie under serious charges of which absolutely nothing is known, refrain from coming to an unfavourable conclu sion. The remarks made by Mr. GISBORNE on this question, certainly are not at all strengthened by his denunciations against a system to which England chiefly owes her commercial and colo nial prosperity. Why should England) he said, keep up an army at Gibraltar, another at Malta, and go on erecting forts in almost every quarter of the globe ? He might as well ask, Why should not the English confine themselves to their own little island ? Could we have ships, and colonies, and commerce, without providing means for their protection ? If his argument is worth anything, we should dismantle Gibraltar and Malta, and all the fortresses that secure us the command of the sea ) and leave unprotected every harbour and bay that now serve as shelter to our vast commercial navy. What would be the result? The Mediterranean would in six months be a French lake, and England in as many years might be a French province. It is natural enough for French writers to upbraid the English for occupying these numerous stations, and using every exertion to establish corn rnunications with distant countries; but we can not at all see the policy of an Englishman imi tating the example, and running down a system which is absolutely necessary to our existence as a nation. Our friend STURGE, in similar strains, lamented the war with China. M. THIERS' journal, the other day, took up the burden of the song, and, in a weeping mood, asks— " What answer can be given to this honest EMPEROR, who, faithful to the traditions of his fathers, will not suffer his subjects to be poi soned? Who does not compassionate the suffer ings of this poor man, who blames and curses himself for not having yet freed his subjects from the miseries of war ?" We lament the war with. China as much as Mr. STURGE, but for er guiltye r e o a f s onnos crime, ‘clament r ha d British nt cruelly u el I s ' u e b r j y ec d t i s ff , t imprisoned and threatened with death ; that the Queen of ENGLAND had been insulted in the person of her representative ; and that pro perty which had been admitted into the Chinese rivers with the open sanc tion of this " poor ". man's officers, had been faithlessly confiscated, to the amount of several millions sterling. Had the British authorities submitted to these insults and robberies, the French, who cry out against this war—who de throned the Dey of ALGIERS, seized some mil lions of hard cash in his treasury, and finally () v c a c l u i p n a d f t a h n e country,inthe o Fr e f n r c h t h g Consul's nn r s i n e l v ,s o grievous offence face—would of have described us as a nation of miserable ped lars, ready to sacrifice honour, and even life, for permission to carry on trade with the insolent aggressors. War is a great evil, but it is said by high authority, that it is a necessary evil in the p re sent state of society ; and any attempt to escape from it by submissions degrading to the national character, would only involve us in greater difficulties and calamities. The Paris papers of Monday state that, ac cording to accounts from Alexandria and Bey rout, no doubt remained that the Syrians had defeated the Turks, and were preparing to attack Betedden, the residence of OMER PACHA. The following is an extract from a letter on the sub ject, dated Alexandria, October 24, which ap pears in the Messager : The Syrians of Bechara, near Tripoli, rose on the 12th instant ; 400 Turks who had penetrated into the mountain were defeated. Symptoms of revolt have been shown at different points. The caravan from Damascus to Beyrout, which was escorted by Alba nians, was stopped a n d plundered by the Druses on the 17th. The most perfect calm reigns in Egypt. The Viceroy is at Cairo. The vapers are generally destitute of news. 'Jib / . 1L31.....„.._ .. ..r.,•,.., ',..... cv-r,v,,- ~, ~.... - ..:- v Z . ~,,, . ..p % ,,,,, ~; . ~,..„, '. 4 ,.. ,-„, ;7 , 7.7. O,. . , -, 4 , i ,§11,1A4 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 17, 1842. The Paris Constitutionnel of Friday mentions a ru mour that the French Government contemplates a re duction of the army by 50,000 men, and that it is intended to dismiss one lieutenant and one sub-lieute nant from each company. PARIS BOURSE AND FUNDS.—It was stated upon the Bourse to-day that the long-talked of commercial treaty been England and Spain had at length been finally agreed upon, and that the terms were of a highly favourable character for British manufactures. This news, following so immediately the failure of the Belgian negotiation, rather damped speculation. Five per-Cents. opened at 119 f., closed at 118 f. 85c. ; Three-per-Cents. declined also in the same proportion, at 80f. 20c. ; Spanish Active 23i ; Passive, 3i ; Belgian Five -per-Cents., 1031 ; New, 1041. Sir George Clerk, Secretary to the Treasury, and Mr. Drummond, Sir Robert Peel's Private Secretary, left town yesterday, by railway, on a visit to Sir Robert Peel, at his seat, Drayton Manor, Stafford shire. His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Lord Wharncliffe are expected to pay visits to Sir Robert Peel, on their way to their respective country resi dences. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING: Since the morning the English Stock-market has remained in very nearly a stationary position, being generally steady up to the close. Consols left off at 94 tot94i for Money, and 941 for Ac count. Bank Stock was depressed to 1691, and East India Stock only brought 260 i. Exchequer Bills were at 57 to 59 premium, and India Bonds at M premium. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were dull at 101 i to 1014, and the Three per Cents. at 931 to f. The Foreign Bonds were supported, and the trans actions of the afternoon comprised. Belgian at 1021 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 524 ; Buenos Ayres, 221 for Account; Portuguese Converted 32:1 ; Spanish Actives, 181 ; and the 'Three per Cents. 221. Railway Shares did not sell freely, and the nearest prices were these—Eastern Counties were 141 ; Brighton, 15 ; Croydon, 41 ; and North Midland 40i discount. Paris and Rouen were 24 to 3 premium. Australasian Bank Shares were 121 ; London and "Westminster, 2 ; and Union of Australia, New, 2 : 1 premium. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The sales of cotton in the Liverpool Market yes terday fell off to 2,000 bales, but prices remained the same. In Railway Shares a fair business was done at steady prices. Eastern Counties were 8 3 _ ; Edin burgh and Glasgow, 47 ; Grand Junction, 173; Great Western Half, 61 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 180 ; South Western, 591 ; Paris and Rouen, 22i ; and South Eastern, 224. No news of the Britannia steamer. There are accounts two days later from Port Philip, viz., to the 21st of May, but they contain scarcely an item of intelligence of interest to readers here. After the previous serious depression, it is satisfactory to find that stock was improving in value, large sales of sheep having been made at higher prices. For the supply of the Launceston market heavy contracts had been made with the Port Philip graziers, one butcher having agreed to take 15,000 sheep during the short winter. A more efficient sys tem of police for the protection of the colony was projected, and increased taxation was to be submitted to for the purpose. From incidental notices in the Australian papers it would appear that the trade of New Zealand is greatly on the increase. During the year ending the 21st April last, there arrived at that colony no less than 230 vessels, of 33,000 tons. The Quebec packet ship brings advises one day later from New York, viz. October 21 . The Canal business appears to have been slack , and a good deal of chagrin is manifested at the return of the Commis sioners sent to England to negotiate a loan, without having met with the success anticipated. The failure of their mission, which some of our London capitalists are said to have regarded with a favourable eye, is ascribed to the indisposition of the public to be any longer duped into loans for foreign States, among which repudiation is so popular, and also to the de cided hostility of the press. It may be remarked that " repudiation" is so very convenient to the ma jority of a people by nature averse to taxa t i on , that although the principle may not be assented to, the fruits are cheerfully received, and thus every encou ragement is given to pursue the swindling system. In a recent speech to a Local Congress, the Governor, after remarking on the state of the times, adverts to the state of the finances, and observes, that for the relief of the people taxes should be taken off, but that no interest could be paid on the foreign debt! Cool this !! In Canada an effort is to be made during the next session of the Local Parliament to reduce the public charges ; first by retrenching all sinecures and unne cessary offices ; secondly, by a moderate reduction in the several salaries on the Civil List, and all other branches of the public service, to a scale com mensurate with the revenue and liabilities of the province, and also to bring into consideration the expediency of abolishing all perquisites and fees of office, and o - f commuting the same tbr fixed salaries or allowances, and of forming such perquisites and fees of office, as it may be deemed expedient to con tinue, into a fund applicable to the public service. There is very little business doing in the Funds to-day. The brokers for the Savings' Bank Corn missioneri took about 5,0001. Stock. Consols have again touched 941 both for Money and Account ; the quotations are at present a fraction lower. There has been scarcely any alteration in the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. The premium upon the Unfunded Debt has somewhat declined. Money is rather more in request , and we trust for commercial pur poses. The premium upon Exchequer Bills has fallen from:6os. 61s. to 575. 595. Bank Stock has been offered at 172. There is an improvement in the demand for Dutch Stock to-day, and the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have advanced to 53 ; the Five per Cents. may fairly be r Spanish Stock has improved a t 44-13Onds havi n g been sold at 181, and h Cents. at 20. Mexican Bonds tiefleNew quoted eth we 'three Active a at 0 p r hadrealised 35-1 ; Belgian, 102 ; and Buenos Ayres, 22. A good deal of business has been transacted in the Scrip of the North Eastern and Midland Railway Shares this morning, but at fractional variations mit , from the quotations of yesterday. The Bristol and Exeter Shares have been sold at 251 discount • the Great Western at 1 9 'prem. ; the Brighton at 1 dis count; the South Western at 18 prem. ; the Manchester and Leeds at 2 discount ; and the North Midland at 40 discount. There have not been any transactions reported in the banking shares to-day. In the Colombian Market several public sales have been brought forward to-day, most of which have gone off without much animation. Prices cannot in any one instance be quoted higher than yesterday. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, NOV. 15.—Our market continues very inactive, and there is but little disposition for business. —Edinburgh and Glas gow, Quarter Shares, 41. 16s. ; North Midland, 62 62f • London and Birmingham, 181 183 ; Liverpool and kanchester, 177 179; Eastern Counties, 8i 8k; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 10*. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock — 169/ India Stock ....... pm 3 per Cent. Red. 931 Ditto Bonds . . s.lipm 3 per Cent. Con. . ..... 94/ Ditto Old Annuities ... 3} per Cent. Red... ......1004 Ditto New Annuities... New 3/ per Cent... ...... 101/ Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 57 pm New 5 per Cm. Ditto 5001...... 59 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 59 pm Jan. 1860 ...... 12 7-16 Bank Stock for Acct. 170 Oct. 1859 ...... India Stock for Acct... Jan. 1160 Consols for Acct....... 94k FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 pet cent....., Ditto, Metallic ...... . Spanish, 5 per cent lBl Ditto, Deferred.... French, 5 per cent. —f —e. Exchange —f. —c. French, 3 per cent —f. Dutch, 2/ per cent. 524 Ditto, 5 per cent. 1001 SUMMARY OF NEWS AND %Hai c ' pinto " Who runs may read.' FOREIGN. The Journal de Honfieur has the following notice relative to the Telemaque :—At the moment when we are going to press we learn that the Telemaque has been raised from the spot where it has been so long imbedded ; it is covered with flags, and the cannon are firing salutes. The Madrid Gazette of the 7th publishes a decree dated on the 2d, which announces the nomination of M. Gomez Becerra to the post of President of the Senate; and of Messrs. Landero Corchado and Perez de Necoechea to the offices of Vice-Presidents. It is said that the Spanish Government intend to reduce the number of the Standing Army to 60,000 men. The Infant Don Francisco was still at Sarragosaon the 7th. The Courrier de Lyon says that some symptoms of agitation are observed in the Canton of the Grisons. 'roubles in that frontier canton might attract the attention of Austria, which is so easily alarmed for the tranquillity of Lombardy and Tyrol. PUBLIC OPINION. The Time: thus points out some of the beauties of the Income-tax :—" We were a good deal startled yesterday evening at the alarming pile of paper with which our Correspondents had favoured us in the course of the day. It turned out, however, that the whole of the excess was due to a letter inserted in the Times a day or two since from An Assessor,' on that all-interesting subject the Income-tax, and proceeded from that numerous class of her Majesty's subjects whose incomes fall short of the notable 1501. per, annum. A Clerk,' A Poor Clerk,' Another Poor Clerk,' Another Poor Clerk,' and still Another Poor Clerk,' 4 A Widow from the West-end,' A Poor but Honest Man,' 'Truth,' Justice,' two or three who have been inconvenienced,' and a variety of others, of whose lucubrations at least a dozen lie now at our elbow, poured forth in a flood of indignation their denials of the clumsiness which the 'Assessor' summarily imputes to all who are aggrieved by his brethren in office, and their protestations, each for him or herself, that after having, in the most regular and unambiguous way declared themselves unblessed with the fatal 1501. a year, they have not the less re ceived notices of being assessed to the various amounts of 2/. 18s. 4d., Si. 16s. Bd., and so on, with the aggra vation, in some instances, of an intimation, a fortnight antedated, that if they wished to appeal, they must deliver in their notice of the same within 15 days of the date. It is far too bad that a national resource, submitted to with the greatest reluctance under the severest pressure, and already sufficiently onerous to those on whom it is levied—sufficiently dangerous to the popularity of its imposers—sufficiently perplex ing and inconvenient in its necessary appendages, should be made intolerable by the mere carelessness of its subordinate collectors. All are equally in terested, Minister and people, in providing against this abuse ; and we do hope that the authorities are sufficiently considerate of the convenience of the people to have already visited with prompt and pointed censure those who have caused so much vexa tion and inconvenience. A complaint appeared in our paper a day or two since, with an aggravation which deserves even a more stringent reprimand. A return .claiming exemption, as for an income below the taxable amount, the assessor took occasion to remit to its author without even taking Pie trouble to enclose it. This is perfectly abominable. For what purpose does he suppose he takes the oath (which we presume he has taken) to retail to the world none of that informa • tion respecting his neighbour's affairs to which his office as assessor admits him ? For what purpose does he suppose that the law has framed all that ap paratus of special and general commissioners, and commissioners for general purposes, by w hi c h the rich hope to protect themselves from the impertinent curiosity of the world? Those members of the Go vernment whom it concerns will, if they are wise, lose no time in putting a stop to this ignorant misconduct. To sacrifice popularity is sometimes necessary, but to allow it to be sacrificed by such blunders as these is a folly of which we do not suspect the Conservative Ministry." The Herald, speaking of some recent trials in which certain members of the aristocracy figured in no very creditable manner, says :—" Lord Chesterfield is a leader of a class—a chief of what is called fashionable society—the head of a frivolous and offensive con federacy. It is a society devoid of every good quality composing the English character ; its men have the appearance of well-dressed tailors' blocks, and its women of milliner-girls fitted out for show days ; its manners are as affected and vulgar as its morals are detestable and its habits of life unwholesome; its career is one continuous round of vicious indulgence purchased by the infliction of misery on others ; its termination is generally ruin and expatriation ; and wealth and vice are the chief qualifications for admis sion into its saloons. The Chesterfield set is an ex pression in the mouth of cabmen ; is there among the squad one desirable acquaintance—one Christian gen tleman ? Are not the pecuniary embarrassments and difficulties of its members becoming more and more notorious daily ? Do we not read of the continental residence of this spendthrift Earl, and the sale of the estates of that imitative Commoner? Is not the end of such contamination insolvency and disgrace ? Why the very gambling-houses maintained by the crimes of these men are closing their doors—the carcase has been plucked to the very bones, and the vultures are taking wing. Their studs are sold or are selling, their very furniture has in some cases been brought to the hammer, and these leaders of fashion are only protected from the sponging-house and a prison by the privileges of the Order which they have degraded. We quote the following from the Post:—" In plight most pitiable are Lord Palmerston and his brother authors of our recent Asiatic triumphs.' Where to hit, and how to hit, at the details of a po licy planned by better and abler men than themselves they cannot for their lives discover. When they imagined that an immediate retreat from Affghanis tan had been finally resolved on by the Indian Govern ment, the heat of their affected indignation well nigh overcame the delicacy of their nerves. When the news of an advance arrived they were not better' laleased; and now that they know not what to think (seeing that they are altogether unable to form an opinion of their own as to the course that wisdom and sound discretion would dictate in the East), they think to save their reputation by blaming everything-- everything thing that is, everything that may be, and everything that can be. If the troops go forward, the movement is wrong; if they go back to India, it is wrong ; if they stay where they are, it is wrong. Such is the substance of the Noble Viscount's latest fulmination, as issued through the columns of his congenial newspaper organ. Such are the straits to which the Morning Chronicle is reduced in its feeble, though venomous and desperate, thrusts at the char acter and conduct of Lord Ellenborough." The Chronicle says Heartily, therefore, do we wish success to the League in its momentous enter prise. It is both a power and a safety-valve. The perils of agitation are abated by the organisation and direction that ensure its fairest chance of being crowned with success. The Great League Fund' should be raised promptly. For the farmer, it is an insur ance against fire, and for the citizen against tumult. Fifty thousand pounds are a good round sum, it is true ; but, like the little loaves and fishes, what are they amongst so many ?' And what, moreover, in comparison with the tax which they will go far to wards abolishing ? One landowner, and proprietor of several farms, has, we perceive, subscribed 1001., to berepeated if requisite. The example is a good one. All who have property, especially property in land, are deeply interested in the speedy settlement of this question. Their liberal subscriptions may purchase expedition of Sir It. Peel. While to those dependent on trade, or whose only property is labour, it is a life or death question. Both the outlay acid the raising of the fund will act with appalling force on the up holders of the food monopoly. We remember a poli tical drama with a chorus of mechanics in it, commen cing We do object to starve.' And the strength of the ob:ection to starvation is now to be shown, first by subscriptions varying proportionally from the pence of the poorito the hundreds of the propertied ; and then by that hearty co-operation in the renewed agitation, which will evince its claim to the character of a national movement, and enable it to avert the im pending storms of national calamity." The Advertiser makes the following comments on the Lord Mayor's politics :—" A great deal has been written about the absence of party feeling which is said to have characterised the proceedings at the late civic banquet. As the advent of the new Lord Mayor is a purely civic and social occasion, the politics of the Lord Mayor never being taken into consideration by those who elect him, it is, doubtless, right that there should be an entire absence of all political feeling at the banquet, by which his investiture with the insignia of office is always accompanied. We cannot see, therefore, why Lord Mayor Humphery should have been so prodigally praised for his non-exhibition of political feeling on the recent occasion—even had the absence of such feeling been really as entire as it is represented to have been. Other Lord Mayors before him have always made it a point, whatever were their private political views, to sink all political feeling on such occasions, and so to demean themselves both by the choice of guests and by their speeches when ac knowledging the compliments paid them, as if they had no political partialities at all. Even, there fore, had the new presiding genius of the Mansion house displayed the most perfect political impartiality on the late occasion, we do not see why he should have been so liberally lauded, just as if no one else had ever done the same before him. But it so happens that Lord Mayor Humphery has no claim ! whatever to commendation on the score of an absence of political feeling. He displayed decidedly political leanings, and these leanings, which makes the thing look still more indecent, were in favour of that very person, and that very party, to oppoie whom the elec tors of Southwark sent him to Parliament. Instead of exhibiting that absence of political feeling at the Guildhall banquet, for which his new Civic Lordship has obtained so much credit, he appeared on the oc casion in the character of an apostate from those principles which he has professed through life, and to assert which, in the House of Commons, the electors of the Borough returned him to that House. He spoke in approving terms of Sir Robert Peel being at the head of her Majesty's Government, and expressed his belief that we could not have a more fitting Premier. 1 His words were, that " the Government could not be in safer hands." If this be not rank apostacy from the principles of Mr. Humphery, we should like to know what is. FOREIG Austrian, 5 per cent. ..:::: Belgian, 5 per cent lo2} Brazilian Bonds... — Buenos Ayres6 p er cent. 22 Chilian, 6 per c en t. 9O Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824 — Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 79 Danish, 3 per sent B3} Greek, 1825, 5 per c en t — Mexican, 5 per cent 33 Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian,lB2s,6 per et. SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) Eastern Counties (23 paid) Bi Great Western, (65 paid) London a n d B r i g hton (50 paid) 35 London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 60 London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) , 7/ North Midl an d R a il w ay ( 100 ) Paris and Rouen (20 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) — Ditto Scrip (20 paid) The German Diet have come to a resolution to purchase th e h ouse an d the several collection s o f Goethe, at Weimar, and to preserve the whole as a German natio na l monu ment. The Journal de Frankfort states that there have been recently discovered, in the vicinity of Nikolstadt, in Silesia, stones so mixed with veins of gold, that one alone yield s th e va l ue o f sev en ducats. Mr. Rob er t son, f armer , Tamnaven, Cabrach, whil e fishing in the Dereron the other day, caught a trout twelve inches long, and in its stomach were found two mice / —Forres Gazette. Their R oya l lli g h nesses the Duke and Duches s o f Cambridg e , the Princess Augusta and suite, honoured the Haymarket Theatre on Tuesday night with their presence. _ On M on d ay l ast 207,000 letters passed th roug h s o h f ip lelte t r te s r one office! Imm ense received at the G enera l the Gene ra l Post-office —nearly a quarter of a million Post-offic e w i t hi n t h e l as t few days from Pernam buco,imnaials d al a s y o h t a h v r e ou b g ee h n Monte Video, China, Rio de Janeiro, Havanna, Bahia, Valparaiso, Sydney, Singapore, and the Cape of Good Hope. MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE. At the meeting of the subscribers of the School for Indigent Blind, held on Tuesday at the London Tavern, it appeared from the Report that since the opening of the institution, 294 persons had been enabled to get a living. The receipts for the past year amounted to 10,9221., and the expenditure to 9,7131., leaving a balance in hand of 1,2071. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. At Halifax the state of the prison is said to be most reprehensible. A number of the prisoners are to be seen in the tap-room, whom the publican gaoler boards at rates up to a guinea a-week. The Sheffield lock-up is in the same state of disorder and neglect. The cells are many of them quite dark, with dirty straw litter ; the prisoners are unprovided with soap or towels, and the keeper, though allowed Bd. a-day for their maintenance, furnishes nothing but bread and water for this sum. It is stated by Mr. Walker, in a letter just pub lished, that after a shower of rain, and during the warm season, the air in London is sensibly loaded with and corrupted by the emanations from the dead. A peculiar putrefactive odour in the neighhourhood of Parliament-street, arising principally from the surface of St. Margaret's churchyard, is frequently distinguished. ECCLZSXASTXCAL. The late Dr. Dickinson, Bishop of Meath, has died so poor, that contributions are being solicited for his family. Dr. Stopford, the new Bishop, has been con secrated in the Cathedral of Armagh. Porter, Bishop of Clogher, left upwards of 200,0001. behind him; and the celebrated Lord Normanton, Archbishop of Dublin, known in Ireland by the so briquet of " Agar the Nagar," scraped together 400,0001. by penury and exactions. When the great Dr. Doyle died, four-pence halfpenny was found in his pockets, this being the whole of his worldly wealth. LAW AND POLICE. The sum taken from a prisoner on his incarceration in our country prisons is termed " garni3h." It ap pears to be a cruel oppression, and, if not paid, the coat of the owner is appropriated. In one gaol eight coats and hats were taken on this claim. Francis Rugg, Henry Rugg, George Stephens, and Christopher Rugg, who have been in custody some time on a charge of obtaining a sum of money out of the office of the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery, were finally examined at Lambeth-street, and ordered for commitment for trial at the Old Bailey, but will be brought up again before they are transmitted to Newgate, owing to the absence of one or two witnesses. John Parsons was charged, at Wandsworth, with putting off two 51. notes, being forgeries on the Bank; he was remanded until Monday next. John Morris, the person accused of setting fire to the premises at Teddington, was re-examined on the charge at the Feltham Petty Sessions. The evidence appears to make the case one of strong suspicion against him. He was remanded. PINE ARTS. The Aguado collection of pictures is to be sold at Paris in March. The statue of the Duke of Wellington intended for the City is finished, but the Committee have not yet de cided on the site itis to occupy. The subscription for it is somewhat under 15,0001. Mr. C. Wyatt has the West-end statue of the Duke confided to him, 23,0001. for which have already been subscribed. COURT---r.A.SHIONABLE. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and the youth ful Ladies Somerset, at the close of the hunting season, are expected to proceed on an extended Con tinental tour. The Earl of Stradbroke has returned to Newhan Hall, Suffolk, from a visit to his Irish estates. sThe Earl and Countess of Chesterfield and family leave Chesterfield House to-day on a Continental tour. They are expected to winter at Rome. The Earl and Countess of Glengall will, on their arrival from Caher Castle, remain in town only a few days, as they intend to join the numerous English of ton who winter in Paris. Lord and Lady Kinnaird and family are passing the season at Rossie Priory, in Perthshire. Lord and Lady Canning are still on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford, at Curragh more, and are expected to remain in Ireland until the end of the month. MISCELLANEOUS. The misgovernment of the affairs of St. Pancras for some years past, creating thereby very extensive defalcations, has determined the heads of the parish to call preliminary meetings in every district, in order fully to explain to the rate-payers the position in which they stand with regard to the parish funds, as also with regard to the education of the children, and treatment of the poor. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Nov. 16.—Wind this day at noon, easterly, light airs, and hazy. DEAL, Nov. 15.—Wind E.S.E., moderate.—Sld. Duke of Wellington, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Northumberland, Agnes, Trinidad ; Washington, America. Arrd. George Canning, Mustart, Honduras. FALMOUTH, Nov. 15.—Wind S. to W.S.W., fresh breezes, with rain, and hazy.—Arrd. 14th, Ondin, Niemann, Jamaica. Sld. Montrose (steamer), Vigo, &c. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 15.--Wind W. squally.—Arrd. Quebec, Williams, New York, sailed 21st ult. ; Delia, Adey, Quebec; Marie, Bremen for Cuba. Sailed her Majesty's ship, Hyacinth, eastward. Lrvlarpoot, Nov. 15.—Arrd. Ellen, German, Porto Cabello. Off- port, Duke of Gordon Demerara. Sld. Belmont, Brown, New Orleans : Lord Maidstone, Taylor, ditto : Sheridan, De Peyster, New York ; Tarolinta, Smith, Boston • Martha, Williams, Africa. SWANSEA, Nov. 14.—Arrd. Alexander Robertson, Hannan, and Helena Hardy, Smith, Cuba. MILFORD, Nov. 14.—Arrd. Reward, Frost, Quebec for Hull, with loss of boats and other damage. Conic, Nov. 12.—Arrd. Lady Huntley, Helmes, Prince Edward's Island; Urania, Clark, and Louisa, Deave3, Quebec; Lady Campbell, Power, Quebec; Two Sisters, Davidson, Honduras ; Lancaster, Wright, Laguna. Sld. Constantus, Pernambuco. LIMERICK, Nov. 13.—Arrd. Primrose, Quebec. CLYDE, Nov. 13.—Sid. Isabella, Jamaica. LEITH, Nov. 14.-51 d. Jane Smith, Wright, Bahia. HULL, Nov. 15.—Arrd. Ganges, Blyth, Quebec. RAMSGATE, Nov. 15.—Wind E.S.E. Arrd. Wm. Wise, Harwood, Sydney. COWES, Nov. 15.—Arrd. Frederick (muter and five of crew deceased), Manilla. MARGATE, Nov. 15.—Wind E„ blowing hard.— Arrd. Huron, Miller, St. John's, New Brunswick. WIYENHOE, Nov. 15.—The Gannett, Kunnam, of and from Newcastle, was totally wrecked last night on the Whitaker; crew saved. The Christopher Dove, Cook, Shields to London, got on the Mouse Sand, 12th inst., but assisted off after throwing part of cargo overboard, and proceeded. The Industry, Shapcott, from London to Rotterdam, has been as sisted in here leaky, after being 48 hours on the Mouse Sand. The Endeavour, Rhodes, of Goole, from London to Lincoln, was run foul of this morn ing, whilst at anchor, by a brig, name unknown, and received damage and is leaky. HARWICH, Nov. 15.—The Hamilton, Bradbury, from Shields to London, was totally lost on the Gun fleet Sand this morning, only one man saved. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Dahlia, Hooper, Quebec. JERSEY, Nov. B.—Arrd. Amicus, Orange, Per nambuco; Friendship, Morgan, Guadaloupe. Sld. Themis, River Plata ; Antelope, Rio Janeiro. PADSTOW, Nov. 14.—Arrd. Clio, Brown, Quebec. , - BOWMORE, ISLAY, Nov. 10.—Tile Eliza, Webster, from Sligo to Liverpool, has put in here leaky, and with damage. Siumms, Nov. 14.—The Thomas, Holmes, from Antwerp, got on the Herd Sand this morning, and remains in a dangerous position ; crew saved. YARMOUTH, Nov. 14.—The Harmonis, Arnot, from Hartlepool to London, get in contact with the John Brotherick, Stanley, ast night, and received damage, and became leaky, but had it stopped, and proceeded to London. The latter also received damage, but proceeded to Harwich. General the Hon. Sir Edward Paget, Bart., Go vernor of Chelsea Hospital, brother of the Marquis of Anglesey, who has been so seriously ill as to be con fined to his bed for some weeks, in Cowes Castle, we are happy to say, gradually mending, and was on Tuesday able to sit up for a short time, but not able to leave his room. He was considered in so serious a state that all his children were gathered round him, and Doctors Cass and Hoffmeister were in constant attendance. THE ELECTION OF THE LORD MAY OB.—The good people of London will be somewhat amused at the mode in which the recent election of their Lord Mayor is announced here in the Government journal : " Is nominated Corregedor of Londres for the coming year, Joao Ilemsphery, maker of candles." The editor adds, in a note, that " C o r re gedor" is the equiva leet for " Dare! Letter from Lisbon. LOSS OF THE itEtAA:sce EAST INDIA3IAN. This ship, which is about 12 years old, was built at Deptford, and was between 1,400 and 1,500 tons burden. She has been trading to China for a number of years past, and was considered to be a fast sailer. Respecting the catastrophe itself very little infor mation can at present be obtained, owing to the gale continuing and preventing the packet-boats from pro ceeding to sea with the mails. The spot where the Reliance drove ashore is near a village called Merlie mont, a short distance from the French town of Etaples, 32 miles west of Boulogne. The account given by the inhabitants of Merliemont of the disaster is that she drove ashore between nine and ten o'clock at night, at low water, where she was subsequently firmly imbedded in the sand, and upon the tide rising the sea made a complete breach over her, carrying with it the unfortunate creatures on board, who never were seen afterwards alive. This state ment is confirmed by the report made by the British Consul, who visited the fatal spot immediately lirn being apprised of the o c currence, and rendered an possible comfort to the surv i vo rs. Considerabl e sur prise has been manifested i n the mercantile in terest, in consequence of the wre c k having occurred on the_ 01 French coast, the situation being completely out the usual track, and at the same time careless ness has been attributed to those wh o had the command of the ship. Amongst many a supposition is enter tain ht that in bearing down the Channel the Boulogne lig t was mistaken for the Dung e n ess light, which is ll° at all improbable, and the vessel driven completely on to the coast, ash:as occurred to many others. Upon the intelligence reaching Etaples of the wrec k the, authorities of the town immediately dispatche° company of horse soldiers to render assistance, we. gether with several detachm en t s o f infantry to P t r b e tect the property saved from the vessel. Du rin g fe d whole of Sunday the beach presented a most anima appearance, by the immense concourse of eer s°fls e in sembled ; hundreds were enga ge d w ith the soldiryvy searching for the bodies of the unhappy crew' been four o'clock in the aft er n oon u p war d s of 2 ° l 7,etbe found, and amongst them was recognised that ~„k „ e o f voyagetNh e eTw fi hb r e s u t rfßyr a np n emol d i rustcn,e China. fei o rn n oan d m. p p m e a a t r e s . commander, Captain Robert Green, and also 61— her nn e i 4 ina t 4th the e n 4 s Bu t terons eu e lo : g r: . " 1 : 4.1 " eooi t i o : to have had a "s" A „Th , of Rotterdam, met with ßO h on e s st a les g l u e n eoafr the u s h t iopf and h. and supplied her with provisions and water, the anc T e h be e v in aestimat ed n early at 200,0001. • Co l ° . In the season of 1825, the Hon. East cargo is estime , India ta b, pany's ships Royal Geo rge , comma nded by Cf g r ta- Gribble, and the Kent, Captain Cobb, were un n d bar nately destroyed by fire, the former at the see of the Bocca Tigris, and th e l a tt er in the BaVhenee cay, on her outward bo un d p assa ge. The '- " e e t• the was built by the East India C o mpany in li eu : lace Royal George, and the Ab ercrom bie Robinson to place 0 of the Kent ; both the se s hip s h av e been erl unfortunate as their predecessors. in the The following to the extract of a lett er fro is to British Consul the Secretary of the East Company : a•S• Merliemont, Nov. 13, 1842, Half-past Eleven'a) , terd'• SlR,—According to my promise of ye s fined have now to confirm the s ad intellig ence co nta ou t my letter to you, even wors e ; for I now find that, rs, of 120 persons which formed the crew and Pas s ' only seven of the former are saved. as one The body of Captain Tu c k e r, R.N., wh o w kooi , "' of the passengers, has not yet been found to roY ledge, nor any of the officers of the ship. 20 sears I never witnessed such a wreck during the - lo pe. that I have acted as her Majesty' s C onsul at W u lOf The cargo is dispersed all over the coast , ~, e eer course, is in a very damaged state. The s hi p i i er the pletely broken up. Everything is being do ne n d her benefit of all concerned with the Relian ce S e r va nt, cargo.—l remain, Sir, your obedient humble,„seo, w. HAMI LI the only P.S.—I am informed Captain Tucker was passenger of note. thei r A letter has been received at Lloyd's, fr c ounts agent at Boulogne, on e d a y l a ter than t he e of tea already published, which s t a t es that 866 froth 600 l° had been warehoused at M er li e mont, and x , men -700 cases had been deposited on the coas - ba d been tion is made as to whether any more W iles washed ashore. THE WAR IN AFFGHA- -- mdeS STAN tY'S Extract from a letter by a private of her tu , Futtiaba d 3d Light Dragoons, dated Camp, gust 18 : a sending " I embrace the earliest -opportunity of few lines to you, hoping they will find you in %- ' he health, as it leaves me, thank God, at presel lt ',,, lot cause of my writing at so early a period froth t' d o il letter is as follows :—My regiment left Jellalt ba do iog the 14th day of August, for the purpose 0, robot against Caubul, the capital of Affghanistan* ni elft army consists of the following regiments—' l , l 'foot , her Majesty's 3d Dragoons, her Majesty s , 9t ''," s 3ls t her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry, her Maio* red. Foot, two troops of European Artillery, :;e ve s n a pper i r ments of Bengal Native Infantry, a cores ° r co ts and Miners, a battery detachment, three regonoteo.o Bengal Native Cavalry—the whole abo ut oth l.l ' strong. We marched from Jellalabad in differe Ga te gades ; we expect to muster the force at damuck, about two days' march fro )ere to and then proceed direct to Caubul, t r late take revenge for the massacre of ° o il oce,, eight r countrymen, which, I'll be bound, is nearly,iosrei,' Europe by this time. We are now da Y s t wo . from Caubul ;we expect a deal to do goll,nght ,e the passes in the mountains, but there Is ,b a ll t e r doubt that if they will only stand a fight W e ll. Oof pulse them, but we doubt whether they ° os ed (i r men are all in good health, and chiefly en - wellZA Europeans every man that was consider ed non-effective was left behind at the fort of the beiO r i until our return, also all our old horses an d the ° C ; baggage, according to general orders issued ° out is it casion. According to reports, we hear Ca de stral 4 r, most delightful city, but I expect we shal l po e ", —that is, if we succeed, of which there i s otr ong t a The reason that the General is marching s° pub of lore European force is on account of the climate o be being so very cold, as most all the native f o i f e re d titre get frost=bitten there, and by that was rou'roy. cffNtive,:ao so got massacred by the en ),fill that have heard that all the prisoners have heenhei*lieve ds were in the hands of Akbar Khan, but 1 .4 G ear General has received orders from the o°' that they are to be taken dead or on a ge. , PEDESTRIAN PERFORMANCE.---A rt Monday made his debut, and acquitted I.ll " t ee r credit. It has been deemed d work re g °43 fi•e mileseb of a we-g novice to aceomlis" - ong li • hour for ll two rown successive hours, and sit b- • o var lti .o bly more has been done, the performer has been a a first-rate pedestrian. On this oeea si° TnY $ n f o e• twelve years of age, effected that which i n jo t t l hat has failed in. The match was one ing3t, akin ou rsthat :Holley, the well-known pedestrian, unu e ' es ire '' ; , e n his son should walk ten miles in two sn,e c we re for a stake, in which the odds of 51. to 3‘• eke ted 14 . 0 g against the performance. The groun d n. .. 5 or SP% c e a mile out and in, starting near the St a nie P rese ,i Wells Tavern ; and at half-psst two, 'no t of t he us, , of some hundred spectators, the little herti;„„iteleer,, made his appearance. He is exceedinglY t h t. l. sue ece not at all a likely looking person for a e . t ote 4 ,,e eel Betting was 7t04 on time. The boy sod lently, and exhibited throughout both stye fi r st t h e th of no ordinary character. He walked feted ea e t miles in twenty-one minutes, and coinP leu fle gree t miles distance (five miles) in fifty-three minute c d o 0 on steadily, exhibiting at the eighth ' i n na te a° tress, and accomplished his task one m sire half within the given time. o. o r ef INCREASING POVERTY AND F C'C'W. f toth e ths last week stated that the amount of relie the 030 0 40, administered at the Leeds workhouse in „ r e 18 Tbe of September and October of the three ' re oe , , 1841, and 1842, showed an alarming ineand be ctoat amounts were as follow :—ln S e ptember o e tobe r v, tier of 1840, 2,608/. • in September ant,' e t• 1 8 , 0 t 1841, 2,994/. ; in September and Octonee' owe tn 3,6591. It follows as a necessary th i s very wee ° if this l e f to the Poor's-rate must augment; and r ate ° 01 the overseers have laid a half-yearly not for ° or shillings in the pound, whereas there has i ,n,„ ar el f° o years been a rate exceeding one sh pence. The increase is fifty per cent. ll lit been ' os; rates ? At no time have the inhabitan,-'_. nre se., able to bear any increase of the rates than l "' h in r oe but it is absolutely necessary, and must ne .-A all who can bear it.—Leeds .21fercury• 00 0. .. id A NOBLE MONUMENT TO GI:LA.O S _J-';_ ugg estl'id letter appears in the Berwick Warde ailment Woheare' " that the best and most appropriate juthbert, r of he the restoration of the Chapel of St. the renian"s, that eminent Christian worshipped, , „ c ite Fern Llatid , t . the de which stand upon the Great me mory ° . L i ndh tablet within the building to the the ' sp. fel ceased. There being several families 11po_ f Go a, A ely the chapel is wanted for the wors c l p 0 g many persons would be disposed to astire r the to such a work, and would feel a p c °f o • ;themi . eel the monument in a holy place in ..r islands in which she and her family De' irely that we ent long." We need hardly say Sehr in the view taken by the writer. ,_ un der Yesterdaythe remainder of the appea l '. ...„ se clot were &sr - too dule D against the Income-tax w a the the Commissioners at the Town Hall, 117,, u ' c t of of about 40. In only one case did the ey. he C 0 tas 1:7. appellant call forth the animadversion. 1.,.e and in this instance the attempt to elude w rv ilel felt c°llr amount ° so flagrant, that the Commissioners on _ f , inflict a penalty of 20/., and three:times t" , the duty (there being no power of mitigation) fender.—Brighten Herald.