The Sun. — London, England, 1849-11-07 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMAR KEd Brompton. T. Mr. B. Webster, ,sole HIS Le.:,EV ENINe3 and Manager, Ol T G. When will be performed MACBETH. Macbeth, Mr. Macready ; liac.tuff, Mr. J. Wallacit ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Warner. After which a new Farco. entitled THE LAUGHING HYENA. To conclude wip A KISS IN THE DARK. Due notice will be given of the appearance ot Mr. and Mrs. KEAN. The Boa-office is under thea-rection of llr. I. T. Archer. ___ 11.11"YAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction o', Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE SONS OF MARS. To be followed by a new Mrs. slippery sketch called MRS.BIT.NBURY'S SPOONS. Mr. Highbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford ; Bob Twinks, Mr. Wright ; Job Smith, Mr. 0 . Sm ith; Mrs. Banbury, F. Matthews; Mrs. Highbary Barnes, Miss Brooks. After which a new Farce, entitled A BIRD OF PASSAGE. Mr. Carry Chick, Mr. Wright; Mr. Chaunt Ginger, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Charles Pusher, Mr. Boyce; Eraest Hopeful, Mr. Worrell; Mrs. Waters Rummer. Mrs. Frank Matthews. To conclude with THE MARRIED BACHELOR, ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestrix. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charle, Mathe ws. THIS EVENING, Will be performed METHINKS I SEE MY FATHER. To be followed by BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. To conclude with a comic drama, called A PRACTICAL MAN. Dress boles, 55.; Upper , Boxes, 4s. ; as. is. No lialf-orlce to any nett ot the aouse. All applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Alleroft, 15, New Bond-street. PRINCESS'S THEATit E. Mr. J. M. Maddox. Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Opera, entitled CHARLES THE SE COND. To be followed by a new Extrayaganza, entitled .THE FIRST NIGHT. To conclude with a new Ballet entitled LES PATINEURS. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. nder the Patronage of her 3lajesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Pgince Albert, &c. Triumphant success of the new Equestrian Spectacle of the Prophet, which has been nightly received with enthusiasm, and pr on .unced by the public press to be the most gorgeous hippo-dramatic piece ever produced at the Amphitheatre. he celebrated Comedian and Cl own, Mr. T. Barry, w ill have the honour of appearing, having returned from Americit. Mr. J. Bridges and Madlle. Amilie every Evening. unparalleled Equestrian Feats. THIS EVENING, Will be performed Fitzl's grand Equestrian Spectacle, entitle. THE PROPHET, in which Mr. W. West will appear.ENES THE be [snowed by an inimitable display of SC tilriLF.. by the first Equestrian talent of the day, in which Mr. T. Barry will appear. To conclude with the Farce of JACK JUNK. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. etage Manager, Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " Amicitia" has made a slight mistake, having directed his communication to ourselves, instead of to the editor of the Morning Herald. WATER AT LONDON IsRIDGE. Tuts DAT —Morning, 27 min. after 5 I Evening, 0 min• after 7 o-Moaso w—Morning, 37 min. after 7 I Evening, 17 min. after 8 THE WEATHER.--SUN Onricz, Nov. 7. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 33, Highest, 46; Noon. 41. BAROMETER, 30.08—a rise of nearly half-an-inch since yesterday. WIND variable from E.S.E. to S.S.W.—morning frosty; now dull, muggy, rainy weather. ... . -, - M.A. -tom. % - z. A••:_tl., ' - 1 - - fe,„i. ~ . ~ 4, 41„4 .., . o pu I MA ... 4 „ F.. , ,-........_ _., x s 0 (i . ' '''...;. f . 4 1-.7, at At ~.. ___...., 4 . 1., . ,11,• • ..,. awntig LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1849. Her MAJESTY has been pleased to appoint Thurs day, the 15th of November instant to be set apart as a day of National Thanksgiving to ALMIGHTY GOD to manifest " our deep and devout sense of His late mercies in having abated the grievous disease with which many places in this kingdom have been lately visited ;" and her MAJESTY has done well in so ap pointing such day of Thanksgiving. But her MA• JRSTY'S Ministers, and the members of the Legislative, Assemblies of the', nation, will not have done their ; ' duty to the nation at large, nor will the members of the various Municipal Assemblies, to whom the Government of various localities has been entrusted have done their duty to those who are committed to their charge, if they content them selves with merely returning thanks to ALMIGHTY GOD for the abatement of the pestilence, without at the same time adopting measures which shall prevent its return. Unless such measures of prevention be adopted, and adopted without delay, we shall have the pestilence raging among us in the spring with tenfold virulence; and for the deaths which may then occur, those must be held responsible who shall have neglected to adopt the precautionary measures which they might have adopted, and who will not then be permitted blasphemously to arraign DIVINE PROVIDENCE as the cause of that misery which will have arisen solely from their own culpable neglect. Aide toi, Dieu folder(' holds true in pesti lence as well as in politics, and it is a mere blas phemous mockery to offer up prayers to Heaven for the abatement or removal of a pestilence whilst we neglect to adopt measures for the removal of those causes which experience has pointed out as the never failing producers of disease. We would, therefore, recommend to the careful perusal of every person who is interested in this question (and every person who may at any time be liable to an attack of cholera is interested in it), the excellent and ela borate annual report of Mr. Sistorr, the officer of Health of the City of Loodpn, presented by that gentleman yesterday to the City Commissioners of Sewers. Mr. SIMON, in this most important document, goes fully into the investigation of the causes which " tend to produce the present high rate of mortality in the city of London, and to suggest how, by other and better sanitary arrangements, our present high rate of mortality may be diminished. He divides his observations under the following heads : " I. Defective house drainage. " 11. Incomplete and insufficient water-supply. " 111. Offensive or injurious trades and occupations. " IV. Intramural burials. " V. Houses insusceptible of ventilation,:and abso tolutely unfit for ventilation. " VI. The personal habits of the lowest classes, and the influence of destitution in increasing their mortality. In considering the subject of defective drainage, Mr. SIMON draws the attentionof the Commissioners to the fact :that there are still in the city of Lon don several thousand houses which are not drained at all, houses in which the filth is collected in a cesspool which lies actually within the four walls of the inhabited house ; the latter reared over it, as a bell-glass over the beak of a retort, receiving and sucking up incessantly the unspeakable abomination of its volatile contents. In some such instances, where the basement story cf the house is tenanted, the cesspool lies—perhaps merely boarded over—close beneath the feet of a family of human beings, whom it surrounds uninterruptedly, whether they wake or sleep, with its fetid pollution and poison. Mr. Simms goes on to say— " Now, here is a removable cause of death. These gases which so many thousands of persons are daily in haling do not, it is true, in their diluted condition, sud denly extinguish life; but, though different in concen tration, they are identically the same in nature with that confined sewer-gas which, on a recent occasion, at Pimlico, killed those who were exposed to it with the rapidity of a lightning stroke. In their diluted state, as they rise from so many cesspools and taint' the atmo sphere of so many houses, they form a climate the most congenial for the multiplication of epidemic disord ers, and operate beyond all known influences of their class in impairing the chances of life. "It may be taken as an axiom for:the purposes of sanitary improvement that every individual cesspool is hurtful to its vicinage, and it may hence be inferred how great an injury is done to the public health by their existence in such numbers, that parts of the city might be described as having a cesspool-city excavated be neath it," Experience has shown us that it is ',worse than useless, it is positively absurd, to trust to the philanthropy or the wisdom of the proprietors of houses for the removal of theee cesspools ; the Board of Health and the Commissioners of Sewers are, we fear, too slow in theiCoperations, and we would suggest that, in order to get rid of the nuisance effectually, a short Act of Parliament should be passed, enacting that, after a certain and not very distant day, every proprietor of a house should be liable to a penalty of 101. a-day for every day during which he should suffer a cesspool to exist on his premises, such penalty to be recovered by summoning such proprietor before a magistrate — one -half of the said penalty so recovered to go to the informer, and the t. l-1117t half to the poor of the parish; and that in all i---Z : V 7 . ses ikwhi c h a cess pool exiAts on the premises the 4. ' 6-) rilluit:/ shall be absolved from all liability for rent /v.\ ' 76 ' - : cl% cesspool shall be removed. This measure 1 - -." ':'fro ' think, in the shortest possible space of 141.6. , . -.1 --, _ ~: :- , _ tlpite-, , pd of the nuisance of cesspools. / -':,' ‘, ,".- / -‘lp.,, ,ffrssoN thus proceed s t o comment on th e ev ils . 4 P ' iirist.* the exhalations emitt e d f rom t h e pu bli c -- pother ..,.. Zrtn .--- other most important desideratum in connexion with the sewerage of the city is that, if possible, some THE SUN, Ae more perfect system of trapping should be devised, or that, in some way or other, the sewers should be venti lated effectively and inoffensively. At present there are frequent complaints of offensive exhalation from gratings in the open ways of the city, and it will be obvious to 37( ur Honourable Court that all which I have urged on the subject of cesspool exhalations must apply equally to those which are emitted from sewers. The impediments to effective trapping are almost insuperable; but I be lieve that when the water supply of the city is very largely increased, washing the drains amply and inces sandy, the evil complained of will undergo a sensible diminution. So far as I can judge, the only complete and total cure would consist in the aoption of some sys tem, including the following points as its essentials—viz., that house -drainage shall be separate from street-drain age, the former having to itself a series of smeller con duits; that these shall be closed from their origin to their outfall, presenting no gallyholes whatever; and that their gaseous contents shall be withdrawn from them by suction, or expelled by pressure, and be made to undergo comb us tion, or other chymical! c hange, rendering them innocuous. I would venture, even now, to suggest that any scientific scheme, purporting to accomplish the object last indicated, would in a very high degree deserve the consideration and encouragement of your Honourable Court." The washing of the drains may diminish the evil so far as the street sewers are concerned, but it will only be by increasing the pollution of what must necessarily be the principal source from which the in habitants of the metropolis must ever derive their princi pal supply of water—the River Thames. With regard to the plan of separating the house drainage, and;con veving it in a series of conduits, closed from their origin to their outfall, we much fear that there would be danger of continual bursting of the conduits from th e pressure of the gases evolved, and that the escape of those gases would give rise to dangerous explosions, as, after the result of the recent experiments, we are doubtful as to the possibility of withdrawing gases form sewers so as to make them undergo combustion with safety. A much more effectual method would be to disinfect the sewage at various points of its progress, so as 11`) prevent the collection of any large quantity of gas-proth: wing elements and the consequent evolution of noxious t 7ases ; and this, we believe, may be ef fected complCtelY and profitably. Another great advantage which would arise from adopting the disin fecting process would be the preservation of the river from pollution. Of Ole importance of preserving the waters of the Thames in a pare state Mr. Sims; is as convinced as ourselves. die th;ss speaks on this im portant subject : " In further connexion with my prt'leut subject, I would also solicit attention to th e fact that :he sanitary purposes of drainage are but imperfectly achiev.'d where the outfall of sewerage is into a tidal river p.' l6 ing through the heart of a dense l y - p eo p led metropolis. I should be stepping beyond my province if I were to say . much respecting the schemes now before the public for dealing with the difficulty to which I here refer, inso much as those schemes involve questions of engineering and machinery, on which I am incompetent so form an opinion. But I can have no hesitation in stating it as a matter greatly to be desired in the city of London that the noble river which ebbs and flows beneath its dwell ings should cease to be the drainpool of our vast metro polis, and that the immeasurable filth which now pollutes the stream should be intercepted in its course, and be conveyed to some distant destination, where, instead of breeding sickness and mortality, it might become a source of agricultural increase and national wealth. " I would venture, likewise, to express an opinion that the city of London is peculiarly interested in the ac complishment of this great public work, not only on general grounds relating to the conservancy of the river, but likewise and especially on sanitary g rounds, by reason of the large bankside p o p ulation, subjects of the city, who now, instead of deriving advantage from their nearness to the stream, are constantly disgusted and in jured by its misuse." It appears to us that the only plan by which the river can be preserved free from pollution, while at the same time the existing sewers and conduits are made available, is by the adopting of some plan for disin fecting the sewage during the course of its pro gress, precipating from it all solid matters which it holds in suspension, and returning the supernatant fluid thus disinfected into the sewer. It is by the adoption of some such plan as this that the evils complained of can alone be effectually prevented, for it is evident that every plan which does not disinfect the sewage before depositing it in bulk is neither more nor less than a plan fur the formation of a gigantic cesspool, which will infect the air for miles around the place where it may be established, and be a perpetual hotbed of cholera. Our observa tions on the subject of drainage have extended to such a length, that we must defer the consideration of the other portions of this most important and valuable document to another opportunity. ME FRENCH REPUBLIC. The French papers o erday had not arrived when we went to press. We find the following in the Dix Decembre " After the serious events which have, within the last few days, agitated the high governmental regions, a schism is on the point of taking place in the old majority, from the ranks of which will arise a new parliamentary party, decided on sup porting the personal policy of the President. A preparatory meeting took place on Friday even ing, at the hotel of the Prince de la Moskowa. Amongst the representatives present were Messrs. Lucien and Antoine Bonaparte, Casablanca, de la Moskowa, F. de Lagrange, Vieillard, de la Re doubte, de Salis, de Mouchy, Charamaule, Larabit, de Caulaincourt, Gavini, Lallier, Elchevery, Gene rals Achard, Wast-Vimeaux; Husson, de Gram mont, &c. The new party will follow the line of policy indicated in the message of Louis Napo• icon, and will not give its support to the Minis• try unless it frankly follows the path traced out by the President. The programme of General d'Haut poul was the subject of some criticism; several of the representatives present at the meeting considered that document as too indecisive, and as not clearly pointing out that entire character of adhesion to the presidential policy which it had a right to expect from a Ministry formed under such circumstances." The French Evenentent publishes the following exquisite series of blunders anent Miss Burdett Coutts : " Miss Burdett Coutts, the rich heiress of the Duchess -f St. Albans, was introduced the day before yesterday at L ' . he Ely see, by Lord Normanby. The rumours of a rr e between Miss Burdett Coutts and M. Lou is m ßo a na i p b ait , ' some months since will not have been forgotten. Miss Burolitt Coutts is the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, formerly Member of the English Parliament, who passed the first thirty years of his life on the benches of the Whigs, and the last twenty years on those of the Tories. The Duchess of Si. Albans, who left her her immense fortune, had been well known in the theatrical world as Mrs. Siddons, whose first hus band was Mr. Coutts, the rich London banker, and whose fortune she subseqnently bestowed on the Duke of St. Albans, who was younger than her by thirty years, though he descended to the tomb several years before her. The Duchess of St. Albans died about four years ago." BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TOE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Nov. 6. East Indian, 3 3 j4—Great Indian Peninsula, s!4—Luxem bourg, OA —Namur and Liege, 53,—Northern of France, 3►,4 dis.—Orleans and Bordeaux, 2%—Sambre and Meuse, Precisely as we say that Terrorism was contrived by the friends of arbitrary government, in order to disgust the world with Liberty—we might with equal truth declare that Cant was contrived by the friends of Infidelity, in order to disgust the world with Religion. Only the difference between these two abominable conspiracies is this—that whereas the Terrorists manage to render themselves in some sort sublime in their atrocities, the Sanctimonious, with all their petty affectations of morality, only make them selves supremely and supereminently ridiculous. While the one party has been effecting the massacres of September, the other has bee• taking some miserable little shrimp of an orange boy or a mackerel vender into custody on the score of Sabbath Desecration. The former has summoned to its aid the incendiary and the assassin. The latter, with the hysterical shrillness of that very respectable person Mrs. GANS'', has screamed for the " Poleege 1" Like the immortal SAIREY, on the occasion when in search of the " Ankwork's Pak kidge," she got so crushed, and tumbled, and towzled' by the crow d, that her bonnet bore the appearance of a cocked hat—the gcod old lady of Sabbatarianism has now for some few weeks past been shaking her gig-umbrella very energetically at Mr. ROWLAND HILL, vituperating him in a great fluster as " a bage man," and bemoaning the sins and abomina tions perpetrated by him and his compeers in "this Piljians Projis of a mortal wale!" It would be the height of ingratitude on our part if we evinced any annoyance at a proceeding which has afforded us such genuine amusement. We feel as kindly towards the poor old soul even in her most kantankerous moods as we have ever done to the " frequend pardner " of BETSEY PRlG—knowing altogether that she is as harmless as she is decidedly provocative of laughter. _ _ Latterly the frow of Sabbatarianism has been growing more and more subject to these fits of ethical hysteria. Doubtless, if she is as well supplied by the Birmingham manufacturers as poor PEGGOTTY, she has of late been " shedding buttons" innumerable. We have a sympathy for her staylaces. Especially in those intense paroxysms of grief and indignation, when the Lord Bishop of LONDON got snubbed in Downing-street, or when the rogues of St. Martin's-le grand triumphed over the godly malcontents of Exeter Hall. Defeated, we had almost said ignominiously de feated, in her efforts to render the Sunday not a day of solace and gratulation, but the " deadly lively " fes tival of weekly hypocrisy and hebdomadal humbug— the Gamp of Sanctity has just buckled on her " storm-cap " and attached a new ferrule to her parapluie, for the purpose of again having at that. Man of Sin, the Marquis of CLANRICARDE. The heart of Mr. ROWLAND HILL must certainly sink within him at this grand premonitory flourish of penny trumpets. " By the pricking of our thumbs Something funny certainly comes," for there is to be a rising throughout the country of the legions of Sabbatarianism. A field-day for FALSTAFF'S ragged regiment, with its "shirt and a half!" could not assuredly be more suggestive of the facetious. We await the issue with the drollest anticipations ; and are fain to call out with GUY BOLDING, even on the strength of mere conjecture, "such fun !" But the announcement is made with all the pomp of 80111- BASTES, with all the mystery Of RIGDUM FUNIDOS, with all the sequipedalian grandiloquence of the ever redoubtable CHRONONIIOTONTUOLOGOS. The deed is to be done " off.hand," and not by any means "on the sly." We are to witness the simultaneous barricade of all the post-offices throughout the United Kingdom. Led on, under the banner of the umbrella, the strongholds of common sense are to be stormed and captured—the thoughts, the sensibilities, the commerce of the country are to be put every seventh day under padlock. And all this isbe to done in the name of the G on of Wislo i rna an nd i of Goodness , of hum in the name of the Gon Humanity intermittentan dhris tianity Men may be ruined this stoppage of the national circulation : no matter— we shall be spared from the sin of Sunday -stamped envelopes. The nobler and gentler feelings of our common nature may be violated: no matter — we shall be shielded from the crime of a Sunday-stuck ,"Queen's head." The ordounations of a beneficent "-ith may be rendered irksome and i-VI 1., - ' Y ' and Cf,IMIVIERCIAL PTE WS, and venerab_ r---the streets will be protected CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. Sunday-postman s * tan- There was a steady demand for Cotton at Liverpool from the profanation ot.l y escerda The _ sales were 8,000 bales, including 4,000 I And England is to be placed under on n,ec . 3, 7 . . intollerable : no matte s . tarrarra . speculation.—Rrelemy shares were dull. this periodical interdict, forsooth because a few old The weaker The Cern nen Ma talrket is sils firm are all to-day. out of their usual course ings i t n hi t s he morning; city and this causes a very dull state of conti is wo men in the garb of the ruder sex have A ole clear stage, ! an aSnoo! pre- things . The American :private letters were delivered yesterday w me i e pa a ti k tt ae matter nerves g e i r on v et e se s rorn a u n pb d t ri interruption—and, yetnve bravely. nd , please the pigs, we shall afternoon, and it would appear from them that the cottont reported. o p Amay great en de y a e l t prove larger than has been season, P ' hoa,NrKeEaEsrdEr,oll or a farceenacted y ever a conceived l is Tol i by or ann a as .t, is not always tha must t there e depend di is on L a t e h ef for r picking seeur. KEELEY. Mr. MORRIS BARNETT'S Serious Family ing the quwatity grown. The specie in the New York asw as h is nothing to it—comic as that farce in three banksne ral l easy.ywcacs n d a i n m u i e n d ishing, although the money market ge acts proves to be before the footlights of the The r eturns of ie Banks of New Orleans to the little Haymarket. One thing alone marrs Board c,f Currency, dated September 29, shows on hand the satisfaction of our anticipations—the over- s o p f ec:e 49 t o o o t 2 h 3 e d a e m l l s o u depositsnt o f 7,470,292 dolls.; a circulation ture of penny-trumpets is just a trifle too protracted deposit 8,215,471 ao;l1s. ex et a6n58e3i094224d2071138.01175ans dueon —we regard with a sense of tedium the lilliputian foreign and domestic l ' ianks, less g exchange, 1,592 . ,202 fanfarronade of the orchestra. Our impatience dolls. Total cash liabilities 12,797,511 dolls. Total disposes us to wax impo r t unate. But the piece is easThhaessi;:ntjsurlyB,dlo6n9e,2t4oBtdhoelFls. French colonies by the vou about to begin. Hats off—sit thee down, 0 most tion of February has been incalculable, and it r muste l h e expectant public, for " the muffin bell rings" and the the work of years ere a recovery can be looked for. The Ottoman Consul-General has officially notified curtain rises. the intention of his Government to pursue the same lane in its exchange operations as it did last consequently tall operations entered into .he Bank of Constantinople will be entirely ,or account of the Ottoman Government, M. Jacques Al'd Ai and M. Emanuel Baltazzi being en trusted with the direction of the establishment, and being in that capacity empowered to issue bills of exchange, which are guaranteed by the Imperial Goverament. In the English Stock Market, the quotations have been without even a fractional variation, owing to the absence of news. Consols have been 924 -I. The wisdom of the policy adopted by the Turkish Go vernment in delaying to send the Hungarians to Eng land, is much questioned. Exchequer-bills are 455. to 48s. premium, and India Bonds 82s. to 85s. India Stock has been firm at 258. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been quoted 921 i. Foreign Securities have been a little more in re quest, but are comparatively inanimate. Spanish Three per Cents. have been quoted 34k, and have not improved upon the informatlon that Mr. Falconnet, the new envoy of the bondholders,_ has left for Madrid in company with • Mr. Baring. Portuguese Four per Cent. Bonds have realised 33. Mexican have been 26, end Chilian 94 to 95. Russian Bonds have been quoted 107. and Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents. 531. • Railway Shares are flat. North Stafford Et i; North Western, 1144 to 1151; Eastern Counties, 7 to 6i, and Aberdeen 13 to 13i. It is stated in reference to the latter, that the directors want no more money to com plete the line, as would be inferred by a paragraph that has appeared in the Times. The amount needed, say 100,0001., is said to be for additional plant, and will not be required for some time. C' year by 018 O'CLOCK. imm•ING 'ILICES OF ,kltlrTiS II , UND,A PRICES. 3 per Cent. Reduced Anna ..... ••• • 91%14 9114 3 per Cont. Consols Annuities 92% % 92% Yew 314 per Cent. Anne...". 92 ,4t % 92% Long Anne. to expire Jan.lB6o 8 7-16 8 7-16 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10. 1859 8 3-16 8 3-16 Ditto 30 year;, Jan. 5, 1860 8% 8 11-16 8 11-16 fndia Stock 258 258 India Bonds, 1,0001. ....... ...... •• 82 p Ditto underl,ooo/... ...... .- B2 85 p 85 p Consols for Account. Exchequer Bills. 1 lied. & 2d 1,0001. June 45 48 p 48 p 500/. June Small. June ......... 45 48 p 48 p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. 011 F. CLOSI OPCLICK. PRICES. Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.... 4014 Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent .......... 94 95 05 Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. .. 72 721 i 7,11 j, Equador Bonds 111 yxican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto, Account ... ..... ....... Ditto, Small Portuguese 5 per Ce 'its. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Russian Bonds Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto, Account ........ Ditto. 3 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London. _ . Dutch 214 per Cont., 12. Guild. .. 53 1 ,E Ditto. c per Cent. Certificate F... 81% 8214 PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSIN ,, AILWAY SHARES. PAT— AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. iberdeen Do. Preference Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 6 3 4 kyrshire and Galloway.. 7 1 h — 3elfast & County Down 28 ...... Berks & Hants Extens. (Gt. West. Per. 5 per ct.) 6 ,irminghain and Ox f rd Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Do, withoutguarantee 20 rsirming, Wolverh'ton, and Dudley, calls duly pd, er pith guarantee 10 ..... Do. without guarantee 10 Tiirming.,Wolverlepton, and Stour Valley 131. 14s .04 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Jung.... 20 •••• 3oston, Stamfd & Birm. 71. 4s. ... Bristol and Exeter 9O Ditto, Thirds :iuckinghamthire Caledonian Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10 Ditto,Cl3 - desdaleJunc 50 Mester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference l5 ...... ••• Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Ports month Dublin and Belfast June. 40 Dundalk & Enniskillen 27% — East Anglian, 25/., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 ...... Do. 18/., E. & H.... 18 Do., 31. 10s., Pref... 3% Eastern Comities........ 20 7 5%. Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct. 10 Ditto,Extension, 5 per Cent., No.l 6/.135. 4d.... p .. Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... par Do. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 ...... Do. New Eastern Union Class A (late E. U . Shares) 25 Ditto, Class A, ditto... 3% — Do., Class B (I. & B.) 25 Ditto, Class C, ditto... 25 . .... 4 3 / 4 Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ...... East Lancashire Ditto, New Ditto, New Quarters OA — .. Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... 6 t A t ....” East Lincolnshire ...... 25 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 .. .. Edinburgh and Northern 25 — Ditto, Newport Exeter.Yeovil , & Dorch 2 5 ,u ...... Exeter and Exmouth 215....... -- Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle ....... ... -81.65. 8d.... Glasgow,Kilmar~ & Ayr 50 Do. Preference Consul. Great Northern Do., ;42 A Deferred ... 12 1 / 2 ...... Do., 1 / 2 B 6 per Cent... Ph — •• ....... Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 1 0 reat South. and West. [ (Ireland) Great North of Enaland 100 ......209 ........... . Ditto, New, 40/ 4O Ditto, ditto 35 Ditto, New, 30/......... 30 - .• 000000 . Ditto, New ,15/... ...... 15 .. - Great Western 100 ...... 60% .. ... .... Ditto, 1 ,4 Shares 5O ...... 29 Ditto, 1 „( Shares Ditto, Fifths ..... - 20 - ........•• Ditto, New 171.- ..... 15 ... Hull and Selby Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 Do. Quarter Shares... 12 1 Lancaster and Carlisle 50 ...... Ditto, Thirds Lancashire Si Yorkshireloo Do. do. M. B. 4 8... 98 Ditto, ditto ... Ditto, Lb Shares ...... 49 - .. Do. Quarters ..... 23% — Do. Fifths-- ........ 10 Do. Thirds .............. 16% - • I Do. New Guarantied 6 ter Cent.... Do. Liverp. and Bury 49 — Ditto (Huddersfield and Sheff.).. ......... 50 Do. (W. Riding Union) 10 . ..... Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 D 0.% Shares (A)... 10 ... Leeds and Bradford...... 50 Leeds and Thirsk ..... . 50 Do., Prefer., 6 per CL 5 Do., Pref. Quar.,lB4B 9 Liverpool, Crosby and Southport lO London &Blackwall...ll/. 6a. 3d 3%54., ..... London, Brighton, and South Coast... .....103 Do., New 51., guaran teed 6 per Cent..... 1 00 Do.Guarant. 5 per ct.. 9 Do. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 L .ndon and Greenwich 12/15s 4d — • ..„,„ Ditto, Prefer.m.,. .20 •••I London and N. We tern 100 ..... 1151 114 3 / 4 ._ Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 ...... 12%. Ditto, Fift ~ 7 ... Do. 40/.ShAres(L.M.) 35 ...... Do. 101. (M. & B.) C. 1 Lond.&S 50 .• 31 •••••• ....... Ditto, New 501. Do. New 401 .. 34 Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. ... 5 ...... Londonderry &Coleraine 25 ...... ........ Do. % Shares . .. 5 ...... •• Londonderry and Ennis killen ......... . 25 Do. % 5hare5............ 5 Lowestoff, guar. 4 per ct 20 Ditto (6 per et.) Manchester,Buxton,and Matlock... Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 100 Do. Quarters (No. 1) 23 LONDON. WEDNF:SDAY EVENING-, NOVEMBER 7, 1849. Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 12V2 — Do. New 101. Pref lO ..... Ditto, Gt. Grimsby ... 50 Ditto ditto . ...—... 19 Ditto ditto Ditto Sheffield and 11 7 i — ...... "....... Lincolash;re 221. ... .... Do., Grimsby Dock 25 ... ... Do., idanchester and Lincoln Union..... 41.25. M (11 And ... 100 ...... 48 4714 ... 47 1 4 Do. Consolidkted Pref.loo Do.,' do., 501. Shares 30 .., Do. Binh., and Derby 100 -• •....• ......... i•-• Do. Consol. Bristol and 8% Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 ...... Ditto, Brist. & Glocstr. 42 ...... Ditto ditto .. 221. is... ... DJ.,ErevrashVal.,Pref. 50 Ditto, Leicest.& Swan nington, 8 per ct. guar.loo Midland Great Western Irish M.ddlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. Newcastle and earnsl6.loo - - Do. Quarters Newmarket Do. Extension - Newport, Abergavenny, _ _ . and Hereford — 6 ...... Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpouit, and Rostrevor 2O - as 00000000 •••• - Norfolk .......... ........ ...100 Do. New 201. Do. Guaranteed 5 p et. 20 Do. Liuttranteedsl/2pe. 5 ~. Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 Northern Counties Union 4 ...... ......... North British ........ ... 25 „ Ditto, Halves .. - Ditto, Quarters Ditto, Thirds 8 1 / 4 3 . Ditto Preference 5 • 5 ex int... Noitii Statiordshire 17 1 / g g 1/2 aii i 5 Li 81A3 North Wales . .. .... 3 i/" ! N orth- W estern . 13% — ... Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...... 50 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate ls Royston and Hitchin ... 4%.. ... ... Scottish Central Scottish Midland. Ditto, New Shrewsbury and Birm l2 ...... ..... Ditto ditto, Class B 8 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shrewsbury and Heald. 4 Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves ... ditto 9 Ditto Oswestry 18 1 / 2 — Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref lO Shropshire Union Aouth Devon Do. Preference Soath Stallordshire South Eastern Do., N 0.2. Do., No. 3 ..... ........ 30 Do., Registered No. 4 10 Do., Scrip No 4 Soatia ales south Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole . l2 Sheffield, Rotherham, & Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent. 16 1 ,E — . ............. Do. do (Sou. Div.) • 5 swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. Coal. 7 raw Vale Extension ... 8 [lames Haven Dock and Railway ..... ... 17 Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 20 . • Vaterford and Limerick 47% Natertd,W2drd,Wicklw and Dublm Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... Do. do. do. ... 25 Do. do. do. ... 15 ..... ..... West Cornwall ...... ... 6 ... S hitehaven & Furness 18 Windsor, Staines, and South Western ..... ... 14 N ilts, Somerset, & W ey mouth York. Newcastle, and Berwick. 25 D. Newcastle Exton. 20 ...... Do. G.N.E.Preiorence 8 3 ...... . Do. Hartlepool Dock and Railway .. 100 ...... . YorVan.. North Midland 50 ...... 19 19 Ditto, Prefere Ica ...... 10 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo Italian (late Ita lian Mad Austrian). ... 5 1 ,4 — Boulogne and Nmiens... 20 Ceutrai o 1 N ranee (Or leans and Vierzon)... 20 Demerara 17% Dutch Rhenish 8 ..... East Indian ....... 314 Great Indian Peninsu.ar 5 ...... Do. Do. ... 10s. Louvain 11 la Sambre ... Luxembourg Ditto Madrid and Valentia... 2 ..... Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... .. 5% d y s 5% Northern of France l4/. 85... 3 Vsis ...... dis Orleans and Bordeaux 7 •••••• -2% 2 78 Paris and Orleans ...... 20 ...... Paris and Rouen 2O ••• •• •.. Paris and Strasbourg:-. 12 Rouen and llavre ....„ 20 Sambre and Meuse 2O 2% 2 Strasbourg and Basle -. 14 Tours and Nantes l3 ..... Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt ...... 20 West Flanders • 8 3 4 Ditto ........ JOINT STOCK BANKS. 2% 14W 6% 26 1 /s 26 111 33% 108 16% 34y8 53 i 4 8 2 14 %dis, 28th 60% 23 71 /i 9-11/2 97% 3% 733/4 Australasia , 4O British North American 50 ...... ... ..,..„ Colonial 25 .".... 6 Commercial of London 20 London Joint Stock lO — " London & Westminster. 20 ...... National Prov. England. 35 Ditto New... ..... ...... 10 - •• •••. National of 1re1and...... 22% — ... ......... ... Provincial of Ireland ... 25 - ......... •• es , . Ditto, New ..... Union of Australia Ditto,New... ...... ..... 2%...... . Union of London... lO ...... ... ...... Lnion of Madrid ...... ... 40 MINES. Anglo-Mexican lOO Asturian Mining Com... 15 Australian... Barossa Range .. B!aenarvon Iron & Coal 50 ... - ..... •." Santiago de Cüba United Mexican 2B 1 4 — ........ ••• ...• 17M 111/2 26% LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Nov. 7.—Wind this day at noon S.S.W., moderate breeze, and dull hazy weather with drizzling rain. BRIIRAM, Nov. 6.—The Taff Vale came within the pier yesterday, with three feet water in her hold, having sprung a leak, 4th instant, when off the Start. DEAL, Nov. 6.—Arrd. sth Sam Slick, River Gambia; 6tb, Malcolm, Rio Grande for Rotterdam; John C. Claalhour, New Orleans for Antwerp; Heather, Mac donald, Pagwash and Queenstown. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Rants, Osborne, Singapore. Arrd. from the River, Morley, Strudy, Madras; Heroine, Robson, Coquimbo; Vigilant, Conway, St. Vincent; Valiant, Young, Berbice ; Lord Montgomery, Eskdale, St. Lucia ; Waterlily, Hart, Jamaica; Fantome, Bawn, Jamaica; Montrose, Howe, New Orleans. DARTMOUTH, Noy. 6.—Wind W.—Arrd., 6th, Escort, Jarrett, Labrador. Off Port, 6th, Carnation, Slaughter, Quebec. BRISTOL, Nov. 6.—The Renfrewshire, from Quebec, in coming up the river this morning, got on shore below the Round Point, and remains. PORT TALDOT, Nov. 6.—lt blew hard from N.W. and W. yesterday, wiih a heavy sea on the bar ; and to-day it blows a fresh gale at N.W. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 6.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. sth, Janet, Davidson, St. Domingo ; Seraph, Smart, St. Domingo, and not the " Stirif," as before reported. 6th, Elizabeth, Main, Callao; Freeland, Savanilla ; Hibernia , Malony. Philadelphia ; Cambridge, Peabody, New York ; Or leans, Boyart, St. John's, New Brunswick; Goliah, Slater, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Georg; Simpson, Quebec. Off Port, 6th, Higginson. FISUGUARD, Nov. 4.—Ten schooners and ten sloops (laden) have just arrived in the roads, but it is blowing too violently to go out to ascertain their names. sth, It has been blowing a very heavy gale from W. to N.W., and there is every appearance of it continuing. A schooner was lost last night on the rocks in Abuithey Bay, about seven miles west of this place. Should the wind come more round to N., and blow as at present, heavy losses will have to be reported. MILFORD, Nov. s.—lt has blown a gale to-day at W. to W.N.W.—The Acorn, of London, was in contact this morning with the Princess, of London, and both sustained considerable damage. The Lydia, Liverpool to Rotterdam, struck on a sunken rock off St. David's yesterday morning, and sank ; crew saved. PWLIIELLI, Nov. 6.—lt commenced blowing hard on the night of the 4th instant, which increased to a sharp gale at S.W. on the next day. There are about 20 sail of coasters lying in the roadstead. To-day it is blowing hard at W.N.W., with a wild appearance. PADSTOW, Nov. s.—The schr. Ocean, of Aberystwith, from Cork to Portsmouth, was driven on shore at Maw gan Porth this morning; has bilged, and is much damaged; cargo landed. WESTPORT, Nov. s.—The Charlotte, from St. John's, New Brunswick, to the Clyde, has put in here leaky, with loss of sails, spars. &c., and out of provisions. 114 8 % 12% 9% Trn MURDER AT DALE-GATE.—The prisoner Banks, who has been in custody at Brighton nearly a fortnight on a charge of being concerned in the murder of Mr. George Stonehouse Griffith, the brewer of Brighton, in February last, underwent another private Examination before the Brighton magistrates on Monday. Two fresh witnesses, we hear, were examined; but in so strictly private a manner are the examinations conducted that we have not been able to ascersain the purport even of the fresh evidence against the prisoner. It has oozed out, however, that, in order to clear himself from the charge, Banks gave the name of a hostler at an hotel, with whom ho said he was sleeping during the night of the murder, and that on this hostler being placed in the witness-box he declared that the prisoner's assertion was false. The examination lasted about an hour, and re sulted in the prisoner being again remanded for a week. Time is the rider that breaks youth—Eliza Coles Journal. BERMOND SE Y 11 tU RD Ell . COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER. (THIS DAY.) Before the LORD CHIEF BARON, Mr. Baron PLATT, Mr. Baron ROLFE, Lord Chief Justice WILDE, Mr. Justice COLERIDGE, and Mr. Justice CRESS- WELL.) This being the day appointed for arguing the point reserved on the trial of the Mannings, for the Ber mondsey murder, as to whether Mrs. Manning, being a foreigner and an alien by birth, ought to have been tried by a jury de medietate linguae, the Exchequer Chamber, in which the Court of Criminal Appeal holds its sittings, was crowded to excess long before ten o'clock, the hour appointed for the hearing. The audience was chiefly composed of barristers, who oc cupied all the available space in the body of the court, whilst all the approaches and purlieus were equally thronged by the public, attracted by curiosity, and the universal interest and notoriety which attach to every incident connected with this case. The Attorney-General, Mr. Bodkin, Mr. Clarkson, and Mr. Clerk appeared for the Crown ; and Mrs. Manning was represented by Mr. Ballantine, and Mr. Parry. Mr. Saunders appeared on behalf of the male prisoner, Manning. The Judges entered the court shortly after ten o'clock, and Mr. BALLANTINE immediately proceeded to open the question, on the part of the convict Mrs. Manning. He said this case had been reserved from the last session of the Central Criminal Court, upon the question whether the female prisoner was entitled to a jury de medietate linguae, on her trial for the murder of Patrick O'Connor. He (Mr. Ballantine) was instructed on her behalf to support the view of the case that she was entitled, by our laws, to a jury composed half of foreigners ; and he would call their Lordships' attention to the different Acts of Parlia ment applicable to the question. The claim made by Mrs. Manning for a jury de medietate linguae was made under a e statute of Edward 111. (vide "Bacon's Abridgment," vol. 4, page 456), in which the right of aliens to have such a jury was clearly laid down. That Act of Parliament was again referred to by the 6th George IV., cap 50, sect. 47, which is declaratory of the continuance of that right so far as aliens were concerned ; and he thought their Lordships would consider that this was a case of no small importance, when it was remembered that Mrs. Manning, whose life was involved in the issue, and who came there to complain of not having had a fair trial, in not having a trial before such a tribunal as by law had been the right heretofore of every alien in this country. He contended that a woman marry ing an English subject in this country, married with the presumption that her rights and privileges by law would be maintained to her, unless notice to the con trary were given to her before marriage. And, by a sort of side provision in one of the statutes to which he had referred, the jury process and arrangements, which were considered part of the Constitution of this country, were supposed to be interfered with, and that by an Act of Parliament in which the term "jury" was never mentioned from beginning to end, and by the passing of which the Legislature could cer tainly never have intended to affect the arrangements of juries in this country. The trial by jury was so much and so important a part of the Constitution of this country that any alteration of it was regarded with the greatest concern and. vigilance by those who are interested in preserving the liberties of this country. For those reasons he felt there was cast on him a task of very great impor tance, and on their Lordships also lay the necessity of looking into this matter in the broadest and most extended view that could be applied, to see what really was the intention of the Legislature in passing the statutes relative to aliens. In the statute of Edward the words used were somewhat peculiar, and had certainly been considered in different ways by very considerable authority. It did not use any expression denoting any distinction between aliens and denizens; but it used words which would render its provisions applicable both to aliens and denizens. Mr. Chitty (vide " Chitty's Criminal Law," vol. i., page 525) says—" Besides the ordinary special jury, there is another description of jury, which aliens and denizens, by the humanity of our law, are entitled to demand," treating it as a matter of right that both aliens and denizens were entitled to be tried by a jury de medietate linguae. In the subsequent Act the word " denizens " is not used at all, and therefore that would probably militate against the proposition he had to submit to their Lordships ; but if their Lord ships interpreted the Act of Edward as Mr. Chitty had done, they would say that every person born abroad and under foreign allegiance would be entitled to a jury de medietate lingnm, and would be in a po sition to demand it as a matter of right. Now, from the time of the statute of Edward every alien or foreigner had been in the habit of claiming a jury de medietate linguae, and the mode in which it was done was by no means unimportant. In the second volume of " Hale's Pleas of the Crown," p. 271, it was said "if a person alleged that he was an alien, he might challenge the array for that cause ;" but neither there nor in any of the authorities which he (Mr. Ballantine) had had the opportunity of looking at, did any issue seem to have been raised on that sub. ject. The Act of Parliament granted the privilege to aliens and denizens, and it would', unquestionably appear that none but aliens and denizens would be entitled to that privilege; but there was no means pointed out by that Act of Parliament to settle whe ther a person was an alien or a denizen, nor was he aware of any power in any court to decide that question. He should say that if a person alleged himself to be an alien, it seemed to have been the intention of the Legislature that he should have a mixed jury, merely on that, his allegation. The practice before criminal tribunals in this country always was, that where a prisoner was a foreigner, the officer of the court asked him whether he wished to have a foreign jury, and no issue was ever raised ; but upon that allegation (using the words of Lord Hale) a jury de medietate ling= was awarded as a matter of course. Under these circumstances he submitted that the Attorney-General had no power whatever on the trial to place this woman upon proof of her being an alien, and that her allegation of being an alien was sufficient of itself to entitle her to have a mixed jury. Up to the time of the statute of Victoria such a right would have been allowed to her ; and now the question was whether that privilege had been taken away by the statute to which he had just referred—that was, whether she was entitled to that privilege, being indicted with another person. The Attorney-General, to support his view of the case on that point, had relied on the case of Barr (" Moore's Reports," p. 657). That case was quoted upon the trial, and he (Mr. Ballantine) had given it a great deal of consideration since, and he con fessed he was not quite able to understand the meaning of that case or the application of it, except generally that under some circumstances or another a foreigner shall be ousted of a jury de medietate linguae, but what those circumstances were he con fessed it was very difficult to understand. He should submit that supposing that case to be an authority for ousting a co-detendant from a jury de medietate linguae on the ground that he was connected with other parties, it. would be a violation of the statute of Edward 111., and the subsequent statute of George 111. would be rendered absurd almost, for there would always be a great number of cases in which, by a foreigner being indicted with others having a very trifling share in ithe imputed crime, he might be de prived of his unquestionable right to have a mixed jury. According to every principle of law there could be no difficulty in trying these persons rparately, and he therefore apprehende d their Lordships would rule that this case of Barry was not one in point. He was re minded by his Learned Friend that this was a joint and several indictment, and both parties, or either of th e m, might have been found guilty ; and upon consi deration he was convinced their Lordships would be of opinion that the case ought not to deprive a de fendant of a privilege awarded to him by Act of Parliament. But the great point in the case would turn upon the construction to be placed upon the Act of Parliament quoted by the Learned Attorney- General on the trial. Did its operation take away the right to be tried by a jury de medietate lingua ? In deciding that question it would be his duty, in the first instance, to call their Lordships' attention to the 2d and 3d sections of the Act, in addition to the one by which the •disability is supposed to be created. By the 16th section of the 7th and Bth Vic., chap. 66, it was enacted that a woman m naturalised,a natural born subject, or t o a person should herself be deemed and taken to be naturalised, and entitled to all the right s and privileges of a natural born subject. It was quite clear, however, that she could not take all the rights end privileges of a natural bo rn sub j ect, and he would pre-ently show their Lordships why. The 6th section of the same Act points out the way in which aliens can become naturalised. It was by obtaining a certi ficate from the Secretary of State, but the statute provided that no such naturalised subject should be capable of becoming a Priry Councillor or a Member of Parliament, while the Secretary of State might insert in the certificate what other restrictions he thought proper. Now, it could not be con tended that an alien woman being married to a British born took more privilege than a naturalized subject. There were certain other exceptions contemplated by the Act, clearly indi cating that a naturalized subject ought to be placed in a different position to a subject born within the realm, and when, therefore, they looked at the GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. BAVARIA. The Frankfort Gazette gives the following from Spire, dated October 27 :—" Numerous deserters and members of the free corps come in daily from France and Switzerland, but they are immediately seized and shut up in prison. The Baden authorities have given all the Bavarian prisoners of war liberty, with the exception of four, who are too deeply compro promised. ItODOLPHII MEGRHOFER, formerly Under Secretary of State to the Minister of War at Canis- , ruhe, was rot among the first body of prisoners at Spire, on the 18th instant, but is still at Carlsrube. "A. certain number of insurgents have just been take" to Dreux 'routs, to be placed before the Cour of Appeal. " Along the whole route, both in towns and villages, they received presents of money, linen, provisions, &c. This proves how lively an interest still prevails in the Palatinate for the free corps of the revolutionists. " Within the last few days there have been sangui nary quarrels between Bavarian soldiery of different arms, at Eidesheim ' near Landon. The official trials of functionaries who took part in the revolution are not yet terminated. Nearly 30 of the officials who were most deeply involved have already been hanged. A good many of the clergyare implicated." TURKEY. Advices from Constantinople, of the 20th ult., state that Sir STRATFORD CANNING had, on the pre vious day, received dispatches from Lord PALMER.. STON, approving of the course which he had pursued. This intelligence produced the most intense satisfac tion among the Turks of all ranks, to whom the in solence of the Russian mission had of late years be come insupportable. The agents of the CZAR had also for some time past spoken most slightingly of the power of Great Britain, representing her as crushed beneath a weight of debt, and ut terly unable to go to war. The Turks are indefatigable in their preparations for war. The carpenters are actively employed in rendering every ship in the Arsenal fit for service ; an embargo was laid on all Turkish ships in the harbour, but every craft having voluntarily supplied its quota of excel lent seamen for the service of the navy, the embargo was removed. The Turks rejoiced at the idea of joining their fleet to the English squadron, and clearing the Black Sea of every Russian plank. The army is rapidly increasing, and the men are every day re ceiving instructions from European officers. The for tifications of the Dardanelles and of the Bosphorus have been strengthened. It was reported at Constanti nople on the 20th, that the fleet of Admiral PAREER was in the Sea of Marmora. In the meantime Russia seems inclined to trust rather to her gold than to her steel, for her emissaries are scattering money in every direction, endeavouring to bribe the officials to betray their SOVEREIGN and their country, and in citing the subjects of the Porte in the provinces to insurrection. The Porte has issued to all the civil and military officers of the empire a notification of her late disputes with Russia and Austria. It is stated that so far the rupture is temporary, and no apprehen sions whatever are entertained of events taking an unfavourable turn, but negotiations might aggravate the matter; and of this they will be informed by future advices. The employes are likewise formally instructed to give aid and protection to all the refugees who might appeal for such aid, and by no means whatever compromise the moves of the Cabi net, by delivering them over to the foreign authori ties, who might happen to claim them. This edict will meet with great popularity in the provinces, where political events are transmitted in the most exaggerated . •form. The American Minister at Constantinople, Mr. CARR, has received a letter from a number of Ame rican citizens who held a meeting at the Hotel de la Paix, at Paris, on the 22d of last month, for the pur pose of expressing their sympathy for the Hungarian refugees now in Turkey. The subscribers to this letter call upon Mr. CARE to exert himself in favour of KOS3TJTH and his friends, who have sought refuge in the Ottoman territory. They desire that he will place any ships of the American navy that may be in Turkey at their disposal, if it should be necessary for them to fly from the SULTAN'S dominions; and that when an opportunity offers Mr. CARR will express to his Majesty ABDUL MEDJID how much his noble and generous conduct in the present question is calculated to excite the admiration of the people of the United States. THE COURT. — We understand her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the youthful members of the royal family, according to present arrangements, intend to leave Windsor Castle to morrow week, for Osborne, there to stay about a fortnight. Captain Sir James Clark Ross, the Artic voyager, visited a large circle of official and private friends yesterday. His ship, the Enterprise, with her con sort, Captain Bird, are expected to arrive at Wool wich this day. THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEET.—Sir William Parker and his fleet had not reached Athens on the 20th ult.,but were reported to be within a day's sail of that place. The gallant Admiral was merely expected to touch at Athens, and then to proceed directly to the Darda nelles. We understand that Mr. Dyce Sombre is still dissatisfied with the restrictions on his person and property, imposed by the Commissioners of Lunacy , and that he is preparing a petition to the Lord Chancellor for another medical and judicial investi- I gation. Mr. Wingfield, one of the Masters in Chancery, and the father-in-law of the Lord Chancellor, has resigned his office. This makes the second vacancy, and the m w a e believe sterswil there is ). be e limited a n to understanding theirnow existing number. meaning of the Act, the words, " she shall enjoy the rights end privileges of a natural born subject," must be taken with considerable limitations. But their Lordships would perceive that the Act itself dis tinctly specified, that a woman married to a British born subject should be deemed and taken to be naturalized ; and the position he wished humbly, but earnestly, to urge upon their Lordships was, that this woman, by ;her marriage, acquired certain rights and privileges awarded to naturalized subjects ; but did not deprive her of the rights and privi leges she was entitled to before the Act passed. That was the proposition he wished to place before their Lordships, and upon looking both at the provisions and the preamble of the Act it was quite clear that the intention of the Legis lature was to confer certain rights and privileges upon aliens—to enable foreigners at a much smaller expense than formerly, and in a much more convenient manner, to become citizens of this country, but not to deprive them of any of the rights and privileges which they enjoyed before the passing of the Act. If the Legislature had intended to do this, at all events it would have given a foreign woman coming to this country some warning upon the subject; but he believed their Lordships would be of opinion that had the Legislature taken away the privileges which she already possessed, it would have done it in a direct manner. Rights and privileges conferred by an Act of Parliament could only be removed by a statute ; it could not be done by drawing an in ference from a clause in an Act of Parliament passed for entirely different purposes. He would now, with their Lordships' permission, direct the attention of the Court to " Comyn's Digest," vol. 1. title Alien, c. which states, no alien charged with enormous crimes or offences, such as murder, are liable to be punished in the ordinary course of justice, by being tried under a local statute, and accordingly a foreigner, who had been indicted under such a statute for stealing from a shop, was directed to be acquitted of that offence, and found guilty of larceny only. That was the case of Molere. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL—Is not that case men tioned with a remark in " Foster." Mr. BALLANTINE was not aware that it was. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL—I rather think it is to be found there with some observation upon the statute. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Yes, my Lord. I think the observation is this—" The Learned Judge showed more humanity than discretion in giving that direction." Mr. BALLANTINE continued—Now, the statutes repealed by this Act are the 12th and 13th Wm. 111., chap. 2 ; George 1., section 1, chap. 4; 14th George 111., chap. 84; but there was the statute of James 1., statute 2, which did not appear to be repealed by this Act of Parliament, nor was he aware that it had ever been repealed at all. By that statute no person can be naturalized unless he has taken the sacrament within the previous month, and subscribed to certain oaths ; and if their Lordships agreed with the dictum of the other side, that aliens can be naturalized and oaths got rid of in this wholesale manner, there would be an end to any necessity for struggling to do away with certain oaths and disabilities, which at one time were considered to be of vast importance fbr the subjects of this Protes tant kingdom. It seemed to him, however, that the. object of this Act only had reference to the rights of property, and, therefore, he apprehended, upon con sidering the whole tenor of the Act, it would he im possible for their Lordships to say that it took im portant personal rights away. He submitted to their Lordships that the question involved in this case was one of great importance, and he certainly did feel some anxiety as to the result. He trusted that be had placed before their Lordships sufficient grounds, though not to have made the case of disnaturalization, if he might so use that expression, at least to convince them that the Attorney-General, on the part of the Crown, was not justified in depriving this woman of the important right to be tried by a jury de media tate lingua. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—Does any counsel appear on behalf of Manning? Mr. SAUNDERS said he appeared on behalf of Manning. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL agreed with his Learned Friend on the other side that the question in dispute was certainly one of considerable importance, but he apprehended that Maria Manning, not being an alien, the trial would have miscarried had it taken place before a tribunal constituted as his Learned Friend contended it ought to have been. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL—As against her or Man ning ? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said against her, and he had authorities to show that sbe could not waive or consent to anything. The LORD CHIEF JUSTlCE—Supposing the point had been pleaded and not denied ? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, of course, and that was his answer to his Learned Friend's observa• tion, that if a party alleges she is an alien, and it is not denied, it cannot be a mistrial. Besides, there was an admission on the record, so to speak, that she was not an alien ; and not having been so stated, in law and in fact had the court granted her a in: l 'Y !l e medietate linguae, the whole trial " would have ints• carried. He made this observation not for the purpose of the argument, but because several learned persons—or persons who were con- sidered learned by courtesy—had made observation s and written opinions that this right ought to have been conceded to the woman as a matter of fairness. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—It would have appeared by the record not simply that she was admitted to be an alien, but the matter of fact would have shown that she could not have been an alien. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Just so. Having dig"' posed of that matter he would now, with their Lord ships permission, take the arguments of his Learned Friend in the form and order that he advanced them. Although the great point depended upon, the construction of the statute, he take Barr's case in the first instance, because that was the first point his Learned Friend touched uPc''; Well, then, he apprehended their Lordships woul d be of opinion, from what he should hereafter state; that that case was properly decided. It was q uite clear, however, that the Alien Act did not apply ° this case. It did not contemplate two parties being indicted for the same offence, one an alien and the other a denizen, but the case it did contempla te was where either of the two sides to a case was a ll alien. Whether this case of Barr was a civil actiel i or a criminal prosecution he could not then say. be Mr. Baron PLATT—Have you caused search to made for that information ? The ATTORNEY. GENERAL said he had sent for it t but it could not be four .d It could not be found the Rolls' Chapel, but it was just possible it might u° dug up in the Tower. Air. Baron PLATT—Because it makes all tl l l difference whether it was a civil claim or a cricnia' prosecution. The ATT ORNEY -G ENER AL said, no doubt. - esTo a ri , although his L earne d F r i en d had read to their Le t !' a ships Barr's ca se , it was i n an a b r id ge d form, but he ti fi r , a fuller report, an d b y th a t it a pp ea red that the att ° to ney of the Queen brought Barr and other merch an into court, of wh om some were foreigners and °theo 0 English, and it was decided that each of the t1; 0 parties, aliens and denizens, were not entitled to n tried by separate juries. Had the defendants b er g all aliens, then they would have been entitled t° to mixed jury. True, a peer claiming the privilege, i a be tried by his peers would be allowed, but that .“_ea not stand upon the same principle. The law re qttlieet that all parties should be tried by their peers. A Pllig by peers, and . a commoner by commoners ; but Iv case rested upon a different principle , and of decision on it was perfectly warranted in poin t law. The statute of Estaples, 27 Edward 3d, chai r ; 8, statute 2, it is provided that where two parties aeo strangers, it shall be tried by strangers, and it .° o 3 party he denizens or natural born subjects, li t' g if the other party aliens, th e n the issue a en if be tried by a jury composed of one " strangers and the other half English. 0 3 took no notice of the case of one side being Li t he and foreign, and if their Lordships would look at 4nc i French part of the statute they would the terms " entre " between aliens and de an zees," clearly indicati n g that th e deeP th o in Barr's case was correct, and that .4 statute did not confer the privilege of a mixed i iefe where one of two or three defendants was a n But: the question here was, what is an alien rip denizen of this country could be naturalizeethio France so as to escape his allegiance to e ar kingdom as some people had suPP c ot, while it was clearly laid down in Bacon's abridg ul de' in the part entitled "Denizens and Aliens," th at t , s 0 nizens were those w h o were m ade so by pat en ro ed well as those wh o were English born. His Le fl he Friend, theref ore , misconstrued the statute '0 713 . e _ 0 ae o supposed that it e x t en d e d a law de medietate to this case. But, said his Learned Friend, a tbe r conferred by statute could not be taken away,° t he wise than by statute. it is clear, however, l o w meaning in the text-books, and the statutes_ t act selves, that no such right was conferred here bf ros s: of Parliament, unless the parties were aliens; a., 0 ." , „ 1 :, 5 ed ing over Molere cases, which he had already a l ,r„ p of, of, he would observe it was a mistake to s `` l iTiee that the term de medietate linguae I " n 'el that the jury should he composed of half stn!n from the district where the prisoner had e , aDe. of half Englishmen. A Frenchman rdigo tit tried by six Englishmen end six Russians, - L ` term used in the statute was " l'estranger. _llO5 io ii was all very well to talk about there being no‘u't ther e in the Alien Act to trial by jury, seeeiveo were many cases were parties were ( , t fc of their rights without any ally,iech 0 1 the jury, the most familiar illustration of tV e the statute of William HI , which pray o _ on es e c 0 simple treason should be tried according d t hat „ of common law. His Learned Friend Sa%__ t oLeP right conferred by the statute could only be to tb EIMIE - 1 11 r I