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~~~~ - Nisiao o VERESTING NEW BIOGRAPHICAL WORK. Neady, in 2 vole., small Bvo., with Portraits, 21s. bound. MEMOIRS OF ,THE LITERARY LADIES OF ENGLAND. By MRS. ELWOOD. Henry Colburgi, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. I • THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY DIVIVENDS, AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains MONEY lIICYIDENDS of £5O, £6O, £7O, £BO, £9O, £lOO, £llO, £I2OU; £l5O, £2OO, £4OO, £6OO, £6ooi £l,OOO, £1,500, £5,000, and £25,000 Sterling. Amounting together to £72,179 sterling , . Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAAIBURGH, Or, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, DEC. 1, Will be repeated Belliqs Opera of LA SONNAMBUL A. Amine, Miss Adelaide 4 -Kemble ; Count Rodolpho, Mr. Giubilei ; Elvino, Mr. W. Harrison ; Lisa, Miss Poole. After which 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. To conclude. with the Farce of COUSIN LAMBKIN. Squire Mulberry, Mr. Bartley; Captain Bantam, Mr. Walter Lacy; Doctor Lionel Lambkin, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Bantam, Miss Cooper ; Rose Maynard, Miss Lee • Dainty, Mrs, Hamby. Doors open a t H a lf-p as t Si x , an d the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes is. Second Price 3s. ; First and Second Circles ,s., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery ls. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-office, from Tea 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. HAY-MARKET. THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, DEC. 1, Will be performed, (third time) a New and Original Come- diett - a in Two Acts, called, 'A CURE FOR LOVE. Felix Trimmer, Esq., Mr. W. Farren ; Richard Sadgrove. lag., Mr. Buckstone. Mrs.' Felix Trimmer, Mrs. Malone Raymund; Mrs. Major Browne, Mrs. W. Clifford; Miss Bitterton, Mrs. Glover; Mrs. Tubbs, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which the Comedy of NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS. Admiral Kingston, (his original character), Mr. W. Farren; Lieutenant Kingston, RN., (his original character) Mr. Charles Mathews, Short, Mr. H. Widdicomb ; Dennis, Mr. Malone Raymond; Pontifex, (first time), Mrs. Glover; Miss Mortimer, (her original character), Madame Vestris. To be followed by Mr. T. Haynes Bayly's Burletta of ONE HOUR; or, A CARNIVAL BALL. Mr. Charles Swiftly, (his original character), Mr. Charles Mathews ; Miss Dalton, (.her original character), Madame Vestris, wko will sing " Love is the Theme." To 'conclude with M Buckston'e's last New Farce, called A KISS IN THE DARK. Mr. Selim Pettibone, Mr. Beckstone ; Frank Fathom, Mr. Howe ; Mary, Miss Mattley ; The link - mown Female, Miss Connor ; Mrs. Pettibone, Mrs. W. Clifford. THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. M. JULIEN'S ANNUAL SERIES of CONCERTS. Commence on FRIDAY, DEC. 2, concluding Dxc. 15. M. JULLTEN has the honour to announce, that his Annual Series of Concerts will this Season consist only of Twelve, commencing on Friday, Dec. 2, and concluding the 15th inst., in consequence of M. Jullien's departure for France, and the Theatre being let for other performances after that period. The Orchestra, consisting of the most eminent Professors from her Majesty's Theatre, Philharmonic, Concerts d'Hiver, &c., will execute the principal works from the most celebrated com posers; and for the first time in London, the Melodies, Qua drilles, &c., collected and arranged by M. Jullien, during his Musical Tour in Scotland. THE PROGRAMME WILL I3E CHANGED EVERY EVENING. PROGRAMME FOR FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1842 PART I. Overture—Fidelio Quadrille—Semiramide, on Rossirls Jullien. Solo, Violoncello, performed - by M. Pilet Pilet. Grand Selection from Mozart's celebrated Opera Don Juan, with Solos, Oboe, Bassoon, and Violoncello, by Barret, Baumann, and Pilet, arranged by Negri. . ... Tho Real Scotch Quadrille, in which MOll3 Jullien will introduce an imitation of the High land Pipe, as performed in Edinburgh with unbounded,success during her Majesty's Visit to that city This Quadrille is published for the Piano by D'Almaine and Co. 20, Soho - square. Overture—William Bell PART .II Grand Duetto from Norma, for two cornet-a- Rossini. Ins sons, performed by Herr Koenig and Mons. Laurent Ballad Quadrille on Mr. Knight's and M. Jul lien's Melodies. Description-1. Ma Terre Nitale. 2. The Lily of the Valley. 3. I love thee. 4. She wore a Wreath of Roses. 5. Beautiful:Venice. Chorus of Gondolieri and receding mimic Solo Clarionet, 14 M. Lazarus Quadrille—Alma (from the admired Ballet per formed at her Majesty's Theatre), the music by Signor Costa, arranged by . Jullien . Waltz —Stadt and Landlebere . List Waltz composed by Strauss, in Vienna Strauss. Doors to be opened at half-past Seven * cklock Performance to commence at Eight precisely, and terminate at Eleven. Drees Circle, 2s. 6d.; Promenade, Is. ; Upper Boxes,ls. 6d. Plivalie Boxes, 1/. ls. Tieketsand placoo to hs % h ad at the Box-office of the Theatre," between Ten and Four o'clock daily ; of Mr. Mitchell, Roya tbrary, 33, Old Bend-street ; and Mr. Seguin,Regent-street. Bellini. Jullien. Lazarus. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, DEC. 1, win be repeated a New Drama, in Two Acts, called YOU KNOW WHAT. The principal Characters by Mr. 0. Smith, 31r. Wright, Mr. Maynard, Miss Fawcit, and Miss Murray. After which, a Am Comic Barletta, called AN CONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss Murray. To be followed by a Grand Burleta Spectacle, entitled ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche G iubilei. To conclude with THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prin. oipal 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. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Last Nine Nights of Mr. T. P. Cooke's Engagement, and Arrangemen of his Performing. THIS EVENING, DEC. 1, Mr. T. P. Ceoke will appear in the New Nautical Drama, en titled THE UNION JACK; or, the SAILOR and the SETTLER'S DAUGHTER. Mary, Mrs. R. Honner. After which, ROBERT MACAIRE. Robert Macaire, Mr. T. P. Cooke. To conclude with ESTELLE DUMASi supported by the entire Company. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, from eleven to four. MAPOF CHINA. NOW READY, A NEW CHINA SUN, CONTAINING EVERYTHING INTERESTING WITH RESPECT TO CHINA, AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE FIVE FREE TRADE PORTS OF CANTON, AMOY, FOO-CHOW-F 00, NINGPO, AND SHANGHAE ; TOGETHER WITH ALL THE GLORIOUS AND IMPORTANT" EVENTS OF THE LATE WAR IN THAT COUNTRY. Orders- received at the SUN-OFFICE, 112, Strand, and of all News-Agents. December 1. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning Slrillinutes after 0 Evening 2 minutes after I. LONDON : , TI URSDAT 3 . I I3RNING, DECEMBER 1, 1842. The City people are beginning to discuss the pro- liability of abolishing the Bank Charter, and they state confidently that some measure will be intro duced by the PEEL Administration to place the curredcy on a sound footing. We hope that tfie advice of other persons than City money dealers will be taken before any new measure shall be passed affecting all the property of the empire. For thirty years has the subject Of the earrency been incessantly agitated without pro ducing a unanimity of opinion even on its prin ciples. k For a much longer period have succes sive Administrations tinkered at the currency, acting in the darkest ignorance of all known principles, or wilfully setting them and setting honesty at defiance. The results have been a Prodigious number of unreadable bluebooks, and countless pamphlets; with great confusion and misery, frwn successive arbitrary changes in the standard of vala-i. No subject is more im portant or more eelicate, and the public will require twat it be most tenderly and cautiously handled. A Tory scribe has the shamelessness, in ad- Testing to this question, to speak of the Whigs as jawing been unable to deal justly and. properly with it, because they were exposed to a. pressure f rom without, and to boast of Sir ROBER., PEEL'S power as enabling the Tories to settle this and every other question as sound policy dictates, without regard to any other considerations. At . the same time we ere reminded that the batik-• ' • •!1 • 1 -* F . .. 44 ,4 ,4 2 - i . •se -"e", 1 1_ t an, ) 1-‘..%,),w. ing system of Scotland is an exception to the ge- . neral system. Is it possible that' the Tories of the present day have lost all recollection of what occurred in 1826 ? At that period, when their power was greatest, they were completely defeated in an attempt to abrogate the Scotch system, and the bankers north of the Tweed, aided by SirW. SCOTT, writing under the signature of " MALAGROWTHER," completely defeated the Earlof LIVERPOOL'S Administration. Mr.CROKER tried sundry tilts with the Novelist, and was as often cast to the ground. We make no objections to the Scotch system; but, be it good or bad, it exists in spite of the Tories, who would fain have destroyed it in 1826, and were obliged to allow it to remain. Till this day it exists, a mo nument of their inability to put down a powerful interest, which they said was inimical to the public welfare. That, however, was neither the first nor the last instance of their being compelled to do what they disliked. Before that they had been forced, contrary to their declared opinion, to amend our sanguinary criminal code; and atter that, in 1828, they were obliged, against their inclination, to sr,- crifice the Test and Corporation Acts. In 1829 they yielded Catholic Emancipation to gentl e pressure ; and in 1832, when restored for a mo ment to office, it was on a condition which they accepted, that they should grant Parliamentary Reform, though they had opposed it all their lives. Again in office, again they are proposing, from the compulsion of circumstances, the very measures they took office to resist. A more squeezable set of gentlemen, in fact, than your high-minded Tories, and men less to be relied on to follow out a policy they have advocated, never had possession of the Treasury ; and we shall take care never to mock ourselves and the public by calling them a Government. They are a mere Administration, and the not-wanted Income-tax with which they have plagued society, is a proof that they are a very bad Administration. COURT CIRCULAR. The Earl of Haddington, and other Cabinet Minis ters, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Dispatches from Sir Charles Bagot, Governor of Canada, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Sir George Cockburn visited Sir R. Peel yesterday. Dispatches for the Governor of Ceylon were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office. MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD' S MAGAZINE. In his admirable notice of " Lays of Ancient Rome," Christopher North—tor there is no mis taking his rapid, glowing, energetic style—does justice, in a frank and decided spirit, to the genius of Mr. Macaulay, both as a critic and a poet. We are glad of this, tbr we have long regarded this gentleman as one of the most ac complished spirits of the age—a sound scholar, an eloquent and forcible reasoner, a poet of high and rare powers of fancy, and an historical essayist, whose sketches of character—we shall never forget his masterly portraits of Chatham and Carteret—are among the truest and acutest in the language. "If Macaulay," says Christo pher, "be not the first of critics, who is? Then name the poet who could have written the ballad of the Armada, and kindled, as if by electricity, beacons on all the brows of England, till night grew day." The ballad in question is certainly a magnificent one, but it has always struck us as possessing one radical defect. In vigour and minuteness of description it is unrivalled ; we see the different mountains, north, south, east, and west, blazing with the beacon fires; we see the messengers scampering, like so many mad devils, here, there, and every where, with the news of the approach of the Spanish fleet; and we hear the drums and trum pets sounding to arms in all parts of the kingdom; but we see no strong human emotion actively and directly at work ; no gatherings of sturdy Eng lish masses with resolved countenances, and strong hearts beating, as though they were one man. Mr. Macaulay gives us the bustle, but not the passion of the crisis, and substitutes drums and beacon fires for the irresistible energy of the roused English character. In the follow ing passage only—we quote from memory—does he attempt anything like a portrait of human emotion— " With his grey head unbonnetted, the stout old Sheriff comes, Before him march the halberdiers, behind him sound the drums ; Ho, strike the flag-staff deep, Sir Knight! Ho, scatter /lower's, fair maids !" Now, the want of earnest sentiment here is so obvious that none can overlook it. What busi ness has an English Sheriff to be prattling about " flowers" and " fair maids" when the Spanish fleet is hovering on the coast, and the very exist ence of England is at stake ? Such an allusion is impertinent in the extreme, and would better become a bridal or a May-day scene, than the awful crisis of an invasion. We have hinted this objection in no unfriendly spirit, for, on the whole, we consider Mr. Macaulay's ballad of the " Armada" as one of the noblest in the language. Of his " Lays of Ancient Rome," Christopher thus speaks : It is a great merit of these poems, that they are free from ambition or exaggeration. Nothing seems overdone—no tawdry piece of finery disfigures the simplicity of the plan that has been chosen. They seem to have been framed with great artistical skill—' with much self-denial, and abstinence from anything incongruous—and with a very successful imitation of the effects intended to be represented. Yet every here and there images of beauty, and expressions of feeling, are thrown out that are wholly independent of Rome or the Romans, and that appeal to the widest sensibilities of the human heart. In point of homeli ness of thought and language, there is often a bold ness which none but a man conscious of great powers of writing would have ventured to show. In these rare qualities, " The Lays of Ancient Rome" re semble Lockhart's " Spanish Ballads," which must have been often ringing in Macaulay's ears, since first he caught their inspiring music more than twenty years ago--when, "like a burnished fly in pride of May," he bounced through the open windows of Knight's Quarterly Magazine. Two such volumes all a summer's day you may seek without finding among the wor k s ! o f " our Y oung P oets. " P eop l e do not call Lockhart and Macaulay poets at all—for both hinavperefaecr(eiuniereedto rs an ve i e n , veterate habit of writing and first-rate prose too ; but then the genius of the one man is as different as may be from that of the other —agree i ng, this, that each exhibits b one and muscle however, suffieient, i ifn equitably distributed among ten " YoPoets,"to set them up among the "rural villages" asstrong men, who might even occasionally exhibit in booths as giants. " Imaginary Conversation between Southey ' and Porson," respecting Wordsworth, is by Mr. Walter Savage _Landon It is in his cleverest manner, abounding in happy epig rammatic turns, quaint similes, and critical re flections of the most searching character. It also exhibits much wit of thought—the best species of wit— and great fertility and variety of illustration the gathered, with apparent readiness , from re motest and most out-of-the-way sources. The author is clearly no idolator of the great Lake Poet, but passes sentence on him with all the austerity of a Rhadamanthus. He is mis taken, however, in attributing Wordsworth's pre sent popularity—or presumed popularity—to the eulogistic writings of Southey. It is almost ex clusively owing to the eloquent criticisms of Pro fessor Wilson and Sergeant Talfourd, who have never missed an opportunity of sounding the praises of the author of the " Excursion." The " American Notes" of Mr. Charles Dickens fur nish the subject of a lengthy notice, exceedingly well written, but not sinning on the favourable side. " Ricardo and Adam Smith" may be useful, but it is assuredly dull and tedious; but writers on Political Economy are seldom pre eminently conspicuous by their eloquence and vivacity. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. The autobiography of " Richard Savage" is this month brought to a termination, and the last mo ments of the luckless adventurer are described in a letter " from Mr. Thomas Dagge, to Mr. Samuel Johnson, to the care of Mr. Edward Cave, St. John's-gate, London." There is great skill and ingenuity shown in this mode of bringing about the denouement, for Johnson—who was then writing, for Cave's Gentleman's Magazine, to which also Savage himself had occasionally con tributed—was just the man wile •would have been most anxious to hear all about his friend's last hours; first, from a natural feeling of curiosity, and secondly, because he had decided on becoming his biographer. And here, on taking leave of " Richard Savage," we may observe that the author has done all the justice to his subject of which it was susceptible ; and if his tale have not achieved a perfect triumph, it is because the character of his hero--aotwithe standing the eulogiums of Johnson—is known to have been coarse, unprincipled, and depraved; he was in fact, a rank impostor, as Crok er and Boswell I have proved beyond the possibility of question. "M r. Ledhury'sAdventures at Home and Abroad" are resumed with spirit, though here and there we are reminded a little too much of the mari ner of Dickens in the " Pickwick Papers." Some of the scenes in middle-class life in Paris show that the author draws from life, and not from fancy ; his account of the execution of a mur derer by the axe of the guillotine", is as gra phic as the late Dr. Macnish's description of the same tragedy. " Leaves of Legendary Lore" is from the practised pen of Doctor Taylor, who has told the fine old tradition of Roland with considerable animation.. A Night in the Adriatic" refers to the circunastanee of a murder which was discovered by means of a dream. The incidents are supposed to have been related by a French officer to the authoress while they were steaming by night across the Adriatic. Cicero tells a story precisely similar, with this sole difference, that in his version of the dream, it was hinted that the re mains of the murdered party would be found in a cart,instead of in a manger. "Pereant male, aui ante nos, nostra dixerunt !" says the' old dage, and Mrs. Romer may echo the anathema. " The Irish Mandarin" is a whimsical extra vaganza. setting forth how a Patlander from the bogs of Tipperary took it into his head to enact the part of a Chinese Mandarin at a dinner party, and how he succeeded in imposing on several re spectable individuals. " Life in Hanover" con tains some pleasing descriptions, but there is rather too much of it. " Sir Archibald" is a ghost story, well fitted for Christmas fire-side reading. The illustrations are throughout excel lent. We quote from an article entitled the "Tiger-hunt" an interesting passage or two : The tiger had evidently been hit, but springing for ward, he galloped along. We now began to pursue him, but it was very much after the manner that a good shot in England marks down his game, and fol lows it, for to keep up with the royal animal was im possible. We trotted about eight miles an hour, the tiger about sixteen at the least. We therefore con tented ourselves with following him, and dislodging him whenever he got into cover. Finding a village in front of him, the people of which had turned out, and fired several shots, the hunted animal endeavoured to double. In effecting this manoeuvre, he came within shot of others of the party, who discharged :their rifles with such effect that in a few moments the tiger lay senseless on the ground. We now des cended from our posts, and approached to view our prize, which seemed of more than ordinary size. We had just come up to it, when Lindsay, by way of explaining some remark he had made relative to it, touched it with his gun. Imagine our horror and consternation when suddenly the beast skirang up, and with one bound cleared the circle. or an in stant we stood paralysed, stupified with excess of fear ; then, rushing towards our elephants, we got under them ; this being a comparatively safe shelter, no tiger daring to approach within reach of their trunks, the enormous animal being ever ready and eager to kill the royal beast should he make the at tempt. The tiger, who had just risen, suddenly find ing himself hemmed in on all sides, glared around him for an instant. Several shots were discharged at him, some of which taking effect, so maddened the already infuriated brute that he made a sudden spring upon the back of the elephant, on which sat the mu sicians, and bit at the principal performer, who was nearest the croup. The poor man naturally shrank back. The- tiger, however, caught his foot, and tore off a considerable portion of it; then darting into the jungle, and, despite of a volley fired at him, succeeded in gaining the thick covert, from which for some time we vainly attempted to dislodge him. Finding all other means fail, we at length sent in the elephant that carried the fireworks, and began to throw them lighted into the reeds and brushwood, in order to frighten the tiger from his hiding-place. Presently, to our great horror, the jungle took fire. The mohut An vain urged the elephant, by goading him, to leave the spot. Alarmed by the flames, he stood perfectly still • nothing could induce him to move. The mohut, therefore, and those on his back, were fain to slip down, and risking even a rencontre with the tiger, make their way out of the now burning cover. This they did in safety. Never in my life did I look on a more magnificent sight than the confla gration now'before me. Disturbed by the fire, animals of every kind, serpents of every hue, burst from the burning jungle. The cries of lesser creatures, mingled with the roar of the affrighted elephant, struck awe into our hearts. The flames were high ; the whole country before us presented one mass of fire. No thing could exceed the grandeur of the scene. Standing on - the plain hard by, secure from the danger, we looked on in silent astonishment and admiration. Presently a louder roar was heard, and the elephant dashed ont of the fire. He had evidently been severely burnt. The pads and trappings on his back were in flames,. burning and rankling into his flesh ; the iron girths were actually red-hot, eating into his sides. He was roaring with agony, and ran bounding along the open space, his trunk elevated, lashing his back with his disproportioned tail. Screaming, mad with torture, in vain we attempted to pursue him, or close him in. Pain had driven him mad ; and as the huge animal galloped forward, the wind, acting on the flames, caused them to devour still quicker his thick flesh. His mingled roars and cries 1 can never forget. At length, dashing into a nullah, he instantly cooled the iron chains, which phizzed in the water, and in returning once more to their natural colour, added one more pang to the wretched animal. We now attempted to offer him succour, but it was too late. The elephant dived. The fire was extinguished; but as he came up he turned on his side, and with one convulsive roar ex pired. We now proceeded to return home. The whole way the cries of the poor musician were occa sionally heard. His pain was intolerable. He was but too well aware of his doom. There is a venom in the bite of a tiger almost always fatal. So, alas! it turned- out in this man's case. He died within eight-and-forty hours. or an able treatise in this Number, wherein the Charges7of the Bishops of London and Exeter are carefully considered, though, from the cautious character of his observations, we are at a loss 'to ascertain whether the writer is Tractarian or Anti-Tractarian in his sentiments. Of the. Bishop of London's Charge he says, " We rise from its perusal with a painful feeling about us, that it scarcely speaks the teal sentiments , of its gifted author. The Charge might, in most of its telling clauses, pass current for a dissertation of which Dr. Pusey or Mr. Newman would not be ashamed to claim the authorship. From the view which his,Lordship takes of some of the points under discussion, Dr. Pusey and • Mr. Newman, Dr. Bagot and Dr. Phillpotts, also, would with one accord dissent." In other words, the discreet Bishop is neither one thing nor the other; neither High Church nor Low Church, but oscillates, like a pendulum, between the two. We must confess that the honest straight-forward intolerance of Puseyism impresses us with a greater respect than this trimming, evasive conduct of Dr. Bloomfield, whose whole Charge seems to be neither more nor less than an elaborate attetnpt to conceal his real opinions: In " Reminiscences of Men and Things" we find some agreeable souvenirs of the late Armand Carrel, the head of the Republican party in France; of Victor Hugo, the popular, and we think, overrated novelist ; and of Arago, the astronomer. The death of Armand Carrel, who, it may be remembered, fell in a duel with Emile de Girardin, is alluded to in a spirit of sincerest tenderness. " 'Twas Yesterday," is a thoughtful poem from the pen of Mr. Charles Swain. We subjoin it entire : "'Twas yesterday !" familiar sound, Heard oft as idle breath; Yet, prophet-like, to all around, It spoke of woe and death ! A mourner by the past it stands, In mystic mantle of decay, Shrouds in the night of years its hands, And grasps all life away ! High from the boundless vault of Time The stars of empire veer ; "'Twas yesterday' they beam'd The mightiest in their sphere ! 'Twas yesterday reveal'd to Fate The rival crowns of centuries flown, Show'd where a phantom sat in state Upon the Caesar's throne ! Sceptre and robe were cast aside ! The ghastly bones stood bare ; • The rust fed on the gauds of pride, The worm held council -there. Nor answer would the phantom give, . But to our constant prayer replied— " Thus 'twill be said of all that live That yesterday' they died !" Where are the Grecian conquests now, The triumphs of her lute? Dust rests on the Homeric brow, • • Her genius is mute ! Where are the glorious hearts that fought For freedom in the " pass of Gore?" Gone—where the mightiest names are sought - With yesterday of yore ! We hope—but what we hope the shroud Wraps from our weeping sight ; We aim at stars, and clasp the cloud, — Seek day, and find but night ! Ali! who with Life's dread woes would cope, If 'twere not for that Faith sublime, Which sees the Ararat of Hope Above the floods of Time ? What, then, is " Yesterday ?"—a key To wisdom mosrdivine ! It is the hall of Memory,. Where Fame's brief trophies shine ! The spiritual borne of things, Where Intellect immortal beams, Which lends to thought its holiest wings, Inspires the noblest themes ! A drop that mirrors forth a world, Then mingles with the earth ; A star from Time s vast empire hurled, Slow falling from its birt h . Which saith,— ' • A presenc e with the sacred past to warn our " spirits of delay Proud man, to-day thou halt, Use well thy little day ! We agree with th' writer of the .essay headed " Ar n old and Smyth on Modern H aee sn s st t el o rr r i c oiasf ," in for b Dr. Arnold was indeed e judgment and cleamighted. was full of chasten e d fe rvour , rn:r.of the literary cl ia , and disting u i s hed by the free and easy play of its eloquence; and, had he lived, there is little doubt that he wou ld have won for himself a foremost rank among European historians. But lie was cut off in the very prime of his summer, when the world was eagerly anticipating the rich fruits of his matured intellect. The " Late Event at Cologne" is a very dull and languid ode. "My Namesake" is a passable story. In bslthebe r:ot i is o. o estimate his Nim rod's 4 6 My Life and Times"ne have some inter. esting particulars respectin g the autobiographer's literary undertakings. According to his own ac count, he must have made considerable sums by his pen, and turned his sporting knowledge to most profitable account. He deserves his suc cess, for he is a manly, cheerful, unassuming writer, who gossips sociably and affably with his reader, just as though he were sitting with him over a glass of good old wine, by a blazing Christmas fire-side. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1842 quiz oil classical fictions. The doggrel Latinity —that is to say, the English idioms rendered literally into Latin—are very archly and inge niously introduced. The egregious anachronisms, too, and exquisite ignorance of Roman familiar life and character, are scarcely a burlesque on some would-be classical novels that we have read of late years. The "Neighbours" is a laudatory notice of a tale translated firm the Swedish by Mrs. Howitt. "Cracknels for Christmas" is a smart, satirical squib; but why is Mr. Tenny son so unmercifully ridiculed ? He is as genuine a poet, despite some affectations and puerilities, as any of modern times. In the review of " Lays of Ancient Rome," Mr. Macaulay is warmly eulogised, but not more so than he deserves. "In the unpromising field of the Roman annals," says the Reviewer, " this gentleman has found rich materials apt for his purpose, which he has fashioned and moulded with a skill and felicity bordering on creative genius. If his " Lays" are not of the solid or utilitarian kind of litera ture expected from a modern statesman and jurist, they are in nothing incompatible with the higher part of the nature of such grave characters." Ready this day, lIIHE MEDICAL TIMES ALMANAC • (72 Quarto Columns for 4d.), containing all the Useful Matter of the best-compiled Almanac, an Abstract of the last PHA RM A COPCEIA, a complete A ecount of all the Microscopic Discoveries in Anatomy and Physiology, Lists of Poisons and their Antidotes, with matter of extreme interest to all classes of readers. May be had of all Booksellers and Newsmen. Office, (late Lancet Office,) Essex-straet, Strand. ETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S ANTI- I V_Ll- MONOPOLY ASSOCIATION.—The Committee beg to remind the Members of the above Association, that their Yearly Subscriptions are now due. The Committee meet to receive Subscriptions, and for other business, from 7 till 9 every Evening, at Hart's Temperance Hotel, Ib9, Aldersgate street, where the attendance of Friends of the Cause who may be willing to assist the Committee, will be esteemed a favour. Subscriptions for the ensuing year, 2s. Gd. bi ‘ 5 444Ar FA% CAI,--)4+4114 AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE. The first thing to be noticed in this Number is George Cruikshank's ghastly sketch of the wild English huntsman—the well-known Herne the hunter. Nothing can be finer in its way than this sketch. It is like one of Fuseli's striking fancies, but with less exaggeration. A strange, lurid gloom—a sort of "darkness visible," has settled ou earth; a solitary - owl is flitting above the massive foliage of the foreSt; and the spec tral antler-crowned hunter, mounted on a coal black charger—the fac-simile of that which bore the phantom knight crashing through the woods in Dryden's noble tale of " Theodore and Ho noria —is just about to plunge into the sable, Styx-like lake, closely followed by his one headed Cerberus. All is in perfect keeping throughout this sketch, though it mnst be con fessed, that as an engaaving, it shows, in places, both 'haste and slovenliness. Mr. Ainsworth, in his " Windsor Castle," has contented himself with just briefly glancing at this old Berks legend; but few as are his touches, they are as startling and bewildering as they should be, to be in harmony with the subject. Mr. Raymond continues his "Elliston Papers," and we confidently predict that he will make a very delightful volume of them. His account of the young actor's journey to Bath by the slow " Invalid' coach—what a vehicle for a bounding, mercurial young spirit like Elliston to travel by !—of the snug social supper at the little way-side inn, with the com passionate hostess and her pretty daughter, Alice —which reads like a bit of Boz—the pas sing references to Elliston's contrition, and the brief biographical sketch of Tate Wilkinson— these various m a tt ers are hit off with evident a 'familiar anecdote with pleasing, unaffected vivacity, as our readers will see by referring to his cursory sketch of that managerial phenome non, Tate Wilkinson. The essay on the " Plea sures and Advantages of Personal Ugliness" will carry comfort to the hearts of all Frights —to borrow a phrase from the drawing-room —and even enable them to read Lady Blessington's " Book of Beauty" with something like com placency. It is very amiable in the author thus to endeavour to reconcile the dwarfs to their humps—the sons of Anak to their ogre dimen sions—the Buckhorses to their hare lips—and the Jack Wilkeses to their buck-teeth and pug noses. The " Cholera in Ireland" is somewhat dull and prolix. " Sonnets by Mr. Sergeant Talfourd" are in the most cordial and graceful vein of the stateliest and most imaginative of our living dramatists, whose " Ion," as a recent tra veller asserts, has had the high honour of being translated by an admiring Hellenist into the lan guage of the country of Sophocles and Euripides ! We subjoin the sonnet addressed-,to Boz on the publication of his " Oliver Twist TO CHARLES DICKENS, ON HIS " OLIVER TWIST." Not only with the author's happiest praise. Thy work should be rewarded ; 'tis akin To deeds of men who, scorning ease, to win A blessing for the wretched, pierce the maze Which heedless ages spread around the ways Where fruitful Sorrow tracks its parent Sin, Content to listen to the wildest din Of passion, and on fellest shapes to gaze So they may earn the power which intercedes With the bright world and melts it ;--for within Wan childhood's squalid homes,_ where basest needs Make tyranny more bitter, at thy call, An angel face with patient sweetness pleads For. infant suffering to the hearts of all! FRASER'S MAGAZINE. The recent " Movements in the Church," oc casioned by the zealous and somewhat dogma tical writings of the Puseyites, form the subject NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. " More News from China" is a whimsical arti cle by the Editor, and consists of the correspon dence young scamp with his er believe that he is moth o,t w ho' agraceless t o distin guishing himself by his prowess in the neigh bourhood of Canton, when he is in reality living in the most dissipated manner in the Metropolis, and presumes on the inability of his mother to detect the local and other blunders in his Chinese descriptions. Here is his fabricated account of a battle with the pig -tail warriors of the Celestial Empire : " My own post was with a cloud of skirmishers that was pushed forward to enfilade our artillery, while it made a reconnaisance—but I do not pretend to de scribe all the manoeuvres of our army, like the moves at a game of chess. Some eyewitnesses, I know, profess to have seen every thing in an action, right and left, back and front, and in the middle, as clear as the figures of a quadrille, but which is very different to my notion and experience of a battle. To my mind it is more like a turn-up in London, where you are too much engaged with your own customers to at tend to what goes on over the way, or at the other end of the street, not to forget the dust and smother, for the guns and cannons, as yet, are not obliged by Act of Parliament to consume their own smoke. To give a clear idea of it, just fancy yourselfin a London fog, so thick that you can only . see your two next files. Well, by and by, the: right-hand one, after cutting an extraordinary caper, suddenly drops and rolls out of sight into the fog, and when you look rather anxiously for your left-hand man, you see Tom Brown instead of Jack Robinson. The next minute you throw a summerset yourself over a log or a dead corporal, you cannot see which, and then plunge with your head into the big drum, or perhaps on a dismounted cannon, with a crash that makes you see all the gaslights in London in one focus. Of course, you're insensible for a bit till you're refreshed with a kick or a stab, and then you revive again about as cool and collected as a gentleman waking suddenly, at midnight, to a storm of thunder - and lightning, a smother of smoke, a strong smell of fire, and a burglar or two at his bedside. All you see distinctly is some sort of bright picked-pointed instrument within an inch of your eye, which of course you parry off by natural instinct, and then going to work at random, cut and thrust right and left with your sword, or pike, or bayonet into the darkness visible, which goes into something so ft, an d comes ba c k r e d a nd dripping. That's to say, if you have good luck : if not, you get a slash or a poke yourself, from some person or w do not profess to understand ; so -per sons unknow n , i n your t h roa t, or your c h es t, or your stomach, or w h erever you lik e ." The " hot W ater C ure " i s a strange narrative, whose drift, far as we can make out, a s h r ewd, worldly Lon e don physician undertakes to cure a nervous fashionable patient, by telling her a long story-- a most original recipe, for long stories have hi therto been looked upon (and most properly) as a grievance rather than a benefit. "Phineas Quiddy" terminates happily and satisfactorily with the death of the dry, hard, mean, griping man of business, just as he has attained the acme of his ambition, and is about to be dubbed Sir Phineas by Majesty. " Story of a Genius" is well told, but the theme is hopelessly com mon-place. In the present chapter of the Barnabys in America," we find the adventu rous heroine domiciliated with a Quaker family . in Philadelphia, and preparing—by way of in gratiating herself' with them—to write a book strongly denouncing negro slavery. Throughout these chapters Mrs. Trollope indulges in the most reckless caricature. TAIT'S MAGAZINE. Mrs. Gore's story of " Abednego, the Money . Lender " is he re brought to a close, and the de nouement is more startling than any to be found i n Mrs. Radcliffe—that mistress of the romantic and- the improbable—for Abednego, the usurer, is actually converted into a gentleman, just as if such a transformation were within the pale of the remotest possibility ! Henceforth let no one wonder at the Metamorphoses of Ovid. "Specimens of Modern Romance" is a clever THE SPORTSMAN Contains this month two spirited engravings, the best of which is "Trout-fishing," and which has a charming picturesque back-ground. Among the literary contents, the most enter taining paper is an account of a tour to the lakes, and a visit to the house of Southey, the poet, who, we regret to learn, still lingers under the pressure of severe indisposition. i,tronteL' , ibition SUN OFFICE Three o'Clock. With the charming unconsciousness of com plete ignorance did the Morning Post, yester day, give the very highest praise to the system of free trade, and pass the severest censure pos sible on the system which bears the name of protection. " The lowest possible range of prices," said our Contemporary, " is the great object of the free-trade scheme of production. A high range of prices is, on the contrary, the avowed end of every protective system." Price is synonymous with cost; it signifies trouble and pain. All price is, and ever has been, paid by labour. To lower price is to lessen the cost, the trouble, the labour, the pain of producing com modities ; and to say of a system that it has for its object to effect the lowest possible range of prices, is to say that it aims at supplying man kind with all kinds of commodities at the least possible cost, and with the least possible labour. That, undoubtedly, will be, and must be, the result of the free-trade scheme of production, and higher praise it is impossible for human lips to bestow. That is the great object which all statesmen profess to keep in view. The Corn-law itself is defended on that ground. It is said to place the necessary supply of food in our own hands, and in the long run, therefore, to secure that supply more certainly and more cheaply. Very often has it been written in the Monopolist journals— " Once make the nation dependent on foreigners, they will watch their opportunity, and when you are much in want they will withhold the supplies till you give them a most exorbitant price, or your people are actually starved." The Corn laws are defended because they procure corn for the people on the whole at a less cost, less trou ble, and with less labour than the people could procure corn without them. All other laws are said to have the same object, and a law which should be avowedly intended to enhance the pain, labour, and cost of obtaining commodities, would be erased from the statute-book as a disgrace, not merely to legislation, but to human nature. We know nothing like it, except the reported wilful destruction by the Dutch-in former times of the produce of the Spice islands, lest condi ments should become too cheap in Europe. That is always mentioned to their discredit, and is considered so diabolical that good men refuse to believe it. To obtain the lowest possible range of prices is the assigned object of the protective system, as well as of the free-trade system. It is and must be the avowed or pretended object of every system. Every agricultural improvement, whether it be in making better ploughs or in draining land, or in a different rotation of crops, ends in producing food for man at a less cost. The inventions of WATT, and researches of DAVY, have the same ultimate object, and no other. The effects of the steam-engine are too palpable to need a word; the beautiful lamp of the latter prevents danger, and lessens the expense of working mines. In the end it gives us coals at a less cost or at less labour, and having coals at a cheaper rate, we have more labour or means at our disposal to get food. To reduce cost, trouble, or labour, is the end and a i m of all the ingenious contrivances of mankind; and free trade recommends itself to us, because it is, as the Post admits, coincident in its object with the noblest exertions of htiman genius. If what the Post says of the protective sys tem be true, it would be really and truly as diabolical in its aim, as we say it is in its effects. That system is not avowedly in tended to keep up a high range of prices. We have some doubts whether on the whole it does that. It limits the supply of food, increases the difficulty of getting bread, and annually starves a great number of people. That is its chief operation ; but what prosperity it stifles—what ingenuity it cuts off—what pro digious misery it causes, as the consequences of starving a portion of the people —no tongue, however eloquent, can deseribe,—no human mind even can appreciate. When the people are starved down to the supply, as they are pretty nearly at present, the cost, the trouble, the pain of obtaining food becomes again about the average, or prices fall, as at present, in spite of the protective system. But whatever may be the effects of that system, no statesman would avow that its object was to enhance the labour and trouble of obtaining food for the community. From gross ignorance the Post has really ma ligned the object of the protective system as much as it has unconsciously praised the system of free trade. The speech of Mr. COBDEN at Sheffield on that thread-bare subject the repeal of the Corn-laws, will be read with interest. It gives a cheering prospect to those who have so long laboured for the best interests of the country, and leads to the belief that the present Government. do not so much want inclination as power to put an end to class legislation. It is gratifying to find one op posed to many of their measures throwing off all party considerations, and giving them credit for good intentions as well as good deeds ; but it is still more gratifying to find that a large portion of the aristo cracy, and those the most respectable of the body, are anxious to legislate impartially, and to mete out equal justice to the manufactur ing and landed interests. We refer to his speech, for a list of the wealthy and powerful families, or their relatives, who are opposed to the selfish doctrines of the more needy and unprincipled portion of the aristocracy. The example and the aid of such men cannot fail in time to awaken the rest to their true interests, and remove from a body that should be above suspicion, the reproach of passing laws rather ror evil than for good, and of endangering their very existence by . a habitual disregard for the welfare of the com munity. Were they to deal justly between man and man, and imitate the example of the RAD lions and FITZWILLIAMS, and many also of the Tory nobility, they would find the people their best supporters, and thereby avert those dan gers which at every popular outbreak threaten one, if not two, estates of the realm. The Directors of the Great Western Steam- I Ship Company have presented a memorial to the Lords of the Treasury, which cannot fail to excite universal indignation. Why the late Go vernment patronised another party to the preju dice of this spirited Company, no satisfactory reason can be riven. They were the first to lay down, build, equip, and send to sea a steam-ship for crossing the Atlantic; they have maintained the intercourse between England and the United Stated for four years, with a punctuality and success which even their rivals cannot fail to admire ; they have, in fact, the merit of opening up a communication by steam with the whole of the Western World ; yet while another Com pany is subsidised by the Government to the injury of the memorialists, their returns having been reduced one-half, they are left to struggle on in difficulty, furnishing another proof' of the ingratitude of Governments, and the reward which so often falls to the lot of the bene factors of mankind. We cannot, for a moment, believe that Sir ROBERT PEEL and the other Lords of the Treasury will be deaf to the appeal. The country owes much to this Company for the beneficial results of steam navigation, and would cordially concur in any grant,fbr encouraging men whose first great undertaking astonished the world. Want of space prevents us from giving the Memorial at length this day, but the follow ing extracts will Igive our readers some idea of the strange conduct of the Admiralty, the wanton insult offered to the memorialists, and the great loss they have sustained by the partiality of the Whig Government : " Your memorialists foreseeing that a line to and from Halifax, continued to Boston (as a matter of necessity), could not be otherwise than extremely injurious to the enterprise they were the first to set on foot, tendered to do the work advertised for 45,0001. per annum—at the same time their ma naging Director, in a letter written in accordance with the printed terms for tender, and handed in with the same, stated that no Company could un dertake the work within six months, at the least, of the stipulated time,—as it would require ships of a cortain amount of tonnage and power to con tend against the gales and seas of the Atlantic, and that no Company would build such ships for a yearly agreement only, or for a less term than seven years. It is remarkable that the times named were granted to the successful party, both as to term of contract, and that of starting, and the tonnage and dimensions named were adopted, while your memorialists were permitted to collect from a speech of Mr. Charles Wood, the then Secretary of the Admiralty, in reply to a question of Mr. Hume in reference to the grant of 240,000/. per annum to the West India Mail Company, that they had been led on to tender, and to give information, for the mere purpose of enabling the Government to make a better bargain with the party they intended to deal with. An addition was made in the number of voyages, and a summer communication with Quebec (which pro bably pays very well) was exacted, and about 60,000/. per annum, since augmented by '20,000/. more, was granted without any official communication with your memorialists, beyond a formal Admiralty notice " that their tender was not accepted." Your memorialists think, and they believe your Lordships will think with them, that this was hard treatment to them. They had been at all the pains of planning, and had incurred all the risk, trouble, and anxiety, and expense of making an experiment which has been followed by the most important results to the country, and has been looked upon by the na tions of the world more in the light of a national un dertaking than a private speculation. The enterprising effort of your memorialists, al though at no time remunerative to the extent hoped for and deserved, was cheering until the line pa tronised in opposition to them by her Majesty's late Government came into the field, since which the pas sengers by the Great Western have been reduced by about a moiety, and your memorialists ran her through the whole of last season at a positive loss. Finding they could not long compete with such odds against them, and believing that the maintenance of a direct line between New York and England was a matter of great moment to the financial and mer cantile interests of the United States as well as Great Britain, your memorialists endeavoured to ascertain how far a direct appeal for assistance would be suc cessful in the former quarter, but they soon learnt that they had not merely nothing to expect, but that pecuniary encouragement would be given to Ame rican skill, science, enterprise, and capital, for com petition with your memorialists ; the importance, therefore, of keeping their Great Western on the line cannot very well be overrated. Your memorialists have had applications made to them by parties connected with foreign Governments, but they are loath to hand over the Great Western and her machinery, which has carried her the extra ordinary distance of 160,000 miles, and is still as good as ever, to a foreign Power, although they feel justi fied in noticing the fact, to show that foreign Govern ments are sensibly alive to the importance of en couraging steam navigation on the large scale. Accounts from Madrid are to the 22d of No vember, when the capital was perfectly tranquil, but it would appear that strong opposition will be made in the Cortes to the plans of the RE GENT. It was stated at Madrid that the Com mittee of the Spanish Chamber of Deputies, appointed to report on the Bill fbr a loan of 600 millions of reals, had recommended the rejection of the Bill, and that the Report was to have been presented in the sitting of the 20th inst., but was postponed at the urgent request of the friends of the REGENT, backed by the President of the Chamber, M. OLOZAGA, in order that the diffi culties of the Government might not at so critical a moment be increased by a circumstance so unfavourable to its interests. The Count DE LAS NAVAS had proposed a vote censuring the journey of the REGENT, and the meeting was becoming most stormy, notwithstanding the firmness of M. OLOZAGA, the President, when the Minister of Marine pronounced the prorogation of the Cortes. According to the latest accounts, all the towns whose adhesion to the Barcelona movement had been announced have returned to their allegi ance to the QUEEN'S Government. General VAN HALEN with his army, occupied Gracia, Sorna, and Sanz. Three members of the Consultative Junta had taken taken flight to the French territory. Advices from Figueras of the 23d, state that order was quite restored by the energetic con duct of the Mayor. Girona had also returned to its duty. TERRADAS, who, with fifty armed men, had stopped the diligence near Jenquire, was hotly pursued. The insurrection was entirely confined to the town of Barcelona. The Three per Cents. were done at 2111-16 a 9- 16, at 60 days, for 3,600,000 reals, and the Five per Cents. at 25A 26 for cash, and 26 7-16 I A, at 60 days, for 19,200,000 reals. The disturbances at Barcelona and the contest between General JACQUEMINOT and PORTALIS are still the chief topics in the Paris papers. The Presse, a Ministerial Journal, and evidently de voted to the cause of the ex-QuEEN, with great want of judgment displays alarm for the fate of the insurgents, and endeavours to throw the blame on the English, while the partisans of CHRISTINA are doing all they can to encourage the efforts of the Junta. " We were not wrong," says that journal, " in deploring from the com mencement the disorders of Barcelona, for, from the first acts of the Cortes, his evident that these disturbances can alone furnish ESPARTERO with the means of maintaining in Spain the domina tion of England. It is possible that he may suc ceed in putting down the insurrection by arms; lie could only conquer the resistance of the Spanish Parliament by a revolution. ESPAR TERO will be victorious, if Providence does not come to the assistance of unhappy Spain, and then he will be able to act as he pleases in fa vour of England. He will so act, and it is al ready seen how be prepares the way for so doing. If England is no longer contented with inter fering, by her diplomatic agents, in the domestic affairs of Spain ; if she carries out the plans an nounced by her correspondent at Madrid, and which have been confirmed in the most precise manner; if an English fleet should appear before Barcelona, ready to act against the untractable Catalonians, who will not consent to allow their manufactures to be sacrificed to England; what occur?gill What line of conduct will France adopt? Will she allow England to interfere by force in the affairs of Spain, and thus establish 1 her commercial domination at the foot of the Pyrenees 7"" According to accounts from Toulon of t he 25th, the Minister of Marine has directed that every disposable steamer, and a ship of the line and a frigate, should be immediately despatched to Barcelona. All these vessels were ready to take their departure, and the Jemrnapes of the line, the Minerve frigate, and the Grezois, A r e loce, Papin, Cerbere, and Etna steamers, were on their way to the capital of Catalonia. The Marseilles Semaphore of the 26th ult. an nounces that two of the steamers which left Toulon for Barcelona (the Etna and Cerbere) had been compelled by stress of weather to seek refuge in that port on the 25th. The others pro ceeded on t heir voyage. The Courrier Francais states that the Eng" lish and French vessels, which are expected at Barcelona, are to watch simultaneously over t he maintenance of order and the safety of the sub jects of the two countries. This journal adds that an augmentation of the French military force in the south is talked of. The following telegraphic dispatch was re ceived at Paris on Tuesday : n MADRID, Nov. 25. " The Regent was on the 23d at Calatayud, whe . re• it appears, he was well received by the people. 1". thing new has occurred in the provinces. • A private letter, addressed to the Nat i " al from Algiers, states that— of the t After repeated postponements on account uncertainty of the weather, the Governor-Gener al 5e out this morning on his expedition against the 001: seris, which will, it is said, deliver us from AiY`, l , o Bader, that flitting shadow after which we have been so long running, to the great detriment of our flrittn d ee ir : which would have been much better ernP l° Y e li e s raising villages, and in bringing from France farm b. , to populate them. Fears of the return of the brael from the Sahel have decided the Governor to ell ) them. BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, N IBER OVE3 to t First Highest Lowest or m ies . Price. Price. Price. ..', 1 9 French Five per Cents 119 ... 119 10... 119 • ; ‘ )6 50 4 1 , per Cents 106 50... 106 50... 106 0... j pl 45 Four per Cents 101 45... 101 45 .. 101 4 5 ••• ' t ip 30 3 per Cents 89 30... 80 30... 80 2. 5 ••• 40 02 5 0 Bank of France 3302 50...3305 ... 3302 50.. f i , o ` Laflitte Bank 5,000 f 5080 ...5080 —.5080 .•70 - 7 50 Belgian Bank 1841 1063 75...1065 ...1063 7 5 .• • , 1 031 Belgian Fives 1 041 1840 1044 ... 1044 104/ .."23 Spanish Active 22/ ... 23 ... 2 / ••• l os 60 Neapolitan lOB 45... 108 60... 108 45... ja Roman,: lO4 ... 104 104 ••• RAILWAY SHARES.. Versailles, R.B 265 ... 265 '265 ••• 5 0 L.B B7 50... 87 50... 87 5 0 ." n ip Rouen Orleans. 587 50... 587 50... 587 50... 50 Strasburg to Bale 2Ol 50... 202 50... 201 25... b DUTCH FUNDS.—As STERDAM Nov. 28. ills. Drone . Actual Debt, .2% per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. A mot t S.ndic, 44 per cent 9l v o 4 Mtto, ditto, 834 percent Commercial Company, 4% per cent 12154 Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 09% W 1 Exchange on London, One month l2 1 2 i Two months ....mi , 12 Hamburgh, One month 35 0 7 74 Two months 35 62 ) 4 Dutch Papers, Nov. 29. HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, Nov 25 . v on * Bills. 11 0 Austrian 5 per Cents. R A u n s g s l i o al lt s us r s e ia r n c Lo ent a . n , Bank Shares Inscription, Ist series Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series Ditto in Certificates 96 0/ New 4 per Cent. (1840) 27;4 51 Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ......... 51 Polish D NAen it wg t .01 ..i B Dc Bonds h Loan, 5 per Cent. 3 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate 116,0031.1% 81 8)/4 Spanish, New 5 p,r Cents . EXCHANGES ON LONDOiv. limatuaon, Nov. 25.-13 9, Two months 13 7%' PETERSBURG, Noy. 13.—Three months, 37% peRCE. RIGA, Nov. O. —Three Months, 37A,. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BviLuv, Nov. 24. c sia hu n ld Se Eng h lis , h 4 u p o e n r d c s e , n i t ß3o . 1045 i e l l t per cent. 10 2 % g " . 24 41 Prussian Exchange on London Prussian State Gazette. Nov. 25. . _.. __. MONEY and COMMERCIAL 0 CITY, QUARTER TO Till? of t he The Great Western steamer brings advi ces all , 17th inst. from New York - the 14th, from Alontre and the Bth, from New Orleans. be i l33 ' The Stock Market at New York is stated W I o nd, proving, but there was not the least foreign " e to — t ioni a circumstance which leaves room for congTat tl i our as showing the increasing circumspection ° ctis teS countrymen. Business in the United re° was not brisk, the country buyers having v e 'd w ith duced means, and therefor e no t com i ng f or ward :„ fat orders as usual. Besides this, th e o ld debts from liquidated. There is one circumstan ce, half ever, which deserves notice. Bad as ; lurid esto. trade of America their com m e rce w ith EDO o f the bushes a material b a l ance aga i ns t us , as olossfroeht line-of-packet ships go out with seared)" an Y is:ge° from here, but return from New York, 84 °•,• it with produce of all descriptions. For ti'nes, is clear, we shall have t o p a y in speci e, d e bt S ince, although the Americans ar e h eav ily i " rrthe old they do not send us consig nmen t s to wipe ° --' d woe score, the bankrupt law having been fours fire more effectual for that purpo se . The exehatn ore against us at most of the American portsi,r o f tbe likely to go still worse under th e recent to United States. o bste, The political excitement i n Canada does not, with' and the proceedings of Sir Ch ar les Bagot, 1'. 15 or drawing the official advertisements from Jour e Cos,ed to his Government, and in dismissing fre„oied lerkship of the Peac e a gen tl eman who had ° P r Mr. Baldwin, had excited much indignation. *jot It is stated ' in the Woodstock Telegraph eriosil Graham, Captain Talcott, and others of the A° 3 ,,,,Ked surveying party, who have heretofore been !loci; on the disputed territory, passed through bead on their way to the River St. Francis and b i or stO waters of the St. John, to undertake an OPh verif of the new line of boundary. The Te/egraPssityo, properly urges upon our Go v ernment the nee, e tio to immediately adopting s i m ila r me asures, an d N oes: lowing the country to suffer, as hitherto., by Per, that tination and d e lay. We h ave no d o ubt, helv ev w ill , t h e e on official ratification of the treaty, step s n ioiow taken for running and layi ng ou t the line e ° " . ' by the two Governments. bell° The Timber trade was expected to impro ve next spring. oi rtie s The Fruit trade as far as the brokers or o .bee° selling for the merchants are concerned, has l l i Ving a close monopoly, two or three wealthy fir rll , s os had the importers completely in their po" idea of effecting a sale without their intere ess o mad e ' never entertained, and, had the attempt b ee to eftb r i t i could not have proved successful. A vg °r° lo t, has now been made to throw open the lo r d 41 11 '7, reduce the heavy charges on the sales, a n „ e 0 t , should it be carried out, w ill nece ssarily b e public. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yes tercl o ill o w°9ive t i rather dull, owing to the acc oun ts of he r e O le° supplies to come forward from America• Eastern were only 3,500 bales, at pre v ious rates' derna lli Counties and Dover Railways were in poor Oft and shares generally were in less request an d, Junction brought 184; Great North of ; Po' Great Western Half, 621 ; Birmingham/ 1" ana and Rouen, 24i. The transfer books of Consols close t°: cl o 9Y hieni; parties seem rather inclined to go i 10 95; tb r for the opening at the current rates of 941 ,L t o gai! present transfer, the quotations have been • n't, 60 , Of at 94f to 94f. Exchequer Bills have realin ; on d 525. premium. Bank Stock is quiet at to East India Stock has fluctuated from g°l o 101; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are 101 there bag and the Three per Cents. 93/ to 9 4 . s a ving been a small purchase again in Consols f or the Banks. d vane' Mexican Stock bears rather an imPrevedi that since the declaration by Messrs. Liz the Pe there has been no over-issue of t at e ferred bonds, and which, in c onsequen ce 3 01; up to 81 and 81. The Actives are 301 t , being For Spanish Active Bonds the price is firsne fi3 18, while for the Three per Cents. 22i te i. ! at 66; been the quotations. Brazil Stock is steV_Yvo.orid-, :Is and Portuguese Converted at 32-1-• Dutch a-Half per Cents. are supported at 52%. b e en The Share Market, although firm, has not been o od brisk. Brighton Railways are 14i, Croydan t „I.,, st era Northern and Eastern 81 discount ; Great and are 21. 1 ,- to 22, South Western 18*, and.s. Bank Rouen 41/ to 5-1 premium. London Joint toc Shares are 3* premium. AT °NS' PRICES OF SHARES T HIS DAY Paid. Per Share. RAILWAYS. . to --- Eastern Counties .................. 23 ... -- .... 1 0i Ditto New 81 6s. ad. ' • 0 87 65 . 36i ...... Great western ...................... to -.... b 0 ... .351 ...... London and Brighton ...... ..• •.. , 0 .... to London and South Western 41% ••• •• ... • t . sss London and Croydon ( Trunk)... 13i ...... ...... so ...... 3bl ..... Northern and Eastern Pa D ri i s t a to nd Sc ß r o ip ue .... . .. .. ..... JOINT STOOK BANKS. So D ut i h all E S as e t r e ip rn . LoVioAnNtiinEtsSTtEogek ... . E ... x c I H O A ; G .. sN I3 o i and . ......... 2 5 2 0 0 : ............. ......... t W o t t : 147:4 CK is no alteration to notice in our marke t , di ve a ransactions . ,1.1 mass consists of the following t „Owl " . pool d Liv err er - 5 - • s—Anchester an , South Eastern Scrip, 18, , Salforot Birm e i n ng d ha iN m ia , nlcBh7es;tekttlgesStehraraes, 9 13 0 1. 1 r m, i A g e hon, District Bank, 101; Manchester and Works, 511. `\ \ le