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NEW STORY OF THE SEA, BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE TWO ADMIRALS," " THE PILOT," &c. On the 21st inst., in 3 vols. post Bvo. THE JACK o'l, ANTERN ( LE FEU FOLLET); OR, THE PRIVATEER, A Story of the Sea. By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Es q . Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. NEW ROMANCE OF PERSIA, BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE KUZZILLIASH," &c. Now ready, in 3 vols., post 8,0. ALLEE NEE 0 0. . THE BUCHTIAREE ADVENTURER. BJ. FRASER, Esq. Richardßentley, New Burlington-street. To be had at all the Libraries. W ----------- 200 MONEY DIVIDENDS will he divided on the 30th Instant, amongst EIQ HT THOU SAND TWO HUNDRED SELECTED Bon of the LOAN negotiated in the year 1820, and GUARANTEED by the GO VERNMENT and his Royal Highness the GRAND DUKE of BADEN. 1 Dividend 50,000 Florins 50,000 Florins 1 do. 25,000 do. 2.5,000 do. 1 do. 12,000 do. 1 do. 10,000 do. 1 do. 5,000 do. - 8 do. 1,000 dn. each B,OOO do. 10 do. 500 do. each 5,000 do. 10 do. 200 do. each ..- 2,000 do. 2)0 do. 110 do. each ''2,ooo do. 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THIS EVENING. NOV. 11, Will be repeated Shakspeare's Play of THE TEMPEST. Alonso, Mr. Cooper; Sebastian, Mr. Diddear ; Prospero, Mr. Vandenhoff; Antonio, Mr. J. vining ; Ferdinand, Mr. C. Pitt ; Caliban, Mr. J. Bland ; Trinculo, Mr. Harley ; Ste phano, Mr. Bartley. Miranda, Miss Vandenhoff ; Ariel, Miss Rainforth. After which will be repeated a New, Original, Comic Drama, written by Mr. Mark Lemon, Author of " The Ladies' Club," &cc., entitled THE TURF. Captain Flatooker, Mr. Walter Laey; Clovis Culpepper, Mr. Bartley; Gallop, Mr. Meadows ; Aaron Tret , Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Culpepper, Mrs. Humby ; Miss Warren, Miss Lee. Doers open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 3d. ; First and Second Circles as. , Secod Price .Is. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-effiee, from Tell till Four, where Season 'Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be hail at the Box-office ; of Messrs. An drews. 167, New Bond-street ; Mr. Mitchell , Old Bond-street ; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING. NOV. 11, Will be repeated THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prin al Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Lyon, H. Beverly , WWright, Sterling, 'Wilkinson, Maynard, Craven, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, Miss Faucit, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Beverly, &c. After which, a I\ ew Comic Burletta, called AN lONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss Murray. To he followed by a Grand Burletta Spectacle, entitled ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche Giabilei. To eonclu , '• with DEEDS OF DREADFUL NOTE. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, NOV. it, Will be presented an entirely New Nautical Drama, en titled THE UNION JACK ; or, the SAILOR an the SETTLER'S DAUGHTER, written expressly for Mr. 1. P. Cooke, who will he supported by Messrs. Hicks, Neville, Suggs, Healop, Mrs. R. llonner, and the entire Company. Now scenery and splendid nautical effects never before attempted. After which, THE TWO LOCKSMITHS. Burl, Mr. irloghes; Ellen Murray, Mrs. H. Vining. To eonclude with the Comic Drama of MILITARY TAC TICS; er, THE LADY AND THE LANCER. Plaees and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at tits Box-office, from eleven to four. MOH ATEtt AT 1.01.11)014 BitIDGR THIS DAY. Morning...—. 59 minutes after 7 1 Evening 35 minutes after 8. 4 4.'NefA A , :‹CcV ~zll3l° LONDON : FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 11, 1342. In the Seventh " Report of the Inspectors of Prisons for the Northern and Eastern District,'' is this passage—" I feel it incumbent on me to state that, looking to the materially increased rigour of our penal establishments within the last few years, I am of opinion that a corresponding shortening of the terms of imprisonment might be made in many cases of summary conviction, and of first offences of a light character ; and this being the case, I am satisfied that the offender would be discharged under a more salutary impression, together with less of moral and physical injury, and without any diminution of the securities of society." With the latter part of this quotation we have litt4e to do but remark that it does credit to Mr. WILLIAMS for careful observation and humanity. We cannot, however, allow the implied opinion, so contrary to the boasted results of prison discipline, namely, that its continu ance is deleterious to the moral as well as pity_ sical qualities of the prisoner, to pass without' notice. In confirmation of the opinion, Mr. WILLIAMS. adds, " The acuteness of feeling in convicts generally, after a time, settles down into a state of indifference and torpor ; they become habituated to prison life ; they move like mere machines according to regulation, but without the exercise of a single faculty." Imprisonment, therefore, far from improving the moral nature of the criminal, only benumbs, or, as it were, amputates his faculties. The first part of the q uotation shows that while the community has been plumingitself on lessening punishment, it has in fact very much increased its rigour. The penal lawgiver has had an unexpected auxiliary. The visitors of gaols, the adrninisteringJustice, have come to his aid, and sharpened to a degree unknown to all but prisoners the pain and privation he has meant to inflict. Front this we derive one great consolation. The increase of crime has been charged to the increasing humanity shown to wards offenders; but it is now proved by the highest authority that the supposed humanity has not actually existed. The auxiliary rigour which has not prevented the increase of offences, rescues humanity from the charge, and restores t 6 it all that. lustre of usefulness with which theory, loving it for itself, had gloriously in vested it. The first part of this quotation shows, more over, that all offences for which men were doomed to imprisonment before "the present materially increased rigour of our penal esta blishments" came into practice, are now much more severely punished than the lawgiver in tended they should be. If he had known at the time of making the law of the existence of the in reason and m ercy , h ave rigour, he would , shortened many terms of imprisonment which he ordained for very trifling offences. Mr. WILLIAMS' view, therefore, that now to shorten these terms would be beneficial, is ;:onfirmed b y • the present injustice of the punishment. At least, if it be just at present, it must have been inadequate and unjust when it was ordained. In one case or the other, the Legislature has done wrong, and has committed a serious offence, either towards the community, by not punishing enough, or towards the criminals by punishing too much, compared to which those of the un happy criminals w ho have kicked up a riot, per haps, or filched some trifli ng article ofyroperty, are light indeed. Another consideration arises from Mr. WIL LIAMS' remark. Magistrates, far from relaxing their ancient practice of summarily convicting men, women, and children, have, from a variety of circumstances, gone on extending and en - larging that practice. With a view to repreSs crime, criminals of several kinds have been gra dually more and more withdrawn from. the pro tection of a jury, and summary convictions have very much increased. When a prison was a mere place of detention, a mere restraint on personal liberty, that kind of conviction was perhaps bear able ; but now, when imprisonment is associated with insufficient diet, damp cells, the want of society, and irksome monotonous toil, and when it is inflicted on hundreds, perhaps thousands, every day in the whole society, it becomes a grievous cruelty and a grievous tyranny. The Magistrates go on inflicting it from habit, be cause their predecessors inflicted it when it was only a trifling evil, though it has now become, to thousands and to the community, a serious cala mity, injurious alike to body and mind. We may perhaps say that the paragraph we have quoted is pregnant with a more general lesson than the instruction in detail it has af forded. It is a type of what is continually hap pening, by which laws become inadequate or unjust. The law-maker, with the best intention no doubt, lays down a general rule, which is nominally fixed, and does not change from year to year or month to month ; but all the circum stances to which it applies do change, and his nominally fixed rule is in relation to those cir cumstances, by which alone it can be tested, exceedingly changeable. He fancies he has secured the stability of a law or an institution — he has only provided a form of words, a set of phrases, which will not be immediately altered; and his institution or his law is made to vary almost as soon as it comes into existence. Take the case of the 101. franchise. The law makers of 1831-32, meant by that to enfranchise the bulk of the artisans and intelligent workmen. At least it is impossible to be acquainted with Lord BRouGx AM'S high opinion of those classes, with out being convinced that such was his intention. The law-makers are not very well acquainted with the habits of the people, and so the law fell short of their intention. But if the prosperity of 1834, 1835, and 1836 had continued—had the cir cumstances of the people gone on improving, that intention would speedily have been realized. The distress of 1837, 1838, and every year since, has not only prevented the extension of the fran chise to the degree intended, but has every year since curtailed it more and more. In the pre sent year, owing to the number of persons who have been constrained to receive relief, and owing to the fall in the rent of small houses, the disfranchise ment in Leeds, Manchester, and other places, is very great indeed. The ten-pound limit, therefore, remains fixed and unalterable, but with prosperous circumstances, and a small in crease of intelligence amongst the people, that fixed rule might be extended almost to universal suffrage, or it may become, as at present, under adverse circumstances, a most narrow and re strictive law, which places the bnlk of the com munity out of the pale of the Constitution, and actually endangers, by its vast irritation, the safety of the State. We might easily quote other similar instances to illustrate the general lesson taught by the In spectorof Prisons' Report, viz., that while the law is nominally fixed, and the law-maker supposes because it has not worked enormous evil at one time it cannot effect it at another, the circum stances to which it applies continually undergo variation ; and, tested by them, it has varied just as much, producing, perhaps, at one time, un bearable evils which were unknown at another. We must, however, stop, leaving our readers to seek other illustrations for themselves. We may, perhaps, borrow some hereafter from the de tailed accounts of the separate prisons contained in this Report. The LORD MAYOR'S feast unites all parties in enjoyment, and furnishes no occasion fbr politics or partisanship. To convert it into a theme for angry discussion is toL set at defiance the good example which the great men present set to the press as well as the public, and to act with as much bad taste as they displayed good taste and courtesy. We will not depart from their rule. We will not disturb the digestion of the convives with one bitter remark. We can only regret that we were not pr,esent to share the hospitality of Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY, and hear the sportive jests of Sir ROBERT PEEL. The worthy Alderman undertook the defence of tur bot and turtle, when the tariff was under discus sion, and his feats on those great subjects were appropriately hinted at by Sir ROBERT as a certain augury of numberless excellent dinners, during the next year, at the Mansion- The whole assembly echoed the de7 ouse. lightful prophecy. The Alderman and the Pre mier, too, complimented each other on their public services and public virtue, and all the:com pany laughed at the joke. The Premier only became serious when he began to describe the objects he had in view, and then, too, the com pany being in a merry mood, laughed, but whether it was because Sir ROBERT had laccom plished his object, or had failed, the reporters have neglected to inform us. The company as sembled to eat, drink, and be merry; and know ing that Sir ROBERT PEEL must be miserable enough in Downing-street, and fearing that lie will be more miserable still before Parliament meets, we cannot find fault with him, that amidst the distress and ruin around him, and which have followed his footsteps, be appeared to be merry at the LORD MAYOR'S feast. It was recently proposed at a meeting of Not tinghamshire Magistrates to increase the police force for that county one-third, and the proposal, we believe, remains over for consideration. At a meeting of Staffordshire Magistrates, at Stafford, on Tuesday, Lord SANDON moved a resolution that it is expedient to take measures for the in troduction of a more efficient system of police into the county of Stafford, under the 2d and 3d of VICTORIA. After some discussion, the resolu tion was unanimously carried, and followed by other resolutions, carrying into effect the Report of a Committee. According to its recom mendations there will be appointed four police superintendents to the Pottery district, one at 1301. a year, and three at 1001. a yearovith sixty constables at weekly salaries of 165., 18s., and 205.; six police superintendents and ninety constables at the same rate of pay ment, for the mining districts; one of the super intendents to be mounted, and have a salary of 150/. a year; and eight superintendents, with seventy constables, for the rural districts of the country. Over all there is to be a chief consta ble with a salary of 3501. a year. Thus we find the country gentlemen busily engaged in orga nizing a police for their own security. What may be the cost of this new force in the rural districts of Stafford we do not see stated, bot it is proposed to levy on the Potteries and mining districts, for the support of this police no less a sum than 9,2401. a-year. Our view of what is at present good policy in our rulers is perhaps simple and erroneous, but it strikes us, when the country is groaning under the weight of local and general taxation, that every addition to it, for whatever purpose, is very much to be deprecated. The Staffordshire nobles and squires have adopted a different con clusion, and they are helping Sir ROBERT PEEL to destroy the incomes of the industrious classes, and the nourishment of future industry. In the course of the discussion Alderman COPELAND observed, that unless the Potteries were supplied with an additional police "he would not answer for what might occur during the ensuing winter." From the apprehensions, therefore, which the opulent and unpro ductive classes in Staffordshire entertain of the masses engaged in productive labour, they are about to establish a new and an addi tional coercive force. The proceeding is ob viously the result of fear. Instead of living like • brothers in this England of ours, class dreads . class, and man dreads man. - . It is plain and palpable, too, that the poverty of the people, the tumbling down of their wages, their want of employment, and their consequent discontent, are the causes why,the COPELADIPS and the S A N Dore are filled with alarm and urged on to establish alarger protective and coercive force. But what makes the people poor and discon tented? Restrictions on the supply Or 'their food, and excessive taxation ; and without re moving the former, the Staffordshire 'squires are augmenting the latter. One of the pretexts for Corn-laws is county rates, and county rates are to be augmented, furnishing a pretext for the continuance of the Corn-laws. The Magistrates, therefore, are, in a measure, the cause of all our disorders, and the cause of their own alarm. Such policy must end in mischief. Coercion, we are assured by every page of his tory, can only in the long run answer the pro posed object by ruining all prosperity. The peace which it establishes is the peace of desolation. It is incompatible with the hum of energetic industry. No good there fore can ultimately come from the eagerness of the Tories to carry into effect the Whiz scheme of a general police. It might do were the country very thriving, but then they would not think of it, and it would not be required. It is the wretchedness of the people which begets the necessity for constables, and supplies them. Were they prosperous, men would not be found for the unpleasant occupation. But when the wages of labour are Bs. or Os. a-week, the pay of a constable 16s. or 20s. will be opulence and ease. To us it is a singular spectacle, to see the opulent and unproductive classes of England incessantly engagedin forging and rivetting fetters on the industrious and productive classes. Such is not the end nor approved object of Govern ment, and in despite of the calculating prudence of such men as Alderman COPELAND, and the sordid care for their own interests of such Corn triment of our finances, and of agricultural labour. Examine for a moment the progressive increase of the expenses into which France has been successively drawn of late years. In 1837, the army estimates were 230,000,000, undoubt edly a very considerable sum. In 1812 they amounted to 361,000,000, being 131,000,000 more, or fifty per cent. of increase. The navy esti mates in 1837 were 66,000,000, and in 1842, 130,000,000, or more than double !• And this is not deemed sufficient ! And every day the journals of the Left, those great cleavers-down of large budgets, cry out, treason ! if they only suppose the Ministry to have the slightest in tention of effecting a slight saving ! Can it be supposed that our finances can long resist these enormous expenses, out of all proportion with the state of our resources ? What is to be left for the day on which some great effort is to be made, if thus, when all is calm and tranquillity around, when the chances of collision are on every side removed to a distance, you fritter away your revenue in unproductive sacrifices ?" The same journal contains the following ex tractfrorn a letter dated Alexandria, the 25th ult.: This morning a French brig of war arrived here from Beyrout, which announces that the Druses and the Maronites have risen in a mass ; that the most perfect agreement exists between them, and that the Turks had retired from all their positions in the moun tains, not being able to stand against the population. Artillery had been dispatched from Beyrout, but it could not penetrate to the mountains. A caravan from Beyrout had been pillaged by the insurgents, but all the goods belonging to Europeans, Syrians, and Chris tians were respected. Letters from Constantinople of the 19th also State that MVSTAPHA PACHA has had orders to remain in Syria, on account of fresh disorders in the Lebanon, and because the Envoys of the Great Powers have not accepted the offers of the Porte relative to Syria. OMER PACHA. also remains. The Arnauts are ordered to the Per sian frontier. The SULTANA MOTHER has recon ciled RIZA PACHA with the SULTAN'S brothers in-law, FETHA ACHMED and HALIL, so that the appointment of them is extended. The Courrier de la .211oselle contains the fol law makers as Lord SANDON, we venture to pre dict that their protective and coercive police will hasten the national decay. Just as we anticipated, people are everywhere beginning to cry out against the Income-tax. The shoe pinches, even before it is well on to the foot. " We daily hear," says a Morning Con temporary," of mercantile establishments in the City, of reputation as unimpeachable as any of her Majesty's Ministers, being served with sur charges by a huckster or vender of small wares, residing in some obscure alley or lane in their locality." But this, though:quite bad enough, is not, it seems, the worst part of the business. The same authority adds, that it has good reason to believe that the per centage of the tax-collector is to be doubled for diligence— lowing : The Chamber of Commerce of Metz, after a long deliberation, during which the majority (7 out of 8) declared themselves in favour of a commercial union with Belgium, refused to accede to the demand which the iron-masters had made to them to send one of their members as a delegate to support their representations with the Government. The Chamber of Commerce contented itself with again expressing its desire of last year, that the iron-masters of the Moselle should have their interests considered as much as possible, but without intending, by so doing, to declare against the commercial union of Belgium, which appears con formable to the wishes of the majority of the traders and manufacturers of the department. The adjudication of the contract for the works of the first section of the railway from Paris to the Bel gian frontier took place yesterday, at the Prefecture of the Seine. There were seven tenders ; two by Messrs. Lacasse and Laboure and M. Beaubau, at a sum beyond that fixed by the Government ; the third by M. Nepveu, at a reduction of three per cent. on that sum ; the fourth by M. C. Seguin, at a reduction of if. 60c. ; the fifth by M. C. Langlois, at a reduc tion of six per cent. ; the sixth by M. Paucellier, at two per cent. reduction ; and the seventh by Messrs. Sherwood at seven per cent. under the Government estimate. The latter were consequently declared the contractors. Messrs. Sherwood were the contractors of the London and Croydon railway, of which the en• gineer was Mr. Gibbs. The Commerce states that after the adjudication, some of the persons who had put in tenders demanded the production of a certifi cate of capacity by Messrs. Sherwood. This demand not being sanctioned by the parties acting for the Go vernment, a protest was made against the contract, on the ground that Messrs. Sherwood were foreigners, and could not therefore have a certificate of capacity from a French engineer.—Galignani. BOURSE—Rams, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 119 ... 119 15... 119 ... 119 5 Four per Cents 101 70... 101 70 .. 101 70... 101 70 3 per Cents 89 35... SO 40... 80 30... 80 35 Bank of France 3280 —.3280 —.3280 .. 3280 Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1055 ..1055 ...1055 ...1055 5.000 f 5082 50...5082 50...5082 50...9082 50 Belgian Bank 810 ... 810 810 810 Belgian Fives 103} 103 1 . 1031 ... 1031 1840.... 104 i 104¢ ... 104/ ... 1041 Threes 72 ... 72 ... 72 Spanish Active. ...... • 221 ... 221 221 ... 221 Passi v -•• • • 4 ... A ... 4 ... 4 Neapolitan... ........ 108 90... 109 ... 108 90... 108 90 Roman, ex di!.......... 104 ... 1041 ... 103; ... 104 i Portuguese Fives ...... 324 32 324 32} RAILWAY SHARES . that is, of course, for speedy returns. Pleasant prospect this for John Bull ! He will now reap the full harvest of his exertions in. the cause of Toryism. A host of ravenous harpies, in the shape of tax-collectors, who have a direct per sonal interest in annoying him, inasmuch as they will be paid in exact proportion to the ex tent and activity of their annoyance—a host, we say, of these ravenous creatures will avail them selves of every opportunity of subjecting him to their paltry, teazing importunities and insults, and establish a raw in his temper which they will take good care shall not very soon heal. We cannot say we think honest John wholly un deserving of such treatment. He was desirous of having, what he called, a respectable set of men to govern him, and he is now paying the penalty of his love of respectability. Seven pence in the pound is the exact sum John Bull pays for his admiration of the genteel and the respectable I That the clamour against the Income tax will very shortly be universal, and that the proposed doubling of the per centage of the collectors will add greatly to the popular detestation of the impost, we have not the slightest doubt; but what will Sir ROBERT PBEL care for all this general discontent? What will he care, even though Anti-Income-tax Meetings should be held in every county, town, and village throughout the kingdom, so long as he can com mand his present subservient majority in Parlia ment ? He has a giant's strength, and he knows it ; and like a giant, will he use that strength, utterly indifferent as to whether his measures are popular, or the reverse. In the particular case of the Income-tax, however, he had some grounds for supposing that his pro position would be readily agreed to by the people, for, when it was first broached, scarce a -whisper was heard against it, out of Parliament. No meetings were held—no remonstrances made —and the petitions, considering the repulsive nature of the impost, were singularly few. But now, when the tax is fairly clapped on John Bull's back, and his broad shoulders ache under the burden —now, when the nuisance is no longer distant, but brought to his own door ;—in a word, now, when it is too late, honest John be gins to cry out against the ,Income-tax, and to abuse his respectable friend, Sir ROBERT PEEL, for having saddled him with it. John Bull— John Bull, you may as well hold your tongue, and be resigned, for say what you please—do what you please—you will not prevent the collector from honouring you with an official visit twice a year, for at least five years to come. 86 26595 5 .82 2 95 F 2,656 5 .5 86529655 Rouen .............. 572 50.,. 572 50... 572 50... 572 50 Orleans. .................. 588 75... 586 75... 587 50... 587 50 Strasburg to Bale ...••• 206 25... 206 23... 205 ... 205 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Nov. 10. Parliament was further prorogued by Commission, to-day, until Tuesday, the 13th of December. Shortly before three o'clock, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Buccleuch, and Lord Wharncliffe, entered the House, robed as Lords Commissioners, and took their seats below the Throne. The Lord Chancellor having directed the Commons to be summoned to hear the Commission for further proroguing Parliament read, Mr. LET, one of the Clerks at the table, accom panied by several officers of the House of ommons, appeared at the bar as the representatives of that House. The Commission having been read by the Clerk at tho table, The Loon CHANCELLOR, in her Majesty's name, declared the Parliament further prorogued until Tues day, the 13th of December next. The representatives of the Commons then retired from the bar, and the Lords Commissioners left the House. The Speech of the KING of the BELGIANS, on opening the Chambers is very satisfactory on all points which relate to the internal prosperity and government of the country. A loan has been contracted on favourable terms—a proof that the credit of the State is considered good. The 'law passed last session for encou raging education has been eminently successful, and all the difficulties caused by the violent se paration of Belgium front Holland, have been finally removed by a friendly treaty, which ap pears equally acceptable to both countries. This may be regarded as one of the beneficial results of the abdication made by the late KING in fa vour of his son, for his obstinate and violent antipathy to the Belgian nation would in all pro bability have precluded any amicable settlement during his life time. As regards foreign coun tries, and especially England and France, the speech does not afford subject for congratulation. The rage of the day has also seized the Belgian Go vernment, and rneasuresare to be proposed during the session for increasing the duties on imported goods, and lowering them on exports, in order to raise the revenue and encourage home manu factures. The KING could not fail to see on his visit to Paris that the delegates from the manufacturing and corn-growing dis tricts were totally unmanageable, and de termined to resist every rational plan for a commercial union, and he therefore takes the earliest opportunity of convincing them that Belgium can return the compliment. This is a pitiful, and at the same time a destructive system of annoyance to two countries so intimately connected by position, language, and family ties, a in n fi d ue m ne u e st on in th t e h i e r p e o nd liti p ca rod lre u l c a e an unfavourable tions.TheKlNG carefully avoids all allusion to the late negotia tions with the French Government, but in two brief sentences points oat to the monopolists the , return they may expect from other countries for their obstinate attempts to isolate France and carry on the war of tariffs. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDkT.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert left this morning, attended by the Lord in Waiting and the two Equerries, and accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal. The Royal party reached Slough at eight o'clock precisely, and were conducted to the special train by Mr. Saunders and Mr. Howell. Mr. Saunders, the Secretary, and Mr. Brunel, the Engineer, attended the train from Slough. Mr. Gooch s uperintended the drawing of the train, and in five minutes after the arrival at Slough the train was proceeding. The " Prince" was the name of the engine which con veyed the august party to the metropolis on their way to Walmer Castle. The Hon. Mr. Murray, the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and the two Maids of Honour, will leave the . Castle in the course of the day. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal and suite, arrived by a special train at the Paddington terminus of the Great Western Railway yesterday morning from Windsor Castle. The Royal party took their departure twenty minutes before nine o'clock, in three of her Majesty's carriages and four, escorted by a party of Hussars, for Walmer Castle. H er Ma j est y and his Royal Highness Prince Albert were in the first carriage. Their Royal Highnesses the 'Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal and the Dowager Lady Lyttelton occupi e d the second carriage. L ad y Port man, Lady in Waiting ; Lord Charles Wellesley (Clerk Marshal), Waiting ; Viscou nt S y dne y , Lord in Equerry in Waiting on the Queen ; and Col. Wylde, Equerry in Waiting on the Prince , were in the third carriage. Sir George Seymour had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday, a t the Colonial-office. Captain Fitzgerald, R.N., and Mr. James Erskine had also in terviews with his Lordship yesterday. The Madrid journals of the Ist instant have been received, but their contents are barren of interest. The REGENT has given a grand ban quet to all the members of the Cabinet, at the Palace of Buona Vista, in order, it is thought, to throw discredit on the rumours which have been prevalent of a want of accord between the Ministers. Nothing doing on the Bourse► --- It is generally expected that Parliament will meet for the dispatch of business about the third week in January. NARROW E SCAPE O F FIVE OF THE THAMES PO- LlCE.—Wednesday, as the Lord M a y or and t h e City Companies were proceeding in their State barges up to Westminster, and when off Waterloo-bridge, one of the Thames-police boats, containing four men and an inspector, in passing through one of the arches of Waterloo -bridge, came in contact with one of the City barges and instantly capsized. The whole of the men were in an instant out of sight; on rising, they were fortunately within reach of the long oars used by the watermen belonging to the City Companies, and being rescued from their perilous situation, they were taken on board, when the citizens administered restoratives to them in the shape of excellent brandy, after which they were sent ashore. With this accident the civic procession reached Westminster Hall; but, upon their return, they were doomed to meet with another accident. To escape the strong current of the tide, which was running up, the steersmen ordered the barges in shore on the Surrey side. On arri v i ng opposite Goding's brewery, the whole of the barges got aground ; where, in spite of great exertions, they remained immovable. The looks of the worthy citizens at the prospect of losing their annual dinner were heart-rending. At length, after about an hour's suspense, the tide rose sufficiently to enable the barges to be got off, and the procession, in due time, set foot on the shore at Blaeldriars'. bridge. The editors of Paris journals, finding their at tacks on England little noticed here, and weary of fighting with phantoms of their own imagi nation, amuse themselves occasionally by all writing against each other. The Courrier Fran cais had a furious article, some days ago, against their own Government, and especially M. GulzoT, for faring to reduce the navy, in defi ance of a vote of the Chambers. The Presse, in reply to this, defends the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and points out the folly of those warlike editors in calling for large armies and large fleets in a time of peace. It at the same time tells theta some plain truths respecting theenor mous sums thrown away since M. TruEns raised the war-cry against England, placed France in a state of isolation, and drove her Governt ment to the necessity of increasing the eiti. mates to an amount totally disproportioned to the resources of the- country. " There is," says this journal, " assuredly in France an injurious propensity to prodigality as regards expenditure for the national forces. Owing to this tendency, an immense force is kept up, to the great de- rHE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 11, 1842 SUMMARY OF NEWS AND PtitMC 1 4% Pt MOIL " Who runs may read.' FOREIGN. " The French Ministry," according to La France, " has twice discussed the question, whether there shall be a sitting to re-open the session, and a speech from the throne. The first time the Council unanimously decided in the affirmative; but since the affair of the Belgian treaty this first decision has been re-consi dered. The Council is divided in its opinion, arid the arrival of M. Teste is waited for to turn the scale." A pretty considerable number of Spanish refugees, especially of the Carlist party, have lately passed through Bayonne, and are provided with regular passports, delivered by the Spanish Consuls by virtue of the decree of amnesty. The ex-General Dominique Vandersmissen, one of the persons condemned for conspiracy against the Belgian Government, has succeeded in escaping from the prison of the Petits Carmes. The escape was effected in a manner similar to that of the celebrated La Vallette. The session of the Belgian Chamber was opened on the Bth by a speech from the throne, delivered by . his Majesty in person. Her Majesty the Queen arrived at the Palace of Lacken on the 7th. The contract for the execution of the first portion of the railroad between Paris and Belgium has been finally adjudged to an English company of the name of Sherwood, at 7 per cent under the estimate. A new cathedral is to be erected in Berlin on the site of the old Domliirche. It has been designed by Stuler, after the King's ideas. It is to be a Roman • Basilika, with two high towers. We learn from St. Petersburgh, 29th - ult., that the Emperor had recovered from the cold which he caught on his late tour. lie had, since his return, received the English and Austrian Ambassadors. The, Augsburg Gazette states from Goritz that tho Archduke Stephen had just paid a visit to the Duchess of Angouleme. The Duke of Bordeaux is, it says, to repair in the beginning of November to Prague, where he is to pass a few weeks. "It is said that the postal conventiox between the Grand Duchy of Baden and Austria has been signed by the contracting parties. The principal object of this convention is to render unnecessary the pre-pay ment of postage. The negotiations on the same sub ject with Prussia offer more difficulties on account of the high rate postage in that country. It was confidently stated at Alexandria, according to the latest accounts, that the Maronites had united with the Druses in Mount Lebanon and attacked and defeated the Turkish troops. PUBLIC OPINION. The Times, alluding to the Emperor of Russia's attempt to introduce uniformity in religion through out his dominions, observes:—" If there is one kind of religious intolerance more odious than another , it is that which lacks the pretext of an earnest conviction or the blindness of sincere fanaticism, and which per petrates the crimes of bigotry with no higher motive than the fulfilment of a scheme of political oppression. The rod of persecution was a cruel and unnatural weapon in the pious hands of Isabella the Catholic ; but it is degraded to a meaner and more hateful office when it is used to complete the work of mili tary conquest, and when the anathema of religious intolerance is directed, not only against the tenets, but the nationality and the ancient religious practices of a people. The cruelties perpetrated in former ages in the name of the Church of Christ were at least regarded by the nations of those times as the natural consequences of a struggle between eccle siastical zeal and obdurate heresy ; but it was re served for the present Emperor of Russia to outrage the feelings of Christendom, by a revival of scenes which have not been witnessed in Europe since the edicts of Louis XIV. against the Protestants. It was reserved for the Emperor NichulaS to exact conformity to the Church of Russia as a political institution, and to direct against the sister churches in his dominions the whole energy of the secular' power, for the sole purpose of reducing certain classes of his subjects into more absolute subjection to his own temporal authority, and more complete uniformity with the in• stitutions of Russia. When new pro?inces or king doms professing a different form of Christian worship have been annexed to the Crown, and when that form has been solemnly recognised in the treaties of cession and the public acts of several reigns, to attempt to extend the religion of the conquering country by force, and to extirpate these varieties 'of divine wor ship, for the purpose of reducing every portion of a east and motley empire to one precise standard of orthodoxy, is to stretch the monstrous principles of the Inquisition itself. In Russiuthe standard of or thodoxy is that the Emperor is the head of the Church. Provided the clergy inculcate on their flocks a vene ration for the Emperor, which is easily confounded in their simple minds with the adoration due to the Supreme Being ; provided the portraits of the mem bers of the Imperial House are enshrined beside the sacred elements ; provided the mysteries of the faith are made to.bear the stamp of Russian authority, and the persons of sacred history to Wear a sort of Russian uniform, the exigencies of the Government are satis fied, without interfering with the more subtle clisVnc tions of doctrinal controversy." ' The following appears in the Post:--" An abusive and yet a very feeble article appeared in the Morning Chronicle of yesterday on the subject of the new appointments of Bankruptcy and Lunacy Commis sioners. This lengthy and lame composition, set out in our Contemporary's most conspicuous type, pur ports to come from a retired Judge. It is much more probable that it is the contribution of a disappointed barrister ; and truly, if it he so, he furnishes very good evidence that he ought to btu disappointed if his expectations pointed to any office which required some ability and some good temper for its discharge. The article in question is of the agreeable length of seven feet and one inch, or eighty-tive inches, of as pointless trash as we ever saw in a newspaper. Mere dull, stupid scolding ; plentifully besprinkled with lies ; and yet the subject chosen is one which from its very nature afforded abundant opportunity for sharp remark, if the critic had not been one of the most tedious dullards that ever held a pen." The Herald thus speaks of the Income-tax :—" The Income-tax it ought to be recollected is something very different from the Assessed-taxes or the Parish rates, and yet are the same class and order of persons employed in its management. It is the mercantile and trading community who will chiefly experience the annoyance of these surcharges ; the income of land owners is easily ascertained; the fundholder is treated with sharp but not inquisitorial practice ; while no one will presume to doubt the accuracy of the return of the county magnate; but that large and impor tant class of persons who live by the conjunction of energy, enterprise, and knowledge with capital, they who may really oftentimes have some difficulty in ascertaining what the profits of t h e year's adventures may have been, they to whom credit and the reputation of well•doing are honestly and fairly worth more than the capital invested, are the indi viduals on whom the severity of the tax will fall, and these are just they to whom not the least consideration is paid either by the Act or by its officers. Against the imposition of this tax so far as income—contra distinguished from the produce of dead capital—was concerned we incessantly protested; we warned Sir Robert Peel of the odium and detestation which would be begot by the pertinacity with which he ad hered to his original proposition ; but we certainly did anticipate that the Premier would have the pru dence to protect his measure from unnecessary seve rity, and that an oppressive tax would not be vexatiously and unjustly collected. It has proved otherwise. N ' The Chronicle says :—" Any person seeptical as to the extent and variety of the existing distress, and somewhat ignorant of the condition of the country, must at least have been struck by one ominous indi cation, to which we adverted yesterday, presented by the London morning newspapers of the preceding day—that of extracts from the provincial papers, arranged under the appalling title of Incendiary Fires.' Till within these few years this horrible crime, as well as that of the cowardly and brutal habit of using the knife in casual quarrels, were held to be quite alien to the character of the English population, and it was even boasted that we had to go to a foreign language for a word descrip tive of the first. Be this as it may, it would appear, if we are to trust to the accounts which have been published, that incendiarism' is naturalised in our rura ldistricts. Whenever our agricultural population are feeling the pressure of any extra amount of pri vation, they exhibit an inclination to revenge them selves, as they imagine, by burning the property of the farmers ; and so, as the lengthening nights of the winter, in which we are already involved, are casting their gloomy shadows over the country, that concen tration of amazing ignorance, severe poverty, and reckless malignity, of which an English agricultural labourer is but too often a type, displays itself by the lurid light which it sheds over the security—or rather the insecurity—of property- in the agricultural districts of happy England.' " ELECTIONEERING. The electors of Bute have been publicly addressed by Mr. James Stuart Wortley, as a candidate for the seat vacant by the death of the Lord Advocate. NAVAL AND MILITATLY. The half-yearly examination of the officers and gentlemen cadets at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst took place on the 3d, 4th, and sth instant. Sixteen gentlemen cadets were recommended to the Commander-in-Chief for appointment to ensigncies, and fifty others were declared to be qualifying them selves for commissions. LAW AND POLICE, John Cormick, a smith, residing sit Chiswick, was on Wednesday brought up for final examination at lien- sington, charged with marrying a second wife, while Sarah Hall, his first wife, a ir‘idow, with three 6111- dren, was living. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. James Syble, an engineer, was charged at the Thames Police-office, with being concerned in plun dering Messrs. Pinchin and Johnson, oil and colour men in the Commercial-road, of property to a large amount. The two sisters, Eliza and Ann Kirby, who had been his accomplices, were, as will he remem bered, committed on Monday. After a lengthened investigation the prisoner was committed to Newgate for trial as a principal in the felonies. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC Mr. Allan Cunningham's surviving family consists of four sons and a daughter, of whom the two eldest, Joseph and Alexander, and Francis Chantrey, the youngest, are in India, the latter having been one of the devoted band shut up in Jellalabad during its he. roic defence by Sir Robert Sale. Mr. Peter Cun ningham, the third son, fills a respectable situation in the Audit-office, Somerset House, and is author of a " Life of Drummond of Hawthornden." Mrs. Cun.. ningham, the mother of Allan, is still alive at Dum fries, and is upwards of 90 years of age. COURT—resRIONABLE. The Duke of Wellington left Apsley House on Wednesday for Dover. The Duke of Devonshire is still residing at Chats worth. The Duke and Duchess ofßedford arrived at Burgh ley House, on Tuesday last, from Newmarket. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster have been staying at Halkin Hall, since Wednesday last. The Marchioness of Cornwallis left town on Wed nesday for St. Leonard's. kLord and Lady J. Russell arrived in Belgrave square on Tuesday, from Bowood Park, 'Wilts. Lord Ward arrived at Mivart's Hotel on Monday, from Himlev Hall. Miss Burdett Coutti is entertaining a select circle at Cliefden House, Berks. MISCELLANEOUS. His Grace the Duke of Wellington has taken the marine mansion at Dover, belonging to James Stod dard Douglas Esq., one of the Members for Roches ter, during the time the Royal family remain at Walmer. Arago is of opinion that the newly-discovered comet in Dra2o will in a few days become more and more visible. Its tail has already become more lumi nous, but there is reason to fear from the variations in :s light that it is rapidly approaching to perihelium. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. The steadiness in the English market was main tained up to the conclusion of business, with a mode rate number of transfers. There seems nothing just now to derange the market, as wheat speculations have some time died away, and may be considered as effectually closed for yet a long period, by the rise in the duty to-day to 20s. per quarter. Consols for Money closed at 9-4, and for Account at 941. Ex chequer Bills realised 595. premium, being rather dull ; and East India Bonds were worth 51s. to 525. premium. Bank Stock remained firm at 172 to 173 ; and India Stock advanced to 259. New Three-and a-Half per Cents. were 1018 to 1018 ; Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents, 1001 to 1011 ; and Three per Cent. Annuities, 93+ to 938. Long An- nuities were at 121. Very little was doing in any of the Foreign Stocks, and the market closed flat. Spanish Fives were 18 to 178, and the Three per Cents. 21*. Mexican Stock also receded, not being higher than 32* to 33 for money. Columbian were dull at 21*, but Buenos .Ayres . improved to 211. Brazil Stock was worth 634, being the previous value. Shares were marked the turn lower, the bargains, in addition to those noticed this morning, being— Birmingham and Gloucester 58i ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 3 - ; Brighton, 14k; and North Midland, 37 discount. Birmingham Quarter were 228 ; i' , ;orthern and Eastern Scrip,' ; and Paris and Rouen, 24 to 2, prem. London and Westminster Bank Shares were 21 to 21-; and Union of Australia New, 24 premium. (From The Sun of Last Night.) FOREIG Aastrian, 5 per cent Belgian, .5 per cent — Brazilian Bonds... 634 Buenas Ayres 6 per cent. 214 Chilian, 6 per cent. — Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, I t 424 — C..iba Bonds, 6 per cent 79 Danish, 3 per tent — Greek, 1625, Nlexican. 5 per cent _ 33 5 per cent — Peruvian, 18 25, 6 per e t — Ditto. 6 per cent. It3:3‘ SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 411 Eastern Counties (23 paid) Si Ditto Debentures ( paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... 47 Great Western, (65 paid) Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) 8 ... London and Brighton (50 paid) 364 Ditto Loan Notes (10 p a id) .. ...... London and Birmingham (90) ,....... Ditto Quarter Shares id) 471 London and South Western 25 pa (4116 s 10dpd) 60 Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) ' .. et North Midland Railway (100) Paris and Rouen (20 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 22i Ditto ,dip (20 paid) Rather more cheering advices have been received from the manufacturing districts, and at Liverpool a very extensive business has - .been done in cotton. The trade are described as having bought eagerly, though, as the demand was freely met, no alteration in prices occurred. The sales were 8,000 bales, 'of which 1,000 bales American were taken on specula tion. The quotations were for 1,500 bales Surat, 34d. to 41d.; 200 Egyptian, op. ; and 6,300 hales American, 3d. to 6d. per lb.—ln the Railway Shares there was no change. Eastern Counties New are 104; Grand Junction, 173; Great Western Half, 611 ; London and Birmingham, 1814; Ditto Quarter, 474 ; Brighton, 104 ; Paris and Rouen, 33 ; and South Eastern N;ew, or scrip, 174. The effect of the new tariff, as regards provisions, has evidently been felt in a very small degree, to what :nay be anticipated hereafter. In confirmation of this, we may allude to the almost incredible state ment made in recent advices from Buenos Ayres — viz., that an Englishman resident there in tended to slaughter 4,000 oxen, and 20,000 sheep, in October, for the purpose of salting the meat and ship ping it to Liverpool. The statement, we say. appears rather incredible, but possibly it may turn out to ly,; correct. in the Argentine provinces, as we are in formed by parties in the City, who have resided in, and continue to trade with South America, the herds of cattle are of great magnitude, and the vast range of country open to pasturage, causes so un usually rapid an increase in their numbers, that it is worth while for the proprietors to kill their beasts, solely for the hides and tallow, the flesh fur want of a sufficient population being comparatively valueless. If the curing is so improved as to suit the English, we may expect, therefore, to have South American meats at about 2d. per lb. The speech of the King of the Belgians, upon the occasion pf the opening of the Chambers is considered satisfactory, and shows the efforts of the Govern ment to extend the trade of its subjects ; though there is one point we look upon as rather threatening to foreign commerce ; viz., the declaration that the im port duties upon many articles may he increased with advantage to the country, while those upon ex ports can be reduced. The Consol Market has been very steady this morn ing at 944 both for Money and the Account. The Commissioners for the Savings' Banks have through their brokers made another small investment to-day. The Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have inclined to 1001, and the New Stock to 1011. Bank Stock has only fluctuated from 172 to 173 to-day, the former being now the nearest value. Exchequer Bills are a trifle cheaper than they were yesterday, viz., at 595. premium. India Stock for the Account has beEn bought at 258. We cannot quote any movement of importance in the Foreign Stock Market to-day. A reaction in Mexican Stock has taken place to 321, though the market may now be quoted a shade firmer. Buenos Ayres Stock has fallen to 214, and Brazilian is at 634. The transactions in all the bonds are trifling. Spanish Three per Cents. have just been sold at 214, Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 524, and the Five per Cents. at 1001. Railway Shares are not brisk. Eastern Counties Debentures may be had at 14 premium ; the Great Western at 19f premium ; the Fifths do. at 4 pre mium; the London and Brighton at 141 discount; the Loan Notes at premium ; the South-Western at 184 premium ; the South-Eastern and Dover at 27.4 discount ; and Scrip (issued at 25 discount) at 24 discount ; Union Bank of Australia, New Shares, are at 2i premium. There were not many public sales of Colonial or other produce to-day. By private contract, however, we hear there is a better trade doing. The Timber trade is very active. Another large public sale is an nounced, comprising Canadian and foreign qualities. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, NOY. 9.—Our market is still depressed, and not much doing, the business being almost confined to local Stock. The sales are—Manchester and Birmingham, 19it ; Man chester and Leeds, 68, Ditto Quarters, 41; South- Eastern Scrip, 174. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS . Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ...... 934 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. C0n5.... 3i per Cent. Red Iot iDitto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent... lOl f t 'Ex. Rills, 1,0001....2d. 59 pm Isl.!w 5 per Cent 125 Ditto 500/...... —pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small Jan. 1869 ... 124 'Bank Stock for Acct. 173 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1160 Consols for Acct. N'FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto 384 Prussian, 5 per cent Russian, 5 pet cent — Ditto, Metallic . Spanish, 5 per cent...... 17i Ditto, Deferred ~ French, 5 per cent —f. —e, Exchange French, 3 per cent —f. Dutch, 2i per cent....... 52k Ditto, 5 per cent. .. 100 k BOSTON ELECTION. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) BOSTON, LINCOLNSIIIRE. — The election of Me. of took place here this day (Wednesday, Nov. 9), and W. H. Adams, Esq., the first Tory who entered the Council, four years ago, was re-elected Mayor for the .. year ensuing. What a reflection is it upon the great Liberal party in this town that, in four years, they have permitted the Tories in the Town Council•to • increase in numbers from 1 to 19 ! Yet such is the fact. It is, however, only justice to say, that M • Adams is by very far the best man in the Council-- and the remaining Liberals acted very wisely by con f curring in his' re-appointment. He is possess ed considerable legal knowledge, and has executed his • magisterial duties with the most commendable iniPar ri; tiality and energy. If the Corporation Reform Bill y has done nothing else for us, it has given us ave e able Tory instead of the bigoted imbeciles who wer produced by the old self-elective system. Severa• l apposite remarks were made on this point by Mr. F. Barker, a newly-elected Liberal, who spoke in • terms of well-deserved commendation of the present Mayor. BAYMARKET THEATRE An adaptation from the French, originally p;oducru. at Drury-lane, some fourteen years since, under the title of Love and Wrinkles, and thence transferred 1° the Surrey, as My Old Woman, was reviv ed at this • theatre last evening, under the title of My Old man, or Love and Wrinkles, Mrs. Fitzwillhun sustain' ing her original character of the Countess .Xolla, rich young Russian widow of eighteen, who, dull( the campaign of the French in Russia, finding he rse n in danger from her proximity to the seat of sumes the manners and appearance of an old tire: of eighty, deeming wrinkles a more effectual Prtitee: tion from the insults of the licentious soldiery body guard of Cossacks. Falling in with the Frtsen-is troops, in the neighbourhood of Smolensko , ' saved from insult and robbery by Colonel GiNnue; (H. I-loll), an officer in the French service, wh o ' A ` 3. f ig ing become subsequently wounded and a prisoce by her received into her_castle of \Vilna, and frOtiu the French are ordered to Siberia, is saved banishment by a marriage with the "old wort. a s ; l . which makes him a Russian subject., The old the proposes, as soon as the ceremony is over, 4 should return to Paris, as he can, in consequeato h:s marriage, obtain free egress from the lin, s e f t . dominions. Gratitude, however, prevents his a n ‘lpie lug her generous offer, and gratitude becom es ?p -when he discovers that his old woman is eighteen .„ stead of eighty. The old woman was "cella:he acted by Mrs. Fitzwilliam. The tottering fl it i ct all enfeebled and tremulous voice, the shaking n so o ,„i c en the characteristics of old age, in short, wer, e . r t - pp with consummate art, and without the slighL e Th . e rs, proach to caricature or over-acting. Her Ma n e - t he too, were completely those of a gentlewoma n n ' ar is• old school, with just sufficient of the morgue r tocratique to let those about - her feel that they er e at the presence of the Countess Xenia, who On long any time re-assume that dignity which, s 0 us ed; 0 1; as her condescension should not be a r , e y• she was willing to permit to remain in , ll ance. Her dancing was admirable. I ", e up. scene altogether was very well Buckstone's Michael Witzgoff, a consequentrot quisitive steward, was eminently quaint : in s- ro pri versions of old proverbs were rich, and elicited gis of laughter. The comedy of Perfection, wit h , gtl4. Honey as Kate O'Brien, followed; after whicu.„ - $ ll Fitzwilliam as the Belle of the Hotel, gave us o ,,Lati of American sketches from the life ; and Mr' m : - „, l ig a 's stone's Kiss in the Dark concluded the ev e ' amusement. The house was well filled. ir IS* POPERY AND PROTESTAN (From the Dublin Evening Peaket.)- In allusion to the procession of the Mayor 0 w ily terford, the Dublin Evening M a il c haracteristl observes : r Water " Yesterday was a high day for the city pb ford—the celebration, to wit of the political l' ad - o veF which, thanks to Lord Eliot, Popery has nbta inw- Protestantism in our principal institutions." boil This sentence could not have been penile", §9,W, man alive, save only the Right Hon. Fred er t Recorder of Dublin, of whom it may written— " Essence of one mighty sense.-- - Concentrated impudence— _ From earth's centre to the sea,,, Nature stinks of that and thee. n e l lot In the history of Parliament there is no F 6lll , gr Shaw's advocacy of the third reading of the -Iri s th , ' 604 nicipal Corporation Bill, moved by Lord *l e jOes opposed by Sir George Sinclair, backed by Emerson Tennent. u nti l 0 That audacious act was not underst ood cn became known that Shaw had secured his o lizi" Recorder for life, per agreement with M' th ° tor-General I\roulfe, afterwards Chief Baron ° i j ich Exchequer. Need we advert to the exposare °oh took place during the Shaw and Butt letter by the publication of Lord Lyndhursts 'elkroble Need we point out the manner in which the. g Os Lord threw the traitor overboard, by disclosing false representations ? AMSTERDAM, NOV'. 7.—Besides the veil w i ll 00 1 treaty by which all the differences with Beim.stiOl definitely settled, a convention relative to na ° for five years - was signed at the same time. 0 00 1 1 An article from Zwolle, of the 3d of this est, 001 gives a very favourable account of the ii3rv,,,,et tt the state of the crops in general, both with reby;idse quantity and quality. Rye is indeed not so 4 rh ! , in quantity, but the quality is of the very bel e c oo second crop of grass is most luxuriant, and give more milk than they did in the sumlnsbLio very mild weather, too, is extremely fa'on ull ' o r. never had such a quantity of apples as this Y rs t hat # EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS.—It aPPlrdeft i ll teetotal soiree was held at Dungannon ° ll b olb ef evening, at which the Monaghan temperane e , h ,fo 4 been invited to attend. While approaching al, town, and at a short distance, accompanied by wet of orderly and peaceable persons, they wet! , w ho Lord Northland and Mr. Pole, on horsebacg_rood.o stantly, and in a most excited manner, cO i l ti " ot ef tP O the musicians to cease playing. The cont. not O re Magistrates towards the crowd we shall Is vie • idua tie descrihe, but simply state, that two indiv . th et given into the custody of the police , wi „ r hialas slightest provocation, one of whom was he b. sentenced to 24 hours' imprisonment, for w.' • commenced legal proceedings. The s oiree ' a ' n a sequently held at Mr. Fullain's greatroollls%,,,sitatua ing the night an Orange mob assembled 0%10, house, and commenced breaking the vi ith T s7t shouting the usual party cries—" be d Ol en o'o • Pope," &c. Shots were also fired, an t he v i ols the outrages committed, Mrs. Kelly' her ° o il: of a tradesman, with her infant in T he h t was struck in four places with brick- bats... e hrons o , lery, by orders of Lord Northland, We' n5°P le seo from Charlemont to Dungannon. O n th a the), 0 of Mr. O'Farrell, a gentleman of the tow„, n a 'o e inon f lhe have decided on memorialising Lord C",, a rty n„. 0 0, Lord Lieutenant of the county, to have a.. o rote c '' o . military stationed in Dungannon for their r oe ce ii , and to have some Liberal appointed mission of the peace on whom they can r cator of Saturday. ca n t' COURAGEOUS CONDUCT or A YOUI O ; At, day evening last, between seven alin e l e e,d t° At Coulthard was driving home from Ga' a . ec l 16't t' Quay, accompanied by his sister Ann , a ' tie the same time the Royal George chinson's resuscitated Sunderland a, oe; an h t. 4, (Mr. A n il so w A c u s ei , coach) was returning from the formercrad w ith ligqr• ther the gig nor the coach being nrcv l gate* t hen they came into collision near the Felliil; hor se Coulthard was thrown from his seat. ."-",..acu to c l e i o f wheeled round and proceeded furious') " A Pr e " l' ope" borough. Miss Coulthard, with adm ira l an d gr - ou gh mind, knelt down on the bottom of the g - ig fetY t br- tel • the be pe splash-board. borne o f Ga_ ti O Iligh s e u r e ed,. bind, on a market night. The horse, sh,_f f i i tt ek halt, by force of habit, at the door of he her en" Inn ; but on it rushed ; and then, preser);_oidance She ness, she directed her efforts to the e v ffec ted; rci s it Bottle-bank. happily this o bject w as it o onli n f e ty , turned the animal into Church -street, _ O l galloped to the bridge, and which it t._as . s t v a bo rse li zi o but, on reaching the Sandhill, ran aga "' 1„-d h i ock br°' cart, and upset them both. The . te d her. h v at Coulthard upon the pavement, or be st, °k the NtvoinDdeoaivns.The Po . 1 bolt 14 1 ther's horse from the gig• t his f an d littera portion of the shafts rattling a ~2 0 , Dean- street, ;fir. t „oon rej ulne meanwhile rose up unhurt, and )va her brother, who had followed.lsn_triT,Oine _P',,;l sorely afraid:that his sister would , 7_, 1 it , p l ose"!•; 0 ., lgvaroscsetro,papned .t , h iti e ins; coothdoi,i injury.. Both the Royal Geor:be The accclf:t,lvieri escaped the collision uninjured , orouAll, ',Ay duce I much excitement in our ) _ . , nv ideow .it, V AT' preserved.—Gateshead Observer. c. one rejoiced that Miss Coulthard was B°l4' 'l. 0 19 "IN THE MIDST or LIFE W2l A-U r- A 7 trig iap instance of the uncertainty r aftel9th this town (Tunbridge), on Saturday Saturday,iA the' or, ` v.- -Intelligence of a most a0 N , ,,-fi i i i l fe a r : vas • .r es n i:e vv t it h feelings of deep regret. On . __ d sor veY. _ bed Mr. William Brown, architect_ end tlw.rpoir married in our church, on which,,f,' the biiPtl e v iss rang a most Merry peal, during . ivo,_'- o u n l' evi op,; ii i r ' ho os proceeded to Brighton to spend tne 1.1 0 suddenly taken ill on Saturday la . sV e shot ti";ido)v• was a corpse, thus in the space or,„ ° _ sorr el s corn' the bridal dress changed for that olua__,3o Co b M. Brown was Secretary to the T„lf ifth ell eee pany, and also to Commissioners forannB__ vea rs_.,_ id oes ing the town ;he has also-for 1.1.1,_..Yde;1....4100 elected to the office of a Town vnii AMA - .~ Th( red genth T od si com Osh lE V al Ex; 1