The Sun. — London, England, 1849-10-31 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL lIAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, it,efe Lssee and atanagor, Uld Brompton. THIS EVENING. Mr. MACREADY will make his eleventh appearance in London since bls return from America, and commence his first series of his Fare well Performances previous to his retirement from the stage at the of June next. When will be performed MACBETH. Macbeth, Mr. Macready ; Mae lull, Mr. J. Wallack ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Warner. To be followed by an original Farce called THE GUARDIAN ANGEL. Mr. Dulcimer, Mr. Keeley; Moggy Snaggs, Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with THE ROUGH DIAMOND. Due notice will be given of the appearance ot Mr. and Mrs. KEAN. The Doi-office is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. TiIEATRIfi ROYAL. ADELPHI. Under tae direction of ladamo Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE SONS OF MARS. To be followed by a new slippery sketch called MRS. SUNBURY'S SBOONS. Mr. Highbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford; Bob Twinks, Mr. Wright ; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith; Mrs. Bunbury, Mrs. F. Matthews ; Mrs. Highbury Barnes, Miss Brooks. After which a new Farce, entitled A BIRD OF PASSAGE. Mr. Carry Chick, Mr. Wright; Mr. Chaunt Ginger, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Charles Pusher, Mr. Boyce; Ernest Hopeful, Mr. Worrell; Mrs. Waters Rummer. Mrs. Frank Matthews. To conclude with ANIMAL MAGNETISM. ROYAL LYCS.UM THEATRE. Undor tae Management of Madam, Vestris. ole Lessee. 31's. Charles Malta ws. THIS EVENING, Will be performed DISCHARGE YOUR TIGER. After which a new comic drama, called A PRACTICAL MAN. To be followed by BEAUTY AND TILE BEAST. To conelttle with AN APPEAL ro 'UtIE PUBLIC. t,J4e , :, es. ; Upper Bow's, As. ; 2s. ; Is. NODres. I al ~ a rt of the house. All applications for Private Boxes - mist be made to Mr. Allc.roft, 15, New Bond-street. PRINCESS'' IIIEATt;,PI. Mr. J. M. Idad.lox. Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Opera, entitled CHARLES THE SE CON U. To be followed by a new Extravaganza, entitled TIIE FIRST NIGHT. To aunclude with ESMERALDA. ASTLL ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. oder the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. riumphant success of the new Equestrian Spectacle of the Prophet, which has been nightly received with enthusiasm, and pi on unced by the public press to be the most gorgeous hippo-dramatic piece liver produced at the Amphitheatre. Unparalleled Equestrian Feats. THIS EVENING, Will be performed Fitzball's grand Equestrian Spectacle, entitled THE PROPIIET, in which Mr. W. West will appear. Ti teilowecl by an inimitable display 01 SCENES IN THE C MOLE. by the first Equestrian talent of the day. To conclude with TEll DUMB DRIVER. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. LI LOH WATER AT LONDON RRLDOE. me Day —Morning, 15 min. after 1 I EVallillg, 34 min. after 1 14 min. alter 2 0- woaaow—Morning, 53 mtn. alte r 1 I Evening, THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, OCT. 31. TiIERMOMETER, Lowest, 45; Highest, 56; Noon, 48. BAROMETER, 29.8. WIND S.S. W.—fine sunshiny weather. 4" " _ 4 4 47 . • mOS blto Ott - ming "Atuo LCD.iDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1849. Yesterday our metropolis was the scene of two very different efforts to advance the cause of civiliza tion. One, although ostentatiously and avowedly directed to that end, was only characterized by its futility. The other, although its ulterior purpose was not even hinted at, even by the most reflective of the many eminent personages participating in the ceremonial, will be found in the end to have effected a vast deal towards the development of much that is directly humanizing in its influence over the com munity. For the progress of humanity can only be ensured by almost imperceptible gradations—not, certainly, by those eccentric jerks which appear to be the aim and the aspiration of our social day dreamers. The opening of the Coal Exchange will be remembered long after the absurd movement in the cause of Arbitration has been forgotten ; or, if the latter is, by some extraordinary chance, destined to survive in the recollection of after times, it will merely be thought of as numbering one more among those popular delusions which have at intervals de mented the multitude. It will be enumerated with the Atalantan fancies of PLATO, with the Utopian visions of . Sir Thomas MORE, with the Cathayian dominions of PRESTEE JOHN, with the El Doradoan projects of Sir WALTER RALEIGH, with the Icarian schemes of M. CABET, and with that fantastic city, tobaccoless and unalcoholized, which has recently sprung into existence from the fruitful in ventiou of Mr. Sits.l3uctutccumst. It will be other ise with the royal and civic celebration of the open ing of the new Coal Exchange in the city of London. That event will not be forgotten, constituting, as it does, a new illustration of the basis upon which the greatness of England has been built up, and affording, as it does, an additional and brilliant testimony that the SOVEREIGN justly appreciates the dignity of com merce, and the real strength of the national character. If anything were required to preserve the oc currence in the recollection of the citizens of the British metropolis, it would be found in the cir cumstance that upon this occasion the young Prince of WALES first appeared publicly within the boun daries of the ancient capital. As the heir apparent to the crown of ALFRED—that great monarch, the thcusandth anniversary of whose birth was celebrated on the 25th of this present October, in his native village of Wantage—as the probable successor to the diadem worn by the dynasties of the PLANTIGENETS, the TUDORS, the STUARTS, and the BRUNSWICKS, the youthful Prince could not but be an object of interest to the loyal inhabitants of London, that city with which his birth has become peculilrly associated, occurring as it did on the 9th of November. In teresting, however, as was the fact of the Prince of WALES and the PRINCESS ROYAL making their first entrance into the English capital, it was a matter of subordinate consideration compared with the more i7nportAnt fact that the Royalty of England is more than ever eager to encourage the development of mercantile enterprize, honouring by its presence the inauguration of the public edifices erected from time to time for the advancement of British commerce. Frequently as the august Consort of Queen VICTORIA has appeared amongst the people of the country of his ei.lcpticn, he has perhaps never before appeared in a more attractive light than he did yesterday. Not only as the husband of our beloved MONARCH, but as the father of our future Sovereign, he evinced his cordial anxiety to aid that peaceful cause which, more than the conquests of war, has tended to aggrandize the wealth and increase the territories of the British Empire. It was only the other day that a large and influential meeting was convened at the Mansion house by order of the Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR, for the purpose of taking into con sideration the project suggested by his Royal Highness the Prince ALBERT, for the holding of a grand cosmopolitan Exhibition of the Productions of Art and Industry. It was consequently with peculiar interest that the chief citizens of London witnessed the appearance of the accompEshed Consort of the SOVEREIGN amongst them on an occasion so directly connected with the industrial labours of our own population. In referring . , however, with pleasure to the festivi ties of yesterday, we must confess that they went off amidst a confusion singularly discreditable to the members of the mis managing committee. Any arrangements so perverse and slovenly, any subordinate officials so discourteous and imper tinent, were perhaps never before seen combined so intimately on any similar occasion. Instead of affording those facilities to the Press which are, to say the least of it, due to the indefatigable exertions of its emissaries, every obstacle, every rudeness, every insolence that could be mustered together on the shortest possible notice, were thrown in the way by the officious persons appointed to carry out the misdirections of this mismanaging committee. Oar reporters have detailed the treatment t o which they were severally subjected, glaring faults of the sufficiently to show the regu i . ,,,i„ ns planned with such adr o it s t u pidity, and c -cried out w ith such indecent impertinence.ln seite, ho wever, of these obstructions to the d conve nience of the p ublic, the festivities of yesterday were marked by the to kens of that sedate loyalty fated enthusiasm w hich are, almost exclusively, a t h e characteristic of an Engli-.11 multitude. Altogether the day was more than an idle gala- day fur sight-seers, it was the weaving of another tie: between the weak and the powerful in our land, a circum stance tending to the yet more firm consolidation of the Constitution. While the rhetorical mem bers of the Peace Congress were conning over their theses for their evening's display on the plat form at Exeter Hall, the people and the rulers of the country were doing more towards the confirmation of the peace of the world, and towards the pacific ad- THE SUN, vancement of civilization, than could be produced by the effects of the most flowery exordiumslor by the stimulus of the most impassioned peroration. Yes terday we may have been dazzled by the pomp of the mid-day celebration, and fascinated by the elo quence of the evening assemblage ; to-day we can more properly estimate the value and understand the moral of either spectacle. It is always difficult to procure the reform of an abuse of long standing. Many well-,disposed persons feel the strongest repugnance to interfere with what, to use the ordinary cant, has been " settled by the wisdom of our ancestors-" However palpable the mischief, however glaring the evils of the system, it will be sure to find defenders and advocates, while those who are not immediately concerned in its operation, although admitting the validity of the objections that may be preferred, are still unwilling to take an active part in the removal of grievances by which it is, to say the least, extremely improbable that they can ever be affected. Thus it is that a greater share of public attention has not hitherto been attracted to the subject of Naval and Military Courts- Martial. Cases of gross and palpable oppression and injustice, such as those of Messrs. GRAHAM and ELLIOTT in the one service, or of Mr. DOUGLASS in the other, are occasionally brought to light. The public attention may be strongly excited for the time being ; the utmost sympathy may be entertained for the innocent victims, and indignation against the tyrannical oppressors, but it is speedily directed to some other object, and the objectionable system under which such inequitable proceedings are even possible is suffered to flourish in rank luxuriance, to destroy new victims under its blighting influence. The cause which has hitherto retarded, indeed, we may say that has practically prohibited any amelioration in the procedure of martial tribunals, is, that officers of the respective services—men who may be said to have risen above the operation of these courts, which are as indulgent to the higher class of officers as they are severe and tyrannical to those of lower grade—are accustomed to arrogate to them selves the sole power of judging of the propriety of any change or alteration ; and the claim has been tacitly sanctioned by those who could approach the subject with unbiassed; and: unprejudiced minds. Persons who have spent the greater portion of their lives in active service are, probably, of all others, the very last to whom such ques tions should be referred. They are bigotted in favour of the system that prevailed when they were entering upon their professional career, and which, whatever might be its defects, at least worked favourably fur themselves. They can only view affairs through one medium. The comfort and happiness of crews must be unhesitatingly sacrificed for the purpose of conferring unlimited authority upon commanders, under the erroneous supposition that discipline cannot otherwise be preserved ; one must be rendered an autocrat, and all others slaves, whom he may dispose of and tyrannise over at his pleasure, and this simply because the parties adjudicating belong to the favoured class, and only consider the matter so far as they themselves may be affected. Thus it is that the " pressing" system is still defended and declared to be essential to the mainte nance of the maritime supremacy of Great Britain. And even corporal punishment, brutal and demoraliz ing as it is acknowledged to be, the mere liability to which is of itself a degradation to our gallant defenders, is advocated by the great majority of veterans, who consider themselves alone qualified to form a sound opinion on the subject. A Congress of Despots would be the worst possible judges as to what might be required by the constitutional liberties of a free nation ; or, to use a more homely compa rison, a body of stage-coach proprietors would not be the parties to whom the propriety of extending railway communication should be referred. In like manner, naval or military officers, in place of being the most competent, are, perhaps, the least qualified to judge correctly in a matter in which they are per sonally interested. There are, however, some honourable exceptions to the general rule. The Hero of Meeanee and Hyderabad has offered the most valuable suggestions for the improvement of military tribunals, and we have now before us some " Remarks on Naval Courts- Martial," by Captain Sir FREDERICK W. ERSKINE NICOLSON, Bart., which although they do not go to the root of the evil, or insist upon the extensive alterations so urgently required, may still be regarded as a movement in the right direction, an entering upon the path that will ultimately lead to a large and com prehensive measure of reform. The Gallant Baronet points out some of the most striking difficulties that affect inexperienced persons, wholly unacquainted with the laws and principles of evidence, when called upon to act as judge and jury on a case affecting not merely the professional cha racter and prospects, but even the honour, perhaps the life, of a brother officer. Such persons must deeply feel the want of an assessor, thoroughly versed in the naval code, who could immediately resolve any doubt that might arise, and who would see that the scales of justice were held with an even and impartial hand between the opposing parties. The improper admission or rejection of evidence, an erroneous esti mate as to its application, may produce the most injurious and fatal results ; and 3et the decision entirely rests with parsons not only totally igno rant of the ordinary rules, but who too often manifest the greatest jealousy of any attempt on the part of the prisoner to enlighten them on the subject, or to cite an authority for their guidance; and yet the judgment which they pronounce is final and conclusive—there is no appellate tribunal to which the injured party may apply for redress. In military courts-martial the Commander-in-Chief must approve and confirm the proceedings, and he may send back the sentence for revision. All the naval Commander in-Chief is empowered to do is to suspend the execu tion of the sentence until the opinion of the Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty has been taken on the sub ject. There is also a lamentable want of any well defined rules of procedure ; they vary before the different courts, according to the fancy of the most influential member. A right of cross examination will at one time be allowed, which at another may be materially abridged. The order of the proceedings is not, in fact, clearly laid down for the guidance of the court, and must depend in a great degree upon the individual fancies of its members. Too much is left to their discretion, and the " certainty" and invariability of procedure which should be the great end and object of every tribunal, however constituted, is thus completely lost sight off. Under these circumstances, Sir FREDERICK sug gests, " Ist, That the 22d Geo. U., c. 33 (the Act under which Naval Courts-Martial are held), and the Acts passed for its amendment, should be completely revised, especially as regards the punishments to be awarded, a well-consi sidered scale of which might be established without limit ing too strictly that discretionary power which should al ays be left to the courts. 2d, That clear and minute directions should be issued as to the whole course of proceedings from the order being issued to assemble the court until the sentence be passed. 3d, That an official prosecutor should be employed to conduct all cases which occur at the home ports." On the second point Sir FREDERICK recommends that the direction " should be either inserted in the Queen's Regulations, or issued in a separate form," and adds that, "if so issued, with the addition of an exposition of the leading principles of the law of evidence, and some carefully selected legal opinions on doubtful points, likely to arise again, together with the newly-revised Act, an invaluable text-book would be formed for the guidance of naval officers when called upon to act as judges." There can be no doubt that if these propositions were adopted, and judiciously carried into operation, a vast improvement would be effected in the entire system of naval courts-martial, although, as we have already stated, we believe that a total alteration might be advantageously introduced, by which all important cases would be decided before an Admiralty-Judge ' well acquainted with the principles and practice of law, assisted by a jury, who should return a verdict as to the facts of the case, permitting the presiding Judge to decide on those facts, in accordance with the rules laid down and established by the Articles of War. ACCIDENT TO MIL TELE IN, THE SC ENIC A RTIST . —This clever scene-painter is at present suffering from the effects of a s evere accident, 'which he experienced f r om the falling of a sc affold while painting, but happily he bas sustained no fracture of the limbs. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Assembly determined on Monday, by a large majority to continue the state of siege of the city of Lyons. M. DUFAURE entered into a lengthened state ment on the subject of the existing state of the city, and contended that it would not be prudent to raise the state of siege for the present, an opinion in which the great majority of the Assembly concurred. The Constitutionnel contradicts from authority the statements made by the Assemblee Nationale of Mon day with respect to a joint note having been sent by the Northern Powers asking the French Government to join them in demanding from Switzerland the re establishment of the sovereignty of the King of PRUSSIA in Neufchatel, the expulsion of the revolu tionists, and the restoration of the federal pact of 1815. No note -of the kind has been sent to the French Government. M. DE FALLoux left Paris on Monday for Anjou, from whence he will proceed to Italy. The Legitimatist intrigue to substitute a Thiers -I\l°l6 Ministry for the Barrot•Dufaure Cabinet at present in office, is still proceeding. As an induce ment to the PRESIDENT to dismiss his present advisers, and appoint M. MOLE to office, the parti-pretre has promised that the first act of the new Ministry shall be to propose an incresse of 1,200,000 francs (48,0000 to the annual salary of the PRESIDENT. A letter from St. Etienne states that the riband weavers in that town have struck for higher wages. The consequence has been, that large orders have beenwithdrawn from the manufacturers of St. Etienne and sent to Switzerland. The French authorities have prohibited the entrance into France of Mazzurr's journal, the Italia del Popolo. They even sieze, at the Post-office, copies of the journal addressed to persons residing in Eng land and America. M. ODILON BARROT is indisposed, and suffering rather severely from an old complaint. It is stated in some journals that General DE LA MORICIERE was about to be recalled from St. Peters burgh, for the purpose of conferring upon him a mili tary command of the highest importance. It is rumoured in the salons that he is to succeed CHAN GARNIER in the command of the garrison and Na tional Guard of Paris. With reference to the late meeting of the Parlia mentary Clisla of the Council of State, an evening paper observes— " It was remarked that on this occasion M. Piscatory spontaneously assumed the defence of M. Berryer, less against accusations brought forward iu the meeting itself than against those coming from outside. This sympathy, so unexpected from the son-in-law of General Foy, for the Legitimatist advocate, has given some con sistency to the rumour disseminated, on the faith of a foreign journal, that MM. Piscatory and Berryer are at the present moment charged to come to an understand ing for an arrangement between the branches of the Bourbon family." The Debats has the following remarks on the events which have recently taken place at Madrid : " No explanation has been yet given as to the object of the conspiracy hatched by the camarilla of the hus band of the Queen. According to some it was a Carlist and Absolutist plot in favour of the Count de Monte molino ; whilst others declare that the object was to place the crown on the head of the Infanta Donna Fernanda, sister of Queen Isabella. Others, again, positively state the intention to have been to confer all the political authority of the Crown on the King Don Francisco. This:last version deer not appear wanting in probability, it we consider the previous conduct and the position of the persons who have been arrested as participators in the intrigue. Father Fulgencio, for instance, is con fessor of the King, as well as of the family of Don Francisco, his father; M. Balna is an old aide-do•camp of this same Infante Don Francisco ; M. Rodon is one of the secretaries of the King ; M. Melgar his pri vate secretary, is archivist of the House of the Infante; M. Quiroga is gentleman of the private household of the King; and the Mother Patrocinio, the tel who figures in the affair, is own sister of the above M. Quiroga. Nothing, therefore, would appear to connect these individuals with the Count de Montemolino, and still less with the Infanta Fernanda. Several very im portant papers have been seized at the residences of Father Fulgencio and M. Rodon, but their contents have been kept a secret; it is, however, said that amongst them is a voluminous manuscript, containing a com plete plan of government, in which there would be twelve .Ministers, a number probably indispensable to satisfy the claims of the actors in the plot. Considerable sums in gold and bank securities were also found at the house of Father Fulgencio, but these were delivered up to his brother, and the papers only seized. There was some difficulty in effecting the arrest of the mother Patrocinio, the Superior of the Convent of the Trinity. She resisted for a long time, alleging the ecclesiastical immunities of her profession; but she, at length, yielded, and has been sent off to Badsjoz under the escort of two females and an officer. This religieuse was celebrated at Madrid by her extatic vi sions. According to her account saints and angels had appeared to her, in order to reveal what was to be done for the good government of Spain. She kept up a very active, political, and mystical correspondence with Father Fulgencio, and it is even said with the King. General Narvaez, since these events hare occurred, ap pears to have made advances of conciliation to the Pro gressist or Old Everterist party ; having called to im portant functions, General G-allego and General Eva reste San Miguel, and the Ileraldo, the semi-official journal of the Narvaez Cabinet, declares that the Go vernment has decided on seeking out fur the most intel ligent and meritorious men from all . parties in order to fill public employmints." PARIS BOI.74iSE.—TIIESDAY, OCT. 30. The market opened with some show of firmness, but i t some considerab a s having been made, prices de clined rather c e ly, but previous to the close they rallied a li to leave off, however, lower than yesterday ; Threes for the Account closing at 56f. ; and Fives at 88f. 25c. The market closed as follows: — Threes, for cash, 55f. 90c.; for account, 56f.; Fives, for cash, 88f. 25c. ; for aceount, 81f. 25c. ; Bank of France Shares, 2,340 f. ; Spanish. and Neapolitan not quoted. RAILWAYS.—Thii:Share Market has been rather heavy, and prices are a' Bade lower. Rouen closed at 525 f. ; Avignon, 225 f.; Vierzon, 300 f.; Strasburgh and Base, 102 f. 50c.; Amiens, 137 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 402 f. 50e.; Northern, 4331. 75c.; Paris and Strasbargh, 357 f. 50c.; Nantes, 283 f. 75c.; Havre, 235 f. BUSINESB DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TilE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Oc-r. SO. Northern .1N of France, 2% dis.—Orleans ind Bordeaux, 3. Sambre and Meuse, 174. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 24th have arrived. The Nafion publishes a letter from Paris of the 17th, which-contains the following passage : " Great animation has prevailed among the Carlists hero for these three or four days passed. Some think themselves already in the Palace of Madrid, carrying the skirts of the mantle of Count Montemolin. To those who contradict these illusions, they answer that they count on very high protections at Madrid, and that the representatives of two northern powers have the special charge of their Courts not to stop until the last seed is rooted up; and to this it is added that there will be a divorce, new marriages, arrests by way of precaution, and, in fine, a complete return to pure absolutism. In corroboration of these ridiculous stories they say lastly, that a high personage will take the initiative at Madrid, and that the Spanish Ambassador at Rome is disposed to smooth away all ecclesiastical difficulties. The gravity of these rumours, absurd as they may appear, obliges me to acquaint you with them, to see if it is possible to find a corrective for them." This letter would seem to confirm the suspicions of those who regard Father FULGENCIO as a Legiti matist agent. A complete reconciliation has taken place between NARVAEZ nod the KING CONSORT. The latter has betrayed all his accomplices, and as a reward he is permitted to remain in the Palace, instead of being banished to Valladollid, as had been at first pro posed. NARVAEZ has, it is said, made advances to the Progresistas. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. CENTRAL GERMANY. Hanover and Saxony have definitively withdrawn from the triple alliance. The conduct of the Kings of HANoVER and SAXONY has aroused the indignation of all Germany. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. The Austrian Government has forbidden the entrance of the French National into the Austrian dominions, on account of a sharp article attacking HeYrsau for the perpetration of the murders at Psth and Arad. The Ost Deutsche Post prints the petition of the Committee of the Diet for the Crown land of Styria, who, in a stormy meeting at Gratz, resolved to address the ministers on the subject of their constitutional rights, as set down in the March charter. The petition is founded upon sec.B3, which states that all the provisional statutes for the separate crown lands must be in activity before the expiration of 1849. The Styrians complain that they, who have not rebelled, are as far as ever from enjoying a representative form of government. The walls of Buda are being rebuilt, and the sur rounding heights commanding the hill on which the late castle stood, are going to be fortified, the object proposed being to raise Buda to the rank of a fortress of second rate strength. The municipality of Salzburg in council assembled have drawn up a petition to the EMPEROR, praying that mercy may be shown to the imprisoned Hun garians, and that the royal prerogative may inter fere to prevent further executions for political offences. TURKEY. The Porte has issued a notice, by which all ships passing the Dardanelles are to stop at stAted places and show their bills of health ; a regulation agtinst LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1849 which several foreign ships stand out. At Salonica the firman has been read which constitutes iliza PAC ire Governor-General of that province. Nearly all the consuls have already paid him official visits. Great complaints are made respecting the mode in which the Pacha of LARISSA. and Usminn transacts business. The harbour of Samoshar has been blockaded by three brigs, two galliots, and two steamers, under the command of Admiral hlusrAr PAcuA. According to the latest account, tranquillity had been restored in that island. Count STURMER, the Austrian Ambassador, re ceived dispatches on the sth, in consequence of which negotiations took place with the Porte, relative to the refugees at Widdin. The late military reviews at Zeitin Burun have given the English Ambassador, Sir STRATFORD CANNING, and the French Minister, General AuricK, an opportunity of complimenting the SULTAN on the admirable bearing of his army, which the SULTAN did not fail to communicate to the generals, especially _ . _ _ the Grand Seraskier, MAUoMET. ALI PACH4 has received from the SULTAN, as a reward fur his military services, a magnificent sabre , the ht of which is of massive gold studded with brilliants. On the eve of the 9th there was a splendid ball at the British Ambassador's at Therapia. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at 9,000 bales, including 3,000 on speculation and 750 for export. The demand was moderate, and prices were firm.—Railway Shares were firm, "and generally higher prices were obtained. The cessation of business yesterday in the Colonial markets has caused un additional number of sales to-day in Mincing-lane. The Corn Market is dull. Nuw that the bustle and excitement of yesterday's inauguration of the Coal Exchange are over, people generally, express their opinion of the result of the proceedings, find this is almost univer sally favourable. With their accustomed liberality, the merchants occupying premises which commanded a view of the procession aflorded accommodation to their numerous frienc:s, and Me.serie Nicholson and Co., at great expense and trouble, converted their extensive wharf premises into reception rooms, and entertained from 200 to 300 persons at an elegant dejeuner. It was also, we understand, at the express command of her Mejesty that the Hon. Artillery Com pany attended us the guard of honour. The advises from the Continent state that at Amster dam the Ministerial crisis was over. The published list includes M. Van Bosse as Minister of Finance, and M. Yen Goldstein, President of the Second Chamber. Dutch Twon and-a-Halt per Cents. were rather heavy at 53 1-16 to i f . At the Vienna Bourse, on the 25th inst., Austrian Bands realised 941. The exchange on London was 10 46. It is stated in accounts from Russia, and the fact de serves aVention after all the boasting of plethoric riches, that the Government had commenced the issue of Trea sury bills at 4 22-100ths per cent. interest, to the amount of 21,000,000 roubles, in order to defray the expenses of the late campaign. The information obtained from the new financial repre sentative of Mexico in England, Col. Facie, appears to be very satisfactory. It is true that:there is no hope held out that the republic will be inclined to give additional security, and mike greater exertions for the payment of the interest on the debt, unless upon the understand ing that some concession be made by the creditors, and alter the experience of the result of some previous compromises, the latter will naturally be very cautious how they act. At the same time, Colonel Facio admits the great resources of his country which peace alone is required to develop, and it is conceived that a monthly remittance of 100,000 dollars, or equivalent thereto, if forwarded at longer intervals, may be fully relied on. The tobacco contract will re quire looking after, and the silver duties ought to pro duce a good sum. We do not know what the Committee may be doing in these mattere, but a movement is getting up among the bondholders, and a me morial is in course of signature, that will no doubt have great weight in Mexico, if numerously signed, as it is expected to be. The Funds are lower this morning by about per cent. in consequence of the fall in the Rentes at Paris, where the :unsetled state of the Ministry is made a handle to depress prices. Consols have been 928 to 938, and are now 924 a for Money, and 92-1- to 93 for Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per & Cents. have been 92-8- to 928. Bank Stock is worth 19S1. Exchequer-bills have been 425. to 455., and India Bonds 80s. premium. The Stock Exchange will be closed to-morrow, as usual on the Ist November. The Foreign Securities have been influenced partly by the settlement of the account. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 178 to it, and the Three per Cents. 344 to 35 1 1. This is a decided rally compared with the prices current a few days since, because the position of Narvaez, now he has returned to the Ministry, is cont dered firmer than ever, and in such a country as Spain, incapable of appreciating the blessings of constitutional government, strength is far more prized than liberality. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been steady at 338; Brazil Bonds have been done at 524; Buenos Ayres at 40k; and Chilian at 95. Mexican Bonds have been quoted 261 - , Begian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. are 88; and Dutch Four per Cents. 828. Railroad Shares are steadily rising still. Great Western hare touched 60; Caledonian, 141; North- Western, 116; Midland, 4811; South-Eastern, 18i; and York and Berwick, 188. ci,r,l7 , G ''lr, ,)1, PRITIEW YUNDi I . IITCES. Rank Stock 3 i.er Cent. Reduced Ar_ns..... 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9 3 1 /4 93 92% 93 ,/,, licw 314 per Cent. Anne.— 9 2 3 ,0 7‘i % • 92% Long A nus. to expire Jan.1860 India Bonds, 1,000 E.:....... ...... Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. lihd. & 2d 1,000!. Juno 4:5 42 p: 5001. June Small. Juno 42 p O O'CLOCK. 42:p 42 p 42 p OIASIICO PRICES. 82'5 40 th PRICES OF .. FOREIGN FUNDS. MHz: O'CLooK. Prazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent— 40% Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent .. . • Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. Do., 5 per cent Mexican. 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons-- Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ...., 26th, 26 3 ' a Portuguese 5 per Cents. ' B3 8.3 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Spanb,h 5 per Cent. 1840: 1716 17 1 A 17 1 4 Ditto, Account Ditto. 3 per Cent Ditto. Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Beligan, 41 ,4 per Cent. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. .. Ditto, 4 par Cent. Certificates 82% 82 PRICES OF PAID. LIMINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. 4'berdeen 5O Do. Preference k tuber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 6 ...... Ayrshire and Galloway.. 7% — l'elfast & County Down 26% ...... Berks & Hants Extens. (Gt. West. Per. 5 per ct.) 6 - Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Do, without guarantee 20 ... .. Binning, Wolverh'ton, . and aulley, calls duly pd, cr with guarantee 10 ..... Do. withoutguarantee 10 ...... Eirming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 131. 14s ... ••• 3irkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 20 Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 71. 4s. ... par Bristol and Exeter 9O ... ... Ditto, Thirds ..... 27% — .. 3uckinghamhire Caledonian Ditto, Now 10/. Pr0f... 10 Ditto,Clydesdale June 50 71Jster and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference ls C!arence Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 21Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Ports mouth Dublin and Belfast June 4O ...... Dundalk & Enniskillen 27% — Vast Anglian, 25/., L. & E. end L. and D...... 25 Do. 18/., E. & 11.... 18 Do., 31. 10s., Pref... 3% Emitern Counties........ 20 ...... 7% . Do. New, G ua.6 per ct. 10 ...... D it t o,Extension, 5 per Cent., N 0.1.. 61.135. 4d.... % p Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... Do. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 Do. New Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Ditto, Class A, ditto... 3% — Do., Class 13 (1. & B.) 25 Ditto, Class C, ditto... 25 . Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ....... East Lancashire Ditto, New Ditto, New Quarters 6 1 ,4 .. Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... 61 East Lincolnahiro ...... 25 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 31 ....... Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 .. ••• Edinburgh and Northern 25 Ditto, Newport l5 .. Excter•Yeovil, Dorch. 2 5 , 5 , — •• • Exeter and Exmouth... 21s. Glasgow, Dumfries, and _ _ _ Carlisle (41asgow,Kilmer., & Ayr 50 DLPreferenee Consul. • ....... • ••• Great I•Torthern Do., !y 2 A Deferred ... Do., 1.;, B 6 per Cent... 7 1 ,4 , — Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 10 , rest South. and West. 13 i/ 7 _ _ ,S 3i ; r IA 1 A 74 (Ireland) ... 474 mat North of England 100 Ditto, New, 401 .. 40 Ditto, ditto Ditto, Now, 301 3O Ditto. New ,15 , l5 Great Western 100 Ditto, 1,4 Shares Ditto, 1 4 Shares Ditto, Fifths ... 20 Ditto, New 171_ 15 Hull and Selby ...... 50 94 Ditto, Half Shares 25 ...... 46% 47 Do. Quarter Shares... 12% Lancaster and Carlis1e... 50 Ditto, Thirds Laneathire Yorkshireloo Do. do. M. B. & 8... 93 Ditto, ditto • Ditto, % Shares ...... 49 .. Do. Quarters ... ••• .•••• ...... Do. Fifths... Do. Thirds ...... I 6 1 /, .... Do. Now Guarantied 6r er Cent. • ••• 000000 10 ...... 00000 •••••••••• Do. Liverp. and Bury 49 ...... Ditto ..,(lluddorsiield and :36ff.) 5O Do. (W. Riding Union) 9 Do. (Preston & WyTre) 25 u. 14 1114 7% 94 40( 3 3 D0.i, , 4 Shares (A)..: 10 Leeds and Bradford Leeds and Think ...... 50 Do., Prefer., 6pr Ct. 5 ...... .. .•... Dr Pref. Q ISIS 9 ..... ~0., Pref. (guar., Liverpool, Crosby and Southport London &Blackwall...ll/. 6s. 3d... 3 3 / 4 London, Brighton, and South Coast..... 10) ...... 73 3 4 73 Do., New 51., guaran teed 6 per Cent..... 100 E o.Guaraut. 5 per ct.. 9 - 3 3 / 4 Do. Prefer. 5 per cent.. 50 ... Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 L ndonandGreenwien 12/158 4d... „ Ditto, Preference .20 Lc, don and N. Western 100 Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 Ditto, Fifths 7 .- .. 9 9 Do. 40/.Sharas(L. ) Do. 101. (M. & B.) C. 1 Lond.& S. Western ..... 50 .. 31 31 1 / 2 Ditto, New 50/. ...... -- DJ. New 40/. .. 34 Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. ... 5 Londondorry&Coleraine 25 Do. 1 / 5hare5.......,.... 5 Londonderry and Ennis killen 25 ...... Do. I,lt Shares 5 Lowestoff, guar. 4 per ct 20 . Ditto (6 per ct.) ..... 13 Manzhaster,Euxton,and Matlock tilinch ester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...loo Do. Quarters (No. 1) 23 Ditto ditto (No. 2).:. 25 D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 12 1 / 2 — Dr N 101. Pref.. 1f 1 .Gl/<z. Jo. -4 e w ...eref lO Ditto, Gt.Grimsby Ditto ditto . ......... 19 Ditto ditto Data Sheffield and Lincolnshire 22%, „, Do., Grimsby Dock... 25 ... . Do., Manchester and Lincoln Union..... 41.25. Midland Do. Consolidated Pref.loo Do., do., 501. Shares 30 ... .. 9 9 1 / 4 ....... Do. Birm., and Derby 100 — Dv. Consol. Bristol and Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 Ditto, Brist. & Glocstr. 42 Ditto ditto 22/. 75... ... Do.,ErewashVal.,Pref. 50 Ditto, Leicest.& Swan nington, 8 per ct. guar.loo Midland Great Western Irish Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. Newcastle and Carli3le.loo Do. Quarters Newmarket Do. Extension Newport, Abergavenny, end Hereford . 6 — Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warreupoint, and Rostrevor Norfolk .......... 100 Do. New 201. Do. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 20 Do. Guaranteed 5 1 A 1 pc. 5 Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 Northern Counties Union 4 ...... North British ...•....... 25 ..... Ditto, Halves .. Ditto, Quarters Ditto, 'Thirds 8 , 4 Ditto Preference North Staffordshire ... 17 1 , E 9ih North Wales . North-Western . 13% Oxterd, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...... 50 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate l5 ..... 15% Royston and Hitchin ... 4%.. ..... ••• Scottish Central Scottish Midland Ditto, New Shra - yvsbury and Birm l2 ...... Ditto ditto, Class B. S Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shrewsbury and Herat]. 4 Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) ...,.. 18 .•• Ditto Ilalves ... ditto 9 Ditto Usweztry 18 1 / 2 Ditto New Do. S per Cent. Pref lO Shropshire Union outh Devon Do. Preference - •••• •••• Soath Stallordshire 8 1 /2 SouthEast;:xn Do., N 0.2. Do., No. 3 ...... 30 Do., Registered No. 4 10 ******** •.. ••• Do., Scrip No 4 SOitli Wales South orkshire, Don caeter,and Gocle l2 Sheffield, Rotherham, Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent. 16 1 ,4 ••• Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 5 —• Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. C0a1.... 7 raw Vale Extension ... 8 [harries 'lawn Dock and Railway .... 17 1 / 2 Vale of N.:.ath ...... 8 Waterford and Kilkenny 20 . — Waterford and Limerick 47% — A'aterld,Wxfrd,Wicklw and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed .. 3O Do. do. do. ... 25 Do. do. do. ... 15 ..... ..... West Cornwall ...... 6 A' hit haven & Furness 16 Windsor, Staines, and South Western ..... 14 ...... . ........ Wilts,Somorstt,& Wey mouth York, Newcastle, and Berwick. ...... Do. Newcastle Exton. 20 Do. G.N.E.Prelerence . Do. Ihrtlepool Dock etma Railway lOO ..... . Yorkand North Midland 50 Liao, Preferene 10 FOREIGN RAIL IVA Anglo Italian (late Ita- • lian and Austrian). ... 5% -- Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon)... 20 Demerara ... 17% — Dutch Rhenish ......... 8 ... .. -- East Indian 34 Great Indian Peninsular 5 Do. Do. ... 10s. - Louvain I la Sambre ... Luxembourg Ditto ........ . lO Madrid and Valentia... 2 ...... -- Nainur and Liege -- Northern of France 141.,85... --dis ..... . Orleans and Bordeaux 7 ...... .. Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg:— 11 Rouen and Havre ...... 20 •• Sambre and/ lieuse 2O ..... —1 r... Strasbourg and Basle Tours and Nantes ll • Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt West Flanders . 63 / 4 .• Ditto . JOINT STOCK BAI KS. Australasia , - 40 British North American Colonial Commercial of London 20 London Joint Stock Loudon & Westminster. 20 National Prov. England. 35 Ditto New... ..... 10 -• ••• National of 1re1and...... 22 LA ..... Provincial of Ireland ... 25 .........•• ••• Ditto, New ..... 10 ••••• Union of Australia Ditto,New... ...... Union of Lyndon... lO • . Union of Madrid 4O MINES Anglo-Mexican lOO Asturian Mining Com... 15 Australian.... Barossa Range ... 28s. Blaenarvon Iron & Coal bO Bolonos Scrip ...... British Iron Brazilian Imperial ..... 24% .. BrazilianCoc.its&Cuiaba 30 ...... Do. St. John Del fey 15 Cobre Copper General 2O Real Del Monte, Unreg. Do. Black Debentures Do. Red Ditto ... ..... Santiago de Cuba United Alex:man 2 B lh — LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, OCT. 31.—Wind this du at noon W., light airs and fine weather. DEAL, OCT. 30.—Wind Gwalior, Colombo. Arrd. from the River, Clydesdale, Thompson, Cuba; Ellen, Webber, Jamaica. PORTS3IOUTH, OCT. 30.—Wind S.—Sld. Dinter, Buenos Ayres. OFF ORMSHEAD—Bonanza, Cuba, and proceeded for London. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 30.—Wind ;S.W.—And. 29th, Hong-Kong, l e ft St. H e l e na 17th Saghaticro, Mitchell, Sept.; Candace, Patterson, St. John"s, New Brunswick; 30th, Thomas Dempsey, Rio Grande ; Montreal, Villas ter, Montreal. Sid. 29th, Reliance,l3ierra Leone; 30th Athol, Singapore; Sobraon, Bombay ; lon, Valparaiso; Spy, Monte Video; Parton, Rio Gra ode; Jessy, Barba does; Catherine Minde, Port-au-Pr ince; Dagger, Ja maica; Kelly, Boston. Off port, Re indeer. SCILLY, OCT. 29.—Wind S.E.—Sid. 28th, Empress, Cape of Good Hope, &e. PILL, OCT. 29.—Sid. George, Dem erara. GLOUCESTER, OCT. 29.—Arrd. So' way, Quebec. MUMBLES, OCT. 28.—Lady Prudhoe, St.Jago do Cuba. PWLIIELI, OCT. 30. —Wind strong.—Arrd. Waterford, Robinson, Quebec. FLEETWOOD, OCT. 29.—Arrd. Edgecombe, Campbell, Richibucto. • SHIELDS, OCT. 30.—Wind strong.—Arrd. 29th, Harvey, Creigh, Quebec; Aurolia, Dalhousie. FIRE IN HoLnouri.—Last evening a fire, by which two persons were seriously injured, occurred upon the premises in the occupancy of Mr. Alfred Hill, dentist, King-street, Holborn. The flames commenced in the workshop at the rear of the private residence, from, it was stated, the upsetting of a naptha lamp. The par ties in the building, a gentleman and a lad, in their anxiety to get the fire subdued, were severely burned, more especially the youth, who was obliged to be re moved to the hospital. The engines of the London Brigsde and West of England Company were soon on the spot; and owing to the exertionti of the firemen, the flames were eventually extinguished, but not until the premises in which the outbreak commenced were en tirely destroyed, but fortunately the front priming re ceived not the least injury. ITALY. Marshal R4DETZKY is appointed Governor- G(-n.. , ral of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. lie will re side at Verona, and be assisted by the Counts MOSTECUCULI and STRASSOLDO. Prince SCHVARE ZENDERG is named as Civil and Military Governor of Milan ; and General PUCHNERIO Civil and Military Governor of Venice. The Statute, of Florence, quotes a letter from Rome, of the 20th, stating that the pro-Minister GALLI has drawn up a new financial project in stead of the one on the paper bank which bad been rejected by the commission of finance. This new project consists in a new system of indirect taxes. The Government, according to this system, is to tax every commune in proportion to its population. The commune is bound to pay to Government the whole of the tax, and afterwards rate its inhabitants accord ing to the amount. This system would establish a different taxation for every commune. The Chamber of Deputies at Turin came to a vote on the 25th, limiting, by a great majority, the collection of the indirect taxes to the month of November. On the same day a Cabinet Council was held at Turin for the purpose of considering the nomination of the new Minister of Public Works. It was said that overtures had been made to Engineer PALEOCAPA. Chevalier LIGNES BARDOJI, Charge d'Affaires of the Queen of SPAIN, has had an audience of the KING in .order to present to him the insignia of Grand Cross of the Order of Charles 111. his MAJESTY already had that of the Golden Fleece. THE LORD MAYOR. The following letter from Lord John Russell to the Lord Mayor will be read with unfeigued grati fication by all who have formed a just estimate of the duties which devolve on a Chief Magistrate of Lon don, and who have carefully watched the manner in which these have been performed by Sir James Duke. The influence of his high station has been uniformly employed in accordance with the en lightened spirit of the age; and his hospitality, although of the most princely kind, and on the most extended scale, has never been ostentatiously or indis crimina'ely bestowed. The Mansion-house, since the commencement of his Mayoralty, has been thrown open to distinguished men of all creeds and parties ; whilst science and literature have made (w e believe we may say) their first festive ac quaintance with commerce at his board. In one thing we cannot be mistaken—the universal feeling that Sir James Duke will leave his high office exalted in public estimation by his fulfilment of its duties, and we therefore warmly and cordially con- gratulate him on tilt well-deserved honour that he has received : " Downing street, Oct. 30, 1849. " My dear Lord Mayor,—The Queen has been pleased to direct that your Lordship should be created a baronet. " In congratulating you upon this distinction, I may add, that his Royal Highness Prince Albert was highly gratified with the reception which his Royal Highness, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and her Royal Highness the Princess Royal have met with from the immense multitude who greeted their progress this. day. "His Royal Highness was likewise extremely gratified with the arrangements made at the Coal Exchange, and the loyalty evinced by all classes of the Queen's subjects. " I have the honour to be, my dear Lord Mayor, " Yours,, very faithfully, " The Lord Mayor." ' "J. Russum..." TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD JOHN RUSSELL, ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S rEIN- CIPAL SECRETARIES OF STATE. My Lord,—l am not going to ask you to rehearse the Articles of your Belief,—but to thank you for having done a service to honest men of all beliefs, by standing out against the gross imposture attempted to he practised upon the country whose counsels you direct, by men presenting themselves to you with a palpable falsification i❑ their hands, of the authority to which they untruly made profession to appeal. Your courage has saved the country from the dis grace of bowing before the Baal of a lie, got up by some if not by others, with ulterior designs against the freedom and progress of the State. But the danger though parried is not over. A needle cannot stand upon its point, but if it does not fall our way will fall the other. There will be neither safety nor quiet till the truth i 3 driven home, to the confusion of its enemies. There can be little doubt that they will provide the opportunity. What I want then to submit to the grave consi deration bound to be attendant on the acts of the prime minister of a great country, is whether if another bishop should present himself to you with a heresy for which he ought to be unfrocked, and inferior churchmen in the receipt of pay and allow ances for upholding the faith adopted by the majority of the nation from the Protestant Reformers should aid him in his- apbstasy,— the conduct befitting the first Minister of a Pro testant Sovereign, would not be to reply nth the self-possession which few who have witnessed it have forgotten, and with the still small voice which h►s been heard farther than the thunder and the storm, That the principle they advance is not supported by Christianity, but is in distinct terms repudiated by Christianity. That it is not in the doctrines of the Protestant Reformers, but, on the contrary, is enumerated among their grievances in the Confession of Augsburg. That it is not in the doctrines of the Church whose ministers they profess to be, but, on the contrary, the Church in her Catechism and Articles, in strict con formity with the injunction of the New Testament, refuses to admit the obligation of the Fourth Jewish commandment, and thereby classes it among the " Ceremonies, Rites, and Civil precepts, which do not bind Christian men," and not the " Commandments which are called Moral." A rebuff of this kind would be the most useful thing that has happened since Elizabeth stopped the Churchmen's games in Smithfield. ONE WHO BELIEVES SABBATICAL OBSERV ANCE PROHIBITED TO CHRISTIANS. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET COURSING MEETING—TUESDAY, CHIPPENHAM FIELD.—THE DERBY. Mr. Fyson's Fabian beat Mr. Dobede's Donald. Mr. Buckworth's Butcher beat Mr. B. Smyth's Saxon. Lord Stradbroke's Merchant beat Mr. King's Refuge. Mr. B. Smyth's Seville beat Mr. Gillett's Garnet. Mr. Dobede's Damien beat Mr. Fyson's Mr. Otbaldeston's Othello beat Mr. Finch's Cantab. TIIE CUP. Mr. Fyson's Forerunner beat Mr. B. Smyth's Sanspareillc Mr. Buckworthy's Bruce beat Mr. Fyson's Fancy Boy. Lord Stradbroke's Moreen beat Mr. B. Smyth's Sweet- briar. Mr. Dobede's Doron beat Mr. King's Rex. Mr. Osbaldeston's Olinda beat Lord Stradbroke's Miller. Mr. Dobede's Desperate beat Mr. Gillett's Game Chicken Mr. Osbaldeston's Orlando beat Mr. Buckworth's Baron Mr. Buckworth's Bessie Bell beat Mr. Moody's ltaby. THE OAKS. Mr. Gillett's Glance, beat Mr. Osbaldestcn's Ophelia. Mr. Moody's Th)sebud beat Mr. Gillett's Geneva. Mr. Fyson's Fairy Queen beat Mr. Dobedo's Dewdrop. Mr. B. Smyth's Silkworm beat Mr. Buckworth's Brocade Mr. Moody's Ready beat Mr. Buckworth's Bodice. Mr. Fyson's Fortune-teller beat Lord Stradbroke's Male. Mr. Finch's Crenoline beat Mr. B. Smyth's Starlight. Lord Stradbroke's Manto beat Mr. Dobcde's Dewberry. ltOgT STAKES. Mr. Dobede's Diamond beat Mr. Buckworth's Brush. Mr. Gillett's Glentilt beat Lord Stradbroke's Music. Mr. Buckworth's Ilebe. beat Mr. Dobede's Douglas. Lord Stradbroke's Mary beat Mr. Dobede's Drift. Mr. B. Smyth's Sheriff brat. Mr. King's Racer. Mr. Fyson's Field Marshal beat Lord Stradbroke's ;quiz Mr. Fyson's Formidable butt Mr. Moody's Rattle. Mr. Osbaldeston's Olivia ran a bye. BETTING AT MANCIIESTER.—TUESDAY. WORCESTER S TEEPLECFIA SE. 7 to 1 slot The Young 'un (f), 8 to 1 sgst Shiarene (0, 9 to 1 agst Rat trap (t). 12 to 1 agst Fugleman (t). DERBY.-11 to 1 agst Bolingbroke, 11 to 1 agst Ghillie Callum, 12 to 1 agst Knight of Avenel, 20 to 1 agst Clincher, 20 to 1 agst Sweetheart, 25 to 1 ugst Deicoon (t freely), 23 to 1 agst Cyprus, 33 to 1 agst The Nigger, 33 to 1 agst Penang. Emigration continues in Germany in a frightful degree. In the course of the prc sent year the number of emigrants who have embarked at the port of Bremen alone, amounts to upwards of 57,000, 8,000 of whom left, during the last month. The majority have taken their passage to the United States of America. - MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY A:though the supply of English Wheat on sale to day was very limte d, the do mat d for that grain, owing to the small numbar of buy ers in a tendance, was in a very depressed state, and 11 nday's quotations acre nominally unaltered. The imports of foreign Wheat this week have been confined to 4,010 quarters. Fine parcels were mostly dispey,ed of at lull prices. In othe r qualities scarcely any business was transacted. We were scantily supplied with all kinds of Barley, which were taken at about stationary prices. Fine Malt was scare , -, and quite as dear; secondary qualities were a dull sale•. The best samples of Oats, from their scarcity, were held for more money; in the value of other kinds we have no change to report. Beans and Peas moved off slowly, at full prices. Indian Corn, Meal, and Flour were much neglected. 31% ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. I'ngli.s • • • • • • : , eotch • • • • Irish .. •• .• Foreign ...... 10,E Burley. Oats. i 31alt. Flour. 91/ 4 9% - - 15% ems, 7 %s ..-• 181/2 6 1 4 16 17 1 4 11% 19N ..,-. 53/4 11N 3 % dis ..... 281 h -- 5% Qrs. I Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. I Sacks. 2SO 520 50 410 4.010 3,420 8021.011G11 _I2OP IVZ.aItIEZT. Fine Hops are in steady request, at full prices. In other kinds wry little is doing. The maiket is mode rately supplied. New Mid and East Kent pockets, 81 to 101; New Weald of Keut ditto, .51 123 to 71 10s; New Sussex ditto, 51 103 to 6l 12s; New Farnhams, 10/ to 11/ 10s; Yearling Keats, 3/ lOs to 41 15s; Yearling Sussex, 2l 163 to 4110 s; Old Hops, 1/ to 3/ 15s per cwt. WHITECIIAPEL. Our market was tolerably firm to-day, at very full prices. Beef from 25 6d to 35 4d; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 10d; Veal, 3e to 3s 6d; and York, 3s 4d to 4s per Sibs. by the carcase. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) ERUTAL ASSAULT.—A big tall man was charged whit having assaulted Mr. John Wyatt, tailor, of 43, Store street. The complainant stated that the prisoner had worktd for him, off and on, for nearly four years, residing in his own house (luting the latter portion of the time. NO had, however, repeatedly required him to leave the house, but he had always refused to do so, and this morning the defendant came into his room where be was sleeping and assaulted him in a most violent manner. no was naked at the moment, while his wooden leg was off, and he had, therefore, no power to resist the attack. The prisoner urged, in defence, that the complainant assaulted him first. The complainant denied this. He gave him no pro vocation whatever, but nevertheless he beat him severely over the head and other parts of his body. Mr. HENRY did not believe that the complainant, being a cripple and without his wooden leg, could have possibly committed an assault in the first instance, and as the violence of the prisoner must have been as out rageous as it was unprovoked, he should fine him 40s. or six weeks' imprisonment. The fine was not forthcoming. MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.) George Miller, a labouring man, who stated that he resided at No. 2, Royal Tent court, Kent street, Borough was placed before Mr. Bingham, charged with being at suspected person loitering about New Bond•street, in, company with two others not in custody, with a horse and cart, for the purpose of committing felony. He vvaa also charged with violently assaulting the police•consta• ble with a life•preserver. Tottman, 319 A, deposed that about half-past seven o'clock last night he was on duty in Bond-street, in plain clothes, when he saw the prisoner, with two other men in a horse and cart, driving up the street. He watched them for some time, and saw them come back from Oz" ford-street. When they arrived at the corner of Union.' street they stopped the cart, and the prisoner got out and walk , d up the street to where a cab with a portmanteau on the top was standing. The prisoner then got up be hind the cab, and did somethine to the portmanteau. At this moment the cab drove off with the prisoner still standing behind. At the corner of Union-street he g ot down, and one of the other men got out of the cart and followed the cab. The prisoner and the other man then drove down the street after the cab, as far as New Bond" street, where a woman stopped the cart and spoke to the prisoner, who immediately drove ( tf at a furious rates Witness followed them, and called upon them V' stop. They, however, took no heed of him, but drove still faster. Witness, after a sharp chase• succeeded in coming up with them at the corner of Sheppard-street, and was in the act of getting.on the, cart when the prisoner struck him o ver t h e head and face +with a life-preserver, and continued to do so till they got into Oxtord-street, when the prisoner's comps' 'lion said, " Give me hold of it, and I will smash the b- brains out." The prisoner then took the reins!, and the other man, after beating him with the butt or the whip, jumped out of the cart and ran away. Witee° then c ntrived to get into the cart, and told the prisoner that he was a constable, and he must consider himself in custody. The prisoner made no reply, but lashed the horse, and drove at a terrific rate down Oxford-street. when'the cart came in collision with a cab. They wer e both thrown out, and the cart turned over on the tel l of them. Some other constables then came up and tin prisoner was conveyed to the station. Witness &ado!, that the prisoner belonged to a well organised gang of l i thieves, and if he was remanded. no doubt other charge* would be brought against him. The prisoner was then remanded until Tuesday ne%re HAYMA.HKET THEATRE:. Mr. Morris Barnett has achieved a most brilliant success. His new comedy, entitled The Serious Family, which was produced here last evening, is O n° of the most amusing, one of the best built, one of th e best written, and far and away one of the best aero comedies that we have seen tie- years. The idea taken from the French vaudeville, Un Mari a/a Campagne, and thus runs the plot : Charles Torrens (Mr. Webster), has married into a serious family, the principal members 0 f which, Lady Sowerby Creamly (Mrs. W. Clifford)? his mother in-law, and Mr. Atninidab Sleek (M r ,i Buckstone) take up their residence in his house, all force him to give up all his worldly pursuits 111 ' enjoyments, and become a discreet, serious man. 101. about a year he submits quietly to this treatme. o4 but at the end of that time, and r pretence of goi n g on a shooting excursion to Leicestershire, he take s apartments at Mivart's, as Mr. Fitzfoley, a bachelor, and while away from home makes up for the dilloess of his usual life by indulging in every fashiona W extravagance. As Mr. Fitzloley, he makes the s c , quaintance of a young widow, Mrs. Ormsby Delmaine (Mrs. FitzwiTham), and introduc es to her an old friend of his, a Captain Murphy Mac' guire (Mr. James Wallack), who, being of too riot o and unsteady a disposition for the serious family, h 9 been summarily ejected by Lady Sowerly Crearo i P It appears that Captain Blacguire and Mrs. Delauou, are old lovers, who have separated in consequence 0 ' a slight quarrel, which is soon explained t° their mutual satisfaction. However, it un i° , t ; tunately happens that at the very t i° ",. that Mr. Torrens is at the house of Mrs. Delenalnli Mrs. Torrens (Miss Reynolds), with her mother a° Mr. Sleek, also pay her a visit to solicit a subscrill 0 for some pious purpose, and Mrs. Delmaine and A, Torrens recognise each other as schoolfellows. H er e Mrs. Torrens discovers her husband—the secret ca „at Leicestershire excursion is out. She reflects on sy'w c i has taken place, and knowing that her bus's% really loves her, and feeling that the duble A s ir of , the serious family and the tyranny of L gu i l e , increase Creamley are not at all calculate d 0 increase that love, she resolves like a sensible w°, l l„ to make her home agreeable to her husband, anal, l the . great horror of h er 66 serious" mother, actual gives a ball. The captain and the widow marry, all ends happily, the comedy concluding with the _ at Mrs. Torrens. The Mr. Torrens was admirable, his demure seriousness in the . first a , c i t , contrasting most effectively with his rollicking N 0,91 ness in the second. Wallack's:lrish Captain eves . 1111 _ of spirit; it was such a representation as Ellis would have given of the peat. The appearance Mr. Buckstone as the canting Aminidab Sleek, e O t I Q . of Webster tinually soliciting contributions for the Ching 1"°, 11 : f Indians or the Timbuctoo Mission, or some other equally . pious purpose, produced shouts of laughtt; which were repeated whenever he appeared on t h ", stage. The character of Mrs. Torrens is by far a te hest thing that Miss Reyn o ld s h as y e t d01..e. te acting last night was pure and legitia,4 comedy, and comedy of the very big g at order. We have a vivid recollection of Plessi tte this part, and Miss Reynolds does not suffer by ' comparison. The part of Lady Sowerby Creaadi riot one of those pieces of cold buckram dignity and, P a ys preciseness in which Mrs. W. Clifford al r - o , shines her dress, her looks, her gest tl : 4l , all were admirable ; and as a perfect .C" tv , trast to this prim piece of serious prof rie4 we had the warm, hearty, genial, kindb ear p widow of Mrs. Fitzwilliam. The applause and laug op" were continuous throughout the piece, and at the c er e elusion the cheering was enthusiastic, and there i w b is loud calls for Mr. Morris Barnett, who bow e , thanks from a side box. The house was crowde' e' A YOUNG BOA CONSTRICTOR.—The steamer el nassarim, we understand, has brought up from Me ti , i r o n l g• to Calcutta a young boa constrictor, ab o ut 14 feel , m y- The reptile had got into the compound of a hous e °e- e n pied by a military officer, a nd r e g a l e d himself wit h se ' geeseßßl he was taken in a passive rtate. TISH REFORMATION SOCIETY.—Last n=b- ; ° ,l, e t t his annual meeting of the Bermondsey Auxiliary n e. Society was held in the Queen Elizabeth Branch mar School, Magdalen•street, Tea.) , -street. 1 -C b _ i ° ingt J. Ralph, M.A., the Rector, presided, and them '"toi" which was a numerous one, was addressed by C a P 1 4 Harcourt, R.N. the Rev. Dr. Cumming, and othe"' fro ni the course of the proceedings a working man rose. i o n the body of the meeting, and having received patelnin from the chairman, proceeded at some length to el o pe the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Ch u rch, 0" nre points in which he considered they h a d been mis re i;bls sented by Captain Harcourt and the chairman. The led to a reply from the latter and Dr. Cumming.ronai discussion was, however, conducted with couch P, c viro.• good feeling on both sides. At the close of tile v- he as of '" ceedings collection was made in aid of the fun , ..4 09910 y; _ stil int r es . Pi l an 10(1