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THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET" Mr. B. Webster, Bele Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENTI‘G, Will be performed KING LE AR. King Lear, Mr. Macready; Edgar, Mr. J. Wallack ; Earl of Kent, Mr. Stuart ; Cordelta, Miss Reynolds. To be followed by an original Farce called THE GUARDIAN ANGEL. Mr. Dulcimer, Mr. Keeley ; Moggy Snaggs, Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with the successful and laughable Farce, called an iLARMING SACRIFICE. Bob Ticket, Mr. Buckstone ; Susan Sweetapple, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. Due notice will be given of the appearance of Mr. and Mrs. KEAN. The Box-oftice is ender the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. ItizATiot ROYAL, ADELPHI. 'Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be perfbrmed THE SONS OF MARS. Te be followed by an entirely new Extravaganza, entitled DO MJESTIC ECONOMY. John Grumly, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Grumley. Mrs. F. Matthews. After which a'llew Farce, entitled A BIRD OF PASSAGE. Mr. Carry Chick, Mr. Wright; Mr. Channt Ginger, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Charles Ptuher, Mr. Boyce; Eraest Hopeful , Mr. Worrell; Mrs. Waters Rummell, Mrs. Frank Matthews. To conclude with a new slippery sketch called MRS. BUNBURY'S SPOONS. Mr. liighbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford ; Bob Twinks, Mr. Wright; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith; Mrs. Bunbury, Mrs. F. Matthews; Mrs. Highbary Barnes, Miss Brooks. ROYAL LYCLUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestals. Solo I eslee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will folbe performed METHINKS I SEE MY TATHER. To Lk: , lowed by BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. To conclude with a comic drama, called A PRACTICAL MAN. 'Ores, tsoxst, 55.; Upper Isox.st, 4s- 2s. ; Gallery, is. eo ,neo to env Nat of the house. All applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Allcroft, 15, New Bond-street. igtINCESS'S THEATII,E. Mc. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVEN INO, will be performed a new Opera, entitled CHARLES THE SE COND. '..Co be followed by a new Extravaganza, entitled THE FIRST NIGHT. To conclude with a new Ballet entitled LES FATINEURS. A.ST L Y'S ItOIAL AM r RITTIEATIi /C. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. nder the PAzonage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. Triumphant success of the new Equestrian Spectacle of the Prophet, which has been nightly received with enthusiasm, and von unced by the public pr se to be the in)st gorgeous hippo-dramatic piece 3ver produced at the Amphitheatre. The celebrated Comedian and Clown, Mr. T. Barry, will have the honour of appearing, having returned from America. Mr. J. Bridges and Madlle. Amine every Evening. Unparalleled Equestrian Feats. THIS EVENING, Will be performed Fite:mills grand Equestrian Spectacle, entitled PitOPIIET, in which Mr. W. West will appear. to :011:;:sea by an Inimitable display ot SCENES 114. , 1' TIIE C • LE by the first Equestrian talent of the day, in which Mr. T. Barry will appear. To conclude with the Farce of JACK JUNK. boa-office open from Eleven till four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Wc:t. illilll WATER AT LONDON BRUNIE. iris Dar —Morning, 0 min. after 9 [Evening, 40 min. after 9 °riling, 20 min. rjter 10 I Evening, 5$ min. site• 10 OrvcE. No'. 9. TIIERMOMETER, Lowest, 50 ii guest, 56 Noon. 57 BAROMETER, 30.4. WIND S.W.—fins sunshiny weather. .0 - -* S ~,„;,:, k, .1., 1 ,....., v itl,i,:--,;;;": - --; nt 4 !V. At 1 , , 1 4,,t,., , ....Ip3 - .pt„,,,Fr -k ~,. .-w4!i..4 ,- , -**:4".., --0.41-.w._ ,, ...%,, - 1 it.' .z. ,3 . ' 1 : li ~ :1 T y „ tug ..„„ At . , „,,,,, k C ti ....'-: --• ONDON, FRIoAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1849. Iliving in our impression of Wednesday consi dered that portion of the able and most valuable rep >rt of Mr. Sfmos to the City Sewers Commis sioners which relates to the subject, of drainage, we now proceed with our observations on the other por tions of this most important document. With regard to the supply of water, without an adequate supply of which, drainage is physicalky impossible, Mr. SIMON say s— " In the city of London the supply of water is but a fraction of what it should be. Thousands of the popula tion have no supply of it to houses where they dwell." Ant he afterwards proceeds to point out the chief conditions in respect of water supply which peremp torily require to be fulfilled: these are— " 1. That every house should be separately supplied with water, and that where the house is a lodging house, or where the several floors are let as separate tenemi uts,the supply of water should extend to each inhabited floor. - " 2. That evary privy should have a supply of water applicable as often as it may be required, and sufficient in volume to effect at each application a thorough flushing and purification of the discharge pipe of the privy. " 3. That in every court, at the point remotest from the sewer grating, there should bo a stand cock for the cleansing of the c)ur,; and " 4. That at all these points there should always and uninterruptedly be a sufficiency of water to fulfil all reaso nable requirements of the population." It is manifest that it is to the River Thames, and the River Thames alone, that we must look for a supply of water sufficient to fulfil the above condi tions. The wells of London, Artesian and others, decrease in depth, it is said, at the rate of two feet annually, and are therefore manifestly inadequate to the supply of even the present limited demand ; while the water companies derive in some instances all, in every instance a portion of, their supply from the Thames. Here then is another reason for insisting on the necessity of maintaining the stream of the Thames free from pollution, and of at once rejecting every system of sewerage which does not preserve the river pure and uncon taminated. Mr. Staicav then proceeds to consider the subject of offensive and injurious trades and occupa tions, and recommends that the slaughtering of cattle within the city of London, and all its attendant abominations, naming more particularly as one of them sheds and stalls for the continued keeping of cattle, should be suppressed. This recommendation, of course, involves the immediate abolition of Sniith field-market. Mr. SIMON thus disposes of a fallacy on which the learned Thebans who have a vested interest in stinks have o f late placed much reliance. He says— " Before leaving this subject, I think it right very briefly to allude to toe argument which is often objected to the view hero stated. The objector looks to a parti cular district, or to a particular slaughter- house, and says that the mortality:of the district is an averaga one, or he points to Mr. A or Mr, B, the butcher, or the butcher's man, saying, " Who cal be healthier than A or B ? Surely, if the pursuit be injurious, these men ought to have teen poisoned long ago.' Now, to this I reply first, as riards the men employed in these crafts, we have no statistics of any value to decide on their morta lity, and ji , lgment on the matter cannot be deduced from seune halt-elcaen cases ; but, further, if we admit (which I by no means know to be the case) that they are persons of average longevity and healthiness, then it must be remembered that their activity, their cut-door exercise, their high wages, and, above all, their unlimited supply of animal food, are circumstances conducing to give them health beyond the average of their station; and it must be !remembered that these palliating circumstances, though they msy counteract the evil for those most nearly concerned in it, contribute nothing towards deodorising the neighbourhood, or towards preserving its poorer inhabitants from the depressive influence of putrid emanations. " And, as regards the district—althongh we have cer tain evidence that organic decomposition is a chief cause of disease, yf_t we do not invariably find disease gene-- rated in immediate proximity to the source of nuisance. " Drainage beneath the soil, and currents of air above it, convey the materials of decomposition to a distance; and if the particular slaughterhouses be placed at a high I -yel amidst the urrouncJing city,: so that their drainage be effectual and their ventilation complete, then it will be obvious to any candid inquirer, that their influence must be sought for not so much in any special aggrava tion of the local mortality as in certain remoter effects of their diffused emanation; in effects, namely, which are discoverable along their lines of drainage and ventilation, and in the various consequences of a highly zymotic atmosphere generrlly through the entiretown." He likewise proposes to prohibit the carrying on in the city of London tallow-melting, whalebone boil ing, gas-making, and other similar trades which, if not absolutely injurious to life, are, in the language of the law, nuisances. As Mr. SIMoN justly observes— "lt is the common right of the neighbourhood to breathe an uncontaminated atmosphere ; and with this common right such nuisances must be considered to clash. It might be an infraction of personal liberty to interfere with a proprietor's right to make offensive smells within the limits cf his own tenement, and for his own separate inhalation; but surely it is a still greater i n fraction of personal lib er ty, w h en the proprietor, en titled as he is to but a joint use of an atmosphere which i s the common property of his neighbourhood, assumes what is equivalent to a sole possession of it, and claims she right of diffusing through it some evanescent efflu vium which others eq uall y with himsel f are thus obliged i\ir to inhale." inhale." On the subjec t of intramural interments, StmoN gives it unhesitatingly as his conviction, after baying examined as fully as circumstances would allow into the requirements of the city of London in respect of burial accommodation, " that the City can no longer with safety or propriety be allowed to fur nish intramural Interment to its dead." Public opi nion, we believe, is all but unanimous in declaring that all intramural grave-yards should he immediately closed; but there are still some persons who believe that the burial in vaults of bodies enclosed in metallic coffins might be permitted without danger. To all such we recommend the attentive perusal of the following remarks of Mr. Simms; on this subject : " With respect to burial in vaults, which prevails to a THE SUN, LONDON, very great and dangerous extent in the city, I may ob- mercial adventures, that under a more equable move serve, that among persons who are ill - informed o n the tary - system would ensure handsome p rofits, become subject there exist erroneous notions as to the preserve- wild and rash " speculations ;" while stupid sloth tion of bodies under these circumstances. They are supposed from their complete closure to remain un- and inactivity, w ithout the possession of a single changed for ages, like the embalmed bodies of Egypt good quality, is regarded as wise and prudent and Heru ; or, at least, if perhaps they undergo some conduct. interior and invisible change (as the chrysalis within its The "appreciation" of money it is that has render ed sheath), that there is no interference with the general arrangement, no breach in the compactness of the enve- every species of trading or commerce unprofitable, a lope. Nothing can be less corre ct than this supposition. source of loss in place of gain. Persons who purchase a n y "It is unnecessary that I should detail the process of description of commodities must make up their minds decay as it occurs within the charnel house, nor need I inquire for your information whether indeed it be true, to sell at less than first cost, or to retain the goods as alleged, that part of the duty of a sexton consists deteriorating in their hands. Manufacturers must in tapping the recent coffins, so as to facili tate the escape of gases which ot h e rwise would burst raw materials and the wages of their workm en ; but -' pose of their products at less than the price o f t he s forth from , their confinement. I t is sufficient that I dis should state that whether such be or be not the duty of this is not occasioned by over-production or over the functionary in question, a time certainly comes, speculation, but by the increased value of money, sooner or later, when every corpse buried in the vault which, although of the same nominal value—being of a church spreads the products of its decomposition through the air as freely as though no shell had en- 5 dwts. 3 grs. of gold for the pound sterling, requires closed it. It is matter of the utmost notoriety that a much greater quantity cf goOds to be given in under all ordinary conditions of vault sepulture the exchange than was formerly considered an equivalent. wooden case of the csffin speedily decays and crumbles, Merchants, manufacturers, and traders must therefore while the interior leaden one, bending with the pressure of whatever mass may be above it, yields, bulges, and suffer; while the only parties who be nefit are those I bursts as surely as would a hat-box under the w ei g ht of who hoard up their money, waiting for the fatal a leaden portmanteau. operation of the money laws to depre ss all kinds of "If the accuracy of this description be doubted, let , and to enable the drones to fatten upo n t he inquiry be made on a large scale a f ter the coffins of , industry, forty years back—let it be seen how many will appear I ' spoils of their more active brethren. If, on the contrary, its accuracy be granted, then 1 Let apprehend nothing further need b e ur g ed to establish i the importance of abolishing a syst em which maintains p e a scri . us inquire a little further and see what . tion of speculation it was that was chiefly I on so large a scale the open putr efaction of human re- complained of. The Governor and the Deputy mains within places of frequent resort, and in the midst ;Governor of the Bank of England i n their evidence before the Committee on Commercial Distress of populous habitations. " It is a very serious matter for consideration, that !declared that e close beneath the feet of those who a ttend the services of I their church there often lies an almost solid pile of de- i "An unprecedented large importation of food caused composing human remains, co extensive with the area of by a deficient harvest, required in payment the export the building, heaped as high as the vaulting will permi , ! o. a large amount of bullion to the extent of about and generally (as I have shown) but very partially con- i 7,500,0001. from the coffers of the Bank, and probably fined. And it it be the case (as perhaps it may), that i not less than 1,500,0001. from other sources—together .he frequenters of the place of worship do not complain 9 000,000/. From this large reduction in the available of any vitiati"n of the atmosphere, or perhaps do not 1 capital of the country, in addition to the still larger experience it, not the less is it true that vitiation occurs, 1 amount invested in railway expenditure, acting suddenly and (whether to the speciel detrim ent of the con g re g a- u p on a previous high state of credit and excessive specu tion or not) contributes to the overladen putt efactiveness `lateen, arose the pressure in the money market. There e was an abstraction of 7,500,000/. from the bullion held of our London atmosphere. " In respect of, such vaults, I do not consider that the S by the Bank, and consequently a diminution in the notes mere cessation of interments will be t-ufficient, seeing ! to that extent. that at the present moment they contain amongst them I ,They then explain the sudden fall of prices of many thousand coffins as yet tenanted by the materials I i bread stuffs, and the failure, first of the parties who of decompositien ; and year and after year, if left in their present state, these will be poisoning the air with I speculated in corn, and then of others whose resources successive iuetalmen's of their progressive decay. were materially affected thereby — the general alarm "It stems to me quite indispensab l e that come corn-1 and total prostration of credit t h at en s u ed, and the m prehensive eastiee should be undertaken for ab , li,,bir‘ g i " hoarding of money to a considerable extent. The at once and for ever all burial within the city of London. Conjointly with the general application to Parliament general complaint was a scarcity of money. Credit for prohibition of further in tramural sepulture, I woull re- ; was so entirely destroyed that houses trading to commend that authority be obtained by the City for its 1 distant countries, carrying on their business by means several parishes to procure the decent r emoval to extra mural cemeteries of such coffins as already occupy their iof credit b , y a renewal of their acceptances as they vaults; cr failing this measure, I would recommend that became due, were no longer able to meet their all coffins now lying within vaults be walled up in engagements, and were forced to stop payment. their present resting-places with uniform impermeable This was the state of things previous to the issuing masonry." of the Government letter in October." Now, it must We make no apology for the length of the above be borne in mind, that these gentlemen are among extract, for the matter to which it relates is one which the most strenuous advocates of the Acts of 1819 and affects the life of every attendant at every metropo litan place of worship, and we feel that any attempt 1844, and that their object was to prevent any altera at comment would only weaken the force o f t he ar • tion in our money laws, and that their evidence was more particularly directed to the Act of 1844 . The gument so excellently, so strongly, and so plainly put first shock to the national credit was the " unprece by Mr. SIMON. The report then, at great length, dented large importation of food caused by a deficient describes the miserable state of the habitations of harvest." the poor in courts and lanes and allies, wher e are to be This, then, was the " over-speculation" of which found rookeries of houses absolutely incapable of ven tilation, and proposes the following remedy : they complained. Was there, we ask , a single I would beg to recommend " sa s Mr. Simon, a that quarter of corn imported which was not required " , a survey be made of the worst districts which I have Iby the nation ? If it had not been for that large im spsc.fl-d, with a view to the immediate p urchase and de- i portation, must not the people have endured the ut struction of some considerable portion of the court p ro most privations, and encountered a scarcity similar to petty lying in them; and still more, I would urge that this is an exertion which for some years m u st proceed that under which our Irish brethren suffered so systematically, in order to thin the numbers of a popula- severely ? The "epaculations" in corn, then, although tion which now breeds pestilence and augments mortality i they may have acted injuriously on the money by its overcrowding and excess. "I am aware that considerable difficulties l ie in the market, were absolutely essential to the safety of the way of accomplishing an object of this sort with imme- country ; and it is manifest that we owe much to that diate rapidity. It is my great hope, however, that the " speculation" which averted the most fearful principle may be distinctly recognised; and that the City evils, and unparalleled misery from the com will not tolerate within its municipal jurisdiction the c o n tinuance of houses absolutely incompatible with munity at large. The dealers might have healthy habitation. This principle being once este- sustained pecuniary losses, but they preserved their blished, and a certain annual expenditure devoted to fellow-citizens from the most frightful calamities! enforce it, I feel assured that within a very few years opportunities enough will have arisen for that outla y to But how did the large importation produce the money have been made in the most judicious manner, and for crisis ? Simply because it led "to the export of a its results amply to have demonstrated the advantages large amount of bullion," about 8,000,0001. sterling. of the system which I recommend." This was the effect of the fixed price of gold, which Mr. Siemer then proceeds to consider "the per- was thereby rendered the cheapest commodity the sonal habits of the lowest classes, and the in foreigners could take in payment for their goods. fluence of destitution in increasing mortality ;" and Had it been otherwise, had its price varied with the in the course of his observations pays a well-deserved money market, our manufactures would have been which h taken tribute of praise to the efforts of late ]lave been in place, andincreased employment would made by various benevolent societies to improve those . nave been occasioned, but unfortunately our currency habits and lessen that destitution. Mr. SIMON SUMS ! laws prevented this salutary result, that would have up his report with the following statement of what he I . almost counteracted the evils of a deficient harvest. considers to be absolutely necessary for the security' But even this large abstraction of bullion would not of the health and welfare of the City : necessarily have produced the crisis, had it not been "To provide an inoffensive outfall for the sewerage of for the operation of the Act of 1844, our vast population; to render the river a source of un qualified advantege; to give an indefinite extension , and that rendered it necessary, when 7 , 500 000/. was , a sounder principl, to the system of water supply; drawn from the coffers of the Bank, to withdraw an to suppress ull trades and occupations which taint the l equal amount of notes from circulation. This it was a tmosphere with materials of organic decompositio n ; to - that compelled the directors to put on "the screw ;" abate the nuisance of smoke; to provide the facilities for extramural interment, and to'procure the prohibition dell that obliged them to limit accommodation, and re further burial amidst our living; to improve the dom estic duced prices generally, so as to lead to the great pecu arrangements of the poor, and to ensure their adequate . 'nary losses that ensued, to the hoarding of money, supervision; to hinder the occupation of houses which breed pestilence; to destroy such as are irremediably and the run upon the Bank, which terminated the hostile to health; and to thin the stifled population of moment the celebrated letter of the 25th of October courts and alleys; to establish public baths and lau ndries appeared suspending the operation of the impolitic which may offer to the poor the utmost facilities and in- ducement for the maintenance of personal cleanliness; Act of 1844. to erect, in the stead of such courts as we may hope to This view of the case is confirmed by the evidence depopulate and destroy, but in op en streets and with of Mr. SAMUEL GDENEY, the eminent bill - broker, perfect ventilation; to erect and to place at the disposal who, in speaking of the proceedings of of the labouring classes houses and lo d g in g s which not the Bank only may offer to their inhabitants every convenience directors, said — essential to health and decency. and comfort, but may " Under the Currency Act they found themselves likewise serve as models of household economy for the under the necessity of not only withdrawing their usual whole district in which they stand." accommodation by way of discount, but of calling in Mr. Sievert has entitled himself :to the gratitude with a severe and unrelenting hand the loans they had and admiration of every philosopher and o f made upon the security of bills, Exchequer-bills, &o. every philanthropist, by the publication of this , :i .o k u ir l y d th i LC ve ur s ren r c a y d A o c v t. er Had m i t t h not been for u Th o e n st i i h d e drine ss and severity of this change was forced perhaps the most valuable contribution that that i) they s serious derangement of the money market and to much has ever been made to sanitary science—a science felt themselves compelled ) to do in a few day w s ha t t o th th ey e alarming under disaster." a c s h te r. which, to use the eloquent words of Mr. Simms circumstances, then, and with such himself — evidence before us, are we not justified in asserting " In the great objects which it proposes to itself', in the immense amelioration which it proffers to the p h y• " that the monetary crisis was not occasi one d b sical, social, and, indirectly , to the mo ral condition of an immense majority of our fellow crea tures, transcends ' over-speculation; but that it was attributable to the y the importance of all other sciences , and in its beneficent undue ' appreciation' in the value of money which operation seems most to embody the spirit and to fulfil resulted from the unjust and impolitic Acts of 1819 ,he intentions of practical Christianity." and 1844 ?" Flaying proved last week that the late monetary crisis and commercial distress was not ascribable to the failure of the potato crop or to "over-pro duction,' we now proceed to show that it was not attributable to " over-speculation n or to the " rail way expenditure," but that the various evils that were erroneously supposed to have originated from these causes were altogether occasioned by the undue "appreciation" of the value of money, which resulted from the unjust and impolitic Acts of 1819 and 1844. Any use of capital or wealth other than " hoard ing" or useless consumption must properly come within the term " speculation." If men desire to make profit of any kind from the employment of the means placed at their disposal—if they are not contented to bury their talent in the bowels of the earth, and to become indeed "unprofitable servants" —they must " speculate." If a man having a large sum of money lying idle in his hands choose to invest it in lands, in houses, in railways, in trade, or com merce, or manufactures of any kind, or even to lend it out at interest on any species of security, he is " speculating." In other countries where, from political or other causes, there was no security for either life or property, many persons were in the habit of concealing their treasures, that they might be available upon any emergency, so as either to be carried away or remain hidden until disturbances bad ceased, and the owners were enabled to reclaim pos session, they being satisfied to forfeit the benefits to be obtained from their use for the additional security to the principal. But such was happily never an English habit. Every man in the enjoyment of superfluous wealth endeavours to obtain some profit from its use; he seeks the best species of investment, considers which will yield the best interest, dividend, or annual produce, combined with the greatest safety of principal, and in many cases the prospects of an increase in the value of that principal. We are a " speculating" people, and it is to that specula tion that the greatness and prosperity of Eng land is owing, that the English language is to be heard i n ever y c li me an d on every sea, and that the sun never sets on the British dominions. The great characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race is en terprise, or " speculation," for the terms are con vertible ; and the Englishman who would change that feeling, and substitute listless indolence and apathy, is the worst enemy of his country. But our money laws are rapidly producing that result. The extraordinary fluctuations in the value of money that have been so painfully perceptible of late years have defeated the best devised projects, the most ac • curate calculations. Legitimate, well-matured com- PINE APPLES AND BARONS OF BEEF.—On the Lord Mayor's table this evening, on the occasion of the grand banquet in Guildhall, will be placed two enormous barons of beef, perhaps the very largest ever cooked for any similar celebration—ons weigh ing no less than 312 lbs. and the other 354 lbs. These gigantic joints were bred and fed on the estate of the Earl de Grey, Lord• Lieutenant of Bedfordshire. Besides these monster dishes of meat, there will also appear, on the table of the Chief Magistrate, two huge pine apples weighing 15i lbs., grown in Staf fordshire, by the Duke of Sutherland, and for the production of which a gold medal was awarded on the 6th instant by the Horticultural Society—the fruit having, moreover, been recently exhibited in Regent-street, to public admiration. The whole of the civic banquet will be provided by Mr. Thomas Younghusband, of Gerard's Hall, making the fourth successive year in which be has been the caterer to the grand inaugurative dinner of the Lord Mayor of the city of London. We believe that this continuous selection is altogether without a precedent. ROCHESTER, NOV. fl.--The corporation of this city have judiciously chosen for their mayor S. Sidden, Esq., a gentleman highly qualified for the office, he being a staunch supporter of the rights and pri vileges appertaining to this ancient and loyal place. We must not omit, however, on this occasion, also to acknowledge and tender our best thanks to our late respected mayor, Robert Clements, Esq., who bas so judiciously presided over the civic business during the last year. In addition to being a man of high principle and integrity, his general urbanity and courteous manners render his retirement from office to be much regretted. MR BAPTIST NOEL IN ROME.—It is understood that Mr. Baptist Noel has proceeded to Rome with the view of operating with greater effect for the release of Dr. Achilli. We also learn that Mr. Noel is by no means secure in his now position in Doughty-street Chapel. This, we believe, is the property of Mr. Henry and Lady Harriet Drummond, and it is understood that upon the demise of Mr. Evans, the use of the chapel will not be continued to Mr. Noel.—Record. THREATENED DISSOLUTION Or THE WEST LON DON ANTI-INCLOSURE SOCIETY.—In consequence of the determination of some members of this society to divide it and its library into St. Pancras and St. Marylebone Branches against the will of its founder and secretary, and Earl Stanhope and other friends and members, a dissolution of this useful society may bo expected, though another and still better society will bo formed in its stead. Already some most valuable presents have been withdrawn from the library by their donors, and other withdrawals are expected, so that should a division of the library he still insisted on, opponents will not have much to divide; if otherwise, such books as have been withdrawn will be restored. LADY FRANKLIN.—Lady Franklin returned to town yesterday from the north, to see Sir James Ross and Sir John Richardson, on their return _from their re spective expeditions. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. On Wednesday evening a trial of strength took place in the National Assembly on the subject of the National Education Bill, introduced by M. DE FAL- Loux, when the parti-pretre was beat by a majority of 4in a house of 610 members. On the motion of M. DUPONT, the Assembly determined by 307 to 303 to refer the National Education Bill to the Council of State, which is tantamount to preserving merely the preamble, and altering the whole character of the 1 measure by changing every one of its clauses. The correspondent of a morning contemporary says, in speaking of this measure— " This Education Bill was intended to be the great compact of reconciliation among the different sections which compose the majority. The clerical party ob tained by it all their claims of right to exercise con trol over education. The University gave way, and M. Times and the champions of the exclusive right of the State to direct colleges and schools abandoned a cause which they had supported all their lives. The fruit of this concession was to have been the thorough union of Legitimists, the parti-pretre, the Orleanists, and even the Bonapartists. The act itself was con sidered the great triumph of M. DE FALLOUX, and the one for which his adherents felt most grateful. The restoration of the POPE and the partial sur render of education to the clergy were the two achievements which marked the ascendancy of M. DE FALLOUX and the Legitimists in the Government. Their foreign and domestic policy were characterised by these two measures. M. DE FALLOUX has retired ; his colleagues have been dismissed; the message of the PRESIDENT has shaken the allied parties, and as the first patent proof of their disruption, we have this vote of last evening." He thus explains the meaning of the reference of this measure to the Council of State:— " The Constituent Assembly passed a resolution by which all laws should be referred to the Council of State. The same Assembly also ruled that certain laws which they called organic should be looked upon as an appendix to the Constitution, and become a part and parcel of that funda mental Act. Amongst those laws denominated organic was ale Bill concerning public instruction. The Constituent Assembly consented, however, to its own dissolution before it had time to mains the organic laws. The late Ministry having decided that the Legislative Assembly was entitled to take up the unfinished work of the Constituent, held that in so far as the organic laws were concerned there was no need of reference to the Council of State. That body, it now appears, thinks otherwise, and ex pressed its sense of the slight put upon it by M. DE FALLOUX, in a letter to the PRESIDENT of the Assembly, which was rot, however, of an official character. Now, when we consider that the Council of State was chosen by the Constituent A ssembly, and that it is of a highly Republican character, we make no strained conclusion when we say that M DE FALLOUX'S Bill may be expected to return out of its hands so cottpletely altered--we shall not say disfigured—that the parent shall have some diffi culty in recognising his offspring. Those who voted for referring the Bill to the Council of State know this well, aid the triumph of the Republican and University parties last evening is, in fact, a tri umph over the TRIERS, BERRYER, MOLE, and MoN• TALEMBERT fractions." The Ministry ostensibly abstained from interfering, although it was evident that their desire was that the measure should be referred to the Council of State. We congratulate the PRESIDENT„ the Ministry, and France herself; on the result of this division, which has rescued them from the tyranny of a sacerdotal obscuratism at once grinding, degrading, and ridi culous. They must, however, be on their guard as they have to do with enemies as unscrupulous as they are cunning. Owing to some marks of impatience expressed in the gallery set apart for the editors of the Paris papers, the President of the Assembly considered it his duty to order the attendants to instantly close the gallery, and the editors were obliged to withdraw. The following protest, signed by seventeen of the editors who were present on the occasion, appears in all the Paris journals of yesterday : " Au unheard-of incident occurred at the conclusion of the sitting yesterday. About five o'clock, just as M. Baste was about to address the Assembly, one of those murmurs which are every day heard from the tribunes proceeded from that of the editors of journals. Imme diately, and without any previous warning, M. Dupin, the President, ordered one of the ushers to clear the tribune. All the editors retired. In presence of such an unjustifiable and unprecedented measure, the press, justly offended, thinks it its duty to protest in the interest of its dignity and of its rights." The semi-official Patrie publishes a letter from St. Petersburgh of the 27th ult., which states that explanations having been given to the EMPEROR by a courier dispatched from Paris on the 15th ult. by the French Governmen!`, that the orders given to the i commanders of the French and English fleets to sail to the Dardanelles, were the result of a misunder standing, and that, moreover, those orders were given before the answer of the CZAR to FUAD EFFENDI was known, the CZAR declared himself satisfied with those explanations, but at the same time ordered Count NESSELRODE to communicate his resolution to the Turkish Envoy to the following effect :—The EMPEROR will not admit that any Power has a right to interfere in his differences with the Porte either as regards the refugees or the pro vinces of Wallachia and Moldavia. The measures respecting these provinces are to be maintained inde pendently of any control of the Western Powers. One serious condition is that, notwithstanding the treaty of Balta Limen, the EMPEROR is to retain 40,000 men in the Danubian provinces during the winter. The garrison of Bucharest alone will consist of 10,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry. The advtinced guard of the Russian army centered in Bessarabia moves to the line of the Pruth. Jassy is also to be occupied by a strong garrison, forming communication with the army in Bessarabia. As a compensation for these measures, the Turkish Government may increase the garrisons on the Danube from Widdin to Silestria. These conditions have been communicated to the Ambassadors of the different Powers. The same journal publishes the following paragraph : —" The Government has, it is said, just given orders for one of our steam-frigates to proceed to Portioi, to be placed at the disposal of the POPE, who, it is said, appears decided to return immediately to his States, and will land at Civita Vecchite" M. AUGUSTE CHEVALIER ' brother of M. MICHEL CHEVALIER, has been named Secretary-General of the Presidency of the Republic, in the place of M. FER DINAND BARROT. M. A. CHEVALIER occupied an important situation in the administration of the Great Northern Railway. The Attorney- General, ROYER, began his address to the jury of the High Court of Versailles on the evi dence of the witnesses, which had just concluded. He continued speaking until five o'clock, when the Court adjourned. At the meeting of the Assembly yesterday, an attempt was made by the parti pretre to quash the vote of the preceding day on the ground of infor mality. The attempt, however, only produced them another defeat of a still more decided character, for the Assembly passed to the order of the day by a large majority. M. TRIERS and his clique exclaim loudly against the bigotted section of the parti-pretre, and talk of the abyss into which M. DE MONTALEM BERT has led them. It is too late now for M. TRIERS to make these complaints ; he must take the consequences of his actions, although we believe he must be by this time con vinced that the support which he has given to the parti-pretre is worse than a fault, it is a mistake, and a mistake into which we are surprised that one who knows the temper of his countrymen so accu rately as M. TRIERS does, could by possibility have fallen. The editors of the journals have declined attending the Asseinbly until M. Duvet shall have apolo gised for the insult he put upon them in ordering their tribune to be cleared. Their tribune was unoccupied yesterday. Colonel RIBELLOT has been created a general, and will be succeeded as Prefect of Police by M. CAR LIRE. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. The Cologne Gazette says :—" On Ist Novemller General HAYNAU proclaimed the Hungarian consti tution at Pesth, and it will now be published through oat the length and breadth of the land in the respective languages of the inhabitants ; at the same time Gen. HAYNAU has proclaimed an amnesty for all minor political offenders." The EMPEROR has ordered all domiciliary visits of the police to be suspended, unless on the warrant of a criminal tribunal. One of the Vienna journals has been suspended for having - deprecated the punishment of the bastinado. PARIS BOURSE, THURSDAY, Noir. 8. The market has become much firmer to-day, and from the commencement of business kept steadily looking up to the close, when Threes fo r the accoun t were marked at 551. 90c. an d F i ves : at 88f. 20c. The mar k et closed as follows:—Threes, for cash, 55f. 85c.; for ac count, 55f. 90c.; Fi ves for cash, 881. 20c. ; fer ac count, 881. 20c; ank of France Shares, 2,3251.; Neapo litan, 88f. 75c.; Spanish Threes, 35f.; ditto Fives, not quoted. RAILWAYS.—The Share Market has also been firmer, but prices have not materially varied; the turn, howe ver , has been in favour of sellers. Orleans closed at 730 1 .; Rouen, 525 f.; Havre, 2301.; Avignon, 2151.; B ony . deaux, 393 f. 75c.; Northern, 4301.; Paris and Stras bar,T, 356 f. 25c.; N an t e s, 2811. 25 c.; Montereau, 1021. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Nov. 8. Boulogne and Amiens, 55A —Luxembourg, —N amur a and Liege, 6 1 —Orleans and Bordeaux, 2 V2—Pari and Rouen, 20—Sambre and Meuse, 21/s. THE PRINCE or W AL ES'S BIRTM.DAY.--To.day being the anniversary of the birth of his Royal Highne s s the youthful Heir Apparent, who completes his eighth year, the auspicious event was celebrated by the bells of the royal parishes ringing merry peals, and her Majesty's tradesmen, and many of the inhabitants . of Windsor, will dine together on the occasion. The Heir Apparent will not attain his majority until the age of eighteen. THE Hop DUTY.—On Thursday the col!ection of the first instalment of the hop duty for 1848 took place at the George Inn, and we understand that the payment was obtained, in both the hop duty end rent charge, with more ease than cou'd have teen expect3d, although some of the farmers said their funds we-e quite ex hausted.—Maidstone Journal. FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1849 PRUSSIA. The relations between Prussia and Neufchatel are in a train of being amicably arranged ; Neufchatel will return to the same position as before the re volution. England, it is said, has offered her me diation. The First Chamber did not sit on the sth. The Second Chamber passed the Eastern Railway Bill on that day. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The Frankfort Gazette des Postes, of the 3d, con tains an article of an official character, according to which the Ministry of the Empire has given orders that the Danish war steamer the Gefion shall be burnt or blown up sooner than suffer it to fall into the hands of the Danes. To this intelligence is sub joined a statement of facts which leads the Ministry of the Empire to apprehend that Prussia will not lend a hand to prevent this conquered vessel from being delivered up to the Danes, under the pretext of an independent Schleswig. The German Reform, in a letter from Kiel, Nov. 3, says--' The crew of the German frigate Barbarossa arrived here yesterday, and set off to-day for Ecken forde, where they will form the crew cf the Gefion, and bring her up to Bremerhaven, to the rest of the German vessels." The President of the Assembly of the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein, on opening the session at Kiel, delivered a speech containing an appeal to arms against Denmark. The deputies of Schleswig were present in the Assembly, although the armistice for bids them. According to the Independance of Brus sels, things are fast approaching to a crisis in the two duchies. 1 T A I, Y. It is said that the Pore will return to Rome in the course of the present month. Ile will make no public entry ; as he stole out of the eternal city so he will steal into it again ; in fact, it would not he altogether safe for him to attempt a public entry. The Cardinals continue their course of lawless tyranny. On the 2911 October turned out of office two of the most moderate men in the Roman States—Dr. FARINI and M. PERFETTI, a priest, the same who was stabbed the very day on which the French army entered the city. Dr. :PARINI was twice deprived of office—once by the Republican Government, and now by the POPE'S Government. The President of the Council, on the 4th, an nounced officially to the Chamber of Deputies of Turin the resignation of General BAYA, and the appointment to his office of General LAMARMORA ; also that M. PIERRE PALEOCARPA. had been appointed Minister of Public Works. By a decree of the 31st ult. the Grand Duke of TUSCANY authorizes the Minister of Finance and Commerce to procure thirty millions of lire (twenty five millions of francs) to the treasury, under the security of the produce of the tobacco monopoly. The operation is to be effected by the emission of 30,000 notes of 1,000 lire each ; the said bills bearing interest at five per cent., payable on the 30th of June and 31st of December of each year. The sum of 2,100,000 lire, to be taken from the produce of the tobacco monopoly, is to be applied every year to the extinction of the debt and the payment of the interest. A sum of 200,000 lire more is to be applied to the payment of premiums to the holders. Every year, after the interest has been paid, the remainder of the sum of 2,100,000 lire is to be applied to the reimbursement of a certain number of notes, to be drawn by lot. The owners of the notes drawn shall receive a premium of one tenth of the capital. The notes are to be sold by auction; the first sale to be held on the 12th of December next. Up to the 11th of that month the Minister is authorised to receive the sealed offers of bankers and capitalists for any number of notes. By the above described plan the debt will be extinguished in the course of 26 years. ADELPHI THEATRE We were highly amused last night by a peep at the Domestic Economy of Mr. and Mrs. Grumly, who are more commonly known by the names of Mr. Wright and Mrs. Frank Matthews. Mr. Grumly, like Adam, is a gardener, Mrs. Grumly is in advance of Eve in civilization, and keeps a shop, besides attending to the domestic economy of the household. Mr. Grumly severely complains that hii wife does not attend to nis comforts, reflects on her bacon-cooking and her tea-brewing, and so taunts her that at length she seizes the hoe, undertakes to work in the garden, and leaves Grumly to attend to the domestic economy of the establishment, and Grumly does attend to it accordingly, after the following fashion : —He breaks the tea-cups while he washes them; rives six bull eyes instead of four for a penny ; leaves the meat out of a beefsteak pie ; and takes a dump in payment for a red herring. After the fun has been kept up a sufficient time to make the sides of every one present ache with laughter, the usual explanations take place and the farce ends. The success of the farce was of the most triumphant description, and Wright announced it for repetition amidst the most uproarious cheering. LYCEUM THEATRE. An amusing farce entitled Methinks 1 see my Father was produced here last evening. The idea is taken from the French, but the adapter has judici ously given it an English colouring. The plot turns upon the obscurity'attending the birth of a young gen tleman whose marriage depends upon his producing evidence of his parentage, by a certain day, to the guardian of his intended—the said guardian, admirably acted by Granby, being a strictly moral and highly re spectable churchwarden ; but it is not his own marriage alone which depends on his providing himself with a father; that of his friend also depends upon it,inasmuch as that friend is about to marry the sister of his intended, and the guardian is determined that the one sister shall not be married without the other. That friend is Charles Mathews, and the reader can imagine the restless fidgetiness with which he bustles about in search of some one who will become the tempo rary father, the joy with which he closes with a Railway Stag (Mr. F. Mathews), who un dertakes to do the paternal for a consideration, the misery with which he sees the bubble burst, and the joy with which he at length discovers that the strictly moral and highly respectable old churchwar den himself is the papa in question. He kept the house in a roar the whole time, and at the conclu sion all the artistes were called fur. USE OR ABUSE OF GAS-LIME FOR ROAD MAKING. When doctors differ who shall decide ? Such is the dilemma in which we are placed by the diversity of opinion given by Doctors lire, Miller, Lyon Play fair, and other eminent chemists, on the effects of gas-lime as one of the agents in the late lamentable loss of life in the Pimlico sewers. This dis agreement would have further left us in a perfect state of ignorance as to the safety or danger to public health of using the gas-lime for road coverings, had not Doctor Lyon Playfair dis tinctly stated that he would not recommend its use for such a purpose—an opinion which we are Stron&y disposed to embrace, notwithstanding the positive assertions of the talented chemists, Phillips, Miller, and Campbell, as given in their report read before the coroner's jury at the adjourned inquest on Monday last. This opinion of Dr. Lyon Play fair we are the more disposed to stand by ; from our personal experience, generally an invaluable test. Backed by the opinion of those who state that gas-lime "in the road materials, as described, can be in no way preju dieiAl to health," we think it very likely that those who have been thus using it, are likely to continue doing so ; and we think it necessary that the public generally, as well as the inhabitants of that district of Pimlico, should be informed that we saw a consider able quantity of this material carted for the purpose of raising grcund in that neighbourhood but a very short time since, and that the stench which pervaded the atmosphere was in tolerable. Salubrious or not, we can safely assert that it made us feel very unwell for the rest of the day. Surely when only a doubt is expressed as to the prudence of using this material by so eminent a man as Doctor Lyon Play fair, who gave his opinions in so very impartial a manner, and who has had such large experience in sanitary matters, it would be but a decent deference to public opinion, after so frightful an event, to cease the use of gas-lime for road. making. —Architect and Building Operative. LLoyp's.—The following notice has been posted at Lloyd's:—•" Thursday, the 15th of November instant, having been appointed by her Majesty in Council a public day of thanksgiving, the committee beg to ac quaint the subscribers that the whole of the establish ment will be closed on that day." DINNER TO MR. JUSTICE TALEOURD.—The Oxford Circuit Bar mess have invited Mr. Justice Talfourd to a dinner on Saturday, the 17th inst. AIONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS., D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 12;4 CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. Do. New 10/. Pref..... 10 Ditto ' Gt. Grimsby ... 5 0 The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was acti ve Ditto ditto . 19 . . T _ and closed firm. Prices also were a shade higher. The Ditto ditto ..• ll', Ts • •••••• ****** •••• • ••• - sales were estimated at 15,500 bales, viz., 9,000 Ameri- Ditte Sheffield and can, 2,500 Pernern and Marhanam, at 6id. to 7d., 1.000 Lincolnshire 2 2 1 -e i t i• ... Egyptian at bid to 7id., 3,000 Surat, and 80 Sea De., Grimsby Dock... 25 ...... Island, the latter at Is. to Is. sid. per lb. Of the above Do., Manchester and nearly 7,000 were taken on speculation. — Railway s h a res Lincoln Union. ... .25 —-- vo re dull at previous rates. M ele - d .... ........... . 41 100 ...... 47% The Corn market has not varied today in any Ben- Do. Consolidated Pref.loo :Able deree. Do., do., 50/. Shares 30 ... Do Birm and Derby 100 g The business done in the Colonial markets this week • '' Do.Consol.Bristol and has been large as regards many of the principal staples, Binning., 6 per et.... 100 and the grocers and refiners are coming forward freely Ditto,Brist.&Glocstr. 42 as purchasers of Sugar. In Coffee, Ceylon especially, Ditto ditto ..... , 221.75...75...... there have likewise been extensive dealings. Rica has De.,ErewashVal.,Pref. 50 been rather heavy. Ditto, Leicest.&Swan- The foreign arrivals bring nothing of prominent in- nington, 8 perceguaeloo terest. From Berlin, under date of the 6th inst., we Midtand Great IV astern have the Three-and-a-half per Cent. Russian Bonds Irish 5O ..... ••••,... quoted 88k, and at Vienna, on the 3tl inst., Austrian ell d per dlesbro' and Iledcar, 50 Stock was 94i. The Frankfort accounts of the 6th /N.. 6 cent. gua. ee, castle and tearlisle.loo —....— quote Austrian 87k. At Amsterdam, on the 7th not Do. Quart „, much was done in the funds. The Two-and-a-Half per N%-market Cants. were 53 5-16. Do. Extension The meeting of railway directors held at the West- Newport, Abergavenny, end, with the object of framing a meaeure that will give and Hereford • 6 ....•• a better system of audit, is in itself so important as Newry and Enniskillen 7 - ...1N scarcely to need much enforcement ; but, unfortunately, Newry, IN arrenpoint, shareholders are so lax that they require to be antt Rostrevor 2 stimulated even in a proper course. The con- N°rfia New •• •04 •••-- ..... --PO - leo. clurion at which every one has arrived is , t hat I.'o. Guaranteed 5 p et. 20 16 . ... an alteration in the system of account auditing Do. Guaranteed 5 li g pc. 5 is imperative, and that it the proprietors do Do. du. W aveney 1' al. 2 ...... not take steps to bring it about themselves, Govern- N; rtheru CouatiesUnion 4 ...... ON.. malt will take the matter out of their hands. One word N ;reel 8ritieh.,........... 25 .... , 1 t%._ ....- we may say, en passant, viz., that any new Bill in Parlia- Ditto, Halves .. merit ought to be made applicable to all companies, Ditto, Quarters whether railway or other. Even in America railroad Ditto, Thirds •••• —.. 81 / 4 —-- .•........... companies, from the over-sanguine views of all parties, , Ditto Preference 5 have disappointed people. A New York writer states:— th Staffordshire ... 17 N N O r r h Wel a • ... .1,, 81 / 2 % " We have for some time past been satisfied that our :Nor t th-W ' az e + - ern ..... 133 :/ — railroad system was rotten to the very core; t hat there Oxierd, Worcester, and were not half a dozen solvent railroad companies in this Wolverhampton country or in Europe; that most of these concerns were Reading, Guildford, and started more for the purpose of filling the pockets of R e i ga t e their originators and a few favourites, than for any Foyston and Hitchin ... 4t/ 2 4% .... ...... ... public benefit, and that they have thus far generally Scottish Central accomplished the object they had in view. E n g land is Scottish Midland 25 --- . .... •••.• far ahead of us at preseW, in the number of railroad Ditto, New . . 22!.4 1 ... bubbles; but we doubt if, with all the facts which have :ihrewsburY alvi Birlm•-• 12 •••••• -••••• •• recently come to light, there have been greater frauds, g, i t f t t o o, CllB3 B. S or a greater number of highly respect able swindlers, in N ti e l t . and r er t e r i. : .... .. •••••' „e Shrewsbur3 the railroad management of Great Britain than in this S'srewsbur3 , & Chester .. country." (Nor. W. Mire) lB The English Funds have been rather higher to-day. Ditto Halves ... ditto 9 ..... Consols 927- i . to 93 ; and New Three-and-a-Quarter Ditto ()weary ...... 18i 2 . — per Cents. 92 -a. Exchequer-bills are 465. to 48s. prem., Ditto New and very firm; and India Bonds have been supported Do. 8 per Cent. Pref at 84s. premium. Shropshire Union ,oath Devon In the Foreign market there is nothing doing. 50 Do. yreference Spanish Five per Cents. are 16 i; and Peruvian Bonds s z ' . o , An btahorditure 81;4 — --• ..•• •••• •••• ••••••••••.••• have realised 52i. These have b een the onl y bar g ains. ~uthEat. Y. ter Mexican are nominally 26 to -I; and Portuguese Four Lo., v Do., No. '3 ...—....... 30 ...... •••• ••• per Cents. 3 3 to 34 . Shares are very quiet, but on the whole rather firmer. Do., Registered No. 410 ..... .-- ONE tYCLOt K. Cli , - I:• G Do., Scrip No 4 F R..i' n ' l o - S • South t\ ales i",youth Yorkshire, Don -91 caster, and Goole 93 Vs Sheffield, Rotherham, & 92 % Goole (N. Div.) Gua -8 7-16 _ ranteed 5 per cent. •• 7 . . • 10 .nib Stock 3:pnr Cent. Reduced A.' n:5 ... 91: 1 4 7 < l ,- per Cent. Cous01:1 Annuities 92% 93 New 3% per Cent. Anne ... . L,cr.g AnnB. to explmjan.1860 Ditto, 30 years., Oct. 10, 1859 -16 "rdia Bonds, J,OOOl. Ditto under 1,0001... ...... Cunsole for Account 92% 93 1 7 2..; chequer Bills. I%d. & 2d 1,0001. June 4B 46 p 500/. June Srafl]. June FitICES OF FOR -ZION FUNDS Off E O'C LOCK. 8 3-16 84 p 84 p 931%, 16% pet Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 5 -- swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. Coal. ... 7 ••• ....... , raw Vale Extension ... 8 Names Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath 8 sterford and Kilkenny 20 Waterford and Limerick 47% Watertd,Wafrd,Wicklw and Dübin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ...... 50 Do. do. do. ... 25 Do. do. do. ... 15 West Cornwall A hitekaven & Furness 18 Windsor, Staines, and South Western........ 14 Wilts, Somerset,& W ey - mouth 45 York, N owcamle, and Berwick. . 25 Do. Newcastle E aten. 20 Do. G.N.E.Prefarence ... ••• .• . Do. Hartlepool Dock and Railway 100 . _ 48 p 48 p CLOS IN ?WOES Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. i. Do., 5 per cßnt Do. Bonds Equador Ponds . 5 . • r>xican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons— Ditto, ER Jan. Coupons Ditto, Account ... ............ P eruv ian Bonds, 4 per Cent f ussian Bond.- 107 • . panir , b , 5 per Cent. 1840 16% 16% Ditto, Passive — 814 Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. Ditto. 4 Der Cent. Certificates — 82 Dividends on the_ above payable in London. PRICES OF Few. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. A berdcan Do. Preference amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 6 3 A ...... Ayrshire and Galloway.. 7% .--• ... Belfast & County Down 28 Berks & Hants Extens. (Gt. West. Per. 5 per ct.) 6 •be ••••• —'— Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Do, withoutguarantee 20 ...... Binning, Wolverh'ton, and atclley, calls duly pd, cr with guarantee 10 ..... Do. without guarantee 10 Sirming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stout. Valley 131. 14s ... Ilirkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June. 20 Poston, Stamfd & Birm. 71. 4s. Briatel and Exete* 9O ... .. Ditto, Thi r ds 1; tickingh amthire Caledonian ...... Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10 - Ditto,Clydesclale June 50 l hester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference l5 ...... Clarence Do. let Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 ...... ... Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Ports mouth Dublin and Belfast June. 40 — Dundalk & Enniskillen 27% — East Anglian, 25/., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 Do. 181., E. & H.... 18 Do., 31. 10c., Pref... 3% -__ Eastern Counties... ..... ... Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct lO Ditto,Extensi on, 5 per Cent., No.l ....... 61.135. 41._ g Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... Do. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. ......... 50 ...... —. Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 Do. New ............... 43 Eastern Union, Class A (late E. 13. Shares) 25 Ditto, Class A, ditto... 3%..•.•• Do., Class B (I. & B.) 25 9 Ditto Class C, ditto... 25 . .... Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ...... East Lancashire 25 Ditto, New - ......... __. Australasia , British North American 50 Colonial Commercial of London 20 London Joint Stock lO London & Westminster. 20 Nat ional Prov. England. 35 ...... Ditto New... 10 National of Ireland 22%...... ........ Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New ••• 10 . .... Union of Australia Ditto,New••••••••••.. ••• 2%...... • •••• Union of L0nd0n......... 10 ...... Union of Madrid ...... 40 MINES Santiago de Cuba United Mexican 28% 414 Ditto, New Quarters 6%...... .. Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... 6LA.. . . . . East Lincolnshire ...... 25 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 30 . ....... Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 .. .. ... Etrnburgh and Northern 25 Ditto, - Newport l5 .. ... Exster,Yeovil, & Dorch 2 S A, -- Exeter and Exmouth... 21s. Grtesolsr, Dumfries, and Carli6le (3,l!‘gow,l(ilinar.,& Ayr 50 — DO:Preference Conj.)). - - ....... • Great' Northern Do., 1 , 2 A Deferred ... 12 %...... 3 Do., 1 / 2 B 6 per Cent... 7 1 ,E — Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 10 :rest South. and West_ (Ireland) Great North of England.loo ...... ... Ditto, New, 40/ 4O Ditto, ditto Ditto, New, 301......... 30 Ditto. Ncw,lsl Great Western 100 ...... 62 1 ,4 1 Ditto, 1 ; 6, Shares 5O ...... ... ........ ~ Ditto, 1 ,4 Shares Ditto, Fifth ...... Ditto, New 171... ..... 15 Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 Ditto, llalf Shares ... 25 Do. Quarter Shares... 12% Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshireloo Do. do. M. B. 4 8... 98 Ditto, ditto Ditto, % Shares ...... 49 ... .. Do. Quarters .... ..... 23 1 ...... 13% 1.3. Fifth 5............... 10 ...... Do. Thirds ..... . ....... . 161,..... ..• Do. New Guarantied 6 per Cent..... ...... 10 Do. Liverp. a nd Bury 49 Ditto (Huddersfield and Sher.) 50 •• Do. ( W.P.iding Union) 10 .. ~ Do. (Preston ee Wyre) 25 Do. % Shares (A)... 10 ...... . Leeds An . dßradford Leeds And Thirsk ...... 50 Lie., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 5 Do., Pref. Quar.,lBlS 9 Liverr,sol, Crosby and Southport. lO London &Blackwall...ll/. 6s. 3d... ... London, Brishton, And South Coast... .....10) ...... 73% Do., New 51., guaran teed 6 per Cent..... 100 Do.Guarant. 5 per ct.. 9 ...... • Do. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 ...... ..... ...... Ditto, ditto , — 1;:.)2 50 .. ... -- .. Lc ndon and Greenwich 12/15s 4d... ... ..... . Ditto, Prefereuf , .. . 20 ...... London and N. Western 100 ..... 114 1141, .. Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 ..... . Ditto,Fift'23 ....... , ... 7 ...., Do. 10/.Sliares(L.Ll.) 35 •...... Do. 101. IAL S., B.) C. 1 ... —... ..... ~ Lond.& S. Western ..... 50 .., ~.., ........ Ditto, New 50f. ..... . 42L4.„.„ .............. De. New 40/............. 34 ... ..... Do., New Scrip , 184 S, Pref. 7 per Cent. „. 5 ...... . ....... ~ Lendcnderry &Colera i ne 25 ...... - -..•.. ....... I Do. % Shares .., 5 ...... -- . ....... ••••••, Londonderry and Ennui kil.n ...... .............. 25 •••••• --- .......... . Do. 1 ,4 Shares 5 Loweztoff, guar. 4 per ct 20 •••••• Ditto (6 per ct.) ..... 13 - - - 5/an::l7.9;ter,i3uNlOn,and Mathsck... . . ... ......... a tdanche , ter, Sheffield, and Lincoluhire... loo Do. Quarters (No. 1) 23 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 6% 16yi York and North dlidland 50 — ... ........ ... Ditto ; Preference ...... 10 FOREIGN RAIL WAYS. Anglo Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian). ... 54...... Boulogne and Amiens... 20 ...... Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon)... 20 Demerara 17% Dutch Rhenish ......... 8 ... .. - East Indian .... .. 3 14 B% 3% Great Indian Peninsular 5 Do. Do. ... _....105.. Louvain a. la Sambre ... 7% — - Luxembourg Ditto ..... Madrid and Valentia... 2 ...... Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... .. 6 1 4... 6% Northern of France • 141. es... dis . .... ...- dis Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 ...... , 2% Paris and Orleans ...... 20 ..... --- .... ...... .. Paris and Rouen 2O •.... ..• — Paris and Strasbourg ... 12 Rouen and Havre ...... 20 Sambre and Meuse 2 Strasbourg and Basle Tours and Nantes...—. 13 ...... Tuurnay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hassell, ...... 20 West Flanders 8 34, . ••• - Ditto ... JOINT STOCK BANKS. _ _ LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, NOT. 9.—Wind this day at noon, 5.5. W.,, moderate breeze and dull, cloudy weather. DEAL, NOT. B.—Wind, W. to W.N.W.—Arrd. a barque. Hobart Town; Culloden, Ferguson, Calcutta; Promise, Retallick (supposed), Quebec. Arrd. from tho River, Golden Spring, Spittall, Bombay ; Ostrich, Parker, Madras; Trent, Pettrkin, Ceylon; P. Dean, Lovett, River Gambia; Zingari, Potter, Boston. OFF THE WIGHT, NOT. B.—Arrd. Elliotts, Quebto, SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. W.—Arrd. Alacrity, Quebec. POOLE, Nov. B.—Wind, W.—Arrd. John Thompson, Seaman, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, Nov. B.—Wind, W.S.W.—Arrd. 7th, Aberdeen, Howe, Quebec. Bth. Equity, Nason, New Orleans; Delhi, Young, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick; Elizlbeth Grimmer, Grant, St. Stephen's, New Bruns wick; Jahn Hamilton, Walker, Dalhousie; Larch, Wilson, Quebec; Sir Charles Napier, Fearo, Quebec; Ellen Jenkinson, Brightman, Africa, sailed from Trade Town Sept. 8. Sld. Agnes, Aden; America, New York; Queen of the Wet, New York; Philadelphia, New York • The Andrew White brig, a derelict, was passed on the sth instant, lat. 51, long. 1 Zs, by the Equity, Nason, at this port. Off Port, Wallace, Quebec; Catherine ship, —. SUNDERLAND, Nov. 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Welcome, Thompson, Quebec; Robert Henry, Brown, Quebec. WHITBY, Nov. B.—The Providence, of this port, and the Defiance, of Hartlepool, have gone on Runswietc Reach, but likely to be got off. HOLYHEAD, Nov. 7. The Theobald Mathew, stranded yesterday on the west side of Salt Island, has been assisted off, and anchored in our harbour, with damage to her forefoot. YARMOUTH, NOT. B.—The Newark, Stockton to London, came into harbour this day leaky, has been laid on the ground to stop the leak, which has been discovered. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-(FRIDAY.) The present week's arrival of English Wheat coast wise having been small, viz., 2,050 quarters, the shoe' of samples of that grain here, to-day, was very limited. Still, however, as the attendance of buyers was less than for some time past, the demand for all descriptions was in a very sluggish state, at Monday's prices, at which the market closed heavily. Only 3,670 quarters of Foreign Wheat have come to hand. Exceedingly little business was transacted in an y qua lity ; b u t we hare' not the slightest change to notice in the quotations. In floating cargoes nothing doing. The supply of Bale,' was small. Grinding sorts moved off readily, at very full currencies. Malting and Distilling qualities rule(i. dull. The show of Malt samples was bat moderate. Al l kinds were dull, as the large consumers are not genera l buyers. Oats were somevy hat scarce. The best parcels were quite as dear. Damp qualities meet a slow inquiry. Beans, Peas, Indian Corn, Meal, and Flour as on MondaY. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Barley. Wheat. Oath. Malt. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. —1:1----....11r.Saclvs• English •• •• ••1 2,050 1,480 1,00 2,490 3,02 0 Scotch.... • • • • ! Irish •...• • •• ,1 1,850 --- Foreign ...• ••1 3,670 1,550 j 7,620 -- SMITHrIELD. Compared with that exhibited on this day se'nnight, the supply of Beasts on offer in this morning's market was somewhat extensive as to numbers, but very tigg_ cient in quality; indeed scarcely a prime Bullock was 011 sale. In the value of the primest Scots, which must be c misidered almost nominal, we have no change to r e p ort* All other kinds of Beasts were very dull, and 2d per 81 ° lower than on Monday, without a clearance being, effected. The best Down Sheep, which were vet) scarce, produced full currencies with difficulty; other wise the Mutton trado ruled heavy, at a tall in the quo tations of 2d per 81bs. The supply was seasonably good. With Calves we were tolerably well, but no! say heavily, supplied. The Veal trade was WOW, 48 p 99% 33/4 1/ di s A 52 1/.2 7!. - i 46% 96 1 / 4 73% joys 47% 8% ....... 11% ow.. 5 8 ,6 4% 18% 25 1 4 26 3 4 4% 1