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Largest Dividend £4,166 13 4 Smallest Dividend £ 7 IG 12 Grins equal to £1 sterling, a trifle more or less, as per the day; exchange. ALL THE DIVIDENDS PAYABLE WITHOUT ANY DEDUCTION WHATEVER. Threct for the few Bonds which arc still on sale, WITHOUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGII. Duads are on sale NOW at £l3. Against the end of this .11slanth the price will rise to £l5, and the Sale will close before ab. , Nut of this Month. Those who remit £l5 BEFORE the 15th instant, will re ceive an order for £2 upon our London Bankers, together with the Bond. To those ordering too late for being attended to, their re kittances will be returned by first post. HEINE BROTHERS. lIAMBURGII, November I, 1849. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, NOV. W, Will be repeated the English Version of Rossini's Grand Opera of SEMIRAMIDE.—The Character of Semiramide by Miss Adelaide Kemble; Arsace, Mrs. Alfred Shaw (from the principal Theatres in Italy); Assur, Mr. Giubilci; Oroe, r. Leffler; Idreno, Mr. Travers; Shade of Ninus, Mr. J. After which will be repeated a New, Original, Comic Drama, written by Mr. Mark Lemon, Author of " The La-lies' Club," &e., entitled THE TURF'. Captain Flatooker, Jr.. Walter Lacy; Clovis Culpepper, Mr. Bartley ; Gallop, Mr. Meadows ; Aaron Tret, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Culpepper, Mrs. HuMby ; Miss Warren, Miss Lee. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Eless Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 3d. ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. „i Gallery ls. Tickets and Paces for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season 'Tickets may be had. Private Bc,xes to be hail at the Box-office ; of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Bond-street ; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street; and of Mr. Sams, Pall THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET. Madame Vestris and Mr. Charles Mathews are engaged, and will appear To-night, and every Evening. THIS EVENING, SATURDAY, Nov. 19, Will be performed, the Comedy of NA VAL ENGAGEMENTS. Admiral Kingston, (his original character), Mr. W. Farren; Lieutenant Kingston, R.N., (his original character), Mr. Charles Mathews; Short, Mr. H. Widdicomb; Dennis, Mr. Malone Raymond; Mre. Pontiffs', (first time), Mrs. Glover; Mies Mortimer, (her original character), Madame Vestris. After which a New Drama, in Two Acts, called GRAND FATHER WHITEHEAD. Grandfather Whitehead, Mr. W. Farren; Drayton, (a Builder), Mr. Tilbury i • Langley, (a Retired Trader), M r . S tuart ; D r i ver, (a Lawyer), Mr. t;trickland ; Bob Lincoln, (his Clerk), Mr. Webster; Snap, Mr. Clark ; Edward Drayton (Drayton's Son), Master George Webster; Louisa Drayton, Mrs. Eslwic Yarnold ; Susan, (S acct to Langley), Mrs. Stanley. be followed by Mr. T. Haynes Bayly's Barletta of ONE HO,UR ; or, A CARNIVAL BALL. Mr. Charles Swiftly, Oat original character), Mr. Ckartes Mathews ; Miss Dalton, ,(tier original icaraiter), Madame Vestris, who will sing Love is die Theme." which wall be attici an entirely New Monopolylogue, ell&I THE jitEleLE OF I'HE HOTEL ; or , AMERICAN SKETCHES; in which Mrs. Fitzwilliam will sustain Six CAI-riveters. coualude with Mr. Buckstone's last New Farce, called K Pr - 3 IN VIE DARK. Mr. Selina Pettibone, Mr. figiklotane ; Frank Walborn, Mr. Howe ; Marv, Miss Mattley ; The tinicaowa Female, Miss - Connor ; Mrs. l'ettibone, Mrs. W. Clifford. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, NOV. 19, Wisl he repeated THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prin. siyal Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Lyon, H. Beverly, I.Trioh, Sterling, Wilkinson, Maynard, Craven, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, Miss Faucit, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Beverly, &c. After which, a Aevr Comic Burletta, called AN PONY and CALEOP.ATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright; Cleopatra, Miss To be followed by a Grand Rurletta Spectacle, entitled ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Ft arepton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche C iu!;i!el To conclude with THE SECRET. Thomas, Mr. H. Beverly. Basco; 4s. ; Pit, 2g. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. • DA VIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Immense suece3s of the new Nautical Drama. Mr. I'. P. Cooke as Union Jack is highly cheered by crowdedaudiences— the novel effects Surpass everything hitherto attempted, and the ship on fire creates a complete hurricane of applause. THIS EVENING, NOV. 19, Will be repeated an entirely New Nautical Drama, en titled THE UNION JACK; or, the SAILOR and the St"i'ILER'S DAUGHTER, written expressly for Mr. I'. P. Cetke,, who will be supported by Messrs. Hicks, Neville, Smith, lIes!op, Mrs. R. Honner, and the entire Company. New seenery and splendid nautical effects never before attempted. Atter which will be produced an entirel new Drama, en titled THE . BLACK LAW OF MARTI y NIQUE ; or, the FUGITIVE SLAVE. Zarnba, the Slave, by Mrs. H. Vining. The other Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Neville W. Smith, M rs . H ughes, and Miss E. Terry, who will sing 'Miss tlizi Cook's Song of the " Red Indian," composed by Mr. G. SCartsbary. To ennclude with THE PLEDGE OF LOVE; or, a SI& T E R'S SACRIFICE. Pixies and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, from eleven to four. HIGH W AMR AT LONDON ACDGE Tins DAY. AL)rning...... 12 minutes after 211Evenifili ...... 32 minutes after 2 , • , y tau Q4 4 ' , 20,14 •y F. • 34 9 % t , -' o *- A • „,„. , - " "• • ' isr— • 44, etl 21:114 LONDON : ;ATI:11D11( MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1842. The agriculturists just now are making a great stir ,shout draining the soil, and we might sup r)se, from their pother, that this practice had bean healed of for the first time within the lam. year. The fact, however, is, that draining tiWIT; 1Y recommended and practised in ) 44 Miry places, to our personal knowledge, more frau a quarter of a century ago. All that has b 1 -fitly been iaveated is, that draining has been :rare ge-nerally recommended, and we believe taltY " ef fs ( qually done. In the last number of Alm Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of Feigland, Ur. PUSET, M.P., says : It is only seven yea rs s i nce we heard in England, dikes throagh tille present Speaker of the House of Oen - mons, chat a manufacturer in Scotland, now well known as Mr. Smith, of D eanston, had found the means of milking all and, however wet and poor it to be, warm, sound, and fertile, and that this change was brought about by two processes, thorough draining, and sub-sal ploughing. His rule of draining. was this : That we are not to endeavour merely to find out hidtten springs, and to cut through them by a single draiv, which in some of our books appeared "to be regarded as al that was necessary ; but that, as the whole surface of retentive soils is rendered wet, not by accidental springs, but by rain, the whole urface. of, the field must be made .thoroughly dry by Under-drains, running throughout at equal distances. Any geld, he said, however wet, might be so dried, provided these under-drains were cut sufficiently near to each other. This was the principle of thorough or frecirtent• draining, asserted by Mr. Smith, of Dean- Moll, in 1835 ; and this principle, which was then ne‘V and startiin established." g' may now be regarded as firmly In . further speaking- of Mr. SMITit, who has many claims on public esteem, Mr. PUSHY _do not let us forget that he is an AMP.—said : "In, proving that Mr. Smith's system is not new, do not lower his claims to our thanks ; for he proba bly invented it also, and at all events carried it out w ah apa energy which made it new in his hands ; but I think the fact of its previous practice in Suffolk and Fuss ex,...,,che might have added, Kent]—worth no- . t:ee for tiff s ° reasons; one, that any new method, how *var. ilighlY recommended, must b e received with douht-ns - l ong as it continued new, and that conse queritlythe bests praise by which any method can be recommended to practical farmers, is, not that it is new, but, on the contrary, that it is old and tried; th e • other reason is this, that here was a plan of drainage which was regarded as novel, yet had been employed and established for half a century, at no great distance from London ; and this is by no means a singular proof how little the farmers in one part of England knew, untillately, what the others were doing."l This statement is of far less importance to prove the value of under-draining, and the length of time it has been practised, than to prove the worthlessness of the landowners, and the inestimable advantage even to them of com petition. Would any man believe, after the century, nearly, of talk and writing we have had about agricultural improvement and en couragement of agriculture, after the patronage of GEORGE 111., the establishment of scores of Agricultural Associations and Royal Agricul- : tural Societies, after all the labours of the late Earl of LEICESTER and several other friends of agriculture—would any man believe, if it were stated in The Sun on our authority, or stated on any less exalted authority than an agricul tural M.P., that the farmers in one part of Eng land knew little or nothing, until lately, of what the farmers in other parts knew, and were doing ? Yet such is the f. , ..ct ; and it is our belief that cept in the immediate neighbourhood of arket towns, and on a few estates, the i4ners of which, like Lord SPENCER, are themselves practical farmers, the bulk of the tenants-at-will throughout England, know very little indeed now of the practices in any district but that in which they reside. But waiving our belief, and taking the fact on the undisputed authority of an agricultural M.P., is it possible to bring a stronger proof of the uselessness of landlords to agriculture, and of the utter worth lessness of all their schemes and laws for encouraging and improving it, than this avowed ignorance of the farmers of practices the utility of which has been demonstrated for years ? For what purpose do the landowners meet in their clubs? Why do they congregate at one season of the year in the metropolis, and at another dis perse over every part of the empire, if they diffuse no useful information ? Wherefore. are their peculiar sports cherished and pro tected at such an expense of humanity and pub lic happiness, if they cannot and do not convey the knowledge, the value of which is proved in one district, to another where it is not possessed, and where the stationary farmer, toiling day after day for a living, has scarcely time to read, and cannot quit his farm to gather information ? We always thought the great and the only use of the landlords to agriculture was, that they diffused the knowledge ofimprovements amongst their tenantry. It now appears that they do no such thing, and the statements of the self-suffi cient Mr. PUSEY, which he makes as a slur on the tenantry, is a severer condemnation of the landlords then any member of the Anti-Corn law League ever pronounced. Let the reader mark the confession of gross ignorance, not in the toiling tenants-at-will, but in leisure landlords, which Mr. PUSEY avows. " It is only," he says, " seven years since wE,'' the landlords, " heard in England" of Mr. SMITH of Deanston's practices, and they do not all know yet of the practices in Suffolk, Essex, and Kent. Not the te nantry only, therefore, the landowners of one part of England were ignorant, until lately, of what was done in another part, and in Scotland. Now Mr. PUSEY, who makes this extraordinary confession, is a kind of literary man, the brother of the " Seraphic Doctor," and one of the best instructed and not the least liberal of his class. He is spoken of by the Morning Chronicle as an " agriculturist of practical knowledge and scien tific acquirements." If such were Hrs dense ignorance only seven years ago of what so in timately concerns his own business, what must be the still denser ignorance of the great mass of country gentlemen ? If they know so little of agriculture, how can we give them credit for any knowledge of the influence which their own laws exercise over it? Suppose the Manchester manufacturers were to ask Parliament for a high protecting duty on cotton cloth, because they were under sold, and it should be proved, not merely that they did not use superior machinery which was in use at Glasgow, or at Liege, but that they actually did not know of its being used, would they not be hooted at as most ignorant, lazy blockheads, and sent to improve their own pro cesses, instead of laying a tax on the community, to enable them to keep the cottons of Glasgow or Liege out of the Manchester market ? The case of the landlords on Mr. PUSEY'S statement is parallel to this, except that these most ignorant and useless men, having had the political power of the State in their hands, have passed such a law as we have supposed the Manchester men to demand, and to have been refused. The land lords have actually compelled the community to give them a large price for their produce, that they, according to Mr. PUSEY'S statement, igno rant and lazy blockheads, might doze on in their old slovenly and unimproved methods. All at once, however, these gentlemen have started on their feet, and after rubbing their eyes they resolve on exerting themselves. From all quarters we hear of improvements in agricul ture; we find the landlord sedulous in spreading abroad information, in teaching the doctrine that there is no fear, and in inviting the tenantry to invest more capital in the soil. What has so suddenly put them on their metal ? What has all at once spread the knowledge of Mr. SMITH'S practices to every agricultural hamlet of the country ? A little, and only a little healthy competition, and the tear of competition. It is now about five years since a shock to trade and a deficient harvest began to direct public attention to the Corn-laws. The landlords be came alarmed for their monopoly. Successive bad harvests and a declining trade made, every year, the attack on their stronghold more i mp lilg. To d e f en d i t, t h ey were bound to in t Irl e the c W rl S al si olesslubplep.ly l c \ i f l o i s o t d ry . afterrf o uphold Ministry h it en a t s i r d e ley . dared against it ; and no sooner was a breach made than the supine a. ad. ignorant landlords discovered that their own acres were only half cultivated, e and mi g h t be made, by labour, to produce t w i ce as much: as That is the beneficial effect, not of Corn-laws, but of the probability that they maybe done away. The apprehension of competition, and some little competition, have done more within the two last years to diffuse agricultural knowledge amongst farmers and landlords than was done in all the previous years that elapsed subsequen. to 1815. Now if we see on the one hand such gross and avowed ignorance, and such un- couth practices nourished by the protective system, and see on the other such a won, derful increase of knowledge by a little competition, have we not good reason to expect that, by exposing our agriculturists to the effects of a complete free trade in food, we shall very soon bring them all to be as thoroughly acquainted with the best system of agriculture known in the world, as the men of Manchester are ac- quainted with the best known system of spinning? We have no doubt that such would be the case, and no doubt that it is only requisite to expoi.e our agriculture to free and healthy competition, to place it abreast of our manufactures, and in advance of the agriculture of every part of the world. We have no doubt, as the produce of agriculture depends far more on skill, than on any supposed fertility of the soil, that only com petition is necessary to make our agriculturists more skilful than those of other countries, and Produce corn, as our manufacturers produce cotum cloth, cheaper than any other persons. In all that concerns the manufacture of agricul tural instruments and facility of conveyance, two great portions of the price of agricultural pro duce to the consumer, the growth of cora is al ready effected at a much less cost in England than abroad. There is good reason, there fore, to conclude that the other portions of the price of agricultural produce might be reduced in like manlier were the corn trade only free. To obtain such inestimable results, so teeming with happiness to all classes, areoflearnidle they are most bound to know, and whose arro... THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1842 dance and presumption in lording it over us in Parliament, even surpass their dense ignorance. TILE POST MAGAZINE ALMANAC FOR 1843. This Almanac contains a brief history of the Post office, with copious information on the present rates of postage, the hours of delivery in the London dis trict, and the departure of foreign mails, distinguish ing those countries to which newspapers are sent free. It contains the usual calendar and a number of useful table 3, among the rest one showing the value in Eng lish money of the various coins in the principal places with which England has commercial intercourse. It is only half the price of the ordinary almanac, but the printer or the compiler has somewhat lessened its value by, a,n unpardonable blunder in the calendar for the month of Nov2mber, all the days of the month being made to fall on the same days of the week as in the present year. COURT' CIRCULAR. Before arriving at the Palace his Imperial High ness had called at the Royal Mews at Pimlico, and inspected the Royal stables. On leaving Buckingham Palace the Archduke and suite proceeded to St. James's Palace, and were conducted through the Royal Closet, the Throne room, the Entree-room, Queen Anne's room, the Portrait Gallery, the Presence Chamber, and the Grand Chamber. His Imperial Highness 'afterwards went into the Chapel Royal, and examined that edifice. His Imperial Highness, attended by his suite, took his departure shortly before four o'clock. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal highness the Duchess of Gloucester yes terday at Gloucester House. A deputation from the New Zealand Company, consisting of Mr. Somes, the Governor, Mr. Alder man Thompson, M.P., Mr. Charles Buller, M.P., and Mr. Mangles, M.P., accompanied by Mr. Ward, the Secretary, had an interview with Lord Stanley yes terday at the Colonial-office. PRICE OF SUGAR. EFFECTS OF MONOPOLY. LONDON, Nov. 19, 1842. The followinc, average prices of Brown or Musco do.ys British Sugars, t ' exclusive of duty, were pub lished in the Gazette of last night : West India 355. 71d. per cwt. East India 37 111 Mauritius 36 5i The average price of the three kinds, taken jointly, is 365. 5.0. per cwt. The actual weights of sugar sold on account of the importers, in the week ending the 15th inst., accord ing to the returns made upon oath by the sugar bro kers, in compliance with the Act of Parliament, and on which weights the above prices are computed, con. sisted of 16,128 cwt. West India, 9,596 cwt. East India, and 1,222 cwt. Mauritius. About 750 cwt. of very dark unsound sugar have been sold in the same week at from 20s. 6d. to 21s. per cwt.; these having been classed in the returns as East India unfairly depresses the average price of that kind of sugar, as well as the total average price. Strong brown Manilla sugars have been offered for sale at auction, and bought in at 14s. per cwt., their value. White sugar, equal to doubled refined, manu factured from foreign raw sugar, may be put free on board a British ship for 255. 6d. per cwt. Foreign Muscovado sugars, equal to the average quality of West India sugar, are to be had at 17s. 6d. per cwt. ; the former being 18s. per cwt. cheaper filly] the latter. The total sales of British sugars for the week, in Min cing -lane, were 27,000 cwt., assuming that the sales, added together, at the outports, are to the same ex tent as the weight sold at the London market. The consumers bought 54,000 cwt. of sugar, at 365. &id. per cwt., amounting, id round numbers, to 96,5001. They might have bought 54,000 cwt. of foreign sugar, equally good, at 17s. 6d. per cwt., amount ing to 47,2001., exhibiting a difference agai ns t W es t India sugar of 49,3001, which, being added to 161,000/. shown last week, for the previous fort night, gives 210,3001., being the value of the sugar monopoly to the sugar producers, and the cost thereof to the public, for three consecutive weeks. Endeavours having been made to explain away the effects of the statements published in The Sun in the two weeks preceding this, charging the sugar mono polists with having received enormous gains through excessive price obtained for their sugar, by saying that those two weeks in particular were selected be cause they happened to display a maximum account, we have determined, in order to undeceive those who may have given credence to these attempts at ex planation, as well as to set the explaining parties themselves right, should they really think as they speak, to publish, week after week, as we have done this day, the amount of the excess of price over and above the foreign market value of the sugar, paid by the consumers, and to add the same to the amount al ready announced; it will then be seen, at the expira tion of twelve months, should the prohibitory duties continue in existence for that length of time, whether the sugar monopoly does or does not operate as an indirect tax upon the country, of at least three mn lions sterling per annum. CHURCHES THE SAME. The English clergy refuse Christian burial to per sons not baptised by an Oxford or Cambridge man ; the Scotch clergy refuse Church rites to those who br . rig neir de .don Sunday; and the Catholic clergy, as wi I be seen by the following letter from Gibral• tar, are equally intolerant. When will the people iiink for the.nselves ? " GIBRALTAR, Ocr. 29.—The long-existing fer ment among the Catholic population of this city has reacted to a point of the greatest exasperation, in consequence of an occurrence which has just taken place at their church. Mr. Carlo, an old and highly respestable Catholic gentleman, universally known and esteemed by his fellow-townsmen, died suddenly during the night from a fit of apoplexy. The moment his family perceived the danger, they sent for a doctor and a priest; but when the latter arrived, the patient had expired, and the clergyman could do no more than recite the usual prayers on such occasions. The fol lowing day, application having been made io the clergy to bury the deceased, his afflicted widow and family learned that the rites of sepulture spcifahotaenoh l ann\o v iegr,pez; o ed ul A d by rj be rj withheld, in consequence, as was al leged, of his having died without confession. It was represented to the Reverend Gentleman that the deceased had been attacked so suddenly, that it was impossible for his farnil, to apply to the Church earlier than they had done. The doctor's certificate, and the verdict of the Coroner's inquest were pro duced to prove the suddenness of the death; but all the pressing solicitations as well of the particular friends of the deceased as of other most respectable inhabitants,. proved unavailing ; the priests were in exorable. In the afternoon the numerous friends of the deceased attended his 'funeral, and, knowing that another burial was then to take place, they entered the church in the hope of finally prevailing on the clergy to desist from the ignominious treatment of a worthy and much respected family. It was found, forced eet e ; oah,ohrvitN Devereux, ,bit:th r iehio:tirsdihei ne t , I, iy l :fr l catur a hl 1 on:ecn t vefadahe t arvp) h rygaeire e nxelroig, e ci isnn l eot .ettappnohr:actvsgeldioi:oylhiniinsbecisl: barricaded church h a daor r d feotfthril. p hileaeatsa u ibhergdwpl r ,eheeo p ri difeb o dler s soetsrto e thttihao l :sse y vtehpediocenn c in: chaplain, aofi u rNdoal‘ag n e,:nnhpx3 t edl e :tesah r mi(ii m aen en, collected, adjoin ing without anybody the crowd, and, after experiencing some ra ther rough treatment, were forced into the church where the body lay. An altercation there ensued between these two worthies, the Spanish friar accusing Mr. Devereux of being the cause of the whole pro ceeding, and volunteering to perform the rites himself —an announcement which had the effect of at once calming the infuriated people, as if by magic ; and when the police arrived to quell the disturbance, the ceremony was proceeding quietly, and the funeral, an dby thuelftrianrd,e: anxious vasatten at ded once nc thee t cn show emeteryby infinite multitude, their respect for the deceased, and their disapprobation of the conduct of the clergy. " This disturbance, which, providentially, was not attended with a more fatal result, is the fruit of the unwise system pursued by the priests now in posses sion of this church, by making the withholding of funeral rites a weapon of warfare in the perilous gnarrel which they have had the insanity to create with their flock ; and the indignation of the popula tion may well be conceived, when it is stated that, in the same week in which this occurrence took place, no less than four bodies of Roman Catholics were re- fused Christian sepulture by these ministers of the Gospel. Already several families, rather than allow their deceased friends 'to be buried like cloys' (a fa - vourite expression of their pastors), have had success ful recourse to the charitable offices of the Protestant minister; ,and the edification experienced by the by standers, and their surprise at the extraordinary con trast between his dQmeanour and that of their own priests, has produced a state of which Will not ►e long in manifesting its fruits." PRISON DisciPm - rm.—We understand that among other alterations and improvements in prison regula tions, recommended by the Inspectors of Prisons, there will be one for an increase in the dietary al lowed to pr;soners.—Berkshi r e Chronicle. His Imperial Highness the Archduke Frederick of Austria vis►ted Buckingham Palace yesterday, for the purpose of viewing the State-rooms. His Imperial Highness, attended by Count Caroly, C , ptain Marinewitch, Captain Dumont, and other Noblemen and Gentlemen of his suite, arrived of the Palace at half-past two o'clock, and passed into the Library. The Archduke and suite were then conducted by the private staircase to the Picture Gallery, the Drawing room, the. Grand Saloon, the Ball-room, thc.. State Dinner-room, the Green Drawing-room, and the Throne-room, afterwards descending by the grand staircase to the Marble Hall. THE COURT WALmEn CAsnx N0v.17.-J 7 lle keen north easterly wind, which ' has prevailed with considerable violence throughout the day, has induced her Majesty to remain within the Castle, and,not to venture out, except once, and then but for a short time, upon the ramparts. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal have not been taken beyond the walls of the fortress, from the same cause, during the day. His Royal Highness Prince Albert walked upon the beach for some time this morning, immediately after breakfast, " alone and unattended." Her Majesty contemplated taking her departure from Walmer on Thursday next, for Brighton, there to remain foe ihree weeks or a month; but the visit of the Court to Brighton, and also the departure of the Court. from -the Castle, have now been indefinitely postponed. Her Majesty and the Prince have graciously for warded, through Mr. G. E. Anson, ten pounds each to the crew of the Poll, which was capsized the other day on going to the Lisb on s t eamer. I )EALEVENING.--TheTHURSDAY EVENING.--The wind has blown very hard throughout the night and up to this even ing, from the east north-east, and there are conse quently but very few vessels lying in the roads. The bodies of William Dawes and Thomas Jarman (Deal boatmen), who were drowned on the 22d ult., were washed on shore in the night, the one at Walmer, and the other at No. 2 battery, about three miles to the north of the port. These two men, who have left wives and families, were 'drowned in attempting to board a foreign ship in distress, which had hoisted signals in the roads during the height of a violent gale from the south-west. It blew very hard last night from E.N.E. Her Majesty's ship Thunderer sent ,her top-ga!lant masts and upon the ebb tide sh e struck u d e e k eg h , e d r uringthe night, topmasts. "At half-past nine o'clock this morning a foreign bark, and the English schooner Margaret, of Lancas ter, slipped anchors and cables, and ran round th e South Foreland: The Russian ship Iris, for Shields ; the Austrian ship Drago, for Antwerp ; and the English brig Smalls, for Whitby, remain, with the Lavinia, from Honduras, for London. FRIDAY EVENING.—A delightful change has taken place in the ' weather since yesterday. The wind shifted to the south-west during the night, and the day throughput has been unusually fine and inviting. Her Majesty has promenaded in the course of the day i the gardens and upon the ramparts, but the Queen has not proceeded beyond the Castle- precincts. This morning, shortly after ten o'clock, Captain Daniel Pring, of her tMajesty's ship Thunderer, had the honour of an audience ot . ' Prince Albert, when it was arranged that his Royal Highness should honour the 'Thunderer with a second visit in the course of an hour, for the purpose of witnessing some target firing by the ship's company. Captain Pring then returned to his ship, in order that the necessary preparations might be made for the reception of the Prince, and immediately dispatched Lieutenant Hector Loring, the First Lieutenant of the Thunderer, across to Weimer, in the first cutter of 10 oars, to convey his Royal High ness to the ship. The Prince reached the vessel shortly before 12 o'clock, attended by Viscount Sydney, Lord C. Wellesley, Colonel Wylde, the Hon. C. A. Murray, and Dr. Prectorius. The news having spread that his Royal Highness intended to visit the Thunderer, there was a large party on board, who had just previously arrived from Deal and Weimer, amongst whom were the fami lies of the Rev. C. Lane (the Rector of Deal), Capt. Westbrook, R.N., Lieutenant Batt, RN., and Miss Batt, Lieutenant Rice, R.N., Captain Box, Hon. East India Company's service ; Mr. Wootton, Mr. G. Leath, Mr. R. Pagley, &c. The Prince, upon his reaching the ship, was re ceived by Captain Priug, Commander Berridge, and the officers of the Thunderer, on the quarter-d ec k ; the yards at the same time being manned. A company of Marines (130 being on board), under the command of Captain Stevens, were drawn up in line on the quarter-deck, and received the Prince with a Royal salute, the band playing the national anthem. The scene at this time was most animating. Several vessels in the Downs, at anchor and sailing in the im mediate vicinity of the Thunderer, also manned their yards and decorated their masts and rigging with various and innumerable flags. ' The Revenue cutters, Sealark, (Lieut. Quested) and Ranger, (Lieut. Baker) cruised off Walmer during the stay of the Prince on board. His Royal Highness first proceeded to the main and lower decks, and inspected, with evident interest and satisfaction, the admirable economy which pre vailed in this portion of the vessel. The Prince then took his station on the poop, upon the right of Captain Pring, surrounded by his suite and the numerous visitors who were permitted to be present. Two targets were then laid out to the eastward of the vessel, away from the shore—one of 600 yards and the other at 300 yards' distance. This service was performed by the earless, Government steamer, Captain Bullock, and completed in about twenty mi nutes. The target nearest to the ship was composed of a stage, ten feet square, at either extremity of which was a staff surmounted with a small flag. Che other target was a small boat, termed a " dingy," about twelve feet in length, with a flag flying from the top of its mast. Everything being prepared for the gunnery prac tice, and the order being given to beat to quarters, the men cast loose the guns throughout the ship, on the port broadside. The quarters being reported to Captain Pring by Commander Berridge, the orders were given to fire a broadside at the nearest target. This was executed with admirable precision, one flag staff being shot away altogether, and the flag on the top of the other staff carried away also. Next were fired two broadsides, by divisions, and these com pletely riddled and nearly destrowed the " dingy"— every one of the balls which did not strike the target falling close around, and within a very few feet of it. Had the target been of the usual size of a ship of war, there was not one of the shots but would have " told" with unerring effect. The next was quick single -gun firing, at the re mains of the "dingy," followed by a divisional broad side. The effect of the precision with which this was perceiv e d, b y f orc i ng out t h e off seixdeec executed e dt the e v n "dingy,'s o knocking away her stern, and finally sinking her. The firing being ended, the men (the ship being supposed to be attacked by an enemy) were ordered by divisions of boarders to board ; then to repel boarders by several interesting evolutions in defence of ships of war, closely supported by the gallant c,,rps of Marines. The riggers and firemen were next seen aloft, ac tively employed in the various departments. The firemen (the ship being supposed to be on fire) with their fire-buckets, having long lanyards, reaching from the lower yards to the water, appeared to be endea vouring to stop the progress of the flames in their re spective vicinities. The riggers were aloft knotting and stopping the rigging supposed to have been shot away by the enemy. Thus terminated what nautical readers will under stand by the term "general quarters," and the guns were then ordered to be manned. At the termination of this most interesting display, his Royal Highness addressed Captain Pring, and expressed his highest admiration at the excellent discipline of the ship, and the beautiful style in which the whole of the nautical movements bad been performed. Upon the Prince taking his departure, the yards were again manned as before, and the Guard of Ho nour drawn up on the quarter-deck. His Royal Highness was attended to the ten-oared cutter (which was steered by First Lieutenant Loring) by Captain Pring, and the officers of the ship. When the Prince had reached a distance of half a mile from the vessel, a Royal salute was fired by the Thunderer. The Thunderer left England in May, 1840, and was engaged in the whole of the Syrian operations. It was the only line-of-battle ship at Sidon (then commanded by the Hon. Captain Berkeley), and shared in the glories of Acre. It was since engaged in the Mediterranean, under the command of her pre sent gallant Captain. This morning, at eight o'clock, the Southampton, Captain Ogle, 50 gun ship, passed by Walmer Castle to the northward, and fi re d a Royal salute. The Southampton h as j ust arrived from the Cape of Good. Hope, and was proceeding to Sheerness to be paid off. This vessel landed . kdieral King at Portsmouth. The Rhadamanthus, Government steamer, anchored off Walmer C ast l e last night, and sailed this morning for Dover, t o embark troops for the Mediterranean. Captain P r i ng has received her Majesty ' s command to fire a R o y a l salute on Monday morning next, at 10 o'clock, i n h onour of the Princess Royal, her Royal Highn ess on voar. that day completing her second _______ remonstrating A meeting against the terms which the Portu guese Government tenders for the arrangement of the W" held yesterday for the purpose of loan of 183 G, now a mounting, to about 700,0004 sterling. Sir Isaac Lyon Gold smid has in his interest ,550,000/. of the sum, as the portion held by with dividends accrued, himself and his personal friends and connections, and he is in a condition, therefore, to deal with the propositiclu in his own way. He re mains firm in his determination to have his money. Mr. Thornton and a few others were at the meeting, 1 s to have no idea of making any but they could seems make no i mpress i on i n oppositio n t o Sir Isaac, who sacrifice in the business. The Thornton party pro posed a public meeting to consider the plan of settle ment offered by Sir Isaac, but they were defeated.— Post. For her late engagement at the Bowery Theatre__ eighteen p er formances—Madame Celeste received 5,500 dollars, which is a greater sum than was ever before paid to any performer for like service in this country.—New York Paper The Paris papers are generally destitute of in xrest, if we except the bitter feeling displayed against Belgium as well as England. The French will do nothing themselves to promote national intercourse with different countries, and when their neighbours set them a good example, they complain as if they had received an injury. The appointment of a Consul for New Zealand by the King of the BELGIANS, gives rise to the fol lowing remarks in the National:— "We find by the English journals that Queen Victoria has approved of the appointment of Mr. Charles White as Consul of the King of the Belgians at New Zealand. The commercial interests of Bel gium at New Zealand are exceedingly limited, and perhaps a Belgian vessel has never appeared in those latitudes. It can only, therefore, be in the hope of some day or other finding an opening for her manu factures, that Belgium, like England, spreads over all parts' of the globe agents charged with the task of forming commercial relations with foreign populations, of making their country known to them, and, in a word, of following in the footsteps of those European nations already in possession of manufacturing wealth. Why do they not, in the interests of our merchants, traders, and seamen, manif es t grea t er anx i ety t o esta blish rench agents in the South Seas, Australia, a n d New Ze a l an d ? O ur whalers, forced to put into English ports, and subjected to fiscal and annoying disputes, are often ill. treated, and the interests of shipowners have frequently suffered. Since the esta blishment of the little French colony at Akaroa, French vessels have been more numerous there than will ever be those of Belgium. During the year 1841 about 50 vessels have been at the port of Akaroa, of which 40 were French, and in the first quarter of 1842, there have been 24, of which 16 were from France. But this is not sufficient for the prosperity of the colony and the security of our whale fishery. The English strive unceasingly to exclude us from those latitudes, and to preserve for themselves thd right of fishing not only in the bays and ports of New Zealand, but also in the neighbouring islands. The interests of our shipowners are, therefore, on the point of being grievously compromised." The ilioniteur conteins a report from the Mi nister of the Colonies to the KING, on the state of the gum trade at Senegal. The ruin of this portion of the population, remarkable for their 4 4A., §iim o ti owl! tit Ot OtO -7,Z SUN OFFICE Three u. As the period for the assembling of Parlia ment approaches, the cry for " more Church" in creases in strength. The agents of the Church extension men have received their instructions, and are maturing plans for extorting money from the State, that is from the pockets of the people, whether Catholics, Dissenters, or Churchmen, to hand over to the richest ecclesiastical establish ment in the world. " It is the duty of the State," says one of their agents, " to come to the aid of ' the Church,and to assist in meeting the general demand for Church-extension. It is, and we say it with profound respect and loyalty; the duty of the QUEEN to receive such an intimation with delight, and to prove her attachment to that Church of which she is the temporal head, by a willing and cordial co-operation in such a measure." The impudence of these men is with Gut a parallel. While tens of thousands of her MAJESTY'S sub• jetty can barely find the means of subsistence, while the Paisley and Glasgow weavers out of employment are living on a penny. a day, and others, ashamed to beg, are actually dying. of want, the QUEEN is called upon to prove her attachment to the Church by increasing the general distress for the aggrandisement of a very small portion of the community. These charitable Christians are still faithless and unbe lieving, and require something more than de vout and constant attention to religious duties before they will regard her MAJESTy as a sincere Protestant. They-thrm, however, but a small section of the people, and their disloyal and rude language may .be, treated with contempt; but the demand for more money to enrich an over grown establishment must be met in a different Way. It must be proved, as the Duke of WEL LINGTON said, on a similar application being made, that the funds of the Church . are duly applied for their original purpose, and are found deficient, before one penny is taken from the public treasury. Both these points can -be easily disproved. Looking at the revenues of the Church, including tithes, church lands, offerings, and fees, in addition to those for every religious rite and ceremony, the total income cannot be less than eight millions sterling a year, or about thirty times the amount paid to the whole Church Establishment in the North. Why, the Bishops alone swallow up a revenue equal to the value of all the stipends, manses, and glebes of•the Intru sionists and Non - Intrusionists together, exceed ing twelve hundred men with six-thousand sons and daughters and wives to support. Could any Bishop, even with the boldiless that belongs to his order, rise in the House of Lords and say that eight million a year is nbt enough for England, while Scotland can keep up.. a respectable and useful establishment for three hundred thousand ? And are seven millions of Catholics iu Ireland, and seven million Dissenters and Catholics in England, who maintain their own religious, esta blishments, to be taxed for the] mainte nance of a gorgeous and inefficient Church Establishment. Its inefficiency is fully admitted, even by these money-hunters themselves. " A few years ago," says the Church and State Gazette, " the Church was little more than the edifice, the aisles, the steeple, and the bell." Has the change which lately took place been for the better ? Now the one-half is divided against the other, and. Popery is more admired than Protestantism. Sir ROBERT PEEL, under such circumstances, will be a bold man if he puts his band into the public purse and gives a million a year to a hete rogeneous Church— half Protestant and half Catholic. It gives us sincere pleasure to find that the charges of Lord ADINGER, at the late Special Commissions, are not likely to be soon forgotten or forgiven. At the public meetingat the Crown and Anchor Tavern, on Thursday last, many severe and pertinent allusions were made to the subject; and 'a petition to the House of Corn; mons :was agreed to, in which it was emphati cally stated that the charges in question were of an unfair, unjust, and political tendency, and calculated to prejudice, mislead, and exasperate the minds of the Jury to whom they were ad dressed. Mr. DUNCOMBE, who is to be entrusted with the presentation of this petition—and it can scarcely be placed in better hands—expressed a fervent hope that there would not be a single man, who wished to be thought well of by his fellow-men, who would scruple to attach his signature to it; and that every constituency would put it to their representatives, either to support the petition, or to give up their seats. We readily join with the Hon. Member fur Fins bury in this wish, for the subject is one of great moment, involving no less a question than that of the due administration of justice; and a more momentous question than this, or one involving more serious consequences, cannot possibly come under the notice of the Legislature. The -intelligence from Madrid is to the 10th instant. The Senate had held preparatory sit ting•, Senor BECERRA in the chair, and about sixty members being present. The commercial treaty with Belgium, which Senor OLOZAGA had concluded at Brussels, was to be submitted for approbation of the Cones. The Peninsular mentions that an affray bad taken place between the inhabitants of the small towns of Zafagarra. and Alhama, which finished by the disarming of the National. Guards of the latter, by 200 militia and a detachment of troops sent from Zafagarra. The Castellano of the 10th announces that the Government was preparing the basis of a con cordat with the Holy See, to reconcile the exist ing differences. The Three per Cents. were done at 22 at sixty days; the Five per Cents. at 26i at sixty days; and the floating debt of the Treasury at 44 fbr cash. '6 Li iii iii AIRY OF NEWS ,--,. .otednes:.3• to t'ance, had occupied, says the Report, the attention of former Ministers of the Colonies, and the Governors of the colony had been authorised to submit the traffic of gum to certain exceptional measures tending to preserve the agents from the wild competition existing since 1838. , As those measures, and particularly the last, consisting of the #brmation of a Company invested with certain privileges for the trade, had excited loud complaints from the French shiivowners and merchants, it was thought advis able to nominate a Commission to inquire into the exact state of the trade, and after having obtained all possible information on the subject to suggest a remedy. This Committee bad - now finished their inquiries, and proposed unani mously that the gum trade should be subjected to regulations based on full liberty of barter, but accompanied by important restrictions, in order to repair the commercial disorders of late years, and prevent their return. BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17. First Highest Lowest Last . Pr Price. Pr French Five pe r Cents. 118 Price 95... 119 ice. ... 118 95... 119 ice. 4% per Cents 106 ... 106 ... 106 ... 106 Your per Cents. 101 40... 101 40 .. 101 40... 101 40 3 per Cents 89 25... 80 25... 80 20... 80 25 Bank of France 3290 —.3290 _3290 .. 3290 Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1050 —lO5O ...1050 —.1050 5,000 f 5075 ...5075 ...5070 ...5070 Belgian Fiv es . 1840 1044 ... 1044 ... 1041 ... 104/ Spanish Active 236 ... 234 ... 234 ... 234 Portuguese Fives 324 ... 324 ... 324 ... 324 Dutch 25 per Cents 535 535 ... 535 ... 535 Neapolitan . lOB 70... 108 80... 108 70... 108 80 • RAILWAY SHARES. St_ Germain S2O • ... 822 50... 820 ... 822 50 Versailles, L.B 9O ... 90 ... 87 50... 90 R.B 266 25... 2:i6 25... 266 25... 266 25 Rouen • Orleans. Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 205 ... 203 75... 203 75 ARRIVAL OF THE ROYAL WEST INDIA STEAMER. CLYDE. BY EXPRESS. FALMOUTif, Nov. 18, Eight A.M.—The Royal mail. steamer Clyde, Ewing, master, arrived at one A.M., bringing Mexican Jamaica, and other West India Island mails, this being the firstboat by the new route. Her dates of leaving are, from St. Thomas's Oct. 24, Bermuda 2d, and from Fayal 12th inst. She has brought fourteen passengers, and a small quantity of specie on freight. The Royal mail-steamer Tweed, brought the Jamaica mails to St. Thomas's. The Royal mail-steamer Solway, brought the Mexican mails to Berm u d a . The Royal mail -steamer Forth, had arrived at St. Thomas's on the 24th of October, with mails from England. The Clyde left the following Royal mail-steamers at St. Thomas's :—The Teviot, Trent, Tweed, and Forth. Her Majesty's ship Rover, was at Bermuda on her way to England, from the Gulph of Mexico, having on board a large freight of silver.—Post. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. In the Liverpool Cotton Market the sales were good yesterday, being 5,000 bales, at about previous rates. For the Railway Shares the market was generally firm. Eastern Counties were 81 • Grand Junctio n , 180 ; South Western, 591 ; North Midland, 61; Paris and Rouen, 23 ; and South Eastern, New, 178. The West India Mails bring rather satisfactory news from the different Islands. At Jamaica the pros pects are very promising for next year, and the ex ports this season have much exceeded those of last, viz., by 13,321 hhds. of sugar, 3,850 puncheons of rum, and 1,233 tierces o f co ff ee . I n D emerara mat ters had not improved. The failure alluded to by some of our Morning Contemporaries is a very minor affair in the seed trade, and scarcely deserved mention. Another party connected with Cornish mining speculations is reported in difficulties. 'The plain ribbon weavers of Coventry have effected much good by their Association for the improvement of their manufactures, and they have succeeded alike in protecting the weavers, and giving all honourable manufacturers fair play- in the market. The first Report gives the following gratifying statement : " Your Committee are happy to inform you that the branches are in a prosperous condition, and, con sidering-the depressed state of trade, surpass our most sanguine expectations." The Funds are very firm, but business is limited, as usual on the closing day of the week. Consols for present transfer have been marked 944 to 941, and for Thursday next 94} also. Exchequer Bills continue heavy, at 55 to 58 premium ; India Bonds •51 53 premium. -.For Bank Stock there is only a trifling demand, and the value is 169 to 170; New Three and-a-nalf per Cents. 101 i 1, and Reduced• Three per Cents. 93k to 931. • The news from Mexico seems to be approved of, especially as it is accompanied by a'remittance for the dividends, and the Active Bonds were worth 338 ; Colombian Stock is steady at 211 ; Brazil nominally is 65, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. realise 528 to 53h. The Five per Cent. Spanish Bonds are dull at 18i, and the Three per Cents. at 23. Portu guese New Five per Cents. obtain 384. Railway Shares are steady. Brighton 14/ dis count; Birmingham 94, and Great Western 19, and South Western 181 premium. London and West minster Bank are 2k premium. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto New London ane Brighton London and Birmingham 90 . 184 Ditto / Shares Midland Counties 100 ShetE4d, Ashton-under-Lyne... 82k 32k to South Eastern and Dever Ditto Scrip.. .. JOINT STOCK BANKS. Colonial London and Westminster . .. 20 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 18.— The market still remains quiet, with very little busi ness doing. New Eastern Counties are 108 and 101; Manchester and Birmingham, 191 ; South Eastern Scrip, 17/ to 17i; North Unions, 65 to 66 ; London and Birmingham, 183 to 184 ; Manchester Assu ranee, 9 - - - SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. DERBY.-8i to 1 agst A British Yeoman-20 to 1 agst Winesour-22 to 1 agst Murat (taken and afterwards offered)-35 to 1 agst Aristides-35 to 1 agst Progress c-40 to 1 agstiNewcourt-40 to 1 agst Lucetta c-46 to 1 agst Napier -50 to 1 ngst Laguish c— 50 to 1 agst Cotherstone-50 to 1 agst Everton-50 to 1 agst Oxygen colt (taken)-5 to 1 agst Scott's lot-14 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's lot. Outs.-8 to 1 agst Maria Day-10 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Nomination (not lot, as stated by mis take in our last)-10 to 1 agst Wee Pet-25 to 1 agst Testatrix. Woonuonsn, Nov. 14.—The Cup was won by Mr. Gebb's Hatter. DEVIL'S BRIDGE, NOV. .11.—The Cup was Won by Mr. J. Rowe's Fly. ASHDOWN PARK MEETING. —FRIDAY.—The Derby Stakes were won by Mr. Bradley's Bay-leaf ; the Cup was won by Mr. Agg's Amazon; Kalmuc received the sovereigns ; the Oaks Stakes were divided by the Messrs. Etwall ; the First Class Weyland was divided by Captain Wyndham and Mr. W. Etwall ; the Second Class Weyland Stakes were won by Mr. Kershaw's Keppell the First Class Craven were won by Mr. Kershaw's Kirkham ; the Second Class Craven, were won by Mr. Lawrence's Leda ; and the Lamborne Puppy Stakes by Mr. Kershaw's Kelpie. NEWMARKET COURSING MEETING. FRIDAY. THE ALLINGTON HILL ST AKES. —Second Ties: Jewess beat Datura. Dulcken beat Sweetbrier. THE CHF. — Second Ties : Go -to beat Arctic. Thorn beat Defiance. THE CIIIPPRMAM STAKES. —Second Ties : Locust beat Simoon. Velocipede beat Gaper. Albemarle ran a bye. PORT STAKES. —Second . Ties : Victorina beat Ghita. Gossip beat Kremlin. RUTLAND STAKES.-Mr. Dobede'a Dauntless beat Mr. Finch's Gips Queen. Ties : Captain beat Dauntless. Sinclair beat Almanac. AnYssixrA.—The most cruel kind of negro slavery, perhaps, in existence, is that practised at Dahaleh, an island on the Abyssinian coast. The pearl fishery, according to Ruppell, who visited it in 1831, is carried on exclusively by youths, who are often sacrificed to -the severities which accompany it. Many aro de stroyed by sharks, or fall victims to the negligence of the overseers, who are warming themselves at a fire while the poor creatures are pulling in vain at a rope which is attached to the arm, and is destined to give notice to those above when thay are in want of ' air. M. Ruppll could not obtain any estimate of the profits derived from this accursed business; but, as the inhabitants were wealthy and slaves in the arket numerous, there can be ho doubt that the loss of life attendant thereon is easily made up by fresh purchases, and that the average duration of existence among these helpless creatures must be short indeed. —Anti-Slavery Reporter. There was, one Sunday, at Holland House, during the life of the late lamented owner, a party of twelve at dinner, and it was agreed, that when the same party met a week after, each guest sho u ld bring a list of the twelve best and most int eresting works e had ever read. There was, of course, no concert or com munication between them, who were all men of lite rary pursuits and great attainments ; and when, at their next meeting, th e li sts were opened by Lord: Holland, there was but one name found in all. AND Vtitair Optittott. " Who runs may read. F. The provision s of the Iate OREIGN Duke o' Orleans will are beginning to be known bit by bit. In one Count Mole, codicils - he wrote a most handsome eulogium on 120 :,":' Mole, and bequeathed to him an excellent painti n tz e t 7 . 5 Henry Scheffer, the subject from one of Goetrl. th stories. Count Mole has had the pictUre frame4li l the copy of the codicil in question. Since the begin n i ng o f t h e year t h e d u ties paid beet-root sugar in F rance amounte d t0`0,159,6 37 last year, i n th e correspond i ng interval, t h ey amounte d to 4,683,2601. The Constitu t i ona l o f B arce l ona o f t h e 10th jog states that th e s t age - coac h i n w hi c h t h e Catalonia n Deputies, P r i m an d Vill aregut, were travelling to ee „, Madrid, had b een stopp e d at Pedra,gosas he ° v s e d Lerida and F raga , b y an armed ba n d, Who spar the lives of the p assengers, b ut ro bb e d t h em .of everc J thing they possessed. A letter from Algiers of the 10th inst. atates,, during the p rece di ng thirty-six houes more rain' in that city th an d ur i ng the entire month of Nor,m ber in any of the last five years. Another Royal d aug h ter was b orn to t h e Saltan4hg the 18th ult. Sh e rece i ve d the name o f Alige, ineans "Sublime." a rrest Ths'Journal de St. Eti enne men ti ons the arr e .., ea false ' the Mayor and secre t ary of one of the comm unes sa St. Etienne, on a c h arge of hav i ng delivered been certificates, in order t o exempt two youn g men been military service. The y oung men h ave have als° ;r arrested: The Sentinelle des Pyrenees states, that on the nig?: of the 29th ult., 275 dozen of larks, which we,rfriucs their way to escape from the cold, and seek in themselves a more congenial temperature, precipitated them" ss a on the open fire of the lighthouse at Biarrite, perished. The tribunal of Aquila, in the kingdom of ;Ca t s -Di .; which had previously passed sentence upon ah eti l as t hundred persons involved in the insurrection of ...sad year, has re cen tl y con d emned seven more %V II() P m, ,s been subsequently arreste d . O ne o f _ then], 'but Ruffini, of R ome , h as rece i ved sentence o f death, -b ut hopes are e n t er t a i ne d t h at i t will be comtno`7 - the King. The Colo g n e G aze tt e h as T r i este -l etters athe .. 154 t a i o stating that th e nego ti at i ons b etween G rea t 13 . 1 1, 5 , and the Austri an Government, relative to the t; c l mission of the o ver l an d I n di a ma il by. Trieste.%. Venice, were go i ng on so actively, that it wa' e e rt ";"in ted the first a rr i va l from Bombay would take Pl ,a January next. stitiir e The solemn promulgation of the berat of inve 4 tb of the new Prince took place at Belgrade on the r. with great romp. Emir Effendi was the beare rsary Prince Ghika quitted BUcharest on the anoi" The of his installation, namely, the 26th of October. of f , new Hospodar will b e th e R uss i an General ICi2_ who hal been naturalised. , . A powerful party of Greeks and Catholies4- - ` O l5 l said, has bee n f orme d at. W allachia, w i t h a rleTifi-sa bringing about a junction of the three princ,iP- rest of the Danube, un d er t h e guarantee cif toe, f i r e powers of Europe, and with a Prince of one Royal houses at their head. The majority of tbit_, a , tholics are stated to b e d es i rous o f h a ving for reign an Austrian Archduke, but the Greeks an ise nority of the Cath o li cs w i s h to h ave th e Da' -; Leuchtenberg. PUELIC OPINION. The Times, alluding to Church Reform, alq ra as " Among the measures announced in the Spen,jou, the Throne at th e commencement o f the- last se ,,, os ea there was one whi c h never saw t h e li g ht —a Prer soy reform of the Ecclesiastical Courts. Whetherse; Bill upon the subj ec t was i ntro d uce d , we ar e not o 10 1 some talk there certainly was of a Bill whi ch been prepar e d i n the Government offices, but l i'_ - es after vain atte m pt s t o reconc i le the con fli c ting and interests of different Church authorities iii iri ; og . and country, was silently abandoned. It i s is .svas sible, with our information, to say whether th . _ ted to be regretted or otherwise ; but unless the prej o e t G b e s measure was sordetliini.very different from any f l a te scheme a the kind which has been mooted 0 ao -years, we -suspect :the country has sustain e e 'f ee l loss in its_ postponement. Of one thing „„,t0 sure, that before anything- really useful and al o st -to the wants of the - Church can be done, there jeaa a exist a much stronger feeling as to the magn itude ft delicacy of the question, and a disposition to g' sst isti, a much more. deliberate and concentrated attend cit in and out of Parliament, than has yet appeared" t w er ould he better t o go on even w ith the Prease? . t ;vits unsatisfactory state of things, than to add to l ta and perplexities by a c ru d e , ras h, superficial, deg' ignorant, and. perhaps jobbing and secular -ronl lg reform. It oug ht a l so to be considered, wheth er ,„ it od b either safe i n p r i nc i p l e or likely to answer mi.? a o s purpose, for Parliament (constituted as it i s u - P rion, basis comprehending persons'sof every denomio T ., o tos' however hostile to the Church) to legislate tir - -; e stf• tions vitally affecting the Church's spirit/ad it l "4. se without taking the sense of the Church herself, presented according to her proper organization, `lion the measures proposal"- • The Herald says :—"Give Mr. Cob s teitgli ra lie. 50,0001. and th e C orn -l aws shall be abolished; aria but Mr. O'C o n ne ll' s rent ot h er 20,0001. assi ~ vest'lancl the legislati ve un i on l aetween England en'i shall be repealed; pour but a few thousands st e _ b all into Feargus O'Connor's lap, and the Charter become the law of the land. Who doubts the their these potence of money- after these fine promises -0 t heir these great political alchemists would perwri" nt for promises when they have procured pre-Oav ne c ons: them ? Time was when patriotism shrank from d n ot tact with coin ; w h en national regeneration w re st spring from th e power o f gold and s il ver; when, o, ra the principles and m i g h ty o bj ects were a ll-p o werful hands of gr ea t men —' such things were ,' thsted as numbered with other departed wonders—reg al 10 a the curiositie s o f an ti qu i ty — sneere d at as Arc- _ the simplicities o f p r i m i t i ve days—and r i d i cu led a s foolish fan c i es o f ru d e ages. Enlightenmen t nog sah• lists in its service cash;- patriotism is based on _ t her scription lists ; p o liti ca l com bi nat i on i s k n it tog: by with golden threads • leagues are kept alive be bankers' accounts • and - universal suffrage is suf achieved by a public Joint-stock Agitation ( - ,9 t r fey( with a . capit a l o f one million of farthings. wer fol; years ago k now l e d ge was d eclared to b e all-poi' onis that which was i n th e d ays o f t h e Re f orm 'alai long venally received as an apothegetic truth ha s to be since been pronounced by our political pund its a deceptive f a ll acy ; our great pract i ca l noil gr. have now discovered that money only is power. Daniel O'Connell first found out the Ocret.' duc t of Thefollowins is from the Post :—" The condo l a the lately -appointed Attorney-General of Ire. s ons declining to call up for judgment two persiDes'uada victed of seditious libels, has been made the 1 0 11 jo t tion of some very untrue statements, and very f , n r cled remarks, by the Opposition press. The praise a j el l* to the new law officer by the Whigs, for his le.nv,Ge is altogether at the expense of the late Attorn.-..,_,nder3 neral, and of -the Court before which the ottei it were convicte.l. The present Attorney-Geoe ra vi ' ew of said, has taken a more mo d erate an d just who the case than what was taken by his predecessore said tried it.' But h ow i s thi s ma d e out ? h l ibel - the defendant s w e re not guilty of a wick ed t herm' No; but upon the-confe ss i on of the defendants,rr selves of their g Uilt san d u p on t h e i r pra yer for theta - - he has dee me d this stifficient, and has not cane' tor.sla up for judgment. It is asserted that the nesv_fi ot e4 ne:y-General has accepted 'a very modified .r la n atal froth the counsel of the convicted libellers- I , l ' u pott easy to determine what some persons may lootc_ eheol ,i -as 'a very modified apology ; but, to our aPE o d e teftlt . con, language could scarcely convey a more e i ul ai s tior e : ag acknowledgment of the offence committed, and oe. unqualified appeal for mercy th an the ackno w ment and appeal made by Mr. Holmes on the Ir:i;srld the defendants." MONEY — TRADE—CODIMEZCS i p en 'ritliOr The sheep and cattle f a i rs a t C ar li s le an d m 0.4 bar:. have been well suppli e d thi s season , an d the ratio of sales effected at th e f ormer, f u ll y equa ll - those " .; last year. There has been no improvement in the hos ier 4.l4 s ilks trade at Nottingham duri the past week ; ins al glove branch is greatly depressed; the cotton g ° e do tolerably good.- Th e new American 'tariff-has benefit pa Leicester goods, By an account in another part of The Sun, it_ a g r at 'fi pears, that from the rains and swelling of the i sea- of at- Madeira towards the close of October, unl'. a . orla 0r.;,0 eight vessels and steamers were placed in situaot!.en _ ,• peril. The rivers of the island became so as‘ m ll ' „ , O to threaten its inundation, and the city of Funchal was so deluged as to have sustained great dam e the 28th ult. this weather had subsided. ' ;0 5 NAVAL AND it#III.ITA.E.Y. _ the French, under Humbert, who landed at 18- 111 rna T nd h e e d l i a n te th l ei o y rd ea G r lo7rt9,BtthheenLCimoleornicekl A3rieirieittettr.iiiganeloainalat that year. D ur in g th e skirmishes that ensued v at t he ounoe.' ' village of Coloony, Colonel Vereker "s , and received the thanks of Parliament, being permitte z d l t T o m be n a A r the waomrdp"sCcoilozoign.si, hisSCIENTIFIC' arms. up to the present time, gone on increas u The brightness of the new comet in ' on Drlo. acoth_atso its tail towards i n ts uc p le a t s l s s a , g b e ut to there pe h ri a s h e b ii e u e i n n A n v on ill i t e a ras e k e eel in its De ace cember ; and it will continue approaching lemen ts ; the earth until the 15th instant. From its e e in ca c ic h u i l n a a ted in to l3o be l, t i l t le h r a e vi tt n ir g n t o h f us th in e since that time, of more than 500 years. s i e t en is COURT—rasizzon - ABLE. .-«n Earl and Countess Grosvenor, since their reotniviorestr. Motcombe House from visiting the Queen P adnerna tcr°aTeel; to R) ~.~ 1