The Sun. — London, England, 1842-11-29 00:00:00

LAW .INTELLIGENCE-. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius after Tern,, before Mr. Justice NIGHTMAN and R Middlesex Common Jury.) Tl* LALLARD V. TAYLOR AND OTHERS. an a s was an action brought to recover damages for t h alleged illegal distraint. It occupied the Court feea,..greater part of the morning, but presented no r ` A_ lll ' s of public interest. ; 1-4 e Jury returned a verdict for the defendant. f_o;v!ir_. Chadwick Jones and Mr. Charnock appeared 'So plaintiff; and Mr. Watson for the defendants. Xr tz : -44 EQUER COURT—THIS DAY. THE ATTORNEY-GEDMRAL V. HOWE. WaS an information filed by the Attorney at 11,"alagainst the defendant, who was aninnkeeper Whitehaven, in Cumberland, for receiving un itieL-Ised spirits. It appeared, that in the mont of c e kl i aq, the Excise-officers in Whitehayen had ireinformation which led them to believe that a "Ity of rum and brandy had been smuggled into oth town from the Isle of Man., They went, among Places, to the house of the defendant, for the al -I;te'll)nipOse of taking from him an account of stock. hi s : Y were shown certain items; but upon searching 1 , 11 :cellar they found concealed there a quantity of 1 , 6 1 3 1 ! and brandy, which defendant said had been de he ~I t ed there the day before by a person whose name not know. i llo se facts having been proved, and no one appear t!r the defendant, the Jury returned a verdict for "n in the sum of 500/. 0' LVENT COURT—(THIS DAY.) 2N RE WILL I AM MILLAR—LOAN SOCIETIES. Ti lt :* insolvent had carried on business as a baker. of a mount of debts in his schedule was about 500 1 ., ,which a lar ge portion was . . incurred by becoming ci pa i to various Loan Societies, of which the prin abi were the Joint-Stock Loan Society, the Equit -li4'.the Chelsea, and the West Middlesex Societies. faqated that his assets consisted of good and doubt-, I\i ebU to the amount of 2591. tip oli t 'S(:anissioner HARRIS commented very severely to N t ue. Conduct of the insolvent in allowing others p ay h i money upon his name when he was unable to 1 11 4 t -„ ew lie said it was too often the case tiehlf;sens in this way became mutual securities for .other —He was then ordered to be discharged. IN RE MARIA COOK. stainsolvent, an old and feeble woman, who tip 1.. 111 a very bad state of health, came up for ,nt. CooKE applied to have her petition dismissed. Caine on first in June,lB4l, when it appeared Ar c „lie Was the possessor of a valuable shop in the W a ," ... ,e , Covent-garden. The Duke of Bedford al ttipt'llewed his tenants, in case they became bank -11,44.er insolvent, to dispose of the goodwill in their of de gs for the benefit of their creditors. The amount ve oc - uts which she owed at the time of her insol sha 3 exceeded 8001., and previous to her examination da t , ll Yide over her interest in the 'shop to her lia o r t t er• The Court then decided upon sending her t o prison until such time as her daughter chose 400'r e u the premises, which would realise about aboil •fo rt he creditors. She remained in prison for to u t 14 months, when she again petitioned the 11 , with a like result. Upon her coming up to alge Learned Counsel contended that her daughter , be .considered as her gaoler. )n tq s• Commissioner Maxis, in the absence of the Viti i % ,e'lt's Counsel, ordered the case to stand adjourned, ' oll r days' notice. 41 1INAL COURT—(THIS DAY.) OLD Co UR7 7 . , (Before M r . C o mmissioner BULLOCK.) Keiniard, 17, pleaded guilty to an indictment kt, ‘s ' n g him with stealing three bank notes, value 'kb; a nd money of the value of 621., the property of , to tl Fainter Davis, and was sentenced by the Court 1, `' e lve months' imprisonment and hard labour. Le t ;,, te ENT.----SINGULAR NODE OF ROBBING GIN PA ITTni. Locke, 29, a barman, was indicted i4.a stealing o n th e 26th o f September, two penny and two halfpence, the property of his master, c,titi..xurney, who keeps the Mack worth Arms, in the ili, i .,/nereial-road Ea s t ; and Webber was p itt ' 'with feloniously receiving the same, knowing i! k he stolen. Locke pleaded guilty. gt E charge, though in appearance trivial, is, one of for 70 11 Porfance . to - persons keepiiii'establishments e. sale of spirits. 1t 1 ,, t • bodkin and Mr. Ballantyrie conducted the pro -1? ""ii, and Mr. Wilde defended the prisoner. th t ,..„ 1.°41 the statements of the Learned Counsel for tha t -P 4 l. ,'secutor arid the evidence . t)..iduced; it appeared L." prisoner Locke was the barman of Mr. Gur }4;ll);+l%_Thl Webber,. who had frequently been at the 4 )5, t 11.",„i1ad . jOined with him in the following artful IJli e ki; 6 rob Mr. Gurney by wholesale :—An accom litygethLsent to Mr. Gurney's for some small quan t°l',.idf.,7,, beer or gin, for which he tendered a 6 d. l i o -ce in payment, the prisoner Locke went to do give the halfpence in change, and while 11 11 1 % ; .- managed,' from another part of the till, to Vi e() With the copper some silver, with which the ' 4 (lP'"Ce'aeparted. After this species of robbery ht ) ~.e n carried on for some time, Mr. Gurney be ('ntertain doubts of the integrity of his bar 16t' a nd , for the purpose of satisfying himself, on the September he placed a quantity of marked it , olC 3 2n- the different tills in his shop, and he also qoti, the Precaution to have a policeman in plain ofty,es In the shop. - About eight o'clock on the night etd • 11 2 6th a man tame in, caired fora pint of half -41,f,, for which he tendered in payment a 4d. t ~h"le prisoner Locke then went to the till; gave 4 11, 1 - ; 411 ..i ge, the man finished the half-and-half, and toc ; e u• The policeman, from what he saw take TAt w hen Locke was giving change, followed the oi,1 11t ) and in Essex•street he saw him go up to el ' , 'lye him something saying at the same time, 4fte at t hat was all John could send." Webber WAS arr) ot 's taken into custody, and upon him was sc "le of the mar k e d copper money. The other 1 4 5 "nniediately on the policeman taking Webber 3j 9 , llB tcßly, ran off, and had not since been heard of. 4ag7l „ ; A r ILDE addressed the Jury at considerable lg on behalf of Webber. 1 .-C °lnmissioner BULLOCK summed up, and Ai ls e liury found both prisoners Guilty. It.; '°nKtx said he was in a conditial.to prove "'wards of twenty instances the unwary had i ll 'l4,l ll Pea to the prisoner -Webber, whose conduct in L l g persons to commit crime had caused many t „tll ath • ''', 4ll sPorted,.. while he lived upon the plunder he ti le - te Yrom them. As tothe prisoner_ Locke, he was in- Y Mr. Gurney to entreat the Court to pass upon 1-,;,,lnere nominal sentence, as he had stated to him "ew, and it was Mr. Gurney's firm belief he en entrapped by Webber:. r s i t le ral persons were called, who had been in simi- Peed them to Locke , who stated Webber had in so "ern to rob their masters, and when they would . kert t fk ri° longer, he threatened them that he would in , IC-eir masters of what they had done. -C masters sentenced Locke to three months' im ekt,tetrlTent without hard labour, and Webber to seven 1 A tran sportation. . A LLANTYNE said that Mr. Gurney had been ° u Pwanis of 8/. a week by these depredations. NEW COURT. V. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) trl4,; Smith, alias Good, was charged with stealing °f ' It v, containing a quantity of linen, the property Thj'e Gre3 • th; Properly . had been delivered by the prosecutor to c arrier to be taken to the laundress, and ` r t °4l the cart while near. the East India use. e Pi% 11 14 o,o; the property was clearly proved against T he 1. by one witness, who saw . him take it. t . a l3ll 'soile r strongly denied this, stating that a ( x -ve bi ro sixpence to carry the parcel.—Guilty; ilty; ,se of impr 41(14• '5l- o fimprisonment and hard labour m the AN - * () " r reetioil. 4▪ iet ‘-'l4) (-)11 ' 'DER .—Michael Donovan was in- Of for stealii g lm three handkerchiefs, the property souerTi? s an Al. Tril - fitt. e „ Id enee was most conclusive against thepr i 4 - ' fi),'.. -11 ' be was convicted. He said he had been „ Pars "at sea." 13 ;• "einaS, clerk of the papers at Newgate, said i the lu'lsi.'ner was - before tit, Court no longer ago than 4 ' IC ses sions, and had been a frequent inmate of I llere,. -11 ,e of Correction. The prisoner begged for ta tte w , out the Common Sergeant said he must have for 11 °R the public, which could not afford to pay ;. I ,e ar session after session. It, was quite 'ourt.:•was incorrigible and practised thief. The et,W en teneed him to seven years' transportation.. Let%! Modberry, was indicted for stealing a sill nandkerchief, from the person of Capt. Preston tat,„, 4 ` . '"), on the 25th of November. The prosecutor th e til l at he was passing through Lombard-street 4 " ) e, ket "Y naffed, when he felt a tug at his coat pri'soat'd turning round, he saw his . handkerchief in ihattier s hand. The prisoner in defence said, a 41 0118.. rew the handkerchief to him as he was going 4 r t the. f . CaPt. Brunt on sa id no p erso n was near him Guilt e, but the prisoner. The Jury found him Liem, ham nd he was sentenced to ten years' transporta - Wen, e. ng been one.., before convicted of the same 41: 01 NT-STOCICBANK E MD EZZLENIENT—. quekfltds of Jordan, the clerk in the London Joi nt. t he i)rnialc who ha s absconded with so much money, Sti4 t e i rty of his em pl oyers, h ave put f ort h an adver e 4441 • - 2: l ll,ing up on hi m to restore t h e proper ty, as Win; of Saving hi'm from actual rum. ( lELD OP INDIAN CORN.—It is stated m 4,7rkYland paper that Augustus Shriver, of Pipe tek7 in Ca rro ll County, Md., has raised the present e 0,4", eighty-seven and a half b us h e l s o f shelled 41r : II an acre of ground! This acre was part of a .11150 t; taming-1 about sixteen acres, the whole crop Ate h y or ., was remarkably regular and uniform.— Paper. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET - . 1 -(THIS DAY.) A tall, fashionably-dressed young man named John Thomasson, who was described as a law student, was charged with assaulting police-constable A 68, while in the execution of his duty at the Adelphi Theatre. The officer stated that he was on duty at the Adel phi Theatre last night, at nine o'clock, where he saw the prisoner, with about half a dozen other young men, creating a disturbance. Witness told him that if he persisted in making a noise he must take him into custody, when he immediately assaulted him in so violent a manner that witness, when rescued, was nearly insensible. A 30 corroborated this evidence, and stated that as he was taking the prisoner to the station-house he said, "If you had not come up I would have Wk.' him on the spot." The prisoner said he had been dining out, and per haps he had taken too much wine. He attacked the officer in self-defence. Mr. JARDINE said he would fine him al., or, in de fault of payment, commit him for one month. The fine was immediately paid. James Watson and James Harris, two very fashion ably dressed young men, were then charged with vio lently assaulting police officer A 98, while in the execution of his duty in the pit of the Olympic theatre. A 98 stated that he was on duty at the Olympic theatre last evening, when he was called in to quell a disturbance in the pit of the theatre. He went in, and there saw the prisoners standing on one of the benches, and making a • noise with a stick. He remonstrated with them, when one of them knocked him down, and the other kept him down the bench, and pressed on his chest, whereby his back was nearly broken. There was a great noise in the theatre ; the whole pit was in an. uproar. With the assistance of another policeman they were taken into custody. Mr. JARDINE sentenced them to fourteen days' im prisonment each, without a fine. Two little boys, named Priestly and Collier, were committed to Newgate to take their trial for embezzle ing 101., the property of Mr. Forster, a barrister in Lincoln's Inn, with whom Collier was a clerk. CLERKEN WELL.-(THIS DAY.) William Flood was charged with violently assault ing police cOnstables 108, 132, and 72, of the G division. An old sack was the Only article that screened the prisoner's nudity, his face was much cut, and the con stables were-likewise much hurt, 72 G-rather seriously. Last night, between 12 and 1 o'clock, the prisoner was shouting in Silver-street, Clerkenwell. 72 G de sired him to'go away, but he refused and . struck the constable, a scuffle ensued, both fell in the mud twice together, at length they regained the pavement, .and the prisoner pushed the officer down a flight of steps into an old cellar, where he lay for some minutes; the prisoner took to his heels but was stopped by 132 G, who brought him back to the cellar, where 72 was fast recovering himself; the struggle was again renewed ; the prisoner caught the finger of 72 in his mouth and nearly bit off the top of it; the constable sprang his rattle, 108 came up and seized the prisonen, but he broke away from him, leaving the entire of his dress in the constable's hands. At length he was overtaken and subdued. Mr.Ga E EN woon said a more daring, ferocious ruffian, had seldom come before him, he would not fine him, but sentence him to 21 days' imprisonment and hard labour. HALL..-(THISUNION DAY.) Edward Afontague and Charles Wilson, two sur geons, were charged with creating a disturbance and assaulting a policeman on the preceding night. The defendants had been at one of the taverns in the borough, where they got mellow, and on quitting at twelve o'clock, the moment they got into the street commenced larking and jostling up against every person they met. A policeman on duty seeing the manner in which they were going on, spoke to them, requesting they would conduct themselves with more' decorum, upon which they pitched into him, and seizz' ing his rattle, sprung it, and soon collected a number of other policemen, who with difficulty regained pos-, session of the rattle and secured the defendants. The defendants said they were extremely sorry for the manner in which they acted on the occasion. That they had been locked up in a cell the whole of the night, and expiated for their folly. They were fined 20s. each, or seven day? impri sonment. QUEEN-SQUARE.—(T HIS DAY.) Wm. Kauk, a private soldier in the Grenadier Guards, was charged with stealing an umbrella and a bundle containing a suit of clothes, the property of Thomas Dorrell. The complainant, a simple-looking countryman from Burnham, in Buckinghamshire, said that he was a last-maker, and came to London to purchase some articles for his business. While walking up Tothill street yesterday afternoon with his umbrella and. bundle in either hand, he met the prisoner and an other soldier, and being . rather a little the worse of liquor he took the two into a public-house to treat them; from this they adjourned to another, and while in this last house, the prisoner took his property, and ran out of the house with it. He was brought back by a policeman, and taken to the station-house. Police-constable 87 B said, he watched the three from one public-house to the other, and seeing the soldier running off with the umbrella and bundle, he gave chase and overtook him. The Sergeant of the prisoner's company gave him a three years' character for honesty and sobriety. Mr. BOND said he would remand the case till to morrow, to ascertain what passed at the public-house. THE MARKETS.-(THJS DAY.) COLONIAL. SUGAR.—There is no change to notice in the value of British Plantation, ouly about 300 hhds having been sold at previous prices. The public sales have contained 1,838 boxes yellow Havannah, which was all taken in at 20s to 22s 6d for low to fine quality, being the extreme value ; but at those prices there were not purchasers. The transactions privately consist chiefly of about 450 hhds of Porto Rico, which have been sold (for refining in bond) at 18s 6d, 3,000 bags Manilla, at 15s to 19s, mostly of low quality, at the former price, and 5,000 baskets Java, at 22s 6d to 245, all of which are extreme rates. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 367 hhds, 46 tierces, 18 barrels, and there were taken for home consumption, 1,178 hhds, 121 tierces, 64 barrels. The stock in the same places was 14,637 hhds, 1,870 tierces, and 1,519 barrels. COFFEE. - 183 bales Mocha, 953 bags (Dutch Com pany's) Java, and 800 barrels and bags La Guayra have been offered by auction, which were also all taken in chiefly above the value, viz., good mid green and yellow Mocha at 77s to 80s, good ord pale and yellow Java at 46s to 46s 6d (one lot 48s), and low mid and mid coloury La Guayra at 61s to 665. Subsequently a small portion of the Java has been sold at 45s to 465. Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 357 puns 7 hhds ; there were taken for home consumption 315 puns 69 hhds, and exported 62 puns' 13 hhds. The stock in the same places is 14,384 puns 2,547 hhds. SALTPETRE.-450 bags Saltpetre were withdrawn at 26s 6d (one lot 275) for 91 per cent refracticn, being above the value. SPICES.-830bags Sumatra Pepper, and 283 chests Cassia Lignea ; the former was all withdrawn at 3d for ord to good black, and the latter sold at 90s to 94s for good mid to good' quality, and good ord coarse at 80s to 82s, which is a decline of fully is to 2s. TALLow.—The large arrivals have caused the markets to be dull, and prices are not quite sup ported. P.Y.C. is 48s per cwt on the spot, and Town 51s 6d per cwt. _ _ TEA.—Thepublic sales of 60,000 packages are now in progress, and yesterday of 15,600 packages offered only 2,300 were sold, the holders buying in largely to support the market, so that the quotations realised were generally as good as before the China news came to hand; Congous of good quality, however, being per lb. lower. To-day sales are going oil much the same, and the holders are withdrawing very freely, still determined, apparently, to support the market. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD. —Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ to 3/ 15s ; useful ditto, 4/ to 4/ 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 4/ 5s to 4/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 4l to Si 10s; Oat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s ; Wheat- Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ per load. Trade, throughout, dull, at barely the above quotations. CIIMBERLIND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, Si 5s to 4/ ; useful ditto, 4/ 2s to 4l 6s ; fine Upland ditto, 4/ 8s 4/ 13s ; Clover Hay, 4l to Si 8s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 16s to 11 18s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 19s to 2/ 2s per load. A fair average supply, and a heavy inquiry. Prices somewhat drooping. WIIITECHAPEL. — C o a rse M eadow Hay, Si to 4/ ; useful ditto, 4l to 4/ 6 s ; fine U p land ditto, 4/ 7s to 4/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 4/ 5s to Si 15s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ is psr load. Both Hay and Straw met a dull inquiry, at about last week's currencies. THE LATE WM. Hosr..—The admirers of this late popular writer, in Ipswich and the county, will be gratified to hear that a subscription is about to be raised for the relief of his family, who are left un provided for. The following gentlemen are among the Committee to carry the object into effect :—Mr. Charles Dickens, Cruikshank, Dr. W. C. Taylor, Mr. Charles Wrest, and Mr. Frederick Malcolm. —Ipswich Express. TILE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—The work men have now commenced their labours on the future residences of the Speaker, the Sergeant-at-Arms, and the Lord Great Chamberlain, and the edifices are already in a state of forwardness, as well as the clock tower. The libraries of both Houses are also in a forward stale. THE SUN, LONDOI, TUESDAY EVENING-, NOVktibilil, 29, 1842. MONEY and COIUMEitCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO TIIREE. The accounts from Liverpool received to-day notice a large business as having been done in Cotton, the sales being 12,000 bales, of which 2,500 were Surat, and 1,500 American, on speculation. In some instances rather higher prices were paid: 3,600 bales Surat realised 34d. to 41d. ; 1,200 bales Maranhain, 51d. to 61d.; 150 bales I3ahia, 64d. to 61d.• 600 bales Egyptian, 6-4-d. to 64d.; and 6,450 bales of American, 4d. to 71d. Railway Shares were much the same. Eastern Counties, 81; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarter, 51 ; Grand Junction, 183; Great Western, Fifth, 81; Liverpool and Manchester, Quarter, 44/ ; Brighton, Quarter, 101 ; South Western, 60/ ; North Midland, 611 ; and Paris and Rouen, 241. The Mexican affair continues to excite animadver sion, notwithstanding the impotent efforts of the Post and Herald to smother inquiry, or strip the surreptitious issue of its objectionable character. Whatever the public may think of it, one thing is certain, the bondholders themselves will never be persuaded that they are not in a worse position than before. The Government, or its financial agents, it appears, have been no less free with the Deferred than with the Ac tive Stock; and thus a " pretty considerable" addition has been made to the permanent debt of Mexico, which no one ever dreamt or thought of. It is pretended that the Mexican Government has set apart one-fifth, instead of one-sixth of its Customs' revenue, but even if this be correct, which is denied in some quarters, the argument built upon it as a justification for the surreptitious issue is entirely fallacious, and what is still worse, by no means honest. The Debenture holders are clearly mulcted of their interest, which was to be obtained from any surplus after paying the dividend on the Active Stock ; and to write as does the Lizardi organ, the Herald, of this debenture question, forming no inte gral part of the main matter in dispute, is both absurd and incorrect. The whole foreign debt of Mexico was included in the last compromise, and it is impossible the provisions of that compromise can be carried out while underhand measures are in progress, because the Mexican Government did not choose to come fairly forward and represent its necessities. The Post, which has been writing about Spanish iniquity till it has made itself remarkable as the Bondholder's organ, has not a word of sympathy for the Mexican creditors, so different in its estimation appears jug gling-a la Mendizabal, when transferred to the oppo site shores of the Atlantic. The Stock Market is drooping, and although upoh the opening of the market previous quotations were realised, there have been sales since that have led to a decline. The broker acting for the Savings' Banks invested 10,0001. in Consols at 941, but they have since been marked 941 •, for the opening the rates have been 95 to 951, and are now 941 to 95 ; Ex chequer Bills are lower again, being at 545. to 51s. premium. East India Bonds have obtained 50s. to 51s. premium. Bank Stock is worth 1711 to 1721 ; and East India Stock is not higher than 165 to 1.651. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are 1011 to 1011 ; and the Three per Cents. 931 to 941. Some of the parties who suffer most by the recent serious depression in Mexican Bonds, but who never theless approve of the " surreptitious issue," have been mooting a question as to the justice of not paying the differences on their speculative operations, but we doubt if they can under' any pretence excuse them selves, seeing that the proceedings of the Stock Ex change in unravelling the mysterious origin of the constant sales that were depressing prices, have been perfectly justifiable ; and further, that the suspicions in the house, which were some time previously enter tained, must have told them something was wrong. The Stock is at 301. to 301, being a little firmer; the Deferred are 84 to 81; Active Spanish Bonds are at 18, and the Three per Cents. at 221 to 221, being an improvement; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 524. There is no animation in the Foreign Market. Railway Shares are firm, but the business doing is not extensive. Great Western New, are 121; Edin burgh and Glasgow New, 1; Eastern Counties, New, 11; Birmingham, 96 ; and Paris and Rouen, 41 to 41 premium. Bristol and Exeter are 241; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1 to 11; Eastern Counties, 14 ; and South Eastern, 261 dis. National Provincial Bank of England Shares are 1 to 1; London and Westmin minster, 2 ; and Provincial of Ireland, 171 prem. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 26.—We have had a very quiet market, and lower prices have been taken for Edinburgh and Glasgow Quarter and South-Eastern New. The former have been sold at 5 1-16, and the latter at 181 and 181. Manchester and Leeds are 69 to 70; Manchester and Birming ham, 19/ to 20 ; London and Birmingham, 185 to 186; Manchester Assurance, 9. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH,yuNDS.. Rank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ..... 931 3 per Cent. Cons.... 31 per Cent. Bed 1004 New 31 per Cent... lOl4 New 5 per Cent... Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 ...... 121. Oct. 1859 Jan, I'l6o FOREIGII Austrian, 5 per cent. ... Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian Bonds... 654 Buenos Ayres 6 per cent 6 per cent "Vombian,',6 per cent — Ditto, 1824 Cuba Bond!, 6 per cent 794 Danish, 3 per :ent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 3OA Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. India Stock Ditto Bonds .... 48 pm Ditto Old Annuities ... Ditto New Annuities... Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 53 pm Ditto 500/...... 54 pm Ditto Small b4 pm Bank Stock for Acct. India Stock for Opg... 2661 Consols for Opg. FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto 3B Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 pei cent — Ditto, Metallic ...... . Spanish, 5 per cent IS Ditto, Deferred.... . French, 5 per cent. —f. Exchange —f —c French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, 21 per cent s2i Ditto, 5 per cent. ..... 101 i SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) .. . ... .. 45 Eastern Counties (23 paid) ...., 9l Ditto New (—paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... ... 48-1 Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) Great Western, (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) ...... ..., .... London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Birmingham (90) ...... ....,... 1841 Ditto Thirds (32 paid) ...... 621 Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) ... ........ ... 33f London and South Western (41/ 6s 10d pd) 601 London and Croydon_ Railway (Trunk) ... _9l Manchester and Leeds (70 fiacd) Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) 9 Paris and Rouen (20 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid). Ditto Scrip (20 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) ... CLEVER CAPTURE of a FORGER. The following particulars of the capture of a forger do the police much credit : On Thursday, the 17th inst., a cheque for 501., purporting to be drawn by J. M. Leader, coach maker, in Oxford-street, was presented at Sir Claude Scott and Co.'s by Daniel Farrell, his clerk, and paid. The forgery was discovered the next day, when the clerk, not returning to his duty, Mr. Leader opened his desk, and finding several pieces of paper and some cancelled cheques, on which Farrell had been prac tising writing Mr. Leader's name, be sent over infor mation to his bankers. Application was made at Marlborough-street, and the matter committed to the care of Inspector Beresford. No clue to Farrell's re sidence was found until, on inquiry at some of his friends in the City who had recommended him to Mr. Leader, a note addressed to him was discovered which had lain there a month. This proved to be from a female ; and as her residence was mentioned in her note, the Inspector went to'her, and learning from her Farrell's former address (for he behaved very badly to her), he followed up the clue; and ascertain ing where the father and mother lived, searched the house, but though he found nothing, he learned from the lodging-house keepers that the son had gone off to Ireland, and as he had relations in Cork he thought that place would be his destination. The police were written to; the letter arrived on Monday evening, and on the Tuesday night Farrell and his brother were arrested by chief-constable Ward, eight miles from Cork, on their way to Reverstown, to their aunt's, whence Ward were returning, after searching the house. Twenty-four pounds were found upon them, and on Daniell Farrell a brace of pocket pistols, loaded, capped, and cocked, which lie seemed inclined to have used against the police or himself had he not been taken by surprise. The prisoners were brought over and taken before Mr. Rawlinson yesterday, when clear evidence was given against Daniel Farrell, who confessed his guilt. They were remanded till to morrow, to allow further evidence against William Farrell, when they will be committed for trial at the present sessions of the Central Criminal Court. Both the London Inspector and the Irish police deserve great credit for their active and judicious conduct. ESCAPE OF A PRISONER FROM THE HOUSE OF COR RECTION.—Yesterday evening, about a quarter past Mr. five ne w s o' c ve l n o d ck or , o a f s r a boy entonv i the e,was service passing o f byth . Hilton,e House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, his attention was ar rested by the falling of a brick close to him, and on looking up he observed a man lying flat on the top of the wall. The man then called to him to get him a ladder, saying he would pay him for his trouble. The lad, however, instantly went and gave the alarm to the keepers. In the meantime the fellow appears to have made almost a complete circuit of the prison, as the spot where 11.-2 was first seen was at the bottom of Mount -pleasant, and where be was last observed was in Guildford-place, Bagniggc-wells-road. It should be remarked that the top of the wall is of very consi derable width. It turned out that the man was a convict, who had succeeded in eluding the vigilance of the turnkeys. He had been sentenced to a year's imprisonment. Information was immediately given at all the station-houses, but up to nine o'clock the fugitive had not been recaptured. SOUTH EASTERN (LONDON AND DOVER) RAILWAY. Another portion of this national undertaking—from Headcorn to Ashford—was opened yesterday, prepa ratory to a public opening on Friday next. A special train started from London bridge, at nine o'clock, to convey the Government Inspector of Railroads, Ma jor-General Pasley, and Mr. Lang, the legal adviser to the railway department of the lloard of Trade, on their final tour of inspection. These gentlemen were accompanied by Mr. Cubitt, the engineer ; Mr. Braxendale, the chairman; Mr. Pearon, The, solicitor; Mr. Whitehead, the secretary; and many, of the Directors and their guests, who took this opportunity of paying a short visit to heir Kentish friends. The train was arranged to reach New Cross, at 911. 15m. a.m. ; Croydon, 9h. 35m. ; Reigate, 10h. 3m. ; God stone, 10h. 17m. ; EA]denbridge, 10h. 31m. ; Pens hurst, 10h. 45m. ; Tunbridge, 11h. 2m.; Maidstone road, 1111. 16m.; Marden, 1111. 30m.; •Staplehurst, 11h. 40m.; Headcorn, 11h. 50m.; Pluckley, at 12h. sm. p.m. ; and Ashford, 12h. 20m. p.m. ; and at the different stations there was an accession of many gentlemen anxious to view the rapid progress which had been made to place Dover within a short morning's ride of the metropolis. Mr. B. Cubitt, the brother of the chief engineer, mounted the engine—the Harold, built by Sharp and Roberts, and drove the party at a quick and even pace to Headcorn. The traffic for the last two months had made the old portion of the line firm, and there was no longer the vibration which was at first observable. From lleadcorn the line runs almost due east through a flat but most charming portion of the Weald of Kent ; the cuttings are few, and the embankments little more than the turning up of the sides to raise the road above the level of the neighbouring water courses. The engineering diffi culties in this portion, therefore, have been extremely slight, and, indeed, with the exception of the Belgian railroads, we do not know of a n y li n e on which the works for twenty miles have been lighter than from Maidstone-road to Ashford. As a conse quence the views on each side are uninterrupted, and the passengers can see the charming vale, which is bounded on one side by the North-downs, and on the other by the forest ridges, • The pictu resque was heightened by the accidental circumstance of partial floods in the vallies, southward of the Med way, which gave the appearance of lake scenery in more than one spot. _Notwithstanding the recent rains, the rails had been well laid, and both lines of rail, with the exception of some mile and a half upon which the second line was only partially completed — were firm and safe. The only feature of particular interest is the wooden or Swiss bridges over sane of the streams, which appear to be as strong for the passage of the train as ordinary brick or stone work. A fault might, perhaps, be found from the continuous undulatory motion which arises in consequence of the extreme accuracy •t'vith which the gunge is kept. Ashford is a charming spot, in the midst of green meadows and surrounded by gentlemen's seats, embosomed in lofty elm trees. Notwithstanding the unpropitious state of the weather in the early part of the morning, the town and adjacent villages had poured out their population to see the " hissing, wheezing, screeching, scream ing thing." The last bridge was crowded and the engine with its load passed to the station-house, which was decorated with a profusion of flags, amidst the hearty cheers of the "sturdy men of Kent," and the strains of the Ashford band. The union flag floated in the breeze from the tower of the venerable church, built by the same hands as the famous Tenter den steeple, though it has not the traditionary fault of having caused any portion of the Godwin Sands ; but the hells wete dumb : the ringers doubtless did " the less because they felt the more." Arrived at the tem porary terminus, the party adjourned to the refresh ment-rooms, where an elegant dejeune, or, more pro perly, an early dinner, was served, by the chef de cuisine of the Euston Hotel. On the right of the Chairman sat Major-General Pasley, and on his left T. Law Hodges, Esq. The viands were good, and the wine flowed freely to the honour of the Queen, and ,the Royal Family, to the success of the undertaking, and to the prosperity of the goodly county of Kent, till the engineer of the line at three eclock announced that " the engine was ready," when all hastened to resume their seats, and returned at a steady pace to town, delighted with their trip. LITERATURE. NATURAL PRINCIPLES AND ANALOGY OF THE HARMONY OF FORM. e Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1842. The object of this treatise is to show that the impressions made upon the ey by forms are really founded on natural principles ; and that which produce the proportions and peculiaritie s v produce the most pleasing impressions, ar reality, as well as appearance, dictated by nature, being a response to those principles in the h uman mind. The treatise is singularly well Written, both as respects maraler and matter, exhibiting a force and closenesS of reasonintr which lead to the inference that the author - bas a 'decided penchant for mathematical pursuits, and is ex tensively acquainted with that difficult and coin plieated science. Harmony of form, he observes, depends upon three homogeneous parts, and these parts are analogous in every respect to the three homogeenous primitive sounds, proved by the concurrent testimony of natural philo sophers to be the foundation of harmony in music He' then goes on to state that there are only three kinds of lines used in producing forms, and that these are, the straight line, the crooked line, and the curved line; adding. " all varieties of form, however complex, all the similarity and dissimilarity that combine in the harmony of forms, are produced by these simple ele ments." The varieties of which these three kinds of lines are capable, are next considered, after which the author gives several curious and interesting, plates illustrative of certain theories advanced in the course of his treatise. These plates are finished off with the utmost nicety, and artists and men of science will derive many a use ful suggestion from them. Cradock, London, WAS, AND IS. 1842. There S se l rs T iceable, well-digested in formation, compressed within reasonable limits, C i l s iIAA much AS in this unpretending little volume—or rather, pamphlet, for it is little more—the compiler of which has been greatly indebt e d t o Davis's ex cellent work on China, which is the completest, if not the most profound, of any t h a t has yet ap peared on the subject of this ancient and secluded kingdom. As Chinese history, statistics, &c., are now the order . of the d ay, we s h ou ld be dis posed to augur favourably of the chances of suc cess of the present work. TIIN TARIFF.—The importations of foreign cattle the winter advances, and e y falling s te e e e off a s the' b s easts have deteriorated so much on their boist er ous passages, as to fetch very low prices. On Monday a vessel arrived at Falmouth from in are several dcid decidedly Corunna, with 80 bullocks, 50 of them having died on the voyage. Some Irish cattle have been brought into this port by . the Cork steamers, owing to the great fall of p rices in Ireland ; which, however, is considered to be only of a temporary nature, and it is not expected that supplies from that quarter will long continu e d, as it i s we ll k nown be that Ireland, once a large exporting country, has now not more meat than her own wants require. Frpm the published returns, we find that the total amount of beasts, sheep, and pigs introduced into England from all parts of the world under the tariff since it came into operation, does not exceed a week's supply for Smithfield market alone, a fact that must go far to allay all apprehensions of being inundated with cattle from abroad. We find it also confidently asserted, that, except in the case of the Dutch and some of the Spanish cattle, these importations have not produced a good return, especially of late, since our prices have given way. The accounts from the country markets in the west this week are more cheerful to the farmers than for some time past. Symptoms of a d ec id e d im provement are visible. At the Yealrupton great cattle market, on Thursday, prices looked upwards, with a brisk sale, and it is becoming a general opinion that things have seen their worst for the British grazier.— Plymouth Times. Last evening Mr. Payne held an inquest at St. Bartholomew's Hospital on the body of Joseph Hodges, aged 67, a carpenter. It appeared in evidence that, on Saturday week last, deceased was crossing the City-road, near the Eagle Tavern, when a horse rid den by Mr. Gray, :a livery -stable k eeper, of Oxford street, struck deceased with its chest, knocked him down, and afterwards trampled upon him. Deceased was promptly picked up, and taken to the shop of Mr. 11111, a neighbouring surgeon, who, on perceiving that there was fracture of th e ribs, ordered him to be removed to that hospital. It was proved that deceased had slipped just before the horse struck hiin, and that no blame could be attributed to the rider of the ani mal. Mr. William Lucas, house-surgeon, said de ceased went on well for the first three or four days after his admission, when be began to sink, and died on Saturday last. A post mortem examination showed that several ribs were fractured, and that there was an effusion of blood into the chest, which proved mor tal, and which was caused by the accident. Verdict —" Accidental death?' SINGULAR CIRCUNISTANCE.—Last week, the Rev. Mr. Twopeny, of Ipsden Vicarage, purchased an old writing desk for ten shillings of William 13arnshaw, of that village. Shortly afterwards, on examining the desk, he found the spring of a secret drawer, on opening which he discovered gold and s il ver co i ns o f the reign of James the First to the value of 4 50/. We are gratified in adding that the Rev. Gentleman has arranged the disposal of the prize in the following generous manner :—The poor old man is to receive a weekly sum until his death, and his children the re mainder, until the whole has been. expended.—Ros shire Advortiser. THE COURT. WALMER CASTLE, Nov. 27.—Divine service was performed at the Castle this morning before his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the members of the Royal Household, by the Rev. Montagu Pennington, vicar of Northbourn, and perpetual curate of St. George's Chapel, Deal. Her Majesty, who is. suffering from _ the effects of cold and a severe face-ache, was too un well to be piesent at the service. Her Majesty, there fore has not left the fortress during to-day. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert yesterday took their usual walks upon the beach. It rained during nearly the whole of the day. Her Ma jesty and the Prince, however, were enabled to walk for short periods between the showers, in the morn ing and afternoon. To-day it is exceedingly cold with a brisk wind from the south-east. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, attended by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton,have been taken out for their usual airings. The Royal dinner party yesterday was confined to the members of the Household. There will be no ad dition to the Royal circle to-day. Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Eresby, Major-Ge neral Arnold (Royal Engineers), Mrs. Arnold, Sir Richard Jodrell, Mr. J. Dalloway (Justice of the Peace for Deal), Commander A. Drew, of her Ma jesty's ship Wasp, Lady Montresor, &c., left their names at the Castle during yesterday and to-day. It was confidently expected, after I had sent off my dispatch on Friday evening, that the Court would leave the Castle for Windsor to-morrow. The de tachments of troops to form her Majesty's escort had received their route to hold themselves in readiness on Monday, to proceed in attendance upon the Queen ; and it was not until late that night that the order was countermanded. The period of her Majesty's de parture, therefore, is still uncertain. I may here mention, as a trait in the character of the Duke of Wellington deserving of being recorded, that upon his Grace's accession to the Lord Warden ship of the Cinque Ports upon the death of the Earl of Liverpool, in 1828, the Duke, in the most conside rate and handsome manner, retained in his service at Walmer Castle every one of the domestics who were on the establishment of his predecessor. It may be also remarked that a very different plan had been pursued, in this respect, by four Lord Wardens upon their taking possession of their official residence at Walmer. Mrs. Norman, who was housekeeper at Walmer Castle so long back as the time when Mr. Pitt held the appointment, retained the situation for some years after the Duke came to reside occasionally at the Castle. As soon as this venerable dame (who was nearly ninety years of age at her decease, now about twelve months since) was incapable, from age and in firmity, to perform the very easy duties of her situa tion, his Grace superannuated her upon a pension, which she received up to the period of her death, from the private funds of the Duke. MONDAY, Nov. 28.—The cold, the effects of which her Majesty was suffering from yesterday, and which confined the Queen within the fortress during the whole of the day, had this morning nearly left her Majesty. The Queen, however, has abandoned her favourite promenade upon the beach for the present, the wind throughout nearly the whole of the day blowing some what keenly from the south-east. Her Majesty, ac companied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, walked in the morning in the private gardens attached to the Castle. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were also taken for an airing at the same time. This afternoon Prince Albert rode out on horseback through the village of Walmer, returning by Upper Deal to the Castle. His Royal Highness was at tended by Colonel Wyld. Sir James Clark still remains at the Castle. Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson will join the Royal dinner-party this evening. This morning Mr. H. T. Ryall had the honour of submitting to her Majesty and Prince Albert a very elaborately executed gold and enamelled snuff-box, which had been presented to him while in Paris, a few days since, by the King of the French, in testi mony of his Majesty's high appreciation of Mr. Ryall's engraving of the coronation of Queen Victoria, from the painting by Sir George Ilayter, executed by com mand of the Queen. This box, which is of exquisite workmanship, with the initials, in bold relief, of Louis Philippe on the lid, was greatly admired by her Ma jesty and his Royal llighness. Mrs. Hulke, the lady of Mr. William Hulke, sur geon, of Deal (who is daily in attendance, by com mand of her Majesty, upon the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, at the Castle), was confined of a son, on the 21st inst., the anniversary of the birth of the Princess Royal. Mr. Hulke has just received the distinguished honour of ' a communication from the Queen, through the medium of the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, couched in the most gracious terms, re questing (which may be viewed as a command) that the infant son of Mr. 'hike should be named after the Princess Royal, and that her Royal lligliness's name being Victoria, the fortunate and highly-ho noured son of the Princess's medical attendant should be christened " Victor." Such a command, and from so illustrious a source, will, of course, be most literally and gratefully obeyed by its highly honoured parents. Yesterday morning , upon Mr. llulke visiting, pro fessionally,. the Princess Royal, as usual, her Royal Highness, m a most graceful and artless manner pre sented Mr. Hulke with an elegant gold pencil-case set with precious stones, and containing beautiful me dallion portraits, in bas-relief, of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert entwined with the Garter. The Princess rose from her chair (being at breakfast at the time) and addressing Mr. Hulke, said, " I have something to present to you, Mr. Hulke (handing the pencil-case). I beg you will give this to Victor as a present from me." I need not observe, that this gratifying mark of the Royal favour is duly appreciated by the parents of the highly honoured "Victor." The lad Crow, one of the crew of the Thunderer, whose supposed attack of the small-pox created con siderable alarm at the Castle on Wednesday last, is nearly well. The Thunderer, however, is still under quarantine, as far as regards the Castle, but there is no embargo laid at Deal against any of the ship's crew landing from the vessel. This may Ile considered as a very singular precau tionary measure (if there really be any danger to be apprehended from infection), when it is known that Deal is not more than two miles from Walmer, and that between Deal and the Castle there is a constaqt communication necessarily kept up. There was a very good attendance of capitalists and others at the Auction Mart, on Thursday last, when the property put up for sale, consisting of valu able leasehold houses, &c., fetched very good sums under the hammer of Mr. George Robins, who had the satisfaction of knowing that every lot submitted to public competition was bona fide sold, and * met with ready purchasers. In Nottingham-place, Regent's Park, a family residence, with coach-house, and three stall stable, &c., held on lease for a term of which 49 years were unexpired at Lady-day last, at a rent of 1501. per annum, clear of land-tax and sewers rate, and subject to a ground-rent of 141. 14s. per annum, produced 1,330 guineas. Another house, being next door to the preceding, with the same accommodations, for a term of 21 years, from Michaelmas-day, 1836, at a net rent of 130/. per annum, clear of land-tax and sewers rate, fetched 1,240 guineas. A bachelor's re sidence, situated in Norfolk-street, Park-lane, held for 424 years unexpired, at a ground-rent of 201. per an num, produced 1,260 guineas. A leasehold residence in London-street, Fitzroy-square, let on lease for a term of which 46 years were unexpired at Lady-day last, at a rent of 75/. per annum, independent of the present tenant having expended a large sum in altera tions and repairs, necessary to carrying on his bu siness as a house-decorator, &c., at a ground rent of 71. 10s.-710 guineas. A leasehold house and shop, in Upper Cleveland-street, Fitzroy-square, at a rent of 50/., clear of land and sewers rates, 46 years unexpired at Michaelmas-dav last, at a around -rent of 71. 75.-410 guineas. A very secure income of 531. ss. per annum, arising from an old established public-house, called " The Goat," in Chenies-street, Tottenham-court-road, held on lease. 40 years unexpired at Lady-day last, at the original ground-rent of 61. 155., and let on lease for 33 years, at a rent of 601. a year-860 guineas. A residence in Welbeck-street, for a term of 21 years from Midsum mer, 1834, 13 years unexpired at Midsummer-day last, at a net rent of 801. a year, the tenant pays the land tax and sewers rate-560 guineas. Another resi dence in the same street, and at the same rent, hele. on lease for an unexpired term of 1.5 years from Mil • summer-day last, wanting 21 days, at a ground-rent of 81., produced 540 guineas. A most desirable resi dence situate in Upper Belgrave-place, Pimlico, at the low rent of 63/. per annum, the tenant paying the land tax and sewers rate; held of the Marquis o f West minster, under two leases, for an unexpired term of 47 years from Lady-day last, at a ground-rent of 9/. 16s. a year-670 guineas. ARRIVAL OF CHINESE GUNS AT THE TOWER. — Yesterday afternoon five brass cannon, captured by the British during the Chinese war, happily just ter minated, arrived in a barge from the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, and were landed on the Tower s -wharf. Four of the guns are of large calibre, one of them being a sixty-eight r ounder, and the bore about twenty inches. All of them are splendid specimens of workmanship, and do not appear to have seen much service. REVIVAL or 1311 NES.—T he smuggling season on the frontiers of Canada approaches, and active prepa - rations are making on both sides of the line to carry on quite an extensive business during the winter sea son. It is stated, on good authority, that a number of smuggling houses, with large capitals, have been established in Quebec, Montreal, and other cities in Canada, with American partners on this side the lakes. —New York Journal. LORD ELLENBORO UGH'S POLICY We publish in another column a proclamation is sued by the Governor-General of India, commanding the British troops to evacuate Affghanistan, and as signing the reasons which hive induced his Lordship to adopt this course. In considering thetkonduct of Lord Ellenborough in India, two questions are suggested, which we de sire to keep wholly separate and distinct from each other. First, there is the wisdom or the imprudence of the particular line of policy he has thought it right to adopt. This part of the subject we defer entering upon for the present. Our own views upon it remain unchanged ; indeed, they are rather confirmed than weakened by recent events. The grounds of our opi nion we shall take another opportunity of stating, our object at present being to consider the second ques tion—Lord Ellenborough's mode of giving effect to hig own scheme of policy. It would appear that before Lord Ellenborough left Calcutta, he had made up his mind that Affghan istan should be evacuated. He did not need to go to Simla to form his opinion upon the " erroneous" policy in which the war originated. In the month of March—that is, about six months before the de struction of Ghuznee, the capture of Caubul, and the recovery of the prisoners Lord Ellenborough issued an order for the immediate evacuation of Affghanistan. This fact is beyond controversy. Such, then, was the Governor-General's original intention —to retreat, leaving all the prisoners in the hands of the Affghans, the murder of Sir William M'Naghten unatoned for, and the treacherous massacre of our troops unredressed. Upon this decision it is fortu nately unnecessary to make a single observation. Its enormity—the compound of cruelty, cowardice, and impolicy which it exhibited—is now admitted by all men of all parties. To abandon the prisoners, women, children, and officers, without even making an attempt to rescue them, to retreat before we had taken a single step to repair the disasters of the preceding winter, would have been attended with so much disgrace and danger, that 'even the friends of Lord Ellenborough, who at first attempted to justify the proceeding, were obliged to deny it altogether ; and when the tone of public feeling could be no longer mistaken, even to affect indignation that such conduct shohld have been attributed to him. Yet the fact is as we have stated it. The order to retreat immediately was issued by the Governor-General. The recovery of the prisoners, therefore, was no part of Lord Ellenborough's policy. Indeed, it is most remarkable, but not the less characteristic, that in this proclamation, which we publish to-day, he does not so much as allude to the recovery of the pri sorters. lie talks, indeed, of our military •disasters" being "avenged"—of " repeated victories in the field" —of " the capture of cities and citadels," as "attach ing an opinion of invincibility:to British arms," and as therefore justifying the recal of these arms ; but of the prisoners, whose recovery so many people in this country thought would alone justify a second cam paign, not one word is said by Lord Ellenborough. So far it is clear that his Lordship is true to his ori ginal opinion that they should have been abandoned to their fate. But if it is clear that the recovery of the prisoners was a matter of not the slightest inte rest to the Governor-General, it is equally clear that those " repeated victories" which have " attached the opinion of invincibility to British arms," was, in the first instance, equally indifferent to him. As he ordered our soldiers to retreat before a blow could be struck, it is evident that, in proportion as he values the results of the campaign, does he condemn his own preceding policy, which would have left it so ingloriously barren. If it was necessary that " dis asters" should be "avenged" "upon every scene of past misfortune ;" that "'repeated victories in'the field, and the capture of cities and citadels" should "again attach the character of invincibility to British arms," what is Lord Ellenborough's excuse for ordering a retreat not only without attaining these objects, but that would have amounted to a confession that not one of them were we able to accomplish ? The fact of this order having been issued must come officially before Parliament in almost the first week after it re assembles. We shall then see whether even those Members who approve of the policy of evacuating Affghanistan will be equally disposed to pay the cus tomary compliment of a vote of thanks to the Go vernor-General, whose order to retreat, had it not been disobeyed, would have covered our name with irretrievable disgrace, and subjected our empire in the East to the most imminent peril. But, consideted without reference to the preceding order, this proclamation of the Ist of October is in every point of view the most disgraceful State paper that ever came under our notice. Had it been a simple order for the evacuation of Affghanistan, or a calm and dispassionate statement of the grounds of such a proceeding, even those who might differ from the policy could not find fault with the mode of communicating it to the world. But really this pro duction of Lord Ellenborough is more worthy of a paragraph writer of a factious newspaper, than of the Governor-General of a great empire. In the columns of the Morning Post (the Times it would have dis graced) it might have passed muster. That, • however, which in the newspaper - would only excite our passing contempt, when found in the Government Gazette, is matter for serious conside ration. It is a new thing in the administration of the dependencies of this empire to find the repre sentative of the Sovereign appointed by one Go vernment denouncing the conduct of his predecessor. Indecent and mischievous as such conduct must be in any part of our dominions, nowhere are its injurious effects more likely to be felt than in India. If Lord Ellenborough thinks fit to furnish the enemies of England all over the world with weapons of vitupera tion against his country—so be it. The only effect of this might be that we should find in foreign news papers articles not very unlike speeches formerly de livered by Lord Ellenborough himself. But when lie proclaims throughout our Asiatic empire that we have been engaged in a war of wanton aggression, when he thus dares to assail that moral power which we are so often told is the foundation of our domi nion in these countrjes, we naturally look for some cogent reasons, for some conclusive arguments, to jus tify this most dangerous and unusual proceeding. " The Government of India," says Lord Ellenbo rough, " directed its army to pass the Indus, in order to expel from Affghanistan a chief believed to be hos tile to British interests, and to replace upon his throne a Sovereign represented to be friendly to those inte rests, and popular with his former subjects." Had Lord Ellenborough been sitting on the Oppo sition Benches in the house of Lords, conducting one of those party conflicts with which he was so familiar, this vile misrepresentation might have been naturally expected from him. It was not to dethrone one par ticular Sovereign in order to set up another in his stead that " the Government of India directed its army to pass the Indus." True it is that Dost Ma homed was dethroned, and Shah Suojah adopted; but it is the most despicable quibbling to say that it was "in order" to effect this personal change in the So vereignty of Affghanistan that the war was under taken. The general objects for which the Govern ment of India directed its army to pass the Indus more properly belong to the consideration of the policy of evacuating the country. But it is a scandalous perversion of facts, which are ren dered notorious by the dispatches published by the late Go v e rnmen t an d b y th e Parlia mentary discussions on their Indian policy, to state that their motive was to substitute one Sovereign for another upon the throne of Afghanistan. If, indeed, the two Sovereigns be regarded as each representing a totally different state of relations in that part of Central Asia,. the one in alliance with Great Britain, and in virtue of that alliance independent of, and un influenced by other Powers, as Persia or Russia ; the other as ready to lend itself to projects wholly irre concileable with the tranquillity of British India; then it is quite true to say that it was for the purpose of substituting one of these Sovereigns, or systems, for the other, that the British Government directed its army to pass the Indus. But Lord Ellenborough, addressing himself to " surrounding States," as he ostentatiously tells us, designedly fixes upon the policy of his predecessor the character of a personal, squabble. Nor is he contented with this. He must stigmatise the cause of the war not only as being petty, but as also being a petty injustice. The Chief who was to be expelled " was believed" to be hostile. The Chief who was to be restored " was represented" to be friendly. That the "belief" and the " representation" was in both cases perfectly correct we shall have very little difficulty in showing; but even if the fact was as Lord Ellenborough most untruly insinuates, was it for him to give the high sanction of his official name to a charge so disgraceful to the character of the country he represents, so calculated to shake, through out the Eastern world, all confidence in our justice, morality, and discretion? " Disaster's," continues the proclamation, " unpa ralleled in their extent, unlesss by the errors in which they originated, and by the treachery by which they were completed, have, in o nesh i o n r i t sfo c r a t t u n n p e ai ; g d beei avenged u pon' every scene of past re peated victories in the field, and the capture of the cities and citadels of Ghuznee and Caubul, have again attached the opinion of invincibility to the British arms." We are not the apologists of General Elphinstone, or of the military errors attributed to him. But we must say that a more gross injustice than is contained in this unqualified condemnation, before, as we be lieve, any c ompetent military tribunal has even inves tigated his conduct, it is difficult to imagine. We could almost hope that the strained interpretation put I upon the passage by the Evening Government Journal was correct, and that the attack was aimed at Lord Auckland, rather than at the memory of General Elphinstone. The ab sur dit y o f say i ng th a t the "dis asters" of the campaign originated " in the errors" of the late Indian Government might be very safely left to correct itself. Th e e xu ltation of Lord Ellenbo rough at the series of triumphs which crowned a cam paign that he did everything in his power to prevent, is in perfect harmony with the congratulations Lord Ellenborough's party upon the concl us i on o f peace with China. Everywhere they are charac terised by the same want of principle and consistency. —Chronicle. SPAIN. MADRID, Nov. 20.—The Ministers read, to-day, in the Cortes, the last bulletins of General Van Haien, giving an account of the disastrous affairs of the 15th and 16th, at Barcelona. Before the opening of this day's sitting of Cortes and the official com munication there was a Cabinet Council. The Presi dents of the two Chambers and several leading men of the Cortes were present, and it was then decided that the Regent should march for Barcelona, the official notice of which was given to the Cortes. It was na turally important that Espartero should be made sure of the support of the Cortes before he set out, and hence a motion was made by the Deputy Serrano, promising the aid of the two Chambers under the serious circumstances of the case. Animated debates took place on this-motion, and the Opposition Depu ties, who did not wish to refuse their assistance to the Government, gave it only on the avowed under standing that the safety of the State was the only motive of their vote. The Catalonian Deputies de fended the population of Barcelona, and contended that the savage acts of Van Haien and Zurbano had brought abont the insurrection. The motion was voted in two divisions ; the first was carried by 67 against 14, and the second by 110 against 2. A spe cial deputation will carry up the message voted by the Cortes, and his Highness has signified that he will receive with pleasure all Deputies accompanying the deputation. It is expected that nearly the whole body will go, as it is quite a patriotic manifestation, and not one of party. There will be no sitting to morrow, as the deputation will see the Regent before he sets out. It is believed some members of the Cabinet and some Catalonian Senators and Deputies will accompany him to act a conciliatory part. A portion of the troops of the Madrid garrison marches with the Regent, and great activity prevails conse quently. THE CORTES.—CONGRESS, SITTING OF 20rit. Senor Olozaga, on taking the President's chair, apologised for being late, but he had been detained by the Regent with important affairs. The Minister of War and President of the Council (Rodil) then read dispatches received from Catalonia, upon the receipt of which the Regent, having con sulted the Ministry, had resolved to leave for that pro vince to-morrow, in order to restore tranquillity. Senor Serrano moved that a message should be sent to the Regent, assuring him of the assistance of the Deputies under these difficult circumstances. Senor Prion opposed the motion. The Bareelonese must not be thus speedily accused. The entire fault was to be ascribed to the Government for provoking and mortifying the population by maintaining in his post a functionary for whom there was no respect, and whose excessive rigour had exasperated time public mind. But this was not all. The army in Catalonia was neglected, and the soldiers were without food, and that was the reason for their not standing out against the popular attack. Persons had been arrested simply because they entertained republican opinions. He would remind the Minister of War that the mob did not consist of some hundreds, but that 40,000 men had taken to arms. Senor Serrano—The great point now is to put down disorder, and the conduct of the Government can undergo inquiry afterwards. Count De Las Nevas deplored the incessant prose cutions which the Political Chief at Barcelona had directed against the journal Republican. He was for an entire freedom of discussion, and no opinions ought to be excepted. Senor Mata opposed the motion of Senor Serrano, considering it hazardous and out of place. It was going too far to throw the responsibility of the dis orderi on the people, in order to screen the autho rities. Some persons thought there was a Republican movement at Barcelona. That was impossible, for it was too weak to keep head against the armed force. Senor Serrano again rose, and asked what would the nation say if it saw its representatives remain supine, and forget their high mission ? Congress ought now to second and aid the Government to establish order, with the understanding that it would berespon sible for the exercise of its authority. Senor Mendez Vigo threw the blame of the orders on the authorities of Barcelona. The people were always right, especially the enlightened popula tion of that town. After praising the Republican party, which the orator contended had nothing to do with the insurrection, he concluded by opposing the motion. Senor Madoz said that he was bound to defend the Political Chief of Barcelona, for he was his friend ; but in attacking the seditious he had no in•. tendon of attacking the general population of Barcelona. Senor Madoz proposed that a Ines sage should be sent to the Regent, offering the co-operation of the Chamber, in order that he might cause the Constitution to be respected, and no thing might be done out of the pale of the law. The motion for the message was then egsried, and the Minister of Finance is now presenting some bills to the House. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Nov. 20.—The Russian Government has adopted a singular mode of showing its resentment against Prussia for refusing to renew the cartel for the mutual surrender of military deserters. Every year, about the time when the Russian recruitment is put in force, thousands of refugees are sure to cross the frontier to seek a shelter in Prussia. Many of these are people without any means whatever of main - taining themselves, and the Magistrates have hitherto been in the habit of sending such individuals back to their own country. Russia now refuses to receive any of these fugitives, and thus forces Prussia to do the best she can with the uninvited guests that throw themselves upon her hospitality, and threaten to be come a serious burden to the country by vastly increasing the number of paupers. What course cur Government will adopt to counteract this evil seems as yet uncertain. To insist upon the abandonment by Russia of a system so contrary to all the principles of good neighbourhood might not, perhaps, lead to any satisfactory result. The best plan, perhaps, will be to take the fugitives by the hand, and send them to those provinces where a want of hands is felt. The popu lation of our eastern provinces is by no means dense, and the public works about to be undertaken will, no doubt occasion a demand for labour in many parts of the kingdom if unassisted, m us t b ecom e pau pers ; but with a little assistance they may be made usefulmen v c h i o t i h z e a n v s e . e T d h m e e g r r e e a l y te t r o part avoi d o f b e t i h n e g m f a o r r e c e ) d . o i u n ng to the army ; they want nothing but employment, and if the means for obtaining that be facilitated to them, they may become valuable members of the community. If this plan be adopted, Russia is not likely to perse vere in the present policy. Her frontier provinces could not long suffer the annual emigration of thousands of the most valuable portion of their la bouring population, and to the large landholders this species of emigration must prove a serious annoyance, inasmuch as every estate is bound to furnish its fixed quota of recruits, no allowance being made for the absence of those peasants who, by a voluntary expa triation, have deprived themselves of the advantage of marching to glory in the ranks of a Rstssian regiment. Many of the fugitives are not merely c onscripts, but deserters from their several regiments. These desertions have hitherto taken place Co a great extent, notwithstanding the existence of a cartel by which Prussia obliged herself to deliver every Russian sol dier that sought refuge on Prussian ground. Now that no such apprehension continues, the temptation to desert is materially increased, and the number of deserters will certainly be augmented, unless the re giments are removed to a farther distance from the frontier. cordon v a en n n a ns l tiri w i : t a an y gir s eer k ; Partly, no doubt to check desertion, but ostensibly to prevent smuggling, a line of Cossack sentinels has now been placed all along the frontier, and so closely to each o t t a li t e i or spite,n stohtfaotaoe this n s e e rr s itg e e sentinel i n a cr e oe l neighbour on each side in view ; but smuggling con desertion, we may take ep in te lessened by the measure alluded to. smugglers,btt l i e i n e u b t e u e s t n t e and tiao: it for granted, will The reduction in the duty on salt in Prussia has given the more satisfaction, as it awakens the hope that, at no very distant period, the duty will he alto gether abandoned, when the Prussian landholders look forward to an active trade in salted provisions to Eng land. The Konigsberg Gazette contained an able ar ticle on thi s subject a few days ago, in which the writer endeavoured to show, that neither Denmark, Holstein, nor America would be able to compete with Prussia in the provision trade, if once the oppressive duty on salt were abolished. OYSTERS.—Last night (Nov. 1) was a great day for the oysters in our harbour. The law regulating the taking of them, allows the privilege to catch on and after the Ist of November , f o r a certain time, and for the last few days everything in the shape of a boat in the vicinity has been in readiness for the occasion. As early as four o'clock yesterday afternoon, boat after boat, scow after scow, and canoe after canoe, could be seen steering for the large oyster bed at the mouth of West river, and by ten o'clock in the evening it is es timated that , not less than 1,000 p ersons we re on the ground. The moment the clock tolled the hour of m idnight the strife comm ence d, an d at sunrise thi9, morningit was estimated that over 10,000 bushels had been taken, and we have no doubt that is less than the actual quantity.—New Haven Palladium. BETULEM 110SPITAL.—Some time since, two of the lunatics at this establishment made their escape, one of whom was re-captured the same day. The other (James Grant) has only recen tly been heard of, being found at his mother's house, at Inverness, having walked all the distance from Lond on to Scotland.