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EWS. REE. Jere esti n on ape .merican; 00 Bahia )00 Surat d. per lb. ;re rather ) Colonial t a steam rd bound ad a eery On a3n t once .07 r 0.,%; at whio: -, was, how arket, and rers with- ) new fea rom other awing, or continuous erica are in my Bry large mand for ) supply is supply of comump ill continue erica over enabled to l seem, to interrup ay, against d it would them to io vessels Paraguay, prohibition latter state, The trade )uld have e present ron-handed holding his ,ropared to significant. lay. There ion; money ge business ma that the be altered, due from d by the There has plied to the ►id to have the sum ac- Amsterdam, ne. Dutch ,nish Three Itates brings rs it is sa lad rather 6 Ceived from p will prove ro very low, 1, but there the money ing to the tvival of tho iettlement of last two or 3 temporary nee we havo .-bills to 455. lium. Bank ranged from , r per Cents. ly neglected. and Brazilian panish Three )er Cents., at r Cents. 53 .ledonian and generally the CLASINCI. PRICES • 198 1 / 4 91 1 %4 9134 92% 870 8 8. w 3 16 8 3-1 6 25 5 82 P 82 P 904 g 9234 45 p 45 p OLOSIN U ?RI E3 C Eg• 82 )NE cLO9I/?0 )CK. PRICES• gm. I •.... ,•• 00000 • 12 .. . ii il 53',i .- 1 3 1 9 ••••••••• '''''' .... . ........ ~ .....•••• ~ .• • • ••• ~. ......... / ... ...... 61 ........ 19 ...... •' lt , ...... e••• 3 1 3 ,„„ ..•••• .., •-• , ........ 30 ......... ~. ......... .., Lonlon, 1.1ri.411t0 - a, and Sot - ;th Do., New 51.. guaran te (3 per Cent... _lOO ••••e• i'o 5 rif cent.. 50 • Ditto. ditt0...... 1h52 L - r“lon and Grunwiell 12/15s 4d ..... • Ditto, Prufer=l , - ,, .20 ...... Lon:ii,n and N. Vie.tc:rn 100 ..... 115 115 1 A...... Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 D:t.to, Fift Do. 4e/..Aftros(L. M.) 35 ••• De, 101 ( & B.) C. 1 ••• •• ....... ••• Lond.& S. Western ••••• 50 31 1 4 ' 1 Ditto, New 50/. 42 24 ...... . , Du. New 401 Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. ... ••• •• se ..... Londonderry &00eraine 25 „ Do. 14 Shares ,• .. 5 Londondt-Try and Ennia ki7l,:n Do. I <, Shares 5 ****** Lowestar guar. 4 per ct ` , O .... Ditto (6 per ct.) M anei. , t..r,Buxton,and Matlock... Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...loo Do. Quarters (No. 1) 23 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 Do. IA Shares (No. 3) 12!4 — Do. New 101. Pref lO ... .• 10 1 4 Ditto, Gt. Grimsby —. 50 Ditto ditto . ........• 19 •••••• ''' ''"'' ""'" Ditto ditto Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 2 2 1,4. ... Do., Grimsby Dock... 25 ..... . Do., Manchester and Lincoln Union..... 41.2 s — M•6lml .•...... ...... ... 100 -....- • •I Do. Con so lid a t e d P re f . 100 Do., do., 504 Shares 30 ....• 8% 1 / 2 3 / 4 •••••••• Do. Birm., and Derby 100 Do.Consol.Bristol and Binning., 6 per ct.... 100 Ditto, Grist. & Glocetr. 42 Ditto ditto ............22/. 7s. .. Do.,ErewashVal.,Pref. 50 Ditto, Leieest.& Swan ni ngton, 8 per ct. guar.loo - Midland Great Western Irish M.ddlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. Newcastle and Carlisle.loo Do. Quarters Newmarket Do. Extension Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford 6 ..».. •••. Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor .. 20 - .. Norfolk ......... ......... ...100 Do. New 201. .. l 5 Do. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 20 Do. Guaranteed s%pc. 5 Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 Northern Counties Union 4 ...... North British ........ ... 25 .... ... Ditto, Halves .. Ditto, Quarters Ditto, Thirds .... .. Ditto Preference North Staffordshire ... 171 North Wales ... 3 1 z — North-Western . 13 ,4 — Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Royston and Hitchin ... 4%..... --• ... .. S::uttish Central Scottish Midland - •••.•.• ••••• Ditto, New Shrewsbury and Bina._ 12 •••••• •• •••, Ditto ditto, Class B. 8 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shrewsbury and Herefd. 4 Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Slin.) Ditto Halves ... ditto 9 ..-.. Ditto Uswestry ...... 18 1 / 2 — Ditto New Do. 8 per Cont. Prof lO - • /a Shropshire Union South Devon 'Ai Do. Preference - •••• •••• •• South Staardshire South Eastern Do., N 0.2. Do., No. 3 .. ..... ...... 30 ...... -- Do., Registered No. 4 10 - Do., Scrip No 4 - South Wales South Yorkshire, :Don caster, and Goole Sheffield, Rotherham, & Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent. .... 16% Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 5 Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. Coal. ... 7 Taw Vale Extension ... 8 Thames Haven Dock and Railway ..... ... 17% ..... . . Vale of Neath ... .. ...... 8 Waterford and Kilkenny 20 Waterford and Limerick 47% --. Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... .. 5O .......-- Do. de. do. ... 25 Do. do. do. ... 15 ..... ..... - , West Cornwall ...... ... 6 ••• .. •••• Whitehaven & Furness 18 Windsor, Staines, and South Western..... ... 14 - ....••• ....... Wilts, Somerset,& Wey mouth - York, Newcastle, and Berwick. -•-• ....... •• Do. Newcastle Estee. 20 Do. G.N.E.Prwer,nce 8 Do. Hartlepool Dock and Railway .. 100 I ork:and North Midland 50 Ditto Preference FOREIGN RAIL IVA Yz. Anglo Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian).... 51/2...... Boulogne and Amiens-. 20 ...... Central of France —• (Or leans and Vier zon )... 20 ......... ..• . Demerara 17% Dutch Rhenish ... 8 .... •• East Indian ..... Great,lndian Penineu!ar 5 D o. Do. ... ..... 105. L ouvain 3la S am b re ... 7% — L uxembourg -•••• Ditto ...... . .- 10 ......... Madrid and V . a . lentia... 2 ... 20 ... .. ' ).B ~, 018 N orthern of Fr ice .. 141. 85... —s '' 27 , A ' 3 ,i'i Orlean s and Bordeaux.. 7 ....•• 2, 'l' Paris a n d O rleans Paris and Rouen ... 2O ...... ••• — Paris and Strwbourg:... 12 ...•• ..... ..••• •• Rouen and llavre Sallibre and bleus3 2O ..... 2 l/ s _Strasbourg and Basle ... 14 x.d T ours and Nant es ...... .. 13 •••••• Tourn ay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt ...... 20 , West Fla n d ers 834 I • ••• Ditto ... ........ .. B IA ...m .. - JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia . •••••• - ...... Colonial .. 25 Commercial of London 20 London Joint Stock lO London & Westminster. '..:0 - ••• ......... National Prov. England. 35 Ditto New... ..... ...... 10 •• ••• Nation a l o f Ireland 22% — •••. Provinci a l o f I re l an d ... 2 5 ..Ato, New ... .. ..... 10 D Union of Australia Ditt0,New.............. 2 %•••-• • ••• Union of L 0n d 0n ......... 10 ...... ... Union of Madrid 4O ...... NINES. Anglo-Mexican 100 . ••••••• •• ••4 C A A A us stu tr r a ia li n an . Minin g C0r0... 15 ... LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, NOV. 6.—Wind this day at noon S.W., mo derate breeze, and fine clear dry weather. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 5. —Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. 4th, Helen, M'Laughlan, Rio Grande, and net the Ellen, M'Cloughlan, as reported yesterday; J. R. Skiddy, Shipley, New York; Jessica, Hayes, St. John's, New Brunswick ; sth, Mary Stoddart, Dean, Calcutta; Beccles, Taylor, Bonny ; Ceylon, Mills, St. Domingo; Rectitude, Wilkie, Miramichi ; Galwea, Ri c hib uc t o; Wilson, Evans, Maranham; Hercules, Newton, St. John's, New Brunswick; Emily, Prince Edward's Island; Margaret Russell, Newfoundland. Sld. 4th, Europe, Philadelphia. Off Port, Elizabeth, Callao ; Caledonia steamer, Boston; Agatha. The Eliza and Hester, for Bombay, has put back leaky, having been on shore near Tuskar, and must discharge. , Put back, Wilton, Wood, Brazils. DEAL, Nov, s.—Wind W.N.W. to W. — Arr d. Earl Durham, North America; Essex, Norton, St. John's, New Brunswick. Arrived from the River, Duke of Welli ng t on , Duncan, Calcutta; Rosebud, Todd , Al g oa B ay; Alice Maud, Winn, Algoa Bay ; C onservative, Crawley, St. llelena; Index, May, Bahia; Belmont, Gray, New Orlean3. Arrd. Palenser, Yarmouth, N. S.; Great Britain, Wade, Montreal. Put back, Ralph ._ T hompson, Atkinson, Hobart Town; Conservative, Waterson, Mauritius. DOVE R , Nov. s.—Wind W. to W.N.W.—Arrd. C lemente, Winterman, .Antwerp, for Liverpool, widi loss of bowsprit, foi emast sprung, bow stove, and other !latnage having been in contact with a steamer off zeschy Head. TEIGNMOUTII, Nov. s.—Wind N.W., strong breez• , . -- Arrd. 4th Haberdinc, Collins, Labrador. OFF FALMOUTH, Nov. 4.—Neptan, Vespermark, - ta t Iguna, and sailed for Bremen. sth, Lightning, Der Havannah. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 3.—Wind W., squally.—Arrd. sth, Recovery,,- Swinton, Sierra Leone. "rr PILL, Nov. 4. Corsair, Quebec, for Gloucester. CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS IN SWEDEN.—The Swedish G overnment h as j us t enacted certain laws gainst dtunkenness, which show the degree to which that disgusting vice has attained. For the first offence a .rme of 15 ri x -d o ll ars i s imposed; for the second, 30 11 x - dollar s; for the third or fourth the elective franchise and the privilege of beine , elected a Member of Parlia laent are turfeited; and the offender is moreover exposed LEI the pillory on the followinz Sunday, in front or the parish church. For the fifth offence the culprit is im • toured in the llouse of Correction for one year. A person co nv i cte d of having induced another to drink to ' e esi pays 15 rix-dollars, and 30 if the victim ho a 14iuor, 73 1 / ‘ 2 ~.... ..... ..... ... .... .. 115 1 ,4 ~. 12% ,„ 24 1•• .=. ..... 10!.- 4 r•• ••••Il . eo •- 8% 15 3 / 4 ~. • /b 1..../1 Pa ....• 3 1 4 4ti z 134 - b 7, 6 1.1.111 NOM - :iB% THE SUN, MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY•) 11117 SMITJFIELD,—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31 10s; Clover ditto, 3' o,i to 41 103; and Straw, 11 4s t 3 11 10, per load. A moderate supply, and a steady trade. CUMBERLAND.—MeacIow Hay, 2412, to 31 12i; Clover ditto, 31 Os to 41 los ; and Straw, 1/ 5s to 11 lOs per ;oEci. Supply tolerably good, and trade dull. WHITECILAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 10s to 31 10s; Clover, ditto, 3l Os to 4l 12s; and Straw, 1? 4s to 11 10:4 per bad. Trade steady, t full prices. COLONIAL. StIGXR —'l here continues a steady demand for Bri tish P.antati , ,n, the sales exceeding 770 hhds, including 123 hhds Rarbadoes, at auction, which realised 38s 61 to 403 6d for mid to good yellow; 7,830 bags Bengal, and 470 bags Madras, sold briskly at rather bight r rates, the termer ..t 43s to 48s for mid to fine crystalised, 393 to 40s 6d for Rmares, and 33s 6d to 41s 61 for low yellow to fine pale date kind, and the latter at 363 6(1 to 415 6d for low to tine grainy yellow. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the E4st and West India Docks was 2,165 hhds, 232 tierces, 1,039 barrels; there were taken for home consumption 1,603 hhds, 187 tree, 288 barrels. The stock in the same place is 1,844 hhds, 2,548 tierces, 5.571 barrels. CorrEz.-387 bags 215 casks Plantation Ceylon, and 31 casks Jamaica, were mostly disposed of at prices barely supporting those previously current; 1,014 bags fine ord La Gua:, ra were withdrawn, with the exception of about 300, at 45,; 850 bags good ord Rio sold pri vately at 41s to 41s 61, bciug extreme prices; Native Ceylon continues in good demand, and several parcels have changed hands privately at 43s to 43s 6d, with a few very superior at 44s per cwt. Rtl3l.—The quantity landed last week at the Bag and West India Docks was 334 puns, 20 hhds; there were taken for home consumption 184 puns, 23 and exported 80 puns, 105 hhds. The stock in the same pLe.s is 23,186 pucs, 2,039 this. lircE.-500 bags Bengal went at easier rates, viz., Os to 9s 61 for low mld SALTPETRE.-250 bags Bengal were disposed of at 3d decline, per cent. retraction,. 26s 6d, and one lot at 27s per cwt. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 37s to 37s 3d per cwt. on the spot, and Town 39s 6,1, with a fair business. TEA—Black is dull, and Green well supported. COTTON.—This article is quiet. LONDON, and called for some refreAment. Just before they left the house the prisoner came up to him and uLked him to sttnd " some hie. Ile declined acceding to her icquest, when she called him by a filthy expression, and, t4l,lng up a coup-pla'.C, truck hi to with such rio knee on the head that the plate was broken in several pieces, and the blood flowed in torrents from the wound she had inflicted. He called out for the waiter, who came and washed his head, and applied some adhesive plaister to the wound. Witness then walked to the door, and, having called a constable, gave the prisoner in charge. Two witnesses were called, who proved seeing the prisoner strike complainant with the plate. The prisoner, who denied the charge, was fined 41., and in default to he committed fir one month. M AGAZINES, &c.--(CONTINUED.) DAVID COPPEIIFIELD. Charles Dickens. Seventeen years have conducted little David to that intermediate period between boyhood and man hood, when the thoughts, the manners, and the sensations of the stripling may be depicted in one word, as the thoughts, the manners, and the sensations of extreme awkwardness. He has, like Byron at Missolonghi, to look around, and choose his ground, and not to take his rest, but select his profession. Mr. Dick at one time, in a moment of inspiration, suggests that Trot should be made " a brazier"— but for ever afterwards holds his tongue on the days of consultation. At last aunt Betsy resolves that, as a preliminary step, he shall make an excur sion, just to see a little of life prior to settling down in any employment going first to London and afterwards to Yarmouth to visit the Barkises and Peggottys—bidding him before his departure, however, to emulate his immortal sister I3etsy Trotwood, that hypothetical baby, that wholly supposititious infant, which we have already designated the Mrs. Harris of the nursery. Before leaving for the metrop2lis, Trot goes to bid farewell to all friends at Canterbury. The Old Soldier comes out in great strength ; Mr. Wickfield betrays a yet more deplor able affection for the port wine bottle; dear old Dr. Strong purposes giving up his academy ; and Uriah Ileep gives yet more visible indications of his knavery. Little Agnes, though she says nothing about it, and though the author himself says nothing about it, is, we cannot help conjecturing, in love with David. A portent of calamity to poor dear old Dr. Strong is muttered by the biographer, who says that "it fell like a stain upon the quiet place where I had worked and played as a boy, and did it a cruel wrong." It is sufficiently manifest to us that Jack Maldon, who is coming back from India on a pretence of ill-health, will elope with Annie, between whom and Mr. Wick field there appears to be a profound suspicion. Starting at last by the coach-and-four to London, Trot expe riences his first " fall " in life—being degraded from the boxseat to make room for " a shabby man with a squint, who had no other merit than smelling like a livery-stables." After that terrible rebuff says the victim—" I felt completely extinguished and dreadfully young." He meets with carcely more exhilarating treatment on his arrival at the Golden Cross, Charing-cross, where the waiter familiar, the people generally act towards him without respect, and the very chambermaid seems to mock at him by bringing him" shaving water" in the morn ing. On all occasions and at all times the feeling of David seems to be an overwhelming sense that he is " dreadfully young." At night, after going to the play, Trot encounters an old schoolfellow—the n:eeting is beautifully told : " Steerforthl won't you speak to me?' " He looked at me—just as he used to look, sometimes —but I saw no recognition in his face. " You don't remember me, lam afraid,' said I. " My God!' he suddenly exclaimed. 'lt is little Copperfield " I grasped him by both hands, and could not let them go. But for very shame, and the fear that it might displease him, I could have held him round the neck and cried. No. VII. By " I never, never, never was so glad! My dear Steer forth, I am so overjoyed to see you!' "' And I am rejoyced to see you, too!' he said, shak ing my hands heartily. Why, Copperfield, old boy, don't be overpowered!' And yet he was glad, too, I thought, to see how the delight I had in meeting him affected me. " I brushed away the tears that my utmost resolution had not been able to keep back, and I made a clumsy laugh of it, and we sat down together, side by side." Steerforth conducts his young friend, whom he chris tends " Daisy" by reason of his freshness, to his home at Highgate—the waiter having previously altered his demeanour to Trot in consideration of his acquaintance. "He attended on us, I may say," observes Daisy, " in sackcloth and ashes. At Steerforth's home we are introduced to a Miss Dartle, otherwise Rosa, Steerforth's lady-mother's companion. Here is her portrait in four lines : " She was a little dilapidated—like a house—with having been so long to let: yet had, as I have said, an appearance of good looks." . . Steerforth's servant, Littimer, is still better drawn, and promises to be of some importance—his chief charac teristic being respectability. "If his nose," says the author; " had been upside down he would have made that respectable." Ultimately Daisy and Steerforth proceed together to Yarmouth. The meeting of David with dear old Peggotty, now Mrs. Barkis, is exquisitely true and simple. Here it is : " Is Mr. Barkis at home, ma'am?' I said, feigning to speak roughly to her. " He's at home, sir, returned Peggotty, ' but he's bad abed with the rheumatics.' " Don't he go over to Blunderstone now ?' I asked. "' When he's well, he do,' she answered. " Do you ever go there, Mrs. Barkis?' " She looked at me more attentively, and I noticed a quick movement of her hands towards each other. " Because I want to ask a question about a house there, that they call the—what is it?--the Rookery,' said I. "She took a step backward, and put out her hands in an undecided frightened way, as it to keep me off. " Peggotty !' I cried to her. " She cried, My darling boy !' and we both burst into tears, and were locked in one another's arms." Barkis proves to be too rheumatic to be shaken bands with, " but he begged me to shake the tassel on the top of his nightcap, which I did most cordially." "As he lay in bed," says Daisy, " face upwards, and so covered, with that exception, that he seemed to be nothing but a face—like a conventional cherubim— he looked the queerest object I ever beheld." Leaving the Barkises after a delightful day there, David and Steerforth proceed at night across the Yarmouth flats to the ship, where they find Mr. P, ggotty, Mrs. Gummidg, - ?, Ham and Em'ly, all in a high state of health and good humour—the two latter being that moment Letrothed to each other! The way in which the love passages between Ham and Etnly are re counted by Mr. Peggotty, and. the way in which the stalwart Ham, trembling, corroborates the tale of his love, are beautiful. Ham ' indeed, feeling com pelled to say something, speaks as follows with much faultering and great difficulty : " She warn't no higher than you was, Mas'r Davy— when you first come—when I thought what she'd grow up to be. I see her grow up—gentlinen—like a flower. I'd lay down my life for her—Mas'r Davy —Ohl most content and cheerful! _ She's more to me—gent'lmen— than—she's all to me that ever I can want, and more than ever I—than ever I could say. I—l love her true. There ain't a gent'lmen in all the land—nor yet sailing upon all the sea—that can love his lady more than I love her, though there's many a common man—would say better—what ho meant.' " I thought it affecting to see such a sturdy fellow as Ham was now, trembling in the strength of what he felt for the pretty little creature who had won his heart." Steerforth threatens to mar all the joy and inno cence of this charming "family picture"—Em'ly teirg very becutiful and he very profligate. TILE ST. JAMES'S. Edited by J. B. Burke, Esq. The editor comes forward in propria persona this month, and relates a recent visit to Stoneleigh Abbey in such an agreeable manner, that we hope for the future he will, whenever he takes a trip into the country, record his thoughts and impressions in the pages of the magazine. Mr. John Hay commences "Boscobel—a History," being a narrative of the adven tures of Charles 11. during his escape after " Wor'ster fight." The present instalment concludes with the close of the adventure of the Royal Oak. There are various other articles of merit on subjects of antiquarian research, besides the Heraldic Re gister and Annotated Obituary for the month. LAW INTELLIGENCE. CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sat in his court in the Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn, to day. ROBERTS V. ROBERTS. -JUDGMENT. His LORDSHIP gave judgment to day in this case, 'which has been argued before him for two days. The arguments were concluded yesterday. The case came bcfor, his Lordship upon appeal from the decision of the Vice Chancellor of England, refusing to grant a new trial of an issue directed to the court for the purpose of trying whether the plaintiff was the next of kin of Catherine Lloyd, who left considerable property in Wales, and died intestate. The jury found in favour of the claim of the plaintiff, and the Vice-Chancellor of England having, upon motion for that purpose, refused to grant a new trial, the parties appealed to this branch of the court. The Lord Chan cellor, after going at length into the case, dismissed the motion tor a new trial, with costs, and decreed that the plaintiff was ono of the next of kin of the intestate, and directed an inquiry to the Master for the purpose of as cei tainiug who wese the other next of kin. FOLLETT V. JEFFREYS. The further arguments on this part-hetrd motion oc cupied the Court the remainder of the morning. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) His Lotdihip the ALster of the Rolls srt to-du in his Court, Rolls-yard, Chancery-lane. His Lordship, having disposed of the case of "Robertson v. Shelton," which stood for judgment, proceeded to hear motions and petitions, which occupied the Court the whole day. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) His Honour, after heari!:g in his private room the arguments in a case, the facts of which it was thought advisable not to make public, took his seat in his Court, in Lincoln's lon, and proceeded to hear the further ar guments in the part-hcaid petition of NEATE V. PINE. This caso came beforo his Honour upon the petition of certain parties entitled to the ren!s of the moiety of an estate in Jamaica, called the Bindless Moiety. The object of the petition was that the petitioner's claims might be satisfied out of the proceds of the whole es tate,which were standing iu the name of the Accountant- General of the Court of Chancery in this country. The facts of the case possess not the least point of interest, except to the parties concerned, and the arguments occupied the Court the remainder of the day. (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) His Honour beard causes to day, but no case of interest came before him during the morning. (Before the Vice-Chancellor WIGRA3I.) REYNELL V. SPRYE. His HONOUR having handed down to the parties his written judgment in this case, proceeded to hear the further arguments in the part-heard case of " Coope v. Carter." EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco, beforo the Lord CHIEF BARON, Mr. Baron PARKE, Mr. Baron RoLFE, and Mr. Baron ALDEP.SON.) CROODIE V. FAIBBAIRW AND OTHERS. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, in this case, which was tried at Guildhall, before the Lord Chief Baron, on the 9th of July last, and a verdict found for the plaintiff for 4501. beyond the money paid into court, he had to move for a uew trial on the ground of the reception of improper evidence, and that the verdict was against evidence. The real defendants were the Admiralty, and it was an action of assumpsit for the price and value of goods sold and delivered. The defendants paid 1,0001. into court, and admited no damages under it. The Messrs. Fairbairns, the defendants, are large ship builders, and some time ago undertook to: build ono of two steam-vessels for the Government, namely, the Madeira and the Vulcan. These vessels were on the screw principle, and having been recommended by the Messrs. Rennie to the plaintiff', Mr. Croome, as a prac tical engineer, the Messrs. Fairbairn entered into an engagement with him to make the slide-piece and other fittings necessary for the screw of the vessel; and for that work he charged 2,2801. 10s., the paym,eut of which the defendants resisted on the ground that it was excessive. With the view of proving the exorbitancy of the charge, the defendants called a Mr. Mare, a large ship-builder on the Thames, who de posed that he made the very same articles for the steam ves&el Vulcan, which was of the same size as the Ma deira, for 1,2001. At the trial the plaintiff produced his books, and showed the expenses he had incurred in the making of those articles, and the jury were misled in finding their verdict on that supposition. A great por tion of the charge of the plaintiff was for builling fur naces and making tools to 'do this very work, and the counsel for the defence contended that that was no ele ment in the cost of the manufacture of articles of this description, any more than if he (the Attorney-General) took his watch to be repaired to a watchmaker in the Strard, the tools and hails used by the artisan ought to be included in the charge fir repairing the watch. Mr. Baron ALDERSON—Upon that principle an engi neer might charge the expenses of his education. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—To be sure. Besides, the defendants called a number of witnesses in large busi ness, competent to do work of the kind in question, who all swore that 1,2001., or thereabouts, was the full price. The CouRT granted a rule to show cause generally, leaving the question of the payment of the costs of the rule which was in dispute to be subsequently argued. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE.) The November general session commenced this morn. in 7.7, at the Sessions House, Clerkenvacil-green. The number of prisoners i►► the cAlendar is seventy. James Byrne, aged 22, was indicted for stealing a hanekerebief, a gold ring, and the sum of 16s. Gd., the propclty of Catherine Pickley, from her person. The prosecutrix, a servant out of place, stated that rho and some other females went on Wednesday night last to a " dance," at a public house called the Hope, in where she met the priwuer, with whom sShttaff,hoard rlLtreedt, some acquaintance. He accompanied her a part of the way hora,,, and at another public-house in the same street she tr( ated him to some drink; in pay ing for which she took out the handkerchief containing her money and a wedding-ring, purchased for her by a young man to whom slue was about t' be married. The prisoner snatched the handkerchief and its con tents out of her hand and ran away with it. On the following day one of his comrades returned the ring. She afterwards tnet the prisoner, and threatened to give him into custody if he did not restore her property. He laughed at her, and her sister then called a-policeman and gave him into custody. She had nut been out of place a week for seven years. Mr. PAYNE, for the prisoner, commented severely upon the impropriety of the girl's conduct, in going, to a dance in a public-hous;,—sh e , being an Irish servtnt out of place, would not if she was a "respectable young woman going to be married," be seen in such a place. _ _ Several countrymen of the prisoner and the prosecu trix gave the former a good character. The ASSISTANT•JUDGE said that a most disgraceful attack had been made upon the character of the prose cutrix. It was Due she was an Irish girl ; but what ever faults might be in the Irish character, the modesty of the young women in the lower classes was a jewel in it, and was acknowledged by every one who . had as much opportunity of Feting them u nder vat ions circumstances as he had. 'They were thoughtless, and often did what others who had rtic.xt wickedness would not do; and there was nothing at all strange in her going to this dance with her country folks, just after leaving her service, or in her treating the prisoner, who was one of their friends. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was scn tencA to be imprisonud for six month:, and kept to hard labour. ARLBRO . -STR EET-(THIS DAY Mary 11 7 i1son, a woman of the turn, was brought before Mr. 13ingham, charged with having assaulted a gentleman named Dolman, by breaking his head with a soup-plate. - - 'The complainant, whose head was bound with ad hesive piaister, stated that on the previous night he was in Alexander's Coffee-house, in Titchborne-street, partaking of some alamode, when the prisoner and two other wealen came in and set down at the same table, THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. The papers composing the number of this periodi cal for the present month are clever and varied as usual. We may mention, as a strange fact, that the present awful condition of Ireland is not referred to in her national magazine. Indeed we can well conceive how very uninviting must be that theme at this moment to an honest Irishman, and we are therefore disposed to attribute the omission to other feelings than indiffer ence. It opens with a learned and scientific paper en titled "Physical Geography—the Air," introducing some very interesting extracts from Humboldt and others on the currents o f th e ocean an d atmosphere, the gradations of heat and electricity, &c. "Recol lections of a Circassi an C ampa i gn, " a trans l a tion from the journal of a Germ an o ffi cer i n t h e R uss i an se r v ice, is full of new and stirring incidents. The " Portrait Gallery" is embellished with an etching of the much re.spected father of the Munster Bar, George Bennett, Eig ~Q.CI , a name, in the words of his biographer— '• AszociaNd v,ith honest worth, private virtues, per sonal excellence, and professional ability; the name of ooe posse sed of that amount of . natural good sense and fairness of mind, which, in its higher departments, is a form of genius ; who has lived for half a century in his profession; has won the esteem of competitors and companions, the confidence of the Bench and . the jury , box, every attestation to rnsrit which public opinion and private respect could ordinarily bestow; and y e t h o is still, as we sketch him, plain George Bennett, without efficial rank or judicial elevation. There is not one who has the happiness of knowing Mr. Bennett, either in his public or private capacity, who will not give a hearty concurrence to the estimate 47 1 ,4 8% IC% 11% 19'% 5% 8 3 4 L 5 tAi M. , .• 1N 17% 26:-% TUESDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER Q 1849. formed of him by his learned biographer. The spirited and graphic description of " The Commeragh Mounta:ni, their Lalcs and. Legends," is continued and concluded; the ability with which these sketches of the wild and beautiful have been executed induces w to hops that the author will direct Lis step to other un'rodden spots, unheeded and unknown, with which his lovely island abounds. "Moorish Romances and German Ballads," translated from the German, and Spanish by D.P. M. C., are done in that gentle man's usual excellent style, and we by no means wish to detract from M. C.'s merits, when we say we sadly miss poor Mangan. " Ceylon and the Cingalese "is concluded in this number. It was frequently our pleasing duty to speak in terms of commendation of the power and research with which these papers were written ; and, now that the learned author has brought his labours to a close, we cannot too highly recommend them to the attention of all who feel an interest in one of the most fertile, lovely, but neglected islands of all our colonial possessions. he next is a notice of novels by the author of " Two Old Men's Tales," and of the " Protestant Reforma tion in France." The "Fairy Serenade" has con siderable merit. " Notes and Suggestions on Indian Affairs" is a very comprehensive and important document, and well worthy public attention. This month's number concludes with an analysis of the memoirs of Mr. Secretary Pepys, one of the annalists of the Restoration. We regret our space, will not at present permit us to en t er i n t o an : exam i na ti on o f th e interesting annals of that remarkable period. FINE ARTS. THE ART JOURNAL. Sir David Wilkie's i.ainti,g of " The Fir3t Ear , r!ng," (ngrawd by W. Grcutbach, and Sir A. W. Calcott's licture of " X Dutch Ferry," engraved by R. Wullis, are the two illustrations of the Vernon Gallery collection in the Art Journal for November. Thomas Sidney Cooper is portrayed both by a por trait and a biography. Scott and Spenser afford themes for the grace ful pencils of the artists employed from month to month in the delineation of " Passages from the Poets." JDhn Thomas, the sculptor, yields a subject not only for a woodcut, but also for a very interesting memoir; and Flaxman's glorious compositbm of " Michael and Satan " has been vigorously sketched by the graver of W. R3ffe. Alto gether the Art Journal is fully equal to its repu tation. COVENT-GARDEN OPERA. What is to become of the Covent- garlen Opera I during the next season ? The procedings in the Court of Bankruptcy on Saturday last in Dclatield's case do not furnish us w:th an a! , s wer to this inter esting question. The report of Saturday is merely in the nature of an historical retrospect of the extra vagance and folly of the bankrupt during two or three years of a feverish splendour. It is but another comment upon the old theme of—how fortunes may be lost. There are various ways of arriving at this desirable conclusion. A stud of racehorses, a kennel of hounds, a newspaper, a review, a contested county, a steady series of land speculations, will soon produce such a result. Within our own experience we should say, that a "man of busimess" and a theatre are the two best roads to ruin. The man of business is the slow chronic disease. He cuts down your timber here, runs up a row of cottages there; ousts one set of tenants and imports another without your knowledge; and just at the moment you conceive your fortune at its zenith, you find yourself with nothing left but a dry legal interest in your own estate. That, however, is a slow process, and admits of Alnaschar dreams for a certain period of years. Not so with the theatre or opera-house. -That is the burning fever fit that consumes a man's vitals, and leaves Mtn be yond all hope of rally in an infinitesimally brief period of time. Italian vocalists and French ballet dancers make short work of 100,0001., as is shown plainly enough by the balance-sheet in the case of poor Mr. Delafield. Think of what such a sum as 100,000/. is when cast upon a man by the mere act and operation of the law. Had he laboured for it, it might have been a different matter. Had he toiled at the Bar; or worked sums in his head on the Stock-Exchange; or spent the best years of his life in a tropical climate indigo-growing, or in an out lying settlement of the Hudson's Bay Company contending with the bears for the possession of their furry drapery, the acquisition of the 100,0001. in question might turn out a speculation of dubious propriety. There is a heavy tale of shattered nerves, sensitive digestion, and sluggish liver, which must be set off against the gratifying politeness of the part ners in the bank where the favoured child of fortune keeps his account. How many successful hunters after 100,0001. envy their own coachmen ! But this was not Mr. Delafield's case. The chances are he never did a turn of work in his life ; and yet, in the balance-sheet handed in the other day at Basinghall street, there is found what Mr. Lawrence very aptly termed the following impressive entry :—"November 7,1845—8 y amount at credit in the books of Messrs. Combe and Co. 100,0001." As nearly as may be four years ego Mr. Delafield was the happy person interested in this delightful minute. Rightly handled, here was enough to have kept the civilized world a 1 tributary at his feet during any number of years his life might have been prolonged. We purposely leave out of the questions all higher principles of action, all holier aspirations. We will not dwell upon the hundreds upon hundreds of aching hearts that might have been relieved; of the tears that might have been dried; of the valuable lives that might have been preserved ; of the families that might have been supported by one who, with such means at his disposal, should have considered that one day he must render up an account of his stewardship. Let us pass by all such thoughts as irrelevant, and adopt for a moment the philosophy of Pall• mall, as expounded by an aged Pundit to a knot of irreproachable dandies in the bow-window of a London club :—" Any species of property but money is a mere nuisance. Of money you cannot have too much. With decent management however, there is nothing in reason that a man with four or five thousand a-year, with no incumbrances, no claims, no drawback, need deny himself. With such a sum, and a good digestion to start upon, so he have the fixed determination never to speculate and never to eat a bad dinner, a man may be pronounced happy." Now, judged even by this code of ethics, such as it is, w hat can be said of Mr. Delafield's proceedings ? We turn again to the Basiughall balance-sheet and we find—a few months back, at the date of the fiat—under the head of as• sets, the following words, quite as " impressive " to our mind as those we have already quoted : " Good debts, 31. 14s. 6d. Property, value not as certained, but supposed to be worthless." There is, however, even a set-off against these vestiges of su handsome an independence—these poor seventy-four shillings and sixpence. It is stated that the whole sum due to unsecured creditors is 33,3371., and that there are, in addition, liabilities to the extent of 3,0001. Now, what would be the verdict of "the lowest hog in Epicurus' stye" upon such a state of facts ? He would naturally inquire what amount of gratification did Mr. Delafield extract from the expenditure of this sum ? If short in duration, was it intense in degree? The answer is, that during the three years and nine months of the bankrupt's short existence he only con trived to get rid of 22,228/. upon his own personal expenses. But as he might in the shape of mere in terest upon his capital have wasted nearly the same amount of money without diminution of the capital itself, it is tolerably clear that by this test he cannot be acquitted. All his fortune, then, has been sacri ficed for the mere pleasure of signing the engage. ments, and presiding over the squabbles of a parcel of dancers and singers for the short space of something less thon four years. The fate of theatrical lessees is proverbially a precarious one. A man who engages in such a pursuit must have nerve sufficient to keep one wheel ever spinning over the verge of bankruptcy, without absolutely suffering his chariot to fall into the abyss throughout his career. The footmen behind his dinner chairs are sometimes ser vants, sometimes bailiffs. Season follows season. The presumptive ruin of one year is not much more fatal than the presumptive success of its predecessor. So he lives, and so he dies—whether insolvent or the reverse is a mere matter of chance, and entirely be neath his serious consideration. For such a course of life as this Mr. Delafield was clearly unfitted. He was too weak headed, and with too little capacity for his strange vocation. We think of him rather as a bold young man, who goes in with his pockets full of money to break the bank at Homburg or at. Baden, and comes out without a thaler in his pocket. Such a one is not a gambler, but a " pigeon ;" and that is just poor Mr. Delafield's case in his operatic concerns. There is, however, far too much real trouble in the world,—far, far too many of our poor countrymen who are fighting an adverse batte against fortune day after day and night after night, and who cannot reach dry ground let them struggle as man fully as they will—for us to affect or express much sympathy or sorrow for so ridiculous a conclusion to an operatic speculation. When a man is placed by fortune in so favourable a position as Mr. Delafield was four years ago, he should have had the sense to keep his footing, even if he were not inclined to move forward. We turn rather to the question in which the._ public are more immediately interested—the chances of a second operatic entertainment during the ensuing season. As we said before, Mr. Dela field's bankruptcy proves nothing in this matter, except that his failure arose in some degree from general carelessness of man&gemei.t, but mainly from the extraviigant salaries paid to the singers and dancers in compensation for their services. In corn menting upon this subject some months back we quoted from the balance-sheet the abstract of salaries paid to these gentry during the late Covent garden campaign, but the list is so edifyingt that it will well bear reinsertion here. " Artistes' salaries, 1848 and 1849:—Mdlle. Alboni, IS4B, 4,000/. ; Dldlli. Angri. 1849, 2,500/. ; Madame Castellan, 1843, 1,7281. c Mdlle. Corbari, 1848, 4321 ; 1849, 4801 ; Doras Gras, 1849, 1,5001. ; Catherine Hayes, 1849, 1.3001.; Do Meeic, 1849, 5001 ; Grisi, iL 1848, 3,1061.; in 1849, 2,8001; Persi , ,lni, in 1848, 6401.; in 1849, 5001.; Ronconi, in 1848, 4801.; in 1849, 480/.; Steffanoni, in 1848, 6001.; Viardot, in 1848, 4,0001.; in 1849, for two months, 1,213/.; Signor Corradi had, in 1848, 880/. Mario, in the same year, 2,2351.; and in 1849, 2 720/. Roger, in 1843, 2,110/. Ronconi, in 1843, 1,1201.; in 1849, 1,1201. Stivi, in 1848, 1,520/.; in 1849, 1,0401. Tamburini, in 1848, 1,7001; in 1849, the same sum. " The whole amount expended in the vocal depart ment was, in 1848, 33,349/.; in 1849, 25,644/. " In the ballet accounts the two Bretin received, in 1348, 967/. Lucille Gratin, in 1848, 1,1201; in 1849, 1,000/. The two Casati, in 1843 and 1849, more than 1,000/. Mark net, in 184 S, 6501. Silvani, in the same year, 4501. " The whole expenditure in the ballet department amounted, in 1848, to 8,105/.; in 1849, to 2,526/. " The orchestra department shows an expenditure of 10,018/ in 1843, and of 7,398/. in 1849." It is quite clear that this list is sufficient to account, in chief measure, for the failure of the concern under Mr. Delafield's management; but the failure under such circumstances is no proof that the town is not capable of maintaining a second Opera, and affording a fair remuneration to the persons engaged in carrying on the performances. Now, to whatever series of causes the fact may be referred, it is abundantly proved that the relish for the acted drama is just now in England far less than the taste for operatic per formances. If, then, we are to have music as the principal public amusement, let us have it as good and as varied as possible. We are fully pre pared to admit the humanizing influences to be derived from the cultivation and diffusion of this exquisite art ; hut it would be a pity that th e works of modern Italian composers, and those not always the best eho;en, should be set up as the fixed standard on which the public taste is to be modelled. To accept stale repetitions of musical ex pression that at its outset was not worth much, as a substitute for what can be accomplished in music, would, indeed, be a short-sighted policy. If they can both be fairly maintained, as far as the public are concerned, two operatic establishments are better than one. Even in the interests of the proprietors of the rival establishments it is preferable that there should be an opposition. The diffusion of musical taste by the performances at one house must, in the end, be beneficial to the proprietors of the other. We see no reason why either establishment should be TAIT'S. Tait's Magazine is more than usually excellent this month. Among its most interesting contributions are an article on " Our Anglo-Saxon Empire," a " Memoir of Madame Sontag," in which, in comparing that singer to Madame Pasta, it is observed, "In Pasta art was so complete that it concealed art, and seemed to be pure nature, but in Sontag you always felt the presence of science." The most attractive article in Tait's is entitled " Ainicitiee Shakspearianm," from which we extract the following observations : " Friendship is based on similarity and contrast. An individual possessing a certain definite complement of qualities, developes them in his intercourse with his fellow-men. To a class or series of these, he discovers an exactly similar and correspondent class or series in another person. Between these in himself, and those in the person, a sympathetic communication is established —a moral telegraph is erected. Like the mutually at tracing poles of the needle, they entice one another to a junction. A connexion thus formed acquires firmness and strength in proportion to the number of similar at tributes, and the frequency with which they are brought into harmonious contact. To another class he finds no correspondent class; but, instea d, a class of which he is either totally or partially devoid. These are qualities fitted, by their nature, to excite admiration, esteem, love. Thus, both classes sre endowed with attracting proper ties; and the result of their com bined action is the con summation of a union which is consolidated and perpe tuated by reciprocal obligations, and the lapse of time. The two friends have henceforth no secrets; soul is open to soul, and heart to heart. In fact, there is a real moral oneness—a oneness so complete, that Horace, in his beautiful ode " ad Virgilium," exclaims, " 0 dimidittin animae ?ileac !"—O thou half of my soul ! This invests the relation with a mysterious and religious sanctity. The love which a generous, high-minded man cherishes for his friend has in it a purity, a holiness, that resem bles the disinterested and sublime affection which the Deity himself bears to a sinless intelligence. Friend sh:p, thus hallowed and dignified, was worthy the pencil of our great artist. The picture has been sketched, the likeness has been drawn, and no one who follows us in the following examination will hesitate to say—which is the highest eulogium we can bestow—that it has been executed with his usual felicity." THE ECLECTIC REVIEW. - _ "The Marriage ,Law," " John Howard, the Philan thropist," " Apocalyptic Reveries," Herschel's Out lines of Astronomy,"" Stuart's Expedition into Central Australia, "Dr. Harris's Man Primeval," and " The Wisdom of the Hereditaries," are the subjects of the articles in the Eclectic Review. In that on "Apoca lyptic Reveries," a deserved condemnation is pro nounced on Dr. Thom and other would-be biblical expositors. THE LAND WE LIVE IN. Part XXVII. The romantic scenery of North Wales is beautifully illustrated and described in this number of the Land We Live in. The BRITISH POLITICAL, COMMERCIAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND HISTORICAL GAZETTEER, Travelling Road Book, and County Atlas. This comprehensive work progresses steadily, and gives full evidence of the continued research and in dustry which marked its early numbers. The present, the seventh of the two-and-sixpenny parts, contains three beautifully executed maps of the counties of Northampton,l,eicestershire, and Surrey. It is also embellished with an admirable engraving of the aque duct over the Avon near Bath. The spirited proprietors appear to spare neither labour nor expense in carry ing cut the extensive design of the undertaking. THE BANKER'S MAGAZINE ' Journal of the Money Market, and Railway Digest. The number of this useful and practical magazine for the present month contains many valuable and important papers. The opening article, on the mis chievous effects of the unwise and impolitic Bank Act of 1844, clearly and ably shows how unfairly that Act operates in reference to the banking companies of England and Wales. By a proviso in the English Act, it appears that if two joint.stock banks of issue unite, the circulation of the one which merges in the other shall altogether cease; and if two united banks should, on their union, adopt a new title, they would both of them lose their previous right to issue notes to the extent of their respective fixed issues. The Irish and Scotch Banking Acts are free from these unjust and penal clauses; and there appears to be no sound reason why they should be retained in the Act referring to England and Wales. " Statistics of Pawnbroking and Monts de Pi 6.6" contains some interesting information, extracted from a paper read at a meeting of the British Association by Mr. Han ceck, Professor of Political Economy in Trinity Col lege, Dublin. There is a very full and able digest of the New Bankruptcy Act, 12 and 13 Victoria, c. 106. It has the usual quantity of important intelligence on monetary and railway matters. A SERMON, preached in Carlisle Chapel, Ken nington lane. By Francis Thornburgh, A. 8., Minister. The 19th of last September was the day appointed by the Lord Bishop of the diocese for public prayer and humiliation throughout the district, in conse quence of the fearful ravages made by cholera in the metropolis. The Rev. Mr. Thornburgh took occa sion, in the discharge of his ministerial functions, to pronounce a discourse on that day which possesses the merit of unaffected piety, unstrained reasoning, and simple and elcquent language. He humbly e x presses his opinion that national visitations are no t necessarily national punishments; that the scourge was probably less of a strictly punitive character—less an exhibition of retributive justice on this side the grave, than an awakener to a keener sense of our utter dependence upon God, and an inciter to the duty of a more implicit, unreserved submission to his will. " Nothing," says be, " in our personal capacities stays our progress in the path of obedience, or cools our ardour alter the precious promises and glorious prospects of a Saviour's religion, more effs..qually than an unbroken series of prosporitics. And what is true of individuals separately, is no less true of them in the aggregate. External good fortune exercises its injurious influences alike upon the community." Ile then, in very beautiful terms, instances the case of the Church of Christ herself, who gradually lost in piety what she gained in pomp, and that of Israel, the chosen people, whose ingratitude was so notorious for unexampled heavenly favours. " Britain, too, has been signally blessed ; yet the Author of her glory has been too little remembered, " And, we guess, it is w ith this view she is, in mercy, ;.filleted. PeAilence comes to bring out before us our Benefactor, end to put within our hands, by an unusual method, a sense of our dependence on Him, our need of Him, and our obligation to Ilim. It is hard to recognise clearly in the fall blaze, and so a cloud is bid to cast over the land its dark shadow" : Some admirable subsidiary remarks on the sudden popularity of the topic of " the sanitary condition of the poor," which, among the better classes, has all at once become the theme of the day, are wound up by the following truthful reply to the inquiry, why a subject deemed before almost indelicate, is discussed now with an interest universal as it is hearty ?-- "_Fear has proved more powerful than love. It was not the principle of attraction which drew, but that of force which impelled. The subject of the ' sanitary condition of the poor,' with which reli glen is essentially connected, has been forced upon us. We think upon it, we talk upon it, we are ready to expend money upon it, simply because we cannot help it. 0 pestilence, merciful pestilence, thou hast done the work in a day that philanthropy has vainly essayed to do for years! It was not the eloquence of life that wrought the change; it was the silence of death. It was not the oratory of the living voice; it was the dumbness of the coffin and the shroud." BANKRUPTCY COURT.—The floors of this court, which were covered with the patent kamptulicon about five years since, in order to deaden the sound, are un dergoing partial repair. The wear of this extraordinary mechanical production appears to have given great satis faction. CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 5. —A Statutable Congregation was holden on Saturday to receive the resignation of the late Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Cookson ; and at a tn(eting of the Heads of Houses, holden this day, the Rev. James Cartmell, Master of Christ's College, was elected his successor. A man never loses by doing good offices to others. —Eliza Cook's Journal. DUTCH FUNDS. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 2.—THE PAURSE.—The general tendency of the Bourse was exceedingly iht to-day, nearly all the transactions in the different kinds of stock were made at yesterday's closing prices. This was especially the case with the Three per Cent. French and the Four per Cent. Pot tuguese; Russian stock alone was in demand. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, Nov. 2. Bills Money. 53v Actual Debt, 2Y 2 per Cent.... • • •.... 53 Ditto, 3 per Cent •.••.• .• • • ........ 62 1 7 i Ditto, 4 per Cent. ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 81 44 Amort Syndic, 3}6 per Cent •• • ..• •• • • East India Loan, 4 per Cent • • Spanish New 5 per; Cents.• •• . Austrian 5 per Cent 5.................— Ditto • 3 per Cent., Inland .......... Commercial Company, 434 per Cept Exchangeon London, at sight . .... 12 5 Two m0nth5......... ••• • .. 12 On Hamburgh, at sight ...• 34 87 Two months.• • 34 75 On Paris, at sight.... 56 €2 Tw0m0nth5......... ••• • •. 56 37 ACCIDENT TO TUE D UKE OF C AMBRIDGE. —Thi s illustrious Duke met with a slight accident whilst out shooting on Thursday last, at Chantry Park, the Duke of Rutland's seat, near Newmarket. The Royal Duke was in company with Colonel Hall, of the Ist Life Guards, and Mr. Sloane Stanley, shooting over the Links, when ho received a slight injury in the hand, which compelled him to quit the field. His Royal Highness has since returned to hew, and suffers but slightly from the accident. Mr. Anderton has given notice of the following motion for the next Court of Common Council :—" That it be referred to the Commissioners of Sewers to examine ar.d report whether the smoke arising from steam-engines and furnaces erected in and near the City and the steam-bouts upon the Thames, is or is not in jurious to the health of the inhabitants, a preventive to cleanliness, and destructive to public buildings; and whether the present laws are sufficient to cause the nui sances (if any) to be abated." ALARMING OCCURRENCE. —On Sunday afternoon, about four o'clock, one hour before high water, a large sailing-vessel, laden with soft sand, the property cf Mr. Pass, of Nine Elms, was proceeding up the river from Woolwich, and when opposite Blackfriars Steam-boat pier the captain let go her anchor for the purpose of bringing her up. Unfortunately the chain was foul, and the crew were unable to slacken it sufficiently to make the anchor hold, and the consequence was that the yards of the vessel came in contact with the fourth arch on the north-west side of Blackfriars-bridge. By so doing the yards sprang, and the mast-head of the ponderous vesssel caught the crown of the arch, and in an instant she heaved over, and in less than two minutes sank. The men in the vessel shrieked out for help, when John Ware, the deputy piermaster, and Carey, one of the extra men, came alongside the vessel, fortunately succeeded in rescuing the crew of the sunken vessel, and conveyed them ashore. Whilst they were engaged in saving the lives of the people in the vessel a large yawl, laden with potatoes, was making her way towards Hengerford Market, when her bow came in contact with the same arch of the bridge, which threw her athwart the tide, and for a moment or two the lives of the crews belonging to both the large vessels, as well as those who so heroically put off from the pier, were greatly jeopardized, but fortunately the head mast of the potato yawl was low enough to allow it to pass under the bridge. If such had not been the case, the whole must have been drowned. GLASGOW, Nov. 3. COTTON MARKET.— The demand for cotton from the trade has during the week been on a limited scale, and, the market being conse quently quiet, no change in prices can be quoted. Pig Iron—Our pig iron market has been quiet throughout the week, but prices have been fully maintained. Mixed numbers may be quoted at 42a. 6d. per ton, No. 1 435., and No. 1 Gartsherrie, 445. to 445. 6d. cash. ROYAL ARTILLERY.—Captain P. Benn's and Cap tain Wright's companies arrival at head-quarters, at Woolwich, on Saturday afternoon, from Dublin, via Liverpool, having been relieved by Major Desbrisay's and Captain Hyde's companies. Captain Benn's and Captain Wright's companies are now tho first on the list for foreign service; but are not expected to leave Woolwich until the early part of next year, all the reliefs contemplated for the present year having already embarked for their destinations. --- INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM, WANSTEAD.—Yester day afternoon, the half-yearly general meeting of the governors of this charity, for the purpose of reporting specially in reference to the number of orphans created by the ravages of the recent epidemic, and of electing increased number of forty orphan hildren into the establishment, was held at the London Tavern ; Mr. B. B. Cabbell, M.P., presiding. The report, which was read by Mr. Buckler, the secretary, dwelt briefly upon the fact that many of the orphan children then pressing for admission into the institution had been deprived of both parents within a few hours by cholera, or else left dependent upon the mother, who was herself suddenly thrown upon her own resources. Under these circum stances, the committee had endeavoured to meet a special emergency by special means, namely, by an in crease in the already large number of children admitted; and they had therefore come to the conclusion that a special election should be held in February next, at which forty children should be admitted. The com mittee had also determined to increase the number re ceived at each half-yearly election, so that the Infant Orphan Asylum would receive 120 children yearly, a larger number than had ever been received by any of the national charities within a similar space of time. There were yesterday 163 candidates for admission. At the conclusion of a very busy pH, which lasted several hours, the names of the forty successful candidates were announced. There are 330 children now in the asylum, without the addition to the number made yesterday. A vote of thanks to the chairman for his courtesy in pre siding cl , )sed the proceedings. THE DUKE AT DOVER.—The Duke of Wellington, as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, held a Pilots' Court here on Tuesday last, at which three senior mem bers of the Fellowship were superannuated, ar.d three young men from the supernumerary list were put in their places. His Grace was received with a salute of nineteen guns, a guard of honour, with band and colour, froM the 5003 (Queen's Own), under the ccrnurn,d of Major Long, and by the local officials. The Noble Duke leoked ell and hearty; and after the routine of the pilot bu,iness had been transacted, his Grace took his ems- tonary stirrup of the hartour works. On reaching the esplanade (in front of which, in defiance of the defences yet raised, the sea has been making extensive inroads during the late gales), his Grace's opinion was aikud by the harbour master as to what was to be done to save the houses and land in that lccality, which stand in jeopardy every hour. The Duke replied, "0, keep on piling." " How far, your Grace ?" was the next query. " Let me see," said the Duke, looking down, musing, and then scanning the bay with the eye of an engineer, " why, to the bathing- machines." Having completed his survey, the Noble and Gallant Duke stepped into his carriage, and drove off, under another salute from tly , grand redoubt.—Dover Chronicle. GUY FAWKES' DAY.—The anniversary of the gun powder plot was celebrated in the vicinity of Tower hill last night in a manner seldom witnessed, at least during the last few years, in the metropolis. As soon as dusk sei - in, vast crowds collected cn the hill, and in Trinity-square, and speedily innumerable pieces of fire works were darting about in all directions. As the evening advanced the excitement increased, and between nine and ten o'clock them probably could not have been less than from 60,000 to Bu,ooo persons assembled. A large force of police were in attendance, under the di rection of Mr. Inspector Marchmont, in order as far as possible to prevent squibs being thrown against the houses, as also to protect the inhabitants from the de predations of the swarm of thieves that invested the neighbourhood. We heard of no accident of any par ticular moment, excepting one which betel Sergeant Gains, of the Fenchurch-street station section of the City police, who, in endeavouring to prevent a lad throwing a squib, had the lower part of his arm rather seriously burned. MDLLE. RACHEL AND THE THEATRE FRANCAIS.— A complaint was entered on Friday last, before the Civil Tribunal of the Seine, by the members of the committee of administration of the,Tl.6.lre Francais, with a view of compelling Mdile. Rachel to appear before the tribunal to show cause why she has ceased to belong to the theatre, and, in accordance with tho laws of the society, to compel her to fulfil the duties she contrawed to perform, and in default of her doing so, to show cause why she should not be condemned in the sum of 12,000 francs damages and interest, from the 15th ult., for every week she declines to conform to the regulations. The complaint also prayed the tribunal to grant such provisional condemnation to the theatre as it should think proper. The tribunal, agreeing with the views of the complainants, fixed on the 9th instant as the day for hearing the complaint. We are grieved to learn that at the late calamitous fire at Combury House (Lord Churchill's), a box con taining valuable records relating to the illustrious hero, the ancestor of the Noble Lord, perished in the confla gration, though strenuous efforts were exerted for its preservation. WHAT IS A REAai OF PAPER ?—We understand that a case of some importance to consumers of writing paper was decided before the Sheriff of Aberdeen on Thursday last, the facts of which are briefly as follow: —A traveller, representing the house of I). Jack and Co , Glasgow, was in Aberdet n some time ago, solicit ing orders for paper at a very cheap rate per ream. Amongst others he got orders from Messrs. Wm. Gor don, Wm. Adamson, and Wm. Stevenson, and w hen the goods came to hand it was round they h ad supplied a ream 4t0., which contains 480 k beets, being just one-half the quantity of a ream folio cut 4t0., which contains 960 sheets. The parties refused to pay for the former, as they maintained that they had bought the latter, it being the universal practice in Scotland to buy and sell paper by the folio ream into whatever size it miw,ht be cut: and on D. Jack and C:).'s bringing the matter into Court, the Sheriff decided in favour of the purchasers. —Aberdeen Herald. constituted an operatic close bor# there is free trfide in every:ning-, mania a raollopoly in MUSIC .-- Treret: •f - 1 7 roegi va - 4,y; - w (7 hen, n4tlie THE UNITED .~ LIVERPOOL, MOND . _ The British and North American 1107r - Mail steam ship Caledonia, which left Boston on the 24th ult., and Halifax cn the 26th, has arrived at this port, with her Majesty's mails and a large number of pas• sengers. ~hT~~ She reports the arrival of the Niagara at New York, and the Hibernia, which sailed hence for Ws ton, had called at Halifax previous to the Caledonia arriving at that port on her homeward voyage. The news generally of an uninteresting cha racter. The dispute with the French Ambassador had been settled au The returns of the cotton and grain crops were still unsatisfactory. Much excitement prevailed at New York relativo to the forthcoming state election, which was to take place on the Ist November. The Democrats were making great exertions to rescue the " Empire State" from Whiggerv. The tone of dissatisfaction which the press assumes with the personnel of the Cabinet, contributes towards the advancement of the Locofoco interest througout the union. A state convention was held at Concord, in New Hampshire, at which the Democrats nominated their candidate for the governorship of the State. A great fairof the South C a r o li na Institute had been held during the week in Charleston. It was well attended, and being the first ever announced there, created much interest. It was generally con sidered that the application of the Mormons for the admission of their territory as a distinct State into the Union, under the title of the State of Deseret, would not be entertained by Congress. A new line of steam-ship between New York and Antwerp has been projected by some merchants in the former city. From Canada we learn that the agitation to pro mote annexation still continues. A meeting of those in favour of annexation had been held on the 17th ult., which was well attended, and several strong speeches were made on the occasion. A meeting of delegates of the British American League v. , as convened for Toronto, on the Ist of November. Some excitement prevailed in Montreal, in cense.- quence of a special assessment being made to pay for the injury done in the late riots to property. The business of Montreal was very good, notwith standing the agitation still carried on amongst the political community. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The state of bubiness generally throughout the Union is fully as good as we have reported it for some time past. The Money Market continued easy, money being plentiful, and obtainable at moderate rates. Treasury Notes, 110 i; United States' Stock, 1121; Sixes, 68. The transactions in Breadstuffs were few. Prices had again slightly given way. Western Canal Fleur, 4 dolls. 75c. to 4 dolls. 87 2. per bri., steady. Ur , nesse() Primo Wheat, 1 doll. 20c. to 1 doll. 22c. per 601bs. Southern Wheat, 9S cents. to 1 doll. per 601bs. Indian corn, round yellow, 64c. to 66c. per bushel, steady ; ditto, flit yellow, 63c. per bushel. Indian meal, 3 dolls. to 3 dolls. 12j-c. per barrtl. The Cotton Market was dull, and prices were lower. New Orleans and Mobile mid fair to fair, llc. to 11fle., showing a fall of lc. Upland and Florida mid. fair lOic. to 11c. Exchange on London, 1101 1104, very firm; on Paris, 51. 20c., business fair; Hamburgh, 354 36; Bremen, 79:i 80. Freight low and little doing. RETURN OF SIR JAMES ROSS. Captain Sir James Ross arrived at the Admiralty yesterday, and had interviews with the Board. The gallant officer appeared rather the worse for his perilous voyage, but was animated with his cha racteristic energy We understand that it is his confident opinion that neither Sir John Franklin nor any of his brave companions are eastward of any navigable point in the Arctic regions, and if there be any chance of their existence it is in the supposi tion that he proceeded in a westerly direction, and in such case we can only expect to hear from the miss ing adventurers by the Mackenzie detachment, or by her Mqiesty's ship Plover, Commodore Moore, by way of Russia. Sir James traversed at least 230 miles on the ice, the bergs of which were frightful, much mare so than any of the experienced arctic voyagers had seen before. Sir James and his party penetrated as far as the wreck of the Fury, where he found the old tent standing, and everything about in a state of the best preservation. At this point Sir James deposited a large quantity of provisions, and also the screw-launch of the Enterprise. The march of Sir James across the boundless regions of ice is truly stated as a most unparalleled feat in exploration. We are sorry to find, however, that it was in no way successful. The captain, officers, and ship's company have worked together most harmoniously —a spirit of emu lation having animated every one in the great philan thropic task of endeavouring to carry help and succour to their long lost friends. In the whole course of his researches it is said Sir James Ross never met with a single Esquimaux. Sir James speaks most highly of all those who have been connected and associated with him. lie is fully satisfied that all has been done that could be done by the Admiralty in the appropriation of the vessel, the selection of the crew, and the ex tensive Equipment of each vessel, in stores, provi sions, &c. The Admiralty have ordered a couple of steamers from Woolwich to the North Sea, to tow up the Enterprise and Investigator to Woolwich to be paid off ; and their Lordships have also ordered up from Kirkcaldy the master of the whaler Advice, about which so much has been said. The following extracts from private letters, ad lressed to personal friends, will be found highly Lnteresting : " At sea, lat. 56 12 N., lon 2 9 E., Oct. 31, 1849. " We are off the coast of Great Britain so far safe and well, having taken our last look of the forlorn and ice-bound shores of Davis' Straits on the 10th of October. We are all well, and, making allowance for the toils and privations unavoidably attendant on similar expeditions, the voyage has been exceedingly comfortab:e, the greatest harmony having existed between the officers and crew during its progress. " We have cer'ainly had to grapple with difficulties of no ordinary nature, hut thanks to the energy and dauntless courage of our experienced commander, we have triumphantly overcome them all. " The voyage has been replete with incidents, varied and interesting, which you will see described at some future period by more learned heads than mine ; suffice to say, that we have had a sufficiency of labour during the two summers that have been gone, and spent rather a cold winter in Port Leopold (entrance of Prince Re g ent ' s Inlet, Barrow's Strait, lat. 73 50 N., long. 90 l 2 W.) ; and I hope the most rigid political economists (Cobden not excepted) will not begrudge us our double pay. ", Whatever opinions may be hereafter expressed with regard to the success or conducting of the ex pedition, lam ready to maintain that all that man could do has been done by Sir J. Ross ; and I believe there are few but will admit that he is an officer of no ordinary character, whether as regards nautical skill or scientific abili ties. Sir James seems to have been formed by nature for the arduous service to which through life he has so zealously devoted him self. To great physical powers, and a constitution equal to every privation and fatigue, he unites every mental qualification necessary to constitute the man destined to conduct a great and hazardous enterprise. " We have lost four men through sickness—as siitant surgeon, and three A.B.'s—men whose consti tutions were thoroughly broken prior to leaving England, and in my opinion they could not have lived twelvemonths longer in any climate, however genial. " While I write this I am ignorant of the fate of Sir John Franklin's expedition. I , 1 may remark that our consort, the Investigator. is in company with us, we having never lost sights' each other during the voyage." "her Majesty's ship Enterprise, Off Scarborough, Nov. 4. " Here we are again. We did not get out of the ice in Barrow's Strait until the last week in Sep. tember, which is very late indeed, so that we had a narrow squeak for another winter in the ice, and good. ness knows how many would have lived to return. We found no traces of Sir J. Franklin, although the captain travelled in May and June upwards of 20 miles on the W. and N.W. coasts of North Somerset, but could find no traces of them. We wintered at Port Leopold, in let. about 74 N. and long. 90 W. We were without the sun for about 80 days, and had the temperature 80 degreds below freezing, by Fah renheit. lamin in a great hurry, and will give you more news in the next." 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