The Sun. — London, England, 1854-11-21 00:00:00

ba made from the Ist October next ,on twenty-five words, instead of twenty as hitherto. `We read in the Sentinelle de Toulon of the 18th : " The Semillante frigate sailed last night with a detachment of foot chasseurson board for the East. The Requin also left with a number of men to re join their regiments in Italy. The Egerie, govern ment transport, has gone into the outer roadsted and received orders to proceed to the Levant. The construction of the battery close to the water's edge to the west of the naval Pyrotechnic School, which is to be mounted with 30 heavy guns of very long range, and intended to complete the de fences of the roadsted, which had long since been decided on, but postponed for other more urgent works, is to be commenced forthwith." A letter from Sebastopol, in a French journal, says : " One would say that in all the great feats of war France is destined to furnish arms to her enemies. With out speaking of the Duke de Bourbon, Prince Eugene, and Bernadotte, at the siege of Rome, the artillery of the besieged was commanded by an old pupil of the Polytechnic School. At Sebastopol, it appears that it is a .xeneral or Colonel Godowin who commands it ; and that officer was formed in the schools of our coun try. Since Godowin, it is said, knew at Metz, where be remained several years, most of the superior officers of the artillery and engineers, against whom he defends so well this bulwark of Russia. He even, before the war, corresponded with the colonel second in command of our artillery. Thus it is a fatality. This one at least is not a Frenchman." BOURSE, YESTERDAY.—CLOSING PRICES. Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 4 per Cents 94 60 94 f. 50e. . 3 per Cents 7O 40 70 15 Credit Al,,bilier 6BO Roman — Credit Fonder Austrian Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes Piedmontese B5 25 Home Debt 33i RAILWAYS—FOR CASH. fr. c. fr. c. Orleans 1,130 Lyons 950 Western 612 50 Rouen 932 50 Cette Mediterranean B3O Havre 520 Northern MONEY MA RK ET 'OM AfER-OIAL INT'ELLIGENC'E. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK, The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 7,000 bales, including 1,000 Surat taken for export. The market closed heavily without change in prices. The sales comprised 5,000 American, 150 Pernam and Maranham, at 51d. to 7ld. ; 200 Egyptian, at Rd. to 80. ; 1,500 Surat, at 3id. to 44d., and 30 Sea Island at Is. to ls. 3d. per lb. Railway Shares were rather firmer. The commercial advices received this week from the Australian Colonies are of only a few days later date than previous accounts ; they are not satisfactory, as the market generally continued depressed. Many of the diggers were returning to settle in South Australia, but the reports from the mines are nevertheless very gratifying to those • engaged in the pursuit of gold-digging. The mercantile interest and general public will he glad to hear that notwithstanding the heavy de mand which the Government have to Make on the resources of the various steam navigation companies for the use of vessels destined to expedite the war like movements in the Crimea, they are not ne glectful of the requirements of the public with reference to the continuance of the usual postal communications between our colonies and foreign possessions. As the vessel which was to have taken a mail to Australia next month has been engaged for the conveyance of troops to the East, the Post-office authorities 'have made engage ments with the owners of the fine clipper-ship James Baines, of Liverpool, to take out, on the 9th December next, the usual mails, under a con tract subject to forfeiture of penalties, if unsuc cessful, to perform the voyage to Australia in 65 days. The Government have also engaged for the trans port service the Niagara and Arabia, belonging to the Cunard line of steamers between Liverpool and America ; and also, the Magdalena and the Tamar, belonging respectively to the West India and Brazil Mail Service. There will be some disarrange ment of the mail services, but arrangements have been effected to lessen the public inconvenience as much as possible, and accordingly the next mail for America (Halifax and Boston) will be despatched on the 9th December, the West India Mail on the 2d December. The Brazil Mail will be omitted. The sale of Mr. Oliver's (of Liverpool) vessels has been postponed from the 23d inst. to the 7th of December next, when the number will be increased from 32, to 78. The paper of Mr. Oliver is to be accepted as payment at the full rate of 20s. in the pound. The Direct Ors of the Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada have issued their report, which will be read at the forthcoming general meeting. A dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum is recommended out of the nett profits of the past half year, viz., 11,2071. 14s. ld. The company has 418,0001. invested in Canada. The tone of the English Stock Market is firmer to-day, partly because there is not further news of a decided character from the Crimea, and because the operations by buyers and sellers of stock are equally balanced. Consols are now 91R. for money, and 91/ for the account, and unless the sales increase the Market appears likely to become somewhat better. Exchequer Bills are I.s. to 4s. pm., and the Bonds steady, at about par. Bank Stock is fir►n at 211. to 213. There is very little business doing in the Foreign Market. The attention of the dealers is directed chiefly to Turkish Scrip, the market for which is firmer, at 61 to 6 per cent. die. The Firman of the Porte,authorising the contrac tion of the Turkish Loan, and the hypothecation of the Egyptian Tribute, amounting to 82,0001. per annum, for the due paythent of the interest on the 5,080,0001. of Stocks, will, it is said, be forwarded by the next, or succeeding, mail from Constanti nople. - - • The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5.1 to 5i ; Mexi can, 218 to 21ft ; Peruvian, 66 to 68 ; ditto, 3 per Cents., 47 to 49 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 to 97 ; ditto, 4i per Cents., 84 to 86 ; Spanish New Deferred, 18i to 18i ; ditto, 3 per Cents., 371 to 38k; ditto, Certificates, 5i to 51 ; ditto, Passive, 4i to 41. A trifling advance has taken place in the leading Railway Shares, but the dealings continue limited. In other descriptions of shares there is very little variation. Mining Shares are neglected, and also those of the Joint-stock Banks. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE s - L ( From th O 9 ial List, ; Be Incas done ;i.snk Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities... 9lll 89i 90.t -3 per Cent Consols Annuities 914 -I, New 3 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 -16 i India Bonds. £lOOO ............ Ditto, under £lOOO lO Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, 24d. £l000 i5OO Sraal , Exchequer BondilBsB, 31 per Cent. — Ditto 1859, ~ PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 97 Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent B6 Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent — Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent Tarkish Scrip G per cent Ditto for the Account N is' d f)ividends on the above payable in Lorylee Dutch Exchange, 2. per Cent. 12 Gail 6 Ol a 1 uitto 4 per Ceut. Certifieates..„, HALF-PAST TWO. Consols Ditto, Account SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 14th have arrived in due course. The Government had received news by telegraph of grave disturbances at Herencia, owing to the refusal of the population to pay the taxes, and of the military commander of Ciudad Real having sent troops to the town. The officers who took part in the affair of the 28th of August, but were set at liberty, had received orders to leave Madrid. The discharge of soldiers of the class of 1848 had commenced, owing to the diminution of their period of service. THE SIEGE OF SEBAST )POL. The Siecle of yesterday has the following on the siege of Sebastopol : "In spite of our well-known military sympathies, we have replied impartially to the reproach which might be` addressed to the Generals of the Allied troops for not having, before laying siege to Sebastopol, endeavoured to finish completely with the forces of Prince Menschi koff. The advanced season of the year did not allow the principal object of the expedition to be neglected for a single instant. They hurried there, and history will record that in a few days an army, long ex pected by the Russians in their richest province, on flair strongest point, obtained there—notwithstanding these four enormous results—a most succes4ul landing ; a first victory which opened the country to it ; the pos sibility of passing through it from the North to the _South, from the Alma to ,Balaklava ; and the faculty of commencing the siege of Sebastopol with perfect secu rity. It is a repetition of the veni, vidi, vici, of Cm sar ; but, unfortunately, these prompt results gave such an impulse to public opinion that in the eyes of a great number the expedition assumed all the character of a coup de main. Successes were hoped for which would have been little short of prodigy. In Eng land as in France, where the remembrance of Mezieres, Valenciennes, Lisle, Mentz, Toulon, and Genoa, ought not to have been forgotten, no exact idea was formed of what the conquest of a fortified place of 'the first rank ought to be. No one took the trouble of thinking what efforts would be accumulated, if Ports month or Brest were attacked. The general feeling which thus prevailed was, we repeat, a misfortune. A first act of a most wonderful effect rendered the spec tators difficult to be pleased with the rest of the piece, and the persons who are anxious about the glory and honour of their country behold with grief, in England and France, a heavy fall in the public funds greeting bulletins announcing victories, but not coming up to all the ardent desires of public opinion. As we have already said, from the plan of campaign which has been adopted, and which consists in takine. Sebastopol, in spite of the Russian forces in the field, the Anglo-French arrriy has a double task to perform —to keep in check a powerful army fully master of its actions, and to obtain possession of a fortified place of immense extent and tremendous strength. Everything has as yet proved that the Anglo-French army is not be low the level of its noble task. Not only has it worsted the Russian army, though reinforced from the Danube and from the North, but each day of the siege had been marked by a step in advance ; the fortified wall had been at the date of the last accounts nearly reached at. Sun pose now that they who have so well accomplished this double task receive, like the Russians, considerable rein forcements ; suppose that by meansof thedivision Mayran from Athens, which left Constantinople on the sth, and must have already arrived ; that by means of reinforce ments from Oran and Malta ; by means of the divisions of the camp of the south, which must at the present time be at sea ; and by means of Turkish troops sent fie= Varna and the Bosphorus, the generals-in-chief of the Allies may in their turn form an army for the field cf - Which the forces already so ably handled by General Besquet should serve as the nucleus—suppose all that, and matters at once change their appearance. The army of the siege has only the task of carrying the town, and the forces of Prince Menschikoff, in place of disquieting the besieging army, are forced to defend themselves. THE NATIONALITY OF POLAND. (From the Journal des Debats.) It is not difficult to show, history in hand, that when ever Poland has appeared to hope for her resurrection from the hand of the revolution, she has at the same moment, found all Europe, which desires the maintenance of social order, united against her. There is, then, an opposition of interest between the Polish cause and the revolutionary cause. Compare for a moment what Poland may ex pect from the revolution, and what she may expect from the q ues ti on of European equilibrium. The revolution would only give her a war of insurrection, without re gular support, without monarchial allies, a war which would instantly cause all European social order with i ts kings, its princes, its armies, and even its peoples, 1-,ho would soon b e t i re d of anarchy, to coa l esce aga i ns t Poland, and to hasten to seal up anew the stone which causes her tomb—blaming the whole crime of partition, but finding that the reparation of the evil would become- itself a great evil. Look, on the con trary,t a t w h at the war of equilibrium, and not a revolu ionary war, would give to Poland. Itwould give her allies or powerful and friendly supporters. Her name would naturally enter into the calculation of European equili brium, instead of as heretofore forming a portion of the alarms of social order. She was a danger : she may become a remedy. This is an immense change. This change of situation must necessarily lead to an analogous ehange in Polish opinion. It was naturalthat a good many Poles should entertain sympathy for revolutionary opinions, when they believed that the revolutionary party could and would alone re-open to them the gates of their country. Experience has shown them that this party could not do it, arid that it would not do it. The chiefs of the revolution of 1848 were not favourable to the Polish cause to the extent of declaring war against all Europe in favour of Poland. Far be it from us to blame those chiefs for their prudence ; on the contrary, we praise them for it ; but the Poles, no doubt, thought that the revolution of 1848 would be less circumspect, and that it would not faithfully follow on that point the policy of King Louis Philippe. The revolu ,2: of 1848 was then a first lesson for the Poles. W can, however, understand that this lesson has not sufficed sympathies.tec'ure some Poles of their . revolu tionaryadva.ntage—composed Revolutionary parties have this who replace one an generally of several regiments has not done, it is hoped what the first regiment do. But as we just soaPded that the second will can promise to Poland nnt , h. the revolutionary party social order cannot give moci,l h the party of surely. A revolutionary war has better and much more is worth what is offered by a anrotfhing to offer which the Poles convince themselves ofothsquilibriurn. let them at the same time understand that truth, and let of rendering the war favourable to Poland d h i e s sole means to continue to keep it free from any revoluti onary idea. They may have formerly believed that emotion or the war might be revolutionary, the m ore it emore be Polish ; but the contrary is and be the cave would at present. The more the war may r ema i n political, the more it will become Polish. It is by the modifies: tion of European equilibrium, and not by the revolution that Poland may be partially or wholly resuscitated. We have always admitted and maintained in this journal that the position of Poland was the gravest encroach ment on European equilibrium. But as lose as it wa s believed, erroneously it is true, that Poland, to re pair that equilibriiim, wished to destroy social order, the cause of Poland was only supported in Europe by hot-headed people ; it hal the support neither of capi talists nor statesmen. At present, however, by a con junction ef unexpected events, an opportunity of modifying the European equilibrium, without endanger ing social order, has arisen ; it is an unexpected piece of good fortune for Poland. The New York Crystal Palace has been converted into a transient auction mart, where all exhibitors have the right, within certain to scil their goods, restrictions, for t • ufty days, to the highest bidder. Tina EDINBURGH COUNTY MILITIA is fast filling up. If recruits continue to come forward as they did last N "'eli, it is expected the number will be completed before all their stations are visited. Numerous .steady farm servints are presenting themselves, and their employers !feria to evince a desire for them to enrol under the -Duke of Bucclouch,—Courant. SYMPATHY FOR RUSSIA. A general meeting of the subscribers of the Newcastle Exchange Subscription Rooms was held yesterday, at 12 o'clock noon, to take into consideration the conduct of Mr. William Joseph Thompson, a member of these rooms, and his pro•Rassian views ; and also to decide on the propriety of exercising in his case the power of expulsion vested in a majority of the votes of the sub scribers, convened at a general meeting. About 150 to 200 gentlemen were present. The chair was taken by Mr. Alderman Pollock. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, dilated upon the opinions of Mr. Thompson ; and after a short address, Mr. lIARaisoN proceeded to addres3 the subscribers ; and moved a resolution to the effect that Mr. W. J Thompson be expelled as a member of the subscription rooms. Mr. BowNES seconded the proposition of Mr. Harri son. He said, Mr. Thompson had always been found Co express pro-Russian opinions. The Russian successes were to him a source of joy, their defeat of sorrow. He (Mr. Thompson) had scored and altered newspapers, and hung them up near the telegraphic news, under lined. This last act came under rule No. 7. Mr. Thompson attended, and protested against the proceedings. The motion was formally put from the chair, and carried unanimously. Mr. Thompson's name was accordingly struck out of the list of members, amidst the cheers of the meeting. LA TV INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) COURT OF EXCHEQUER. QUEEN V. ALISON. assTaluillstswoaxstprosecution women d children.l: n d er the Tile i f i o e r fe r n e d p a r i e i t swassing a surge on i n extensive practice at Barton-upon-Trent , and having been convicted of an assault upon his own sun, a lad of seven years of age, he was committed to the treadmill for six calenda r months. Subsequently to the committal Mr. Huddlestone obtained a rule call ing upon the justices of Staffordshire to snow cause why a habeas corpus should not issue to release the prisoner, on the ground that the warrant of commitment did not specify that the conviction had taken place before two justices sitting at the place where the petty sessions 01 the district were usually held. Mr. Scotland now showed cause against the rule, and cited the Administration of Justice A.ct, which sets out the form of a commitment in cases like this. The war rant of commitment in the present case followed that form, and, therefore, it was perfectly good, although it did not distinctly specify that the justices at tl-e time t.f • the conviction were sitting in the place where the petty objection to th e ru l e too well s e s T s i h o e n s c w j e u r r e t u t e i y t i e s l d. ld founded, and discharged it accordingly. THE II V' 1-1 LOWtION, T'C'ESDAY EVRWINGI SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. 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Dun Do Staines, Wok. &Wc,i, tockton & Darlin, Stockton & liartlepl raff Vale Do. £lO shares. Do. Prof., No. 1..... Thames Haven Doa and Railway Vale of Neath I Waterfd. & Kilkenn3 \Vaterfonl&LimeriA West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palau West London. Winabledn&Croydoill 20 - 44 - 41; 7i si I 1 10.11 17 - 18 6i - N 94 - 93 59i - 59.1 13 - 14 10 - 12 4 - 2 61 - 74 15 - 16 ilk - ng 32 - 34 22 - 24 67 - 69 53 - 55 ••• - 20 - 22 8[)- 74 - 76 124 - 126 87 - 691 69:1 68 - 70 75 --- 80 7 - 90 7 - 9 701 - 71 5i -- 5i 7' 104 105 981 99; d par t d - par 1 79i 104 • 91 1 9 Sal 22 Y 3 67/ 681 39 - 41 i 4 id 2 10A 91 , 48 - 50 3h 33 334 8 10 11 - 11 64 - 75. - 76 6 -6 , -- 34, 134 - 14 51 - 52 53 - 55 - - 44 - - 7 31 -- 33 92 - 91 60 - 62 7i - 8 .1 45 -47 12 - 14 s`Ji (0 - 316 i - }u 35 - 37 3 - 8 19 - 4i 22 6 - 7 6 - 7 FOREIGN. - 11 - 4 - 3 Id-iP ... - _. 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A i Pontgibaud Silver Lead Min. & Port Philip Quartz Rock ithymney Iron Do. New 151 - - 23 - 2 5 6 - S - 6 lt 1 - 3 - 31 riantiago de Citba, South Tin Croft Jnited Mexican Waller West Mariposa Worthing Mining of Australia - ‘'uba.. ••. - ... CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.-(THIS DAY.) DR. JACOB AND THE GOVERNORS. A very large meeting of the governors, committee• governors, &c., was held this day at Christ's Hospital, to take into consideration the sermon lately delivered by Dr. Jacob, in which the management of the hospital was freely alluded to. The chair was taken by Mr. Gilpin, the Treasurer. The usual routine business having been concluded, A proposition was made to read some letters from the other masters to the Almoners. A resolution to the following effect was then moved as an amendment by Mr. M‘GEAcuv :—" That the thanks of this Court be given to Dr. Jacob for his excellent and well-timed sermon." Mr. ALDERMAN WILSON supported the amendment. Mr. CLARK hoped that all the documents that had been alluded to'would be printed, so as to enable every one to form an unbiassed opinion. Mr. KEMBLE said there had been an attempt to lead Dr. Jacob by those holding office but it had signally failed. He sincerely hoped that the majority of the gentlemen present would support the preposition of Mr. M'Geachy. Mr. PAINTER opposed the amendment, and dwelt strongly upon Dr. Jacob, who, be said,' instead of de. curing as he had his peculiar views before the whole of the boys in the shape_of a sermon should have laid them before the governors. He thought the best thing was to adjourn the question. (Loud cries of " no, no.") Dr: M'NEIL then rose to address the meeting, and was left speaking. [We shall give the result in our late edition.] MABK.ET NEWS-',l l lll - 2 DAY.) HAY MARKETS. SMITIMELD.—Meadow hay, 21 103 to 41 10a ; clover ditto, 41 Os to 6' 01 ; and straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ 12s per load. A moderate supply and a steady demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 2/ 12s to 4/ 158 ; clover ditto, 41 03 to 51 15s; and straw, 1/ Gs to 1/ 12s per load. Trade steady, at full prices. WHITECECAPEL.—IIeadow hay, 2/ 14s to 4110 x; clover ditto, 3/ 03 to 6/ •Os ; and straw, it 6s to 1112 s per load. Supply good, and trade tolerably firm. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—There is no change in the refined market. Brown lumps 42s ca, and grocery 43s to 49s per cwt. The quantity of British plantation lanced last week at the East and West India Docks was 681 hhds 77 tierces 491 brls. There were taken for consumption 1,237 hhds •23 tierces 521 brls. The stock in the. same places is 19,237 hhds 2,803 tierces 4654 brls. _ _ _ _ COFFEE. —The large public sales declared have checked business, Native Coylobs are dull at 46s to 46s 6d. RICE.—The market is quiet, and the sales privately are only 2,(60 bags Bengal at 16s to 163 Oil for good mid to fine, an:t Madras at 143 3d. At auction 1,375 bags Bengal partly sold at 16s to 16s 6d, and 5,215 bags Madras was bought in at Hs to 14s Gd for mirky. Itu3r.—The market is inactive. The quantity landed last wewk at the East, and West India Docks was 1,022 puns 200 hhds, there were taken for home consumption 281 puns 33 hhds, and exported 109 puns 99 hhds. The stock in the same places is 13,837 puns 2,883 hhds. SALTPETRE.—The market was less active. At auction 1,680 bags Bengal sold at 26s 6d to 30s Gd for 12 to 2)) per cent. refraction. COTTON.—The dealings aro limited. TALLOI7.—Thi9 article is firmer at 3d to 6d advance. P.Y.C. is 60s to 6fis per cwt on the spot, and town 68s Gd. TEA.—The public sales are now in progress. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DIY.) LONDON, Ncv. 21. —Wind this day at Noon, S.W. ; fresh breeze, with haw weather. SHEERNESS, Nov. 19.—Wind, E.N.E. Arrived—Ora, from Harnbuigh, assisted in from the Black Deeps, bound to Callao. BRIDGEWATER, Nov, 19.—Wind, E. Arrived—London, from Quebec. DARTMOUTH, Nov. 20.—Wind, E. Arrived—Fadrenss Mind°, from Cape Haytien, for Hamburgh. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 20.—Wind, E.N.E. Arrived— Scotland, from Hong Kong, with loss of bulwarks, &c. ; Balder, Gothenb urg, for gong, S.A., and proeeeded for Cowes, with loss of mainmast, &e. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 2 0.—Wind, E. by N. Arrived—Hes peria, from New York, for Dunkirk ; Corregio, Quebec, for Southampton; Providence St. Michael's ; Catharina, Constantinople ; Palmyra, Dunkirk ; Actif, Skien, for Melbourne. FALMOUTH, Nov. 20 . —Wind, N.B. Arrived—Australia, from Honduras, with thirteen of the crew of the Pamper°, Quebec to the Clyde, which was abrndoned, Nov. 2 ; Gm finda, Mirarnichi, for Hull ; Mary and Sarah, Carthagena, for Newcastle ; L a d y Camilla, Gijon ; Lord Nelson, St. Male, for Glasg ow • Duke of Cornw a ll (s), Dublin, and left for London ; T. S. Reeves, London, for Liverpool, with damage, having been in collieion off the Eddystone with a barque. Sailed—Dmdalus, for Cardiff and Constantinople ; Brilliant do. do E. Brilliant, Ard rossan. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 20.—wind,i .N.E. WHITSTAHLE, Nov. 2 0.—Sailed —William 1., for Ran goon, in tow of two st eamers. Sailed— Tagus (s), for Al exandaia BRISTOL, Nov. 20.—Wi n d, E. - Afrived—Levaniega, from Barcelona. Sailed. —Arrow, for St. Michael's. — Arrived in Bristol Chaunel—Messenger, from St. Stephen's; Nicaragua, Quebec. Hun, Nov. 20. -Wind, N.W. Arrived—Boxanna, from New York ; Flora, Malaga. CARDIFF, Nov. 20.—Wind N.E. Sailed—Frederick, Batta, Insole, and Harmonic', all for Constantinople. (BY F 3 IIBIIARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 10.19 a.m. Wind S.W. ; tide, two hours' flood : light and hazy. No arrivals. Salled—Blackfiiars, for Moreton Bay ; Candace (a), Fer nando Yo; Mystery, Leghorn; Eagle (a), Boulogne. DEAL, Tuesday, 9.30 a.m. Wind S.W. light, hazy. Passed—Electra, from London, for Grenada. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Tagus, commanded by Captain J. K. Joy, left yesterday afternoon with the above mails. She had on board fifty-two first-class and fourteen second-class p,:ssengers, amongst whom are Lieut.-Col. Caulfield, Captain Bishop, Lieut. Ogilvie, and Rev. Mr. Bonnerstock, for Calcutta ; General and Mrs. Crag ie, and C a pt a i n an d M rs . C a d en h ea d, f or Madr as ; Captain Stirling, for Aden ; Hon. R. Hough ton, for Alexandria ; Dr. Fraser and Paymaster Cat• mail, for Malta. Her specie comprises 15,0001. for Alexandria. The Tagus has but a small cargo, in con sequence of the large quantity of baggage which she has on board belonging to persons who ih.tend making their destination via Marseilles, the number of whom are about 60. The Euxine, with the next homeward portion of the Peninsular mail, will arrive on or about Thursday. Placards were extensively posted through the city on Saturday night, requiring "800 smart, active, young men as volunteers for the city of Dublin militia. " It was stated that the bounty would be 61., and that the term of service would be five years, They had at foot the names of David Charles Latouche, colonel, and Cap tain Russell, adjutant. It may be observed that the number of men mentioned in the Gazeits for the city was about 1,200. OPERA AT NEW YORK _Accounts from New York state that the Italian Opera performance s, in which Mme. Grisi was engaged, have been brou g b t to a stand still by the illn ess of Siiznor Mario. Miss Pyne is said to be attracting crow d e d houses. SALE OF VESSELS. --The sale of the v essels of Mr. Oliver, at Liverpool, has been postponed from the 23d inst. to the 7th of D, camber, when the, total to be offered will be increased to 77 ships, the number ori ginally advertised being 32. The paper of Mr. Oliver is to be accepted in payment at 203. in th e pound, and by this means the vessels will be retain( a among the existing creditors, or become the property of persons who may put themselves in the place of the creditors by private purchases of the di s h onoure d bills. I' aid.' 101 a] 20 I 21 176 a, 20 20 li 20 al 20 20 a] 100 20 li 23 1 25 a] 25 a] leo I a , 20 11 Antwerp&Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. June. 8 Beziers to Craissessae s. Bombay, Baroda, and Central In dia,Serip Contra! of Italy ,11 Demerara A Dijon and Besancon A) Dutch Rhenish Lll Eastern of France LO Do. New Xll I , la.st Indian 2 Do. Extension di Do. 44 p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible al Do. do. do., '59, do LO Gd. Juliet. of France .2 ;ad. Tk of Canada.A. is. 11 Do. do .11 Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. all iDo. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '63 ill Do. Comp. 6p. c., do. 0 Gt. Central of Fiance Al Gt. Indian Peninsula 1 Do. Now 5 per cent. tl I Ot.Western o;'Canadii Shares all Do. 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JOINT-STOCK BANKS. so - - 82 id—par 1 id • • ."'' ••• 3 2idi 234 - 244 33 - A ••• --0 ••• 43 - 45 70 - 72 8 - 9 IN = ~.. 10 a , 20 1( 20 1 6 a] 20 2' 4 0 I al 40 a: 5O a 1 25 20 ' 100 t 100 2 1 20 11 50 t 100 21 100 3 20 11 50 2! 20 al 25 al, 100 12! 10 a] 100 100 a l . 100 a: 100' a 20 1: 20 20 20 E 20 ll 20 2 20) al 20 if al 20 a 94 59 i i i G9i 70 58i 91 30 13.5 5 30 20 1 1 40 5 St. 25 all all 11 all 4.; 1 NOVEMERR int SPORTING NOTES. SOMETHING ABOUT SHREWSBURY. The character of the Shrewsbury Meeting was not a little extraordinary ; it differed widely from that of any other race gatherirg in England. The course was crowded with thirubierriggerg, who plied their trade openly, and without let or hindrance from the police, 'and in and out the stand were roulette tables, on which people made their game seemingly with the full conni vance of the authorities. *Baden-Baden liberty and Hamburg freedom for the nonce prevailed at Shrews bury, and the scene on the race-course reminded one of the times when the laws relating to gaming were naught and policemen were not. Things, too, were cleverly managed at Shrewsbury— albeit, good intentions were marred by foul weather and unforeseen occurrences. 0 xners of horses had little to com plain of. Mr. Frail evinced every desire to accommodate and give them good terms, but circumstances unexpec tedly defeated his efforts. Favourites whose success was reduced to seeming certainties were bowled over, until backers became weary of the sport. Fielders were, however, fortunate enough, and at . few meetings during the season have they had such a long run of good luck as at Shrewsbury; Selling Races were the leading items in the programme, and after each event the winner was promptly put up for auction. Of the many sales, how ever, certainly not more than three were genuine, and the race fund was not therefore enriched to that large amount which the return of the salessetforth. Horses too were sold with wonderful rapidity. Rosaline, for instance, was "put up" at thirty guineas, and knocked down for thirty-five before bidders could open their mouths. In fact, persons were appointed to buy in the winners. A curious anecdote is, by the way, told respecting the modus operandi: At the Summer Meeting two men undertook this office, - and when a certain animal was put up they unwittingly began bidding against each other, and had run the auctioneer up -to an alarming price, and would have gone on bidding all day had not the clerk of the course been informed of the proceeding, and given them the whispei to stop. This blunder caused much merriment at the time. Of the sport it will be sufficient to say that for the period of the year it was too abundant. It now requires no lengthened comment: The principal races were won by "outsiders." Pantomime, the sometime favourite for tLe Shrewsbury Handicap, was scratched, because the publio forestalled his owner in "getting on." Some heavy forfeits were paid before Catherine Parr was allowed to start fur the Column Handicap. She, however, was easily defeated by lanthe, who was well served by the weight and the deep ground. In my " notes" of the meeting, lanthe was among my " picks." A strange rumour was circulated in the "sporting circles" at Shrewsbury, to the effect that Knight Errant and Maid of Golborne, who had engagements at this meeting, are the property of no less a personage than the Grand Duke Constantine ! However ridiculous this .report may appear, some people are credulous enough to believe that it is not utterly without foundation. A muddle was made of the steeple chase. " Black Peter," who jumped in capital style, and looked as fresh as a three-year-old, was disqualified, because he west on the wrong side of the turning flags to the right of the race course. Escape was, therefore, declared the winner. This horse is by no means a bad jumper, and in the present scarcity of good steeple chasers he will, doubtless, be useful. Mr. Frail certainly deserves well of the sporting com munity and of the town "of Shrewsbury for the energy and tact which he displayed in conducting this . meet ing. From his own private purse he supplied the chief "means and appliances" for carrying out the proceed ings, although it must be acknowledged that certain innkeepers contributed liberally to the fund. Still, Mr. Frail does not receive from the inhabitants generally chat support to which he is justly entitled. Mr. Tophatn again solicits the patronage of the turfites, and has prepared a programme of sport, which will be celebrated at Hoylake over the Liverpool Hunt Club Course on Wednesday and Thursday next. The list contains ten items, the principal of which are; of course, handicaps. I am informed that Boddicot is a "good thing" for the Visitors' Plate, and that Ferdham will ride him. The events appointed for decision have not sufficient importance to warrant my extending my notes to them. Nov. 20. A FRESH MAN. 1-ZAIL Y INTELLIGENCE. SOUTH LONDON. It is intended to apply to Parliament in the next ses sion for an act to incorporate a company to make a rail way from the West of London and Crystal Palaco Rail way at Battersea, via Wandsworth, Clapham, Lambeth, Brixton, Walworth, and Peckham, to the South-Eastern Railway at Deptford, near the Grand Surrey Canal ; also to enable the company to enter into agreements and arrangements with the London, Brighten, and South Coast, the South-Eastern, the London and South- Western, and the West-end of London and Crystal Palace Railway Companies, in reference to the management of the proposed railway, and the working of the traffic thereon. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE AND BLACK- BURN. Notice of application to Parliament in the next session has been given for power to amalgamate these two com panies upon such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon. THE BE INFORoBALENTS FOR TILE CRIMEA. The Guards conti: gent leaves, we believe, on Friday, amount, 603 men. Yesterday a detachment of the Royal Artillery, escorting four tumbrils, arrived at the Tower to receive stores for the companies of artillery and field batteries from Norwich and Ipswich under orders for the Crimea. They took away tents, canteens, and other essentials. necessary for field service ; the novelty attracted a nu merous assemblage of the populace, who greeted the escort most enthusiastically as it passed_over Tower-hill on its return to Woolwich. Captain Graydon's company, Ist battalion of Artil lery, and Captain Oldfield's company, 4th battalion, each 150 strong, have proceeded to Portsmouth to embark on beard her Majesty's screw steam-frigate Dauntless, Captain Alfred P. Ryder, for the seat of war. These two companies go out for service with the siege guns. _ _ Two hundred and six men from the depot of the 34th Regiment aro to proceed to the Mediterranean, to join the service companies of that regiment, in the Adelaide, hired steam-transport, which is daily expected. The 34th is expected to go on to the Crimea. The Drake, mortar vessel, shipped her mortar along side the dockyard this afternoon. It is a 13-inch one, and weighs 5 tons and a half, and is en Captain Julius Roberts' (of the Royal Marine Artillery) plan for sling ing mortars, by which the vessel on their discharge suffers less recoil than by the old plan of fixing them on deck in a bed. The entire weight of the mortar and its appendages is about 71 tons. The Drake is expected to go down to the Needles to-morrow to try this tremendous gun, or rather the utility of Captain Roberts' plan. CAVALRY TROOPERS. —Authority has been sent to the depot, Newbridge, to give over immediately 28 young three-year olds from each regiment on service, and take over from the cavalry at home the same number of sea soned troopers. • The Manilla, screw steam-transport, has arrived at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, to take on board a large supply of powder, shot, and shell, and is ordered to have her cargo put on board with the greatest despatch, and proceed with the least possible delay to the seat of war in the Crimea. The Admiralty will receive tenders on tte 22d inst: fcr the conveyance of 4,000 tons of stores to the Crimea —2,000 tons from Portsmouth, and 2,000 tons' from Southampton. The Government are in a new contract for upwards of 150,000 articles of warm clothing, including wool jackets, cow-skin boots and under-dresses, to be sent out imme diately. THE VOLUNTEERS FROM CHATHAM.—The volunteers from the provisional battalion at Chatham have all been medically inspected, and are found fit for service. The following routes have arrived from the Horse Guards to take their departure to join the corps they have volun teered for :—Those for the 71st Highlanders proceed this (Tuesday) morning to Canterbury, and there join. the corps. The volunteers for the 34th embark to-mor row at Gravesend, on board the Dublin steamer, for Plymouth, and there join their corps; and those volun teers to the 17th and 89th Regiments will proceed from Chatham to Gravesend on Thursday morning, and em bark on board the Cork steamer for Cork, and thence the former proceed to Kilkenny, and the latter to Wa terford, to join their corps. RECRUITS FOR THE 23D WELSH FUSlLlERS.—Yester day afternoon a draft of fifty young men from New port, in Wale; arrived per railway at the military de pot, Duke-street, "Westminster, for the purpose of joining the 23d or Royal Welsh Fusiliers, which played so conspicuous a part at Alma. The increase of the number of recruits into Chatham garrison become greater week after week, and it is quite surprising to witness the buoyant spirit that animates the young men on their entering the barracks, and they are received with cheers by the young recruits, who assemble round them with their red drill jackets. It is expected that the provisional battalion alone will have from Liverpool above 100 young men per week. THE STEAMERS FOR THE CRIMEA. LIVERPOOL, Monday.—The Government, in addition to the Europa, Niagara, and Arabia, royal mail steatii-ships of the Cu nard Company, have chartered the new screw Steamer Imperatrix, of the South American Steam Navigation Company, for the conveyance of troops to the Crimea. This will cause a slight interruption in the despatch of monthly mails from Liverpool to the Brazils, which will in future be started on the Ist of each month, instead of the 24th as formerly. Notices were to-day posted in the Exchange-rooms here, asking tenders to be sent in to Somerset-house, before 1 p.m. on the 22d inst., for steamers to convey 4,000 tons of bats and stores to the Crimea ; to embark them at Portsmouth and Southamp ton. THE FRENCH REINFORCEMENTS. The Cannier de Lyons says :--"An order arrived here two days back by telegraph, to have the 18th light in fantry, the 47th, the 52d, and the 73d of the line, de spatched at once for the East. They are to leave with out delay." These regiments are not comprised in the organisation of the 7th and Bth corps. Two hundred and fifty-four men, belonging to various corps of engineers and artillery, left Marseilles on the 17th in the Thabor for the East. Several detachments of various regiments passed through Marseilles the same day on their way to Toulon, where thoy are to embark for the Crimea. The Courrier de Marseilles states that it is seriously in contemplation to establish at that place a new park of artillery, and every arrangement, it is said, will be made to carry it into execution as soon as possible. DEATH OF PROFESSOR E. FORBES. We are satisfied that no event which has happened for some years will excite more surprise, and create a more profound feeling of grief in the scientific world, than the demise of Professor Edward Forbes, on Saturday, in the 39th year of his age. When a student in Edinburgh twenty years ago he gained distinction for his ardent cultivation of the different branches of Natural History, and was the centre of a group of young men, all of whom have since risen to eminence. After visiting Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, and other continental coun tries, in order to extend his knowledge of Natural His tory, he gave a course of lectures en his favourite science in the extra-academical school of this city. But hearing of a scientific expedition about to proceed to Asia Minor, under the auspices of Government, be was induced to join it in the capacity of Naturalist. During his absence the Professorship of Botany in King's College, London, became vacant, and his friends applied for it in his name. He was appointed, and returning a few days afterwards immediately entered upon the duties of the chair. His vast know ledge of natural objects was soon appreciated, and he became Secretary and Curator to the Geological Society of London, when he commenced arranging the Museum of that institution, and thus extended his knowledge of Fossils and of Palaeontology. Here also he began to form friendships with all the most distinguished gco logists and men of science in the metropolis, and of which probably no man living could boast of a larger , num ber„ When the Government School of Mines and Designs, and the Economic Museum in conjunction with it was founded by Sir E. de la Beeche, Forbes was placed at the head of the Palaeontological department. To him the Museum is indebted for the laborious arrangement arid display of the British Fossils, now seen in the mag nificent institution in Jermyn-street, London ; and science is no less indebted to him for a series of splen didly illustrated Monographs of new species. To enter, however, at any length upon his numerous contributions to science, or on a description of his well-known works on the Star Fishes of Britain, his British Conchology, and the many papers he published in the scientific transactions and journals of the day, is, in this necessarily hurried sketch, obviously impossible. It is enough to say that when the veteran Jamieson died last April, Forbes was universally recog nised as the only man in Great Britain who was worthy to succeed him. The writer of this hasty sketch knows that the Chair of Natural History, in the University of Edinburgh, was with Forbes the highest object of am ition' and that, had his life been spared, it would have been dedicated to extending its already great reputation, so that no school, probably, in the civil ised world would have equalled it in greatness. With this view he had formed gigantic and most able plans, which through his great influence with the Go vernment would have been liberally supported, and we have no doubt ultimately carried out. But, arrived at the culminating point of his ambition, and at the com mencement of his long-matured schemes of usefulness he has, by a mysterious dispensation of Providence, been removed from us, when we were beginning to appreciate his worth. A. chronic disease, contracted when is the East, re-excited and rendered violent by a severe cold caught last autumn on a geological excursion, and which burst out with uncontrollable fury about 10 days ago, was the immediate cause of his premature death.— Caledortiarr Mercury. Mails for the United States and British North Ame rica will be made up in the General Post-office on the morning of the 22d inst., on the evening of the 28th inst., ou the evening of the Bth proximo, and on every alternate Friday afterwards, to be sent via Liverpool. SCOTTISH EXHIBITION OY ARCHITECTURAL ARTS AND MANUFACTURES. —The Glasgow branch of the Architec tural Institute of Scotland have undertaken an exhibi tion of arts and manufactures connected with architec ture. They have purchased greund, and erected galle ries as exhibition rooms, and have converted a house on the property to serve as a home for the institute. The council aro desirous of promoting a love of art in that part of Scotland, and of extendin g the means of pin pro curing i educa tion, and of assisting in the foundation of a permanent g muse um of architecture , sculpture , painting, and art man ufacture. We need net say that we dl sympathise contributions of objects of art and manufactures. a manufactures. We understand they with them in their effhoarvtse,exanpedrwienoucledd some difficulty in England, m anu f acturers espe cially unaware of the fi e ld th us obtaining appearing contributions to be i n opened up to them in the great manufacturing metro polis of Scotland. The Scottish this enterprise are desirous of architects associated in promoting a knowledge j and the sale of every olectof real merit produced either at home or abroad ; andwhilat inviting the contributions of their English and t v o antag prom o te e i foreign ad brethren, they hope that the exhibition may be o all who may contribute.—The Builder . .o the tlie success ; and the council will d o th e i r utmostof MONMOUTHSHIRE. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday at Newport, Mr. Booker, M.P., in the chair. The Secretary then read the report, On the motion of the CHAIRMAN resolutions were passed adopting the report, declaring a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum for the halfyear ending the 30th of June, payable on the 30th of December next ; authorising the directors to borrow money •n the Newport Dock shares, and to make application to Par liament in the ensuing session for power to raise addi tional capital to the extent of 270,0091., to complete the works and provide working stock. SOUTH YORKSHIRE. This company have given notice of their intention to apply to Parliament in the ensuing session for powers to construct an extension of their railway from its junc tion with the Great Northern line to Doncaster to Crowle, in the Isle of Axholnio, North Lincolnshire ; also for power to construct a branch from Crowle to Bole, near Gainsborough, to join the Manchester, Shef field, and Lincolnshire lineat that point ; also for powers to make working arrangements with the latter com pany, and to construct a branch line to Woombwell wood. THAMES EMBANKMENT. Notices of intended application to Parliament in the next session have been given fur an act to incorporate a company to make an embankment and railway along the north side of the Thames from Queenhithe-stairs to West minster-bridge ; and a branch railway from a point op posite Whitehall-place to the Westminster Terminus rail way, near the Grey-coat Hospital, Westminster. It is also proposed to construct a public carriage road and footways, chiefly on the einbankinnnt from Chatham place Blackfriars-bridge, to Whitehall-place. It is in tended (if nece3sary) to enable the London and North- Western, the Great Western, the London and South- Western, the London, Brighton, and South Coast, the West. of London and Crystal Palac,, and the Western Terminus railway companies to subscribe to the under taking. LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending Nov. IS, 1851 £14,841 7 3 Corresponding week last year 14,286 9 9 Increase in I.''M 1:55i 17 6 LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. — Traffic return for the week coding Nov. 18 £11,315 9 10 1854 corresponding week last year 11,087 8 3 Total of the half-year to this date, 1851 323,463 18 7 Total of the half-year to this date, 1853 205,293 17 2 • THE DECEMBER MAILS FOR AUSTRALIA.—A Liver pool correspondent reports, that owing to the Govern ment having required the services of the mail steamer of the 4th proximo, the Postmaster-General has entered into au arrangement with Messrs. James, Baines, and Co., owners of the Liverpool Black Ball Line of Aus tralian Packets, to despatch their celebrated clipper, James Baines, on the 9th proximo, with the mails for Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, &c. The vessel in ques tion is one of the swiftest in the world, having made her maiden trip from Boston to Liverpool in 12 days. The James Baines will sail under the command of Captain C. M'Donnell (late of the Marco Pole), who is bound, under a penalty, to deliver the mails in Melbourne in 65 days, but from his experience of the ship (it having been built under his superintendence), he anticipates making the passage in even shorter time. MAILS FOR SOUTH Amer:mi.—The following notice was issued from the General Post-office yesterday—viz. : "The South American Steam Navigation Company not b e ing prepared to despatch a steamer to Brazil, the River Plate, &c., on the 24th instant, the next mails will be despatched front London on the evening of the 30-h inst., and from Liverpool on the morning of the Ist proz. A mail for Rio do Janeiro will be made up at this office on the evening of the 24th inst. for convey ance by H.M.S. Brisk. Letters contained in this mail will be liable to the packet rate of postage—viz., is. when not exceeding half an ounce, 2s. when exceeding half an ounce and not exceeding an ounce, and so on. Newspapers will be convoyed without charge. All let ters and newspapers intended to be sent by this vessel must be addressed 'By H.M.S. Brisk.'" THE TELEGRAPH.— A correspondent writes : —" There is much talk at Berlin about the arrest of a banker ac- L clued of having corrupted the telegraph clerks. He was the bead of a band who have frequently succeeded in ; ; stealing official despatches. A despatch from Count r Nesselrode to the Russian envoy at Dresden has been I found at the residence of one of the parties inculpated. TELB PRUSSIAN_ AND CHAMBERS. The unequivocal indications of the spirit which animates the King and Court of Prussia increase the anxiety with which the friends of national in dependence throughout Europe are looking forward to the meeting of the Prussian States-General. Our readers are aware that. by an edtert recently Pro- Innig,ated an entirely -new constitution has been given to the First Chamber of the Prussian legis lature. By that edict, in addition to the members who are to sit in their own right, certain corpora tions have been empowered to propose a limited number of additional members, the power of con firming or vetoing these recommendations being reserved to the Crown. The assemblies of these corporations, for the purpose of recommending to the Crown members for the First Chamber, have been nearly all held ; in the great majority of cases Conservatives, more or less prononce.s, have been nominated, not a few of whom are mem bers of the Representative Chamber. So sensible aro the further —or ultra-aristocratic party in Prussia—of the extent to which this will weaken them in the Chamber of Representatives, that they are becoming clamorous to have the meeting of the Legislature postponed until the vacancies thuS created can be filled up by new elections. There is no doubt as to the entire sympathy e hich exists between the Court and this party ; and the fact that the meeting of the Legislature has been definitively fixed for the 30th inst. would, there fore, seem to indicate that the Court are of opinion they are likely to lose rather than gain by elec tions at the present moment. This is a most unequivocal confession, on the part of the Court, of what are the real sentiments of the great body of the Prussian people with respect to the contest now waging in the East. The partisans of Russia are confined almost exclusively to the narrow circles of those corporations empowered to nominate candi dates for achnission into the. First Chamber. These consist of the nobles of the seven provinces ; a few towns (some of them of very inferior consequence) which were at one time free-towns of the old Ger man Empire or the kingdom of Poland • and the Universities. In the province of Westphalia there are 365 persons entitled to vote in the nomination of a candidate for the First Chamber ; irf none of the others does the number amount to 2G(.; ;in one it is only 35. The municipal authori ties ;n the towns, and the professors of the univer smiteinest: are E a v l e i n w more ith or in les t s b d e e s pe e nfdewentaunid)onfaGrovferronm wealthy corporations there is an opposition respect able in p oint of numbers ; and against them are ara w r hol y e e d o f t t h h • e e r c e o s m t b o i f ned i the n n a t t e i lt o le n c .l a v n i d th ca s p u i c t h al a o f f the feeble support is the , infatuated monarch bidding defiance to the opinion of the nation, and sacrificing its true interests at the shrine of that brother-in-law of whom he has made for himself an idol to bow down and worship. Still it is extreneely doubtful whether the Prus sian Chamber of Representatives will have the courage to assert their constitutional right to re monstrate, with iThe weight and energy which unanimity bestows, rraagainstre, in 8 thlesinit the cida Prussian l policy of their Government. people compelled their reluctant monarch to em brace the cause of national independence ; but the King of that day, though from indecision of cha racter and pusillanimity averse to throwing down the gauntlet to the first Napoleon, cherished a kind of sneaking desire to do so. His people only com pelled him to do what he would have done of his own accord had he possessed the courage. But the present King, in resisting the wishes of his people, is indulging his own inclivaticns. It will be more difficult to induce him to change his policy, and the Representative Chamber of Prussia--elected exclusively by a good-natured middle-class in easy circumstances, and imbued with a great deference for royalty—is not likely to address its Sovereign in a peremptory strain. It will at most " hint a fault, and hesitate di:Alike" at his conduct, and let him take his own way. The members will shake their heads and muttter that he is bringing ruin on them all, but they will allow him to bring it.— Daily Hews. TllE ENGLISH DA. YES. The meeting of the Danish residents in London last week ought not to be forgotten, or passed over as an event of small importance. The present struggle between the Government and the people of Denmark cannot but come to some memorable issue and every incident which conduced to that issue ought then to have its place in history. Among those incidents should be reckoned the gathering together of Danish citizens in London, sympathised with by their compatriots in Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and Cardiff, to strengthen tho hearts and hands of the defenders of the Con stitution at home. It is observable that in all the meeting's and pub lic declarations of the popular party in this contro versy all quarrel with the King is carefully avoided. Like the chairman on the present occa sion, the great Copenhagen meeting and the Diet have, with excellent prudence, spoken of their Constitution as the grant of their SoverEign, which they mean to defend to the death. They direct their accusations and opposition to the Ministers, and thus leave open the way to reconciliation, with out revolution,when ever the King becomes aware of the necessities of his position: It is, in fact ) impossible for the most uncongenial observer of the case to charge the popular party and their leaders, thus far, with anything factious in temper acts, or words. The King has hitherto upheld his unwor thy Ministers ; he has been rude to deputations ; he has cut down the trees on the ramparts at Copenhagen, and cleared the ground for a siege, in case of the people standing fast for their Consti tution. These are his own personal acts, so that, without reckoning his authorisation of the control of the press and other illicit ministerial acts, his people have abundant cause of quarrel with him. Yet they quietly and wisely leave open to him a way of retreat from his false position ; and, while sufficiently indicating what they mean to do, offer to their Prince an opportunity to lead them in the doing of it. It is highly important to others than the Danes that their King should not lose the op portunity. We need not explain to our readers our view, nor insist upon our sense, of the importance of this Danish controversy. From the outset of it we brought it prominently into notice, and we have left no new phase of it unmarked. Our readers are therefore prepared to estimate at once the importance and significance of the three topics which consti tuted the business of Thursday's meeting. In the first place, the chairman avowed the pre cise object of the assembly : To recognise the duty of all true Danes to protest against the late in fringements of their Constitution, in the dissolu tion of the Dict,•and the prosecutions of the press, and to declare their intention of holding fast their constitutional liberty, in whatever land they might be residing while the strife was going forward in their own. The second topic was theTigolbalnidga. have German upheldnewspaperst hei r cause, were when,they say, the tio w n r s e of Danish citizens to the press o f E certainly as _ Russian doctrine m e rely translations of Denmark is and sentiment. The press of _ not free. That of Francois silent— the national mind being shut down under hatches. That of all the G erma n and Italian Stat es is un trustworthy, the English press, in all Europe ( considerin g the even when it speaks. There is only peculiar relations of Denmark to Norway and Swe den), that can act as the organ of the Danish peo ple ; and they, by their compatriots in London, appear to be satisfied with what that press has done. The third topic was the war, and the action of the Allies. Nothing could be more explicit and unquestionable than the declaration of adhesion to the cause of the Western Alliance by these repre sentatives of Danish nationality. They declared that the fate of that nationality, and the indepen dence of Den mark, hun g oa the event of the iar; and the speaker boldly informed us that ‘` whatever free-spoken the feelings of the Danish Ministry might be, this of Eng , land in this lie could say, that the free-hearted Czar Danes were with the people afterwards his mighty struggle of liberty ao • may meet Whatever success or failure order to make them States his tools, in thet'al"t despotism." with in making the German ought never to be any ards his victims, there doubt about his chances with the Scandinavian nations. The Danes in England have declared their 'view and feeling in a voice which will reac h St. Petersburg ; and when the release of their o own press at home shall enable their countrymen to hear and speak, the response will be one which the whole world will ocho with. --Daily News. GENERAL SCREW STEAM-SHIPPING COMPANY. TO THE 'EDITOR OF TILE SUN. SIA,—My attention has been called to a report of this meeting, as it appeared in your paper of the 18th inst., at which a Mr. Hutton attended, and interaliaed ; the amendment, as put by Mr. Raikes Currie, goes on to state—" That Mr. Hutton is entirely i g nO. rant of mercantile accounts, and that he has been grossly imposed upon." I will t hank y ou, in justice to myself, as an accountant practi sin g in the City, to state that I know nothing of the com p any in question, and that realm - myself nor any relative of mine have had anything to do with the inves ti g ation of their accounts. am, - Sir, your obedient servant, JAS. HUTTON, Accountant. 4G, Moorgate-street, London, Nov. 20, 1854. 27i 22 25 50 if St. 19! 81 28 St. St. 25 50 20 20 10 10 20 St. St. 1.0 GA St. 10 St. 25 20 20 50 20 1.00 'lOO 1100 . 42 all 100 4, 100 100 100 all 4 all 100 17, all all 1 all Wm or i 88 9 124 1054 98. 4 17i I