The Sun. — London, England, 1863-11-27 00:00:00

MONEY YARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The transactions in the general discount market, this morning, have failed to produce any new fea ture. The general charge for first class bills still continues at 51- per cent., with occasional operations at = per cant. About 128,000 sovereigns were withdrawn from the Bank yesterday for shipment to the East. The amount of specie to be conveyed by the D elta, which leaves to-day for Bombay is £624,120, of Which £250,000 is in gold for Alexandria. The return published yesterday evening by the 134 / 1 0 f Elgland authorities is generally regarded as presenting some very favourable features. The bul lion has not been so largely decreased as ex- Pee tuds while the reserve of notes has been increased, an d a falling off is shown in the amount of other securities. Annexed are the particulars:— Active Circulation .. .• 1:20,505,210 Decrease .• • • • • .. 592,260 13,368,332 Decrease .. 51,270 Rest 3,201,351 .. • • •• •• •• •• Increase . 8,150 P ublic Deposits • 7,040,534 Increase .. • • .. 588,681 Other Deposits.. .. 12,802,411 Decrease • • • • .. 601,031 S even Day and other Bills .. .. 649,042 Decrease • • .. 31,842 Government Securities 10 , 710, 330 Decrease .• • • • .• 100,000 Other S ecur i t i es .. ' 20,022,886 Deereas3 •• .• •• •• 477,029 Notes Uneroployed .. 6,824,035 Increase • • • • • • • • 545,565 A rrangetnfints have been concluded by which the old est ubliabc:d firm of Messrs. H. and J. Johnston asa Co. have amalgamated their banking and It g e neY business with the Merchant Banking Corn re e t Y of London ; and also th a t M essrs . C. B ut l er , ux Pryor, and J. G. M agaw , 'p ar t ners o f th e b re), have join e d th e b oar d o f the. company. The Cann on -street. will commence business on•the Ist proximo in c The Program of business in the Foreign and °lr lial Produc e M ar k e t d ur i n g the la s t f e w d a y s bas .. uL ,, b eea anim a t e d, p ar ti cu l ar ly as re g ards s u ga r , W i n eil large s i p ecu l at i ve d ea li ngs h a v e be e n e nt e red Which at fully previous rates. Coffee has been in snide ate request, whil e there has been a more sales inquiry for rice and cocoa. At the public of tea, Assam qualities have realised an t 7 v anee of 111 to 14d per lb., while China descrip teulaip. without change. Fruit, at public sale curt ants, raisins, and figs—have been at rather low •er rates, while in the tallow market e° ealder a b le depress i on has preva i led, quotations d ° : bo th present and forward delivery showing a ;_ e war ti tendency. ,„ " at tareholders of the lonian Bank held an p ; re °r(li nary general meeting to day for the pm , se of el tecting two directors. Mr. 011iver Ferrar occupied°f Mr. the chair, and in proposing that the names I t . 4 r. • A.lexander Pandia Petrocochino a n d M r . tolehard Ferrer be added to the list of directors, t o : k t he opportunity of s tati ng th a t the question i„ ext ending the business of the bank II : the neighbouring country of Greece had e° de 3 lbere.ted upon, but no final reso del°ll had, however, as yet been made. Before wg upon that subject the directors would seek the advice and approbation of their pro prietary. One of the gentlemen proposed as a bcbrector Iva s largely connected with the commerce 'th of thi n country and Greece, and it was believed that he would be able to afford the executive great t he iat arriving a t a sat i s f actory conclusion. dad he businians of the bank within the past year or so eonsi dcrably increased, and it was found neces a4rY to strengthen the board in order to secure an adequate attendance of gentlemen efficiently to I conduct its affairs. At a general meeting of the shareholders of the Trust ,-2nd Loan Company of Upper Canada, the Right Hon. E. P. Bouverie, M.P., in the chair, the dividend as ,pToposed by the directors, namely, at the rate of 81, per cent. per annum, less income tax, 1748 declare d payable, and the report unanimously ildopted. It was stated that the net profits for the Past etg 'mouths amounted to £14,804, that the 'Ot the company co n ti nue d prosperous, and 2.° wealth o f t h e • Can ad ian p rovinces showed in "lBPlitable signs of increase. Two O'CLOCK. At th e Paris Bourse this day, according to Mr. Zuter'e telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rcntes were 95 0. to 67f.—Dull. t e 4he t ratvaactions is the English Stock Market 11 ,,, da ., 37 have been very limited. Speculation, as 1 3 : 14 uf late, being very dull, the fluctuation has un important, and there is consequently no t r a it ' er ial feature to comment upon„ Consols for di v il .,, sf er are 921 a l, and for the account, less the A 1" " 9 1 1 1. The New Threes and Reduced -.a e . th e 6 41T iee are 90: -I; India 5 per Cents., 1081 109 ; et i , Per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 104 t; and Ex rpllter Bills, 68. 2s. dis: ere P ere . has been an absence of fluctuatio n i n the 111 Market, and business is quiet. Turkish 40 10 ` 44 , Cents., 1862, are 70 i; do. C onso lide s , e ; Gr ee k, 30 8 ; Spanish Passive, 34!8; do. ig et ,, h,4 eatee, 138 ; Mexican, 378 8 ; Portuguese, 40 . Scrip, n le pm.; Italian, 701 71 ; and etku.lifederate Loan, 55k 56i. Lath e 411l eee in. the Railway Share Market has been sett tl utt, the arrangements for the half monthly deei er :".t having occupied the chief a tt en ti on o f t h e Ile a a a nd shareholders. Great Northern A stock land £l, and the North Western and Mid aad " 8 .; while Great Eastern have declined 55., /4letTeplitan, £l. 13 44 43 Foreign and Colonial Markets there has b u chang e of importance. te o „ 44 k and Miscellaneous Shares continue in fair eat and generally sustain former rates. •••••••••=•••••• R ank :toialTisu FUNDS—CLOSING 2 P 3 R 5 1 7 C85. 3 90a i 92/ 1 4 2 2 a ~1 ): : ,eer:. Reduced Annuities . Ir t :, ,kjellt. Consols Annuities 90 I‘l, - ; ° Per Cent. Annuities Lid.l v ; ;i Per Cent. Annuities e i 4- 'i per Cent. Annuities.... 222 '.4 stock, 1874 _ 1081 9 b ate. 6 pei Cent. 187 u D itto 4 per Cent. D ..-Itto llnfaced Paper, lBBB 4 per Cent 1 - 14 i otto6 per Cent Itto 4 per Cent Ditto Ditto ditto A I p B r 6 i 4 or 6 April, 186 6 4 _ 9911 Dittoittonßudonedr xslo t° £l,oooAug. 2 t to 3 91k 1 .°l l Pels for Account, Dee, .. per Cent — -4, 4 Stock for Account, 0 thitec..ner Bills, £ l,OOO, 3 per Cen t.. £5OO ia Ditto Small 13 bb iiittl,tti;4s,4::ltrEtiraGuCNdenitF B :NDS 2 6 : d i l s e CLOSING : PRICES. tr.. bittneelit" n2B-6538-60 B7i ' , to s e • ii ai gyn t . tIP, 1 863 ao paid 991 9 r tan 7 ) Ditto Pet. Ce nt .. o seen...„ 0 . .... t g ",m4 hiStie .. 30.1 1 1: 0.,::: P:lterprr l e e llt me.z,is t lB2 4 _ 5 , ox-Coupons.. 9337: i. D i t A k .-- 4->ccourit 7 e ...:;. Ditto tt:o 1:4: erp ell:re:te alit, .11er Cent 141 D itte rallad a h 2 Per Cent. 81 P 1,7"4/13 per Cent•— kiltto Ace ° • 86k 1 I 1,0 Me ACCOralt rtt . 1862 481. B it etlese 3 per Cent., 1853 _ iii A.ecount.. 62.. 481 i I 1) 4°3 Per Cent 1866, '7, ' 9 . ' 6O, L otto Ace() , bitt 1 863 unt pith, ........ . ....... 101 pm kJ. • 'clip £lO paid Z 4ll 6 Pe; Cent., 182_'0, £ St — 88 'b t ' it 'i to 4 Per Cent 1850 _ ... , itt . „ 1860 Per Cent., 18.59 .. 1)4. 7 3 89 h i ,. .. per Cent. 1862 41`,14'11. 3 Per Cent .. b ul t ,: t ' tt ` t7 ; .41 . / , 1 .1k ceie: utiullDeferred: .. . 4-374: ,t''t .- ........ . .......... _ Ztp : ° ACCOUnt ........ 0., 1..11 A 1.„441811 Cert of Coup not funded • • ' z r i i t L' 4 G per Cent. 1854 b.,,,k) Account .................... --,-- , Ditto 6 per Cent. 18.58 i 04 V'te count.Ac Di tt o's itt lOb Bonds Cent. .•_ ......... 701 i70"I g per 1862 b Dividends on tho above payable London. /t i l e ick 21 Per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull ....... 63,f 4'441, opr Cent., 1 861, Ex. 25 francs 704 ! 1 . C THREE O'CLOCK °,48.015, Money ........... 3 1 I ex div, Ditto A ccount ....... •.. SHARE MARKETS,—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOuhS• Share; Railways. • Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A A gets no .div I ti 6 p c.p an. haF. Do. B been pa id to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock - - Ditto East A nglian st GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Ireland Great Western ...... Do Str Val gun. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwal! Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & Noeh Western Lon. & So•.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do Z shared .• Metropolitan 1411idland Do New Do Binning. 4; Derby Nlid. Gt. W. of Irelane Do. shares Mid Kept Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern-13erwioN Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle.. North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Weichpoo] Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun 6taines,Wok.,andWok. Stockton le Darlington )Do Do Nev, 188 C Taff Vale.. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool 11ar..3611. West Midland -Oxford Do Newport, Do Hereford BRITISH P Closing I Business Pa'u• Price. done. 8 ti 8 8i 81 83 118 1;9 In 71 38 tO 16 17 95 97 107 109 46 so► 45 47 7i 84, 127 128 132 131 134 13G 99 101 t 32 64t 1082 1091 71 :3 110 112 44 (6 104+ 1041 1014 1e24 48} 481 115 116 1274 :28 It lid 96 98 62 f 3 24 t 6 1011 1012 38i 50 884 83 119 121 1 2 77 79 11 115 124 12(% 42 14 93 100 61 62 32 33 C 6 07 96 18 10 10i 37 371 9 10 7/ 71 158 161 5 6i I 21 3/ pi 86 DO 170 175 SSESSIONS. Closing , chart ' Railways Pald. Price. Baldness done 100 .s.tlantic...t St Lawrenot all 60 63 ~aroa6z.ent Inc Sk 1 Bomß dC toe 1055 1065 10651 i Gu. 5 per cent. 20 Do. New 20 Do. E. Shares 205 Buffalo aud Lake liuron alt 65 61 10 Do. Preference Buffalo, ra.ntGdi okorcl, WO B ran t ,& G o d r i c l, too - - 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1870 • 100 00. do. July 1, l&P 100 - - 100 Do. do. June 1, 18:1 100 - - at Clcutta.m.S.Eastn. (L. c 100 IC4 1( 6 at Caper own t Dock Sari) 100 101 103 102 stock Eastn. Bengal putt. 5 p lOO 108 )( 9 stock East Indian. gu. sp. c tor. 1(7 1.8 1071 1 / 20 Do. do. & Ext lO 1 lip 20 Do. do. II do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada too 205 215 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 23 16 755 'lOO Do. do. deferred all 60 63 100 Do. 2d Pret. Bonus all 66 69 675 100 Do. do. deferred all 50 S 3 100 Do. 3d I'. ef. stock 100 Do. do. deferred.... .. all 38 42 ' 100 Do. 4th Pref. stoc .. all 27 29 100 Do. do. deferred all 23 16 . stook Gt.lndlaPenin.gua.spda 100 1(8 109 1031 20 Do. New gee. sp. 0 l2 15 11p 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 8 if 111. stock Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent lOO 105 106 2 0 3 / 4 Gt. W. of Canada Sharee all 10 105 10 204 Do. New .. ... . ... 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt all 9t 95 100 Do. 55 p. o. do. '77-8.. 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 4 4p stock Madras guar., sp. c. stock Do. 41 p. a. Extension 100 100 101 stock Do. 4* do lOO (6 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension 2 -- - stock Melb.Corp. Bp. e. linda lOO -.- 50 lielb. & Hobson's Bay all 57 59 571 100 Do. 7p. o. along. Bds all - - 90 Newßrunswick a Clinch Class A and B. a ll 3 5 N.Rl.C'da6 Po ist Pi bds 100 82 84 stork Scinde .... •• • • (100 IN 107 1065 1 stock Do. Delhi • • . r j.: 000 11.5 106 105 f au Do. do .! rE.I 5 ' st Do. Pttnjaub ..•• .. cis c. 5 ILO Do. Do. ..... = 10 : t. . 13' , 00k Do. Indua.St. Flo . . j 100 101 103 , COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SBCURITIES. - t..so.tiov. 8 p.c.J a. ,itJ u*, • - 1877-34 ..... .. .... 10 0 1(.3 105 101 - Do. Bp. c. Feb. tz, Am_ 100 102 1( 4 - Do. tl p. c. Mar. Az Sept. 100 1t 2 10+ - Do. sp. o. JanAtJuly. 100 92 03 - Do. 5 lnseribed stock 100 91 93 - Cape G.Hope, 8p 0.187: 100 108 110 - Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 109 111 - Do. 1891 100 109 111 - Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 tl3 115 - Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 110 112 - I Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 107 108 - Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 107 109 -- N..8.G0v.6 p.c. 0 a..t.July 100 104 106 - Do. 6p. o.Ap. & Oct. 100 - - - N. S.W. Gov. 5p 1, 18% , t 100 101 102 - Du. sp. c.,18,1 to 1.:',7( 100 101 102 - Do. d0.,1888 &upwdt 100 1015 1021 - INew Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112 - ;Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. a - 1 sterling*, 1875 lOO 104 106 - Queensland Gcv. op. C lOO ti 1 113 - Is.Aus G6p.c.1878..1; up lOO 112 114 - IVie.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&..Jul) 100 107 109 - , Do. to 0 6.0. An.ez00t.. 100 1095 1 10 5 1 -- , BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 f dd ' - uliitord Amalgamated.. - 36 37 - Deven G. Cons. (Tavist., 1 55 0 660 - East Bassett(lllogan) 3O 62 65 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. sa. fd par d - East Caradou ...... - East Cern Brea... - E. WI Russel (Taviatk ) 8.9.0 If 55 4i - Gam.&SLAtinyn(Gwen ; :. , 21, 11 13 - Great South Tolgus l7s 45 6 - G. Wheal Vor (Lich:ton 40 11 12 - Grenville . - (lend's-Foot 8.12 69 41 - Ilingston Downs 4 . 18.0 11 25 - Lady Bertha - Margaret (Clay _Lel= t. 96 19 21 -- Starke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ; 25 15 I 4 - New Setun l9l 90 100 -• North Downs 4 15 2 1 - ) N.Wh'l Baseet(lllo4an 3.1.0 2/ 35 - forth Wheal Crotty - t'ar Consols (St. Blaze),; - - - 20 erovidenee(Uny Lelnt.' 10.0.7 I 3 95 - :South Caradon(St.Cleer: 15 410 120 - S. Carn Brea (Illogan) - - - - zi.Wheal Fran. (Illogan) 18.18.9 60 65 - Stray Park 30.17.6 34 36 1 6 Camay Silv.ds Lead Alin. 15 4 I - fin Croft 9 19 20 - West Basset (Illogan): ll 10 11 - W C: radon (Liskeard) 5 18 20 - West Seton • - Wheal Bisset (Megan; 55 87s 925 - Wheal Buller(Bedruth) 5 225 275 - Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant; 2.0.6 - - - WhealLud( ott - Wheal MaryAnnr,Llen ) 8 116 125 - Wheal Beton . . 685 170 180 174 - wllealTrefawney (Lis.) 7. 20 21 - Wheal Union 1 3.17 3 35 581 pm 180 - , 7 20 21 3.17 3 31 PREFERENCE §RARES. Great Northern, 5 per cent., red. at 10 per cent. pm., 113 12 Great Western Orig. 4} per cent. pf., 100 k South Eastern 41 persent., 102 PREFErtENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 5 per cent., pf., 104 Ditto, 4, per cent., 06} Kent Coast, c, per ‘ent. pref. B, London, Brighton, Sic., 44 per cent., 1858, 101 London, Chatham, tc., Mctrop. B, 6 per cent., 1011 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTAz.S. Chester and Holyhead, 571 London and Chatham per Cent., Ditto, Com. Fund Stock, 5 per cent., 101 London, Tilbury, and Southend, 1016 Preston and Wyre, 411 FOREIGN RAILWAX S. Eastern of France, 191 Great Luxembourg, 121 N amur and Liege gua. 14f. per annum, Si N. Rail of Buenos a yres, gua. 7 per cent., 101 1 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), Sambre and Meuse, 9 San Paulo (Bin.), gua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 22 West Flanders, 5i per cent. pt., 10a DOCKS. London, 71 70 • _ JOINT-STOCK RANKS. BrazilianßAN a i n ng i aunoioct Austrian, ou ß , as Egypt,anntnr iedkwaof,22l667,ll7sne,alnimd Liverpool B (Um.), 40 Chartered Chartered fifer. of :o r / :BngrdUiletai London, Columbia,an City, 1091 I C l hina, 71 Consolidated Bank, lira., 91 I Continental, lira., 104 11 101 East London, him. 71 1 jEmnpgclirsihaiSßcoanick (lira.),hinA2u3sitralian Chartered, Imperial Ottoman, 171 4 London Bank of Scotland, lira., 71 London and Brazilian Oho.), 5 3 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 501 50 Loudon and Comity, 551 London Joint Stock, 361 London and South African, Ditto, new, 26} London and South American, lim., 22 London and Westminster, 781 9 Mercantile and Exchange. Bra., 141 National Provincial of England. Ditto, new, 39 Oriental Bank Corporation, 57 Standard of British Africa (1Imi), Union of Australia, 554; . 61 6 AI ISCELLANEOITS. Company of A (rican Merchants, lira., 2} Crystal Palace,: — Ditto, pref., 119 Discount Corporation, limited, 101 1 Egyptian Commercial and Trading, Um., 4 Gen. Credit and ' , Mane of London, Um., 61 Great Ship, Urn., 176 per cent. pf., Hudson's flay, 131 13 London rinannial Association, Um., 231 aiadras Irrigation and Canal, Ditto (all), 22,1 National Discount Company, lira., 9* Oriental Inland Steam. lira., 1 t f peanotila and Q!iental Steamy 831 103) 4.1 1011 116 4 1271 4 8 95/ 6 1 65 TIM SON. LONDON, FRIDAY EVEMNG, NOVEMBER 27, 1833, LAW INTELLIGENCE---This Day. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.) WILKINS V. SMITH. This was an action for libel brought by the plaintiff, the proprietor of the refreshment rooms at the Peterborough Railway station, against the Telegraph newspaper. Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Koane were for the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Ballantine and Mr. F. H. Lewis for the de fendant. Mr. Hawkins said the plaintiff claimed compensation and damages for the injury he had sustained in consequence of some comments of an unfair nature which had appeared in defendant's newspaper. A special reporter from the paper in question accompanied the Prince of Wales on his journey to the north, and the , train stopping at Peterborough station to take refreshment. On she pub lication of the report of the journey the following day the special reporter said he trusted his royal highness had not tasted the detestable pure sold at the Peterborough station, had which was composed of a mixture of horsebeans, with other such like delicacies. The plaintiff feeling naturally indignant at such a reflection on the refreshments supplied, wrote to the defendant complaining of the report, and asking for an apology, when the following day an announcement appeared . 111 the Telegraph, stating that they had been requested to state by Mr. Wilkins, that the soup sold at the Peterborough station was not made of horse beans. Finding all attempts to obtain an apology vain, the present action was brought. (The copies of the paper con taining the objectionable stricture and the announcement mentioned, were lut in and read.) _ _ Mr. Sergeant Baliantine, for the defendant, argued that although a misrepresentation respecting the ingredients of the plaintiff's soup had been made by the gentleman en gaged to supply an account of the journey of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to the north to one of the newspapers, yet it was not of that damaging character alleged by the plaintiff. The pUblic, he contended, were under a debt of gratitude to the press for the manner in which a reform had been brought about in the hotel system. Before the subject was put in its true light before the public bills of inordinate length were the invariable result of any person staying the shortest space of time at an English hotel. But, thanks to the press, hotel bills had been shortened, accommodation had improved; in fact, a com plete revolution had been the result of the comments made upon the objectionable system, and now an altered state of things was in existence. It appeared to him that the most had been made of a very rediculous mistake, and it also seethed to him that some allowance ought to be made for the disappointment that usually attends the first visit of a traveller to a railway refreshment, room, He would not detain them by describing the contents usually to be found in those places—the antiquated and mathematically cut sandwiches—(laughter)—the suspicious bits of indestructible pork pia (laughter)— which might, it was true, fill up a vacuum, but which certainly would obstinately resist digestion--(laughter) —he would rather ask the jury their opinion of the soup usually sold to cold and hungry travellers. He had never been to Peter borough, so his remarks did not apply to that particular place ; but, speaking generally, he was sure that the man who had once taken soup at a railway station would be greatly indisposed to undergo the miseries of-a second basin. (Laughter.) Supposing a soup was made of horse beans, he did not think it was the first article that was manufactured, and of necessity, bad, because it was made from somewhat coarse ingredients. To his mind it, appeared that the flavouring was the principal thing— (laughter) and although the plaintiff had called his cook that important personage had not been asked of what the identical soup prepared for royal travellers was composed. (Laughter.) The whole matter he thought was perfectly ridiculous, and he felt certain the jury would form a cor rect estimate of the damage the plaintiff had sustained for the publication of the observations. Baron Bramwell summed up the evidence. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff with £25 of damages. DIVORCE COURT. (Before Sir J, P. Wilde.) BAILEY V. BAILEY. Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Mr. Pritchard for the petitioner. This was an undefended suit by Clara Bailey for a disso lution of marriage with her husband, Loyd George Peachey Bailey, on the ground of cruelty and adultery, and also for the custody of the children. The parties were married at Hailstone, in Sussex, on March 10, 1852, and there were three children issueof the marriage, two of whom are living. After the marriage they resided at Brighton for four months, and then emigrated to Aus tralia, where they lived for several years. The ill-treat ment was alleged to have taken place as early as June, 1855, and amongst the different acts detailed was striking or kicking the petitioner violently a week before her con finement with her first child. The object for which the respondeat, who was originally a wine merchant, went to Australia having failed, the parties returned to England at the end of the year 1832. The respondent opened a confectioner's shop at 1, Duke street, Brighton, and in the beginning of 1863 he resumed his violence. On ono occasion he followed her to her bed room and struck her a violent blew on the back of the neck which knocked her down and rendered her insensible. She was laid up for a considerable time afterwards from the blow in question, On another occasion he tore her mantle to pieces, and while she was washing a bottle in the kitchen he came in and knocked it out of her hand, and flung the piece at her. In the February following, while they were at tea in the parlour, without any provocation, he took the bottles and flung them at her one by one. Ile was addicted lo intemperance, and had threatened to shoot her with a gun. The petitioner left her husband on the 23d March last, and had not since returned to cohabitation with him. The adultery was. proved to have taken place with different females at Brighton; and on one occasion, during the absence of his wife, the re spondent brought home a woman named Lee, who re mained in the house for an hour. The petitioner and other witnesses were examined, whose evidence fully proved the case. The learned judge made the decree nisi, with costs, and directed the petitioner to have the custody of the children until further orders. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Nisi Fritts, before Lord Chief Justice Cock burn and a special jury.) STAIM V. ERAZER, AND ANOTHER. The cross-examination of the plaintiff in this case (the particulars of which will be found in another column of The Sun), was proczeded with this morning. At its 'con clusion some friends of the lady were examined, who stated that they had never known her to be guilty of anything that could be considered the act of an insane person. The case for the plaintiff was proceeding when we went to press. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A FEsr.--Dan Mahomed, a man of colour, who is well known to \Vest-end tradesmen as a beggar, and about the greatest pest in that line in the metropolis, was charged before Mr. Yardley with wilfully demolishing two panes of glass in the window of Mr. Feodor Leihtwitz, tobacconist, of No. 3, Old Compton-street. Mr. Leihtwitz was standing at his door yesterday after noon when the prisoner passed, and after going a short distance rushed back. Mr. Leihtwitz, fearing the prisoner was about to attack him closed the door, and the prisoner finding he could not get into the shop broke two panes of glass. Mr. Yardley asked how many times the prisoner had been in custody ? Barnes, the gaoler, said at least twenty times—for ruf fianly and unprovoked assaults, stealing meat, publicans• measures, begging, in fact, for nearly every offence, and he spent the best part of hie time in prison. Mr. Yardley committed the prisoner for two months' with hard labodr for the wilful damage. T HIEVES DISTUEEEDI. liA,:rleEe lads named James Lowe alias Law, Thomas P • erkms, and Henry Upson, were brought before Mr. Woolrych charged with being in a stable in North-street, Lim •housc ' , for the purpose of com mitting a felony. James Briden, a police sergeant, No. 4 K, stated that at two o'clock thi s morn i ng he found the prisoners in astable in North-street, Li me h ouse. They had btai ned admission to the stable by removing some of the tiles on the roof, and displacing a board. All the prisoners had homes to go to, and had no business in the stable which contained two horses, harness, sacks, corn, and pro perty. Ho knew all the prisoners. They were notorious thieves. The youngest, Upson, who was only 11 years of age, had recently come cut of prison, after an imprison ment of 21 days for stealing a till in a shop. Perkins had been imprisoned three months in Canterbury Gaol for a robbery, and was recently discharged, after a week's remand, from the Woolwich Police-court. Lowe had been sum. madly convicted for stealing a till, and sentenced to one month's imprisonment. He believed she intention of the prisoners, after remaining in the stable a part of the night, was to go out and plunder anything they could lay their hands on. 'They belonged to a gang of juvenile thieves who were the terror of small shopkeepers in Litnehouse, The little fellow Upson was iu the practice of going round counters and stealing money out of tills, and was the most dangerous thief of the three. Love, who is 18 years of age, on being called on for his d e fence, slid I went to the p la y last ni g ht, and it was not over until one o'clock,and I did not like to go home t o my parents, because they would " wop" me for being ou t so late. is Perkins, who l6 years of age, sai d I w e n t to the play and didn't like to go home, • Upson—l say nothing. Mr. Woolrych sentenced Love and Perkins to 21 days' imprisonment each, and ordered that Upson should be de tained in the Feltham School of Industry for three years, The father of the boy Upson would be compelled to contri bute to his support. Mr. James Spence, of Liverpool, on Southern Independence. O Last night the City Hall of Glasgow was crowded to excess by a promiscuous audience, including all the chief business men, to hear an address on Southern independence by Mr. James Spence, of Liverpool. Mr. James Hannan was in the chair. Mr. SPENCE, on rising, was received with loud cheers. He said he appeared in answer to a requisition signed by 200 of the citizens of Glasgow, inviting him to address them on the subject of Southern independence. It afforded him the utmost pleasure in respondin g to the request. Glasgow had a right to speak on such a subject, and any opinion it might express on a matter on which it had means of infor mation, not common to the whole country, would carry weight in every other pert of the kingdom. Before enter ing on the subject, he proceeded to clear the way by re moving two misconceptions whch existed in some minds, tie had no hostility to the Government of this country, and while ho denounced this cruel 'and unjust war, whilst he claimed for the Southerners that right, of self-government which we accord to every other powerful community, he was no advocate or defender of slavery. Ile deplored it for its own sake, and for the sake of the soathern people. He entertained the opinion held by many of the greatest men the South had produced—viz, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Clay—all of whom regarded slavery as an evil to their country; and advocating the independence of the South, amongst other benefits which he believed it would confer, ho held it to be the only issue of this war that pro • liaised a hope to the termination of the evil. He then showed, from the early history of the Union, that its pre sent constitution not only originated in rebellion, but was thefruit of a secession. He stated that the principle of the present constitution was that each State was a sovereign community, governing itself except in regard to those mat ters which, in common with the rest, it committed to the general government of the country. There was not a word in the constitution to forbid any of the States retiring from it as they had dane from its predecessor. Hence the cur - cion now attempted by the North had not only no warrant in the constitution, but was the wrongful exercise of a power which was deliberately excluded from it, He affirmed not only that secession was a just right of every State, but that the ingenuity of man . could not combine those rovereign States into a Federal Republic without the right of seces sion.. He did no t a d vocate this principle of secession, he n was o believer harepublicWin any form, but right was right and if the American people thought proper to adopt certain principles or ferms of government, it was their duty now to' accept the coneequences. The Southern States had not only a right of secession inherent in the Federal compacts, but they had the same right from a still higher source, the de claration of independence, the fountein head of American political principles. He then quoted Abraham Lincoln's justification of Western Virginia receding from the rest of that state, and asserted that any one who sought would find en authority for the very grossest form either of rebellion or secession in Mr. Lincoln. Thus the Southern States had right upon their side ; they simply do what the Northern slaveowners did before them, and have taught them to ad mire ever since. But it might be asked whether, admitting the right, there was sufficient ground to exercise it. H e then recited the causes which had led to secession, laying stress on the fact that the' people of the North and South are distinct from and antagonistic to each other. The North preached religious liberty, and practised it by persecuting and slaying all who differed from themselves. In like man ner they were the first to threaten secession; they were the first who took measures to secede; but now that others fol low their example, and they lose by it, they deem it the deadliest of sins. This was not an attempt to cut one na • tion into two, but to compel two nations to 'be one. The fact that the Southerners ate another people, and the na tural desire which it created to have an existence and government of their own, that was the cause of this convul sion; tut there was another, in the conviction which had long pervaded the South that the Union was worked to the profit of the 'North and their own loss. Some might be surpriled that he did not mention slavery as one of the causes of secession. The very smallest reflection ought to show any ene who took the trouble to reflect that slavery, so far from being a cause, was the strongest of all possiblereasons against secession. He then went on to show that in all the other cases of war or threatened war in America slavery had no part, and asserted that if slavery was the first object of Southern thought, they would have clung to the Union with the most desperate tenacity, but some might ask, Was not slavery declared to be the corner-stone of the Southern Confederacy ? That was a popular and parrot cry of the Northern advocates. It'was true that a Southern orator said that the difference of race and the inferiority of one race to another was the corner-stone of the system; but did they ever before hear of such a thing as taking a metaphorical expression of an orator and fixing it on 8,000,000 of people ? Leaving metaphor for fact, every man knew where to find the corner-stone of any confederacy. There was but one thing to which that epithet would apply, and that was its constitution. Now, in the constitution of the Southern States there was not a single principle in support of slavery which was not in the old ono. Strange to say the only new principle was opposed to sfavery, and that was the absolute prohibition of the slave trade. Theme was not one word in it to prevent any State freeing its slaves, and remaining a' member of the Confederacy as befe re. What did they think of the capacity of those who took up the sound of a phrase, and had not the penetration to discern the sense of it, and the limits of its application ? There was another question, Was it true that this war was carried on by the North in order to free the slaves ? Now, it was true there was a small band in the North of fanatical men who had made this sub ject a passion, and who, to gratify that selfish passion, were not only hounding on this bloodshed, but were ready to exterminate men of their own race, and to level every re straint of law and humanity in order to carry out their ends. But these men were a mere handful of the 21 millions in the North. The infinite majority regarded the negro with aversion, and maintained the war, some for the sake of Southern trade, some because they feared that separation now woula lead to other divisions in the future, but by far the greatest number because, under the pernicious moral effects of the Union, boastful ambition had become the leading characteristic of the Federal mind; and as their idea of greatness was the gross idea of greatness in size, they shrink from this reduction of dominion. Could there be my possible doubt on that point ? Mr. Lincoln never wielded despotio power over what were called the Free States. If his objects were to free the slaves, would he not proceed with those who were within his reach ? He had all the slaves in Delavvare,Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky, ab solutely in his power. Why did he not tree them ? They were told the constitution stood in the way ; that was a miserable excuse. The constitution might be laughed at when Lincoln wanted to imprison men, but it must be re spected when he wished to free them. But though ne would not free those within his reach he was quite ready to free all who were beyond it. Those were the principles, this the style of virtue they were to sympathise with and admire. He characterised Lincoln's celebrated emancipation procla mation as a complete farce, and then asked the meeting to consider the subject of slavery, not as ranting declaimers but as thoughtful men, It was a great, terrible fact 4,000,000 of negroes—and the people of this country took these negroes from Africa to slavery in America. How was this evil to be removed ? Certainly not in the philanthropic manner proposed by the North of setting at liberty men who were powerless to make their way e n the world; but in his judgment, the first step to terminate this evil was the independence of the South. Ilea problem, how to effect a change in the condition of so vast a multitude without anarchy or industrial paralysis, was the largest and most difficult ever presented to the mind of the statesman. When he reflected on the wonders the people of the South had accomplished, when he considered how they had raised and equipped great armies, how they had created manu factures, or that self-devotion they had displayed, what calmness in the senate, what heroism in th e fi e ld, h ended slavery amongst ourselves ? Had the peopl e o f France invaded us to force em anci pation upon us, should we have assented ? Nay, they knew better. In that case we Whet he m'as con vinced they were equal t o thi s further task. should probably have been slaveowners to this day. It was ended under a calm conviction of duty. Carry that convic tione to the Southern mind, 'and they wo uld gather the same fruit. Ho thought, in considering the question of inde pendence, ieneceeu,e.theHe held must suc cess would be a war with this coun tr y , whic h would be most disastrous to ourselves. The in de p endence of the South weigh rat the result consequences f q N l leenrzrn s of the appeared to him to be essential to the cont inuance of the the well-bein g o f the whole American people, and the prolonged thattheel (I also war would be fraught with great evil, both of whi c h points he illustrated at some length, an d vividl y portrayed the terrible effect of its prolongation on the Americans of both sections, and asking what could be done to end that mass of evil. They could at least make the attempt to do some thing. Neutrality did not necessitate inaction. He did not urge recognition, but whale° did urge was that Govern ment should enter into relations with the other Powers of Western Europe, and in their united wisdom decide as to the measures to be taken. Our inaction was, indeed, con venient at the moment, and saved responsibility and excused irresolution. This country did not attain its place among nations by a policy of inaction. It was not by doing nothing that we were ourselves what we are, and our emi nence would hardly bo maintained if we were always to leave it to another Power to regulate the destinies of the world. It was the duty of this country not to follow, but to lead, It was our duty as men to hold out a h an d w h en the voice of outraged humanity implored it. It was our duty as politicians to consoler the balance of power in the New World as well as the Old. It was our duty as citizens to give some regard to the interests of this country, and the danger threatening it in future. It was a duty we owed to our traditions to respect the desire for self-government expressed by a powerful people. and it was a duty which this country, the parent of America, owed to its descend.. ants to make an effort to assuage the tempest by which they were tern, and restore to them the blessings of peace on the only basis on which it could ever e ndure, and that was the independ en c e o f the South. tie concluded amid loud applause. wed received,and few The lecture having been very , a questions having been put and answered, the vast assem blage broke up. A NEW ThEATRE at Aleiandria, with acc ommol modation for 1,500 people, and with two tiers of brace, is to be opened in December with Italian opera. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocK. DENMARK. GOTHA, Nov. 26. Prince Frederick of Augustenburg has proposed to the Germanic Diet to adopt measures for the protection of the functionaries in the Duchies who refute to take the oath of allegiance to the King o f Denmark. Colonel Duplant has just arrived from Hamburg to assume the direction of military ti rs. THIRD E : ITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. THE CRAWLEY COURT MARTIAL, FROM OUR SPECIAL REPORTER, TENTH DAY. ALDERSHOT, Friday Morning. This morning the court reassembleil at 10 minutes after 10 o'clock, Colonel Ladder being still absent from indis position. Gavix Ainslie Turnbull, surgeon of the Gth (Inniskil• ling) Dragoons was recalled for cross-examination. He said, in reply to Colonel Crawley, that his after report modified to a certain extent the ()pinion he expressed in the detailed case, but to what extent he could not previously state, but his opinion with regard to the other causts remained substantially floe same. On the information suppli,cl to him by Colonel Crawley and A-sistant Surgeon Barnet that a quantity of brandy had been consumed, he was led to the belief that the prisoner might have consumed that quantity of spirit, and that it was calculated to increase the predisposition to an apoplec tic seizure, but to what extent, of his own personal know ledge, he was unable to state, as there was no indication in the post mortem appearances which would lead him to sup pose that the man had died from using drink to excess. Nor has he ever noticed any indication of drink about the prisoner during his lifetime. Colonel Crawley—ln your opinion is it part of the duty of a regimental surgeon to ascertain, whether a soldier of plethoric habit of body under close arrest in India, does not consume a considerable quantity of brandy daily ? Witness—lf he has any reason to suppose that the pH senor is addicted to the use of ardent spirits, I think it is the duty of the medical officer who attends upon hire to find out whether he does consume a considerable amount of spirits daily, or not. In continuation, witness said he never visited Sergeant Major Lilley for the purpose of prescribing for him. He saw him frequently during the period of his arrest. It was the duty of Aesistant •Surgeon Barnet to see the prisoner daily. He could not state how often he visited the Ser geant Major, nor did he visit him for the purpose of minutely enquiring into the stare of his health. He never made a medical inspection of Serg ean t M a j or Li lley dur i ng :,is arrest. The sergeant previous to being confined was not sent to the hospital for medical examination. He was not aware what the nature of his imprisonment was going to be when he was first placed in confinement, nor did he anticipate it was to be so long. The sergeant major did not suffer from any specific complaint during his arrest until he died, He dil not anticipate Sergeant Major Lilley's death as a consequence of the arrest under which he was placed. He did nut recommend before the 30th of April that Sergeant Major Lilley should have exercise, because he did not know the nature of the confinement which he was undergoing. The circumstances connected with his arrest were of so unusual, and, as he considered at the time, of so mysterious a nature, that he did not know exactly how to act in the matter. It was unusual and mysterious so far that he understood the prisoners were not examined in the orderly-room of the regiment, nor were they examined before the adjutant or any field officer of the regiment. Between the 26th and the 30th of April, to the best of ley recollection, he believed he did inquire what was the nature of Sergt. Major Lilley's arrest, and, so far as he remembered, he did not find out the exact nature of his offence. He understood that the three sergeant majors were under close arrest, and that it was Colonel Crawley's wish that they should be so. He never anticipated that Sergeant Major Lilley's imprisonment would have been prolonged, and that was the reason why he did not make earlier application on his behalf fur exercise. A detailed medical history of Sergeant Major Lilley's case was, he believed, sent to Colonel Crawley on the Bth of June, or it ma) have been the 7th. It was on one of those days that the report was sent on. After the report was sent in Colonel Crawley asked him in reference to the quantities of spirituous liquors Sergeant Major Lilley was supposed to have drunk, and inquired of him whether he wished to make any alteration in his report. At the inter view which he had with Colonel Crawley he said h e did not consider that any additional report from him was necessary, as he was convinced that the man had died from heat apoplexy, and that be -had no proof that excess in spirits was the cause of death. Assistant Surgeon Barnet was Sergeant Major Lilley's medical attendant, 'and it was he who gave witness the • information relative to the con sumption of spirits by the sergeant major, which induced him to modify his report. He never heard that Lilley drank largo quantities of brandy from any one but Assistant Surgeon Barnet and Colonel Crawley. If he had ever made such a statement he did not mean to convey that meaning. Colonel Crawley—Have you said that in none of your medical reports was there anything that could be con strued to attach any blame to me? Witness —There is a letter 1 addressed to Sir Hugh Rose is October which conveys that meaning I think. The witness was next examined in detail with regard to his medical reports, and to certain portions of them which had been expunged, but ho did not know by whom that had been done. Captain the Hon. Edward Bourke, of the 6th Dragoons, was called, and a letter being shown to him, he was asked whether he wrote it, and whether ho had any objection to its being read to the court. He said he did write the letter, and had no of to its being read. 'rho letter, which was read, stated that the writer had known Sergeant Major Lilley as a sober, worthy non-commissioned officer, for whom he had the greatest respect. He had known him from the period of his joining the regiment, in the beginning of 1858, till ho left the regiment in India, in March, 1862. Surgeon Turnbull was re•called. and his cross-examina tion was continued. He had stated in one of his reports that Sere eant Major Wakefield was admitted into hospital. A man might be said to be admitted, and yet not detained in hospital. He remembered seeing the letter produced (the letter was read). It was from the Commander in Chief, and it was remarked that Sergeant Major Wake field was admitted to hospital on the 25th of May, 1862, labouring under feverish and nervous excite ment. Other entries were shown to the witness on this subject, but he could not verify them without reference to his private notes. On the 28th of June he for warded to_ Colonel Crawley a letter purporting to contain an abstract of Mr. Wakefield's case. (The letter stated that Sergeant Major Wakefield was ordered into hospital on the 25th of May, the day on which Sergeant Major Lilley died). He recovered, and was readmitted on the 25th of June, and was discharged convalescent on the expiration of eleven days. There was an abstract of Wake. field's case entered in one of the books the day after he had had a communication with Col. Crawley, to whom he mentioned the circumstance. It was 13 months after the date of the case that the particulars were entered from witness's private notes. He officially informed Colonel Crawley of the facts, and he had all th, correspondence. He did not recollect whether at the time Colonel Crawley wired him for his private memoranda, or whether he produced any. Colonel Crawley expressed his surprise that witness should have given for the use of the Commander-in-Chief s certain copy of a case vt hich was not at that time in the books. On the 29th of Juno he took the orderly-book to Colonel Crawley and told him that he had found Wakefield's case in another registry of which he had no knowledge. In that register it ap peared that there had been an erasure, and a different date substituted, for which he could not account. The original entry was dated May 25, but that had been erased and June 5 substituted. To the best of his belief he altered the date, because the man was detained on the 25th of May and admitted on the 6th of June. He ad mitted that there had been an erasure,but the circumstances ho could not explain without reference to his private notes.. To the best of his recollection he made the erasure hininnotef. Several other questions were put to the witness connected with this subject, to which he gave most elaboraten cases to In consequence of this the questions had in be repeated, Colonel Pipon having protested that wu i possible for him to record the answers. many was im possible witness was still under examination when the Court rose at 4 o'clock. The President announced that th e nex t meeting of the Court would take place at 10 o'cloc o n M on day next. ...;-----„..-----,---- Liverpool Cotton Narket—This Day. Sales of the week, 74,960 bales, including 21,260 on spec. and 15,680 for export. Actual exp or t , 5,363 bales. Quotations: Middling Orleans, 28; Upland, 271; Fair Egyptian, 29. E, timated stock, 256,100 bales. Imports 01 . th e Week, 43,999 bales,. Surats, Tim CELEBRATE)) 'VIOLINIST HE RR j oAciiim AND I.IS YOUNG WIFE 7i117.1t iS,U.IIdOrBLOOd, V6it LOlidCn in tl).3' spring. .He is at present giving a series of qtiartet concerts at Hanover. . tric HITHERTO ANONYMOUS AUTHOR OF " GRANDMOTHER'S MONEY," " Wildflower," and other novels published by Messrs. Hurst and Blackett, and which have attained some popularity, announces his namo as Mr. F. W. Robinson, in connexion with n new novel Ikon'. his pen, in the press, entitled " 4 Woman's liansow." THE PROPOSED EUROPEAN CONGRESS, (From the Gazette of this evening,) The following is the dispatch of Earl Russell to the French Government r dvcitning to take part in the proposed European Congress : Foreign-office, Nov. 25. My Lord,—Her Majesty's Government have received from the Marquis of Cadore, the copy of a despatch ad dressed to hint by Monsieur Drouyn de L'iluys, in answer to my despatch to year - Excellency of the 12th Est. Her 1I jes~y'e Government having obtained an answer to the inquiries they made, will not any longer delay giving a deti , litive reply to the iuvilation addressed by the Emperor of the French to her Majesty the Queen, to take part in a Congress of the European Puwers to be assembled in Paris. In enclose a copy of the Emperor's letter of invitation to the Queen which is similar to one which has already ap peared in the dlloaiteur, addressed to the German Confede ration. Her Ma;esty's Government fully recognise in this step the desire of the Emperor of the French to put an end to the disquietude which affects several parts of Europe, and to establish the general peace on foundations more solid than those on which, in his opinion. it now rests, The Emperor declares that Francois disinterested in this question; that he, iM his part, seeks no aggrandisement, and that the interests to be secured are those, not of France, but of Europe. Her Mdesty's Government may also declare that Great Britain is diaiuterested in tnis matter, and she seeks no aggrandisement, and that she has only to counsel modera tion and peace. But France and great Dritain being thus disinterested eboentshZrrL le conduct of Powers themselves, wh atn a are an g Congress, bound to otfheteprroistiotiroyn,oranodf who may be called upon to make sacrifiteeiss It r;ose t o sao on this occasion p rwo(i)nnei gi n cLan l d i tt re l e or t a a l strength; the iu admits and the bind a n r y t r h a ig c n tica m l l o y r , o of tha t E he T mp i e e r a n t r i esof 18 of th e 1 5. French me portions of j i n e s g t s f , o , s r c o e o o v %m rn a ra n many portions t p oaratiroenasdoi readily h a l o t e a e w t r t e h a a t t i e s s 0 ; her Ma them have been modified or disregarded, and that other portions are tow menaced or called in question, per Majesty's Government understand from the expla nations given by Monsieur Drouyn de L'Huye, that, in the opinion of the Government of the Emperor, it is obvious to every one that there are several questions, not hitherto solved, which may disturb Europe. Of this nature are the following : Must the conflict in Poland be still further prolonged ? Is Denmark to be at war with Germany, and have the Powers which formerly took a part in the discussion of this question become indifferent to it? Must anarchy continue in the Danubian Principalities, end thus at any moment tend to reopen the question of the East ? Must Italy and Austria always remain in presence of each other in a hostile attitude;? Must the occupation of Renee by French troops be pro longed for an indefinite time? The Emperor's Government put a further question : Must we, without having made now attempts at conci liation, renounce the hope of lightening the burthens im posed upon the nations of Europe by excessive armaments, kept up by the feeling of mutual distrust ? These, no doubt, are the principal questions which either disturb or threaten tha peace of Europe but there is a further question which her Majesty's Government con sider to lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and that is the following : Is a General Congress of European States likely to fur nish a peaceful solution of the various matters in dispute ? This, indeed, is the question which it behoves the Go vernments of the different States to consider seriously and attentively. There appears to her Majesty's Government to be one main consideration which must lead them to their conclusion. After the war which desolated Germany from 1619 to 1649, and atter the successive wars which afflicted the Con tinent of Europe from 1793 to 1815, it was possible to dis tribute territories and to define rights by a Congress, be cause the nations of Europe were tired of the slaughter, and exhausted by the brthens of war, and because the Powers who met in Congress had by the circumstances of the time the means of carrying their decisions and arrangements info effect. But at the present moment, after a continuance of long peace, no Power is willing to give up any territory to which a title by treaty, or a claim by possession. For example, of the questions mentioned as disturbing or threatening Europe, two of the most disquieting are those regarding Poland and Italy. Let us examine the present state of these questions, and see whether it is probable that a Congress would tend to a peaceful settlement of them. Iu the first place, with regard to Poland, the question is not new to France, to Austria, or to Great Britain. For t everal months these Powers, while carefully ab staining from any threat, have attempted to obtain from Russia by friendly representaticzis the adoption of mea sures of a healing nature, but have only succeeded in pro curing promises, often repeated, that when the insurrection shall have been put down, recourse will be had to clemency and conciliation. Would there be any advantage in re peating in the name of a Congress representations already made with so little effect ? Is it probable that a Congress would be able to secure better terms for Poland unless by a combined employment of force ? Considerable progress has been made by the military pre ponderance, and by the unsparing severity of Russia, in subduing the insurgents. Is it likely that Russia will grant in the pride of her strength what eh° refused in the early days of her dis couragement ? Would she create an independent Poland at the mere re quest of a Congress ? But if she would not, the prospect becomes one of humi liation for Europe, or of war against Russia; and those Powers who are not ready to incur the cost and hazard of war, may well desire to avoid the other alternative. It may be truly said, moreover, that the present periodlis one of transition. If the insurrection shall be subdued, it will then be seen whether the promises of the Emperor of Russia are to be fulfilled. If the insurrection shall not be subdued, or if, in order to subdue it, the Polish population is treated with fresh, and if that be possible, with aggravated rigour, other questions will arise which may require further consideration, but which would hardly receive a solution from a large assemblyof representatives of all thepowers of Europe. Indeed, it is to be apprehended that questions arising from day to day, coloured by the varying events of the hour, would give occasion rather for useless debate than for prat • Heal and usefgl deliberation in a Congress of 20 or 30 repre sentatives, not acknowledging any su,reme authority, and not guided by any fixed rules of proceeding. Passing to the question of Italy, fresh difficulties occur. In the first place, it is intended to sauctibn by a new treaty, the present state of possession in Italy ? The Pope, and the Sovereigns related to the dispossesed Princes. might, on the one side, object to give a title they have hitherto re fused, to the King of Italy; and the King of Italy, on the id other, would probably object to a settle ment which t h e appear to exclude him, by inference , at least, from t he ac - appear of Rome and Venetia. But is ;it intended to ask Austria, In Congr,esos, flounce the possession of Venetia ? Mejests epre. ment have good grounds to believe that no Austrian R o t v o er r n e l svvsinou o l f d th b e e tion was to be discussed. They are informed sentati ve would at tend a Congress beforehand, Atuhswerh therefore, re, e A u utt c hthsht sucheeraaltd.pirf‘ovvpooolisilild-d an intention were announced decline to attend the Congress, an d t t r l i a a a r t i if h question Minister introduced without notice, the quit the Assembly. would °g ia o a o u2 n: beco Congress s g s h t and to sight delibera tions of the Congress alternative of nullity or war. such o a ant But is it possible to assemble a a l i of n Venetiarepresentative T h e aEn t d o n sit it oairtdomwf thehtho without t t French d isetl g the it e r n u l e s e v h e a s a S n ta l te t And course arcely twhaelnvfilidrtshntapit.cebrgseaorpndoattaooibGfieeee.rl,many and Denmarkit several of tho Powers of Europe have interested stedistlet in that question, but the addition of Spai n, improve the and Turkey to the deliberation wouldsc ortugal, Italy, prospect of a satisfactory solution. Poland and Italy, no beneficial result if, with regard to is i t e xpedient to call together a is likely to be attained, States of Europe to find a remedygeneral Congress of all the Wallachia ? for the anarchy of Moldo- Were all these questions, th and the Danubian ose of Poland, Italy, Den mark,ten Provinces, mere utterance of opinions, to be decided by the vernment upon most of theta the views of her Majesty's Go materially to differ em might, perhaps, be fouud not French. from those of the Emperor of the But if th e mere expression of opinions and wishes w ould accomplish no positive results, it 8 cars certain that the deliber a ti ons of a Congress would consist of demands and pretensions put forward by some and resisted tiy others and, the re L e i ng no supreme author i ty i n suc h .n 383 , b : aid to enforce th e d ec i s i ons o f t h e ma j or ity, the C ' D T e , 6 , B worse probably sep irate , l eav i ng many o f its Ineuss' er ; I ,' ~n t hey terms with each other than they bi'4.beeressult, it fol -13;, met. But if this would be the Prf'bt i; likely to be al4H lows that no decrease of arnounen N. Drouyn de Lord Clarendon in effected by the progress Congresbew L'Huys refers to api ()piss' nuulceougress o f Paris. But one of the last sittings % t o t :wen two Powers to he re-. her Msjesty's Governm have reference to a dispute . a friendly Power, but in no °f thenderstand that proposal to ('erred to the good officE%-fGeneral Congress. way to the assembling' of fore, to discern the likelihood of Not being able,.th tr u e en ,, s which the EMperor of the those beneficial ti " • Be .lif when proposing a Congress, her French promised , e hi c a n i i, following their own strong convic- Maje st r s G°- -1n : deliberation, feel themsslves unable to tions, after it ''' i ns tructed to give a copy of this despatch to 11, You are Ipaetruial I\lok:sty's invitation. Drolr l d o ' accept his II tfuys,—l am, - &c., (Signed) RussELL, FOURTH EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 7 O'CLOCK. PRISONERS OF WAR, , ..a......4 of no oth ers , still proceedet; 185 Cenfedet ate sol diers, all maimed and wounded, were deli vered at City Point on Oct. 29. In exchange for th •em 185 Yankee prisoners, all in . the same or a 'won le con dition, were placed on beard flag of truce , be •It. A detachment of the Richmond Ambulance Com tuittee went down to take charge ot the moving ot these mangled wretches, and provided also with re fresh meats and comforts for the alleviation of %he s nifer ings of their fellow.creatures Ga both sides. This is sad work. Ali these prisoners or. both sides - were unfit: to be moved in their present condition,. ,and many of them forfeit their lives iu the proceeet of recovering their liberty. It is u. cruel neceise ty which our enemies impose upon us, by sending us none but the maimed end enfiering, who are tek , as they hope, to be oZ no further :service in eur army, because our authorities have no alterna: dye but to drag an equal number from their bed;; of iesin to make the suitable return. It; :s a war don and barbarous aggravation of the inevitable hot rors of war. We understand very well the polic: rof the enemy in making so many difficultie s al out the exchange of prisoners, and in breaking the arrangement of the cartel, save as regards the sick and wounded prisoners. They feel therrese Ives strops , in the numbers of their people, such a, a they ability to bring over h or les of are, and in their abt den reel, if the ,y is 6'll or be taken ; and they h o p e byy dle in numbers, y bei a" hungry Europeans to replace b ae those who m f luck, to make our armies d h w ou n ld keep their nten it; quite willing that we s prison till the end of the war, knowing that th e y of c . urs. It the field an equal or even smaller n s oldier; and in is a compliment to the Confederate have far more than a compensationi in keepir g from t that point of view we -may derive some comfort l e ss a bar barons, from ads policy, but it is not the m any pr isoners brutal one. We believe there are too .her of taker; in this war —far more than in any ,some thing history makes mention—and pe-chaps thing will be gained if the breaking off of the ,cartel shall induc e s oldier s on both sid es not to be taken prison ers . We certainly recommend it to our 'men not to sur ren d er; if t h e y J o so th e i r l o t is ptoe bably to be crowded in such filthy dens as Fort; Delaware till the end of the war, only to be exchanged wnen their health is broken bitter ty, so that they can be of no use either to the cause or to themselves. if our words could by any means reach the Yankee soldiers we would tell 'them thei r fate also, it' they come here as prisoners, caneiot be a very bright one this coming winter. It is true our authorities do what they fairly can—with jus tice to our own people—to give them humane uenge, and that our medical officers afford them every assistance in their power, but . there are 13,000 , of them now in Richmond, not to mention th oee de tained in other places. There is here, if not a scarcity, at leLst a great dearth of provision s, and not less of fuel; while, as to the medicines, ey are. contraband of war, and our enemies use tertreme diligence in keeping them from us altogeth Sr. Av e would assure those Yankee soldiers that eroath ou t the field were far ,better than captivity here this winter, and would accordingly counsel them al so not to be taken alive.—Richmond Enquirer. MARKETS—This Day NARK-LANE. A moderate supply of home grown wheat was on sale here to-day, and the trade ruled firm both for red and white qualities. Selected parcels were held at is per qr. more money than on Monday last, and inferior produce commended extreme rates. There was a fair averge show of samples of foreign wheat on the stands. Holders of all descriptions were very firm in their demands, and an advance of is per quarter was in several instances realised. . _ Floating cargoes of grain ruled firm, and quotations had, an improved tendency. The supply of barley was tolerably large. Good and fine malting qualities moved off steadily, at full prices. 00:ter. wise the barley trade was dull, at the late decline in pr ices. Malt was in fair average request, at fall quotations. The supply of oats on sale was small. Both for E:tglish and foreign qualities the trade ruled firm, at an advance of. 6:1 per quarter from Monday last. Beans and peas met a steady sale, and Monday's cucrunc.y; was supported. The flour trade was firm, and quotations had an upwL tendency. - - ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. _Barley. Malt. Oats. Flout. 1,130 I -- 1,620 I 99 0 1 10 610 Irish — 220 — 1900 Foreign.-- 2,130 10,020 2,200 I 1,020 sl 730 bi Ma, NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply of meat on sale here is moderate. Gener ailiy speaking, the trade is heavy, and prices are rather lowa., _ d r d Middlingmutton 3 8 4 2 Prime 4 4 4 ....... 6 Vaal .......... 3 6 4 2 Small pork • 3]o 4 2 Lamb ........ 0 0 0 0 Per 81b. uy the carcase. s ii s d Inferior beef .. 2 10 3 0 Middling do. .. 3 2 3 6 rrime largo do. 3 8 3 10 Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2 Large pork .... 3 2 3 8 Inferior mutton. 3 4 3 6 BOROUGH. 11.0 P. On the whole, the hop trade ist steady. The amount of business doing is by no means e xtensive; nevertheless prices rule firm. The imports frorn the Continent are mo derately large, but from America thereceipts continue small. New Mid and East Rents.. £4 lOs to £8 l o s per cwt. New IVeald of Bouts. • 5 Ost to 6 3 New Goldi n g ........ Os to 6 lo s New Susse x ........ 4 lOs to 6 53 » 19 yearlings .......... 3 Os to 5 O s Olds ............ .•.. 1 lOs to 3 10, 31 1) COLONIAL. Chin, descriptions, atiblu h .l. , ds , j u nt t oe p s: r 2 e dh vi ap o ,se u ri e o li a n' ' T rAp —A. limited amount of business has been de : k t h late . lb. et, however, less SUGAR. —The mar e as ~ea. active, mi n wive de mi Dr i, and the late advance i n w gt Iva Pecu es ia has been done in colonial better supply of goods fibermennfeassllybassupppreovrtaeirlle.d, l o n w t io h is e refined descriptions, at about previous quotations. Kim—There has lat.en rather fine descriptions tit Etigt more demand for good and beingp i n C g oF c ° ki n " gz offer.. COFFEE. --A k' quoteds t n g en hanced rates. India, which have realised TALLOW.—Bnsiness has exhibit less firmness. to • C • been very dull, and quotations December, 42s 3d to 43a •C• on the spot is marked 4289 d ; per cwt. Gd ; and spring delivery, 43s 3d the trade, GREEN FRIJIT.—T character, 8 he arrivals of oranges are of an exten siversinraarktes. GouLlnsehipa 1- together by Ke e li ng ane p i a rcels of Lisbon, Malaga, and Palermo, sold Hunt at public sale, were taken freely by sustain their the moderate figv.re inducing purchases. Lemons value. Black Spanish nuts are held firmly. New Barc elonach estnut _ z, to hand, a nd the opening price m oderate dull good (l of t, sale,ality in d owineingt:L.he mild weather. Alinett grapes of SHIPPING—This 3)ay. East ; light breeze, and fine weather. 4 ,,_ ____. LONDON, Nov. 27.—Wind this da y at Roost—South Arrived—Elin ko, lincoltoan, Nov. 26.—Wind S.W.-- from Montreal. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 26.—Wind S.W.— Arr ived—Nervest from New York. Jersey, (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRPH.) GnavEsEtint Friday Morning. Arrived, Nov. 26—Onward, from Rouen; Flirt, from Wy borg. Arrived, Nov. 27 — Gustaf Vira.sa, from Gottenburg. London to Car DEAL, Friday Morning. Passed—Caldon, from London, for Buenos Ayres ; Patentaus Barque, from Grimsby, for New Orleans; mei._ bonene, from Shields, for Alexandria; Stiaton, of and B. C. J. IS. Commercial Code, both from the north, fur ' the west. Sailed —All the outward bound. The brig Glengarry, of Liverpool, from dill, Stillwell, niastrr and owner, got on snore -. Margaret's bay, at 6.30 last' evening ; was 1 . hear S. Deal galley, apparently without damage. assisted off 11 Course of the Exchange—This Dv- 11 17i il 191 Autworp .. - 25 60 26' 72 11 19t 2 5 60 ii j o i r at i t esi:t Amst erdam doirsd::::11. ................. 3 8 1t h l I t tlit , 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 : 94 25 721 Ham burgh Q , --- 13 8i 13 81 FrankfortlS F l a a p r i n ist a i t o lle r; :i n : i .. : Maine,::: 311°° -7 1111 8 222155,9:67571 222°15'514'7'3'26'1 Vienna .... 12 55 c l u l e i e nti s : t a m ......................... 12 55 Peter4burch ........ i•l2 40 331 332 Berlin .......... -- Madrid. .... .. , , .. 48 48,1 48 4Bk -. Leghorn . , ........ __ 25 •80 . 1 25 8 5 Milii'.. _ .25, 80 ~5 85 ••e‘ et•• 25 . t- 35 25 80 ~..•••• Naples Palermo - ' 25 82} '2 5 9,5 i% -- 25 821 s , Lisbon - -52t 5 , Mesaina — 25821 2 ) 6 22 1‘ Vi Oporto — .. Foreign Gold in Bars (Standar d), ....... o?. .............. 17 0 . 9 0 nexican Dollars ... r ts. , •rde V sSoiluvttihr 4 in iu ß e a r r ic s a ( n S p ta o il t a; o d u ) s::: .................... : n o (0) 00 Ili rt at 13.14.1 19.15.4 12.10 491 i 132 i 2 64k 32 10g 711 58 9 22E