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IMPORTANT TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. In the Press. 111 HE LONDON MEDICAL DIRECTORY, for 1845, will contain notices of all the qualified medical prac titioners in London and its vicinity. These will embrace the name and place of abode of each member of the faculty ; the nature and date of his diploma or license, description of practice, whether con nected with any public or medical institution, titles of works and nature of contributions to medical literature, discoveries and Im provements, and other points pertaining to his professional position. To insure accuracy and the speedy completion of this important work, circulars have been sent to all resident practitioners, each of 'whom is respecthally requested to make the necessary return, as early as possible, in order to insure the correct insertion of his name. Address (post paid) to the Editor of the London Medical Directory, care of C. Mitchell, publisher, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street. THEATRE ROYAL., DRI.!RY-LANE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 10, Th.re vii,l be NO PERFORMANCE TO-MORROW EVENING, DECEMBER 11, Will be rei eated a Grand Opera Stria, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Cornare, Mr. Borrani ; Moncenigo, Mr. Weiss; Adolphe de Courcy, 111-, W. Harrison; Catarina Cornaro, MiUS Rainforth To conelude with the celebrated Ballet of THE PERI. Achmet, Desplaces; The Peri, Mdllc. Plunkett; Nourmahal, Mdl:e. O'Bryan ; Aysha, Mrs. Payne. The Box-ottice is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six Ls the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, :.ad Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 10, There will be NO PERFORMANCE, by Order of the Lord Chamberlin. TO-MORROW EVENING, DECEMBER 11, Wlll be performed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket Mr. S.rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe s ; Tom Coke Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; The Countess oft on pion. Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hawthorn Madame Vetris; Miss Rocket. bliss Julia zennett. After which, will be repeated a New Comic Drama, entitled SOMEBODY ELSE. Hans Monte, 111 . Charles Mathews; Minnie, Madame Yearns. __ To be followed by i New and Original Farce, called YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland; Mr. John Jaznes Feeley, Mr. Buckatone; Mrs. Poolev, Mrs. Humby. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and On. Guinea and a-Half each. llckets and Places to be had of Mr. L T. Ar cher, at the Box-office, Com Ten till Fire o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 10, " There will be NO PERFORMANCE. TO MORROW EVENING, DECEMBER 11, Will be performed VICTORINE; or, I'll Sleep on It. Alex andre, Mr. Hudson ; Michael, Mr. Selby, Victorine, Mrs. Yates; Elise, Mrs. Fitzwillians. After which a New Brants, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. CouLt Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson Count Vanille, Mr Selby ; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste; Crequet, Mr. Wright; Chechore, Mr. 0. Smith. To conclude with THE UNFINISHED GENTLEMAN, }in which Messrs. Wright, Selby, and Miss Woolgar will perform. Prompter, Mr . Ga ll ot ; Principal Painter sir . Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-ortice open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 10, These will he NO PERFORMANCE, being the Evening fixed for the Funeral of her late Royal Hight ess the Princess Sophia Matilda TO-MORROW EVENING, DECEMBER 11, Wi'l be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled THE CASTLE OF AYMON; or, The Four Brothers. Baron de Beamanotr, Mr. Walton; Olivier, Mr. Allen; Allard, Mr. C. Horn, Jun. ; Richard, Mr. Mime ; Renaud, Mr. Mattacks ; • Ivon, Mr. Lever ; Hermine, Mdlle. Helen Condell ; Gertrude, Mrs. Fosbroke. To corcluda with THE RENT DAY. Martin Heywood, Mr. Wallack; Bullfrog, Mr. Compton ; Rachel Heywood, Mrs. Stirling. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emd en . Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL _ _ Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Galls Is. Half.price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. 6d.; Boxes, 2s. ; is. ; Gallery, 641. Private Boxes, l'wo Guineas and One Outnea and a.Half ,• Prows. slum Boxes, Two Guineas and a.HaIE Doors to be opened at Half. past Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Bex-otdice, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingh am. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 10. T OTS.MOBIETBER, Lowest, 27 ; Highest, 31 ; Noon, 28 B iztomwrica, 30.16.—W0w, N.E. Nozn.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at 32 ; 55 cia Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and " Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather when the mercury falls below 30. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ..., 32 minutes after If Evening ... 0 minutes after 2. - 44-= .11 ,0 • - tit • -• . 476, - • - u r !!''N', e wwit ~.11 ECOND EDITION. t 4, Acelllllol _4 LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1844. Mr. FERRAND is one of those men who with zeal, energy, and perseverance, backed by good intentions, make no way in public life, but decline rather than rise in the estimation of the community at large, and this in exact proportion to the efforts they make to be useful. The reason of this ill-success on the part of the Hon. Member for Knaresborough, is, we think, sufficiently obvious. He has spirit, but not judg ment—ability, but not an atom of discretion—in fact, he has every sense but common sense. In every thing he says—in every question he takes up—he is ever in extremes. Moderation and prudence of lan • guage he scouts with contempt, as matters beneath his consideration, and seems to think that the true secret of eloquence—the art of making an im pression on the public mind consists in hyperbole and virulent declamation. The con sequence of this mistaken notion is, that Mr. FERAND'S speeches, whether within or without the walls of Parliament, though they may startle for the moment, produce not the slightest permanent effect ; and after the first surprise is over, no one thinks it worth his while to burden his memory with the arguments, the sentiments, or the overcharged statements, contained in them. The Hon. Gentle man, we see, has been recently edifying his Knares - borough constituents with his opinions de omnibus rebus, et quibusdans aliis, and in the course of the fervid and incoherent harangue which he threw off to them, after abusing all parties with nearly equal heartiness, he assured them that it was his firm persuasion that " England had become a nation of humbugs." Now, has Mr. FERRAND, who talker thus glibly about humbugs no, recol lection of having published a letter in the papers, wherein he . stated, in no very equivocal terms, that he owed his return to Parliament in a great degree to the bribery that had been practised among his con stituents ? Our memory, we think, does not deceive us in this matter ; we have an impression that we not only read, but commented on the letter in question at the time it appeared ; and we now ask Mr. FER RAND how—after having penned such a communica tion—he can have the face to come forward and launch a wholesale charge of humbug against his country men, when he himself, on his own showing, stands convicted of having practised the art in its highest per fection at his last election. But this is not the only instance of rash, headstrong assertion contained in the Hon. Member's address to his constituents at Knaresborough. Speaking of the New Poor•law— to some of whose provision 3, by the bye, we fear no greater good will result than he does himself—he ob served :—" It is a remarkable coincidence, that since this law was passed, England has never known what it is to rest in peace. The New Poor-law has sown the seeds of rebellion. In the northern districts strife and dissension have reared their bold fronts, while the south has been wrapped in flames by the incendiary." What a reckless statement is this. The insurrection in the manufacturing counties, some two or three years since, had nothing on earth to do with the New Poor-law, but originated solely in the depressed state of trade, and the general strike among the operatives for higher wages. As regards incendiarism Mr. FERRAND'S remark is equally unfounded, for this atrocious crime was first known in England, and was most generally perpetrated in the autumn and , winter of the year 1830, at which period the New Poor-law was not in existence ! What reliance can be placed on a politician who can make asser tions like these with such an utter disregard of accuracy! With the Honourable Member's quarrel with Sir JAMES GRAHAM we do not interpose —for the Right Honourable Baronet is no fa- vourite of ours, and we have not the slightest in clination to fight his battles; but when Mr. FERRAND says of Sir ROBERT PEEL, "he will not hesitate, if you keep him in office, to sacrifice the religion which he professes ; and I know full well that there is not a Protestant in England but believes that he is stealthily and furtively aiming a deadly blow at the Protestant religion in Ireland," we must enter our protest against his statement as a most unfounded calumny. To break up the monopoly of the Dublin University, and put education on a more rational footing throughout Ireland, is not to destroy the Pro testant religion of that country, but on the contrary, to strengthen it s f oundations, and increase its effi ciency. Though no very impassioned admirers of the Premier, we deem it to be doin hi justice to say , t h at there is not ag Public no more than l . man in the si rous empire, not ev en th e 13ishos, wh o is m o e • maintain inviolate th e interests of Protes r t e anti sm th a n n Sir R. PEEL. Among the chronicles of worthless follies perp e _ :rated by the aristocracy, whose fortunate destiny has THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1844. decreed to them an unlimited command of the means and the modes of personal enjoyment, those which re cord their exploits against birds and hares, with double barrelled (MANToN's, or Mooaz's, or PURDY's) pigeon guns, are among the most egotistical and nauseating. It were well for a vast community of their fellow countrymen if the results of this intense devotion to sylvan slaughter, for we shall not designate the in dolent and facile amusements of which we speak as " sporting"—a designation to which it has no legiti mate claim—it would be well, we say, if the results were simply distasteful—a chronic nuisance ;—a great bore ;—a stupid farce. It would be well if the only mischief provoked by impertinent announce ments, that on such a day his Royal Highness, or his Grace, or the Earl of This, or Sir Robert That, repairing at an early hour to a grand battu on the Marquis of —'s preserves, or Lord —'s woods, " which are known to be swarming with game, and, in the short space of three hours, with only three guns to the party "—brought down any imaginable num ber of pheasants you please, or shot more hares than could be carried away in all the keepers' carts. A true sportsman, who feels no pleasure in killing unless his game have had a fair chance, who would rather fag a whole day over a broken country to,pag half-a dozen brace of birds, which at the close of his work he can look upon with quiet complacency at his own skill and energy, than knock down in well preserved covers, with double shots right and left, poor devils who have not a chance of escape where men have two eyes to look, and two barrels to shoot with ; and whose fate is equally sealed, if, flying from the random misses of Lord HErtay, they are exposed to a volley from half-a-dozen Honourable Masters, whose guns, however badly pointed, club one chance shot out of their combined charges which finds the brain or the heart of its bright-plumaged victim. Yet these six " Honourable" bunglers, and their titled companions of the cover, of corrector eye and steadier hand, equally plume themselves on the wonders of their prowess. The poor keepers and servants, the men who load, and carry, and hand their pieces—the boys who mark for them—the little, yaffling spaniels, who run on and pick up the birds for them, and whose contributions to the products of the day are surely more important than their own comparatively stand still and mechanical operations—are never mentioned in the grandiloquent paragraphs which announce to an astonished world that Lord GEORGE shot the un heard-of number of 212 head of game with his own gun. In a morning paper of yesterday we find the fol lowing announcement, touching an illustrious gen tleman, who has acquired a high degree of pseudo reputation as " the farmer's friend," par excellence : " The Duke of BUCKINGHAM, the Marquis of CHANDOS, and a select shooting party, had some ex cellent sport during the last week. On Saturday week the Noble Duke and party, with nine guns, brought down three hundred head of game on the Noble Duke's preserves at Upper Winchindon ; and on Monday the noble sportsmen shot over the Westcott preserves (called Gipsey Bottom), and with sixteen guns killed four hundred head of game.' Here are two appeals to the obsequious admiration of the uninitiated. The nine guns of his Grace and friends in the Upper Winchindon preserves, dropped 300 head of game ; that is to say, 33 and one-third (for the importance of such matters demands that we should be particular to fractions) to each gun. On a subsequent day, the Ducal fowler and his party, being 16 guns in all, demolished 400 head of game in the Gipsey Bottom preserves, or 25 head to each gun. Pretty fair this account for the work per man on one property; six teen brace and better one day, twelve brace and a half the next, is the average return for each gun. But if seven hundred head of game were slaughtered in two days only, on but two preserves of all the broad lands of Stowe, what may we infer the aggregate quantity to be on all the Buckingham estates in Bucks, Hants, &c. ? And of that vast aggregate, what shall we reckon the daily consumption, occa sioned by the pillage of cottage gardens, the destruc tion of young corn, the barking of young trees? And let us take the accumulated amount of all this damage in a season at as high a figure as we may, or as the fiercest opponent of the Game-laws assumes it in arguing against them, how molecular a point does the social or civil wrong it involves represent, con trasted with the fearful sum of human misery and suffering, of criminal excitement and law less violence and murder, which is to be ascribed to the partial protection--the arbitrary privilege, which our code of Game-laws throws around this species of property—or, rather, the childish manner of dealing with it. For it is the disgrace of an era of civilisation, the shame and mockery of a country of free institutions, to tolerate enactments of so despotic, insolent, and fraud-encouraging a description as these. We found statutes on the book, dictated by the stern, unreasoning demands of a military no bility, on behalf of the strongest passion, next to that of rapine, of which they were susceptible—conceded by intimidated or heedless national councils—con firmed by the wants or weakness of the SOVEREIGN to his more formidable Barons, and the armed feadatories of his Crown, and submitted to by the people implicitly, or with murmurs and reluctance in proportion as they were brought to understand, or were able to vindicate the rights derived from their ancestors. In the process of time we thus got rid of the most odious of the forest laws, with their san guinary penalties of mutilation and death. Iron penaitieg they were, decreed, indeed, by iron-hearted men, but against bold outlaws and fearless foresters, who— ' Through each deep dingle of the forest hoar, Chased the fleet hart, or spear'd the savage boar,' s ith bold front and open hand. If "ferce naturo were then, as they have since been declared, chattels in which property could be lawfully established, it must be confessed that our ancestoral lords of the soil had their plea for the vengeance they visited upon its violation ; namely, that it was invaded in a most waste ful and wanton manner. In those good times when "stout Earls" were subject to such impromptu excite ments as to vow upon the Cross "to take their plea sure" in the " woods" of other stout Earls on the oppo site side of the Border, with a somewhat significant escort of "full five hundred fighting men," it was na tural for the party so threatened with such un bidden guests to tremble for the safety of other possessions besides his venison. But we moderns have not the excuse to be pleaded for our forefathers. We legislated in the year of grace 1843 for the honour and glory and monopoly of a mere caprice, with as much of grim coolness and relentless severity as those tbrefathers would have done in 1348 for the mere reverential approaching of the Holy Rood. We have surrounded the game with penal and specific statutes that we deny to the protectors of human life, or limb, or property—against the great bulk of the people. Yet we have done so only to secure the de struction of that game, and their mutilation in mem bers to a privileged class. We visit with detestable penalties of fine, imprisonment, and transportation, offences of trespass against game by reason of no cer tificate qualification to sport; by reason of snaring, shooting, or otherwise taking game off the lands on which it is found. Yet we legalise the sale of game, where the commodity is supplied by, or with the consent of, the landed owner to the retail dealer. Thus, we give a premium, be sides holding out a temptation, to the midnight spolia tions of the poacher. The poacher thinks, perhaps, that it is hard for titled fowlers to be at liberty to knock on the head 700 hares and pheasants in two lays, which they may sell—if they please—for, say, one shilling a piece, and though he has no chance o getting 351. in two days, he thinks it would be plea. suit to make 355. in two or three "cloudy nights," by helping himself from their assumed stock—there to-day, here to-morrow. The owner grants depu tations to gam€keepers. These come into bloody collision with the poachers. Outrages, assaults, mur ders follow in the train of the hatred thus engendered between the two classes of men. Our gaols swarm with poachers for trial; our hulks with poachers convicted ; our penal settlements with poachers who have taken some further but inevit- able degree in crime. Deserted families, ruined households, abandoned callings, desolate wives, unfathered children, loss of liberty, loss of life, the reprobation of friends, the rejection of society, despe ration, new excesses of crime, new criminal associa tions to incite to them—desolation, vengeance, and despair—these are the daily gathered fruits of laws to which no man who upholds them attributes any pur pose of benefit beyond securing to the aristocracy the schoolboy, unsportsmanlike, paltry pleasure of exter minating game, on high days and holidays, with as little trouble or art as if the birds were barn-door fowls, or geese grazing on a village-green. But justice does not sleep ! Oh, no ! She has a " red right arm " for the poacher, it is true — though on a balance of the good effected by the offence of the one, or the injury perpetrated by the pleasures of the other, it may be a grave question whether the poacher is not much more the farmer's friend than the Duke. But justice has also a hand for the ruffian whose brutal violence breaks a woman's arm, even at the humble feast which her hospitality has accorded to him ; and with this hand justice exacts from the brutal delinquent—a 51. note! Verily this cannot be that old justice which was used to be " even handed." Madrid journals of the 2d inst. have been received. General PRIM had arrived at Cordova, on his way to Cadiz, where he was to be shipped for the Marianne Islands. He was in a very bad state of health, and his mother had hastened to Madrid in order to peti tion the QUEEN that her son might be sent to Cuba or Porto Rico, in place of the Marianne Islands, the climate of which, it is feared, would be fatal to him ; but the NARVAEZ Government cruelly prohibited an interview. The eighth section of the Reform Bill, relative to the minority of the Sovereign and the Regency, was discussed on the 2d, and that clause of it which conferred the Regency on the nearest re lative was carried by a large majority. The Three per Cents. closed at 30 for cash, and 30} at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 21 for cash, and 21i at 60 days. The robberies and murders which have been com mitted in Paris and the suburbs for the last eight or nine years, and the conviction of a gang of fifteen which had long infested the metropolis, has at last induced the Prefect of Police to adopt some measures for the protection of the inhabitants. The first step, says one of the journals, is to increase the patrols, each of which is to consist of not fewer than three A Toulouse paper called the Emancipation has publi3hed a letter from Otaheite, describing in the most - violent language the conduct of the English missionaries, to whom they attribute all the disturb ances in the island. The following extract is a speci men : " It, is now evident that it is solely to the perfidious councils of some wicked men, who cannot relinquish their I ild instinct of internal hatred, that the present de plorablie state of this country is due. These men cannot see a r tgular and strong authority established in a coun try wbtare they were nearly masters, and where their intrigue 3, seconded by their influence over Queen Po mare- -It poor, spiritless woman, replete with vanity— gave tb am a supremacy which they have not feared to make even Europeans often feel. They, therefore, had rather see the unfortunate Otaheitans perish by famine, or deci n iated by our grape-shot, than see them escape their y rice, and live quietly and happily under French authorzty. Nothing is spared to deceive them, and keep up thei hostility to us ; the most absurd tales, and most ex tray. agant promises —everything, in short, is resorted to for the purpose. Every day the insurgents ascend the mountains to discover th e English fleet that is to ex te.rmin.arzm us." The .National, as a matter of course, believes every word o t the latter, and thus attacks the Government and the- _English : " The. Emancipation's correspondent has still the good nature t 0 ask whether the French Government will de mand s mine reparation of that of Great Britain ? We, unfortu. otately, know, on this side of the ocean, what is to be e. z petted. Instead of demanding reparation, we have sac rificed the men who bad worthily upheld the honour o f France against the odious intrigues of Eng land. Is"As a how bas the disavowal which has fallen on those mm at been received at Otaheite ? This the Go. vernmen .t knows but takes care not to tell. It has re ceived di . s,patches, and, according to its custom, it keeps them shi sit up in the navy department's cartons, or in other car tt ms which it is useless to name. The report has, neve x theless, spread that the English frigate Carys fort, whi. istt carried to Otaheite the disavowal of Admiral Dupetit I .r houars, has been received by the French with indignati Dn. It is even said that their emotion has been so great t b at some artillerymen have threatened to fire on the fri ndly ship which brought the news of the dis avowal o.f the Admiral and :of his being superseded. The Minis:nry will, probably, not explain themselves re garding tb ese rumours ; but the Chamber well know how to fo.r4 them to it, provided the Chamber have in their heart. a single drop of blood which runs in the veins of our cow 3 trymen, who are exposing their lives yonder in defendink g our flag against the enemies of France." The Finch Three per Cents. were quoted at TORTONI'S 6 ) on Sunday, at 84f. ROBBER ar IN THE ClTY.—This morning informa tion was fo. r' warded to the various metropolitan and City police-offic( 54 and stations of the following extensive rob bery of goo d . s , &c., having been committed between the hours of he If-past five, P.M., on Saturday the 7th, and nine o'clock :yesterday morning, at the warehouse of Mr. James Oldl lv Ins, No. 96, Wood-street, Cheapside, viz., 501 pieces fancy Brussels handkerchiefs, 2 pieces of black silk di. ,A to, 7 pieces of spun ditto ditto, 8 ditto Corah ditto, 1 ditto and 7 silk handkerchiefs, 69 fancy Brus sels of varion W patterns, 9 black satin ditto, 57fancy ditto, 33 pieces of chequed and fancy vestings, 24 yards of figured and c h equed ditto, 1291 yards of rich French satin, 52 yap& ; black satin, 45} ditto ditto, 12i ditto fancy ditto, 10' l ditto figured ditto, 214 ditto velvet, 894 ditto vestings, 1,423 silk and satin scarfs of various qua lities and colour s, and about 91. in silver. A reward of 501. is offered. WOOLEY, HE BRISTOL MERCHANT, AND MISS BR YERS.—Thr Liverpool Albion states that these two persons have I pe• .2n, for the last six months, and are at this moment r sa iding under the same roof; in Liverpool, dining togethe r at the same board, and living just as happily as if nea fictitious correspondence had ever taken place, or as if ti here had been no Miss Mary Ann Mor gan, no marria g-% 3 in London, no 47,000/. in the distance, no charge made- at Union-hall, and as if all had been a dream, a short, unpleasing, delusive dream ! At what precise period a .er the examination at Union-hall Mr. Wooley acd Mi ai ; Bryers came again together and made up their little di Yerences report saith not. But, with out attempting tc • draw aside the veil which surrounds this interesting- e) )och in Mr. Wooley's eventful life, the fact appears to Ix that that gentleman, accompanied by Miss Bryers, cc ito .e to Liverpool about six months since, purchased the , good-will of a public house, No. 10, Frederick street, and that, from being a Bristol mer chant, he transf or, med himself into a Liverpool licensed victualler. DRAYTON MAN on.—ln consequence of the death of the Dowager Lao ly Floyd, Sir Robert and Lady Peel will be prevent/ pd 4 om receiving company at the manor this winter. men. This, however, will afford but a trifling relief, for, from all accounts, never was there a race of constables, not even the old watchmen of London, so utterly useless as the present guardians of the French capital. In 1836 the band of felons just convicted commenced their operations, and since that year a vast number of crimes have been committed with im punity, not one of them having been at all interrupted in their course by the interference of the police. The noise of the scuffles in the streets, says the Consti tutionnel, the cries of the victims, have brought the inhabitants to the windows, but they durst not descend ; yet the tumult caused by these savage assailants, and by the desperate resistance of their unhappy victims taken unawares, never brought to the scene of crime one patrol, one constable, or a single individual of a body formed for the protection of the public. Nay, more. After the robbery, the thieves were generally allowed to escape peaceably with their booty. Only one had been caught, because he had not the sense to throw away the heavy load with which he was encumbered. It appears these male factors were at last discovered, not by the police, but by a leader of the gang, who betrayed his comrades. This journal recommends a system of police like that in existence here, but with still more authority and power. It is surprising that in a city like Paris, and with a Government so watchful and generally careful of the public safety, scenes should have been allowed to con tinue which would disgrace Rome and Madrid. The Journal des Debats has another article on the election of Mr. POLL to the Presidency, which it considers unfavourable to order and the cordial union of the northern and southern States. " This time," it says, " the question was more clearly than ever a struggle between the north and the south—between the free and the slaves states, which have opposite interests. Of all the characteristics of this election, this is per haps the most annoying. In fine, this election, by the very choice which it has made, appears not a fit one to resolve the difficulties in which the States have been placed for the last eight years. For such a re sult, a firm and able hand like Mr. CLAY'S would have been necessary. It has brought forward in re lief the tendencies which may become dangerous to the repose of the States, and even for the maintenance of the union. As to the great questions of the custom-house tariff and Texas, there appears little propability of their being soon settled. But the elec tion of Mr. Poia having opened the field to many intrigues, and having set public affairs adrift, to be acted: upon by accidental causes, and passing unex pectod influences, it is impossible to foretell with any certt Linty what may occur in America during the next four years in regard to the conduct of public affairs." THIS DAY'S NEWS. PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.) THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OP GUERNSEY. The Committee of the Privy Council for the affairs of Guernsey sat to-day, by special appointment, in the Council Chamber, Whitehall, for the purpose of con sidering the petition of the bailiff and jurats of the Royal Court of the island of Guernsey, with respect to the conduct of the Lieutenant-Governor of the island, Major- General William Napier. The Lords of the Council forming the Committee were the Lord Chancellor, Sir James Graham, Mr. Baron Parke, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Mr. Burge, Mr. Stuart Wortley, and Mr. De Saumarez, appeared on the part of the petitioners. Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Waddington were council for the Governor ; and The Solicitor-General, who was accommodated with a seat near their Lordships, appeared as assessor, and also to assist the Court. The principal charges against the Governor were, that in August last he ex pelled a man from the island of the name of Isidore Le Comte, a subject of the King of the French, without trial. The petitioners, considering the adoption of this course an infringement on their rights contrary to the laws of the island, requested a conference with the Go vernor, which he appointed to take place on the 9th of October last, at his residence, Haviland Hall. Conform ably to that appointment the Court waited on his Excellency, when, to their surprise, he stated that he had certainly granted a conference in the case of Le Comte, but that as her Majesty's repre sentative, the highest authority in the island, he would communicate with the Court through the bailiff alone, and desired that officer to say if he was fully prepared to deliver the sentiments of the Court, and upon the bailiff replying that he could not in this manner state with certainty the sentiments of the jurats, he was told by the Governor that they had better return to their Court-house and reconsider the matter, when another in- Orview might take place. This was accordingly done. The course pursued by the Governor was considered un constitutional, and it was resolved not to accede to the Lieutenant-Governor's terms, as uncon stitutional, and contrary to the spirit and in tent of the law. On the return of the Court to the Governor, he refused to hold any conference except as he had stated. Under these circumstances the peti tioners had presented their petition to the Queen, pray ing that her Majesty would be graciously pleased by her order to declare that, in conferences in future to be held by his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor and the bailiffs and jurats of the Royal Court of Guernsey, all parties should take part ; and the petitioners also prayed that her Majesty would declare that in the case of an alien domiciled in Guernsey, charged with any ordi nary matter not of a higher nature than a private offence, not concerning the State, that he should be dealt with according to the common course of the law of the island, and should not be liable to be expelled without trial. The other petition stated fresh aggressions, as the petitioner considered, on the part of his Excellency, on the laws of the island— namely, that his Excellency on receiving the warrant of a pardon, in favour of a prisoner named Thomas Fossey, did, in violation of the constitution of the island, send for soldiers to force the gaol, thereby substituting military force, in lieu of the arm of the law ; and that instead of acknowledging the irregularity of this proceeding, he instructed the law officers of the Crown to prosecute the porter and turnkey of the gaol for disrespect of her Ma jesty's warrant, in hesitating to liberate the convict on the application of his Excellency and exhibition of the warrant. The petitioner, therefore, in this petition prayed that her Majesty would be graciously pleased to instruct and direct his Excellency Major-General Wm. Napier to regulate his future acts in the government of the island conformably to the laws, customs, and char tered rights of the inhabitants; and further, that her Majesty would be graciously pleased to declare, in ac cordance with the Order in Council on the 30th of June, 1608, that it was not fit or convenient that the Lieu tenant-Governor should exercise any martial jurisdic tion contrary to the usual course of justice, except it was in time of war or hostility, or for the suppressing or avoiding some imminent danger likely to ensue to the island ; and also, that her Majesty would declare her gracious purpose not in any way to suffer the common course of justice to be superseded by military force. Both these petitions now came on for argument, and Mr. BURGE, on behalf of the petitioners, occupied their Lordships the whole morning with his arguments. None of their Lordships appeared in their official robes. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Sir J. K. BRUCE.) NICHOLLS V. SPOTTISWOODE. Mr. ANDERTON opened this case this morning. It comes on on a demurrer by the defendant to a bill filed by the plaintiff, Colonel Nicholls, on behalf of himself and other parties, creditors of Mr. Alaric A. Watts, praying the order of the Court to compel the defendant to furnish an account of certain alleged debts and secu rities held by him, and which are stated to be due to the said Alaric A. Watts, formerly editor of the United Service Gazette, and available as assets for the benefit of his creditors. The suit arose from transactions be- tween Mr. Spottiswoode and Mr. Watts, extending over a series of years. The present demurrer was moved by ilia defendant, on the ground both of want of equity and want of parties. In support of it it was argued that a trust-deed entered into between Mr. Watts and his creditors was a deed of arrangement by which he undertook to pay, in instalments, within the space of three years, a sum of 1,5001., and to effect a policy of insurance on his life to that amount, as a security for it, though the deed contained no ex press recital that the insurance was to be effected as such a security. Before the three years expired, Mr. Watts paid the 1,5001. One of the debts was due to two gen tlemen, named Spalding and !lodge, and they were called partners in the deed, which, however, being only exe cuted by one of them, it was alleged that the other should be made a party also. Mr. HALLETT followed on the same side. His HoNouß said the alleged want of equity was im possible—it was impossible for Mr. Watts to render the deed void, by omitting to pay the sum mentioned in it. The deed was a covenant to pay 1,5001. at certain times within three years, and to effect a policy of insurance for the single purpose of paying it ; the allegation was, that at certain times within the three years, which had not expired at the time the original bill was filed, this 1,5001. was paid and accepted by the trustees under the deed, who held the money accordingly ; there was also an allegation that these very trustees had admitted the deed to be void ; the demurrer, therefore, for want of equity was nothing. Then with regard to par ties, it was said that the assignors ought to be before the Court; as the creditor's debt was absolutely released by the assignee, the assignment was in the nature of an equity, and the assignor of an equity was not, accord ing to general rules, necessarily a party in the case. One of these debts was a partnership debt, and in the deed they were stated to be partners ; without at all questioning the law as laid down in the cases cited, he did not apprehend that they had any application to cases of this description, where they were dealing with an equity, and one belonging to partners, in respect to a partnership debt, both having agreed to sell it, though only one of them executed the deed. For every sub stantial purpose of the bill both the partners were bound. The demurrer was bad, and must be overruled with costs. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) 'Sittings at Nisi Prins at the Guildhall, before Lord DENMAN and a London Common Jury.) WARREN V. JAY AND ANOTHER. This was an action brought against the owners of the vessel Amelia, to recover comp ensa ti on f or th e d amage done to sertain quantities of wheat, flour, and malt, the property of the plaintiff, which had been shipped on board the Amelia, and which had been damaged, as was alleged, in consequence of the delay occasioned by a deviation made by the Amelia in the course of her voyage. The defendants pleaded that the deviation was justifiable. Mr. Whately appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Platt for the defendants. It appeared that the Amelia, with the plaintiff's wheat, flour, and malt on - board, sailed from Yarmouth for Liverpool, on the 22d of July, in company with the ship Martha ; they proceeded to Dungeness toge ther ; while at Dungeness the Amelia proceeded to ren der asistance to the Jane, of Sunderland, which was in distress. On her coming up to the Jane, it was disco vered that the vessel was deserted, there was no human being on board her. Under these circum stances the Amelia took possession of her, and carried her into Dover, whereby her owners and crew became entitled to salvage, and the Martha proceeded on her voyage. The Martha arrived at Liverpool on the 4th of August, and the Amelia did not arrive until the 20th. On her arrival it was discovered that the flour was perishing and the wheat heated, and the damage thus done, which was attributed to the delay, was estimated at GA The markets also were lower on the arrival of the Amelia than they were on the arrival of the Martha. Lord DENstAN in summing up, said that the duty of saving human life was paramount to every other, and a deviation for the purpose of assisting a ship in distress was justifiable ; but when it was discovered that the ship in distress was deserted, and that there was no human being, a continuance of that deviation for the purpose of saving property merely, and to get salvage, was not justifiable, inasmuch as it was the duty of persons in such a situa tion to take care of the property entrusted to them rather than of the property of others. If they believed that the damage done to the plaintiff's property was caused by the deviation, then they would find fur the plaintiff, but if they believed it was not so caused, they would find for the defendants. The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after an absence of two hours and a-quarter returned int o Court with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 56/. 6s. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice ERLE and a Common Jury.) THOMPSON V. ALDER. This was an action of slander, brought under the fol lowing circumstances:—The plaintiff is a tobacconist and cigar dealer, keeping a shop in the Old Kent road. The defendant is a naval officer, retired on half-pay. Mr. Alder has two sons, who, as it appeared in evi dence, were in the habit of passing much time in Mr. i hompson's shop, and smoking daily a ,4.00 d many cigars. This was related to Mr. Alder with some, as ultimately proved, unfounded additions, one of which was, that the young gentlemen were allowed by the plaintiff to have letters addressed to them at his shop by ladies. Upon this information the defendant went to the plaintiff's house and reproached him, in rather un measured language, with k ee pi ng a n improp er h ouse , and encouraging young mea in profligate courses. This language constituted the matter of the slander, for which the present action was brought. But Mr. Alder having subsequently learned that he had been misinformed as to the character of the plaintiff's house, and that there was no foundation in the statement that letters addressed to his sons by women we re received there, he wrote through his solicitors a most ample retractation of the slan der, saying that he felt bound, as a man of honour and a gentleman, to apologise for having been betrayed by his feelings, as a father, to make such unwarrantable charges against a respectable tradesman. The action however proceeded. Mr. Sergeant Downing, with whom was Mr. Words worth, conducted the plaintiff's case ; and Mr. Sergeant Shea addressed the jury at some length for the defend ant, complaining severely of the conduct of the plain tiff, in allowing the case to go on for costs, after receiving snch ample reparation. Mr. Justice ERLE, in summing up, told the jury that they must find for the plaintiff, as the cause of action was admitted. But in doing so they must set the repa ration against the injury, and, perhaps, very small da mages would satisfy the justice of the case, which ought scarcely to have proceeded so far, after the very proper and amp le apology which the d e f en d ant h a d ten d ere d . The jury found for the plaintiff—Damages, One Farthing. SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY NOSES AND ANOTHER V. WELLS. This was an action for goods sold and delivered, and for money received. It appeared that in the course of May, 1842, the plain tiffs, Messrs. Nokes and Burke, determined on taking a booth at Epsom, at the time of the races, and pur chased some wines, ales, and stout of defendant, for the purpose of selling them there. It was agreed that the price of these wines was to be paid thus :—The whole receipts of each day were to be handed over to Mr. Wells at night until the debt was paid. Subsequently, however, a bill of exchange was drawn by a person of the name of Millar, or a friend of his, named Low, and indorsed by Messrs. Nokes and Burke to Mr. Webb. This bill was in satisfaction of this debt. After the conclusion of the races, a quantity of wine remained unsold, which de fendant had agreed to re-purchase of them. It was on account of this transaction that the present action was brought Mi. THOMAS appeared for the defendant, and pleaded as a set-off the original debt, which it was answered, on the part of the plaintiff, was paid by the bill of ex change. Tlre jury retired to deliberate, and, after about an hour's consultion, gave a verdii•t for the plaintiff— Damages, 15L 18s. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY ) In consequence of a report having been circulated in the neighbourhood of this Court, that last evening the police, under the direction of Mr. Superintendent Beres ford, of the C division, had effected the capture of another set of gamblers, at one of the " hells in Leicester square, a large crowd of persons assembled this morning round the station-house in Vine -street, Piccadilly, in ex pectation of seeing the prisoners brought out. The Court was also exceedingly crowded by parties to hear the examination. This rumour appears to have originated under the fol lowing circumances :—During the last week the officers of the Sheriff have been is possession of the Hotel de Provence, No. 18, Leicester-square, under a bill of sale, 1,5001. having been advanced on the property. Yester day the present occupant of the premises, assisted by a gang of fifteen or twenty labourers, locked up all the rooms of the hotel, refusing to let the officers in possession go in or out. One of them, named John Applebee, during a skirmish last evening, was violently assaulted by the cook of the esta blishment, Joseph Magora, who was given into the charge of the police. Considerable violence was dis played by the ejecting party, and a large crowd of per sons was collected round the hotel, and remained there for hours. At length it was found necessary to station a body of police there to preserve the peace. On the case being called on, the complainant stated that he wished to withdraw his charge, which Mr. Hardwick assented to, and the defendant was of course liberated. HEATING THE LOCK-UP CELLS.-Mr. Hardwick has humanely ordered, that during the present inclement weather, the lock-up cells shall be heated night and morning with fire pans. LLOYD'S SHIPPING_(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 10.—Wind, cold northerly breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, DEC. 9.—Wind E.S.E. to N.E., fresh.—Sld. Indian, Launceston; Stratford, Ichaboe; Hebden, Icha boe; Rowena, Gambia; Canada, New Orleans; Fortune, St. John's, New Brunswick. OFF PENZANCE, DEC. B.—Renown, Donald, Laun ceston, sld. July 23d. NEWPORT, DEC. 7.—Sld. Elizabeth Beynon, Grenada; John Morley, Jamaica. HARWICH, DEC, 7.—Arrd. Thirsk packet, !London for Stockton, with loss of bowsprit, &c. BRISTOL, DEC. 9.—The Union packet, Williams, hence to Goole, foundered off Padstow, on the 6th inst., having been in contact with the Magdelina, arrived in the Channel from Hamburgh; three men drowned, master and a boy saved. SHEERNESS, Dec. 9.—The Voyager, Duncan, Nelson, Tomlinson, and several other colliers, some with loss of anchors, have put into the harbour, bound from London to the north. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 9.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Great Liverpool steamer, Alexandria, left 23d ult., Malta 27th. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 9.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Courier, de la Seine Inferieure, Gabon, for Havre ; Newham, Armstrong, Callao, and not the Hymen, as reported; Siegmund Caesar, Poung, Rio for Bremen ; Alexand er , Liddell, Quebec for Hull. PENZANCE, Dse. 7.—Fanny, Batavia, for Rotterdam, Alexander, New York, for Havre. BRISTOL, Dec. 9.—Arrd. Delos, Wagstaff, Africa ; Victory, Reid, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, DEc. 9.—Wind S.E , light.—Arrd. High land Mary, Quebec. Sld. Princess Royal, Calcutta ; Greenock, Mobile. Off, Cumana, Calcutta ; New Hampshire, New Orleans. laßwrcu, DEC. 9.—The schooner Hero, Smith, of and from London to Amsterdam, was totally wrecked last night on the Andrew's Point ; crew, except one, drowned ; greater part of cargo lost. STROMNESS, Nov. 27.—The Thomas, Price, of Sun derland, ashore in Hoy Sound, beat over the rocks this morning, and has become a total wreck. LOWESTOFFE, DEC. 9.—The weather having mode rated, the cargo of the Triune has been landed in a very damaged state. WIYENHOE, DEC. 9.—A quantity of wreckage has come ashore at Walton-in-the-Naze ; amongst them is four tons of castor oil, a case of shellac, marked " S. L., C. N. C., No. 22," also a figure-head, with a yellow epaulet, and an arm painted blue, holding a pistol. It is supposed to belong to some vessel lost in the Ship wash Sands. CORE, DEC. 7.—Arrd. Brocket, Nixon, Valparaiso ; Ellice, Burnett ; and Roseanne, Chrichton, Ichaboe. THE GUANO TRADE.—Advises received this morning from Ichaboe to Oct. 3, state that there was at that date upwards of 300 vessels lying at Ichaboe, and that four or five vessels were loading at each pit, and ves sels were arriving daily. A previous letter, dated Sept. 20, states that there was sufficient guano on the island to load all the vessels that could be loaded for the next six months at the then rate, but, on the 3d October, it was believed there was not more guano left than would be required to load the amount of shipping lying there at that time. Stages for shipping the guano had been erected wherever they could be placed. The Anne, Mearns, and Josephs (Scotch), arrived there on Oct. 3, from Liverpool. The Mary, Kingston, and Alhambra, of Liverpool, had sailed ; also the Hawk, Thomas Nay lor, and Rambler. The following were amongst the vessels loading :—The Superior, of London ; Princess Victoria, Hopkinson, and Britannia, all of Liverpool ; Sarah Fleming, Clydesdale, Constellation, Chieftain, Ellen. Amongst the ships not commenced were the Maid of Mona, Culzien Castle. and Elizabeth. FRIGHTFUL DRAY ACCIDENT.—Last night about eight o'clock the following melancholy and frightful accident took place in the Blackfriars-i oad, to a man named Joseph Monk, a drayman in the employ of Messrs. Whitbread and Co., the extensive brewers of Chiswell-street, which it is feared will terminate fatally in the eourse of the day. The unfortunate man was sitting on the near shaft driving, and on nearing Wel lington-street, he by some means fell under the wheel, which passed completely over his head. Several of the foot-passengers who witnessed the dreadful sight ran to his assistance, and carried him into the shop of Mr. Vinin, the surgeon: of Blackfriars-road, who found that his skull was fractured in a most extensive manner. Mr. Vinin immediately rendered every aid, and extracted a portion of the skull (about three inches square) which had penetrated, the brain, and was completely exposed. The injuries he had rece;ved were of such an extensive character that Mr. Vinin ordered his removal to Guy's Hospital, where he now remains under the care of Messrs. Cock and Hilton, the house-surgeons, who have been unremitting in their attention to the unfortunate man, whose death is hourly expected. At twelve o'clock this day he was still alive, and, strange to add, quite sensible, to the great astonishment of all the medical gentlemen connected with the hospital. THE ATTEMPT TO POISON A WHOLE FAMILY.— In our last we gave the particulars of the first examina tion of John Wall, of Oadby, framework-knitter, on the charge of attempting to kill his mother, father, and brother, by administering arsenic to them, in order, as is supposed, to obtain possession of 3001., to which him self and his brother and sister were entitled on the death of their mother Rumours were afloat, in the meantime, that he had been concerned in another attempt of the same atrocious character, by which he sought to rid himself of the expense of maintaining an illegi timate child of his wife's, by the same means, and it was ascertained, on inquiry, that a few weeks prior to the attempt on the life of his father, mother, and brother, the child had been taken sud denly ill, under such suspicious circumstances. On the prisoner's examination on Wednesday, the legal evidence requisite for a committal in the first case was not pro duced, and the second case, the charge of attempting to poison the child, was then partially gone into. It ap peared that, on the 24th of September the prisoner's wife left home, leaving a child whom she had before her marriage with Wall, in the care of a boy. During her temporary absence the boy saw Wall put some white powder into some milk which had been boiled for the child, and on telling him what he had seen, Wall reached down the salt from the chimneypiece, and said that was what he had put in the milk. As the evidence was in complete on both charges, and it is anticipated that additional facts will be obtained, the prisoner was re manded to Monday. The prisoner maintains a dogged silence.—Leicester Mercury. Baron Rothschild has become the purchaser of the whole of the red deer belonging to the late Hon. Charles Stuart Wortley. The herd was last week re moved to the Noble Baron's seat in Bedfordshire. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market nt T,ivernnnl WtIA ver yesterday. About 9,000 bales were sold at id. prr lb. advance on the lowest rates of last week. Speculators took 2,000 bales, and the sales comprised 1,000 Pernam at , qd. to 51d., 200 Egyptian at sd. to 6d., 100 B A hia at sd. to 51d., 300 Surat at 2id. to 34d., and the rest American at 3 4 4.1. to 6d. for Orleans.—There was a brisk demand for Shares at rising prices. Bristol and Glou cester, 38 37a; Chester and Birkenhead, 32; Chester and Holyhead, 54; Churnet Valley, 665. 6d.; Eastern Counties, Perpetual, No. 1,91 s. 10d.; Grand Junction, 2211 4 5; Great Western, 145 k 146; Ditto, Fifths, 28; Liverpool and Manchester, Half Shares, 52i ; London and Birmingham, 32/. Shares, 381 -a- I; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 26* i; London and York, 34 4; London and South-Western, 84; Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenths, 3. 1 ; Midland Counties, 108 i i; North Union, 147 i 148; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 97; South-Eastern, 38 : f 394; Ditto, New, 11i 124; Trent Valley, 81; Paris and Lyons, 655. 6d; Paris and Rouen, 394; Paris and Strasburg, 555. 6d. 2i; Boulogne and Amiens, 51. There are no arrivals to-day with later intelligence of interest from any quarter. The commercial markets are becoming quieter as Christmas approaches, and there is a decided paring down of operations to the lowest possible limits, in order to enable parties to make up their books for the year. The seasonable weather has served, however, to give a little impulse to particular departmer is connected with our textile manufactures. The expectation of the terms of the French loan being known here has caused the English Stock market to rule dull during the greater part of the morning, although it is not certain that much effect will be produced upon prices here, as the principal distribution is expected to be on the Continent. Consols for transfer upon the re-opening of the books are loci to 100 : 1. Exchequer Bills are 565. to 58s. pre mium, being again very firm. East India Bonds obtain 735. to 758. premium. Bank Stock has been marked 2071 to 2081. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are higher again, baying touched 103 k. The Three per Cents. bring looi to 4. The Foreign Investments are very inactive. Spanish Three per Cents. are heavy, at 36i. Mexican Bonds realise 36} 1; and Peruvian, 27 to 27i. Venezuela Stock is 434. Belgian Scrip is worth 1 prem. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. obtain 634 to 64; and the Four per Cents., 91 The Railway Shares realise steady prices, but the market is not quite so buoyant as yesterday. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock for Account ....,,,,.,...... .»..... 208% 207% 208% 3_per Cent. Reduced Annuities ........"." ..... 100%3 % New 3% per Cent. Annuities... ..... .........." 10334 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 12% 1-10 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 India BOllda , 1 ,(XX) .. _ «es •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 'l5 Ditto under 1 , 000 -- Consol. for Opening ....„." lOO% % India Stock for Account 287 Exchequer Bills. I%cl. I%d i t oeol. •••••••••••••••••••••••• •• 0111•••••••••• 56 5 9 pm. WK. 00.10••••••••••••••••• ... •••••••••••• 58 56 pm. Ditto Slat.... • m. 0.. •••••••••••• 58 56 pm. Ditto Advertis ed......... ....... ..... FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent ........... ....... ...... Ditto Scrip Mexican Bonds, 1837,5 per Cent............._ 36% Ditto for the Account .....".............. Ditto Deferred Stock... ..... ..... .......... Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents — Ditto for the Account. 2 734% Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840" — Ditto Three per Cent. .........................." — Ditto for the Account ...." 3 634 Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 43% Dutch 234 per Cents. ..... .. ........ .......... ......- 63% 64 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 97% % RPICES OF SHARES I HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SMARR. Birmingham and Gloucester lOO ........ 963 g...... to -. Bristol and Exeter Bristol and ... % 8 Cambridge and Lincoln Chester and H01yhead"."....."•• 5 .•....... 5% Chumet Valley .................. ..... 2 ......... 3 Direct Northern . 2%......... 2%% Eastern Counties •.... ......•."...• 25 •••••.... 13% , to 14 Great Souther n and Western 5 8% (Ireland) Great Western ...........-...." " 75 Ditto 34 Shares 5O 89% 14... to London and Birmingham ..... .... 100 .... 221. ......_. to 2203( Ditto New Thirds 2 ..«,,,,. 3734 Ditto 14 Shares - ..... 26 ......... to London and Blackwall 16); ..,,. 6% ..... to London and Greenwich ... London and South Wester n .. ...... 41% ...... 84 ... to 85 London and Croydon ..... .......". 13% ...... 16%% ... to London and Y0rk..................... 2% 3% Lynn and Ely l% Manchester and Leeds.....- ........ 70 .........110 120 to 118% 119 Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 ....... 52 .... Dit o 4 Shares 2 ......... 4% Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 24 ......... 60 North British 5 .... 554 ..... to —. Richmond and West End Junct. 1 Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton,l .% 2% to Dudley, Birmingham ... S ' South Eastern and Dover ..... .... 23 34 38% to Ditto New York and North Midland ..... .... 50 .." lO , to Ditto 4 Shares....".. .......... .. 25 Ditto Scarbore' iranch Ditto Selby Scrip ......"..... ..... 20 ........ 67 ' Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bourdeaux Paris and Lyons 2 3% % to ..- Paris and R0uen.......•................. 20 ....•.... 32% .4 Paris and Strasbourg MARKET NE WS.-(THIS DAY, HAY DIARBIITS. ►SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 4115 s . Useful ditto, 4116 s to 5/4s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s t• 51 10s ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to 1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 14s to 11 16s per load. Supply but moderate, and trade firm. CUMIERIAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 153 to 41165; Useful ditto 4/ 17s to 5165; fin• Upland ditto, 5/ 83 to 5/ 12s ; Clover Hay, 4110 s to 51173 ; Oat Straw, 11 130 to 1/ 15s ; Wheat Straw, 11 16s to 11 I7s per load. A limited supply, and a steady demand. WRITECHAPRL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 12s to 41155; Useful ditto, 4/ 16s to 514 s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s to 5/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 41 10s to 61; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to 1114 s ; Wheat Straw, 1114 s to 11 16s per load. Trade, throughout, steady, at the above quotations. COLONIAL SUGAR.—The market has been very quiet, but prices have been generally steady. Bengal good white has been sold at 64s to 665, and good brown at 45s to 46s ; 3,446 Mauritius, since our last, have been nearly all taken in, good mid yellow at 58s to 58s 6d per cwt. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week in the port of London, was 1,277 hhds 47 tierces 53 barrels, and there were taken for home consumption, 1,806 hhds 225 tierces 535 barrels. The stock is 16,020 hhds 1,916 tierces 3,042 barrels. COFFEE.—Very little doing in British Plantation, and good ord Ceylon has been dull at 52s per cwt. RUM.—The quantity landed last week in the port of London was 322 puns. '.l here were taken for home consumption 290 puns 53 hhds, and exported 385 puns 130 hhds. The stock is 13,031 puns 1,170 hhds. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 40s 3d to 40s 9d per cwt on the spot, and Town 43s 6d per cwt. TEA.—The market is steady, although the deliveries have been scarcely so large, during the last few days. PRIVY COUNCIL.—CONDUCT OF THE GOVERNOR OF GUERNSEL—The Lords of the Privy Council sat this morning, the Lord Chanellor presiding, to investigate a petition from Guernsey, touching the conduct of the Lieutenant-Governor of that island. Sir James Graham and other Lords were present. A number of equipages, belonging to the dif ferent members of the Royal Family, left town at an early hour this morning for Black heath, to join in the funeral procession of her late Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda. The procession was appointed to leave the ranger's house (the Princess's late residence) at one o'clock, to proceed to the Great 'Western Railway station at Paddington. A special train was ordered to be in readiness to convey the royal remains to Slough, from whence a procession will be formed to St. George's Chapel, Windsor, where the cavalcade is expected to arrive at eight o'clock this evening. DEATH OF THE DOWAGER LADY FLOYD.—We re gret to hear that Sir Robert and Lady Peel have received from the Continent the melancholy information of the sudden death of the Dowager Lady Floyd, mother of Lady Peel. We are informed that her Ladyship, wbo was at the banquet given at the Royal Exchange in ho nour of the Queen's visit, in the enjoyment of excellent health, a fortnight back left this country for Italy, with the intention of also sojourning a short time at Nice. On reaching Paris, however, the deceased lady was seized with symptoms of indisposition, which, in two days, terminated in her death. Her Ladyship died on Wednesday last. The deceased was relict of the late General Sir John Floyd, Bart., whom she has surv i ve d twenty-six years. By that Gallant General her Lady ship leave, issue Lady Fuller. widow of the late Lieu tenant-General Sir John Fuller, who died in October, 1841, and Lady Peel. ACCIDENT TO THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER.-- As the Marquis of Worcester, while hunting, on Satur day, was galloping at speed across a field near Petty France, an accident occurred to him which threatened the most serious, if not fatal, consequences. The fore feet of his horse hitched in a cart-rut, and the animal fell forward and turned a complete somersault with the Marquis under him. We are happy to state, however, notwithstanding the violence of the fall, and that a rider rode against the horse while down, with considerable force, his Lordship escaped with the most trifling in_ jury.— Bath Journal. IGNS OF A HARD WlNTER.—Yesterday, much curiosity was excited, and a great deal of sport created, by large flocks of wild fowl making their appearance, and alighting on the banks of the river. In Battersea fields, on the Fulham Lammas land, and amongst the osier -beds, opposite Wandsworth, the wild ducks were quite plentiful, and sportsmen were out by dozens, pop ping away. The seagulls were also very numerous, and between Battersea-bridge and Hammersmith, several stormy petrels were seen by the fishermen. The pre sence of wild fowl, and especially of the stormy petrel, at this early period, is said, by those accustomed to the water, to be a sure sign of a long and severe winter. The Earl of Norbury, Lord Seaham, Colonel Richardson, and the officers of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue), Colonel St. Quintin and the officers of the 17th Lancers, have accepted the stewardship of the Windsor ball, on Thursday next. ROBBERY AT RUGBY SCHOOL.—Yesterday informa tion reached Bow-street that on Friday night a gang of ruffians, apparently. navigators, and armed with blud geons, broke into the house of the Rev. C. Mayor, one of the masters of Rugby school. The burglars intimi dated the inmates with threats and menaces, and suc ceeded in carrying off a large quantity of property be longing to some of the members of the school, consisting of a five-pound note, gold and silver, a gold watcb, chain t and seals, silver chains, silver pencil cases, a quantity of wearing apparel, and some medals, Tho thieves left behind them their bludgeons, a coal pick, and a bunch of keys. SUMMARY OF NEWS f$ :~ iPubite Opttztzlit. " Who runs may read." VOZUSION. Accounts from Marseilles announce that the th e with the D u k e an d D uc h ess d'A uma l e on b oar d, sou b d other vessel s c omman d e d b y t h e P r i nce d e Joinyille' jit been compelled iby stress of weather to take shelter the Toulon Roads. At The frost at Paris on Sunday was very intense' te i noon the thermomet er s t oo d at 24 , an d i t wa s exPec o that in a few days the Seine would be completely fr ° over. de The Paris barristers have elected M. Duvergielp Hauranne their battpnier, in place of M. Cheix, " t ioo Ange, who has r es i gne d i n consequence o f his we ° hi, as Deputy for Rheims. The other candidates wer e Gaudry and M. Baroche. tbo The Moniteur publishes a communication from , Ministry of Commerce, stating that in 1843 Austria P: g e l ssed 2,300,000 h orses , 10 , 400 , 000 h ea d s of hl r o f cattle, 25,000,000 sheep (furnishing 55,000,0 0 °'' wool), 5,800,000 pigs, and 1,245,000 goats. c ol' The Univers states that a professor of one of thef hid leges having, a few days ago, punished the pupils ° h i d class by the privation of their usual holyday, thei t he mutinied, called the professor a Jesuit, and chow' Ma rseillai se. 10 1fi The Madrid correspondent of the Cons/Ruh to writes, that the Minister o f Fi nance wou ld presen t r iel the Cortes, immediat e ly a ft er th e a d opt i on o f t he rel e° t he in the Constitution, a project of law re-establishing tax of three per cent. on agricultural produce, to fo l oj e dotation for the clergy, but maintaining at b) time the suspension of the sale of national peopertY' v d Letters and papers of the 3d inst. have been ree ei m iil from Lisbon, but th e y are un i mportant. An ingnelitl member of the Chatuber of Peers, Senhor Geraldsii, set resigned his seat in the Chamber, and the " digruy t y the peerage, on account o f th e l ate d ec i s ion °, Chamber, approving of th e di c t a t or i a l meas ures 0 ' o r Government. The municipal e l ec ti ons h a d go ne in fa / of the Government. His Excellency Fued Effendi, Ambassador froll Ottoman Porte to the Courts of Spain and rer"l having terminated his diplomatic missions, sain t Gibraltar on the 29th ult., by th e R oya l T a r ste i s e fito and, accompanied by a guar d o f h onour, proeeeuoil the Government House. He was to embark in a feW for Constantinople, LAW AND POl4Oll. f 0 At the Chester assizes, Mary Gallop, aged 21 ' jot convicted of the wilful murder of Richard GsllOP, own father, at Monks Coppenhall, and sentenced byj e 4 Baroa Gurney to be executed. The Jury reconirce:: lB o the parracide to mercy, but the Judge refused to to the recommendation. so i At Marlborough-street John Griffin, drivert o re Thomas Harris, conductor, of a Highgate omnibunwie brought before Mr. Hardwick for misconduct. •l ore o constable Adams, C 62, said h e was on duty ill if 0 1 Pulteney-street, on S un d a y even i ng , w h en he 05,,1# omnibus coming along at a ver y rap id rate. '4'ool driver, perceiving th a t th e omn ib us was not on the t bs side, called out to the driver, but without effect, 1 0 0, omnibus ran against the ca b, k noc k e d t h e h o rse 01 and broke one of the shafts. As soon as the rmni l : 4l3 o extricated the driver whipp e d th e h orses, and wen i .. , " 0 0 a gallop. The driver and con d uc t or were both 'O4 The driver was sent to prison for twenty-one dlYte; in addition, sentenced to pay the amount of the dow and the conductor was sent to prison for ten days. 05 William Poshilly, a man about 30 years of nem' brought before Mr. Broderip, at the Thames -;":,, t i l er court, on a charge of steali ng a quan ti ty o f silk annll• property, from the warehouse of his employer; lt Robinson, outfitter, in N assau -pl ace , C ommerc istvt oo East. The prosecutor's foreman said his sof a wished the case to be di s p ose d o f summar ily, sn prisoner to be leniently dealt with. Mr. BroderiP s that similar applications were mad e ever y day, had no power to dispose of cases of felony stun gli a This was the case of a man ro bbi ng hi s master , 54 lot very serious nature, and he committed the prisoner COVIZT-PASHIONABWIL Sir Robert Peel comes to town on Wednesday_ rot Drayton House, to attend the Privy Council at Wl P pe ei Castle on Thursday n ex t. Th e Ri g h t Hon. Bill: ° A 110 fourth son, Mr. John Fl o yd P ee l, h as j ust en tere d Scots Fusilier Guards as ensign and lieutenant. D . O O The Earl of Aberdeen has returned to tort visiting the Duke and D uc h ess o f B e df or d , at w"" Abbey, Beds. ~1 1 4 The Earl of Derby is p ass i ng the winter at ii:nu - o lif Hall, in improved health, surroun d e d b y a fam ili i including Lord St an l e y, th e H on. Colonel a nd. Charles Stanley, &c. b o b The Marquis and Mar c hi oness o f Brea dsll9o%o arrived at Breadalbane House, Park-lane. Tbi fc' Marquis and Marchioness are expected to leave toivn Kemp Town, Brighton, at the end of the wee_ The Earl and Cou n t ess o f V eru l am and Lady Via! Grimstone are on a v i s it t o Vi scount and Visen''" Folkestone, at Longford Castle, near Salisbury.,. The Earl of Ho w th, w h o arr i ve d the week berc l . 4 — b, P at Howth Castle, f rom P ar i s , h as left for Lutterr.:d Leicestershire. The Noble Earl's family rernai' the French capital. r 0 The Earl of Hillsborough, Si r William W- 'j Bart., M.P., Lord Dinorken, Lord Ed w i n Hill, Recorder of Chester are expected to be present • 0 0 Cheshire Grand Provincial Freemason's Ledge 27th inst., to be held at Chester, and at which 1 ,01 " count Combermere is to preside. 't o Earl and Countess Craven are prolonging their It of the Dowager Lady Craven at her Ladyship's se ats Newbury. Th e N o bl e E ar l and Countess abortli.: to Longford C as tl e t o j o i n t h e c i rcle assembled theta visits to Viscount and Viscountess Folkestone. ~OS The Earl of Falmouth has left town for W o ollistor House, near New bury. The Dowager Countess if ing the winter there. His Excellency th e A mer i can Mi n i ster an d s sv" Everett have returned to town from visiting Lo Lady Ashburton at the Grange, Hants. 00 Lord George Manner s an d L a d y Adeliza 13,11°Ifoit have left town f or th e D u k e o f R utland ' s seat, lei Castle, where a family e i rc l e w ill assem bl e Christmas. MI C EZZL&V/ZOVIII. O CI M. Jullien appears d e t erm i ne d to fi n i sh the ileiirr.r his popular concerts w ith b ecom i ng ec l at. The ne•-,44 proach of their termination has inducedhim to re - ete, Sivori for the few r ema i n i ng . A ccord i ngly, l a st " 0 " 1 0, this celebrated violinist, and only pupil of the O s Paganini, again appeared among Jullien's art/0 1 '4100 played De Beriot's Adagio and Rondo, Russe late master's solo, called " Perpetual motion." l eb t7 A Paris paper state s th a t th e num b er o f thievelsot pursue their professio n i n th e cap i ta l , accurdiv% 6,00" Gis4uet, amounts to 10,000. Of this number boo f; would take your purse if th e y f oun d i t lying ti d j . 3,000 would pi c k y our poc k et ; 2,000 would PletrA lock of your door ; 1,000 wou ld enter your apar W3 night by breaking open your doors or windowoj e rte 600 would not hesitate t o comm i t murder in or ) effect a robbery. Mr. William Peel, of B ag i n t on H a ll , has given; P liberal donation of thi r ty gu i neas to the Co.rentrL I Warwickshire H o spit a l, an d h as a l so become alitir subscriber of five guin eas t o that charitable IP" Zti tion. On Monday morning, a man named Bray, v, ceeding along the H arrow - roa d , w i th a cart driP'offr two horses, when th e an i ma l s too k f r i ght, an d rep , , a rapid rate, and on hi s en d eavour i ng to stop 010; was knocked down i n th e roa d , one of the wheelscrie vehicle passed over his body, and, in a very short Pe I):the poor fellow e x pi re d. 1 In consequence of th e d ea th o f M r. Andrew M.lll`irtor.,4 inspector of shippi ng s t ores to t h e Marine 10110, Clubs, at Sunderla n d, th e C omm i ttees have deter'e. to have in futur e t wo i ns p ectors i n place of the s'thor Muir. A ballot took place on Friday evening f°rweor, situations, when Mr. B ar k er F a i r l ey, of .13isblod' mouth, shipowner, and Mr. Thomas Walker, of fe ar wearmouth, shipowner, were elected. There Were o! teen or fifteen candidates, and Mr. Sanderson. J . ., 10 had only one vote less than his immediate sirs'`' Thomas Walker. f Sir William Middl e t on h as l et twenty acre s C ot ye mong the cottage rs o f G reat an d L i ttle L i vert aa" sits varying from 1/. to 21. an acre. _t turns out th a t th e t rue report, as rega 7stb4/, 7,: Churnet Valley line, w as th at w hi c h we g 04 ave 0- r head a f ew d ays b ac k , an d not that of the railway which endeavoured to invalidate our staternell",. 0 0 ; interest of th e L on d on an d Birmingham CornPali?aly also of the Trent Valley, is so evidently bound /1 ) . i f ba the Churnet V a ll e y li ne , t h at, although there 1,'14 some hesitation i n th e pu bli c announcement of stlisg on the part of the London and Birmingham, ofan.'„a the opposed to the i n t ers t o f t h e Grand Junction, impossibility of the Trent Valley Company DW I " etr i themselves, b e i ng p art o f t h e Grand Junction, 'srt& vious, yet the Churnet Valley must be "'PP Tb es , by the London and Birmingham CompanYo' b o ra tender p o i n t seems to b e, that the ‘llde' Valley C om p any h ave g i ven notices, and as trt r plans, for T amwort h to Rugby, in order, In°11)1e perly, to secure their undertaking against any r;i:anc" hostility on the part of the Trent Valley, or the 7 .oc y Junction through the Trent Valley. As the se c iv be of our s t atements h as b een impugned, refer ence of made to the facts disclosed, and the authoritY_p r oity shareholders at th e Bi rm i ng h am meet ing,.for a CO m— coar tion of them. The London and Bin:or/Lap t too pany, it s h ou ld b e repeated, know their own well, and are t oo anx i ous to do their best f ur the P er m i lif accommodation, to o pp ose any li ne w hi c h is ge° /, 0 0' beneficial, or called for, on public grounds. T ile . r ooslr, don and York Company appear to lay claiint_: or tesa' other things almost equally startling, to the nor route to Liverpool from London, a matter whi c ,„„• e a t° hoves those charged with the several existing ' look to.—Pest. „„ ati° lllll NATIONAL DEBT.—" If there were -- Jo el debt, then we might have free trade," so say 11 1 1 ,etnb er of dear corn and high rents. Let us, however, re of t bil that the rent lords were the chief contraetnr s fled debt, and that it was contracted chiefly to defend eee; property. Thi s c l ass are the last to a d op t IlaW t ional s The p notny in ord er t o ge t t h e d e b t pa id off. ro per'ty , debt c a n on l y b e pa id b y national, not c l a ss bo vie%: and, theref ore , t..) injure tr a d e i s t o m ake the clef " and not lighter. The richer a country is the e for one can pay its debts, the unlikeliest of all plan' ntr i be . P 1468 to rob another, and to impoverish the colt tb twixt the m ,—Th e Struggle. e It was confid en tly reported at Ant_ t we i r o P n t s t_ s f - rr o ; contract for the constru c ti on o f the two t h e r f way—one from Jurbise to T o urnay, and the ° St. Trond to Hasselt--was signed on the 6("J"I° I I 8 hi th du