The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-10 00:00:00

IMPORTANT TO TiiE MEDICAL PROFESSION. In the Press. THE LONDON MEDICAL DIRECTORY, for 1M.5, 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 institntion, titles of works and tunics of contributions to medical literature, discoveries and im provements, and other points pertainifig to his professional position. To insure accuracy and the speedy ebmpletion of this important IrOrk. Circulars have been sent to all.resident practitioners, each of Whom is respectfully requested to make the necessary return, as early as possible, in order to insure the cOrroct 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. DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 11, Th.re wi I be $0 PERFORMANCE. TOMORROW EVENING, DECEMBER Will he repeated a o , ann Opera Seria,c4ll.4l THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusirmano, Mr. Burd:r.i ; Andrea Cornara, Mr. Borrani ; 'tonne :Igo, Mr. Weiss ; Adolphe de Couicy, M . W. Harrise.n • .at.rina ..ornaro R.iinforth To con c lude with the cele brated Ballet of THE PERI. Aehroet, H. Desplaces; The Peri, Plunkett; Nourmahal, O'Bryan ; Aqaba, Mrs. Payne. The Box-otace is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six la the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, ad Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAI T HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. Q. EASTER. THIS EVEvING. DECEMBER 10. There will be NO PE tFORtIANCt, by Order of the Lord Chamber I .in. TO-MORROW EVENING, DECEMBER 11, W~U'v ormi:d a Ne v and Oriemat Comedy, in Five Acts, sled OLD HE, DS AND YOUNG , HEARTS. Colonel Rocket ilr. S riek:aud t Littleton Cae, Mr. Charles %lathe s Tem Coke Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Parrett; the Ceunt , ss or • pion Mrs. W. Clifford ; L=dy Alice Hawthor , . Madame Ve trk ; Mi:s Rocket, Miss Julia :termitt. Aft .r which, wilt be repeated a New Comi - Drama, entitled SOMEBODY ELSE. Hans Moritz, 31 . Charles 4athews; Mi , :nie, Madame Vestris. To e toll west by r New and Original Farce, called YOUNG L.:NOLAND Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland; Mr. John James Peoley, Mr. Buckstone; Mrs. P.'olc ' Mrs. Humby. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and On 2 Guinea and a-Half each. tickets and Places to be had of Mr. 1. T. Ac cher, at the Box-of/Ice, tom Ten till Ftve o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 10, There will be NO PERFORMANCE. TO MoRROW EVENING ' DECEMBER 11," Wllll , e performed VIC - TORINE; or, I'll Sleep on It. Alex andre, Mr. Hudson • Michael, Mr. Eel Vic orine, Mrs. Yates; Eliot.. Mrs. Flue:Whim. After which a New Drams, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. CouLt Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson ; Count Vanillc, Mr Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ; Crequet, Mr. Wright; Chechore, Mr. 0. Smith. Ta conclude with THE UNFINISHED GENTLEMAN, tin which Messrs. Wright, Selby, and Miss Woolgar will perform. Prompter, Mr. Gallat ; Principal Painter, dr. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-odice open Mont 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. IIL MADDOX. THIS EVENING. DECEMBER 10, There will te NO PERFORMANCE, being the Evening fixed for the kuneral of her late Royal Higheess the Princess Sophia Matilda TO-MORROW EVENING; DECEMBER WI I be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled THE CASTLE OF AYMON; or, The Four Brothers. Earon de Beamanorr, Mr. Walton; Olivier, Mr. Allen • Allard, Mr. C Horn, Jun.; Richard, Mr. Him. ; Renaud, Mr. ' Mattacks ; Ivon, Mr. Leffler; Herrninr, Mdlle. Helen Condell ; Gertrude, Mrs. Foshroke. To conclude with THE RENT DAY. Martin Heywood, Mr. Wa!lack ; Bullfroir, Mr. Compton ; Rachel Heywood, Mrs. Stirling. &age Manager, Mr. H. I. Walled'. Stage Director, Mr..Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4a. ;, Pit, N.; Gallo Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. Ed.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One guinea and a-Half ; Proses- WUXI Bowes, Two Guineas and a-HalE Doors to be opened at Half. vast Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-otlice, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the theatre. lIIE WEATHER.--SuN OFFICE, DEC. 10. T Issatoaasew3, Lowest, 27 ; Highest, 31; Noon, 28 . B&ROXECTER, 30.16.—Warn, N.E. NOTE.—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 on 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. Marring .. r 2 attnt.tea after 1 j Evening .. 0 minutes after it. . . ~,,:...;.., .. , ia-t . .. ~. • IF, , s ., u.• Cit. ...-I!'s. l fit * '.. Ati. A ..0.,4 ,- ...: • 10, 3 ,- ~.,..; , , 'l, i . 4 4 1 '-', - AME.,'"'" e i..gle ,-; `-`" : , • 11 0 11 1 1 1illk , ....',-- ... ;'..44111-:..44111:3- .. ~ .. k - L -4 .C ,-. • 4. S' , ,:...--,,,. ,,,, i if ' ' .: A' ' . SECOND EDITION.. k Ay ` 4 I„Lv 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 he boa ..•cry aortao but ecmmOl7 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 ani virulent declamation. The con sequence of this mistaken notion is, that Mr. FERNAND'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 quibusdam 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. FERNAND, 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 highestper 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 provisionx, by the bye, .we fear no greater good will remit than he does himself—he ob served :—" It is a remarkable coincidence, that since this law was passed, England his 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 generdl strike among the operatives for higher wages. As regards incendiarism Mr. Faxitasin's remark is equally unfounded, for this atrocious crime was first knOwn in England, and was most generally perpetrated dn the autumn and Winter of the 3 ear 1830, at which period the New Poor-law was 14 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 Ilonourable Member's quarrel with Sir JAMES GILAHAM we do not interpose =for th? Right Honourable Baronet is no fa vourite of ours, and we have not the slightest in elinationto fight his battles; but.when Mr. FEREAND save of Sir RonEnr 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 t , ) destroy the Pro testant religion of that country, but on the contrary, to strengthen its foundations, and increase its effi ciency. Though no very impassioned admirers of the rremier, we deem it to be doing him no more than i uitice to say, that there is not a public man in the empire, not even the Bishops, who is more desirous to maintain inviolate the interests of Protestantism than Sir R. PEEL. Among the chronicles ,if worthless follies perpe trated by the aristocracy, whose fort una t e destiny has decreed to them an unlimited coffer land of the means and the modes of personal enjoymea at, those which re cord their exploits against birds nnd hares, with double barrelled (MANTos's, or MOOT.E'S, or PURDY'S) pigeon guns, are among the most er,sotisticl 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 simplydistasteful—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 her 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 bag 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 HENRY, 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 'Becrusicuest, 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 preseries (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 againo 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 penalties 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," ith bold front and open hand. If "fere nature" 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 mode rns h ave 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 forefathers 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 spoils 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 days, which they may sell—if they please—for, say, one shilling a piece, and though he has no chance of getting 351. in two days, he thinks it would be plea sant 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 gamekeepers. These come into bloc,dy 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 p - cachers 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 2,1 inst. have been received. General Pam 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 NA.EVAEZ 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 30f at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at '2l 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 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 yedr 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 Debuts has another article on the election of Mr. Pola 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 place& 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. POLK having opened the field to many intrigues, and having set public affairs adrift, to be acted upon by accidental causes, and passim . : unex pected influences, it is impossible to foretell wit. ^.n 7 certainty what may occur in America during the next four years in regard to the conduct of public affairs." A Toulouse paper called the Emancipation has published 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 old instinct of internal hatred, that the present de plorable state of this country is due. These men cannot see a regular and strong authority established in a coun try where they were nearly masters, and where their intrigues, seconded by their influence over Queen Po mare—a poor, spiritless woman, replete with vanity— gave them 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 decimated by our grape-shot, than see them escape their yoke, and live quietly and happily under French authority. Nothing is spared to deceive them, and keep up their hostility to us ; the most absurd tales, and most extravagant promises—everything, in short, is resorted to for the purpose Every day the insurgents ascend the mountains to discover the English fleet that is to ex terminate us." The National, as a matter of course, believes every word of the latter, and thus attacks the Government and the English : " The Emancipation's correspondent has still the good nature to ask whether the French Government will de mand some reparation of that of Great Britain ? We, unfortunately, know, on this side of the ocean, what is to be expected. Instead of demanding reparation, we have sacrificed the men who bad worthily upheld the honour of France against the odious intrigues of Eng land. But how has the disavowal which has fallen on those men been received at Otaheite ? This the Go vernment knows but takes care not to tell. It has re ceived dispatches, and, according to its custom, it keeps them shut up in the navy department's cartons, or in other cartons which it is useless to name. The report has, nevertheless, spread that the English frigate Carys fort, which carried to Otaheite the disavowal of Admiral Dupetit Thouars, has been received by the French with indignation. It is even said that their emotion has been so great that some artillerymen have threatened to fire on the friendly ship which brought the news of the dis avowal of the Admiral and Zof his being superseded. The Ministry will, probably, not explain themselves ,re garding these rumours ; but the Chamber well know how to force them to it, provided the Chamber have in their heart a single drop of blood which runs in the veins of our countrymen, who are exposing their lives yonder in defending our flag against the enemies of France." The French Three per Cents. were quoted a TORTONI'S, on Sunday, at 84f. ROBBERY IN THE ClTY.—This morning informa tion was forwarded to the various metropolitan and City police-offices and stations of the following extensive rob bery of goods, &c., having been committed between the hours of half-past five, P.M., on Saturday the 7th, and nine o'clock yesterday morning, at the warehouse of Mr. James Oldham, No. 96, Wood -street, Cheapside, viz., 50} pieces of fancy Brussels handkerchiefs, 2 pieces of black silk ditto, 7 pieces of spun ditto ditto, 8 ditto Corah ditto, 1 ditto and 7 silk handkerchiefs, 69 fancy Brus sels of varions patterns, 9 black satin ditto, 57fancy ditto, 33 pieces of chequed and fancy vestings, 24 yards of figured and chequed ditto, 129} yards of rich French satin, 52 yards black satin, 431 ditto ditt o , 12k ditt o fancy ditto, 1041 ditto figured ditto, 21i ditto velvet, 89i ditto vestings, 1,423 silk and satin scarfs of v a ri ous qua lities and colours, and about .94 in silver. A reward of 50/. is offered. WOOLEY, TUB BRISTOL .MERCHANT, ANI) MISS DRYERS.—The Liverpool Albion states that these two persons have been, for the last six months, and are at this moment residing under the same t oof, in Liverpool, dining together at the same board, and living just as happily as if no fictitious correspondence had ever taken place, or as if there had been no Miss Mary Ann Mor gan, no marriage 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 after the examination at Union-hall Mr. Wooley and Miss Br} ere came again together and made up their little differences report saith not. But, with out attempting to draw aside the veil which surrounds this interesting epoch in Mr, Wonley's pventfal life, the fact appears to be, that that gentleman, ace.orapanied by Miss Bryers, came 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, ha transformed himself into a Liverpool lict nsed victualler, _ _ . DRAYTON MANOR.—in consequepcp of the death of the Dowager Lady Floyd, Sir Robert. and Lady I'M will be prevented from receiving company at the manor tbie winter• THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1844. TRIS . DAY'S NEWS PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.) THE LIEUTENANT - GOVERNOR OR 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, Maj or- 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 oa 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 ho 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 terview might mire 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.) NICROLLS V. SPOTTISWOODR. 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 the 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 timount. 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 HONOUR 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 1,500/. 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 *LI) costs. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius 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 compensation fur the damage done to certain 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 v4 , yage. 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, sa il e d f rom Y armou th 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 coining up to the Jane, it was disco vered that the vessel was deserted, there was no human being on board her. Under thi-eco 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 arrired at Liverpool on tLe 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 w a s a tt r ib u t e d to the delay, was estimated at 631. The markets also were lower on the arrival •f the Amelia than they were on the arrival of the ➢Ertha Lord DENMAN 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 proper:) , was caused by the deviation, then they would find for 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 Court with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 513/. 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 (knee, were i n t h e h a bi t of pass i ng muc h t i me i n M r. hompson's s h op, and smoking daily a good many cigars. This w as re l ate d to M r . Ald er w i t h some, as nltimately Droved, unfounded additions, one of which was, that die younw getitlanea 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 keeping an improper house, and encouraging young men in TY ofligate courses. This laogliap . e c( instituted the matter of the slander, for which the proseat action wro brPtlght" , ? 13ttt mr.4lder. haying subsequently learned that be had been misinformed as to the charartr of the plaintiff's house, and that there s as no foundiition in Ihe statement that letters addressed to his sons by women wi re ret en-eel there, he wrote through his solicitors a most ample retractation of the slan der, saying that he felt bound, es 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 derend ant, complaining severely of the conduct of the plain. tiff, in allowing the case to go on for costs, after receiving such 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 io far, after the very proper and ample apology which the defendant had tendered. . The - jury found for the plaintiff—Damages, V One Farthing. SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY NOKES 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. Nukes 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, fur 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 B ur k e t o M r . 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. Mr. THOMAS appeared for the deft ndant, 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. The jury retired to deliberate, and, after about an hour's consultion, gave a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages, 15/. 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, 1,500/. 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 Brun sw i c k. , OFF PENZANCE, DEC. B.—Renown, Donald, Laun ceston, sld. July 23d. NEWPORT, DEC. 7.—Sld. Elizabeth Beynon, Grenada; John Horley, Jamaica. HARWICH, DEC, 7.—Arrd. Thirsk packet, 'London for Stockton, with lose 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 Illagdelina, 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. PORTSMOUTII, DEc. 9.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Great Liverpool steamer, Alexandria, left 23d ult., Malta 27th. I'Lvmou'rn, 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 ; Alexander, Liddell, Quebec for Hull. PENZANCE, DEc. 7.—Fanny, Batavia, for Rotterdam, Alexander, New York, for Havre. BRISTOL, DEC. 9.—.Arrd. Delos, Wagstaff, Africa ; Victory, Reid, Quebec. LlvEaeoon.l)Ec. 9.—Wind S.E , light.--Arrd. High land Mary, Quebec. Sld. Princess Royal, Calcutta ; Greenock, Mobile. Off, Cumana, Calcutta ; New Hampshire, New Orleans. llAnwicu, 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. IVENHOE, 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. Coax, Dec. 7.—Arrd. Brocket, Nixon, Valparaiso ; Ellice, Burnett ; and Roseanna, Chrichton, Ichaboe. THE GUANO TRADE.—Adviees 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, Mearnr, 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 AccEDENT.---Last night about e;ght o'clock the following melancholy and frightful accident took place in the Blackfriars-road, 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 course of the day. The unfortunate man was sitting on the near shaft driving, and on nearing Wel lington-street, he by some means tell 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 injurie; 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• (Need, 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 chimnenie", and said that was what be 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 b• come the purchaser of the whole of the red deer belonging to the late Hon. Charles Stuart Wortley. The herd was last week re- Wired P 4 the Noble Baron's seat ie liedfordshire. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 208% Ditto Bonds £l,OOO 75 pm, 3 per Cent. Red ...... ........ 100% Ditto under £1,006 76 pm. 3 per Cent. Cons - South Sea Stock .... ..... - per Cent. Red - Ditto Old Annuities ... - New 33( per Cent.... - New 5 per Cent Ex. Bills, 1,0001. I%d ... f 8 p m . Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001. ... ....... .... 58 Pm Jan. 1860 l2 1-16 Ditto Small 5B pie Oct. 1850.... ..... ... 11% Bank Stock for Acct - Jan. 1860. ..... ........ - Consols for Opg lOO% Indian Stock - India Stock fer Acct..,,. 286% FOREIGN FUNDS. I Russian 5 per Cent............ - Ditto, Metallic .. . ........... - ipanisli, 5 per Cent., 1840... 24% Ditto, 1841 .....-- ..... ...... - Ditto, 1842 Ditto, 1843. Ditto, 1844 - Ditto. "per Cent C6% Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct - ; French, 5 per Cent. --t -c. French, 3 per Cent . -f; ..-e. lExchange ...... ............ -4. -c. Dutch, '2 % per Cent IDitto,s per Cent ... - RES. Austrian. 5 per Cent Belgian, 5 per Cent. .... Brazilian Bonds BB% Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent, Cuba Bonds, per Cent Milian I', per Cent ..... Colombian, 6 per Cent' Danish, 3 per Cent ',reek, 18_5,5 per Cent..- — Mexican, 5 per Cent Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct — Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent — Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Ct — Portuguese Bonds, 9 per Ct Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid T................... 6 Churnet Valley, 2 paid Eastern Union, 5 paid Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 laid ... 8% Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Fifths, 12 paid London and Birmingham (Stock) Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid Ditto, Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) s 26% London and Brighton (50 paid) London and South Western (411. fig. 10d. paid) London and Croydon Rugby, I paid 1% Sour,. Eastern and Dover (33 2a 4d paid) ..... ... 39 Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid ...., Orleans and Vierzon, 2 paid .. 11% Orleans and Bourdeaux, I paid Paris and Orleans (20 p a id) ....„ 42% Paris and Rouen. 20 p a id MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) EU& AZARK=I43. SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 4115 s . Useful ditto, 4/16s to 514 s ; fine Upland ditto, Si 5s to s*/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1/ I2s to 1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/ 16s per load. Supply but moderate, and trade firm. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, Si 15s to 4l 16s; Useful ditto 41 17s to 5165; fine Upland ditto, 518 s to 5/ 12s ; Clover Hay, 4l lOs to 5/17s ; Oat Straw, 11 13s to 11 15s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 16s to 11 17s per load. A limited supply, and a steady demand. WHITEcHIPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3112 s to 41155; Useful ditto, 41 16s to 5/4s ; fine Upland ditto, 515 s to Si lOs ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to I/ 14s ' • Wheat Straw, 1114 s to 11 16 s p er 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 ewt. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week in the port of London, was 1,277 !Aids 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. Rox.—The quantity landed last week in the port of London was 322 puns. '1 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 Gd per cwt. TEA.—The market is steady, although the deliveries have been scarcely so large, during the last few days. PRIVY COUNCIL.—CONDUCT OF TILE GOVERNOR OF GUERNSEY.—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 l e a ve th e 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, who was at the banquet given at the Royal Exchange in ho nour of the (wen'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 survived twenty-six years. By that Gallant General her Lady ship leaves issue Lady Fuller. widow of the late Lieu tenant-General Sir John Fuller, who died in October, Is4l, and Lady Peel. ACCIDENT TO THE MARQUIS 01' 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 arost 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 tall, and that a rider rode against the horse while down, with con s id era bl e force, his Lordship escaped with the moat trifling in jury.—Bath JournaL MONEY AND Cfni E CIAL N s<W 8 CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market at Liverpool wes v, r, amrn,tted yesterday. About 9,000 bales were sold at id. re-r lb. advance on the lowest rates of last week. Speculators took 2,000 bales, and the sales comprised 1,000 Pernani at qd. to 54d., 200 Egyptian at 50. to 6id., 100 Bahia at sd. to 54d., 300 Surat at 2d. to 31d., and the rest American at 31d. to 6d. for Orleans.—There was a brisk demand for Shares at rising prices. Bristol and Glou cester, 38 37i; 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} 146; Ditto, Fifths, 28; Liverpool and Manchester, Half Shares, 52i ; London and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 384 i; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 26i i; London and York, 31 4; London aad South-Western, 84; Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenths, 3i; Midland Counties, 1084 i; North Union, 1471 148; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 97; South-Eastern, 384 39f; Ditto, New, 111,- 12f; Trent Valley, 81; Paris and Lyons, 655. 6d; Paris and Rouen, 39:1; Paris and Strasburg, 555. 6d. 2i; Boulogne and Amiens, si. 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 departments connected with our textile manufacture:. 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 1001 to 1004. Exchequer Bills are 565. to 58s. pre ' mium, being again very firm. East India Bonds obtain 735. to 755. premium. Bank Stock has been marked 2071 to 2083-. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are higher again, having touched lo3k. The Three per Cents. bring 1001 to 4. The Foreign Investments are very inactive. Spanish Three per Cents. are heavy, at 36i. Mexican Bonds realise 36i i; and Peruvian, 27 to 27i. Venezuela Stock is 434. Belgian Scrip is worth 1 prem. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. obtain 63i to 64; and the Four per Cents., 971 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 ......... 20834 207% 2083 4 3 , per Cent. Reduced Annuities ..... 100;4,454 l i hew 34 per Cent. Annuities ........... 103% Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860..„........ 123 1-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 1134 India 80nd5,1,000.......... ....... 75 Ditto under 1,000..„,«,»,,,.......«.».».«.»,».. Consol , for Opening 100434 India Stock for Account 287 Exchequer Bills. I%d. 130 1,0001. •••••••••••••••••••••••• ••••••••• 56 58 pm. 543°4 °' ••• ..... 58 56 pm Ditto •"..... 58 56 pm. Ditto Advertised......... FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONB O'CLOCK. Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent............. ............... Ditto Scrip Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. ......... 36% Date for the Account 36% Ditto Deferred Stock 1 6%34 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 ..... 36% Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 43% RPICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SRAM Birmingham and Gloucester lOO 963 4 .... to —. Bristol and Exeter ..... 70 76% Bristol and Gloucester 3O —..... 37% ... to 38 Cambridge and Lincoln Chester and b 5% to Chur ,et Valley Direct Northern 234 2 '% ... to Eastern Counties ......*—........... 25 13% , to 14 Great Southern and Western] (Ireland) S 5 Great Western ........ 75 Ditto 34 Shares 5O lO% 4... to London and Birmingham. ~,..»„ 100 Ditto New Thirds 2 ...:..... 3734 to Ditto 4 Shares . London and 81ackwa11............... 16% cyi to London and Greenwich ..„.•.,«., 12% 0 % to London and South Western 41% London and Croydon London and York. .......«.„.« 234 Lynn and Ely 2% to Manchester and Leeds.....— .... 70 .........119 120 to 11834 119 Manchester and Birmingham .., 40 ......... 52 ..... to Dit o 1 4 Shares 2 4% to Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct. 24 60 to 60 .. North British . ..... 5 Richmond and West End Junct. 1 Shrewsbury, Wolverhairipton,l 21z Dudley, and Birmingham • • 2 ~( ii South Eastern and Dover ......... 3334 38% ...... to Ditto New York and North Midland ..... 50 Ditto 34 Shares Ditto Selby Scrip .................. 20 ..... 6734 Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bourdeaux ..... 1 ......... 7 Paris and Lyons 2 3%4 to Parisand Rouen ..... ee to Paris and Stra. Bourg SUMMARY OF NEWS AND eptnton. " Who runs may read." POILEIGN. Accounts from Marseilles announce that the Go% with the Duke a n d D uc h ess d'A uma l e on board, andhlyi other vessels commanded by the Prince de J.;niillet% been compelled by s t ress o f weat h er to ta k e shelter'. the Toulon Roads. It The frost at Paris on Sunday was very irrense,:a noon the thermom e t er s t oo d at 24 , an d i t wa; exP"L„te that in a few days the Seine would be completely frv'T over. , 'de The Paris barristers h ave e l ec t e d M . Dirverg:er,p Hauranne their butt :vier, in place of M. Chaix d . O Ange, who has r es i gne d i u consequence of his elee„li, as Deputy for Rheims. The other candidates wer e Gaudry and M. Baroche. The Mon iteur pi)lishes a communication from Ministry of Commerce, stating that in 1843 Austria P e e d sussed 2,300,000 horses, 10,400,000 heads of 11 ° 11 0 1 cattle, 25,000,000 sheep (furnishing 55,000,0 001 b. wool), 5,800,000 pigs, and 1,245,000 goats. The Univers states that a professor of one of the, b y loges having, a few d a y s ago , pun i s h e d t h e pu pil' e ' h ol class by the privation of their usual hulyday, thel•oi mutinied, called the professor a Jesuit, and chanted . Marseillaise. • se' The Madrid correspond en t o f t h e C ons lituttes o writes, that the Minister of Finance would presello the Cortes, immediately aft er th e a d opt i on o f t he ref° in the Constitution, a project of law re-establishißlL • tax of three per cent, on agricultural produce, to 1 01 10 dotation for the clergy, but maintaining at the '- time the suspension of the sale of national propertpvj Letters and papers of the 3d i ns t. h ave been rece l l i s i from Lisbon, but they are unimportant. An indoe ti o d member of the Chamber of P eers , S en h or G er aldss , ,,d resigned his seat in the Chamber, and the "digniy the the peerage, on account of t h e l ate d ec i s ion of $lO Chamber, approving of the di c t a t or i a l measures of Government. The municip a l e l ect i ons h a d gon e in is of the Government. His Excellency Fued Effendi, Ambassador from Ottoman Porte to the Court s o f Sp a i n and rort:s3l et having terminated his dipl oma ti c m i ss i ons , arri v e , Gibraltar on the 29th ult., by th e R oya l T a r ste e d, and, accompanied by a gu ar d o f h onour, pro ceed d o' the Government House. He was to embark in a fog for Constantinople, MAW JusnD POLICES. 0 11 At the Chester assizes, Mary Gallop, aged 2 - , be t convicted of the wilful murder of Richard Gall* l,ft , own father, at Monks Coppenhall, and sentenced b I de d Baron Gurney to be executed. The Jury recomtne m e 0 the parracide to mercy, but th e J u d ge re f use d to "" to the recommendation. At Marlborough-str.-‘ ver, _t Lariborough-street John Griffin, dri „:eto Thomas Harris, conductor, of a Hi hate o mnibus , brought before Mr. Hardw ic k f or misconduct. r oll constable Adams, C 62, said he was on duty in e p Pulteney-street, on Sunday evening, when he sib db omnibus coming along at a very rapid rate. P r iel driver, perceiving that the omnibus was not o n the t he side, called out to the driver, but without effect, 1 0 0 , omnibus ran against the cab, knocked the horse 0 1 and broke one of the shafts. As soon as the rninib il . 9 , .10 1 extricated the driver whipped the horses, and wen a gallop. The driver and conductor were both u r o i The driver was sent to priso n f or t wenty - one dsrls o li in addition, sentenced to pay the amount of the dam and the conductor was sent to prison for ten days William Poshilly, a man about 30 years et ag, o lier brought before Mr. Brod e rip, a t t h e Th am es court, on a charge of stealing a quantity of silk gn u gr' property, from the warehouse of his employ!rl, o o Robinson, outfitter, in Nassau..place, Commercowloyet East. The prosecutor's foreman said his erec c i wished the case to be disposed of summarily, 8 , 13 , 0 0 . 1 4 prisoner to be leniently dealt with. Mr. Broder'j t o that similar applications were made every day, f ill' had no power to dispose of cases of felony su° 3l/ c ief r This was the case of a man r o bbi ng hi s mas ter, s li r for very serious nature, and he comm itt e d t h e prison° COVET— PA EIGNAB WO. Sir Robert Peel comes to town on Wednesdefirod Drayton House, to attend the Privy Council at 14 _, a el il Castle on Thursday next. Th e Ri g h t H o n. lin fourth son, Mr. John Fl o yd P ee l, h as j ust cute' Scots Fusilier Guards as ensign and lieutenant. 00 The Earl of Aberdeen h as re t urne d to loo" visiting visiting the Duke and D uc h ess o f B e df or d, at " Abbey, Beds. 0 14 The Earl of Derby is passing the winter at j ll°, r di , Hall, in improved health, su rroun d e d b y a family "gsl including Lord Stanley, the Hon. Colonel se" Charles Stanley, &c. 11 0. The Marquis and Marchioness of B re adalbae e s o bls arrived at Breadalbane House, P ar k-l ane . The„ p ior Marquis and Marchioness are expected to leave lo" Kemp Town, Brighton, at the end of the week. lop e The Earl and Countess of Verulam and Lady Grimstone are on a visit t o Vi scount an d Viec° Folkestone, at Longford Ca s tl e , near S a li s bury. , 4 1 , The Earl of Howth, who arr i ve d t h e wee k beih'ib,? at Howth Castle, from P a ri s , h as l e ft f or L u tterare r e a tO Leicestershire. The Noble Earl's family reel° the French capital. The Earl of Hillsborough, Sir Willi am ur Bart., M. p ., Lord Dinori ten , L or d Ed w i n H ill, `" the Recorder of Chester are expected to be Lodge Cheshire Grand P rov i nc i a l Freemason's td rir 27th inst., to be held at Chester, and at which IA count Corebermere is to preside. % sit ° A Earl and Countess Craven are prolonging their, or the Dowager Lady Craven at her Ladyship's ee a "go Newbury. The Noble Earl and Countess shortlire 00 Longford Castle to join the circle assembled th e visits to Viscount and Viscountess Folkestone. The Earl of Falmouth has left town for Woolbe." House, near Newbury. The Dowager Countess 12 ing the winter there. A His Excellency th e A mer i can Minister ach"jsr Everett have return e d t o t own f rom visiting '-)3r Lady Ashburton at the Grange, Hants. ale r 4 Lord George Manners and Lady Adeliza have left town for the Duke of Rutland's seat, mi t ii; Castle, where a family circle will assemble Christmas. rinsezzzazintocrs. ,soo M. Jullien appear s d e t erm i ne d to fi n i s h t h e se i f if'. his popular c oncer t s w i t h b ecom i ng ec l at. The lie-4 ch of their termi na ti on h as i n d uce d hi m to re - e t pic i for the few remai n i ng . A ccor di ng ly, las t this celebrated violi n i s t, an d on l y pup il o f t h e lin SV., Paganini, again appeared a mong Jullien's played De Beriot's Adagio and Rondo, Russe 0 late master's solo, call e d " P erpetua l mot i on ." A Paris paper states that the number of thiev tp 74; pursue their profession i n th e cap i ta l , ac cordia 6 ,o o ; Gispet, amounts to 10,000. Of this number.besli' would take your pur se if th ey f oun d it lyirigjeltl 3,000 would pi c k y our poc k et ; 2,000 wou l d r e pt ' lock of your door ; 1,000 would enter your apie llli • OP" night by breaking open your doors or windovierjer fO 600 would not hesitate to commit murder in ° effect a robbery. _ ;fen c. Air. Willian; Peel, of Baginton Hall, has gl"- t iberal donation of thirty guineas to the Covello' Warwickshire Hospital, and has also become 3111 /n ot , subscriber of five guineas to that charitable tiun. a On Monday mornin g , a man name d Bray, W 1,71 ceeding along th e H arrow - roa d, w i t h a car t dra two horses, when the animals took fright, and r an h a rapid rate, and on his endeavouring to stop tu' i ,fl• yi was knocked down in th e roa d, one o f t h e w heels rip P e vehicle passed ov er hi s b o d y , an d , i n a very s hort . tY the poor fellow expired. In consequence of the death of Mr. Andrew g ilif or t s, Inspector of shipping stores to the Marine j ll l Clubs, at Suntlerland, the Committees have deo7, to have in future t wo i nspectors i n p l ace of thet r til e ; Muir. A ballot t oo k pl ace on F r id ay even i n g l o "itr situations, wh en M r . B ar k er F a i r l ey, of 1 301 ,11 „f 0 17 i , , mouth, shipown e r, an d M r . Th omas W a lk er , of Or; wearmouth, shipowner, were e l ecte d. Th e re wel e fiof teen or fifteen candidates, and Mr. Sanderson 4 ' l P t " had only one vote less than his immediate Thomas Walker. of I/e Sir William Middlet o n h as l e t t wen t y acres f , - tnong the cott agers o f G reat an d Li tt l e Liver uts varying from 1/. to 21. an acre. .I.* It turns out that the true report, as Teg fara ; Churnet Valley line w as th at w hi c h we gav e tie de r er head a f ew d a y s heel:, and not that of the railwai ps which endeavoured to invalidate our statement' An d interest of the London and Birmingham Con 3 l/ 813 „ J 'et also of the Trent Valley, is so evidently bound 11 „, s r y the Churnet Valley line, that, although there '4OOl some hesitation in the public announcement of 6ti v raiiig on the part of the London and Birmingham, °f ill :1 ; 4 0 2: opposed to the interst of the Grand Junction, 0% impossibility o f th e T rent V a ll ey Company re ell ig oa themselves, b e i ng p ar t o f t h e G ran d J un ction, r ev vious, yet the Ch urne t V a ll ey must be 61114- trbj by the London an d Bi rm i ng h am C o mpaeleorn" tender point seems to be, that the 10dr - Valley Company have given notices, and s pre' plans, for Tamworth to Rugby, in order, l e° „ o s perly, to secure their undertaking against any Ebro°, hostility on the part of the Trent Valley, or th e coi rori Junction through the Trent Valley. As the . „0 of our statements has been impugned, reference 1 " o f th e made to the facts disclosed, and the authority fi l ler shareholders at the Birmingham meeting, for a e eP Coos a ' tion of them. The London and Birtningh. et° ,. e st pany, it should be repeated, know their own inte — ne bb: well, and are too anxious to do their bast for th e n r ef alii accommodation, to oppose any line Which iss rice Ji °l3' beneficial, or called tor, on public grounds. tool don and York Comparly appear to lay claire,fihoftes. other things almost equally startling, to the. h it D e ; route to Liverp oo l f rom L on d on , a matter %vili fi es t hoves those charged with the several existing look to.—Post. va tioo l NATIONAL DEBT.—" If there were no e w oo th oi _,„bet debt, then we might have free trade," so sl 'Y • of dear corn and high rents. Let us, however, rseof this that the rent lords were the chief contractor, la nded debt, and that it was contracted chiefly to defers e ar, property. This class are the last to adopt oa l fl lo tion° nom yin order to get the debt paid oft e ro ,,periii; ht can only be paid by national, not cles s e t t heav ie .; and, therefore, ti injure trade is to wake the d „ s of I , and not lighter. The richer a country is th e i s for ° ll can pay its debts. The unlikeliest of all Pitin collet i l be. class to r o b anot h er , an d t o i m p o verish the twixt them.— The Struggle. n It was•• confidently reported at AntWerros of act for the construction of the two she t h Other fr° way—one from Jurbise to Tourney, and inlet St. Trond to Ilasselt—was Biped on the ov"