The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-06 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE THIS DAY. Mornin 69 minutes after 9 1 Evening ... 33 minutes after 10 +A . A"3 . . , 1 ...„... k liv i a_ .-. \ ''' • - O t :?,--4 e , y 4 . ; _ ; .:- . , _ s i ~ ..._, s , 44 . ... i. __—_-_,. + ...*:, ,• - 4••• IfV , ..7 • 31 0 7 . • ...,1.- • ' . . lI P OiT ,' r a, Immediately, in 2 vols., small Bvo., with num e rons Illustrations, T HE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS ; OR, ROMANCE AND REALITIES OF EASTERN TRAVEL. By ELIOT B. G. WARBURTON, EFq. Henry Culburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE, THIS EVENING, NoVEMBEK 6, Will be performed Auber's celebrated Opera THE SYREN. Marco Tempests, Mr. W. Harr:son; Scipio, Mr. D. W. King; Zerlina (the Syren), Miss Delcy. To cmcludo with the thasid Fairy Ballet of THE REVOLT OF THE HAREM, in which Mdlle. Plunkett, Mdlle Clara Webster, Mdlle. O'dryan, Mrs. W. H. Payne, and Madame Guibilei will appesr. The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENTING, NOVEMBER 6, Will be perf;rmed THE BUSY BODY. S,r Francis Gripe, Mr. W Futen, Traffic, M. Stricklan l; Marplot, Mr. Charles Mathews; Miranda, Madame It stns; Patch, Mrs. liumby. After which, will be repeated a New Comic Drama, foundet on Don Cxsar de Bazan, entitled A MATCH FOR A KING. Charles the Second, Mr. Stuart ; Don Sebastian della Rosa, Mr. C. Mathews; Mariquita, Miss Julia Bennett. To conclude With . an Original Comic Drama, entitled SAM PATCH. Sam Patch, Mr. Marb'e; Mrs. Somerville, Mts. E. Yarncld; Mrs. Mouser, Mrs. Stanley. Pnvate Boxes, Two ciuineas a n d "uinea and e.-Half eaca. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. A: cher, at the Box-otnce, trom Ten till I , ,ve o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled FRE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. CouLt Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson ; Count Vanille, Mr Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ; Crequet, Mr. Wright; Chechore, Mr. 0. Smith. After which, an entirely New Drama, entitled C.ESAR DE BAZAN • or, Love And Honour. Charles the Second, Mr. Howe; Caesar de B izan, Mr. Webster ; Maratina, Madame Celeste. To conclude with a New Eccentric Mythological Burlesque, cal.ed TELEMACHUS; or, The Island of Calypso. Telemachus, Miss Woolgar ; Calypso, Mr. Wright ; Mentor, Mr. P. Bedford ; Dinah, Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon. — Box-orifice 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, NOVEMBER 6, Will be performed THE SY REN. Principal Characters by Messrs Walton, C. Horn, Jun., Leffler, Allen,:nd Mdlle. Nau. To conclude with the New Drama, called DON C. SA R DE IS AZ AN. Don Cwsar, Mr. Wallack ; Cnarles the ::econt , Mr. Walton ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling; Countess di Rotondo, Mrs. Fo..broke. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 25. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce nium Boxes, Two Guineas and a-1-I.a. Doors to be opened at Half past Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-ottice, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Boxes and l' roe Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, I. AIE ENGLISH iit HOU'SE. Under the Management of Mis. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 6. Will be performed a New Comedietta, entitled WA TCH AND WARD. Tne characiers by Messrs. F. Mathews, Kinloch, and A. Wigan; Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. A. Wigan. After which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT I 0 MARRY. Suppoited by Messrs. F. Matthews. Meadows, Turner, and Stoker, Miss Arden, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. AN oollisige. Co be followed by TWICE KILLED. Cturacter, by Mes rs. Collier, Turner, Craven, arid Keeley; Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASS ON6 With entirely Ne Scenery, MachttisTy, Dresses, Sec. Prinemal Characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. I Collier, Mr. Gouriet, Mr. Craven, and Mr. Keeley ; Miss Fairbrother, Mrs Woolh ige, Lirs A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Mi.* James, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, Miss Fortescue, and Mrs Keeley. PRICES OF Ai iMl:,:qoN.—Balcoisy :'ores. 4 Upper Boxes, .3e.; Pit, 2s. y Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2,, ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d.; Pit. Is. Private Boxes on the it ,G.my Jrir tholding eight persons), Tao Guineas. Private Boxes on th e S econ d Iler (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guinea, The Box—iftice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direr. ti •n of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. STRAND THEATk.F. lessee Mr. ROBERTS. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, Will ba performed DON C.EZ AR DE BAZAN. Don Cmsar, Mr. Roberts; King Charles 11., Mr. John Howard; Maritana, Mrs. Coleman tope Mr. Roberts and Mrs. NI ntgomerie will dance their celebrated Polka. After which, THE BOOTS AT THE SWAN. Frisky, Mr. Roberts; Jacob, Mr H. Hall; Cecilia, Mrs. Montgomeile. To conclude with QUITE AT HO ME. Principal Characters by Messrs. Howard, Aylitte, Dean, Mrs. Melville, and Miss Cart r. ASTI. r Y'S ROYAL AMPHI'I REATRE Of ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. Open every evening with its unequalled rotation E. f Equestrian and Dramatic Entertainments TH S EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, The Splendid Spectacle from the Poem cf the illustrious Sir Walter ';ott, entitled LOCHINVAR; or, The Bridal of Nether„,y, and Steed of the Brave. Entire change of the Scenes of the Circle, and novel feats of Horse manship, and first time in England the Dressed Horse of the Me nage Toby br, ke and ridden by Mr. T. Davis. fo conclude with THE BLOOD-RED KNIGHT; or, The War riors of Palestine. Acting and stage.mmager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding ty Mr. R. Smith daily. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Increasingauccess of Dm Cmiar de Baaan—First Week of another New Drama. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, Will be performed a New Drama, enti led DON CAESAR DE BAZ AN, supported by the entire Company. After which, a New Drama, called TilE CARPENTER OF ROUEN, in which Messrs. Hudson Kirby, Hicks, Neville, Vale, Heslop, Johnson, Mrs. Daly, Miss fcrrey, and Mrs. Honner w, perform To c.nclude with MY HUSBAND'S DOUBLE. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box (Alice, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, Will he performed LIFE'S A LOTTERY • or, Jolly Dick the Lamplighter. Jolly Disk, Mr. G. Wi d; Bessie Blossom, 'Alia, Loaisa Lyons. Atte which, DON C2ESAR DE BAZAN. Principal Characters by Messrs. sbaldiston, Dale, Herbert, and Miss Vincent. To conclure with THE Alt FFUL DODGE, in whlc ► Mr. G. Wild and Miss Hamilton will appear. Private Family Boxes, £1 Is. Od. and LI lls. =' ' _ ITT I _ _ THE WEATIIER.--SuN OFFICE, Nov. 5. TrostatOMETER, Low eat, 56 Highest, 45 ; iQor,A, 42 BAROMETICR, 29.25.—Wrva, N. x —The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes th freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair 1 tona7ly placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. infirnialt c/1111 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 18-it It is so often our misfortune to except to the mea• sures of Sir ROBERT PEEL—to challenge their prin ciple, or to deprecate their tendency —as, for e.xampl. in reference to his currency-regulation scheme, el his property and income-tax " screw"—that we fin it quite agreeable to meet him upon other ground, o: which we can approach him only with the tribute o our humble, but unqualified praise. The recom mendation he has addressed to the Crown—of Mr ERLE for the Judgeship in the Court of Queen':. Bench, vacated by the lamented retirement of Mr Justice ERSKINE, is a proceeding for which th, Premier is entitled to the highest credit. The ap pointment, itself, is one of the most dignified, of thi most responsible, and of not the least lucrative kine, which it is in the power of the SOVEREIGN to be. stow. In this country, beyond the example, perhaps, of all others, the unbounded respect of the people— voluntary, uncompelled, unbiassed, unpurchased— attaches to the ermined dispensers and expounders o the law a sort of confidence which it withholds fro:: almo.t every other constituted authority, except o; full satisfaction, after much discussion and investign tion—of their title to claim it. The mass of the people, throughout all the varieties and conditions o which it is composed, seem to go beyond tl wealthier and movie dignified classes in renderin their homage to the official position and persona on,ideration of the Judges. So proud a distinctioi as this among a proud and jealous people, cannot b; lightly earned. Still less can it be maintained with out the consistent manifestation, on the part of it occupier, of those high qualities in the pra2tical dis charge of the duties of the Bench, which the peopl. take it for granted must have already constituted the principle of his selection fur a post of so much marl and distinction, by the authorities which have collet him to it. It is easy to imagine how many, and hov powerful appeals, must have been made to the Pre. mier for this appointment, from quarters which no. thing short of the plea of public duty, according t; his own estimation of its claims, could seem to justit , . him in refusing to satisfy. But Sir ROBERT ha , exercised the grace or patronage of the Crown, it this instance, in so worthy a manner, that we shout:: apprehend he must have propitiated the good opinion of nine-tenths of the Bar. He has conferred it, no• upon the most worthy of his political supporters- but on the best qualified and most eligible mambei of that powerful and learned body, for so exalted distinction. Mr. ERLE was, as to his political opinions, a member of the Whig party—and therefore arrayed in the ranks 'of the Minister's political op ponents, rather than in those of his supporters. Bu; Mr. ERLE was, in point of high professional attain ments, practice, character, and considera:ion, seconi to none, and superior to most, of his contemporarief , in the same branch of practice. His professional emoluments were extensive in proportion to his ex traordinary reputatio n as a l ea d er among the leadini. counsel and pleade h rs of his day. A career like hi, at the Bar, illustrated by so large • judgment, a f n t arm:unt of knowledge and sound echnical rxperi ence and skill, combined with the o loftier l . talent, tht larger and more generalised views accomplished intel lectual discipline and reach of an'aacctho e i zl l and successful advocate—terminates most honourably himself, and mest advantageously, we will venture for to predict, for the public, by his elevation to u tt r i: Bench. Before it had been intimated, on adequate authority, that Sir R. PEEL had thus gracefully and promptly recognised the superior pretensions to this high ap pointment of a political opponent some of our Contemporaries had already discussed the contending claims of several other parties, either actually candi dates, or probable claimants for it. We have per ceived with regret, in one article more especially, now before us—a very able one, undoubtedly—that the writer, in advocating the right of Mr. ERLE to ex pect that he should be nominated, has thought it necessary--(in bad taste, and injudiciously, we must say)—to go out of his way to damage the pretensions of others. We lament to see the name of one very sound and estimable Criminal Judge—the Recorder of London—brought forward in this way, on a mere surmise that a Noble Earl had been warmly solicit ing this Judgeship for that Right Honourable person, his Lordship's brother. This is neither a candid nor a justifiable course. We should strongly question the fact of the Recorder's having sanctioned, sug gested, or assented to any such solicitations. But, in the absence of all positive knowledge on that point, we will only remark that, if anything could enhance the value which we attach to the proper and judicious selection Sir R. PEEL has made, or to the merits of Mr. ERLE in being the object of that selection, we should find it in the sense of duty which has induced the Premier to pass by the claims of political and official connexions, and among them, an auxiliary of such standing and efficiency in Parliament—and, on the Bench, a Judge so much respected for the sound ness of his legal doctrine and the probity of his de cisions, as the Learned Recorder. We dismiss this point, however, to indulge in the congratulations we would offer to the Premier on the determination he has exhibited to uphold the high character which the Judicial Bench has so long acquired and justified, for the soundness of the law which it administers, and the unimpeachable professiinal purity of those by whom that law is administered. We had hoped that the M-Gunes and the O'Suf.,- LIVANS, and the other rampant Protestant bigots who about five or six years since rendered themselves so no torious by their virulent philippics agiinst Catholicism, were nearly if not quite extinct ; but, unfortunatele, we find that this is not the ease; the breed still flourishes, as indeed ►night have been expected, for what is so tenaciJus of life as fanaticism You imagine it defunct, when, 10, at the very Moment you are bugging yourself in the pleasing conviction that it has received the coup de grace, you discover to your confusion that the "snake is scotched not killed," and that it is ready to start up again as brisk and mis • chievous as ever ! These reflections occurred to us as we glanced over a report of the " Great Protestant Meeting"—as one of our morning Contemporaries calls it—which took place on Monday at Exeter Hall.. At this meeting two parsons, rejoicing in the names of THELWALL and STOWELL, vied with each other in the fierce intolerance of their declarations against Catholicism, and all who did not hold that creed in the most unmitigated abhor rence. Parson THELWALL, who commenced the pro ceedings, talked the customary amount of nonsense about the Gunpowder Plot, which, he said, proved that " the principles of Popery involved disloyalty, rebel lion, and treason against a Protestant Sovereign and Government," and added, in aspirit of the most ran corous bigotry, that " whatever professions Romanists might make of love and friendship, the unchanged and unchangeable principles of the Church of Rome hound them to persecute and murder Protestants, when ever they had the opportunity." How dare the man talk in this way of our Catholic fellow. countrymen ! How dare he charge them with being bound by the articles of their faith to become wholesale persecutors and murderers ! Never was there a more audacious calumny yet uttered in a public assembly ! Parson STOWELL, resolved not to be behind his brother par son in point of uncharitableness, inveighed in terms of indignant contempt against "the crosses, banners, and similar mummery," which he had recently beheld in a Roman Catholic procession at Manchester, and deepening in his tone as he proceeded, went on to observe that " there were at this very time combinations of Irishmen in London ready to come forward, whenever occasion should serve, against the constitution and liberties of Eng land." The speech of this remarkable parson was in every respect an extraordinary one. The first half it was in flat contradiction to the other half_ The one neutralised the effect of the other. It began with a Lamentation—it concluded with a Jubilate. At its commencement the speaker was inex pressibly afflicted at the idea of the embarrassments and impediments to which the Protestant Association was subjected. Everything went wrong with this amiable fraternity. It had lost many of its early friends—it was discouraged by the Legislature—re garded with apathy by " many of the clergy "—and had the mortification of hearing that the grant to Maynouth was to be d. übled next session. But this was not the worst. Rome was beginning to bestir herself, and had recently caused to be erected, GOD knows how many churches and chapels in this insulted country ! When the dolorous parson STOWELL had sufficiently afflicted hi. hearers by this budget of grievances, he suddenly changed his tone, and bade them be of good cheer, tier, after all, things were by no means so bad as they appeared to be. What, if numbers of their friends had deserted them, the truest and soundest still re mained to comfort than by their presence, and spur them on to fresh triumphs in the righteous cause of Protestant bigotry ! What, if many of tiltalergy regarded them as a pack of fools, this fact only proved that the " spirit which animated CHRIST and his Apostles had descended to them n its purity and integrity !" What, if their pro feedings were discountenanced by the Legislature ; Lord ASHLEY and Mr. PLITHYTHE were still their 'riends, and while these enlightened senators stuck is tight as barnacles to their cause, what could pre vent that cause from achieving a glorious triumph ? What, though Rome was building churches and !hapels and school-houses in all directions, Pro ,estantism was beating Popery in the number of her new ecclesiastical edifices by at least ten to one ! On the whole, therefore, Parson STOWELL was of opinion that his hearers had much more cause for hope than despair, and as he had com menced by afflicting their sensibilities, so he con duded by cheering them—just as if an apothecary hould first give his patient a poisonous draught, and then administer the stomach-pump by way ofcounter acting its noxious effects I 'We have seldom if ever read .peeches with more ineffable disgust than those de livered by the two parsons rejoicing in the names of l'untavaLn and STOWELL. They are as strong in ntolerance as they are weak in argument, and supply by noisy bluster what they want in calm, methodical good sense. The debate in the Spanish Chamber of Deputies im the address commenced on the 28th ult., and was expected to continue for some days. The discussion On the first day appears to have been favourable to the views of the Government. Previous to the opening the debate some questions were put to NARVAEZ re pecting the attempt on his life, and the arrests at Madrid and Barcelona. He stated generally that - he enemies of the Government were getting up con 4piracies both in foreign countries and in the interior, igainst the peace of Spain ; but that the Government was strong enough to resist, and if the enemies of the CTovertiment depended upon the army, it would be much disappointed. With regard to the attempt on ; - iis own life, he said the subject would come before the tribunals. lie denounced Revolutionists, and leclared that the Government wanted neither the means nor the courage to put them do wn. In cnnclusion, he added :—" The Government is in possession of all heir plan, and the delinquents now in the hands of justice will be speedily visited with the rigour of the :aw. The cause (4 . order is in no danger, for the Go vernment has both the wish and the power of main taining it. As for me, nothing can induce me to - :verve from the path of duty, and from the (lc fence of tie QUEEN and the liberty of my country. PROVE'. Dt•NCE has hitherto protected me, because it knows the rectitude of my intentions ; but if I am doomed to t',ll by the bands of my enemies, I shall die contented, ror my conscience will tell me that I have done every thing in my power to uphold the throne and the insti tutions of my country. The banner of the Govern ment is, the Law and the constitution.' Those who are anxious fin- their preservation must rally round it.'' This speech produced considerable effect, for it was cheered Corn the galleries as well as from the body of the House, and General CONCHA, though opposed to the Reform scheme, announced his intention of supporting the Government against every attempt at revolution. Barcelona journals of the 29th ult. state that thirty individuals had been arrested, and a Council of War was immediately summoned to try the criminals. Six of them had been ordered for execution. On the Madrid Bourse (28th ult.) the Three per Cents. were done at 271 at 60 days, and 27 1-16 for cash; the Five per Cents. at 201 ; and the Floating Debt at 631 at 60 days. The Paris papers are chiefly filled with the report of Marshal SOULT on the Polytechnic School, and comments on the affairs of Spain. The report of the Marshal in the Journal des Debats extends to five columns, and appears to be drawn up with great care and judgment. The remarks on the newly-disco vered plots at Madrid and Barcelona possess little interest. Several of the Opposition journals, and among others the National, assert that the affair has been got up to answer present purposes. The Journal des Debats pretends to believe in the conspiracy, yet it is curious to see how the writer, in his narration of events, now and then throws doubt on it by the words—" If we can believe the intelligence." The following is the account given by that journal of what occurred at Madrid and Barcelona, and a very lame account it is : " The news received to-day from Spain is of great im portance. The conspiracy, the existence of which was announced by infallible symptoms, has exploded and failed. Our readers have not forgotten the manifesto of Espartero, in which the Dictator seemed to place him self at the order of future revolutions. They have like wise not forgotten that at this signal a great number of refugees belonging to the Anarchist party, among others General Ametler, who was so prominent in the last troubles of Catalonia left, secretly, the places of resi dence assigned them. Fortunately, the French police watched closely the frontier, and the greater part were arrested at the moment of their attempt to enter Spain. The plot, nevertheless, went on—but it seems that the Anarchist party felt itself how much influence St had lost in Spain, by the progress of public opinion—for this time it is not by insurrection or by pronuncia mentess it has been attempted to act, but by assassina tion—and if we can believe the intelligence that has reached us, a plan of assassination, a kind of St. Bartho lomew, which should include Ministers, Captain-Gene• rals, and principal functionaries of Government, was or ganised. It was at Barcelona that the first essay of this new attempt at revolution took place, on the evening of the 27th. The moment the Captain-General of the province, Baron de Meer, left the theatre, two wretches fell on him. The assassins failed in their attempt, and they were instantly arrested. ' But as an escort were taking them to the Mazanares, a mob of 500 persons came to their rescue, and succeeded in car rying them off. This mob were not there by chance, and if the Baron de Meer fell, no doubt they would have been prompted by the confusion which the death of the General must have caused among the garrison and au thorities, to get possession of the city of Barcelona and give it up to all the horrors of anarchy. Several of these fellows were arrested. The movement was limited to the acts of those 500 bandits, as the mass of the popu lation took no part, and the town of Barcelona remained perfectly tranquil. At Madrid it was, on the evening of the 29th ult., th easispirators were to act. The pro posed victim was General Narvaez. The General was to dine that day at the French Embassy, and at the mo ment of the arrival of his carriage six men armed were to start forth, stop the carriage, and while some were to fire on the coachman and servants, others were to mas sacre the'General. Providence did not permit the ac complishment of this dreadful crime. Among the as sassins there was an officer, put on half-pay by General Narvaez. This man, touched by remorse, and probably affected by the extent of the crime he was about to com mit, or, according to another version, having changed his mind on hearing the speech pronounced by Narvaez in the Senate, persuaded his companions to postpone for another day the execution of their plan. Other reports say that the General was saved by a fortunate accident. His watch was too fast, and when his carriage arrived the assassins were not at their post. It appears that the officer in question, on the same night, made the fullest revelations, and on the following day, at the mo ment the assassins were waiting for their victim, they were surprised by the police and two seized with arms concealed under their cloaks. An examination at once took place, and the inforrriations given by the officer alluded to were confirmed. Among the persons implicated was Colonel Prim, who, it will be recollected, played a prominent part in the insurrection against Espartero in Catalonia. Shut up in the town of Reuss, he defended it with courage against the Espar terists, and the Government of the Queen complimented him by making him General and Count de Reuss. Not withstanding these favours Prim was the soul and head of this conspiracy. He was arrested, and the man who furnished the arms found on the assassin, says, it was with him he dealt. We give this news with the greatest pain, and it is shocking to think that an officer distin guished by his courage, and elevated so high by the Go vernment of his country, could be so criminal as to take part in a plan of assassination. It is further said that the plot has many branches, particularly at Valencia, under General Roncali; but what has taken place at Madrid and Barcelona is sufficient to inspire all honest men , with horror, and we trust that the divisions which were about to break out among the Moderados will cease. The discovery of these plots will make the position of Government much stronger, and Spain, it is to be hoped, will acquire sufficient strength to put down faction. Madrid was tranquil when the last accounts came away." At TORTONdeS, on Sunday, the French Three per Cents. were quoted at 82f. FLANDERS MAIL. BitussELs, Nov. 2.—lt has long been in contem plation to improve the course of the river Aleuse. We now find in a journal of Liege a letter which, to demonstrate the necessity of these ameliorations, mention= three more accidents which have lately oc curred at Liege, on the 25th, 26th, and 27th of Oc tober, by boats striking the piles of the bridge. These accidents (says the letter) are only the repeti tion of those which, during the last twenty years, have taken place every winter on the Meuse, in con equence of the defective course of the river to the commune of Liege, which has already cost the lives of many persons, and ruined many others. The impartial of Bruges says—" The conductor of Messrs. Van Guid and Co., who was arrested in Eng land, has been set at liberty, after giving up the 35,000 Francs which he had stolen, and made good all the expenses which have been incurred on this occaAon. The money was sent to Brussels yesterday. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaussuLs, NM. 2. Actua Debt, 23,, per Cent., Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent VI% Three per Cent. •„.„..„ Thirty-severe Milli,•ns, ditto (1540) 10:138 IS-14 00000 ....•.„.....•••••••••••••••••••••• 10 2% Loan of City, 1513, Four per Cent. lo2k Society of Commerce:, Four and a Half per Cent. Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 6O Issue of 1841. ...... .....„.... ............ —Brussels Papers, soy. 3. A.)Bl'BlA .. ti EU I/F....VIENNA, OCT 28. , t i ion F Fte r per C c e e n n ts a. Metalliques - :O,, Three per Cents. 75 Bank Shares ............. 131)6 Aligemeine Zeitung, Oct. 31. HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Vow 1. dills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1635 1630 Anglo-Russian Loan 1143 Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 105% 105 Inscription, Ist series — 1-53( Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series ............................... Ditto in Certificates ~. 99)6 -- New 4 per Cent. (1840) 91% Dutch Actual Debt, 2)6 per Cent. ......... Ditto 5 per Cent, - Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 86% 86% Spanish, New 5 per Cents. 18)6 Polish Bonds New Tickets --- PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-13seuN, Orr. W. Bills. Money St. Schuld Sch., 334 per cent. Prussian English Bonds, 1630, i per cent. Exchange on London 6 22% Prussian State Gazette. Oct. 30. HAMBURGH MAIL. TILVIT.—In the night of the 22d of October, the frontier bridge at Tilvit was for the second time this year broken through by the violence of the stream, which, in consequence of the rain on the preceding days, had risen to the height of sixteen feet, and also by two rafts of timber which had got loose. The bridge is so much damaged that it cannot possibly be repaired for some time to ceme. The flying bridge was used to restore the communication, and car riages and persons were put over without any diffi culty. The rain was subsiding rapidly on the 23d. STOCKHOLM, OCT. 25.—The Dagligh Alleband says that the republic of Venezuela have sent an Am bassador hither to congratulate his Majesty on his accession. BERLIN, OCT. 26.—The well-known M. Von Gretsch, who but lately returned to Russia, is all on a sudden come back to Berlin, and is announced in our list of strangers as " Imperial Russia's Actual Counsellor of State" out of employ. It is well known that he took all possible pains to refute the Marquis Custine's work on Russia, in which he did not suc ceed, therefore he finds being a t St. Petersburgh riot very agreeable. USSELDORF, OCT. 26.—The newest piece of intel ilitgo(;nnoerei th e a a t th w o e lic h av c e hu h r e c r h e es:, is, an th a a n t t athema hag hree pronounced against " The Wandering Jew," and the pastors of those churches have delivered to the censor a very unsightly, and, for our days, a very significant remonstrance, against the reprinting of " The Wan dering, Jew" in, the journals published under the title of Ernst and Seherz. This journal in consequence of considerations on the part of the publisher, which could not be overcome, has been obliged to defer the continuation of this amusing article.—Haniburgh Papers, Nov. 1. Tux FOG.—So dense was the fog during a great part of yesterday, throu g hout the metropolis, that gas, oil, and candles were called into general requisi tion, not only in the public shops, but in private houses, And the coach thoroughfares were so exceedingly.dan gerous to travel, that it required the omnibus drivers, &c., to exercise the utmost caution in the management of their vehicles, in order to avoid accidents. MONEY AND COMMERCJA 11, NEWS • CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The English Stocks closed very firmly to-day, Con sols for Money being 100*, and for Account 100* 4. Bank Stock has realised 204 to 204*. The New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 1014 to 102 ; and the Three per Cents., 991 to 4. The Foreign Bonds have continued rather buoyant. Portuguese Converted rose to 55 and 554. Mexican were 344. Spanish Three per Cents, were 35 to Ve nezuela, Deferred, 124 i; Belgian, 102; the new Scrip, premium ; Colombian, 14 ; and Danish, 89} to 90e. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :-Birmingham and Gloucester were 3 ; Bristol and Exeter, 4i- to 5 ; Churnet Valley, 11 to I ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 9} ; Great Western, 64 ; Har wich, 1 ; South-Western, 338 to ; Croydon, 24 i ; London and York, 1 to 4 ; Manchester and Leeds, 38 ; Newcastle and Darlington, 281 to 28 ; Northern and Eastern, 12 to 1 ; York and North Midland, Selby Scrip, 59 to 58 ; Orleans and Tours, 24 ; Paris and Lyons, 8 ; Paris and Orleans, 191 ; and Paris and Rouen, ex div., 194 premium. Eastern Counties have been 1 and Midland and Birmingham and Derby, 22 discount. Union Bank of Australia Shares were 2 prem. In the foreign exchanges Paris and Hamburph were scarcely so good ; Amsterdam and Antwerp were higher, and also Trieste; and Frankfurt was steady. The following is the official return of the exports of bullion from the Port of London for the week ending Thursday last :- Silver bars to Hamburgh 40,000 ounces Gold coin to Mauritius (Free: The Sun of Last Night.) The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was rather dull, but there was no change in prices. Sales 4,000 bales, viz. 500 Egyptian at sd. to 9d. for 80 bales of fine quality; 200 Pernam, at sicl ; 300 Surat, at 20. to 34d.; and the rest American, at 34d. to sd. per lb.-A fair business was done in Shares, and the market was firm. Chester and Birkenhead Junction, 61 ; Dublin and Cashel, 9k • Ditto and Dro g h e d a , ; Eastern Counties, 13f ; Grand Junction, 206 ; Ditto, Halves, 103 ; Lan caster and Preston, 42f ; Liverpool and Manchester, 201 ; Ditto, Halves, 100 ; London and Birmingham, 215 ; London and York, 38 ; Midland Counties, 107 ; North Union, 141 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 101 ; South Eastern, New, 15 ; York and Selby, 764 ; Lyens and Avignon, 21. Bs. 6rl ; Paris and Lyons 21. 19s. 6d. ; P ar i s an d R otten , 381. 11s. ; Paris and a;trasburg, 21. ss. 6d. The Guano trade, notwithstanding the irregularities that have recently taken place in the way of adultera tion, is likely to be one of rising importflnce in this ccuntry. Several cargoes have very .recently been dis posed of at Hull and• Liverpool, and here also, at advanced prices. When it is considered that there arc at present not far short of two hundred sail of vessels employed in the trade, giving en impetus to the shipping interest, and largely benefittine. the agriculturists, the utmoA protection that is possible ought to be afforded to those who take risks in the enterprise. Such, however, is not the fact. The latest accounts from Ichaboe state that the greatest irregularities were committed, by attempts of foreign vessels to take in cargoes out of turn, and serious collisions were expected to occur. A sloop of war was expected daily on the station,, and this would, doubtless, put a speedy stop to intrusions. There are no arrivals to-day with late foreign news. The Funds aro rather better to-clay.' Consols for immediate transfer have realised 994 to 'loo*, and tor time 100 to 104. Exchequer-bills are flat at 655. to 635. premium. East India Bonds have hems 90s. prem. Bunk Stock has been 204 to 204 f. The .New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 1014 to 102; and the Three per Cents., Reduced, 99* to 1. Long Annuities are 12 to 12 1-16. The Commissioners have purchased Three per Cents, and New Stock to the amount of 25,0001. There is a rather buoyant market for the foreign in vestments. Spanish Active Bonds have touched 24 to ; and the Three per Cents., 35+ to *; Portuguese Old Bonds are at 85. Mexican have been 344 8 ; and Bra zilian New, 84 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are marked 62 1 1 i; and the Five per Cents., 99 *, being firm. Business in the Share Market has been less animated, and there is scarcely so much buoyancy. Great Western are 65f to 641 prem. ; Birmingham, 115 to 114 f prem. Chester and Holyhead, l 4 prem. ; York and North Mid land, 63 prem., &c., as in the list below. The Frencl lines are still in favour. PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Rank Stock . . " ... . 20434 904 3 per Cent. - Reduced Annuities ............. ....... . 99%%14 3 r Cent. Consols. Anna New 33 per Cent. Annuities .......... ..... 101% 102 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan 1860 .. 12 1-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 Bank Stock for Account Consol , for Account ........ 10014 Exchequer Bills. I%ct. 134 d. 1,0004 - 6 5 63 Pm. 5001... ..... - ..... 66 65 pm Ditto -••-•...•• 65 63 Ditto Advertised. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ....... - Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839. B4 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent ..... - Ditto for the Account .... ........ Ditto Deferred Stock. 15% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the 85 Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 24 Ditto for the Account 2434 24 Ditto Passive Bonds Ditto Deterred 1 4%1i% Ditto Three per Cent. 35% Ditto for the Account 35 1 431 Dutch 234 per Cent 5............... ....... 027.% Dutch 5 per ..... 99% PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAIIKW AY% PAID. PER SPARE. Birmingham and Oloucester...... 100 . ..... - Ditto New - Bristol and Gloucester Su .... .... 411., - Chester and H01yhcad............... s_. .... to - Dublin and Belfast Juncti o n ...... 234 to - Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ........ Ditto 14 Share • 1234 - Ely and Bedford - Great Western 75 ......,„ 14034...... to 1 3 9 34 Ditto 34 Shares 50 86 ...... to - Hull and Selby London and Birmingham.... ..... 100 215 *- 2143 4 London and Greenwich ........... 12% - London and York 234 3% to - Manchester and Leeds ........ ....... 70 Ditto 34 Shares 3O ..... 47% to -- Manchester and Birmingham - , 31e.nd North British 5 ' 5 to - South Devon ... York and North Midland. ..«,,... 50 to - Ditto Ditto 34 25 - Ditto Scarboro' Branch ..... 38 - Ditto Selby Scrip 20 .. ...... 780 ,t o 73 Central of France (Masterman's) 2 ... Ditto Constituted ..... 2 Boulogne and Amiens 2 to - Orleans. Tours, and Bourdeaux 1 ..... 4 Paris and Lyons - Paris and ..... 20 ..... 3934 - Paris and 20 89%% - Rouen and Havre. 12 ••••••••• 22 JOINT STOCK BANKS. LondOri -- ink Westminster ......... 20 %% to MANCHESTER. STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 4.—We have had a' - quiet market to-day, with but little alteration in prices.—Cambridgo and Lincoln, 15-16 ; Ely and Bedford, 1 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 41 ; Liverpool, Orms kirk, and Preston, 21; Manchester, Bury, and Rosien dale, 71 ; North Union (A), 132 ;West Yorkshire, CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Biotk Stock ...... div. 204 'Ditto Bon:15 3 per Cent. Red ........... ROU Ditto under .£l,OOO pm. per Cent. Cons. ..... 100 South Sea Stock 8% I , er Cent. Red — Ditto Old Annuities • New .l 4 per Cent. ..... 102 Ditto New Annuities New"s per Cent. - Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 1340.„. C. 3 pm. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001. , , 65 pet Jan, 1880 l2 1-16 Ditto ..... fi3 pm. Oct 1859 ll 13-16 Bank Stock for Acct.... co 6 -lan. 1818) Consols•for . Act. lOO radian Stock — India Stockier Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. Russian, 5 per Cent Ditto, ..... ipanists, 5 per Cent., 1840 — Ditto, 1841 1842 Ditto, 1843. Mae, 1841 Ditto, 3 per Cent 35% Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct — French, :" per Cent........ —t c French, 3 per Cent...-. —f —C. Exchange —f —c. Dutch, 234 per Cent .. Ditto,:s per Cent Austrian, 5 per Cent ...... Belgian, 5 per Cent lO2 Brazilian, Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent juha Bonds, 6 per Cent _ (: per Cent Colombian, 6 per Cent Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, 18 . ..5, 5 per Cent Mexican, 6 per Cent ..... 3434 Veapoli tan Bonds, 5 per Ct — Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent _ Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Ct — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Lc SHA RES. Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) lO3 Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid Churnet Valley, 2 paid Eastern Counties (25 paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid Great VVestrp (75 paid) Ditto Half Shard, si; paid 8 ,54 Londoa and South Western (411. fs. 10d. paid) 74 London and Croydon London and York, 254 paid 3 Birmingham and Derby, .£lOO paid 7B Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid Northern and Eastern (45 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) — Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 paid Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid 7B Paris and Lyons, 2 paid ....... 2% Paris and Orleans (20 paid) .... 99% Paris and Rouen. 20 paid ....................»........... 39% COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 6 I Gibraltar — Ditto, at sight l2 4 Rotterdam 2U. 12 64 Antwerp 25 95 Hamburgh M.B. 13 13 Altana l3 13 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65 Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Marseilles 25 95 Bourdeaux 25 95 Frankfort on Maine l2l Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, effec. f 1.3 M 953 Trieste, ditto Madrid :36i Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Leghorn 3O 50 Genoa 25 85 Milan Venice .... Naples 39i Palermo, per oz llB Lisbon 55 Oporto 55 Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Buenos Ayres NewYork,2ldys sight Philadelphia PRICES OP BULLION, PER OE. Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons. 0 0 0 New D011ar5......... 0 4 9; Silver in Ears 0 4 1 - GENERAL THEATRICAL FUND.—...:N GLISII OPERA HO CSE.—Sir A. Barnard has presented the fund with a donation of 51, and Doctor Brady one guinea. THE Hoot NUISANCE.—Monday a porter wait carrying a load of ironmongery on a knot on hie head in Queen Anne-street, Cavendish •stinare, when a boy trun dliug a hoop on the foot-payeun - nt rolled it betw een hi s legs and threw him to the ground ; on being raised u p i t was found that the unf or t una te man had sustained a corn pound fracture of th e l e ft thi g h. He was im me di ate l y removed to the Middl esex H os pital, rs hero the . f racture was reduced. It is to be hoped that the police will have instructions to prevent the nuisances which are attended with such lamentable and serious consequences. GREAT FOOT RACE • FOR TWENTY Pounos.---On Monday the race between the two celebrated runners, John Smith (the Regent-street Pet) and Jackson (the American Deer), came .off near the Old rrat Inn, at Ealing, in the presence of about three thousand specta tors. Roth men had acquired great notoriety by their previous performances, and the race created great in terest. In betting sto 4 was laid on Smith ; at the start they went away at a great pace. Smith took the lead closely followed by his opponent, and when within two hundred yards of the winning goal, both men made strenuous exertion, and, after a well-contested race, Smith came in the winner by ten yards. - The half mile of road was ran in two minutes and twenty-eight seconds, SUMMARY OF NEWS AND 11 g • . 14 t c 4,6 Who runs may read." ~'ltl76t]~T ICiPI. The King of the French, the Duke de Nemours and the Prince de Joinville, accompanied by Generals Ay mard and Houdetot and some artillery officers left St. Cloud on Saturday for Fontainebleau, where they re mained for the night and returned on Sunday afternoon at six o'clock. One of the Paris journals states that serious anxiety exists as to the fate of the Government steam-boat the Vedette. This ship, which sailed from Toulon for l'Orient on the 3d of October, had not since been heard of. She is of 120 horsepower—a feeble force to resist the hurricanes prevalent in the Biy of Biscay. A man or-war brig, which bore the same name, as lost there two years since. The Frankfort Gazette mentions that Lord Palmer ston and his family arrived at Mayence on the 30th of October. The French Government has given the strictest orders to remove all Spanish emigrants from the south of France to the department of the Cots d'Or, where alone they are to be allowed to take up their residence. The last accounts from Morocco state that Abd el-Kader has refused the Emperor of Morocco to re pair to Fez, and that he had taken refuge in the desert with all the followers who had remained faith ful to him. M. Thiers has arrived in Paris. The Spanish Senate on the 29th ult. adopted the pro ject of law authorising the Government to regulate the organisation and to define the powers of the ayunta mitntos, provincial deputations, political governments, and provincial councils of administration. The Bill was voted by 76 against 5. The Brussels papers observe that the. debate in the Dutch Chambers on the address, in reply to the King of 11°1land's speech from the throne, possessed this singu larity, that it was the first time the reply to the King's speech was discussed publicly. The exclusion of stran gers w:,:s negatived by 31 votes to 20. Zell X 7 AND POZZCIS. A complaint was made at the Mansion-house by two respectable inhabitants of the City, of the success of the labours of a swindling firm, in which several vic timizers are concerned. In all probability some of the company will be brought up, an active officer of the City police force having received instructions upon the subject from Sir Peter Laurie. They could not have fallen into worse hands, and if we mistake not, Sir Peter will do them justice. At Guildhall, Sir George Carroll stated, that he had received a letter from the Dublin Metropolitan Police office, cautioning him, that a set of imposters were tra velling about England, soliciting alms, under false pre tences' and exhibiting fabricated certificates, surmounted with the royal arms, and purporting to b e s i gne d by the Mayor of Cork , or Waterford, or other justices of the peace. Sir George said such a document had been recently left at his house at Loughton. He suspected it was forged, and therefore the parties did not obtain anything from him. _At BOW-street, a cabman, named Millet, was fined 205., at the instance of Mr. George Robins, for insulting language, and plying for a fare while one of the cab windows was broken, and the vehicle not fit for use. At Clerkenwell, a man named Negus was convicted of violently assaulting police constable 221 G, whereby that officer is disabled and rendered wholly unfit for duty. He was sentenced to a month's imprisonment in the House of Correction, without the power of releasing himself by the payment of fine. George Stockey, a blacksmith, employed in the Royal Arsenal, was charged, at the Woolwich Police -court, with stealing about forty sovereigns from a woman named Harriet Arnold. Mr. Pelham attended for the prisoner, but advised him to defer his defoice for another tribunal, and he was then committed for trial. At Hammersmith a policeman, named Kennington, was fined 101., or one month's iruprisontnent, for a most wanton assault committed, while drunk, upon Mr. Hoof, jun., of the Victoria-road, Kensington. COICTWX.--1.111.$ The Duke of Beaufort's hounds commenced the hunt ing season on Monday. The Noble Duke receivei succession of visitors, at his princely seat, until the close of the month. The pack, at present, is appointed to meet four times a week. The Duke of Rutland and Lady Adeliza Manners, the Marquis of Granby, Lord Charles Manners, and a small family party, assemble at Belvoir Castle in the course of this month. The Noble Duke's hounds have already commenced the hunting campaign. Lord Forrester shortly joins the party. The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland are entertaining a party of friends at Raby Castle, where their Graces have been residing for some time past. The Marquis of Worcester has arrived in town, from Badminton. The Earl and Countess of Desart have arrived at their seat in Ireland, from the Earl and Countess of Caw does seat, in Scotland. The Earl of Lonsdale, on Friday last, left Lowther Castle, for Whitehaven Castle, where his Lordship in tonds to remain for a few days. The Earl of Bective still prolongs his visit to his Lordship's father in-law, Mr. Alderman Thompson, at Underley Park, Westmoreland. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have arrived i❑ Own. from the Noble Earl's sporting lodge, near New- The Count and Countess de St. Aulaire have been on a visit, during the la=t few days, to the Marquis an , l Marchioness of Ailesbury, at their seat, Tottenham Park, where a large party are still assembled. Baron de Crousseilhas (President of the Court of Cas sation), and M. Achille Fould (Member of the French Chamber of Deputies), have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Buckingham Hall, Brandon, on a visit to F. Baring, Esq. Baron Koller has returned to town, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Essex, at Cashiobury. The Dowager Duchess of Rollatirghe arrived it Ber wick, on Tuesday, from Broxmouth, which is to undergo extensive repairs during . her Grace's absence, on her way southward, and will not return, probably, for two years. SIZSCEZXAITEOXra. j A meeting for taking _measures to obtain a repeal of the malt-tax was heldon Monday at the York Hotel, Bl ea friars: A committee was appointed, and resolu tions in acc.ordanceoviib the object of the meeting were • unanimously adopted. It was understood that the com. mittee would meet again forthwith, for the purpose of arranging a plan of operations. • A' halt-yearly meeting of the Grand Union Canal. Compa.ay. took place at the office in Surrey-street, Strand, Richard Twining, Esq., in the chair. . A report was read, from which it appeared that for the six months ending September, 1843, the produce was 2,9001., and in the corresponding six months of this year 3,4051., being en increase of 5051. The increase on the twelve months was 705/ 18s. This increase was attributed to the great demand in London for inland coal and the revival of commerce. In conclusion, the committee recommended a dividend of 10s. per share, and reported the go od con dition of the works generally. Lord Western died at his seat, Felix Hall, Essex, on Sunday evening, aged 77. The title is extinct. On Thursday last a meeting was held in Glasgow for vaneing the educational and missionary schemes of thr Kirk of Scotland. The meeting was addressed by .he Lord Provost of G lasgow ; Dr. Sim son, of Kirk w ton ; Dr. Brown, of Greenock, late of Swallow-street, and other clergymen. The Free Kirk held a fleeting on Tuesday for advancing their schemes, when the usual smount of speechifying and abuse of the Erastian church was indulged in. On Thur>,day, Friday, and Saturday last, that singular phenomenon, the " helm wind," peculiar to Cross Fell, in Cumberland, blew and raged with more violence and terrificness than it has been known to do for many years past. We have not heard of the loss of life, but several persons, on crossing the dreary pass in Cross Fell, were actually at times obliged to fall down on their hands and knees, for fear of being blown down the steps of the mountain. So many vessels arrived in the port of London from all parts of the world during the past week that it has been found impossible to provide a sufficient number of officers of the Customs, by whom the vessels are boarded at Gravesend, and who never leave them until the whole of the cargo has been delivered, to meet the emergency, and several vessels, in consequence, have of necessity been for a time left unguarded. FATAL ACCIDENT.—About ten o'clock on Thurs day forenoon, a number of boys got in about the goods' station of the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Company, Port Eglinton, and commenced pushing along the line of rails one of the empty trucks. They had not been long thus employed, when one of their number, a boy aged about ten years, the son of a carpet weaver residing in Bedford-street, fell before the wheels of the carriage, which passed over his body. The boy was immediately conveyed home, and medical aid procured, but we regret o add he expired in about an hour afterwards.—Scotsynan. IMPORTANT.—The Vesuvius steamer, Commander E. Ommanney, arrived this morning from the Mediter ranean, where she has been on constant service for up wards of three years. She is come into harbour. This vessel brings information, that the late affair between General Comma and the Kybyles was of a more serious character, and more disastrous to the French, than the Paris papers have described ; in fact, that the fight occurred very little 'without the fortifications of Algiers, and that the French lost 300 men killed.—Harwpshire 'elegraph of Saturday. THE AGRICULTURISTS OF FEANCE.—A congress of agriculturists and proprietors of the north of France has just been held at St. Quentin. It was attended by the deputies, members of the Councils-General, and upwards of 300 practical farmers, who passed three successive days in discussing the best means of improving the breeds of horses and cattle of all kinds, the growth and importation of oleaginous seeds, wool, hemp, and flax, the cultivation of waste lands, and other important ques tions. It was also decided that a general association of the northern departments, similar to those in Normandy and Brittany, should be formed, and that its first meeting should be held next year at Cambrai. THE NEW BASTARDY LAw.—There is one astounding part of the new Bastardy Law which has not yet come to public notice. Order made on the father is to be in force until the child is thirteen years of age, unless the child dies before that age, or unless the mother_ marries before it attains ouch age. So, then, if the mother marries before the child is thirteen years old, the father is freed from any further expense, and the man who marries the woman must adopt it. Here's a nice pied of legislation. COURT CIRCULA R WINDSOR, TUESDAY. - The Queen and Prince Albert walked out in the course of the forenoon, in the grounds adjacent to the Castle. In the afternoon her Majesty and again promenaded in the pleasure-grounds. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took equestrian exercise on their ponies to-day in the Home Park and pleasure-grounds. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Lord Portman, Lord and Lady Ashley, and Sir Henry Wheatley, took their departure from the Castle to-day. The Earl of Morton has arrived at the Castle, and has relieved Lord Byron from his duty as Lord in Waiting to the Queen, and Captain Meynell has suc ceeded the Hon. Captain Duncoirbe as the Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Charlotte Dundas, the Countess Wratislaw, and Mr. George Edward and the Hun. Mrs. Anson. The baud of the Royal Horse Guards was in at tendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the Castle. A military portrait of General Sir Robert Sale, and a large miniature of Lady Sale, by Mrs. Henry Moseley, were submitted to the inspection of the Queen and Prince Albert to- day by Mr. Henry Moseley. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were graciously pleased to express their approbation. His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippstahl left Windsor Castle on Monday, and proceeded to Kew, on a visit to their Royal High nessess the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The Ecclesiastical Commission for England held a meeting yesterday afternoon at the office in White hall-place. The Commissioners present were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Chichester, the Bishop of Rochester, Sir James Graham, and the Dean of Westminster. A deputati.m. froHi Manchester, consisting of Air. Schwabe, Mr. Hastie, Mr. G. H. Hall, Mr. Le,) Schuter, Mr. Glandenning, Mr. E. Potter, and Mr. D. liauregard, had an interview with the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade, upon the subject of the recent B%ilgiiin Tariff. Baron de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister, trans acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Dispatchers from the Governor of Hong-Kong were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches for the Governor of the Falkland Islands were rent off yesterday evening from the Co• lonial-office. Dispatches were also sent off for the . Lieutenant-Governor of the Gold Coast, and the Go • vernor of Sierra Leone, another, once the delight -[.lie v Eople of ng 1034 now their scorn and contempt, and whose Dan a he would not me n ti on , was f oun d on the othe r side.—(Hisses, and cr i es o f " D on 't men tion him. This was a proof to th e p eo pl e o f E n gland how wo e they had in their own hands. He had endeavoulw to show the value of the trial by jury. It :Was S advantage to nobody but the corrupt and dishonei t : and to. them he might apply the language of ture, " That it was a terror to evil-doers, and for • praise of those who do well."—(Cheers.) He 0 41 ' 1 • therefore, give the "Trial by, Jury."—(Cheers.), The CUAIRMAN, in proeosing the ne x t toast, saki i demanded serious c ons id era ti on , f or i t was t h e toast d the evening, and intended as an embalming of the info mory of those good an d grea t men w ho, e l" bad times, were tried for their lives years ago, and of whose acquittal this was the jubilee.—(Hear, hear.) Their names were John I -1 1 Tooke, Thoma s H ar dy, J o h n Thelwall, &ire Hodgson, James Ilolcroft, Jere m i a h J o yce, IL Wardle, Moore, Baxter, & c . Th ey were now u",, and ashes, and some might grieve that they we ie r e ne .,.. more. He rejoiced th a t th ey once lived—(-I,—e hear)—because their indepe n d ence an d v i rtue heal a legacy to Briti.de liberty which he hoped w ould scend to their children to the rernott-et generationv (Cheers.) They were brought to trial on a ehal high treason —for aski ng ti e . th at w hi c h Lord 6ree/i asked for, and which King %Viiliam granted( cane which the House of L or d s were f orce d to colle4 to the British people. H e h a d lately reel a letter from the widow of Thelwall, which ' t cleverly and beautifully written, in which she e ln i plained of some statements relative to her hull,: made by Horace Twis s , i n hi s lif e o f Lord Elu°-of But they could afford to smile at the punt effett s e Mr. Horace Twiss to cast reflections on the mell' ° ,' of so good and extraordinary a man as Thelval, o '* (Hear, hear.) Among s t th e men w h o were t r ied that occasion were many who were an ornamen, t ,, their country by their pri va t e v i rtues, t h e i r learro,s and talents. There n e v er li ve d a more pure, a ill* moral, or a more religious man than Thomas 11 0 ,e —(Hear,' hear.) Tooke wro t e th e ce l e b ra t e d versions of. Purley," and Joyce is the o utlier the well-known "Scientific Dialo g u es ." Y e t s uch s'',,„ l * the men who were tri e d on a c h arge o f hi g h trey ; for maintaining the principle that the people ough t i have contr o l o ver th ose w h o proposed the laws fr( imposed taxes.—(Hear, he ar .) H e b e li eved that the' were perfectly honest, and that when they said th e only wanted reform, they did not want any moree,e there is no reason why they should not have a re'ri.`„ i reform.—(Loud cheers.) He conc l u d e d b y propai the memory of those individ ua l s . Th e t oas t was dth i/ . with The liveliest enthusiasm. Mr. PARRY rose to propose the next toast, was the memory of the three juries who, in 179 4, r o _quitted Hardy, Tooke, and Thel wa ll, an d o f Ersit l and Gibbs, their able and gratuitous counsel on t e l occasion. In the cours e o f hi s speec h M r . Par l dwelt with much force o n th e difference between t 0 Characters of Erskine and Eldon, the former suire ll e , an exclusion of fifteen years from office .in conk quence of his principles, the other ever opposed t° rights of the people and th e f ree d om o f men's cT e i science, than there w as no t nan w h o o ft ener thst"' se God that he had a conscience. He regretted t 0 the life of such a man received as it was by-the pr — o f The Learned Gentl e ma n th en a ll u d e d t o the seta te ie t the representation of the c oun t r y, an d obsereeo to it was not a 101. franchise—an aristocracy of P e ie l wealth—that Hardy, Tooke, and Thelwnil struq t y for, but a foll e and fair, and free reprc:sentation ' Ol people.—(Loud The CHAIR 400' MAN next proposed the health of th:. (lon Corresponding Society," and coupled ther&l'e ;he memory of Alexander Gelloa ay, one o f tbt r o , whom time had spared to them Irom those dar e t persecution.. His honoured frie n d w as n ot a o„ i i lover of liberty, but h a d su ff ere d i n h er ca use, • the principles with which he set out in life he no 4 tamed to the end —(Cheers.) Mr. GALLOWAY returned thanks, and said t i l t , though he was enfeebled in body, his soul w° s ardent as ever in the cause of freedom.—(Che gr He admired the principles of th e Correspond in g Society, because they were fou n d e d i n truth, ar e because they supported everythin g c on ducive to, e, welfare of mankind. They would exc l u d e no els o ,` but sought the rights of every class; a n d it was In to gratifying to him that, after fifty y ea r s , such d assembly was met together to honour the memorfoe those who had suffered for liberty in those days.' d o had himself been imprisoned for forty months 1 1 0 0 the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, Ny 4 ' l4 , knowing why or where ore, but he was• then v° ° „f e and-he did not mind it.—(Shame, shame.) V e° '"ie now would scarcely believe how much the Pe ° P ii i suffered in those days. But they had patience .0../ perseverance, and their principles prevailed at lag .o s (Cheers.) He thanked them for the complim ent which they had paid him in coupling his name sc that of the Corresponding Society. The following toasts were th en proposed and ( 111 e5 n 1: With enthusiasm :—" A radical refortn of all t bu it i s h and a true representation of th e p eop l e o f the urx vish empire in Parliament ;" "Lord Denman and Jtit' t Independence;" " The Cause of Civil and Retie Liberty the orld Over." e t The evening was enlivened by several exe songs, sung by Mr. Lucas,.Mr. Barnard, &c. CELEBRATION of the ACQUITTAL OF HARDY, TOOKE, THELWALL, &c. The 50th anniversary of the acquittal of John Horne Tooke, Thomas Hardy, John Thelsvall, and the other persons who were tried with them on a charge of high treason, was celebrated yesterday in a public dh'iner, at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars. About 150 persons were assembled on the occasion, and amongst others we noticed the fol lowing individuals :—T. Browning, Alexander 'Gal loway, Richard Burnett, J. B. Barnard, James Cop pock, and Frank Tibbett, Esqrs. Wm. Coates, Esq., was called to the chair. After ample justice had been done to the excellent dinner provided-on the occasion, and after the cloth was removed, The CHAIRMAN rose, and said that he looked for ward with delight and pleasure to the celebration of the present day, though he regretted he was unex pectedly called on to perform the office of Chairman on the occasion. The first toast which he would pro pose—and, indeed, he would not propose any toast, no matter by whom originated, which had not the concurrence of his own conscientious convictions— the first toast which he had to propose was, " The People," from whom all power and authority flowed. They were before Kings and Emperors, tyrants and conquerors, for it was • from them that they derived all their power.--(Hear, hear.) A sovereign could not exist without a people ; but he had some notion that a people could exist without a sovereign.-- (Laughter and cheers.) They were a check upon the sovereign . when the sovereign was inclined to go wrong; and when the people willed it, they could say to the sovereign, " Thus far shalt thou go, and no further." He would therefore, in the first instance, propose the health of the people—the sovereign peo ple.—The toast was drank with enthusiasm. The CHAIRMAN rose again, and said that if the sovereign were a despot, and the people slaves, the toast which he was about to propose wo u ld ha ve little value indeed ; but when the sovereign was the freely chosen of the people, and conciliated the affection of the people - =when the sovereign was one whose domestic virtues and public policy cast as much value on the royal station as was derived from it, and such a sovereign they had—(Cheers) then, indeed, it became a pleasure and a value to pro pose the health of the sovereign. —(Cheers.) On a late occasion, when the present Sovereign came to open the proudest temple of commerce in the world, and to mingle with her subjects, he had the honour of eating salt with her,.and most gracious arid pleasant she was —(Gheers)--and proud she ought to feel in ruling over such a people.—(Cheers.) It was because they f tr were a free people, and a sovereign people, that the On Monday, th e 4th i ns t., • a ge n era l assem bly 0 . fa , health of the Queen, at once derived its grace 2tcademicians was held at the Royal Academy of t o e and its value:—(ll.ear.) Bearing in mind such con- in Trafalgar-square, when Mr. William Dyce an 04,1 -siderations—that the-Queen ruled by and for the people William Calder Marshall were elected associates of i . —he would, in proposing the health of her present most institution 1 9 gracious Majesty, make use of the words of her late THE Fi - ORWICH - AND BRANDON RAILWAY new line of. railway will be opened in May next, ~,A p uncle—" May she ever bear in mind that the sove forming a communication between the Northern and jP if i t reignty is a trust for the benefit of the people." land line of railway and the large fishing port of iii The toast was drank with the greatest enthusiasm. mouth ;giving facilities for the supplying of the inter', The CHAIRMAN again rose, and said that the next of England with fish and coal, and affording the opPii toaste bore some reference to the subject whiCh had tunity of shipping corn and other agricultural produe e , assembled them together on that occasion. There the latter port. , The people of Ipswieh, howevereine h were those who boasted of the wisdom of their got a small line from Colchester to their own town, l ie ancestors--there were those who loved their ancient !,0 whicheao objection can he made, now contemplate ei institutions. He for one supported the wisdom of Priving the Norwich and Brandon.proprietors of ti_ l iit , their ancestors so long as they were wise, a n d wou ld legitimate traffic between Norwich and th e rne troP°: i 4 and much discussion has arisen respecting the nece maintain their ancient institutions so long as they of such a line, it being urged that the country ee, ls . ve s were good.—(Cheers.) He was not fer change for the sake of doing mischief, but he had Da objection to lines, and that if such be the fact, two itswhich the two or will not pay will derive thepublic of that sec a change if it occasioned good.—(Hear, hear.) Nor did ~iodation which a moderately remunerative one, ''''') he at all consider he was disparaging the talents of frequent trains, would always afford.—John Bull. 4r their ancestors in exercising the same fair and rode- INFLUX OF SIIIFPING.—SO many vessels have 51 . pendent judgmesit which they did in order to obtain r i ve d i n t h e port of London from al l parts of the 0 . 1 ;v institutions adapted to the nature of man and to the d ur i ng t h e past wee k , t h at i t h as b een .found inipo'9l,,-;, necessities of the times.—(llear, hear.) They had to provide a sufficient number of officers o f th e Custewhe transmitted to them one institution, which he trusted by whom the vessels are boarded at G ravesen d, and"' 1 1 never leave them until the whole of th e carg o has u`ja would live for ever—trial by jury.—(Cheers.) As long as men were men, differences must arise between delivered, to meet the emergency, and sev era l vessel s, A , them from conflicting interests,, and who better consequence, have of neccuity b een f ur a t i me left,.w di guarded. This is of very rare occurrence, and is Pl: e g fitted to settle those differences than those owing to several of the tidewaiters having been is i .• who were free from the passions and prejudices fromtheir regular duties to assist iu the landieg tlelh e a l l e of the contending parties ? To make a man the arbiter mea i a., to , orderfacilitate the discharge of the le' in his own case was to take 'them back to barbarism and the landing and housing of their cargoes. e bn —the first triumph over which was the institution of . QuiCK PASSAGE.—The General Steam lc avig4'."o the trial by jury—because it deprived each man of Company's steam-ship Trident, so celebrated for d;' seeking the recompense of injury according to the pas-ages, left th e C ompany ' s w h arf, Poplar, laet;"—'; dictates of his own angry passions and resentments, nesday night, an d arr i ve d at t h e D u k e of B eec leeeed and left the arbitrations of his injuries, or supposed G ranton Net, after an unprecedented short passag e injuries, to those who were supposed free from such thirty- seve n hours only. IS! feelings.—(llear, hear.) The institution of trial by RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN BELGIUM.—On Moll` i d jury was founded on the best feelings of human na- evening, sips the Independ en t of B russe l s , a h orse . "` ‘ , o , Lure and the profoundest principles of . philosophy; had strayed upon the railroad near the Soignies stst: o , and however critics, whose business it was to deny was run against by a train, and actually cut ill :00 everything, might dilate on its imperfections— without any of' the carriages havin g b een t h ro wn oo rails, or even the rate of speed being relaxed. and what human institution was not imperfect he ' We are officially authorised to state that the fay trusted the day was distant when any new-fangled ports recently circulated, to . the . effec t that a j e well!c or o philosophy would remove from the people of England Dresden had sold false jewels to the King of SaxonY , l e, the trial byjury.—(Cheers.) The value of that in- ent i re l y w i t h out f oundat i on ; and we may furthers tite stitution was attested in every possible way. It w a s i n corro b orat i on o f t h e a b ove contradiction, that the j e f ;,l attested in the names of those men whom, fifty years eller a ll u d e d t o h as o ff ere d a rewar d of 300 dollarS ago—within his own recollection—it was sought to the discovery of the author of the libel. P IM' place upon a gibbet, but whom et verdict of their A HARE V. STEAM.—On Friday week as a ii p cl countrymen sent home to their wives and childre n .— were coursing near Countestho r p e c l ose on t h e Milo (Cheers.) Its value was proved by the very attempt s line, the Newcastle down train happened t o pass, °il, which were made to tamper with it.—(Loud cheers.) " puss," to elude her pursuers, jumped on the line, I 'o All that occurred in Ireland lately was only an a ddi- for some distance, ran in fi ne s tyl e b e f ore t h e train t;rt i tional evidence of the importance of trial by ju r y.— they met the up-train, going at t h e ra t e o f a b o ut te a s e l m iles an hour, which seemed to di s co ncer t this (Cheers.) Those who got up the charge of conspiracy competitor to team, fur she made a sudden spring' : i y r o f there knew the value of trial by jury, and th a t th ey wards as if to escape, when she was struck by a Ptl, r ;be could not face an honest one, and hence th e y d ro pp e d the other engine, and thrown across the buffer 0 i a s jury-lists—(Cheers)—hence the proscriptio n o f one up one, w h ere s h e was seen struggling for a time, t'i,id class of opinions, and the exclusion of persons on lest it fell, and was picked up by a policeman, who W° to account of their religion—(Hear)—hence the declare- no doubt appropriate it, in defiance of the game.lawtho. Lion of the greatest judge in the land, that if such his own . nse as a penalty for its trespass on the rail cy things were allowed, "the trial by jury woeeldehenorne --4eieeite*shire Mercury. DP a mockery, a delusion, and a snare. diethane. ten Mg/nous SUICIDE BY A GlRL.—MondaL k e, were " Three cheers for Lord Denman v iffrailKial iki,ts , WM an inquest on the body of Rosamund Glue most enthusiastically responded . to.) IV* g n ily i rAs ,aged 1.5 . ytars, whose brother stated that he last ss; tree l -. eiste% iht on Friday evening at tea time. She ref n-d occasion had they recourse to dropped NOiliti.fi; heytea, but seemed in her usual heal", her , to the [exclusion of Catholics? Why, bw tittliie alf _, ,i..2. 14 ., ~ however, left home suddenly withou t knew full well that the trial by jury, t ly: f,- ..„4-o;^ 3 ' •.. y pi - Why, , f . .„ ':4 , : shawl, and never returned alive. Her t r* was too august and too sacred for the . , ''= ; e . ..*iets ni:ntlehe next morning on a barge at Mr. Mild , therefore they endeavoured to lower its irat, i'llei'a e tn4dTe H. ;It'hirVothes'Qere partly up, as if she bad * t il e to bring it down to further their own corrupt puraspeees. e pito the water. `There appeared no marks of vi°sol —(Hear.) - But to show how good comes out of 'evil, T - li-to the hody. J,'roious to her leaving home , he h r ti „ e sk after the decision in this case had been proriOneetle : A l Nlteigillitfrcir mother. She was not c" ic i c le. and after .everybody thought there was en . end I ,!k ll o4.' l 47liiiii idi . e. gver threatened to cr•nirrit '..11 dent' 1 .t:int:ifio:of a rel? 1 I the ca-se-Lfor nobody could expect light out of darkr seilie - she counklikve fallen into flt bly lively . disposition. It w7 id ,,nt. the water by' t: Le. co . —the House of Lords reversed that decision.—(Miti,/ IT hear, and cheers.) If those who had been tried andi.l er-iWOther wa-s n , loneral very kind to her. ar jae a tha t _mace! ancl jury rezeUted, that it was extraerdt J'i tt i o g , convicted in Ireland for the crime of constructed 1 ..,,,' o Motive could he Ipiened for the deceased coneo e e treason, as were Hardy, Tooke, and Thelwall, 1;w. : e e • , - • .-- te ,u, ,-..', ,- : -.. aid that they should like t ß ° U. , l3 o) s a stead of that of constructive conspiracy, there woe t A ;.,..--''' '„'' ,7 `'' . - -1 A witness of the name of. -,-,-...i t ial he no appeal allowed; and a corrupt jury would have TS; &Wei - NC:is sent for; who saw the deceased .on 4 " ile a decided. their fate,—(Cheers.) But after they L a d in in Peter-street ; her face was crreatly sw , t 7 1.10 j; been found guilty, justice was done to them, and it on the right side, and she said her mother e ha_d h s ad a o came from a quarter whence it could be least ex- in. r. Deceased remarked at the time that else -ger petted. Lord Denman, on that occasion, spoke ether friend in the world but her mother, and if 7h e , o e t t b out 'in a manly and dignified manner.— . (Ch eers .) struck her again she was determined to make away . 1,0 And it was a proud Consideration for the citisees i herself. The jury said there was little doubt She t II) committed suicide, but the evidence was not r„ Fou nd of' London, that when he had been cast off by the Court, he had been elevated to the Bench go that length, and returned a verdict, r . drowned." fla, wee k' ona by them, and had from thence risen to his present - eminent position. He was well supported on that oc- The number of passengers during ---- . hted to ins 31st of October, through Boulogoce, am" - ra casion by Lord Cottenharn and Lord Campbell. And Leer ; through Calais, 271. Of the 1,241 . .eolkest ° , 2 ll , here he begged to remind them that those individuals, through Boulogne, the ' number from would never have been in a position to dosthis act of ; amounted to 205 ; from Dover, 174 ; from Lou justice were it not for the Reform Bill.—(Cheers.) I —501.' To Folkestone, 342 ; to Dover, 222 ; to l' : ' j3P.aselig c _ e Thex had defe n ded the rights of tiip ei e , „ 111 , I gate, 16 ;to Loudon, 160-740. Totetl, 11 241 . '' , THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 6, 1844.