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THE NEB' fiTSTORICAL ROMANCE. Now ready ; et all the Libraries, in 3 vols., post Aro.. THE PALAIS ROY AL. AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. " By the Author of QI7ATRE ; OR, THE DAYS OF THE LEAGUE." enry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NOW READY, AT ALL THE LIBRARIES, P 35., handsomely bound, with Thirty-four Illustrations and Portrait of the Author, THE FEMALE BLUEBEARD ; or, The ADVENTURER. By EUGENE SUE. Author of the " Mysteries of Paris," " Wandering Jew," &c. We must say this is the most perplexing, mysterious, exciting, and curious of all Sue's many extraordinary romances."—Sunday " This is by far the most curious and exciting work from the pen Atiugene Sue."—Brighton Guardian. Complete for 6d. ; sent Post-free, 6d. extra, THE GOVERNESS; or, The French Pocket Handkerchief. By 3.V. COOPER, author of the " Pilot," " Spy," " Red Rover," &c. London : W. Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; and all Booksellers. tiEW ALMANACK and DIARY for 1845, copied from the HOURS of ANNE of BRITTANY Published this day, imperial Bvo., bound in an appropriate ornamental cover, price 21. 2s. THE ILLUMINATED CALENDAR and DIARY for 1845, embellished with Twelve large Designs, one - ppropriato to each Month, illustrative of Manners and Customs of e Fifteenth Century, carefully coloured by hand, and enriched with gold. The Title-page is ornamented with Fruits on a Gold Ground ; sand each page of the Diary has an Ornamental Border, composed of Natural Flowers, and printed in Gold and Colours, by Owen Jones. The wuolo copied from the Kalendar in " The Hours of Anne of iirittany " LONDON London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. AND YORK RAILWAY. Offices, 7, Lothbury, London, Dec. 2, 1844. . , . . The Shareholders are informed that the requisite Notices have been given, and Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference depositee, with the Board of Trade and the several Clerks of the Peace s in strict compliance with the standing orders of Parliament. By order of the Board of Direction, J. R. MOWATT, Secretary. fkiLATRE ROY AL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 4 . Will be repeated a Grand Opera ' , aria, called TP;n: DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusianano, Mr. Burdini ; kadrea Comae, Mr. Borrani ; Moncerligo, Mr. Weiss; Adolphe de Courcy, M. W. Harrison; ( , atarina ornaro, Riss Raintrdrth To conelude with the celebrated Ball'zt of THE PERI. Aehmet, N. Desplaces ; The Pefi, lidlle. Plunkett; Neurmabal, Mdlle. O'Bryan ; Aysba, Mrs. Pr.yne. The Box-onice is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Slx ➢in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tickets may ba haft on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 4, Will he performed a Nev and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket Mr. Strickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles :11athe e ; Tom Coke Mr. Webster ; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; The Countess of I pion, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hawthorn Madame Vestris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Bennett. After which, will be produced a New Comic Drama, entitled SOMEBODY ELSE. Hans Monts, Mr. Charles Mathews; Minnie, Madame Vestris. To be followed by a New and Original Farce, called YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland; Mr. John James .Peoley, Mr. Buckstone; Mrs. Poolev Mrs. Humby. Private Boxes, Two Guinea s aril Oa_ Guinea and a-Half each. llckets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. :kr cher, at the Box-office, from Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 5, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled SIDONIA DI MOLINA ; or, Ruse de Guerre. Principal Characters by Messrs. Hudson, Selby, Wright, Paul Bedford, Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. After which, a New Drama, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. CoilLt Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson • Count Vanilla, Mr. Selby; The Mjsterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ; Creguet, Mr. Wright; Checliore, Mr. 0. Smith. To conclude with NORMA, in which Miss Woolgar, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Wright, and Miss Reynolds will perform. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter sir. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-cdice open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 4, Will he repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled THE CASTLE OF AYMON; or, The Four Brothers. Baron de Beasnanoir, Mr. Walton; Olivier, Mr. Allen; Allard, Mr. C Horn ' Jun. ; Richard, Mr. Himo ; Reiland, Mr. Mattocks; Ivon, Mr. Leer;fl Hermine, Nldile. Helen Co n dell ; Gertrude, Mrs. Fosbroke. To conclude with THE RENT DAY. Martin Heywood, Mr. Wallack ; Bullfrog, Mr. Compton ; Rachel Heywood, Mrs. Stirling. Stage Manager Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Di ector, Mr. Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund RradwelL Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallo Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle,2s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, SC Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce nium Boxes, Two Guine a s and a-H a lf. Doors to be opened at Half past Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Bex-ottice, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingbam. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre. 11L&ATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA- HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, DECEMBIER 4, Will be repeated an Original Drama, entitled HOME AGAIN; or, The Lieutenant's D..ughters. Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, F. Mathews, Craven, and Keeley, Miss Fortescue and Mrs. Keeley. T. be followed by a New Farce, called A TRIP TO KISSIN GEN Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Kin ech, Stanton, Collier, Yarnold, Turner, Stoker, and Ke ley, Mrs. Wigan and Mrs. Keeley. In the course of the Evening A DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Jullien's Mazurka and Cellarius Valise will be danced by &Idlles. Louise and Adele, Miss James, and Mbs Fairhrother. To conclude with THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASS iONS With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal ammeters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mr. Gouriet, Mr. Craven, and Mr. Keeley ; Mist Fairbrother, Mrs. Woollitge, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Mi,s James, Miss Arden, Mus Greve, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes, 43.; Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, 23. ; Gallery, CA Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2r. ; Upper Boxes, Is. tkl.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Itucony Tier (boiling eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second tier (holding eight persons), One fluinea and a.Half. Private Boxes on the Pit Fier (holding six persons), One Guinea. The Box-oflice is open from Ten to Four e'Clock, under the direc tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. Great attraction every Evening—Squire Batty's Hounds meet This Evening, at ASTLFY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 4, Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race -Hope and Life's Course of Man and Steed; introducing unequalled Natloual Fetes. Real Fox chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Fox and real Pack of Hounds, purchased Mr. Batty of Mr Tattersall, to realise this novel production. sem Races and other Sporting Features. ew Scenes of the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with THE WEAVER OF LYONS; or, The Three Conscripts. Acting and stage-tn.-maw, 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, THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 4, Will he repeated a New I 'rams, entitled THE SEALED SEN TENCE, supported by ussars. Hughes, N. T. Hicks, Vale, Johnson, Morrison, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs. Lewis, &c. An Ethiopian Entertainment by the REAL AMERICAN SOUTHERN MINSTRELS. To be followed by CRAMOND BRIG, In which Messrs. N. T• Hi ks, Neville, Fitzjames, Mrs. W. Daly, ,and Miss E. Terrey will sustain the principal Characters. After which, an entirely New Drama, THE SISTERS OF C HA TILLON, in which Messrs. Hicks, Neville, R. Shephard, Vale, Johnson, Heslop. Mrs. R. Honner, Miss Terrey, Mrs. H. Vining, &c. will perform. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 4. TBERNLONETER, Lowest, 33 ; Highest, 37 ; soon, 34. BA Romrrne, 30.3.—Wutn, N.E. :nor .—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is u.nally placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Min ilg ... 52 minutes after 7 I Evening ... 30 minutes after S. •rat, ,o¢`, t i i .... ' 1 '''.. '1 . 14, 44 - ,' 4 T llf 1 ) * '.. # • %,; 41' .SM • .44. 4 . ( * 1 . ,,t, 4:7 ,,. 4, -NAlNr c i: •••-9W .,,i- ••• 16 . 4 6. :, ''-ZC•,"-;;, 3 , -1.74111111164' -- 7 74,0„;:illt . 4'" ) ' tl.l ' tit ' ' ~0 - Wk, --‘'‘'... , - ¥r mo , kl• - N -1 .IP 111 -:' , ;`,7.-..i,„ 0 1 , • 1 .,. 0 .AN"';:av - . ' e ry ~ 1.1 i-4R • " • ••• = ' lOcra • 2#ECOND EDITION. birnAlT LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1844. The intelligence brought by the Overland Mail from India and China is altogether very favourable. With the exception of a slight insurrection in the 31ahratta country, and the capture of the fort of Samunghur by the British troops, the utmost tran quillity prevails. Accounts from Sinde describe that newly acquired district as increasing every day in prosperity, and to such a degree, that the calumnia tors of Lord ELLENBOROUGH and Sir CHARLES NAPIER are dumb on the subject. The revenue was increasing, and more money had been colleeted under the mild and legitimate autho rity of the gallant General than had been obtained by the extortions and violence of the Ameers. Kurrachee, a town situate towards the mouth of the Indus, was daily rising in importance; substantial buildings were springing up in all direc tions, water was abundant, and the climate healthy. The people of India, and especially the inhabitants of Bombay, were beginning to see the vast importance of opening the Indus for trade, and the advantages which the occupation of Sinde would confer on the extensive territories along its banks. We never from the beginning had any doubt on the sub ject —we defended almost alone the policy a the Indian Government, and did justice to the wise plans and the daring manoeuvres of the :gallant NAPIER; and it is therefore gratifying to find that the result has been such a 3 to convince even the most obstinate that the annexation of Sinde to the British possessions constitutes one of the most glorious and beneficial events of the present day. We rejoice to hear that Sir CHARLES NAPIER enjoyed good health, and was about to visit some of the more dis tant portions of the country placed under his autho rity. From every account his wise measures, for preservin g peace and securing good government, ex cated equal admiration with his warlike exploits. The _ Post of this morning, in an article suggested by a meeting of the Somersetshire Agricultural society which took place last week at Wincanton, speaks out in a frank, manly strain respecting the present position of the Anti-Corn -law League, and the dtgree of moral influence which it exercises over the public mind. The majority ~f• the journals which espouse the cause of monopoly still continu e to re present this great national confederacy as in a de clining state. According to their statementsit has lost the strong hold which it had over the popular Mind a year or two since, when the distresses of the ~~ country and the general discontent which they occa sioned conspired to favour its progress; with an im proved condition of things have come an improved spirit—a more collected and sagacious judgment on the part of the people ; and the League is now suffering from this altered tone of the public mind, and at no distant period it will be numbered among the " things that once were.'s So say the journals that are favourable to monopoly ; and the RICHMONDS, the BUCKINGHAMS, the BANKESES, and all who think with them, make a point of echo ing the sentiment. But the Post—to its credit be it mentioned—is too frank, too manly, too intelligent to adopt this false, one-sided view of the case. Though an uncompromising enemy of the Anti-Corn-law League and of every single principle, without ex ception, which it advocates, our Contemporary is not guilty of the foolish error of underrating its influ ence, but blurts out the strict truth, careless whom it 111 ty offend. We wish the Post were always as explicit and intelligible in its opinions as it is in the significant passage whie, l a we shall presently sub join. But there too often a vagueness a haziness—an incoherency in its political views which for the life, of us we cannot understand. To-day it is Young England—to-morrow it is Old England after the fashion of Lord ELDON. Now, it advocates a standstill system of policy with a dogged inveteracy of purpose that would have endeared it to the heart of a St DMOUTH or a CASTLEREAGH ; and now, it is all for stir and movement in the Church as well as in the State. One moment it startles us by a bold theory or sug;estion that breathes the true spirit of Reform in its most enlightened and comprehensive sense ; the next, it is a bigoted admirer of the " wisdom of our ancestors," and scouts the bare idea of every innovation, no matter how slight, that should hays a tendency to bring that wisdom into disrepute. Our Contemporary is too sagacious to be a confirmed ribbon-Tory, and he is too honest to be a decided Conservative. What then is he ? To what party does he adhere ? Who is his " Magnus Apollo " in statesmanship ? We cannot answer these questions, and we now put them respectfully to him, in the hope that he will vouchsafe to enlighten our ignorance. But now for the signi ficant passage to which we have alluded, and which we quote from his columns of this morning. After expressing his satisfaction that the country people in Suinersetshire have not been misled by the erroneous statements in the Ministerial journals respecting the actual condition of the Anti-Corn-law League, which journals have given out that nothing more need be feared from it, inasmuch as it is effectually crushed, our Contemporary goes on to observe : " They assume this fact, and endeavour to lead their readers to the inference that the policy of the Govern ment has been so able as to have led to that result, notwithstanding all the money which the League has collected, and all the efforts which it has made. This is altogether erroneous. The Government has not quenched the revolutionary mischief of the League. The League still relies on compelling the Minister to carry out by practical measures that principle con cerning buying in the cheapest markets and selling in the dearest, which he has declared to be in the abstract a sound and just principle." This direct ac knowledgement of the vitality and influence of,,the Anti-Corn-law League will be anything but ac ceptable to the monopolist readers of the Post. Mr. Minas, however, one of the Members for Somer . setshire, who is strongly opposed to the views of this confederacy, holds pretty nearly the same opinions as our Contemporary, and warns his constituents not to put the slightest faith in the statements that the League is crushed. We agree with these two com petent authorities that the League is not crushed and is not likely to be crushed; and we will go further and add, that it will gradually increase in influence, day by day enlarging the sphere of its operations, until the great principles of which it is the exponent and representative are fully carried out into practice. The remains of her late Royal Highness the Princess SOPHIA MATILDA will be interred in the family vault in St. George's Chapel, at Windsor, on the evening of Tuesday, the 10th instant; and, in compliance with the wishes of her late Royal Highness, the ceremony of lying in state will be dispensed with and the funeral will be conducted with as much pri vacy as is consistent with the rank of her late Royal Highness. The intelligence which continues to reach us from two European countries now sunk in the depths of political turpitude and degradation, though they suc ceeded to an inheritance of historic recollections more glorious than can be boasted by almost any other two in the family of nations this intelligence is calculated to excite in British bosoms the liveliest emotions of indignation, contempt, and pity. But the great social lesson which it teaches is one of such infinite moment to the welfare and prosperity of other States, who, thanks to a long enjoyment of happier institutions, and to the salutary influence of these upon their people, still preserve the noble pre eminence they have attained, that we cannot do wrong in endeavouring to impress upon our readers its singular force and application to a community nearer home. Of all the nations of antiquity, Greece may justly claim to have transmitted to posterity the most precious inheritance. In the divinest exercises of pure intellect—philosophy, poetry, and metaphysics, in logic and history—she has bequeathed exemplars of such matchless excellence as to have served, through the lapse of more than two thousand years, for the models, hitherto unrivalled, of our reverential admiration—as the guides, whom it has not yet been permitted us to overtake, of our most ennobling studies. If it be the just and gratifying pride of modern times to have far surpassed our great in structress in the physical sciences, and the arts of civil economy—to have measured the whole visible field of infinite space, divined the laws and ascer tained the ellipses of planetary motion—to have cal culated the most eccentric orbits of the most remote comets discernible from our own system, and to have proved and established the revolutions of the satellites that revolve around other solar centres, we must ac knowledge our obligations to Greece for those ele ments of political government under which, alone, that ancient civilisation could have been attained by her from whence we derive, at this day, the benefit of her profound principles of domestic polity, and the guarantees provided by them for the maintenance of individual rights and public liberty. This is not the place to speak of those all but miraculous embodi ments of Grecian genius, in which the Hellenic mind almost thinks and speaks and acts to us, in marble and in bronze ; but the refining and exalting influences which these productions of a sublime antiquity still exert upon our intellectual develop ment, must never be forgotten in any estimate of the debt of gratitude which the Europe of our days owes to the Greece of classical antiquity—its generous rebublics, and their more renowned citizens. Let us turn to another nation. If old Greece handed down to us the theory, Gothic Spain re-established and vindicated to us the practice, of free institutions. When other European communities were humbled in the dust beneath the incessant aggressions of feudal tyranny--now vexed by the despotic cruelty of their sovereign princes, now tormented still more grievously by the insatiable rapacity of the still more powerful nobles, the people of Spain, with indomitable per severance, contended for, and exacted from successive rulers, large and ample popular privileges. Through out the different kingdoms between which their noble country was divided, the same bold and independent spirit asserted itself; now successful in forcing the establishment of deliberate assemblies in their Cortes and their Municipal Councils, now wringing from the reluctant heads of hereditary oppressors the fueros of the maritime provinces. To Gothic Spain must still be ascribed the solid glory of having success fully devoted herself to become the bulwark of Christianity in Southern Europe, and of having, on repeated occasions, turned back the invading tide of French ambition and aggressiveness. The discoverer and planter of a new world, however, can want no other blazonry to distinguish her "escutcheon of pre tence" among the trophies achieved by the national chivalry of Europe. What is the present condition of these States, so illustrious by their past associations ? A condition of iocial niiiery, of civil degradation, of political pemriniiiriad.ste,of civic t reac h ery , o f roya l d up li c i ty, of profligacy, of arrogant favouritism, of hopeless corruption in high places, of venal faithless ness in low ones, of successful faction , of defeated patriotism, of triumphant intrigue,' of . SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 18,44: scribed integrity, of a wealthy few, and a pauper people ;—of unprincipled chiefs and tur bulent followers, under whose disorganising quarrels and rapacity agriculture decays, trade languishes, confidence expires, and love of country sleeps the sleep of death. These are conditions common to the pre sent aspect of both Spain and Greece. OTHO is faith less to his constitutional oath ; ISABELLA tramples under foot, at the instigation of CHRISTINA, the con stitution which both have, over and again, solemnly sworn to uphold. ISABELLA and OTHO receive into their respective councils, protection, and favour, the avowed enemies of the liberties of the coun tries they severally govern. The men who have laboured, and fought, and bled to uphold those liberties, they hand over as meet sacrifices to the bloodthirsty hatred of the adventurers who have assassi nated freedom, and set up in its stead a ghastly idol of tyranny attired in some of her habiliments. Is there, then, it may be asked, no people to interfere, either in Spain or in Greece, in order to vindicate their own rights, to reconstruct their own privileges, to pre scribe their own form of government, to control the delinquencies of those who govern ? If the aristocracy of the former, or the chiefs of the latter, still lack the energy or the means to right themselves and the laws, are there no true men, of the humbler classes, to inter pose and arrest the downfal of their tottering States ? Alas ! the long prescription of defective customs, or abused institutions, has so utterly abased, and so enfeebled these humbler, though far more numerous, sections of the people, that they can accomplish nothing of themselves, although they groan and writhe under the bitterness of their bondage, the shame of their degradation. Then why not make common cause (it may be asked) with their lords or their leaders, their chiefs or their nobles? Shall we I venture to answer for them ? Because nobles and chiefs leaders and lords, have NOT made honest cause with them. Because wealth has been willing to see them sa crificed to the treason or cabal of the day, provided only it could secure and retain its own possessions. Because rank and power have abandoned the natural and legi timate claimants on their protection, in their own hour of aggrandisement and security, in order to secure their own slippery footing in the halls of capri cious despotism, and to rivet still more tightly on their own serfs or dupes the chains which their supe rior tyrant has permitted them to forge for that pur pose. What wonder, then, that the compatriots of HARMODIUS or Of PELAGIO, born and nurtured as it were in the long descended hatred of royal oppression and foreign authority, should look on with apathy at the unbridled career of desolation and infamy which both the one and the other are spreading headlong over Spain and Greece in these their unhappy times ? But there are yet other and greater States, still un cursed by foreign influence, still uninsulted and unpro voked by any movement of royalty towards despotism, enjoying a general condition of extreme prosperity, with certain modifications of extreme poverty and misery —abundant in their free institutions, and enjoying the free working of them—there are yet States of the first rank and most signal power which exhibit some fearful symptoms of internal derangement and dis eased action, manifesting themselves in the same ex tremities—namely, the lower orders. Let them learn, betimes, the memorable truth which the close proxi mity of excessive opulence and abject destitution ; vast accumulations of capital and every phase of poverty ; horrible want and magnificent profusion— ought never to proclaim in vain. The few, in order to uphold even the most perfect and favourable of human institutions, must depend on the many; and since the many can have no common interest with the few in supporting establishments under which they derive no fair proportion of common advantage, property must come to the aid of poverty. The unequal distribution of wealth is an incident which cannot be prevented ; but the pressure upon those whose portion of it is absolutely, or but next to, privation, may be relieved by property's placing a ge nerous and enlarged construction upon its own duties. Let us secure the alliance of those who want not only present relief, but timely confidence and encourage ment. There are political and social, as well as moral benefits, of the most invaluable kind, to be secured by the upper and middling classes who shall thus avert the chances of such estrangement of the lower from the higher orders, which now leaves Athens and Attica a prey to Bavarian bad faith and mismanage ment—and humbles the pride of the Castilles and the pomp of Madrid beneath the base intrigues of CHRISTINA and her minions, or the arrogant brutality of such an adventurer as NARVAEZ. The Madrid journals of the 26th contain no news. The fate of the on and brother-in-law of ZURBANO was not known in the capital on that day, but it was generally believed that orders bad been sent for their execution. The Clamor Publico states that orders had also been sent to Cadiz for the execution of General ARNOZ. MADRID BOURSE, Nov. 26.—Three per Cents., for cash, 31 9-16; for account, 31i. Five per Cents., for cash, 23i ; for account, 21. No official intelligence had reached Paris on Mon day of the execution of young ZURBANO and his uncle at Logrono, but nearly all the journals regard it as a matter beyond doubt, and justly comment with severity on the atrocious policy of the Spanish Go vernment. Even the Ministerial Journal des Debats is obliged to chime in with the general cry of indig nation, and would willingly keep out of view the fact that the parties who are now committing such cruel ties in Spain are the creatures of the French Court and Cabinet, and were established in power, if not by French gold, at all events by French intrigue. Of this no impartial observer can entertain a reasonable doubt, and the Government and the Government press of France must come in for a share of the odium ex cited by the despotic and cruel conduct of NAavanz. That journal now seems disposed to cast him off, and even denies that it had ever supported the party. " Certainly," it says, " we had no great confidence in the Government of Spain, but we were far from ex pecting such enormities, even from a Cabinet directed by NARVAEZ. Are those the men who denounced as a crime the execution of the unfortunate DIEGO LEON, who were to open to their country a new era of reconciliation and peace, and who designed to en large the field of political discussion ? Now, more than ever, we congratulate ourselves on having re fused all adhesion to the acts of this soldier-Govern ment, which holds itself up to universal reprobation." The following particulars respecting the fate of the unfortunate victims are given by the correspondent of the Constitutionnel : "We have related all the details of the arrest of the son and brother-in-law of Zurbano in the environs of Logrono, taken in an olive-grove, where they were found concealed, but without arms. The son, a young man aged twenty-eight, esteemed in the army, in which he held the rank of major, excited a lively interest in the inhabitants of Logrono, and even the Moderados ex pressed a wish that the Queen's Government would spare him. General Oribe, who holds the command at Burgos, listened to these appeals, and considering, no doubt, that the real, if not the only culprit in the eyes of the Government, was Martin Zurbano, and that the circumstances attending the capture did not imperatively prove the complicity of Benito Zurbano and his uncle, therefore, notwithstanding the general orders issued by Narvaez for shooting Zurbano and his confederates, de ferred the execution, and applied to the Government for express orders. The inhabitants of Logrono, profiting by the respite, sent to Madrid a numerous deputation,. among wh om were the most important men of all opinions, to lay a petition for mercy at the foot of the throne. The mother and mother-in-law of Benito Zur bano also went to Madrid, and drew tears from the eyes of the Queen-Mother, by throwing themselves in the attitude of supplication in the ro a d by w hi ch her Majesty was passing in her carriage. Their ardent prayers and bitter sobs were of no avail. The Government remained implacable. An order was immediately dispatched to General Oribe to consummate the execution, and, on the 25th ult. Benito Zurbano and his uncle, with their two servants, were shot at Logrono. This was not all the stern rigour of the Government ; General Oribe was dismissed from his command for not having it . blindly fol lowed his first instructions, and , even said that h e i s to be brought before a court-martial., The same journal thus contrasts the conduct of Es- PARTERO under somewhat similar circumstances wit that of NARVAEZ ----- -- --- --- - be compare re " Let the deplorable details of the execution of rjenito Zarbano, his uncle, and their servants, Loon, and ' it will b© seen whether the Aky' aerados with the conduct of Espartero's Governmen t ., tow - ir d s Diego L have not deprived themselves of the right C'-e P - -xc l a i m i ng against the cruelty of the ex-Regent. D'4o.-;o Lon was taken with arms in his hands, and yet 1 4', was granted a trial ; his execution vras the consegt... eace of a juthrinent, partial and pitiless no doubt, but r .t least invested with the forms of justice. In the pr 1- ,at an arbitrary and atro- event case, there was no the prisoners was, judgment, no trial—nothing cious act of power. The ie, ent i ty of it is true, established, bu:t there was no proof of their criminality ; and, we 9, 4 d, nothing can be further from proof than that there was any culpability inl3enito Zar bano than his being the son of hi s f a th er . H e was taken almost alone, concealed, and without arms. Can we, therefore, be astonished if it be hereafter shown that he disapproved , of the insurrection, and that he wished to avoid, by flight, participating in those sanguinary acts of reprisals which parties in Spain—even those in pos session of the Government—perpetrate upon their ene mies ? Prim has escaped, thanks to a species of trial which, from the very inignity of the accusation, excited a universal opinion against it. The son of Zurbano has been executed without any form or process, as if it was determined to hasten his death in order to tear him from public compassion. In civilised nations, to execute a man without trial is not punishment, but murder." The Journal des Debuts contains an article on the quarantine laws, in which it strongly recommends the Government to get rid of the false notions that pre vail respecting contagion, and place French vessels on an equality with those of England and Austria. The Three per Cents. continued to advance, and closed on Monday at 84f. 15c. THE BOURSE--MONDAY, DEC. 2 First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five perCenta•• .• 119 30 •• 119 30 .. 119 30 .. 119 30 Three per Cents••••• 84 10 •• 84 15 83 35 .. 84 15 Bank of France iSelgtan Bank •••• •••• 582 50 •• 585 .. 582 50 .. 585 Belgian Fives,lB4o • • •• 1031 •• leg • • 103 .. 103 t Two-and-a-Half— 61 60 •• 61 60 .. 61 GO .. 61 60 Dutch Two and-a-Half ••• •• 63 •• 63 63 63 •tpanish Threes •• • . Neapolitan•• .• •• •• •• • • /5 65 •• 95 90 •• 95 65 .. 915 90 Boma: , ..... • 1041 .. 104 i .. 104} .. 104 k manner in which the plaintiffs became possessed of the patent alleged to be infringed. It appeared that Mr. William Thornton Car formerly kept a mill at Black heath, where he carried on experiments in the improve ment of carding machines. In 'MI he invented an ap paratus for card setting, and obtained the patent in ques tion. Having borrowed a sum of money and deposited the patent as security for repayment in a given time, he was unable to pay at the expiration of that period, and consequently the patent was forfeited. The trial will occupy more than one day. ashore this morning, on Gunton-beech, and remains, beating heavily ; crew saved. JERSEY, DEC. 30.—Arrd. Damon, Malyard, Ichaboe. Sld. Agenoria, Monte Video. Bats'rel., DEc. 2.—Sld. Pomona, Trinidad. 3. York shire and Ellerslie, New Orleans. OFF BEACHEY HEAD, DEC. I.—Pearl, Hayward, Ceylon. OFF THE WIGHT, DEC. I.—Hand of Providence, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Maid, Craig. Quebec. HULL, DEC. 2.—Sld. Agenoria, Ichaboe. GLASGOW, DEC. I.—The Augusta, Mitchell, of Leith, which struck on the Cannon 1 - ?.ock, 27th ult., was subse quently taken in tow by a steamer for Greenock, was abandoned, 29th, off the Copeland Light, but has since been picked up and carried into C3nipbletown. --- MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NE W S. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. There was a very dull market for Cotton at Liverpool yesterday. Sales 4,000 bales, at Ad. per lb. decline.—The transactions in Shares were numerous, and prices were firm generally. Bristol and Exeter, 69; Dublin and Cashel, 81-; Eastern Counties, Perpetual, No. 1,70 s. 10; Glasgow and Greenock, Halves, 38s. ; Grand Junction, 216 17 20; Ditto, Halves, 108 10; Great Western, 1421; Ditto, Fifths, 261 ; Liverpool and Manchester, Halves, 52.1; London and York, , 11-; London aDd South-Western, 811 ; Manchester and Leeds, Halves, 50/ ; Midland Counties, 108; North Union, 1454; Sheffield and Man chester, 95; South-Eastern, 371; Ditto, ilalves, 11 10-; Ulster, 39; Lyons and Avignon, 545. 6d. 5;35. 6d.; Paris and Lyons, 645; Paris and Strasburg, 52s ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 61 ; Boulogne and Ami Ons, 5; Central of France, 11 11. Another trial has been made of the conveyance a fruit by the Southampton Railway. A cargo of oranges, ex Fear-not, has been received from ;St. Michael's, this being the vessel that made the extraordinary quick pas sage with a cargo of pine apples last summer. She ar rived at Southampton in twelve days from the Azores, discharged her cargo yesterday (Tuesday), at Southamp ton, and at two o'clock to-day it was sold by the brokers at Monument-yard, London; whereas another vessel that sailed the same day, the Countess Liverpool, bound for the port of London, and which was off the Wight on Monday last, is still in the Channel, and is likely to con tinue so with the present easterly wind. An arrival from the Mauritius brings dates of the 7th September. In order to relieve the pressure for money, the most influential merchants had agreed to take Com pany's rupees at 50 cents for two years. The importa tion of so many labourers caused an increased demand for the metallic currency, and with the Coolies rupees were a favourite coin. The merchants are not yet in receipt of their Indian letters, consequently we cannot yet express any opinion upon the state of commerce in the East. The market for the English Securities has been very firm, but the business doing is limited. Consols have realised 1008 to 101* for Money, this being the first day of the shutting ; and for the opening they are 991 to par without the dividend. Bank Stock has been supported at 207 to 208. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been marked 102. a to ; and the Three per Cents. 100 k to 8. Exchequer Bills are 535. to 555. premium, money being in request, as this is the 4th of the month. The Foreign Securities have been tolerably good, but are not so firm now as at the commencement of business this morning. Spanish Actives are 248 7,-, and the Three per Cents. 36i 4 ; Portuguese Converted ob tained 551 to 56 for Account ; Mexican Bonds are 368 to 361 ; Colombian 14;-,1 ; and Brazilian 884. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. realise 638. The Railway Shares obtained full quotations gener ally, the business doing being moderate. BRITISH FUNDS:THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Coniols. Anns New 3 per Cent. Annuities 102%% Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1869 12% Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 5-16% Bank Stock for Account Console for Account ........... 9&t 101 Exchequer Bills. 13id. 1,0. 1,0001. ..... Ditto Ditto Advertised......... FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY ATOONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ......... 88 Columbian Bonds. Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. ..••• 36 % - N34 Ditto for the Account Ditto Deferred Stock 16% Portuguese Bonds. 5 per Cent. Ditto Converted :,5 Ditto for the Account Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent 1194 Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 ..... j„;;:to for the Account 2 4 34% Ditto :fires per Cent. ...... ............... Ditto for i,:7e Account 3% Venezuela Bone:.. per Cent Ditto Deferred ••• 12% 63% Dutch 234 per Cents.... . r . Ditto 4 per Cent. Certi 99 Dutch 5 per Cents APICES OF SHARES 1 HIR D'Y AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester l Ol •• 97 to Ditto New; 17%,..... ..... 23% ...... to Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester 3O ... 3534.... to 36 Cambridge and Lincoln 2;,i, to Chester and Holyhead 5 5% Churoet Valley Dublin and Belfast Junction ...... 234 ...... 4 ..****** to --.' Eastern Counties ......... .......... .. 25 .... ..... 13%% , to Eastern Union Grand Junction lOO 213 to Ditto 34 Shares Great Southern and Wester n (lreland).* Great North of England. IOO Ditto New Great Western .... ....... ............. 75 Kendal and Windermere London 2 - ,.id Birmingham London and Blackwall London and Brighton 5O 48% Ditto Loan Notes London and South Western 41% ...... 8034 London and Croydon London and York 234 4 ... to 3% Manchester and Leeds Ditto 34 Shares Ditto 4 Shares Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 ..„..... 53 Dit , o 34 Shares Midland ........ ........ Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct 24 ... 6034 61 to 59 North British =R ug b y South Eastern and Dover ......... 3334 Ditto New Trent Valley Yarmouth and Norwich York and North Midland ........ 50 ........ 104 ..... Ditto 34 Shares Ditto Selby Scrip ....... ....... ... 20 Ditto Extension — Boulogne and Amiens Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bourdeaux Paris and Lyons 2 '34% to Paris and Orleans Parisand Rouen., ••••••••••••• 20 •.......• 39304 A , ..... Paris and Stra Bourg MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 3.—We have again had a brisk market, and prices of the new lines, with some exceptions, are steady. The heavy stocks are all improving.—Sheffield and Lincoln, ; Cam bridge and Lincoln, 2+ ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liver pool, 4 1-16 4; Boulogne and Amiens, 5 (E.), 5 1-16 (F.); Trent Valleys, 88 Accringtons, 2 15-16; Hud dersfield and Manchester, 4i ; Blackburn and Preston, ; Gainsborough, Sheffield, and Chesterfield, 3* ; Darwin and Bolton, 2 ; West Yorkshire, 64 ; London and York, 41 ; Churnets, 3 ; Manchester and Leeds, 1151 ; Midland, 1081 ; Ditto, 401. shares, 84s. ; South- Eastern, 37k. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) Before the ASSISTANT JUDGE and a full Bench of Magistrates). A seafaring man, named Thomas George Chalk, was indicted for stealing three sheets and a blanket, the property of William Green. In another indictment the prisoner was charged with stealing the same articles, being the property of the governors and subscribers of the Sailors' Home Asylum. It appeared by the evidence of several inmates of the asylum, that the prisoner gained admission to the insti tution as a casually destitute seaman, on the night of the 27th of November, and when leaving the room in the morning where he slept, he was observed to take from off the bed the articles named in the indictment, which he tied up with a piece of tape, and walked down stairs, for the purpose of leaving the asylum. Information was, however, given to some of the officers of the institution, and the prisoner was brought back, when he endeavoured to get rid of the property by hiding it behind a bed in the corner of the room. The jury, after a consultation of nearly an hour, re turned a verdict of Guilty. The ASSISTANT-JUDGE, in pronouncing sentence upon the prisoner, commented strongly upon his base ingrati tude in attempting to rob an asylum, the objects of which were of a charitable nature, and where he had himself been relieved. The sentence of the Court was, that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction for six calendar months. John Bamin, aged thirteen years, was indicted for stealing a till containing various moneys, which were described as the property of Thomas Wells and others. The circumstances of the case were of rather a sin gular nature. It appeared that a person, named Sweet man, who kept a shop in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy square, became bankrupt, when his property and pre mises were banded over to the keeping of one of the messengers in bankruptcy. On the 28th of November the prisoner entered the shop of Mr. Sweetman, and crawled on his hands and knees behind the counter, from whence he took the till and moneys, and tried to get out of the shop. The messenger of the Bankruptcy Court, however, heard the noise, and took the prisoner into custody. Mr. O'BRIEN, on the part of the prisoner, contended that the indictment could not be supported, inasmuch as the property was described as belonging to Wells, who was only the trade assignee, whilst in point of law the moment an assignee was appointed to a bankrupt's estate all the property became vested in the official assignee, who in this case was Mr. Groome. The Learned Counsel having quoted several authorities in support of his position, The Coital. held that the objection was fatal to the indictment, and desired the jury to bring in an ac quittal, which was accordingly done, and the prisoner left the bar. UNION-HALL.-(THIS DAY.) Thomas M'Galloway, the master of a trading vessel, was charged with committing a violent assault on Eliza beth Button, whose right arm was broken in consequence of the violence used towards her. The complainant stated that her husband is mate of a ship, and at present abroad. That the defendant and another seafaring man, both acquaintances of her husband, called at her house, and she treated them with kindness on that account. That they had not been long in the house before they began to treat her with great rudeness, and went so far as to attempt to violate her. She, how ever, successfully resisted their attempts, in doing which her arm was broken. The defendant's companion had since gone to sea. The complainant added that she had been confined to her house nearly ever since. The prisoner said he was intoxicated on the night in question, and that he had no recollection of what took place. Mr. CorrENUAM said the prisoner was proved to have behaved in a most brutal manner, and that it was well for him he had not succeeded in his base attempt, for if he had his life would have been placed in jeopardy. The magistrate then inflicted the full penalty of 51. on the prisoner, and in default of payment, to two months' imprisonment. THE LATE BANK ROBBERY. RE-EXAMINATION OF BURGESS AT THE MANSION-HOUSE (THIS DAY). The LORD MAYOR having fixed to-day, at twelve o'clock, for the further examination of William Burgess, charged with uttering two forged transfers for 8,000/, which stood in the books of the Bank of England in the name of Mr. William Oxenford, the approaches to the Mansion-house were thronged with persons eager to ob tain admission to the justice-room. Precisely at twelve o'clock the Lord Mayor entered and took his seat, and immediately afterwards the room was crowded to excess. William Burgess was shortly afterwards placed at the bar, in the custody of John Forester. He was dressed in a suit of black, over which he wore a dark brown taglioni. He was in excellent spirits, and, being very lame, he was accommodated with a chair as on the last occasion. He is a tall young man, about twenty-six years of age, with light sandy hair and no whiskers. The LORD MAYOR (to Burgess)—Have you any pro fessional adviser ? Burgess—Yes, my Lord. Mr. J. C. Salomon, solicitor, of 7, Windmill -street, Finsbury-square, said he appeared for the prisoner. Mr. Ware, from the office of Messrs. Freshfield and Co., the Bank solicitors, attended to prosecute. Mr. Salomon (having consulted with the prisoner) said he was instructed to ask for a remand. The LORD MAYOR—On what ground ? Mr. Salomon said for the purpose of obtaining evidence in his behalf, and on that ground he thought there would be no objec tion to a remand on the part of the solicitors for the Bank. Mr. Ware said he hada number of witnesses present. Unfortunately, one witness, whose evidence was very important, was attending a trial at Westminster, on sub poena, and it was possible that he might not be able to give his evidence to-day. As there were so many wit nesses present, perhaps it would be the best plan to take their evidence, as it would save them much inconvenience. Mr. Saloman was quite in favour of this course. Mr. Oxenford was then called. He said he was au official agent in the Long-room, Custom-house. Prior to the 3d of September last he was possessed of the sum of 9,8001. in the Three per Cent. Consolidated An nuities. (The book containing the entry of the fraudulent with drawal of 8,200/. was then shown to him.) Examination continued—The transaction recorded in the book is not in my handwriting ; neither are the two signatures, " William Oxenford." I never gave any authority to William Burgess, or to any other person, to withdraw the sum of 8,2001. out of the 9,8001. which stood in my name in the Bank books. Mr. Thomas Ingall, a clerk in the Bank of England, was next examined—On Tuesday, the 3d of September last, the prisoner came to the counter and said to me, " Please to witness this transaction." The person who was with him purported to be the owner of the stock ; his real name, I believe, was Joseph Elder. The pri soner wrote his name, and the person who was with him signed the name of " William Oxenford." Mr. Salomon—ls it usual for Bank clerks to identify persons transferring stock ? Witness—lt has been the practice for a considerable time. Mr. Salomon—lt is a very improper practice. The witness said the system had been discontinued since the fraudulent transfer, Mr. Takely, a stock-broker, examined--4 have known the prisoner about twelve months, from his being a clerk in the office in the Bank in which I was in the habit of transacting business. In the latter part of August he came to me and stated that a friend of his, who had 8,2001. in the Three per Cent. Consolidated Annuities, was desirous of raising 8,0001. On the morning of Tues day, the 3d of September, he brought me the necessary papers filled up for the transfer of 8,2001. To the best of my knowledge he was not accompanied by any person. I sold the stock to a gentleman named Clement Smith. It was divided into two portions. Mr. Ware said the other witness to whom he had alluded could prove the payment of the cheque. John Forester was next examined—ln consequence of a warrant granted by Sir William Magnay (the late Lord Mayor), on the 2d of November last, for the pri soner's apprehension, he proceeded to America, and arrested him soon after his arrival on Brewster's Island, near the lighthouse s and ab33t eleven miles from Boston, and brought him to England. Mr, Salomon then applied to have the prisoner . .7 - mended until Wednesday next. The LORD MAYOR — Burgess, have you any objection to be remanded to that day ? Burgess—l have no ob jection, my Lord.—He was remanded accordingly. The prisoner throughout paid great attention to the evidence, and frequently conferred with his solicitor. He was then removed in the custody of John Forrester, and walked with difficulty from the bar. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LottioN, DEC. 4.—Wind N., fresh 'freeze, and cloudy. DEAL, DEC. 3.—Wind N.E. by E., fresh breeze.— Arrd, Isabella, Brown, Buenos Ayres; Royal Adelaide, Brecon, Honduras; Europe, Quebec; Swift, of Hull, ditto, 181 d. Caledonia, Sydney; Hindostan, Bombay; her Majesty's ship Dwd a l u s, ; Fame, west coast of Africa; Lord Charles Spence, Cape of Good Hope ; Sylph, liarbadoes; Urania, Jamaica; Portland, Cuba; Glenlyon, New Orleans. OFF DOTER, Atc. 3.—Mungo Park, Batavia. PORTXMOUTI, DEC. 3.—Wind E.N.E. to N.—Sld. Sivitwlatttl, New York. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 2.—Arrd. Effort, Payne, Icha boe. Sld. Teviot (steamer), West Indies; Oriental (steamer) West Indies. PLYMOUTH, DEc. 3.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Jane, Moore, Rio Grande. FALMOUTH, Disc. 3.—Wind N.E., fresh breeze.— Arrd. Inchannan, Battine, late M'Arthur, Bombay, sailed from Mauritius, Sept. 7 ; Eliza Scott, Beale, Ichaboe, sailed Oct. 2, St. Helena, 15th, and Ascension 21st ; Barron, Hall, Quebec. LivEnrooL, DEC. 2.—Wind S.E. to N.E, wodt rate.— Arrd. Hannibsl, got bee ; Hero (sWam- tug), with three vessels in tow, laden with goods from the James Mathe son, stranded off Wexford. CORK, DEC. I.—Arrd. Jupiter, Hicks, Montreal. Sld. Clisfrido, Cottager, Ichaboe ; Arab, George, Henry, and Rover, Newfoundland. WATERFORD, Nov. 30.—Sld. Manin, New Orleans. LOWEBTOFFE, DEC. 3.—The Albion, Woolner, drove MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE -WEDNESDAY There was a fair average supply of English Wheat-- both as respects quantity and quality—offering, while the demand for all descriptions was heavy, at barely previous rates. Foreign Wheat was held at full prices ; but the amount of business passing in that article was trifling. Barley and Malt were excessively dull, and Monday's quotations were barely supported. The Oat trade was steady, but in all other grain next to nothing was doing. ARRIVALS. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. 5,530 qrs. 6,420 qrs. 2,500 Irish.. 4,140 qrs. Foreign 3,310 Flout 3,350 I a ~.Tio . Malt. 3,140 ore. WIIITECILELPEL. The supply of Meat was only moderate, while the general demand was steady, at full prices. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Veal, 3s to 4s ; and Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 10d per ilbs by the carcase. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) NEWMARKET CHAMPION COURSING MEET ING.—TUESDAY. Puppy Stakes (Allington Hill)—Captain Daintree's Knabella (late Ellen) beat Mr. Etwall's Entre Nous— Lord Stradbroke's Maiden beat Mr. Batchelor's Maiden —Mr. Vipan's Veronica beat Mr. Biggs's Brunette— Mr. Bowles's Beau Brummell beat Mr. Gillett's Grace Jones—Mr. Drinkald's Elixir beat Mr. Edwards's Archie Armstrong—Mr. B. Smith's Sherwood beat Captain Wyndham's Wivanhoe—Mr. Gillett's German Cloak beat Sir G. Quentin's Hatter—Mr. Gunwing's Black Eagle beat Mr. Baggs's Top—Mr. Dobede's Flash :at Mr. Fryer's Rocket—Mr. Bowles's Blacksmith's beat Mr. Baggs's Tantrambobus—Mr. Et - w Li a 4 l u r g s h a': s i r 6,c ee n the West beat Mr. Dobede's Dispatch— Mr. Fait beat Mr. Isaacson's Dimple— Mr. t Mr. Bennett's William of Wick ham—LordTrip Stradbrolte's It4.raehine beat Mr. Lawrence's Linchpin—Mr. Gillett's Golden crocus beat Mr. Mey rick's Hibernia —Captain Daintree's Jiestrel beat Mr. King's Rhea. The All-Aged Stakes—Mr. Bowles's Brocad:3 peat Mr. Caldwell's Richard—Mr. Nash's Cruiskeen beat Mr. Etwall's Elastic—Mr. Nash's Captain beat Mr. Gunning's Nonchalance—Captain Daintree's Kizzie beat Sir G. Quentin's Proserpine—Mr. Nash's aCelia's Daughter beat Mr. Batchelor's Marygold—Mr. Biggs's Benevolence beat Mr. Fyson's Fullsail—Mr. Morant's Muscat beat Lord Stradbroke's Micmac—Mr. Bennett's Warrior beat Mr. Gunning's Fancy—Lord Stradbroke's Miracle beat Mr. Sloper's Stnolensko—Mr. Lawrence's Laura beat Mr. Isaacson's Ferrand—Mr. Powney's Nell beat Mr. Drinkald's Euclid—Mr. B. Smyth's Shep herdess beat Mr. Nash's Cotherstone—Captain Dain tree's Key beat Mr. ,Edwards's Algernon—Mr. Fyson's Farmer beat Captain Wyndham's Wave—Mr. Etwall's The Winner beat Captain Daintree's Fryer's Cora beat Mr. Moody's Retainer. The weather was fine, the attandance good, and the hares plentiful, but weak. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TcrEsner. DERBY. 40 to 1 agst Pantasa 1000 to 15 agst Cleartheway —taken 1000 to 10 agst Black Prince —taken, and afterwards offered 7 to 1 agst John Day's lot 10 to 1 agst Alarm 18 to 1 agst Kedger 20 to 1 :tgst Cobweb c 22 v, 1 agst Idas 22 to 1 agst Young Eclipse 25 to 1 agst NewsmongtT 30 to 1 agst -Rebecca c—t 40 to 1 agst Minikiu 40 to 1 agst Connaught Ranger -15 to 1 agst Forth's lot, including John Davis R CUP. ; 40 to 1 agst Morpeth—t. CHESTI 40 to 1 a gist Extempore— RAILWAY SHARER. St. Germain .. Versailles, R.B. •.• • • • ...... 445 • • 445 .. 445 .. 44i L. 14.•••••• •••• •• 320 .. 320 .. 320 .. 320 Rouen•••••••••...... ..... 1015 . 1015 —lOl9 —lOlB Rouen o ..... • 783 75 .• 713 75 •• 783 75 .. 783 711 Orleans ........1055 "1355 ..11155 ..1055 Strasburg to Bale 278 75 .• 278 75 278 75 . 278 76 RAILWAY SHARES FOR SETTLING, Dm. 3. St. Germain ..... ....• 937 50 .• 940 .. 937 50 940 Versailles, R. 8..... ..... 442 50 •• 443 75 442 50 .. 443 75 L.B . Bonen ........... .. ...1010 ..1012 75 ••1010 ..1013 75 Rouen to Firvre•• ••.•• 785 .. 786 25 .. 785 .. 786 25 Orleans .. Strasburg to Bale A. , rignen to Marseilles— •• 915 •• 920 . 915 9 2 0 RAILWAYS FOR TELE ACCOUNT, Dze 16. Rotten. • Rouen to Havre• ••• • • • 737 50 788 75 .. 787 50 .• 788 75 Orleans ........• •.........1057 50 ••1058 75 —1057 50 „mg 57 Strasburg to Bale— •• ••.... 278 75 280 .. 278 75 •• 27$ 75 Avignon to Marseillet•••• .. 915 •• 922 50 .. 915 .• 922 50 THIS DAY'S NEWS PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.) The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat 'to day at the Council-office, Whitehall. The Lords present were the Master of the Rolls, Mr. Baron Parke, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, Lord Campbell, Sir H. East, Sir E. Ryan, and Sir E. Johnstone. Their Lordships were oc cupied the whole day with Indian appeals. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) SAYER V. WAGSTAFFE.—JUDGMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment in this appeal to-day, affirming the decision of the Court below. IN RE THE PRINCESS BARIATINSKI. The further arguments in this part-heard lunatic pe tition occupied the Court the remainder of the morning. COURT OF REVIEW-(THIS DAY.) Ills lloNoun sat to-day in Bankruptcy as Chief Judge of the Court of Review, and disposed of bankrupt petitions. his HONOUR afterwards in Equity took the motion in the case of " Malines v. Price," part heard. It is a motion to extend an undertaking that had been given by the defendants ; and if they refused that they might be restrained by an injunction of the Court from working their mines according to the system of " patching." QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Lord Dxtour( and a Middlesex Common Jury.) BIGG AND OTHERS V. WORKMAN. This was an action brought by Messrs. Bigg and Son, the stationers, of Parliament-street, to recover an amount of 1351. 9s. for work and labour done. The defendant pleaded that there were others indebted with him, whose names were set forth in the pleadings, and who ought to be sued with him. Mr. Whately and Mr. Hoggins appeared for the plain tiffs, and Mr. Knowles for the defendant. It appeared that, towards the latter part of 1841, or the beginning of 1842, an attempt was made to establish a joint-stock company, to be called the London and Westminster Metropolitan Water Company, of which the defendant was one of the directors. The plaintiff had been employed to print prospectuses, &c., and they had brought an action against defendant for the whole amount. The defence was that the defendant was not solely liable, and witnesses were called to prove that the persons named in the plea, viz., the rest of the directors, were jointly liable with him. Lord Denman, however, was of opinion that the proof of the plea failed, and the jury found for plaintiff—Damages, 1351. 9s. Before sitting at Nisi Prius this morning, the Court gave judgment in the case, exparte Partington, a writ of habeas corpus which had been moved for during the term in the Bail Court. The circumstances of the case wero fully reported at the time. The judgment of the Court this morning was, that the defendant should be remanded back to his original custody. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the Lord CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.) FRAUD ON THE REVENUE-THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. NEVILLE. Mr. JERVIS (in the absence of the Solicitor-General), stated that this was an information filed at the instance of the Attorney-General, to recover penalties from the defendant, for importing spirits without making a due entry and paying the usual duties required by law. An arrangement had been agreed to between himself, as representative of the Crown, and Mr. Wordsworth as counsel for the defendant, which would save the Court a great deal of trouble. At the same time, in order to afford a warning to the public, he felt it was his duty to state a few of the reasons which had induced the At torney-General to file the present information. The defendant Neville was, during the past year, first mate on board the Leith, a steam-vessel belonging to the General Steam Navigation Company, and plying between London and Scotland. The difference in the amount of duty payable on spirits manufactured in England, Scot land, and Ireland, afforded great temptation to persons who were engaged in the coasting trade of the country. On British spirits the duty was 70. 10d. per gallon ; on Scotch spirits of a light quality 3s. Bd. ; and for the protection of the revenue, besides other regulations required by the Excise and Customs' departments, it was necessary that all spirits conveyed by coasting-vessels, should be entered on the ship's manifest. Each of these several provisions had been violated in the present instance, by the defendants. The specific offence for which a penalty was now to be taken by consent, was committed on the 26th of De cember, 1843, when the defendant, as chief mate, com municated to the officer on hoard the vessel, then lying at Leith, that he was going into the town to order spirits. Twelve gallons of spirits were Bent on board ; but they were stowed away, under the defendant's direction, in such a manner as to escape observation. On the arrival of the ♦essel at Brown's-wharf, London, in consequence of information received by the authorities, a minute search was made by the officers, and near to the paddle boxes a quantity of spirits was found stowed away. Those spirits belonged to the crew. The vessel was seized ; but the defendant had the spirits entered on the ship's manifest, for the purpose of protection. At that time the defendant's own spirits had not been discovered. The vessel proceeded on her outward voyage, and when she had arrived off Gravesend, the spirit was discovered, arranged in such a manner as clearly proved that it was intended to be " run" on shore. Under these circumstances proceedings were instituted by the Crown. The defendant had now agreed that a verdict should be given against him for one penalty, which verdict the jury would then have to return. Mr. WORDSWORTH, for the defendant--It is true that we have consented to a verdict for one penalty ; but on the part of my client I feel it to be my duty to state that he does not at all acquiesce in the truth of the statement made by my Learned Friend. So far, indeed, from it. Mr. JERVIS (proceeding to open his brief)—The case must go, then, to the jury. The Crown cannot possibly take the verdict if the defendant be not guilty. Mr. WORDBWORTII—We have agreed to a verdict, but we certainly do not acquiesce in your statement of facts. The LORD CHIMP BARON—It is, I think, greatly to be lamented that any supposed state of facts has been submitted, if the case is still to proceed, for such a state ment must have a tendency to embarrass the jury. Ido not know (addressing Mr. Wordsworth) whether you mean to deny that there has been a breach of the re venue laws ? Mr. WORDSWORTH—By no means, my Lord. Mr. JERVIS—The case must go on. If not guilty, why should you pay a penalty ? The LORD CHIEF BARON—Your agreeing to a verdict and a penalty ought to import a breach of the revenue laws. I did not understand Mr. Jervis to state anything more. Mr. JERVIS—I shall go on. Mr. WORDSWORTH—There is no occasion. If my Lord understood your statement only to import what his Lordship states, we are satisfied. The LORD CHIEF BARON (very emphatically)—l trust the misfortune which has occurred to the administration of justice to-day by this misunderstanding will never occur again. The jury then returned a verdict for the Crown, with one penalty. 1 ; erdiot accordingly. In the c IMPORTANT ARRANGEMENT. took an r cou rse of the morning, th e L or d Chi e f B aron ,pportunity of informing the Bar that he had detertr; tned no co m mon jury casts should in ruture be set ''..own for hearing in the came paper, and on the same cl`ay, as special jury Ones. This new arrangement might perhaps cause, bore and there, a part of a day to be a void ; but 4 i i : h e looked upon as a leas evil th*h the present ode, which detained suit Ora and witnesses from day ...",) day at great inconvenience and enorrn9l;;apense, 5- 4 d which frequently was a so':. juries should":.:e alsO of great embar rassmenth; rienceforward, then, commo n to dayscaoruense to themselves, and special juries days tQ themselves. Th e p reva ili ng system had afforded grounds of just complaint ever since the time of Lord Ellenborough, and he felt it his duty to the publio and the Bar to provid, , a remedy for it. Mr. Jervis, Mr. Martin, Mr. Humphrey, and other members of the bar, severally intimated their approval of this new arrangement, which would be alike a great saving to the public, and a great convenience to the bar. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) BENTLEY V. CARVER. This was an action for an infringeme•, tt of a patent, and the only matter of interest involre d jp it was the S Al 3 Y OF NE':! S "ti i is i.,' , 3utitz T4tracit. " Who runs may read." l'Oß:EXtik tir. In the Spanish Chamber of Deputies, on the 26th, Narvaez, in reply to certain questions respecting the late events at Logrono, said that the Government were sure of crushing the revolutionists wherever and under what ever shape they might present themselves ; that the occurrences at Logrono were already known to the, Chamber, and there remained but to chastise the guilty, which should be done according to the laws. The Municipal Council of Lyons has voted a sum o f 20,000 francs for the expense of the Wes which are to be given on the occasion of the intended visit of the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale and the Prince de Joinville. The Phare of Bayonne of the 29th says :—" Our cor respondent at Vittoria sends us the following, dated Nov. 27, and written at the moment the courier was about to start :—` I have this moment received a letter from Logrono, dated the day before yesterday, which announces that Zurbano's son (Benito), his brother-in law (Juan), and two other individuals who had taken part in the insurrection, had been shot.'" In certain quarters, says the France, a promotion to the Peerage is spoken of which is to comprise a well known name in the Opposition. We hesitate to give credit to these reports, but it is the friends of the Mi nistry who repeat them, and who declare that M. Guizot e,:s gained a victory over M. de Cormenin in getting him to accept the Peerage. If this fact be true, it de,- serve s being explained ; and if it be a calumny, as we. imagine, it ought to be contradicted as soon as possible. We are well aware that in the dotation question a desire exists to get rid pf the powerful athlete who has so often fought against the zvishes of the civil list." A letter from Rome of the 19th ult. states that, not only the trees and shrugs were at that time in bud, from the extreme mildness of the weather, but that the swallows and other birds of passage, which in ordinary seasons would have long ago migrated to other climes, still remained. In the evening of the 27th ult. there was so dense a fog at Bordeaux that it was impossible to distinguish objects only a few yards distant. The Havre journals, in noticing the arrival there of the crew of the Lucie Josephine, which left Havre a short time ago for Newcastle, to take in a cargo of coals for Algiers, and was shortly afterwards wrecked near Yarmouth, and pillaged by the inhabitants of the coast, state that the captain remaiDs in England, for the pur. pose of prosecuting the Englisii pilot, who ran the vessel, as he thinks, intentionally aground. The National Swiss Gazette states that great agita tion again prevails in the Valais, and that a general ex pectation is entertained there of another revolt. The Minister of the Interior has treated, it is asserted, with the Rouen Company for the employment of the electric telegraph. The Government undertakes to pay all the expenses. The company will have a private wire, which it can make use of for matters relating to the line. This was not, it is. said, granted without difficulty, the Government wishing to monopolise the mode of com munication as it monopolises the present system of tele graphs. Amongst the objects stolen lately from the residence of the Blucher family are the magnificent sabre enriched with diamonds given by the Prince Regent to the old Marshal, and which cost 10,0001. sterling ; the gold box which inclosed the freedom of the city of Berlin, worth 4,000 thalers (14,000 f.) ; and sixteen snuff-boxes, set with precious stones, valued at 39,600 f. The whole is estimated at 43,0001. &AV" AND POLICD. An indictment against Elgee and others, for conspir ing to cheat at cards, was tried in the Court of Queen's Bench. The jury interrupted the case, by saying that they had made up their minds, and that they found the defendants not guilty. They accompanied their verdict by a strong animadversion upon the evidence produced for the prosecution. The Court of Exchequer was engaged the whole day in trying a Crown prosecution against a person names Bryant, for evading the duties on paper. The Crow received a verdict. At Gloucester, Joseph Higgs was indicted for stealing a silver watch, the property of Richard Alfred Dark, at Stroud, on the 9th of September. The prisoner did not plead when called on by the Clerk of Arraigns, and the jury were sworn to decide whether he was mute Of malice, or by the visitation of God. They found that the latter was the case. The prisoner's master, from whom the watch was stolen, was sworn as interpreter, but could elicit nothing conclusive, except that the pri soner intimated that another boy stole the watch. The judge then ordered a verdict of not guilty to be entered as the prisoner's plea. The jury were again sworn on the issue as to whether the boy was of sound mind or not, and returned their verdict that he was not. The poor fellow was then removed from the bar, Mr. Justice Coltman desiring him to be kept in custody during her Majesty's pleasure. Joseph Scott was convicted at York of a burglary in she house of Joseph Brownbridge, the Palace Inn, at Leo's, and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation- The on; y singular fact in this case was, that though t here were „ vek -al servants in the house, and though the sleeping_reet, - is of several of the inmates had been en' no one had been disturbed. In the tered and ransaCked , room occupied by the female servants, the panel was e violence used in effecting an en actually broken by th trance. At the Central Crimina; Court, Thomas Field, other wise John Easterfield, otherwise Wm. West, described as an agent, aged 65, was charged on an indictment, in eluding three charges, and eonsis:ing of as many counts —lst, with obtaining two half-crowns and a sixpence from Wm. Wall ; 2d, the same sultn from Edward Hammond ; and also a half-crown from W. Harding, with intent to cheat and defraud them thereof: The pri soner is the soi-disant Chancery agent who has before been convicted of similar offences. The jury found him Guilty, and he was sentenced to be transported for seven years. Wm. Hutchinson and Charles Rix, two notorious housebreakers, were each sentenced to ten years' trans portation, at the Surrey Sessions, for burglary. An elderly female, most respectably dressed in deep black, mad who gave the name of Le,th Mary Roper, residing at No. 28, Fleet-street, was brought before Mr. Jardine, charged with having committed shoplifting, by stealing forty-eight yards of sarsenet, of the value of 61., the goods and chattels of Messrs. Hardwick, of Hol born, drapers. Mr. Jardine remanded her till Tuesday, to allow of any fresh case being brought against her, but bound the witnesses over to prosecute. At Marlborough-street John Smith, the owner and conductor of a Bow omnibus, was charged with having violently assaulted Charles Underwood, the owner and conductor of a Black wail omnibus. The assault was committed in a dispute as to who should get as elderly lady as a passenger ; and during the course of the dis pute the lady herself was grossly insulted by defendant. li e was fin: 51., or two months' imprisonment ; and in addition his liOense is suspended for two months. Robert Jones of the Montpellier Tavern, at Walwortb , was summoned to Unjon-hall, for permitting drunkenness and disorderly conduct pn his premises, on the occasion of a masquerade, when a young man, named Slade, was killed by falling down stairs ; and another so severely injured, that his life was endangered. The excuse of defendant was that he had let the rOOO, and had no con' trol over the proceedings of the conductors of the masque" rade. Mr. Traill said that he should inflict a fine of 31. and costs on the defendant, and that he trusted in future , should any entertainment be given at the Montpel lier, proper arrangements would be made, so a s :to prevent such a dreadful occurrence as that which hap pened on the morning in question. COILINLT-PALMIZUWWILEMIL Viscount Melbourne is passing the winter at Broclc o Hall, Herts, and is in improved health. Lord and Lad! Beauvale are still on a visit to his Lordship. The Noble Viscount's nephews, the Hon. W. F. Cowper, M.P., and the Hon. Charles Spencer Cowper, have left town for Brighton, where Earl and Countess Cowper and family are expected to remain till after Christmas. The Dulce and Duchess of goinerset had a large dinner party at Wimbledon Park on Monday evening. The party consisted of the Countess of Charleville, LadY Beaujolis Bury, Lady Arthur Lennox, Lady Elizabet h Hope Vere, the Misses Hope Yore, Mr. and Lady 5- Stewart, Mr. Langford Brooke, Miss Abercromby, Srir Edward Colebrooke, Mr. Lumley, Mr. Fraser Tyler, M. Levesoti Gower, Lord Henry Lennox, Mr. Cadogan, Hesketh, Mr. Neville, Sir John Harrington. The din ner . was succeeded by a ball, at which more th a n one hundrett 't persons were present. Dancing commenced in the cor ridor at eleven, and was continued with unabated spin till four in the morning. The Earl and Countesss of Wilton arrived on a eau to the Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesey, at Beau' desert, Staffordshire, on Monday, for Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray. The Noble Earl and Countess re. to Melton at the close of the week. On Monday night a meeting was held in the Ri ding' school, Bidborough-street, Burton-crescent, + New -road St. Pancras, for the purpose of memorialising her MA" jesty for a remission of the sentence on Frost, Wil and Jones. During the last few days the river Thames Partl crowded with shipping, arriving from nearly al l„,° the world. On Saturday fifty, and on Monday nine, were entered inwards at the Custom -house, fr °r ", Hong-ii:01.,,z, Ceylon, Buenos Ayres, New York, 6ieFor Leone, Messina, Bahia, Cronstadt, Hamburgh, &C' some weeks past above two hundred vessels have arri/c„ from foreign parts, there being exclusive of ships coeli°s coastwise. ntlf On Monday the dead body Of an infant (aPPartet a seven months' child) was found is the Crown 1314-30g0 tions at Frogmore, near Windsor, willitt 200 0' yards of the resid e nce of her Royal Highness tLe Pu 0 blew' of Kent. The body was wrapped in a piece of old re.. ket. An inquest was held y e sterday, and the .:11,,h0 turned a verdict that the child was still-bor n, bu " the mother was there was no evidence to show. HORACE WALPOLE'S MEMOIRS OF TIM 1331ar4 h: 60 GEORGE lII.—We are requested to state 0 1 " - t be highly interesting Memoirs (now first printed froro rt., original MSS.), edited by Sir Denis Le Marchant, J3.,41100., will be published by Mr. Bentley, of New Bur lil lion , street (Publisher in Ordinary to her AlajestY), ° l2 frora ay next, the 9th inst. 2 vols. Bvo , with Portraits 0 Original Paintings, &c.—N.B. Orde rs received 11 tic, F , ; . N h G a - s i t a t s w n e PLAYSbeen made m P r. A . booksellers. add it in the person of Mins Charlotte Maturin, a tale ute s t orce lative of the late poet. This young lady II" f°r s ---9 1 time been a favourite at the principal provincial theatres' and will be a very effectual support to bliss 11 ' 1.11 RMlSit.Th:Aill'se°cnorSipdsedrtirabralestirrice; OIT Er INDI